skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In my opinion, it's unreasonable to expect that there would be studies on the effects of cloth masks."

That's fine, but there are lots of plausible interventions that have little/no evidence, and we don't mandate those by law. Why this one?

For example, the Lancet study commissioned by the WHO found that eye protection is about as supported by the available literature as surgical masks. Why aren't we all required to wear goggles?

I believe that "science" should not be used to mandate actions that have no scientific data backing them.

"it probably makes more sense to encourage people to purchase more reliable masks."

The issue there is still shortages. I don't buy surgical or n95 masks, because other people need them more than I do.
What do you do about images in this setup?
Engineering Mathematics - K.A Stroud

It's sometimes useful to see the context of mathematics and it's purpose beyond the intrinsic beauty.
Good call; AI Dungeon hadn't occurred to me!
>On top of this, there is decent reason to believe that there's a down-side to mask laws: too many people think that they can behave normally if they're wearing a mask, when the evidence simply doesn't support it.

I have seen this repeated many times but have not seen any evidence that really supports it. It just sounds like a common behavior. I would imagine the cross-section of people who are already going to act like it wasn’t a big deal and people who wear a mask that act like it’s not a big deal is already substantial. And while I also don’t have any data, I think it is as common sense as the other assumption and thus illustrates my point.
I'm torn.

What's better:

1) agree to their new terms and then opt-out

2) specifically disagree to the new terms but not be able to opt-out?

?
It seems the Data Science degrees are the biggest ripoffs.
In Hebrew, it's the word לְהַרהֵר pronounced hir'her, which is often translated as "meditate". From https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/hbd/m/meditation.htm...

> Most references to meditation occur in the Old Testament, especially in the Psalms. The Hebrew words for meditation primarily were derived from two separate roots. The first (hagah ) literally means “to utter in a low sound.” The word is used to denote the growling of a lion (Isaiah 31:4 ) or the cooing of a dove (Isaiah 38:14 ). Therefore it has been suggested that, in ancient Hebrew meditation, Scripture frequently was recited in a low murmur. The second root word (siach ) has the basic meaning of “to be occupied with,” or “concerned about.” Thus meditation is the repetitious going over of a matter in one's mind because it is the chief concern of life.

Just in case you're interested in other options :)
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> For example, the Lancet study commissioned by the WHO found that eye protection is about as supported by the available literature as surgical masks. Why aren't we all required to wear goggles?

Because masks are being recommended to work on outgoing virus. Unless you've evidence respiratory viruses spread significantly via jets of air emitted via your eyeballs, this is a weird argument.
The example with creating a person and then destroying it is different, because after creation it can continue to live independently from yourself. But if you create a person in your computer, that person can exist only as long as you provide the computational power for it to exist. In a way it is similar to abortion, where destroying a fetus is ok because it cannot exist on it's own, and the mother cannot be forced to provide her resources to it.
There are many different ways of doing this. What approach makes sense depends on the skills you have available and the scale you intend to do it at. There are several good examples suggested.

If you are looking for country scale water quality mapping, the it may be worth looking at the work of Akvo Foundation. We have helped more than a dozen countries, in collaboration with UNICEF in many of them, to do drinking water quality mapping in rural areas, on our open source service. We have covered an estimated 100+ million people with surveys. We also work with water quality in lakes and streams. Our mobile phone app is integrated with a suite of water quality sensors and testing methods.

https://akvo.org/safe-water-for-all/

Disclosure: I am one of the co-founders of Akvo.
True: first-floor retail is as old as multi-story buildings.

What is different about it now is the large number of stores that are accessible only from inside a single building.

I was in Portland last fall and there were these buildings on the river and one had a restaurant, a coffee shop, a spin class, and a work space in the same building, with the entrances near the elevators where tenants get immediate access. I've never see in that in Boston, San Fran or NYC, where the first floor is a business, but faces the outside street. The portland thing was like its own mothership on a block, rather than a bunch of mixed used places on a mile-long street.
I've worked in finance for the last 20 years. My code has never been audited and very rarely even peer reviewed. Then again, I work in back office and nothing web facing, so theres that.

When I was in high school in the 90s I did work at a bank after school. My job was to sort and file debit card applications. No one audited my work either. Part of my job when reviewing every card on file was to verify the balance on the account that backed the debit card. If the account balance was zero or less, I filled out a form to cancel the card to be faxed out in a batch. Typically had 20-50 cancellations per day in 3 hours of work. No one reviewed them before sent, the files were just filed away to be forgotten. Mind, this was a small rural bank, so that might have played into it.
The written content of images and the spoken content of videos on the internet?

Not sure about the monthly-bill thing. It'd have to be content that I'd want to search multiple times a week, and I don't think there's any like that.

