skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First - 'large gatherings' are the #1 concern for social spread. Most protests were exactly that.

Second - your anecdote is not useful at all given that there are tons of examples of people not practicing social distancing at protests, including most of what was shown on television.

"it's that we didn't need to, because the rules were already being followed in that context."

If you Google 'BLM Protest' for Google images, you get this [1]

You will see in those images masses and masses of people obviously not practicing social distancing. People jammed together in the order of many thousands.

And this was clear from anyone who watched any of the coverage. So why would you try to deny it?

Third - the fact that CNN decided to pause their constant 'social distancing' messaging, when it was obviously clear that people were not following the rules, probably in light of the nature of the social cause - is the issue at hand.

Literally the week before the protests, they were screaming at beach goers - clearly at more 'distance' than any of the protests, for failing to enact proper social distancing.

If you Google 'Covid Beach Goers' [2], which by the way includes the term 'Covid' thereby implying some concern, you will see, ironically, what looks like reasonable distancing, although not that different from normal beach behaviour.

So there you can see very clear evidence - massive, jam-packed protests, contrasted with fairly open and 'distanced' beach goers, with CNN lambasting one group but not the other.

It's distressing how ostensibly intelligent people don't see what is before their very eyes, and are unable to see the obvious narratives being pursed, so long as said narrative suits their personal biases.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=BLM+protests&rlz=1C5CHFA_enC...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+beach+goers&tbm=isch&v...
Like most things, this should be taken with a grain of salt.

There's a difference between intention and ignorance. If kids are getting on social media at 9 or 10 years old now (which is not like it's difficult given I see kids with smartphones around 9 years old), then there is a considerably high chance a 9 to 18 year old is going to do something that will look stupid when they are older.

10 - 14 year olds are like the prime example of "knowing just enough to be dangerous to themselves and others". There's got to be 11 year olds out there that just learned about all the swear words and bad words and think "wow, I need to use these".

Now, all of that exists forever on the internet in indelible ink to come back to bite them in the ass as they grow up and become more learned (and hopefully wiser).

If someone truly grasps what they are doing with full intention, that qualifies for a rejection. However, I think it would be hard to separate "this person was just a dumbass at the time" from "this person means what they said" at an age when solving 3x=6 was considered 'smart'.
It is not reasonable at all. I looked at chartering a small plane domestic for 6 people and it was cheaper to fly commercial.

Going across the ocean will cost you a lot more.

I would expect many multiples over the code of business class. So more like 50k pp.

This is a guess, though I feel 10k in private jet from Colorado to Italy would be a steal.
It's owned by Facebook
My original Apple TV made a great plate warmer but it was only 10BaseT. Can the router toast two or four slices at once?
Interesting that the governor of Sardinia was trying to find a way to let them stay. Are private jet tourists that important to the local economy, or was there some confusion where the American passengers expected to be allowed in?
What an article. It turns out that, according to the Guardian, what's wrong with WhatsApp is exactly the best features of WhatsApp, namely the fact that messages are encrypted and can't be snooped on and that you can only send messages to contacts. These things make it hard for governments to snoop on your messages, censor them, and spread official propaganda in their place. Apparently these are all bad things, and we should move back to more public platforms where our conversations can be properly monitored.

The article uses the example of Covid misinformation spreading virally on WA, and while it's true that the information being spread is false (in the examples that they give), it's appalling that their first instinct is to bewail the fact that people's private communications cannot be surveilled and suppressed. This article literally and unironically contains the sentence: "But what makes WhatsApp potentially more dangerous than public social media are the higher levels of trust and honesty that are often present in private groups."

Yes, trust and honesty. That is what's wrong with WhatsApp.
> Should downvotes be weighted by the karma of the voter?

While a good idea in theory, I'd hate for people to have yet another incentive to want "good karma". Would prefer tiered levels of moderation where long standing community members get promoted to 1st-level moderators. Their actions get moderated by the next action, etc. etc.

I remember being an @op at an IRC trivia channel when I was ~13 years old or so, back when we had dial-up. I played in it daily, for a lot of time during weekends, was nice to everyone, gave tips to newbies, hung around. Was asked to join the team, as a "level 5" op. Loved the "behind the scenes" so much, the op community, fell in platonic love with a chick 14 years older than me (actually met her IRL 6 hours away by car about a year later, so cringe!), kicked trolls and spammers... then later as I learned mIRC scripting helped write a new trivia script, a bunch of tools, etc. Ended up being "promoted" to level 10, started training new operators, then 20, started making longer plans for the channel, then 50, 100, then "founder" status. All of a sudden I was calling shots at 15 years of age, with ~500-1000 concurrent users in the channel during peak activity. That experience of ensuring people were having fun, cultivating a community of friends among users and operators, teaching new people how to be moderators, etc. was incredibly rewarding and left such a huge imprint in my life. There were no points to be earned, no karma to show anyone... You wouldn't even know the channel unless you were on BrasNet (unlikely!) but I was eager to contribute everyday just because there was a real community behind it.

