skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The market had a big dip in March, so it can go down. I imagine there was plenty of panic selling then. The Federal Reserve did a lot of interventions and what not since then, though.
Sorry to hear that. I guess Covid-19 is special, and my incident was also over 5 years ago.

I hope you upgraded to a 16 inch one! Sounds like a good update anyway.
I find it interesting that even after a worldwide pandemic has proved that the majority of humans will prefer to act selfishly to maintain their own comfort level, you still somehow hold out hope that given literally free money, that the majority wouldn't also use this money selfishly to maintain their comfort level.
I have occasionally observed anti-Polish racism in the US. Perpetrated by generically “white” Americans against anyone with a Polish last name or Polish accent.
> I'm very satisfied with a Chromecast

you might be more satisfied with:

https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast
Hi! Hmm, not sure I understand. In a Worker, you can set whatever headers you want on the response, in code. What problem are you running into exactly? What do you mean when you say "the way workers function has changed"?
Free Worldwide Performance Test – Page Loads and API Calls from Global Locations
> It seems to me that the right policy to increased pay for low wage jobs would be to set the minimum wage so a full time job at that rate puts you at some multiple of the metropolitan/micropolitan area poverty line.

I would be in support of that in the abstract, with the caveat that various business lobbying would immediately push for abstruse redefinitions of 'poverty' as used in the law.
Why not just cut to the quick and ban children without a license /s
Thank you so much. I will look into this. Seriously though, all these little things shrink the real time I have left to do the real work for my project. Thanks.
That's not the right question to ask, since many other costs besides labor figure into gross margins.
If your concern is obesity and diabetes I encourage you to look up fruititarians. They consume 3000+ calories a day of fruit and loose dangerous amounts of weight. It's not healthy to consume such low fat and protein but it goes to show you can't gain weight on fruit juice.

Conjecture: it's sugar and polyunsaturated fats at the same time that cause issues.
Very well put. I suspect this is one of those xkcd's that will become a timeless classic, just like the one on standards: https://xkcd.com/927/.
Squad Wealth
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20669080
> Look at the middle east, countries like Saudi, Iran, Kuwait, Qatar have done it for decades.

False, according the the World Bank : “Currently, no country has a UBI in place, although there have been (and still are) several small-scale pilots and a few larger-scale experiences. Only two countries—Mongolia and the Islamic Republic of Iran—had a national UBI in place for a short period of time.“

https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/socialprotection/publicat...
Did breaking backwards compatibility kill Drupal?
Thank you for pointing that out. It's not my intention to mislead. I've edited to clarify.
Vulnerable people have needs that are supplied by the broader community (food, medicines, medical care, etc) so it's impossible to fully isolate vulnerable populations.
Saying 'no' and limiting your child's access to TV, etc., that's parenting, indeed.

But again it's easier to give up and let them watch TV than having to actually deal them.
Future profitability is still profitability. That increases demand.
Lots of US federal law started as California state law first. According to labeling, there are a few things in life that are known to cause cancer only in California.
You are being downvoted (nice username btw haha) but you are onto something. My belief is that for certain things, the government MUST be authoritarian: Public Health, education and safety (police, firefighters, etc). That's why I think a more centralized government like the one in Mexico might find it easier to implement sensible policies and apply them "in an authoritative way" to the whole country without state resistance.

Now, if only the government was not as corrupt as it is in Mexico...
It could be Asian thing (I'm Asian), but there's a saying, "Money can't buy happiness, but it sure hell better crying inside my BMW than crying outside by the street."
"Narcissism" is an unnecessarily pejorative way to put it. Narcissism is about having an inflated view of one's own merit, importance, or appearance. In popular parlance it also refers to an unquenchable need for external validation of these qualities. However, most of the issues mentioned in the OP are often associated with self-doubt and/or internal motivation - i.e. the very opposite of narcissism. Frankly, using such a negative term seems a bit like sour grapes.
I'm buying long dated puts on Apple personally. Here is my investment thesis:

In a nutshell my belief is that Apple will have a few quarters of declining revenue and that is going to torpedo their market cap.

* Apple is 100% reliant on selling new hardware, whatever push into subscriptions they are trying to do is going to fail or take ages to catch on. The reason for this is that Apple sells primarily to consumers, so the subscription needs to be a consumer subscription. What could that be? $30 a month for Apple Music + Apple TV + Apple Fitness + Apple Photo Storage? I suppose this is possible but I don't see people switching away from Netflix, HBO, or Spotify so easily. Spotify is likely the most at risk. This strategy is possible but I think the timeframe is going to take longer than people expect.

