skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ..you can see the window maximize/minimize in slow motion

Oof, that's painful to imagine the daily frustration. There must be a better technical solution - but, as long as the current setup is working (and generating value), probably no one with decision-making power has an incentive to improve anything. They can ignore the cost, the wasted time, effort, stress and loss of morale.
You can buy a top-of-the-line $3,000 16" Macbook Pro and it comes with a garbage-tier 720p webcam that has terrible dynamic range and low-light performance. It's embarrassing. Most Windows laptops at a third of the price have significantly better webcams.
> An actress basically invented FHSS

Mind you, said actress, Hedy Lamarr, was a fairly brilliant, self taught electrical engineer.
Well the iPhone is their only mass market luxury good, and that's simply because people don't pay the whole cost at once. The get it on credit, under contract, from their mobile provider.

I don't know the history of mobile phone contracts before the iPhone but i feel like that was Apples innovation (or they made the best use of it), rather than the product being so good that everyone had to spend ~$800-$1000 up front for one. Not that it isn't a good product, just without a phone contract it would have sold far less at the premium price point.

In fact iPhone phone contracts seemed to spawn a trend in getting many other products on credit (and over paying for them).

Also, I seem to remember Apple pushing mobile network providers hard to almost subsidise the cost of the handset around the 2012s, when they were still competing at market share with Android phones.
I might agree with what you are saying, but it doesn't address the question, which is to provide a rationale for the claim "Fairness is not about everyone getting the same amount just for existing, for that in itself is not fair."

Your statement is about motivations, not fairness.
It lost due to a lot more than that. Britain and her colonies (excluding India) out produced the Germany economy. Once you add in the US and USSR it’s more a question of how Germany lasted so long.

This book covers the illusion of ‘the plucky underdog’ who stood ‘alone’ quite nicely.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2011/...
That is still better for society than not having the economic activity.

What exactly is the benefit of wholly depriving the putative worker of a job vs. making up the difference with something like food stamps and Medicaid?
> Under what possible circumstances does the average individual have more negotiating power or more information than a multinational organization with teams of lawyers, an HR department, and access to labour market research?

You're assuming a level of competence for corporate HR departments that isn't in evidence. What do you think they have that you can't get from Glassdoor or similar? Not much, if anything.

> Please explain how a ditch-digger can have negotiating leverage over the average road construction company?

By taking a job at some other ditch-digging company, or Walmart, or Uber, or anywhere else, until one company offers a better wage than the other.

For commodity positions it's not even really a negotiation for either party -- everybody on both sides knows what ditch diggers get paid, the employers offer that much and the employees accept that much because anybody who offered less or demanded more wouldn't find any takers.

Which is also why there can't be any meaningful information asymmetry -- when everybody knows the prevailing wage for that category of work, there is nothing else you really need to know in terms of wage negotiations.
How do you figure on "it's just a mask!"?
Does Sweden have herd immunity? They didn't lock down, but they did implement social distancing recommendations.

Does Belarus have herd immunity? No lockdown, no social distancing to speak of, basically nobody wears a mask, er, anywhere. I see people in the centre of Minsk having face-to-face conversations all day long. And now there are tens of thousands of people protesting/yelling/hugging each other without masks.

I very much hope the answer is yes and these countries do have something close to herd immunity. But that feels like wishful thinking.
But Canola oil is higher in monounsaturated fats like Olive Oil: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000785.htm

Why is Canola oil bad if it has the same quantity of monounsaturated fats as Olive Oil?
There are a lot of steps remaining for SpaceX to start a long haul point to point passenger service on Earth. First, Starship has to meet its safety and performance aspirations, that’s at least a decades worth of work. The first passengers won’t be for a couple years, and they will only be astronauts and explorers for at least a decade, until Raptor has a long history of trustworthy flights. Then there is the government approvals, offshore launch and landing sites with high volume transport to/from them, etc. Point to Point might be twenty years away.

So yes, its reasonable BO will be launching payloads within the same time frame, 10-20 years.
Most of the theoretical results of basic economics (i.e. Econ 101) are built on really sketchy assumptions, including perfect competition. I recommend Steve Keen, Debunking Economics, for one amusing reference.
Yep it's a new site, just created it:)
I don't have an opinion on this in either direction, but i'm curious: how do you define a small business, and do inefficient/wasteful small businesses get selectively 'bailed out' compared to national ones? Why should small businesses not have to foot the bill while large ones do? Just because they are small, they don't have to be competitive or efficient - do not-profitable hobby businesses get propped up for no reason other than they are small?

Many chains and non-small businesses have also been known to split off (for example, an incorporation per chain location, franchise location, or per physical building) - then that one national fast food chain or REIT building is now a "small business" with only a few employees?
>>The fact that the pandemic is effectively done in Sweden is one.