That sort of community is all but gone from the internet with its fake internet points

You can say the OP status was a points system of sorts, but not really... Users didn't know my level, and you couldn't click on my username to see how "big" I was. Most importantly, one couldn't click on one's own nickname and get a dopamine hit from seeing a number next to it like one can when their post makes the front page of HN, reddit or any other platform, or when they get 100 likes on FB an IG
New York Times and all the other publishers don't have to participate in this crap. It's shameful that they cede authority over their content so easily in exchange for a vuage promise of more visibility. There are so many better ways.
Ask HN: Good posts/resources on how user data is sold?
My friend just sent me a link to usphonebook.com which apparently has some accurate info on people's addresses and phone numbers (including cell). She asked me how this is possible. I remember reading several good articles on HN about how data is acquired and bought, etc but I couldn't find any links to them after searching. Anyone have good resources explaining this?
My gut is that you can run a nuclear plant safely for 100 years, but as time goes on, you have fewer guarantees, and eventually something weird will happen to screw up your plans. I don’t think nuclear fission as we have it today makes sense except as a bridge to somewhere else.
I am not clear that they are significantly more efficient. Note the bit below "that varies widely depending on the type of pot or kettle you use".

http://insideenergy.org/2016/02/23/boiling-water-ieq/

"An electric stovetop is about 70 percent efficient, although that varies widely depending on the type of pot or kettle you use. Most of the energy is lost heating the air around the stove.
An electric teakettle is about 80 percent efficient, although again this varies from kettle to kettle. Electric kettles are generally very well insulated, and the heating coils sit directly in the water, so less heat is lost to the air.
An induction stove or hot plate is about 85 percent efficient. It creates an electromagnetic current directly in a pot to generate heat, losing very little to the air."

[as a footnote, the above apparently implies that kettles are not necessarily induction, and of course there are stovetops that are induction]
It's a strawman. There isn't some rash of unprovoked public beatings of people because they happen to be Trump supporters.
I'm using Inkdrop [1] and works really great for me. Knowledge + task management without forcing you any workflow.

[1]: https://www.inkdrop.app/
You can, it’s just very poorly documented.

You have to run a modded server. NukkitX looks the most promising to me long-term, but I’ve not been able to make it work reasonably well yet. ElementZero is far more opaque in terms of finding/creating mods, but it includes enough out of the box to make it worth using IMO.
This has been a thing in Asia for a while (you'd see real estate booths at other malls promoting these properties) and I'm surprised it's just now catching on in the US. Malls are great because they usually have frequent-ish local transit to get people to and from the place. With the housing you can easily get a grocery store or a Target/Wal Mart to be your anchor tenant. These spaces are also being refit into healthcare facilities and churches too so you can essentially build a small town into a mall property provided you can get it all packed in there.

On further thought, I wonder what leads planners and leaders to decide that a mall should become a new-urbanist town square or an Amazon fulfillment center?
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There's a difference between accuracy and precision, and there's also a difference between consistency and convenience.

It's the reason I might choose Ruby over C (convenience - Ruby was designed to be centred around the human, like many Imperial measures, and non-decimal currency btw), or use feet instead of metres (because I have feet that are, astonishingly, close to a foot long) or any other number of examples where metric is not the best or a better choice.

I'll leave you to divide 100 by 3 or 12 so I can buy 1 or 4 of those dozen eggs you're selling with £1 while this Victorian street urchin who's had little to no schooling beats you at it because they're using a non-decimal currency with more factors…

tl;dr People in the past weren't stupid, they just had less access to the technology required to maintain a metric or decimal system in a widespread number of contexts. The existence of such technology does not obviate their usefulness.
> K-12 education is free in the US.

So what you are saying is that education is less free in the US than in other rich countries. I most definitely enjoyed getting my Master in Computer Science degree from a top European university for free.

> The ACA heavily subsidizes healthcare for low income people in the US

That does not mean that a poor person can afford it.

> nowhere Mitchigan

... where there are no jobs to pay the rent. Your cherry picking is amazing.
Private Jets are stupid expensive.

I ran up a quote on a private jet site, and it gave an estimate of "From" €113 960 (~=USD$128K).

So your 10/15k/head isn't far off, and likely with other additional fees, transfers, baggage handling, catering, etc it'd probably go over that $15k mark.

e: Also, looking at the quote it generated, that's based on filling every seat and using the cheapest option - for them a Falcon 2000EX EASy (10 seats).

