skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A critique of most modern billionaires and millionaires is that they settle for ivory tower philanthropy throwing money around so they can chat with rich experts to figure out which other rich experts to give more money to. While good does come from this, it doesn't seem to make much progress in solving the underlying problems. For instance, how long has the Gates Foundation been involved with vaccines and pharmaceuticals and does it look like solutions are in within striking distance for the underlying issues?

As an example, a millionaire (who recently became a billionaire) decided on two areas where mankind needed dramatic improvement. Instead of ivory tower philanthropy, he started two different for-profit companies, one for each set of issues. Both companies have stuck around for more than 10 years and the issues they are tackling appear to have solutions within striking distance. A tangible difference has been made. If you didn't guess, the two companies are Tesla and SpaceX.

In contrast, it seems like the Gates Foundation is treading water with the issues it’s tackling. I could be wrong, but that is my perception.

As another example, an entrepreneur back in the day decided every desk needed a computer on it and used his for-profit company to make that goal a reality. That entrepreneur, of course, was Bill Gates himself.

Very few people have the R&D and engineering expertise, economic sense, and the money to lead a company to achieve world changing endeavors. Gates did it once. Musk has done it more than once.

Gates could start a pharmaceutical company, run it himself, learn the ins and outs, and reshape the industry along the way (if he could successfully learn the ins and outs). However, he does not appear to be willing to accept the risks involved in starting his own a pharmaceutical company and the problems of the pharmaceuticals industry remain unchanged.
GDP is often quoted as Real GDP using chained prices. So it does account for inflation.
Neither are instant.
I must have missed the line "No results found" and the disclosure that Google has, by default, gone ahead and performed a "fallback query" without the quotes. Perhaps that is the goal. That I, the user, will not notice. If I wanted the fallback query's results then I would not have used quotes. This appears to be another another example of Google second-guessing the user. Perhaps they assume that the user who searches for an exact string with quotes would, in most cases, try the search again without the quotes if there are no results found.
The SSN is not an ID but a number: anyone with your number can claim to be you for the purposes of transactions. The number is only tied to name and birthdate, maybe address if you are of the age to pay taxes. This enables a lot of fraud: I once saw someone apply for a rewards (credit) card in a US store with SSN and no photo ID ("Oh I left my drivers license at home, could you take a student ID?")

Not sure how Europe handles this, but here in Korea phone numbers are tied to government-issued photo IDs. Sellers of phones have to fax ID scans to the central office for verification. Remote transactions such as signing up for a credit card require phone name + first half of ID + phone number 2FA at a minimum.

As a result, I'm not aware of any cases of identity theft. US infrastructure is so broken.
Paprika. Watch it when your brain isn’t too fried as it is an incredible mind fuck. Enjoy!
The question is about whether the bots existed, not whether they changed the outcome of the election.
Does anyone else think this guy is loosing his mind? Perhaps getting dementia or something?
Wifi direct is definitely implemented on android, not sure what you are specifically talking about?
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It's hard to even figure out what a "10% unemployment rate" means. I recall unemployment rate calculations involved something like "of the people actively looking for work (according to the most recent definition), X percent can't find it". Looking at ostensibly more objective "Labor force participation rate", it seems work decline precipitously at the start of the lockdown and has now, indeed, shot back up by 1/2 or 1/3 the amount.

But what it all means is hard to gauge. For example, the long increase from 1970 to 1990 involved the (re)entry of women into the workforce. The present a labor force participation rate now equal to that of 1973 might not involve the re-emergence of the happy homemaker.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART
I think there has been a reasonably large amount of inflation in terms of the real value of many assets at a national level. It has been counterbalanced in part by the deflationary pressure of the US being the global reserve currency that everyone wants to have their money stored in during trying times, and reduced spending.

However, I think that national inflation often doesn't give a complete picture, and the more significant effects of inflation are often localized closer to the money. A lot of the insane COL in the Bay Area is an example of this. Exactly where is closest to the money in this instance is difficult to say.
Well it seems to preventing the the project from being completed?
Inflation is an increase in (printed) money chasing the same amount of goods and services. But consumer spending has dropped despite the stimulus. The lockdown has eliminated many options for discretionary spending and people have been dropping their extra unemployment money into paying down credit cards instead of trying to buy more stuff on Amazon. Basically, the economy is down despite the stimulus. To have inflation, we would need to see a rise in demand from free money and that’s not what’s happening.
I don't feel this article focused enough on the primary driver - deferments. Credit card, mortgage, auto, rent payments were all deferred the same time money was handed out. At the same time, the ability to spend money to travel, go out to eat, etc all evaporated.

