skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't necessarily trust NPR to do that great of a job telling this story. I do recommend listening to the Iran section (all the sections, really) of Safe for Democracy: http://safefordemocracy.com/podcast/6/ . (Note: that's part 1 of 9).

RSS feed here: http://safefordemocracy.com/feed/podcast
What was the explanation again? The only one I've heard is that they lied to us so that medical first responders would have masks available. Which seems strange and unforgivable if true, seeing as how a simple piece of cotton fabric easily made at home (not fleece, as we've learned) would still have been a massive improvement over nothing at all.
Monopoly Power Lies Behind Worst Trends in U.S., Fed Study Says
Not to be heartless, but because most of the deaths are in the 80+ range.
This isn't unusual stuff for a 5 year old...
This far in I don't think I can believe that people that are still clamoring to compare covid to regular seasonal flus are arguing in good faith. Sharing data with them isn't going to do much, although I guess it might stop some others from believing bullshit.
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You just replied to a strawman argument made by someone you seem to agree with. Why?
It's more of a choke hold than a cash grab. Your app broke our store rules, we removed it and you're suing us? We'll terminate your dev account so your apps won't run.
I love how people are allowed to modify the public world like this with "best guess" attempts at "this shouldnt have any bad side effects" but I can't get a G Drive approved at my company.
Not the parent, but:

How does a certificate let "macOS verify the app is free from malware"?
> I do not understand the want to stick with fixed-width fonts in this day and age.

Usually it involves alignment issues. Some people neatly align array entries, etc, and variable width fonts makes this look ugly. Also, people often put ASCII diagrams, etc in the comments, which are screwed up by non-monospace fonts.

> This could even (re)open the path to the Holy Grail of literate programming!

The Leo Editor[1] is your friend. It's the only such editor that seems to do it well. And by well, I mean "poor experience, but better than all the others."

[1] https://leoeditor.com/
Well, R0 is by definition different for different populations - density, demographics, etc. R0 and the herd immunity threshold have a clear mathematical relationship; it's just a restating of the definition. So if you argue the threshold is lower for a subpopulation, you're also arguing that R0 is lower for that same subpopulation.
I expect that the real purpose of the project was simply to let those two engineers learn iPod development. Afterward, they had the expertise and software tools to make an iPod do many things, not just collect data.
Filecoin Space Race
The usual understanding is that an unsafe function is any function that can, if passed the wrong arguments, cause Undefined Behavior. A lot of Rust’s std and library ecosystem provides safe wrappers around underlying unsafe C APIs, by cleverly using borrow semantics and performing additional runtime checks. The bar for safety is lower than you might expect, for example, crashing with a “panic” in case of an error is completely fine, that’s not considered unsafe.

Presumably, the C++ wrappers suggested here would not even be safe in that sense. They would use a lot of pointers, and cause UB if passed the wrong one. The article argues that using unsafe correctly is impractical for Chromium because basically every Rust function would have to be marked unsafe to call into these raw C++ APIs.

Whether that’s the right call, I don’t know. I see the practical argument, but I also think that a lot of common Rust idioms, especially around memory management, depend on these safety guarantees. For example, field destruction order in Rust is weird and you often don’t control it as carefully as you would in C++. That’s usually fine in normal Rust code, but might not be if lots of marked-as-safe-but-actually-unsafe code is flying around.
They look to be in the same price ballpark as Macbooks?

Ref: https://system76.com/laptops
Non-paywall link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200819180537/https://www.econo...
I'm not sure we're solving for much when a bottle of Coke has 100g of cane sugar instead of 100g of high fructose corn syrup.

Is it better? Maybe. Is it still too much sugar? Yes.
I left that part out, but yes, $15 is too little to live on in expensive cities and too much for the economy to function in low cost ones. So I thought "Fight for $15" was a bad call, because it would be a generational fight that would start out insufficient and lose ground over time to inflation.
But the leather won't even soak up your tears.. ;_;
>perhaps a brief outburst, sure

so you can imagine it... because it happens
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UBI won't work at scale without fundamental changes in any government to ensure that a UBI wouldn't be exploited by the renting infrastructure.
>Some people won't be vaccinated.

Not just some, but surveys show something like 40% of Americans say they won't take it
School doesn't suck. Just because you had a bad experience doesn't mean the rest of us did.
As far as I know, there's no competing in the app; can't say I've explored every crevice but I haven't seen it.

There is a Facebook group (which I haven't joined) which is, I gather, more supportive than competitive. They do videos every once in a while where they get their trainers/directors to either discuss techniques or answer Q&A. It's support-oriented.
Well... this ought to be a fun year (just got told to go to AWS-managed)
I dont think they have any competitive advantage there.
I thought about that, and actually my original answer was the 1.83x number. But then I realized that the apples to apples comparison is 1 in 33,000, because among the 25-34 age group, 1201 out of 40 million in that age group have died. If we are looking solely at this age group, then we can’t dilute the number and say it’s 1201 out of the entire population across age groups.

