skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thomas Sowell makes quite a convincing argument that minimum wages stop people getting onto the bottom rung if the employment ladder. He convinced me to an extent, in that it can be useful for young people starting out and small companies that couldn't otherwise afford staff. But I do think it need to be balanced with some checks to stop it being exploited by companies who can afford it.
> Economists take the spherical cow as, if not the current state of cow-dom, the perfected nature of cows and what cows would be if they got to make the rules.

Well, sure in a way, but that includes the parts that lay people ignore like the perfect information element and perfect value optimizing decisionmaking of the rational actor model, and the absence of externalities. But most economists recognize that people aren't omniscient, don't always optimally apply the information they so have, and that you can't avoid econonicndecisions having impacts on people other than those voluntarily participating in them.

Far fewer economists (basically, just the Chicago/Austrian schools, the latter of which does so as pretty overtly an article of faith) think that if you can't magically handwave those elements of the model into reality, the rest of 101-level simplified regulation-free markets still remains desirable as an ideal.
Base Model 3 is 1611kg vs 1545kg for a 330i. I'm looking at both a 330e and a Model 3 at the moment or maybe an M340i xdrive touring.
> This new behavior doesn’t change the long-established policy that our users and developers can run arbitrary code on their Macs, and is designed to simplify the execution policies on Apple silicon Mac computers and enable the system to better detect code modifications.

This doesn’t seem like a big deal.
It might be a good deal for you. But I wouldn't take the "no brainer" argument here. Driving habits are highly personal and you most definitely should resist being profiled by your insurance company, even for the extra break on premiums. That may be a good deal for you now, but don't count on it for long, I'm afraid.
Most places in Europe locked down early and harder than the US. We got damn close to elimination in many areas. This meant that many countries have been able to broadly reopen their economies. Sadly not every country played ball and it is spreading again.
If you do this for short-lived feature branches only, why do you even need to squash merge for this? What I typically do for such things is to have a WIP commit that I amend and force push while working on the feature, then when everything is ready to merge I reset —-soft and make separate commits for each part of the work that can be compiled and tested indivually, rebase onto master and then fast-forward merge.
> I bought 200ct of KN95 in early April from AliExpress

How certain are you they are authentic? Remember a couple years back when everyone bought glasses online for watching the solar eclipse and then it turned out they were all fake and wouldn't protect your eyes?

Especially given the economic incentive present today for anyone willing to sell "N95" masks.
how/why? it's exaggerated to make a point but it's not altogether wrong
The problems listed aren't the oop, they are the memory and thread safety rules of rust, that prevent all the null pointer dereferencing and leaky memory that a "dumb" C++ wrapper allows.
Consider it getting into "good trouble."
> They can't lay off employees or reduce staff until, currently, end of September.

The WARN letters for October 1 layoffs have all already gone out. They needed to be out before August 1st. So we'll know of any further layoffs with two months notice.
> What is the SOTA algorithm for AQM on middle-boxes nowadays, and preventing bad clients from hogging link capacity?

fq_pie for constrained systems. fq_codel or cake if you have enough CPU cycles. They can be operated in ECN-aware mode.
Enough symptom relief and pretty soon you are actually well.

Doctors routinely treat symptoms when they don't have better answers because it actually works fairly well to just do that.
How does starlink help?
I had "all-day" (0800 - 1400, same as the elementary grades) kindergarten in Florida in 1985.
You shouldn't short a stock on the basis of you not liking it or based on X bad business practices. You should only short it if you believe that the market will perceive it as over valued, and the valuation will go down. That's it.
I love my Kinesis Advantage, have been using it for 10+ years at this point.

I have recently released the kinT replacement keyboard controller: https://twitter.com/zekjur/status/1281130647776608257

Why would you replace the controller? There are a couple of good reasons:

* to build or modify your own keyboard

* to work around bugs in the standard controller, like I did back in 2013: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2013-03-21-kinesis_custo...

* because you prefer to run open source software such as the QMK firmware (https://docs.qmk.fm/), even on your keyboard
I'd agree it would be extremely rare to find a child who does well with virtual school. The obvious question is, "What is the better option?" The clinical, disconnected nature of any return to a physical classroom will result in many of the same disadvantages as virtual school from home. All it does is basically transfer the burden of child care. This is a difficulty every parent currently faces, and this article would be a lot more valuable if it proposed a better option.
SV Bubble v real world is a 30% discount minimum.
Insurance companies already stratify premiums. You can be a perfect driver and pay extreme premiums because you happen to be young and live in a certain neighborhood rather than another, since actuaries are forced to rely on correlations rather than causation since they lack this data.

