skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a normal year 3,000,000 people die in the US. The numbers are higher because of covid-19, but not by a lot. You can check the CDC graph for excess deaths: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

Nobody would have predicted the current response based on that graph. It fits a trend where people become less and less willing to accept physical risks.

Why can't we discuss this without calling one another "purposefully blind"?
Yeah, it's sad to see.

There's now no economic reason for these fees to remain so high. I worked at a payment processor.
When you can't help yourself from firing ethicists; you might have an ethics problem.
What is your interpretation of "virtue signalling"? To me it is the balance that remains when you take all displays of virtue and subtract each genuinely virtuous act. That it is the domain of posers and try hards, and that there's actually nothing good about it.
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Looks neat, but why is this a thing?

> import "packages" from npm without installation

IIRC rollup does the same thing by default. This project mentions it uses rollup so maybe that’s where it’s coming from.

Using npx to run executables also does this IIRC.

And I never want it, especially if I have to opt-out. I want there to be friction to adding dependencies, it should be a carefully considered process.

Otherwise, would be curious to see how this stacks up against a moderately sized application build using webpack or vanilla rollup too. To see that, we will just need adoption over time, will keep an eye on the project!

Update:
It’s not rollup that auto-installs packages, I was confusing it with parcel.
Bean counters have deemed that too expensive. /s? I'm not even sure tbh.
Strong agree, noting also that bcrypt still holds up well.

Articles like these set off a bit of a research fad in designing password hashes, which is great, but also created the impression that using the wrong password hash is like using SHA1 or 1024 bit RSA, which is not the case. By all means, use Argon2 if you like; it is "better", but not decisively so. Or just put PBKDF2, scrypt, bcrypt, and Argon2 on a wall and throw a dart.

The danger is in not using a password hash at all, but rather using a "salted hash".
>...they also get all of your messages after 2015, because they could use the long-term key from the backup to decrypt all your captured network traffic.

They would get all your messages after 2015 if they were willing and able to MITM the Diffie-Hellman handshake used in the forward secrecy scheme. Otherwise there would be no point in having long term identity keys in the first place.

Your example brings up an interesting point for me. Perhaps forward secrecy is more important in systems that trade off secrecy for convenience by failing to protect the private keys with a strong passphrase. In that case forward secrecy is more valuable due to the larger chance of a private key compromise. I guess the same point would apply to deniability as well.

So thanks for the discussion and generated insight.
Ah, so they are toddlers then
I think this is overblown. The earth is already ‘full’ of oil and gas and minerals and lots of toxic things. We are just transforming one type of substance into another - more useful to us - type of substance.

The issue is when the waste gets in to places where it wreaks havoc, like especially waterways.

Currently, afaik, this problem is primarily driven by a few countries in Asia, so I think the effort that would have the most impact is figuring out how to convince those particular Asian countries to stop throwing plastic in to rivers.

And anyone else who gets it in their head to throw plastic in to rivers.

As long as waste is contained properly it doesn’t seem to make so much of a net change in the earth.
I frequently see people walking off of the sidewalk for a few seconds to maintain social distancing. They don't seem to have any issue doing this, as there is usually enough space between sidewalk and car lanes to not have to walk into traffic.

edit - If you need to take a walk through downtown Los Angeles or somewhere where it is physically impossible to social distance, then yes wear a mask.
I would argue that while both are just as bad the anti-white racism can have worse consequences as it will increase the distain that whites have for blacks and at the end lead to even more discrimination against black people.
No probably not. More of a "Benchmark vs. Power Consumption" war I think.

Power users understand today that max MHZ doesn't even matter anymore, for various reasons.

I think power consumption (even in desktops, servers) will be a large factor / marketing number.

I think the big tech sites will continue to hammer home some type of "CPU work / watt" type metric, which is roughly like "time to complete some standardized workload vs. power used to do it"
>"... today ..."

Are you implying that they were less greedy at some other time? The whole economy is driven by greed. Always was, always will. You can get some exceptions here and there but the general picture is pure greed.
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It's not even the way that capitalism works. It's the way that unproperly regulated capitalism works
Sure thing! Seems almost nobody is (I wasn't until a year ago)
You’d have to make that mandate global, otherwise you’d see countries that do permit trade secrets simply dominate the computing landscape.

This is not a realistic option.
Whenever I've tried to submit an already submitted link, it takes me to that discussion on HN, so I wonder what people do to circumvent this
Wearing a mask outside and distanced sends a signal that you do not understand The Science.
None of that matters because all preclinical methods of testing for drug efficacy are not the same. For most of the important diseases of today, preclinical models are bstshit poor in predicting actual clinical efficacy. Mainly cancer.
It's not just a convenient notation. Sine and cosine are intimately connected with exponentials and imaginary numbers.
It's for ASIC resistant currencies I believe
Is there any information about any changes to egress that I missed?
I think there’s going to be some reckoning in the payments industry in general, though, in the next 5-10 years.

