skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about cli applications / scripts? Why macOS doesn't seem to prevent users from using those downloaded from the internet when they can also very likely be malicious according to apple
How many lay persons do you reckon will have read that?
I saw some stories on r/IWantOut similar to what you said about a visa to come back, but about other countries. So it's not US only.
You just restored a little bit of my faith in humanity.
Thank you.
Birds today, your medication tomorrow. The USPS provides a public good well beyond its cost.
Israel saw a clear correlation between schools opening, and the spread ofthe virus, in a way that affected the entire country. [0]

The threat is not negligible. Students act as carriers, like they always have, and then the super-spreader event occurs through teacher and staff contacts, who take it with them and continue the spread. That's without speaking about transport.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/world/middleeast/coronavi...
So, moneyball?
I can believe it. How can you not after the past 3.5 years of constant lies and abuse of government power which was also supported by nearly half the country.
In Indiana at least it was semi-optional in '88 and I think they just had a morning class and an afternoon class to double the number of kids who got to go. But I mean, I'm pretty sure they went full-day as soon as it was possible. It's free childcare and way more households now are dual income.
We want our cake and to eat it too
Nice work on the product and video. It looks fun and it was easy to see what you're trying to accomplish.

That being said, with a $200 price tag and $10/mo subscription, why would someone invest in this instead of VR? Comparatively, VR seems to have a lot more versatility with regards to tracking and the types of activities people can enjoy, one of which is fitness related games.

With Quell, a person is limited to a single game, with one type of motion. I can't help but think this feels similar to someone selling a standalone VR system that could only play Beat Saber, and that doesn't seem like a very good value proposition.
Isn't it sad that as a society, it has come down to schools to provide security to children, as opposed to their own family.

I think the root cause is the fragmented family system in the US. Marriages and divorces happen so much that the ultimate sufferers are the children.

A society that is so fragile socially, will eventually collapse.
> to see that their end goal is to make mac os as restrictive as ios.

Well, there is no Mac ransomware, right?
Eh I've heard no where near those numbers, do you have a source for that?
Thanks! For those who'd rather read than listen, there's a transcript lower right.
I wouldn't argue with that much when looking at federal government (judicial branch excluded), but state and local governments have been varied in their responses, and most have been far from malice. In Chicago, my local alderman has been reactive to events (including non-covid matters, like storm damage) and informative about public services (especially with testing sites). Helpful and without cynicism.

I believe that national politics gets an undue spotlight, and that local government (in particular) does not receive the attention warranted.
The events I listed were not part of the Fatah-Hamas conflict, they were retaliation from the US and Israel for Hamas winning the election.
In a free market you would be bidding up worker salaries to hire and retain the most efficient workers. Demand would often increase the price of labor and perhaps the output.

In almost every sector of the modern American economy, the rules benefit capital over competition. In my area in New York, there were dozens of small bakeries pumping out good bread... today we pay more for shitty frozen stuff baked at the supermarket. ISPs were plentiful, now they are a monopolist service that costs 10x more than they did in 1999. We broke up standard oil decades ago... That monopoly is mostly reassembled today and we have weaker competitive forces around prices of fuel commodities than we did in the 90s.
>Relationships are all based on compromise

Yes, and I assume this is implied, but compromise must strike an acceptable balance. When things get too one-sided it's generally a recipe for trouble.

A good rule of thumb is for both partners to estimate their contributions or compromises to be 60+% of the total, and then there's some chance that it'll be fair (i.e. most people over-estimate their contribution/sacrifice)

I think a lot of relationship issues result from a struggle over balance/fairness because they aren't sufficiently dedicated to the others' interests and well-being.
> I don't understand why companies constantly do stuff that serves only _themselves_, and then expect users to engage with it because it exists.

Probably because most users don’t really care and those that do make excuses like “what else am I going to use?” or “I can’t stop using reddit, how will I stay in the loop?” or any one of many other excuses. If you want reddit to change, stop using them. Entirely.
No. That is not even close to being true. You're confusing None with NULL, like everyone else. Only a very few programming languages make this error.

NULL is undefined. It can't be equal or unequal to anything, including itself, for reasons that should be obvious.
This is actually an area I plan to invest time in after moving back to the US next year. Specifically, on automation-enhanced sustainable microfarming.

Crop diversity is a pretty key part of that, as is appropriate fungal and insect management.

Avoiding chemical pesticides is hard by the way -- in my current (tiny) garden, it's been the only way I was able to keep the aphids and mites from absolutely destroying my jalapeños. Ladybugs would be preferable, but are incredibly hard to come by here.

