skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To a first approximation, I'm inclined to agree with this reasoning. The main point of minimum wage (in the US) was to back-stop a buyer's market for labor from leading to mass deprivation among American workers. If UBI can guarantee a dignified minimum standard of living, minimum wage becomes redundant.

Hell, in a world of UBI, I'd anticipate volunteer organizations to flourish.
Please do some research before you downplay one of the most significant geo political events of our time. China poses an existential threat to democracy and freedom of the western world and we are (and have been) in a cold war with China. While you bask in your normalcy bias, realize that your ability to complain about your government is due to the fact that others before you have fought for your right to do so. If you care about the progress we have made and the future for your and others' children, you would not want the next century to be a Chinese century.
China already enacted foreign investments law. Tesla uses it to enter the Chinese market freely. Build factories, sale electric vehicles, enjoy all tax and subsidy that local companies are. And so will VW, and any other auto maker. IP protection is strengthening as well. In the areas of internet service there is still the internet security law, which requires all internet services providers to store data locally and moderate content. Google fb Twitter doesn't want to comply so they don't operate in that market. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Uber, Airbnb and more are complying so they are operating in China. In other sectors, it's already open access to Chinese market and equality between local and foreign businesses. China is responding to criticisms.
I'm just a single data point, but I'm a "high income" earner who would immediately quit there job if UBI was ever offered.
I'm not sure! Straight up blood donation takes away some stuff that takes a while to regenerate, so you're not allowed to donate more often than once every 8 weeks. By contrast, you can donate plasma twice a week in the US (although if I remember correctly, other countries limit you to once every two weeks).

In other words, what they take out of you during blood donations is a lot more...precious.

I'm O- though so I don't know if they'll let me donate plasma (they want my blood!). I was thinking of alternating plasma and blood in order to get a little bit of both if I can.
Of course it plays into their narrative, it's easy to spin practically anything - that doesn't mean you worry about that and don't act; their control-censorship systems means they can make sure their society adopts their false narratives as well, and punish anyone who questions them (or the CCP).

And the CCP of course isn't going to share the truthful narrative regarding their concentration camps with million+ Uighurs, their genocide, and how after the COVID-19 pandemic we've woken up and became more aware of CCP's tyrannical behaviour; their coverup attempt allowing the virus to spread (whether it was malicious, purposeful or not we don't know) has killed, and harmed many people and economies globally.

Saying that finally taking a stand against things like corporate theft or fraud or not following international law is non-sense - and I fail to see it is hard to maintain the moral high ground now when the CCP has concentration camps, accusations with credibility of torture and genocidal behaviour?
I use nano exactly because I keep pressing ⌃E in vim ;)
It's very fair feedback - I updated my response to highlight that the reason is not that classic sites is old, and old is bad, and new sites is new, and hence good. It's more that the way websites are built and rendered changed fundamentally ~7 years ago, and classic sites just doesn't match the way that needs to work today. All of the major website builders have tried to find a path from "raw html" to "content management system" and been unable to, and had a platform split at some point.
There's no one stopping you from going back to work, except your coworkers who don't want to.
> "topic-focused, outrage-free" curation strategy

In the old days this work was done by an editor and published in a periodical fashion. My recurring quip about social media is that it’s helping us collectively realize the value of good editors.
really cool. I guess it would benefit you migrating this from blender to a more friendly web app. this is not hard using three.js. great job anyway
We plan to launch an AMA (“Ask me anything”) on financials for startup founders
Most landlords are not retired teachers who rent out their garage apartment.
HN has it's fair share of Damore supporters. Plenty of women haters as well.
They wouldn't. They might work 40 hours a week because they believe in the cause; I know people who are independently wealthy or otherwise not in need of paid employment who put that time in for volunteer projects.
>Over the long term Friedman has been proven right over and over again.

By what? There's literally a hundred other examples like George Washington's I could point to all the way from China's meteoric rise to the Asian tigers where comparative advantage was developed with judicious application of tariffs. They all disprove Milton Friedman's hypothesis.

This isn't about TikTok. TikTok is small fry. Nonetheless, it's part and parcel (along with the Huawei bullshit) of America's dawning realization that China has not only reached technological parity on most fronts, but it is leapfrogging America. You don't roll out the tariffs when you're top dog, you patronizingly tell every other country that it isn't in their interests instead. That's what Milton Friedman did.
Canada confuses me. I feel like the income disparity there is huge. Everything costs way more than it does here in the US and yet incomes seem far lower. I’m speaking based on my experience dating someone in Toronto and also the job offers I turned down from Toronto based tech companies.

A salary will be like 25% less but cars are 25% more expensive? Yet I see some really fly automobiles flying around the TO.
> Btw, in the trainings I've taken, it's not just about avoiding specific words, but avoiding the thoughts behind those words.