This let people pay off debt, save, or invest. All of which is probably good considering...

There are multiple super scary looming issues:

* Commercial real estate is about to collapse

* Renters are about to have to start paying again (although, with Trumps executive order, maybe not?)

* Auto repos are about to pick back up

* Those who are required to use credit cards to finance their lives are about to be cut off (banks are limiting increases)

* Wave two of the virus is going to increase

* Civil unrest from elections, pandemic, racism, etc. are going to [probably] continue to escalate

* Inflation will start to hit (we can already see it in the stock market and some food prices). This will effectively reduce any stop-gap mechanism.

* Unemployment insurance is going to start dropping off for people (who did apply). States typically have 12 - 24 weeks[1], plus the additional 13 weeks from the CARES Act.

* Although unemployment is dropping, part of that is their counting mechanism. Many left the job market (my parents just retired), job openings are dropping (we will see Junes tomorrow[2]), a second pseudo-lockdown will likely continue through the end of the year.

* Many small businesses haven't really "recovered" and are still running red. Many will be out of business by the end of the year.

* Oil prices are stagnant, but any kind of lockdown will cause this to drive down further.[3]

* Airlines aren't expecting a recovery any-time soon. [4]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2020/04/29/unemplo...

[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/job-offers

[3] https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/crude%20oil%20-...

[4] https://www.barrons.com/articles/german-airline-lufthansa-sa...
I’m amazed the tor browser itself even allows any http connections, ever. Seems like a terrible idea 100% of the time to allow them at all when the whole thing relies on passing your data through an untrusted party.
Don't be dense. Whether you admit it or not, most people judge others based on appearance.
They did not test an infected person. They measured droplets, not virus. Disease progress is not relevant to this paper.
Benefits based on having the degree in immigration point systems is a nice example of such a privilege. So is having that university's name on your resume, in cases like Brown where it's a famous name.
Ask HN: What are the best pre-launch landing pages you've stumbled upon?
Every so often I come across a pre-launch landing page that instantly excites me, e.g. Robinhood, Harry's, and MagicLeap.

Hu.ma.ne recently got my attention and resonated in a prospect refuge sense of, “I just want to breathe into this landscape.”

What pre-launch sites have you recently stumbled upon and appreciated?
I agree, I don't think "it's only a merge commit" is any excuse whatsoever. But I personally pretty aggressively squash my commits with "rebase -i" before merge, exactly in order for there to be not much of a "bigger picture". And I urge others to do the same as well, because no matter how many fixes there was during the development, later on everybody will ultimately care only about "what it was about in the essence?" I.e., added functionality this-and-that, or a fix, or refactoring, or maybe something new implemented (but not "active" as of yet). Small commits are nice when doing git bisect, but given your code is not a complete trash, it is properly tested and refactoring (which is usually the biggest code change anyway) is separated from the "meaningful" changes, there's no much use in them after a year.

So the best use I've seen for the merge commits are bugtracker task IDs and such.
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Hmm, maybe, several apartments merging to one house could explain it.

If so that bodes ill for apartment-building-owners.
Get everyone out? No.

Prepare? Absolutely. I can't speak to the state of California's earthquake preparedness, but there should absolutely be supplies and equipment stationed throughout the state in preparation for it. It is my understanding that San Francisco, for example, has water cisterns throughout the city for fighting fires in such a scenario.

It is dumb not to prepare for disasters we know will happen.
I feel like the solution there is for Apple to stop releasing breaking changes that make old apps stop working.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? That is the issue.
>how would I use braces to avoid the need to manually indent a nested where statement?

Warning: untested code

main = printLn (foo * bar) where {foo = 3; bar = 4}
Or if the foreign tax credit or foreign earned income exclusion aspects of US tax law serve the same purpose as the treaty would. And the treaties often have gaps or gotchas, though they help a lot.

(I'm an American in Canada, so I've had to become familiar with all of the above as applied to my case.)
Ya the only value I don’t totally discount in them is the forced socialization. It’s sorta like eating dinner together as a family. As a kid you might not want to participate but at the end of the day there is value in that cohesion. And if it’s not scheduled it’ll not happen much, or it’ll happen among cliques.
Thanks I clicked through the Wikipedia reference and the IMF numbers quoted do appear to be Real GDP.
Funnily enough, US stocks were trading in fractions until 2001!
> On the flip side, when I'm in Europe, I definitely run into more places that only take cash, which I find annoying to no end.

