skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
high five on the call to rationally assess risks. many have closed their ears, but let's keep reminding people that life is plenty full of risks that we manage just fine without panicking.

that's not to say completely ignore dangers and live obliviously, just put them in their proper place.
> lost ability to rationally think about small additional chances of dying

What price would you put on a 5% chance of death plus higher chance of permanent chronic health problems for each of your friends and relatives over age 70? (That may even be an underestimate of the Covid IFR for elderly people.)

Even for healthy young people, we are talking about a 1/1000 chance of death and rather higher chance of long-term organ damage. If this virus ends up infecting 60% of the population, as it will if people carry on their pre-pandemic lives, we’ll end up with something on the order of 2–4 million deaths in the USA, and the aggregate healthcare costs over the next few decades will be an outrageously large burden.

In my opinion the biggest problem the pandemic has highlighted is that many countries have a limited ability to collectively think rationally before getting into a crisis, and adequately prepare so we don’t get hammered so badly by entirely predictable risks of large-scale problems. As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

> usual set of killers, from old age to cancer to traffic,

It would be great if we would also spend a significant amount of societal resources on reducing traffic deaths, firearm deaths, set agricultural policy to promote healthy diets and stave off cardiovascular disease, stop companies from dumping carcinogens into the environment, and so on.

As a society we could save a lot of money and lives with some systemic changes and investments.
Handcuffs if you don't wear the mask, in enclosed public spaces. Heaven forbid your right to be maskless be suspended so those of us who don't want to risk lung damage or death can be safe.
Just FYI: In NorCal there was no "crazy" or ambient stress, unless one overreacted to the headlines. Very calm here.
Not impossible, but statistically less likely than preferring mountains.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00926...
It's not unknown that taking on Russia stretched Nazi Germany's resources. However it is also known that between 1939 and 1941 Russia and Germany had an accord and were allies. That was until Germany invaded russia is 1941. So the German army that invaded russia in 1941 had already been fighting Britain and the allied forces for 2 years, significantly weakening them and stretching their resources.
>We are never going to remove the slur filter completely (or add an option to that effect), because we dont want to make it easy for right-wingers to use Lemmy.

Welp, I just completely wrote off this site and I'm about as middle of the road as they come in America. What a short sighted and ignorant way to look at the world.
> We DO know that 10M people have had it, and 500K have died. That's 5%. We're still guessing everything else.

No, the only thing we know is that 500K have died. At least 10M people have had it. 10M is the lower bound. The upper bound could be 30M+. How many cases are asymptomatic, or otherwise just untested/unreported? 5% is the upper bound for the mortality rate. Actual mortality rate is going to be significantly lower, perhaps even <1%.
Hey, so my ENT DID reccomend this, but ultimately said that if Flonase works, just keep doing it...

Can you tell me a bit about your post-ballon sinuplasty experience? I hear people complaining about lack of ability to smell and other things, but, like, my smell is already shot so how bad could it be? What was your recovery like, and did you have any new symptoms/conditions after?
Well, to be honest they acknowledged in the sides that any company's survival chances for 30 years are 0.02%.

They don't need to worry about all investments turning into multibragger.
The article cites the rapid changes to supply chains, particularly Walmart's, as a reason the economy kept going. What else is that, other than the mechanisms of a free market at work? The government didn't tell them how to run their supply chains.

Nor did the government tell companies how to shift their workforces to remote work, they just did it, and they did it pretty well, even though some of them had never tried it before. Some companies even introduced remote work in March, before the government ordered any lockdowns!

In doing these things, businesses have relied heavily on technology (also a product of the market) which enables far more people to productively work from home than would have been possible a few decades ago. Small, local businesses quickly pivoted to social media and online ordering to survive.

Given all of that, how can the author say, with a straight face, "None of this has anything to do with the spontaneous interplay of individual economic units that economists like to talk about." It seems like exactly that.
I agree with you about rational weight of risks.

However there is a possibly implicit meaning that you consider the current efforts of preventing transmission of the virus to be overkill.

Possibly in other parts of the world a little more measure and give might have been the best response in hindsight, but knowing what we did know then, rather than now, I believe most places* (in the 'first' world) made the correct adjustments.

The USA is one of the places that had a fragmented, and insufficient overall, response. History will record how things were historically the worst in this country due to many factors.

Among those factors, anti-intellectualism as a driving force in politics, which contibuted to rigidly sticking to bureaucratic processes rather than scientific evidence and results oriented decision making. Another is an absolute failure to modernize and take a long-term investment stance across many government agencies and processes: often lead by a reluctance to be socially responsible.
Is there an industry-wide set of concepts and best practices that is applicable for large scale games? What sorts of things do hiring managers worry about at night?
I was reading about this yesterday actually. I think a symptom is reported by the patient, but a sign is noticed by the doctor.

