skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there is some truth to this. same news was posted here on HN last year. but in reality, there is more to it.

yes, there is a pathogen. but EU olive industry is moving to turkey and morocco. why? simple. cheap labour. olive trees can live for a very very long time, but there are two kinds of olives harvested. for oil and then for table olives. the former has been mechanised and the latter is not. so it's expensive.

it's cheaper to raze down old olive orchards and just plant new ones. the new ones can be trellised and have dwarf hybrids or disease resistant varieties. also cheaper labour if not grown in the EU. i suspect they'd use that ag land for something else. likely development.

the same thing happened in central california. one of the major buyers for table olives from EU stopped orders from california. and entire orchards..thousands and thousands of acres were razed down. they simply moved their business to morocco and turkey. (inside source. cant confirm or verify, but i trust this source.)

western countries have this plan to outsource ag to developing nations because of labour. it is the most dumbass strategy ever. it is not going to be like IT has been outsourced. it relies on long supply chains by ships entirely dependent on dirty energy. food security is nothing to be trifled with(remember venezuela?)..but labour costs in western nations is nothing to be sneezed at.

automation and robotics is the only solution. as long as VCs dont think of it as a data play for commodity ag market only , that tech wont trickle down to food crops. with the current covid crisis, everything will change. everything has to change. local food networks, food security and shorter tighter supply chains are going to become necessary. it's time to automate small acreage food farms and reclassify Ag as essential protected industry.

i also expect this covid crisis to facilitate the biggest wealth transfer and land grab in the last hundred years. but i am not betting on anything now. things should get interesting.

i hope that automation in ag at all levels become a reality and the sector (hopefully along with healthcare) becomes less exploitative. altho' ag exploits the producers and healthcare exploits the consumers. but that is likely a different topic.
> If prices are very high then hospitals may be the only ones who can afford them, versus people on the street.

Every extra dollar spent on those high prices is a dollar that could have been spent providing better care in some other way.

Increasing prices does not increase hospitals' budgets for PPE; it only means something else must be cut.
Become a manager for a few years and then go back to a pure programming role. Worked for me.
> And many modern economists endorse a minimum wage, as eugenicists did then, but with even less regard for the harm it causes.

What are the harms of a minimum wage? Do you have any empirical sources to back that up?
Link to the first linked thread -

https://www.nulled.to/topic/1049984-x352-zoom-accounts-with-...
Holy crap, good for him.
> Why does someone have a de-facto monopoly in some markets?

In this case, and in the case of any disaster, that question has an answer, and there’s no problem that a government or anyone can solve. People who happened to make masks and sanitizers, or happened have them in stock, by luck, suddenly became de-facto monopolies. And it will just as suddenly go away.

> When competition exists, the prices will fall to appropriate levels to correctly distribute the emergency good.

In this case, and in the case of any disaster, new competition cannot appear fast enough to meet the demand before the demand goes away. The demand is inherently unstable. Even if competition arrives, the demand will drop, so someone’s going out of business. This free market belief that things will settle at the right place depends on the assumption that there’s infinite time for the market to settle, it doesn’t really address the fact that without some regulation you can sometimes end up in situations where both producers and consumers lose, where there is only economic loss. If the demand changes too quickly, price gouging costs consumers, too many people got sick from lack of supplies due to price gouging, suppliers ramp up production only to have demand vanish, and they suffer loss of demand at the same time they’re stuck with warehouses of oversupply. Sometimes nobody wins if there’s nothing to hold back reactionary behavior.
Thanks for the link - that's an interesting read which I'll have to work through more thoroughly later.

> GPL never says you can't charge for software.

My point is not that the GPL is contradicting itself, but that the GNU philosophy contradicts the GPL.

There is a quote in item 4 at that link you shared, which says:

> I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to
> control whether people are allowed to use it, or
> to try to stop other people from sharing it, is
> sabotage.

Putting a paywall up is a method of control. I think I represented GNU's position fairly.
Wait what?

Assuming a 10 mile journey, the probability of death is 1.25E-7.

CFR for 20-49 age group is 0.3% (probability 3E-3)

So either my math is wrong or you are wrong by only 4 orders of magnitude.
I’ve moved from a local resolver with regular block list updating to NextDNS - here’s why I’d recommend it over a diy solution:

1. Easy to turn on and off. My block lists were pretty aggressive and worked beautifully 90% of the time. However, occasionally I’d need to hit a site that was registered in a list that wasn’t immediately obvious. The O’Reilly site is (was) a good example - they were loading a script on their login page at one point that failed because I’d blocked the source. I’ve encountered other site that fail in similar ways. Being able to temporarily disable adblocking (OSX via the app) is tremendously convenient.