Acting like this is a foregone conclusion is the height of arrogance. Diseases spread in waves. They could just be at the low point between two waves.

We won't know until years from now. Just asserting you're right when there are still this many unknown factors smacks of someone looking for data after coming to a conclusion.
Here's a fun bit: in the article they say that lithium-sulfur is hard to measure charge level for due to the voltage properties of charging and discharging.

"The upshot is that voltage is not a good proxy for the state of charge and, to make things even more complicated, the voltage curve is asymmetrical for charge and for discharge."

Since it would be bad if your battery suddenly died and you dropped out of the sky, they had to develop complex statistical and neural network algorithms to accurately determine state of charge to within a few percent. One black box for staying in the sky and another in case you end up on the ground!
The same reason Facebook and Linkedin do the same thing. They get more access to your personal data.
LOL. :) Sometimes I wonder what happens if humans go extinct. There may be a new civilization by ants, spiders, or insect descendants. Or there could be another reptilian domination.

I think the most "successful" people are the people I would not hear about. Likely, some mid-level executives, engineers, professionals. They have enough. They don't need to "move up". They're happy. They don't need to tell people about their stories. So we never hear about them.
> It makes me sad seeing a community I’d otherwise regard as intelligent being so profoundly ignorant

I feel the same about religion, so AFAIK this has always been so - move along, nothing to see here.

Except religion has been around long enough to excuse itself from the obvious, or a least to bare its fangs at anyone thinking of commenting on the emperor's new clothes..
This is a myth. It is not nearly that bad. I own a Model 3 in a place where it is frequently below 30F in the winter. My last road trip when it was 17F throughout I consistently got around ~250-270 miles out of 310 rated range. The new hybrid heat-pump based system in the newer models makes it even more efficient.
As someone that uses Keepass on Android, I find it extremely disturbing that it was reading my clipboard without permission.

Thankfully I only had TikTok for a day (ironically copied my TikTok password to the clipboard).
Sound similar to our current situation?

“[...]her position was alarmingly worse, the financial situation beyond her understanding. The krone, at 25 Swiss centimes the previous Christmas, was now quoted at one-twelfth of a centime. Her shares, however, were going up. Gambling on the stock exchange had become the fashion — the only way to avoid losing all one's money and perhaps to add to it. Many new bankers were giving people advice, the flight from the krone governing all transactions. 'Meanwhile,' Frau Eisenmenger wrote, the large numbers of unemployed, their passions fermented by the Communists, are seething with discontent … a mob has attempted to set the Parliament building on fire. Mounted policemen were torn from their horses, which were slaughtered in the Ringstrasse and the warm bleeding flesh dragged away by the crowd … the rioters clamoured for bread and work … Side by side with unprecedented want among the bulk of the population, there is a striking display of luxury among those who are benefitting from the inflation. New nightclubs are being opened.”

[...]

“Speculation on the stock exchange has spread to all ranks of the population and shares rise like air balloons to limitless heights … My banker congratulates me on every new rise, but he does not dispel the secret uneasiness which my growing wealth arouses in me … it already amounts to millions.”

[...]

“It was significant enough that union, demands were still for higher wages to meet rising prices rather than, before all else, stable prices and a stable currency. A few of the financially sophisticated could be heard blaming the government, and the Finance Minister in particular, but a typical view was that prices went up because the foreign exchange went up, that the exchange rate went up because of speculation on the Stock Exchange, and that this was obviously the fault of the Jews. Although the price of the dollar was a matter for almost universal discussion, it still appeared to most Germans that the dollar was going up, not that the mark was falling; that the price of food and clothing was being forcibly increased daily, not that the value of money was permanently sinking as the flood of paper marks diluted the purchasing power of the number already in circulation.”

[...]

“Erna von Pustau recalled the same trend in Hamburg, where 'stock exchange' and 'Jews' were ideas very much connected in the minds of the people, and where the circumstances of a situation which no one really understood made those who had lost their savings or their fortunes ready prey for anti-Semitic propaganda. Her father began to speak against the Jews more and more, asserting now that 'creative capital is the capital we Germans have: parasitical capital is the capital of the Jews.”

FERGUSSON, Adam - When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany (1975)
Depends if life became better for the citizens after the takeover.
Here is what Iranians see from major American presidential candidates considered to be "highly respected on both sides of the aisle": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg
I've not found my position is rational, other positions are not to be all that convincing.
None of your defenses work outside of a thought experiment where every actor is rational. Real human beings are anything but, and there's a long history of precedents for why all of your positions here are bad ideas (and why regulatory bodies like NHTSA, DOT, and other regulators became necessary).
> If these are passenger aircraft, that probably wouldn't fly

Well, it doesn't need to have the same rate of acceleration as a carrier's, but honestly it just doesn't make sense in general.
Not really sure where there's a straw man here. I've addressed your concern on whether power dynamics are orthogonal or not. I've described the academic definition of what a perfectly competitive market is and referred to Coase's Theorem which essentially concludes such markets rarely exist in reality.

