skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what are you saying public policy should be?

You know, there are basically two groups of countries in the world today. In one group there have been a strong set of policies to fight the virus, and it includes face masks, and in this group the virus has been beaten back.

In the other countries, including the US, things have been much more lax, including lots of people not wearing face masks, and the virus has exploded.

So are you saying the correct public policy should be strong measures on things like social distancing and contact tracing, but people should be free to not wear face masks? Why take a chance with that when we know the set of policies that includes face masks works?

Or perhaps you are the one of the people, like Trump, Bolsonaro and others, who is for lax policies all around.
There's a lot more nuance to this:

https://www.airbnb.com/resources/hosting-homes/a/a-new-way-w...

I would also consider reading the white paper if you have some time:

https://news.airbnb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/06/P...

TLDR is that that information is stripped of Airbnb identifying information, asymmetrically encrypted before perceived race is determined, then noise is added when the data is returned to Airbnb to prevent identifying individuals. This data is only used for identifying acceptance rate disparity.
Yeah, organizing work in such a way that you can make isolated, incremental change requires a nontrivial amount creativity and discipline, and that takes time like you say.

But, I do believe it pays off in the form of a higher quality end-product (fewer bugs, more testable/legible components, more extensible), which saves you time in the long run.
> the user accounts should be linked to a Social Security number and with their real names attached to anything they publish

No no, no! Look at the early days of the internet, where LGBT folk had a space to talk but lived in constant fear of being doxxed. We're stifling those people by forcing them to use real names.
Lots of sugar in this hype cookie. Great effort to maintain a revolutionary breakthrough tone and avoids any comparison with existing hydrogen systems.

And did they really just refer to high pressure vessel ruptures as "safe nonflammable bursts"? instead of "explosions". I've heard compressed hydrogen will expand faster than it can possibly burn when all suddenly uncompressed but c'mon that's an explosion.
I have to beg to differ. The Robinhood "infinite money cheat code" was WSB's finest hour.
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Where's your reference for """In one group there have been a strong set of policies to fight the virus, and it includes face masks, and in this group the virus has been beaten back."""

California and Washington both have mask laws and their infection rates have skyrocketed.
Just to give them the benefit of the doubt, we don't know if this is the first or tenth time this employee was slacking off, or what action (if any) had already taken place to improve things.

I can additionally imagine that koheripbal was not privy to any information regarding that employee's performance besides that one thing.
The wikipedia article has all the charts and formulas you need. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_by_volume

(To make the above solution 50% abv, btw, you need to keep adding water until it's 2 (liters, whatever) total volume.)
Rewriting because it is messy will almost never work.
Rewriting because there is a fundamental problem with the code base may be worth it.

Problems can include:

- lack of parallelism, designed with single core CPUs in mind

- lack of security, software was designed for single user, offline operation turned multi-user and online

- "wrong" optimizations, for example relying on a lot of precomputation when people now want to change everything on the fly and modern computers allow it if the software is properly designed

- relying on outdated tech, like Flash

None of the previous points involve bad design, but things change, including user expectations. For now, security is a big one. It wasn't a big deal back then, for example, in a game console, a buffer overflow in a game would just cause a crash and piss off the player in some extremely rare case. Now because your console is online and so is your bank, the same relatively harmless bug on the same game can be used to siphon your bank account.
I want to block even first-party cookies. And the third-party cookie logic prevents Fidelity's Full View from working correctly, so I have to disable it to use that feature of their site.
OSM is mapping reality as it is, not as it should be. Is this part of country controlled by the other country?
> What confuses me is why so much scrutiny is being placed on the practice of wearing a mask. It just hardly seems like much of an inconvenience.

In my experience it is a big inconvenience. The air is not properly mixed, so one breathes back part of breathed-out air. With (cloth) facemask, i have shortness of breath after running up a staircase, and after 15 min of regular walk i start hyperventilating.

While i wear facemasks and consider it a reasonable measure, the government mandate was sometimes excessive. For example, at the start of the pandemic, the government mandated wearing facemasks everywhere outside of home, even in nature far from other people. I stopped to do recreational walks in nature, as it was just too burdensome to do that with facemask. Fortunately, after several weeks, the government noticed that mandating masks in nature far from other people is nonsense and made some exceptions.
> nuclear power is tightly coupled and complex

Sounds like you have read Charles Perrow's 1984 book Normal Accidents [1]. New fuel systems are actually key to safe design, IMHO. All the major nuclear power incidents, that I'm aware of, are due to one underlying problem: zirconium clad fuel rods produce large amounts of hydrogen during loss of coolant accidents (LOCA). Nuclear power plants weren't supposed to go BOOM but it turns out they do so readily with hydrogen explosions.

