skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When there's no worries about inflation, is there a downside to the fed doing this?
> So, we must be either communists or laissez faire capitalists without a hint of regulation.

Actual options recently offered or widely discussed on healthcare, one of the key issues raised, have included:

Medicare for All — private providers with a public monopsony purchaser (the most “socialist” option, but it's not even really socialist in the sense of public control of the means of production, the way UK-style NHS is.)

The ACA model with an added option to buy into public insurance.

Return to the ACA model (restoring the parts that have been unfunded or reauthorized) without adding a public option.

Return to the heavily regulated pre-ACA private insurance model, with additional federal transparency regulations for providers, and federal rules allowing interstate sales.

These all have arguments for and against them, but that it's a binary choice between communism and laissez-faire capitalism isn't a remotely accurate complaint.
I've only used one and it was a couple years ago but the UI was really laggy and slow, if you're expecting something like iOS. The touch interface experience in Win10 was probably fine if you're someone who didn't mind using 2005-era PC laptop trackpads (I gather such people exist?).
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Great point. I actually wrote about this as I reflect on building the website. Next.js pre-renders the static files at build time, so JavaScript isn’t building the site on the client side or even on the server side. You get the benefit of writing in React (DRY, modular, and JavaScript focused) over just writing HTML.
I know you're joking, but this reminded me of https://xkcd.com/1172/
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Choose a job title on the "technical ladder"

This is an excellent answer. It also removes those companies from the employer pool that for some reason still don't have a technical ladder.
Agree. Low light should reading should avoid blue.
Well, that's a lot of text to read. My (high-level) thoughts as a systemd user for 10 years is that it improved some things, made a few things worse, but I would not want to go back to the init.d days. Having a daemon around to manage the lifecycle of services is actually a good idea and most of the *ctl programs are preferable to the manual configuring they replace.
Pontiff: A Haskell-style build system for Chicken Scheme
They should at least put TV screens at the zoo and play the videos with visitors and those videos that animals like to watch.
I always used to say "On that side of the desk" and point to the interviewer.
There is always a middle ground as there are other native languages. In regards to C++ you can limit yourself to convenient feature set you are comfortable with.

C++ can be a real bitch and commit one to a mental institution or it can be very helpful if one does not try to play PhD.

I write servers and some other stuff in C++ and find it incredibly easy to use. I just do not do any esoteric things.
> This is an area where teenagers routinely make money by building these kinds of websites.

... only for those websites' backend services to be breached and the customer account data to be shared on the dark nets by other teenagers, ready to rip off and scam innocent customers.

Sarcasm obviously, but designing an ecommerce site is a serious affair, not an afternoon pastime.
"In the middle of a six month sabbatical after years of hard work at <your company> paid off in a big way."

works for:
- startups (i seek to play a big role in making you guys a smash hit)
- enterprises (i made everything so much better to the point that it's safe for me to take an extended vacation)
- yourself! (i have accomplished something big and meaningful and hopefully profitable and i feel that i will have earned a break in 5 years)
Does this kind of "both sidesism" really engage with the reality of the situation or does it just sound "smart" because it is generically claims that there is something complex about the issue?

Here is this comment applied to the situation in America ~160 years ago:

Like too much these days, the alternatives we've been provided are at the extremes. They seem to be offered less as viable solutions and more as tools for sorting people into one of two buckets.

So, we must be either abolitionists or in favor of the harshest slavery without a hint of regulation.

But, of course real solutions--particularly to such macro scale challenges--are seldom found at the extremes.

If we could spark an earnest discussion about what a saner version of slavery would look like, then we could find a solution, and relatively easily vs what our "manipulated" experience might suggest.
Early on this interview [0] he says that his grandfather visited Napoleon in Elba (in 1814). It's always sort of mind-blowing how few generations, albeit long-lived ones, are required to reach to a very different era, where there existed this weird short-lived French empire. In this case just 3 or 4 generations are needed?

Another instance is President John Tyler's grand children still being alive [1]. John Tyler was born in 1790 when George Washington was still around, although I doubt he had any contact with Washington.

[0] https://youtu.be/fb3k6tB-Or8?t=129

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler#Family_and_personal...
Similarly, watch out for the quiet ones.
No one stepped up to write and maintain it.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=156519841415403&w=2
> being male (hazard ratio 1.99..

It’s an interesting counter factual to imagine how differently the media would be covering the situation if the genders were reversed and women had about twice the chance of dying from COVID-19..
The US was building similar housing around the same time. We call them The Projects.

In the UK they're called Council Flats.
>The big difference here is that the risk of climate scientists being right is that billions of people die.