As someone who has never gotten into a wreck nor even gotten a speeding ticket, I for one would welcome a data driven approach to pricing premiums rather than having me binned with my peer group who has no qualms texting and driving drunk over the speed limit, on average.
I think the big bucks for AirBnb in the future are in the medium-long term rental market, not the vacation market. The >1 month rentals also happen to bypass most of the regulations they're having issues with.
Ironic that you complain about the parent maintaining a particular set of ideology while maintaining a similar set of irrational beliefs...

Just looking at your first point. Companies wield an extreme asymmetric information advantage about 'your' specific hiring cohort. They know who has applied to the job, the size, relative experience, and in many cases they know the expected salary range of those individuals. They know the explicit and implicit cost of their benefits on an actuarial scale - costs potential-employee will never know. They have a firm understanding of their actual needs and a higher degree of flexibility. Like other comments have concluded - it's easier for an organization to fold tasks into other jobs. Employees, especially when you consider health insurance (and that of a family) is tied into these decisions.

In today’s model potential employees are required to negotiate with themselves (as a result of being unaware of the qualifications, expected incoming, etc. of the pool). We wonder why salaries remain stagnant...

If you look at CEO pay as a counterexample it becomes obvious. It's not about adding or demonstrating value, it's about extracting value and an understanding of your ability to extract value. CEO compensation is a published number in public companies. "High CEO pay reflects economic rents—concessions CEOs can draw from the economy not by virtue of their contribution to economic output but by virtue of their position." https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/
>when the only way to compete is with GMOs

Already the case, and in the US many crops like corn are 92+% GMO, as selected by farmers during planting season.

We can undo it, and we can also go back to a fraction of the current yield per acre and to people paying significantly more of their budget on food. We can price the poor even more out of getting enough food by making it all costlier.

Food was around 25% of household spending in 1930 in the US. It's now around 7%.

Corn yields were about 25 bushels/ac from as far back as we have data (1800's) till about 1940 when we started applying modern science, and is now around 160 bu/ac [1], an astounding ~7 fold difference. Most crops saw similar gains. This has massive realworld implications on food. A significant part of that is due to GMOs [2] (note the study also demonstrates reduction in toxins since we can engineer more carefully for pesticides desired).

Thankfully mankind has used tech to increase yields drastically, lowering cost, and thus freeing lots of money for other things like housing, medicine, entertainment, and social programs.

>are we more likely to get - vitamin-enhanced rice, or vegetables that are as healthy and addictive as Twinkies?

Once we reach that level of design, why would we not engineer all sorts of beneficial items in? Even now there's published evidence that GMOs are healthier for people than alternatives since it allows us to tailor which pesticides and how much we need to reach yields sufficient to feed the planet.

>on food sovereignty be

This has been one of the goofiest non-arguments ever. People keep claiming somehow no one will able to grow food - there's so many non-GMO places to get any seeds you like, and even many GMOs are off patent protection and fully able to be used as anyone likes. The most you can worry about is not having the latest 20 or so years of seeds. So for free all farmers and people are getting more seed options, not fewer.

>it's much faster, and non-engineered life cannot keep up.

There is no law of physics that cannot mutate things slowly or quickly, so this assumption that there is some magical limiting rate of evolution is also not science based.

Things can wildly mutate in one generation, it's been seen, and things mutate when there's selection pressure. It's the case, for example in viruses, that they mutate faster to keep up with things we do to them.

And the point is to beat things out that destroy crops, like rusts, disease, water shortages, etc. As global warming increases, there will be significant needs for more drought resistant crops, and GMO is delivering on that in a manner that no selective breeding can do quick enough. GMOs will likely save billions of lives in the coming decades.

[1] https://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/timeless/YieldTren...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21284-2
The Roman, Pandyan and Byzantine Empires had pretty good runs.
ML engineer to me means: Read latest paper, transcribe paper to working algorithm, repeat.
> They still have not come clean for their initial mask guidelines that was blatantly wrong.

I'm not sure I follow here - what is missing on that front? They have explained why the mask recommendation changed and how they got to their initial recommendation. Not sure how much more they could do there.
When an interviewer pressed Postmates VP Ali Kashani last year on whether the company’s use of teleoperation technology was an “admission” that AI alone can’t solve all of the challenges its robots encounter on sidewalks, Kashani swiftly retorted: “That’s a strategy, not an admission.”

That's a smooth answer! I didn't know what 'teleoperation' meant, it just means those bots are being operated remotely, at least partially. Somehow I've not seen that term before.

