skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of these tests miss validating one of the key arguments against means-tested assistance - that there is a cliff to scale for people who were on that assistance, but crossed the imaginary line to slightly better means and are now significantly worse off.

Consider a family who are receiving affordable housing program benefits in an expensive urban area. If they strive to improve their incomes, they are unlikely to afford the same home in the same area at market rate. However, the threshold for that assistance is often a lot lower than the actual income needed for the market rate unit. What would a rational self-interested person do in this situation? Avoid going over the threshold at all costs, in other words stay poorer than they could have been.

A test that would be super beneficial is to see what choices would people make if you removed means-testing - would they feel empowered? Would outcomes improve?
That certainly did not start in the Trump administration.
The problem, of course, being that they weren't using anything like market pricing to allocate the rewards, so in practice they went to people based on corruption and politics.
Most Americans can't place Iran (heck, or even France or Germany) on the map, much less consider the history of interactions between the two countries (and even less so the history, goals, rights, culture of the country in context of its region, history, etc).

What they "know" is a high level view of what mass media feeds them about the enemy du jour (based on the country's current geopolitical interests and goals) and even that at a very crude level.

Heck, Hollywood/TV series/pop culture/etc depictions of the country have even more stronghold in their minds than even the above.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/can-you-even-locate-iran-o...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/11/geography-su...

Go talk to 100 random people and ask them who Mosaddegh was and see what you come up with... Heck, ask them to name you current leaders for that matter.

Even their own vice president of 3+ years would be a little difficult for tens of millions...

https://theweek.com/speedreads/821701/more-than-30-million-a...
Congrats on the launch.

I've been doing something similar using email. I have an email account for both of my kids and I send them email that I hope will be fun for them to read once they're older.

I don't trust anything though - so in order to feel like the messages would be around for them when they're older I have a Zapier Zap which converts the email too a text file that gets stored in Dropbox. (I also don't trust Dropbox so I have my Dropbox account sync to a Synology device at home).

The points being...

1) I think many people generally want to do this but if it's not super easy then they won't keep doing it (email was the lowest friction way I could think of).

2) I'm not sure how big a market "many people" is and I wonder if they'd pay.

3) Expect to get many "how do I know you'll be around on the date I choose to send?" responses. I see you offer PDF download and that might be sufficient - It wouldn't be for me but might be for others. :)

Good luck!
squash merges to master are terrible for those that want to go looking why a certain change was introduced.

Now a larger change set is hidden behind a squash merge, and why was line 50 in foobar.py updated? Who knows, it was part of this giant merge request which no longer provides context why the developer changed line 50 in foobar.py.

Commit messages should explain why the change was made to the code. The amount of times that I go diving into a codebase only to find that the change was introduced in a larger commit that just says "fix bug" with no further information is maddening.
Can you tell me a little more about the mechanism you found? I'm understanding it as your staff holding to you account -- how do these conversations typically go?
You can't push pause on human development, though. Having your first job interview at 26 instead of 25 doesn't matter. Missing out on a year of socialization when you're 6 almost certainly does.
I had one of these at a previous job, great keyboard. I still miss the reliability of the thing. Ended up building an ergodox the year after I left, and I've kept with that for the last 6 years.
Skills is the new currency and becoming a developer with more skills is even more valuable for career.
Yes, because if there were no minimum wage, they would simply pay employees less and forget about the touchscreens.
I would just like to note that this coup against Iran was also considered a "conspiracy theory", a term that was popularized in this very time period, arguably to cover up popular realization of what was going on in this very case.

People have to realize this was right after WWII and the US war propaganda machine was in full swing and the men of war were still buzzing with war and looking for their next fight.
I think more and more people are tired of having their jobs, educations, and social activities toyed with like they are trivial things.
IIRC, to paraphrase the reasoning: "they're overpopulated, their caught in not-too-damaging ways, they're healthy if you don't fry them, and they would totally eat you given the chance."

That was a great time, thanks for coming with us!
I'm not really sure I understand what you are trying to say here.

The almost purely "logical" and "ideological" statements of 19th and early-to-mid 20th century economics have been supplanted with with more empirical methods.
I'm with you, we should approach problems with optimism not fear. However, teaching that approach to kids is a long term strategy, and helping them adapt to a new routine is a slow process, it's less about the difficulty and more about the emotional cost that you have to pay to succeed.

I have three kids, all elementary school age and I am prepping to start the school year all remote. I'm not afraid of the challenge but i'm honest with myself that it will take a toll on my kids and my marriage that I cannot avoid. No matter how hard I work, it will take time and getting into the routine cannot be done overnight.

It's okay to be daunted by that prospect.
> First, not all Iranian people are chanting your death.

