skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You lose me here:

> consistently and primarily suppressing only one set of views

That's nothing like how HN is moderated. You may be falling prey to the notice-dislike bias: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

I don't actually know what your views are, but wherever they land, I can guarantee you a long list of commenters complaining that "suppression" on HN goes exactly the other way.
If 85% of your taxes are going to the federal government, you don't live in California.
And how long do you predict a 5.5 day doubling period to continue?
I assume that's coming for us too; want to use my freedom while I still have it.
What isn't getting considered is that this is only possible here because U.S. currency is the world's reserve currency. Other countries may try this to some degree but risk hyperinflation. The U.S. actually won't get inflation because many countries use the dollar for debt, so cash is king.

Check out this amazing interview about this may unfold: https://youtu.be/_hA3TV1bGsg
When has any organization put peoples' lives over politics?

Anyway, the WHO/Taiwan debacle seems to resulted in Taiwan handling this pandemic better than anyone else, considering their proximity to China and the huge amount of trade and travel between them. Taiwan just ignored the WHO and did their own thing, which was the best thing.
I would say none of the above. The EU is a federation of “nation states.” Its just a matter of frames of reference.

California has a bigger economy than most countries and that does give them disproportionate clout in terms of shaping federal policy, as well as a ton of responsibilities that smaller states don’t have to deal with to the same degree.
find node_modules/\@octokit/ | xargs wc -l

84575 total

find node_modules/ | xargs wc -l

116038 total
Content ages. People want new topical content. Even someone who owned the entire criterion collection would still have problems.
First 100 Days of Dio
I've always liked the idea of flipping the tax situation so states keep the vast majority and the feds get peanuts - attacks the root of federal power.

How could CA accomplish that? I guess we need our own tax collection agency?
The first case might be true (at least until homomorphic encryption matures), but client-side encrypted cloud backups are already a thing, e.g. Signal is working on it: https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/
Part of the problem here is that he suggested forking (he used the word "patching") the compiler in another project, and one of the core maintainers of Elm jumped into the issue and said it felt like an attack on Elm itself.

That feels a bit silly - why make a project open source if you're going to get upset when someone forks it?
As mentioned in a sibling comment of mine, there are some alternatives:

- Elixir's Nerves: https://nerves-project.org
- Golang:
+ https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo
+ https://gobot.io/
+ https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoArm
- Rust I suppose you can just directly compile for any SoC like the RPi.
Good suggestion. What would you think about a marker that sits above the timeline that you can drag?
Yeah indeed, videoconferencing is super depressing. I completely stopped doing it (except for work), as it enforced my emptiness even more.
Back in the day, a GIS pro gave a talk at OSCON on how far he could push Open Source software to do mapping for free.

One of the best talks I've ever seen, although if you do that much work yourself, you might as well form a company.

I consulted for the Canadian JPL, so I had tons of satellite data, but it was mostly ice, tundra and forest regions. Not much urban data, alas. :)

Although you could take your notebook down to the Ministry of Works and they would plug in a cable and give you all their street data at the time for free. I actually did that once.
Bad idea.

Where do we stop? We will very quickly run low on words.
Yeah, Netflix has far more new exclusive content. And by that, I'm counting out all of the currently released movies Disney has also on Disney+, since many saw those in theaters.
Tangentially, one positive side-effect of the pandemic lockdown I've seen is a dramatic drop in the quantity of spam in my physical mailbox. I generally get 5-20 pieces of junk mail a week, but in the 3.5 weeks that the Bay Area has been on lockdown I've gotten maybe 7-8 pieces total.
You are conveniently forgetting Durov never was the owner of Vk. Nor does his person constitute the entire "board of directors" or whatever management they had.
The Fed only unwound about $600B of $5T in support they provided before this event occurred (post GFC to pre pandemic response). It’s in the same FRED citation in this subthread [1].

I don’t think there’s any merit to the idea the Fed will be able to unwind this support in the future, if that’s as far as they got in one of the longest expansionary periods in history.

EDIT: /u/adventured has an excellent comment [2] down thread you must read that explains the situation succintly; TLDR The Fed is incinerating 1-3% of total wealth (through devaluation) to keep the economy pilot light on until we can start the economic engine back up, monetary policy be damned. Whether these efforts can be "unwound" seems to be immaterial.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827276
Rereading your comment I wonder how I could miss this!
I appreciate the well wishes. I am really struggling hence the post. I don't see myself making it like this, but am being hemmed in with no options. I really want a path and a life. I have burned out most of the people who seemed to care at all because things just don't get better and they can't stand constant failure and loss. A couple people who truly love me will be there to the end...but they are far away and have their own great struggles so I cannot lean to hard on them.

