skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Web browsing these days really feels like wandering through a market filled with panhandlers and pickpockets—you're just trying to look around, and everyone's up in your face demanding stuff in the most obnoxious way possible.

As a web designer/developer, this approach offends me. At the risk of sounding like I'm taking this more seriously than I should, I believe that good design is founded on respecting ones' users. Reddit throwing what's essentially an ad in my face every time I try to use their site is bad design because it is disrespectful to me, the user.

Maybe their app is a better experience; there are more respectful ways of highlighting it. As immature as this sounds, not using the app is almost a matter of principle for me at this point, because I don't believe in rewarding disrespectful design.
If you can script it you can HTTP it with Kapow
Exactly. Until an entire nation with its own currency tries this there is no way to measure the effects.

To me economics is about natural law, which is inescapable. Money is value and it is not nature's way to give something of value for nothing.
Sure, and there is some logic there, but isn’t the somewhat random real wage a problem? Whatever we select, it seems healthy to index it right?
* What people would do with bounded windfall benefits (as opposed to lifetime benefits)

* How spending/lifestyle habits of bounded windfall recipients compare with non-recipients

* Whether receiving free money makes individuals happier or more productive over a three year period.
I think that connecting it and locking it down with Pihole or router rules might get better behaviour.
How much should workers pay their employers for being able to work, since working is a benefit? We can differ reasonably about how much, surely.

A minimum wage is not set in a vacuum, and high numbers that ignore this fact do not illustrate anything useful.
Thanks for the detailed answer. I see where you are coming from, but it seems to me that some of your assumptions guaranteeing the need of autools or cmake in unix systems are a bit outdated.

> Different distros (and different Unix-like OSs) install things (such as header files) in different places.

This doesn't matter. If the distro is somewhat decent, then once a library is installed they it is found by the compiler. This is certainly true of ubuntu, slackware, voidlinux, openbsd and macos. This means that if you want to use a dependency foo.h, then you can #include <foo.h> inside your code and add -lfoo to your compilation line (inside the makefile) and everything works smoothly, regardless of where the actual headers and libraries are installed. This is true for the clang, gcc and icc compilers. If libfoo is not installed, the compilation will fail, as it should do. Everything else is unnecessary complexity. The actual directories where the files are installed are irrelevant; they are supposed to be found by the compiler (for example, through the CPATH and LIBRARY_PATH environment variables, or by the default compiler specs installed in the distro).

This is perfectly scalable. If you need twelve libraries, foo1 to foo12, then of course you need to add -lfoo{1..12} once in your makefile, typically inside your LDFLAGS variable.

Cmake is the work of the devil, it does not solve any problem and it needs to die, just as autotools.
So you're saying the lockdown worked?
The issue is that nobody is entitled to anything. You aren't de facto entitled to receiving money for any services you may or may not provide, regardless of whether you're skilled or not, just because you exist. A company exists because one or more people risked wealth in order to create a net positive system - their existence is not as riskless as one would believe.
It's maybe rational if you're an Ayn Rand Objectivist and you think the older people you infect who die are not worth your time and energy to keep safe.

It's very much a selfish prioritization of the individual above everyone else to think you're under 30 so no precautions need to be taken even though someone under 30 is perfectly capable of passing it on to a whole bunch more people who might be older & vulnerable.
Does your figure include people who couldn't get medical attention because the health system is completely overwhelmed?

Is it possible there are other issues you're not aware of, and that the people who spend their lives studying and preparing for these situations are?
Yes. A thousand times this. I get so tired of the "stay at home" people ranting from their positions of work-from-home high-income privilege.
One of the problems with UBI is that a lot of people who need support can't live off what the average person needs to live off. People with disabilities etc. may well need more, so UBI doesn't replace as much as its proponents sometimes suggest.
Delivery and food prep are far lower-exposure activities than indoor sit-in full-service dining.

People do need to eat. They don't necessarily require takeaway, but on a balance of risks this isn't unreasonable.
Not defending Wal-Mart's labor practices, but there are probably very, very many companies where they have the single largest collection of workers who $INSERT_CONDITION_HERE.
If you must use Reddit, use Alien Blue.
Uganda, with a population of 43M, has only 15 Covid-19 deaths
>They can stick to the pharmacists and all that.

Again, your position is absurd. Individual pharmacists of the type that serve the average person most often (retail pharmacists) are not equipped or trained to be the gatekeepers deciding which products are safe and effective. Putting that sort of risk and power into the hands of pharmacists will necessarily result in a need for cooperation on de facto standards that will only result in strengthening cartels like the American Pharmacists Association, which are already anti-consumer enough as it is.

