skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My completely-devoid-of-evidence hypothesis is that over the past 25 years, increased globalization has reduced the number of menial jobs/tasks in those two continents, thereby increasing overall day-to-day mental exercise.

This fails on a couple levels to explain the headline:

1. 25 years is a very short time for someone to have a health-altering period of employment and then get old enough to develop dementia. The overall population with dementia is much larger, so in order to see a 13% drop, the final <10 years of work before you retire would need to increase your risk of dementia by several times.

2. It does not make sense that those people who are within 25 years of dementia would be able to suddenly switch from a menial job to an intellectual job. I would guess it is very unlikely (<10%) over any time horizon; the western world switched from manual jobs to service jobs but it's very difficult for people in those two categories to return to school and get an intellectual job.

3. I would hazard to guess that manual jobs are more intellectually stimulating than most service jobs. Working in a factory, building houses etc. includes tons of little bits of arithmetic and coordination. Phone/computer jobs and working in a store is mostly standing around or doing mind-numbing makework. At the very least, there's not a huge difference between the two- besides physical work, which is also very beneficial against dementia.
> But does TikTok send those data back to Chinese government so that it would potentially threaten U.S. national security? We need proof, but so far none.

How about the No place to hide laws that mandate this? Proof enough for you?
I think all these walled gardens both foreign and domestic have split the internet.

Look at what happened to Usenet, its still there, but many major ISPs don't offer access to it to my knowledge.

Larger email providers mark all email from self hosted servers as spam in most cases.

Chat is mostly on proprietary apps. The majority of the population does not use open standards for chat.
Like I said:

>Certainly there will be some people who do it, but you would basically have to commit fraud to do it.

Also the extra unemployment benefits expired so anyone still doing this is not making more than they would at their job. Their only incentive to continue this fraud is for their own personal safety. You can't call a preference for one's own personal safety "perverse".
Gov. Cuomo says all NY schools can open with strict guidelines
Many state governments aren't constitutionally allowed to borrow money or run a deficit. The people who supported these features are largely the ones who will be impacted by the results.
Source on "spent" $10k/resident or is that in repayable loans? Huge difference
Just chiming in to tell my disastrous experience with the deprecation of Classic Sites.

A few weeks ago, we activated GSuite for our organization, and from then on could no longer access our Classic Sites.
After a long and confusing support chat session, it turns out that our Classic Sites were simply wiped without a warning when we activated our GSuite for the same domain, because of a bug due to some funky deprecation-stuff of Classic Sites.

So yeah, we're pretty pissed that us subscribing to another Google product caused our old stuff to be deleted because of a bug. But it's not that surprising given the rush Google is apparently in to deprecate Classic Sites.

Oh, and I don't think Google's gonna take the time to fix this until the final ditch, so be wary if you still have Classic Sites and are getting GSuite soon!
A notable example of how omitting a word from a headline introduces ambiguity.

One-third had expected to miss, but managed to scrape together the payment?

Or

One-third are expected to miss?

Brevity is valuable but not at the cost of clarity.
Air India plane crashes on landing with almost 200 onboard
> the US are responsible for the death of 400-800k people in Iraq

That is an outright fabrication, based on an axe-grinding mischaracterization of this report: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/20...

Your spin is a falsehood because:

- the 400,000+ number includes Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan

- the report concedes that most deaths are caused by militants

- it covers years in which America was not even engaged in hostilities (e.g., after leaving OIF and before the Iraqi government asked the U.S. military back to counter Daesh)
Ok, so it looks like the main point of this is fast-components, which is a just a bunch of components styled as MS-style, but I'm more interested in the fast-foundation package.

According to the instructions:

> The exports of this package can generally be thought of as un-styled base components that implement semantic and accessible markup and behavior.

> it exports parts and pieces intended to be composed into Web Components, allowing you to implement your own design language by simply applying CSS styles and behaviors without having to write all the JavaScript that's involved in building production-quality component implementations.

Which means... if I want to make my own components, I can just take this package and don't worry about making broken components. Since the core HTML/JS is properly taken care (by MS, hopefully) I can less worry about re-implementing keyboard access, or things like accessibility which is hard to do properly. This is IMO huge, and should be more universal.
Wanting racially homegeneous societies is an "evil idea" because to create one, you have to remove groups of people from a society based on their race.
Command + Shift + g in Finder brings up a "Go To Folder" window so you can type in a folder and go directly to it. Bonus 1: it supports tab completion. Bonus 2: this also works in file open dialogs.
I would imagine the design convention is to show a + when you have more content hidden, and a - to indicate you can hide (minimize) it.

