skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Far UVC is supposedly safe for humans.

> To continuously and safely disinfect occupied indoor areas, researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center have been investigating far-UVC light (222 nm wavelength). Far-UVC light cannot penetrate the tear layer of the eye or the outer dead-cell layer of skin and so it cannot reach or damage living cells in the body.

https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/far-uvc-light-safely-kil... ("Far-UVC Light Safely Kills Airborne Coronaviruses")
> I think it should be possible, but should be very obvious to the user when an app is doing this (and should require extra permission to be granted).

I disagree with the permission part, I hate how everyone's solution to any problem is to just add a toggle or another level of complexity to the app.

But the solution to the first part is easy and something that already exists all over Android. Simply have a persistent notification saying "The camera is currently active" which can't be dismissed until the camera is turned off. This is used in newer version of Android for any background task doing non-trivial work, really.
Previous Discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13939645

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19498073
Can you explain what you actually... did? What were the four categories? How did your client make money from this?
For backend engineers out there, knowing how to build a simple GUI will help make your tools more accessible to a wider audience. This makes your work more visible, and therefore more valuable to stakeholders.
That was the end of Made in America for Apple. They moved production to low-wage plants and quit designing for automated assembly.
Will have to second this. I didn't find godep more usable than glide, and I find vgo (current Go module implementation) to be far superior to godep.
That is the estimated risk of death, not the risk of becoming a carrier of the disease, possibly an asymptomatic one, who spreads it to others.

This is what's really frustrating about this whole "trade-off" argument: it's fine to make trade-offs for yourself, but you do not have the right to implicitly force your choice on others. If you sit within six feet of me not wearing a mask, my risk of falling off a mountain does not increase by any measurable amount. If you have Covid-19 and don't know it yet, the same cannot be said.
That's a really great idea, actually. The majority of people worry about money not because they literally can't survive, but because there are too many, complex, choices to make about money. Maybe I want a nice car but a shitty apartment, I could get the gold transport package and the bronze apartment package, or whatever.
Presumably if it’s not being used then it also doesn’t have to ever be fixed (either by the owner or the manufacturer).
> many people within the Black Lives Matter movement are openly in favor of it

You mean like in general, or in very specific spaces? Because while there are black separatist groups that exist, they're fringe-of-fringe.

> And the California legislature just recently passed a bill to re-legalize racial discrimination.

I think we'll agree to disagree that legalizing affirmative action policies is a setback in racial equality.
A 2011 Gallup survey reports, "Three in 10 Americans interpret the Bible literally, saying it is the actual word of God. That is similar to what Gallup has measured over the last two decades, but down from the 1970s and 1980s.... In the Reformation, Martin Luther (1483–1546 CE) separated the biblical apocrypha from the rest of the Old Testament books in his Bible, reflecting scholarly doubts that had continued for centuries,[15] and the Westminster Confession of 1646 demoted them to a status that denied their canonicity.[16] American Protestant literalists and biblical inerrantists have adopted this smaller Protestant Bible as a work not merely inspired by God but, in fact, representing the Word of God without possibility of error or contradiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_literalism
For DuneII or Dune 2000?
If Facebook etc. wouldn't exists if users knew their prices – ad-infested websites require everyone to pay because companies recoup the cost of advertising by charging higher prices – then by the logic of a market economy they shouldn't exist.
The net loss for Google in 2000 does not seems to be that high: http://web.archive.org/web/20110709150010/http://www.sec.gov...

There was nothing wrong with AdWords in terms of privacy in 2001, but Larry/Sergey should have been considering alternatives to it if at all possible.

Getting rid of projects like the Google Toolbar would likely have helped a lot by reducing expenses: http://web.archive.org/web/20010330065621/http://toolbar.goo...

Anyone remember the Google Search Appliance for example?

Google IPOed in 2004 with 99% of revenue being ads, which caused problems during the 2007-2008 recession https://wiki.fuckoffgoogle.de/index.php?title=Google_Agonize...
I've often thought that municipal or even state governments should make available an interactive budget tool for constituents using this kind of visualization.