Yeah I have no problem with your average Iranian. But the Iranian government routinely organizes protests where people are literally calling for the death of Americans.

Sanctions also have the benefit of preventing the Iranian government and their terrorist revolutionary guard from harming Americans as well as they could without sanctions.
https://epionline.org/wp-content/studies/sabia_05-2006.pdf
> How much inflation could we have?

Very close to unlimited amount if it gets out of control. See e.g. Venezuela, Zimbabwe, or Russia in early 90s, among other countries.

> can’t work or earn money

They will be able to soon if they still can't. You can't keep the economy shut down forever. So it'll be shut down selectively until Nov 3 and opened completely shortly thereafter. /s

On a more serious note, having lived through hyperinflation myself, people who can work will have their salaries adjusted upward enough to keep them working (and therefore putting some semblance of food on the table), but not enough to keep up with inflation. At least that's how it worked in Russia in the 90s. In Russia, though, the situation was relieved somewhat by the availability of the almighty dollar. You could temporarily protect your rubles from hyperinflation by buying dollars, and then selling them for rubles when you need money. With dollar (and really, all currencies) collapsing, I'm not sure what people are going to do, worldwide. Seems to me that a global inflationary spiral could de-facto reduce everyone's debt obligations to each other. So whoever is owed debts of any kind would take a massive haircut. In the 90s that was the Russian Government. The beneficiaries were people now known as "oligarchs". They borrowed unimaginable amounts of money (with kickbacks to government officials of course), bought up the Soviet factories, mines, and oil production that didn't yet collapse, and then paid back with hyperinflated money, fractions of a kopeck on the ruble.
Demanding other people take care of you even against their will and using the power of the state to achieve so. How is that not slavery?
This article seems like it was written in 2017, not 2020.

Filecoin raised over $200m and hasn't shipped anything that I'm aware of in 3 years. Maybe it will be revolutionary, but the crypto industry has long moved on from white whale projects that don't ship.
I agree, I just think you said it wrong in your original post!
When you give women rights, the inevitable result is civilizational extinction.
Isn't honey greatly affected by the flowers used to make it, eg manuka, clover, etc.?[0] So it may not be "honey" but a particular type of honey(s) that have beneficial effects.
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it's more expansive, as in more data that can be mined for adverting purposes. I got a presentation from Reddit a few of years ago on their ad-platform and it was terrible (for enterprises). Their sales team were hyping big changes and things that were coming including geo-location, strong user profiling etc.

This was pre-redesign and it became clear what they were doing and their roadmap of features all were to grow the ad business. Mobile makes sense as it's how their key audiences consume content and it enables stronger profiling, richer engagement and better ad-targeting due to persistance.

The mobile app allows reddit to mine user behavior (every outbound link click is tracked, even on the desktop website) and then they're able to link your device profile, to content you consume and engage with. This can be used for ad-targeting or sold to other data brokers to build a richer profile about ABC user with this device, across XY IPs, typically based in ZZZ location.
Minimum wage, despite all manner of contortion by those that seek to justify its existence, is a political concept. The minimum wage is, always, zero.

Minimum wage is also what drives the market for illegal immigrant labor. As Milton Friedman pointed out decades ago, immigration is most beneficial to employers precisely when it's illegal. Those workers don't enjoy the protections, wagers, and respect their legal counterparts enjoy. If illegal immigrants are made legal, then the benefit of employing an illegal plummets.

These wages also avoid other form of government oversight, such as taxation. Lack of immigration enforcement and lack of penalties for those that hire illegals provides an unfair advantage to those employers who, brazenly, break the law. They get cheaper labor, avoid taxes, and gain an unfair market advantage over those employers who follow the law. There's nothing "free" about a market whose government selectively enforces its laws.

Consenting adults should be able to work for whatever wage they like.
I use it too. For anyone questioning Dvorak vs QWERTY layout I recommend Dvorak. You’re learning a new layout anyways when switching to this thing. Dvorak won’t speed you up even after years of using it, but you can be essentially just as fast as QWERTY and it’s much more zen in the sense you have to stretch for keys less often. However you may find you need to change keyboard shortcuts as some chords that are natural in a regular QWERTY keyboard are no longer natural with the unique layout. Luckily you can buy foot pedals and program macros for common keyboard inputs right in the onboard computer in the keyboard. Well worth it if you have any kind of pain or uncomfortable experience with a traditional keyboard
It appears you are misinformed, both about what I think, and the import of the Patreon case. The fact that Patreon botched their arbitration clause, allowing folks to sue individually a possibly bankrupt Patreon, is striking evidence of how powerful a shield arbitration provides. A shield which I don’t believe corporations deserve.
Nobody is arguing that the population of the US was illiterate when the FDA was established. The argument is that it might have made sense at a time when the US population was illiterate, but now that everyone has access to a world of knowledge in the palm of their hand 24x7x365 the FDA does not make sense.