Covid has forced more businesses to go cashless and pay the 3% payment transaction toll, which is a hidden tax we all pay.

Could easily see post-recovery legislation scrutinizing payment players who’ve all seen their stock skyrocket this year, similar to what happened after the GFC with the Durbin Amendment (however flawed that legislation is).

DOJ blocking Visa’s acquisition of Plaid feels like a hint of things to come.

However impressive Stripe has become the core issue for me is that it’s made it really easy to work with a legacy entrenched card processing system, and it’s incentivized to maintain that system rather than replace it with something better.
Maybe true but tell me, is it really that bothersome to just wear the mask, even outside?

What bothers me more is not having clear rules/instructions. So I just resort to wearing the mask everywhere, doesn't hurt me or bother me and shouldn't be controversial.
> If there's room for Javascript, there's room for PHP.

PHP doesn't run in the browser. For browser programming there's literally almost no choice. TypeScript seems to be an improvement but even that compiles down to JS. Same for ReasonML and BuckleScript and Elm.
In itself, this may suggest something is really going on here.

We're seemingly turning from ebb to flow in the union/anti-union pendulum. Meanwhile, amazon's employees are a genuinely vast group. Quantity is a quality, and amazon knows that scale can change how things work in hard to predict ways.

It's possible that amazon is ahead of the game. Most of what I've heard/read from the pro-union side is fairly generic. Why unions are beneficial generally. I definitely hear more positive sentiments towards unions, but...

I haven't heard much about goals, tactics, strategies, proposed unionisation structures. I haven't heard any ideas relating to novel 2020 realities: amazon's size, digital economics, amazon's record profits and market cap.

I haven't heard anything approaching deliverables. Pay rises? Who? How much? Benefits? Amazon have $250k aws engineers, part time whole foods workers? How does this relate to unionisation strategy or goals.

Even is the sentiment pendulum is swinging back to pro-union, a big role for unions still seems distant. It could take decades.
Not yet, but it's on the roadmap. As soon as I've had time for better integration with Matrix, a bit of refactoring, and writing more tests!
Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin ... made similar promises. Did they deliver?

Political movements cannot meaningfully be evaluated by what they promise, for the all promise the world, but by

- Before they come to power: by what they are likely to deliver (which is predicted from what similar policies have lead to in the past).

- Post facto: what they did deliver.

This is obvious. Everybody in this discussion is aware of this.

There is an interesting social phenomenon at play here, that
deserves intellectual curiosity and explanation: there is no identifiable political ideology in the history of humanity that failed to deliver so hard and so often with identical policies, as the Marxist position via Leninist cadre parties. Yet even today, we we see apologias like pjc50's despite Marxist / Leninist cadre parties. I've even pointed to the A/B testing that were the division of Germany and Korea.

Many times people have tried to answer this question. I'm broadly in agreement with Nietzsche on this one ...
But other people are dying. People don't get to choose their own level of risk: they're putting others are risk.
Maybe you don't know what prosciutto is...? It's not just ham.

Buying an entire prosciutto costs hundreds of dollars, obviously people don't want to buy a whole one.

It's also usually not heated, by the way. This has zero to do with not liking to prepare meals... most people who buy sliced prosciutto are doing it as part of the meal they're preparing. We're not talking about hot pockets or frozen lasagna here.
Make sure to tell them exactly why you're declining.
What would be your response to the small business owners who lost their livelihood because government arbitrarily decided to cut off their revenue stream?

The kids who are being left behind because schools across the country have gone virtual?

The increases in domestically violence? Suicide and depression rates?

The unavoidable health decline because people have been forced in to their homes and apartments for several months?

There’s a boatload of problems in the US. COVID is a symptom - not the cause.

Health is the antidote to COVID - not lockdown. And as we see, far too many people have spent years upon years sacrificing their health and now suffering consequences.
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Here are some of the common use cases we’re seeing so far:
* Bank account replacement for SMBs and sole props, integrated directly into the platform or marketplace they’re already using. For example, today a Shopify merchant earns their revenue on Shopify but then has to transfer funds out to manage overall cash flow elsewhere (e.g., pay bills). Shopify is building Balance [0] with the Treasury API so this user can manage all of this in one place with a single view of revenue and spend. Other benefits of course include faster payouts, rewards specific to the ecosystem, and adding product features enabled by read/write access to the money management data (e.g. you could roll your own invoice reconciliation or alerts, or give users a discount on your SaaS if they ran sufficient volume on your card).

* Open loop wallets, like offering a “spend” account within your product that a user can either use to buy in-product purchases, or use the card/ach/wire functionality to buy external goods. E.g. a car leasing platform for drivers adds Treasury, drivers can use the wallet for discounts on car leases, also use the card to spend on gas.

