skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the point of restaurants when people have stoves and microwaves in their homes? It's a service, it provides convenience.

Sure, I could buy several hundred thousand dollars' worth of free weights, machines and kettle bells, and a treadmill, and install a big tv over it and get satellite cable, and somehow fit all of that and a sauna and a swimming pool into my tiny apartment, and have to worry about moving it all every time I move, and about maintenance and everything else, or I could just walk into any Gold's Gym on the planet and have nothing but the workout be my problem.
Apple's appstore? :)
The head of Sweden's response is quoted as saying:

> "If we were to run into the same disease, knowing exactly what we know about it today, I think we would end up doing something in between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world has done."

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

He's on record saying mask requirements will be needed if cases started going back up:

https://www.thelocal.se/20200804/tegnell-if-we-see-problems-...

and Sweden wound up with de-facto lockdowns anyways, as many people did it on their own without government instruction. The end result: Same economic damage as the other Nordic countries, but substantially higher deaths.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-c...

> no. people can still transmit it by touching you.

That's an argument for "don't touch people", not "don't wear masks".
What formula then is used in calculating “someone worth $50/hr“?

Does it omit or include those costs?
> 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

Has that been proven?
> it is really strange that people feel they have to (...) get together (...)

> I find it amazing we can not see short term sacrifice for long term gain.

These are two related issues, but not the same.

Before we started (half) using the office again - I'd not see anyone outside of buying groceries. For approximately 3 months straight. It's not healthy, and I absolutely can see others having even more trouble with that than I did.

It is natural even introverts need to socialize.

That said, I'm surprised there seem to be less focus on organizing in smaller, regular groups. It's likely better for preventing spread if people met up in the same group of 5 to 10 people, rather than gathering indoors - especially as it now seems quite likely covid-19 is airborne.

So yes, some personal sacrifice should be expected - but I would be careful dismissing the need for people to see other people, in person.

We are social animals.
Another nice one is the Ray Tracing in One Weekend guide
https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht...
Yep. That’s why I replied because the parent comment (to my comment) doesn’t appear to me to advance the conversation.
How does a lockdown cause muscle atrophy?

If muscle mass or fitness is a concern, work out at home. Or outside. Ride a bike, go for a run, do some pushups. Pick up large rocks. Buy a squat rack or rowing machine. Go climb a mountain.

Access to a gym is absolutely not required to maintain fitness.
I think paper books are not obsolete because I don’t want to live in a future where every copy of a certain piece of information can disappear or be rewritten instantly.
Any UBI could be entirely reversed by an equal and opposite tax. Of course this would be pointless, but it shows that there are many possibilities, depending on what sort of taxes you combine it with, and some of them are certainly feasible because the net effect is small.

UBI is largely about symbolic equality, the kindergarten-level fairness of everyone getting the same amount. That’s important because symbols of equality are important. But from an economics standpoint it’s not a complete plan, and it’s a bit nebulous because the choice of which taxes to include in your analysis is arbitrary.

Assuming a progressive tax system, though, it does mean automatic benefits for people without other income and more financial security for almost everyone, assuming you think you have some risk of losing your job.

This is similar to insurance. We don’t buy it because we think we will make money on average.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-fitness-ride-...
It's also worth mentioning that Mozilla tends not to use a lot of standard C++ types, using nsTArray instead of std::vector or nsA?C?String instead of std::string. This makes the porting of APIs using arrays or structs easier, since Mozilla owns the ABI rather than needing to worry about different standard libraries having different ABIs.
Oaxaca and now Tabasco too. Oaxaca was first a couple of weeks ago and Tabasco just voted this in recently [1].

[1] https://www.milenio.com/estados/comida-chatarra-tabasco-proh...
Fuego con limon , spicy chips with a hint of lemon are by far my favorite chip I discovered in Mexico. It took me a few months to find them when I came back state side. I wasn't able to find the standard chip, only oven baked when I got back to the USA. Although I'm sure the oven baked are healthier, it definitely came at the expense of flavor and enjoyment
So... segregation?

Something tells me that won't really fly
I sent am email to Stripe support... let's see where that goes. Thanks for flagging out micropayments platform. I told them about that too.
This is a gross mischaracterizatuon of the posters argument. They are claiming that, based on the information they provided, the people they’re referring to are making a rational choice. Working off of different information is a different matter. They also never claimed that covid is comparable to lightning, just that if you’re under 30 you’re more likely to be struck by lightning than die of covid (I cant speak to the statistical truth of this, but that’s beside the point).
These types of ludicrous comparisons serve no purpose. The sum total of an arbitrarily chosen currency with an arbitrary size or weight has nothing to do with anything.