Even with zirconium clad fuel rods, the CANDU reactor design seems to have managed the complexity and tight-coupling issues surrounding nuclear power generation; the design, however, never managed to reduce the immense capital costs involved.

Price-per-Performance is all that matters and in an age of cheap natural gas. I'm not convinced that new nuclear reactor designs will find anything other than niche markets. There are many lessons to learn from Charles Perrow but complete distrust of engineering should not be one of them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents
IQ has inherently racist origins...I think as a society we'd do better to remove it from our lexicon, as it's simply racialist pseudoscience meant to preserve the status quo.
> you shouldn't be offended by them,

Why not?
This is good. I think the commoditization of college had profound negative effects on society. Historic trust in the academic system was abused in order to, at best, sell degrees to people who were unqualified for them, and at worst, to indoctrinate two generations of children (anything outside of STEM is heavily politically slanted - it's the long march through the institutions that the infamous Weather Underground spoke of).

If intelligence (and general ability) is truly normally distributed then you cannot award degrees to the majority of the population without lowering historic standards.
US Universities joined tech giants for the creation of national AI/Res cloud
No on-demand songs though!

I wonder if it is possible to broadcast every songs out there and have a software switch frequencies as required.
I'm having trouble grasping what common good you see coming from your proposal. I would accept "independent review board chosen from the jury duty pool must review all bodycam fotage", but your position as you represent it is far too easy to abuse.

By this logic, if the police break into your house while you're having an affair, you have no right to deny them publication of it immediately to a public website. There is tremendous potential for abuse here. For example, corrupt cops would immediately begin 'accidentally' (wink, wink) recording bodycam footage while 'not on duty' (wink, wink) when paid to by their buyers, or whenever someone is naked, since publication would be automatic and they would be immune to prosecution for their corrupt and abusive actions.

From a societal injustice standpoint, it would be an extremely effective way for abusive police to enforce white male privilege upon citizens (in the same way that doxxing does). If you aren't white and male, you're at a much higher risk of being killed or driven to suicide by this "publish everything" approach capturing some behavior that abusive people can use to justify attacking you. If you are white and male, you can just shrug it off and other white men (the most likely attackers in this scenario) will give you a pass so they can get away with it too. Statistically, significantly fewer white men will suffer as a result relative to other subgroups.

If you're able to see a way forward that does not have a high risk of doing damage to US society (including to people other than white men), please share it.
That’s not the way science works. Have him publish a peer reviewed paper staking out his claims. If he’s right, it shouldn’t be difficult to produce something publishable in a major journal.
I got myself a WM-701C [0], which was considered to be the pinnacle of Walkman design at the time. Incredibly thin with a 'remote control' in the headphone cord.

Mine was heavily used as I did about 20km/day on a bike ( in NL this is just commute + paper round, nothing special ) for quite a few years.

I had some trouble finding it, but hey on the internet everything exists, the Walkman Archive!

[0] http://www.walkman-archive.com/gadgets/walkman_sony_05_701c_...
This is very interesting, not just in terms of the controversial statement itself, but also on a meta-level. When should a scientific community exclude a statement from thorough discussion?

I cannot judge how well-founded his arguments are, but I think he's right with the meta-topic: their analysis seems to meet the basic requirements of scientific reasoning, so they deserve an open discussion. Especially because the statement is so controversial.

(He explains that this finding, if true, may have far reaching consequences not just on a political level, but also on how certain virology studies may or may not be conducted in the future.)
Widespread Use of Face Masks Could Save Tens of Thousands of Lives - https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/886905055/widespread-use-of-f...
> We still learn lessons from each accident, for example Fukushima has resulted in Passive auto recombiners being installed which convert hydrogen back to water.

Seems we are on a global level not very much learning from incidents. These are common (mandatory?) in Germany and colloquially named “Töpfer-Kerze” after the minister who had them installed: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaktorsicherheit#T%C3%B6pfe... Klaus Töpfer was responsible for nuclear security from 1987-1994. This would have been the time to learn.
Agreed; it depends on the product.
https://archive.is/0xYH4
For someone coming to a European country and driving by virtue of reciprocal driving license permission (not having to take an exam), those signs are not at all intuitive.
Regardless of the end goal, shouldn't millions of something result in greater refinement? Of course, an argument can always be made that sites are not refined on purpose to confuse the end user. But, then again, there's also a good portion of websites that are not trying to con the user.
That's a great story! Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. You make good points.

I've experienced links not working. In fact, Berkeley's AI course (https://berkeleyai.github.io/cs188-website/) includes 3 contests but the server no longer accepts submissions for testing let alone actually competing against other students.