"Operators can use the software to monitor fleets or draw a path for a robot to follow. When necessary, they can even take over and control the vehicle directly."
What does “widely supported” actually mean? What an odd thing to write on a tech product page.
Bowser?
Has herd immunity been achieved in some places?
It's not $1000 to do "nothing", it's $1000 so they can do whatever they want. If they're building some useless road (and many of the public works projects of the past whose aim was to provide "full employment", were busy-work projects moving rocks from one pile to another), then they don't have the time/energy to work on something else that they deem more fulfilling or productive.
On an article about wages (not wealth), did you consider looking at median income per adult?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...
I agree, adding that the beginning of the war also had something to do with (ersatz) oil.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23612474
> Never. And I'm serious about this.

You know that we have search engines, right?

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20180622.107025/...

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=267875

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3381978

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3520915
I’m not so sure. Look at Sweden, look at NYC. The numbers ain’t going up again until now. There have been pandemics before, that’s not the first one. And after the pandemic everything will be as before.
I searched and I cannot see how you found 450 mil for population of arabs in te world. I even counted Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan and none of these are arbs.

Also, I talked to a palistinian friend and she thinks palistinians did not vote for Hamas becasue that was the choise. The other ones were just so corrupt. Any way your sentimate is just too reductive for a very complicated region.
What are the requirements for a free market to work well? And how do you define working well?
This and the DLC are the worst trends in new cars.
From the same guidelines:

>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine.

This is not the first time I see you needlessly accusing a point of view you disagree with of flamewar.
Hah, didn't even think of that! I made a small edit to clarify.
You need to back that up with heavy duty studies if you want it taken seriously on HN.

I have done a metric fuck ton of home remedies for respiratory stuff. I don't think that is remotely accurate.
Thing is... death by lightning strike is rare because we get out of the rain. If we took no preventative measures, then that number would increase dramatically.
This varies extremely widely depending on engine selection and propeller design. Urban air mobility vehicles are also very likely to be loudest during vertical take-off and landing, which is not comparable to a conventional small aircraft.
UBI is only relevant if it's universal. Doing such a study on a small sample is rather irrelevant and inconclusive.

A better idea might be to do it in a village and compare with another village that doesn't have it. But even this cannot fully replicate the nation wide effects of UBI. How about immigration laws? Germany is in EU, anyone can move to Germany and ask for UBI.

Waste of effort and money to prove nothing.
In a poor areas government-enforced minimal wage will cause mass layoffs, black market economy and more misery.
What do you have a problem with, mask wearing or social distancing? Or the lockdown?
> like Kodak already (historically) dealing heavily with chemical production

This baffles me. What's left over? Has that business not been dead for decades, so what relevant asset would they still have? Machinery? Supply chain? Knowledgeable people? Seems like all of it should be long gone.
I'm long term bullish too, but most companies don't take off after their IPO. I like the approach of buying the stock and selling calls on top of them (to also capitalize on high IV).
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Let's see, as per your link:

> 20,000 Killed, 45,000 Wounded, 100 Captured

Note the count includes actions by Japan against the US. Compare it to the European theatre of war.

> Their lack of ‘total war’ on the US is mostly the consequence of a lack of resources / more pressing concerns.

But this is irrelevant for this discussion. The fact remains that the US didn't suffer total war waged by Germany on their soil during WW2, and this might explain the comment which sparked this thread:

> It wasn't very many years earlier that Germany waged total war against the US but a grudge hasn't held out there...

It's easier to hold a grudge with millions dead, bombing campaigns destroying your cities, etc, don't you think? Arguing formalities such as whether Germany and the US were at war seems pointless in this context, doesn't it?
I don't think it's so much screens themselves, but the way they are used. New research actually suggests touch screens might improve focus in toddlers. https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/toddlers-who-use-touchs...

New media has always met with resistance. Books were once considered poisonous trash. Now they're seen as healthy and educational. "In Plato’s dialogue, the Phaedrus, written in 360 BCE, Socrates warned that reliance on the written word would weaken individuals’ memory, and remove from them the responsibility of rememberin"
https://aeon.co/essays/contagion-poison-trigger-books-have-a...
If urban areas are in the shitter it sure isn't reflected in the prices. Prices in Seattle and Portland at least are still as strong as they were pre-pandemic.
Thats because you have divided the languages by properties and i´ve originally divided them over the class of software that can be written in those languages.

More as "system language" category, where you can code OS´s, JIT compilers, Browsers or any time/memory sensitive kind of software. Thats why they were packed together.

Classically, those sort of things could be only coded in C and C++ as the attempts in doing them in "higher level" languages mostly failed.
Take a look into how Dollar General is actively displacing and destroying local grocery opportunities in small towns: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-20/when-the-...
For comparison, it costs $50 for a tax return from the IRS with a Form 4506-T (usually used when getting a mortgage or for other income tax verification purposes).
> this category won't do anything prevent you from catching it.

