skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People aren't going to wash them often enough. People are going to stuff them in their pocketbooks, or in the car, then put them on when they go into a store — and then stuff them right back in. It doesn't matter what is "easy" or not. And, truth be told, it isn't all that easy.

People will have to plan their trips, put the mask on, come home and wash them in the sink. In the meantime, they shouldn't be putting the mask in their pockets, purses, etc. People are not going to be handling and using their masks properly. Because doing so will be a "pain in the ass."

And, keep in mind, in NY the governor has explicitly said that "face coverings" are okay, if you don't have a mask. You just need something. That "makes sense." So, you have people wearing kerchiefs and such.

Mask orders are going to end up offering no significant protection, give people a false sense of security, and perhaps end up making some people more sick. Just watch!
The problem is that 99%+ of viruses are either harmless or symbiotic so any method that cant tell harmful from harmless might not give valid results.
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People have different preferences. For example, I find it:
- harder to focus working in my own home
- harder to separate home life from work life
- more isolating, as you miss natural office interactions and conversations

Neither way is more superior than the other, and both should be accepted as just preferences and not forced one way or another.
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That’s the point. You are assuming that every applicant is AA size... the reality is that 99% of businesses are not, and you’re killing those business, their employees, their owners, and their families.
This is a fair point, and I would be supportive of carving out an exemption to ensure the ownership value in retirement plans for workers is not wiped out and they’re made whole.
What is a hallucinogen? What do they do to the brain?
Doesn't matter when they enforce, no one's taking the risk of a change in administration.
Must be nice to be rich.
Sadly most games nowadays comes with multiplayer as the main product, so that anticheat engines are a necessity to make the game fair for everyone. Those aren't friendly to Wine/Proton, therefore I try to stick to mostly single-player games.

With the kids of how life is going faster everyday, I cannot afford to play on long stretches of time, and being unable to pause on a multiplayer game on a whim (which makes sense) makes it logical to go with a single-player game, as I can simply pause the game and pick it right up when I can, on my own schedule.

I'm glad that Valve is doing that kind of work, it benefits everyone.
ah but he said mayo. its a protected term and must have egg!
Let's examine this from the other side for a bit: why would a company want to pay for one developer's value in Des Moines an amount of money that could get them two or even three developers of value in Des Moines? What does the company gain by paying for one developer instead of multiple?

The value you bring may be the same, but if you commoditize yourself it's possible your employer will agree. Then react accordingly. Remember, nobody wants a shovel. They want a hole.
Business as usual in a world that is anything but
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>The decision leaves Disney staff reliant on state benefits — public support that could run to hundreds of millions of dollars over coming months — even as the company protects executive-bonus schemes and a $1.5-billion dividend payment due in July.
Looking forward to the inevitable legislation limiting lawsuits / damages related to Covid. Irony factor: it'll come from the same congress members who are now pushing the "allow people to sue China" agenda.
PHP attributes RFC moves to voting stage
My understanding was that the price war was still, indirectly, caused by the Coronavirus. The price was dropping a little early on when the virus was mostly confined to China, and the OPEC countries couldn't agree on who should cut production... so they broke up and made everything worse.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814529252/episode-978-coronav...
Rather how he would have kids without business?
There's no difference between your own children and white children, if you are white, is there? Generally speaking, the future is something that needs securing. If you don't secure your future, you might not have any. One way to secure your future is by learning a valuable skill another one is to marry into a wealthy family. There doesn't have to be a boogeyman threatening your future. Just missing out on opportunities or wasting your life away in idleness can be a big enough blow to ruin your future.
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I keep saying over and over but the economic policy is something trump fucked up big time. He gave away the corporate tax breaks in times of prosperity when there was no need and the companies just made bank. He was dealt a great hand, a strong economy that would chug along no matter who the president was. Those are the times to focus on the poor and lift people up. Instead he wasted his opportunity on the tax cuts. Someone with foresight and common sense would have saved that arrow in the quiver for a more opportune time. Now would have been a great time to use that tool. Instead the fed has to resort to unlimited money printing and zero interest. We probably will need to do that at some point but losing that one option is a mistake.
Still far cheaper then almost everywhere else. $3 or $15
"Spiritual awakening" is a keystone of 12-Step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous, whether effective or not, it is the de facto official treatment for substance use disorders.

"Religious delusions" are a frequent component of schizophrenia.

Clearly more research is needed in this space if we are ever to reason about it in a scientific context.
Facebook isn't the wild west anymore. Last month they banned ads for anything remotely COVID-19 related, including hand sanitizer, disinfecting wipes, medical masks, etc.

