skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of healthy life-years lost, stay-at-home orders could be much, much worse than complete freedom.

Depression causes more lost life years than cancer, AIDs, and war combined (without even accounting for how depression can cause things like alcoholism and heart disease) (source: The Noonday Demon). So it's not unreasonable to guess that the increased anxiety and depression from quarantining could be much more detrimental in terms of years lost in aggregate.

For a personal anecdote, my grandfather who was in a nursing home died during the pandemic. It wasn't from covid-19 but I certainly think the quarantine accelerated his death (and prevented any family members from seeing him in his last days even after trying desperately).

I know it's easy for someone young like me to say this, not being in much personal danger from exposure. But I do think we need to really look at indirect damages of quarantining. We may find that the American left has had the morals of this situation all wrong.
Why do all these social sites do things like this? They know that someone is going to find out eventually. I guess they just don't care if they get caught.
You can't compare teleconferencing with in-person interactions.
They aren't the same.
No it doesnt create an obligation. The obligation is coming from acting as a platform, a nuetral ground where people can share information. The second you step in and curate or moderate you cross the line into being a publisher.

There is more discussion about the moderators dillema above.
Yes they are, surprisingly so. The most surprising fact was interviewing many different people who all had similar ways of handling it.

I haven't had a single stressful or anxious day since I started, yet I've almost finished writing the entire book and it only took me 30 days.
confounding variables can't be quickly and cheaply measured, that's what IQ is - measuring all the confounding variables.
Workplace OS
> Potatoes are high calorie

They’re about 300 calories per pound. You’d have to eat 7lbs/day to scrape by.

The high calories come from the prep: oil/frying/butter/sauces.
The quote at the beginning of the reply above yours was taken from the linked article. The article writer explicitly claims her First Amendment rights are under threat. She's the one who pulled the Bill of Rights trigger.
The layout in the picture seems to be 3-4-3, which pretty typical for 747s - I don't think anyone does 3-5-3.
Yeah that's definitely fair. I'm a bit paranoid and jump through more security hoops for myself than any employer has ever required... so if you're not the type of person that enables 2FA and uses password managers at a minimum, just do everyone a favor and use a separate device.
Over the many, many years, I have thrashed around with ... well, almost every suggestion that usually comes up on these articles and threads responding to these articles, as well as many unorthodox ideas. The pills and the preaching, the assorted practices recommended and the acting, going through the motions of joy hoping something will catch, the focuses outside oneself cast like grappling hooks onto any ship not sinking, the licensed and the masters' teachings, these have all disappointed me in the end. After failure upon failure, I have come to the conclusion that for some, the needle is not moved much at all upward, despite struggles and inventiveness, and so I have sided with Blake: some are born to endless night.
As a user, it's been great to see Exist/Hello Code/Belle&Josh continue their growth over the years. I'd love to use more services like this, rather than the faceless FAANGs.
He simply refused to stand for the anthem and respectfully knelt (at first sat but then started kneeling after talking with veterans and asking what would be more respectful or something like that).
Perhaps the ethical qualms could be settled if the tracing of workers were handled by a neutral third party. Being tracked by parties you are affiliated with opens a whole can of worms.
Third base!
My thinking on this is that unhappiness is broadly classified as "what will happen" (WWH). What will happen if I can't pay rent, what will happen to my kids if I die, what will happen if I can't make the deadlines and so on. Its a thousand of these that we deal with every second - some are trivial for us and we can manage them. Some are significant for us and they cause unhappiness. Some are recurring, some are one-time (but can have large impact). I don't have a solution - just speaking from personal feelings about this.
A bit off topic but where do you get free audio books of old books?
Scaleway Price Increases
underrated - for a very meta reason
Getting fired for saying anything Twitter disagrees with limits your free speech.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...
You end up throwing a lot of money away on either one?
Even mostly full of passengers, you’ll notice short hops like DEN-LAX have noticeably shorter takeoffs. Weight of the fuel for a 747-400 when fully fueled for something like the ass-deadening LAX-MEL and LAX-SYD routes is something like 25% of the plane.
Thank you for this. The world needs more people like you.
Also, well written article and the timeline detail was great!
Not sure I agree.

When I ran my consultancies I priced my contracts as either a fixed weekly rate or a value price. So it didn't matter where the client was located or my employee(s). When we billed weekly rates it was a specified rate for a specific project role regardless of who the client was. When it was value based deal I didn't care if the client was in SF or Kansas, I based the price on the value it brought to the client and what I thought was fair but lucrative enough to take the project.

