skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Firefox users are disproportionately lying about the user agent for privacy then counts are off. This would impact 1p telemetry as well. If Firefox users are disproportionately running Adblock then they'll be undercounted (it's also entirely possible that Chrome & GA have some kind of thing where even if you're using Adblock they're able to correct the GA data they show you for Chrome users).
This is a very healthy perspective on relationships and I fear the nuance of this view is often lost in discussions about relationships. I'm sure that if you posted this on a Reddit relationship forum, you'd get responses telling you that this is oppression or abuse, and you shouldn't put up with it.

Relationships are all based on compromise, and the art of compromise is really what makes a relationship. I love the story you tell of your mother saying "Would you just humor me and do it?". My father did the same.
Talk to any engineer at Apple and they’ll tell you that privacy is involved with every feature development and pervades every discussion internally. It’s not a facade.
But what about children in Australia, where remote teaching has been done for many years? Are they all somehow specially gifted children, so that they manage?
My grandmother would put it for a day in a hole, cut in a black radish, and then feed me a spoon every once in a while.
The modern hip way is to use lemons, honey and ginger to make a brew. After COVID broke out lemons and ginger in Moscow tripled in price at some point.
> The big question for me is how would the introduction of UBI ultimately affect that ratio, given that you would be less disincentivized to stay with the underproducing group?

The “given” is backwards. Compared to existing means-tested welfare systems, UBI funded by additional high-end taxes provides less disincentive to move out of the underproducing group.

If the minimum support level provided by UBI is used (in whole or in part) to offset and reduce minimum wage, it also reduces the barriers to people moving immediately to a less-inderprodicing level, and eventually up and out of the underproducing group.
That's nice and great advice for parents who can afford that. Unfortunately most parents aren't in a position to do that.

I know my parents growing up would have been in a world of hurt if they had to home school - it was hard enough making ends meet as it was.

This situation is going to really entrench and amplify socioeconomic inequality - for the first time in generations we could see a world where only the very wealthy/privileged are able to give their kids a good education.

FWIW 'leave of absence' isn't really a concept for many, many jobs.
Look at Wuhan; they're having pool parties with thousands of people.

There is an exit strategy, and we'd be part of it if we could have just followed the directions of doctors and epidemiologists.
It can be more efficient if you are using thousands/millions of hard drives which otherwise would just be unused.
Thanks for the reply. Yeah not a big deal at all, just curious.
If the insurance companies wanted to confirm that everyone who hogged the left lane slowly in a Prius 5-10yr ago traded up to a Tacoma any salesman could have told them that for free.
we have filters, that solves the recirculating problem, it's the intake side that I don't know how to handle. I posted an answer where I'm growing a list of ideas and products out from. There's some interesting stuff in this space. The biggest unknown is how they perform in smoke conditions. They all assume standard pollen dust etc irritants in the air.
Which is an argument for unequal pay, yes?
The reason you don't see more startups in the hard sciences is not due to the lack of hybrid talent as this article surmises. It's because:
1 - VCs are reluctant to fund capital intensive startups that have time horizons for exits that are significantly longer than software based startups.
2 - The product lifecycle is so much longer, which makes it inherently much riskier. In many cases it can be years before you even get to the point where you can get real feedback on the business model.
3 - There are often other considerations e.g. regulations or interactions with existing products, that are entirely outside of the control of the company that can significantly alter the likelihood of success.
> 1 in 200 chance of death (pretty high by the way)

The fatality rate of a car crash is also about 0.5% [1], but that doesn't prevent us from driving. That means there's a piece of the puzzle missing here, right?

Note that I'm not concluding this means we should go to gyms (or whatever). I'm just pointing out your analysis is missing an important factor, making it faulty/unconvincing.

Edit: Changed the statistic source, because it wasn't measuring what I thought it was measuring. (Which incidentally also gets at the same distinction I was trying to make in my comment.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
IT doesn't matter if minimum wage shouldn't be expected to be long-term. The reality is that many folks basically work minimum wage or slightly above for large chunks of their life. And some folks are happy in these jobs.

Some of these minimum wage jobs even require degrees. Preschool teachers, for example, often pay minimum wage or just above it - but this somehow shouldn't be a career choice. Many other jobs pay just a little above this - which, realistically, is what you'd get working late at a burger place. They get paid more than preschool teachers many times.

There is a limit to the ability to relocate with these jobs as it costs money: Same for learning new skills.

Denying folks a living wage when you know that low-paying jobs is reality for a large band of people (regardless of what you think it should be) is just cruel. The world "isn't a charity" because folks look down on folks.
CFR isn't a meaningless number and the estimated IFR is useful for making predictions.
It reminds me of BMW wanting to charge for add on "options" that you paid for at delivery but after 2 years of ownership you need to re-up.

rear view camera/park distance control/cruise control (SaaS).

