skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Foxconn was promised tax credits, with the requirement that they meet certain job creation and investment targets. Tax credits lower your tax owed dollar for dollar. What happens when the credits exceed the taxes due? I looked it up:

The contract[1] states that these are tax credits pursuant to Wisconsin State statute 71.28(3wm)[2], which states "If the allowable amount of the claim under this subsection exceeds the taxes otherwise due on the claimant's income under s. 71.23, the amount of the claim that is not used to offset those taxes shall be certified by the department of revenue to the department of administration for payment by check, share draft, or other draft[...]"

So if Foxconn meets the investment and job creation requirements and doesn't have significant state tax burdens, the Wisconsin tax payers will have to write big fat checks to Foxconn, hoping that the indirect economic impact of Foxconn's activity is enough to offset these payments. In that case, these subsidies are a direct cost.

[1] https://wisconnvalley.wi.gov/Documents/WEDCcontract-state.pd...
[2] https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/71/IV/28
And the ability to compare results from different stochastic processes.
Pairing a drive-in with a drive-thru concessions seems like an obvious solution.
If the lettuce killed people and then everyone who interacted with the people who at the lettuce also got sick and the economy had to be shut down the United States would strictly ban selling lettuce immediately.

If China can enforce the largest lockdown ever and enforce a one-child policy for decades, they can easily ban live animals at markets.
Square bans the use of its service for debt collection. The ruling says doing so is a violation of civil rights.

Does this actually strengthen rights for minorities or does it dilute those right by including bill collectors under the law?

Edit: as pointed out below, I am extrapolating from a ruling on standing an implication that has not explicitly been decided one way or another. I have done this so strongly that what I posted in the second sentence above is essentially false. I'll leave it as full disclosure of my error.
Cool, thanks dewaka, will look into it, though there is a good chance I am familiar with most of it; it would still be nice to have a good introductory test - I don't know of a single Buddhist book I feel comfortable recommending to others, maybe this will be it.
Presumption of innocence is a legal matter and this is not a court of law. It might be hard for you to understand but freedom of speech doesn't protect you from getting called out. Nay, it is the affirmative right to do so.

It would also do you well to keep in mind that if we're using the criminal justice system as some standard obstruction of justice itself is a crime, as is destruction/tampering of evidence as well as witness tampering. Physical evidence is not required to convict; strong circumstantial evidence is often sufficent.
I have no idea why you're having a go at Americans so much, this literally happens everywhere. British interpretation of Indian dishes has nothing to do with originals. Every country has their localized version of McDonald's even(Poland has a burger with saurkraut and goat cheese). German idea of Italian food is....difficult, but incidentally Germans make the best kebabs. I'd argue that the worst pizza I've ever had was actually in Italy.

There's no such thing as "authentic" food. It doesn't exist and it never did.
main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22843306
I still remember the time I -- a Torontonian who has eaten extensively at the many Ethopian restaurants in town -- visited Munich with my wife and went to an Ethopian restaurant there, and found many of the local Germans eating with a knife and fork instead their hands.

Maybe this was just that night or just this one restaurant, but it kinda shocked me.
I don't know your intention but it's unwise to spread disinformation on HN, "taiwanboy".

武汉天河国际机场于23日13时关闭离港。航空公司方面，国泰港龙航空、春秋航空、吉祥航空、中国南方航空、中国东方航空、全日空等航司取消或调整多班来往武汉的班机[29]。1月24日天河机场本场仅允许国际航班进港并当日空返，另有两架运送救灾物资的顺丰航空货机抵港[30]

Note that the international airline is allowed in but leave empty.

天河机场自4月8日起恢复运营，暂不恢复国际航班和北京往返航班[58]

Until April 8, international airlines are still not restored, i.e. all airlines are stopped during lockdown.

