skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great question! Looking at it strictly from an age perspective you're correct, but there are a lot of other factors that flip that around for us.

My wife has a pre-existing condition and we've been taking sheltering-in-place pretty seriously since the Bay Area shut down in mid-March. We've both been working from home and have only ventured out for walks, to sit in corners of parks away from everyone, or to go to a doctor. Groceries/food get delivered (I haven't even been into a grocery store since March, which feels weird) and we haven't hung out with friends in person or anything like that.

On the flip side, both of my parents are going into work and my mother works at a nursing home (which - so far - has not had a single case of the virus), so they come into contact with far more people during the day than we do. In addition, we have an eight month old which makes us doing a day-long road trip without stopping at a hotel next to impossible.

So since our contact with others remains next to 0, and my parents are totally cool with using the extra PTO to quarantine, get tested, then quarantine a bit more before driving down, we feel comfortable with it. Obviously I'm not going to view it through rose-colored glasses and act as though there's no risk, but there's a much, much smaller risk through this route than if they were to hop on a plane and come straight over sans negative test.
I think the economic analysis of tipping is pretty complex. Cash tips allow for a lot of tax avoidance, which makes a huge difference with payroll taxes. Also the price differentiation effect is very good for businesses, they increase revenues (not only the "split" between tips & wages)
This is a misapplication of an ideological statement about abortion. Disregarding the guidance of health professionals such as wearing a mask and socially distancing means endangering other people's lives.
Imagine you're living through the events described in the essay. You know exactly where things are heading and that the situation is dire. You're willing to do whatever it takes to prevent the inevitable from playing out.

What's your plan and your next move?
A few restaurants on caviar offered a $10 or $20 item on their menu that goes directly to their workers, which I thought was nice. Would be cool to see that productized.
I couldn't decide which one is my favorite. All of them are incredible beautiful.
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The nuance of this discussion is the use of personal tracking technology as a means of contact tracing. At least that's the way I read it, starting a few layers up the comment tree.
"And you had people -- and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists -- because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people."
I'm going to travel to see my family for Christmas. I know I'll probably get hidden, flagged, whatever for saying that. I've known lots of people who have had the virus and I'm of the opinion that these news stories are quite overblown and meant to scare people. There are lots of cases, yes, but bodies aren't piling up in the streets.
I'm not understanding what you're suggesting. What is a "synthetic biology facility" (research center? Manufacturing plant?), who is paying for them, why are there no jobs, why are they in red states, and since when did synbio become a low labor field? If its private sector investing in synbio manufacturing, they'll do that wherever the tax credits are. If it's the government, they aren't going to be doing any manufacturing, and research needs people.
> it's not the left that is driving FUD about US election integrity

Come on now. How can you say this with a straight face after 5 years of the MSM claiming that Russia hacked our election?
Is it a surprise that armed people would show up to oppose the trashing of their cities?
"they" blocked witnesses, lied under oath and released a "redacted" transcript.
shrugs, I mean fair play to anyone taking a principled stand on the matter, I'm just not that person.
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Umm you got it backwards. Shoving birds into a sealed warehouse keeps diseases from spreading quite effectively. Letting birds free range and cross pollinate diseases with wild birds is how you get massive new outbreaks
Can confirm, lost 25kg this year.
I totally agree that these people deserve to earn money, but I believe that tipping the mean time exacerbates the issue, and now were seeing these companies go public with makes the societal issues permanent. I would say it's akin to Walmart depending on food stamps to justify their labor economics. Without that unofficial government subsidy Walmart would not be as powerful or be able to offer lower prices, etc...

In merit and morality I agree, these are nice, hard working people that choose a profession that cannot meet their financial needs. I don't have an perfect answer for it either, I just see the glaring elephant in the room.
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> How can we live good if there exists a significant amount of people rejecting seatbelts?

Is there really? One thing that has always struck me since the beginning of this pandemic is precisely why people would be more willing to attach their seatbelts than to wear a mask. Perhaps not the best comparison to make, though.
How many times can this be repeated? I wasn't quite prediabetic, but I lost a few kilograms. And then a few more. So far, over 20 kilograms, in fact. My diabetes risk should now be quite low.
This is the redacted report, correct?

Eg. Part of the redacting were removed and this was an example:

> But there are a few shreds of information that are really, genuinely new, and they’re damning of the president. Namely: Trump had direct knowledge of Roger Stone’s outreach to WikiLeaks, according to multiple witnesses interviewed by Mueller. He encouraged that outreach and asked his campaign chairman to pursue it further, those witnesses said. And Mueller’s office appears to have strongly suspected, without putting it in so many words, that Trump lied to the special counsel in his written answers to Mueller’s questions about the Stone affair.