If "normal people" want to understand something, they should read the 10-K and search online for terms they don't understand. It is pretty simple to understand how much revenue and net income per customer has been and is expected in the future per some unit of time.
Maybe some textbooks? But like - when a software engineer is billed out by a contracting company at 250/hr and only is paid 50/hr it's pretty obvious that the wealth created is not what the worker is paid. It's been a long time since I took microeconomics in college but even the most charitable analysis of that is basically that the worker gives up the other 200/hr for stability and benefits.
One of the best things I learned from my wife: Never go to bed angry. If we have an issue, we talk it through until we find an agreement. It's actually harder than it sounds.

The worst thing you can do is not talking about something or avoiding the topic. I think mutual understanding is one of the cornerstones of a healthy relationship.
Anecdote > data?
There has never been a legal requirement for corporations to maximize profit. This is one of the greatest misconceptions propagated in the past 40 years.

A company's management has to act in the interest of shareholders, but that can be very loosely defined. A company that says "When making business decisions, we prefer protecting the environment over short-term profits, because our shareholders are humans living on Earth and without a good environment, our business would fail in the long-term" is not doing anything illegal. But if other companies don't follow suit, the eco-conscious company is in danger of being outcompeted.
I think you might have lost track of the thread or something?

The possibility of bribes to reopen sooner make me even less worried about dx87's concerns.
It's funny you mention cows specifically, because I tend to think of beef as one of the less healthy meats compared to others. And I know there is a lot of criticism of beef production from environmentalists, but I am not too steeped in that literature.

A lot of Mexican dishes I most readily think of are more about pork and chicken than beef.
the media have consistently demonized people at beaches and parks. Lightfoot fenced off the beaches in Chicago, Newsom did the same in CA. It's ridiculous; and its why people are skeptical of their intentions.
Virtually all the people who died of covid were fat[1]. If the military forced everyone to exercise (and diet, but that's harder to mandate than exercising) it would have been much more effective than forcing everyone to wear masks. (Masks are still good though.) Most of us are going to get covid even if we stay inside all day (I got it twice) so this should be a wake-up call to be prepared to survive it. Or don't, stay overweight and choke on your own blood if you want--that's "freedom".

[1] https://www.worldobesity.org/news/obesity-and-covid-19-polic...
How Nintendo, Pokemon + Japanese culture shaped global tastes through invention
Thinking about the policy in terms of punishments and fairness isn’t the right approach. Something happened that cost the company a great deal of resources, so the company is trying to prevent such a thing from happening again.

It may be doing a poor job at that, but it isn’t punishing you and it isn’t about fairness. It’s trying to prevent a future mistake. And because the company is a single entity, it is the company choosing to bear the cost.

It may make your job harder and they may not modify its expectations properly after imposing this cost on you, but that isn’t punishment or fairness. It is poorly thought out systems.
Still orders of magnitude less energy-dense than jet fuel.
Look at digital signage. The high-end ones are the same kind of display hardware as consumer TVs, but designed for 24/7 operation and overall greater durability, as well as generally having much higher maximum brightness. Of course, you'll also pay a premium for that quality bump.
Here's the announcement of the new course this submission links to: https://www.fast.ai/2020/08/19/data-ethics/
OK, so set up 4 starbases (called A, B, C, D), each 100 light hours from each other in a stable reference frame. They have a wormhole from A to D.

Wormhole from 1 light minute south of A, to 1 light minute south of B, travelling at 0.99c northwards according to the starbase reference frames, both ends in the same reference frame as each other, but in a different one to the starbases.

Everyone looks at A for the time, it says "time = 1200h" at A, B sees "time=1100h", C sees "time=1000h", D sees "time=900h", but they know the distance so can work out that it is currently 1200h, so all set their clocks, which run at the same time as they are in reference frames.

Event occurs at 1200h at starbase B.
Event is seen at starbase A and C at 1300h.

How can you use the wormhole to pass information back in time. Assume both ends of each wormhole are in the same reference frame, but aren't changing reference frame (no acceleration)
jesus this is worse than takimag
Forms-of-Life
Yes, can confirm this too. It was quite an eye opener when I read it and goes a long way to explaining Iran's relationship with the US and the west.
By the way, maybe others don't know but I think old.reddit.com is a way better clean browsing experience than the new crap.
"Successful people" are those that come to the ocean shore, build a sand castle (indeed, what else is this sand for?), develop depression protecting it from wind, water and sun, and even force other tourists to build the castle for them. And they die wondering why the ocean shore is such a cruel and pointless place. Their lives aren't worthless,though: at least they develop some will. The wise don't build castles, they just watch the ocean and think about the relationship between sand, water, wind and sun.
How much empirical data do you need to convince yourself that jumping out of a window with an umbrella is unsafe?

