skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the same vein that "hate speech" means "political opinions we disagree with", "animal cruelty" really means "animal cruelty towards animals we don't like for reasons we don't like"
The numbers wind up pretty grim. 43% of white students are legacy or athletic, 3/4 of those are otherwise inadmissible, so that's 32% of white students ALDC and inadmissible otherwise. Harvard is 44% white, so it's 30% (academically) competitively chosen white. That compares to 58% of the overall college population in the U.S.
http://docopt.org/ ?
One of the best PMs I worked with was actually an administrative assistant and never finished his college degree. He is now a real leader in our technology space.
Folks here probably already know, but any time I see functional and python in the same sentence, I like to remind folks about Hy: https://github.com/hylang/hy

I think it operates on the AST in python, which is also nifty.
Even the Apple Watch remote camera app asks you to unlock the phone first so it seems like it’s not possible.
Bingo! You’re not the first non-native English speaker who I’ve heard say that they don’t understand blacklist but immediately understand blocklist. This is language change for the better.
Ironically, medical researchers wouldn't have learned those mitigation techniques (like Dexamethasone) without a large population of patients to use as experimental subjects. In other words, if we succeed in slowing down the spread (which would be a good thing) then medical research into treatments and vaccines will also slow down.
If their customers have significantly reduced income due to the pandemic, SaaS companies will get hit as well, even if they work from home, and their immediate customers (other businesses) do so as well.
In my bachelor's degree, I spent two weeks of one course, tops on O(this) and O(that).

I suppose I spent two courses studying computational complexity, but reducing it to O(this) and O(that) does not quite do it justice.
Do you have demos of current sites using this?
And this costs over $300 an hour.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/...
Read that Wikipedia page with a different mindset and look up the origins of Dropbox.

> , the term MVP is commonly used, either deliberately or unwittingly, to refer to a much broader notion ranging from a rather prototype-like product to a fully-fledged and marketable product.[9]
Patently untrue. The organization known as corporation, sort of. All of this is a red herring related to the point of cost internalization.
Did the government force it upon Americans, or did Americans democratically agree that this is the system they wanted?

I know it's easy to throw around "force", but in the end, one lives in a democratic country.
> How come 0.05% died and not 1% to 2%? Isn't this evidence that the coronavirus isn't as big as a threat as we thought? I mean 0.05% deaths is 40 times smaller than 2% deaths.

Naive death rate is deaths/totally cases of infection, not deaths/total population. Most of Sweden never contracted covid in the first place.

A first approximation of Sweden's covid death rate would be around ~7.4% to date (almost certainly lower in practice bc total infections > officially diagnosed)
I never realized as I myself argued against minority affirmative action that white affirmative action was so massive. It seems it is actually the bigger issue by far.
Anyone wanting a more mature library for 3d maps, https://deck.gl/ is pretty good and made by Uber.
What Should the Government Spend to Save a Life?
See also https://danluu.com/discontinuities/
It shows the same thing for last elections
> I don't understand how people assume it is healthy to breathe through a mucus-laden cotton sheet filled with microorganisms captured from the air, ...

Tell that to the millions of people who go skiing every year, or the people who work in hospitals all day long, every day.

I wash my mask every time I use it and I rotate through several of them. Nobody is asking you to wear a dirty mask.
Some people - and the companies they operate - will, given the option, on principle, not take money which they have not earned.

In the event that they did/do accept said money they did not earn, and that money was applied effectively and literally saved their asses in an emergency that they were not properly prepared for - they would never forget it and do whatever it took to repay this money that saved their life because they are grateful.

These examples do exist, I know personally know of some and maybe you do too...or not? But that's what I am getting at: everyone has different morals and values. Further, it's helpful to know what those are (when manifested into the form of a corporation) because then we get to make informed choices about who want to work for and with based on value systems. We vote every day with our feet, our dollars, and our attention.

Would I rather work for an employer who did what it took to navigate the Covid shitstorm on their own dime or the one who needed a lifeline and didn't even have the decency to pay back what was never theirs to begin with? Obviously.

Why do you think people are so interested in this data set? Many are acting on this intel in more ways than you think!
Okay, it's wider than just GMail, I had missed the addition of Drive, but according to that link an audit is just required for

> Drive - Any Drive API scope that permits an application to read, modify, or manage the content or metadata of a user’s Drive files, without the user individually granting file-by-file access.

