skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We spent 2+ trillion dollars so they could stay home.
I'm with you, I just thought prior commenter was making a claim that Julia couldn't have been designed with a Lisp syntax, so I thought pointing out that it can already support representing all of its code as an s-expression kind of shows it could have very well had a Lisp syntax.

I wonder if it's too late :p, maybe it can do what Racket does, and build on some per file #lang macro, give us proper Lisp syntax.
As unbelievable as it sounds, there is a whole segment of the car-buying public that is so convinced that used cars are always a better financial choice that they won't even look at new cars. I had this exact observation when talking to a used car salesman at a lot that sold both new cars and used ones right next door to each other. His used cars of the same model were more expensive than the new ones (which had big rebates). I asked how that even worked, and he enlightened me that it isn't the same market for the same customer, so it doesn't matter.
> Delegation more often happens toward subordinates than supervisors

When a subordinate lacks sufficient delegated responsibility they need to call in a supervisor. Delegation flows downward from an authority. When the delegated responsibility is exceeded the authority needs to be involved.

> Similarly, most of the time, you'll only ever have more information available to make decisions the longer you wait, not less.

In my experience that is a commonly believed blanket assumption that rarely occurs in practice. Risks tend to increase over time in the absence of controls enforcement.

> Your reasoning seems to rely on the premise that you can only learn by making a decision, which isn't true at all.

There is a lot of psychology on this. Yes, you can learn some things from books, but the ability to apply what you learn almost entirely takes practice and repetition. There is a world of difference between reading a right answer from a reference and formulating that right answer as a spontaneously novelty from experience. I am not discounting the value of education, but you would never hire a medical doctor who has never touched a scalpel or a trial lawyer who has never performed at trial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_of_learning

> Furthermore, the longer you wait, the more you'll know, which means the more informed your decisions will be.

This is a logical fallacy called reaffirming the consequent. You cannot know if a decision will be more well informed by waiting unless you have waited and reflected upon that delayed decision. This is a reckless line of thinking since a given risk profile with change during that period of waiting regardless of whether the assertion holds true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent

> I have know idea what point you're trying to make here

Assuming risks are an unchanging constant and that the only thing that changes is the information you receive and also assuming there is never cost associated with a delay then yes it would make sense to procrastinate on many decisions, as much as possible, in the hope you will become supremely well informed, but this is extremely unrealistic.

> isn't a universal truth

Its a matter of making better decisions and reducing risk over time. Its not about universal truths. That's what religion is for.
How long would it take to build new storage tanks?
It's not the dems, but pro-government fake accounts were used in the UK: https://twitter.com/jdpoc/status/1252266724449230848
Do you have any suggestions on laptops? I've been using a MacBook Air 2013 as my daily drive for a good minute now.

I've been eyeing the Razer Blade, while the build quality is enticing, the battery life has me worried.
"Would that apply in this situation where most medical experts would agree that the quarantine is necessary for saving lives? Or is the thinking that this is too far removed — like telling people they can’t protest seat-belts."

Medical experts and scientists can provide data that helps inform people. Just because medical experts say something will "save lives" does not mean we should blindly follow that as policy. There is unfortunately a dearth of data that would allow us to make well-informed policy choices.
I may well end up buying it to replace my aging Macbook Pro, but it will be because the cost of switching to Windows is too high, and because there is proprietary software I need that won't run on Linux.

I am buying it because I have little choice, not because it represents good value or the "total package". Few ports, bad repairability, and an OS that won't run perfectly good 32-bit applications.
1) The US press followed this for decades.

The Chinese govt. allowed trash shipments for a long time, but nobody in business wanted to really do the trash shipments because they slowed down the return trip.

Finally the Chinese government realized banning the shipments was an easy way to improve air quality in China, since often trash mountains are burned to isolate metals.

2) There's an erroneous belief that we do recycling in the US. Aside from vehicle recycling, about 99% effective, most trash is landfilled since there's no way for private companies to make money on the trash stream.

If you read local newspapers, there's often an article on the municipal council being asked for $1 million payments from recyclers, so dumping is chosen instead.
No, there's evidence of it on half of the soles of ICU workers' shoes, and they found the virus on the floor of areas where patients were not found. From this they proposed that within the hospital, shoes could be a vector and highly recommend that people disinfect shoe souls before walking out of wards with Covid-19 patients.

There are not any reported cases of the virus infecting anyone by shoe though.
I love Acme's Pain au Levain. It's my go to.

Tartine's country loaf is great but its distribution is much more limited than Acme which I get at Whole Foods without a problem.
It’s certainly not a hollywood movie—for the flu, it’s already the case!