I do know there are freelancers that change their rate based on the client but I honestly don't agree with it, typically to me it means you rate is too low or you are pricing improperly. Your rate should be moving up as you gain experience but it shouldn't vary much by client, unless you start value pricing or when you start dealing with enterprises who demand insane support and hand holding.
Julia, R, and MATLAB. But yeah, it's not common. I end up reinventing this wheel about once a year.
An example: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-resignation/boeing...
societies and civil discussions will not adhere to some moral and orderly procession, so let's not cling to that unascribable ideal. we're also per capita way less violent and offensive toward each other than most of human history.

sometimes repercussions greater than disagreement is warranted, and psychic injury to usher in real, positive change is a small price to pay, smaller than during most prior evolutions.

but let's spell out clearly that the complainants are largely folks who want to assert power as privilege on minority groups and are meeting rightful resistance. it's true that sometimes the resistance goes too far, which is unfortunate, but that's a non-sequitur borne of an imbalance of perception, entitlement, and extra-sensitivity.

that's the nexus of the clash, and a key part of why it just won't be civil and orderly. this is the internet era's version of a power struggle. feet are gonna get mashed and we're not gonna like it.
I agree with that stance. And this is where i think the laws might need changing to protect those who are merely providing a private space but do still have to deal with reality.

I think potentially we need a third classification to indemnify private spaces of liability.

I still believe that public spaces should remain open, nuetral and unmoderated.

The world is a scary place, the laws dont line up between countries and weird scary shit will be posted online.

Im ok with this. Im ok with the internet being a place to explore our human psychy in its entirety.

I dont want it to be a nanny stated corporate friendly chopshop for ideas.
Having lived through XML databases and build systems, it’s sad/funny/interesting(?) to see this all play out again.

This has all happened before, and it will all happen again.
This is a garbage political ad. Does not belong here.
You're projecting a lot. Nowhere does he advocate minimalism or living with nothing. The notion that a substantial increase in wealth won't lead to sustained increase in happiness is one that has been reflected in research, where survival isn't an issue (i.e. poverty). That's not tantamount to suggesting that this sort of success and others is pointless, it's that there are more effective ways to be happy.

I know that I tend to have an adverse reaction to the prescription of being "grateful", so I dispense with that. There are useful points otherwise.
In terms of healthy life-years lost, stay-at-home orders could be much, much worse than complete freedom at this point.

Depression causes more lost life years than cancer, AIDs, and war combined (without even accounting for how depression can cause things like alcoholism and heart disease) (source: The Noonday Demon). So it's not unreasonable to guess that the increased anxiety and depression from quarantining could be much more detrimental in terms of years lost in aggregate.

For a personal anecdote, my grandfather who was in a nursing home died during the pandemic. It wasn't from covid-19 but I certainly think the quarantine accelerated his death (and prevented any family members from seeing him in his last days even after trying desperately).

I know it's easy for someone young like me to say this, not being in much personal danger from exposure. Also, I do think we were rational to lock down early on when we didn't know much about the virus. But I do think we need to really attempt to quantify the indirect damages of quarantining vs not at this point. We may find that the morals of the American left don't match the reality.
Metaphors We Build By
> Private companies should not be able to moderate speech and claim to be a platform.

Basically any site with user generated content exists because the sites have been able to moderate their own content without having to assume liability for the content they do allow.

Several places have tried the full unmoderated thing and it seems to always devolve into shit as 'trolls' and edgy humor degrades into plain bigotry as People who don't like the edgy/extreme content leave and the remaining group becomes more and more extreme.

There's no way real to do forums, social media, or sites like medium or blogs without companies being able to host content without being liable for the content they're hosting that doesn't break the law.
Roy Cohen. We have him to thank for Trump.
Grima Wormtongue.
>1. If people were that afraid they would have been sheltering in place before the government ordered them to do so, but they were not doing that, and they only started doing that when the government ordered them to.

People don't tend to fear something until it's tangible to them. When one of their family members or best friends gets ripped apart and then dumped into a grave, it will become a lot clearer very fast what kind of danger it can pose to oneself.

>2. The behavior of people after the lockdowns ended.

Some people are behaving that way, but I'm pretty sure it's mostly limited to America where we've decided wearing a mask is a political statement. (There are exceptions, but they are also often other places with similar or worse anti-science/medicine sentiment.) It's hard to even know what the outbreak would look like if both businesses and all ordinary people went back to normal. I know the economies have not recovered anywhere where lockdown has ended.
Artist uses AI to create realistic portraits of historical figures
Oh yeah, so basically had he pushed further, he would have realized to avoid corruption, he would need to implement "write ahead log (WAL)". An for the implementation of WAL and other performance concern, he would have realized that storing the JSON as string is not the way to go, he'd need to implement other binary data structure. Then he'd have realized that he had just invented another NoSQL DB.