I could be wrong, but to me this suggests you can use the Sheets API against a user-specified document without it. It has it's own namespace of scopes that's not under drive.X
Northeast for the most part, heard it as far south as NC
also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4gGxRlzoKI
At a fundamental level, yes. By degree of magnitude not even in the same galaxy. If you take a 200 million mile road trip you might contribute to one death, vs. going to a party and risk contracting and spreading a pandemic that has has already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
How does the invisible hand of the market determine "those who did not really need it" ?
Unrelated: Is there any connection between the author and the other sam[]zdat who writes about society and other intriguing topics?

https://samzdat.com/
A more Coconutty way to write this might be:

[1, 2, 3] |> map$(def (x) -> y = x + 1; return y)

Which looks even less Pythonic.
> It's not fun, but suggesting that your right to fun should trump others' right to life is, again, uncivilized, immoral and irresponsible.

That's not the argument he was making. And as a society we have to accept some negative externalities and weigh up the benefits, otherwise things like (recreational) road-trips would be banned.
Christianity teaches that Jesus was God, so in that story, the same person who created all the atoms in the universe turned water into wine, presumably with the same power.

That’s only to say you have a more fundamental disagreement than the truth about this one incident.
Yes, the death rate has dropped and is now down to normal.
Companies love open source projects with MIT-style licenses. If you license your project GPL, no company will touch it, unless they really, really have to.
Twin vs sibling studies aim at quantifying what effect genetics has on IQ rather than environmental conditions. If there are hereditary components to it, then they most certainly can be mapped to some extent across population groups, as have a lot of other "traits". There are only so many ways to slice this, but it is unfortunately a delicate topic.
"On a country left completely unchecked?" not unchecked. There were a lot of closures and measures taken. Just not the same as elsewhere.

That would be almost 200 000 were it to be in America, and that's quite a lot of people to die in 3 or so months.

More than Vietnam+Korean wars put together and those wars lasted years.

So it's not a small number.
Unfortunately so much of security entails working around the technology you have, rather than implementing the best policies that make sense to everyone. At most companies, IT security is a cost center, so executives will only spend enough money to just pass the yearly audit and then stop. Which means a security operations center (SOC) that should be staffed with ten people gets by with just two. And making an upgrade to your SIEM's license got cut this year, which means you need to store fewer logs which means those two people have less data to work from. And the company is still using McAfee EPO because more modern endpoint solutions cost too much so malware is running rampant across the network.

In another reply I talked about my experience working as an infosec analyst at a company where we had to implement a policy against streaming media because our security monitoring tools could not handle the constant stream of data. That policy wasn't written because streaming media is inherently dangerous, it was written because the technology the IT security team had was not capable of monitoring the network when a bunch of people were streaming music on the corporate network.

Ultimately IT security is a racket of overpriced and outdated tools which forces CISOs to make decisions like that. If anyone is looking for an industry to disrupt, look at infosec. A startup could easily double the value of the software and still be able to cut the cost in half and they would just absolutely destroy the big vendors. And/or get a billion dollar exit when Cisco or Amazon buys you out.
How to Reform Welfare and Taxes to Provide Every Citizen with a Basic Income
People smoke, drink alcohol and do drugs. Those are much much worse than covid for your health. Sweden will still have much higher life expectancy than Denmark and Finland this year even though they got higher covid deaths since Sweden is much better at policing those drugs.
The intellectual pretzelism of this position is breath taking.

I have been reading up on these people and the belief is that only those who oppose welfare and taxation are morally OK to take it.

I will stop pointing out the astounding hypocrisy of the Randites when they accept that collective security is better than every dog for itself.
I remember in the old Nokia days and early android days when the camera shutter sound couldn’t be disabled (peeping Tom rules) adding an indicator similar to what webcams have could be possible heck you could potentially use the flash LED on its lowest setting.
this is exactly how see it as well.

My mother is 77 at risk from COVID - does she expect the neighbors kid not go to school to keep her "safe"?

Or that a 20 year old not have fun at the beach from now on so that she is "safe"?

