skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s exactly what my question is about.

By that model, if you wait long enough, the risk of getting infected by that one person you’re sitting next to approaches p, the fraction of people who are contagious (that person either is contagious, and you’ll get infected, or they aren’t, and you won’t ever get infected) and the risk of infection of serially being in the danger area of multiple persons (effectively taking independent draws of that 0.5% risk) approaches 1.0 (eventually, you’ll have encountered so many contagious persons that you’ll get infected, too)

Typically, you won’t meet enough people on the street to even get close to that 1.0, but it isn’t a given that that probability stays below p.

Things would be different if there were a minimal load (in a simple model, say, of V virus particles in a minute) needed to run the risk of infection. I can see this swing both ways, depending on various factors.
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There is NO reliable research about this topic. Preliminary findings indicate winners and losers across world regions. It could be a source of major conflict.
>>It would be useful if he could find out where that money went and why isn't it being used to provide scholarships and training to disadvantaged students.

100%
Depends on the pharmacy. Some have negotiated prices for OTC. If you already use that pharmacy for your prescriptions they can give you the discount, and sometimes by contract they have to give you the discount.

Like all things insurance, it's very specific to you and takes more work to find the discount than it's worth. Usually it's just something that is surprising when it happens.
Like REI?
Why does the ACLU's participation bother you?
Actually Highlander 2 did it first :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander_II:_The_Quickening
East of Eden is a great book. Highly recommend it, and really any of Steinbeck's works. Surprisingly relatable, even with how much times have changed since they were written.
Missing hypothesis:

Culture, trust and autonomy.

Having someone that identifies with a project, someone whose reputation in a city is connected with a project's execution, someone who builds relationships and creates a sense of ownership, is much more valuable than an engineer whose only relationship with a project is a monitor and Slack.
I'm not advocating any specific plan and I find Georgism to be worth a new look and calls for a LVT to be compelling, I'm just saying that I think those who focus solely on it, some of whom advocate abolishing all taxes and only using an LVT, to be impractically utopian.

That said, I see no reason as to why we shouldn't at least experiment with other alternate tax regimen as well, and that may include tax savings at least for the highest earners. To echo others' statements, why shouldn't those at the absolute highest levels of savings endure a little redistribution? It wouldn't matter much to Bezos.
I've run into this when working with lambdas in particular. Say for instance I want to track the performance of a particular bit of code in a standardized way. I can write a method that takes a supplier and handles the performance tracking while calling the supplier and returning the result. This way tracked functions don't have a load of eg. timer initialization etc. If the supplier throws a checked exception, it should be caught and handled by the code that actually cares about the call, not the performance wrapper.

Unfortunately, because of the way Java handles checked exceptions, I can't feed the supplier with a lambda or any other method reference that I'm aware of that throws a checked exception and let it be passed up to the original caller directly. So I need to catch my checked exceptions and wrap them in an unchecked exception to catch. Not pretty.

There's probably something I'm missing but the language certainly doesn't go out of its way to help with this sort of thing.
In addition to appearance, there are of course potentially other constraining factors in font choice, depending on your use case.

For instance, I need a good 'editor' font which is both monospace and supports combining diacritics well, for writing papers in LaTeX in Emacs.

And I need good 'display' fonts for the PDF output of those LaTeX documents, which also of course have to support a wide range of combining diacritics well.

For both use cases, there is a surprisingly small range of choices given the full set of constraints.

[Details here: https://babbagefiles.xyz/beautiful-and-free-typefaces/ ]
Was thinking about looters. The police is a system that should find better solutions. It also need to police itself as you mention. It's a culture thing, so very easy to improve!
Is there any research that supports this claim that access to consumer credit is primarily responsible for decreasing worker power?
What were the signals that you had something special?
Ask HN: Using non-dominant hand for mouse and dominant for note taking?
I like to have a notepad beside me while I work to keep lists and notes. However, the mouse and notepad often compete for space, even with a compact keyboard, and I end up not note taking as much as I might otherwise. I also prefer a mouse when possible over a touchpad, when something can't be done with keyboard at least. I recently noticed that a left handed coworker who used the mouse on right would keep perfect notes and todo lists with left hand without having to even put down her pencil/pen to click around.

Do any right-handers here use left hand for mouse in order to take notes more easily with right hand? Seems like such a simple idea but I had never considered it before.
So it's unethical to charge less to a person who might not be able to afford the higher price?

I think we have different definitions of the word ethical.
So inform us, how does incognito mode work in your world.
Isn't "Value Creation" just another one of those buzzwords used to bamboozle investors? It's not that it doesn't exist, but it's so abstract & academic as to be impossible to measure.
It’s the press though. Aren’t they owned by largest corporations in the world?
WOW! This is awesome.

