skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This is a particularly insidious form of advocacy because it mimics the writing of a scientific article while presenting a political opinion."

"Not one suggested that masks didn’t work. 2 showed they did work."

You're right, if I hadn't been reading the research papers on the matter over the past few weeks I reckon I'd likely be fooled (at least in some parts).

Dr Rancourt points out that: "The main transmission path is long-residence-time aerosol particles (< 2.5 μm), which are too fine to be blocked, and the minimum-infective dose is smaller than one aerosol particle."

What he fails to mention is how N95/P2 masks actually work. From my reading, these masks are made by stretching the plastic sheet until they start to part and form into string-like strands/fibers with gaps between them. He's right, the gaps are wider than 2.5 μm (somewhere around 5 μm) but the hidden factor is that the stretching of the plastic causes electrostatic charges to permanently form on the plastic through deformation somewhat akin to the way the charge is formed on an electret microphone and it is these charges that attract the aerosol particles which then collect on the plastic strands.

It seems Dr Rancourt's search of the literature was insufficiently deep (seems it's another instance of a non-expert in the field stepping above his station).

The most disconcerting aspect of Rancourt's report is the statement that it only takes one virion particle to infect a human. It was my understanding that the figure was considerably higher than this. If his quoted figure is correct then N95 mask won't work as they're only about 95% effective.

Until we get more definitive information on this I'll continue to wear my N95 masks in public.
Sure, but when the interviewer is foreign and speaks broken or thickly-accented English that is difficult to understand, I'm going to be disadvantaged (all other things being equal) compared to my H1B competitors who can be chums with the interviewer and reminisce in their mother tongue.

It's a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
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The H1B worker isn't competing with the average Joe, he's competing with the Joe who's qualified to do the job, but didn't get it because the employer preferred someone with no leverage who can be easily controlled and underpaid.
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And it was even easier before VPC, just public instances with RDP (obviously a big security issue, but a decade ago not uncommon)
I don't know of any no-go zones. Sure, some areas in larger cities tend to be more dangerous than others. But still far from no-go zones. No idea where this information comes from.
https://gitly.org is going to have similar design, even simpler.

It's written in V, so it's very light and fast. Open source release this week.
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And their previous roadmaps were completely inaccurate in the most recent shrinks which saw shrinks take, what, 5 years rather than 1 year? Have they even gone to 7nm successfully yet?

Roadmaps are just speculation at this point.
This really highlights the difference between sources and subjects in journalism. Has a 2-tier system been hiding in plain sight all this time? If so, this would indicate an almost systemic bias behind the facade of neutrality. One which escaped notice, even during an earlier period of debate about forcing use of real names on the Internet vs. handles or nicks.
Not much, lots of missing APIs currently to accurately port uBlock to Safari, though not sure because it's incomplete or omitted by design.
It looks pretty awesome from the bit I could play with it. It would be nice if it worked properly on mobile also. Just being able to hide the tool bars and pan without the keyboard would help a lot.
Do you have data points to disprove it? I'm not aware of any data on how often police engage in physical altercations with civilians. One of the points the article makes is that the NYPD actively misrepresents such altercations that could cast the department in a bad light.

Stop and frisk policies amount to codifying assault, in my opinion.
Indian contractors doesn't have any critical thinking at all. They just look over Permissions and get scared...
If this is the only way to fight climate crisis, so be it.
Probably drivers.
> I wonder why they didn't?

It could come down to licensing issues. The ISA extensions for AVX/AVX2/AVX512 are under different licensing and to my knowledge, Intel/AMD are the only legal license holders (and Intel would be the only holder were it not for the arrangement between Intel and AMD formed due to x86_64)
I agree there are stereotypes much, much older than this, of course - and 90s pop culture does not explain away the longer term discrimination. Still, if the question is about how white Americans perceive black Americans as a group, especially those white Americans who do not know many black Americans personally, I think you have to consider portrayals in pop culture as a factor. At least, that is my perception, as a white American who has only a handful of black friends, but who has a number of white friends who are/were into this kind of pop culture. At the least, it reinforces any existing fears that might have been initially planted by other sources (e.g. racist family members).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics

In practical application ethics violations are knowable breaking of rules or demonstrable malicious intentions.
Same here. I’ve already been supporting to this project, but seeing how xorg is going to be their focus for potentially many months from now, I am debating whether to keep my contribution up.
I think the person you are responding to was trying to figure out what kerkeslager's point was, rather than stating his own conclusion. I am a bit confused myself as to what the connection is between name-publishing policies and sources of funding.
There have been a few incidents of Black Lives Matter protest groups armed with rifles. I don't believe there has been any violence between those groups and police.
Agreed. This isn't an investment is climate tech. It's an investment in Amazon's future, which is dependant on the current - consumption focused - status quo.
If people only knew how many cases are closed with incarcerating innocent people who were at the wrong time in the wrong place ... And being black qualifies them to be guilty. It’s so sad, it’s not only police but a whole system form police to prosecutors to judges... We need reform!!
I'm not sure I think they should be outlawed, but I absolutely think the use of them should have extremely radical laws controlling them. For instance: if these "non-lethal" weapons are to be used, the Mayor of the city should be required to sign-off on their use, and there should be a mandatory election held no less than 1 month later.