"...we are now prohibiting ads for products that refer to the coronavirus in ways intended to create a panic or imply that their products guarantee a cure or prevent people from contracting it."

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/04/coronavirus/#exploitative-...
A few comments:

- psilocybin is pretty easy to synthesize with the exception of the phosphorylation (can be hard to purify without degrading it)

- this is a research publication, so of course they put their findings in the best possible light (“finally the synthesis everyone has been waiting for”)
I couldn't remember the name, but I looked it up and remembered the browser. I did try it out! It was nice, but wasn't enough to peel me away from Camino.
>Well first off, dividends are a normal method for business owners to make an income... they take all the risk...

Except if they did actually take all the risk, they would presumably be going bust right now...but they aren't going bust because they are being bailed out.

This is an example of "privatizing the gains and socializing the losses", the opposite of ownership risk.

Besides dividends are not the only reward of ownership, the equity/stock has a value separate from the dividend...a company taking taxpayer dollars and turning around and give x% of taxpayer bailout to owners is a direct transfer of wealth to the ownership class and just burns the cash flow the business presumably needs to attempt to survive.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22920259
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He is elected to represent Denmark by Danes. He would be betraying his duty to his people if he put the interests of foreigners ahead of his own (there's a word for that, and dire consequences). It's refreshing to see.
It is hard to take delivery if you don't want to. These contracts have lots of safeguards to separate delivery from ownership.

There are lots of ways to have a contract, but one example of why this is done is if you have oil and on a slow boat. When the oil is loaded onto the boat the well owner wants to be paid, while the ship owner doesn't want to buy it, and the destination does not doesn't want to pay for it. This the ship will pay for the oil by selling a contract, the ship already knows where it is going, but they don't want to have ownership of the oil. By selling the contract on the same day they get their money back and don't lose money if oil goes down. Then they sell the oil on the other end and pay off the contract. Of course in the real world it is more complex but in general the destination is already known what isn't known is how much the oil will be worth when it gets there.

Note that I said hard to take delivery when you don't want it. Such things do happen despite safeguards. They are expensive mistakes for everyone (the ship delivering oil can't unload and so will miss the next dock while running for someplace that can take it), so there is a lot of checks in place but they can fail.
To my knowledge, it isn't. There is a date of ownership where the dividend eligibility is determined and then it is paid out a few weeks later. I would imagine those payouts are binding but a planned dividend for June could easily be rescinded without legal penalty. However it is priced into the value of the stock. Slashing dividends will tank the stock price.

C'est la vie.
Not only that, even if he was right, it was an irrelevant point. Sure, if you take all the people going on cruise ships at the time, most didn't get coronavirus. but as with all of the precautions being taken, none of this is solely about personal individual health risk, but also about risk to others. So, yeah, individual risk was probably low, but some people would get it, and spread it to others as they traveled, and then spread it some more when they got back home.
The Saudis also have a massive population of what are effectively indentured servants and the ability to get more or expel them at will, so that dependency comes with a degree of flexibility to modify their own economy.
Four Lessons about Data from the History of Color
> I've never once heard a bit of insight from a psychonaut that was particularly game-changing.

What is game changing is the experience - not reading or hearing about it.
Yeah, I need to point at the stove and say "stove off" when I turn it off. A few times I have started driving away from my house and suddenly been hit by a sense of dread that I might have left the stove on after cooking breakfast.
While I don't disagree with you, I also don't find it particularly useful to try and change these people's minds. Anti-natalism can be a self-correcting problem. Just let the anti-natalists die off (as they inevitably will, by definition) and they will be replaced by people who made better choices.
Old people own stuff. Why is that important in this context?
When we first started replacing our Erlang router for Heroku Private Spaces with a go-based one, the name of the POC was ‘pxy’. Very big fan of the name. Yours seems fun too. <3
The last time I remember these prices was 1998-ish. A quick online inflation checker tells me this is would be like $0.63 USD / gallon then.
So why don't these conditions apply to all the aid, not just the aid after 8.8 million dollars?

Otherwise it seems ripe for my company to claim 7 million dollars of aid as unsecured loans, then pay out nice big dividends claiming you are in a strong financial position because you are forecasting lots of business next year, then in 2 years time when the loan repayments become due, go bankrupt.
It's actually way simpler than that: the owners of a company facing crisis have the choice between providing it with additional liquidity or putting its future (and thus their stake) at risk. This is the one core manifestation of the risk they are bearing, and for which they allegedly deserve the dividends in the first place.