I feel like this was just a pause and the weight of it all will crush me again any way. I really need better doctors, some mental care, and a social network. I failed to capitalize on the most recent chance out of fear since everything keeps failing so I messed it up by trying to do it right instead of just doing it. Lesson learned too late. Don't see another chance happening.

I want a life so badly...this experience just proved it to me...but I think I am out of people and roads. I regret letting my fears and bad past get in the way of great hopes. I ruined them because I didn't have enough sense and awareness. Lesson learned too late. Now I feel pushed right back to the dark place and ending it. So terrifying and angering. I don't deserve this...nobody does. We all just want safety and love for ourselves and families.
(edit: misunderstanding, see below)
“Sovereign state” is a widely used term in international politics. It is widely accepted to refer to states at the international level which are largely independent and are capable of international relationships. One of the main limitations of US states is that only the federal government can conduct international relations.
Thanks for the tip, I'll try and write something up :)
> No, the WHO correctly noted at the time that they didn't have sufficient evidence to conclude it was occurring.

This is a stretch. Lookup timelines of China's handling of this issue. For instance from https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/chinas-devas.... Human to human transmission was observed in the second week of December and the WHO continued denying this was the case in mid-January.

Look at the WHO's tweet from January 14th - https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152 - "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China". That's not them lacking evidence to conclude on it, that's them irresponsibly parroting Beijing propaganda.

That's exactly why Taiwan has also been criticizing the WHO - see https://www.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-644a-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6.... "Health officials in Taipei said they alerted the WHO at the end of December about the risk of human-to-human transmission of the new virus but said its concerns were not passed on to other countries."
Am I mistaken or isn't there some way in which Signal effectively prevents anyone from running their own server? I seem to recall hearing this.

(I mean, there's the obvious practical problem that the official server URL is hardcoded into the app, so if you wanted to use your own server you'd have to build your own copies of the app for you and your communicants, but other than that...?)
Anecdotally, I can assure that upwards of 70% of criminal defendants have some form of tracking capable phone on them when a crime happens, I don’t think this makes them stupid, just a general reflection of society that such tracking doesn’t happen or isn’t something anyone can see.
You're right :'(

The day the lockdown was announced I was gearing up for a big walk in the mountains but people were already getting scared and my friends advised me not to go.. Which I followed. I soo regret not going now. Make the most of it while you can!
They own basically all consumers making six figure salaries. That is the high end customer base Ben is talking about.
Dean's a douche? I haven't experienced that having met him several times (even being to his house for a supplier thing when I worked at a company that gave FIRST a ton of stuff). But I guess I could see how folks might form that opinion since he's definitely no Woodie Flowers in terms of social skills. :)
I wouldn't expect significant changes in RedHat just because Paul Cormier got moved up one rank. He isn't new to the company, and had a lot of influence in his previous role.
"This is a thought, therefore thoughts exist" is the valid, non-circular version.

Let us cast this argument in formal logic.

What are the axioms? What is the conclusion?

https://isabelle.in.tum.de
It doesn't sound like they were expecting someone else to do it: they did it themselves but the maintainers were not open to the idea.
The real economy might be just fine in a year.
> Nobody would even read your post.

Is there anything factual in the post you take issue with?
Yeah it just sounds like a cop out to me, Swift's learning curve is equally steep to Rust in my experience. But as mentioned elsewhere, Julia would probably have been the best fit.
California (as all states do) already has their own tax collection agency.
Haha thanks for sharing, it's the first time I've seen anyone use it and share the link so I'm pretty excited!
This is a nice patent application
https://patents.google.com/patent/CN106643287A/en
but I really, really encourage you to read the cited papers from the 70's onwards(which is how I found that PA)
I honestly don't know how people who attribute everything to luck even manage to exist in the world.

Do you just sit at home staring at the wall waiting for luck to happen to you? What is the point of doing anything if all results only come from blind luck?
It has been really wonderful at turning my roommates from people I maneuver around and occasionally socialize with to close allies and friends working through stuff together. With all the constant insistent pressure of the outside world removed the people you see everyday become way more special. Just my experience.
Newsom said the American presidency, "sounds like the worst job ever."

Not everyone seeks more power. Maybe Newsom is happy to lead a nation-state without a minority party blocking every initiative he would ever put forward.
Thanks. I am guilty of being either loved or hated for my communication style. Whether it is or isnt an emerging psychological problem i can only proceed to read always and try to write carefully without impeding my mental rhythm which some may call add. Anyway i really appreciate your thoughtful reply.