* We are close to reaching the end of phone innovation. The things on the horizon that could possibly drive continued revenue are: smaller iPhones, folding iPhones, planned obsolescence, and from the software side a merge of iOS/iPad OS such that you can use your iPhone 15sMAX-SE with a USB-c monitor as your computer. This is possible but say in 2021 apple releases a 4" folding to 8" iPhone with USB-C out to an external monitor that would fly off the shelves. However that is basically the logical end-point of smartphones and after that Apple is going to have a hard time selling anything new until AR glasses arrive.

In a nutshell Apple needs a subscription model to sustain this valuation, and without obsolescence essentially being a forced subscription (you rent your 1000 iphone for 4 years and then chuck it as worthless) I'm not sure they will find success.

The planned obsolescence thing is a real revenue driver for Apple though and without some antitrust lawsuit maybe they can maintain that for a long time. My bet is that 2 quarters from now they miss earnings and the valuation blows up.
I don't believe this for a second. The total number of people that managed to contract it in New Zealand within the last week was under 10, and they locked down an entire city because of it.
In my opinion, I would maybe rephrase this as exploitation. "Business success" (define as you see fit), accompanies exploitation. "Screwing" people, could fall under exploitation, but feels more malicious, whereas exploitation can take many forms and is commonly accepted. It can be exploiting a rules loop hole, exploiting worker pay, exploiting current wealth status, exploiting someone's social connections, etc.

Exploitation is not necessarily bad, as most companies to be profitable, need to exploit something. Companies want profit so they are exploiting the price they charge, or exploiting the workers they pay, or a combination of many little exploits.

Imagine a company could pay its workers more, but they don't. I believe this is an exploitation of the workers. People don't see it as "bad" in minor cases, and this practice is commonly accepted. Consider how much Apple is making and how much it is paying its workers, versus a locally owned restaurant.

Imagine a company could charge less for a product and still survive. This again, is a minor exploitation, and commonly accepted.

When the exploitation gets large enough, workers sometimes revolt.
See, for example, how Wal-Mart has the single largest collection of workers who get food stamps in the US.
the underlying asset of the stock market is in large part real estate/property.
> (due to being unsaturated fats and so having single hydrogen bonds that can react with other molecules inside your body).

What do you mean by "single hydrogen bonds"? C-H bonds are always single bonds, and I am unfamiliar with any kind of "double" hydrogen (intermolecular) bonding. Unsaturated fats, by definition, have at least one double bond, between carbon atoms.
Is there a reason a standard computer can't work? You have linux and firefox with proper adblocking. Youtube runs at full resolution, netflix always works in the browser, as well as other services. I havent watched an ad in years and can't imagine going back.
You are taking a risk coming off unemployment in a pandemic. If you get laid off again, good luck getting back on unemployment. If people aren't taking the job, that means the pay is lower than the perceived risk to the worker, and should be raised.
Encryption for firmware updates is only to obscure the contents. The imgdecrypt binary here also references RSA_verify and similarly public-key cryptography sounding names so I assume they are using that to authenticate the firmware images (checking for a D-Link signature).

Of course this is D-Link and the product is an embedded garbage router, so chances are high they are doing it entirely wrong.
>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

How is taxing the local economy to spend in the local economy (and some abroad) a net benefit? That's just transfer payments with some friction loss.
What evidence from the US can you present that people will universally wear masks or that they'd wear them correctly? It's far easier to accept that they won't correctly wear masks and this path of exploration fails at step 0.
I think it makes sense to get rid of a minimum wage requirement after universal healthcare and a basic income is implemented. Capitalists whine that the free market should be allowed to play itself out, but conveniently forget that labor is not a free market as is mentioned above.
Since when? And what happened?
The problem is that anything besides regulated capitalism with some social features built in has utterly failed. And when it fails, it fails HARD.

So implementing something so drastic without knowing if it'll work is extremely risky.
> It's pretty rational for someone to understand that and make personal choices without feeling like they're causing real danger to the community.

Discounting externalized costs to zero is rational, true; that's the source of the tragedy of commons (in the economics/game theory sense, not necessarily the somewhat disputed original example for which the effect is named.)

But that's a manner in which individual rationality is insufficient to address issues whose effects aren't limited to the individuals engaging in transactions.
reddit notifications are useless now. I do use the app but all notifications are off. I only look at that in app notification thing if I recently posted and am expecting replies.
> A 120 person 36 month trial program cannot answer any of these questions.

So what are the questions that such a trial could answer?
Yep. Dairy Queen, for instance, had lines of cars wrapping around the building and lining up in the street during the height of our "lockdown". Tons of things were still open in-person, too, like grocery stores, and there was no mask order and maybe 1/4 of people were wearing masks, at best, and almost no employees anywhere. Only exception is that a couple weeks in (IIRC) Costco started requiring them. We didn't get a mask order until a couple weeks after we ended our joke of a "lockdown". The police don't follow the order (sigh) but almost everyone else is, at least. But now everything's back open, more-or-less entirely.

