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The FDA should be able to certify drugs as safe, effective, etc. They shouldn't be able to ban drugs for not being that. Helmets in America don't have to be CPSC certified and that's fine. You can choose to buy an uncertified helmet if you want.

Certification is good. But uncertified drugs have their place.
Pray tell, what powerful special interests have long-term incentives to force people to wear masks and stay out of restaurants? Like, are you actually suggesting that Big Mask and Big Pre-Cooked Meal Co. are going to take mayors or lawmakers golfing? I genuinely don't understand this theory.
Are they going to ban tacos too?
That's for the whole of Mexico, so more than an order of magnitude off (120 million). Still an insane number of murders, what a tragedy.
This sounds like an awesome job. Literally paid to fix frustrating bureacratic processes.

Like a professional user advocate paid to convince developers that the users do have a point and the request is not impossible.
Are these speakeasy gyms? Seems like a solo room and a much less crowded gym would both adhere to distancing policies. Seems rude to existing customers to set up a new private gym in an existing gym space, though.
My work computer would be substantially faster than my personal computer if it wasn’t bogged down by so much IT crap. In practice my personal computer substantially faster to get anything done because I have to fight it so much less.
Very nice, works bit less well with internet, but still...
The wording was problematic from the start. It probably would have been better to classify businesses into "risky" and "not-risky" or some sliding scale of risk, rather than using the "essential" label that comes with moral baggage. Close or restrict risky businesses (indoor, large crowds, etc.), keep open not-risky ones.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24205888
"If you have no backup, you have no data. If you have one backup, you have no backup."
The stock market is not the economy, that is absolutely true. But why exactly is that made clearer right now? Considering we have been in a pandemic for 5 months now, I would say we are faring pretty well economically. Consumer spending is back up. Unemployment is going back down. The real estate market is healthy. Prices are stable. There are certainly people and industries not doing well and we should help them. There are also people and industries doing really well right now. I have seen no proof that the overall economy is hurting.
Paprika works exactly the same, as does Evernote and Pocket. Apple has not by the way, complained about copyright infringement.
And how do they get the information? I would bet it's from the government...
Hi, Martin from Quell here. We're definitely keen to open up the platform to 3rd-party developers, as well as continuing to develop the core game to keep the product engaging over time.

We are indeed using IMUs to track the player's movements, and agree that high-accuracy motion tracking is one of the keys to making the experience really compelling and immersive. It's been a blast so far to feel the experience improve with each iteration of the game and software!
Cigarette tax is a scam to raise money from selling drugs. Cigs have inelastic demand. In Germany they hit a point where a price rise (in the name of health) resulted in reduced smoking and less tax collected and they immediately wanted to reduce tax. That caused a scandal so they changed tack to homogonize tax across the eu which, incidentally of course, would reduce tax in Germany.

Tax is charged on cigs because it works and no other reason, its regressive tax too.

I prefer that to a ban, but let's not pretend selling cigs at high prices is in the interest of cig smokers.
The only place it works is where there are nicotine alternatives.
Ask HN: How to filter incoming air to a building
We're in the middle of another California wildfire season and I'm trying to figure out what the options are for getting fresh air into the home under these circumstances while working from home.

How effective would furnace filters be at filtering wildfire smoke air? Are there any products designed to both exchange AND filter air from the outside?
For Reddit, just as with Twitter and several others, I’d recommend using a third party client.

Apollo is an excellent Reddit client for iOS.
What kind of logic is this? Spraying bullets into a crowd is a victimless crime unless someone gets hit, so we shouldn't prosecute otherwise? That's some serious mental gymnastics.
I think if the goal is that you want kids to eat less of this stuff, then just don't let kids buy it.

If the goal is to raise money, then maybe some sort of tax is the better bet, but you have to keep in mind who benefits from the raised money vs how much of their money you're taking. This would be a regressive tax & poorer people tend to eat more junk food and have more health problems, too. I mean, don't discount the externality that such a tax would disproportionately punish poor people for buying certain snacks.
All of them - cleaning, cooking, laundry, etc. Everything that a human needs to do to maintain reasonable living conditions and would hire someone else to do if they were rich.

EDIT: I think that if you could come up with a really good solution for all of that most people would be willing to pay about as much as they do for a car.
Risk of transmission goes up indoors, with heavy breathing, and being exposed for longer than 10 minutes. People who exercise, are going to breathe heavily. People on equipment or in a class stay longer than 10 minutes. And gyms are indoors and often not well-ventilated.

The result is that gyms are an excellent space for spreading COVID-19. And measures that reduce the spread for things like walking around a store are not sufficient to reduce it to a safe level in a gym.
Meat has been a global climate catastrophe wrapped in a corn tortilla. The production of meat is literally killing us, and I'm sorry but its worth taking away traditional cuisines so that humanity doesn't go extinct.
It's the cooling equivalent of a radiant heater, and you need line-of-sight to the walls to feel cooled. The thermal interface is deliberately inefficient for convection (to avoid wasting power chilling the air), but efficient for radiation.