Getting a dividend for last year's performance is the opposite of providing liquidity. If they get the cash because it was scheduled, they need to immediately put it back.
If they take the cash and run, they failed to act in their own interest, and do not deserve to have their investment protected.
Hate to be that guy but nobody mentioned it -
Lets not forget Proton is a wrapper for Wine, and we're here today thanks to many many years of community effort.
Sorry I indeed tried to validate ideas with a couple websites on the same hostname. Ngram and reverse geocoding are 2 APIs I created and used in other products, and because I found them useful, I tried to spin them off as standalone services.
Annoyingly, games that use Valve's own DRM/encryption scheme CEG don't work: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/753
Based on the article, it looks like the primary form of aid is zero interest loans. It seems perfectly fair and reasonable to me that you can't pay dividends until you pay back the loan.
Why do they or why would they make up extraction costs? (Genuinely interested)
Why do a majority of publicly traded companies not pay dividends? I've noticed before that for many companies by identifier (ISIN, SEDOL, CUSIP, take your pick) that there are no dividend histories.

The only example that I know the reason why is Amazon. [If you buy Amazon stock you either 1) expect dividends at some later stage or 2) plan on selling the stock for a higher price.]
Companies that pay dividends

What’s the point of a company that never pays a dividend.
You can read it in full here https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Agrarian_Justice

But no he argues that “Every individual in the world is born therein with legitimate claims on a certain kind of property, or its equivalent.”
Pretty basic signaling: people I don't like like it, so I don't like it. They are basically giving horrible people too much control over their thoughts.
Talking to friends in the west, they are keeping a lot of operators on pay still. I guess it is a how long thing. I'm hoping all the folks with one of the tribes that made a lot of cash on oil put some away for a rainy day.
Sounds of the Bodleian
Hey hn! I was tired of keeping track of Slack's webhook payloads, designing blocks in JSON, and general code fragmentation. So I tried removing the knowledge barrier of storage, state, webhooks, and message publishing as much as possible. Although Phelia won't make you a better developer, I hope it helps you build your Slack applications faster. All you gotta know is React.
You can pay dividends after repaying the aid money.
Trump cut taxes on corporate profits. That only helps when there are actually profits, so it would not do much right now.
> If cost of maintaining roads and utilities in typical American suburban pattern is so high that cities can’t afford it, where are all the cities that went bankrupt because of it?

There's often a reduction of services. Some US towns / counties can no longer afford pavement so they're letting roads become gravel:

* https://www.wired.com/2016/07/cash-strapped-towns-un-paving-...

* https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2009/counties-weig...
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Any issue with nvidia cards?
In the United States, there are controlled substances, and federal law requires that a psychiatrist write a new prescription every month, with no automatic refills.

However, it is heavily streamlined. My university medical center and on campus pharmacy had me in and out with a week supply of adderall in about two hours. There were weekly followups for about four weeks, then monthly followups every three months, and then it was just five mins with a psychiatrist for minor adjustments thereafter. After graduation, most psychiatrists will do monthly followups over the phone, and may only require you to come in a few times a year.

I have however heard it can be much harder if they suspect that you are unstable or "drug seeking". But if you don't appear to be a risk, and you can clearly explain your situation, then they will usually offer you a week supply and you report if it helps you. I think a big factor is just what your life situation is.

Private psychiatrists are much more likely to help you. Make an appointment with an "ADHD specialist". As long as you don't have any red flags, they are likely to give you a test prescription"
Technically? I think we have multiple paths

Politically? not a damn chance because ignorance is a thing.
Same. I'm hoping that Valve's commitment to do a Linux-native release of Half-Life: Alyx is at least a commitment to get an end-to-end working VR experience on Linux sooner than later.
I think the unsatisfying reason why one should implement it is because it's a standard API now, and it is always better to implement standards.
For many oil companies when the price of oil goes down they have to produce more in order to pay their heavy debt loads. With many companies producing as much as they can to stay afloat this forces the price down even further.
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It's not. The stock price will likely take a hit, but such is life.
I would personally _love_ to hear this story.
Maybe I should I give it a go. I really don't want to. But this has been frustrating for a long time. Thanks for the effort!
Work on short term contract where the ability to grasp things quickly is more important that dutifulness.

A cool job I heard was technology assessment for corporation that want to buy another compagnie, you look into the technology to see if it actually does what it say, what is the amount of tech debt, etc. You make a report and then you move on to the next.
There's a decent chance your car won't start. The gasoline in the tank is probably fine, but the gasoline in the fuel lines and so forth has likely turned in useless gunk.
In all the car radios that I've had, I can tune it to a 20'th of a MHz. So it'll go from 102.0 to 102.05 and then 102.1.