There have to be a lot of other people like you and I out there reading textbooks and looking at OCW but never talking to each other. A simple discord server for MIT OCW would be something. I'm currently frustrated because I'm working through the text, lecture notes and problem sets for MIT 6.045J: Automata, Computability and Complexity[0]. But there are no solutions to the problem sets! It's a proof based course and I just want to sanity check if my logic is actually valid.

[0]https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
The unintended similarity was how I discovered the article. Being a fan of the Eagle design, I couldn't let that pass.
Paywall bypass:

wget -U "Mozilla/4.0" "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-02/nathan-tankus-s-newsletter-subscribers-don-t-care-about-diplomas" && firefox nathan-tankus-s-newsletter-subscribers-don-t-care-about-diplomas

I don't really like when non-formal education is highlighted as surprising in a talented individual. At least in the US, a college education will often put you in serious debt and seems to currently be teaching all sorts of non-technical inaccuracies while ill-preparing people for the real world.

With so much knowledge & resources being available for free online: why would any smart, independent young person want to go to college in the US? The only reason I can think of is to become something that you actually _need_ to go to college for like a doctor or lawyer.

It's pretty crazy when people like Jordan Peterson, who used to teach at Harvard, is suggesting that young people go to trade schools. The college system in the US needs to be restructured or die.
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Can we please have one discussion that isn’t about race.
What’s the famous saying about the best way to get the right answer? Something about posting it to the Internet and having the crowd correct you?
Not quite. Life accelerates entropy, where decay is a different idea. Consider does water decay into ice on a cold day? Does ice decay into water on a warm day?
Holy crap, you're right:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...

https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/how-to-create-your-own-ad-...

(I switched from 1Blocker to Adguard because 1Blocker wasn't working very well for me.)
I don't know about where you live, but where I am in Canada the majority of FM radio is as bad or worse than cable television; constant ads, stale "radio friendly" music and DJ's with inane banter and making bad jokes. It's painful to listen to.
There might be a really useful related application here. If I could set up a 2D scene to be simulated headlessly, apply forces programmatically, and then receive the x position of an actor as an output, then this could be useful for simulating complex UI behaviors.

For example, recently I wanted to create a scrolling behavior with boundaries based on properties of the content. In this case, I wanted to draw a column of cards with a bit of tension to overcome before flipping to the next card.

See this diagram: https://imgur.com/a/zVvwtEu

If the viewport was a physical actor in a simulation, gliding along a track that I could generate based on the content, then the left edge of the actor could control the scrollTop or drive the translateY of the content, etc.

Just wanted to share a possible application of your awesome work.
Lol, I suggest you don't visit WSB.
https://archive.is/THHp4
“It literally can’t go tits up”
I live in California, and the mask rules at the state level were not dictated, only recommended, and in most locations where they were law they were not rigorously enforced. And then Gov Newsome relaxed social distancing, and the infection rate shot up.

But tell me, what do you think the policies should be, for masks and everything else?
Given that we're heavily inconvenienced by the masks and other measures, we should find out how well they work so we can focus on the stuff that helps the most.
Wow. Impressive work
It’s starting to become an unspoken understanding. The same way we all know just because you got a HS Diploma doesn’t mean anything.
Anyone who has actually read Monetary History is going to be way, way more interesting than those that get their economics from internet memes, slogans, and journalists.
> Not radiated material because mostly fusion explosion

Neutron flux is radiation, so things exposed to it are (ir)radiated.

It also induces radioactivity, which is probably the actual concern with (ir)radiated material.

OTOH, the actual reaction products themselves aren't radioactive, unlike fission reactions.
Have they worked through everything Martin Gardner ever wrote?
The academic humanities departments have made their bed over the last fifty years.

Now they may lie in it.
For broadening his view, and sparking some fun and joy of maths, try "Humble Pi" by Matt Parker:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39074550-humble-pi
25mpg for a loaded super cab 4x2 at 75mph is too wasteful? Four family members, full supplies, four bikes hanging off the back. I have had empty sedans that got worse mpg. Have you driven a Ford lately?
Shouldn’t we be willing to reward his effort? It has been a long road.

Does anyone subscribe to his newsletter?
If curious see also

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17844670
On top of all this there is an arbiter (social network) that filters and decides what is important enough be shared maximally. Before anybody even hears your conversation it has been filtered to a degree, there is no organic interpretation of the situation by the group like there would be in real life.
CSP has been an inconsistent, ever growing standard, with a history of implementation breakages. I think only CSP 3.0, and a long WIP safe types standard have approached the level of being actually useful.

I saw websites with a screen long CSP header to work around standard's inconsistencies like frame-src/child-src, and form redirects. I think it's only a matter of time when somebody will find a chink in that weak armour.

The lack of sane by-default policy makes you vulnerable the moment attacker finds a way to redirect a browser to a non-CSP protected page on your domain. Mitigations exist, but... many buts.