Source: Wikipedia https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E5%86%A0%E7%8B%80%E7%97%8...
Didn't even offer him the opportunity to legally change his name upon hire :(

What if it's just an excuse to cover up the real reason he was turned down? X-Files theme starts playing
Now this is an interesting abuse of Bayes' theorem, because there's an extremely similar conspiracy theory going around in China of this form: it's known that CIA agents specifically visited Wuhan before the virus broke out, and the CIA claims to have known about this disease before anybody in China did. So...

P(virus from CIA) = 0.01
P(outbreak in 14km radius | virus from CIA) = 1
P(outbreak in 14km radius | virus not from CIA) = 1/3,000

Then Bayes' rule gives P(virus from CIA | outbreak in 14km radius) ~= 97%.

But wait a second! How can there both be a 97% chance that the CIA did it, and a 97% chance that WIV made it? The reason is that both of these calculations are total bullshit.
We have good news for you. You know that bigger rival company, who somehow make a similar product, and charge more for it, yet somehow don't pay any Corporation tax? Maybe they're paying interest on a "debt" to a company with a suspiciously similar name located somewhere sunny that seems to arbitrarily set the interest on the debt to exactly what might otherwise be their annual profit, resulting in zero tax... or they have to "license" their brand name from a company that somehow only owns that brand name, and only employs one accountant and a secretary in a tiny principality in Europe?

We'd like them to be on a level playing field with you. We can't guarantee this'll mean you win, but maybe them paying the same taxes you do (which will make a huge difference to the affordability of projects like UBI) would help you.
Looking beyond just .com at three more TLDs, one day later Google signed:

* 4740 .com
* 925 .page
* 662 .org
* 413 .net

For a total of 6740 new DNSSEC domains. This ongoing activity is reflected in a noticeable recent uptick in the growth rates of DNSSEC for these TLDs:

https://stats.dnssec-tools.org/tld-graphs/com.png
https://stats.dnssec-tools.org/tld-graphs/page.png
https://stats.dnssec-tools.org/tld-graphs/org.png
https://stats.dnssec-tools.org/tld-graphs/net.png
I don't quite follow your point. My model assumed implicit knowledge that the virus originated somewhere in China, but not in Wuhan. Maybe I should have made that more explicit.

We could change the model to not have any implicit assumption about location. Then instead of dividing by the population of China, we'd divide by the world population. The result should be the same, assuming we appropriately adjust our prior probability P(virus from WIV) to account for the fact that there are more BSL-4 facilities worldwide than in China.
This reminds me of the stories that come out regarding World Cup and Olympics bids, where countries spend exorbitant amounts of money to build to infrastructure to host the games, with the promise that the long term impact of the projects are positive, only to find much of the infrastructure abandoned after the event ends. Many of the Athens 2004 events sites are now popular “abandoned porn” spots.[0]

I remember Brazil built huge stadiums for the World Cup and Olympics banking on their local teams moving into them, which wound up not happening because the teams didn’t like the lease terms. A $900M stadium became a bus garage[1]

0: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2014/aug/13/abando...

1: https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/sports/a15531/bra...
That's total nonsense. Diesel has max 1%, and that itself is rare. Yes you can produce CO if you deliberately mistune the engine to extreme amounts.

Do you know why diesel generators are used in mines?

Do you know why there are so many diesel submarines?

The answer to both is no carbon monoxide. Because CO in exhaust in a submarine or mine is a very big problem.

Your insane lawyer source are insane lawyers. What they say is absolute bullshit. They are ignorant technologically incompetent liars to claim that is the range in any way shape or form for any diesel engine operating in any normal capacity.
Was there a final ruling in the suit? Or was it simply decided that Square could not use this particular argument to get the suit dismissed.
>Just pointing out that Wuhan was studying viruses exactly like the one tearing through the world right now, lol.

Yes, and this is important, but this is also already publicly known. It's not providing any new or interesting information. There're still a lot of other variables and factors to take into account here. Statistics aren't so simple.

For example, Wuhan is a huge city, larger than NYC, and an important economic hub. The area has a very high number of people and is population-dense. Tons of scientific institutions are there, as one would generally expect of such a city. So by that alone, the prior for the lab being there could be pretty high.

