skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If socialism and planned economy could ever work, massive automation, networking and computerization would be the way to do it, otherwise planning is plain impossible, especially on humongous scales USSR has to deal with. It seems to be the case that it can't work even then, the inherent deficiencies in the system are just too fundamental for the automation to fix, but it was certainly a valiant attempt and thinking to the right direction. Just not enough, because it never could be enough. Just as if you want to go to the moon, jumping is going the right general direction, just would never be enough.
Sure you do - there is an entire generation of middle class people in America who started off lower middle class in the 80s and retired millionaires in the 2010s thanks to investments, promotions, increased education, real estate, etc. Not to mention immigrants who came to America as low middle class, worked their butts off in medical/dental/engineering school and are now upper middle class.

Such mobility is not as common in Germany or Italy, for example (I keep bringing up Germany because I lived there for 4 years). In Germany you tend to get boxed into your career fairly early and after that you kind of just coast to the end of your life. You don't see aggressive job switching to try to get the highest salary and you don't see 40 year old Germans deciding they want to go to dental school like you do in America (for example). In Germany your future career is pretty much set by your mid-20s depending on how you did in school/exams.

Europe tends to look down on risk taking/failure as well which is another reason you don't see many Amazons sprouting from there.
Didn't the US have that entire thing with PRISM/the NSA?

Ah, I forget, it's the US so its own surveillance programs are obviously above board and only used for good. The leader of the free world or some such.
> Your first paragraph would appear to invalidate any argument about anything that cites data, as anyone can be told they are using a "political filter"

Unfortunately that is what happens when science gets dragged into politics. One team finds a list of studies showing things one way, the other team makes a list of refutations, and they're passed around as talking points. I'd rather just say I don't know without in-depth literature research, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle, and not attempt to draw strong emotionally-appealing conclusions such as "same or lower than flu".

> I don't think I understand your second paragraph. Of course some people die of COVID

Nobody dies of COVID, just like nobody dies of cancer. There is always some immediate acute condition that causes the death. And so saying that someone who tested positive then died of unrelated old person stuff is just another way of massaging numbers. While this scenario can happen, I don't think it's prevalent.

> N95 masks couldn't possibly have been used by all Americans in February for the same reason they can't be used now

I deliberately set the bar high, because if we had aimed there, we would have the manufacturing capacity by now. Saying we're unprepared now because we didn't do the work before isn't very interesting. Rather, take it as a call to start doing the work now so we're prepared in the future.

> That's why around the world people are using cloth masks which aren't proven to stop much of anything.

Ah, more offhanded FUD to justify inaction. We get it, you don't want to have to do anything. As I said, "skating as close as possible to calling the topic a hoax".
You don't need to be a jerk here.

First, I said popular general-purpose URL. Notion isn't popular, pinterest isn't general-purpose, and so on.

And absolutely nowhere did I assume what is true for me is for everyone. Which I why I asked rather than assumed. And got valuable answers about other perpsectives.

So no, my question wasn't "bad". I suggest you take your judgmental attitude elsewhere. HN is not the place for it.
Authorize.net is not a payment processor but a payment gateway.

TSYS, Vantiv, PaymentTech are processors. your merchant account is usually with (i think) the acquiring bank that's part of the Visa/MasterCard/Amex/Discover network.
‘Microsoft no longer uses SHA-1 to authenticate Windows operating system updates due to security concerns associated with the algorithm, and has provided the appropriate updates to move customers to SHA-2 as previously announced. Accordingly, beginning in August 2019, devices without SHA-2 support have not received Windows updates.‘
> that Apple wouldn't have an API that allows locking app functionally behind licenses;

This is what their subscription system does, though. I'm not familiar with their for-pay app setup, but for subscriptions you can monitor the receipt and see what it's status is. Perhaps you can't do it from there, but I know when even an free app is installed, you still get receipt information written to the device.
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Are you suggesting american government is currently doing this? Source for your claims if so please.
You joke, but when it comes to the US-China Cold War, Israel is practically Switzerland. Lots of economic alignment both ways, lots of investment both ways, lots of flights (pre-Covid) to each, geographically far outside of each other's regional geography.
After reading the article I'm not sure, but.. it seems reasonable to assume that you can do both. Inline and separate files. The same way TypeScript does it.