Right now there's basically 0 downside/accountability to them being deployed, which is why they're used indiscriminately.
I agree.

Awesome project. The only suggestion I'd have is organizing the code files.

The root folder is full of stuff-- from "helpers.js" to "permissions.js" to "index.js" to stuff about views and tests. If these aren't closely related, I'd personally set them into separate folders to organize main functionalities.

Also, I'd prefer to see route separated out of the index.js folder, personally. I'd keep index.js as minimal as possible-- just the main server config stuff.

I'd also remove the underscore prefix on the folder names, but that's only b/c I think most people use underscores unnecessarily.

Anyway, it's just minor stuff. It's awesome to see what you've built OP.
This feels like a good place to mention the https://bytepack.io/ service that Jose Valim created. It's goal is to help with this type of thing.
I have no problem with private companies deciding who gets aa job at that company based on leetcode style tests. I have a huge problem with private companies deciding who is allowed to enter work, and remain in the united states based on leetcode style tests.

Somehow, private companies have convinced a large share of the US public that a person who opposes corporate control over the immigration system (and an immigrant's life)is somehow "anti-immigrant". It is one of the great PR coups of our era - though, like many campaigns of disinformation and slander, it did get an assist from a number of genuinely anti-immigrant jackasses who vocally criticized the program.
But can't you sell your digital artwork without setting up business? Seems better than stickers (also, no shipping!).

[*] Digital artwork = project logo in png format, free to use however they please. You can license the publicly-available logo with any minimally-restrictive license (e.g. CC-BY); this should still count that "you gave them additional rights, in exchange for payment".
Conservative groups push for state funding for Falun Gong-backed internet tools
Amazon has actually done a great job in making manufacturers reduce plastic/clamshell packaging for their products, so the cardboard boxes are definitely a net improvement.
I am sorry then. This:

>We were visiting China in January to both see her family and friends and to do the yearly renewal of her re-entry visa.

sounds like the renewal per se was a goal of your visit. If you are saying that you went to visit China and had to get a new visa stamp because the current one expired then it indeed adds up.
What's that have to do with Font licenses? I am talking about the size of the font taking up almost half of my screen.

> It's far cheaper to take something like Helvetica

Helvetica costs $$$ if you want to use it for commercial use. No more than any other font. Also, you cannot modify Helvetica, especially if you get it from Monotype (previously Linotype): https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/helvetica/
>There are a lot of people breaking the law, and we need to reduce that with as little harm as possible.

Cops are the ones breaking the law. The way to "reduce that with as little harm as possible" is to abolish the police and replace them with a public safety department that isn't systematically power hungry, racist, and violent.
We don't live in a static society, it is wild to me that so many grown adults are blind to this. Don't want things to change? Too bad.
clearly we need to dig in past work to find who tried that
> Slate Star Codex says they were expecting a relatively nice article, not a hit piece.

Yeah, I wasn't referencing the article specifically, but the general state. What Sam Harris said at the beginning of that episode (I was talking about the one you linked, but I only read the transcript, I don't have the attention span for podcasts) rang true for me: opening your mouth is risky for normal people, but it's extra risky if you're a publicist/commentator/celebrity and that has an extreme chilling effect.

I don't want to debate his opinions, I don't regularly listen to Harris, but the fact that he felt it's necessary to add so much "please don't take this out of context" left me impressed, and I haven't marked Harris down as somebody who'd do that for effect, to claim victimhood etc. I also don't believe that he does so for his usual audience, because they most likely know his general positions, know that he's not alt-right or a white supremacist and that he may say something that doesn't intuitively sound "okay" but usually has at least some reason for it. On the contrary, I think he does it purely for the Twitter mob who is sure to look for material in whatever he says. And that's really just a sad state of affairs, when any public utterance is basically "my lawyer has advised me not to answer that question" because whatever you say can and will be used against you in the court of public opinion, will be taken out of context and will be enhanced with rumors and lies.

That's not specific to Sam Harris, of course, and the tactic isn't specific to whatever you want to label the people who hate him. It's pretty universal in both the targets and those that target them.
I've also been reading SSC for a long time. I'm sad, but honestly, who's surprised? I mean, he defended Steven Hsu the other day for being on the wrong side of the whole "race/IQ differences" thing, despite having written probably a dozen essays over the years about the phenomenon of prominent people losing their jobs for being on the wrong side of the race/IQ differences thing.