Congratulations on releasing this!
Paradox Interactive signs collective bargaining agreement with Swedish unions
For infotainment, touchscreens are a huge help, no debate really. Anyone doubting this should get a refresher by inputing a street name with a twist dial.
Sounds like the workers should own the company, not private individuals.
Sure, we have a very limited tech knowledge - mostly from statistics and economics - so I'm sure it's not that optimized but was easy for us to get up fairly quickly. Site is hosted on Squarespace and all the data visualizations are created with Plotly (written in R) and hosted on AWS
The original Mac does a calibration of the floppy drive motor during boot to measure jitter.

If you are implementing an emulator, you must insert some jitter to the emulated floppy drive.

Because if there is no jitter, the ROM's calibration code does a division by zero and crashes.
Not only have they booted the bigots and hate speech it's only because they booted it that they florished. That's also the reason alternative "public spaces" exist without that kind of moderation... think 4chan,8chan etc. It doesn't matter where you draw the line or anyone of us it matters that the line is there for everyone. When twitter bans an experiment of an account that was just tweeting Trumps tweet s as onces from themself. They should also ban Trump if they are not banning him but other people for the same choice of words it leaves a bad taste. Facebook is on another level in myanmar facebook was used as a tool to organize an ethnic cleansing. Free Speech is the modern "we just followed orders" of tech companies.
What use cases are you imagining?
I don’t remember them starting any fires or looting any stores either.
Curious, why subscribe to news letters?

My inbox is a queue.. but I read news as a stack, only the latest, discard stuff I don't make it to.
Because the ACLU has a professed interest in defending freedom of the press?
Author here. Thanks again to David for letting me post my little rant.
My profile is also ridiculously inaccurate. Though I do use ublock origin, privacy badger, etc and disabled most tracking features in my google account. Also on VPN pretty much all the time. I‘d really like to see the ad profile of someone who is completely transparent and doesn‘t spend any effort to obfuscate at all. I‘d imagine it would be much more accurate.

Interestingly my instagram ads are incredibly on point a lot of the time. You cant really hide your behavior in the app so the get a really good picture, probably.
> portable meant that software would work on Linux _and_ other platforms.

"portable" and "crossplatform" ("multiplatform") are different degrees of software.
Ah, but your catch block doesn't look for exceptions in console, log, or toString().
The London 2010 riots were blamed on Blackberry messenger: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-riots-blackberry/...

(Interestingly the MP quoted, David Lammy, is one of the few black MPs and from the left)
For both parties, the only constituencies they really care about are big businesses.

The big corporations backing republicans are benefitted by a smaller government, so that's what republicans advocate for.

The big corporations backing democrats are benefitted by a larger government, so that's what they advocate for.

(There are of course other non-corporate groups in play, e.g. unions, but the idea stands).

Beyond that, there's a lot of overlap in what big businesses want, and that's were you get bipartisan agreement. Corporations generally care about drugs in the sense that they want a labor pool that's not on drugs, so both parties kowtow to them on this topic.

Parties will pay lip service to the wedge issues of the day, but ultimately the parties do not actually concern themselves with the common voter except to make the appropriate sounds that those voters want to hear.
That's simplifying things a little. The 90s were a completely different time in computing, still somewhat pioneer when it came to "modern" operating systems in personal computing. What came before on home computers was usually tied to the actual hardware and its implementation in a very thorough way, where way more outrageous (but at the time, widely accepted) assumptions were made. For example, what memory location to write into for direct display on the screen from your application code. A few years earlier, the absolute time that a particular instruction takes.

Computers became more powerful and more diverse, we added abstractions, we abolished assumptions.

And still I'm pretty sure that even in Oculus (to pick up your example, I know nothing about that), there are bound to be a great deal of assumptions in the code that cease to be valid with later versions of the products.
Sorry, but I genuinely am missing the point you are making. I agree that SS and medicare are large taxes for those making less than 100K. Are you saying that this is a reason we should not increase capital gains and should instead increase SS and MC?
Woah, it lost 99.99% of its value since 1999. She really ate enormous losses .

Also what is RealNetworks even selling at this point? They seem to have generated 175m$ last year!
Because of attitudes like this. There is enough money out there to solve many problems but it is hoarded by a certain amount of people and then a bunch of people go around saying, "better things aren't possible."
Done, thanks! I hadn't given to them in a while.
I feel like we should save ACLU resources for winning new freedoms or taking back lost freedoms. (Not that This isnt a noble cause. )
A sunshade doesn't involve chemical modification of our atmosphere, and its effects are reversible (it's a solar sail and can change its orbit when required).