Cheers
Millimeter waves (30-100GHz range) attenuate like crazy & are seriously degraded by pretty much everything (eg: rain, dust).

For folks who must fret over mm wave tech, it's worth considering that cell towers have been using 11-83GHz bands for short distance backhaul & linkage for decades. So have tons of other industries.

Last, I'm about positive that only some approved frequency groups in the 5G standard will be in use, in any given region. Lower bands should see the widest deployment.
Quibble over words all you like, that's still not a demonstration of real use.
The Wimbledon organizers paid substantial premiums for pandemic insurance. They recently received a large payout.
Lol Sokal is a moron who doesn't actually know what postmodernism is. Are you someone who believes that his work is actually legitimate research?
Category error. Encryption isn't a tool for commiting a crime, it is a tool for concealing a crime.

It's more like saying "sensors can but whatever crap they want in food they sell, but they have to disclose it accurately".
Yelp lays off 1k workers, furloughs 1,100
Exactly! The illusion argument (let us call it ArgIllusionCons) that applies to consciousness can be applied with just a few extra steps to everything we perceive, including ArgIllusionCons itself.
Yup. There are a lot of physics concepts I broadly understand, but solving a problem for them is a different beast.

edit: Also, speaking as someone who mostly taught themselves physics from the books in college and didn't go to class. (I was not a great student, I did _okay_, and probably got lucky).
I was in academic compsci/ai from 2001-2017 and it was entirely c++ and python in my department, except for one oldschool professor who used delphi.
There's also a targeted attack that allows arbitrary keys to be linked to your keyring to DoS you.
Sounds great! I just looked at https://github.com/tensorflow/swift - where can I find a convolution operation written in Swift?
Not the OP, but I can think of a few reasons:

* security patches
* browser compatibility changes
* build tooling compatibility (unless you pin that too, but that never works for long)
>There's some evidence that home made cloth masks are worse than nothing.

>MacIntyre 2015

That paper is studying whether wearing a mask protects the user of the mask. But the purpose of universal wearing of cloth masks is mainly to protect people ­from­ the wearer. (Many people infected with COVID-19 are contagious without showing symptoms.)

And the study wasn't really "cloth mask vs no mask". It was "cloth mask" vs "sometimes wearing a medical-grade mask and sometimes wearing no mask":

> (1) medical masks at all times on their work shift; (2)

> cloth masks at all times on shift or (3) control arm

> (standard practice, which may or may not include mask

> use). Standard practice was used as control because the

> IRB deemed it unethical to ask participants to not wear

> a mask.

...

> Cloth masks resulted in significantly higher rates of infection than

> medical masks, and also performed worse than the control

> arm. The controls were HCWs who observed standard practice,

> which involved mask use in the majority, albeit with

> lower compliance than in the intervention arms. The

> control HCWs also used medical masks more often than cloth masks.
> You could solve that by Federating, except... Federation would be lovely if you could actually deliver Signal's goals and do federation for free, but what we always see from proponents of Federation is that was their goal and so they're done. Oh you wanted security? Sorry, we federated everything, so you'll need to get every single member of the federation on board with every single change you need, we know you can't get that done but that's fine because our priority was federating stuff, so we are successful, shame about your goals.

I have a lot of serious criticisms of Matrix, to the point where I don't recommend it to friends (yet?), but this feels like an unfair and unserious criticism. I don't think you can fault their motives.

And as another user points out, if Signal goes down in the United States because of legislation, so much for the supposed convenience of your non-federated central server approach! If that happens I'll take Matrix over nothing, thanks.
> But, as many others have pointed out, if one has to maintain a project over the years, the breaking changes in the language would have caused great bouts of teeth gnashing.

This isn't just a problem for Elm but for front-end development in general. Not so much because of JavaScript the language, but because of the libraries and, to a much lesser extent, the browser APIs.

In the library and framework space many take semver as license to completely rework their APIs with every major version bump because they "got it wrong" last time around. It's pretty infuriating because in most cases whatever benefits the new API offers are generally fairly marginal and not worth the cost of all the reworking that needs to be done.

I'd always rather an API was stable than perfect because, for one thing, you're never going to achieve that perfection you dream of. There will always be some new use case or better conceptualisation that you didn't think of and, really, all you're doing much of the time is thrashing by pursuing this. To me it often seems like immature software engineering.

I haven't written any Java for a very long time, but I know that C# code I wrote back in 2004 targetting .NET 1.1 would still run substantially unmodified today on the latest .NET runtimes[1] - in fact I'm pretty sure some of it is.

