skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For something most people use many times a day with a multi-year lifespan? There’s a fascinating economics lesson in how many people are concerned by the cost of a phone but never mention the service plans which almost always cost more.
Seriously makes me wonder if future generations would be able to garner a relatively objective understanding of everything that's happened. 100 years later, what would make one media source from today be considered more reliable than another from today? What first person accounts would be considered more reliable than another? Would you take the words of people on the street over the words of the president? What of all the people who agree that there's a deep state movement to work against the president in secret? How the heck would a historian be able to figure out what really happened?

Suddenly makes me wonder how skeptical I should be of all our understanding of recorded history.
Relatively lucky of you to have a 5X that lasted that long: mine succumbed long ago to the "boot loop" issue, apparently due to soldering issues endemic among 5X phones.
We started a $16K manufacturing service during Covid-19
Kurt Wise has a PhD in paleontology from Harvard and is a young earth creationist. Again, just because someone has something on their resume does not therefore mean that they are correct.
Outdoor dining is a bandaid fix that does not work for all restaurants. Several of the restaurants in my neighborhood that actually have decent sidewalk space are probably serving 50% of what indoor dining would have been. Even with saving money by not employing as many people for solely dining, you have increased costs through constructing bespoke outdoor dining spaces and additional cleaning.
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You may be underestimating people's lack of care about what open access point people connect to. The traffic itself may be encrypted, but DNS queries, phone hardware addresses, and background traffic might not be.
Active escape of prey from predator vent via the digestive tract
After being eaten by a frog, some aquatic beetles can survive for 24 hrs in the digestive tract and escape intact from the frog's butt.

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Ask HN: Please upvote the “Who wants to be hired” thread too
UPDATE: Thanks, it worked! It got a good boost and it is now on the front page with a fair amount of upvotes. No need to upvote this post anymore too, just focus on the "Who wants to be hired?" one and keep it in mind for the next months.

I got two interviews from last month's "Who wants to be hired?" thread, and there are a few threads mentioning people successfully getting hired from that thread.

It is an important channel for people looking for a job, but I noticed for the past months that is undervoted (in my opinion of course). This month's thread is not even showing at the front page of the "Ask" section at this moment!

There is even less upvotes than comments (which I don't even understand why would you not bother to upvote your own job request).

I just think it is an important thread that would help more people with more visibility.
They are all around you. They are called credit unions and community banks.
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Strong lockdown measures doesn't translate to people actually following through. In Central Valley and places like Huntington Beach you can go outside and not realize there's a global pandemic. The data is fuzzy and evolving. I doubt the world will have concrete answers for many years.
Sperm fooled scientists for 350 years – they spin not swim
In the first article you posted it reads:

> To date, transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by this type of aerosol route has not been demonstrated; much more research is needed given the possible implications of such route of transmission.

That seems to be in direct opposition to your statement, correct? Or am I missing something.
Maybe they can spring from a consortium of interested architects.
Yes. The Pixel 4's launch price was $800 for the basic configuration, the S10 launched at $900, and the iPhone 11 (which is actually more mid-range in Apple's lineup than "flagship") launched at $700.
People make all sorts of impressions on a person just by their name, or many other signals (such as email address, the time of day it was received, et cetera).
SpaceX capsule swarmed by boaters after successful splashdown
> it's that infected people need to be separated way out away from anyone in their home

That's not what I got from it. It pretty much showed that separating elderly from anyone else is really difficult. It failed in many countries. This because they're either with families, or they're with people whom take care of them.

> I wonder if this a case of lockdowns delaying the inevitable

Lockdown is to ensure the hospitals aren't overwhelmed. Many countries had to completely stop or delay certain activities. People avoided going to the hospital out of fear of catching anything.

It'll happen eventually isn't very compassionate IMO.
Well, we weren't talking about the desktop, were we? Especially when Java is involved. (Unless, of course, it is Java code development, in which case Linux is still a better platform anyway.)
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FaceID is terrible when driving. I often have my passenger read and send texts for me, on my iPhone 6S I just had to grab the phone and put my thumb on it. With my iPhone 11, I need to lift it up in front of my wheel, and look directly at it instead of the road, because if you aren't looking at it then it won't unlock.
I agree that his Basic Economic book is very easy to read. It completely opened my eyes as to how to think about economics in high school when I first read. I recently watched an interview about his latest book, which he just published at 90 years of age, on charter schools. It was fascinating when he goes through the data showing that when charter schools were used in New York, the race gap disappeared. All the special interests involved in schooling as well as lack of accountability is quite depressing. Here is a transcript: https://www.hoover.org/research/economist-looks-90-tom-sowel...
This critique seems needlessly harsh and a bit offtopic to me.
VS code works great on my 2012 Mac mini. Maybe you just wanted a gaming pc ;)
You guys can split the difference. Regulate and tax it. In the article is says: "There might be wakaresaseya agents operating without licences and in the shadows", implying it's regulated. Maybe you have to pass an exam to be an wakaresaseya!
And C++ supports private and public repositories, why waste time always compiling the same binaries for third party dependencies?

