skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a similar story with warning horns on aircraft. I think the first warning horn added was a stall warning. It worked great. So they added more horns with different sounds, one after another.

Eventually, it turns out that pilots got confused as to which horn meant what. Something had to be done! The solution was ridiculously obvious - the horn sounds were speech saying what is wrong, like "stall! stall!" instead of "toot! toot!".

I think about that whenever I deal with a piece of machinery that emits random beeps to warn me about something. Like my car. Really, how hard is it to say "ya left ya lights on, ya fakking slagger!" so I would know what to do. At least my navigator says "recalculating" when I screw up, although I prefer "ya shoulda turned back yonder, ya witless wanker!"

Though I do wonder why they never put me in charge of the warning horn design.
I’d be interested to know what someone with severe dyslexia thinks of this interpretation. I have a mild case (constantly flipping digits in numbers, but rarely struggling with words) and my experience is much more swearing I just read 1917 and then looking back and realizing it says 1971 and then having to read it again because I was so sure it was 1917.

It’s true that the digits did jump around on me, but it’s not experienced as active motion, as portrayed here. It’s more that I see a false representation of what’s in the page.

I think words aren’t an issue because my brain is good enough at picking the word from what’s there and context.

It would be more like rendering the page with a few different Random letters swapped each time, rather than continuous movement of letters on the page.
Next to be renamed:
* Black and White chess (whites go first - OMG )
* old Black and White movies
* repainting zebra
* barcodes
* piano keys
* book pages with black text
* yin-yang sign
Etc
With due respect, that doesn't mean anything--as far as we know, it's just the unfounded opinion of a person who may or not be qualified to have an opinion. What's your connection here, and what's your personal knowledge?

The article wasn't entirely positive on her, either, not that anyone seems to feel they need to read the articles they're opining on on HN.
$399 is not a low price. $50 is a low price. $250 is a medium price. $399 is a medium-high price, but that's as low as Apple goes because they don't want to cannibalize sales of their very high price models.

> But like they did with the SE, they will lower their parts costs to chase volume.

This has very little to do with their parts cost. Their problem is that smartphones are increasingly becoming a low margin commodity because the existing hardware is "good enough" and many people would rather save hundreds of dollars than have a phone which is marginally faster in a way they can barely notice. So the price of Android phones goes down over time and on some level they have to compete with that.

But that's true independent of their costs. If Android phone prices get lower and Apple's production costs stay the same, they have to lower prices at the expense of margins or they'll start losing volume to Android. If Android phone prices stay the same and Apple's costs go down, nothing is making them sell for a lower price, so they just get to enjoy higher margins.

In theory there is an optimal sale price which maximizes profits and changing unit costs can affect what it is, but it isn't even guaranteed to be lower when margins are higher. Apple's brand is as a luxury product. If they lowered prices too much at the low end for any reason, that impairs exclusivity and their ability to extract very high margins at the high end.
The first sentence makes to a of sense but the second one seems unrelated to any of the discussion.

Let’s say the rate is high because of how unique their product is, how does that change anything? The repairs should still be recorded correctly (not goodwill) and laws followed accordingly?
Or only one vowel at a time?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunoia_(book)
I also looking for an alternative after been devops/sre/systems for 10 years.

Want to have life outside work, wonder what job and positions allow that
Hmm, none of these things are what I look for in a dependency management system. Blockchain is not the solution to much of anything
There's videos of them being cleaned up a few days ago, so maybe they left some of it?
> I can understand total hobbyist who cannot afford $7 shipping often. But even then, you can bundle all your parts and order once.

Or, like me, pretty much go "Meh, its counterfeits all the way down!" and frequently tack on a buck or twos worth of other "That's interesting looking, I might want one of those one day, I'll grab a few on this order" stuff when you're buying things you need for a current (hobby grade) project, so you've got a few boxes full of (hopefully sufficiently well enough labelled and documented" junk on-hand for the next random project idea... I bet I have a dozen or so "DS18b20"s here from that approach. I _think_ I could probably find then in under 10 minutes if I had an idea that needed one right now. Maybe... (Actually, I do have that idea. I want to put temp logging on a little LiPo battery that sits under a small solar panel to run an ESP32. I _think_ it's probably failing early because the whole thing gets too hot in the du5rect sunlight. Logging will confirm/deny that, and let me measure changes with insulation and/or fan cooling. Maybe I'll go hunt for one tonight...)
You can try mosquito repelling plants like lavender or citronella. You should ask your local shop what grows best in your area.
Some surfers use services like this to check if the wave conditions are right before they go out.
In my wife's car (a Chrysler Pacifica, which I otherwise love) not only are all the knobs for the climate, volume, and tuning knobs the same, but the knob for the transmission (which is right next to the volume knob) is only slightly different. It's awful.
The IFR is far below 2% for young people--a recent meta-analysis[1] got 0.7% over all ages. That study didn't break it down by age, but an older one that did[2] (and got a similar IFR over all ages) got 0.14% for <60 years old, mostly from the older end of that.