If you go for a different aircraft (more seats, faster) then you won't be getting much change back from half a million for an Airbus 319 Corporate Jet (30 seater) at "from" USD$437k.
I'm a bit surprised the rich take private jets as much as they do. They are about as dangerous as cars on a distance basis, and considering how far a trans-Atlantic flight is, I don't know... I'd be hesitant to do that much driving in my car even.
The author doesn't mean that the drivers are open source. It's impossible to have a device with all drivers open sourced at the moment, hence the Pinephone. From the "supported devices" faq:

"Devices need to be meeting the standards of the project in order to be considered as potential targets. In addition to support for installing other operating systems, standard hardware-based security features like the hardware-backed keystores, verified boot, attestation and various hardware-based exploit mitigations need to be available. Devices also need to have decent integration of IOMMUs for isolating components such as the GPU, radios (NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Cellular), media decode / encode, image processor, etc., because if the hardware / firmware support is missing or broken, there's not much that the OS can do to provide an alternative. Devices with support for alternative operating systems as an afterthought will not be considered. Devices need to have proper ongoing support for their firmware and software specific to the hardware like drivers in order to provide proper full security updates too. Devices that are end-of-life and no longer receiving these updates will not be supported."

Source: https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-support
Forgive me for posting this idiotic question in advance since I have very little knowledge of physics, but I have often been confused about one thing recently. From what I could gather a little isn't the whole electrons revolve in orbits thing proved false and outdated like universe is made of ether?

I heard that even the iconic atom logo is all wrong since it is proved that electrons don't revolve around anything rather come in and out of existence and present themselves in probability clouds. If that is true then why do we still keep talking about shells and energy levels?

Like I said my question may sound like a troll but I assure you it's not. Just want to know what's what.
> Actually, the more experience I get, the more I think Joel was wrong.

There is no black and white in software. Joel writes from a viewpoint that's not always applicable to all of us.
I googled around a bit.

Stratosjet quotes ~80k for a flying from New York to Italy. The recommend the Challenger 604 and the Bombardier Global 6000 which seat 10 or 14 people respectively.
Here's one I was thinking of actually https://www.dataviper.io/blog/2019/pdl-data-exposure-billion...
Said differently, it doesn’t take courage to take a stand on a position that costs you (your employees and their families) nothing.
Well I think you helped to prove my point.

As I said, there was excess demand for PPE, but by and large, most medical staff did have access.

That there were some doctors who were unable, means that obviously there was some shortage.

But Dr. Fauci and the WHO had of indicated that 'every American should wear a mask' - then all doctors would have been wearing garbage bags through the entire affair.

The 'excess demand' from natural concern was bad enough, but 350 Million Americans clamouring for N95's would have wiped out any hope of keeping the medical staff in place.

It was a rational decision given the risks and unknowns: We need to get PPE to doctors because the value to the general public is limited.

A tough and difficult decision at the time, but they did the right thing.
Consequences should be calibrated and at least for children their records expunged where sensible. Online posts that are never expunged and can be screenshotted and shared do not lead to calibrated consequences.
Everybody always says this, but without numbers that I can relate to. Also, this thing about kettles being all induction does not sound right.

I got to go make a cup of coffee/tea and see how long it takes me.

Edit: I just put my metal, non-electric kettle with 500 mL of cold tap water on a completely cold electric range and the time from turning the dial to Hi to the kettle whistling was 3 minutes +/- about 1 second.

First google hit for "electric kettle test time to boil" is from consumer reports (I assume they are US only):

"The electric kettles bring the water to a boil in about 4 to 5½ minutes"

...then again, I wouldn't have thought it but maybe electric kettles in the UK are faster?

https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/kettles/article/how-we-test-...

"The fastest kettles can boil a litre in less than two minutes and 18 seconds, but we've also tested kettles that take nearly twice as long - leaving you waiting around for your cuppa."

So, my conclusion is an electric kettle might be noticeably faster on a percentage basis, but it reminds me of people who think a car that goes from 0-60 in 2.6 seconds is way higher performance than one that takes 3.6 seconds.
New Relic CEO scolds employees: ‘We [.. urgently ..] need to get back on track’
For a direct flight, you're looking at about a ~10hr flight (~5620KM's). For that range, you're looking at anywhere between 10-15k/hour average price (eg: G-IV, G-650 type planes). In reality the price is higher because if you're paying for just one way, then you have to pay the same hourly rate for the plane to fly back to Colorado. If you're paying round trip, then you have to pay daily parking charges + crew fee, which adds up quickly.
> The remaining five passengers were from Italy, New Zealand and England. They could have stayed in Sardinia, following a mandatory quarantine for 14 days before being allowed to move freely.