2. The blacklists and blocking categories offered by NextDNS are at least as good as what I’d managed to pull together (I was pretty proud of mine), they update frequently, and again it’s very easy to opt-in/opt-out

3. CName cloaking - unless you update your own lists very frequently, there’s a good chance you won’t be as effective at catching third-party trackers masquerading as first parties.

I had fun running a local resolver and updating it from various block list sources with a cron job. I’d add new entries manually as I encountered them, but after a while it got old. Additionally, I wanted the same protection outside of my network. The same setup on a FreeBSD droplet worked well, but was more maintenance. NextDNS does at least as good a job, and it’s way more convenient.
No, because no one who wants to keep their job would say that.

But take a large advertiser like a Coca-Cola or Procter Gamble - they might run many thousands of ad campaigns a week across all sorts of venues. Their revenue is largely at retail, so there is no way to track directly from an ad campaign to a purchase.

How do you prove the return on any given ad dollar? You cant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominy
VS2019 is pretty fast, provided you don't use too much plugins.
Only on iOS. :(
I like the look of it but I don't think it's very pleasant to navigate, this may change when there are more buildings 'sold'.

It's cool to see a modern take on the original idea. Makes me wonder what other future ideas could be.
From the Urbit homepage: "Urbit ID is a decentralized digital identity system. Your Urbit ID is a username, network address, and crypto wallet."

So yes it absolutely involves a blockchain.
> In the absence of a law structuring the sale, money is the best proxy we have for importance.

I strongly disagree under these circumstances. Prices are one benchmark of importance/value and are often useful as such. But Goodhart's Law comes here in full force.

In particular I would argue that when unusual things happen, the usual benchmarks and proxies we have deserve extra scrutiny, since often any discrepancy between a measure and what is being measured is magnified in abnormal times.

And right now times are quite abnormal. Now is exactly when traditional benchmarks of value should be re-evaluated to see if they are still useful under present circumstances.
I can't tell you why you don't enjoy programming anymore, perhaps you're more interested in other things in your life than solving problems? (because that is what programming is, at least in my experience, languages are "just added flavor")

I've had times when I don't feel that I'm enjoying programming, followed by times when I'm really into it, there was this talk called "The Art of Code" that might interest you, the presenter Dylan Beattie shows what I now think is what makes programming interesting, it's about doing things, the programming is the how, not the what
Hey, this isn't completely bananas everyone.

I can think of some examples of software that's like this now. Like Excel, BI tools, workflow tools etc.

They don't cover all the requirements outlined in the article (like the bit about it being fun & easy to use), but we're a long way from this being 'impractical' or a 'pipe dream'.

(edited for grammar)
My sentiments, precisely, and I’ve found the explanation at least for myself. Picking up a programming project sporadically involves re-learning for rapid proficiency — like context switching but from a hard disk.

Programming in our youth required one language/framework such as C/UNIX or even Visual BASIC. In contrast, to develop something useful today, you need to learn a different language or framework for the UI, services, DB, security, deployment, and others. Each offers its own universe of packages, tools, procedures for debugging, troubleshooting, and building.

One can certainly persevere and complete a full-stack application with the aid of StackOverflow, Dash, and Google searches, but there is no pleasure in it. The drudgery replaces any sense of gathering speed you feel when you’re proficient and rushing with satisfaction toward your next stopping point — before you realize it’s 5:00am.

My guess is that you keep returning to Hacker News in search of that one-stop language which will offer a hobbyist the old-fashioned combo of proficiency and completeness.
> Is there another kind of argument from morality EXCEPT those that go, "We shouldn't do that because it could harm people?"

The argument in this case appears to be exactly that, i.e. we shouldn't do that because those people would make too much money.

> Hard to take someone seriously who blithely compares genocide to a minimum wage....

There was a lot more to dislike about eugenics than genocide. You play the same game from the other side and you get to claim that Stalin's purges are attributable to the minimum wage because minimum wage is a communist policy and therefore responsible for all the things the communists did.

Eugenics is a much more mundane stupidity than that, like purposely trying to breed a lack of genetic diversity independent of "race" -- and we still do this with crops and livestock to our peril -- but back then they did it with people.

This has obvious parallels to minimum wage, where people are messing with something they don't fully understand based on simplistic assumptions. And then you do things like make it harder for young people to get internships because they can't pay a living wage even though that was never their purpose to begin with, or subject desperate people to really terrible jobs with longer commutes or less flexibility or otherwise higher real costs that actually really messes up their lives because you decreed that they couldn't accept a better job that pays less. Which have serious and long-term effects on large numbers of people.
Blue Apron seems like a terrible example - their stock has collapsed by over 90% from IPO. And they were actually doing worse before the covid-19 crisis.
nonidentified says>"As a profession, we have a miserable track record on morality."<

Hah! As a profession, you've had a miserable track record on _economics_! The profession should be academically "tarred, feathered and ridden out of town", departments dismantled and the models handed over to Operations Research departments along with a strong warning.
For some reason, this is how I imagined Decentraland
This is their stated goal and intent for the platform.

