skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
locally owned businesses are arguably better for a community because the owner is more likely to recirculate their profits back through the local economy. the profits from a walmart location are ultimately captured by the shareholders, who may be disproportionately concentrated in some far-away place. of course, this can be outweighed if the large corporation serves the community much more efficiently than the smaller competition.

subjectively, I find it a lot more pleasant to deal with local businesses. on the rare occasion I go to starbucks, I grab my coffee and leave immediately, but I would be happy to spend a few hours reading in any of the nearby independent coffee shops.
I don't think this is actually true. I have not been able to find any sources referencing an actual bug and patch. Toyota, NASA, and the NHTSA did not report any issues. Nevertheless, Toyota lost a jury trial with this rather hilarious quote available on wikipedia[1]:

"Michael Barr of the Barr Group testified that NASA had not been able to complete its examination of Toyota's ETCS and that Toyota did not follow best practices for real time life critical software, and that a single bit flip which can be caused by cosmic rays could cause unintended acceleration. As well, the run-time stack of the real-time operating system was not large enough and that it was possible for the stack to grow large enough to overwrite data that could cause unintended acceleration."

So... maybe the computer could have physically failed, or a stack overflow, or some other error? Regardless, I still feel like drive-by-wire is scary. The Revisionist History podcast also covers the unintended acceleration recall from more of a psychological perspective[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle...

[2] http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/08-blame-game
Marriott doesn't own their hotels, they lease them from third party owners. I would wager that Hilton is doing the same.
That document highlights Iran's government's objections to AIOC, and we have to contextualize those objections within the backdrop that Iran had already nationalized AIOC a year prior, and needed to justify its actions internationally in order to keep selling oil abroad. World Bank member nations and other buyers also needed to know they would not invite grievances with the UK by continuing to buy from a nationalized company.

The author of the document you cite says that prior to the 1933 agreement, AIOC withheld royalties under guise of covering damages but really to squeeze Iran into accepting the new agreement; the problem with this logic is that damage to a pipeline also causes revenue loss, so you can't indemnify the company by simply paying them for the repair costs. The 1901 agreement says that Iran will protect the infrastructure, which it failed to do. In any case, those payments were addressed in Article 23 of the new agreement.

It does not appear to me that Section II (D) demonstrates that the contractual stipulations you mentioned (training/hiring of locals and establishment of medical facilities at AIOC sites) were violated. That part of the document also says nothing about infrastructure investment. Maybe I am missing something but I have read it three times now to make sure.
Obviously back in the day windows was an absolute dog for any dev work outside of windows, and a complete no go. I've only started using it for development a few months now, but so far haven't encountered any major issues. Maybe I'll run into some interoperability problems with specific syscalls at the compatibility layer, but so far it largely just works for my needs (VS Code with intellisense and debugging, docker, K8S, Zsh and few other tools). If my tests pass locally, I can safely assume they pass on the CI server, and haven't been proven wrong so far. If I ever need a linux box, there's an old laptop that's just for that. At this point it's turtles all the way down, what's the harm adding another turtle on top.

It's not all roses, there is a noticeable performance hit with the filesystem in both WSL and the windows layer. I wouldn't use it for production, and why would you, but for development, it's fine and largely not a problem. If you had to regularly deal with a large numbers of files, say log parsing or compiling, it's probably not going to work.

Besides recent OS X SSL library issues, I've haven't ever run in problems developing on a Mac and have used one for the better part of 10 years now. Can't say the same with developing on Linux (almost exclusively on the graphics side of things, but that's a problem when it's your primary machine).
Not a placebo at all. I use onion as lung support. I have serious respiratory problems.
This argument ignores that the anti-min-wage argument isn't monolithic.

The other argument is that a minimum wage can usually (though not always) result in higher prices because employers just pass on the cost of higher wages to the buyer (especially in competitive markets), and that this is a regressive way to guarantee a minimum standard of living.

The strongest anti-min-wage argument is that a UBI/EITC is the better way to guarantee a minimum money floor because it's paid for by progressive taxation, while allowing the market to find the lowest possible cost for goods/services/labor. It also gives workers negotiating leverage by enabling them to choose not to work somewhere without fear of starving to death.
Brian Chesky pretty much said exactly this in his interview with Guy Raz on How I Built This a week or so ago.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=594606847885635
I'm not sure anyone is actually fighting. We both like what we're used to, and neither of us is claiming it's better. We're both just agreeing we don't want to change.