There's moderate evidence for seasonality, from studies comparing countries with different climates and trying to control for other factors, trying to regress against actual weather over weeks, etc. That's empirically not enough to bring R < 1 in the summer in the USA in combination with whatever we've been doing, but a big effect might still be there--we might just have relaxed the social distancing by enough to more than offset. If that's the case, then we're potentially in for a terrible fall and winter (and places that have built up some degree of herd immunity--whether quasi-intentionally like Sweden or accidentally like NYC--could end up better off in the end).

As to excess deaths: As far as I understand, most of those actually observed are probably unconfirmed coronavirus deaths, rather than unrelated deaths due to an overrun medical system or people afraid to seek care. I've seen speculation that the latter may occur, but no strong evidence (since even NYC barely occupied the Navy hospital ship or other temporary facilities, and since no excess deaths have been seen in areas with the lockdowns that would discourage people from seeking care but without big coronavirus prevalence).

To be clear, I'm strongly pro-mask, and pro-social-distancing. (I do think stuff like factory and school closures comes at an unacceptable social cost for the benefit to public health, though that's been reversed most places.) I just want to make the argument with the right facts.

1. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.03.20089854v...

2. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
I'm really regretting including their SDK in my code, but I have too many users who have already logged in with FB to migrate away, and I can't take away that functionality since some people need to log back in/switch phones, etc.
Agreed. The penalty associated with the risk is important too. Probability theory and statistics can get us the risk fairly easily. But putting a number on the penalty associated with failure is a different problem altogether. If getting sick meant a 1:10 chance of getting a really bad headache for a week, I would take that chance. But if it was a 1:1000 chance of death I would probably not take the chance.
> Some of these sources are sketchy even by Taobao/Aliexpress standards.

Links? That sounds fun...
Started out with Slackware 22 years ago, and have migrated through Mandrake, Red Hat, and Ubuntu since then. Recent made the move to Manjaro because I wanted Arch but with stability. Haven't looked back.
Out of curiosity, is English your native language?
I would recommend inserting the link in the url section for posts. It’s pretty inconvenient to copy that link on mobile and then paste it into a browser.
The USA will increasingly morph into an economy dedicated to providing goods and services for those receiving Government welfare: the aged and under-employed.

Europe is ahead of the curve on aging and devotes a huge amount of welfare to its non-European population.

By contrast Taiwan is ethnically homogenous and can 'afford' to have very low tax rates: https://shieldgeo.com/payroll-and-tax-in-taiwan/

eg. 5% VAT vs 20% in Europe, 3% combined payroll tax vs 40% in Europe.
I am surprised that nobody in this thread has mentioned this: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...

Edit in response to downvote: This is an effort to model the whole universe using graph theory. I found it amazing not because how possible it might be the true answer, but because it provides an insight that clicks: a computational world, where any limited space can store only a limited amount of information. At least it is a beautiful mental model.

"Do we need a ToE" is indeed an important question. But if some theory has been proposed and it "looks like" a good candidate of Theory of Everything, then many of us can just skip such questions.
Did they?

Or did they just not speak out publicly against the prosecutor?
Online material is already affordable. Convince employers a degree isn’t required for employment, and the cost of education will decline.
Hello, I love Keith Devlin's style. This book is not the best but it is worth to read.
They opened up schools, as well as pretty much everything else. So it is not really clear whether the schools were the biggest contributor to the spread.
Do you notice any difference in how you feel between scrolling through HN/Facebook and reading a novel? I'm not a regular or disciplined meditator, it hasn't been life-changing, but it can definitely take me out of a state like the former and put me into one more like the latter.

My understanding is that regular and sustained practice can make this state your day-to-day baseline.
4% of patients having heart permanent damage is still 13,128,000 people. Qualitatively, those numbers are equally hard to grasp, so why would it be any less terrifying?
I'm fine with that rn cuz the use case is a personal API for me making game tooling UI on a side project, still kind of experimental.

It's basically what the JS that gets generated from React JSX is like, and also like immediate mode UI APIs that get used for game tooling a lot: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
I don't see why it's an "or". If data from Finland and Sweden suggests school has no impact, and data from Israel suggests it could, that's all the more reason transmission studies are needed.
I was simply clarifying the author's claims, which did not match what GGP said they were.