There is an eco-system out there for C and C++ developers where companies only sell binary only libraries.

VSCode is not an IDE, just an text editor with a couple of plugins.

C++ Builder, Visual Studio, XCode, Android Studio, QtCreator, KDevelop, those are proper IDEs.
It's not that easy... it will have to be supported somehow. It still costs $ just to exist. Economies are like living organisms. You can't just stop breathing. This is why covid could trigger a worldwide depression/recession.

Infectivity rate will INCREASE up until 50% and will only slow at 70% when herd immunity kicks in... things will be getting WORSE not better.
> What exactly is your point by posting that? Is it that these people should not have advocates?

That I wanted to know the orientation of the group, and thought I might save others the trouble of looking it up? I didn't know people would be so sensitive about seeing the first two sentences of a Wikipedia article.
Crabby comment incoming:

I love Richard Feynman as much as the next person (minus his famous misogyny), but this post is basically contentless. It's literally a motivational poster. Like why not post an essay or video instead.
And you can even electronically file with the IRS's Free Fillable Forms.
I grew up in a country with absolutely no foreigners. I think I saw people speaking a different language like 3 times ever (I mean, outside the Internet or TV). I had all these opinions and ideas about how people from other countries were. Not big prejudices, but I started losing them when:

- When I traveled outside my country for the first time and saw foreigners.

- Then when I started working for an international company, full of Americans, Chinese, Indians and Europeans. I met them in person, talked to them and realized they are mostly people who want to have a honest job and support their families, grow up in their careers, etc. Yes, there are differences, but we're way more alike than different.

- Then I moved to the USA and it killed a few more prejudices I had.

What I realized is that I hate a lot of governments, not the people those governments govern.
On my phone (Galaxy Note 10), there's a toggle to allow 2G or not in the mobile network settings. No debug code needed or anything like that.
Historically people starved and tried to make ends meet as best they could. But if you were to ask the Kulaks (basically besieged by their gov), you’ll notice that starvation was a big part.

Are we doomed to cycles during (our lifetimes)? No, it could be all downhill for centuries. (Which I think has been the case when empires collapse, be they Roman, Dynastic Chinese, from the steppes, Mayan, etc.
Ach, sorry, I misread your comment -- so, it doesn't change their tax situation, so there's no reason to falsely use this. Understood. Never mind.
That's pretty cool! Thanks!
They should really list all the contributors that added to the release instead of highlighting the few people that added some of the listed features.
I'm honestly wondering why he explicitly mentioned it.

Languages taking inspiration from other languages and that's normal I don't think anyone bm the people I know from the rust community (which e.g. work on the compiler and language) would do so.

That's except if you write something like a paper, in which case it's party of the proper proceeding to mention "priority art" you are aware of *even if you didn't copy it or even had the idea early but just didn't publish it.

I hope it's just some random thing he remembered thought of when causally doing the interview, because the other alternatives wouldn't make him look good.
Pro-tip: If you want fairly good OPSEC when going to a protest, get a burner Android phone, put it on airplane mode with WIFI only. Then purchase a couple of Comcast / Xfiniti logins off the web, and use those to connect to "xfiniti-wifi" hotspots. Most cities have them, the speeds are fairly decent too.

We're truly living in the panopticon
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> Sure DeBlasio and Cuomo 100% bungled the response in March especially

Okay, so we agree on that.

> The city has been massively transformed to allow outdoor dining. Easily 1000's of restaurants and bars now have outdoor dining in what would usually be street parking spaces.

As journalists have documented extensively, New York's expansion of street space is incredibly paltry compared to what other cities in the US have done. No, it's not zero, but it's clearly not enough (per the article), and it's not even keeping pace with what other cities are doing.

> NYC gave direct cash grants to businesses with <10 employees. I know business owners got the money. Those grants were approved and funded before Care Act / PPP was passed. Once PPP opened there was no point in NYC trying to compete, the city can't print money.

Yes, there is a a point to the city (and the state) providing direct aid to local businesses on top of the federal assistance. And there absolutely is a point to the city and state targeting funds to essential industries that are hit particularly hard - which is what plenty of other jurisdictions have already done.

> Other states were able to give more direct financial assistance to businesses because they didn't have to spend so much on actual COVID response. Remember NY received a tiny amount of federal funding relative to population and actual pandemic impact, because of who was in control of the funding formula.

First of all, New York wouldn't have needed to spend as much on COVID response if Cuomo and DeBlasio had actually done their jobs in January or February. But more importantly: the limiting factor here isn't money. As I outlined in my post, the state is actually spending money in ways which are directly harmful to small businesses, with no justifiable public health gain.