Change in Human Social Behavior in Response to a Common Vaccine

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20816312/

Conclusions: These results show that there is an immediate active behavioral response to infection before the expected onset of symptoms or sickness behavior.
This "audio deepfake" analog suggests totally realistic imitation:

https://justusthies.github.io/posts/neural-voice-puppetry/

https://youtu.be/VQgYPv8tb6A
Indeed. The main project I work on at the day gig is old enough that it's build on an in-house framework that predates the first public release of Django.
So, in your ideal world, we would never do serosurveys for surveillance of low incidence diseases, right? Any Type 1 error is too much Type 1 error, right?

I'm sorry that literally all of the seroprevalence data hurt your priors. But the virus is widespread, not very deadly, and people are going to go back to work soon. You can stay home. You will be safe at home.
Note the timeline says this occurred in early 2018. The $7.5k is the reward, the bug itself was with Google Cloud API management and could theoretically allow users to enable billable APIs without enabling billing, or to access private APIs or to disable APIs for third-party projects.
The article shows exactly why they're not regular domain squatters.
It not only depends on the image content, but how you send the image to the printer.

Print engines can apply nearest-neighbor interpolation which results in visible, blocky pixels. If they'd upsampled the image with lanczos or another higher-quality algorithm before sending it to the printer, it would have looked like it was just a touch out of focus.
Just because the situation is complex doesn't mean it isn't newsworthy. This is certainly an unprecedented and significant event.
Actually, no they don't. There are 5.6m rides per day. The average trip contains at least two rides: there, and back again. Many trips contain substantially more than two legs, and many people take more than one trip per day.

I can't tell you how many people ride the subway every day, but it's certainly less than half of the number of rides per day.
The disease does not affect age groups equally. From what I've seen, most victims are in the 60+ age groups. From NYC fatality report [0]:

0-9: 1 0%
10-19: 6 0.1%
20-29: 56 0.4%
30-39: 227 1.6%
40-49: 535 3.7%
50-59: 1410 9.8%
60-69: 2863 20.0%
70-79: 3811 26.6%
80-89: 1753 25.4%
90+: 12.2%

Think of people having a "vitality score" that decreases with age, and of disease as a stressor that kills people with the "vitality score" under a certain threshold. That's how the yearly flu works, by culling people under the threshold. We attribute the death to "the flu", but we could easily also call it "death by old age".

Most working age people will be just fine. Except they are jobless. Terrible times.

[0] https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Track...
It’s pay to play!
I'm not sure I follow what you're trying to communicate. It's true that if you only consider an Apple laptop, you will only consider an Apple laptop. Windows laptops compete against each other. Few people cross shop them. That being said, it seems that 75-80% of personal computers sold today are still running Windows, not OS X. As someone that has software that runs equally well on Windows and OS X, and who does not use a track pad, bang for buck on hardware performance and quality (and minimal OEM meddling) sells me my laptop.

It's also true that AMD has an uphill battle with convincing OEMs to make really great laptops using their APUs. But one would suspect that reading this article, you can tell that Asus has at least a foot in the door, as this is a review of a very high quality laptop - the whole package, not just the CPU.

And finally, it's of course also true that most Microsoft Surface products use Intel chips, with just one version of the Surface Laptop using an AMD chip. But they already began to buy into AMD hardware, so I would expect more along those lines this fall!
I would of thought holding Delta stock would have more than 10% upside if they don’t go bankrupt
This is a tough question because on one side freedom of speech is something that ought to be protected and it is somebody's opinion of what means misinformation or not.

But on the other hand, if you allow people that spread extreme ideologies like fascism/nazism, communism, hatred between religious or ethnic groups, that is where you should draw the line.

In here, supporting freedom of speech and therefore the ability for deniers to have a platform sets a dangerous precedent for the whole population. Just like anti-vaccine groups, they are creating a massive hazzard for people that disagree with them, so just like the law says, your right ends where mine begins.
> constitutional rights to freedom of speech and assembly

The constitution applies to the government, not Facebook.
Sweden has open schools, movie theaters, restaurants (limited people; tables further apart) and bars (can't buy beer). People are working from home when they can. High risk people and older people are told to self isolate. Their hospitals are not overwhelmed. Their people do no wear masks. They hope the infection can spread slowly and they can deal with it.

Sweden is criticized heavily, but if their strategy works, they could have very little SARS-CoV-2 in the next few months while the rest of the world constantly re-surges because the lockdown didn't really stop anything, just delayed it.

We have no idea which one will be true. Predicting the future with math has never worked for the stock market. Why did we think it would work here?
Atmospheric Growth of CO2 is flatlining with COVID-19 Lockdowns
Well then you are making two mistakes.
I feel more informed when I see an infection rate that's substantially higher than the rate of false positives from the test. So the NYC test of pregnant women at (13? 15%?) seems to be much higher than the 1% to 4% range of false positives that people seem to be estimating. But when test results are "down in the noise" I don't feel we're necessarily measuring anything.
The choice between being alive and being jobless is a false dichotomy.
Python2 is dead. Long live Python2!

https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/pull/131
So you agree that the left came out to defend her on this?