It turns out both of the author's claims are correct. Sibling comment shows why the repetition claim is correct, and you showed why the deterministic claim is correct (by definition).
Compress the route between ports up to 94% with Ramer–Douglas–Peucker
There is an acceptable risk because we already accept the risk from children being vectors for spreading annual seasonal diseases that do end up killing adults and children. What is that level? Doubt anyone wants to specify an exact number because then they will be forever tarred with that number of deaths. One thing is very obvious about this pandemic: the degree to which it has been politicized has made it impossible to respond in a manner that is similar to other threats of similar risk.
What I can't reconcile is NVDA's stock price given the vast majority of their revenue and dominance comes from supplying GPUs to the Wintel industry. What is their position in a world where Wintel starts to wind down?
> Yes, and that's why password managers do autofill.

There are a ridiculous number of websites and apps that support neither password paste nor autofill.
I believe MOOCs address an issue of access to higher education, not replace it.
'practices such as interrogating suspects without counsel or charge for up to 23 days'

Say what you want about Ghosn but, I'd GTFO too
If you haven't noticed, Apple, Microsoft, Firefox, and Brave are waging war against the business model of Facebook and Google. There are going to be billions of devices where tracking users across the web simply won't work any longer.

Chrome is the only major browser left that doesn't block 3rd party cookies, tracking and fingerprinting. We’re probably at peak Facebook right now.

Meanwhile, virtually every device needs semiconductors.
it sounds like you are implying every user should have a distinct emoji at the start of their name .. i.e. an avatar image
>If AMD releases Zen3 on 7nm and Zen4 on 5nm and the ARM Macs arrive half way between one release date and the other

Zen 3 and Apple's laptop chips are both due in the fourth quarter of this year.

Apple is going to have a process node advantage at least until Zen 4 ships, which definitely will not happen only a couple of months after Zen 3 ships.

However, despite Apple having a better hand to play than AMD or Intel for the first time, I agree that the proof is in the pudding.
Even when kids go to the physical school, teachers could still video in for the teaching.

Yeah, sounds a bit crazy, but could probably be made to work.
Case counts in children is irrelevant. For an infection to become a case it has to be diagnosed, and that typically only happens with symptoms. But we know young people rarely have symptoms, so obviously they rarely count as cases.

INFECTIONS, however, matter a LOT. If you're infected you can pass a virus on without ever being counted as a "case." And we have zero reason to think children can't be infected. Hell, tigers and mink can be infected. Of course children can be infected. This thing is crazy infectious.

Children will spread the infection to their teachers, school staff, and families. There is no question about that, regardless of whether children's infections count as "cases."
Isn’t the significant controversy and criticism on Linus For choosing to do this also social pressure on him?
Get a cloth bag instead of a paper bag and you'll get something that will out life the single-use bag and be more environmentally friendly after using it about 100 times.

Doubling CO2 usage is only true if things remain single-use.
It's nowhere near that. It's estimated that most cases aren't detected, and even of the ones who are, it varies between 15% and less than 1%. The actual fatality rate is estimated to be between 0.3% and 1% - varying wildly by age of course. That's still many many people and would be a huge tragedy which we should definitely avoid, but no one is considering numbers in that order or magnitude.

If the IFR was 10%, everybody would have been hiding in their homes and no one would be complaining about wearing masks.
Thanks for your reply.

I'm not sure who you were replying with as the cited data was not from Canada and was not 15 years old.

If you have a more nuanced reply with better data sources please do so.
I'll agree that it is an echochamber. Voting/flagging will always cause that. In someways this brand of moderation cements that. Perhaps the lack of willingness to have an explicit list of verbotten topics is a way to avoid ossification or deny that it has happened?

Mises.org and their lengthy critiques of MMT/UBI are shadowbanned. In my reading of what you've explained, it sounds like this is banned because users are incapable of discussing it in good faith?

For me that is a poor reason, we should strive to be better. Moderators should be able handle it. After all if the goal is intellectual curiosity, but the community can't accept critical articles of a heterodox economic theory...

Issues surrounding the CCP are another divisive topic. These threads are usually invaded by pro-CCP trolls and whataboutists.

I agree that it would be nice to have an admission of topics or domains which moderators feel HN is incapable of discussing. I expect that this would challenge users to discuss these topics civilly.
What product(s) do you want to build? Your submission suggests it might be one or more things.

"API for Building a Bank?"

Do you want to take customer deposits?

"Stripe"

Do you want to sell stuff to people, and allow them to pay you by card?

"SynapseFi"

Do you want to engage the services of another company, which is a bank, so that you can, e.g. issue payment cards?

Based on the lack of specificity in your post, maybe one or more of the following applies?

A) You aren't sure what you want to build yet?

B) You want to provide a wide range of retail banking products?

C) You're still getting up to speed with what banks, card networks, processors etc. each do?