DeBlasio and Cuomo could literally just base their policies on what other cities and countries have done with success, and that would already be miles ahead of what they've decided to do instead. The problem isn't that they can't. The problem is that they've genuinely expressed zero desire to.
For a device that keeps you in touch with the world while providing quality camera features and music capabilities for 2 years or more, yeah, $350 is a fine price.
Most young people of "political age" (over 16 or so) in the 60s, 70s, an 80s were to the left. Today, those older demographics tend to swing to the right. I suppose you could make the case that Democrats die earlier than Republicans, but I doubt that is what's happening here.
They're not gonna be getting rent if businesses close anyway so telling to them to get stuffed because rentier capitalists are lower in the hierarchy of business to preserve doesn't sound like a bad idea to me.
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They aren't forcing it to sell or close. If the US bans TikTok, TikTok will still exist in other countries.
I guess you did not go into it deeply enough :)

Of course you need to have an interest, motivation, and resources to go deep.
Are Polar Codes Practical?
you could always bribe the author, I hear he's a nice guy :)

worst case you might end up paying some other designer to supply the icon you need in the desired style. shouldn't break the bank, "especially for a big product".
Our economy would not implode. That's ridiculous. We would go back to paying what our grandparents paid for food as a percentage of our paycheck.

California created this situation through lax enforcement of immigration laws. It is less cruel to strictly enforce the law, as this prevents people from becoming second class residents.
>Go to your city hall or their website and see if they have an organizational chart. For some of us one thing will overwhelmingly stick out. For others it's just business as usual.

I assume you mean that they're all white. Which isn't true at all. Birmingham, as an example, has had black mayors for 40+ years now. Most of the cities in the south are like that. Whites fled to the surrounding suburbs leaving political power to the Blacks that remained.
TikTok’s Owner Tried, and Failed, to Cross the U.S.-China Divide
Yes, as I said he literally wrote an article about it. I literally cannot understand how you can't connect Sowell's claim that anti-discrimination legislation (like CRA) is bad to my argument.
Sorry most of your argument here is going over my head. My mind gets the glazed over feel as soon as I hear the word “epistemology”.

It seems like you are using the word “mind” as a specific technical word within the field of philosophy rather than the general usage of the word so I’ll just defer to you for any philosophical context of the conversation. I’m not interested in that.

What got my goat was the implication that complex systems like the mind and the brain or any other complex system aren’t a “science” because it somehow isn’t pure enough/reduced enough.
Very interesting concept! Has anyone seen this implemented in North America?
Absolutely. My phone pays for itself many times over. I don't even consider the cost these days.

It's more valuable than my car (to me).
Anecdote time: I live in San Francisco, almost everyone wears a mask here. My friend just got back from a road trip through the central valley, he said nobody there was wearing masks and a random stranger called him a coward (in more colorful language) for wearing one while at a gas station. His opinion was that the central valley is going to be hit hard.
For some reason I thought C++ had gotten a stable ABI? Not sure why (I’ve been out of C++ dev for years).
Is this onsite or is remote a possibility?
It was the best phone I ever had... until the boot loop.
Frettler: A CLI for generating musical scales and chords for fretted instruments
> "The return of "soft scope" in the REPL"

I'm a little nervous about code in the REPL and code in a file behaving differently. I think they should go back to the 0.x scoping rules everywhere consistently - which was lexical scoping, IIRC.

Which brings up a question: if this behavior is context dependent (different in REPL and in a file) does that mean you can set a flag so that code in a file behaves like code in the REPL?
> It implies that there is already a consensus on the issue when there isn't

Jeez wow, I didn't realize that the existence of white privilege was so hotly controversial here on HN.
This seems like a common tv and movie plot point though. If you don’t want to be found you have to destroy or lose your phone.
This is incredibly true and scary. Just had that realization.

The only answer is less engagement.
Right, there is always a use of "mistakes" and "cover up".

It's like they always believe authoritarian leaders are much competent than democratic leaders, any mistakes in authoritarian nations must be cover-up.

Meanwhile, they also believe authoritarian nations are bound to collapse, because their leaders capabilities are eventually not a match to the complexity of managing the state.

Then, why isn't this the moment where the authoritarian leaders over reached their capabilities?
Agreed. Blender as of when I last used it (1.5 years ago) is not usable on serious projects.
Yeah, I have to say, USBC video out sounds like a gimmick until it isn't. I completely ignored it in choosing a phone but it has saved my butt countless times now. Usually the way it happens is that the computer intended for playing a movie/show/presentation/etc has a problem, lacks a cable, etc. Then I spot a USBC to HDMI dongle (basically everyone with a new Mac or recent ultrabook has some kind of USBC dongle) and bam, you're golden.

I wouldn't get a phone without it.
So I read those, and at least according to the WHO document, it seems to be the case that while viral RNA is detectable in a non-aersolized state in the air, they haven't been able to find any cases of this causing infection (See section labelled "Airborne transmission").