skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon has a lock on the kindle store, enforced DRM, and a subscription program. That's more like iOS than Android in strategy.
My interpretation of your aphorism: bad news is not forever.
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DGLegacy is a service through which, in the case of an unforeseen event happening to you, people whom you designate as beneficiaries will be informed about your assets and will be able to identify and locate them, thus minimizing the chance of an unclaimed asset.
There is a cultural precedent here with Graphing Calculator: https://www.pacifict.com/Story/
Rust does not have a textual substitution pre-processor, so like, you can do this sorta kinda but it would be way more involved.
Not me, but this guy[1] seems to have a pretty interesting setup using backlinks with Org. Other than that, org-roam[2] is becoming popular nowadays.

[1]: https://karl-voit.at/2020/07/22/org-super-links
[2]: https://www.orgroam.com/
* Cigs have inelastic demand.

* In Germany they hit a point where a price rise (in the name of health) resulted in reduced smoking and less tax collected and they immediately wanted to reduce tax.

Can't both be true...
Its not just American Corporations. The US, Canada and EU and Switzerland were all opposed to this law because it impacted they big food industry.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-health/mexicos-new...
There are plenty of countries that were not China cruel and successfully contained COVID in their country.
The evidence doesn't support your, uh, "thesis."

Until you provide overwhelming evidence (because that's what you're up against), you're spreading misinformation.

Seems to me like you're speaking from a feelings position, rather than a facts one.
http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.20/20.04/Sn...
Well, when did "flatten the curve to avoid overwhelming the health system" become "lets close gyms, churches, salons, non-chain stores indefinately but keep open Home Depot, Walmart, liquor stores, pot shops?" Or allowing gatherings for one political viewpoint as ok, but gathering for another as 'selfish and dangerous'?
There's plenty of inconsistency to go around. Add in different perceived risks and different risk tolerances, and what u see as necessary can be seen as narcacism by others.
Wow. Well, your bio isn't lying, I'll give you that.
> What we need is to ban cooking at home.

This needs citation, seriously. Cooking at home, even cooking "insanely unhealthy" butter injected baked chicken at home, still seems to be a lot healthier for you than a hungry man dinner, so I think that the real issue is related to the preservatives and the salt & sugar required to mask those preservatives - that are used to unnaturally extend the self-life of pre-made and frozen food.
What the hell do they expect to discover?

1. There's no outcome which can prove this "works".

2. Even if it did, we already know there's no money to implement this at scale.

3. We already know money will be handed out anyway because all governments are insolvent and the only way to get out is to cause hyperinflation. They just need to find a good name for a "temporary" government program and several rigged "studies" to make this happen.

To grow well into the future, Germany just needs to import as many deadbeats as possible, and get them on this program. And if your state-guaranteed income is 1,400/mo why shouldn't you qualify for a car or even house loan? Hell, give them both at once!

Watch out naysayers - unlimited GDP growth to follow! Magic Money Tree has fantastic potential.
I find the topic of introverts vs extraverts to be extremely fascinating. My wife and I are pretty big introverts, but she is somewhat shy whereas I am not. She loved group exercise due to the external motivation factor but has actively avoided getting into conversations in that setting.
I am also not one for striking up conversations with strangers but have been known to get quite chatty with people who initiate.

On the whole, both of us loved the lockdown for the 2-3 months but after that, not being able to see our close friends really started wearing on us. We were some of the first in our group to start expanding our quarantine units. Sometimes I need to remind myself of this, but the right amount of social interaction is a very rewarding and enriching part of the human experience.
That's assuming everyone's getting coverage, which isn't really the case.

What I would really want to see is the density distribution of the parts of the country that actually have coverage. Eg how many square miles do I need to cover to serve 50% of the broadband users, 75%, 99%. That would give us a way better idea.

Lastly, I wouldn't discount the theory that the profit margins might be bad because the companies are inefficient. When there's no competitor or threat to the business it's easy to be inefficient and still end up with profits.
True, but the US gov't stockpiles grain, oil and other things for those kind of events. I don't see how subsidies help in those scenarios either.
Not bizarre at all if you think about it. The economic hardship will motivate a substantial portion of our population to become more industrious. They'll fill any available job and do it productively since they're now at or below the poverty line.

