skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My partner lost their job because of COVID. Please don’t make assumptions about people you don’t know.
I think the parallel universe is created prior to losing the popularity contest, by sheer force of mutual interests.

And I don't see why nerds are more viciously competitive than other groups, your examples can be easily matched with ones from non-nerd universe. You hardly see an editor war actually turning violent.
I'm also a New York resident, and my wife is a nurse practitioner who worked during COVID.

"how many restaurants is one life worth?"

It would take quite a few restaurants. However, you are ignoring the fact that letting all of the restaurants close will also kill people. I don't know how large this effect is, but we also don't know how many people will get COVID due to restaurants being open. It's complicated.

As a society we are okay with people driving cars, yet we know automobile accidents kill people.

I would ask you: How many car trips are worth one life?
How long before they rip out open source parts and make chrome closed source or a much more limited licensing and start sticking all their proprietary network protocols in it so that you can't fork Chrome any longer. I personally believe that's the endgame for google.
Another reason compact fluorescent bulbs were a mistake.
I ve worked in waste management where we tried to make them transparent against their will.

The reason why large recyclers, burning plants manager and all the other companies taking your trash and trying to do someth with it is that the margins are barely worth it, nobody want to raises prices and there s no much they can do to even give an environmentally safe disposal, they re not built as innovative engineering companies but as inherited old school mafia-like gangs.

We found out huge over pricing on our clients thanks to large data mining, and they confessed that without lying on their contracts and quantity they process they d close the door. They were fine losing our client if that meant honestly weighting waste and pricing at the contract.

Our client was the largest supermarket chain in my country, with 800 stores: they couldnt even afford real priced waste management because why, it s not their priority. They only hired us to fuck their providers into submitting to loss making.

That s waste management, and my more idealist "liberal" young colleagues didnt last long in a company that was trying to talk to every side. It s so much easier to go to environmental think tanks that talk abt recycling coffee cups than make a supermarket company accept to lose money with no environmental benefit for the sake of just keeping the sector alive and legal. In Italy, waste management isnt even done legally and we had to politely decline to go there to help too ahah
This is a tautology, and in no way addresses the point that absolutely nothing is learned about the efficacy of one of the drugs he took, by looking at a single data point.
Tesla's problems generally aren't much about reliability, they're stuff like panel gaps and bad paint, which are in the enthusiast realm. The OP here is really an extreme example.
You seem to be mixing up cause and effect. The reason COVID hasn't been so bad is because of all the special preventative measures. It's super contagious, still sends 10% of people to hospital, and is killing 1-2% of people. Sitting in the presence of strangers for hours in an enclosed space is a great way to transmit COVID, and this is why indoor dining must be closed.
The Tip of the Iceberg: On the Merits of Finding Security Bugs [pdf]
It may be now, but how long before everyone moves over to GoogleChromeNet rather than the internet and Firefox can't even read the webpage let alone render it.
> old glass isn't re-melted for use as new glass items

Are you sure this is true? Searching now, I seem to find claims that the majority of recycled glass is often made into new containers as one would expect. Here, for example, is a source that says "Up to 90% of glass collected via multi-stream recycling programs becomes new glass products": https://ourhappyplanet.org/glass-recycling/.

Obviously, "up to" is weasel-speak, but I found some other sites making similar although slightly lower claims. Also, there is a distinction between "single stream" and "multi stream" recycling, with this source claiming that the percentage for "single stream" is only 45%. Do you know of better numbers? Or economic arguments for why clean glass would not be recycled?
Slightly higher, about 4% worldwide, though some of that is NG.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/How-Much-Crude-Oi...
I definitely agree... but it's funny you say that.

I helped tutor a Japanese couple (grad students) when I was an undergrad. They both spoke very passable english, but wanted to improve, and I was happy to cover the many cultural, pronunciation, and listening challenges that Japanese face. When I started to discuss the difference between Urban and Rural America... they at first refused to believe that Rural was a word. I learned some Japanese history/culture (one of the only times I've ever been invited into a Japanese couple's home!), how to pronounce a few phrases, and tried Japanese food (natto and nankotsu) that I wouldn't have otherwise.