* Product operations, like having a platform-level Treasury balance you use for reserves, chargebacks, and as glue to make your product flow work. E.g. On demand services marketplace that “buys items customers need and delivers it to their door” can issue cards from a central Treasury balance to their drivers, so that they can use a physical card to buy the burrito for the customer at the restaurant.

...but part of the point with Treasury is that we don’t know every use case prior, just like we didn’t know every way developers would use Stripe Connect (developers are pretty creative!). Our goal was to build for specific use cases, of course, but also build composable enough primitives that people could recombine them in ways we didn’t imagine. We wanted to make a tool that helped unlock developer creativity, because flexible tools were so lacking in the existing fintech infrastructure space.
I can only speak from the freelancer's side. The best clients I get generally come through referrals from people I know or people I've worked with. I think the same goes for looking for a freelancer, if you're not sure, ask around among colleagues, friends, people you know in the industry.

Hourly works best for both sides I think. An easy way to do it with a fixed budget is to say you have X budget which translates to Y number of hours from the freelancer, discuss together with the freelancer what you can get out of that and what you both expect.
>over here the regions with a mask mandate have not fared significantly better than those without.

Could that be because people in regions without a mask mandate wear masks anyway?
Google found this: https://grayscale.co/ethereum-trust/

Offers a bit more explanation than the parent link.

> Grayscale Ethereum Trust is solely and passively invested in Ethereum, enabling investors to gain exposure to ETH in the form of a security while avoiding the challenges of buying, storing, and safekeeping ETH directly.
They're lamenting people wearing masks improperly, not giving advice or advocating for anything.

It really seems like you're just reflexively jumping on this stuff. Mask wearing is good! Even if you're not social distancing it's better than not wearing a mask and not social distancing.

It's also worth saying there's nothing wrong with "virtue signaling". It's indistinguishable from... actually having the virtue.
Which company so I can avoid it?
In the enthusiast segment where people build their own machines, perhaps. AMD is yet to get traction in the mass volume corporate desktop/laptop markets, although they have also taken significant market share in the lucrative server market.
If you can hang on for a couple more weeks. Supply side is supposed to get a lot better on the AMD cpus by the last two weeks of december.
Leaked documents from Amazon’s Global Security Operations Center reveal the company’s reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on warehouse workers and the extensive monitoring of labor unions, environmental activists, and other social movements. [1]

This isn't "speculation" or "poor journalism", it is an assessment that exists within the context of a company that has been aggressively anti-union for years, for which employees are trained to rat out union organizers,[2] and, of course, in light of their retention of Pinkertons to infiltrate employee Facebook groups dedicated to organizing.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp3yn/amazon-leaked-reports...

[2] https://gizmodo.com/amazons-aggressive-anti-union-tactics-re...
Somebody should try to unionize Pinkerton employees.
"Greener pastures" does not sound specific so not sure what your argument is. Clarify, please?
Can I just point out that I think the "horrible working conditions" things is a little played up.

You want to know terrible working conditions dancing with a sign for 5 hours a day in the sun when it's 90+. I did that for 3 years and was happy to do the job, mind you this was only 10 years ago so it isn't forever. I made 7.50 an hour. I would've killed to get a job at amazon back then.

People are getting payed $16 that is incredible for an unskilled labor position.
That's like saying "it's not known how stars form" because obviously we have not lived for a billion years to see a star form fully. We haven't seen a single Protein molecule fold fully, but we're pretty sure we know how it does (though some details are kinda murky).
I’m glad you said this:

“Apple users are worse off than in the parallel universe where App Store didn't happen.”

What you are saying here is that your argument is based on conjecture. There is no factual basis to it at all. This is literally a fantasy.

“App Store rules, policy conformance, release restrictions, and Apple tax impose a huge overhead on everyone.”

Only in a world where these things are not part of why Apple is successful.

These are not problems, they are solutions to the complex problem of creating a market in which consumers are willing to spend money on software.

This is not conjecture. It is a fact borne out by the huge amounts of money people do in fact spend on Apps.

We wouldn’t be having this discussion of Apple hadn’t created a marketplace people trust.

Believe it or not, I actually want a parallel universe where Apple isn’t the only trusted platform, and I want the alternative to be open, not just another giant corporation.

However, the only way to make that happen is is if we build the technologies to enable it.

We won’t be able to do that if the government regulates software distribution.
If you have full confidence in your theory, you should perform a controlled experiment for statistical significance.

Say the name of 20 places on a call (but never you nor any facebook contacts go there) [and have 20 controls you never mention]. Then count ads over the next month.