Maybe a better pricing model would be a set number of searches? $5 for 100 searches or something like that? That might align better with the costs, too.
If the kid likes plane geometry and is interested in further math, I’d highly recommend Yaglom’s books Geometric Transformations. They are a series of (hard) problem-focused books which teach the ideas of transformation geometry in service of solving various construction problems.

In general transformation geometry is drastically underemphasized in American (and possibly other countries’) secondary and early undergraduate math education.
Covid-19 is here to stay. People will have to adapt
you're being downvoted, of course, yet are completely correct. this article is blatantly false with its claims, and is propaganda. they literally claim israel hasn't attacked civillian targets. news of attacks of arabs aside, they even shoot canadian medical staff, and are proud of it. the article is a sad joke.

the israeli government, run by russian jews, and is using stalin/nazi/china style information control. not just in media -they put people in jail for being vocal against their narrative -including americans, and including jewish americans. they go as far as calling non-zionist jews antisemetic. they are a violent nazi regime -israel is to jews what isis is to muslims. the drunken victim-playing uncle at thanksgiving dinner who tries to have sex with your kids in the closet.

i am a jewish. born in moscow, grew up in america. have lots of family in israel, and used to have more. some bailed out of there in disgust.

that country needs to go away. and it's easy to do -we just have to stop doing anything, and forget they exist. they hold a minority of jews -the most corrupt, violent, and embarrasing. without world support and aid, that little spot of dung will be crushed, as they are surrounded by enemies from all sides. most jews under 40 nowadays agree with me. they have less jews than the population of my city. it's not a country, and never has been.
Also an anecdote, but I know many people IRL who have said "The reason we should be able to open back up is everyone knows to wear a mask now."

That doesn't mean people shouldn't wear masks, but... it's definitely the wrong takeaway.
For the right price they would sell like hot cakes
I wonder what this will do to the huge amount of dead weight in University administration. I imagine the demand for useless positions like "head of diversity and inclusion" will dry up, further driving the costs down.
"because masks are being recommended to work on outgoing virus. Unless you've evidence respiratory viruses spread significantly via jets of air emitted via your eyeballs, this is a weird argument."

If you read the Lancet paper, you'll find that they pooled papers for source control and PPE together to arrive at their conclusions. In fact, most of the papers they used in that meta-analysis were for surgical masks used as PPE (personal protective equipment) in a medical setting.

In other words, the advocates for masking are doing the same thing that you're saying is weird. If you try to break the analysis down according to specific lines of evidence (i.e. source control for the public), you quickly find that there's not enough data to draw any conclusion.

On the other hand, the argument in favor of this kind of pooling is straightforward: if your end goal is to reduce transmission of a virus, and you find that goggles are highly effective at preventing infection, then it doesn't matter very much. Tell everyone to wear goggles instead, and forget about the masks. Transmission will still be reduced.
> most "experience" provided in the workplace (with nice offices, nice chairs, window view, in a nice campus with amenities like catering etc) will be footed by the employee in a WFH setting

Will these expenses be as tax deductible for WFH employees as they are for business? Is live/work zoning common?
Hmmm. There's no way my 10 year old daughter would read beyond the first page of that thing. For 15-16 it's great.
I think the suggestion is that it's an anti-spamming measure, in as much as spambots use the paste-from-clipboard functionality.

I've no idea if that is remotely valid as an excuse.
Anecdotally, people give you a fair bit more space when you’re wearing a mask and clearly taking precautions than if you aren’t. I’d argue that in the current political climate, mask wearing might actually improve distancing measures. The people who aren’t wearing masks just don’t seem to give a shit. It’s a social signal about if you care about covid these days. I’m saddened that we can’t just make tonnes of melt blown and make n95s (that imo are more comfortable than normal masks cause they aren’t touching your lips) for anyone who wants them.
Yes. I really like the metallurgy version: An alloy can be denser than pure elements.
Other people with mental health problems say sincerely what you said sarcastically.

What do you want? Does what they want stand in the way of you getting it?
like we don't have enough programming languages already?
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It's an acronym for Wuhan Coronavirus. There are many coronoviruses and it's natural to use the place of origin to distinguish it from others. This is how we name other species and things in general. In science this is called binomial nomenclature.
It's currently believed SARS-CoV-2 spreads primarily via droplet, not aerosol.

Singing propels droplets further (as does any heavy/forceful breathing), and choirs tend to sit close together. Six feet likely isn't enough for a choir.