Of course not, not a least bit, and she told me that herself. I admire her for it. I agree as well. Everyone is responsible for themselves.
> Classical economics thinks of people as "rational utility-maximizing actors", which doesn't approximate reality in quite a lot of ways. There's been a move toward more sophisticated models - like that people minimize regret more than they seek the optimal reward ("rational actors with regret minimization")

Even when entities (corporations, for example) are trying to maximize utility, and an optimal decision is desired, there are issues with how much time and resources can be spent making decisions, so optimality has to be bounded in various ways (do you wait for more information? Do you spend more time and compute on calculating what would be optimal? etc.).
All of that is very likely true, but I was arguing that the Argentine military was no match, not even close to a match to the UK Armed forces. The outcome was never in doubt, just casualty counts on both sides.
While that could possibly be true, it's worth noting that the database this thread is about can't really help support that claim as it exclusively contains data for loans over $150k (which might still cover some smallish businesses, but definitely not the smallest).
Look at deck.gl
Why did you only get 1k? Are there different tiers as well?
> when any sensible person will say "Hope he dies" or similar

Any utilitarian philosopher will support that sentiment if there is reason to believe that his death will prevent a large number of deaths. Sorta like a practical instance of the trolley problem.
While not explicitly specified, my comment was referring to deaths caused by the coronavirus. If you read past the first sentence you will also notice that I explicitly said that this is an unattainable standard and I have provided a number of countries that can be taken as reference for what an acceptable death rate might be.
That must be what they claimed I guess
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What's the fine print or reasoning that accounts for the difference between what you're led to believe you'll get and what you actually get?
Links to the fixed bug reports:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1578073

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/4833
This is exactly what needed to be done, in Sweden and elsewhere. Pay staff triple and have them stay with the old folks and get everything delivered by externals with as little contact as possible. And no new admissions into the care homes.
New H.266 codec uses half the data to stream 4K video
From the linked shell style guide:

> Indentation is two spaces. Whatever you do, don’t use tabs.

The recent obsession with 2 space indents is boggling to me. I find it much more difficult to read (especially in long blocks of code with lots of indentation switches) and I'm not even visually impaired.

They also apparently really don't like tabs, which I find interesting. Personally, I was converted to the tabs camp after learning how much better tabs are for accessibility. I'm surprised that Google of all places doesn't take that more seriously.
Vietnam is zero deaths and <400 total (most of those were imported), with no new infections in 80+ days.

At first, I thought it was the govt covering something up, but after so many months, along with closely monitoring things, I trust their numbers.

It is literally a source of national pride for them to have done so well, it would be very hard for them to hide things.

Quarantine, masks, isolation, cleaning, testing, contact tracing. ALL WORKED.
This highly cited April 11th study projected that Sweden would have 96,000 deaths by July 1st if it didn't institute a lockdown:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.11.20062133v...

The actual death toll was 5,400, and now the deaths are declining precipitiously. Of course every death is a tragedy, but the harm done from a national lockdown, which includes youth missing out on a year of school, and thousands of small businesses being destroyed, would have been more of one.

Like Michael Levitt, who's the 2013 Chemistry Nobel Laureate for research in complex systems, says, society has forgotten that people die.

10,000 people per million die every year in Sweden. That rate increasing by 500 is not that abnormal - it happens in bad influenza seasons. If every one was forced to stop working and shelter at home for months every time an infectious disease temporarily rose the death rate by 10%, it would lead to disaster over the long run.

90% of deaths in Sweden have been of those over the age of 70. If the statistics are anything like those in Italy, almost all of these victims had pre-existing conditions.

This is not to lessen the tragedy of their death. This is to point out that most of this tragedy predated their coronavirus infection - their life expectancy was already very limited due to other factors.
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i second that! this is ridiculous. i am subscribed to many french channels but i have no idea why arte would ever block this video...

the kind of things that only happens to music videos
Even ignoring the lockdown, there are a myriad of things that the federal govt could have done vastly better, yet failed or did the worst possible thing.

Preparation: not only failed to prepare, but dismantled agencies, fired/left empty key posts, de-funded key programs.

When first briefed on the threat, not only failed to start steps to stockpile key resources such as masks, activity reduced stockpiles by helping 3M sell overseas.

Reaction: Ignored, then actively downplayed the seriousness of the threat for months, silenced scientists, actively promoted false & sometimes deadly 'cures', actively turned mask-wearing from a simple & useful precaution to a partisan political statement, claimed science-based measures were opposition party ideas to tank the economy.