Scott's had a pretty amazing run of being able to write edgy-enough-to-possibly-get-you-cancelled essays on the internet without getting cancelled, and on a personal level I've found him to be extremely kind and thoughtful and I wish this weren't happening to him, but at the same time it seems as inevitable as the flooding of a house built on low ground.
It's a prestige project architected to give someone in the Technology Division the feels of working for a big tech company. It's the same reason they have "Fellow" positions.

This culture drove me up the wall when I worked there. "How does this make money?" was sure to get dirty looks from these types of people.
Using Java code for things that are this performance critical doesn't feel like a good idea. It will work of course, but it will probably GC a lot, and while modern JVMs do JIT, the code they generate can't be as optimal as something that has manual SIMD optimizations.
I think the reason police treat right-wing groups far more leniently than left-wing groups is because right-wing groups are much more likely to be armed and resist violently. Ruby Ridge. Waco. Oklahoma City. Right-wing groups have consistently demonstrated their ability and will to resist encroachment on their rights and freedoms. Whether those rights and freedoms are morally legitimate is irrelevant on the streets, especially for those with skin in the game. At the end of the day, the police just want to go back home to their families, and being shot isn't a part of that.

Meanwhile, left-wing groups don't resist to the same degree and in the same manner...because not blowing up a daycare with a truck bomb is the responsible thing to do. Hence they get stomped on.

The right understands and has always remembered what the left has forgotten. Freedom isn't free, and the price is much, much, much higher than going out and waving a sign for a few days.
There's this thing called the 'white elephant' though. History tends to downplay such things.
I was okay-ish for the first couple of months, but now it all came crashing down.

About a month ago, I ended a serious relationship, and since gf moved out and I started quarantining alone, it became so much harder. I still stand by that decision, but it couldn't been worse time to become isolated. Got into one of the worst depressive episodes I've ever had. Lost my job, and then couldn't keep a sweet, high-paying remote gig that was supposed to be the next one. Fucked up responsibilities and ended things badly, fully guilty and feeling it. Sleeping 16 hours a day, spending waking hours completely aimlessly. My amazing friends and family try to pull me out of it, and I'm okay while I'm around them, but then I either go home tired and alone, or a quiet friendly get-together turns into a wild party with lots of booze and coke and hard depressive hangover for the next few days. My chronic health problems (blood flow to the brain) got much worse, and I even got myself to see the doctor and get some pills, but still can't change my life in a serious way to prevent it; it looks like I have a very high risk of having a stroke in the next month or two, but I just can't bring myself to care about it.

And the worst part of it is, I see myself climbing out of this hole, again, getting a good job, looking after my health, being a productive member of society, all that – and I see nothing to be inspired about. In my previous life, and in my possible future life, that looks just the same, there's just nothing worth of all that effort of living.
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From what I’ve heard (sorry, no good references, so please correct me if this is wrong), it’s often cheaper for a big corporation to commission a custom typeface than to license an existing one. Plus it’s an opportunity for branding and some good PR.
The "targeted medical tents" part sounds rather dubious, but yes, "less lethal" most certainly does not mean "harmless".

What would be better, though? How do you get people to obey the law, in a way that is safer for all concerned?
Honestly, maybe the most robust workaround is to rewrite it in another language... Lua might be a good candidate: it has a similar syntax and also uses 1-based arrays.
They do. I've been seeing a lot of remote companies hire aggressively within Canada.
My dad has always talked about how much he loved having to draw his own maps for games like Labyrinth [0] and Asylum [1]. He just recently played Breath of the Wild and while he loved it, he mentioned how cool it would be to have to draw the map there.

I love the spirit in this, great job!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth_(1980_video_game)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylum_(1981_video_game)
For men it's not a choice.
Rick Hudson gave this excellent keynote on some of the "recent" (as of 2018) improvements and guiding principles for Go's GC, if you're interested in the nitty-gritty. https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote

He outlines the SLOs for the garbage collector, with the motivation that this SLO impacts the SLOs/time budget of every application built with Go. They key metrics are "share of CPU used for GC", heap sizes, latency and frequency of pauses, and scaling favorably with go-routine allocations.
In that view, the air and water are on their way to exhaustion, but not exhausted. So perhaps tragedy of the commons could be viewed as an endpoint on the same process. It’s certainly caused by externalities. (Grazing has costs to others, who lose the ability to graze)
Kemal is Sinatra-like: https://kemalcr.com/
I never read those magazines and I can't say I'm an expert on dungeon map styles, but it's the hatching done in the dungeon walls that Dyson is known for (e.g., https://dysonlogos.blog/2011/09/03/dungeon-doodles-a-crossha...).