That's literally an absolute worst case prediction. You cannot guide policy exclusively with worst case predictions.

>We're not longer talking about hypotheticals here, we're observing these events happening right now

No, we're seeing warming and minor sea level rise right now - and even this is less certain than people would have you believe, we only recently realized for example that the mismatch between expected and current warming could be explained by the ocean acting as a heat sink. Imagine how many other similar phenomena we have yet to discover.

Physical systems tend to be nonlinear. Even a high rate of warming now does not preclude a comfortable maximum due to nonlinear restorative forces.

That's why nothing, literally nothing that we've observed to date, can significantly reduce the uncertainty regarding doomsday predictions.
In this company, but in a position that pays 3x more the position I'm applying to right now. Does this position exist?

"Hum, not right now. We are a flat organization and we want to stay like this for the coming years."

Got it. Thank you.
Also author here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=munificent
> Either use hand sanitizers that have e.g. ethylene glycol to simultaneously moisturize and protect your dermis

Ethylene glycol is a dessicant, and moderately toxic. You really don't want to add that to hand sanitiser, or to rub ethylene glycol on your skin after 70% alcohol as a moisturiser.

You might be thinking about polyethlylene glycol. Or possibly glycerol (a humectant and moisturiser) but that's less likely.
See also... the largest previous threads:

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14475489

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7646985

2014 ('now finished'): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7634734

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6004885

About specific chapters:

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17845334

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7543158

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7466711

The first thread was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=874080 from 2009, and the discussion is about how incomplete everything is. That's interesting, because how many items with a discussion like that ever actually do get completed?

If I missed any interesting discussions let me know and I'll add to the list.
I have a friend who used to start every meeting with writing down how much the meeting will cost the company (pp person/hour, etc.) on a whiteboard.

They worked for a university's budget controller, so large meetings were regular, but, fortunately infrequent!
Transient block of mTOR in hPSCs aids formation of mouse-human chimeric embryos
DNC hackers? This is rubbish.. the timing of this is impeccable. MSM pushing fake news once again.
There isn't any, really. Your stuff is automatically copyrighted as soon as you create it, and the ability to recoup damages from infringement depends on your registration of a copyrightable work with the LoC rather than putting a copyright notice on it. However, it used to be that case that inclusion of copyright notice was essential and forgetting to include it could lead to a work falling into the public domain.

In the event that you're litigating a copyright claim it is slightly easier to do so if you have copyright statements littered about, but on the other hand a vexatious counterparty would just get into the weeds of arguing that they were either not prominent enough or overbroad (perhaps because you were using a lot of open source or public domain assets).
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So? That brings hundreds or thousands of customers a month to a restaurant that wouldn't otherwise go/order.

The alternative marketing+order management costs for a restaurant to generate and fulfill that demand on their own is even higher on average, or else restaurants would be using alternatives.

And there is a ton of work involved on GrubHub's part of operating/maintaining the sites/apps, handling customer service (frequently), moderating reviews, provide support to restaurants, combating fraud, marketing, and so on.

Believe me. If you could create a GrubHub/Seamless clone only charging restaurants 5% to use it and still be profitable, then competitors would have already done so.
The joke is there, but it's not actually quite that macabre -- if a route feels unsafe, more users will abandom it midway through.

The Triborough bridge had a pedestrian walkway; I've never made it across because the rail is below my center of mass, and nope.
Seriously? Take a daily chart, plot a 10d moving average and tell me you can’t make money.
> The form cannot be submitted until the user fixes the error, so the server shouldn’t receive an excessively long text or password (a server-side validation has to be put in place anyway.) However, this could potentially affect a front-end implementation if it expects the entered text never to exceed maxlength.

What century are Mozilla living in? Most, even simple forms, don't use <form> elements and submit buttons anymore, they're all aJax. Therefore this workaround will be commonly bypassed.

People can debate if this is a good or bad thing, but ultimately the problem remains: This change will cause unexpected behavior when maxlength-ed stuff no longer obeys on thousands of popular websites.

Even if sites check it server-side, that doesn't mean the user experience isn't substantially degraded relative to obeying HTML standards.

Their justification for this change is nonsensical too:

> This change mainly aims at preventing an unexpectedly truncated password from being saved.

So why not limit it to input type=password? Heck why include textareas in this change, who is using a textarea for a password box?!
Here: http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-viral-market-m...