Are you saying there have been studies showing approximately 0% reduced risk of infection from wearing a paper or cloth mask?

I'd have assumed that these masks are much less effective than an N95, but I haven't seen any data showing they have no effect.
While I agree with your broader point, kinesthetic learning isn't real [0], and modeling education on the idea of learning styles can be harmful [1].

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth...

[1] https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2019/05/learning-sty...
Daniel Yergin's The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power is a pretty good start, there's a TV series. Current to 1990s or so.
Still fallen
Insurance companies want to double dip: They want to sell insurance and profit off of that, and then profit off of selling your personal location/habit information on the back-end.

Even if they aren't doing it today, they want to be positioned to be in the "data business" tomorrow. It will start out as "opt out" before becoming normalized/expected.

Even putting aside the fact that modern vehicle's electrical systems are already stretched thin and this is yet another constant battery drain. The privacy implications of this cannot be ignored even if the data is "anonymized" (not least of all because multiple sources of "anonymized" data can be combined to bypass it entirely).
Not much without neuralink, both together will let me work for a company borderlessly.
For me personally, I would prefer a more realistic style fighting game for combat fitness where my opponent looks and moves like a real person. Or even something along the lines of the classic arcade fighting games like Mortal Kombat where the violence gets a little more graphic. Basically games that feel like they are targeted at adults instead of all ages family friendly. But I understand the need for variety, and applaud the progress made so far on this project.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/washingtonbytes/2020/03/13/airb...

> Thes patents at issue are used primarily in e-commerce—and some of them date back to the time of dial-up technologies such as Prodigy.

Dial-up era!? Patents shouldn't last that long! This is centuries in technology!

I think the only valid use for software patents (if there are any at all), is to prevent bigger players from moving into your space. But small companies don't have the time, energy, or money to wage fights in the courtroom. They have pressing existential issues.

Companies without products are patent trolls and shouldn't be permitted to have them. If you "invent" yet don't do anything with it, what good are you to society?

Ossified and decaying companies like IBM shouldn't be allowed to trample upstarts.

It's all so backwards.
This is very interesting. What other techniques exist, apart from finger-knitting which are unobtrusive and help as an outlet?
Exciting new pivot! Glad to see y'all are doing well, and congrats on getting in to YC!
-Hank (from Elab)
I already am profiled by my insurance company. Only their profiles are based on correlations rather than a direct line of causation since they lack any data on me beyond inference from the population. As a result, I'm shackled to suffer from the behavior of my peer group, so if I'm young or live in a city I pay more money no matter if I am one of those perfect drivers who goes a lifetime of driving without an accident or ticket.
Haha, okay, you're very fit, clearly. People whose objectives don't prioritize hitting your cardiovascular fitness won't want to do that.
Would've been super useful if you mentioned what countries you currently support. I went to sign up and closed the tab feeling disappointed.
> Unfortunately its only for TCP, so usefulness is somewhat limited outside the datacentre.

Also works nicely for p2p protocols that have to connect to peers on other continents.
At this point I expect the acronym to stay put (at least for a spell) even if the roll call doesn't.
Travel might come back but one thing I'm more confident that the pandemic has changed is awareness and empathy for systemic inequities in our society. Uber and Lyft are currently dealing with an existential crisis to their business model in California that I think will reverberate into housing eg greater empathy across cities on issues related to affordable housing and how Airbnb has crowded out would be renters and buyers for what are essentially illegal hotels.

Also with business travel being depressed for quite some time I doubt many business travelers would be looking to Airbnb to get a deal when hotel prices will be depressed for the foreseeable future.
Yes, that is a problem with every opinion poll about a hypothetical policy proposal. Those polls aren't super useful for gauging how popular a concrete piece of legislation would be in practice.
> I can't see Wuhan from here.

Well luckily we have this thing called the internet that lets you see images, video, and text from far away places.

> What directions did they follow that allows Wuhan to have pool parties? I don't understand how having pool parties can be ok. Does the virus not exist there? How can that be possible?

Full lockdown, including stipends to help people out economically, heavy maks usage, massive amounts of tests (when they saw six new cases after not having any, they did 6.5M tests in a week in wuhan), and scanning temperatures of pretty much anyone anytime they go into public area.

Which leads to this https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/asia/wuhan-water-park-party-i...
In my wildest dreams I could not create a stupider headline.

I guess the idea here is that Oracle destroys everything they buy, Trump hates Sarah Cooper, so he approves of this deal.
1 year from now: "Toyota AWS keys compromised due to misconfigured S3 bucket."
Material found by scientists 'could merge AI with human brain'