She isn't a victim of the this concept being called out, but instead the white supremacists who decided to start using a contextual clue that they're being explicitly racist a common sign just because of the chaos it causes, and not the people calling out that racists are doing this.
Of course I’m not. I’m pointing out why looking at the mortality rate of poverty doesn’t support the argument that the economy implications of shelter in place are somehow deadlier than the disease itself.

The onus is still on you to make a meaningful argument to support that statement.
In organizations I've known this as the "Dead Sea Effect", where good/talented employees leave the company because they don't want to work with bad/mediocre employees, and all you have left is the bad/mediocre.

I've also seen this effect take a form where good employees will recognize what is happening and rock the boat, trying to make it clear that there's something wrong and that something should be done about it. Mediocre managers and employees don't like this and eventually the good employee gets fired. The lazy and mediocre then run the show; as long as that paycheck keeps coming in, who cares if we are doing a good job or not?
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13453410
Scrum Master wants to visit each member of the project at home
The "choice between being alive and being jobless" is a matter of probabilities, which people are not great at. If you are not elderly, you likely have a higher chance of being unemployed than dying of COVID-19. So the choice is not between being alive and being jobless, it is an abstract unknown person getting sick and dying vs. you personally losing your income.
None of the things you mentioned are particularly difficult though. In fact you're still in the realm of changes that can be trivially automated with https://python-modernize.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fixers.htm..., the three issues you describe are the print, xrange_six, and classic_division fixers.

It's certainly possible that there are parts of the migration that would be tricky, a quick skim of the file didn't give me any obvious ones, but it's also huge and hard to read, so I very well could have missed something.

Most of the truly challenging things to migrate involved some combination of extension modules, heavy metaprogramming (eval/exec), and apis which change significantly between 2 and 3 (most of which are string related, but some libraries also decided to do backwards incompatible things)
Misinformation During a Pandemic: Hannity Compared to Carlson
So there are aspects of development that rank higher than shipping, right?

That invalidates the "shipping is #1" credo. Sustained and sustainable growth is #1.

Accountability is important, but being forced to ship a broken release is irrational.
No. They both have to be rejected in order to affirm our religiously held priors. The virus has IFR of 2% or more, millions of Americans will due, and we must stay in our homes.*

* Not FedEx employees though!

/s
True, the paper talks about patients needing ICU, if you can get that statistic instead.
> cost of storing that oil is getting really high

If anything, this is a wild understatement. Each contract represents 1000 barrels of toxic waste. You can't just have that stored in a shed or something. And all the commercial regulation compliant storage is gone. I'd be willing to bet you will have a hard time even finding a tanker truck to take it to a buyer, since the tanker owners themselves are going to be using those trailers as temporary storage facilities. Anyone stuck taking delivery of barrels right now is in for a world of hurt. The legal fees alone are going to be ruinous.
Apple’s App Store Rules Limit Rival Gaming Services While Arcade Runs Free
> Fuck you for providing such a great security to my app that any fucking idiot can decompile it and do whatever he wants.

IMO, there are a lot of poor complaints here but this one takes the cake. What could possibly be done to prevent people from being able to decompile apks? Should anything be done? This strikes me as the antithesis of software freedom.
"angry techsavvy teenager" but your "friends" "are in their 50s." Riiiighht. At least you're able to have a multifaceted conversation in this context.

"They are pretty cool dudes with a messed up sense of humor." I dunno but that sounds pretty sociopathic right there, like my friends are cool dudes with a penchant for stealing walkers from old ladies.

There's a certain character type that revels in the rule of the strongest. Bullying and screwing with people because they can. They feel it's the natural order of things. If they don't take advantage of someone or some opportunity, someone else will and be ahead--and they'd rather be ahead. Or they justify it as a way to "teach" others to not be weak and fall for things.

In many ways, I think it is a right-wing or conservative characteristic: rugged individualist winning by breaking social conventions. I also saw it prominently in the House TV series, not coincidentally on Fox. Every episode is a medical mystery, but also all about screwing over other people emotionally--it really seemed off to me.

In my mind, they are low-trust players trying to undermine and benefit from breaking a high-trust society.
> But given a choice between being alive and being jobless

To be fair that is not the actual choice on offer. Its more like being jobless, vs accepting a certain (in some cases low) probability of dying.
check out notebookcheck.net for reviews, they are quite thorough.
If you just want to try it out, you could run it on a GPU cloud instance for 2-3$/h. They're also billed by the second, so you can turn it on only when you have meetings.
". . . the lockdowns are probably illegal, you can't just throw away freedom of association over the flu."