Also, maybe the lab was created there and bats were studied there in the first place because the general area was known to already have virus-carrying animals like bats? Perhaps even created there because they considered it very likely the particular bats in that particular area could potentially carry human-transferable viruses? And perhaps also because they knew lots of animals in the area, including bats, were regularly hunted and sold for food, further increasing the likelihood that human-infecting viruses may be found in that area?

If that's true, one would expect outbreaks to be more likely to occur in that area whether or not the lab was involved. It'd be reversing cause and effect - maybe a lab is there because the area is a virus hotzone, rather than the area being a virus hotzone because a lab is there. I saw some other evidence saying coronavirus-carrying bats studied at the lab were taken from elsewhere in China, which could alter this assessment, so one would need to look at all of that more thoroughly, but the point is this isn't such a simple association to make.

A lab escape is totally plausible and wouldn't be shocking, but it needs strong arguments, analysis, and evidence.
I can understand the logic to shutting down pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen if you're a party member and your political system is at stake. This type of thing (sadly) happens all around the world.

But I don't see what was to be gained. Take in mind there are a not insignificant number of people who believe that the US planned 9/11 and Pearl Harbor as well. It just seems like in all these cases (9/11, Pearl Harbor, Coronavirus) to not be in the country's interests at all.
This is Java post, and by no means am I delegitimizing Haskell. It is a perfectly fine programming language that is suitable for use in production, but unfortunately, it suffers from a problematic culture.
(Having tried to read the paper without knowing any of the physics involved, it... seems... that circles are very much involved? It sounds less like they're saying "we tried to calculate this QM question and it turns out the answer is Pi, how elegant!" and more like they're saying "we've tried to use these standard physics formulas to calculate something involving strictly circular orbits [I think... something about how circular the strictly circular orbits of electrons around a hydrogen atom are? But again, I don't know any of the physics here, and am guessing a lot to make up for lack of understanding], which we already know the answer to which is "Pi", but we were surprised to arrive at this specific formula for Pi first derived in 1655, so probably part of the Schroedinger and Bohr equations we used is just an encoding of this Wallis formula for Pi that nobody noticed before [which is cool in a geeky way, and maybe we could rewrite them in a way that makes that Pi factor more apparent and would help us grok the equations better]?")
I wonder what year this really is from.

Watergate wasn't a thing in 1971.
It's real, and they're present - even here I would say.
With you until the last line. There are definitely corruptions of good dishes that have no merit. What do you call them?
Adhesive defence mucus in the red triangle slug can incapacitate adult frogs
His argument, if I understand him correctly, is that there is a threshold of event size where the risk of the event starts becoming greater than the risk from enforcement.
The latter, I believe:

> Finally, the court declined to address whether occupational discrimination is covered by the Unruh Act or if White was an adequate representative to support the class action

Emphasis mine.
I feel the SW world is affected by some analogous bugs though. Any sort of race condition between two different threads accessing the same resource, maybe throw in some other piece like having the data always be valid unless a third thread happens to free some downstream resource at the same time...

We know about techniques to reduce large classes of errors. Data races in particular can be prevented by some languages statically. Other types of “once in a blue-moon” errors that happen as a result of two coupled systems doing something in tandem can be reduced by introducing stronger boundaries between the systems, and then you can test each system independently and make sure it works regardless of what the other system does (I.e. dependency testing, or maybe even fuzzing).

These approaches aren’t bulletproof, but I think they do illustrate a point: that there are techniques to reduce the likelihood of the errors you highlight. Whether they do it at a competitive cost to existing industry practices or not, I have no idea.
> But this is a completely bullshit argument.

Is it though? I think that it makes a lot of sense.
This article has made the rounds but has yet to be peer reviewed. Tbh, journalists need to chill until better authorities like the WHO step in and recommend something.
if they have confidence it will damage their opponents more than theirs?
Who's in Control? The Unhappy Consequences of Being Child-Centered
Blogging tips after 3 years and a 100 posts
Well, the way it's been annotated, I'd bet whoever did the joke scrawled it in a few years after it was printed.
Interestingly the things you mention do make it sound like a different era. Many millennials don’t drive, don’t know what fuel costs today, and have no idea what a rotary engine is. The American fascination with cars probably peaked around 1971.
My favorite cuisine.

