skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make low-productivity jobs illegal while also raising the wages for low-skill high-productivity jobs. Worker productivity in the US has gone through the roof while real wages have stagnated. Combined with the (at least pre-pandemic) low unemployment rates, it seems likely that most minimum wage workers are in jobs that would not be eliminated by raising the minimum wage.
I still believe that Gatekeeper is a blatant cash grab and not a legitimate security feature.

$100/year to avoid a scary warning about how your app is definitely a virus? It's like a protection racket.
I'm very curious to see what their public valuation will be, but at the same time the market seems to be doin its own thing, so perhaps's it'll do great.

But all things considered, it's pretty clear that everything is too volatile right now, but AirBnB is being pressured to IPO anyway. If the market doesn't have an appetite for travel, I foresee a lot of recent AirBnB hires taking a huge haircut on their total comp.
I don't want to say Americans don't love and cherish their children. But the uncomfortable truth is that our culture has become so materialist that, on a mass scale, when we look at our children, we don't really see the people they are now. We see the economic participants they will be in 15 years.
Good question. From our research into this possible direction early in Quell's journey, we deduced the risk with existing VR tech was unappetising. If the game lags by a few hundreds of a second, you could punch when the bag is in a slightly different position to your VR perception of it...which could lead to broken bones, sprains and torn ligaments. It will absolutely happen when the tech catches up!
A policy might be put into place because a single event. The expected outcome can drastically differ depending on who writes the policy. E.g. it could be "this type of attack won't succeed again" vs. "even if this or a similar kind of attack succeeds it won't expose our entire data"
Essential Phone?
SARS has had 15+ years to be studied at this point. COVID has been around for half a year. Nobody knows anything so talking about it one way or another is dangerous. Too optimistic and you have people thinking its no big deal, and if youre too end of the world about it, then you've got everybody cowering in fear and anxiety about something that has an extremely low chance of happening to them.
Any bioinformatics program covers machine learning these days. They might not have an explicit class called 'machine learning,' but you can bet it will be covered in the lecture sequence and the cutting edge of the field will be discussed in journal clubs, rather than in lectures which are about established fundamentals.

For a pure biology undergrad who is probably med school bound, learning ML is superfluous so you don't see it in the curriculum at the undergrad level, unless there are specific concentrations offered for computational biology. A bioinformatics program may even just have you take these ML classes from the statistics or CSE department rather than offer some bioinformatics-specific section within their department.
But then you’ll have websites that walk you through changing the setting. At least this way you have to make a decision every time, even if it costs you a few clicks each time you do it.
Why don't insurers just raise all rates 50% right now?

My guess is it's because there's a competitive market.

This doesn't change this. This allows for better price discrimination than our current tables based just on age, car, neighborhood, gender, etc. This will raise rates for high-risk drivers and lower them for low-risk drivers. If the insurer does the first and not the latter, the latter will go to an insurer who does.

It seems like the view here is that everyone will only do the former, but again: why don't they do that right now? Why does the effect of competition vanish in this case?

"Every insurer will use this technology eventually" isn't an answer. Every insurer has accident data by age. As a result, they offer lower rates to lower-risk age groups.
What's the percentage of positive test results out of all test results in the US vs most of the populous countries in Europe?
Google Maps gets “more detailed, colorful map”
You arrived at the conclusion that something can be worth more than you paid for it, which is the point I was trying to illustrate (because the person I was replying to assumed that the lowest price you can pay = worth). So it seems like the illustration did its job to me.
Recommend to create an issue on the Github https://github.com/mikecao/umami
> Why do people support a government policy that they wouldn't support for their own children? Most of us have known of or heard of rich families where the kids got all the money and resources they need into adulthood vs those who were forced to earn their own way... it's obvious which parenting strategy turns out better.

UBI is about providing a floor for people. Most people like the idea of their children having access to food, shelter, healthcare and education. From the article, the amount here is "just above Germany's poverty line", so it's not fair to compare it to "rich families where the kids got all the money and resources". People earning this UBI have enough to survive, but not much more. This isn't enough money to go on family vacations, buy fancy cars, live in lavish homes, etc. There is still a strong incentive to work and improve your personal circumstances, the main difference is that losing your job, or having a medical issue, shouldn't be enough to put you or your family on the street.
My company is slowly switching from Tekton to Argo (much to my chagrin). They seem very similar in that they’re incredibly alpha and fighting over similar parts of the stack.

Argo seems more CD focused right now whereas Tekton really is a “toolbox”/make what you want.
xkcd's need sarcasm tags now? :)
Why not just use the WPS WiFi button ? most internet routers have it nowadays.
Thanks for the kind words, Hank; it's great to hear from you!