Why couldn't the Americans perform a mandatory quarantine for 14 days as well?
How do you exactly get attacked by staying silent?
New York -> Las Vegas one way costs approx. $34k which includes: Aircraft One-Way Rate, Fuel Adjustment, Additional One-Way Fuel Adjustment, Flight Crew, Crew Layover, Crew Meals, Ldg/Hdlg/Ap-Fees, Use Tax, and Federal Excise Tax. Those line items are a copy/paste from a real invoice. I’m sure you can extrapolate what a private flight from US to Italy would cost.

Btw, when you fly private, I don’t think it’s courteous to split the tab...normally, one party handles it all.
I don't, I just have a folder on my computer and some are unfinished. I could send a zip via email if you're interested.
the orbitals aren't neat rings but there are definitely orbitals. they're shaped weirdly as they represent the space two electrons will probabilistically occupy. you can't pinpoint an electron and say it is precisely here in the orbital but there are fairly high odds that it's in the orbital.
Only scanned it, but it looks like everything the article says about Whatsapp (spread of misinformation, coordination of violence) would still fit if you replaced Whatsapp with "SMS" or "text messages".
> Someone adhering to a religious practice by fasting is virtue signaling.

Just to pick a nit, this is only virtue signaling if they rub it in somebody's face. There's almost a whole chapter in the gospels about it, Matthew 6:16:

> And when you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
But how can this be, given that African-Americans, with far less Neanderthal ancestry than European-Americans, are dying of COVID-19 at a much higher rate in the US?
I think induction cooktops were a separate option from kettles.
What you actually want is https://www.zojirushi.com/category/water_boilers_warmers/sys...
Inequality? How is it surprising that being rich affords you more options?
This is exactly me!

I think the something missing in Notion is keyboard shortcuts and overall feeling that it does not feel fast enough. For example navigating to a page and then jumping between pages requires more steps than I am comfortable.
this quote is cheaper than usual. I'll just leave it at that.
absolutely. I haven't done a lot of digging with this, I'd be very curious to see the google frame in person. Eventual color E-Ink or other display technologies may make this an easier problem, though it theoretically just needs a mapped contrast/brightness curve and responsive sensors and backlight.
I forgot to mention, there is an extended PDF preview of the book you can see here:
https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide_v5_previ...

Also some parts of the best parts of the book are available in full as standalone free tutorials:
SymPy = https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pd... ;
mechanics tutorial = https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/mech_in_7_pages.p... ;
concept maps = https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/conceptmap.pdf
A weird thing about air travel is that going one step up from first/business class to a private jet comes with a massive decrease in the quality of travelling (exceptions are choice of route, flexible departure times and hopefully less time in boarder control/airports).

In most other walks of life, incremental increases in price come with incremental increases in quality
100% the Americans won't actually obey to a mandatory quarantine for 14 days. People with the ability to charter a private jet for a cross-Atlantic jaunt is the definition of "flight risk". On land, how do you enforce such a quarantine? You'd be kidding yourself if you believe they won't go out and hire a taxi the minute the health officials confirm their check in, and the next day they'd be at all the beaches. The minute police or military try to confine them, they'd go all self righteous and call the embassy.

It's better that customs turn them back.

Also, reading between the lines, the rest of the passengers didn't leave because of "solidarity" - it's most likely their itinerary is for a weekend trip and they didn't plan to stay for 2 weeks+ - they would have been planning to hit a few other islands maybe move on to Greece within a few days. When told they'd have to stay in one place for 2 weeks, they'd rather move on to their next destination (whether that's back to the US or to some place else with easier customs, we'd have to look at the flight plan to see where the plane actually went).

These kinds of tourist trips are absolutely the worst since they are vectors trying to move fast - with no time allocated for quarantines / incubation at all.
Gates Foundation:Deputy Dir., Clinical NextGen Vaccines, Dev and Surveillance
Wiring a new path to scalable quantum computing
The argument doesn't need to apply in every case to hold water. I think it's a good point.
The reason why north korea is still around is because China enables it's existence, and as a result, that little hell, which wasn't that much different from china 35 years ago, still persists.
It’s classic “it sounds right” nonsense
Wasn't The Guardian the one to publish Snowden's reveals? The ones that could have only been passed on with tech that WhatsApp uses i.e. encryption.
Somewhat related to this... I’m an American who hasn’t been in USA since September (currently in Canada, Europe before that). I am wondering if I could get into the Eu from Canada even though I’m traveling on USA passport? I’ve seen no flexibility in the policy but in terms of risk posed by Americans, I haven’t been there at all during the pandemic, so I pose no risk. Anyone have any info on this?
... Thereby ensuring that they will never even be exposed to any different ideas,and sticking them at the bottom of the social/economic latter so they can spend their lives blaming someone else (who will definitely be their in-group, right?).
It's actually kinda hard to extrapolate what is based on distance/fuel and what is just a per-trip fee.