Walk down Telegraph Avenue, from Berkeley to Lake Merritt, you will find a number of great Ethiopian-style restaurants.

My favorite has long been the Blue Nile, which over the years has migrated south, now near the west end of Lake Merritt.
Hazel: A functional programming environment that can run incomplete programs
85 years ago such policies existed in Europe with Jews instead of Asians as the target, in the current climate you might instead substitute "Asian" with "Chinese". The race doesn't really matter, it's the concept that matters.
They are -20C until you drop a bunch of heat into them. Air works well because it's a fluid. And even as a fluid it's completely ineffective at cooling a cpu. You need to pair that fluid with a heatsink that creates massive surface area and a powered fan that is blowing in a steady stream of cool air to replace the air that has heated up.

Even liquid cooling setups on earth eventually blow their heat into the atmosphere as the primary means of keeping the liquid cool.
i believe they have now banned wildlife.
And I said that they can always be personally identified.
This virus disproportionately impacts the elderly, and males. That was the whole point of my comment.
I never get any spam on Fastmail, I set up a training folder and it has been solid for the past 5 years or so.
Yeah, my "ezInvoice.com" site from 2002 is still there. I accessed via their search input on the home page.
> You don't need to eat bats for them to be a problem. The virus could have jumped via some intermediate host.

Currently the "jump host" hypothesis suggests the pangolin as an intermediate host from bats. Not enough evidence to be 100% sure, though.
Fake trends are the easiest hooks for clickbait these days, fueled by FOMO.
It doesn't need to be a deliberate release of a bioweapon to be considered biological warfare. The simple act of knowingly obscuring the transmissibility and extent of the virus, leading to rampant international spread, is biological warfare.
https://nannou.cc/
Wow, thanks man. Really appreciate that.
That statistic alone does not mean much.

You need the death rates of people that "needed" a ventilator but didn't get one. Maybe 90%-100% of them die?
Wisconsin is one of the most segregated and polarized states in the country. It's split between pure blue Milwaukee and it's pure red suburbs (the "WOW" counties).

https://archive.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/democratic-r...
Pragmatic philosophers: let's just focus on 'the best we can do'
This[0] claimed it's bio-engineered. Disclamer: epochtime is Falungun media channel, Falungun is prosecuted by CCP, so it's more conspiracy theory. For example, the India paper has been refuted by US scientists. I personally believe its accidental leak.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdd7dtDaYmM
This is the reason usually given for using relatively simple techniques like behavior trees, but, anecdotally, I find that the biggest let down in most games is that the AI is so dumb that it 1) is immersion breaking, and, 2) get same-y and boring very very quickly.
Irreproducible research in the AI era – John Ioannidis (2018)
Some links for consideration

1 Difference in Receptor Usage between Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Coronavirus and SARS-Like Coronavirus of Bat Origin http://archive.is/M9IRO

2 Officials punished for SARS virus leakhttps://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-07/02/content...

3 Chinese researcher escorted from infectious disease lab amid RCMP investigation https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/chinese-researcher-e...

4 https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/26/coronavirus-l...

5 https://thebulletin.org/2014/03/threatened-pandemics-and-lab...

6 https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to...
Presumably they mean something like https://shadertoy.com but native, like the demo scene's Bonzomatic.

https://github.com/Gargaj/Bonzomatic
Yes, it is. Any argument akin to "I don't need to provide evidence of anything I accuse you of because you lie about things" is complete and utter bullshit. You would basically be just as bad and intellectually dishonest as the CIA, in that case.