-Kwasi
You are likely to get loads of people who are unhappy to be paying property tax for something that isn't happening.
>couldn't another company easily come along and undercut them?

Not necessarily. A lot of factors might give one company an exclusive position. Another coal mine can't just open up. There might be a large barrier to entry into the market or it might just take time for a competitor to surface.
In your writing, you say:
"A study publish in 2013 by the journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness found that cloth masks wouldn’t be effective during an outbreak of a respiratory infection"

However, the study you referenced states the opposite:
"Both masks significantly reduced the number of microorganisms expelled by volunteers, although the
surgical mask was 3 times more effective in blocking transmission than the homemade mask." AND "Conclusion: Our findings suggest that a homemade mask should only be considered as a last resort to prevent droplet transmission from infected individuals, but it would be better than no protection."
I read all releases log since 2.3 and its always been enlightening, and I start using those features. Elasticsearch is my favorite tool and it has been very useful over the years, just wanted to share my thanks. I just hope they can survive in the cloud defying broken AWS Elasticsearch abomination.
They do a fundamental activity for the economy which is consuming. Consuming produce jobs and investment.
It's 1.

But also, who can blame them. I've seen really stupid companies come out of biotech incubators, including one that was peddling a genetically modified probiotic whose concoction as designed is known to be ineffective pharmacologically (and an equivalent reformulation strategy is not known in their host species), and a company that demoed reconstituted mock vegan meringues that had residual trifluoroacetic acid in their demo day samples. Vcs just don't know how to judge this shit, and it's much harder to pattern match details that require subtle knowledge than "Uber for X"
And what about the people who don't want their earnings to be taxed to pay for people who can work but choose not to?

To be fair I don't think UBI is unique in this problem. Even traditional assistance programs struggle with this problem. It would be wonderful if we had some mechanisms that helped people become self-sufficient but that seems to be a very much unsolved problem.

I don't think UBI will be much better at this but the argument that it could be more efficient (i.e. provide the same level of support to more people at the same cost when compared to traditional assistance packages) is what continues to intrigue me about UBI.
Government funding on products never produces cheap products. The problem with drug prices is the cost of dealing with FDA regulations, not the free market. Insulin has no reason to be that expensive if it wasn't for the clusterfuck of IP protection laws that interact with each other and lock basic products out.
On a related note, the macOS 11 Beta 5 released today reveals that Apple silicon Macs will require all ARM executables to be signed: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/08/19/apple-silicon-macs-to-req..., https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note...
I've run my own business for over 17 years. I get up early, work, stay up kind-of late, work, and get a lot of time in early on the weekends. It's not really that terrible. It's difficult, but doable, and I can still focus a lot of my energy on raising my kids.
Not yet, for now they have just made the mask mandotary almost everywhere. People will not accept a second lockdown
At some point absolutely! The technology isn't where we want it to be yet though, so we've moved towards the existing market.
>first past the post is the only way it works easily

The key word there is easily. Now that we have computers and instant communication we can do things that would be/used to be considered hard but give better outcomes.

I'll also point out you don't need a winning party in an election you just need to be able to form a government and there's no reason 2 closely aligned parties can't work together or even traditionally opposing parties.
I wonder if the going to a cooperative model is the way to go. It might resemble the taxi companies in some ways
At an elementary school near me they would only get to do recess on Fridays, and that's assuming they behaved.
The fact that the standard model of computing is that applications are opaque machine code blobs that can access everything in your user permission space is the core problem in privacy and malware. Applications should see nothing but their executable jail, and whatever was intentionally allowed to them by the user (eg, Open file dialog giving the application an opaque file handle, etc, not carte blanche access to the entire filesystem). Ideally, the notion of machine code blobs should be done away with as well.

Mobile OSes got to rethink everything in an era of constant adversarial connectivity and started off on a better foot in this regard.
Thanks!!!

The most cases we find that the average people run into issues with mobile is in bad connection areas or when staying at one place for a while (staying over with friends or family, or at a party, etc).

A big use case as well is airbnb's and home rentals. One of the first things that you want when entering a rental is free wifi!

Thanks again for the feedback!
> if you offer people a 40 year UBI and they don't quit, then that's pretty damn strong evidence

I think that isn't a correct assumption either.

40 yeas is a long time. Longer than many HN readers here have been alive.

In the last 40 years, how many times has the government performed an about-face on some economic policy or whatever? Too many times for someone to just throw away their career until sufficient time has passed that is becomes part of society. That may take an entire generation (see Social Security in the US, which now is a permanent fixture).
I've seen a few apps get around this by packaging them in a standard .dmg and giving the user clear instructions ("just right-click") as the background image of the opened container, or as the name of the app, or on the download website, etc. Although generally these have been fairly tech-oriented apps where the users would be likely to know the shortcut anyway!
Schools do suck, but those 15+60 minutes free time and all class time (which is inherently social) are SO incredibly valuable.