>release me from the bonds that bind "the average US citizen".

Well...that definitely vibes with the incoherent disestablishmentarianist approach you seem to be promoting, I guess.
Focusing on the death rate as a singular statistic is highly flawed. It’s akin to not taking into account health externalities when discussing the coast of energy sources.

COVID-19 has pretty severe morbidity that make it absolutely nothing like the flu. Some afflicted with severe cases will require months of rehabilitation (never mind working as usual) and probably suffer lifelong complications.

Moreover, it’s the hubris and ignorance of people like the speakeasy gym goers that will prolong the pandemic and arguably case more economic harm than any original lockdowns.
I keep thinking Reddit just needs to buy Apollo already. But there's no way they could do that and not ruin the the app within 6 months.
I'm still surprised there is so much misinformation about this. There are two categories of masks. The first category only prevent you from spreading the disease. These include paper surgical masks, cloth masks and those blue disposable paper masks. These are only made to prevent you from spreading droplets in the air from your moth and nose. If someone with covid isn't wearing a mask this category won't do anything prevent you from catching it.

The second category are masks such as N95, P95, N99, P100, etc. Things like disposable painter masks or reusable masks with replaceable filters. These are meant to filter out particulate in the air and they do reduce the likelihood of you getting the disease. To call your mask P95 it must be certified by NIOSH and tested to meet the given rating, ie P95 must filter out 95 percent of particulate and be resistant to oil.

In the beginning the US and CDC were not recommending using masks. I believe the main reason for this was, not that they didn't believe it was effective, but that they were worried about a shortage for health care professionals.
I don't know what the reports are about, but I don't think there is evidence that caffeine has negative impact on adolescent brains, most of the issues seem to be caffeine pills or caffeine drinks mixed with alcohol.
As a kid i craved those types of documents. I read and reread many times articles from old encyclopedias searching for computers and radio mentions. Computers where too pricey until 2005~. This pdf would be a gold mine back then.
Slippery slope / Straw-man fallacy. One is to do with tying the minimum wage to a livable wage. The other is just large numbers for the sake of trying to win an argument. No one is arguing for $150/hr. The argument is simply that you aught not to be able to run a business and extract a profit if the cost to do so is employing people at such a low wage that they require governmental handouts just to pay rent and eat food. Given that, imaginary large numbers like $150/hr or $1500/hr do not come into play and thus do not need to be considered.
This reads like some nutrition grifter satire.
Not tech related:

Don't complain about being bored. Bored/boring means that people around you (e.g. family) aren't dying.
While you raise a good point, I question the wisdom of relying solely on hastily devised rules and accompanying sloganeering to solve such issues.

I understand the pandemic is an emergency, but it was predictable. If we got caught with our pants down, we got caught with our pants down. Personally I think it’s time to put the hysteria aside and start discussing the longer-term view.
The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy (2019)
I understand that, I just don't think it's a problem. I've spent my life being obsessed with things. Sometimes the obsession lasts a few years, sometimes it lasts a few days, and the sum of being focused on one thing to the exclusion of all else is being a very well-rounded person.

Presumably the nephew is still a child, and presumably he will move on to other things as he gets older.

I'll eat my words if he ends up a 60 year old who regrets spending his life playing Minecraft. Then again, if he is a 60 year old who was productive and happy and spent his free time playing Minecraft without regret, that would also be fine, no?
Actually reading a study, researching who conducted and funding it, and their methods > calling a study crooked because it disagrees with your world views
Maybe so, although CICO (calories in, calories out) is a little oversimplified. In reality not all calories are equally satiating, nor are all calories equally digestible.

Additionally, measuring calories in food is done in a purely chemical fashion - the food is burned and the amount of heat energy released is measured. This of course does not actually measure how much energy your body is actually able to absorb (for example, dietary fiber burns just as well as refined sugar, but isnt absorbed the same in the body).
And what happens when those signals are distorted?

Remove the state and there are still many things that can go wrong with a market. Price signals become a way of laundering this fact past a certain point.
>> 1. Among their neighbors, only Germany has more deaths than Sweden. Norway, Denmark and Finland have fewer almost an order of magnitude less cases and deaths.

Geographic comparisons are of limited usefulness; MA had 10x the death rate of near neighbors NH,VT& ME. There are too many other factors to consider. Sweden still did better than UK, France, Spain, Italy and many others.

>> 2. Despite not being government sanctioned, people still chose to self isolate meaning that the still suffered the economic fallout of that decision. Turns out, a global pandemic is bad for business whether or not your government decides to shut everything down.

Mobility data would suggest otherwise; no masks, kids still in school etc. Life has continued with some restrictions. We could have done the same with similar outcomes. Economy definitely took a hit, but less so than other eurorzone countries.