Re:the relevance of the comparison, I was just responding to the conversation.
We're kind of like Uber but instead of calling a car for yourself, you call a deadly pie for your enemies. Our drivers are incentivized by the rating system to operate with discretion that beats similar state-sanctioned programs. Launch flavors include Rhubarb, Almost Almond, and Death by Chocolate.
> But try it. I can guarantee you that even poor migrant workers would laugh at you if you offered them that kind of wage.

You're imagining a company offering low wages in world where the rest offer higher wages. In that example, I'm saying all companies offer low wages. It's an artificial example, of course, but shows how labor market is not elastic, and therefore cannot be a free market. I don't know which definition of free market you use, but I haven't seen anyone that accommodates that situation.

> That is not an alternative. I'm not even sure if there was a single case of starvation in the last few decades that was a result of lack of income or lack of a job.

Well, if you want to take things literally, replace "starve" by "stop having a decent life". Losing your house, for example.

> On the other hand, plenty of starvation in Soviet Russia ... with full employment!

Hey, if your argument against worker rights is going to boil down to "but Soviet Russia and communism bad!" we can stop right now.

> Unemployed people do not die.

Yeah, people without work just chill. Nobody needs to work to eat, or pay their house, or their car, or their bills.

> No. It's not. It is an unregulated market where minimum wage laws are ignored, and yet, you don't see a race to the bottom.
The wage settles at some equilibrium.

One of the biggest collectives of undocumented workers in the US are farmworkers. Read on the conditions of those people (e.g., [1]) and tell me it's not a race to the bottom. I couldn't find stats regarding their wages, but I don't assume they're good. The only studies I've found say that undocumented workers will earn less than their documented counterparts even after adjusting for skills and education [2].

It's of course a complex issue and analyzing the causes of a certain wage level in a certain sector are pretty complex. But the incentives are clearly there for companies to push for wages way below a livable level.

1: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...
2: https://econofact.org/what-explains-the-wages-of-undocumente...

> That's not what you said. You wrote: "Workers can't usually live too much without finding a job."

Do you mean people living on subsidies? Well, that's precisely what I'm advocating for with that example. If you want, I can complete the sentence with "Workers can't usually live too much without finding a job and no income".

> There are tens of millions of people without income or a job - how do they survive?

Where and in what conditions? Because if you're arguing that minimum wage laws are not necessary because if you're jobless and homeless you won't die right away, well...
I haven't used Gallup before. Do you know how big their sample size is or who they surveyed? I only see percentages.
Yet once the Chromium team goes down that Rust to C++ FFI route, they will encounter the same old bugs outlined in this paper. [0] They might as well fork Servo and create their own engine from that, but even that is still a prototype worked on for years with zero C++ at least.

It's too early to see how the Chromium team will begin to work on this given it's only a plan, but maybe the unsafety and security issues are enough motivation to actually use Rust to C++ interop or a rewrite. But once again, this has been tried by some other projects and by just looking at the effort of a rewrite, they later concluded that it is not worth it. [1] [2]

Even better, just improve Servo instead. But I guess they would rather create their own fork, just like they did with WebKit.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.03296.pdf

[1] https://blogs.dust3d.org/2019/03/13/why-i-rewrote-the-mesh-g...

[2] http://way-cooler.org/blog/2019/04/29/rewriting-way-cooler-i...
Woah, I had no idea there was a Lineage build for the Titan! Is it available through the Lineage site?
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Is 10 years the normal time it takes for such an outcome?
I thought that a developer status will autosave me either from malware or from being babysitted, but then [1] happened. No matter how hard I tried to start that binary, OSX didn't allow me to do that. Damn OS which knows better, who do yo think you are? Did you see checksums, site certs, my competence, my willpower? I thought that it must be something with a build process that transmission uses, some signature didn't get into the bundle, etc, and went to their forum for help, while trying to self-sign that app and to reduce the system protection level in a console. As I found out later, that was yet another snafu that happens with transmission every few years, and it's not that it is a particularly small or inactive project.

Moral of the story is, if you want to protect your users, you have to bring some level of inconvenience and frustration to them. Or be sure that I will run that malware no matter what you say.

[1] https://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17834
Another reason we see duplicate startups within a few domains is that there are many VCs, and each wants to have a horse in the race.