However, after about 6 months the wife (who had studied English literature) asked me for help with a test she was (re)taking on English grammar. It was multiple choice English and about half the problems she asked for help on were impossible for me. Often, all of the choices seemed wrong, but I knew at least one must be right!

In the end I apologized humbly, and said that there were many things that were correct by the rules, but native speakers would find them so strange that they would likely be misunderstood. Also, something which apparently was not being taught (and needed to be) was ordering of adjectives in a description (e.g. fat bald white guy), which I made up on the fly (increasing order of permanence). Changing the order implies emphasis... but I had never noticed it as part of the language before, and neither had they.
Yes, but the point is to not have people get sick and die. Many people die even if they go to the hospital and there's plenty of respirator capacity - respirators are a last-ditch effort for someone who's hardest hit by the disease. This isn't an RPG with inns that always work and take you back to 100% health no matter what.

If we want to say the lockdowns have been worse, let's start by answering:

1. What is the value of a human life, in dollars?

2. What is the cost of a preventable long-term injury? (In terms of diminished inherent value of life, diminished economic impact, whatever.)

3. What is the cost of a life spent without indoor restaurants for months to years?

Take 1 and 2, and weigh them against 3 + the economic losses due to lockdown.
It certainly makes sense on a personal level but when one multiplies this thought process by a given population there starts to be a compounded issue of excess material going into the construction of the vehicles, excess fuel being used to move them, and excess parking space used to store them, to name a few.
Brutal CSS
Landfill is one of the major sources of greenhouse gasses, so yes.
Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion
A couple of weeks of stifled productivity versus years of buggy, insecure, and inefficient software (e.g. because you'll be afraid to use asynchronous IO, threading, etc). I'll choose the former.
Doesn't that depend on where the electricity for the hot water comes from?
AFAIK Japan does this and it works out OK for them. But I'd love to read more about it if there are decent English sources.
At least 10x as bad as the flu based on lethality or IFR. Far more contagious and it’s also most contagious when you have no symptoms. Flu season overwhelms hospitals sometimes by itself. Your numbers don’t add up.
If Facebook was a simple publishing platform the way it was in its early days, I'd be inclined to agree. The same goes for an ad network with only broad targeting capabilities, e.g. that the viewer is likely an adult in a particular candidate's district.

Restricting political advertising using Facebook's hyper-targeted advertising platform strikes me as a responsible decision. I'm not sure there is a bright line between persuasion and manipulation, but if Facebook is trying to prevent the latter, that's more ethical behavior than I expected from them.
I find that the page's decision to hide the scrollbar and force smooth scrolling to be user-hostile.
I had all sorts of fantastic dreams ... when I was 15.

At this point in my life, I emphatically do not want to be in charge of other people. There's still a little part of me that desires fame and accolades, but it's heartily offset by the part of me that now understands how much I loathe actually being the center of attention.

My dreams as an adult are much more modest and achievable than those of that youthful fantabulist.

Well, mostly. I would still like to build a robot army. But the moon base is probably a bit much.
Tesla has may legit problems, but I doubt "whompy wheels" are one of them. Someone who goes by Keef has been cataloging/submitting complaints to NHTSA about cars they find via salvage listings that they think are from something they've termed "whompy wheels".
Oh, I actually agree with you that it’s complicated and we don’t know if we’re making the right choice, that’s what I was trying to get at with “it’s too early to tell”. The reality is we won’t know what the right level is for a long time, if we ever do. My preference is to lean on the cautious side. My dispute with the OP was their blanket assertion.
I am lucky enough to have solid insurance provided by work and I had to fight hard to get a monoclonal antibody covered. One that was actually approved by the FDA. The cost if you can't get insurance to cover it is ~$3,000 per dose.
Since when has Bloomberg been riddled with this many ads?
I think the manufacturer of this product intended it to be a gag gift, similar to blowup dolls and the like. Possibly a kickstarter that became a victim of it's own success?