>> There is no metric by which Sweden is doing any better than anyone else, and is doing a lot worse than their neighbors.
The fact that the pandemic is effectively done in Sweden is one. We still dont have an exit strategy.
>The infectious mortality rate of Covid is at best twice that of the normal flu, which isn't nothing and warrants action but probably not 40M people unemployed and possible national depression.

This sounds like Y2K all over again. No one is disputing the mortality rate. But it's starting to look like all the people who are pulling out that strawman are ignoring the "infectious" part of that equation.[1]

Do we have enough healthcare capacity to support the people who get sick enough to need care until herd immunity is achieved?

And the same people like to bring up Sweden, all the while conveniently forgetting the social mores and jokes. The headline image from this[0] story makes it very clear that what worked in Sweden would not work anywhere else in the world.

[0] https://europost.eu/en/a/view/sweden-goes-it-alone-28030

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/r-nought-reproduction-numb...

According to a review article published in BMC Medicine, the R0 value of the 1918 pandemic was estimated to be between 1.4 and 2.8.

But when the swine flu, or H1N1 virus, came back in 2009, its R0 value was between 1.4 and 1.6, report researchers in the journal Science.

The R0 for COVID-19 is a median of 5.7, according to a study published online in Emerging Infectious Diseases. That’s about double an earlier R0 estimate of 2.2 to 2.7

...

The researchers estimated a doubling time of 2 to 3 days, which is much faster than earlier estimates of 6 to 7 days. The doubling time is how long it takes for the number of coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and deaths to double.

With an R0 of 5.7, at least 82 percent of the population needs to be immune to COVID-19 to stop its transmission through vaccination and herd immunity.
The responses here are precious. Gym dudes: "leave me alone." Non gym dudes: "you're going to kill us all by doing deadlifts." FWIIW in the interests of full disclosure, I am thoroughly a gym dude, but have my own equipment and a terrible case of misanthropy, so I've been working out at home for years.

I wonder how the paranoiacs who think deadlifters are going to cause mass death mentally deal with the facts on the ground in Sweden. They seem to be doing fine; all they did was prevent large gatherings; no masks, no shut down, yet 4x better covid death rate than, say, Massachusetts, which is still locked down as if we're in the black death. Nobody ever talks about Sweden, I guess because they appear to have gotten it right, making fools of most of the rest of the West.
Google announces Cilium and eBPF as the new networking dataplane for GKE
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You can totally use the software for non-commercial use. You'd just have to pay for it! I don't understand why FOSS supporters insist on the software being free-as-in-beer, when that has never been the point (even if many people and corporations enjoy the spoils of zero-cost software made by passionate artisans). Open Source Software is awesome, but imagine how much better it could be if there were a way for those passionate artisans to eke out a modest livelihood from their efforts!
Yes. In one of my grad Econ classes an entire lecture was devoted to deriving individual pay based on marginal input and aggregate utility functions. The prof ended the derivation with a laugh then discussed all the obvious places wage does not equal marginal societal benefit. Ie school teachers vs entertainers.

The takeaway is that Econ theory only explains what it’s capable of explaining. The real market clearly has a lot more going on than purely rational actors exchanging goods and services.
Wealth is very hard to accurately measure and is impacted a
lot by demographics (e.g. age distribution). Consumption is a better measure of how people actually live.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_household...
You can't earn money to eat and go to the gym if the hospitals are overflowing with virus victims and society collapses.
The Science of Trust by John Gottmann is a great read if you are interested in this. Unlike most behavioral health, they use actual science and math to describe and dissect behaviors and outcomes
> There's a lot of reports how bad is caffeine to underdeveloped brain.

Not going to do well on this site if you make baseless nonsensical claims like that.

Paper[1] from 2009 stating that: 1. We actually use caffeine as a first-line treatment in premature infants for treating apnea and 2. Nobody has done the research on adolescents to assess any negative impact on brain development.

[1] https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.01.001
The Algorithmic Colonization of Africa (2019)
thanks. you just gave me the wording for a principle I was trying to verbalize.
No, that's the median cases age.
Once again, behind a bad geopolitical situation is a Brit. History is unduly kind to the U.K., ignoring all of the atrocities of their colonialism for the sole reason that they suffered and overcame in WW2. Israel Palestine, India Pakistan, and Iran are all direct results of their racism and chicanery.
To be fair, you need to compare a complete workflow including the renewable production of the jet fuel.

If the overhead of heavy batteries does not annihilate the benefit of the carbon-neutral production rendered possible by using electricity (and associated carbon-neutral sources like photovoltaic etc... heck, even nuclear fission), then batteries are still the path to go.