Is that the popular consensus, or is that an odd way of looking at it?
The whole point is those white nationalist beliefs are par for the course within that demographic.

You're making generalizations about other groups with no substantive data.

Yes, you _may_ be able to find a left-leaning racist spouting absurdities like this, but it isn't indicative of that group as a whole...the far-right, white nationalist demographic has these vile beliefs as a foundation of their platform.
> I actually respect Zuck for not banning all the conservatives like Jack did.

Woah, twitter banned all of the conservatives? How did Trump take being banned?
What does that look like relative to the infection count? That's the numbers I can't get easy access to; it may be the case we've simply successfully kept the disease away from places children frequent.

I'm hoping that's not the dominant factor in the numbers, because school re-opening will be real ugly if it is.
I try not to rely on the pre-collision braking too much, but it's saved me from hitting more than one car with faulty brake lights.
User Analytics Are Under Utilized by PMs
https://mobile.twitter.com/SkyNews/status/129176597630075699...
I think this maps to most people’s non-legalistic idea of what a monopoly is too.
Social safety nets were designed to keep society from unraveling when desperate people take to the streets in the endless boom-bust cycle of capitalism.
Many of the wealthiest countries in the world have found it economically more desirable than the alternative even when you ignore the ethics

Opponents of UBI often ignore the word BASIC.
I’ve only seen it being invoked on people who support the freedom of speech. The people who invoke it obviously missed the irony that based on the paradox of tolerance the way to keep our freedom of speech is to pull a GPL and silence these that disagree with it.
Julia is next gen. The whole experience is so much more pleasant than anything in the space. The interop is also crazy. How is it possible that you can call Matlab, Python, cpp, fortran, Rust from one language?

I legit think that even if you are using say pytorch. You are better off writing your code in julia and using the python interop.
This all reminds me of "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
I like duckduckgo's name though. It's playful. They also own duck.com

Hey, duck this query
Economic activity is not the be-all, end-all purpose of human life. But even if it was...

Every business opening tomorrow as if there was no pandemic does not mean the economy will magically return to Nov 2019.

People who do not feel safe do not spend money freely. People without financial security tend to not spend on frivolous things. People with crushing medical debt do not contribute to the economy the same way that they used to.

It's OK to want a return to normalcy, but it will only happen through a careful process (which is already not happening). Getting frustrated and saying to hell with caution has no chance of success now, or ever.
The verbosity is one of PowerShell's best features. There is so much less guess work about what a command or argument does, or whether it is '-a' or '-A', or any of that garbage. You can usually guess how to do things because there's a reasonable consistency to the Verb-Noun structure. The extra typing is mitigated by everything being tab-complete including commands, arguments, and even variables. Not to mention you can just alias commonly used commands into shorter versions anyway!

Did I mention it also makes readings scripts at least 100 times easier?
Well, that's the concept of the CrashCourse channel. This video is actually slow-paced compared for example to their World History series.

It's still interesting. After a while you learn to pause the video to let the information sink in.
I don't think they have any moat at all. People always claim that Facebook's hold over the population is absolute and that the gravity and sheer volume of users will make it impossible for upstarts to make a dent.

And yet every new highschool cohort has a new social media app.

These are simple CRUD apps and anyone can make them. The tech is only getting more accessible. Look at the ages of people launching these things. Young people get young people.

Facebook is for grandmas yelling at liberals. TikTok is exiting and fresh. In four years, it'll be something new.

Of the many failed attempts to make social media apps, the ones I'm most aware of seem to have all failed due to mismanagement (vine, voat, yikyak).

Look at the proliferation of dating apps. Not even Tinder is the end-all be-all. There are new entries in that field all the time, and it's hyper adjacent to social media.

I don't think either industry is a good place to build a moat. You have to keep buying the upstarts to win.
I think the principle of regulatory reciprocity is fairly standard. If country X has tarrifs on your goods, it's fairly standard to bring up the same tarrifs on their goods into your country. Same with visa laws. If country X defacto bans certain products and companies from operating/selling in their country on the basis of national origin and not product type, then I would assume eventually the same would happen on the other side.

