skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an interesting section in Risk Factors, on pages 39 - 40.

>> Our marketing efforts currently include referrals, affiliate programs, free or discount trials, partnerships, display advertising, television, billboards, radio, video, direct mail, social media, email, podcasts, hiring and classified advertisement websites, mobile “push” communications, search engine optimization, and keyword search campaigns. Our marketing initiatives may become increasingly expensive and generating a meaningful return on these initiatives may be difficult.

I think you implied that marketing is expensive for them and I think you're right. And I think the commodity job that DD does is pretty dangerous since there isn't a lot of brand power to be had. I could be wrong there since I only order delivery once every few months.
In a true market the pay for a worker with no special skills will trend towards 0. Uber drivers cannot decide what to charge, Uber does. How much an Uber driver makes is entirely up to Uber, and Uber is losing money on every ride so in the long run they have to either increase the price or pay the driver less. My (large) employer pays for my health insurance in the US which has to be added to what we charge. Uber has to pay nothing for any benefits and can cut the wages to just barely enough to not die. From an economic standpoint Uber should go out of business but it does not since it is getting almost free labor and just raises money to make a profit. I see no way this is a market that makes any sense.
Reminds me of Eben Moglen's "Freedom in the Cloud" talk.
I agree with this but would take it even further. I think humans are varied enough in how they approach and solve problems that some programming languages just suit some people better, there is an great conference talk (I think about OCaml) from a few years ago that talks about this idea, I'll try and dig it up.
The term "super-spreader" was used to describe certain individuals in past disease outbreaks, including SARS.

It means that there are some people who produce and share far more viral material than average (right-tail individuals, so to speak).

There is no more a connection between "super-spreaders" and "super-predators," as there is between either of those two terms and "superman."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/15/1003576/whats-a-...
True it depends on what their churn looks like and how long it takes to pay back customer acquisition costs.

But if they have some amount of organic growth that is close to or higher than their rate of churn (which is not too crazy an assumption) then they could cut marketing spend and they would grow slower but not start shrinking.
Same reasons the news media ever tries to scare people. Propaganda, softening people's opinions of some political party, moving the Overton window, etc.
Elon Musk tests positive for Covid-19 but calls test ‘bogus’
It's unfortunate that the chart in the NYT article shows the incorrect Labrador:Tom Hanks mapping. The figure from the paper with the correct mapping is here:

https://marlin-prod.literatumonline.com/cms/attachment/f65cb...
I posted the link. I a system admin for a organization with 900 employees. Think using anti-intellectual rambling is unfair and overly simplistic.

No problem if you disagree about best response to covid but leave room to hear some opposing viewpoints without labeling them bizarre or rants.
You probably should have read just a little further:

" I wrote specifically about the sudden, severe spike in transgender identification among adolescent girls. I fully support medical transition for mature adults. And I have no desire to be a provocateur. (I dislike pointless provocation, in part because I think provocateurs often have a good argument—one they’re too lazy or inept to make). Nor do I have any prurient interest in others’ social lives.

What I aim to do, as a journalist, is to investigate cultural phenomena, and here was one worth investigating: Between 2016 and 2017, the number of females seeking gender surgery quadrupled in the United States.

Thousands of teen girls across the Western world are not only self-diagnosing with a real dysphoric condition they likely do not have; in many cases, they are obtaining hormones and surgeries following the most cursory diagnostic processes. Schoolteachers, therapists, doctors, surgeons, and medical-accreditation organizations are all rubber-stamping these transitions, often out of fear that doing otherwise will be reported as a sign of “transphobia”—despite growing evidence that most young people who present as trans will eventually desist, and so these interventions will do more harm than good."

You effectively reacted in the way the journalist said: "fear that doing otherwise will be reported as a sign of 'transphobia' ".
These are totally not like garden-variety “trends”. And certainly not like those much more important “megatrends“. No, these are metatrends. Makes all the difference. I of course am a step above all of this in abstraction, and only observe singularity trends.
George Jetson? Orlando Unveils Plans for First Flying-Car Hub in U.S.
Think about why you want to lose weight. Is it to be healthier, or is to reach an arbitrary number? If it's the latter then maybe you can just pound down 1500 calories of cake a day. If not, then you actually do need to eat healthy. The health benefits don't come from weighing less, they come from having a healthier body composition and less visceral (internal) fat.
I'm not talking about in general though, I am talking about this year. And moreover, one senator and one representative cannot be taken as representative of a whole side. One objection is an aberration. A whole party objecting is a political strategy.
If it offends you, then obviously you must demean it, trash it, and cancel it until it makes you feel better. /sarcasm
As another answer pointed out, a class in OOP is supposed to implement only one type and operations on it. It works in many cases, but sometimes it does not fit naturally the problem at hand.