The stock market is setting new highs in anticipation of a renaissance in worker efficiency and business margins.
And do what exactly after they "nut up"? Lockdowns and closures to contain the spread of the Covid-19 remain overwhelmingly popular in most areas, and are saving lives.
Comparing manual labor, which actually accomplishes things, to wearing formal clothing for the benefit of no one but your boss, accomplishes nothing of value, is not really fair. The latter is usually not abuse, but it is usually stupid. Pay as recompense for suffering is less compelling when you're supposed to be paid for your output, and there's no reason for the suffering at all.
Academics Devise Attacks Targeting Email End-to-End Encryption
If you've looked at the open source particle detector[1] you see that the "sensor" can be a reverse biased diode. Nothing very fancy.

[1] https://github.com/ozel/DIY_particle_detector
But not working on your passion will lead to depression. I think it's about finding fulfillment in the process, in working on your passion. Technological progress comes from that.
Ask HN: What are you teaching your kids that is not taught in school?
I have been doing some robotics with block based programming with my daughter over the Summer.

I have also helped her with some new math concepts. I like to give her real life examples or provide the "why" so she understands the point of learning about something.

We also do some very basic concepts in philosophy , something a young kid can grasp. When I can thing of a good way to explain a mental model, I also do this.

What are you teaching your kids that they won't learn in school?
> .. as a person stands next to or beneath the panel, the body heat radiates towards the chilled panels to create a cooling sensation ..

I'm not sure that is an accurate description of the physics. Maybe the air next to the panel is cooler, accounting for the cooling sensation.
Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us - and How to Know When Not to Trust Them by David H. Freedman

- Painfully relevant to the current pandemic. Explains why the experts aren't!

The End of Average by Todd Rose

- Pulls the curtain(s) aside from education, corporations and the non-science of "scientific management". Why Taylorism continues to dominate corporate and social life today. Explains many features of our lives (both civic and corporate) that were "baked into" society decades ago, are rarely examined (indeed rarely noticed) and are ripe for replacement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management

The Miraculous Fever Tree by Fiammetta Rocco

This reads like (and should be made into) a BBC series: story after story of generations of human suffering from malaria, which remains far more deadly than Covid-19. Where else do you read that merely living in Rome before the existence of a cure for malaria was almost guaranteed to shorten your life significantly and end it badly? Imperial Rome, the center of Roman civilization! Rome, the center of the Catholic Church during and after Rome fell and into the Early Middle Ages! And this disease was endemic not only in Rome but to most of southern Europe extending up to Britain.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/science-mal...
Only if you expect that the company can survive 30 years at the current level.
Neural Re-Rendering of Humans from a Single Image [pdf]
A Brief Introduction to the US Medical Software Regulations, for Developers
I was warned very early, end of January, and locked down my family about a week before required. I track someone who reviews the literature and news and give bi-weekly updates on the state of knowledge and politics surrounding the pandemic.

Originally he erred way on the side of caution, because we did not know enough. We learn more every week, and his current outlook is a lot like what you just wrote.

The big remaining problem is this is not going away anytime soon. There's more politics than science going on, and there have been institutional failures world-wide from top to bottom.
It says mAP right above the table. If you know what mAP is then you know the units.

Professors will rail against imprecision to undergrads and young graduate students but they use it all the time in real life.

I can already hear my professors saying "stop commenting on style, what do you have to say about substance?"
It's an issue for the same reason not being uninstall Safari or Chrome is an issue.
Here's a YouTube demonstration from the producers of the paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7fGsSNKMc4
I CHALLENGE you to make yourself look like an ogre. Based on your comment I can almost guarantee that you have no idea what it takes to get anything close to “ogre”. More likely than not, if you tried your hardest you would only end up looking sexier than you are now.
HN: holier than thou rich white men on high horse
I wonder if this is a language confusion. An argument is using reasoning to move from premises to conclusion. People regularly have to argue together to work together, because things change over time and we have to adjust to the changes. But the other sense of argument is that one person has one conclusion, and the other person has a different conclusion, and they are battling about it and are upset about it. That's the sort of thing that can be entirely avoided if people start with shared premises and argue "together". I think there are a lot of happy couples that actually never argue in the battling/upset sense.
Why? It's a pandemic. If anything we're lucky it wasn't more deadly than it is.

I'm not gaining muscle mass but I'm having absolutely no trouble whatsoever maintaining it at home with exercise bands and calisthenics. It's a tiny, tiny price to pay for helping keep my community safe.

I would sacrifice the gym for the rest of my life if it meant adding even a year of life to a single person. Sentient existence is immeasurably more valuable.
Considering most states have been in full on shelter in place lock down mode, there aren't many places people can socialize anyways.

All of the normal places where you see people socialize have bee closed or went out business. Restaurants, bars, night clubs, sporting events, live music (festivals and stadiums) and many, many others.