I've never had anything lock up on those .05 frequencies though. I wonder if it's every used anywhere.
Why doesn’t the government just write a check to individuals and let them spend the money instead of bailing out companies in most countries?
Show HN: Vectr – Tracking and reporting for information security activities
Danish lawyer here.

The proposal only limits payments to companies that have received more than DKK 60 million (around EUR 8 million) in aid. So this is not your usual business owner. These are generally larger companies with a well paid management.

As for companies registered in tax havens, the EU has made an official list of tax havens, which will be followed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_tax_haven_black...

It's a short list and it doesn't include any countries where a large company doing business in Denmark would be registered except if they try to avoid taxes. Why should tax payers bail out a tax avoiding company?

The proposal was made by a party in the opposition, which is usually seen as most business friendly ("Venstre"). Interest groups representing the businesses in Denmark support the proposal. I think it's a common sense proposal. Paying out dividends to shareholders while receiving government aid basically means having the tax payers bail out the business owners.

I honestly think the proposal should go even further. The government should take a small ownership stake in companies that receive that kind of money.
I can't help but share your feeling. It's quite interesting how naturalism just mentions the parts that they like about evolution and hide actually how horrendous the thing actually is.
Is not my intention here to promote alternative explanations to our origin or anything like that, but if we really believed in evolution, why do we try to get the women/children/handicap out of an accident first when who should survive is the fittest? And if I dare go to even darker terrain, having a superior race take over the world would just advance evolution positively (I ABSOLUTELY ABHOR THE IDEA!)

But then, why do we find ourselves in such strong revulsion against what is supposed to just be? If this (evolution) is all that there is and has ever been, how do we, as a part of it, "know better"?
I think you've outlined an excellent framework/technique to self improvement -- not dissimilar to the Carol Dweck's 'Growth Mindset'.

However, I think it's very likely GP has a much more pernicious problem. That is, he is afraid to make mistakes.

The sentence that highlights this for me is -- "I have realized that I easily give up when I face a hard problem."

If you're afraid of making mistakes, you won't be willing to ask questions (in case it makes you look stupid). And, you won't be willing to try something new (because learning something new leads to mistakes).

This fear of making mistakes is often rooted in an extrinsic desire to be perfect. And, based on GP's description, this desire likely came from his demanding upbringing (read: parents).

GP, I highly recommend Carol Dweck's book 'The Growth Mindset'. It's not just OK to make mistakes -- it's often a GOOD thing because it means you're on the path of progress.
Most tech companies don't dividend... you buy the stock or sell it based on their current profits.
Academia and industry in stark battle over privacy for contact tracing in Europe
Working at big-corp, have worked with several differently abled coders who were amazing. You might look at larger orgs, like Cisco, P&G, IBM etc. Modern tooling may make it easy for smaller orgs, but big corps have been active in these types of issues for a long time.

teamblind.com has forums on employers and hiring info.
Show HN: News Extract API – Pull structured data from online news articles
Hey HN,

It will be more of a "How I released my API without managing a website, servers, users, and payments. With 0$ up-front cost"

Over the past year, I have come up with a plan of how I could release my own product without having to deal with managing users and/or dealing with payment processing.

It is a 3 steps procedure:
1. Make an API that solves a problem
2. Deploy it with a serverless architecture
3. Distribute through an API Marketplace

That took me about 2-3 days to develop an API using Flask, deploy it via Zappa on AWS, and release through RapidAPI.

Source code of API: https://github.com/kotartemiy/extract-news-api
Subscribe to API on Rapid: https://rapidapi.com/provider/4109621/apis/extract-news/user...
I'm on ProductHunt today: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/extract-news-api

Full article on how I did it: https://towardsdatascience.com/api-as-a-product-how-to-sell-...
depends on how you define "old". My personal observation-driven wild guess would be that the 40-65 year old demographic would be overrepresented in anything presented by Facebook. They are by far the most active there.
Many workers are paid a majority of their income in the form of stock from the company they work for.
Not sure, maybe something to do with providing work and services?

Maybe you mean "whats the point in investing in a company that will never pay dividends".
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I never heard of this before and tried to look it up without success.

I did find this Reuters article which mentions
"In 2011, to mark three major anniversaries, ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah granted 1,000 dinars to each Kuwaiti and free food rations for 13 months."

1000 dinars ~$3200

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kuwait-parliament-debt/ku...