Modules relax this single-type requirement, and let you define multiple types in it, which makes certain things more natural to express, without a need to create multiple shallow classes or manager-like classes.

Also, functors (i.e. "module functions") in the OCaml module system allows generics, when a module is essentially parameterized by one or more other modules.
I have not put words in your mouth, I've questioned your interpretation of the comment you replied to. You stick to that interpretation here, because they didn't say anything about 'strictly enough', they said we didn't aggressively address the situation, and we didn't.

The 'lockdown' such as it was, was a significant measure, but it apparently was also in many minds all we needed to do.
There is no real right to file frivolous lawsuits (which the lawyers know in their hearts are frivolous, let's be abundantly clear), that is a complete myth.
DivestOS does not come with anything as DivestOS doesn't sell devices.
Selling devices with outdated vendor firmware with known security issues would be immoral.

However on select devices you can successfully relock the bootloader with DivestOS installed, as it is properly signed [0] and enables verity on supported devices.

Other alternatives that support relocking are GrapheneOS [1], CalyxOS [2], #!OS [3], and RattlesnakeOS [4].
They too do not sell devices.

[0] https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/DivestOS-Build/blob/maste...
[1] https://grapheneos.org/
[2] https://calyxos.org/
[3] https://github.com/hashbang/os
[4] https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack
You ask people to stop eating animals, but your complaints aren't about eating animals. They are about how we keep and handle those animals. Would you be more okay with eating animals if they were kept in better habitats, designed for stress-free animal living? And if we didn't meddle in their breeding and/or didn't meddle in their genetics or hormones?
Well clearly not, any more than I have evidence to the contrary. I did my best to qualify my statements that it's just one person's opinion. Sorry if that's not obvious.
I agree it was a secure election. What I mean to say is that this is a perception issue. There is a belief along many on the right that elements of the civil service, the media, and the educated classes are strongly biased against Donald Trump and would like to undermine him. To be honest, they are probably right (although I would argue that the bias is warranted given Trump's abysmal job performance). They therefore think that the left would try to undermine the electoral process to remove Trump at all costs and that their intent is fundamentally malicious. The way you deal with this problem is through transparency and patience. You allow Trump unencumbered access to the largely republican courts and if any irregularities exist Trump is allowed his day in court. Once that is over, you then say we have dealt with you in good faith and you can see we weren't trying to screw you over. We now expect the same from you. This gives you the moral high ground and makes you look reasonable. If Trump refuses to cooperate you can then say he is breaking the law and remove him.

There will be some on the right that will never be convinced that this election was legitimate, but this pacifies the more reasonable people on the right. Trying to kick the Republicans while they are down , chastising them them for using legal means to fight the outcome of the election, or engaging in grievance politics just further reinforces the perception that the left isn't operating in good faith.

Remember once all of this is over we still have to live with these people.
The Internet Is Shit
Are there any large companies that use cloudflare workers in production?
> Europe had about the strictest lockdown you can imagine

Um, no. No, we didn't. The lockdown in Europe (which was different in every single different country in Europe) was sloppy in the extreme. You shouldn't be looking at Europe as an example of a good way to deal with the virus and protect the economy, you should instead look at South Korea, New Zealand, and Australia.

Lockdowns should be early and hard, until there are no unknown cases left in the population (that is, all cases have been tracked down and isolated, and there are no new surprise infections popping up). The earlier and harder the lockdown, the lower the number of deaths, the sooner the virus is eradicated, and the quicker the economy can go back to making money.
M1 MacBook Air and Pro – The Tech Chap
So what?

That’s a nasty communication you chose to receive by installing ad supported software.

It has nothing to do with security or really even computers.
Yes. <3

The old hobbyist computers would put you in front of a prompt when they booted up.

I'm working on something like this, actually. Here are some 2-minute videos:

https://archive.org/details/@kartik_agaram
Intro to the Resource Timing API
Power plants are also more efficient than cars/lawnmowers/etc. e.g. a combined cycle power plant can be ~64% [1], compared to ~40% for car engines [2].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_cycle_power_plant
[2] - https://www.sae.org/news/2018/04/toyota-unveils-more-new-gas...
Yes, but we're so far gone from "tipping as a function of service" that there's no point in even pretending it's a thing anymore.

