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It might be the best outcome for you, because your boss doesn't blame you. But it doesn't mean it's overall the best option.

Absolutely, and that's the real point. I don't think I disagree with any of your points, but perhaps I am more resigned to the fact that people act how people act. I'm not super experienced in this area (which is why I was enjoying the book in question) but I believe this is all related to the phenomenon of "ambiguity aversion" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguity_aversion). I'm interested in how to engineer around (or cheat) these biases rather than present a purely logical argument for one technology (or airport!) over another.
Right to Quiet Enjoyment

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/quiet-enjoyme...
> For me, this illustrates the value of cultural differences (diversity)

Are you talking about cultural differences in the same sense as a temperature gradient?
Atheism still lets you be Hindu. Belief in any number of gods is optional, including 0.
> "not if some people consider it offensive. that alone is a sufficient reason to support this change, even if you don't think it's necessary."

I looked at article and taking offense at some of the words for which changes have been proposed by Twitter is really far-fetched. Some examples:

- Grandfathered -> legacy status

- Sanity check -> quick check, confidence check, coherence check

- Dummy value -> placeholder value, sample value

Is there really a plausible case for somebody to be offended by the phrase "sanity check"?
GPT's take on the navy seal copypasta, in the style of a KGB spy:

"I have over 300 confirmed red scares."

Haha, that is genuinely one of the funniest versions of that I've ever seen, human-generated or otherwise. That level of inference is really amazing.
One small but I think important correction. Bezos owns the Post, not Amazon. It’s not a direct subsidiary relationship where the leaders of the Post report to the leaders of Amazon and news content could get immediately integrated.
Rota is sort of the RP Feynman of mathematics; his "Indiscrete Thoughts" was probably the best thing I read in 2019; I recommend it to anyone who enjoys two fisted tales of applied math.
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I'm also a foreigner to the USA. Not sure why that us being used as the reference point but OK.

It's really not hard - you actively seek out written or shared experiences, opinions and perspectives of the relevant people.

By all means people are welcome to have uninformed discussions that are doomed to trap them in an echo chamber. But if you want to have a well informed discussion and truly understand an issue then you'll try to diversify the participation and the evidence base.
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It’s great to see such an explosion in tooling here. It also seems really hard to write comparisons since there’s so much development going on. I haven’t tried Zettlr yet, but it’s on my list...
By deleting the blog, SA created a scenario in which if the NYT run their story about a significant blog, they're also left with how to address the readers' curiosity as the why the blog no longer exists.

The Times could address this directly, or not. In either case, the Times's outing of SA is made a major focus of the story. And to that degree, SA's action strikes me as exceptionally well considered, as it turns the Times's own strength and public status and reputation against itself. Far more so than any possible argument or appeal might.

And in terms of strategy and tactics, I have to admire the move regardless of the merits or insensitivity of the Times or its identification policy.

I think the questions surrounding identity really need deeper exploration, and that there isn't a simple pat answer.

There are cases where pseudonymity or anonymity is valid and justified, cases in which they are not. Cases in which at least some self-labelling is reasonable, others in which it's clearly not. Names and labels are powerful tools. As with all tools, it's how they're used and to what ends which ultimately determines morality.
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You are describing a problem inherent to using PostgreSQL, not OpenStreetMap itself. My presentation is specifically about my solution to this, which can easily import planet.pbf in 7-8 hours on a laptop with SSD, and can cut extracts for cities and countries like you describe based on minutely data:

https://2020.stateofthemap.org/sessions/JDNTHK/

https://github.com/protomaps/OSMExpress
He is protecting his business and stating his grounding. You were "used" by him for this, but he is not in the wrong.
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We are at less than 5% seroprevalence globally, and already more than 500,000 deaths. There are additional 95% (or e.g. 70% if you include population immunity effects, which are not particularly strong for COVID). So we are in for 15 times worse than we have today, assuming that healthcare systems all over the world will have the capacity to handle it efficiently (they won't).
Thanks for clarifying! Yes it's certainly more important. I hope your old co workers have also changed over time too!

Personally I've luckily not worked with any who were in the strongly disagreeing camp nor who expressed casually racist talk before - but I know a few who would roll their eyes at the whole "game".
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> Here are my observations as an actual epidemiologist

In your recent posts, you’ve said that you just applied for your PhD, that you are a “consultant software engineer” in finance, that you are studying physics and that you have a masters in CS. You really must be a renaissance man.
I would prefer humans not tell other humans to kill them selves because believe it or not some people actually do and some people really miss those people.
Years ago, I really liked PythonCard, but the last time I looked it seemed to have been abandoned.
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Nothing specific I don't think. All that has changed is the labeling of the most recent commit on the branch. Just keep doing your workflow as normal substituting "master" for "main" whenever you need to. e.g. for merges, rebases, and pull requests.
TB has a vaccine. Covid is novel, hence getting all the attention.
What manifests in the linked writing is a near-perfect articulation of the head-scratching argumentation made by old-school fiscal conservatives when confronting the actions of now-dominant social conservatives.