It's no wonder we're still muddling along with this problem, months into it.
downvoted for referencing Jon Sculley's famous demoting/firing of Steve Jobs https://youtu.be/a1Tpe-dbPQI

This is why I love this website.
Eight Stages of Anger
Came here to mention that book. It's fantastic, and was a total game-changer for me when I went through it.

Interestingly, I went through it while taking a drawing class by someone who was not a fantastic teacher, and occasionally taught things directly contrary to how DotRSotB taught them. And wow, did the other students fail trying to follow what he said! It was amazing.

So yeah, go through the book, BUT make sure you ACTIVELY work through it, doing everything she says to do at each step... in fact, I think she recommends that you don't read ahead. It's worth doing it in conjunction with a class.
China ties Covid vaccine distribution to territorial claims in South China Sea
> the time at which there is no risk to my political career

Do you live in the US? The situation is exactly the opposite here.

Downplaying the significance of COVID is practically part of the GOP platform at this point. It's gotten to the point in the last 2 months where even extremely mild and all-volunteer public health measures are political suicide in the majority of US states.

But also, even in the small number of very left-leaning areas like mid-sized/large cities, mayors and governors are under intense pressure to get things back to normal.

Hell. Even universities, which take tons of heat for being hotbeds of leftism even relative to left-leaning cities, are pushing forward with campus openings despite contrary advice from public health experts.

As far as I can tell, being too prudent for too long would be an enormous political liability in literally every US jurisdiction. In fact, being prudent at all is a political liability in >25 states even with new cases hitting highs. Here in rural PA I get harassed for wearing a mask into the grocery store.

The "permanent COVID emergency" concern is ridiculously disconnected from political reality in the USA. So much so that it's more of an unhinged conspiracy theory than a legitimate concern.
OT: Is there an economic theory that explains or talks about job creation?
I'm criticizing the decision to shutdown, so we should ban rebar ? ban construction ?
Non-paywalled: http://archive.is/zF4ei

Great read. The real labor market is more complex than a simple model of supply and demand. It's like the old physics joke, "I have a solution, but it only works for a spherical chicken in a vacuum."
I don't enough to say whether 100% employment is good or not, but I do know that this:

> It seems like it is accepted as fact that 100% employment would lead to hyperinflation

is a strawman. The argument is that 100% employment will cause an undesirably high inflation, but serious economists almost never talk about hyperinflation. (It tends to be a boogeyman used by deficit hawks and the like, since it almost never happens except in cases of war or truly disastrous policy).
The article makes a good description of the problem, explains how the solution works, but doesn't really explain why the solution solves the problem. How can it protect against a delayed identical signal being re-transmitted at a higher power by a relay station? All its cryptography will check out.

How does the key being transmitted afterwards actually help it?

If we need a chain of message keys to be able to decode a block of messages, and messages frequently go missing, doesn't this mean missing a message in the chain makes authenticating any later (er... previous?) messages of the block impossible?
> I need food to survive much more than Krogers needs my business to survive

Yes, but you can buy from anywhere other than Krogers and the cost of switching is almost negligible. A job is very, very different in that regard.

Responding to your edit:

> As wages in one particular area increase, people respond to that price signal by learning the relevant skills and working in that field and getting greater salaries.

Learning the relevant skills costs time and money. If your wage is too low, you won't be able to learn new skills. And moving and changing jobs is not that easy for most people.
Farnam Street has a good write-up: https://fs.blog/2020/03/chestertons-fence/
> That's why minimum wage laws and workers rights are important.

How do you translate that into numbers? If $15/hr is better than $14/hr, wouldn’t $150/hr be 10x better, and if so, what’s wrong with a comfortable $1,500/hr?

I think that’s where economists start to differ.
You have to also account for the people who will survive but end up with some sort of permanent health damage due to it.
Not really a precedent, imho, but still a great story.

My favorite part, the last line, "We wanted to release a Windows version as part of Windows 98, but sadly, Microsoft has effective building security."
I keep meaning to dive into Rust, but it feels like they've removed so many useful things in the name of safety.

I mean, I get it, these are all things which can be used to very easily cause chaos and shoot yourself in the foot. I look at code that I've written, though, and see so many challenges to writing the same thing in Rust.

I spend 99% of my time in embedded Linux or bare metal, though, so maybe my view point is a bit skewed.

