skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The parameters within which HCQ is thought to work have been clearly stated.

A lot of this HCQ stuff feels like God of the Gaps Theory at this point; as potential use cases are conclusively eliminated, so is the field of where it is "thought to work". Thought by whom, precisely?
I've only made a few chargebacks but each time it was really easy. I've never had to provide any sort of documentation and have gotten the money back quickly each time.

The most recent time was with a company that wouldn't honor their refund policy. They were awfully rude over email so I made sure to take screenshots of the policy on their website in case they disputed the chargeback and/or changed the wording on their site. Turns out, there wasn't even an option to upload that information when I filed with my credit card, and I won the case without doing anything further.
I think it has to do with wages. And also with the ability to abuse those employees without exposing the "brand" to public scrutiny and litigation. It also allows you to offer better benefits to your core employees without offering the same to employees that work for contractors (there are fringe benefits like childcare or use of company facilities like private gyms that generally must be offered to all employees in order to expense them).

Oh, you all weren't paid for your overtime? Sorry, you don't work for Hilton. You work for Rent-a-Janitor. And they just filed for bankruptcy and closed shop. Hilton had previously dropped their contract with them due to their unscrupulous practices. We have now contracted with a totally different company, Rent-a-Janitor 2.

(This is a made up example. I have no idea if Hilton does anything like this, but most all huge companies do it.)
> could we maybe usher in an era of more calm, reasoned, cooperation between various parties who disagree on a few specific details, but largely agree [...] on the vast majority of issues [...] ?

Looking at US politics, there has been some suggestion by progressive libertarian politicians (such as Bill Weld) that the majority of americans are simultaneously tolerant of socially progressive and fiscally conservative principles.

I don't have any statistics around this, but it appears to be consistent with the people I know (mostly in California). My friends that are Democrats are likely to loudly fight for gay rights, but are less loud about government programs getting cut (they may still be vocal about that, just not as loud). My friends that are Republicans are typically worried about government waste and socialism. Sure, some may be pro-life, but that's not their top priority.

This isn't to say there aren't Democrats passionate about fiscal issues (Sanders wing), or Republicans passionate about social issues (religious right), simply that it is plausible these camps are <50% of each party, which could imply there is more agreement and/or tolerance between what the two parties stand for than disagreement.
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One of my favourite things about Git scraping is that, thanks to CI providers like GitHub Actions which are free for open projects, it costs nothing to run.

https://github.com/simonw/ca-fires-history for example scrapes every 20 minutes and runs on the free GitHub Actions plan.

I've run these on free Travis CI and Circle CI plans in the past as well.

If you want to run a private Git scraper you can pay money to do so, which seems very reasonable to me.
Interesting, I thought everyone already knew that you remember this better if you write them by hand, I guess I was wrong.

Well then let me share you another thing that I think everyone already knew, if you start writing, just writing, anything, your mind will enter into a state similar to meditation, thus it can be quite stress relieving and can help you with better sleep ^^
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It might help to set your billing address to some random place in California. It worked for me a few days ago when I canceled my WSJ subscription, a "Cancel subscription" button magically appeared in the settings that wasn't there before.
It's much harder to move making hamburgers to a foreign country.

Those are going to be some terrible hamburgers by the time they're shipped back from Bangladesh to Kansas, and the wait time is going to really change the drive-thru experience. ;)
It is my experience that the people who are most susceptible to misinformation are the same ones who where uninterested in valid info about Gov wrongdoing.
Without getting into the argument of whether any speech is apolitical or whether politics belongs in the workplace, Twitter clearly has a huge place in politics as a result of its nature as the premier social media platform for world leaders and journalists and anyone with an opinion today.

Regardless of their internal culture, Twitter will always have to make some political decisions.
can anyone find examples of what QUEL looked like?

If we had a more composable query language being used instead of SQL, I wonder if that would have effected the course of ORMs, which arguably end up being as much about composable models of queries as they do about actual object mapping.
foo = [bar[foo]]

bar[0] = foo

false

if wrong please correct accordingly.
I guess that it varies from person to person. To me, writing definitely makes me remember better and more clearly whatever I write. There is something deliberate, something about the additional time that it takes to write as opposed to type, that somehow cements the material much better. Even the associations that I'm running in my mind at the time seem to be easier to remember, weeks later.

When I'm studying anything, I've found time after time that writing a summary of the lesson is one of the best ways to remember everything afterwards. Usually I don't even read it afterwards, since the benefit comes from the writing process. YMMV.
Ponyride was both the first coworking space and maker space in Detroit. In Corktown, just west of downtown of Detroit it was relatively safe area. It was a potpourri of software firms, hardware firms and clothing companies. I've got friends who started their companies at Ponyride.