I'm not going to read the version where they hide the important bits.

I would read a complete one though.
Is there really much of a performance impact here?
It's a lot more than two or three people. And the decimation would be a lot less bad if stimulus relief was passed. How large is your town, that the hospital only has a couple ventilators?
The fees/tip are much easier to justify if you order more than $2 in food.
Musk tested 4 times for Covid, twice positive and twice negative
I'd made this connection myself just over a month ago, addding in the link of monopoly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24771470

Schneier anticipates very nearly all my argument by seven years.
I hope some enterprising lawyer starts filing wrongful death civil suits for people who do not follow mask and gathering rules. With sequencing of the virus, plus some contact tracing it should be possible to make a preponderance of evidence case for a subset of deaths. That should hopefully provide a stick to get a large number of defectors (in game theory terms) to stop defecting. A political solution would clearly be better, but I'll take what I can get.
> Not wearing a seatbelt hurts yourself only.

And yet people in many countries reject it.

If a significant amount of people already makes a bad choice at this point where it affects themselves we cannot expect these people to make good choices to protect others.
> What we need is to survive to have peaches and cream another day,

Great news! As a collective we will survive this just fine no matter what happens.

Individually some people won't be so lucky.

Coronavirus is a tragedy, but it is far from an existential threat.
I think there is a huge difference in these two things:

* I can’t work because a 3rd party we use for code hosting / dep management is down
* I can’t work because my laptop literally can’t run any programs due to a poor security program installed and required by the laptop manufacturer
I wonder if a civil prosecution might be easier. Have people pay for others' loss of wages, medical expenses, the support of dependents of people they caused to kill, etc, when they can be shown to have caused the spread and been irresponsible, to a civil burden of proof.

Two possible problems:

1) It might hurt tracing efforts if people are worried about being prosecuted (ie. people "clam up"). For example, this particular story might not be known at all. Hurting tracing harms public health, so this might be a good enough reason not to go after irresponsible people on the basis of tracing infections at all.

2) I'm not aware of the law ever holding anyone responsible for non-deliberate infection. New legal ground would have to be broken in this area.
The type of food you eat impacts how many calories you will actually end up eating.
I have 3 desktops.

1x at work
1x at home for work
1x home for gamming

I stared my life with desktops in 90s, then switched to laptops in 00s, but went back to desktops about 7 years ago.

It just more convenient for me. At work when I finish I just lock the screen saver and walk away. Having 64gb of ram is also nice, for all the VM's I need to run. Desktops if not build for gaming can be quieter than equivalent laptops, etc.

Same at home. I used to have only 1 computer at home. But for fun(i do electronics and some programming on my own) I use linux, for games I use windows, got tired of dualbooting, so its just easier to have 1 dedicated computer for everything.

I still have my laptop somewhere, but rarely use it, since when I am not at home or office, my phone is enough for most situations.

Silence, not messing with cables every day, more ram + My computer is in the same state as I left it for work are my main motivators.

Gaming pc is just mz hobby so i probably shoudn't even count it.

PS: oh and I forgot storage. having multiple ssd's is just so convinient.
I was building a point of sale and online ordering system for my friend's pizza restaurant. DoorDash drivers would come in for orders, and no one had ever signed up for it. Calling them on the phone to cancel it was a nightmare. I hope they fail.
"antifa" as a label only exists to make Bakunin-style Marxists unassailable. I hope you didn't fall for it.
This mindset is why people find it hard to lose weight. Can't we agree that it's both?
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I never said I would disclose my locations I have visited in the event I become infected, so you can stop your virtue signalling. I said I was against having my every move tracked by a device. I simply don't believe we are at that point where we need to know where everyone is every moment of the day.
I don’t think the guy who said Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. was going to have a shot on the Democratic side.
> as opposed to an immoral or unfair one

I would consider unethical when the result of me tipping vs. me not tipping is the same outcome for the driver. If it is advertised as a "tip" box, it should result in exactly that amount of gain to the driver than if $0 were entered in that box. How much you, the corporation, pays, should never depend on what I fill in for the tips.

Also, if the company can pay $15, they should pay $15, and recruiting me to pay part of that $15 under the guise of "tips" is unethical IMO. Call it a delivery fee and charge a fixed amount.