Home and/or municipal composting adds another level to this, and it'd be great to get to the point where a large percentage of packaging was directly compostable. That'll be tricky -- you don't want the packaging to break down until after the lifetime of the food inside it -- but likely doable as manufacturing advances.
You could do some coppicing if you have any use for the wood and it's the right varieties. Here I can do it with poplar. I have some I cut down 4 or 5 years ago and then a stand of spindly ones came up from the roots, but some of them are already 5-6" in diameter. With some thinning out in another 5 years they will be wide enough for me to make skis with.

I basically try to plant something for everything I take out, and to replace non-natives with natives. A coffee table from the Norway maple that a storm took down, and an eastern black cherry growing next to its rotting stump. Feels good.
I spent several pandemic months in the Netherlands. I have two ancedotes.

Often if I was running on the sidewalk and encountered another person they would cross to the other side of the road (or I would).

On my street there were 3-4 parties every week. I work late so loud music didn't effect my sleep much.

Generally I felt like people kept their distance although I think compliance is a big issue with lockdowns everywhere.
Can you elaborate? Do you mean entitlements, or perhaps how it's deployed (xcode vs some random binary)?
I’m not sure you have all the information necessary to make that statement so broadly.

This process of shipping poultry has developed and been perfected over many decades. Everything is carefully measured so that the birds are born in waves and will get to their destination on a set schedule. This is done absolutely with their well-being in mind, Ie: the packaging, the chemical heat, the amount of time so as to make sure they can get to sufficient food and water, etc. Many hatcheries will only ship in large quantities too because they’ve found they can keep the birds safer in that packaging vs what’s used for small batches.

We researched our options and found that had we used a “local” hatchery, it would not have been any better experience for the birds than shipping through the mail.

This is not to say that there aren’t serious issues in the broader poultry industry, but to say that hatcheries are acting with a “grotesque indifference to life” is an overly broad statement not in line with the actual practices at play.
Isn't it the duty of the agency responsible for conducting elections that has to do this?

FB should be ignored and media should not promote these articles. Sure, they can help if they want, but the primary information source should be the nodal election agency.

Americans have been brainwashed to view the government as some sort of an evil lunatic preventing all of them from becoming billionaires. This is a dangerous narrative and will ultimately lead the nation to dictatorship, as is already happening.
https://archive.vn/njq0r
Thanks for the link. It will take quite a while to read the paper.
What about when social isolation is linked to suicide?

https://www.amhf.org.au/social_isolation_increases_male_suic...
Why? Not that I don't believe you, but I can't get a back-of-the-envelope estimate to go that high (certainly from lack of knowledge on my part).

But I'm picturing the kind of study you see in posters on mass transit: "Are you X, Y, and Z and suffering from W? You might be eligible for experimental treatment. Call this number."
Huh, so Indian media has misery-porn-framed-as-supposedly-uplifting-news stuff too.
The only metric with planes that matters is $/mile. A soon as something flies far enough with enough payload, energy density stops being an issue. It doesn't matter that the plane is going to be four times the weight if it gets from A to B at a fraction of the cost. Think 100$ hamburgers turning into 5$ coffee runs because of vastly reduced fuel cost and maintenance cost.

You see the same pattern with EVs. All of the cool ones are really heavy compared to the ICE cars they compete with. But they still go really fast and pretty far. So, you see much heavier Tesla's making formerly cool ICE sports cars look sluggish and outdated. And lets be honest, those never had any kind of fuel economy (or range) worth talking about because they burn fuel at obscene rates to get that speed. Being obscenely noisy and inefficient was kind of the point of owning one.
I mean, it is literally across the river from Louisville.

Kidding. No, and they pronounce the city of Versailles, IN ver-sales.
This is a pretty entertaining long read of it https://www.fastcompany.com/3039887/under-fire
Fair Bayesian Optimization
Citation please. In my fields the worst yield is near the trees. Why? Because the trees suck up all the water and nutrients. This is for corn, soybeans, wheat, and milo.
I went on a ride in a jet trainer. The instructions I got were "We only bail if there's an engine fire. If the engine goes out an I can't restart it, we glide to one of these airports; this plane is an excellent glider." On bailing out "it came with ejection seats, but the government doesn't like us having explosives, so we use parachutes."
Yeah, but it seems like any sort of “permanent fund” where the timeline is infinite should be doing really aggressive, long-term, illiquid stuff, right? Investing like a 22 year old. And then any liquidity needs you need for annual distributions you handle via loans.

I feel like I could make an investment product where I pay you 4% of whatever you invest, per year, forever... but you can never get your original investment back. It seems like this would be a product all endowments/permanent funds would use. And then I just put it all in the s+p 500. I guess I’d need to be the government for endowments to trust me forever though.
That's what my first marriage was like. I told myself it was a great relationship because we never argued, but really I just deferred to her on every decision and went out of my way to avoid any conflict.
Coronavirus Cases and Playing Games with Testing
Even with a PR backlash, providing the sums work out correctly. I have no doubt it'll happen, just a matter of when.