It's also pretty obvious. These days Google ignores basic operators like quotation marks.
Compare redux, mobx and concent in depth
Java Garbage Collection Interview Questions
So T-800 was written in Cobol? :/
Eugenics and wage “protections” like minimum wage are both tied to the same racist underpinnings.

The minimum wage was established to price out black workers.
Haha, warranty, I guess? Plus confidence that they’ll actually accept a return in 90 days if I don’t like it, etc.
You are comparing adjudicating the worth of a non changeable attribute of a human to the minimum cost of labor. If you can’t see the difference between the two then I don’t know what to do. There slippery slope arguments then there are just silly arguments.
You gotta get on at midnight, order two weeks out, and get a weekly pipeline going. I used this method to get a bag of flour the other day, it was amazing.
Humans Are Bad at Estimating Area: Avoid Pie Charts, Circles and 3D
Fwiw, the "{}" formatting is common in python, so that might be a reason they went that route.
You're cherry-picking. Louisiana is on the low side, but Alabama, Texas, and Georgia are on the high side.

In noisy and unreliable data it's always possible to pick a single data point that supports any desired conclusion. I'd say that all we can conclude is that everybody should stay vigilant.
You know, strangely, we've never published anything about (nor done any research specifically on) the prospects for private p2p streaming, even though it's something we discuss frequently on our discord.

Once we get this thing launched, we'll right that wrong.
Python. Mostly other people’s python, but also everything I’ve ever written in python.
Hospitals are experiencing shortages, because the masks don't exist - there is not enough mask production in the world.

To limit supply to drive up the price, this will only work if the mask manufactures are a cartel.
> What equipment aside from a computer (which you can take home) are you referencing, here?

Large screen monitors, sit/stand desk, adjustable chair, foot rest, anti-fatigue mat, ergonomic keyboard & mouse, computer dock, good quality microphone and webcam, various dongles. All the equipment I use at work on a daily basis put together will likely be in the thousands of dollars.

> So open office layout is the opposite of this?

Every open office has meeting rooms or phone booths in case you need quiet space.
Perhaps by splitting each eye's vision in two or four. Sure, in a single instant you can only be looking in one pair, but vision has significant hysteresis effects.

I suspect something like this really requires you to grow up with it.
video isn't working for me :

Google Chrome 81.0.4044.92 (Official Build) (64-bit)
OS Linux
> if you are under 50 it's more likely you will be killed driving to the hospital than by the virus.

Apologies if this was intended to be hyperbole, but it is not true according to our current knowledge. Estimated fatality rate for adults 20-30 is 0.03%, 30-40 is 0.08%, and 40-50 and 0.16% [1]

The probability of dying from one single vehicle ride to the hospital is several orders of magnitude less than 0.1% or even 0.01%. There are 1.25 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles driven in the USA [2]. Even if the hospital is 100 miles away, your odds of dying on the way there are 0.000125%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019#Progn...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...
"Online advertising returns much less than $1 in profit for every $1 spent"

Are you saying (A) no single advertiser increases their profits by more than the amount spent on advertising, (B) that, in aggregate, the amount spent on advertising is less than the additional profit earned by all advertisers, or (C) something else?

It's unlikely that (A) is true.

It's possible that (B) is true but that any individual advertiser would be net harmed if they were to stop advertising (because they can't stop their competitors from advertising).

"The fact that advertisers are pulling back during this economic contraction only proves this - if $1 in ad spending bought you >$1, they'd keep up their spending."

It doesn't prove that. Perhaps they are pulling their spending because:

- they're not selling any more due to social distancing (theatre tickets? massages? dating services?)

- they're not selling any more due to supply constraints or inability to operate their business's physical locations

- the stuff they're selling is stuff people cut in a downturn

Just because a piece of advertising isn't worthwhile when no one can go out and many people have just lost their jobs, that doesn't mean it wasn't worthwhile before.
Absolutely terrible naming collision with another Go Unikernel project:

https://github.com/solo-io/unik
Without detailed prior knowledge in the domain, it seems to make sense. I'm a proponent of privacy-aware advertising online and think the free services supported by advertising are a net positive.

That being said, I don't see how you can orchestrate such a shift among all of the browser vendors. It's asking a lot of those dev teams to accommodate use cases that they don't directly benefit from. I don't want this to be an instance of Google throwing their weight around and forcing a major change without some sort of consensus.
How to Use JPA Joined Inheritance Strategy and Strategy Design Pattern
The Mega65 runs a 6502 at 50Mhz compatible with the Commodore 65 plus C64 mode. http://mega65.org
TLDR: “Conway was arguably an extreme point in the convex hull of all mathematicians. He will very much be missed.”
Yep! I find that working with management involves planning through outcomes and general resourcing, while working with developers and engineering managers involves planning through the cooler stuff they get to do. ("Instead of reimplmenting some JavaScript UI and Python backend thing for the nth+1 time, we'll zip ahead to the GPU era and focus more time on the data engineering and data science and visual analytics side...")