Had he pushed further.....

Had he pushed further, he'd have raised funding for the newly invented NoSQL DB, and built a startup company on top of it.
Check out the YouTube video of RuPaul as a guest in Jimmy Fallon's talk show if you want to see an example of this brand of fear
Here's an example: Kapernick.
I didn't intend to say that it's a reasonable threshold. I think of it more like Maslow's hierarchy, and IMO Hacker News is significantly higher than, say, Twitter.
Depending on who you ask it will yield a different definition so in that sense, there's some BS baggage, but it's not to say it can't be useful.
A certain governor[1] of a southern state has escaped that fate though being of the correct political stripe I imagine put a big thumb on that scale.

So not all politicians get cancelled for blackface.

[1]https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/01/politics/northam-blackface-ph...
EncroChat Criminal communication network shut down in EU-wide operation
I think that's fair.
Just because the author has an axe to grind, that doesn’t invalid everything they say. It’s possible to read critically and decide what’s worth discussing.
There's a number of podcasts (Classic Tales for instance) where they read old books. And you can do a search and find a bunch as well (https://librivox.org/, http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks)

But I've found one of the best sources is YouTube. Tons of readings of out of copyright books and you can usually pick a narrator you like.
Boss ware vs Boss screen
Can you elaborate on these extra internal controls?
You could make a strong case that the Vietnam War was a more significant error. Including Iraq and Afghanistan, the War On Terror cost about 6 times as much as the Vietnam War, but Vietnam cost more in terms of American lives. I believe the Vietnam War inflicted greater damage to America's reputation and self-conception, and it ended in unconditional retreat after achieving none of its goals.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-09/war-on-terro...
Ah, “Value-based” pricing, or, how much a company can gouge their customers before their customers change vendors.
For me I had to refresh twice before I saw the CTA buttons.
I have switched to Edge, not because it is necessarily a better browser, but because Google has become abusive.

Consider for example, this Chrome setting: Settings > Sync and Google Services > Allow Chrome sign-in. The description says "By turning this off, you can sign in to Google sites like Gmail without signing in to Chrome".

Turn this feature off and sign into Gmail. Chrome will sign you into the browser as well -- regardless of your setting -- so now the browser knows who you are.

This is pretty abusive. For this reason I have made Edge my default browser.
I'd say straight up James Bond movie villain.
Good point, forgot about that heh.
Instagram linked in the article is full of more examples [1]. Most are pretty intriguing if not a little creepy (probably some uncanny valley effect).

[1] https://www.instagram.com/ganbrood/
True, but 'number of deaths' is a very blunt statistic because not all deaths are equal.

The death of a young male in his prime is not the same as the death of an elderly person whose 3 year survival rate was already less than 25% (made-up numbers for the sake of illustration, not accurate).
Crab Command and Control
It's not that you were flaming anybody in particular, thankfully. But the combination of generic rhetoric and high indignation is a marker of flamewar. It's not even that what you posted is so bad—it's just that it reliably leads to worse threads. It's like an expected value calculation (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
Thanks for sharing. This was great.

I wonder how much of a limitation it poses that the gradient requires some massaging to preserve efficient training; does that only work for some kernels, or can it be automated for arbitrary kernels?
>One quote they will never escape came from Matt Stone in 2005: “I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals.”

If you agree with and/or care about one group more than another, you should care more about their flaws, shouldn't you?

It's like someone said about "my country, right or wrong" - it's like saying "my mother, drunk or sober".
United used to serve Melbourne by having one of the 747s from the LA/SF to Sydney services continue on to Melbourne. Last time I took it I was the only passenger upstairs on the Sydney→Melbourne leg. Coupled with the performance of a lightly loaded 747 that's only fueled for a ~400 mile flight (fastest I've ever had from takeoff to the 10,000 feet chimes), it was quite an experience (especially since being the only person there means your drink gets refilled rather quickly…)
The Russians were keen to use Nukes for "construction" too, and actually went ahead with "building" a lake [1]

This [2] Document goes into all the details of what else they wanted to do.

I think it would be a great idea to use nukes for construction, if only it wasn't for all that pesky radiation. I can only imagine how often we'd be using them for mining and what-not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chagan

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20161223024850/http://e-reports-...
tl;dr: In the 1950s, scientists and engineers had yet to understand the long-term effects of radiation, and looked at nuclear weapons as just super-powerful conventional explosives.

Thus, Project Plowshare, in which we investigated using nukes to create harbors, dig mines, etc.