Without reciprocity, the other country has little incentive to come to the negotiating table to reciporically remove those tarrifs, bans and visa restrictions.
Good job FB, don’t let woke liberals silence opponents
The default design looks awful, especially on phone.
I’m not a frontend dev, but I don’t see any reason why would I use this instead of, for example, Bootstrap for sideprojects.
Can some FE comment on the project usefulness? Why go with Fast?
If presenting these viewpoints misrepresents the views of your employer, they're fully entitled to cancel you.

Judy Woodruff couldn't drop the n-word in anger on national TV and expect to keep her job.
Before Visa and Mastercard became widespread, it was common for some stores to only accept their own proprietary charge cards. Even today, stores aren't legally required to accept particular cards. Some don't take American Express or Discover. Others only accept cash.
Protestors Forced to Relinquish Constitutional Rights
You should use an app like Spetacle or Rectangle to achieve this. I use spectacle personally. I can move apps from one monitor to another with command-control-option-arrow_key
>articles that were both cherry picked and misinterpreted

Which ones?

Your edit is even more misleading and incoherent than your original comment.
Baffled that you’re being downvoted; there’s plenty of arguments for and against those ideas. It’s difficult to come a consensus when the debates surrounding them increasingly turn to shouting matches, Internet rumours and “cancellation”
It's funny how the managers, executives, board of directors, stockholders, business associations and their lobbyists all act together, pushing the political agenda - acting as a mob, as sheep - coming to a consensus - but we who are actually doing the work are lectured to isolate ourselves from one another, and not be a sheep who join a mob.
At first glance it seems the fast-components are akin to material components and fast-foundation kinda reminds of angular cdk
The problem with most of your "reasonable ideas" (except racially homogenous societies which is straight up racist) is that they have consistently been used for racist reasons in history. I think if you hold almost any of these (except perhaps the first), you should take a good long look in the mirror and research the history behind these.
I love seeing a wider adoption of webcomponents, but I have some complaints about this library, mainly because they're really pushing the whole, "lightweight and low memory" lines.

Take a look at the accordian component (the very first one in their system) and check it out in the dom inspector - it has a shadowroot that has precisely one child: a <slot> element. In this situation a shadowroot does nothing to help. All it means is instead of just creating children for the element, you have to create them and add "slot='item'" to all of them. Shadowroots are great when you need encapsulation of styles or static non-content UI, but with this outer element neither of those are true. There isn't any additional UI, nor styles. This is something I see a lot in lazy libraries - they automatically create a separate dom tree even if it isn't needed whatsoever.

This tells me either the library requires this every time (going against the "lightweight / low memory" motto), or the developer for this one didn't have enough understanding of when to use shadowroots.

That's not to say this is all bad though - their design system tokens are really nice and provide a lot of flexibility. I'll probably emulate a lot of them for the next webcomponent based design system I'm working on. Their algorithmic color palettes are interesting, but so far I've never found a solid algorithmic color generator - color is simply too tied to trends and too subjective to be algorithmically made. Curious to see it work in practice, and a shame they don't provide examples of it.
I wonder if that says more about the employer than anything else.
In the US, passenger cars haven't used leaded gasoline since 1975.
> “Alphabet gets sued a lot, and we have our fair share of regulatory investigations,” reads another. “Assume every document will become public.”

:)
Why bother? Change your password to a randomly generated string then send over the old password. You've cut off the threat vector.
I have observed the same thing with famous accounts. I stopped following most of them. I stick with regular people that tweet about interesting project or accounts with some inspiration statements.

As you get older, you just don't have all this free time to sit there and scroll through garbage.
While it wasn't my statement, I think its perverse as the "free money" distorted those employees from making "normal decisions". For those employees, its a perfectly reasonable (short term) decision to prefer the larger payout. I'd argue its a bad long term decision.
Regulators are looking for language that abuses an existing monopoly. Intent to create a monopoly is not evidence for the existence of one.
Which 500 apps, popularity ranked?
This would really only work in the US, where invasions are very rare. Also, there's a difference between refusing to fight on foreign soil (like in ww1/ww2), and defending your homeland. eg. if the enemy is right outside their village, and they're going to rape/kill/pillage them, are they not going to fight back?
This is also true of a pop up that has options like yes, no, cancel. In other OS's, this would be done with an arrow key, but in MacOS, this is done via mouse, I think.