I guess with car sales going south they need to nickel and dime their remaining customers.
Universal Basic Income would also help with this problem.
This paper seems to pre-date behavior trees. Any comment on how TLA relates? (I skimmed but will give a closer look when I have more time.)

I was curious what Brooks now thinks about subsumption and found this from a few months ago:

The approach to controlling robots, the subsumption architecture that it proposed led directly to the Roomba, a robot vacuum cleaner, which with over 30 million sold is the most produced robot ever.¹

Like many, I got a Roomba not long after the pandemic began. I was disappointed by its poor sensorimotor system. Within a few days its IR cover was scuffed up and it was covered in scratches from getting stuck under an office chair. Brooks doesn't say that 30mm Roombas incorporate subsumption, and no doubt after a decade or two of programmers I wonder about the nature of the codebase. The Roomba's behavior is entirely unpredictable, as sometimes it will bump into something full speed and sometimes it will slow down as it approaches. There are a number of other issues too long to mention including the charging contacts and recently it started roaming around with its charger still attached for no apparent reason.

¹ https://rodneybrooks.com/peer-review/
You remember the good old days when all politics was local? Now it’s all International. All of it. The British Broadcasting Corp. is a Crown Corporation mostly funded through TV licenses charged to British subjects when I last checked. Maybe that’s changed, but it’s not in my wheelhouse as an American citizen on American soil to help regulate your lexicon. Do what you think is right, but consider the place in which you choose to proselytize with greater care. That’s what the Twatter is for.
The AI Summit London 2020
The lock downs were premised upon preventing hospital systems from being overwhelmed. We accomplished that relatively easily, at least in the United States. However, politicians and bureaucrats, unwilling to let a good crisis go to waste, have moved the goalposts so much that now the unspoken policy seems to be that a single infection/death is anathema and that everything should be done to prevent it.

I don't remember giving my elected officials the authority to pursue such extreme policies, especially based on incomplete science. Scientists didn't realize the virus mutated until months after the mutated version was the predominantly spreading version. They waffled on masks and even know there's evidence to suggest that masks can cause more harm because people do not use them properly (they are not washed enough/at all, they are constantly fiddled with (i.e., people touch their face), etc.). Now the latest excuse to extend the lock downs indefinitely is maybe, just maybe a C-19 infection may have long-term negative health externalities.

Mind you, this is all being pushed by the privileged few who have home offices with webcams and fast Internet, food and groceries delivered on a whim, and a Peleton in their home gym. The whole situation is preposterous; it's like we're living in a Monty Python skit.
The Covid-19 impact on children
While we wait for a covid vaccine, unicef estimates up to 80 million children will not receive life saving vaccines that we already have.
> I think the below-subsistence wage earner would be more likely to (though not certainly) move somewhere that their skills were more needed.

This introduces us to indentured servitude's abuses.
Yes, the one thing we can all agree on is the right to self. Nobody other than themselves can control their body - by that I mean that no matter what you do, nobody can tell you what to think. You can be brainwashed by force, or conditioned to react a certain way to escape force, but you can never really know what another person thinks.

Regardless, one has a right to their body. It is their property. More explicitly, any individual intelligent agent that exists takes up some physical space and that space they occupy at any point in time to continue their existence is theirs only. Property can be given up voluntarily or if nobody else has a claim to it - in this case it extends that clearly rape is wrong, but prostitution is okay, as it's voluntary on both sides. Seizing someone's house is wrong, but exploring space and building new structures in the middle of nowhere is not.

Whether laws exist regarding private property (or the lack thereof), we can define a set of natural rights that any person has regardless of any local, regional, or global laws, constructs, or ideologies. We can all agree murder is wrong, rape is wrong, stealing is wrong, slavery is wrong, and the clearest and most concise way of setting this forward is by understanding that nobody is entitled to anything other than their body and any property they have gained which was either unclaimed or voluntarily from another agent.

Certain schools of thought disagree on unclaimed property, e.g. if one settles a piece of land and the landowner doesn't notice, but after a decade or so has passed and the resident has worked the land and only then the landowner notices, who really owns it? I am not in a position to answer this but I don't think it's "arbitrary" or "man-made" to expect natural rights over your body and property. Everything else, indeed, is abstract.
Thank you for pointing that out. That housing market is certainly not free. Not an aspect of Singapore I had read about before.

Other than my opinion that the needs of the people would have been better met with a free housing market. I don't have much to say on it.
Sanctions as they are now are quite different from what they were with the nuclear deal.
That didn't start with trump yes, but saying there's no difference is insulting to all the people who are actually paying the price.
From what I remember playing with the homebrew devkit, there is a hardware flag saying which screen the 3d engine writes to. So you will flip that flag every frame and have 30fps per screen.
Isn't this hypothesis pretty easy to validate/falsify?