You can conclude something to a certain confidence level if the results show you were right.
What's "not fine" about bcrypt today?
You don't even need to think specifically about exp(ix) unless you're doing calculus and taking derivatives or antiderivatives. Just the fact that there's SOME base of exponentiation such that cos is the even component of exponentiation with this base and i * sin is the odd component of exponentiation with this base is enough for all these trig laws.

Incidentally, we can derive [cos(x)]^2 + [sin(x)]^2 = 1 from the fact that cos and i * sin are even and odd components of exponentiation with some base, like so: 1 = exp(ix) * exp(-ix) = (cos(x) + i * sin(x)) * (cos(x) - i * sin(x)) = [cos(x)]^2 + [sin(x)]^2.
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The services they provide have been of incomparable quality to any other offering in the US. They made free 2-day shipping and free returns the baseline. Amazon lockers provide online shopping opportunities to those not privileged to own a house with a secure front yard (I do wish shipping to amazon lockers was possible from other online-only retailers). And in truth the vast majority of amazon’s income is still invested back into the salaries of its workers and building infrastructure — they have notoriously thin profit margins outside of AWS. Bezos’ fabulous wealth comes from stock.

Edit: I’m not affiliated with amazon and my acquaintances had very stressful experiences working there. But as a customer I really appreciate their service
That's almost where I'm stuck. I was going down a path where Wildcard would "simply" transpile to JavaScript and inherit JS semantics... But yeah, it's so close to Logo, I couldn't decide if I should transpile to Logo instead.
655,000 people die every year from heart disease. In the US.

Where’s the outrage and concern from eating pie and cookies for breakfast?
Who can keep up with all these cloud services... there must be over a thousand now between azure, gc, and aws.
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A previous public demonstration of safety by Barack Obama: https://youtu.be/oQmCAod_UpE
Or a more generalized take from Carol Sandford's regenerative business paradigm -- "external considering". It's not just UX. We can build UXs that are useful for the end user, or we can build UXs that sucks up attention for the benefit of monetization, producing significantly detrimental second-order effects to society. It's more than figuring out what the customer needs.

Each end user is a part of their own community, and they use these devices and apps as a service within their own community. There's a way to figure out how to help that end-user do that. It won't always even be a high tech solution all the time. It could be changes in operations, logistics, perhaps financing.

Instead of market lockin or monopoly power, what you get is non-displacability. That is, that end user and those communities those users are a part of don't want to get rid of your business, and your business forms a vital part of the health, well-being, and prosperity of that community.
Some, not all. That alone should answer the question why aren't people coming back.
>Japan which had a strong culture of wearing masks

Which is only sorta true in the sense that people who are sick often wear them and they're not almost unheard of like in the West. But pre-pandemic, go out on a crowded street in Tokyo and you probably wouldn't see more than a few masks if you saw any.
It's more analagous to buying some gold for your investment portfolio than buying a fiat currency that has its inflation under control by a central government.
This reads like a Postgres vs DynamoDB comparison, because that’s likely what it is.

The article makes a lot of points really well, and if I had 8 highly qualified people who had nothing else to do on my team working for free (or on salaries that were a rounding error in my actual and opportunity cost budget), I’d certainly get them to learn and use Timescale. But I don’t right now, so I’m going to use the option that gives me a time series DB with three or four clicks, gets the job done, and charges me for deployment and maintenance amortised across thousands of other customers.

Having these arguments purely on cost of service terms is a very slippery slope. Yes, it’s less dollars paid in hardware if I put my life on hold and learn how to configure this. Or pay someone else to do it. Yes, it’s cheaper if I order parts on newegg, build a server, drive to a colo and install it in the rack, and then drive there again each time something breaks. And yes, it’s even cheaper if I run it off a Raspberry Pi duct taped under my desk. No one is disputing these things.

AWS and other cloud providers sell peace of mind, acquisition and procurement speed, professional maintenance and remediation, deep integration, faster development and testing, and infrastructure management - with servers thrown in for free. Timescale sells time series database software. This is not a valid comparison.
I know my state tracks case data and death data by date of test/death, not by date of report (which generally means that the last ~2 days in the daily report are undercounts, although annoyingly, the running averages don't stop a few days early).

I don't know how well other jurisdictions do at distinguishing between day-of-report versus day-of-event, nor how well aggregations do at tracking the disparities here.

In any case, at current trends, "3100 people died in a single day" will shortly be true if it is not true already.
I used it for my summer "Covid" project: https://www.listenaddict.com/

I love it and will slowly be replacing my React/Vue/(old angularJS) projects with it.

The nice thing is, you can read the entire docs and just follow the interactive tutorial in a few hours and get up to speed incredibly fast.
> the people who are forced to work in Amazon's warehouses with terrible working conditions don't have that luxury.

Who is forced to work in Amazon's warehouses? Is Amazon rounding up people with guns everyday to make them work there?