If the food arrived or I got to my destination I give the same, good, tip. I think it's gross to make workers dance for their supper. It's not "a little extra you're paying to a kid in highshcool" anymore, it's almost their entire income.
Calories in == calories out is probably the worst lie in mainstream medical/nutritional guidance today. In a purely mathematical model is it obviously true but the reality is that our body deals with macro-nutrients (carbs, protein, fat) very differently.
Slight difference is that this disease is fifty times more deadly than the HK flu. Just about everyone in the US got that one and about 50,000
people died. We are at 5 times that level already and only 10% of the population has been exposed. (Also the value placed on old people’s lives has increased drastically... you might not like it but it is social consensus to spend millions to extend the lives of 75-year-olds by a few more years. )
I think it is a valid concern. A bad economy kills. The so-called diseases of despair[1] kill more than 150k a year in the US. And much suffering is caused by limited opportunities and limited hope. These limited prospects can and have have taken down many governments in the past. And regime change is rarely a bloodless process. There are no perfect solutions when it comes to governance. We must do our best to promote good outcomes and mitigate the bad. I very much want my government to worry about the economy, just as I want it to worry about the virus.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_of_despair
I didn't think the early SpaceX rockets did much that was technologically novel.

The real reason why everyone expected the commercial crew program to turn into big contractor grift is because they saw the same story play out 100 times before and 100 of those times the big contractors found a way to capture the money and send the project into development hell. The 101st time was different.
Regarding psychatric care it was at least discussed in april but then discarded due to harsh critique [1].

In general I agree with you and would not take an extreme position to deny the goverment everything in a crisis situation.

But on the other hand there are people (medical experts?) arguing that in the coming years or decades there will be many new viral deseases to encounter. So espacially with all this worldwide awareness and fear I find it easy to imagine that there will be an increased afford to detect virsus leading to maybe one new virus in focus every few years keeping the whole system in an alarmed state (including all the "special" [reading the permanent] laws) active for the whole time. Generations growing up from now on may not even know the times before. Same as with the "terror" theme now. Every few month there are reports about terrorist attacks and the whole thing becomes a meme and is used to justify anything.

[1]: https://deutsch.medscape.com/artikelansicht/4908831
ah, ok that might be true. I was thinking most promotions go to first-time users but maybe that's not the case.
> How did masks ever get conflated with “freedom” anyway.

The Republican Party, Trump, and Fox News did that deliberately because Trump early on chose to downplay the virus and response to it. Backtracking on that would have made Trump lose face and harmed the Republican brand in an election year, so instead they chose to politicize it and double-down on not wearing masks.
The truth is though that if these apps and conveniences didn't exist, you'd adapt and find meals to eat that required 5 min prep time - things like a sandwich that are just assembling pre-ready ingredients in a bowl or in a piece of bread or in a wrap truly don't require cooking.

Laziness is an adaption, and we adapt to whatever level of effort is required. Money is just an intangible so it's easy to be wasteful with it when it pretty much doesn't exist and is just a number somewhere we can't see.

But if a particular luxury disappeared, you'd adapt just fine.
Another theory I've heard is that Japanese people don't talk as loudly as Americans, so exhaled droplets don't travel as far.

Honestly, though, it's probably the masks. Adherence isn't very good in the US. And maybe a third of the people I see with a mask are wearing them below their noses.
https://www.modernatx.com/modernas-work-potential-vaccine-ag...
Russell's Teapot and Truth in America
If this is the rationale, why do countries with public health insurance fallback not also have mandatory BMI or tobacco/alcohol limits, given the much much higher fatality rates of cardiovascular disease and cancer versus automobile accidents?
The site is almost 15 years old so it’s possible.

People become a little more self-aware as they get older.

First you know someone famous that died young from a horrible disease.

Next you personally know someone who died from a disease.

Then you get older and wonder if the “1 in 3 people” might be you.
Not true. The long-term care facility could just have required sick employees to stay home.

From the article:

> A worker at the Maplecrest Rehabilitation and Living Center, a long-term-care facility 100 miles from Millinocket in Madison, Maine, came down with a “fever, chills, cough, myalgia, runny nose, and headache” — all symptoms consistent with COVID-19. This worker’s child had attended the wedding reception, and the two had been in close contact in the days right afterward.

> Despite having obvious signs of illness, the Maplecrest employee went to work that day, and the next.
Well as another example, it's generally more expensive to buy a new macbook in China than it is in the US, despite the fact that's where it's made.
There must be a viable market there. For example, pizza franchises have managed to eek out a profit from home delivery for years. Centralized delivery service should be able to find some extra efficiencies to make their business viable. The demand is certainly there.
I loathe this online obsession with painting an amorphous group of "leftists" with the largest, most inaccurate brush known to man.
So you're saying depression is incurable? Fuck!
My favorite part of this was learning that the flag to disable AMFI is "amfi_get_out_of_my_way=1"
That professor is stupid. Obviously he lost weight, it's thermodynamics. Energy in, energy out, or whatever. But he is no doubt less healthy after the experiment and probably more susceptible to things like diabetes.
But I bet they had their mask on when they tried. I could look outside my window in my urban American city and see people walking around without a mask, especially when the weather is nice. Last night my downstairs neighbors had a big loud party and another tenant yelled at them to turn the volume down. In the summer, not one pre-teen or teenager was wearing a mask in my neighborhood. Are we really gonna compare the limited instances of people being weld into their apartment to sheer collective wantonness going on stateside? And I live in a blue city.
It's enjoyable to think everyone spoke like that at the time, but I suspect their spoken language was more pedestrian (though it would be quite odd to our ears).