Folks don't get recognized as heroes for not doing anything, but when they drive the greater story, everyone wins. Understanding the individuals involved in successful software delivery is so important!
Show HN: A simple ear trainer for identifying music intervals
Keep in mind that CFR takes into account only those that are confirmed positive (which are mostly people who already have severe symptoms).

That said, parent comment's math is still way off (see my sibling comment).
The PC contains my valuable data and is needed for important non-game uses. With the PC, reliability and security for those other tasks must not be compromised for a mere game.

Game consoles are toys. Even if the game screwed up the game console, it wouldn't be very intrusive.
RelaxedReader: A Firefox Addon to Fight Reading Anxiety
Empathy often feels more genuine and less awkward than sympathy.

It's actually really hard to express sympathy usefully. I always feel like a robot when trying.

Yet once you've lived it, empathy is somehow natural
When you open a chargeback case with Amex there’s a question specifically along the lines of “have you attempted to resolve this with the merchant?” They won’t start a case without it. After you affirm that you have attempted resolution with the merchant they ask for a summary. That’s where you’d list the times and substance of your (attempted) contact with the merchant. Neither condition is onerous or impractical. Did you do both of those things?

After the due diligence I’ve never heard of a case where Amex didn’t side with the consumer.
One of the best, most beautifully written articles I've read during this dark timeline. So glad someone submitted it here. Highly recommend listening to the audio version.
The bubble chart is possibly the worst visualizations, in close competition with the abominable word cloud.
Yes, they are visually attractive, but so much more difficult to interpret than a trivial Pareto/bar chart.
There's a huge gap between working from home, and working from home in an isolated way where normal day-to-day contact with other fellow humans is severely reduced. The former I generally enjoy; the latter has been terribly lonely.
Coronavirus pandemic leaves staggering amount of food waste
AKA Wirth’s Law[1]: “Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.”

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
I like to tell people that you can measure how bad the AWS console is by looking at the valuation of companies like Heroku and Digital Ocean. Both wouldn’t exist if AWS has a better console, the former was even built atop EC2!
* vim probably saved me thousands of hours alone.

* qutebrowser is close second as a lot of time on the web - the more efficient my web browser is the more time I save. Scripts, quickmarks and keyboard shortcuts just save a lot of time.

* spotify, music collection takes a lot of time. Finding music, buying music or even downloading music illegally is very time consuming. I maintain catalogs of obscure vaporwave subgenres and it's really really time consuming.
How about audio volume based on distance.. only the people next to you can hear you
I love how the parent stakes out several moral positions but tries to present them as objective truth or just “the way things are” with no evidence presented. Clever.

In my experience, once you get past the basics, economics is largely about dressing up ideology in the trappings of science. More generously, economics seems to be most similar to philosophy with competing schools of thought that differ primarily in what assumptions and axioms they choose when modeling human behavior.
Why we deploy machine learning models with Go–not Python
Extending the Limits of CSS
The Pond on My Window Sill – Ecosphere
Time to re-read SICP?
You are giving these script kiddies far too much credit.

The authors of the tools they use may try to implement honeypot detection, but that's fruitless cat & mouse game, and to what end?

Assuming "honeypot" based on latency is a fool's errand because many legitimate things can induce latency.
There are many people with disabilities that prevent them from doing ordinary work but who could do certain jobs with lower productivity. A minimum wage is essentially telling these people that they are worthless and should sit in a room doing nothing even though they want to work and feel useful, and in many cases this makes their lives substantially worse because they both feel useless and have less income when they can't work.

That actually sounds kind of a lot like what they did to some of the victims of eugenics.
I was in Sun's Hardware division if that makes it any more or less satisfying for you ^.^

I ain't neva sold a database license in my life!
What’s the economic difference between a stipend to consumers and a price cap on suppliers? It sounds like you just suggested regulation as an alternative to regulation...
How does this handle something like a python program
> $39/month for all that + 1:1 coaching sessions from team

Whether that's a good deal or not depends a lot on your team's experience and qualifications. For example, if my new job is in product management or marketing but all your team members are developers or have only a few years of work experience, I'd look elsewhere for advice.

Are you willing to share what your team's qualifications are?

> a community for support/ideas, which also will include matching to an accountability partner (grouped by job similarity and start date).

Forums like this are difficult to get up to critical mass. People won't want to join unless they know that there will be other people there to talk to, which there won't be when the service is new. Are people going to risk paying $19 up front if they don't know that anyone with their interests is going to be there? Is there a money-back guarantee if people don't find anyone there who's relevant to their situation?