Radiation is proportional to absolute temperature T^4. So compared to a glowing radiant patio heater, I'd expect to need maybe (1000^4 - 300^4)/(300^4 - 270^4) ~ 350x the area for the same heat transfer in the opposite direction, thus their big tunnel instead of a little filament. Even with their cold source at absolute zero, they'd still need >100x.
Walk away from these idiots secure in the knowledge that you dodged a bullet. They're doing you a favor by demonstrating how broken their organization is.
More people need to read "the goal."
My if's are not about the place of business with respect to its patrons, they are about personal responsibility.
Because of community networks and a contagious disease, that's effectively asking me to quarantine all the time.
> Depth estimation: It works well enough in practice. https://www.stereolabs.com/zed-2/

I have no experience with the zed 2, but the zed 1 did not convince me and it had similar fancy marketing visualization as featured by the page you linked.

Don't trust anyone who shows you

- depth estimations from the viewpoint of the camera

- color coded depth estimation

In neither case can you judge the accuracy

Vision-based depth estimation is hard for the general case, where you need to cover a non-tiny depth range to cover, work indoors and outdoors and cannot rely on great texture. All vision-based methods I know of break under circumstances that are not too uncommon for robots.

Laser works much better, but the information density is not that great.

Radar works well in some applications, badly in others.

So I'd consider it "solved" when you throw a very costly combination of sensors on the problem.
So, are we losing the functionality to easily see what areas are parks (previously green) and what areas are not? Seems like a step back in usability.
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There's typically relatively little meat and they are mostly carbs.
Ultimately price and (some tenuous definition of) value can diverge in the short term but over the long run they _will_ converge. Apple's in a short term bubble. That's not to say they aren't a great company in the long term but I really question the wisdom of paying 462$ or whatever for their stock at this point in time.
Because I don't really care as much as you do for scientific research chosen by committee. I much prefer that chosen by the market. So when my representatives go up against your representatives in government we get a sort of average position of yours and mine.
> Yep! S&P 500 reaches pre-COVID level record high again recently all thanks to U.S. Fed's UNLIMITED Quantitative easing (QE) policy.

I question the validity of this hypothesis, at least in so far that it has a predominant or even major effect:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3lP3BhvnSo&t=8m50s

The video cites an US Fed paper on the subject (see Section 3):

* https://www.federalreserve.gov/PUBS/ifdp/2014/1101/ifdp1101....

It's mostly "policy shocks" / surprises that cause changes in bond rates, which may have knock-on effects to other asset classes.

Indexes have gone up and up and hit all-time highs regularly over the decades on their own: there's no need to throw QE magic pixie dust as a cause.

Further, in the past, a much smaller percentage of the population probably had equity ownership: as pensions have given way to private retirement funds (401(k) in the US), and so you have people buying the S&P 500 in their Vanguard accounts.

On the flip side, you have a large population cohort (Baby Boomers) entering retirement age, and they want safer asset classes so are going after bonds, driving down yields. With yields getting lower, anyone who wants returns is stuck with equities.

So you have one group of people bidding up equities for growth towards retirement, and another group bidding down bonds for safety in retirement.
I would also be surprised if tablet during breakfast would destroyed the kids in the future in any realistic way.

This is really just nitpicking parental decisions that basically don't matter.
In Mexico we have a tax on sugary drinks.
https://github.com/puppeteer/recorder
What kind of flour do you use? Usually it contains sugar too.
Here's a tutorial I followed: https://teetotality.blog/posts/how-this-blog-was-made/
Heh, don't jinx it.
This is a poor analogy that I find often steers the discussion to useless reductio ad absurdum
You can invest for free on nearly every trading platform now. If you have any disposable income to save in a savings account(which I am fully aware is the big IF), there is no reason that money can’t be invested in the market. That’s exactly why the market is doing so well.
Dumb, just tax fructose in proportion to how much is added. Ths US should do the same thing.
Possibly the way it's prepared in some areas, e.g. fried
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Ah yes, that's the one. By the time I need to do the same again I'll have definitely forgotten again!
Adults will just buy them for the kids. I bet tons of stores will just ignore the law too.
That is a pretty well done game if it has emergent effects like that.
It's been a while since I've seen mention of actuarial analyses of the pandemic vs lockdowns. Could millions of people with muscle atrophy cause more economic harm?
Not sure where you're getting your numbers from but AAPL P/E is 35.46 today.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/
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I believe you are committing the logical fallacy of "Whataboutery" [1] here.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
so under the law, anyone selling a candy to a child could be prosecuted as a criminal activity, with Mexico broken law system this seems to be a really bad idea
I work in an IBM i shop and concur that it is a powerful and elegant machine. All the old hats who've worked on it for most of their life, at least in my experience, still refer to it as the AS/400, rather than referring to it as the IBM i (before it was called IBM i, it was called System i).