Everybody can understand that employing people at a loss is unsustainable and that the goal of employers is to make a profit. I think there's plenty of empirical data for that, the rest just follows logically.

Of course there's bound to be a narrow range where you can move some profits into wages and you have neither rising prices nor unemployment, but that number is going to be different for every location, every sector and every business. I wouldn't trust politicians to come up with a magic number here.
Most kinds of soda are available in sugar-free form, so drinking soda shouldn't be the problem.
I had cereal (usually sugary) for breakfast basically every day for about the first 20 years of my life. I don't think this is terribly uncommon. If it weren't for my mild lactose-intolerance I might never have switched to greek yogurt.
Correct answer, downvoted of course since this is HN. I personally don’t care about privacy too much, but the way TikTok operates and its ties with the Chinese government is more than a little concerning. The videos are fun, too bad about the content.
> "extraordinary measures in extraordinary situations"

That's a key phrase and begs some questions:

- Do the "extraordinary measures" have to be proven effective?

- Do the "extraordinary measures" have to be proven effective than doing nothing?

- Has anyone announced what metrics we're even tracking to determine "effective"?

- How long does something have to persist until it's no longer an "extraordinary situation"?

- Are the "extraordinary measures" persistent or limited by time, risk, etc?

Asking for the War on Poverty, Drugs, Terror, etc, etc.
> When unsaturated oils are exposed to free radicals they can create chain reactions of free radicals

This seems like the most important claim and also has no citations.
"They were self sufficient back then. Today we call that poverty"
So, pay more?
Early days yet, but medical professionals are seeing cases of myocarditis that appears to follow COVID. Whether or not this leads to ling-term damage is unknown, but myocarditis isn't generally something you ignore.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/opinion/covid-19-heart-di...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2020/08/17/covid-...
I assume the cxx library still generates unsafe code, but that can be excluded from analysis, i.e. no human-written unsafe is needed.
No it's not obviously untrue. Productivity growth has been driven by capital, not labor.
You’re rejecting the conclusion of studies that you haven’t even read?
Today I learned that getting a haircut with a mask on is equivalent to driving drunk, but protesting or going to a grocery store with a mask on is not.
If you want to use a tool that pastes code fragments in arbitrary places you can. However, I'm not clear on the benefit over something that's aware of its context, or at the very least AST aware.
Any thoughts on the sound options with those suggestions? Just get a cec sound bar?

I hate remotes and will tolerate one maximum. I don’t want an Apple TV, amplifier and some other one.
Much of the fall in activity is independent of announced quarantine measures. People simply stopped engaging in commercial activity.

This appears across multiple states in the US and in multiple countries.

Restaurant, cinema, theatre, and travel bookings most especially.
You're redefining what a 'free market' means. If one side has a greater need or desire, that is still within the bounds of what a free market is. The market creates incentives and disincentives to fulfill different market demands, by creating an incentive to supply what's in demand (by paying more) and a disincentive to supply what we don't need more of (by paying less).
Personal observations and reasoning > crooked, conclusion-oriented "studies"
The Dow went from 14k to 7k during the Great Recession of 2007-2009. The S&P 500 saw a similar loss of half its value. Index investing is generally considered a safe approach, not "horribly over-leveraged".

The problem with using the market as a savings account is the times large numbers of people need to dip into savings tend to coincide with the times the market is dipping.
This post highlights my favorite part of the keep everyone home argument: "get food delivery directly at the door."

Who delivers the food if we keep everyone home? There is a subtle classist underpinning to the entire "Stay The Fuck Home" message which really shows how little people value others, especially lower-class (food delivery) or blue collar (food supply) workers. Everyone needs to stay home, except for the deplorables that will grow, process, and serve food directly to my door.
RedReader is ok but a bit basic

"Slide for Reddit" is also open source and has a lot more features
My only fear is that wouldn't businesses constantly relocate to new areas with lower minimum wages? If the area you're located in goes from $5 to $8 (possibly due to your factory), why not relocate three counties over to an area that's still at $5? A national standard mitigates this issue.
Pomplamoose music tour profits (Patreon CEO, 2014)
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.

It doesn't matter who I buy from, I need food much more than any retailer needs my business. I can sell my labour to many different companies with a relatively low switching cost. The average time people between jobs is lower than it has ever been.

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.