Hopefully, anyway!
It’s not true, I’ve been selling apps on the App Store fir ten years, never happened to me.
I think this is interesting. The value of tcp/ip was the ability to form logical networks over and across existing physical/electronic networks. That only makes sense if you have an abundance of physical networks to start with.
Actually that's available for the Python language as well with PyPy.
Upon re-reading, I think you're right. Pretty obvious the second time around.
Yes, sorry, that part of what I wrote was unclear, but that's what I meant. I edited to hopefully clarify.
Actually, it depends on your state. https://www.limitedliabilitycompanycenter.com/llc/charging-o...
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Crystal is a non-starter for me since the entire appeal of Ruby is the runtime metaprogramming.
You don't need to get the government involved. That destroys small business. You can simply put a guaranteed to last/warranty timer on it.

Heck when we were doing our IOT device we left an offline mode.
> Well no, there are tons of smartphone manufacturers with viable products

There are 2 viable software platforms.
apologies, meant to add that as a link when I referenced Stripe in the first sentence!
To be fair to those programmers, I've seen the same thing (or similar) in the US. It wasn't intentional bugs, but intentional delays in addressing them. That is, they sandbagged. They knew the fixes but didn't apply them so that they could hit monthly/quarterly/whatever targets. Or they knew they could knock out 100 features in a week, but that one feature would take 3 months. They'd mete out those 100 easy features over the three months so that they didn't appear stalled (they weren't, but management couldn't tell the difference between a stall and a hard problem).
> compile error: figure of speech is not a number
Honestly- best case scenerio as measured by reduction of humor life loss, a great urban flight similar to what happened to Detroit is the best option.

Exhile

By doing so, the value of hk is lost (economic powerhouse loss and brain drain)

And the hk people can retain their freedom.

Along that train of thought, the UK offer for naturalization makes sense, and the US would greatly benefit from such a process.
Can you explain that point a bit more? It doesn't seem to make any sense to me. You revenue is going to be number of sales * price - (number of refunds * price * 0.3). Factor, and you get price * (sales - number of refunds * 0.3). Your unit cost is 0, so the only thing that matters is if your revenue exceeds your fixed costs.

I don't see how this would explain a disincentive to charge higher prices.
That's why I mentioned ham conventions, let alone flea markets etc. You would be surprised of how many old perfectly legit NOS parts can be found in those "alternative" places.
Of course it's all about luck: that is, being in the right place at the right time. One cannot plan to make N products out of a part that could be found in 10s, 1000s or a million, or not to be found at all.
Oh interesting. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll check that out.
This is where tradition clearly is a strength of human intuition. Nearly everyone who learned to read (successfully) learned with the phonics method. If an individual visionary has the idea to use this new method of teaching reading to his five classes, that’s one thing. It’s another thing entirely for that same visionary to have the power to require every single teacher in the district to teach it that way.
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Inkscape is focused on SVG, Illustrator's proprietary format includes a few things it doesn't, like complicated gradients (at least a while ago). Edit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Illustrator#Gradient...
As part of a law firm, I've submitted about 50+ AI/ML applications to FDA and EU on behalf of our clients. I don't think Ive ever seen anything but U-Net and Resnet at this point. This article was helpful for me.
You now Orson Welles was a child murderer in that movie right?? I wouldn't trust his words.
This is why there are regulatory bodies and people's entire career devoted to this. The government can create regulatory bodies to answer these questions and then regulate companies.
“Written English isn't perfect, but it has a phonetic alphabet“

What do you mean by “phonetic alphabet?” I thought the correlation between spelling and pronunciation is extremely weak in English. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos
Nice to see Delicious in Poland!! GO, POLAND!
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Yet highly socialist countries never seem to have a culture of risk taking/startups/disruption/innovation/etc. I'd love to be proven wrong with an example.
Uhm, how you even come up with this conclusions ?? China was throwing away so many US companies. Stole so many IP with no trials or fines for that.
US didn't protect their interests for years. Any other normal country would protect their businesses years ago.
This pressure is very soft and kind comparing how China treat any other foreign company not only US.
(Googler, opinion is my own)

I think one big thing that differs between the Nexus line and the Pixel line of phones is who was actually supporting the phone after its sale. The Nexus phones were these shared branding between Google and the makers (LG, HTC, whoever). So it led to some pointing at the other person when there were problems.

With the Pixel line, Google fully owns support of the devices, which makes it a bit easier for Google to deal with customer support issues like this.
They might not have to, as others have pointed out. Intel, on the other hand, is fighting the multi-front battle against a lot of competitors. It’s great for consumers, but Intel might have to decide to focus too.
Separate ruby header files with type information? Seriously? What's the rational behind that? Is it just to make clear that the ruby interpreter doesn't really care about the type information and doesn't use it to improve the code's performance?