It could be to keep the trainings themselves from looking bad during discovery.
If GPT-3 is trained on a corpus of the entire internet, could you just use it as a search engine by posing questions to it?
These are from the SPLC’s list of quotes:

“I don’t view humanity as a single species...”
—Podcast FDR2768, “Collective Guilt for Fun and Profit”, Saturday call-in show, August 9, 2014

“The whole breeding arena of the species needs to be cleaned the f--- up!”
—Podcast FDR2740, “Conformity and the Cult of ‘Friendship’,” Wednesday call-in show July 2, 2014

"Screaming 'racism' at people because blacks are collectively less intelligent...is insane."
—YouTube video, The Death of Europe | European Migrant Crisis, October 4, 2015

“You cannot run a high IQ [white] society with low IQ [non-white] people…these [non-white] immigrants are going to fail...and they're not just going to fail a little, they are going to fail hard…they're not staying on welfare because they’re lazy...they’re doing what is economically the best option for them...you are importing a gene set that is incompatible with success in a free-market economy.”
—YouTube video, The Death of Europe | European Migrant Crisis, October 4, 2015

“...white people will bend over backwards to accommodate you, but when they finally get that they’re just being taken advantage of...you will see a backlash, and that backlash will be quick, decisive, and brutal.”
—YouTube video, The Death of Germany | European Migrant Crisis, September 16, 2015
What are the implications (if any) of this?
"The latter" === archaea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea#Classification
I'll help out here with a much simpler definition:

A monopoly is a company that you can not avoid doing business with. Microsoft, Google -> monopolies. Apple -> not yet.

That way we can save us all some time debating how many angels can dance on a pin. Note that both Google and Microsoft have worked very hard to make it that way, it is only fair that they should accept the flip side of that coin. If you break email to the point where your only options are to either see a good portion of your mail undelivered or join the borg then you've just turned yourself into a monopoly.

The better way to avoid being labelled a monopoly is to try very hard to play nice with other eco-system players.
Get over yourselves. From an outside perspective I am concerned about the US’s treatment of its own minorities. Have you heard how Trump talks about minorities?! Sorry but no, from where I stand I don’t see any difference on this between China and the US. And before anyone says anything about detention centres, I’m sorry but you can’t have a prison populations in the millions made up mostly of minority people and point fingers there.
How the Bitcoin Protocol Works
From yesterday:

> There are also preliminary hints that some people might have a degree of preexisting immunity against the new coronavirus. Four independent groups of scientists—based in the U.S., Germany, the Netherlands, and Singapore—have now found that 20 to 50 percent of people who were never exposed to SARS-CoV-2 nonetheless have significant numbers of T-cells that can recognize it. These “cross-reactive” cells likely emerged when their owners were infected by other, related coronaviruses, including the four mild ones that cause a third of common colds, and the many that infect other animals.

> But Farber cautions that having these cross-reactive T-cells “tells you absolutely nothing about protection.” It’s intuitive to think they would be protective, but immunology is where intuition goes to die. The T-cells might do nothing. There’s an outside chance that they could predispose people to more severe disease. We can’t know for sure without recruiting lots of volunteers, checking their T-cell levels, and following them over a long period of time to see who gets infected—and how badly.

> Even if the cross-reactive cells are beneficial, remember that T-cells act by blowing up infected cells. As such, they’re unlikely to stop people from getting infected in the first place, but might reduce the severity of those infections. Could this help to explain why, politics aside, some countries had an easier time with COVID-19 than others? Could it explain why some people incur only mild symptoms? “You can go pretty crazy pretty quickly with the speculations,” says Crotty, who co-led one of the studies that identified these cross-reactive cells. “A lot of people have latched onto this and said it could explain everything. Yes, it could! Or it could explain nothing. It’s a really frustrating situation to be in.”

"Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24069662

Also, from the about the author page of the submitted piece: "Karmel Allison received her PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of California, San Diego, and has over a dozen years of experience in software and machine learning. None of these things is directly related to virology, you'll note, and thus you should take everything she writes with a grain of salt."
Linux CLI apps should have a --json flag
While Fusion 360 does have many non-NURBS procedural surfaces, they definitely also have NURBS. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to import an IGES or step file.

Using a solids kernel with procedural surfaces can help many cases, as you keep the modeling tree around and can recompute portions at higher tolerance as needed. However that's just another cumbersome workaround to the fundamental problem that the math doesn't have clean solutions.
City / organization name in hohlyandiya?

Massages CAN improve circulation. It's just uncertain if it really helps with the issue at hand. For example, head massages increase hair width but don't cure baldness.
The title buzzfeed came up with is misleading as the article isn't really about an employee getting fired or their evidence. Its more a general editorial on Facebook and the US election.
Google "Canada brain drain"
LINE is owned by a South Korean company, so it's not really a good example of a local brand.
"If you access the DOM with string parsing" -- could you explain that for a noob?
So many problems with this post.