If the price of steel increased, building new mines to extract iron ore would cost great sums of money as well. It is not easy for all mining companies to do this. It doesn't mean that the market is not relying on price signals to coordinate the production of goods.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2020/08/17/covid-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2020/08/17/covid-...
The difference between the current structure and making it fully public is that the current law regulates what the data can be used for and who could access it. So only companies in specific industries or PIs would be able to access it and only for authorized use cases. That cuts out a very large portion of the public and has basically eliminated (couldn't find any examples nor people on here provide any) the abuse that was taking place before, like targeting abortion providers. Any misuse of the info results in loss of access and possibly other actions, like losing your PI license.

I see what you mean about the credit data access. My suspicion is that the permission to do that is hidden in the fine print of many agreements. They do similar stuff with credit cards where they will periodically check your card to see if it is valid, like for EZ-Pass. Car insurance does the same sort of thing. When you sign up, you give them permission to access your driving records, ownership info etc. That's how they can do that spooky stuff like list what cars you own without even needing to put in the VIN yourself (the industry also aggregates the data that any insurance provider has on a driver, but that much more detailed and personal).

The only way to truly end the privacy concerns around the DMV data would be to eliminate the need for the data to be collected and distributed. The government wont stop collection because they use that data in all sorts of systems for stuff like collecting fees/taxes and validating identities addresses. Data distribution could be partially reduced by making insurance companies ignore that type of data in their models. Many states would not go for this because they work with the companies to verify insurance information around mamdatory insurance laws. Plus, as long as cars are financed the banks and debt collectors need some way to track who is registering their asset and where.
Where I live gyms have been open for some time. There's been no outbreaks at fitness facilities thus far in my state. I have friends in various countries in Europe who also lift regularly and their fitness facilities have been open for months with no issues.

As always, a dose of perspective is necessary.
Once you had a basic income like this it would have the nice effect of then being able to talk about (and implement) other policies in a revenue-neutral way.

For example a government interested in reducing CO2 emissions could introduce a tax on motor fuel of say £1/litre and balance that with an increase of the basic income of £75/month.
Fair point! it was a bit of knee jerk reaction on my part as a previous thread I'd read on HN about climate an animal agriculture had the exact same broccoli point.
Historically the US debt balance has gone up for longer and by higher amounts than it goes down. I don't see how this pattern leads to a zero balance in the future?
Relay is so good I've never tried any alternatives
Very true. Thanks for bringing that up
The metric by which it's doing better, is freedom. Nobody has been forced to change their lifestyle, if they did, thats because they decided so.

The number of case is under control [1], almost no death now (and not hiding after a lockdown, really no death) so probably less death in the future compared to those countries

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...
Not sure why they are researching the mechanism, these systems are commonly installed in Germany and known as "Kühldecke" (cooling ceiling).

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BChldecke
I usually assume this of every brand that pushes their native app(s) while intentionally degrading their web offering.

Twitter's (great) PWA is a notable exception.
Y'all might be using different meanings for the word "free".

As for being stuck in a job for health or skill reasons, those are choices, crappy choices but still free choices.

Universal Healthcare would, IMO, do more for the worker than a nominal pay-rise. The link between employment and healthcare is an abomination.
Treat people like children and they’ll behave like children.
"not age well" in food means "expires quickly." Milk does not age well because it quickly expires. So "bad news does not age well" means that bad news quickly expires. :)
Certainly. But even with temporary federal backstops cities and states would be under intense financial pressure.
Junk food prohibition. Soon, secret clubs selling candy requiring passwords to get in. I predict state-run candy stings in the future.
That money is made from services. Profits from services has a higher P/E ratio than hardware traditionally.
> while the median age for covid victims is 75+.

You mean 48.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6924e2-H.pdf
You're right that price controls obfuscate the mechanism on which pricing signals work, but it's not central planning.
> Corporations are an easy scapegoat that also fits a political ideology on the left.

Calling things 'left', 'ideology', 'fallacy' and randomly saying things are 'completely different' aren't great arguments if you keep it at statements instead of an argument.

Marketing is _very_ effective. Further, people are paid for to ensure it is effective. Having rules to restrict that behaviour does go against some peoples idea of what a government should do. IMO that's exactly what the government should do, protect the people (among other things!).

> When it comes to children parents won't be blamed (although they should be) because this is not good to win votes.

You're making this a parent thing, and an either/or thing. It's much easier to do multiple things at the same time. Ensure parents are educated, ensure children cannot be marketed.
Assuming this is all true - how does something like this leak? Wouldn't someone go to prison for the leak?
Quarantine without a cage works pretty well if you aren't forced to choose between societal health and financial ruin.
Hmm... you don't see Baskerville used on websites often.
>Right, I included the Haunted House entry (a regular story) for contrast.

Ah, sorry, I misread what you said.