Just take a random sample of 1K NY residents and test them for antibody/t-cell presence. 1K is plenty to make a statistically significant sample size when you're suggesting the true infection rate is double digits.

Why do we NOT know what the population infection rate is? It seems relatively easy to do.
IBM lawsuit
In which country? I don't think it is true everywhere, that we wont let others starve.
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> today some businesses still refuse service if you're wearing a mask

I couldn't find more than one case of this so I'm curious if you have any evidence it's widespread.
This article is from 2017. Take a look at what is happening in open source with OpenTitan. https://opentitan.org/
The financial risk of the initial investor is a reasonable justification for his profits. This applies to D'Arcy as well as AIOC. Their cut of the concession deal was reflective of their risk premium.

Iran didn't take the risk -- or the cost outlay -- of building rigs, importing engineers, etc. The idea that the British were somehow exploitative by resisting renegotiation is ignorant of this fact. Both the 1901 agreement and the 1933 agreement laid out responsibilities for the

Article 16 of the 1933 agreement covered the introduction of more Iranian nationals into the petroleum business, which AIOC did in fact carry out. Article 17 talks about sanitary and public health facilities for workmen, which sounds like bathrooms and medical tents/clinics to handle workmen's injuries and treat their families.

However, I see nothing in the 1901 agreement nor the 1933 agreement that says AIOC will invest in the general infrastructure of Iran. That is what the grandparent said ("generally contribute to the development of infrastructure in the country"). That idea is at best a false pretext for breaking the deal, and at worst just a blind restatement of something on Wikipedia. Actually, the text of the 1933 agreement says that AIOC would require Iran's consent to improve AIOC's infrastructure (including aviation and telephone).

If I'm wrong, find it in the text of the agreement (https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bbm%3A978-3-658-00093-...) and paste it into a reply for all to see. If I'm right, stop calling me disingenuous.
Beyond the flower, there's also general environmental allergens that affect the honey and might have some part in helping any allergy-related inflammation and infection response.
> The labor market is a free market. If you don't agree the employer offer is fair, you don't have to accept. When you find a better offer, you go to the better offer.

Not everyone has competitive skill sets. People who work at McDonald’s don’t have much of a choice of where they work. Burger King isn’t going to pay them much better.

> If you are stuck in a minimum wage job, then this is what the market is paying for your skill set. If you think you worth more, then proof it, don't blame the system.

I think what OP was saying is that employers of low-skill workers have a asymmetric power. Because low-skill workers have no where to turn, they are forced to accept low wages and poverty over living in the street, even when their employers can very well afford to pay them more. And because the live in poverty, they cannot afford the time or materials to build skills which lift them out of poverty.

We are going to need service workers for the foreseeable future, not everyone can be a fancy software engineer with marketable skills. Covid has certainly demonstrated this. Are we just going to say “tough shit you should have worked for free when you were a teenager” and let a large portion of the population live in poverty when they don’t have to?

> I don't know if there is any unpaid internship now or if it is even legal now.

They definitely are
All MLM s come with a sell the idiots the tools scam, in addition to the regular MLM scam.
I believe you could make the labor market much more competitive with one simple and easy to implement change:

Make it a requirement that companies publish salaries.

We did this with CEO pay and it resulted in huge increases in CEO pay because it removed the information asymmetry. We make companies disclose important safety and nutrition information to the public so consumers can make good decisions about purchases, why not enable people to make good decisions about employers as well?
Good point. Madness can attack anybody
It seems highly likely that you are not, and therefore that this trade is much less of an obvious win than you appear to assume.
Seems neat. I guess this partially solves the problem of having some workflow stuck/dropped.

I wonder how much overhead there is. How much latency does each task cause?

Is it feasible to complete workflows while a user/client is waiting for a RESTful response?
Is there an API that allows apps to construct data vaults? I assumed that there would be, but I also generally don't write code at that level in the stack
Well that'll usually be installed by the factory between the engine and passenger compartment.
Being a Developer vs. DevOps Engineer
What are the exact tasks of a DevOps Engineer and why is there pay higher than normal developer

I am not saying that DevOps should be paid less than normal developers but I am curious to understand why is there salary higher than that of normal developers.
I don’t have a very good grasp of economics, but can anyone explain why it makes sense to give someone $1000 to do nothing when you can pay them $1000 to do something productive, like build a road? Ideas like negative income tax, government supplemented minimum wages, or increasing EITC makes more sense to me.
From knowledge of the travel industry:

1. Hotels are still in the dumps.

2. Single home rentals, a la VRBO and AirBnB, are doing fantastic as people decamp from urban areas and work remotely.

3. Urban rentals are in the shitter.

4. Shared spaces are also in the shitter.

AirBnB has a lot more urban inventory and shared spaces than for example VRBO (which was always more based around vacation destinations), but I have no idea if their split between urban and vacation destinations is an overall boon or hindrance for them.
Month 7? I thought lockdowns, shelter-in-place, etc. largely began in March. That would make this month 5.
I highly doubt they make more money now than before covid.
There is no distinction - all markets are ruled by consent. Both parties have to agree to a voluntary transaction, and that applies to employees and products.
"I found some, therefore there's enough for 300 million people" is... skipping a few steps.