There seem to be very few GUI libraries which can be used in Rust as well. I'll keep checking https://areweguiyet.com/
People have been saying these kinds things about Apple forever. Betting against a $2 Trillion company, not sure about that.
Behind the Wild and Sometimes Wacky Facemask Economy
Zim’s main drawback in these days is that it doesn’t have its own mobile app, and since it’s not based on MarkDown, you can’t use any existing MarkDown mobile apps with it.
"An argument is using reasoning to move from premises to conclusion."

Dictionary definition discussions are weak at the best of times, but they're super weak when the definition you're choosing for the word isn't even the most common one, whereas the article clearly is using the most common one, and is perfectly correct in that usage. We all know that's not the definition in question.
In addition to that, the federal government set new labeling rules for food. Processes food has to display a big-ugly sign as part of their label if the product contains more calories, sugar, salt or fat than the recommended dose:

(pictures)

https://www.milenio.com/ciencia-y-salud/nuevo-etiquetado-est...
I think just the difference in the "mass" part of "mass-market."
The problem is, of course, that those same people in the gym—an environment which is naturally quite conducive to spreading infections—later go to their workplace, or their doctor, or their public transport, or a bar, and back to the gym. By doing that, they can carry an infection around to others, even if they aren’t themselves symptomatic.

This contributes to the general public health problem, increasing the infection rate among the population and meaning more people get sick or die. This applies whether they were in the gym, or just had the misfortune of interacting with someone who had been.

I don’t know who initially said it, but… I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about other people.
This is the main issue of macroeconomics as a science. There is not a "control Germany" subjected to the same history that the actual one, that can be observed in parallel to ascertain if a macroeconomic policy is beneficial or not.
>> We're approaching the total death toll of World War II[3].

assuming you mean the US death toll also bear in mind the median age of WW II casualties was something like 26; while the median age for covid victims is 75+. Not to diminish the latter but they are very different.
FFS, healthy people can catch COVID and have serious, life-impacting or deadly complications. Yes, it's more likely to kill older people. That doesn't mean it isn't still dangerous for younger and healthier people.
Look i get that USA has a lot of billionaires and the GDP per capita looks great for the USA but I want US citizens to please take a look at median wealth per adult and see how far you have to scroll down to find the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...

This is a great way to rule out outliers. My home country Australia has 3X the median wealth per adult of the USA. This is similar to the median wealth difference between the USA and China for reference. It shows to be honest having lived in both countries. Specifically it shows in the conditions that minimum wage earners in the USA face, eg. having to live off food stamps as is common for wallmart workers for example is just horrendous. eg. https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/report-amazon-walmart-worke...

Australians usually call out companies that make things in sweatshops where pay is below the poverty line. Specifically clothing in Asia. But i believe we should start doing this for US companies as well. Sure the US minimum wage is higher than say Bangladesh but since the cost of living in the US is higher too so it doesn't change the fact that things manufactured at minimum wage in the US are coming from companies that pay wages below the poverty line.
> Labour is absolutely a free market.

In what sense is a market with price controls absolutely a free market?
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Truth is, the company should have abandoned it's OS before they released their first touch screen device and go with Android. I remember playing with it (the Storm?). It was 2 years after the iPhone was released and it was two years behind the original iPhone.

The only moat to keep users they had was their messaging app, but Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp killed it with interop. And it's not like their userbase was as valuable as, let's say, Bloomberg chat.
The automated nanny of the past was other kids in the neighbourhood, but due to laws and a culture of helicopter parenting that developed during the 80s/90s, kids are basically forbidden from playing by themselves with local kids unless they are literally next door.

Parenting is more work today than it used to be. In the past you sent out your kids to the local neighborhood all day, they came back to fix boo-boos and food and then you tucked them in to sleep. Sometimes you had family game nights or similar or everyone would watch TV / listen to the radio together.

Now they must have adult eyes on them 24/7 lest you get CPS called on you.
This hits me in the feels when I realized shortly after getting married that I realized what a workaholic is and that I am one.

Just like an alcoholic uses booze to avoid the problems they face in the rest of life I use work to avoid problems in real life. I don't do it because I am so hard working, or because I really love what I do, its because when I sit down and can stare at code for a couple hours I don't have to worry about the other things going on in life, my brain gets filled with this little world which I know I can control by issuing magic spells that behave appropriately.

It means I'm not thinking about my sister's descent into alcoholism, I don't have to worry about my bipolar sister in law, I don't have to face the guilt I feel about not spending enough time with my kid.

I'm trying to combat that, I'm trying to not use work as an excuse to avoid situations that cause social anxiety, I'm trying not to shirk my household responsibilities by volunteering for extra work that is urgent. But the problem is that I've built up an expectation of several years of what people can expect from me, now I am trying to balance and I can't because I've got to the point where I have so much responsibility it requires that output, it's hard, and I am trying to keep things in balance, but by God it gets so hard sometimes....
eh another incel here