This is mostly for tax evasion reasons and sometimes for employees skimming off the top. The more “proper” a place, the less likely they are to encourage cash transactions.

Happens in US too, of course. It’s always the shady places that are cash only and everyone else is digital.
“Spreading lies.” Sure, when we have almighty God say what’s the truth and what isn’t, let us know.
Was puzzled by Gates' statement there. I didn't catch how the 'demon sperm doctors' video was related to encryption.

Rather the very difficult and important issue, how do you stop someone with 80 million followers from spreading lies and large numbers of people believing them, and who determines what are facts and what are lies. By Facebook, Twitter, etc.. removing Trump's posts for instance, aren't they taking upon themselves the authority of what's true and what isn't?

I have to believe the only answer is something they call freedom of speech. You can say whatever the hell you want publicly. I'm appalled by the fact the highest authority in the world retweeted the sperm doctors video as well, but I'm not so comfortable with FB, Twitter, etc. deciding for me what is true and not, or worth me reading, either.

So, the encryption issue doesn't apply here. It's a serious issue, but separate. The problem is not that encrypted lies can be sent. The lies that reach 1000 people aren't the problem. The problem is the unencrypted lies that REACH 80 million+ people.
Thank you! I spent a wonderful hour reading things you wrote and linked to. All admirably sensible and insightful, as usual.

"The most interesting writing is that which does not quite satisfy the reader. Try and leave a little thinking for him; that will be better for both. The trouble with most writers is, they spread too thin. The reader is as quick as they; has got there before, and is ready and waiting. A little guessing does him no harm, so I would assist him with no connections. If you can see how the harness fits, he can. But make sure that you see it." – Emerson, in Talks With Ralph Waldo Emerson

https://archive.org/details/cu31924014317105/page/n39/mode/2...
I got my first programming job at 25. It was for a small company. I was making $12/hour part time. At the time my only experience was doing freelance web development. This was 15 years ago.

I can’t speak to what the market looks like now. If you’re looking to get into web development, there’s a fair bit of competition out there, but it has far more to do with who you are and how you communicate/present yourself than your skills, IMO
I don't understand how HTTPS Everywhere would be insufficient. In my understanding you cannot visit any HTTP site while HTTPS Everywhere is active. You would have to turn it off or add an exception.

What am I missing? Is this only an option in HTTPS Everywhere (that is not on by default)?
From my personal contacts, it seems that those who can afford it are now moving out of the cities or acquiring rural "vacation" homes. The people I know who are buying are all upper managers or higher in salary.
Well, for starters (given two-way communication) you can ask them for the sources of their claims, or at least demand that they defend the logic behind it. Then you can take it from there, and unravel the fallacies for them. Or if you want to be more polite, then carefully point the fallacies out for them and ask what they think about it themselves, when looking more closely at it. This would be the pedagogic approach, for those of you who have the patience.

And if it all falls apart (like it sometimes does when people are faced with their own failure), then you can at least ask them to give arguments instead of ad homs. I always try to be polite the first time around, but if they double down, I let them have it. But really, if it ever falls that low, it usually means that you already won, and so you don't really need to bother any further with the discussion.

My thinking is that most people who read such discussions can think for themselves, and so giving good arguments, unraveling faulty logic, and showing the truth, will always let truth and logic prevail in the end.

Usually you will never get a person to admit that he's wrong anyway, at least not to your face, so don't even worry about it! But people do change their minds about things. It usually happens in private, especially if they just facepalmed right into their own flawed logic. So if they do, never gloat and pretend like nothing happened, and rather commend them for telling the truth later on.

Perhaps I'm naïve, but I enjoy staying positive like that. :)

Mere faceless fake news and conspiracy theories, however, simply needs highlighting and debunking. There are several sites that specialize in that already, with various success. It's not perfect, but IMHO it's preferrable to outright censorship. Because who can be the final arbiter of truth anyway...
Question 2, he says the CDC should be the face of the pandemic response because they’re the experts “by a lot”.

He gets listened to so he does interviews. This wouldn’t be on HN if it were Fauci.