I like the idea of humans not having to do trivial work.

But I am concerned as to whether as a society we'll transition to "more leisure without reduction of living standards" or "higher competition to make ends meet, with the 'failures' being cast aside".

So far it is the latter.
It's not an American perspective; it's an economic perspective. The parent comment isn't talking about people's psychological wellbeing, but "how people actually live" (in terms of do they live in poverty or like rich people).

Wealth doesn't capture that. For example, you might have someone living in extreme poverty in Guatemala who has no electricity or running water, a small home with a mud floor, and eats mostly rice and beans and similar. If this person has no debt, they might have a very small but positive net worth. Meanwhile, you can have someone from America with negative net wealth living a middle class life. The Guatemalan might be spending the equivalent of $600 per year, while the American might be spending 50x that. Looking at spending better captures who is living in poverty.

Wealth can also fail to capture how the wealthy live. Warren Buffett is notoriously frugal. Looking at wealth, you'd find he's about 180,000x wealthier than the mean American adult. Yet he has one house which he bought for $31,500 in 1958, and apparently eats breakfast at McDonald's each morning for no more than $3.17. The vast majority of his wealth will be going to charity. Looking at his spending gives you a more accurate picture of how he lives than looking at his wealth.
Judging by the lack of coherency / relevance of the profile's other replies, I'm guessing it's a bot whose model someone's attempting to train on HN comments.
That makes intuitive sense to me, that over the lifetime of an unrestrained virus propagation, the R0 value would start out higher and slowly decrease until the herd immunity threshold is reached. Not sure if that is commonly observed in the epi community but it wouldn't surprise me.
That William Shakespeare existed is not an open question, but whether he actually wrote the works commonly attributed to him is still debated in some circles. Personally, I find the argument to the contrary quite compelling. Briefly: he owned no books; he was not contemporaneously referred to as a playwright or poet; he had no opportunity to acquire the rich knowledge of the kinds of things that go on in royal courts that is reflected in the plays. Also, many of the plays evince a remarkably feminist sensibility for the times. It seems entirely possible that he was just an actor and producer, and the works commonly attributed to him were the anonymously published work of a woman, either Emilia Bassano or another woman of her acquaintance.

Ref: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/who-is-...
Few people on this website will ever be able to understand what it is to be poor like this. I cannot even grasp one corner of the idea.
Creating a Deep-Assign Library
> But what if the die was already rolled for some individuals?

Why does the timing of the roll matter?
I've been doing a lot of scored drawing pieces, where I draw the same marks in a certain order within a certain timeframe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6n4FpHbqZs

This is a sentiment close to my heart.
Chicks are ideally at 90F for the first few weeks of life. When weather is cooler, they put chemical heat bags in the shipping boxes. I’ve never experienced it, but I’m told that during particularly hot times the hatcheries also use cool packs instead. Point being, they are trying their best to equalize the temps and get those birds to their destination as fast as possible.

Heat is generally the bigger issue - birds that are a few weeks along have a greater problems when it’s too hot out. If it is cold, they will pack together and keep each other warm - it’s actually quite happy to see, as at least with my birds they seem to put aside their issues and look out for each other when they get cold.
Huh, for some reason I had just assumed that it must be open based on the buzz around it. Cool.
There are also large, structural similarities across the plays and poems that suggest a single authorship; that 'not very good' poetry has interests and stylistic tics in common with the later, more universally revered work. It's also relatively recently (1800s on) that the plays gained that the reputation that they did. The argument that William Shakespeare couldn't have written the plays is one that is extremely recent, historically-speaking, and it relies on snobbish negatives ('A son of a glove maker who had an excellent education grounded in the classics and spent his life in the theater couldn't have written the plays') rather than any affirmative evidence against. We also have text of contemporaries that are generally trustworthy sources describing his work (and offering criticisms). It's not the exciting answer, but it probably was William Shakespeare that wrote the works in question.
Is it really that? Can a native speaker give context?
Does the US approach mean countries like New Zealand need to stay isolated until a vaccine is found? Or would herd immunity eventually eradicate the virus in US?
Ah yes, see the FB group "This isn’t wholesome, this is the Capitalist Dystopia" [1] for more examples of this in the US.

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/groups/709692249462801/
Palantir is moving its headquarters to Denver
Searching the story title on Google throws up some English language coverage as well. Adding an alternative to translated page:
https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2020/08/19/madhya-pradesh-...
I agree - dehydration / starvation is the primary issue here, followed by the risks of simply more moving and shaking.
> I think a lot of people on this thread have never even used a mac for more than five minutes, let alone developed on one.

I have when I started a new job and they gave me a macbook and said it's the only option. After 2 weeks I told them I'll need a linux box asap or I'll look for a different job.