They lost their building and the move to Core City didn't make any sense. Ever see the movie Fort Apache the Bronx? That describes Core City. Most of the successful startup accelerators and maker spaces are in the downtown area like Bamboo, not in marginal neighborhoods.

Sounds like a crazy idea sharing space with the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. It might in the end not work but in Detroit people aren't afraid to experiment, to try off the wall kind of stuff.
I'm going to pose this question more in the context of their analysis and without consideration to anything else.

There have been a myriad of studies which try to link minimum wage to worker productivity and the default assumption is always that the worker should bear the fruit of all productivity gains. Why is this the case? Often, it is not the worker who was responsible for the capital investments that increased his/her productivity.

A couple crude examples to illustrate my opposition to this notion:
- My employer pays me to create web applications. We agreed on a rate (could be 10 money units per hour OR 100 money units per application). My performance is assessed throughout my employment to see if my productivity is satisfactory for my rate. Maybe my employer refuses to invest in any tooling for me and I have to use vim to write all my code. If they then invest in an IntelliJ license for me (thanks employer!) and I am more productive, should I be paid more? Debatably, my job didn't get easier/harder. Now if I invest in the tooling myself, and am paid per application, I should get paid more; this often isn't the case.

- In 1956 if my laundromat employer paid me to wash clothes, I was probably doing it by hand and maybe getting 3-5 pounds of clothes done per hour. My wage (likely minimum) would be $1/hr. In 2020, we have laundry machines that can do 20 pounds of clothes every 30 minutes. $1/hr (of 1956 money) would be roughly $10/hr in 2020. No one would suggest that we pay someone upwards of $100/hr to run a laundry machine (unless the worker was paid per pound of laundry done and personally made the investment in the machine). It likely wouldn't even be a job if the minimum wage was $24/hr today.

It seems like these analysis of what the minimum wage should be should take into account that technology and capital investments have made a lot of jobs either lower skilled or less valuable. I'm not sure how to quantify the lack of job creation in sectors that would warrant $24/hr. Another option would be to pay workers directly for their output but this would have other consequences. Starbucks invests in making baristas efficient so they can handle the morning rush but pays them just the same for the afternoon lull.

Caveat that I am pretty ignorant to this so I may be wrong but I do not believe a low floor is what is driving wages down.
Presumably, it is possible for a product to also get better.
Here is my main gripe with Julia: They blatantly copy Matlab. The same is also true to a lesser degree of Python's numpy and matplotlib, but Julia goes the whole nine yards, by basically replicating the syntax and copying most of the numerical APIs including the indexing convention. I understand why they do it and I get that Matlab is hugely popular, I just wish that there was more creative energy in the Open Source world and not just rehashing of 20-40 year old designs.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/rust-2018/cargo-and-...
Counter hypothesis: handwriting is like free weights in that different areas of your brain are engaged at once. As a result there are more pathways created or augmented than when typing.

There’s similar benefit and issues too. Typing is faster therefore better at capturing current facts. But worse for overall muscle development.
I thought it would be good to have a post by actual lawyers, especially those who understand the Supreme Court, providing the legal analysis versus tech or regular journalists(though some did interview lawyers) as have been posted before.
Hi Peter, do the latest bulletin requirements apply retroactively to existing valid H1B status holders located in the US, or only to the new petitions? Thank you!
This flies in the face of so many HN readers that claim that salaries are based on the value created by the employee.
> (Romans -> Ottomans -> mandates)

Hittites -> Assyrians -> Babylonians -> Macedonia (aka Alexander the Great) -> Egyptian -> Romans -> Byzantine -> Mongols -> Ottomans

That area has been locked in war and conquest for pretty much all of human history.
I think you have to look at the division of the added value by the changes in productivity. Were it something closer to 50-50 that might be reasonable, but so far as I can tell based on changes in wages over time, that's not the case at all.
> The pro-HCQ people are very clear in saying it needs to be administered early before symptoms are severe a

Doctors are very clear that HCQ is too dangerous to give to people unless those people are very ill.

You not understanding this balance between risk vs reward doesn't make the science shitty.
What's the deal with L1 visas? If a US C Corp owns an Indian business for 5+ years, can the employees come to the states to work? Is this smart strategically to work towards?
If I allowed tracking, which I don't, the ad companies wouldn't know what to make of me. Middle age white guy devops nerd into manga, anime, fishing, ramen, lo-fi, and coding. Yet, I wear Wrangler jeans, boots, and drink wine. Even my wife thinks I'm an oddball. My kids think I'm cool until it's bed time on a school night and then howls of "Dad, what about Gundam! It's almost over. We promise!"
I prefer to switch between modes depending on the nature of the task.