As for meatpacking, I've heard several interviews with workers that indicated the plants were only handing out one mask per shift, and they'd pretty quickly get contaminated by gore from the work, meaning in practice folks weren't wearing masks.
The logic is weird. Another example is factual question answering. Janelle Shane tried asking basic questions like how many eyes a horse has and GPT-3 insisting on 4; I retry with somewhat different prompting and sampling settings more finetuned to Q&A (...sampling can reveal the presence of knowledge but not its absence...), and I get perfectly straightforward correct answers: https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1278798196555296771/photo/1 So GPT-3 does know how many eyes a horse has; but why was it also happy to answer '4'?
A good read for the Europeans who have been becoming increasingly proud to have societies that favor authoritarian nepotism. But who knows, maybe the Germans will start to see the irony of doing business with China and prosecuting comedians eventually.
Account deleted. Honestly given the pandemic (variations of cleaning standards between homes and hotels, and increased pricing) this was an easy choice.

From the email: "We know your privacy is important"

Airbnb should prove it by making this opt-in instead of opt-out (and not hiding the choice with a bunch of boilerplate). I expect these dark patterns from a shadier website, not Airbnb.

Edit: If you go through "Account settings" you are only given a choice to "deactivate" your account. To actually remove your information, go here: https://www.airbnb.com/privacy/manage-your-data
William Dunham has two books which are great: 1- Euler (The Master of us all) 2- Journey Through Genius.

John Stillwell’s Mathematics and Its History.

Needham’s Visual Complex Analysis.
France is choke-full of nuclear power plants. Can you remember a major nuclear power incident in last, say, 30 years?

I think that reactor standardization really paid off there. They have few types, a wide operation experience, and apparently well thought-out procedures.

This, of course, is hard to achieve without a massive rollout planned ahead.
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I don't know anything about what legal writing requires. Journalism requires editing and making calls about how to fairly and coherently convey quotes because of space and attention constraints because every story can't be a deposition.

We can debate the WIDS article but the most important things to me are 1. that there is actually a concrete objection that can discussed 2. how this case contributes, along with other cases, to produce the alleged pattern of behavior, namely the systematic (and willful?) negative erroneous reporting on tech leaders.

The cases you gave are not tech-elite related and the domains they cover are subject to different influences (e.g. liberal bias), though they may deserve their own scrutiny. I am also not familiar with the reporting on many of these issues and most of your examples don't cite actual articles. But I already agree that video news media (which seems to be mostly neutral or positive on tech anyway) is a joke and I exercise more skepticism when I read about polarized left/right issues, especially coming from a lower status or more uneven publications like Business Insider.

But with respect to tech I have not seen much evidence of these supposed routine fabrications from marquee print media.
IMO, Rudin is difficult not because of its proofs or lack of them (many proofs in discrete math can be no less brutal than anything in Rudin), rather that it's almost completely and utterly devoid of illuminating examples. For example, the definitions of "neighborhood", "limit point", "closed set", "open set", "bounded set", "perfect set", dense set" are crammed into a single definition 2.18 in chapter 2(Topology in Euclidean Spaces) in 3rd edition. The rest of the chapter is made up of theorems and corollaries. No related examples. On the other hand, Raffi Grinberg's analysis book meant to guide one through Rudin's book spends a whole chapter on elaborating on 2.18. And to be honest even that is barely adequate (totally inadequate, actually) if one wishes to become technically proficient in dealing with basic concepts in analysis with ease (that requires exposure to lots and lots of different examples). Although, probably, neither book has the latter as their goal.
cool, you can do it once, in college
In what way does Lineage break the Android security model?
Where has science been since quarantine started? Everything is heavily politicized, there's no shortage of bizarro faux-factual evidence for all kinds of nonsense. Someone sent me an article today about the _dangers_ of wearing a mask.

I agree that the rush to penalize people is unfortunate. On the other hand, I'm not sure what we can do (short of a national response) that would be more effective. Making these kinds of policy decisions strikes me as pretty out there for your town council person or even a state level legislator.
That's a rather eastern perspective. Mortal life ends and for the average Christian of any denomination, the burning issue is what comes after.
The legal situation is ultimately whatever your company signs off on. If you get approval - which may take some bureaucracy - then you're off the hook. There will be limits on what you can work on, and it might have to be nothing to do with your job. You mention arguing with the legal department, so perhaps it's challenging where you work and I don't want to assume there. However you lose nothing from engaging with them and asking - it's possibly something to ask your line manager about, though obviously don't say you're doing it because you want to look good in the job market!

If this is purely within the context of job applications - I would ask, does it actually matter? Any sane hiring manager will understand the constraints that you're under with your current employer. At the end of the day if they refuse to look at your application because you don't have repositories on GitHub (and they don't appeal to reason), then there isn't anything you can do about it. Job requirements are usually flexible and you'll probably find that a reputable company on your CV, a solid cover letter and references goes a long way. Usually you can persuade your way around things like not having an active Github profile.