It's a 2 month old article by perhaps the most respected figure in valuation. He came up with 2750 for S&P at that time (market value was much lower, maybe he would be more pessimistic now). You can enter your own assumptions into his spreadseet and it will output a valuation.
How can you reduce all of the freedoms we've lost in the lockdown to "go stand in stores." That's life to you? Standing in stores? It will not be possible to have a rational argument about the cost/benefits of lockdown if people aren't going to acknowledge how many features of our lives have been sacrificed.
Late to the party but never mind. I always wanted to read and write more, but creating such high-value habits are very hard to come by. In this lockdown, I decided to do something about that.

I read five pages from a book that interests me every day and then write about my interpretation.

To build a good reading and writing habit, I built a static blog using JAMStack technologies.

https://5pagesaday.com/

I used Hugo to make a static site and Netlify functions to call Google Book API, Forestry dot io to write my book blurbs every day. I integrated Amazon ads to implement related book recommendations. I use netlify to host and Github actions for CI/CD. It's a PWA out of the box and supports Google AMP.

The cool part is when writing a book experience, I provide the book ISBN, and my netlify function would go and grab book cover gif, description, author name from Google Book API automatically :-)

I am really pleased. I will start reading and writing from the coming Monday.

Wish me luck and follow me to encourage. I will open-source my Hugo theme which I named ”Morning Pages” and my blog on Github later this week. Cheers
> How often do you have meetings?

This deserves to be added to the Joel Test!
The author is wrong. Apocalyptic in religions means revelations, not necessarily end of the world. It rather means the revelation of what is good and what is evil. It will become clear to people even if they didn’t know that good and evil existed (religious people know that without an apocalypse).
Given that, the article bases on a wrong foundation so that the author naturally reaches wrong conclusions.
In today’s world some people and especially people in power do lie a lot, which has severe consequences in the bad conditions we‘re living right now. The wake people know that those lies will be disclosed very soon, hence we should see an apocalyptic with Christian eyes, who see the revelation in that the poor politics concerning Covid will not last for very long and we will be shown the truth as part of the revelation (=apocalyptic).
I think one should look at the velocity of money very closely right now to get a good sense of where the general market will be headed in the next couple of years. As the velocity slows down, economic activity overall will slow and no amount of government stimulus is going to help.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1V
YouTube censors epidemiologist for opposing lockdown
Great point. I don't think people generally consider what makes up the growth of the stock market. I think two major components are value creation in the real economy (which sort of is what GDP is supposed to measure) and inflation, as you suggest. I think profits are merged into "GDP"? That doesn't account for 7 percent. I can think of another component, "survivorship bias". The market is not all companies, just the ones doing well.
I don't understand how this could be true. The chances of you coming into existence require an astronomical number of things to happen in an exact time and order. Changing any number of those variables will cause a chain reaction that will make your existence not happen.

If we assume the universe is deterministic, then changing any of the starting variables of the universe will cause a different course of events playing out. If the speed of light were different, for example, a different course of events would have played out and you and I would have never come into existence.

If we assume the universe is not deterministic, then even if we had another universe with the exact same starting variables, the chances that things would play out exactly the same are also absurdly small.

Just because a set of things is infinite does not mean that it will contain everything. I could have an infinite set of odd numbers, and none of those numbers will be even. It strikes me that infinite number of universes would be the same.
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There is an idea that I have been playing with which kind of tests this idea, sort of a social pen-testing for companies, and seeing where the weak points are in a company's philosophical and behavioral hierarchy.

This idea basically boils down to business ethics, and the idea of long-term gains can beat a stochastic market and lessen risk if the player and its subsidiaries behave ethically, independent of direct cooperation events. So this means that it doesn't matter whether a company seeks to compete or not, as long as it makes civically minded choices.

The problem is that when neither government nor private business makes good civically minded choices that chaos eventually erupts; essentially, the cause and effect are interlinked and correlated.
It’s probably fine to answer this way at companies that would be a good fit.
> Do I really need to use React (a client-side framework) to generate static websites? What's wrong with Ruby + Liquid (that I'm familiar with), or anything similar (Python, PHP, etc)?

I think it depends on the other tools you're using in your tech stack. React is a popular choice for highly interactive webapps, so the people who are into building apps with React benefit from not having to switch between vastly different toolchains for their blogs and marketing sites. Rails or Laravel users who use templating might do the same, pick a site generator that's close to their main way of working.

> Assuming that the static website doesn't include a lot of JS in the first place, exactly how much faster is the Lighthouse/PageSpeed score for static websites built with Gatsby/Next JS? Are there any benchmarks available? Do these frameworks optimize the CSS delivery as well (remove unused CSS, inline the CSS, etc)?

