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> It's not about you. It's about everyone else.

Sadly, this is the source of your downvotes. For so many (even here on HN of all places), it's all about ME. My freedom. My choices. My comfort. My convenience. My need to eat at that restaurant or buy that ranch dressing. My absolute right to do squats next to some random person at a gym. Anything that gets in the way of my freedom to do every little thing I want to do any time I want to do it is bad.

We're not talking about genocide here or shredding the constitution. We're talking about sensible and temporary public health policy. But no, I just have to go get my hair done.
Coming before that: A Psion Series 5-inspired keyboard for PinePhone.
Masks aren't 100% effective so being in close contact with someone for such a long time (a haircut for women can take much longer than a typical trim for men) carries a high risk of transmission from an asymptomatic carrier.
This is a good idea, and the people in the comments are rightly pointing out sugar's problems. But just as problematic as sugar are vegetable oils which are in almost every packaged product you can buy at the grocery store. They cause all sorts of health problems because the vegetable oils are extremely reactive (due to being unsaturated fats and so having double bonds that can react with other molecules inside your body). These are not called out as a health risk because the American agriculture industry makes an enormous amount of money exporting them and selling them to companies that make packaged/processed foods.

Edit: just to clarify it is the poly-unsaturated fatty acids that are the problem, not fats in general. Fats like butter (saturated) or olive oil (mono-unsaturated) do not have these problems, while canola oil, soybean oil, etc. are poly-unsaturated and highly-reactive.

Edit 2: research for these claims:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223779598_Lipid_oxi...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12013175_Peroxidati...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5931176_The_Importa...

These are from a lipid scientist rather than from nutrition scientists, so they are focusing on internal biological processes rather than health outcomes. I have not seen good nutrition studies on poly-unsaturated fats. However, studies of fat consumption that break out fats into saturated, mono-unsaturated, and poly-unsaturated fat categories generally show worse health outcomes for people consuming high intakes of poly-unsaturated fats. I will try to find a good study.

These ingredients are not well studied, which is surprising when you consider how rapidly they've been added to the food supply (basically not at all present 100 years ago, to in every processed food today).
Sounds like a great way for cops to extract bribes from small shop owners.
I've always paid cash on new phones. Is there a credit check associated with financing a new iPhone?
It is a victimless crime if there are no victims. Maybe shooter should be prosecuted for intent to kill someone in the crowd, but that's debatable.
Right, but planning a terrorist attack isn't "they can't satisfiably prove he's done anything wrong."
I know scapegoating Americans has become a community pastime, but perhaps you could rephrase your comment with more substance or evidence so as to avoid coming off so elitist and prejudiced.
I'm not sure if you're missing the point intentionally or unintentionally but while those chemicals sometimes can cause health problems later in life but the sugar is what's causing the calories that are causing the obesity that is causing the health problems we want to mitigate.

The sugar is the problem and both the pastries have the same sugar. The homemade one may be marginally better but it's a distinction without a meaningful difference. The problems caused by oddball chemicals used in industrial food manufacturing are less than a rounding error compared to the problems caused by obesity.
> luxury good

"just works and doesn't waste hours of my time" != "luxury"
Well I’m not out there licking their face. Isn’t distancing, the plexiglass screens, and mask wearing supposed to fix my risk to others?

If memory serves, the probability of transmission is under 1% with those measures.
I wonder how this compares to Mozilla's approach when they did something similar with Rust, Firefox and servo.
I would imagine the book contains a bit more justification for its arguments than what was presented by the person you are responding to.

What makes you believe that the author just "wrote basic observations and concluded they are the root cause of everything"? Most ideas are easy to dismiss when you assume that a blurb posted to HN is all there is to them.
I think some would prefer standing up a more democratic process and putting time constraints on the undemocratic processes.
State legislatures can probably pull back these authorities if they want. The emergency measures by governors are usually based on provisions of state law, and can be revoked by law.

Michigan has a procedure that may let the legislature do exactly this without even worrying about a veto:

https://apnews.com/b59e940736457cd98d73436be1a1d68a
Those mini BT keyboards are great for the money. I got a no-brand copy of a Rii one for £8 off eBay to replace the Apple keyboard I use to control my media server and which was gradually dying one key t a time.