And he gets to say the unedited. He can call BS because he doesn’t have a boss who can yank his budget or job.
Even if achievable it seem inhumane. And besides it seems far more achievable to just have trustworthy journalists, even though that's already difficult in itself.
Unlike a field expert, dude has influence, reach and an organization (with experts) in the trenches, and now decades of experience in all of the above. He’s not a couch-commenter. It’s like asking why we ought to listen anyone from Y itself here since they have zero experience with temp/vacation housing, storage, payments... all true, but they have experience with people and what and where and when to listen to. Gates is like that, multiplied by decades of experience.
Another option for "shipping electricity" is compressed hydrogen. Electricity + water goes in at one end (electrolysis), then converts back to electricity + water at the other (fuel cells).

Hydrogen has significant inefficiencies and conversion losses compared to batteries, but the energy density is much higher (up to 40,000 Wh/kg)
Configure SSH on an Arch Linux Server
And a good way to make something good is to do exactly what a mathematician would do
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Here are some other interpreters if you’re curious how this design compares.

Microsoft 8080 BASIC interpreter [0] is a commented disassembly. An improved version is at [1]. The book Programmers at Work also has notes on the design.

[2] is a z80 BBC BASIC interpreter.

[0] http://altairbasic.org/

[1] https://github.com/option8/Altair-BASIC

[2] https://github.com/jblang/bbcbasic-z80
Git and Subversion even allowing single line “-m” commit messages was a mistake. You would see a lot better messages if they forced you to use the editor. I bet a lot of programmers don’t even know you could do multi line messages and assume there is some short-ish character limit. I know I did for a long time
Off topic, but 'exponential decrease' is my favourite misuse, simply because exponential decrease is slower than a linear (steady) decrease.
Every expert I've read about thinks the "evidence" is too flimsy to even consider Covid19 being man-made. That post isn't interesting at all. It's just clickbait fodder that appeals to smart people who like to think they've figured shit out as opposed to the experts, even if it's a field that's totally outside their wheelhouse.
It enables great technologies — not especially beneficial for you, but awesome for those who hate you, such as ubiquitous high-definition surveillance.
It's really hard to resolve this barbaric situation in a civilized way. Communication channels are blocked, people are actively oppressed, and the voting protocol is totally broken. At the same time, people of Belarus want to be independent, and aren't eager to call for external help.
I don’t mean to start an off-topic debate on this, but I just have to say that personally, I run into issues caused by using old software on our EL7 boxes all the time. For example, cgroup memory limits are broken on Red Hat 7 kernels as far as I can tell (most versions have a memory leak, but iirc the most recent has a panic instead). They’re missing all sorts of features that are useful for usability or reliability.

I’m just personally not convinced we really win much with the trade off as a society :p
No lock keeps out a determined attacker. I bet fewer people could carry out this attack than people who can pick a normal lock.
A house built down the road from me came pre-wired with cat6 and also solar panels preinstalled. Other houses here don’t even have the roof alignment for solar electricity.

There’s advantages and disadvantages to being early.
>> the most innovative startups, and yet the worse infrastructure.

Nobody in the US wants to pay for infrastructure. It's the governments role, but political figures want to spend our money in less critical ways.
The university president at the time the author graduated (and and also at my own graduation few years earlier) was a classics professor who has good Latin ability, so she conducted most of the ceremony overall in Latin. Of course some bits of English were included, such as when honorary degree recipients or students selected to speak at the ceremony were doing their bits. Yes they provided translations and I think subtitles too.

The current university president is less proficient in Latin, so she does most of the ceremony in English, only using Latin for the few bits that the University rules require to be in Latin (including the moments when the degrees are formally conferred).
Here’s some examples.

A few weeks ago on HN was the outrage that Apple kept the 30% app store revenue cut on a return. This was outright false but led to a 1000 comment thread circle-jerk hating on Apple.

Early in the pandemic the WHO claimed coronavirus could not be transmitted to humans.

Having a central arbiter of “truth” is dangerous, fascist and there’s a reason freedom of speech has barely any limits on a constitutional basis.
> Yep, some of these predictions are outright comical. "has covid ended handshakes forever"

I hope so. Handshakes are pathogen vector I can easily do without. And they don't seem essential to anyone's livelihood.

> handshakes have survived thousands of years of pandemics. I get that people always tend to think their moment in history is particularly special, but I'm just gonna say if the black death didn't do something in this won't either

Our understanding of infection has advanced since then. Let's apply the knowledge.