skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't China restricting the sale of new gasoline cars like what EU is doing? I agree US market could be hit badly as CA is still under lockdown and tech companies are laying off.
Most gains in productivity have come from simplifying or automating away common tasks:

* Text editors spell-check your writing (just put more care into your writing!)

* Garbage-collected runtimes,or compile-time memory proofs prevent common memory errors (just write your C more carefully!)

* Machinery and power tools allow one to perform the same physical tasks more quickly (just put your back into it!)

* Agriculture allows one more reliable sources of nutrition & calories (just get good at hunting & gathering!)

Humans have a finite amount of "thought and care" to put into things. If there's a framework that allows for more rapid and reliable software development, with less thought and care spent, that's great. That thought & care can go into something more productive.
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As an alternative - vaping flipped the switch to divert the train from three to a single person - Juul flipped the switch later down the line to make sure it still hit three people anyways.
We have 20 million unemployed Americans, many of whom are currently getting paid to sit at home and play Animal Crossing.

Surely, a well-functioning society would figure out how to employ some of them to be contact tracers. Why hasn't this happened yet?
This is one of those projects that would be wonderful if it were paired with a driver to be able to serve standard webpages on the display. Or just with a display driver for the whole pi and Chromium.
> But I'm assuming it can't break through all NAT routers, right? A good portion of people still won't be able to use this?

> A service usable by everyone would require STUN and TURN servers to be set up, no?

Anecdata, of course, but I haven't been able to reliably use any of these WebRTC based file transfer services (file.pizza, instant.io, etc etc). Testing mostly between two computers on the same subnet. Sometimes they work for a little while, at surprisingly low speeds (for two computers connected to the same wireless access point), sometimes I can let them sit for an hour and never get a connection. I've learned to not even bother trying them, it just wastes time.

That said, magic-wormhole (the original) works fine between the same devices, so maybe I'll see if something is somehow different about this implementation.

Edit: ah yes, this service hangs indefinitely on "connecting". You love to see it. (Firefox on Linux - firewall disabled specifically for this test - and Safari on macOS)

Edit: seems to be working in Chrome (Linux) to Firefox (Android). Not sure what the difference is.
If California is so great, why are so many people moving away? [1]

California is being propped up by the tech industry because historically the biggest tech companies are headquartered here, which caused all the talent to be clustered here, and then new tech companies were forced to be here to attract that talent. Obviously, smart, intelligent people move here because jobs are here, and capital invests here because talent is here -- but things are changing quickly and other cities are becoming tech hubs.

If these other states have such "failed economic and social policies", why are so many people moving there?

The worst will be when Californians move to other states and then vote for policies that ruined the place they just fled.

[1] https://www.ocregister.com/2019/10/31/190122-more-people-lef...
Casting.

Note that the Model 3 rear is a bit of a pathological case. In his teardown, Sandy Munro had a lot of good things to say about other parts of the car, but considered the tail end to be a horribly engineered overly expensive mess. So it looks so good because they started with the unambiguously worst piece in the car, and made it really good.
Construction is a massive sector that supports a lot of working class families. It is/can be performed with maximum adherence to social distancing and use of respiratory masks/PPE is already standard practice. I can see how the additional noise will be an inconvenience to some, but not allowing construction would be, IMO, much more devastating to an already hammered economy/work-force.
Disclaimer: I work in the construction industry.
> If their mandate was really harm reduction they could do that with a "plain" flavor; that's how we stop the kids in my house from eating all the yogurt.

frankly I don't know whether the people at juul had malicious intentions wrt teenage vaping, but I really resent the line of argument that offering enjoyable flavors implies targeting children. this is actually one of the main things that makes vaping a viable substitute for me and many other people. if they only made plain vapes, I would probably just go back to smoking.
Creator here.

It's all arbitrary, IMO. Idk if they're "siphoning off profits", since most of their value is in equity and Amazon, for example, isn't historically very profitable.

Getting richer every year in equity value is a strange concept. I think there should be some additional taxes, but we also shouldn't expect taxes to be a real solution.
I guess that's easier than admitting you're wrong. It's telling that you refuse to answer the questions that would illuminate your error. You asked me to explain it to you, why won't you let me?
I'll take the bait.
Whilst I'm confused on what rights are being violated that need to be fought for. I'm more confused as to your comment about doing what the government says to do. Your comment paints following orders from the government for the sake of safety as an unheard of concept. Why do you think driver licenses are required to operate a motorized vehicle? To collect fees from license applications? Or to ensure that drivers on the road and pedestrians safety isn't in danger due to reckless drivers?
>Unlikely. You can't mate with copies of yourself unless there are already multiple copies of yourself floating around.