People are allowed to like different things (except vi, obviously -- I hope we can all agree to that).

As a footnote: I'm comfortable with mainstream keyboard shortcuts too, but not in emacs. Those things do specific things in emacs, and would be a mess. If you remap ctrl-k, I won't have a way to cut a line anymore! I need that.
Does that take into account cost of living?

In America you can buy a gallon of milk for $1.50 at Walmart. In Australia (after some brief googling[0]) it's more like $4.50. Same with gas, video games, you name it, a lot of things seem to cost 2-4x more in Australia.

[0] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?cou...
That would certainly be a good start. People moving there because of UBI is expected in general, so it would also yield valuable results in that regard. There's the ethical issue of forcing people to be part of the experiment that really don't want to, even if you give them the option to move.

I don't know whether there are upper limits on local taxes. One of Germany's local funding is business tax ("Gewerbesteuer"), which communities regulate by setting their multiplier, the lower limit is 200% (of the taxation base), with most between 350% and 450%. The highest I know of is 900%.

Property tax also varies between 200% (minimum) and 1800% (according to Wikipedia), so there's some room as well.

Combined with an initial donation, that may be possibl. If it's somewhere where people don't naturally move to (e.g. not a major population center), the moving-effect might be very welcome as well, repopulating the area.
Out of interest, going by your username, do you consider yourself to be autistic? You write exactly like a relative of mine who definitely has something undiagnosed.
While there are certainly advantages to digital reading, there's also something to be said for a traditional book. Patience and sustained attention are developed skills, and we have yet to learn what effects a failure to practice them at a young age may have on a developing brain.
NYC rental prices are down easily 20%
Israel is not a democratic country because it supports the Saudi monarchy, a completely unprincipled, and despotic regime. Basically a Middle Eastern North Korea.

A political regime supporting an inherently antidemocratic system is not democractic by the definition.

They are also very fond of the Egyptian Sisi, an another tinpot despot.

And am not joking here. People need to finally stop thinking of it as a some kind of tinfoil thing. The Israel—Saudi—Egyptian axis is 100% real. It sounds bizarre, but its true, been documentary verified, and supported by accounts of many diplomats of 3rd countries, US included. The open source investigatory journalists, among other things, established the fact of regular visits of their top officials to each other's countries.

https://www.google.com/search?q=israel+saudi+axis

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42094105
> I've literally never met a 5-year-old who doesn't do things like this when they're upset.

Really?

I can't imagine either of my kids doing things like that - perhaps a brief outburst, sure, but it would have been immediately followed by an appropriate response from a parent.

> My sense is that that, if you aren't currently trying to usher a preschooler through this experience, you don't actually know how your kid would have handled this situation as a preschooler.

While we're not under exactly those circumstances, our youngest is six and we've always homeschooled. I also have a number of public school teachers in my family, and from my perspective the problem is 100% the approach. Distance learning can absolutely be effective, but trying to force the rhythm of a government school onto it is a flawed concept.

On the other hand... if they restructured it so it would be effective from an educational standpoint, they'd have a much more difficult time getting those kids back into classrooms when the time comes. I strongly suspect that the programs that are in place are designed more to ease the transition back into the classroom than to educate.
Yeah GP has the facts wrong.

There has actually been interesting speculation that the Fed will eventually buy stocks similar to the Bank of Japan over the past few decades [1] but the Fed hasn’t done it yet.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevincoldiron/2020/07/18/the-fe...

(Edit: Maybe GP was thinking that bankruptcy could lead to debt converting into equity? But even then the Fed’s holding would be indirect and the bond ETF probably wouldn’t hold onto the equity.)
Or swap the component, although that introduces its own design challenges and provenance risks.

Aircraft refueling generally runs in-ground (at the largest airports), then 5-10k gallon trucks (~20-40k liters), then ~500-2000 gallon smaller trucks (2k-10k liters) for smaller aircraft or smaller airports.

If you reimagined refueling trucks as "forklifts carrying batteries" instead of "tubes of gasoline on wheels" then you'd likely end up with similar delivery practices (central charging, swap/refuel, discard/recharge batteries instead of refilling the fuel tank on a fuel truck).

Effectively it would be standardizing on some way to slot-in pre-charged batteries, and treat them similar to a propane tank rental company, where each removed battery is considered suspect and tested/refurbished/recharged after each use.