[1] Possibly not .NET Core, but certainly the classic runtime.
Back in the day, ICQ's most unique feature that it offered was the "Live Chat" feature with split panes, where you could see what people were typing literally as they typed it (including when they pressed backspace to correct mistakes).

I don't understand why no other popular chat app has ever brought that feature back. It really gave the chats a sense of humanity and conversational connectedness. You could even rewind and play back the conversations!
Craig Wright’s LLM Dissertation Is Full of Plagiarism
In case anybody is still looking at the case numbers (especially in NY) and wondering why they keep kinda not going down even though things look better, we are actually still increasing testing rates (despite what you may have heard)

As I said above, we tested 127,000 people yesterday.

We're at 142,000 today already.
You'd make me use Slack?
You could also invite anyone to a group chat, forcing them to join, and then you could nudge all of them at the same time. Best feature ever.
this isn't true. Since the house has been capped, it hasn't grown or hasn't been redistributed based on population changes. A person in Wymoing has more representation than a person in California.
I have, my impression when doing an applied math degree more than 10 years ago was that python was by far more prevalent than R. I know through my wife that python is much more prevalent in bio-informatics and bioengineering too.

Doesnt really change my argument though, R is also a slow but simple language that is popular among academics but not professional software engineers. My whole point is that Swift is never going to be popular with academics because the syntax isn't simple enough.
The media presents election results as if that is what happens, but most states are winner take all, county and district lines don't matter:

https://www.270towin.com/alternative-electoral-college-alloc...

Probably the simplest/most possible step forward would be to expand the House of Representatives by quite a bit.
This is a rather poorly researched rehash of the same claims and arguments making the rounds on on the interweb over the last year, with very little if anything new to say... nor does this article make any coherent point that ties back to the title.

Consider the title: ancient computers on the 737. Does the article explain why the computers are ancient? Does the article explore, at any depth, the world of safety critical avionics engineering? Does the article discuss how Boeing and regulators are working to solve the problem, with new or useful information to share that hasn’t been shared before? No, no, and no.

For those interested in the world of avionics software and why old CPUs are prevalent in modern aircraft, I suggest googling DO-178C, DO-254, and the to-date necessity of single-order-execution environments for safety critical flight systems.
> Worse, we don’t know that there is an after. It’s possible there is no effective and safe vaccine, and that social distancing becomes a permanent feature of life.

Ok, deep breaths. We know that the disease triggers antibody response, we know basically nobody has become re-infected. That means herd immunity is very much in the cards -- and that vaccination is in the cards. So, there is an end-point, when some 70% of the population has it or has been vaccinated.

Next, week now that something like 0.5-9% of people who go to the hospital with severe symptoms of COVID then die (depending heavily, heavily on their age [4]), which means, 99.5%-91% of people with severe symptoms don't die. Now, there's a massive pile of people who show no symptoms at all, and another massive pile of people who show mild flu-like symptoms. This could represent 86% of all cases based on an earlier study [3]. The morality rate is much much lower than the numbers we're seeing because of adverse selection bias. If you only sample the people walking into hospital because they're sick, of course, they're much more likely to die than people who didn't go to the hospital.

This disease is worse than the flu, but not massively worse than the flu especially when you consider the flu kills 646,000 people each and every year worldwide (in spite of vaccinations being broadly available) [2] and this pandemic just crossed 95K -- and somehow we manage not to shut down the world because of the flu.

What that means is that we should respond about the same way we do to COVID as we do to the flu in steady-state conditions. There's no world in which social distancing, either via disease elimination, via vaccination program or via herd immunity, remains a part of our lives forever as a result of COVID.

> We don’t know when the doors will open. It’s reasonably certain they won’t “fly” open.

That was not the case in China where much of the economy is recovering judging from NO2 emissions from satellite imagery.

It's also not the case in Sweden where they aren't shutting down the economy for COVID. "Although herd immunity is not the official strategy, some officials maintain that there is no other conceivable way to stop the epidemic, praising the original British strategy that the United Kingdom later backed away from." [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/08/is-sweden...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p1213-flu-death-esti...

[3] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/24/scie...

[4] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm
Care to explain why?
Anyone else who did it care to chime in?
A 15 minute meeting where the person doing the talking has to stand up. That quickly makes very short meetings.
Well, I can't really blame the population for not taking it seriously. Even the Spanish government talked it down strongly.

And to be fair, it could have fizzled out like SARS version 1 did in the early 2000's. This is SARS version 2 after all.