Calls to demonstrate conservative principles of small government, to spurn the transfer of funds from blue states to red states, and to reject racist policies are appeals to fiscal conservatism and proponents of small government. Unfortunately for the author, that's a plainly antiquated cause in American conservative politics.

The wedge issues, antagonistic framing, and outright racism leveraged to build a coopted support base have broken out of the petri dish and taken over the host, leaving old school fiscal conservatives and small-government idealists thoughtfully trying to state their points as they get shoved into a school locker or quietly shaking their heads as they wonder how to make the trade off worth it.

In a way, it represents a now set-aside third political body, one that liberals would do well to include, learn from, and leverage. There are people who wish to ask interesting questions, theorize, advocate, and meaningfully govern (even if it's in a very different way).
I wouldn't advocate holding any sort of discussion in a burning building or when exigent circumstances demand urgent action. Pausing for a chat while people are, at that moment and in that place, being "rounded up for transport to concentration camps" seems irresponsible. If someone interrupted a conversation to tell me they were having a heart attack, I wouldn't tell them off for lacking nuance.

But conversations don't take place in those circumstances. Those circumstances stop conversations, which can only take place when people have the space to talk or write, making and critiquing arguments, and so on.

To return to my original point: there seems to be an underlying worry that the people we should be listening to about race, who should be part of those conversations, are incapable of nuanced conversation, either nuance of tone or nuance of content, which strikes me as deeply patronizing and nakedly racist.

Either that or it's an attempt to shut down conversation in case the "nuance" tends to show one party's arguments to be false.
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Yes, good point. I would support a more local regulation on much of this (same for Airbnb, I see no reason why people in the sunset should determine whether people in bernal can short term rent their properties).

Personally, I don't think you should have to get universal agreement either. Maybe a simple majority? Life does chance, cities grow to new borders, single family zoning that made sense a generation ago can be absurd later.

As for zoning vs private contract... well, for historical reasons, that's just how it works in older urban neighborhoods. That's the mechanism by which these property rights are decided. It's not ideal. But at my core, I do think the right to live in areas with certain building restrictions is a kind of personal property right just as real as the right to build whatever you want.
I appreciate your comment, even if it's unpopular. I agree that our priorities (as a society) are out of whack and not supported by the data. In my opinion I think we have much bigger problems than corona, but people are largely driven by whatever makes the front page of their preferred media platform every day.

If anything, this corona thing has taught us that we can make real changes if needed. The truth is, people don't want to fix many of the problems we face day to day, for a variety of reasons, but largely because fixing them would be unprofitable for a small number of people who control most of the means of production.
Yep. That was obvious.

Thanks!
Really, by the end, the author has reversed the situation to do the very thing complained of: science used to assuage the mores and anxieties of a given time. The issue, however, is that the underlying anxiety (whether in the Victorian Era or now) is the same: the desire that the future be eternal and the same as now, if not more so. So we don't even need to buy a new car or leave our homes. If we do nothing, surely the world won't move beneath our feet. Vast as it is, surely we can pretend the universe the opposite of a closed system.
I got the error with chrome several days ago but im seeing less of it now.
If a developer doesn't include parking spots in a building, can't you just not go there? It's their choice to not prioritize customers using cars.
>It's an empty, performative gesture unless accompanied by a lot of bigger structural and organizational changes at Twitter.

It's a bit hard to take Twitter's stance seriously after they have tried so hard not to intervene with @realDonaldTrump.
I've taken the Udacity Flying Car nanodegree recently (during their free month promotion). It's from 2018.

Plusses:

* neat environment to work with: there's a drone and plane simulator based on Unity3D's Unity Player and NVIDIA PhysX that you connect to from Python, as well as another full simulator implemented with OpenGL (in C++).

* Considerable ground covered: representation, path planning, drone control, estimation, even basics of sensor fusing. Optionally, you can implement a full autopilot for a fixed wing plane.

Neutral:

* All the boilerplate code is provided (Python, C++), and you're asked to fill in the blanks here and there. So, one avoids a lot of hassle. On the other hand, you know, the instructions say "Compute the new variance matrix after the transition using the formula \Sigma_t = G \Sigma_{t-1} GˆT + Q", and then you plug in the line

ekfCov = G * ekfCov * G.transpose() + Q;

and now you've implemented an Extended Kalman filter in C++. Right.