These days it's written language that is pedestrian (especially with WFH because COVID, I write more than I speak these days, except to my cat, who can't read) - it is, as you say, spewing out words, though usually onto a screen. There is vanishingly small cost to each character typed, and erasing/editing is free, and we're all in a terrible hurry to get on to the next thing.

Back then, there were no keyboards, the physical act of writing took time, and the materials had cost. There was more need to think about the words before writing them down. If you were halfway down the page of a neatly worded letter, you'd consider your next words more carefully before writing them down, because changing your mind after scribbling something down was messy and time-consuming - try to erase the ink, or scratch something out, or recopy it all onto a new sheet.

These days, though, I find myself spewing nearly stream of consciousness, then tweaking for a bit before sending, even on a short missive. I keep going back, for instance, to an English teacher who drilled into me to reconsider every it/they/he/she to see if it read better (more clearly) that way, or with repeating the name. Lots of little editing bits like that.

But I do love the sound of a well-turned phrase.
Ask HN: Any good “How I Wrote My eBook” posts?
I've been on the hunt for good posts on the entire ebook creation process, from beginning to end. I haven't seen too many around. Ideally we're talking about a detailed post that spells out the step by step process that the author used as well as the tools used.

Do you know of any that you'd recommend? Please share here!
But these comics often misrepresent the issue (for humorous effect). It sounds like chad was never asked if it was ok to store stuff in his garage, chad never promoted as such.

Gmail was promoted as a free service.
Perhaps this has to do with lawsuits.
I was hanging out in lefty circles in 2016; the faithless electorate idea was wildly popular, as was the "the popular vote should win." These were the last hope for many who were previously so confident.
Dutch students build electric car from recycled materials
I'm out of the loop, what current events?
Visualizing the World of Fear Indices: Uncertainty, Partisanship, and the VIX
All the Left politicians are talking about how they're going to spend this cycle rolling back what the last cycle rolled back and that's not what I want. We can absolutely do that, after.

What I want is to know why we had a seated president who could get away with so much shit. A smarter autocrat would have taken us to a scarier place much faster. Mercifully, Hitler's dumbest lieutenant could talk circles around His Cheetoness. I'd like to know why the Executive branch had so much privilege and what we can do legislatively to make sure nobody else can do a few of those things ever again.

Unfortunately without flipping the Senate, the only way that's going to happen is if Biden pulls the same shit. The Senate Majority leader will get over the Ends Justify the Means, remember "checks and balances" and move with uncharacteristic speed to redraw the lines.

That's not a jab at the Right, that's a jab at Congress. When "our" asshole does something within their rights but ethically sketchy as hell, it's okay because we Had to Do It. When the other side copies us, well that is an affront to the Constitution and we must stop it.

Nobody ever learns a goddamned thing, whether they live in Germany, the US, or in a small remote tribe.
This is why Trump is a genius.
The step 0 should be: never ever admin the mistake. Since you will look bad even if you admit the mistake: it makes no difference.
Exercise helps you eat less. It really does have to be all 3.
I just checked it out, very cool! Thanks for taking my idea into consideration.
> if you break your hands what exactly are you going to do with your legs?

Buy a two person bike and be the pedal power for a bike courier?
Many languages seem to give the impression of being home-cooked early on. Ever do factories start small. But it's inevitably a mirage. If we want something that won't grow into something "industrial strength" that needs pip and virtualenv and God knows what else, we have to consciously make some scale-hostile design choices.

I've been poking at this problem: https://github.com/akkartik/mu
Bannon:

"Keep it coming, stay on 'em — taking flak means you're over the target"

NY Times:

"Breaking: Steve Bannon calls for aerial bombardment of Democrat homes"

Clueless. There's an interesting cultural difference at work here. Once we reinstate the draft and the whole world plunges into total war again (soon, Inshallah), episodes like this will be like tears in the rain.
Last year has had a greater loss of norms of Western thought than we have seen since the dawn of the modern world in almost every Western country. Say what you want about the virus response, but powers that be don't give up newly founded power after they seized it once (the lockdowns never will truly end).
Erectile Dysfunction: mental health concern or an embarrassing misfire?
There's a market for a great many things offered at below cost.

For example, there's probably a pretty robust market for a personal chef to come by your house and cook you a gourmet meal for $5. And private jets for the same price as commercial? Sign me up.
Arch is neat, and their documentation and forums are amazingly great. However, I have zero desire to be my laptop's sysadmin. Pop! OS runs great on my Thinkpad.