Perhaps they missed on one fintech company, and now it's grown enough to make the market. So they lead an investment in a competitor, or a company in a similar space. This significantly de-risks the investment vs. allocating money towards something entirely new.
don't you do that on other platforms like ebay and amazon?
Can't afford a Macbook either. :)
Our approach isn’t working for people. No amount of scolding is going to change that.
Fingerprint Reader Works on T480
sorry but no, what Oculus has is a team of strong engineers
Thanks for voicing this! I've been cutting hair as a hobby for years (it's funny, I got questioned a lot why I felt it was worth cutting my own hair and suddenly with the onset of the pandemic a lot of friends of mine are much more interested in the hobby), and the number of folks that think female haircuts are more involved/difficult is astounding. Unless long hair is very overgrown and needs to be relayered, it's generally really simple to trim it. Men's haircuts are short enough that small mistakes are glaringly obvious, and the haircuts need regular maintenance. My partner had some trepidation when I first cut her hair, but since then she's recommended me to her friends (well, pre-pandemic at least). She did short hair for a while and found the constant maintenance to be a huge pain.
Your source leaves out a lot of context; see this article with more context on the same remarks: https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-coronavirus-vaccine-li...

Fauci is cautiously optimistic that a vaccine will exist by the end of the year, be in limited deployment in Spring, and generally fully available in the US by the end of the year to everyone who wants it.

But that's cautious optimism that stuff currently in testing and rushed into production in anticipation of success pans out, and there is a risk that it doesn't and we're back at square one. Nowhere does he even suggest a likely timeline if his cautious optimism about the current crop isn't realized, which he very clearly acknowledges it might not be.

It may seem to you to be “pretty sure” we'll have a vaccine in 2021, but that's certainly not a conclusion supporter by Dr. Fauci’s statement.
The construction of the shovel itself is ultimately due to past labour and land, as well as by the invention of the shovel (labour). Capital is always ultimately a product of labour and land. In accordance, rises in productivity in the absence of discovery of new land is because of unrealized past labour. Therefore, this newfound productivity is to be attributed almost entirely to labour.

This is why Adam Smith, for example, cites labour as the primary factor of production, followed by land with capital as the last. In modern parlance you might hear that said as "human capital is the most important", but human capital really is a politically correct way of saying "labour potential".
The username may hold a clue as to why the individuals communications are a bit disjointed.
We made the mistake of letting our first born watch Mother goose club on the tablet during meals, the upside is she always at her food but then we realized that absent the tablet she would throw a tantrum and refuse to eat and if we left the house and didn't have the tablet that was another mess. We made the decision to get rid of the tablet as well as any electronic stimuli during meals, food time is food time with conversation. We invested in books, playdoh, puzzles, crafts, bug catching kit etc and 2 kids later we have no complaints.
You stop using Apple and go to a reasonable OS. You and I are not going to help Apple keep their $2T valuation, we are no longer the market not been one for 5 + years for Apple

Apple moved their focus from the professional market who were willing to pay premium for productivity with better UX/Hardware/Software, to people paying just the premium .

It is a lifestyle brand now, people money because it is Apple, not because there is real value they gain for the higher cost.

Depending on what you work with, Windows or Linux is by far better option today. MS listens to developers (eventually), WSL , professional support, a lot of graphical professional grade applications all make it attractive.
Linux is lot more flexible, works with less friction makes it easy to work with containers servers etc,

If you really need Apple hardware dual boot or flash a sensible OS .
My account was banned permanently for the above.

HN is more and more in line with YC Thiel's approach. Non libertarian views are not tolerated.
The two plots are begging to be plotted together ala Econ 101 plots
গবেষণা: জনস্বাস্থ্যের জন্য বিপদ ডেকে আনছে ফেসবুক
> Sure, it'd be called something different and would be made by someone else

interestingly you can say that about pretty much anything, but at some point someone need to work on it for "it" to happen.
Which is why instead of mispricing labour through minimum wage you can have a negative income tax which makes up the difference. The nice thing is that it will apply to everyone -- working or not, sick or not, on mat leave or not, can't work because of covid or not. You top-up people's income and that's paid for through taxes.

You take the benefit of efficiency and productivity from the entire economy and return it to the people at the bottom.

You don't have a right to a job, or a particular income. You have a right for society to not leave you dangling when in need. Your ability to get a job or have more income should be determined by market forces.

Put a negative income tax in place and ensure a minimum level of funds for every citizen and see how quickly Amazon's treatment of its warehouse workers improve. Far more than any union could provide.
Well yeah. But the thing is, someone had to make the shovel to begin with. The gains in productivity of the shovel are just unrealized value of the original labour (and materials).
Yea it’s funny... it will probably backfire and we will have another disaster by humans... doesn’t really surprise me
What action has Lisbon taken recently? I hadn't heard this until now.
I am taking advantage of the other options, and I am in good shape (well, lean and slender xD). But I can't really replace the gym and the swimming pool with the other options.