Feel free to email me (address in profile) if you don't want to share here. I've only recently moved to the US, but have launched financial products (covering payments, deposits and loans) in the UK, which is somewhat similar.
At least in the United States, I suspect that the adults spreading it are doing it enough that it won't even register as a blip on the radar.
> respond in a manner that is similar to other threats of similar risk

Is there another example in the U.S where U.S citizens reacted reasonably and averted disaster?
Your imagined new era in Seattle is already over, we are back to the police acting normally.
I also wonder how much of this is self-inflicted by programmers and company culture re-inforces it. I am not one of those people who _love_ to code in their free time. I like to close the lid of my computer and go outside and work out and smell the air and watch the clouds. The less eyes on the screen the better. I get the feeling that most programmers are not this way.
It's almost like it needs eye tracking. Then swapping around letters while you aren't looking at them.
This is everywhere in South Africa. It annoys people but it's not worth making a fuss over. It's clearly extortion but it's so widespread for so many years that it's de-facto legal.
This was a thing in the early 2000s in Sicily when I was stationed there with the Navy. However, being a brash 19-year-old and thinking I was hot shit, I always just ignored them and never suffered any ill effects. It might have been related to my obvious association with the military (although I wasn’t personally intimidating I’m sure), or maybe they’re all bark and no bite there. Perhaps I was just lucky. I think today I’d probably just pay the 2€.
> Limited liability allows companies to take risks that no sane individual or group of individuals would take on their own.

No, limited liability allows people to use corporations as a tool, which includes misusing them to take risks that should not be taken.

> Limited liability is precisely the factor that lets corporations act as agents instead of extensions of individual or group human goals.

No, limited liability is the factor that lets people use corporations to further goals that benefit them, including goals that are harmful to society as a whole.

It's still people doing things, not corporations as magical agents independent of people. Thinking of a corporation as doing nefarious things as a separate agent from the people running it just distracts attention from the actual problem, which is people who want to do nefarious things misusing whatever tool they can.
Apple has been working on this transition for years. Just like they were running MacOS X on Intel long before they announced the Intel transition, you know there have been ARM-based Macs for a few years now.

It's early, but these benchmarks from the DTK looks really promising: https://gizmodo.com/a-wild-apple-arm-benchmark-appears-18442...
It would be great if JavaScript had also a built-in seedable random number generator.
Only if the private sector gets addicted to something called "wealth".

One can't exist without the other.

A Treasury or a Gilt is a safe private asset that is much in demand.
that was a very good explanation. I'm awaiting for my remodeling to be done so I can see if I spent all that money for nothing. Got a new wooden door and new windows. If everything works, I'll share my project here on HN.
Could you please provide some reasons as to why you feel this way?
Ask HN: How can we get people to read submissions before commenting on them?
Over and over, top rated comments on submissions are by people who clearly didn't read the thing they're commenting on. The longer the submission, the more uninformed the commentary.

To make matters worse, I frequently see people who say they come to HN because of the quality comments. There's a Dunning-Kruger effect happening, where people don't read the submissions, so they don't know that people aren't reading the submissions, so people think they're becoming more informed by reading the comments when in fact the comments are just as uninformed as they are. There are exceptions of course, but they are becoming more and more exceptions, when they would ideally be the rule.

I think we can do better.

The commenting guidelines say:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

While it certainly avoids some conflict, I am beginning to see some benefit to this sort of conflict, if it pushes people to actually read things before they opine, instead of just sharing uninformed opinions.

Are there any other ideas for what could be done about this?
I don't have dyslexia, but I found the webpage pretty easy to read except for a few long words I didn't know. For those I just had to hover for a few more seconds. That being said - if I had to look at that every time I read, I would probably avoid reading for the rest of my life... so that is a challenge.
Does anyone have a detailed description of the scent of ambergris?
My wife is a teacher and my daughter will have to return to day care if schools resume.

What bothers me the most is that just like retail / grocery store workers we put people with the lowest earning potential and generally worst benefits directly in the path of this. I don’t want to get COVID but unless I convince my wife to quit her job my odds of getting it greatly increase due to situations out of my control.
Pension funds can maintain lower risk and boost their returns through pure alpha hedge funds, alternatives like real estate, pe, and vc, or through net long hedge funds.

Simply investing in low risk bonds and equities actually is more risky than one might think, especially since the historically negative correlation between the two has been breaking down recently.

But regardless, pension funds have obligations and should take on the necessary amount of risk so that they can pay out what is owed.
Sweden hasn't even been worse than the 2000 Flu season yet. The flu also does long term damage.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden...

And I don't recall the 2000 Flu season shutting down Sweden/USA/World

Quora might be a good jumping point when doing research, but like 4chan and other hive minds you still have to think.
> You need anonymity. So,use encryption in Emails,communication if possible

This provides security, not anonymity.
This already exists! It’s an app called EasyRoute