You say they are orthogonal, and I provided evidence that they are not.
Well as Science continues to steal everyone's privacy, and Capitalism is the defacto remuneration system in place, I think its only fair we get a universal income if Govt's want us to be good little citizens. Considering the current laws in place, like Copyright, Patents etc etc, its very hard for new comers to enter the market and compete, not to mention the massive setup costs to get into some lines of business. Financial cleansing is perfectly legal in this day and age.
Most likely the owner of the gym would receive a fine until they closed it down.
Should it be called herd immunity if it depends on current social practices of physical distancing and masking? Sure, you might have "effective herd immunity" in some regions, but those herd immunity percentage targets go up if people start interacting more.
> This analysis and the conclusions that I have drawn are my own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the wider scientific and medical communities.

That’s an important point because the wider scientific and medical communities don’t agree with this analysis at all.
The amount of money that's gone into that area without shipping a product is insane.
Maybe some people think enforcing compliance is about safety.

This whole discussion is absurd. If people actually did comply, then they wouldn't get arrested and we would have had a far more successful outcome nationwide.
Which obviously doesn't include anyone on HN talking to people in virtual space, you and me included.
Marble Race by Jelle's Marble Runs and Formula E [video]
ceasefire Thank you for finding a better word for “not angry” and for writing down the idea behind it. It’s the conscious, mutual decision to solve the problem later, knowing that sleeping safely together as a couple is more important.
Scientists say ‘anomaly’ in Earth’s magnetic field is splitting
The linters can probably be configured to look for the squash!/fixup! indicators in commit messages and throw a warning or something instead.
Government: "We'll give you this big no-bid contract, but there's one other thing you need to do for us first..."
I'll bet that many of the people who worked on iTunes probably developed on Windows as well. I'm sure Apple would prefer that every iPod user own a Mac, but at the time it launched, the market would've been like 90% PC, so surely there would've been an incentive to ensure compatibility with your dominant user-base.
Most studies show that unless kids come from low income families the differences between kids who go to pre-k and kids who don't are gone by 3rd grade or so. And for low-income kids it's only advantageous if it's "high quality" preschool.

I can't for the life of me figure out why you would bother putting your kid through 6 hours a day of virtual pre-k, when you have to be right there to watch them anyway.
With turbofans and turbojets it gets a little harder as well, since unlike stationary turbine generators, not all "waste heat" is actually wasted, when considering thrust-specific fuel consumption.
Interesting. Perhaps my English isn't that good. Please re-write "The FDA should be able to certify drugs as safe, effective, etc." in the way you understand it.

In this universe, you can just get an FDA-certified thing. No stand-in required.

> You're arguing that medications that have not passed regulatory requirements for safety or efficacy should be sold to consumers, and that they can simply rely on retail pharmacists or the like as a stand in for the FDA's approval process.

No. No gatekeepers. The standard is you buy FDA drugs from pharmacists. If you don't want to, you don't, you buy it from who will sell it and you're on your own. It's the escape hatch. Just like you can buy non-Snell-certified helmets.
Not by much. The Model 3 is approximately 1 person heavier than a comparable BMW 3 series. The Model 3 Long Range is about one person heavier than a 3 series wagon.
I think it's an inane and inept comparison. The manner in which defects arise in each type of product, and the manner in which failure modes manifest are so different as to be incomparable.
This is what the MIT Tech has to say about Sweden (and I agree): "Lessons from Sweden
Outside the US, researchers are also closely tracking the role of population immunity in national responses. Sweden, for example, did not impose a strict lockdown, and saw a large number of deaths starting in April. Since then, however, the number of new infections has declined. The nation’s leaders said last week that children would go back to school unmasked.
“I would say in Sweden there is no doubt that immunity plays an important role, more than in other countries,” says Britton. “Now this epidemic is slowly stopping.” https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/11/1006366/immunity...
This sounds awesome, congrats!!!
When it comes to CoVID-19 analysis, I prefer mine in the form of a peer-reviewed paper from a reputable journal.
That entire excerpt is bollocks. I seem to recall a pretty influential treatise explaining how wages tend towards the exchange-value of the labor to produce a good, not the use value or even marginal exchange value of the good itself.
your points seem to be contradicting each other. hunter gatherers would naturally have institutionalized child care - when some people go gathering, some people go hunting and some people stay put and look after the tribe's children if they aren't ready to do either. this is about as far from a nuclear family as you can get though, especially if the tribal culture isn't monogamous and e.g. a child can have many fathers who equally accept a child as theirs.
Yes, it is less of a tragedy when an old person dies. Old people have less of their life to lose and have less remaining potential to contribute to society. The death of children is always more tragic than the death of elderly people.