With all due respect, but IMHO this is too little and much too late.
> No individual author has the ability to impact something like this from happening on their own.

Yes they do, they just .... don't enter into an exclusive contract, and pick instead a contract that allows them to market in other places as well.

Or are you implying that Audible requires only Exclusive contacts? Because I don't believe that's true.
Hot spring bacteria won’t survive the arctic and vice versa. Whichever specific bacteria make the trip have to find themselves in an environment specifically non-hostile to that bacteria.

Might is a fine word, but eventually the odds are so unlikely you have to conclude its impossible or at least that independent abiogenesis is more likely. It’s also possible to take a step back and consider molecular panspermia or other theories.
Let me know when you find an efficent planned economy. It certainly couldn't occur under all of the communist economically illiterate assumptions of a universal fair price as an implication of their labor based value fallacy. Treating dynamic supply-demand feedback as fixed moral imperatives is a reciepe for disaster. It seems that fixed assumptions of "always right" is the surest path to insanity and travesties.

Snark tangent aside, the issue with the USSR wasn't so much the bullshit jobs as the squandering of the labor of those performing actually important jobs via lack of support. They took labor for granted as a free input and neglected efficiency, exactly like slave owners and feudal lords they accused capitalists of being.
Library app? I didn't even know those exist. I thought everything is copyrighted and DRM-ed right now. You mean there is actually a way to read/listen to new books without buying them, like, "legally", not "stealing" them from torrents?
The entire reason many of us like Microsoft is because they generally don't assume stuff that works fine is "obsolete" merely because it is old.
I'd advocate for letting customers choose where they get their software after they've bought a device. Artificially coupling device and software repository increases switching cost, stifling competition.
Linked to in the article, but may be paywalled : https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...

Key Points:
Question What are the cardiovascular effects in unselected patients with recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)?

Findings: In this cohort study including 100 patients recently recovered from COVID-19 identified from a COVID-19 test center, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging revealed cardiac involvement in 78 patients (78%) and ongoing myocardial inflammation in 60 patients (60%), which was independent of preexisting conditions, severity and overall course of the acute illness, and the time from the original diagnosis.
The post gives PyPy a shout out. But it’s subtle. PyPy is similar but not the same. I think that JSC’s exact technique could be tried for Python and I don’t believe it has.
It's worth noting that while the article is coming from Square, this is an official Ruby project and is "Ruby 3’s new language for type signatures".

https://github.com/ruby/rbs
Many of the Audible exclusives, especially for shorter works, have Audible acting as publisher and the deal is between Audible and the author (presumably with the agent acting as intermediary). I suspect also that with some of the older titles, like Handmaid's Tale, the original publication deal didn't include audiobook rights.
No, I think you'll find that if you read your registration agreement, that is not the case.

I spent about a decade of my life as running the management systems of a domain registrar, with all the fun of dealing with ICANN, the various gTLD and ccTLD registry operators, other registrar, and so on. One of the recurring issues that got registrants into trouble repeatedly was the fact that they didn't understand that they didn't actually own the domain and that the terms of the agreement/contract actually mattered.

It's not just a matter of not paying. You're dealing with a recurring payment for something with a private entity covered by a contract. That is a lease.
FWIW we all might pause to look at the graph posted at

https://aapsonline.org/preliminary-injunction-sought-to-rele...

showing that countries using HCQ have much lower case fatality rates than countries such as the USA where use of HCQ is either banned or discouraged. [There's another graph similar but with many more countries. I can't find it at the moment. It is even more dramatic.]

Concerning your post:

HCQ+Zinc+Zithromax was initially proposed as an early treatment for Covid-19. The two studies you name test for something completely different: whether HCQ can prevent Covid-19 in someone who has been recently exposed to Covid-19.

But no one ever claimed that HCQ could prevent someone from getting Covid-19.

The claim was instead that, if given early in the course of the disease, HCQ+ZINC+ZITHROMAX would alleviate Covid-19. That is, HCQ+ZINC+ZITHROMAX, when given to people who have a recent diagnosis of Covid-19, usually proves beneficial. In particular it lowers the hospitalization rate and death rate significantly.

There are

- a. drugs that prevent illnesses(e.g., vaccines) from becoming established in the human body,

- b. drugs that alleviate illnesses(HCQ for Covid-19) once they are already established in the human body,

-c. drugs that do both (HCQ in the case of malaria, which HCQ can both prevent and treat (indeed, cure the disease)).

Testing protocols for these differ accordingly.
I bet (money) they won't.
Isn't that exactly opposite of what they suggested?
> Was Mark Zuckerberg already on?