Despite this, I can confirm that many of our non-tech savvy users and managers think of the machine as old and antiquated simply because of the way most of our user-base interfaces with the machine (TN5250 connection - green screen). I kid you not, many of the managers think we'd be better off replacing our IBM i with a new out-of-the-box machine, despite the fact that we have decades of homegrown programs and processes that have been built and customized on the i.
As some one who has hosted Gitlab before, it’s very heavy if it’s just a few users.

For personal use Gitea + Drone CI has been awesome with a much smaller memory footprint.

Gitea let’s you import repos, I haven’t checked on full mirror yet.

One thing that is not supported is Gitea doesn’t have an endpoint for files changed (last I checked) so drone can’t support build steps if a folder of file changes in a mono repo for example.

Other wise works great with a private registry and mirror for caching.

Can build a multi arch python Docker image with Docker buildx for amd64,arm64,arm6,arm7 in one pass.

Uncached its 30 minutes. With Buildx Canche takes 4 minute.

This is in VM on my NAS with old i7, 16gb ram.
I think with this pandemic it didn’t destroy economic value as whole but rather shifted value from industries.
Nobody is analysing the boards in those CT scans, they are checking for explosives.
> These products should be outright banned.

This attitude is more dangerous than sugar.
Yes. I think that entire long 'article' could have been summarised in about two, very uninformative sentences.
But what I said was that the "turned out to be too hard" part had nothing to do with binocular vision.

I'm certainly not claiming that I had a fully robust solution but I'm pretty sure lens flares wouldn't be too hard to filter out and there are lots of useful things that need doing in rain-free environments.
Hi, this is Martin from Quell—looks like fun! We realised that Quell is not necessarily a unique name, but felt that it captured the spirit of what we were doing too well to pass up on. A little competition never hurt, right?
> The notoriously bad energy efficiency of air conditioners

Air conditioners are actually pretty fantastically efficient for what they do. The problem with air conditioners is that there's no way to move a ton of heat without using a lot of energy. So, they do use a lot, but they make the most of it.

What's truly bad are our buildings that have the minimal insulation and sealing possible, leaking all that cold air right back out into the environment.
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For people who like text-based programs, I'd recommend newsboat: https://newsboat.org/
Google Fi should work with most devices, including iPhone, laptops, tablets and mobile hotspots.
Reliance Jio is rumored to be purchasing TikTok’s operations in India as well. Seems even more complicated given Facebook and Google’s investments.
>A homemade pastry has fewer preservatives and additives

Sugar is sugar.
No, sorry. Cows and other ruminants have been part of the ecosystem for tens of millions of years. They're extremely good for the soil and for the environment and it turns out humans are highly evolved to eat meat. We invented fire and hunting tools for it hundreds of thousands of years ago. It's one of the most nutrient dense and healthy foods you can consume as long as you don't add a bunch of crap to it. Humanity wouldn't even exist without meat.
It's because they follow the doctrine of "mobile app as a walled garden". Presumably you will engage more over time if you're using the app (because you can't leave it as easily.)

I'm not sure how effective it is. But it's dogmatic for this generation of product designers.
> Reporting to the authorities in the US means calling the police.

No it doesn't.

It could mean code enforcement, or the health department.
Around every twentieth post on the front page of Reddit is a video of someone being punched, kicked, stabbed, or shot. If there are Reddit employees who hold a high opinion of Reddit's users, they should raise their standards.
God I wish BB10 was open sourced. Today the biggest problem with phones is their bloated runtimes, android being the largest offender. I want something with the form factor of the q10 running a QNX-based os I can ssh to and use rsync to copy music, contacts, and a calendar to.
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After two years I would expect issues like you have mentioned. It does not sound too good in my humble opinion. I guess you were doing more than just occasional work? :)

I have noticed they put MediaTek CPUs into their devices. Personally, I had bad experience with MT chips in various devices and they are putting me off to try out any of Planet PDAs. What is the Gemini performance in your opinion?
Sorry, I had a lot of trouble focusing enough to read the article.
That damned colored chalk causing problems again.
how is it that almost 6 months have passed and this same syllogism gets trotted out repeatedly? this is 1. factually incorrect, 2. morally reprehensible. everyone dies eventually and gets sick with something else someday. let’s just front load all the death into 2020 and get it done with forever, eh?
Chess is a game based on simple rules that yields complexity but i can't say it is “better” than Minecraft, it’s just something else. Minecraft is not a bad thing, what is bad is sinking countless hours only in this game! What do you come out of it with?