This isn't a perspective exclusive to young people either. Last year my grandfather died and my cousin had a miscarriage. My grandmother was far more distraught over the latter because she understood that her husband, who she'd loved for nearly 60 years, had already lived a full happy life. She said as much explicitly.
Ahem, ahem. Would it be surprising if such a "crazy cool technology" is embedded into the AirPods of late and being used by your political opponents?
Five Myths About Venture Capital
Manifold learning is not very common anymore
why should i use this over itsycal?
Catapult really paints the wrong picture... but if you say ballista and actually mean a maglev rail accelerator then I'm down
You're comparing one meaningless number to another meaningless number. What's the point?
> Which is why Communism doesn't work. If what you get has no relationship to the work you do, there is no reason to do the work.

It may surprise people to learn that even the Soviets effectively acknowledged the validity of that second statement. According to the 1936 Constitution of the USSR:

"ARTICLE 118. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to work, that is, are guaranteed the right to employment and payment for their work in accordance With its quantity and quality."

https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/36cons04....
$ brew search dato

==> Formulae

mkvalidator

==> Casks

datovka
Power dynamics are not at all orthogonal to market freedom.

Academics hold all the power in the "free" market and have
their snouts in the trough. In a truly free market Milton Friedman would be on minimum wage at best (or find a rich sponsor).
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.
You bring up some excellent points, and you are right that I most likely take most technology for granted.

I would say the issues that you bring up don't have a clear "right answer", and it's all about perspective.

Me and my siblings were all born thanks to c-sections. Without that, none of us would have been born and my mom would have died trying to give birth. Are we better off having been born? Can't say. Is the world a better place because we were born? For who?

It all depends on goals and perspectives. If the goal is to be happy then, are current people happier than people that lived for example five thousand years ago? Have most technological advances been made in the service of happiness? It doesn't seem like it.

So what's the actual benefit of "all the immense benefits" of technology? Being alive? Living longer? Is it better to be alive and live longer just because we can? The answers to those questions depend on your individual situation and perspective on life.
Well some do- MIT's paper, MIT Tech seems to https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/11/1006366/immunity...
First off, 48 volt systems doing regen is already taking off, and there are already many new cars doing it (not just ones that have a hybrid sticker on them either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mild_hybrid#Examples)

Second, as other comment says, the idea that braking regen is going to make up for an extra half a ton of batteries is pretty laughable
> What UBI skeptical people want to know is where is the proof that we can afford to tax ourselves to pay ourselves

What UBI skeptics seem to be avoiding, ignoring, or unaware of, is just how prevalent this situation already is. Most of the UBI fans I know want to replace the overlapping, redundant, and inefficient welfare systems currently in place with a simple, efficient, and universal benefit.
> AI and bio
> two very [...] disparate fields

They are not, really. The field of bioinformatics exists for almost 20 years, as in, you can degree in it - I almost did myself. And the "informatics" part that you get educated about is pretty much data science, that, by now, uses a lot of ML methods and just like ML requires a very serious math foundation.
It got auto collapsed because it's a reply to my comment that got flagged and killed. Almost certainly users flagging it (although oddly it's also positively upvoted) not a mod decision.
Do you think Singapore is a free market? What do you think of their housing policy?
Your chain of causality is actually completely wrong. At 15 dollars an hour only a few companies can hire unskilled workers. At 1 dollar an hour many people can pay workers that amount, so there is more competition out there for wages. The idea that there is a monopolistic employer in the US labor market is laughable. Even for monopolistic industries like telecom there are multiple options.

Minimum wage jobs should not be expected to be a long term viable career choice. Minimum wage jobs are a way for people to get their first experience, and then move one once they have gained valuable skills.

People like to twist reality by imposing arbitrary constraints e.g. workers need to be able to get paid 15 dollars an hour without needing to relocate or learn new skills. The world isn't a charity, and anyone disputing that price floors don't result in shortages is frankly uneducated.
> Our decades of oil wars still don't seem to be common knowledge.

Nor are common knowledge the names of the oil company executives and shareholders who benefited from these wars, while dumping the expense and blame on their host countries.
> vesting periods, mandatory option execution/abandonment on job exit

We're talking about minimum wage jobs. None of that applies.

> school districts for children, underwater mortgages, 10% gross transaction fees on home sales/purchases.

Nobody says you have to move. Take a job from another employer in the same city.

Also, again, minimum wage employees? Typically not homeowners.