If you are asking me how much extra I want to pay in tips to a driver (10%, 15%, or 20%), I would be sympathetic to gig workers, because you're an asshole for paying them a $1 base wage.

If you are asking me how much extra I want pay to your asshole corporation, the answer will always be 0%. I don't want to pay any extra to your corporation. Name your lowest price that would keep your company afloat and I'll decide if I want the service or not.
"Many on the left" meaning every Democratic senator and congressperson, and the Democratic president himself too?
In this thread someone asks "What are HNers planning to do for the holidays?"

This is a fabulous question for online social media: when you go out it can seem like everyone is flouting the rules, no one is being careful, and you're the only one. This is largely because you don't see the people who are being careful because they are staying in so there's a massive bias towards careless, selfish jerks when you go out.

If you want to promote Covid safety, ask this question about holiday plans on Facebook, Twitter, whatsapp, or whatever social network you use. Or a more general question: "How are you/your family staying safe from Covid?"

This question brings everyone who is staying safe out of the shadows and into view, and all the sudden rather than feeling like you're "the only one" being careful, you realize you're in very good company. It's great to show other people as well. So if you want to "do something," start discussions on social media about what people are doing to stay safe!
I agree they are being sore losers, but you should think that they are exercising the legal rights they are entitled to in order to challenge what they perceive to be irregularities in the process. If irregularities are found (which they probably won't be) then cases should be heard by the courts. If they are not, Trump should ultimately concede or be forced from office.

Be patient and let the process play out in a legitimate way.
How could someone use this in a product given the MPL-2.0 license?
Right. And in 2004 Boxer's action was a symbolic protest designed to draw attention to voting irregularities. She never seriously sought to change the outcome.

Again: there is no moral equivalence here.
I agree with you in principle, but they're not going to reform because reform is in they eye of the beholder. For them everything is fine. They don't care how many gray hairs it costs you.

Given that, it seems to me wise to look for ways to make purchasing less nightmarish without needing to reform several thousand large bureaucracies.
But the First Amendment to your constitution is about making laws that abridge the freedom of speech. It's about protecting the freedom of speech from the government, not about protecting the freedom of speech from other people who are free to protest your speaking event at their leisure.

Getting fired because of views you espouse is not a violation of your First Amendment rights.
Only if there is no other life in context with abortion.
I couldn't decide which one is my favorite. All of them are pretty incredible!
Some people did this for textbooks importing from asian countries like india where a book was sold for $5 compared to $100+ in the US. They were sued by the us publishers irc
> And they have spiking case counts just like the US right now.

What lead to this recent spike, in your opinion?
The country has voted. The election is still in progress. There are allegations of malfeasance and even fraud that need to be investigated and adjudicated. This has been true in many previous elections. The rule is to count every legal vote and only legal votes.

Once this all plays out, and it will in the near future, then we can determine the "legitimate election result", per the Electoral College.

Should Biden continue to prevail, I'm not expecting any significant unrest. Unhappiness, yes, but that is normal.
It works both ways: Windows (or Mac) are meaningless to any user, who can be served by Linux.

The first step in solving problems that corporate OSes have solved is identifying them. For example, one of the problems is stable/versioned/sandboxable/distro-agnostic ABIs and that is something that is being worked on and they are quite usable nowadays. The related problem is, that the corporate-software is ignoring them (how many conference solution support Pipewire for desktop sharing? Or Wayland in Chrome? Heck, VA in Chrome? Exactly... but whatever Apple comes with, they support within weeks).
Am i misreading the stats? Deaths involving flu is at 6k, deaths involving covid without flu is at 100k.
Skia also has a relatively unstable api, is hard to build, and is dependent on Google.
Pretty sure at this point code also obeys the lows of Thermodynamics
In "socialist" France, frog boils you !

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25081583

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25083782
...being antifascist ... by adopting brownshirt tactics.
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There are various human groups that settled areas and didn’t make much technological progress for a long time, thousands to tens of thousands of years.
There are bonehead errors in PGP, which is not actually one of the solidest cryptographic protocols ever.
Your original statement was "Why does the care facility deserve more blame?". Do you see the word "more" there?

Good luck and god bless.
The CDC publishes a number called excess deaths. It’s a number of how many people died versus the average. You can see the graph of excess deaths spike in March and continue to trend higher than the baseline. If this is just a “flu”, by your own words, can you please explain to me how did all these people die then?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
That’s not true. America, or at least its coastal big cities, leads the world in identity leftism. That is, the kind of leftism that finds its base in gays, transgenders, criminals, and other social “losers” (as opposed to economic losers) and their sympathizers. In fact, American leftists have contempt for the working class that used to form the base of old, economic leftism. They despise crass, vulgar, manly working men.