I think "signal" meant characteristic or something like that.
You’re describing the difference between interacting with other people during an experience, and everyone sharing the experience together without having to interact. I believe that this is still a introvert vs. extrovert thing, although the media in question is certainly part of it.
1% mortality rate is my threshold. Anything less isn't worth halting society over. To be clear, I think people that are sick should wear masks no matter what. That's just common courtesy for people around you.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2020/06/various-re... reports that Iodine 131 was measured in Norway during the week of June 2-8.
I read it right. It's a conspiracy theory about capitalism deployed as proof that "engineering" of the economy works, despite the obvious fact that the past few months of "engineering" have destroyed businesses and ruined many lives.

The "self designed, self regulated free market economy" which the OP insinuated is a myth or a lie is actually the only reason the economy still functions. Businesses didn't shift to remote work and radically alter their supply chains in record time because some government central planner told them to.
Supply chains were already starting to fray. There's a diner near me with a sign up front apologizing for raising their prices because of a beef shortage.

Borrowing money to fund consumption now won't result in long-term inflation if we consume less in the future to account for the pulled-forward demand. I doubt that will happen.
Charter cities as a counter to the Belt and Road Initiative
Interestingly, they (unwittingly) did experiment on this in Taiwan [1]. Smaller doses efdect is nowere as clear-cut as large ones.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2477708/
Alibaba hadn't gone public yet when these slides were made, though, so had Softbank actually gotten any return on that investment yet?
Would be great for something like core wars!
It was interesting to put words down at any rate, so thanks for the opportunity.

Yeah, it really doesn’t take manual scripted testers long to get jaded and cut corners.
A lot of modern databases don't use Btrees anymore. With a LSM structure you can use other suitable data structures because they can be write-only. For example leveldb uses a simple binary search.
Poor people generally have high debt to asset and debt to income. Inflation helps them.
The graphs at https://econographics.wordpress.com/tag/wages/ paint a less rosy picture. [1] is I think what is sometimes cited. Which does show growth, but slower than productivity growth. A quick glance at the graph on top of the wiki page you linked suggests it's consistent with it. But [2] is I think most often cited, and shows hardly any growth at all post 1972 or so. I'd also be interested to know why it looks so different from your graph and [1]. Perhaps how 'real income' is defined differs from the adjustments [2] made.

[1] https://econographics.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/productivi...

[2] https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
I'm sure it's possible I'd just rather not read thousands of lines of code to find the nitty gritty.

I want to make the basics of an open source (sim)racing game (as a test bed for writing tyre models), without using the fairly lacklustre offerings included by default (e.g. no sprung mass, no carcass stiffness etc., idealized suspension etc.). I have no need to go into the bowels of the rendering engine but it struck me that the interactions between PhysX and the actual actor model for the vehicle is almost not documented at all. I assume it's possible to do it solely with PhysX (proper suspension) but I cannot find any case studies of people doing it with the possible exception of their drive project which is under $$$ and NDA I'm guessing.

I was also slightly surprised that I had to go looking for the option to connect to the PhysX debugger. It wasn't hard to find but I was half expecting it to be included with the engine.
Even targeted shootings occasionally miss their targets and hit random bystanders. The odds would probably be comparable to being shot by someone choosing victims at random.
-A does not forward your keys to the remote server itself; it "just" lets the remote server make requests to your local SSH agent to sign things. But you that's still sufficient to allow the remote server to sign into things as you without your authorization, so probably not the best of ideas to sign into servers you don't trust with -A.

If you're using -A to log into other machines behind the SSH server (really, the only reason one would use -A), there are now better mechanisms to do that. ProxyJump if the server supports it; port forwarding or ProxyCommand if it doesn't.
> Ideally, a newer interface would provide scan codes instead of the escape sequences. Not having to deal with ‘escape’ like we do today would simplify things.

While I agree the Unix tty model is crufty and old, this particular feature doesn't require any changes to it. The later models of the real DEC terminals introduced a mode called DECPCTERM to send PC compatible keyboard scan codes, with escape sequences to enable/disable it. Terminal emulators very rarely implement it, but there is no reason why they couldn't. And there is no change the Unix tty subsystem design required to support it.
No JavaScript, no ads. Loads fast, and is highly readable.

The top nav bar links to https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/maps/tp_ip_bnr.map?150... — server-side image map. No one uses that technology anymore, as far as I can tell.
For the longest time I thought the standard was to install stuff on Docker as root and not worry about typical permission/user idioms you'd practice on a classic box.

But now I am seeing more of this. Do you have any good links to read more about why using venv/non-root makes sense for Docker?
That's the thing! It doesn't stop hate speech.