> This article decries remote learning and offers nothing to move the conversation forward on what WOULD work. The author makes no point at all other than complaining about how her child can't sit still. And I'm saying I bet her child can't sit still in a physical school either, so its not about remote learning.

Agreed, though I'd put that down to schools being un-engaging and useless and that gets _worse_ with remote. I'd be in favour of making 30-40% of the school day free time, like it is in high school. For knowledge work like learning, more hours doesn't necessarily mean more output, and it's really destructive to put that onto students.
Clinical trials are never low cost. Even small scale studies with a few subjects can climb in eye-watering numbers.
Good. Regular users are not sufficiently computer-savvy to avoid being tricked into installing malware.
if it's put in there with the intent to track you regardless of what you want they'll have provisions to make sure you don't disable it. I.e. not use a SIM card but use an eSIM or CDMA style authentication. Or make the ECU go in to cripple mode if it can't talk to the mothership over the cell connection.
I think that also depends on the location. Might be true in places with lots of trees. Not so true in other locations.

It is complicated, as are most things.
Retro Gaming's Misogyny Is Brought to Light After a Violent Tragedy
people who act like joggers are the real threat mostly don't exercise, just as people who say things like "I don't understand why people need to get together" mostly are introverts, people who think the anti-lockdown protestors are lunatics generally don't own brick and mortor businesses, etc. people are scared and want someone to blame, ideally someone who isn't like them. and it's naturally much easier to see the things you do as essential, but the things you don't do as nonessential
The antibody test results for this data set don't seem representative of the population at large. Reason being, if you look at the antibody positivity rate, it consistently drops as time goes on (whereas everything I've read suggests it should increase with time as more ppl have been infected).

My guess is that at the beginning, hospitals were only testing COVID-sick patients, and as time went on testing became more widespread.
The Chronicles of Open Source Festival 2020
This made me laugh so thank you, but in all seriousness, we started by working through the lifecycle of a customer from the top and push it to the end. The first part being, how do you meet and qualify a new client, to the last part where you're handling paystubs and invoicing clients.

There are a ton of things I wish we handled better, particularly on-boarding where although it's self-serve, it needs work, but we did figure it's better to launch and learn from more users before building more software.

The second thing was we used the product itself to onboard (vip.epihub.com/reserve), and again once we were users, we kept pushing until it worked well enough for us to train people on how to use our product.
> The minimum latency of reads is theoretically much lower than the sever/client infrastructure commonly used today.

This is an oversimplification: it assumes that discovery is very low cost and that there's a peer with a copy enough closer on the network that it's faster than talking to server-class hardware in a data center with a high quality network connection. Given the number of assumptions which need to be true for that to be a net-positive I'm skeptical that it'd be easy to hit anywhere close to the best-case theoretical scenario.
TikTok is notorious for siphoning as much private data as it can without being clear about that with the user. Apart from that the concept of TikTok has already been done in the past and it seems to me they didn't fail for technological or business reasons, but because they didn't have the money to fight against bigger players
Yes, it has. And it's one of the prime reasons HTTP/2 is slower for lots of applications than pure HTTP/1.1.

The tricky part of HTTP/2 is that you now have 2 flow control algorithms running on top of each other. And they are rather good at harming the other one instead of cooperating. E.g. a too small HTTP window can lead to poor performance as you observed. However a too big HTTP window can lead to excessive buffering in the application for HTTP/2 streams.

It's a rather hard challenge to get to a good compromise solution here (and not a lot of people have arrived there yet).

In doubt the rule of thumb is to use HTTP/2 for small requests where the benefit of multiplexing is biggest. And stick to HTTP/1.1 (a non multiplexed TCP connection) for high throughput.
Absolutely an option! Unfortunately for a lot of people the router is hidden away. For those renting their house on airbnb or similar, the last thing you want your guest to have to do is hunt for the router. We hope having a customized Wifi block next to your entrance would make the experience awesome!
Many (often cross-platform) apps are no longer signed, so they throw up this warning–I assume that users of these have long since learned that the warning is just something they need to bypass. macOS-native apps have largely adopted notarization and the fee that comes with it. Open source command line tools do not need to be notarized.

Interestingly enough, it seems to be possible to notarize someone else's app, so perhaps it might be a worthwhile use of my developer ID to provide this service to people I trust but don't want to shell out money…
You should also be a chef because people will never stop eating.