As to expense, it's an opportunity for the space industry to contribute to solving the #1 problem on Earth. The Starship fleet is being built anyway.

As a fringe benefit, if made of thin-film photovoltaics a sunshade could generate ~300TW of electricity. Compare that to current terrestrial consumption of 17TW. It creates enough energy and in-space manufacturing capacity to unlock the solar system.
The police in my city, Mumbai are taking Hydroxychloroquine. When they researched two sets of groups - those who took the drug as per the prescribed dosage, and those who didn't. The group that wasn't taking the drug had a few deaths, but the other group did not.

Anecdotal and small sample - but definite proof against the idea that "nobody would be talking about it". The drug is also used in Costa Rica and many other parts of the world.

A Jewish doctor in New Jersey - Dr. Vladimir Zelenko wrote to the President about the drug, which is assumed to be the origin of his interest with it. Here is The Daily Beast lambasting him for calling this same lancet study "garbage"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/vladimir-zelenko-controversial...
Could you add the registered party of the Senator to the table.
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There is no hope of privacy on the internet today without some sort of "tumbling" strategy. It is wholely impossible for anyone to prevent all sources of their information from leaking, and once your data from one source is out there, the rest of your precautions are potentially useless. So the only viable strategy is to muddy the waters by creating enough spurious data that an attacker can't know what is real and what is fake.
American society in particular is ultra-legalistic but supplements the bareness of context with unwritten rules, some communicated in code, in implicit ideations (the ongoing looting in major cities are referred to as "violent"), some through passive observation or mimesis (like learning how to stare at African-Americans from one's avowed liberal parents).
Those attributes stem from them being a monopoly, they don't create it in the first place. He's questioning the implication that being less competitive and slower growing would allow you to obtain more of a monopoly.
Telephone lines were almost always built following existing public roads or private railroads (that were built with government assistance and government land grants) even in the early days.

There is no history of a successful, large scale infrastructure project built without government assistance. Either directly or due to the fact that much of it was built on government land.

(unless maybe you consider some case where private infrastructure was built in one large area controlled by a small group of owners, but that's basically just a government by another name and doesn't apply to modern America.)
Your argument isn't supported by the turnout results. Average in 2016 was about 59%. Non-swing states like CT, DE, IA, MA, MD, ME, NJ, OR, NH posted 65%+ turnout. Many swing states did have solid turnout, but even among states with similar tight margins there's a wide variance, like 75% in MN vs 66% in MI.

Edit: Data from here: https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_turnout_in_United_States_elect... (notably PA and WI are missing)

Maybe you could say states that transition from being safe to swing states see a turnout boost? I haven't checked. I would expect that turnout is more determined by demographics and inertia (states with high turnout in prior elections continue to do so, etc) than whether they are swing states, though.
In businesses, including farming, splitting it wholesale can kill the business while diluting control can paralyze it.
Sorry that you don't like it. Can't please everyone. Lots of people have told me they've had fun meeting new people from around the world.

Regarding the hashtag, I put it there because I'm against police brutality and I'm horrified by what the police are doing. Looters should be arrested and prosecuted, for sure. But police have a monopoly on the use of violence and must be held to a higher standard.
So people are dumb, they just need to listen to me.

That is the lazy way. If people are uniformed, we need to do more to inform them. People have power to choose where they work and where they spend their time and money. No one needs to come in and force Amazon into becoming a co-op. If top talent wants to work for co-ops and consumer prefer to get their good from co-ops, Amazon will adapt or die.
Anyone have a map of the winners and losers?
Where were you seeing those prices?

I can walk into any drugstore here (US East Coast) and get a bottle of 500 ibuprofen for $20.

https://www.cvs.com/shop/cvs-health-ibuprofen-tablets-value-...
Cool! Might give this a spin for our live-ops response team.

You should fix your meta description tag on the landing page :) I just pasted it into slack and got a...less than useful preview.
Personally, I hate the idea of corporate income taxes - they're literally stupid. You can't tax corporations, you can only tax people. At the end of the day, it's always a person somewhere that is paying the tax, whether it's an employee, supplier, shareholder...and that person is already paying their own income taxes. Also, the tax code favors big companies at the expense of small ones, it's a system that can be gamed in a bunch of ways. I say get rid of it, it's dumb.

I would put some limits on estate tax rates at certain thresholds. Like, anything above $50 million, tax at 90%. And hey, the kids will still be rich, just not crazy billionaires. For private companies this gets tricky and for many companies they would be forced sellers, that's one of the big trade offs. Exempt farms if necessary?
> Wsl 2 is incredible.

