skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just the vocabulary, but the structure, the whole style. It's long, it's very meandering, it's very illustrative, but rarely direct and informative. Not many people have the time and desire to read something that presents so little value to them.
The article makes an excellent argument for the plausibility of indoor airflows being a major transmission vector. But I didn't see anything about ongoing research to quantify the transmission risks posed by aerosols vs. other transmission mechanisms. (Maybe I missed it?)

It's hard to make policy recommendations regarding aerosols if (a) we're not really sure how big a risk factor they pose and (b) the mitigations would be very expensive.
The regulations you mentioned don't fix their idiotic formulas for calculating your credit score.

For example, shopping around for good terms on a loan could hurt your credit score. Or never having borrowed, despite having a great income, somehow meant you can't buy a house.

As a lender, I'd want competition in formulas, not necessarily in the core data (the number of loans a person has now and their history of payments).
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There’s a link between his social views and his economics.
Wonder how much bitcoin an unscrupulous person could mine with that $5k of credits.
This is what the Forbes article reports the Washington Post saying that Minnesota health officials believe, and it seems to make sense.
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Battery capacity continues to be disappointing with most Google phones. They always seem to choose them on the lower-end side compared to the competition.

The phone is a good value overall, but 3,100 mAh will hardly last you one day and be almost empty by night. I prefer phones with more generous batteries, so that there's never a risk of running out by the end of the day.

Hopefully Pixel 5a will come with 4,500-5,000 mAh next year, as many low-end $200-$300 phones have these days.
I think we can't talk about it because there is no agreement on terms, modes of transmission, etc. and public policy cannot be based on ambiguous terms (though it can be based on imperfect data).
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> Over and over in my career I was amazed at what happened when I just bothered showing up.

Just remember to acknowledge how exceedingly well this works for white guys and the uphill battle faced by others.
Hi HN! Recently, I decided to take care of a task I had been procrastinating for a while: to organize and de-dupe data on our home file server. I was thinking of it as a mundane task that needed to get done at some point, but the problem turned out to be a bit more interesting than I initially thought.

There are tons of programs out there designed to find dupes, but most just spit out a huge list of duplicates and don't help with the work that comes after that. This was problematic (we had ~500k dupes), so I wrote a small program to help me. The approach, at a high level, is to provide duplicate-aware analogs of coreutils, so e.g. a `psc ls` highlights duplicates and a `psc rm` deletes files only if they have duplicates elsewhere.

I thought it was a somewhat interesting problem and solution, so I wrote a little write-up of the experience. I'm curious to hear if any of you have faced similar problems, and how exactly you approached organizing/de-duping data.
Quite a few of media that are paywalled with supposed "truth" are usually ones that are first to support wars and military interventions. They also love to skew the truth in corporate direction. This is not to say they don't have talented and good writers who produce insightful journalism, they do, quite a lot.

Excuse me for not wanting to pay or support other people's misery.
Larger architectural firms like Zaha Hadid and Foster and Partners have developers in-house who work on internal tools for designers. Though I don’t know how many firms there are like this. Though I think architects in general have been lazy when it comes to tooling. The CGI industry has been far more involved in tools and open standards.
"diversity raised the level instead of lowering it because it means hiring people on their qualifications instead of on what they look like"

It would be absolutely wonderful if everything was a meritocracy like this, and it's what most people ask for.

Unfortunately in the tech industries and modern media, "diversity" initiatives are the exact opposite and only want people based on what they look like.
> First, everyone here who likes Sowell can put forth specific, concrete examples where he is right, instead of making vague statements about how brilliant he is and then demanding evidence only when someone disagrees.

Why? The positive argument already exists. It's Sowell's writing. What are you asking for a cliff's notes? The disagreement you're talking about must obviously stem from something in the source material we're talking about. So what is it?
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The exchange format is irrelevant, it's the schema that matters, though. IFC does have XML serialization as well.
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The most egregious aspect is that these companies arguably shouldn't even have the ability to make such large purchases. They don't pay their taxes (using loopholes to appear completely unprofitable while an entity that is all-but-legally indistinct amasses a massive warchest is tantamount to tax avoidance, period) and they shortchange users on the value of their data (delivering software worth a fraction of the value of the data collected during its use). What results is an enormous economic distortion that has numerous negative effects, of which the issue described above is just one.
Not really. In the case of eg. fridges, only parts of it (the compressor, usually) is warrantied for that long.
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What if the price went up by 25% a week after you initially purchased a subscription (even if it has been years since the last time the price changed)? You could do something like only change the price for customers that have been customers for a long time. But that gets complicated, and then you are punishing your best customers for their loyalty.
I can't think of any other company that bends over backwards to please engineers who use their platform (and, by extension, the people who visit this site) more than Stripe. Back in 2013, when my co-founder and I started a company and later got into YC, my co-founder went thru every circle of hell in order to fix all the mistakes we made when we incorporated. If Stripe Atlas had existed back then and we'd used it, this would just be a non-issue. Unless you're an expert in the technicalities of startup incorporation/bylaws/etc, the value Stripe Atlas provides is huge and it just doesn't make sense to me why someone would pass on it.
I see and understand your point and agree to some extent.

Not real sure what to do there?

I'd maybe consider doing a course at my local Tafe ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_and_further_educatio... ) and do a design course and get friendly with the people who work there and run the workshop part of the campus so they might let you continue to use the facilities are you've finished.

Not sure if you have anything like that around your parts.
> It's somewhat tedious that whenever an article claims a black man, or a woman, were first in something someone will leap in with "well, actually...", especially when their well actuallys are often wrong.

I assure you it's equally tedious when an article expects me to believe (as the entire 5th article strongly implies) that something as obvious and common as an ambulance staffed with medical professionals didn't exist until 1966, and the whole world used police and fire trucks to transport the injured, when I can so easily find earlier examples.