NPR article from today on even medical clinics and dentists still struggling to keep up N95 and other PPE supplies: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/19/903612006/yep-masks-and-prote...
Do you have a link to the data you're looking at?
Moderators: could the link to this story be upgraded to https?

My (ugly) mobile ISP does DNS hijacking on clear text connections.

The https version [0] works OK.

[0] https://blog.erlang.org/the-new-scalable-ets-ordered_set/
The last two pairs are non-issues, both have plenty of funding. For the former however, one misstep and you have the FDA/DHS or one of state medical unions breathing down your neck.
Going from zero to a positive velocity takes a certain kind of person who doesn't let doubts stop them.

But to build a team around a project? You can hack a lot of stuff together than only makes sense to you, crippling any of your would-be collaborators. Certain kinds of doubts should in fact stop you, or at least slow you down. It's a difficult thing to balance, and most of us struggle to pull it off.

I tried to help out with Freenet years ago. The code was in a language I had quite a lot of deep knowledge about, I should have been able to help quite a bit, but I ended up sticking to specs and architecture.

Bluntly, the code was not the output of an organized mind. Even though most of it was written by one person. It ping-ponged all over. The prototype was already full of esoteric optimizations that sacrificed clarity (and thus correctness) for a little more speed. Major rafts of functionality were still being designed, and it was already work-hardened.

When I see a team ramp up and get wedged, my first questions are about code quality, practices, and team dynamics. About cohesion. Too often the old guard can't delegate, even if they want to. With enough tribal knowledge, your coworkers just start to get interesting, and then they move on to a new job, and you replace them with another person who struggles to accomplish even simple things.

Or even worse, they made a promise that Information Theory says they can't keep, and they've been bargaining the entire time. It's a terrible place to be.
This is where you lose me. The jobs still need to be done. Some companies might just fold up and die, but most would be just as happy passing on the higher costs to customers, and said good or service still needs to be produced so the companies that survive will take over for the ones that folded.

Economists have this weird idea that all fast food would close because the people working there clearly aren't worth $15/hour because they're doing jobs that currently pay only $10/hour.

The crazy part is that higher minimum wages tend to increase the market, not decrease it. Turns out that poor people are bottlenecked on money. If you reduce the bottleneck they can spend more, which increases demand for labor (to fill the supply) which increases the labor rate. You can see this effect all throughout history, the more wealth gap an economy has the slower its economic growth rate is. The super rich can't spend the money fast enough or broadly enough to increase the economic base, the economies grow stagnant.
What a nightmare. Avoiding owning a car starts to sounds better and better every day.
> Saturated fat consumption is decreasing, while unsaturated fat consumption is increasing

Do you have any source for this? The best I could find suggests that this is probably untrue: "An increase in saturated fat in 2008-12 is notable in several product categories, especially breakfast
cereals and yogurt (approximately 15 percent) and frozen/refrigerated meals (6 percent)." [0]

I'd welcome any kind of nutritional study you can reference that shows the problems you're raising with PUFAs. Even if the above studies mentioned didn't control for hydrogenation, if PUFAs were bad for you, we would expect to see poor outcomes from those consuming them. It's weird that people in that category actually did best in the study.

> what is the one common feature of almost all food generally considered harmful?

It's far simpler than looking at added sugar content or amount/type of fat -- the commonality is simply, how processed is this. Any whole food you can consider healthy, but most harmful food is processed (and most processed food is harmful!)

[0] https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/85761/eib-183....
This is at least as far as the UK goes, Brighton 2 weekend ago was £430 for 2 nights for 2 people in the Mercure which is kinda well meh facility wise.

Hotels basically are either closed for renovation or jacked up the prices while closing down everything that they had as an advantage over AB&B.

The restaurant is closed, there is no room cleaning unless you explicitly book it a day in advance, the gym, spa and pools are closed and so are all other in-house attractions and services such as the children play areas, lounges, media rooms etc.

So you have higher prices than pre-pandemic in many places due to them having to recoup their losses and a much much much worst service than usual which already in many places in Europe was a hit and miss outside of the large resorts and world renowned hotels the hotel service and overall quality in Europe is pretty shite.
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