Anyone who willingly places their genitals into a locking device has bigger problems than getting the device hacked, and anyone who is with someone who would want to have their partner wear one of these or any other chastity device has even bigger problems.

It is unfortunate if people had to suffer through getting this thing removed with an angle grinder(Yikes!) but after watching some emergency room tv shows it isn't outside the realm of possibility.
10x still isn't that bad
I advise you to scope out the definition of a pilot trial. Here's a cool one I found:

"A pilot trial is a small study conducted to help design and assess the feasibility of doing a larger, full‐scale trial. They also investigate whether the methods and procedures are able to obtain the data that is needed to answer the question that will be addressed in the larger study."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6046600/#:~:tex....

You can contrast that with a clinical trial:

"Clinical trials are research studies performed in people that are aimed at evaluating a medical, surgical, or behavioral intervention. They are the primary way that researchers find out if a new treatment, like a new drug or diet or medical device (for example, a pacemaker) is safe and effective in people. Often a clinical trial is used to learn if a new treatment is more effective and/or has less harmful side effects than the standard treatment."

https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/what-are-clinical-trials-and-...

Getting a flu shot is important. Please get yours this season so we can help reduce the spread of yet another deadly respiratory virus that kills thousands of people each year.

There was a lot of debate about masks. As you can recall, a lot of frontline health professionals were dying because of a lack of PPE while carrying out
incredibly risky procedures like intubation.

Gondi, S., Beckman, A. L., Deveau, N., Raja, A. S., Ranney, M. L., Popkin, R., & He, S. (2020). Personal protective equipment needs in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet, 395(10237), e90–e91. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(20)31038-2

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

I'm happy that you have your N95 masks to keep you safe at Trader Joes (where all of us normal folks have been well-served with cloth masks and social distancing) because god forbid an emergency room nurse or doctor needed N95-level protection while securing a patient's airway after they stop breathing.

I don't know what you're implying by the phrase 'argument by authority,' but we're talking about people who have spent their entire careers in the field of medicine. Normally we call those people 'scientists' and 'experts.' I'd trust Dennis Richie to know a thing or two about C, and if I wanted to know a little something about algorithms I wouldn't be done a disservice by chatting with Donald Knuth.

Edit: I wrote this on my other comment too, but I wanted to put it here to make sure you saw it:

First of all I'd like to preface this by saying that everything I write is with a light heart, and I'm not actually 'angry' or feeling any sort of ill will towards you. Everything is weird now with COVID, and sometimes when we say stuff on the internet it might sound more aggressive than it is intended to. So, no matter what our different opinions are I love you dude, and if we were in person I'd buy you a beer.
Sweden’s approach seems to indicate the opposite.
Sydney resident here, been eating out, indoors, since May. Our suppression strategy has been working; we don't adopt a "close at all costs" strategy.
do you smoke?
The moment that it ceases to be a contentious political issue. When something is politicized, everyone inevitably lines up on one side, logic be damned.
Is it worse than letting them open and spread a deadly disease?
Just because somebody is a native speaker of English, doesn't mean they'd be good English teachers, true.

But somebody who only knows English from text books can't possibly teach it properly, no matter what.
Some of that energy may become greener over time. There's also the final output of unrecyclable, possibly toxic (if heated in the sun) plastic vs glass which naturally degrades to ... sand?
why does it matter, it's closed
yeah sometimes
It's interesting how consistent all this news has been with the Penn & Teller: Bullshit! episode on recycling from over 15 years ago. From what I recall, the takeaway was that recycling anything other than glass, paper, or aluminum was a waste of money.