It would be one thing to conform to what your saying, but its become hard if not impossible to find safe places where people CAN socialize, so they take what they get regardless of the risks to them or others.
The United States has done poorly because we are a country whose population hates each other. It’s a country comprised entirely of people whose ancestors said, “You know what? I hate you so much that I’d rather cross an ocean, face bears, wolves, and the elements than to spend another day with you.” That’s why we won’t wear masks.
I really like your ideas here, but it makes use of backend for orchestration more than required in some situations.
This nice demonstration of what you can do in frontend with many different approaches could be interesting to compare your ideas against, maybe?

https://medium.com/ringcentral-developers/web-apps-micro-fro...
I get your point, but it's not hard to tax the correct foods. Just start with the worst, such as sugary drinks.
This has been the most infuriating thing, and as someone who works in media - can trace it directly back to the hire of the former Time Inc COO: https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/can-she-make-brands...

They turned Time Inc into a spammy content factory - did huge deals with Taboola/Outbrain, along with creating stuff like a short FB video show about brunch foods. Came over to Reddit and keeps spouting off these huge proclamations about billions of users. They came over right after the huge raise so it's clear that the clear mandate is to commercialize at every possibly touchpoint.
I desperately wish I could still use the old Google feature to block certain sites from appearing in results. Reddit threads frequently get into the top 5 of my searches on gaming or programming questions, and clicking through gives me the question, and the first line of the answer, and then I have to deal with all the garbage the site now stuffs down your throat. To top it off, Reddit NEVER has usable answers to what I want to know. 99% of the time, that first answer is something unrelated, and that's the extent of the thread. The bottom line is that they're royally screwing up search results, and I often add `-reddit -site:reddit.com` to my searches now.
You're making the hard assumption that, by distributing a UBI, people will just sit around and do nothing. There is no data to back this statement up, and it's very likely that people will actually work more while on UBI. UBI is designed to provide _choice_ for workers, not force them to do something they don't want to do.

For all we know, UBI could lead to solving some of the worlds biggest problems by giving people, who otherwise wouldn't be able to, the freedom to solve problems they're interested in, not just work some dead end job to barely make ends meet. You'd be surprised at how much better humans are at doing things when they actually like doing them.

Let's let the studies roll out before making assumptions. I do, however, believe these studies are much too removed from reality to prove much of anything. The dataset is much too small and 36 months isn't a great deal of time. We will see.
1. The tradeoffs are mostly US-only, other western societies had the political will to prevent unemployment and evictions. This is not intended to mean "US bad, others good", just that the tradeoffs are not objectively there, but instead mostly a result of societal decisions (e.g. France had 1% lower unemployment in June 2020 than in June 2019 https://countryeconomy.com/unemployment/france?sc=LAB- )

2. Sweden tried this route. They now have the deaths plus the economic fallout (-6% GDP, just like the locked down neighbours Denmark and Norway), mostly due to the international interconnectedness (collapsing supplier chains etc.)
> Not to mention that the real question is whether UBI makes sense economically

It's not, because we already know that it can't possibly work.
Yet the printing press has had no problem running to keep interest rates low and the wall street casino bubblin'. We're getting the worst of both worlds. Many small businesses wouldn't be going bankrupt if there weren't a debt black hole expecting to consume much of their surplus via rent.
Animation Software Makes Animated GIF Like Flash
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> That it’s ok to let go of the image of the lonesome warrior, shouldering the world’s problems on their own.

This is the one thing that I've struggled with as an engineering leader. Much of this article is spot on, but the hardest thing for myself is simply asking for help. Part of it because I have learned how to learn anything, and I can just spend time doing what I need. However, there is only so much time in the day.

For some reason, I've always felt that asking for help was related to weakness, and it took a long time to realize that leadership is not knowing everything, but knowing how to teach people to play the game and ask good/dumb questions.
I have some severe concerns about the artificial sweeteners in Diet Coke - I kicked the soda habit a while back but I always stayed well away from diet sodas.
> Maybe because nobody successfully proved to these people (me included) that this sacrifice is useful.

> people who are at risk of dying can protect themselves even around sick people (wearing a mask, staying at home, washing hands, ...)

This makes it clear "nobody successfully proved" really means "I didn't bother to listen". The messaging on masks has long been "they reduce transmission by infected people", not "they prevent you from getting it".
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A PWA is a web page and uses the browser engine. You don't have to enable notifications and still get prompted just like the browser.
I find this to be one of the funniest supposed differences between genders.