This is a train that went away a long time ago. AirBNB is slowing down and becoming the yellow pages/TripAdvisor of the internet (that is very clear in terms of the commodification of the review process).

It doesn’t mean they will fail, however you can’t just state they will grow forever.
> It is very obvious what's happening

I don't understand that comment. I keep up to date on the latest scientific papers on the coronavirus pandemic, and the one thing I wouldn't call it is obvious. We repeatedly see things happening that run contrary to what the consensus expectation was. Obviously some of this is due to improvements in our understanding over time, but we are still very much in the dark about how it is currently spreading, who is most likely to suffer fatal or severe consequences, how we best treat the disease, etc.

Charitably, it is neither as bad as we feared nor as innocuous as some hoped, but that was bound to be the case and easily predictable. I don't feel at all confident predicting what comes next, however.
Closing the gyms has always been the worst thing to me. Do anything you want but don't close the gym
They do. They voted for their government in 2006. Then the ones who they elected decided to not hold elections again. Its good to virtue signal for Palestinians but atleast get the facts right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Palestine
Yeah, that's what you need to compare, and that's why just looking at those statistics in isolation doesn't lead to a definite conclusion. But now that we're comparing apples to apples, and see the apples are comparable, we need to move on from them to look at other factors. And like you said, the growth rate is one such huge factor. So, really, I find the growth rate to be a much more compelling argument for treating them differently than the death rate. Though even that isn't airtight: for example, if wearing a mask would practically guarantee you didn't get the virus, and the spread of infection was merely due to people not taking such precautions in social interactions, then that could change everything. And unfortunately I don't know what the actual effectiveness is, so I can't comment on that—though personally I'm skeptical they're as airtight as we'd hope (even skeptical about N95).

All of which is to say: there's a good case to be made, and I'm not even against it, but (a) on the one hand, it's not nearly as open-and-shut as just comparing the (mismatched) statistics in the original comment, and (b) conversely, when there are more compelling arguments, it's so much better to make those arguments instead of comparing apples and oranges.
How to Use Encryption in Browser Apps
>It will likely raise it to subsidize things, somebody else has to pay your premium

I don't know what this means, but an insurance company can be incentivized to lower premiums as a means to win new business. If an insurance company offered me lower premiums in exchange for monitoring my driving, I might do it. I already have dash cams to ensure I don't get found at fault if it isn't my fault.
It mostly doesn't. That is 20% because of bullshit like this and 80% because Apple deprecates, removes, changes and otherwise encumbers their operating system so much that keeping track of it all is a full-time job.
> The moment I start giving money to you, I've lowered your status and made you a second class citizen.

This is why the "Universal" part of UBI is important. Having everybody get it reduces the social stigma. (Also providing the bonus side-effect of reducing the admin overhead that comes with means testing)
Open source projects sign their Apps like anyone else. Works fine.

They do the same on Windows of course and on Linux package managers.
I'm not against wearing a mask, but I'm against closing the gyms
I bumped into multiple "somethings" as a kid and I didn't really discuss anything with my parents. I figured it out myself. It's not that hard for kids to do and I know most of my friends did the same.
Show HN: Infinite choose-the-word exercises for practicing German
I built a very simple tool which generates exercises for any given set of option words.

Source code can be found here https://github.com/generall/Exerciser
Can I just say this was an extremely well-written article? Each time a question came to mind, it was answered within the next two sentences.
That's averaged over all ages. For people under 50, it's basically nil, on the order of 1 in 10,000.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v...
From Apple's documentation:

> There isn’t a specific identity requirement for this signature: a simple ad-hoc signature issued locally is sufficient, which includes signatures which are now generated automatically by the linker. This new behavior doesn’t change the long-established policy that our users and developers can run arbitrary code on their Macs

So, the sky isn't falling yet, but it is reasonable to be concerned.
In this context, "faulty and malicious actors" would be those who interfere with the operation of the network, e.g. by deleting files they consider "bad".
It definitely helps.

And it looks like they've reduced how often a single instruction will cause a lockup as the core shifts to a different power level. But until they've eliminated that issue, it's still scary to toss in a few AVX-512 instructions.
Ah, so it's not about reading a book versus some other medium, it's about patience and sustained attention because a book won't have notifications and pop-ups. Alright, then we're on the same page :)
Apple Silicon Macs to require signed code
The rate at which this thing grows took London from a fraction of a perentage to 5-10% infected at the same time in about 4 weeks. It could have easily hit 30-50% of people infected at the same time in another 2 weeks without the lockdown. Unless you literally shut in and careful wash and disinfect all your deliveries during the period when your delivery driver has a 1 in approx 5 chance of being an asymptomatic (but infectious carrier) you are nearly certain to catch it.