At the time, I wasn't sure how valid it was (whether they were potentially exaggerating or simply being contrarian, etc.), but it seemed plausible, and now it's looking increasingly likely that their take was spot on.
> You hardly see an editor war actually turning violent

This is funny because this specific wording allows for the possibility that it has happened at least once.
Hahahaha let me fix that

Edit: nevermind, it’s too late, my poorly formatted units are staying.
False. The infection fatality rate is under 1%. Please stop spreading alarmist misinformation.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...
Ask HN: What’s Going on with Apple Design?
I’ve recently seen a few stories like this:

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/10/07/app-store-connect-fresh-icon/

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/23/macos-big-sur-battery-history-and-estimates/

What’s going on with Apple? The icons are inconsistent and un-Apple; I’m very surprised such designs ever got out to the public.
(Also a New York resident, hi neighbors!) Yes, the problem we're facing is that the virus is going to be terrible for humanity and for the economy. There's no way around that. There are no good answers. No matter what we do, many people will die and many more will lose their livelihoods and their lives' work.

The question before us is to find the least bad answer - how do we save as many lives and livelihoods as possible? Of course every possible answer (including "do nothing and attempt to disclaim moral responsibility," which several governments seem to prefer) has a terrible cost. Some of those options are relatively less terrible.

(Personally, I think the city should lock down aggressively and also aggressively provide monetary relief to people negatively impacted, through taking on debt if needed, and figure it out later. If we don't survive this, the city loses its tax base anyway.)
They exist but are fairly expensive and are passive.
I'm going to try licking a 9 volt battery.
> 10x still isn't that bad

10x means hospitals are paralyzed completely, how is that a rebuttal

and at best case it means there are two bad flu seasons happening simultaneously which reaches the same result

every country on the planet took similar approaches, even individual municipalities in Sweden, how is your warped version of reality for the United States possible and supportable?
> It depends on who the consumer is. Are we talking about end-users, or advertisers?

We're talking about end users, because openly admitting that end users are objects in the trade between companies risk opening a bigger can of worms.

> As far as end-users are concerned, there absolutely are alternatives: Bing and DuckDuckGo.

First, it's like choosing between two communication providers, both of which know there is no other choice and silently split market between them. I think a good idea would be to look at 20+% of market with suspicion, and act accordingly. Give me at least 5 - and in practice, more - options to choose, made so that it's nearly impossible for them to cooperate - then we can talk about freedom of choice.

Second, having alternative doesn't create a non-monopoly. If AMD had a smaller market share, Intel would be in much hotter water as recently as a decade ago. Google maintains share by a variety of ways, including app store, mobile OS, agreements for pre-installation etc. - all different actions aimed at maintaining the lead. Microsoft worked this way in around 1990-s, even though technically not only they wrote software.

This is an opinion.
But you assume that the oil saved by a reduction in plastic use will be kept in the ground. Isn't a fairer assumption that it would be repurposed and burnt?
So McDonalds, Taco Bell, Dunkin Donuts, Joe's Pizza, and 711 get to stay open yay
The lockdowns are also disproportionately affecting smaller businesses. McDonalds can afford to be closed, while the local diner can’t. Expect MegaCorp to grab even more market share.
For the uninformed, would you mind explaining your suppression strategy? Anything beyond the "shutdown early/shutdown hard" combined with universal testing and contact tracing?
The quality of delivered food is usually pretty underwhelming for me.
What evidence is that? Some other countries have not forced restaurants to close and yet have low current death rates.
WTF. That looks like a symptom of CAD/CAM "cost/weight optimisation" taken to extremes --- parts designed to be as light and flimsy as possible for their use-case, thus any small statistical outliers cause catastrophic failure.

(It's not only Tesla who does this, but perhaps they have been cutting it a bit too close, given their relative inexperience compared to other auto manufacturers.)
> The reason COVID hasn't been so bad is because of all the special preventative measures.

If that's the case, then why is Sweden's population-level mortality (578 per million) lower than the USA (642 per mission) or Spain (nearly 700), or several other lockdown states? Sweden didn't close restaurants or schools for a day.