Speed depends mostly on how you bundle and load the assets for your site, fonts, images, external JS marketing widgets and stuff like that. Gatsby comes with tools to optimize those things, and when people say that Gatsby or Next are fast it's mostly because of the way you link to your sites internally. They have a custom <Link> component able to fetch pages in the background, so as soon as users hover over links it's already loaded when they're clicking. That's happening so fast that you often don't realize that something has changed. Personally, from a user perspective it's not something that I need to have, I expect pages to load or a transition.

> - What are the chances that the JS community will jump to the "next new thing" in 2 years and I'll be stuck with a pile of unmaintained mess?

It's likely that your page will be outdated once React itself advances and the ecosystems jumps on a new way of doing things. You have to be part of the ecosystem and "go with the times". This ties back to my first answer, most users of JS based generators are part of the ecosystem and even enjoy rewriting their stuff with newer tools, it's part of their work and also hobby.

> - Are there frameworks for Ruby/Rails that do a similar job? Does Jekyll (or Hugo) come close?

Jekyll is a sane long term choice, it's battle tested, has a nice ecosystem and won't likely change that much in the future. It's only that builds are slow, so for larger sites with thousands of pages and frequent content updates maybe not the best choice if you can't wait hours for it to build.

No idea about Hugo, but an alternative to Jekyll with much faster build times is Eleventy, but it's also young and likely going to change, and it's ecosystem isn't that mature. If you're chosing Rails for stability reasons then you can't really go wrong with Jekyll, it fits well into that strategy.
Beyond the reliability of the tests, which has also been questioned of those by Abbot Labs (the same tests administered to the President), the FDA states they simply need further inquiry.

Tests do not inject you with any form of matter or fluid. Why are we completely halting testing, even if it is only 1/3 correct? Just disclose that fact to the testee and/or use 3 tests for a statistically significant result.

Does this reek of backdoor capitalism (corruption)?
My theory is that three-letter acronyms are so popular because they are strike a balance between length and ambiguity. I.e. two-letter acronyms are too ambiguous, but four-letter acronyms are too long for the uniqueness benefit.

Most of the remaining ambiguity of three-letter acronyms could be avoided if people didn't get upset about redundant acronym expansion: "I cleaned with IPA alcohol after having an IPA ale."

[1] RAS syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome
>I literally consume the same data. It's a sister field. We have the same problems with the exact same uncertainty because we use the same instruments for collection. My opinion is valid but that doesn't matter because anyone who take a position remotely critical of climate science can expect an immediate, vicious, purely dogmatic response.

Again, as somebody who works in a complex field I know perfectly well that it's rare that somebody has broad expertise outside a fairly narrow domain. People who think they do are typically suffering from Dunning-Kruger effect. You also keep using the word dogmatic in a weird way that makes question whether you even know what it means.

>It's easy to dismiss other peoples' arguments as "nonsense" when you misrepresent them. The question isn't whether China reported cases or not. It's the fact that China deliberately underreported cases and contributed to an underestimation of the pandemic by laymen and professionals alike who are too naive to understand the dishonesty typical of authoritarian regimes like the CCP.

It's easy to dismiss nonsense when it is demonstrably nonsense. China was dealing with a novel virus and had no idea what to expect from it. There was no evidence that this was some novel influenza based on a handful of cases, or that it could easily spread between humans. However, China did report it on the 2nd of January, and the world had all the same information we had now at the start of January. It's really not surprising that you're a conspiracy theorist in general though.

The fact that China had absolutely no warning and has less deaths than US now really shows the difference between countries that trust science and those that do not.

>This is only true if you cherry pick your literature.

There's a unanimous consensus in the field, but I'm sure oneiftwo knows better because he's a "geoscientist".

>The fact that some minority of models agree with current measurements does not resolve the uncertainty regarding the predictions that spawned this entire discussion.

Show me a single model that's predicting things happening faster than what's observed. If there's anything the models can be faulted on is being too conservative with their predictions.

>You underestimate the complexity and chaotic nature of science. Certainty in doomsday climate predictions is hubris.

I do no such thing. I just understand the basic concept of risk assessment. Gambling our entire civilization on "I hope all the models are wrong and everybody in the field is overreacting" is complete and utter idiocy.

Continued existence of the human race is what's at stake here, and anybody who thinks we shouldn't err on the side of caution when it comes to that is a dangerous idiot.
I think that a basic understanding of some concepts of (micro)economics is very helpful, e.g. knowing about excpected value; marginal utility and the fact that it is often decreasing; and pareto efficiency.

Also, two insights from computer science that are applicable to many areas of life: ducktyping ("If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck") and the fact that context switching takes a lot of ressources.
If you do not register your work with the US Copyright Office you can not claim statutory damages in a lawsuit, only real damages.