It's on Medium (not sure if Medium was broken but I wish it was -- if you are posting on Medium everybody knows you are a dog.)

Scatological language: there are better words than "shitty" to describe your experience.

Missing the point: to many users the value of satellite imagery is that they have it and that 'competitors' do not. In the case of the US Govt they don't want unfriendly military organizations to have it, if it is somebody like the Bridgewater hedge fund they might want to know the occupancy of the parking lot at every Wal-Mart in America, but it's only valuable to them if nobody else knows it.
Valley veteran Tom Siebel aims for a three-peat with AI
On the other hand, couldn't the document be used to suggest that the company is complicit in anti-competitive behaviour?

Keep in mind, it is addressing the use of language rather than discussing the company's motivations or objectives. To use one of the less inflammative examples from the the first excerpt, they aren't claiming that the company's objective is to "improve our product/service". They are claiming that there are ways to say "get ahead of competitors" with fewer legal implications.

While a simple "search and replace" cannot be used, it sanctions the use of non-inflammatory language to conceal intent by the company rather than disproving motivation.
Endless bailouts mean we already have UBI for corporations, why not actual Americans?

(to paraphrase)
> It's shocking to me how far ahead MacOS is in terms of keyboard shortcuts compared to all other operating systems.

Er, what?!?

macOS is still not able to let you navigate menus with shortcuts.

I can't even reliably open the File menu on macOS with my keyboard. It's been "Alt-f" on Windows for over two decades.
Latter of the two, "Bacteria and Archaea" being Archaea

"In 1977, Carl Woese, a microbiologist studying the genetic sequences of organisms, developed a new comparison method that involved splitting the RNA into fragments that could be sorted and compared with other fragments from other organisms."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea
Is this from The Onion? How are they going to communicate efficiently? Are they going to pass each mail through a safespeak-to-efficientspeak translator? Some automatic transformer mail plugin digging out the real meaning of sentences?
An awful lot of Googlers don't work in search.
Great resources. Quick bug report:

Might want to add `overflow: hidden` on the container with `border-radius` (.SharedDirectory-module__section___1ljf9). Currently hovering over the first link shows a background over the rounded corners.
Yes.

Oil-based cars and trucks kill people in cities and exacerbate many illnesses like asthma. When they are gone people will wonder why they were ever allowed.
Cash is trash. That's why.
From my basic understanding is that Buzzfeed != Buzzfeed News. News is apparently a well run organization and it’s a shame that it uses the same brand for this very reason.
On MacOS, you can use Flycut (https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut) to manage your clipboard. Just assign it to cmd + shift + v and it will allow you to cycle through your buffers.

This is nice when you need multiple items from the same source (say login/password from password manager), instead of doing "copy ; switch ; paste ; switch ; copy ; paste" you can now do "copy ; copy ; switch ; paste ; paste". It's a phenomenal time saver and it will take care of the additional LF at the end, as well!
A problem in bioinformatics: we often don't even know what we want
Battle of the Video Codecs: VP9 vs. HEVC
The latter (archaea) were completely unknown until the first (archaea) were found in 1977.

It's not a well-written sentence.
we already have hundreds of thousands of deaths...
It was not because of suicides.
> So the models of exponential growth was unfounded and it follows more a natural gompertz curve.

The models of exponential growth were always unfounded. Exponential growth would have you believe that in a few short months, a sum larger than the entirety of the human population would get the virus. We knew then that it was ridiculous. The question wasn't if it was exponential or gompertz, but what the coefficients were.

Those who parroted the exponential curve were just trying to use scare tactics to drive clicks to their websites.
That's the idea. Quakers will never take up arms. In both world wars they would actively help in peaceful ways (helping widows, sending care packages to POWs, etc), but their actions remain peaceful.

>Early Quakers were among the leaders of the anti-slavery movement in the United States. Quakers are also pacifists, responding to wartime calls for service seeking out non-combat roles such driving ambulances or serving in conscientious objector work camps.[0]

[0] https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/quakers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Testimony
Ask HN: Legal for paid app to host freeuser created-content from public website?
Is it illegal for a proprietary platform to host user created-content that was originally uploaded to a public website?

Context: I believe my Anki (https://apps.ankiweb.net/) deck was converted into a Reji (https://reji.me/) deck and used in their premium (must pay for) application.

1) Is it legal for other companies to use open source Anki decks as part of their own content that users must pay for? Here are the legalities but I'm not confident - https://ankiweb.net/account/terms

"In addition to the license you grant us above, you may optionally grant users extra rights by specifying so in your deck's description, such as allowing them to redistribute modified versions of your deck. You may not impose any extra restrictions." This tells me that I cannot actually prevent the distribution of my deck. Is this a correct interpretation?