I was really impressed at how the mini BT keyboard 'just worked' on my odd setup of Ubuntu running on Apple hardware. It's pretty tolerable to type on --at least for shortish stuff like web searches and naming files, etc. and it goes for a week or two on a charge.
I'd argue that the insistence of public policy to impose such draconian limitations on individual rights has a larger negative health and well being outcomes, but we have made the cost collectively born so we are all miserable, broke, and in bad health to prevent to save a marginal number of people who were already in poor health status. We are practicing socialism but applied to health and wellbeing, with the same results as economic socialism... everyone is miserable.
A great jumping in spot would be to watch Ken Burn's Jazz and Country Music Documentaries. Two other shorter documentaries that I can recommend is "The Wrecking Crew" (2015) and "It Might Get Loud" (2009)

Listening to music isn't gonna do you a lot of good unless you have context. For example, The Beatles and Beach Boys influenced each other. Rubber Soul led to Pet Sounds which led to Sgt. Pepper which led to Smile.

Another consideration is that some of the real influencers aren't well known or popular, and some of them were not the singers but the music writers, producers, and musicians.
Using their first name to pretend they are both anonymous and non-anonymous is worse than both endpoints of spectrum.
They should probably look at how mozilla does it. From experience doing something similar, things get simpler when you write your code using handles rather than pointers but that's not how chrome is written.

https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html
P/E ratio is irrelevant these days, they can just do buybacks. Then they never need to pay dividends. If people want to cash out, they can just sell their shares back to Apple. It's more tax efficient too (capital gains instead of income tax). This can work even if earnings were 0.
You are conflating multiple issues here.

One, OP's question was about the threat model of underground-gym-goers not the CDC and state/local medical authorities.

Two, public health authorities don't do "exactly that calculation" because they are looking at interventions on the population level. Their job is to mandate things that would be individually irrational for the collective good. They have their own calculus about what the acceptable trade-offs are, that I'd suspect ultimately relates to the same monetary value of a human life that FEMA uses, but I'm not sure. I generally trust them to do their job correctly though.
I shouldn't have said that it isn't a big deal these days, as that devalues the scope of the achievement of getting a payload to orbit. I simply mean that orbital flight is something that we are able to do with the proper funding and resources.

I still think that Bezos can do it if he wants to. If SpaceX were for sale, Bezos could buy them 5 times over (as of their valuation based on their February funding). I have to believe that level of capital could build a company with similar capabilities.

SpaceX has done, and continues to do, incredible work, but their success isn't magical, and it should be repeatable for another company.
>My first thought was, isn't that a daycare? How is it different in the eyes of the law?

Childcare is one of those basic and ancient jobs that's accrued a lot of compex laws over the years. In PA, anyone caring for four or more children not related to them is required to get some sort of certification, even if they're doing it out of their house for friends for free. Home daycares aren't uncommon here.

I'm not sure about the laws in your area, but my money's on that business having to apply for certification and pass inspections. They'll probably hire a certified childcare worker.
I only use my living room in the evening. When else would I want it tidy?

Well, maybe Saturday morning. But starting the day tidying is not great either.
Michigan Rs are working to revoke the governor's authorities.

https://apnews.com/b59e940736457cd98d73436be1a1d68a
But Google's strategy isn't simply in selling phones, but in then showing ads to the users of those phones.
I look forward to the day when one of these makes an appearance on one of those prototype/collector forums.

It's surprising how frequently restricted computing devices end up in public hands.

Through a relative who worked for a guy who knew a guy and so on, I ended up with the world's most awesome GRiD Compass back in the 80's. It was supposedly formerly used by someone in the Reagan administration, and had big stickers on the bottom listing all the countries where it was never to be used.

I threw it away when I got my first IBM XT. Stupid of me.
This is fairly expected and also happening in large parts of Europe.

One thing I found interesting that is initially a bit counterintuitive, but makes a lot of sense in hindsight, is that the herd-immunity thresholds change based on the infection vector (i.e. natural spread vs. random vaccination): https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160762v...
The factory farming way of producing beef is certainly not good for the environment and soil.
I think the Landlord would feel left out if so.
SpaceX has claimed we will definitely have point to point rocket travel in 7-8 years, in production, for between the cost of a coach and business class ticket [1]. Long haul airlines will begin getting phased out according to them.

Since reliability is going to fundamentally change by that much in order to have massive passenger rockets replacing jet travel, Blue Origin has nothing to worry about. There is a magic invention that is going to completely change the game, and it won't be patented since those aren't worth doing according to Musk.

Musk also said a robo taxi network is coming online this year. He said it will need a bit of winter training but would have that integrated by the end of the year as well. Full level 5, all conditions and scenarios a human can drive in[2]. Steering wheel can be taken off afterwards. Recent news says it is going to be several weeks before they have any sort of object permanence implemented/temporal picture of the scene, but apparently that is all part of the plan.

Unless Tesla and SpaceX have completely alien tech, I'm confident Bezos could do the 6 launches by 6 years.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2018/4/11/17227036/flight-spacex-gwynne-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucp0TTmvqOE
Flours do contain some naturally occurring sugar, usually less than 1%.
You're correct, and I've love to have something other than first-past-the-post.