We don't know if early replicators were inside lipid membranes or not. If they were in the goop they'd be floating with their clones and siblings.
> Sunlight exposure is also bad for you

Assuming 'linear no-threshold'? I find that pretty suspect.
>This is just a hack to the problem that most people can’t write

But that is exactly what we need! It will always be easier to change the computers than to change the people. If we could replace all of the people with clones of von Neumann, most development practices (and UX) research would become irrelevant.
Most of the people I know at least? It probably varies a lot by location, subcultures and socio-economic groups.
Nobody really knows what the “normal” level of Vit D is. My baseline level is lower than that of my white-skinned father and higher than that of my darker-skinned mother. Does he have too much? Certainly we all live at a latitude higher than where her ancestors lived and lower than where his did. Which of us has a “normal” level?

Outside extreme deficiencies though, I’m not sure that the band isn’t relatively large. But it is documented that D supplements for people with low levels of D does seem to reduce the incidence of pulmonary infections in general. There was a good paper on the subject published last December in Lancet (IIRC — i failed to save it in Zotero). So even before COVID-19 became a concern I upped my daily dose.
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The tl;dr of the post is that jails are a top-down solution whereas "containers" are just a bunch of kernel features and primitives used together.
This sounds like 1970s' movies depicting groups of teenage and younger kids roaming the streets throughout the night after all the community centers, arcades, and malls [i.e. any communal source of entertainment] closed. Midnight skateboarding in abandoned lots, drunk 11-year-olds, graffiti, sneaking out the window as a matter of course ... parents having no idea where their children go at night [remember "Do you know where your children are?"? Forgive a "wrong decade" but the point stands] ...

Of course this is all "crazed cinema depicting crazed societal horror", but are we truly expecting a return to such times and activities?
It's like never true, it does not show that you can't get email notification faster than in 30 minutes.

Also now should include adding random old stuff to notification.
$36mil/1000 employees works out about 36k in severance. What happens to people who got stock grants that vest over 4 years?
I don’t really think that any other automaker has a 25.5% margin on their mass produced electric vehicles.
There are two ways to compensate with stock: purchasing stock on the open market with cash, or, hand out stock from a pool of withheld shares. The pool of shares might be periodically increased through creating new shares (and diluting) but this must be reported to the SEC and is only done infrequently.

GAAP reporting requires that stock compensation is written off as an expense. It does not reduce the company’s cash, but it does reduce the company’s earnings. Hence it changes the price to earnings figure.
I don’t think this is accurate. I’ve worked at companies that did “service-oriented architecture” long before the rise of the term “microservice” and it was clearly recognized that different “services” shouldn’t be so coupled together you can’t redeploy them separately.
I'm not easily annoyed but those avatars moving horizontally seem really distracting and irritating. What does the moving indicate?
Not to mention really low power then, right? So you could have it wake up once every few minutes to refresh and a battery charge could last weeks.
Honestly it doesn't work well now as a developer. It is about a week worth of work away from being a great developer experience. They'll come around. Honestly every time I have split out a separate service it is because the current state of affairs is bad and there is a distinct need. Those handful of things have been rock solid and needed very little attention, but it has been a last resort.
My guess: purchasing the land, paying for studies, laying new road, removing old road.

£100,000 sounds cheap. Two people already died. If I was a family member of a third victim, I would've wanted the government to pay £100,000. I would be asking government officials if it was worth it.

(Approx 125,000 USD at today's exchange rate)
You're right, somehow I didn't like the fact that that happened...maybe it's just because Oracle was very hard to use for me 15 years ago when I tried it in university (especially compared to open source DBs), but maybe it became much more user friendly since.

I remember that while in MySQL I could just set the id field to autoincrement, and in Oracle I had to create a special kind of counter, increment it and read its value to create a new id for example.
if only, for all their sins (which are lots) 4chan is a very fascinating place. The other day I was fantasizing (lol) about giving a talk to out-of-touch academics/journalist boomers and explaining them the 4chan phenomenon.

There are lot of very smart people there. You compare the recommendations in music/books/cinema between them and reddit and it is "People" vs "Cahiers du Cinema".They tend to create lots of Internet culture, the humor is caustic but it can touch genius from time to time and they are very open regarding topics like sexuality,depression, economics and so on.It is proof there is always more that meet the eye.
> Also you’re just incorrect about rent control. SF has it in a tiny fraction of apartments.