When I am being creative or can't get overly distracted, I find writing it down is best.

When I type, I tend to want to edit too much and it breaks the flow. Even now, I have fixed words and reworded things. Editing vs creation.

The answer might be in an editor that is set to type only, like a typewriter with no backspace or correction paper. Notes should only go forward for capture.
Okay.

> The best way to use the tool is to have it click between rarely and sometimes

What you don't realize is most of the users are dumb and set it to maximum click through rate, because they think it is some form of achievement. Going against the advertising mafia, fooling Google, etc.

To load the ads you need to click on, it has to contact the adserver. If it contacts the adserver, what's the point of an adblocker?

Also, faking stuff (here, you are faking your interests by clicking random ads) for privacy reasons is good in only very few situations. The best way to remain private is to not give any info at all, instead of faking it. Faking stuff should be the secondary choice.
I don't think this is true.

Look, Apple does all kinds of terrible things, and I definitely think the government ought to take action against them.

But Apple one time, in 2011, announced that they were going to put in a rule that you couldn't charge a different amount outside the App Store than inside, and when furor erupted, they never implemented the policy. That's it. One time, never actually in practice.

They are still 100% terrible with this nonsense about not being allowed to link to or even mention alternative forms of payment, but let's focus on what they actually do that's bad, rather than what we imagine they might like to do in alternate realities.
You are replying to someone who depends on ads for money. Hard to get someone to understand something when their paycheck depends on it and all that, he's all over the thread crying but not actually refuting any points of the comments he replies to (such as yours).
Could you share more details about your case. Happy to email you or chat elsewhere.
I think it depends. If the CEO can make more money selling 200 million whatever than 100 million whatever, they're still going to hire enough to make 200 million, even if they're taking home less than they would in the hypothetical world where they were making 200 million whatever and their bottom-tier employees were on government subsidized housing.

But in the longer term, I think you raise a great point---it's a huge incentive for the CEO to figure out how to automate making 200 million whatever so that they can pay $0. Which is good for the economy in general (automation means more free human time), but societies have to adapt to a lack of labor-intensive jobs to go around.

They already need to be adapting to that, because we're already in the middle of the automation revolution.
I haven't groveled through this particular article, but in the past, I have found Mueller to be, um, somewhat less than accurate.
In denmark, with significant benefits and high wage and all sorts of wonderful pro worker and pro average person systems, a big mac costs $0.35 more than the average big mac.

https://www.businessinsider.com/denmark-mcdonalds-pays-20-an...
Why can't ads simply be targeted based on the content of the page or type of website?
Show ads related to programming on /r/programming, ads for cars on /r/cars, and ads for antidepressants on r/wallstreetbets
I just wish they had flipped from and select around.
Most of these decisions seem to be going in the right direction, but there is something ultra dystopian about the phrase “monitoring the integrity of the conversation” that gives me the jeebies. Why not just say “Moderators will be extra active and we’ll adjust as necessary until the election is over?”
It really can't surprise you that a common viewpoint on HN is that `Information wants to be free'. This is both in a descriptive sense and a normative sense.

The descriptive sense obviously can't be selfish but the normative one can. So the question is then as follows: are the activists who further this narrative, out of a normative belief, selfish?

I personally don't think so. I believe that people like Aaron Swartz are among the most selfless people to ever exist.
There’s an excellent and frankly damning ProPublica report that serves as a case study in the movement to rely on staffing companies for low-wage labor: https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-customer-service...

The degree to which both costs and risk are shifted onto workers is at times astonishing:

“After paying about $1,500 for home office equipment: a computer, two headsets and a phone line dedicated to Arise; after paying Arise to run a check on her background; after passing Arise’s voice-assessment test and signing Arise’s nondisclosure form; after paying for and passing Arise’s introductory training, to which she devoted three days, unpaid; after paying for and passing a certification course to provide customer service for Arise client AT&T, to which she devoted 44 unpaid days; after then being informed she had to get more training yet — an additional 10 days, for which she was told she would be paid, but wasn’t; and then, after finally getting a chance to sign up for hours and do work for which she would be paid (except for her time spent waiting for technical support, or researching customer issues, or huddling with supervisors), Tami Pendergraft spent three weeks fielding telephone calls from AT&T customers, after which she received a single paycheck.

For $96.12.”
Back in the early '00s there was a popular legend in the startup circles that you don't want Microsoft to be interested in what you do.