However, throughout our history, our two-party system has generally (with some notable exceptions) been able to work and work together. That's no longer the case. As such, it's hard to tell if the political polarization is a reflection of society, or if society is just adopting the polarization of our political elites.

So I stand by my original statement.
We improved this by always carrying color pens and a minimal playdoh set (couple of colors and tools). First they paint, then they do playdoh, and then, if the meal isn’t over they watch cartoons.

We have almost completely eliminated devices with this tactic because by the time they are done with those two the meal is almost over. And if it isn’t then we also sometimes tell them that they must just wait or engage in conversation with us.

We are lucky that they like painting and playing with playdoh, though.
> I prefer that to a ban, but let's not pretend selling cigs at high prices is in the interest of cig smokers.

I'd prefer if the fight against smoking was not dealt with in a classist way (the ones suffering the most from this tax are poor people, who don't have either the money or the mental energy to fight off an addiction)!

The best way to fight smoking is to get rid of advertising... where Germany (and Bulgaria) are the only EU countries left where it is still legal to advertise for tobacco products on billboards.
If, as it has done so far, exponential GDP growth means exponential energy growth, then in a century or a bit less we will generate more heat as a byproduct of energy consumption as the earth is able to dissipate at livable temperatures.

In this framework growth has to end, on earth at least, much sooner than later.
Society is asking you to sacrifice a big thing for something that may not benefit society at all.

^ They definitely aren't asking
Read the other comments here. The author is driving people away with messages like "how to not be stupid", and misses the mark with his assumptions.

Example: he doesn't take into account the fact that investments can and do go down in value, and you have to sell to pay taxes, even when the value drops.
Very true and not actually pedantic. Retention is a pretty solid predictor of monetization, esp in the long-run. But in the short-run they can diverge. For example, decreasing ad units per page could drastically drop your monetization, but be great for longer-term retention.
That's why you leave it up to duly elected legislatures to decide whether or not to extend the shutdowns created in response to the initial emergency. The legislature could create a reopening plan with specific metrics to follow to determine when that should happen. But the emergency powers that continue to be wielded by executives are an usurpation of democratic rule. The legislatures can and should have formulated a proper reopening plan by May at the latest, and they could have continued to modify it as more information became available.
The amount of sugar in them, very often.
But it's not a an opinion or view, it's an behavioral economic fact. The same thing happened in the 1920's with prohibition, and the same thing is happening with the illegal drug trade.
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Heard from where? Many people are clamoring for this, but other than wishful thinking I’ve never heard any compelling claims that Apple actually has it on their roadmap.

I, for one, would love to see support for push on mobile web on iOS. But I’m not holding my breath.
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Two parties, but one set of rulers - the oligarch elites.
What's Three Trillion Between Friends?
> For Apple it's the first time they've ever sold corporate bonds.

This just isn't true, Apple has sold debt for as long as their Non US cash position has been material, so they could access their non US cash without having to repatriate(pay US taxes on it) their cash.

A simple look on a Bloomberg terminal shows they have outstanding debt from 2014
Is that actually true? My state has well defined phases of reopening based on infection rates, and I searched for a handful of random states across the political spectrum and found similar plans in place.

I don't really buy the power grab angle here. Most of the flack the federal government got was for explicitly _not_ doing any country-wide coordination or restriction. "Leave it to the governors". And it's hard not to find the "assault on freedom" angle disingenuous when it comes primarily from the socially conservative parts of the country that have historically worked to constrain individual rights.
I mean, most companies are mobile companies now, and the app is the only thing that matters to them.
I suspect the downvotes are related to the comment to report. HN tends to lean anti authoritarian, so the idea of reporting someone doesn’t tend to sit well here.

I’m on the fence with something like this. Covid-19 isn’t turning out to be nearly as scary as it looked like it might be in December (at least based on rumors coming out of wuhan). I still feel like there’s information at a high level (security clearance type stuff) that we don’t get to see, and so have to assume the stay stay at home orders are still founded.

That said, people in the US can only maintain this type of social distancing so long. A lot of people are reaching a breaking point. And if some speakeasy gyms help prevent a massive ‘fuck it’ style rave, then it might be a lesser of 2 evils kind of thing.
The limit on this is speed of internet transfers.

It takes 2 days for me to run badblocks on my 16TB drive!
I remember installing it on a 20 megabyte hard drive, which I thought was enormous, and then seeing so much free space the next time I typed "dir".

It truly was a magical time in my life, before I had the opportunity to work with unix-like systems.
The shared CLI transforms workspace into devops command and control center
I really feel there are going to be big political ramifications of all this. The inequality is, honestly, not just unjust now, it's humiliatingly so.