It looks like the person that made this program started playing around with the idea May 9 (https://twitter.com/probabletrain/status/1259172635776294912) a day after Dyson started tweeting about his program (https://twitter.com/DysonLogos/status/1258797586464542723).

I think Dyson's program is just a Photoshop extension and Dungeon Scrawl looks way more powerful, but it's worth pointing out the very similar timelines and styles.
So the NYPD privatized secret policing? Nice one!
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The original comment read as if you blamed socialism.

If you did, you got rightly called out. If you didn’t, then I don’t understand what you meant.
If you're interested, there's an unofficial working group that's been organized to start doing development in machine learning for Rust at https://github.com/rust-ml . We actually have a meeting scheduled for later today--you can find details on the Zulip chat, even if you just want to pop in to see what people are up to. As others have mentioned, everything's pretty early-stage, but there's a lot of experimentation going on around scientific computing, GPU acceleration, etc. that you might find interesting, and we're definitely open towards community participation at all levels, even if you're a relative newcomer to the language.
It’s unlikely that Apple break Homebrew. On the contrary, Apple is helping Homebrew tackle the architecture transition.

Having said that: I agree, WSL is pretty amazing.
Red tribe members see people who are clearly part of blue tribe fighting the police. Blue tribe generally wants to take away red tribe's guns and expand the power of the state. Now a subset of blue tribe is protesting or rioting, fighting a subset of the state.

Why should your average red tribe member think that if they helps these people, they won't turn around and stab them in the back with the same policies they've been loudly pushing (while loudly calling red tribe members nonpersons) for years?

What rational person would risk their life for their tribal enemies who loudly proclaim how much they hate them and want to end their way of life? It would be (somewhat) like antifa showing up on the side of those people protesting the corona lockdown earlier this year because the lockdown is a fascist policy that overwhelming economically harms marginalised people.
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I would like to point out that Universal Healthcare would be funded by a separate tax and probably would not come out of Income Taxes.
Let's assume that Europe's cops are at 100% capacity to handle their crime justly. That means the US cops can do the same for only 10% of the crime they see. Leaving 90% of the crime to go unpunished. Or they can do shady tactics and respond to more crime at the cost of Injustice.

Obviously the ideal solution is to 10x the capacity of the criminal justice system but nobody's paying for that.
I truly wonder, what is it about this community that leads to such quality software?

Your reaction to arewelearningyet is similar to how I feel about:

https://areweguiyet.com/

However, at least for GUI I know that Raph Levien is really pushing a focus on GUI at the moment. https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/druid/2019/10/31/rust-2020....

I wish I could contribute more. You really summed up how I feel about Rust: "It seems every day I see a new shiny thing made with Rust that was developed remarkably quickly, runs quite smoothly, and appears to be magically bug-free."

Even the maligned actix web framework in Rust is still leading performance benchmarks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r19&hw=...
That's good because collision is generally bad for car consumers.
I don't doubt that police escalate unnecessarily either.

I'm not even making reference to any current situation. I'm just assuming that there exists a scenario in which it would be reasonable and necessary for the police to dissipate a crowd. Is there a way to do that without rubber bullets and tear gas? Will this create a gap in the "use of force continuum" that will now be filled with something more unjust?
I've had that for what I though was 2 years, so I looked it up and it appears they partnered with Apple back in Jan 2019.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/15/18183653/duckduckgo-apple...
Double Tap to Zoom. That's literally the only thing I desperately miss from my touchpad on linux. If anyone knows of a way to get this on linux, please let me know I'd be ever grateful.
Doxxing is new term reflecting new online norms. This strikes me as a clash of internet culture and traditional newspaper culture.
Anyone have pointers to interesting companies in the climate tech space? Or tips for finding them?
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That's horrifying. And it yet again feels irresponsible to be selling this as a somehow safe method of crowd dispersal when in reality it's just a low power long range flamethrower.
Except AMD owns x86_64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Licensing

Rosetta doesn't translate i386 btw.
I think force click to look up the dictionary is useful, but that's pretty much it.
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> Corruption is a provable violation of ethics which is measurable.

Police do everything they can to keep ethics violations from being measured. That is what the story is about. In light of that, your objection to psychometry's comment calling for oversight is quite absurd.
> AMA (American Medical Association) has successfully lobbied congress to cap residencies at 100K a year, essentially restricting supply.

The AMA is opposed to the current cap, and has been active in both lobbying for increasing Medicare funding for residencies and in building up alternative sources of funding residencies: https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-con...

This seems to be a persistent myth on HN. Do people just assume the AMA's position hasn't changed in 23 years?