I'm trans male, so I've gotten both female and male haircuts. Female haircuts generally took much less time. Put the hair in a ponytail, one snip, tidy up a little. Even a buzz cut takes a little bit longer. It's also much easier to cut long hair yourself than short hair, and people with long hair can go much longer between hair cuts. It took me a while to realize that men's haircut needs to be cut every 2-3 months instead of the once or maybe twice a year I was used to.

Hair dying definitely takes longer, but it seems that can be done at home easily as well.
I love this. Our decades of oil wars still don't seem to be common knowledge. All of the wars have of course been sold to the public as something else and it's a pretty important thing to understand about modern western power.
This is one of the best summaries of UBI that I have seen. UBI proponents are advised to read this carefully.
Walkies could become the law for German dog owners
> but the difference between home cooked junk food and industrially cooked junk food is vanishingly small.

In terms of chemistry/nutrition I agree. However there is a huge difference in convienence. Pastries are a huge pain in the ass to make, and consequently I only make two or three pies a year. Store bought pastries are trivial to acquire and gorge on seven days a week.
Being able to only focus on code logic while Commander handles servers & security speeds up the process of Mattermost app development.
The thing about government programs that hand out cash is that the money will be circulated back into the local economy most of the time, which is a net benefit (I think it would be a net positive if the money was required to be spent locally if the beneficiary makes above a certain income). It's not like it's getting thrown down a black hole. Even if a person is making great money, that additional money is more likely to be spent on higher quality local services, aside from online purchases from places like Amazon.
RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible
Hm, I'd suggest batching fees together so you can have one, larger charge (e.g. charge for many months at once).

Most of that 30 cents represents the underlying costs for the card networks to process the charge—in some countries, we have separate (lower) pricing for micropayments, like your fees. It looks like you might be in the US, where we don't have micropayments today, but it is on our list!
Was being sarcastic. ETF = risk-adverse and Bitcoin = exact opposite. Whole point was there is no competitive option to an ETF (and that is obviously not bitcoin)
similar version that's been around for a while:

Two is one. One is none.
By "Iran's Leader", surely they mean "Iran's dictator", right?

Mossadegh convinced the government to give him 6 months of "emergency powers", ostensibly to fix the financial problems of Iran. In reality, he did a little of that, but also used his powers to further entrench himself by diminishing the power of the Shah. And then he got another 12 months emergency powers, and used it to redistribute land to the poor. Unfortunately at that time, Iran was also incredibly insolvent (due to the British boycott), and so the poor were not happy.

You might argue that Mossadegh would have succeeded if not for the British boycott.. sure, maybe he would have. But what do you expect to happen when you forcibly take all of the British resources? Should they just have said "Oh fine, have them, let's keep doing business together"?

The clerics, at this point, were already the proverbial kingmakers in Iran. They backed Mossadegh when he was expedient, and they backed the Shah when Mossadegh failed them. There's no reason to believe that Iran would have continued under Mossadegh into some kind of Socialist paradise - he probably would have just been deposed by the religious nuts a few years later regardless, just as happened with the Shah.
Some of the ideas are good but it’s more interesting if it processes files like RDS Spectrum does vs loading first to Postgres. I know you are targeting smallish datasets but eventually data size will go up and loading everything in PG could become a scaling problem.
We could also let people carry hand grenades on planes, as there would be no victims at the time the plane took off.

I'm not expecting society to follow that line of reasoning any time soon, though.
Dams played key role in limiting sea level rise
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I don't think I'm immune. I don't think the ones I love are immune. But for myself (and them) I'm willing to take the risk. If you want me to take a test, so be it. If you want me to post a $100k bond so be it. It's not like there's universal healthcare anyway so my costs to you are upper bound.
I see this story often, and it is basically true.

I would like to remind everyone though that for every regime change the US engineered, the KGB was responsible for many times more.

Part of the USSR's philosophy after all was worldwide revolution that was to be exported to all countries.
As others have said, the genius of the app store isn't the technology (as you rightly point out, the technical problems have been solved for decades). The genius of the app store is in the business model: Make and market a device with unlimited demand, give third parties only one way to reach such a large market that they're willing to pay you 30% (while drastically lowering technical barriers to entry), and raise the barriers-to-exit so high for users that nobody ever leaves the ecosystem. Rinse, repeat, profit.
Performance for a few low-level languages yes (Rust, C/C++), but with the GC support stalled and even less developed language interop story, there isn't anything in the horizon that promises to make it a good platform for today's HLL's. Meanwhile there are many nice HLL's targeting JSVM with good performance.

I think the human friendliness transition happened already when most JS programmers started compiling their JS-version-du-jour to legacy-JS.