"I think we should eliminate all of (((those people)))." I didn't use the k-word, but everyone knows what the sentence means.

On the other hand, you can't post "tranny" or "bitch" but, bitch is contextual: it's definition is a female dog, but even in the context of "wow she's such a bitch" bitch is not a slur. "Tranny" is derogatory in the context when used against trans people, but it's also used quite often in mechanics to mean "transmission." There are so many different contexts in which these words aren't derogatory, and in some cases represent the power of people to reclaim what was previously a slur.

Banning certain words is incredibly short-sighted, and punishes everyone who uses the platform while not addressing the real issue: extreme right-wingers can still use it just fine, and have absolutely no problem coming up with new dog whistles in order to get around your elementary word filter.
How does this compare to https://invisible-island.net/vttest/ ?
Does anyone know of a way to guard rclone passwords that would be stored in rclone.conf? Is it possible to leverage the keychain or this tool for this? Typically passwords for sftp logins are stored with a reversible hash (see `rclone reveal`), which isn't ideal.
Pretty gross to respond that only people on the right use "slurs," after being given several examples of why various minorities would want to use them.

I'm pretty sure the n-word is used a lot more by black people than by "right wingers"
> "Can you even imagine if we spent 80-90% of our income on essential needs?"

most american households (as in >50%) do spend 80-90% (or more) on essential needs.
Interesting. There are three products I found on the market made for this, but one is unavailable to consumers, the other has temporarily ceased production, and the third I have but have not been able to get working.

I’m trying some electrode gel on the one I have. If that doesn’t work, I’ll look into the sensor you linked. The process you described is exactly what these devices do: biofeedback.
you speak as if it has to be either or.. from the inside looking out, I can say its both. To deny that the modern (US) university is driven by customer satisfaction and B-school world views is hard to defend if you know how universities function. To say that the financial aid market and sheer number of mediocre Unis teaching mediocre students doesn't perpetuate the institution is also going to be hard to defend. But they are not independent and certainly not contradictory.

If there was no demand, there would be no market.. and what the demand is for is not education but a diploma. And the larger markets insist of college degrees for the most mediocre of jobs, and have off-loaded training to be subsidized, ultimately by the students getting a degree (and then complain because they are not being 'taught' skills necessary for the workplace).
There will never be a good time to act.

We can't act now because there's an election coming up. We can't act in January 2021 because red-state Democratic Senators can't spend all their political capital on this one issue. We can't act in July 2021 because we need to focus on COVID and the economy. We can't act in 2022 because an election is coming up. We can't act in 2023 because Republicans regained control of the Senate.

We will never act.
In almost every org I’ve been in, E2E meant full thickness UI to datastore and back tests. That’s where I was coming from.

I’ve never considered the single service tests E2E, more either a component test suite or a public API unit test suite (same thing).

I agree you’d want those with collaborators mocked, and it’s where I’d lean the bulk of my test strategy for a system like that from a QA POV (as well as promoting internal API unit testing from a dev POV).
Thanks for the great idea. The code got broken in the comment, but was easy enough to reconstruct.
Another bookmarklet I use is PrintFriendly. It uses some of it's own js, and also works well on recipe sites - giving more options for what to keep/remove.
Hell, I voted for Trump and agree with a lot of his policies (if not his tweets)... and even I find the anti-mask brigade totally baffling.
How about suspending the rights of the people burning down businesses, tearing down statues and killing people in the streets instead?

> or death

Stop being dramatic. You have a better chance of dying in a car accident.
Well, now yours does, and thinking of federation, that is what I thought of, too. And, I think also, to be based on NNTP. I think at at least what should be done includes: Use NNTP, and avoid namespace collisions if you are defining your own newsgroups. I don't know how to request adding newsgroups to Big 8, or to the alt hierarchy, or others, but I invented the "Unusenet" convention for avoiding namespace collisions, which I use on my own NNTP server. Make the web pages contain the message ID, newsgroup name, and information to connect to the NNTP server, even if JavaScripts are disabled. Users who want NNTP can use it even if they do not have a compatible browser. If you want to use Markdown, add a "Content-type: text/markdown" header to articles that use Markdown (and do not try to render articles without such a header as Markdown), and preferably using a subset of Markdown without HTML.
I don't have a citation, but I don't think it's filtering (in either direction) very well at all. With a cloth or paper mask, I suspect a lot of my exhales are slipping out of the sides and out the top. Instead, I think the mask is catching droplets and absorbing some of the moisture.

I think of it like a device that is acting the way your hand does when you cover your mouth when you sneeze or cough. Your hand isn't filtering in any real way, but you are keeping droplets from flying as far as they otherwise would.