That's flat out wrong.

"San Francisco has a roughly thirty-five percent homeownership rate. Then 172,000 units of the city's 376,940 housing units are under rent control. (That's about 75 percent of the city's rental stock.)"

source: https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/

Please point out a solution from these politicians on the left that won't make things worse.
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X.com was a bust that pivoted into a PayPal clone and merged with them when both companies were nearly out of runway from buying each other's users. He was CEO of PayPal for just months before a mass revolt of the engineering team over his incompetence lead the board of directors to fire him. Tesla has been structurally bankrupt for most of its existence, burning billions of investors' cash and still making no profit selling cars after 12 years [1]. SolarCity was on the verge of bankruptcy so he bailed it out with his other company and is still being sued for that. He's been having Tesla sell car parts to SpaceX (a private company so you can't look at its financials), more shuffling of money around from one company to another to paper over losses. His side gigs -- The Boring Company to build unusable tunnels, Neuralink, etc -- have accomplished nothing. What exactly has he "turned to gold"?

1: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-burns-cash/
soccer is shorthand for association football.
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In recent years there's been some question about whether there is a link between autism and Vitamin D deficiency in some African immigrants. Minnesota has a large population of Somali immigrants (ISTR the largest population outside Somalia itself) and in that community, autism has been nicknamed the "Minnesota disease" because of how prevalent it has become in children of immigrants.

https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2008/07/mysterious-...

It's an old article, but I haven't been able to find anything newer that isn't based on the same study in 2008.

A similar "outbreak" was noted in Sweden.
My mom did her PhD in micronutrients (sorry, I never really asked for details) and has always been nagging me to take 10000 IU of Vitamin D a day. I have been remiss in this over the years, and my physicals always come back with a note about being Vitamin D deficient. I have gotten better and my bloodwork comes back normal these days. (I have never noticed an effect. Coffee has a large effect on whether or not I feel awake, and getting exercise has a large effect on whether or not I feel good. But I'm sure not being deficient in Vitamin D is helping something.)
Sure, when you're talking about mobile devices. (Or has it already become a thing with DSL, too?) In any case, the issue started much earlier, I'd say.
Juul became massively popular because it hit much harder than typical cheap gas station vape pens of the time and the pods came in around the same price as a pack of smokes, or cheaper. Vaping has been around for over a decade and there are plenty of smokers that never considered it a viable alternative because it was a huge investment -- only to find out that it didn't hit in any way comparable to the way that a cigarette would. Juul changed all that.
It is the UK. If they were to do anything a roundabout would be more suitable.
Thank you for commenting.

I've struggled with the exact same things and have found the moments when men show me the kindness and respect that I, previous to the rape, had just expected of myself and everyone, are the most healing ones.

I wanted to pull this out and emphasize it. This is a mostly male forum and decent men often feel helpless and like there isn't anything they can do to counterbalance the atrocities done by other men.

Humans generally tend to feel like "nuke it from orbit" is the only useful response to really bad things and if they can't do something akin to that, they feel they aren't making any difference at all. But just being kind and respectful and decent to someone stressed out who doesn't trust you because you are male or white or rich or whatever and someone like you burned them really badly at one time is the most powerful thing you can do to help them heal, help them put down their baggage and foster a more civil world in which atrocities are less likely to be the norm.

We currently have things like the #MeToo movement, so there is currently a lot of visibility for the fact that a lot of men behave really badly towards women and it's actually pretty problematic because decent guys are scared to be kind for fear of being accused of being a rapist or something. So I wanted to emphasize that I'm not the only woman who was raped who feels like the best thing a man can do is just be kind and respectful and decent to me and act like "that's normal" and not anything special.

And maybe that will empower some of the men here to feel like they are making a meaningful difference to just be decent and that's it. No war paint or chest beating or grand standing or the like required.
I don’t know how to write it well but hang in there! The fact that you worry about your children means you are a great person. Take care.
is it though? In terms of human population, there's still billions of people for FB to 'acquire'. But I would still venture that it's worrisome if they're shedding users/usage in the USA or the west in general as they are usually monetized much better.
Juul was sold to a big tobacco firm, cannot recall the name now. But they bought it to rid of it so they sell their new ecig machine.
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Yeah I had a look and this is... not great.

I take it all back.
Thanks everybody for checking this out. I gotta say it's pretty wild sitting in the room all day and hearing people come in and out, communicating with you only via a handful of sound effects. Not quite what the app was built for but even this is pretty fun.

EDIT: Aaaand we exceeded my free tier! I've bumped it up to the next tier for now.

EDIT: Thanks to whoever sent hundreds of party horn noises non-stop for 5 minutes, you've made me consider putting throttling in.
Yeah, this seems to be about the right direction. California as a whole (I don't have access to Bay Area data specifically) is clearly at a relatively stable peak, but the new infection rate hasn't dropped much and there's comparatively little room for error.

Other states are looking better[1]. Vermont, Alaska, Montana and Hawaii are all well below their peak infection rates and still dropping. Those are the places that should start relaxing rules earlier.

[1] Some are looking much worse, of course. Watch Nebraska in particular: their new infection rate has been growing at close to 10% per day for almost three weeks, and at that rate they'll be at a New York scale outbreak in just two more. I haven't seen any coverage of what's going on there (i.e. whether it's a specific local outbreak like the Smithfield one in SD).
Every furniture store around here has been "going out of business" for the last 20 years. At least that's what I've gathered from their "everything must go", "50% off" fluorescent signs.
I was expecting 62 bits of advice in the information theory interpretation. :/
Was this similar to MS's infamous stack ranking system where some teammates will be always rated bad even if everyone is doing well?
As an investor, these financials are so sexy. Historical quarterly data presented, cash flow statement presented quarterly, so many small examples of excellence and thoughtfulness in how the figures are presented.
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Sorry you're getting downvoted for having a healthy sense of cynicism.
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It's convoluted because it's expressed in an incomprehensible way. Make it a Petri net or something, first decide what is the class of the message & pref of that class and it's 3x simpler.
You can't be serious. Juul is not being villified for just having flavors, they are being villified for marketing to kids.

https://www.businessinsider.com/juul-congress-e-cigs-target-...

"The memo accused Juul of knowingly marketing products to teens by holding programs at schools and camps and recruiting teens as "Juul influencers.""

"The hearing's testimony included claims that a Juul representative once visited a high-school classroom and told students that Juul e-cigarettes were "totally safe," according to a memo from congressional investigators."
could well be true, same can be said of sleep, the few good papers I've read often showed benefits and I don't recall any instances of harm so safe to try, but no money to pay for anything like the volume of research some rare illnesses get.
Putting on the other hat for a minute, I'm curious what the author things a good resolution for this would be.

Perhaps that any time you use a text editor to create, edit, or save a shell script, that script should be treated as a freshly downloaded and untrusted script? Or that it should be impossible to control a text editor from another application, even when given explicit permission from the operator? Both of those sound awful. Is there a third option I'm missing here?

I'm with Apple on this one.

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Also, who would think controlling a text editor is innocuous? A text editor's modus operandi is literally to create, read, update, or delete any file to which your user has access.
No, it's not really akin to that. This isn't a trolley experiment with only two tracks; they could have chosen to not market their product to children.
This issue has been unfixed for two years, and it's still in the backlog? Wow. Looks like Microsoft prioritization process is really broken.
In addition to sibling comment, in my case, the pension is still administered by the acquirer of the acquirer (in this case Dell).
I don't remember if it was on december or january, honestly, but it was before the wuhan market jumped to the newspapers.

All tested members of my family were negative so far, so probably more around Jan than Dec, and probably not corona. Maybe just fungus spores or pollen
Rebellion for the sake of rebellion helps nobody. The virus is a test of capacity for social cooperation, and California is passing with flying colors so far.

Only with total cooperation can you reasonably contain the virus - some countries have succeeded at this already, and California is not far behind.
Aren't tobacco products already illegal to sell to children? Why is the blame on the manufacturer for making a product that adults like when the real issue is retailers selling nicotine-containing products to children?
Any sources? That'd be helpful for my verdict!
You make a good point. I've also gotten into trading because I enjoy the algorithmic and mathematical aspects, and I would love to share more of what has been working for me and write extensively about it. And there are probably more people like that out there. However, trading has such a bad reputation and uncertain future that I am not sure that's a good career move. I'm torn.

You're right that there are probably some gems and people writing up good posts and articles. However, 99% of what comes to my inbox, which is certain newsletters and arXiv subscriptions, is clearly BS. I'm particularly disappointed with arXiv/academia, because in other fields like biology and CS/ML/AI, published papers tend to be of higher quality than your average blog post. In trading the opposite seems to be true. Seeing a good trading paper on arXiv is incredibly rare. I would even go as far as saying that reddit is a significantly better source of information than arXiv for this field.