Let this serve as a reminder to exercise a degree of caution with any revolutionarily new technology, lest you look a catastrophic moron in the eyes of history. :)
I got my current (very well-paid) gig from a cold call from my LinkedIn account. That said, I agree with your view. I feel like taking a shower after each monthly login.
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The significance of this post to me, is that 16 days ago we were promised a downward trend, but in fact we are plateaued or even rising again.
Maybe if pure-fusion weapons become a thing it could be reality.
In the early 50's there was a proposal to detonate a nuclear device in the north of Scotland at Duncansby Head just a few miles from Wick and Thurso. Despite this only being recently reported it was well known within the Scottish Anti-nuclear movement for many years.

Fortunately a combination of technical issues and coming-to-their-senses put paid to that idea. However we did end up having to accommodate the Dounreay nuclear facility located about 20 or so miles west. That site has had a well documented chequered history including the wholesale ruining of local beaches due to radioactive particle contamination.

https://www.sundaypost.com/news/experts-nearly-dropped-atomi...
> (or else use the task manager, which also takes time)

Tried that, left an arrow pointing at the place on the taskbar where the Edge window used to be. Wouldn't go away without a reboot.
that's why they needed big city walls - to make sure that their own subjects won't run away (also to defend against Enkidu and his friends). The invaders used to come from the Zagros mountains and took over several times, but would invariably turn into the new elite - like the Hittites and the Kassites - and later the Sassanids.

Actually ancient civilization used to be very fragile entities that were collapsing on a regular basis. Quite amazing that the state didn't disappear as a concept - the concept was attractive to rulers and states came back invariably after yet another deluge.

i got this perspective from “Against the Grain - a deep history of the earliest states” by James C. Scott . Wikipedia has more about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Grain:_A_Deep_Hist...
If you think one party is a lost cause, and the other is our only hope, then you have to focus on the flaws of the latter, don't you? The logic is cruel.
It makes sense for there to be only one iphone production line, in the same place as all the factories that make iphone components - shipping the components around and having multiple copies of the production line would probably be more wasteful. That's not really a concern that applies to roses.
The safety issue would also apply for mid-air refueling; that’s a precision maneuver that would endanger the crew of the cargo plane. Plus, if the cargo itself is expendable you’d be just as safe handling the cargo planes the same way as you suggest handling the fuel drones.
I forgot to add - the job posting is at the [1] link above.

Either apply directly through there, or email dustinfreeman at fb dot com if you have questions.
What's the failure rate of two engine aircraft versus four engine aircraft? Are they about the same?
My response was to a comment on America's response, so yes, it was American-centric. That said, the lack in response also applies to Europe. The longer we waited, the harder it was to contain and the longer lock downs would need to happen, thus making the entire economic situation much worse.

> What kind of social preparations would have prevented the economic cataatrophe that occurred?

I never said anything would be prevented, but there's plenty lacking that could have helped. The people that are struggling right now were struggling before, this has just exasperated it immensely. Put it this way: it took weeks to get a single check out to Americans in need and they haven't seen anything since. Are these not things that could be improved?
There is no single advisor, but I'd vote for the group of economists who drank so much of their own Kool-Aid they believed that offshoring all of our industrial capacity was a good idea.
This.

I sometimes worry about anything I may have said years ago or anything I say now that could be construed as offensive by ... almost anyone at this point.

Early on (day after the riots started) I posted an article about a POC business owner’s business being destroyed due to protests (rioting) - I had someone call me gross and “where was your outrage when a Black man was killed by a cop? I didn’t see you post anything then”

After that I started having to make a risk analysis before doing anything.

At this point you HAVE to say something about everything and cover your bases, or you’re complicit; oddly enough you can say something AGAINST the movement, be called out, and apologize, and that’s acceptable. But trying to stay out of the shitstorm? No, you’re complicit. Say something positive, or say something negative and then retract it. But say something...
I have no idea what you think that proves. They told the AI to kill itself, despite not expecting it to happen or be strictly possible.
Renames aren't atomic on crash.

https://danluu.com/file-consistency/
HIPAA compliance requires these sort of measures to be taken anywhere, not just at home. This is rather unrelated to general-propose "bossware".
And the tweet was directed at "@AmazonUK AI". It was clearly a response to something on the website, not anything the human did.

Would "@AmazonUK's AI" be clearer and satisfy you?
What a thug.
To be frank, Japanese people(myself included) is somehow extremely cruel by default to anyone, and there’s an aspect that those defaults compounded in the war rather than those soldiers became cruel.

Like we still torture young subordinates in workplace to death and laugh at them, today, like pouring beer into an Italian shoe and get the new girl to swallow it, I never had to come across such things but some of us still do, just not as obscenely atrocious as treating completely innocent and defenseless local residents like a dog playing with plushes.