I suspect there will be a comment that tells me how to do this with a keyboard?
Agree. When I saw the headline I thought it meant almost the opposite. The FDA needs to aggressively allow more tests so long as they are not misleading about their efficacy. I know fast cheap tests are stuck pending approval right now because the FDA doesn't like that they are less accurate.
(I think better messaging from the test would no say positive or negative, rather:
You have 1 in 3 chance of having covid vs you have 1 in 200 chance of having covid, instead of positive vs negative, something like that).
The improved-shell-piping-objects space is getting crowded. My entry is marcel: https://marceltheshell.org.

Trying to create a combined shell/programming language is a mistake, in my opinion. Marcel exposes bits of python on the command line, e.g. for writing predicates. For more serious programming, marcel offers a Python API that allows the use of shell commands inside Python, neatly integrated into the language. For example you can write a series of commands, connected by pipes, and the result defines a Python iterator so that you can use the pipeline results in a for loop.

See the website for more details and discussions.
Yeah that’s too bad. Glancing at the headline you’d think the tests themselves were unreliable, rather than the results backlog making them inactionable. Sigh.
This is great, I was hoping for another way to build websites that are completely broken with JavaScript disabled. Try selecting links on the sidebar or even just going to https://fast.design and see how broken it is.

Sweet.
USCIS Adjusts Fees to Help Meet Operational Needs
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> fatality rate less than 1% is very low

If I told you that every day you lived your normal life, you had a 1 in 100 chance of dying, would you take it?

How about a 1 in 1,000 chance? That's an expected payoff of about three years before you die, Worth it?

The breakeven point is different for different people, but I think even 0.1% chance of death is too high for most.

Or flipping the numbers: if 100% of Americans become infected, a disease with a 0.1% fatality rate is about 350,000. That's more people than we lost in World War II.
Strange how the switch uses the default arrow cursor and the checkbox uses the pointer, while neither have a hover effects, but the other form elements and interactive components all have hover/active effects.

There might be some interesting base stuff underneath but the UI/design part is pretty barebones and meh. Maybe that's not the point?
‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’

Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947

https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-form...
It wasn't a mysoginist memo, don't be so low effort. He isn't a scientist but he actually bring up stuff that was already being discussed when I studied sociology and AFAIK it's far from being settled.
Actually, the Linux kernel is from Europe, it is in no way disruptive (it never challenged the status quo), and GNU software that is typically used with Linux came from the USA and is also in no way disruptive.
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder how much of this is related to increased air quality in the west.
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You know people said the same thing about social security, and on a more recent note... desegregation and the end of Jim Crow.

Change always seems fast and overwhelming until it’s done, then we realize that support for it had been growing bit by bit, and all that was left was that final leap.

Even if the UBI is impossible to attain tomorrow, we should still lobby for it so it will be attainable someday.
> It is the chemical that matters, not the method of distribution.

Would you apply hand sanitizer to your hands? Would you drink a bottle of it?
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I don't know if i'm missing something, but this seems crap. Its really ugly, and there isnt a lot there. Why wouldn't I just use BlueprintJs?
Is it actually backwards compatible? I don’t think it is, they continually introduce breaking syntax changes.

Please somebody enlighten me
Well, they hate open source in general. Apple is the, well, Apple of the 90's.

God. I remember the 80's. Apple was the Hackers' computer! (well, if you didn't have access to a major corp or uni machine room). They were all into DIY! and getting kids to code!

Bill Gates back then was all "neh! mine!" He was a SERIOUS tool! God he used to just fucking scream at people. awful.
OMG. Young Bill Gates sucked donkey balls. Paul was paul. I kinda felt bad for him, actually.

I dunno. then something happened. maybe it was the whole 6502 thing. memories are fuzzy, but Apple changed in what seemed like overnight.
Ultimately SSTOs just don't work well on Earth given our currently available propellants. If we lived on Mars the equation would be different, but Earth's gravity well is just too deep for the engines we can make today.

It's not just about finding a new more energy dense but lighter weight propellant either, you need previously nonexistent alloys that can survive the intense heat, pressure, abrasive, and corrosive effects of a running rocket chamber.

One of the big challenges with aerospike engines is keeping them from melting. It's a difficult challenge for bell shaped rocket engines too, but aerospikes are more heavily impacted.