Chess is a game that has a defined purpose. It has a beginning, a middle game and an endgame. One can learn openings, strategies, concentration etc. That translates to some interesting thinking tools that could be used outside of chess.

Minecraft players usually wonder around and kick blocks and collect trinkets without a specific aim. Sure, some users build stuff which I find as cool. And leisurely playing isn't a bad thing.

I have a problem with sinking too much time into just computer games or even more specifically with only one game and even worse, not playing the game but passively watch others play on youtube or twitch. Kids learn things all the time but if they're stuck in a virtual reality that starts to have diminishing returns fast.
I guess relative to other examples of academia -> deployed in field, that's relatively quick!

Using CSP (Communicating sequential processes) as an example of sometimes how long time it can take before academic ideas are actually developed: Initially CSP was described in 1978, but it wasn't until Golang (2009) and Clojure (2013) came around implementing it that the idea actually became popular.
I agree with you, I'd be amazed if Steve "Control Freak" Jobs would have wanted an open app ecosystem.
Possible permanent smell/taste loss? Possibly permanent reduction in lung capacity?

There is a qualitative difference as well. The lingering side effects of the Lyme-causing bacteria is on a level apart from what happens when you get food-poisoned.
I think your admiration might be clouding your judgement. JP is a great orator, but a poor writer. He's also not a good narrator of his own writings.

I therefore can't recommend his books in any form. You can get the gist of his ideas from his videos.
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Fructose is far from the only unhealthy ingredient in junk food.
yes, the leader/manager dichotomy is covered in mba school too, but the core curriculum usually doesn't cover it at a level of detail to be truly actionable. you have to take elective courses for that, and most students don't. the knowledge is offered, but not emphasized, unfortunately.
The iPhone is a great product but the way it's financed is brilliant. I suspect not many people buy their new phone with a $1000 charge on their debit card and that new phones are always financed. I use a 6s, available used for $70 all in, and it gets the job done.

Carriers finance the new model at a seemingly low rate ($15/mo.) then charge more on the wireless service. I can get the $15/mo phone, but only at the $60/month plan not the $35/month plan. If I don't pay, the product is worthless (no service).

You can calculate the amount of housing or auto debt that is out there, but have always wondered how much 'iPhone debt' is outstanding w the wireless carriers?
That's a bit misleading. What actually happened is Apple first created said smartphone market, and then used their advantage to create a walled garden to keep people in, and also indirectly force others to enter the garden (iMessage, FaceTime, etc).

The only reason their luxury good is sustainable is exactly because people have to join it to be able to communicate with their friends, and can't leave.
Yeah, and does for example the white snowcap shown on Mt Rainier change with the seasons? How accurate is it at any given time, and if it's not accurate, what's the point?
If you want to be Howard Hughes that's your choice. If someone wants to stay healthy through exercise that's their choice.
I don't think that's likely. The US has enough guns and control of major tech players driving things that it will hold its staying power as the major currency. But let's say you're right. What would the move be to diversify risk? Gold? Real estate?
The rational goes something like this:

If the screenings work, why are we closed?
If the screenings dont work, why bother doing it?

In some ways the gov't has played itself by not being consistent, and by giving people a shitty education.
Where do you find flour that contains sugar? I've never seen that in NL and a few countries around it.
> For a pro, the edits represent thousands of hours of work. That the work can be redone theoretically might mean very little to a working photographer.

This is exactly the issue I had in mind, well said.
No, I am not confusing the two. I am in fact arguing that limiting the governments powers to fight the pandemic based on time is bad, because it ties our ability to fight the pandemic to a metric that is completely unrelated to successfully fighting the pandemic.
Is this a real book someone wrote? Incredible to me how you can call yourself an economist and just write basic observations and conclude they are the root cause of everything without even taking a cursory look at the history of things.
And yet somehow the GP managed to reply defending drunk driving as victimless instead. Sometimes analogies can be useful to reveal people's bizarre ideological commitments.
>The only one of the five big tech companies that have shown an ability to evolve and diversify over the past 10-15 years is Google.

Google has a diversified offering of products, but don't all of those products ultimately feed their advertising business?
So be it?
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And you still have to pump the heat out to somewhere else.

The whole premise with this system is that you can keep the temperature higher so you have to pump less heat, which I'm extremely skeptical of, at least for indoor environments.
Actually, if someone else could build on all the results of all the failed clinical trials, realize it works offlabel for something else or change one atom and make it work as a generic drug... that could help tons of people.

Instead they change one atom on working drugs and extend patents another 17 years.
> His case was mild?

GP:

>>> TL;DR: He had a fever and cough and is fine now.
How did "do three things to prevent mass death" (distance, mask, wash hands) become "we're all going to die anyways so i'll keep doing whatever I want thank you."

Is America really that filled with narcissists?
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