Within the context of doing projects for their own sake (i.e. fun and learning), having this restriction is a trade-off of working at a large organisation. I suggested a number of ways which you could explore that scratches both itches.
Do developers fall under the buses?
If you like pictures, another couple nice books are Nathan Carter’s Visual Group Theory and Marty Weissman’s Illustrated Theory of Numbers, both of which should be accessible to motivated high school students.

http://web.bentley.edu/empl/c/ncarter/vgt/

http://illustratedtheoryofnumbers.com
They should of optioned Cyberpunk 2077. Season 3 of Westworld was just a copy of Cyberpunk 2077 trailers anyway.
> On top of this, there is decent reason to believe that there's a down-side to mask laws: too many people think that they can behave normally if they're wearing a mask, when the evidence simply doesn't support it.

But you are just making that one up. You don't have studies showing people wearing masks taking more risk than non-masks wearing people. Also, the scientists talk about effectiveness of masks it is not like I had seen a single one claiming it is perfect.

This whole argument is just being manipulative. Trying to pretend it is all about science and precision, when it is nothing like that.
Yeah, the amount of energy arguing about not changing the terminology; which can be changed to better reflect what it is, is mind boggling.

I can understand arguing what terminology should be used instead. Those arguments tend to be way more civil discussions and don't last long, and a way better set of terminology is set.
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I stumbled on Q.E.D by Feynman at a young age - it had a deep influence on me. I also read parts of "the mathematical experience" by Davis and Hersch, and "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter.

It's not really maths, but Spacetime Physics: Introduction to Special Relativity would have been great for me at that age.

The Princeton Companion is a cool book, but it'd be better suited to a graduate in mathematics.
Metamathematics by Kleene. Fairly accessible math, mostly new and developed from the start it takes one into compatibility theory and formalization of maths in a way that makes Godel easy to understand and just full of cool ideas that are very relevant to today’s world of computers and the limits to certainty.
Things are either forbidden by the laws of physics or possible, so yeah it is physically feasible. But it is not within the bounds of reality because the cores for those two reactors are millions of dollars and the weights don't include the shielding necessary to operate without dying.

Those space reactors are indeed awesome. Nuclear has a rich future in space in almost all possible scenarios where humans continue to exist.
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Chess is racist, blacks always move second and are thus at a disadvantage. Cancel chess.

Daoism is racist, yin is black and has negative connotations. Cancel Daoism.

Star Wars are racist. Droids are enslaved, C3P0 even calls his owner 'Master Luke', a racially-charged word. Cancel Star Wars.

Education is racist. Issued Master's degrees use a racially-charged word. Cancel education.

"To kill a mockingbird" is racist. It is full of insensitive language and it makes reader feel uncomfortable. Cancel "To kill a mockingbird".

"Mysterious island" by J.Verne is racist. The only black character is a servant to a wise white engineer and serves mostly as a comedic relief. Cancel "Mysterious island".

Coal industry is racist, miners are always mocking blacks wearing blackface after every shift. Cancel coal mining. (Good for environment, too!)

Disclaimer: I'm so insensitive because I was born with a white privilege, which I greatly enjoyed since my early childhood in an industrial/mining town in the Ural Mountains, near the eastern border of Siberia.
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I mean it's really Ugg's fault for hitting Ogg with that rock in 50,000BC when you get down to it.

Good examples though, worth noting that some roman road paths are still used in the UK (our new roads just went over the top) - the past is a fascinating land.
Sorry astronomers, black holes and white dwarfs are cancelled.
Before the spread of disposable masks (a few dozens of years back), the masks were made of cloth. Look at the pictures from the 1918 fever for example. I guess studies were made, it would be interesting to know what people thought.
Medical settings are concerned largely with PPE that protects the staff, and a number of healthcare procedures are aerosol-generating.

Mask wearing for COVID is targeted at reducing likelihood of spreading to someone else.

> If you try to break the analysis down according to specific lines of evidence (i.e. source control for the public), you quickly find that there's not enough data to draw any conclusion.

We're going to get a lot of data soon, but for the time being, it's probably best to err on the side of "something that stops droplets probably helps stop a disease spread by droplets".
> It just hardly seems like much of an inconvenience.

Not arguing that any of this is a good enough reason to not wear a mask right now, but, I find them pretty darn inconvenient.

It's very uncomfortable. It fogs up my glasses when I’m inside, and covers up a large part of my field of view even when I’m outside. I can't ride my scooter at all because with that field of view loss, I'm worried I'll crash into something. Talking is more difficult, both projecting enough to be heard through the mask and straining to hear others.

I've tried several different masks at this point, so I don't think that's it.