What am I to make of all the examples in the wiki article I linked? Do they not count, because they used doctors and not paramedics? Is that where my "well actually" is wrong? If so, the article sure does its best to hide that fact.

And what was the rest of the world up to during this time? Were the Soviet union's eyes on Pittsburgh to learn how to handle medical emergencies? If so, they must have been watching very closely, because 8 years earlier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAZ:

In 1958, UAZ began production of the UAZ-450 series of trucks and vans. The first model was the 450A ambulance; with room for two stretchers and four-wheel drive, it was arguably the best in the world for use in remote areas.

An ambulance. The "best in the world", implying it was not the first ambulance. I'm sure there's plenty others, for example in Europe, they just don't have an article on 99percentinvisible.org
I remember being at a large company in 2001 that was forced to shed about 40% of the workforce: Accenture (which went from 40k employees to a bit over half that.) Same story for most of the large systems integration consultancies.

Same story for many of our clients: telecom firms, financial services firms

People remember 2000 as a tech startup bubble burst. But it was just as much a bubble burst for telecom (AT&T, Global Crossing, Lucent, others), financial services firms, and consultancies.
Hey thanks for posting this. I didn't know people do this. I think idea to use Notion for publishing is something that I would enjoy and will give it a try.
Launch HN: Strings – Delegated App Copy Management
Hey HN.

Brad and Jasper here from Strings (www.strings.design). Strings is a tool for writers and product teams to search and edit your app’s copy without learning how to code. Developers save time not having to edit copy while retaining control over their code. When writers edit copy, Strings automatically generates a pull request for engineering approval in Git.

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A copy change ends up involving many people, handovers, context switches, processes and may take weeks to get to your users. It creates so much organizational waste and friction that many copy improvements die a slow death. Content bugs and typos live on, inconsistency hurts the brand and the user experience suffers as a result.

Having developers changing copy is a terrible use of engineering time.

It’s busy work and requires context switches that distracts from harder problems. Strings sits on top of your code repository allowing writers, designers and product managers to browse and edit in-app copy. Its purpose is to remove the friction and handover steps required to edit copy in a controlled environment where developers retain the final approval.

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I've read a number of his books, and I reflect on them regularly. They stand the test of time.

More important than the specific facts and arguments in his books is that he checks up on the results of theories and policies. That's not common enough among social scientists and certainly not among politicians.

Does "the peace process" produce peace? Do anti-poverty programs raise people out of poverty? Surely some do, and surely some don't. Figuring out which is which is critical to success -- preferably by learning from others' mistakes, but if not, at least learning from your own mistakes.

It's too easy to get a sense of moral superiority just by supporting a policy with a noble intent, and then move on before the consequences arrive.
“Someone from the Rust community” is super vague.
This reminds me of Azuqua[1], which has its owning implementation of cloud table that could be used as persistence layer for custom build applications.

[1] https://azuqua.com
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Also, though it isn't part of the NBER working paper, the Forbes article mentions that:

'the Minneapolis Department of Health reported that more than 15,000 people were tested at centers set up in communities affected by the protests, and 1.7% of tests came back positive—below the statewide average of about 3.6%. According to the Washington Post, protest attendees in Minneapolis returned positivity rates of less than 1% and that “officials believe the low infection rates reflect that the protests were outside, that most people wore masks and that people spent most of their time in motion, circulating through the crowd.”'
> New York was the epicenter of the outbreak in the US. The situation has improved, but we aren't out of the woods yet, so I think it's correct to be cautious.

New York was the epicenter specifically because both DeBlasio and Cuomo ignored public health officials at nearly every turn, refused to start preparing for the pandemic until the first case had already hit, and even then spent more of their time bickering with each other in a weird power struggle instead of trying to contain the pandemic quickly.

Multiple independent studies have shown that Cuomo's refusal to shut down the city when DeBlasio requested it was responsible for over half of NY deaths to date - and even that's not considering the fact that DeBlasio made the request rather late (the city's public health department was advocating it far earlier).

https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/0...

https://www.propublica.org/article/two-coasts-one-virus-how-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/us/coronavirus-distancing...
But you're making an assumption here that both the sender and recipient will be using fiat currency in the end, and that crypto is only being used as means to make the transfer. This is not necessarily true.
Yes, I think an analogy about a cart and horse was instead called for.
Maybe I'm the exception but all my home appliances (washing machine, dishwasher, fridge, freezer) are around 25-30 years old with the exception of my oven and stove. Everything is working as expected and I suspect they will last even longer.
Oh I do not disagree. It is just a tough field to actually extract any value out of. I would bet at this point most of these companies sell that sort of data to 3rd party already. It is probably buried in that tomb of a contract they give people.

There is a second possibility here. That no one is exploring. That Google is just investing money. Which means they have no effective way to use their existing capital. MS ended up at this position at one point.
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I think the point is that a cheaper subscription model would bring in a lot of new subscribers that were previously paying nothing.

There's a quote that goes along the lines of "those who don't read the news are uninformed; those who read the news are misinformed".

For me, I see NYT as one of the more credible new sources, but it has a history of bias against reforms to wealth inequality, which is an important issue for me. Accordingly, I can't justify using it as my sole source of news, and I can't afford to pay more than $20/mo total for this sort of expense.

So, an option to pay $20/mo for access to 5-6 different news sources would be really appealing to me. Until then, I'll keep using my 3 free articles / month from the random news outlets that get posted to HN/reddit.
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I think his point was that NOT showing up fails equally well for everyone
Do they even need to bother with a Stingray, can't they basically just pull up whatever provider's law enforcement portal and click a few buttons?
It's the middle of summer in the US so that's not going to go over well here. Just another thing for Karens to yell about and get on the news.