Otherwise, yeah, putting a bunch of 220v outlets in the ground around an airport... you're going to be sitting there a while to recharge the ten planes that landed that day. It'd effectively be untenable for smaller airports to be able to provide "quick-turn" refueling services, and potentially risky to be able to guarantee overnight refueling.

This is all nudging towards personal / corporate aircraft, not commercial aircraft operations, which would "never" want the plane in more than one spot for more than one hour, which would require something similar to battery-swaps that they control, OR some very fancy electrical and heat management associated with the airport/jetbridge that the plane pulls up at.
Doing work faster is almost always going to consume more power and if you're already at the power or temperature limit (which is how most CPUs/GPUs operate now) then the frequency will have to reduce. This isn't automatically bad; ultimately what matters is performance. Did you really see lower performance with AVX than with SSE?
Same with Finland. https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/the-jo...

Most research shows that academic study vs play in preschool makes little difference in how kids turn out later in life. And that play might even be better.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/well/family/let-kids-play...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/well/family/taking-playti...
Of course it is harmful. And that together with standardized tests, textbooks stuffed with information that neither the editors fully read is a recipe for a bad outcome. And it doesn't end there, professors are bombarded with so much bureaucratic crap that many of them who would otherwise put up with really bad pay just to be able to teach kids simply give up, but that's just a tangent here.

When kids play they learn a whole lot more about the world, social interactions, their bodies and what not. Kids can learn some things quite early and it is not a bad idea to teach them early either a second language or to read early or some other useful skills. But the problem is this has been exaggerated greatly and way too much is pushed on them.
I don't think "fuck the customer" is a useful step of brainstorming market fit.
Basic-income already exists.

New money is created by chartered banks as debt on their balance sheets by fiat through fractional reserve banking practices. This is how money is created and distributed in the USA; centralized in ~4500 institutions and a few tens of thousands of people deciding things. It would be just as easy, though controversial, to remove this pure profit stream from the banks and instead give it directly to people.

Of course people would probably re-invent the banking system in a distributed way. But then at least it would be clear that the money banks are literally making isn't through some business skill or value addition or even the physical services they provide: it's from being able to magic up new money for circulation.

There is plenty of money for basic income. The system for basic income already exists and is the foundation of modern society. It just needs to be made universal.
It’s more like somebody else’s house is on fire, I thought my taxes paid for firefighters, but it turns out those firefighters never bothered to purchase firefighting equipment, so you’re forcing me to spend months putting out other people’s fires using cups of water from my own kitchen while firefighters shout on TV that this is the only possible way things can be.
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It's not that much that stock market is up, it's value of dollar quietly sliding.
Stock market auto-adjusts.

Inflation is the hidden tax. Instead of loudly imposing new or higher taxes, government is quietly printing money. Same result for citizens - their buying power is less.
My parents installed one of the addon driving monitors in their car to get an insurance discount. It lasted about a month. Apparently they drive like maniacs.
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I sought out adjustable dumbbells for a month. Ridiculous prices on Kijiji, and full of scams. Thankfully I eventually found a place out in Brampton that was welding their own, for relatively reasonable prices.

(And thankfully my gym is now open. Until we get a second wave and it shuts down again.)
Your views seem completely detached from reality. The only reason hospital systems were not overwhelmed was due to the continued lockdown + social distancing policies. Every state that went ahead and tried to ignore reality and open up for business rapidly found itself facing the very same issue again with hospitals being near full and in some cases having to turn away patients.

Some sources:

https://www.azfamily.com/news/continuing_coverage/coronaviru...

https://www.newsweek.com/arizona-hits-record-high-hospital-c...

So no, the lockdown isn't some moving goalpost made by politicians gone wild. It is an unfortunate necessity given the abject failure of the federal administration and many states in managing a very serious public health crisis.
Europe has twice the population of the United States.

Yet despite this, United States has 4 TIMES the cases per day.

Europe can relax because they worked hard in the beginning to get everything under control. The US never did that, most states (like my home state of Texas) did a half-assed closing for 3 weeks, so the numbers never really got under control.
Actually Marriott works with a franchise model. If the franchisee goes bankrupt, that's a problem for Marriott... but it is also a problem for Airbnb (many owners of several properties are going bankrupt).