It's in my opinion the absolute worst garbage of an operating system I've ever had the displeasure of using and their window manager is a completely unusable pile of shit. Their hardware doesn't have proper cooling and burns your hands if you actually use your CPU.

People have different tastes and I really don't think you should assume people haven't tried.

Yes, I too think windows is way better than OSX, but well I also think windows is pretty shit. However, I wouldn't quit my job over having to use windows, I would have for OSX.
Any suggestions on where one can learn more, particularly with the mathematics involved?
Take a list of countries in the world that have the best HDI rankings, press freedom rankings, universal healthcare and so on. Almost all are run by parties who are described primarily as being center-right or center-left.
I don’t think distance learning should exist for kids under 12 or so. Pandemic has shut schools? Have them group into pods of 6 and go to a different family’s house every day and just play.
> Hold on a minute -- MacOS phones home every single time you launch an application?

It's on first launch of an application, but not on subsequent launches of that application.
Yeah, I find this name very confusing. I would never guess it has anything to do with teaching, but that's not the bad part. Epi is a common shortening of epidemiology. To me it screams some sort of epidemiology/public health platform. So "epihub" has a reasonable connotation that has nothing to do with their brand that they will have to actively fight.
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They're making a reasonable assumption for a bare-metal network, but their conclusion doesn't hold for Google Cloud (and likely Azure/AWS). A customer's Cloud SQL instances do not live in the same VPC as another customer's, and in Google Cloud, VPCs are fully isolated -- 10.0.0.0/8 in VPC A is a distinct network from 10.0.0.0/8 in VPC B, and the two cannot communicate unless there is a Cloud VPN, VPC peering, or a multi-NIC instance acting as a bridge between the two. The broad firewall rule is harmless; I must admit I'm not even sure why the iptables rules are there at all. Probably something about security and onions.

Source: I work in GCP support.
> not caring about a 1 in 200 chance of death

My chance of death is vastly less than that - probably on the order of 1-10% that.
The wage employee will be paid is some baseline plus or minus how much the bargaining power employee has.

The baseline wage is determined by how much a person with such characteristics is being paid in the industry for similar work in a given country, state, city. Usually, such characteristics should be limited to things like education and prior experience. In practice, they can include immigration status, nationality, current physical location, and other things that can be perceived as unfair.

By how much employees' income will diverge from this baseline is determined by the bargaining power and bargaining skills. This includes anything that can convince the employer to pay more. For example, if you currently have a job you may be less desperate to get a new job, meaning you can refuse a bad job offer more easily. If your status in the country is uncertain and you can't work legally in the country, regardless of how educated or skilled you are, you don't have as much bargaining power and you can be paid four to five times less than a citizen.

What I'm getting at is that in reality, employee's income is not determined by the product of labor he produces. It is determined by what similar others are being paid for similar work and bargaining. Usually, the lower bound is minimum wage and the upper bound is the company's income.
You must be talking about Microsoft stuff not applicable here.
Apple is an aspiration selling company.

>>I also can't imagine $100 is easy to come up with in countries below level 4[1]

Someone who is developing for Apple platform in specific, has already spent ~$1000 in devices. Say they couldn't afford to build explicitly for Apple[1], they instead develop for web using a Raspberry Pi and try to leverage smartphone capabilities using PWAs; Alas Apple throws in hurdles there as well so that your PWA doesn't function properly on Apple devices[2].

I get it, perhaps this is part of Apple's aspiration i.e. 'You should deserve to be part of the Apple ecosystem' which is enticing to its customers.

But what's overwhelming to me is, Apple's blatant hypocrisy.

Exihibit -1: Data

Apple calls Google by name, questioning its business model around data and proudly calims 'they chose not to do business with data'.

Then why does Apple advertise its products using Google Ads?

So, it's like 'I will call out dirty work, but I will use the results of that dirty work for my own advantage'.

Exihibit -2 : Values

Apple claims itself to be the beacon of human rights.

a. We know Apple was included among list of other companies supplying user data for snooping in the documents highly regarded to be genuine.

b. We know Apple actively cooperates with an autocratic regime and its highly publicised 'Privacy features' isn't applicable there. But, Apple never includes 'USA only' when it advertises it's 'Privacy'. More over when confronted with proof of Apple's platform being actively used for exploitation of minorities, it outright downplayed/dismissed the impact of it.

[2]https://ionicframework.com/blog/is-apple-trying-to-kill-pwas...
Newton also made many of his breakthroughs after retreating to the countryside to avoid a plague in London as well:

https://www.biography.com/news/isaac-newton-quarantine-plagu...
I'm curious about the death rates in the European countries on your WHO link; both France and Spain have clear resurgence in cases but very near zero deaths. Did they actually reduce the morbidity by 100x, or is there some other fundamental difference?
Paper rendered as web page:

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/2008.07371/