You always need evidence, regardless of the nature of the accused person or entity. You could be accusing Stalin himself; you still need evidence
Please cite your evidence.
I've noticed, but this is well known, and it has perhaps been a while since you've said anything substantively new about them. Your views are well known, and easily found via any search engine. There's likely no compelling need to track down and attempt to refute each positive mention. This thread excepted, I've generally not engaged in the converse.

I am looking for a truce, where we each get to post whatever new thing we have to report, without having to expend precious energy to deal with redundant rebuttals. If you like, I can append "[naturally tptacek disgrees]" whenever I report anything DANE related to this forum, and save you the trouble... :-)
Bad food. Seriously, food isn't good just because it's authentic, just like music isn't automatically good because it's traditional.

Like, some Scottish establishments will deep fry a pizza. Who cares it's not an "authentic" Italian food? It's "authentic" Scottish food at this point. I also don't particularly care about Italians thinking it's an abomination - they are free to think that, but I wouldn't have a go at the Scots for doing it - if they like it, then whatever.
What do you mean by P(virus from CIA)? Do you mean the probability that the CIA planted the virus in the WIV? If so, then

> How can there both be a 97% chance that the CIA did it, and a 97% chance that WIV made it?

There's no contradiction there. If the CIA planted the virus in the WIV, then it's simultaneously true that the CIA planted the virus and that the WIV was the source of the outbreak.
There was a major change in architecture: In spring 2018, beginning with the development cycle for Catalina Apple's developers started to move into the Spaceship, the new office building with open office "pods". ;)
Because academic research can't be rushed. One of the requirements for an advanced degree is publishing papers, and if coronavirus related can easily bring attention and get the paper published, students would try taking the fast track. This is not good for research in general.

There was a huge debate back in late Jan. early Feb. on Chinese social network about a paper didn't get peer-reviewed spreading all over places with misinformation. Hence the Fudan University post in Chinese was to tighten the publish review, and nothing about delaying the research.

This guardian news only showed the story without context, which is pretty misleading.
NGI Pointer – Funding the Next Generation Ecosystem of Internet Architects
Where Are We, on the Science Fiction Movie Timeline?
We’re in a worldwide lockdown because of rhetoric from the CCP and Chinese surrogates that calls any criticism or discussion of their role in this racism or white supremacy.

We’ve had 20k American deaths so far, I think we get to discuss this.
SpaceX Beat Boeing by In-House Design and Strong Dragon Track Record
The most credible evidence has been gathered and presented in a youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU . The youtuber was a long time china immigrant before being forced to move abroad.
I attended a juggling convention at a former Olympic venue in Athens, which was in turn a hangar for their former airport. They didn't even have hot water for the showers.
It could have escaped from the Wuhan lab and not been a bioweapon. The lab was studying viruses very similar to this one. It’s entirely possible that it leaked out of the lab by way of an accident. In fact, there is precedent for this happening in 2004. [0]

Honestly I’m not sure how Occam’s razor doesn’t suggest that it was released accidentally from one of the only labs in the world studying coronaviruses in bats, given that the lab was within 10km of patient zero.

Also, experts have not reached nearly the level of consensus regarding the origin of the virus as your comment implies. [1] While consensus seems to be against bioweapon, there is much debate as to whether the origin was lab accident or “wet market” as claimed by CCP.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/sars/media/2004-05-19.html

[1] https://thebulletin.org/2020/03/experts-know-the-new-coronav...
I love updates! I always update everything as soon as humanly possible. MacUpdater is like a sweet, sweet drug. I find the incidents of things breaking to be fairly low for me, and when things do break, it's usually fairly easy to find a workaround. Thankfully I've never had hardware get bricked before.

Having said that, I may have some kind of mental disorder because the thought of being behind when new software is released is abhorrent to me... Oh, but I don't AUTO update. I like to do it manually so I can read changelogs when available.

... I'm starting to feel like that person who enthusiastically tells everybody how much they love to peel their dead skin off. And everybody gives them 'that look'.
Africans in China being targeted and evicted from apartments
New Features of the Linux 5.7: Tiger Lake Graphics, New ExFAT, Zstd F2FS