Expect more angry people electing even angrier people into important posts. There is some incredible short-termism in all this policy.
perhaps link to the https version?
https://graphicscodex.com/projects/projects/index.html
Here's the link to the original article about this, instead of the BBC's less interesting re-hash of someone else's work:

https://tidbits.com/2020/08/17/the-case-of-the-top-secret-ip...
Time to update the old "Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose" to "Your right to spittke ends at my nose".
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It's not a binary answer. It may be transmitted but the odds are much lower than without masks.
Covid strikes me as a unique situation that doesn't come up that often. It is a longer term threat than most "emergencies", but still fundamentally a temporary concern.

Right now it's unclear if COVID-19 will behave like the 1918-19 Spanish flu and disappear after Winter 2021 because most everyone subceptible will have gotten it, or of it will be more like Picardy Fever, which hung around for two centuries.
Videos show the wrong duration, sometimes, as well.

A couple of weeks ago, someone was asking for the full video of what looked like a 10s clip (which also played just 10s). Someone else replied, that it was literally the post. He got downvoted to hell (like below 100). He was right. After checking his comment, I went to the video and by seeking I got it to show the whole 2m and something.
This was not the first time this issue has appeared for me.

v.reddit.com is abysmal. I agree.
I order a conferncing/advertising panel direct from the manufacturer. Usually the same panels without the software
They used to sell games in iTunes for iPod OS. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_game
My interpretation of how Google Analytics does this is that pulling in a 3rd party dep lets them keep a lot of control over versioning and similar things. I assume they do this so out-of-date or vulnerable code (or extra tracking, sure) can be cleanly and quickly applied through the network and not rely on the clients to properly update "ga.js" a few times a day.
Versatile Video Coding (H.266/VVC) could make video streaming cheaper
Apple likes control, that's it really.
(Mentioned in another comment somewhere else in this thread). In the long-term, yes, but retention and monetization can diverge in the short-term. Classic example is showing fewer ads (better user experience, better retention... but much less monetization). Of course, in the long term, you'd still need to monetize that retention somehow anyway.
> Sugar is sugar. What's the difference between a homemade pastry and store bought pastry?

You can control the amount of sugar within something you bake yourself for starter.
yeah P.I. (Ex law enforcement), shady lawyers are people that should have that data...
Hmm, would it have to do with information density? If you had a puzzle that was a simple gradient, you could easily locate the region a piece belonged to despite the number of pieces. If the puzzle was blank, the difficulty would ramp up much quicker.
I bet coffee demand has gone way down. For many people, it was just an excuse to take a break at the office.
Never underestimate the power of marketing.
At some point in the past twenty years IBM downsized its technical writing teams. When I started as an intern in 1990 there were ~250 people in the “Information Development” group in Poughkeepsie responsible for MVS, RACF, RMF and a variety of other mainframe products (plus hardware documentation). Today, there’s now maybe 20–25 people left in Poughkeepsie covering twice the workload as other products consolidated there (Endicott closed, Kingston closed, etc).
I personally know kids that don't eat their food unless they are in front of a screen (touch or not), because the only thing that captures their attention are colorful blobs. I find it very detrimental to the kids' mental growth because they don't observe things outside of a screen.
> the insistence of public policy to impose such draconian limitations on individual rights

If people gave a damn about other people, they would be following best practices voluntarily, which would make policy limitations a moot point. But they do not, so here we are.
Fructose is arguably a poison indistinguishable from ethanol in some very consequential ways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-alcoholic_fatty_liver_dise...
Changing an atom is a big deal, thats a whole other drug. Evergreens, where they extend patents through small modifications, has nothing to do with the active ingredient since changing that requires another few hundred million dollars in clinical trials. And generics companies are already incentivized by law to sue and overturn patents. I would suggest spending time to learn about what these problems like evergreening actually are, and how drug development actually works from a scientific perspective, before trying to come up with societal structures to do it better. I would also recommend then reading up on the current societal structures so you can get a sense of what off label use actually means, what that entails, how generics companies work, what their incentives are, and so on. But start with the science behind how drugs and drug development works, the statistics of why clinical trials are needed, etc, since you really can't do anything without that basis.
What are you talking about, here's the link to the CDC flu data: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e...

It shows:

39,000,000 – 56,000,000
flu illnesses

18,000,000 – 26,000,000
flu medical visits

410,000 – 740,000
flu hospitalizations

24,000 – 62,000
flu deaths

Which is actually kind of on the higher side for the flu season. They attribute that most likely on the increased testing happening this year due to people getting tested for Covid.
Just turn on showdead in your HN settings and look at how many deniers are in this very thread.