The legend went that if Microsoft liked you and decided to acquire you, they would give you a binary choice between a low-ball offer and a lawsuit based on their patent portfolio.
After that text the clock was ticking, and rapidly so.

It's a pretty interesting bust when you get into the
details, highly recommended.
This article resonates with me. As a developer, I find I solve some of my more challenging technical problems while "zoning-out" in the shower.
I'm fascinated by the comments here, which seem to be assuming that Twitter is operating in an environment in which the predominate source of trending information is well-meaning individuals and not motivated state-level actors intent on disrupting an election.
> That's not exactly the boot of fascism stomping on your face forever.

Alright. Let's say that all of the major social media platforms ban any discussion of raising their taxes, or enacting more regulation on them, or let's say they straight up ban major politicians from the platform.

Oh, and also there is no other significant competitor that matters, and it is unlikely that any competitors will pop up anytime soon.

Are you just OK with that? You are just going to say "well, I guess it is their platform, and they can do what they want, and it doesn't matter that no competitor has any significant chance of being successful".

> They only control their one platform, they don't control the internet

Ok, now what is almost all of the major platforms do it, and there are no serious competitors?

Let's expand this out even further. What if Walmart did the same thing? Along with multiple other grocery stores.

You want to raise their taxes, well sorry, you probably aren't going to be able to buy food from any major grocery store.

Or how about if common carrier laws were removed and your power company did it? Or the water company, now that this is legal?

Your passive acceptance of this type of being can be extrapolated out to horrifying results.
Nobody is trying to control your hardware, you agreed to receiving ads as a part of the terms of service, and then willfully violated those terms.

To use a non-physical example, how is this any different than signing an agreement with a lawyer to give you legal advice, receiving said legal advice, and then refusing to pay?
The fundamental problem is, if you need a factory with 100 workers in order to effectively manufacture anything, then the ability to innovate in manufacturing is limited to groups who have sufficient capital to direct the efforts of 100 people.

There are of course different ways to organize that capital. Capital can be owned by rich people, by corporate firms, by the government, by worker collectives. But it's still a finite resource. As a matter of mathematical inequality, there's no way to give everyone the power to direct a large factory.
I understand "The tail wags the dog."

I also understand "Tail wags dog."

But "Tail wags the dog" -- why the articular/anarthrous difference? What does it mean?!?!
Well according to Twitter they are reputable so there it goes
i would actually consider those towering skyscrapers to be the slums, and the smaller sites to be potential hidden gems.
No, there are many more data points than this.
Sorry I thought it was relevant. I have no time to write you a dissertation.
> Don't really have a dog in this fight, but my understanding is that pro HCQ doctors believe that zinc must be included with HCQ

Well, they do now, but that only seemed to emerge after it became clear that Raoult's (zinc-free) protocol didn't work.
> If twitter disappeared, 5 copycat sites/apps would emerge from the ashes overnight.

5 is not necessarily a problem. 1 is a problem. :-)

It's not easy to reach "critical mass" though. Many social networks have tried and failed. Certainly the Twitter alternatives (e.g., App Dot Net) tried and failed. And hopefully we've all learned some lessons from Twitter and won't make the same mistakes again.

Or if we did make the same mistakes again, then humanity is truly doomed, and there's nothing we can do to stop it...
I've been in some major cities (e.g. London & Liverpool & Manchester, Madrid Barcelona, a bit everywhere in France excluding Marseille, Sydney & Melbourne, everywhere in Germany, Budapest, Prague, Rome & Milan, Amsterdam, etc...) and while walking around during the night I felt everywhere most of the time OK, but the only place where I definitely never felt OK was Paris (very bad general feeling + I didn't like the people I crossed + twice me and my ex girlfriend were harassed by some people) => maybe most of these problems that refer to "France" are actually mainly focusing on "Paris"? Just asking, thx :)
It's not included because, astonishingly, it's still for sale. http://www.4mation.co.uk/retro/retrogranny.html
>> There's never a situation where you let people say whatever they want

> What? There are tons of places where the only restrictions on what you say, is determined by the law.

So there are still restrictions then and people can't say whatever they want?

> The standard could be "Whatever is allowed by US law", which is extremely non restrictive on speech.

voat.co is a clone of reddit where the only difference is no restriction on speech. The top posts are usually extremely racist and antisemitic. It is a horrible horrible platform and the only change is no restriction on speech.
As a passer-by: no, I think their original point was that it's ridiculous to depend entirely on individual actions to address misinformation. On that point they've been consistent across all comments.
Take a look at OpenTTD, Banished, Tropico 5, Cities Skylines and Frostpunk. It's a diverse list, but they all fit your open non-combat strategy criteria.
Flags tend to disappear after a while, though.