My experience shows WSL is passable, but it often feels "hacky" and incoherent. For professional work it just doesn't feel right to me. Plus the usability of Windows OS itself is just a complete mess... Honestly, I'd rather just run a regular VM with linux and full-screen that, rather than deal with Windows with Linux bolted on to the side.

If work is paying, I'm still going macbook, as I don't really care about the reliability aspect of the machine nor the insane cost of peripherals/the laptop itself. If I'm paying, I'll probably go for a Dell or Lenovo machine and install Linux. I just can't stand using windows any more.
It feels to me that the basic idea is that something changes for pretty much all the people, but nobody really knows what.
It definitely wouldn't need that much. Even blocking 1% of the sunlight would make a radical difference in the total amount of heat that hits the earth each year, but would only be equivalent to 7.2 minutes less sunlight each day on average.
He didn't include ending qualified immunity under the list of things he thought have to change, even though it's one of the most important. Plus, all the things he included are social changes or executive policy changes rather than a specific legal change like ending qualified immunity. There are specific efforts to end qualified immunity [1], while his suggestions amount to "we need to change culture", which is completely true but not as actionable. It could be that he meant to include ending qualified immunity, but being specific doesn't hurt.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2020/06/03/new-bill... (direct source at https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1267267244029083648)
That's spectacular. And a great project name too.
As I expected it's backdoored. It uses the new central Google Tracking ID feature. https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android/wiki/4-Go...

Other apps can do without central tracking Id's. It was fishy that Germany waited weeks for this Google API (officially to support low voltage Bluetooth), whilst other countries had their open source apps ready for long. Germany and France pushed for centralized tracking, it was called off after protests, now its again in via their US friends.
A few crackpot headcanonists believe it to be a grimdark sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and given the evidence I find it hard to disagree.
Sure, we've gotten a couple requests for this and think it'd be really helpful. State and party affiliation will be up in 1-2 days
I tried out highfidelity a couple weeks ago and didn't get any of the directional audio to work. There was a radial but not an angular effect if that makes sense.
It's a solar sail, so you can control it by differential albedo change. Here's a paper on the theory:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I mean yes, but that doesn't really cover it. Many people think the DNC is bending too far over and getting played at the moment. Like the approved the Trump slush fund, and he said what oversight?

It is not normal for the opposition party to be this nice in any way. They are tried to save states like this is some kind of partisan issue, and McConnell is lol, why don't they just declare bankruptcy?

Normally I would agree with the shades of grey but currently there is just no factual justification.

Also on rule of law, and constraining the police brutality. I mean it is hard to take this pushback seriously.
if they managed to rehire most of the officers and some new ones on lower salaries, that sounds like their salaries were mispriced to begin with. a clear win for the taxpayers in my book.
If you have a good idea now of your target user and the size of the market seems sufficiently big that it could grow to the size you want and if those 8 customers can't live without your product or are at least raving about it then that would be good signals to continue. If they can just flip a switch over to a competitor without losing any value then maybe not so much.
For many years Windows did not have a simple built in print to PDF function.

Ages ago, FoxIt was a great lightweight PDF reader (vs Adobe Acrobat). Its gotten more and more bloated over the years, but still better then Adobe. I use it on occasion, mostly due to the fact that browser PDF renderers are buggy/incomplete (forms, layout).
India might try this out of desperation. Major cities in India are becoming too hot to be habitable. India is a big enough country to do it alone and has a big enough problem to try it.
> Thing is, in typical offshoring arrangements, much of this is impossible.

I am quite the outgoing and easily sociable guy but I'll agree this is impossible and will tell you why it's impossible for me:

What you propose happens on the company time. Remote contractors always have this anxiety about "am I spending my time being focused enough on the work I am paid for?"

Shortly before I was laid off from my last job I realized that I constantly postponed getting to know the team better because of that.

It's hard to let yourself be looser if don't have the status of an employee (vs. being a contractor) and/or if you aren't shown you are a valued member of the team.
When someone commits fraud remotely, it is often recognized in the location where the fraud occurred, not where it originated from. It doesn't matter if you're hacking a bank computer, lying through misrepresented paperwork, or any other form of fraud or remote crime. And when businesses do business internationally, their execs can be held accountable for crimes their businesses do.

Here's a different but similar example:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/business/volkswagen-diese...
Whats with the weird oclc.org domain? I assume it’s used to skip the paywall but haven’t seen it before and the homepage or the site doesn’t help much.

Original (paywalled probably) article is https://www.ft.com/content/f46c4a73-5358-4319-aed6-d0ec996ee...
Amazon will no longer support the Echo Look, encourages owners to recycle theirs
This is exactly the same timer loop problem as was found in Turbo Pascal around the same era: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/12111
Airlines do it all the time.