Also, I am not concerned how others perceive my beliefs because I know what works for me, so to each their own.
Canadian government caved to pressure from the large carriers, who threatened to hold back investments in rural Canada unless the government plays along with their price increase scheme.

Canada, your internet is already too expensive! Talk about anti-competitive...
> Getting down voted for stating facts.

I downvoted for the obnoxious phrasing of "Wrong. Try again." It goes against the first paragraph of the HN commenting guidelines: "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Hi fellow hackers, any tips for getting a sales role as a recent grad?
Could that be turned into a little funding opportunity?

"Here are the sources, here are the binaries, here you subscribe to get access to signed binaries that run without the scare quotes"
> I've heard the argument

That was a beautiful strawman, and even one of the replies your comment walked right into it.

There aren't many human coronaviruses circulating to begin with. And they're not dangerous, aside from SARS-CoV-2. Of course there aren't any vaccines for them. Got pretty close on SARS & MERS before they fizzled on their own.

> It takes 5 to 10 years to create a safe and effective vaccine

How long do you think the leading SARS-CoV-2 vaccines have been in development? Years. It's not like they were dreamed up since February.
>Driving is a random series of events and you can be caught in a situation that is your fault (legally) just the same as anyone else on the road.

This is true, and that's why you pay more for car insurance in Los Angeles than in the desert. There is a base rate for the given area that everyone pays premium to, given the danger of a given square foot of road is different for every area. This is already all quantified and baked in, even driving habits from indirect sources like google maps or road conditions, so personal data collection will not change this.

So why data collect at all if so much variance is due to local danger? Because a huge component of the variance is also explained by drivers skill, and insurers proxy this based on correlations from your demographic data, since they lack any other datapoint on your particular driving habits (other than accident history).

This is why powerful sports cars with a twitchy throttle that are hard for most people to control cost more to insure than a minivan, and why young people pay far more for insurance than older people, and why males pay more than women for insurance as well. These people might operate over the same square footage of road and experience the same risks, but pay sometimes vastly different premiums.

If you were an F1 driver who had split second reaction times and could control a vehicle better than anyone on the road for probably 1000 miles around, certainly you'd like for insurers to take this into consideration before they bin you with the other 23 year old male Los Angelenos who drive a ferrari downtown, probably a rather reckless group of peers if we had to stereotype.
same, I have a fake account and no issue with it
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From the article: "a trial in an urban area of Brazil reduced the Aedes aegypti by 95%."

I do share some of the concern about major environmental modification, but a bigger part of me is just excited at the prospect of fewer mosquitoes. I hope this trial goes well!
I so agree. My youngest was proud when they came home with "red lights". The other child was devastated when the teacher looked at her cross-eyed.

The youngest one is very very indifferent to peer pressure. They don't give a sh!t what anyone else in their classroom thinks of them.
I absolutely agree with your general argument about the context of _average_ mortality rate.

However another aspect that is still very nebulious at this point is post-infection sequelae.

Some of the patients who survived SARS-1 infection (in the SARS 2002-2004 outbreak) had lung scaring, loss of VO2 max, and other pulmonary related disfunction, more than 10 years after infection. [0]

We have seen a lot of pre-print articles discussing SARS-COV2 lung damage, heart and blood vessel damage, peripheral nerve damage, etc.

So if we want to be factual and give people a chance of making an informed decision, then we should also take this aspect in consideration.

At this point, we simply don't know enough about who will be affected and how severely but if take what we learned from SARS-COV1, than it is iresponsible not to disclose that life long injury or damage with _varying_ degrees of intensity across potentially multiple systems is very likely for _some_ of the survivors of SARS-COV2.

My point is an informed decision of not following health authority guidelines (which, at this point of social isolation, I do not judge), should not be reduced to something binomial like survival/death, it's just not that simple (as with most things in life).

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7130167/
The issue isn't from the user side, but from the developer side. Most potential users will see the dialog, not even know they can work around it, and trash the app.

Whether or not this is a good thing for most users is certainly arguable, but it still doesn't sit right that you have to pay Apple and get their permission to distribute macOS software that isn't presented to the user as likely malware.
if you've ever done an hplc with triflouracetic acid, I promise you there's residual tfa in there, even after a round of lyophilization. Though typically I'm not putting HPLC preps in my mouth. The burney/tingley sensation on my tongue was unmistakable and very reminiscent of the residual feel you get after pipetting 100% TFA in the hood.

I strongly believe that this startup did not know that about TFA, but it's basic common knowledge if you're in a reputable protein biochemistry lab (and you're paying attention). When you're moving fast to show something for demo day, you're going to use whatever you have around to do your protein preps, because TFA is standard practice.

Anyways, if any VCs want a Burton Guster to super sniff questionable biotechs, I'd be happy to do a bit of consulting on the side.