Sweden's rate is also flat, while the USA and Spain are still increasing.

> sends 10% of people to hospital, and is killing 1-2% of people.

Can you provide a source for these strange figures? The last several dozen papers on serological prevalance have found the IFR to be nearly an order of magnitude lower than you're saying it is.
The only country to truly “win” the war on drugs.
That Noble Prize thread was a little chilling. Are these researchers collaborating on this virus or keeping findings to themselves?
He wasn't part of a controlled scientific study, so it wasn't really a useful data point from a scientific standpoint.
In the end plastic is just a bunch of carbon chains. I dont get why people get so obsessed about it and treat it like its toxic. And now this drama about "microplastics" thats just dust. All these hysterical people in the world get on my nerves.
It also creates jobs (the sorters, packagers, sellers, etc.). Gotta keep the pleebs occupied.
No expert I'm familiar with believes that it's possible to drive the virus extinct, at least not without decades of work.
Group 42 and oil giant ADNOC form AI R&D firm (Middle East AI News)
A high carbon emission tax can force people to reduce their useless flights. Aviation industry's global emission is at 2 percent and only tiny percentage (3-5%?) of world population travel by air. A lot of problems is also due to inefficient traffic control and laws. Plus, that include air cargo. I can't find anything that accounts only for consumer flights.
Yeah I really like going back through 20th century science fiction and seeing echoes of contemporary topics or history in the varying and wild guesses we got back in the day.

IIRC Heinlein's 1940 "The Roads Must Roll" for example invents the Segway (a self-balancing single-wheeled vehicle used by engineers maintaining ultra-high-speed moving walkways that everyone commutes on).

I just read Asimov's "Breeds There a Man...?" (1951) and couldn't shake the feeling that it was echoing Thomas Kuhn's 1962 theory of scientific development.
A statement standing alone is not fraud.

Fraud is a tort that involves several elements, with the ‘speech’ being merely one element.

Ditto with harassment.

To analogize, your comment is akin to the following:

Poster: We should have a right to use knives.

You: Murder by stabbing is not a right!

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In short, you can lie all day long... it’s your right. It only becomes ‘fraud’ when (in most jurisdictions):

1. You make a misrepresentation,

2. About something material,

3. That you intended another to rely upon,

4. And which they did in fact rely upon,

5. And that reliance was reasonably justified,

6. And they suffered harm thereby,

7. And the harm was proximately caused by the statement.

If any element is missing, your free to engage in the conduct without interference by the govt.
I don’t mean to sound like I don’t care about that. But it’s not a binary choice: if we had a government that actually cared then we could shut down while financially supporting those who lose their jobs. But we don’t, so we don’t.
Virus eradication is flatly impossible. That will never happen in our lifetimes, even with an effective vaccine.

The best evidence we have indicates that recovered patients will retain a high level of immunity for at least several years.

https://www.jimmunol.org/content/early/2020/09/03/jimmunol.2...
I strongly disagree on the premise that the food itself is not what drives people to go out to eat. It's the experience, the setting, the service, ordering a drink, getting out of the house, and the welcome distraction that drive people to restaurants.
Yeah, I don't think this has anything to do with a 'lockdown' but rather general desire not to get what appears to be a very bad flu. We don't have any 'lockdown' where I live, but there is a lot of news about cases rising and so people are wearing masks and curtailing gatherings.

The best thing for the economy would be a trusted vaccine and/or case counts going down.
That’s not true.

Your are confusing lying under oath with the crime of perjury.

The false statement, standing alone, is not actionable... it is merely one of several elements that make up the crime of perjury.
That's not quite the right takeaway. That 6x reduction is dependent on the p-value, which in turn is dependent on the sample size. The larger the sample, the smaller the p-value, and that 6x reduction will likely shrink as well. It's extremely rare for a treatment in medicine to have a 6x benefit.
More evidence of it being a crazed conspiracy theory then!
Which one though :)