Actively impeded states from getting necessary gear - literally having federal agents seize shipments at loading docks, still unaccounted for =my state literally borrowed an NGL team airplane to fetch shipments of PPE from overseas so it could get to hospitals.

Ongoing: Deliberately rediced & slowed testing capability because the leader thinks that having more positive test results will hurt his reelection chances - would literally prefer people go undiagnosed & untreated than hurt his campaign.

Policy now seems to be turning ti "just live with it".

Nevermind the failure of leadership on the lockdown - every federal decision on this topic has, at best, focused improving on superficial appearance for the person occupying the president's chair, even if it actively undermines actual results. It is a rolling disaster, now exponentially growing again.
What's reasonable is exactly what's up for debate though and they didn't say "civilisation is 5000 fun utils to 1 QALY saved ratio but doing nothing about corona virus actually costs you 3 QALY for every 5000 fun utils so that's disgusting, what they said was

>It's not fun, but suggesting that your right to fun should trump others' right to life is, again, uncivilized, immoral and irresponsible.
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Even Ayn Rand gladly accepted social security in her later years.[1] That doesn't stop her or her followers from "being against" government welfare.

However, it does show that they are willing to bend against their principles. In the words of a great movie "Principles only mean something when you stick to them when it's inconvenient." [2]

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security/

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208874/quotes/qt0396978
For 2 crashes out of 387 aircraft and several hundred thousand flights to be considered unacceptably dangerous suggests the system is largely working as intended. The aircraft had 0 fatalities in US or EU, globally an order of magnitude safer than driving, and it was still grounded.

Imagine if we took car safety so seriously.
I picked Hamamatsucho to stay when I was in Tokyo. Walking distance to the tower one way and Shiodome the other - stopped by for the architecture and the clock. The Christmas lights are supposed to be pretty cool (they need to do those in May as well)

My serendipitous find was the Byron Bay Coffee shop a block up from the hotel for the best coffee I managed to find in Japan.
A static site hosting a git server with your projects could be considered a "Git account" of sorts
It's not possible to calculate that exchange rate, because you don't have access to the counterfactual. You're not taking the ratio of lockdown years to years lost to deaths, right? Both of those belong in the expenses side...
Also, for those who'd like to go down the rabbit hole of emulating classic Macintosh software, including HyperCard, I'd recommend Mini vMac.

https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/

And the Macintosh Repository: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/

I think I followed this article to get started: http://www.toughdev.com/content/2008/06/system-7-5-5-on-mini...

By building Mini vMac from source, and gathering ancient pieces of software over a few months, I was able to put together a fully working and practical Macintosh 7 running - on macOS, but possible to run on Windows and Linux as well.

HyperCard, SimCity Classic, Civilization, Lemmings, Berkeley Logo.. Such a joy.

Just now, I downloaded the Electronic Whole Earth Catalog from the Internet Archive, and imported into vMac. Ooh, too bad, I get a message:

> To access your files, you must mount this hard disk on a computer that has Mac OS 8.1 or later."

My vMac is running 7.5.5. Well, I'll try to extract it on host OS then import.
Mountlake Terrace (10.5% sales tax), Edmonds (10.4% sales tax), Lynnwood (head tax[1]), Bellevue and other cities that are on the periphery of Seattle have equal or higher taxes.

Seattle had a head tax up until 2008, if a minor increase in tax like this is going to stop hiring of employees, then our zone based business commuter tax scheme would have already been that death knell [2]

1 - https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/city-of...

2 - https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/transportation/metro/employ...
> while in USA, as far as I understand, the constitution greatly limits the right of states to prohibit interstate travel.

The US States have been imposing varying levels of requirements on inter-state travel from other states. New York requires anyone entering from a set of states to quarantine for 14 days[1]. Maine requires visitors from a list of States to have been tested (I'm traveling to Maine and will be getting tested ahead of my trip)[2]. These are just a couple handy examples, but it's true across the board.

And finally this is all moot because, per my original post, the results really speak for themselves: the majority of US States have lower per capita death rates than the major EU member states, and a small handful have lower per capita death rate than the best EU member states (Germany, Denmark).

[1] https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-in...

[2] https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/news/improving-public-h...
Yeah, I can see a definite need for this behavior, it would be nice if android required separate permission to access mic & camera while the screen is locked; if firefox additionally requested that permission per-site.
> Any death is unacceptable.

vs.

> what an acceptable death rate might be

Maybe you just misspoke?