Reflection attacks, when attacker injects your own hashed scripts, and data exfiltrating css on pages where they shouldn't be are still possible in various scenarios unless you inline all scripts, and set CSP per every URL.

Other data exfiltration sources, and injection sinks keep being found few times a year.

CSP is a paint over rust.
Wouldn't convection also be impacted if the plant is flooded?
Yeah that's right
Facebook Advertising vs. Facebook Ads
Basic was also my first introducing to programming. And nowadays i still think its probably the best language to teach programming.
I don't think it should be used to create professional programs, as its pretty limited for that, and doing modifications to turn into an able environment for this would only create a creepy language, inflicting misery in people that have to maintain large codebases of such a thing.

What i really want to point out, is that, if you look into Basic for what it shines, i think things like "GOTO line" are very good, because it teach you how the computer works under the hood (the native code will point to memory, stack, registers, program offset, call hard defined OS syscalls, etc..)

You could deal with the soft/logical and hard/physical paradigms at the same time, understanding that the logical ones are built through abstractions over the hard ones.

Later if you decide to code, than you can choose if you want/can be spoiled and use more abstract and easy languages like Python or Javascript, but also with a good understanding/intuition of how things work under the hood.

And all of this can be done in a easy way, like with jumps to a giving code position. (It alsos teach you to think over indirections, why some things are good or bad, and have the power to teach you to move on to better things, but only after you really know whats going on).

The basic GOTOS and other techniques might be bad for coding in real life, but im against taking them out of languages that can serve to teach programming to kids, and even creating more of this sort of instructions, that teach how to reason about code, where you can start with "bad practices" but that are pretty easy to use at a beginning level.

Stupid little things like taking graphics and sound for granted and not having to import libraries, using things like 'CIRCLE' or 'BEEP' or 'GOTO 10' is what your eight year old self would think its pretty cool and would run to your parents to show them with confidence in yourself.
I agree but MySQL has had pluggable backends for over ten years and I haven’t seen a viable one for this yet.
This may be too basic, but "The Magic of Math" by Arthur Benjamin

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24612214-the-magic-of-ma...
There are some disadvantages, though. If you're looking at WinForms or VB UI with two buttons, e.g. yes/no, there are things you can't easily and naturally see at a glance.

* What's the tab order? (Usually whatever order they happened to be created in, which is often wrong after the UI has gone through some changes.)

* Are they really exactly the same size or only almost the same?

* How do they behave when the window is resized?

* Does one button have one of its many properties set slightly differently from the other one? (Have fun inspecting them all and make sure to not accidentally change anything while doing so.)

* Did you just accidentally move one of the buttons one pixel while inspecting things?

I prefer doing the UI in code, so that everything is clearly spelled out and not hidden in some properties panel. In WinForms it works pretty well with TableLayoutPanel.

Petzold wrote about this approach:
http://charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.htm...
But with remote classes it becomes easier to find out which teachers are lazy... One of my son had a great remote teacher... not so much for my other one.
There may be lots of free opinions, but I don't believe they have much value to the novice investor. I'll admit there are some hidden gems, but separating the wheat from the chaff requires more insight than these subreddits provide on average.
Use of passive auto recombiners (PARs) started over 30 years ago on a large scale and has been state of the art for more than two decades now: https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...

However, many operators didn't want to spend the money, which is why Fukushima didn't have a PAR at the time of the accident. The problem with Fukushima is that I fear we do not learn from accidents. Otherwise, Fukushima wouldn't even have been in operation at the time of the accident as it is an old reactor model well past its design life. The location was, as we have known before the accident, poorly chosen. Safety measures, such as PARs, seawalls and properly redundant power supplies were skipped or badly implemented due to the cost involved. All this was known before the accident, however neither the operator nor the national oversight took any action before it was too late.
Sorry, I'm not sure what you're referring to?
Scott Galloway of NYU called it, and has been increasingly louder about it.

Like he says, it seems like this is the turning point for many middle-tier universities. Once you start viewing colleges as brands and luxury goods, especially the Stanfords and Harvards, it becomes clear there’s a massive revenue shortfall for them.

>This fall, I’m scheduled to teach MKTG-GB.2365 (Brand Strategy) in KMC 2-60 Tuesday nights at 6-9pm. It’s not going to happen. The room would normally be filled with 170 full- and part-time MBAs looking to garner the skills to build economic security for themselves and their families, and improve the world. Mostly the former. However, a room full of 170 NYT subscribers, sitting elbow to elbow, spells one thing — recurrence. So, while Liberty University will likely welcome kids back to campus, I speculate we, and anybody else that does not have their head up their a, will not.
https://www.profgalloway.com/post-corona-higher-ed