It’s obviously more complicated than this, but that’s the 5000 foot view.
But it was not about some "certification." He states was not allowed to check in the C code he wrote, lacking a Google required exam. To quote that once again:

"Google hired Thompson to create a new language, Go. But Google also requires all of its recruits to pass a language test. According to Thompson, he hasn't quite got round to it yet - and so can't submit code."

It's not and it wasn't about any C++ "certifications." He was involved in the creation of a new language. For the new language there could have not been any existing certification. And as far as I know, the initial implementation language of Go was not C++ but C. In creation of which was Thompson also directly involved. And as far as I know the people worked on the parts of the code before Google and these parts of said C code already existed before Google (Go had some dependencies on code from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)).

So it was indeed as absurd as it could have been. He was a part of the team that directly invented both the language and the style guide of the language, but some bureaucratic exam was expected from him to submit the code to the source control system.
Does anyone else find it incredibly ironic that this website won't load with JavaScript disabled? Perhaps some people should stop writing software, on that I fully agree . . .

In seriousness, we don't have this kind of AI yet: https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU

Therefore, IMHO, we should not stop writing software on that basis alone.

I agree with many points put forth, I really do, but I don't come to the exact same conclusion. I believe we as a society shouldn't stop making software. But I believe there needs to be a better filter. Far, far, far too much shitty, pointless software is out there. The author cites Java as a pinnacle; funny, some people have said similar things about Lisp[0].

Perhaps some people should stop writing software. Just determining who is allowed to write software or what software is allowed to be written is the hard part, and is ripe for abuse. Perhaps this discussion should be centered more on the why a particular piece of software is being written. But then we get into ideology, and even ideologies that are destroying the physical planet are staunchly defended when they are obviously having measurable harm on our information systems.

[0] - Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. Also a quote from many moons back on slashdot: "Lisp was a simple, elegant language that demonstrated that almost any language written after 1961 was unnecessary, except for demonstrations of concepts like Object-Oriented programming that could then be re-implemented into Lisp, and that any code written in older languages could be replaced with something better."
Are the subsidies a part of "sales & marketing"? I remember the Uber IPO doing some thing similar, as the subsidies were "promotions".
I've got my MBA to install Bug Sur successfully. It took about 45 minutes. So far so good.
What? We had a vaccine in February 2020? What is your source on that?
You can start with Time's debunking[1], but really should read what Mueller has written and said, both the report and following articles and interviews.

[1] https://time.com/5610317/mueller-report-myths-breakdown/

Edited in response to Parent's edit:

"While none of these acts amounted to the crime of conspiracy, all could be described as “collusion.”

You don't appear to be having an honest conversation, so I'll bid you good day.
> High risk includes kids. It includes software-engineers who are in their 20s.

This is false.
As the original article headline says, he hasn't violated enough policies. It's simply a matter of count. The policies were violated, but they want to give him a second chance.
i really enjoyed this write up. i am glad someone far smarter than me is thinking about this problem.
The wedding makes the jobs of the facility employees a lot harder.
I won't be buying a Chinese car, regardless of power source.

Separately Governor Newsom's autocratic proclamations about what he wants to happen in 2035 carry no weight - the next governor may change that edict as has happened many times before.

California (where I live) needs to get serious about its electricity grid, which is currently 3rd world quality, so those that want to run electric powered vehicles can do so safely.

Right now if there is a strong wind the grid is turned off in case the power lines blow over and start a fire in all the dry vegetation that is no longer managed by the state, exacerbated by tree disease.

We can't currently escape from those fires in electric vehicles. I'd like to see a massive investment in roads (tires and road degradation create enormous pollution) and the electricity grid, especially given that natural gas is now banned in all new houses, restaurants and businesses.
The computer overall seems faster, but for a real example, I can tell that starting VS Code takes less time than before.
I really hope you avoid using any service where tipping is the expected norm if you won't tip. Otherwise, I hope that you either grudgingly tip or simply avoid those services whether it's convenient to do so or not.
Is the screen time thing about blue light? I mean I sleep way better and feel way better when I am camping away from artificial lights. In that respect I think artificial lighting causes depression and lack of sleep.
This looks awesome! What are the most powerful industry use cases? I imagine it can be used for more than just gaming.
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