The argument was that the FDA never made sense, not even when it was first established in America, and for precisely that reason -- Americans were not illiterate.
I think McDonald's is probably ok for you in small portion sizes, no soda, and with reasonable exercise throughout the day.

I think the trouble is that people get big portions, a big soda, and they live their entire lives in a car or seated.

We had McDonald's in the 80s and if you look at random footage of any 1980s street scene you will see fewer obese people than the same places today.

Relatedly, I have a suspicion our basic food ingredients since that time have higher sugar now.
>How does one use honey as a treatment? Just eat some? How much? How often? Etc.

Depends on the use case, for wounds you can apply it to dressings, but generally yes just eat it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758027/
Every week in my inbox, there is [...] Another fintech play for payments and credit cards and personal finance, [...] another cryptocurrency

Of course, there are a bunch of new horizons out there [...] Cryptocurrencies and finance.

It seems a lot can change two paragraphs on. Life moves pretty fast these days.

Edited to add: I reject the central thesis of this article, and pretty every one of the supporting arguments. Humans have required teamwork to achieve their goals from the very beginning. Invention has always required the synthesis of ideas from multiple domains. There’s nothing historically unusual about that. What is historically unusual are the diseconomies of scale in activities like software development. That’s provided many market opportunities for small teams in the past four decades, and it will continue to do so unless those economics change.

There are markets with high barriers to entry, and there always have been. Nobody was selling homebuilt aircraft carriers from their bedrooms in the 90s.

From our vantage point, we can’t tell if the seam of potential innovation and market configuration is anywhere close to being mined out in consumer tech, but my sense is that we are nowhere near the point where all startups need to be at the frontiers of all human knowledge of gtfo.
Apple first US company to be valued at $2tn
You can't value oil under your own soil the same as imported oil, and it has nothing to do with profit.

Oil demand is never going away (we need it for plastic, lubricants for wind turbines, etc) but the supply is. When you are talking about macroeconomic nation state scales of oil, the only logical decision is to acquire foreign oil. Not only are you helping to speed the depletion of their reservers, you are holding yours.

The last barrel of oil on earth will be worth more than all the barrels that came before it.

Edit: I did some math. As of 2018 there were 43.8 billion discovered barrels of oil in the US, in 2019 we consumed 20.46 million barrels a day domestically. So we are self sufficient for a little less than 6 years.
Minimum wage is not just important for the employer-employee relation, but also in society as a baseline of survivability. If you work a 100% of your time (so no sleep, no rest) and still cannot afford basic requirements for life then I'd argue that a minimum wage is the only way to guarantee that someone working about 8 hours a day can live.

If a normal workday cannot pay for a baseline life, the system is simply wrong.
Everyone is talking energy density but nobody is talking about Urban Air Mobility.

Electric is the name of the game for a VTOL plane that will take you from SFO to downtown or Santa Cruz. They don't have to have all the performance in the world, they just need to have enough performance to do their job.

Also, pilots will appreciate the operating costs and simplicity of these aircraft. Student pilots will love a plane that costs $10/hr instead of $100/hr in the Bay Area. 90 minutes of flight time (1 hour lesson + 30 minute VFR 'fuel' reserve) is all it needs.

Neighbors will appreciate higher torque motors that turn modern props at 1500 RPM instead of 2200 for the noise reduction.
It seems America doesn't like a tastr of it's own medicine it prescribed as recently as mid-90s (Russia) or 2013-2014 (Ukraine)
The FDA wouldn't be picking winners and losers. It would be picking scientifically valid lines of research, based on proposals from private companies. These are government employees; they're not buying lambos. Do you see CDC scientists getting rich?

Today's drug startup company, which thinks it has a product that could be successfully developed, would write up a proposal to apply for FDA funding. If the FDA scientists decide the proposal has merit, they get funding. If the FDA thinks the company is nuts, the company can still self-fund and do the R&D on their own. Either way the normal testing phases are needed for final approval.

After that, if the FDA funded the R&D, it gets ownership and licenses out the manufacturing. The startup company can move on to work on something else, or having already been paid by the FDA to do the R&D, they can close up shop. If they self-funded the R&D, then they keep ownership and get to license the manufacturing, just like they do today. (Getting bought-out is just a transfer of manufacturing rights from the startup to the pharma, so that can still happen if the startup retains the rights.)

I'm imagining lots of startup companies developing nutritional-based vitamins and herbal products, getting paid to take them through the testing process, and then after approval the startup just moves on to another compound and/or disease. They could run as profitable little businesses for a long time doing this, and we'll get lots of non-patentable but fully tested products on the market that are cheap as dirt for the consumers. We can't get these products today because no one will pay for the testing process, so instead we have unregulated snake-oil products with little to no quality control and vague unverifiable claims about what they're good for.
> A German study found that even asymptomatic COVID patients have inflammation and damage to heart tissue that’s more than what you’d expect to see. We don’t know whether this will heal or affect the heart long term.

Are you referring to this study[0] and possibly this article[1]?

(In my experience, telling people to “do research” instead of giving them links to primary sources isn’t great if you want to educate people or have a high quality discussion.)

[0] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/long-haul...
A lot of the impedance mismatch talked about in this article is true for any cross-domain work. Building an application in the medical space, you have to get engineers and doctors to communicate effectively. Building a new semiconductor, you need to get electrical and chemical engineers to get on the same page. Designing a new music venue and you need architects, civil engineers, and sound engineers to get on the same page.

Successful organizations in the spaces in the article need to prioritize cross-training and collaboration as a first class value. Not doing so will lead to siloing and nobody understanding the whole problem.
You could use this technique to estimate the remaining capacity starting from a full charge / known charge, but not to arbitrarily measure the remaining capacity of the battery
> The minimum wage is why territories like Guam and Puerto Rico have the highest unemployment.

But...they don't, even though Guam, unlike several states, has a higher minimum wage than the Federal level.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...
You're making a motte/bailey argument, but either way it doesn't look good for the 'Marxist'.

If a Marxist is one who says "Capitalism is imperfect; I've got a gut feeling that there is a better system out there, but no idea what it looks like concretely", then that may be correct but it's close to worthless.

If a Marxist is someone who says "Capitalism is imperfect; the state needs to fix the price of $X (labor, etc)" with no mention of the economic feasibility of said price-fixing, then that's better but still far from persuasive.

My criticism was directed at the latter. There are perhaps many good Marxists who make convincing economic arguments; I'm asking for more of this.
msys2 et al always did fine for me
You're right, that last paragraph is a flawed argument. I retract it, and your findings compel me to assert that I think there was probably never a good reason for the FDA.

But it's the second, and weaker, of the two arguments I made. The argument I develop in my first three paragraphs stands.
Yup. Similar here. In ours, though, we also add crushed ginger!
Then the title is inaccurate. "Trial begins in Germany." would be fine. But "Germany begins trial" means the nation-state -- the government -- is beginning a trial. If the government isn't hosting it, it isn't "Germany" beginning this trial.

It's also a minor detail that doesn't significantly impact my opinion of the whole thing.
This is interesting. I’ve been using the “fluent forever” method to learn a second language and one of the things it really stresses is the importance of immediate feedback. It makes perfect sense - it’s much easier to understand your mistake and correct it in the moment. But I’d never thought about it in the context of homework. It almost seems silly that we expect kids to wait a full 24 hours or more to find out whether they’ve done a math problem correctly or not.
1. Relocating a factory is extremely expensive.

2. What about businesses where their location is critical, like restaurants?
All jobs are productivity jobs. It is the definition of a job. You are paid to accomplish some process. To be productive. Some non-zero skill is always needed. Cleaning surfaces in a restaurant happens to be fairly low-skill. There is a high supply of humans who can produce the result - a clean restaurant. Thus, the wage commonly paid for this job is (compared to higher-skilled jobs) quite low.
so, who is up for a startup - an AI-agent as a teacher, each child gets his own teacher, or several simultaneously, basically personalized Muppet show guiding the child through the intricacies of 1+1=2 and how to write "mom".

For the older students - some FPS (multi-played by the whole class or school against school) with math and other problems to unlock new more powerful weapons/etc. should work too - anybody who didn't do the homework and thus fails to solve the problems fast naturally becomes a bad teammate and the peer pressure is the king at that age.
It can be a useful mode of argument, but I am not sure I have ever seen it used productively in an internet discussion.

This post is a good case in point. I don't thinking drawing the analogy helped to educate anyone who read it or establish the appropriate moral obligations of an individual living in a society.

Imo, it is effectively trolling, especially when presented in a one sentence post. Do you think it spawned productive discussion when reading the child discussions?
I’ve been using ChromeOS tablet as my video conferencing rig with front firing speakers and good microphone array. No echo and no overheated MacBook Pro.

Suspect a newish iPad could work well too.
I read a book I sometimes feel the need to grep it, just to realize that you cannot grep paper. Apparently I grew up on Linux shells instead of smartphones.
> wealth is supposed to be a measure of one's contribution to society

That principle is only relevant in societies that don't have lotteries or inheritance, among other changes.