2) Would this have been illegal if Reji simply allowed their users to upload their own (from their local computer, so it could be anyone's) Anki decks onto their own personal Reji app (not public for Reji users to consume)?

3) What about onto Reji's shared deck market place (just like Anki has) for others to consume? And what if instead of another user uploading my deck, I actually did (nefariously)....would this still be illegal?
Why yes, a history of overt racism in the republican party probably just suddenly disappeared! This stuff by no means lasts a full lifetime or propagates through generations!
> Certainly some developers have been targeting performance (particularly compiler devs. Arguably UI devs)

Difficult to believe with how unresponsive modern UIs are.
As a commercial landlord, I've seen all sorts of assistance offered, but no local government I know of is offering property tax deferrals. I have a $60,000 property tax bill due, and tenants who can't pay their rent (I've discounted them 75% to help them out.)
It doesn’t say “human right” anywhere in the article, other than the title. Why that title?
If we're honest, a lot of that is less extreme than a lot of what happens on the "crazy", "woke", "left" these days that we're all kinda accepting and in a lot of cases promoting.

The difference is one is "kinda" accepted and promoted under the guise of "justice", whilst the other is shunned as "extremist" and "far right".
As I understand it the DISC was a bit more diffuse and while it had tendrils in Universities, it didn't stop there. But yes, that was the main thrust of the DISC in the discussions.

Yes, the perverse incentives of the market play havoc with the spirit of the process of science. Which seems to be the source of the brain drain, in as much as talent leaves the university for the market instead of staying and teaching more talent.
This. Open everything.

If you are worried, stay home. Otherwise, fuck off!
This is a really disingenuous and dangerous title by Wired and they should change it immediately. It does not reflect the content of the article and what Gates actually said in their own interview. Gates does not say the tests do not work. He says they take too long.

Gates is saying tests are garbage because they take too long to get results back so they aren't actionable. This has nothing to do with the scientific/diagnostic/technical capability of the tests (which is a separate issue with antibody testing but not with PCR testing, which is what Gates is discussing). I get that it gets more clicks, but the obvious interpretation for the person who looks at the title and doesn't scroll over halfway down the page is that "Gates says COVID diagnostic tests don't work, so I guess if he's right, then there's no point trying to scale up testing or anything since the tests are garbage anyway." The takeaway is the opposite - the results aren't getting back fast enough, we need better prioritization and capacity.

Especially with how much misinformation is spreading regarding this pandemic, and how many lives are on the line, Wired should reconsider its title policy and change the headline to reflect the content in their own article rather than imply dangerous misinformation to grab attention.

Edit: On the offchance that the title on HN or on Wired gets changed, the original title that I am referring to is "Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are ‘Completely Garbage’"

That title is not reflective of the content of the article or the context of Bill Gates' statement in the interview.
I've read most of the comments in this thread and will read TFA, but haven't yet.

What's always bothered me about piping to grep is losing the original syntax highlighting. Particularly annoying when the first command, whose highlighting I want to preserve, is itself grep; this leads to awkward contortions like

git grep "a" | grep -v "b" | grep "a"
I'm not convinced, though there are, obviously, advantages to RFCs and IETF.

The primary disadvantage is speed. A private corporation innovating on its full stack can come up with a faster and more secure HTTP alternative for their use case in the time it takes the RFC process to get up in the morning and find its shoes. Google has a streamed cloud gaming service running in its web browser right now; how long would it take the RFC process to kick out the protocols necessary to enable that?
Probably. There is a device that "fixes baldness" that just shines red light at your head.
The actual scientific evidence for masks is not as strong as you claim. Please read this analysis by the University of Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. We need to do more research.

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-...

Just to be clear, I am not advising anyone to avoid wearing a mask.
The number one (by a wide margin) reason for Intel123 is that somebody is trying to email a zip to somebody else, but a mandatory filter notices "bad files" (oh no, executables!) inside the zip and removes it to keep people "safe". So the zip gets a common, known password, and the recipient gets their files in peace. It's not a security measure at all. It's a workaround for braindead IT "solutions" hindering day-to-day operations. The files can be shared via any number non-encrypted channels just fine, but the particular employees trying to share happen to be most familiar with email and the filter doesn't know or care if there are secrets - there are EXECUTABLES! Those are dangerous, don't you know?
Google is not sentient, someone inside Google decided to get a promotion by launching a "new thing", at the cost of deleting old content.
What's funny? Unionizing in the advertising/tech industry to push a political agenda is acting like sheep! How does anyone get fooled into this kind of philosophy? Mob rules? Look at the big picture and think for yourself for a change.