Minuses:

* quite some mistakes. The course seems to get little love and few updates or bug fixes. If I had paid for it, I'd be miffed.

* not too much going on in the chat and discussion forum.

As to your points:

1. more "vocational" courses: Yes. Some of it seems more or less designed to quickly train the next generation of code monkeys.

2. paid model: Absolutely. Without the COVID-19 free month, this would have cost EUR 400 per month. Steep.

3. anytime you want: Agreed, the social element was pretty thin. I had the one month deadline before the billing would kick in, so that was useful for self-motivation.

4. more variety: yes, hard to identify good ones, particularly in combination with #2 (pay to study).
I'm fairly sure this would only work within a certain speed range, cars have suspension, there's other noise to contend with, and human hearing is limited.
> I’d send you links, but I’m on a phone.

Off topic but I feel like this all the time too. What do you think would have to change about your phone to not feel like this? Voice commands? UI changes?
Not letting it hijack our attention and focus doesn't have to mean lifting control measures. It just means that we need to transition back to thinking about and tackling other problems as well, rather than saying "none of this matters because of the virus".
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Slightly off topic: Does somebody have a recommendation of a toolkit or library for simple data entry and display with Python? Basically I want to replace Excel/Calc for mostly tabular data, because I hate the programming and data access model (e.g. instead of writing B$8 or sum(A9:A23) I would like to have map/reduce function with reasonable variable names). But the presentation and entry speed is much better with spreadsheet software, than when using some ad-hoc plain text format for simple parsing with python.
It’s still insignificant in comparison to even 1918 pandemic - and minuscule even, with population growth since then.
May I suggest "who is learning?"
That's orthogonal to density, isn't it? It's pretty common knowledge that very restrictive homeowner's associations are not rare for single family homes, mandating strict lawn grass standards and such.
Roughly the same number. The lock down was not effective.
Oh I know everyone does it. I’m just pointing out the silliness of being surprised when it turns out history didn’t start with us. No denigration intended
What's the quality of those new users though? The people signing up to FB for the first time in 2020 are probably not prime.
All those people are completely irrelevant to the global economy. People dying in the first world, on the other hand, will affect the economy.
There are obviously situations where one might have a discussion without the person being discussed being present. The point is that if the discussion might affect those people, they should be represented. That could be by the people having the discussion actively seeking out resources to genuinely learn the perspective of the people in question, but where at all possible it should involve them.

> Having to tip-toe and be afraid of voicing our opinion on racial topics such as this one.

I'm a white person and am not at all afraid of voicing my opinion on racial topics, but that's often not important to do. Far more important is to listen or actively seek out and learn from other (affected) people's perspectives. If you're afraid of voicing your opinion it's because you haven't made a good faith attempt to learn about the subject, and have formed an uninformed opinion. Learn and then think and then maybe speak. Everyone doesn't have to have their stupid opinions respected.
Can you give some examples of what would go wrong with no criminals?
In fact the paper explicitly discusses (p. 14-16) potential synergistic effects between zinc and hydroxychloroquine, and provides references to another study suggesting the same. Care to comment, Doctor?
I agree with your assessment. Most of the MOOC websites have shifted to being much less academic, more applied and are pushing paid credentials. It doesn't seem like most of the top universities are creating much new content for Coursera or Edx compared to 2013.

I mostly use MIT open courseware for self learning. A lot of course websites are also online and if I hear about an interesting course at some University I'll just google the course number. Stanford online and MIT ocw have a lot of lectures on their YouTube channels and I've found some interesting lectures just searching YouTube for a topic. When I wanted assignments and lectures for Russell and Norvig's AI textbook, I googled "Russell AI course" and stumbled on Berkeley's AI course. I've been enjoying it.

How has the social aspect + taking the course with others helped you in the past? I never found it that important. But I have always preferred self learning even in college.
Bandcamp experience for an artist is good but the backend could sure do with a spruce, particularly the reporting and the API for merch fulfilment.

That said anything pushing against the chilling affect of Spotify is a win.
I don't know a lot about google maps, but I worked on the zoomable image formats used in Google Arts and Culture. It's quite interesting, because they tried to prevent the image tiles from being downloaded by signing tile URLs and encrypting the JPEG images. I think there is a lot to learn about the format by reading the sources of dezoomify :

- https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify/blob/master/dezoomers/g...

- https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify/blob/master/dezoomers/g...
Then you are not in favour of free speech, and logically should believe that mainstream comedians like Jimmy Kimmel, Jack Whitehall, Jimmy Carr, etc.. should all be deplatformed and their lives destroyed, just like this man's. They've all said terrible, mean, things to formulate jokes.