If there are carbon-neutral ways to produce the jet-fuel, and to have a completely carbon-neutral(or even negative) cycle production+consumption, then why not. If it could be done without turning the Earth into a giant bio-fuel crop, that would be nice.
Can I see one and inspect the hardware? Remember, we discounted Bloomberg's story concerning SuperMicro implants (likely justifiably) for not having hardware and not naming sources. Does this story about the ability for hardware to be altered from a large manufacturer at the behest of the government with so few knowing about it for so long (even within the company), unreported by anyone else, and not going on record with their names about it until way later give any credence to other similar stories that may not yet be at the reveal names and insider info stage?

(to clarify, I believe this story and am skeptical of the Bloomberg one, I just find the 15-year secrecy and limited scope notable)
I think we as a society can do better than whinging about how "entitled" people are for wanting to work for livable wages.
The closest thing we've got to a full scale implementation is the state pension system, and various related natural experiments like 'does raising the pension age make people of that age group more likely to continue working'. It's obviously also far from a perfect experiment due to people at the bottom of the pension age bracket being somewhat different from the median working age person, but there's a reason why UBI advocates won't derive any conclusions from it at all...
Wow, interesting read. Wonder what else they do to normal apple products.
Yes, to some degree, but it's also not uncommon for kids to use their allowances to buy junk food at the store.

I remember growing up (I'm from Mexico) chips often had promos where you could find collectibles with cartoon characters in the bags [1]. The cool kids had huge stacks of these, so I begged my mom to get me chips mostly for the toy. I didn't have an allowance and my mom knew better so I never got any though.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tazos
If what you say is true...why not all 7 billion?
No low line or roundhouse kicks?
Sandwich bread is mostly air, tortillas are smaller, but they seem to contain a lot more substance.
The Platform is the Message (2018)
Reddit is still better than some other websites (Yelp being the biggest perpetrator), that open up the Play store link for their app when you click on links. Annoying and rude.
There are several decent ways to keep oneself in good shape for a few months while gyms are closed. Insisting this is a big, important problem for you while also (apparently) not taking advantage of those options means the way you're presenting yourself in your comment doesn't look so great, to put it mildly.
> He's on record saying mask requirements will be needed if cases started going back up:

So if cases started going back up, which is not the case for now, so this is not an argument

> The end result: Same economic damage as the other Nordic countries, but substantially higher deaths.

You compare the economic impact of one country which was hit by the virus (Sweden) and one which was not (Germany,Finland, ...). What is going to happen if the virus restart in Germany and Finland and not in Sweden ?
But also low bandwidth/area. Which means that this won't be useful for any significant amount of backhaul, only for last mile service in low density areas. Their groundstations will certainly have good connections to AWS, no doubt, but I don't see a huge market for good connection to AWS from sparse area.s

There are some niches, for example oil/gas extraction like the article mentioned, but nothing huge. Maybe Amazon plans on making a play for in-car services providing both the internet connection, and back-end in AWS. But car internet connections have been shifting towards bluetooth as everyone already has phones and service, and it is wasteful to have another service for the car.
The problem is really (1) having money lying around that you can afford to "play around" with without, say, putting your retirement or mortgage in jeopardy, and (2) having professional advice from people who know what the hell is going on (including borderline or overt insider info). A hedge fund, for example, isn't going to touch someone wanting to invest $100K.
Thanks! I was not getting a reply button. I recieved quite a downvotes in the thread so I thought maybe that plays into it. I saw the button show up after about 20 minutes.
Yes, Bimbo is a fully Mexican company and makes products like gansitos, negritos (now just "nitos"), barritas, Duvalin etc. that Mexicans love. That's not even getting into other sweets that Mexicans love like pan dulce, paletas, bolis and so on.

Frankly to blame America is to take agency away from Mexican people and reeks of paternalism and ethnocentricity.
> Why is "economic" harm so important?

The "economy" is just our way of measuring what people do for themselves and others all day. "Some artisan dog biscuit company" is someone else's lifelong work and dream, not just a number in a spreadsheet. Minimizing may make you feel better about selfishly demanding everyone turn their lives off, but it's not an accurate representation of the world.
Let's vote for the candidate which will give us the most money... seems like a slippery slope
I find in practice that the people in my life better for my long term health set the cursor more towards "prevent needless death with relatively simple changes to behavior", and less towards "Raven in Snow Crash embedding a nuclear weapon into his body that will detonate if anyone tries to kill him".

I'm not sure where that opinion fits in a rigidly logical argument that prohibits sound judgment due to its ambiguity.