I think a good filter would require something much more like a WWII gas mask or a forced air respirator in a hazmat suit, etc...
We were talking about masks, not halting society.
Right, but how great are those packages gonna be when Amazon (renowned for their stunning committment to worker's rights and freedoms, /s) knows that anyone who doesn't take their offer will join the ranks of the 'totally screwed'?

The typical result of M&As is, by and large, that the workers lose.
Thanks, had considered that. Were you able to chew normally? And did your face change? My masseters have enlarged since I started clenching ten years ago.

Finally, which sort of doctor do you go to specifically: I’m assuming they need to specialize a bit in botox for bruxism.

Interesting it lasted three years and counting, as botox doesn’t last that long. Presumably your body simply lost the habit. Also interesting about the x ray, I’ll ask my dentist or doctor.
In restaurants I worked in a long time ago, servers would just call black people "Canadians" -- for instance, "Nope, don't sit those Canadians in my section, they don't tip."

Good luck filtering for stuff like that. And even if you did, people would just come up with new version.

Re: The core problem... Why would having extreme right wingers use your site even be a problem? Presumably extreme left wingers are okay?
And yet we allow people to drive cars, which has a much higher mortality rate than covid.

Also, you don't find the timing curious? Everybody forgot about covid for a few weeks while half the country was on fire. Fires die down and we're back to the covid scare mongering.
> we can’t really have a web app

Are you familiar with https://notabug.io/ ? IIRC this is decentralized.
Is there a place where games made with this engine are featured?
A profanity filter? Seems at best make it an optional preference, but why would you want to see offensive slurs by default?
It's not a slur when black people use it. Most of the time.
It's true that we care more about small risks of death than in 1918. After all, that was in the middle of a war, and even in peacetime, life was more dangerous. (There were a lot more people working on farms and much less emphasis on safety.)

However, I don't understand why you think doing a lot to avoid COVID-19 is irrational. Around April it was the leading cause of death in the US, on a monthly basis. Currently it's below heart disease and cancer, but that's still a major risk. Furthermore, it's likely to go away next year, so it makes a lot of sense to temporarily change your lifestyle to avoid it.
Interesting. What makes this different from a guard worn on top? I have that but still can clench my jaw.
https://archive.vn/OCTOk
You can create "Lists" to have a chronological view of your followers. I have a pinned list with all my following accounts and I browse that instead of the home page.
My biggest anger with new reddit is that it just doesn’t work. It’s rare that a video will play twice without a reload, infuriating if you want to share a funny video with a spouse, and it will regularly go into a mode where all videos stop working until a complete reload happens. This has been a consistent drag on my reddit usage now that my primary consumption of sites like this is via my iPad, and I suspect I’m not alone.
Honest and thoughtful retrospective, obviously with no hidden agenda, and written with humility. Fantastic stuff.
Most HN readers are semi-autistic engineers, not PoliSci majors.

They're literally looking for a counterexample for non-math problems, and are blinded to the fact that life is not well-defined.

The US is polarized because it has only 2 major parties. Without the coercion of a third party to make a coalition government, the US will become ever more polarized.

(It doesn't help that Obama was a "community organizer" and our current leaders are over 70. When young people see Pelosi (80) clinging to power until the grave, I imagine they don't picture where they fit into that party. Me neither.)

The exception is that I've read this might be the last Republican majority because of demographics, but they may just change policies enough to stay relevant.
Mhm.. yeah I've never been able to follow that line of reasoning.

I'm a gay person and if I call someone the f-word I would generally mean it as a slur / insult.

Bigotry / offensive words doesn't just lose meaning because you're a minority.
The idea that anyone wouldn’t maximize all applications, especially their browser, is utterly bewildering to me.
How brave of you to be willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of other people's lives. If only the rest of the world weren't irrationally trying to reduce the number of preventable deaths, I guess?
Bending Sensor
There was a thread about the Swedish government's response a month or two ago which argued that Sweden was overly reliant on an evidence-based approach. The thrust of the argument being that there was insufficient evidence at the time to determine a meaningful response; we were flying blind.

I'm bringing this up because the reasoning is the same as yours (policy should be evidence-based) and yet the outcome of that reasoning is so different.
> Users will not get mad if they get a warning telling them email support will no longer be possible.

Yes, they will. Most will not have even noticed the warning you put up.
I have a normal XPS 13 for work. I don't like it. I have increase font sizes on the laptop screen. No expandable memory or storage. Fan on high is normal. Some versions BigFoot wifi controller that will drop out all the time when it's slightly warm. One of devs had to get an external cooler to help that issue, but eventually went for an external WiFi adapter.
I don't know why people are so opposed to this explanation. You didn't say all labor practices improved because of productivity gains. And no doubt collective action played some role in the current state of things, but so did a lot of other factors. To claim otherwise without a very good argument smacks of ideological possession. The vehemence with which such an explanation is insisted upon is revealing.