Or does your rule only apply when the little guy does something offensive?
> Following the declaration of secession by South Carolina on December 20, 1860, its authorities demanded that the U.S. Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor. On December 26, Major Robert Anderson of the U.S. Army surreptitiously moved his small command from the vulnerable Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island to Fort Sumter, a substantial fortress built on an island controlling the entrance of Charleston Harbor. An attempt by U.S. President James Buchanan to reinforce and resupply Anderson using the unarmed merchant ship Star of the West failed when it was fired upon by shore batteries on January 9, 1861. South Carolina authorities then seized all Federal property in the Charleston area except for Fort Sumter.

To summarize:
1) South Carolina secedes.
2) South Carolina demands the Union remove its troops from their soil.
3) The Union refuses, garrisons a fortress on foreign soil, and attempts to resupply said garrison.
4) South Carolina offers an ultimatum--remove your soldiers or we will attack.
5) The union refuses to remove their troops from foreign soil.
6) South Carolina's militia attacks Ft. Sumter.

South Carolina's militia fired the first shots, but I'm not sure how you can say that they 'Initiated hostilities'. Occupying foreign soil has always been considered an act of war.
History is written by the victors, I suppose.
Let me double-down on a bolder argument. Removing minimums doesn't inconvenience vehicle users. It doesn't remove any parking spots that already exist. It doesn't bring in more vehicles than previously existed. If a new business expects to rely on driving customers, it will still build parking. If a new housing development expects to attract driving residents, it will still build parking for them.

There are plenty of people who don't drive and currently have to pay a slight premium for a parking space they don't use. The market currently cannot efficiently serve those people. I am one of those people. Removing parking minimums helps people like me, and honestly doesn't effect people like you. Just because such a change wouldn't do anything in particular to help vehicle owners doesn't mean it's going to hurt them either.
This obviously works well when it comes to Alice and Bob's little dispute, assuming we don't have a personal connection to either.

This approach doesn't scale up to meet most of the world's difficult and interesting questions and problems. Issues of society, race, gender, economy, and so forth affect all of us.

How can there ever be a disinterested party when it comes to matters of national or societal importance?
> Low subscription prices are sustainable when the subscriber base is growing and continually bringing in more money, but at some point most of the customer base has been reached and then the only way to increase revenue is to raise prices.

This makes no sense. These services charge a monthly fee. What you are saying only applies to business models that charge a single upfront fee.
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The original question was

> how much of this nuance is achieved by having discussions about issues which have real life-or-death impacts on people but without having any of those people inconveniently present?

Followed by an assertion that

> A group of X people is [not] capable of of empathising with, understanding and having a nuanced opinion of the concerns of !X people

So I think there are people advocating that you should be speaking only if you lived it.

Of course, anecdotes and personal experiences are valuable and including people with personal experience is helpful, but the central claim here is that you can have productive discussions about X without anyone with personal experience with X.
I can't comment on our plans, but I personally totally agree with you and would love an API (and will continue to advocate for one!). Supportify is super cool :)
That "Swipe to delete" feature looks really annoying/cumbersome. Is there a way to turn that off and get a simple backspace key?
This might the most positive comment thread in the history of Hacker News?
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> Should you be able to trade your right to construct whatever you want in exchange for a legally enforced expectation that your neighbors will be similarly restricted in what they can build?

This is an excellent point.

Zoning ensures you can buy a nice quite house which is surrounded by other nice quiet houses and they won't be suddenly replaced by high-rise buildings. For most people housing is their single largest asset and asking them to "just move" is not a particularly nice solution

Without legislated zoning this would still be possible but only in gated communities or similar. I'm not particularly familiar with US law in this area but local regulation seems to be a reasonable way to accomplish this.

Where I live a lot of people are complaining about the opposite problem: developers are constructing 7-story buildings in quiet areas, sometimes just outright replacing green spaces.

I personally live in a very crowded central area but still believe that suburban areas should be accommodated.
So one philosophical issue I've had with entropy is that it is based on probability. But it is applied even to non-quantum systems that evolve in a deterministic fashion. How can we talk about the uncertainty of a system that is in a single, well known, predictable state? And with many-worlds interpretation, even the quantum wavefunctions evolve in a deterministic manner.

How can we reconcile this? We can say that the system is not probabilistic, but it is approximately probabilistic. If it is only approximately true, does that mean we can find a loophole in the laws of thermodynamics?
Oh do go on about how the free market will effectively solve public externalities.
Vector tiles with OpenLayers doesn't feel as smooth to me compared to MapboxGL or Tangram https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/mapbox-style.html but it seems to be improving rapidly.
>Let's face it if the pilots weren't flying intercepts they'd need to be flying training missions

Is this really the case? Are there training missions 24/7? If not, does flying an intercept cause a future training mission to be canceled?