All of them are on at once, and the congresspeople can choose who to target with questions. It's wild.
It's good that it antisoviet, isn't? Soviet Union was responsible for millions of deaths. In Soviet Union, you will be prosecuted as American spy just because you have account on HN.
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I rarely see it talked about just how much ego plays a part in interviewing. In fact, I'd wager it plays one of the biggest parts of the interview process. If you get even one interviewer that is bitter, unhappy, on a power trip, or otherwise a sociopath, you're not getting hired. Many folks hate interviewing candidates; it can put them in a bad mood. They're going to take it out on you because it's safe.
Uh because anyone can actually read their own book and sell it as an audio book. There’s actually very little overhead there - if you’ve got an audience. If you don’t have an audience then typically authors start out in situations like this or grow their market through their own means. There’s not a constitutional right to plaster the media with your book ads.
Well, I'm not sure 15 years qualifies as "a few years", but the price is right, so you're on I guess!
Also, the key to the early internet was the concept of packet-switching.
Caverns of Freitag was beaten by 2 years by Adventure on the Atari 2600.

It seems to me the definition of Action RPG is somewhat arbitrary and where you draw the line determines who is first. The only hard requirements being that it is not turn based and is role playing in some respect.
Maybe easier extensions like GIMP's Python-fu, Scheme Script-fu, and G'MIC.
And now we see why big companies are willing to pay the Blender team to continue development.
> So it isn’t a given that they need your sms to impersonate you,

Correct. It's possible the entire system is compromised. It's also possible the entire system is not compromised, and the data breach happened without the target institution losing control of their systems.

> since they clearly have breached the system already.

No, not necessarily. Someone could, say, export the contents of a database and put it somewhere public. A data breach is not necessarily the result of hackers getting total control of the target.
"The benefit of having different files is it doesn't require changing Ruby code to start type checking. You can opt-in type checking safely without changing any part of your workflow."
Remember this is designed by companies that already have existing, large, ruby codebases. For them, it makes a lot of sense to be able to incrementally add typing without having to make changes to the underlying code itself.
This is not a valid comparison, there is no referral or commission happening here.

Compare it more to sales tax, which is a much closer comparison because it is required as part of the transaction in a monopoly ecosystem (much like a sales tax is in a country).

If a vendor adds tax to a price, and then charges the customer, and the customer gets a refund, the customer get the sales tax back, but the vendor then doesn't have to remit that tax to the government (and if they've already remitted it, they can apply for a credit).
Isn't this similar to how TypeScript allows annotations for JavaScript to live in separate files? My (possibly naive) assumption is that the goal is to make it easier for developers to write type annotations for projects they use without necessarily having to convince the maintainers to add them to the project itself. I've heard of people using TypeScript annotations from https://definitelytyped.org/ for dependencies which don't have their own annotations.
NASA studies indicate a two year round trip to Mars (with roughly a year of surface time) would increase cancer rates by only 4%.
At that point, adding weight to the rover or to the return system is an equivalent cost.
I'm not thrilled about the separate files with the type information but I completely understand why they did it, and if it were my choice I might make the same one.

I don't like the comparison with TypeScript `.d.ts` files however, because TS still lets you do types inline in the code. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere that this won't be supported by Ruby 3.

Does anybody know if Ruby 3 will also support inline type information or will the header RBS files be required?
>Just trying something some dude (however well-credentialed and intelligent) whips up in his lab strikes me as patently absurd.

All early vaccines were developed by "some dude in his lab", just look up the history yourself. Not sure why your initial reaction to people trying to innovate is anger.
I really like your ideas. You seem to have talent for this. Would definitely read something like this if you ever chose to write it.
> Because French people working in the IT industry don't know it's an anglicism and are used to pronounce English words the English way.

I am French and indeed in IT. Why do you think we do not know this is an anglicism? We went to school too :)

> However if you work in the construction industry you will hear "un pipeline".

Pronounced "un pipeuh-linne"? I had no idea that such a pronounciation existed but why not.

> In French, do you pronounce CIA the english way ? And API ?

CIA: cé-i-a
API: ey-pi-aïe or a-pé-i

But FBI would be ef-bi-aïe
Amazon hasn't really been able to use their dominance in online retail to any great extent. They failed or are after thoughts in every other market they entered. Video, music, phones, tablets, auctions, handmade (i.e. etsy competition) and their app store are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Profit margins aren't great either.

The only really abusive thing that they do is around eBooks. They definitely have a monopoly there and doing anti-competitive things to maintain it.