As an anecdote, I had an Airbnb stay in Rome but the landlord went bankrupt due to Covid and had to close the business.
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27% of NYC residents test positive for COVID antibodies, based on 1.46m tests
"Something must be done. This is something, so we will do it."
Well, it's life wisdom, but it has applications in software development (though not necessarily in a commit message ...)

Overabstraction is generally much worse than underabstraction.

The right level of abstraction is worth it's 'wc -l' in gold.

Murphy was an optimist. Everything that can go wrong, will, but at the most inopportune time (while demoing for the biggest client ever, for example).

The new thing can save you 10% at best, but easily cost you 50% (in delays, unexpected costs, bugs, ...); Prefer boring and established.

Everything has a context. "readability" is not absolute, it depends on your target audience.

Your dev/test machine should be slightly weaker than your user's to guarantee a usable product.

Most people decide if something was brave or foolish only in retrospect.

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, but the next best time is today. That's extremely true for refactoring/code changes/decision making in general.

Praised be those who have nothing to say, and nevertheless remain silent (supposedly a German saying). Keep your descriptions short and to the point, don't go on rambling.

Most people, most of the time, aren't rational, but rationalizing (part of the problem is that we really believe the stories we tell ourselves, even though they are mostly post-hoc rationalization). Is that really why you did that?

Most people like to complain and blame things they can't change, but fear acting on things that they can change.

The game is mostly rigged against you (unless you are the incumbent. Then, the game is rigged by and for you - but you already knew that ...).

History is written by the victors, so take anything you weren't there to witness with a grain of salt -- including science history. (e.g. Barbara McClintock and Danny Shechtman were pariahs until they weren't, but evidence is being whitewashed). Extremely true for office and dev politics. And there are always politics.

Those who cast the votes determine nothing. Those who count the votes determine everything (supposedly by J.G.Stalin). Are you really a decision maker, or just imagine yourself to be?
What does reverse stock split have to do with it ? Buyback happens on the market and it removes stocks from circulation, if the demand is still there but buyback eliminated supply because people are holding on to the rest of the stock then the price automatically goes up and increases the market cap more - it's about liquidity - if you do a buyback of 1 billion suddenly there's 1 billion on the sell side that's gone but people still want to buy the stock - so the price goes up.
Of all the reasons not to use TikTok Oracles proposed ownership has to very high in the list.

All the kewl kids use Oracle.....
Art ?
The timing probably has more to do with expiring options than it specifically does around strength of the market or the business.
Depending on the city some hotels aren't doing as poorly as you might expect. LA has been running project roomkey during this pandemic, where they basically pay for a hotel or motel room for homeless people.
Sure, and what I think you have here is a bunch of people not being exact in their terminology and not explaining themselves, which makes their statements seem wrong out of context.

Consider, the situation is that people think if they get a mask, they are protected, and can go about their lives as they were. Also, there's a shortage of masks. Given the option of "stay away from large groups of people and public events" or "wear a mask and feel protected", saying "stop buying masks" might mean something slightly different then than it does now.

At the same time, I acknowledge that's a particularly egregious example. To that I say that the Surgeon General is a political appointee, and our government and the politicians that make it up (all of them) have failed us to various degrees. That interacts with what and how the health professionals have communicated with the public, but in a much less straightforward way (if there's different messaging coming from government health services and the general health community, and the government sources are counterproductive, who did you trust, and who do you blame?).
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I have been building mobile apps and web apps for about a decade now, but never have I built an application that needs to be HIPPA compliant. I am looking for book recommendations for building HIPPA compliant mobile apps (or web apps). Thank you in advance for you recommendations!
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Camomile has known antibiotic effects, as do many teas. The hot liquid helps, but it's not the only "active ingredient" nor the biggest detail in many cases. Though heat treatments absolutely are a thing and do, per se, help kill stuff.
Whilst I am certain pool parties are indeed happening, something about the fact that they happened and ended up in international news strikes me of being a little, maybe, propaganda-ish.
Perhaps. But why should we consider that a reasonable measure?
To add to this, I have a love/hate relationship with Adobe updating their RAW Engine version, as opening up old RAW images (with edits stored in XMP sidecar format) will look completely different due to the engine interpreting edits differently, or in extreme cases, when Adobe decides to add or remove features, which has happened to me numerous times during the last ~15 years since going from RawShooter directly to Lightroom. I usually delete exports for non-critical projects to save space, but any paid jobs are backed up multiple times because I've been bitten before by not being able to render the exact same TIFF for print as 5+ years ago.