Where did you study constutional law? Rights granted in the constitution are subject to many restrictions. There is no explicit "freedom of association" in the Constitution, although it has been held to be implicit in freedom of speech. Free speech doctrine includes a "time, place, and manner" test that's applied to restrictions on speech when the government has a "significant interest" in the restriction[1] (e.g., national emergency for a viral pandemic). I don't know how the lockdowns (which are mostly not full lockdowns) would fare if Supreme Court were to apply the time, place, manner test, but I wouldn't presume to offer an offhand opinion that they're "probably illegal".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_Unite...
The reason being that US propped up a brutal totalitarian pro-US dictator in Iran that was overthrown, and ended up with a mutually dysfunctional relationship with the people who overthrew him. It then gave weapons of mass destruction to Saddam Hussein, in his invasion of Iran, which did little to help that relationship.
I just got one of those NUCs.

The network device is annoying - I couldn't get it to work on debian stable, but it is supported in Debian testing thanks to kernel 5.5

I also had problems with the HDMI video - It didn't work with the hdmi->dvi cable I got with either of my spare monitors, nor did it work with my TV and the existing hdmi cable I had there.
I did get it to work by borrowing the hdmi cable from a friends htc vive.
It seems to go a bit farther than that. IIUC, people posting about these events can have accounts suspended (not just the particular post).

Beyond that, though, presumably a lot of my friends would be interested in what I have to say. FB getting in the middle of that seems pretty heavy-handed.

(Personally, we're way past the point where I'd care to have a Facebook, Twitter, etc. account, partly for reasons like this, and I've deleted mine years ago.)
I looked a while back and they seemed to have eliminated the silliest inequities in the US at least, e.g. state levels being based off the primary tech hub in many cases. (So you could live in a smaller city or rural area in many states and get paid based off the pay rate in Boston or Portland.) But, as I say, the last time I glanced some of that seems to have changed although I assume there are still ways to game it to some degree if you're open to living somewhere just to get the best GitLab bang for the buck.
Laptops come in a huge variety of shapes and sizes. If I was buying for battery life, I would think the new AMD Ryzen 4000 series would be high on my list though.

For reasonable portability, decent gaming and excellent CPU performance, the laptop in the article is $1450, though availability is still low.

For seriously good performance on a tight budget, the Asus TUF 506 (A15) lines packs a Ryzen 48xx and up to an RTX 2060 into a $1000-1200 laptop. The screen has high performance on paper but older versions of this laptop had bad things to say about the screen, so I'd wait for reviews.

There are other Asus options like the A17 and Zephyrus G15 which are all worth a look, and starting to show up in stock here and there.
> I think you may be surprised!

This kind of vague aspersion is inappropriate. If you have a point, make it.
Do you have a source on that? I was under the impression these tests were very specific.
That's fine though. The main reason to buy used is to save money, but if the new cars drop to used prices, then you get a new car and save money!
Cigarette smoking rate is widely studied; no reason to use anecdotal data here.

The tobacco smoking rate in New York is 14.1%; it's 11.3% in California. Some difference, yes, but far less difference than you see between either and some rural southern states where the numbers can be roughly double that.

https://www.cdc.gov/statesystem/cigaretteuseadult.html
The end of exponential growth: The decline in the spread of coronavirus
The Civ V port works well except for the fact that it has no anti-aliasing option.
With regulatory approvals? Probably years.

The smart equivalent is to get a tanker ship and just float it out at sea until someone wants the oil (usually just west of Africa, where you can easily dispatch it to whoever ends up needing it.) Not sure if it works quite as well with WTI instead of Brent crude, though.
You literally made a new definition of "hoax" on the fly to fit your truth model. You steamrolled over a contradiction in your logic and then go accusing people of lying for not doing the same!
> The real judgement being made is money and resources.

Unnecessary changes and the overall fragility of "modern" software takes money and other resources away from dealing with actual security issues.

There's no reason why things like a library of geospatial calculations (distance between two lat/lon pairs, etc) should need constant maintenance. They could be written once and then used for decades.
Related Explanation/Discovery : "But if you ask, where the substance comes from... the trees come out of the air?!" -Richard Feynman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pIYI5JQLE&feature=youtu.be...
The comment section on there is something else. Jesus
> Do you seriously think if there is a security bug found today Debian maintainers will be like "ah, though luck, I suppose people need to upgrade to py3"?..

> During DebConf19 we¹ have tried to figure out how to manage Python 2 and PyPy module removal from Debian and below is our proposal. [0]

Debian are in the midst of a large project [1] to remove Python 2 as quickly as they possibly can. Whilst some bugfixes may happen, Debian are already telling you in no uncertain terms:

> port upstream package to python3

> remove any Python 2 use

[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/07/msg00080.html

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal