skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Effectively, what you're advocating for is that parents should all homeschool their children.

Which... I mean, that's a position some people advocate for. But if every parent was equipped to do that, then their kids wouldn't have been in public school in the first place.
Power is a hell of a drug.
> You're just asserting this without any argument or evidence.

This is ridiculous. If I assert that the sky is blue, I don't think I need to provide a list of sources. Under what possible circumstances does the average individual have more negotiating power or more information than a multinational organization with teams of lawyers, an HR department, and access to labour market research?

Edit: To add, when we talk about minimum wage jobs we're usually talking about low-skilled labor. Please explain how a ditch-digger can have negotiating leverage over the average road construction company?
The anti-maskers were the medical system. I don't think I'm eager to forget that.

Centralization of medical certification leads to this sort of situation where loss of trust in a single organization leads to loss of trust in the methodology. However, in a decentralized system with multiple certification authorities, loss of trust in one just loses trust in that one.

An example of this is helmets: DOT has a helmet rating, but Snell does too. Everyone aims to get helmets that are certified to meet Snell standards, which are superior to DOT standards.

Public health is too important to give it to those who are not capable of making the correct decisions. The CDC killed two hundred thousand Americans. There are certainly many among those who would be alive if there had been alternative health authorities capable of speaking scientific truth.

Besides, there's the obvious answer: price in the externalities. Reduce the costs of filing suits against people who (while sick) visited places where people fell sick immediately after their visit. If my child transmits measles to yours, I should be paying your costs (real and opportunity).

EDIT: Just read your edit.

> ...if you spread distrust in the medical system that leads people to e.g. drink bleach you are still responsible for that death, even if it is indirect / hard to prove and you cannot be legally held accountable.

I think I see the difference in our world-views and I don't think I'm willing to expend the effort to reconcile them. I believe in human agency to a greater deal than you do. For instance, if I were scammed, I would prioritize self-modification to improve scam resistance. You would prioritize society-modification to reduce scam incidence. Okay.
I have no doubt that Rust could save some sort of bugs. If you read all the comment i´ve made, you will see that we are talking about a massive codebase already coded in C++.

Giving the time it is alive, all the engineering hours, investiments, tools, etc.. most of the bugs that Rust could have prevented right on the beggining are already covered (Chrome also uses fuzzers and static analysis tools to automate C++ code)

> This year alone saw 2 issues from Project Zero in Chrome that would have been prevented by Rust

Thanks for making my point even clearer. If you really knew the size of the codebase, having only 2 issues on Project Zero is kind of a compliment to Chrome.

By the way, it was yesterday, that i´ve saw a research with fuzzers applied in C, C++ and Rust codebases.

In that research, Rust had the same overall count of bugs and even some 'zero day' sort of ones not any different from C++ and C codebases (maybe just better than the C one).

Its a pitty i can find where it is (I´ve saw it on Twitter, but its pretty recent).

> Chromium is an incredibly security-sensitive piece of software, and that really is an excellent fit for Rust. It's not a boogeyman argument and the Chromium team themselves are the ones pursuing it, it's not being forced on them.

A Chrome started from zero in 2020? probably.. but thats not the reality here. Millions of lines of C++ code, and its not just a matter of language, but the knowledge and people with the know-how to write those pieces..

Thats why im saying is not worth it..
What makes you assume this is in response to the pandemic?
Did this happen in response to minimum wage?
For the viagra example, what's your point? R&D has research right in the name, and research can turn up unanticipated results. If the FDA is funding research into a compound that might be good for hypertension, and it turns out to be good at stimulating erections instead, that's fine. There's a valid medical need for that sort of drug, and there would be no problem finding manufacturers who want to pay for a license to produce it.

The total US spend for pharmaceuticals include tens, hundreds, or thousands of dollar-per-dose retail cost that patients are paying either out-of-pocket or through their insurance. Those high prices are justified by two things: the cost of R&D (both for the specific drug and to cover losses from drugs that don't make it to market) and advertising/marketing. My proposal nationalizes the R&D cost so it's spread out over both the full spectrum of drugs being developed instead of just one company's drugs, and over the full taxpaying population of the US rather than just over the patients purchasing the drug.

As for the advertising and marketing cost, there'd be much less incentive to push drugs as hard as they're pushed today, because there'd be no need for the manufacturing company to try to recoup the R&D cost. So long as their earnings are greater than the actual manufacturing cost and the FDA licensing fee, they're making a profit. And they'd have the whole FDA catalog to choose from when they're deciding which drugs they can manufacture and sell at a profit. I also think it would be reasonable for the FDA licensing terms to include a reasonable limit on margins and profits, so that costs for the patients are reasonable.

So, nothing has to be zeroed out. So long as this setup reduces the retail cost, it'll reduce costs for the insurance companies, and so premiums can drop. That puts more money into everyone's pockets, which will make any additional taxes needed for this scheme less painful (so long as the tax is less than the premium reduction.)
So is it like https://github.com/uber/cadence, AWS SWF, Amazon Step Functions?
Was there a corresponding increase in minimum wage?
Really, none at all? Because a labor market free of manipulation is the only way in which Adam Smith ever contextualizes the idea.

He even describes how the government should protect equality of condition for workers to avoid manipulative behaviors the of bourgeois class.

If seems the information filtering system worked.
And this is why UBI was supported by right leaning economists like Milton Friedman. If we believe that people in wealthy societies should have a minimal standard of living including basic food, housing and health care then we can provide it through the market in the form of a basic income

It will avoid the perverse incentives that lead people to get costly health care in the ER (which is then covered by other patients) instead of having health insurance and receiving preventative care

It can prevent people from avoiding getting a higher income lest they start earning too much to qualify for the social programs they depend on

No UBI won't fix all problems - but it may very well pay for itself through better externalities
If you want to look at individual companies, there were lots of publicly-traded companies in 1999 that not only had negative earnings, but didn't even have revenue.
> Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's chairwoman and CEO, had no love for the project. In December 2015, she declared Mozilla platform engineers were paying "tax to support Thunderbird." She suggested that Thunderbird be spun out for once and for all.

I'm also wondering whether she has any love for Firefox or it's just a tool for her other "projects".
> So a lot of mistakes that are used as boogeyman to convince people to use Rust are barely problems you really face.

To elaborate on the other commenter, the majority of bugs found in chromium are bugs that rust would avoid (memory safety issues that rust makes ~impossible).
I noticed this was the case when I used tools that made it hard to search through my archives. But once I switched to tools with better full-text search, I actually find myself using my archive all the time. It turns out just knowing that I have it and that its easy to search lets me rely on it a lot more when doing research on things I've read about before.
Not exactly. This way you will search for C-1, because increment is executed after value return.
Fair enough; we're using 'leverage' differently. I didn't realize it had a formal economic definition. Never the less, my point stands: that employers can afford to wait for a given worker's labor prices to come down to the market price for their labor is affirmative evidence that the labor market is free whereas the OP considers this evidence that the labor market is unfree.
>> Workers don't specifically need a job at that company. Even if they need a job, they can go work somewhere else. And if that isn't the case, you have bigger problems than minimum wage.

This works in a theoretical perfect competition in an economics textbook. In real life people have financial handcuffs (vesting periods, mandatory option execution/abandonment on job exit), school districts for children, underwater mortgages, 10% gross transaction fees on home sales/purchases.
You mean price fixing and collusion that are already illegal?

Without price fixing and collusion the employers have to compete for labor. Competition that would as a result improve the compensation for employees.
A similar process is used in "Timelike Infinity" by Stephen Baxter.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Timelike_Infinity

His work generally uses this kind of extreme physics as plot devices and he's one of the best hard sf authors for this type of physics exploration.
Launch HN: LifeArk – Family Time Capsule
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I came up with the idea of creating a digital time capsule for my son when becoming a dad...I looked at the parenting app market and saw there was no product or online solution helping parents save all the things they want to share with their kids in the future.

Our memories and “digital DNA” are fragmented, with images of ourselves scattered between email, social media, text message and the cloud. We share intimate details of our lives with distant friends, politicians, advertisers and strangers on public commercial platforms, but have no way to organize and share what matters most with our kids.

What if we used technology to focus our attention on the people that matter? What if there was a way families to navigate the digital realm?

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Because the 'suits' decided you'll be (nearly) forced to use it, like it or not, to improve their KPIs... read quarterly bonus.

Abandon the site and perhaps they'll learn it was a bad idea.
Joe and the Joe T Shirts – Teespring
(For those not in the know, Tony was the leader of iPod Projects back then, basically acting as full 100% confirmation of this story being true.)
It was Hotwire.com.
I can solidly get behind a parent who chooses to have "the sex talk" very early in the child's life, but if that's not done, then I think it's important to keep them from getting unvetted information. If they do bump into something, coming straight to a parent with questions is a best case scenario.
Which is why Communism doesn't work. If what you get has no relationship to the work you do, there is no reason to do the work. But that's the problem a UBI solves -- you still get it when you take a job but you also get what you earn from the job. As compared with the status quo, which is already worse than this, because we have existing assistance programs that you lose by taking a job or earning more money.
I've always considered this a very naive idea of how a free market works. It ignores how irrational and short-sighted humans can be, not to mention that many consumers are price sensitive.

A free market will not solve climate change as long as coal and fossil fuels are inexpensive.

A free market prioritizes one thing: Profit. That is all. A free market only solves problems when it is profitable to do so. Yeah, charities exist, but they typically aren't big enough to solve the big problems on a big scale.
This is confusing. If you save, you have more wealth. If you have more wealth, you are more resilient to hardships (economic, health, etc.) - a population of people with large savings accounts and low debt seems obviously better than a population that makes a ton of money but lives close to the wire or carries large debts
Thanks, those are a bit better, though still single opinions. I guess I am looking more for a survey of economists opinions. What was interesting about Krugman's piece was that he said minimum wage used to not work, but now it might due to changes in the economy, which is surprising if true. To me, neither one was a resounding affirmation of minimum wage, both said that $15 did not seem to hurt, and might help slightly.
A lot of people complain about Zoom fatigue, and while on one hand I'm fairly happy that it is a competitors offering that has ended up with being a part of that moniker, and not the product I'm working on, it is somewhat unfair to blame Zoom or the software stack for that. The main culprit for messing up meetings are the cameras and the microphones on laptops. I'm not sure if there are any vendors at all, including Apple which is the laptop vendor I use, which has god quality camera and microphones on their kit.
I'm lucky enough to work in a group where everyone has dedicated video conferencing kit, and this makes a big difference. The quality gap between someone on system with proper camera and microphones, and someone calling in on laptop is huge.
I get that not everyone can go out and buy dedicated kit, and maybe the dedicated kit don't work with you video conferencing vendor. But getting the people you work with on a decent USB camera with inbuilt microphones, is something everyone should have a look at. The chances are high it will make your days more pleasant.

When It comes to five year olds doing schooling over video conferencing. I'm far from an expert on kids, I don't have kids and I don't want kids. But it does sound to me like a fools errand, and I'm super happy I'm not going to participate in that nightmare.
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.

People only looking at fatality rates and so on are taking unknown risks. Many people who have healed from COVID including younger people cannot even climb a flight of stairs. People suffer from fatigue and brain fog months later. Many need lung and kidney transplants. This is not a flu. It causes heavy clotting of the blood and organ damage all over the body which the flu doesn’t.

I urge people to do more research before taking such risks.
> Real fairness under that definition can't exist as long as there are inheritances.

You are redefining fair to mean equal. I don't want equal at the expense of fair.

Inheritance is a made up rule, and as such can be unmade without having to change the definition of fairness.

But second, age is thing, older people tend to have accumulated more wealth than younger people, even without inheritance. Younger people tend to be fitter and more attractive and Hollywood knows it. An equal playing field in the way you describe it will never be achievable by humans.

And that is why I say fairness is the most important, the rules have to be the same for everyone because that is the part that is up to us.
I've experienced the same thing, especially after many hours staring into a monitor. My guess it may be a neurological thing of the eyes/brain adjusting to the ever changing pixel flickering through out the day, similar to after-images and retinal fatigue.
For anyone else who didn't know, BBR stands for "Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT", and is a congestion control algorithm.

More (but not much) information is available on Google's BBR repository: https://github.com/google/bbr
Just in case someone later asks and you're in doubt: this is where the thread derailed into that most tired exchange of entirely predictable arguments first seen immediately after the publication of Atlas Shrugged, and handed down from one mediocre 16 year-old to the next generation in surprisingly faithful reproduction ever since.
The people funding massive amounts of development? That was my point in relation to ClearviewAI, as long as we allow bad actors, we will have a negative state of things. There will always be someone else out there to take new contracts because money talks. If these projects were illegal, corporations would avoid them.

The way to change the state of things would be to "write your congressman" (I really enjoy Sorry To Bother You's take on this idea). Basically we're fucked in terms of expecting ethical uses of AI
Maya Angelou said it like this: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
"So what?" is not an answer, it is another question, and I asked it preemptively to try and avoid a simplistic answer to my original question. Do you have a more constructive answer?
> no player can thru individual choices affect prices in the market

That might be Econ 101 with fully continuous utility curves, and realized price equilbria, but anyone who has traded on a market knows that as soon as most bids are fulfilled it causes a dislocation of the price, so in reality the opposite is true: all individual choices affect prices in the market.

There is an old concept that rolls through bernanke, krugman, keynes, marx, smith, and aristotle (you're in very smart company if you make this mistake), that somehow prices represent an equivalence class of values. That's a very mistaken view of the world and also, in a perverse way, considering the progressive bona fides of some of those smart people, reflects an illiberal fetishization of the power of money and numericism.
Are you an immunologist? I'm not, but it's my layman's understanding that most candidates are likely to make it to stage 3, and that most will fail in stage 3. As far as I can tell, the number of candidates in stage 3 trials is not a strong indicator of the likelihood of a successful vaccine being developed.
I take it you consider yourself born on the right side of "not equal", more specifically the "better" side?
> I wonder why states/municipalities don't just leave it at that - a specific consumption basket whose cost is recalculated annually, vs having recurrent loud debates about it with some arbitrary round numbers.

Because the level at which it is safe to set local minimum wage without net adverse effects from job loss depends on a variety of conditions besides price levels, including prevailing low-end wages in localities that compete to attract employment. Building a formula that fully addresses this is nontrivial, and even with one that worked locally there would be a reason for broader regional/national campaigns to kick the floor up.
Yes, there are some circumstances in which labor ends up more concentrated after a minimum wage hike, but other circumstances in which that is not the case.

The article at hand does a decent job summarizing the different observations people have made.
Do you want to pick a different metric? It's not hard to get this information.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
> Covid just frontloads some death for old people and ones with comorbirbidities.

Why bother treating any sick person if this is your position? The healthcare system would be a hell of a lot cheaper and easier if we just "frontloaded some death" for everyone who gets seriously ill.
Maybe have have some empathy for the parents who are working from home, before you start insulting their parenting?

Of course the 7 year old is acting out, but it's probably more to do with being stuck in a box/house all day with no interaction with their friends. And no, Zoom calls don't class as interaction for kids. This child desperately needs to play outside, not stuck behind a blurry screen learning maths.
you either don't have kids plural or won the lottery.
Its funny really because I never took my uncle seriously in the 90's when he said I should develop my own Geiger counter amongst other electronic devices. Of course I didnt realise the significance of the fact he had access to the Prestel system which the Govt and Royal Family used for messaging before email became the standard in days when computer hacking was still legal. He also supplied GCHQ with telecomes equipment. Probably contributes to reasons why he broke out of HMP Parkhurst and tried to escape the country. If you wrote his degree titles out in full, it would take half a page of A4 before he could even start writing a letter.

It makes me wonder what he knew back then, but as I cant visit him, if he is ever let out, or I dont get another attempt on my life, maybe one day we'll meet & he'll spill the beans more openly.

Of course, I can get nodules of raw uranium sticking out the soil eroded by the sea along the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, UK. It doesnt take a rocket scientist to make a dirty nuke or even a decent nuke. There is enough information online from reputable sources like the BBC, Youtube showing 50year WW2 US & UK Govt archive footage and interviews in scientific journals who worked on the Manhattan Project and other nuclear projects to piece together the "meta data" in order to make one, including spotting the spurious info which will make you fail if one should attempt to make one.
For most non-racists, it goes without saying that race-related violence is unacceptable.

Sadly it also happens often enough that we aren't going to tweet/write a comment saying "this is bad" every single time it happens.

Whereas the BBC journalist using that word was a) not a common event b) as seen in this thread not such a binary good/bad thing even among non-racists and c) affects news standards that broadcast to huge numbers of people.

If I could prevent one physical attack by allowing one use of the word on the TV I would, but I don't think it's at all hypocritical or virtue signalling that many people felt it more important to talk about the journalism than the case being reported.
> Often they never learn you are allowed to back off.

I don't believe that people cannot think for themselves, nor have I encountered a single person who believes they are not allowed to back off.
Additionally, as a browser extension: https://fraidyc.at
I'm directly responding to your (insane) line of argumentation: You're arguing that medications that have not passed regulatory requirements for safety or efficacy should be sold to consumers, and that they can simply rely on retail pharmacists or the like as a stand in for the FDA's approval process.