The purpose would be to show that everything the gov't does is connected through incoming taxes and outgoing expenditures - and there are very tough choices when it comes to the direction of taxes.
I can't really say except that obviously non-ALDC white students are a much smaller proportion of Harvard's class than undergraduate students overall. My guess is that they have target numbers for diversity. Since the overwhelming majority the ALDCs are, due to economic and historical factors, white, it is quite difficult to get into Harvard if you're white and your parents didn't go to Harvard, dont' work at Harvard, aren't rich enough to make a big donation, or aren't moderately wealthy and savvy enough to get you into some obscure Harvardy sport like rowing.
That’s older than the one I was going to post, but probably still of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem_Wars
If you read the comment you replied to again, you'll note that they didn't claim there was no excess mortality in Sweden. I'll quote the relevant bit here for you:

> For Sweden the excess deaths almost exactly matches the number of Covid deaths, give or take 10%.
Barriers of entry exist and have nothing to do with rules.
tl;dr: she didn't (that is what the article concludes.)

I was expecting a enraged rant or a call to cancel. But instead, it was a well-balanced article about creator vs creation and becoming an adult.

(I still dislike the title)

EDIT: Flagged for what exactly?
Study reveals science behind traditional mezcal-making technique
> This is a key difference between EU and USA - the Schengen agreement allows member states to temporarily "opt out" of the free travel, reinstate border controls and impose travel restrictions (up to a full closure of borders) for various purposes, and many EU countries did just that due to Covid; while in USA, as far as I understand, the constitution greatly limits the right of states to prohibit interstate travel.

The Supreme Court has directly addressed this in the case of disease epidemics and found that, in the absence of specific Congressional action preempting such regulations, states are free under the Constitution to respond to epidemic disease (and several other kinds of crisis) by enacting and enforcing travel restrictions, even though they impact interstate commerce.

While no state has adopted border closures for containing COVID-19, several have adopted quarantine policies affecting interstate travel and adopted border checkpoints as part of the enforcement mechanism.
Dividing humans into categories is dying
Minimal might not be the word you're looking for; a truly minimal lisp just has lambdas, from which you can implement everything else.
I find it surprising; inhibiting the copying of the Bible would seem to contradict most of the goals of the Church.
>I had one major problem with B12 back in the day. Now I get regularly tested for B12 levels and correct it before it completely destroys my life.

If it's not too sensitive, can you elaborate on how it completely destroyed your life? Genuinely curious.

A cursory search suggests fatigue and poor cognitive performance can result from B12 deficiency. It seems likely that mental health issues can easily follow from that.
Yes, the nearest neighbor search problem is exactly the problem of finding nearest neighbors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearest_neighbor_search
There are libraries that fix that: https://pypi.org/project/sh/ if you are in position to use external libraries.
It does if you create large cells and stick paragraphs in. Make sure the width of the cell is enough for 12-15 words. Images also work just fine. It truly boils down to "uglyness" and not functionality. "Easy to digest" is a subjective term.

Excel sheets are essentially rectangular grid with borders. Grids have been used since the 60's in graphic design, primarily championed by the Swiss Grid System (Josef-muller brockmann, et. al).

So if you say that excel sheets are not a good instrument to convey information, you're saying that a grid like structure is not good at laying out information in a logical, understandable fashion. Which is provably false - everything from Tax forms to road signs, every bit of graphic design professionally conducted uses the grid system.

Think a bit deeper than just aesthetics and ask yourself, what exactly is an excel sheet? It is a bunch of boxes. Whether those are div elements or excel cells, what's the difference? Padding and margins?
Well, today had a couple of news items:

- women abandoning republican party - https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/07/republicans-women-s...

- republic woman not campaigning against Biden - https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/506256-susan-collins-sig...

- book about Trump ( of his niece)

...

To be honest, I'm not sure if I'm in a bubble. Didn't had the problem before ( Belgium), some people truelly believed for a while that Trump was good for the US. But all of them seem to have changed their opinion.

I believe it's easier when people start to see how dumb he is, for not "supporting" him anymore.

I'm not sure if it's me, since it's the first time they all changed their opinion in a reasonable short time ( 6 months ). I haven't followed up on my brothers business relations about this subject, I'll try soon though.

Also, I think I'm pretty objective. But I'm having similar doubts as you. So I think that's good?

We'll c. I'd say: don't forget to vote :)

Good luck
A) a 2/3 requirement would mean nothing gets passed, benefitting the only party that gains by obstructing legislation, the Republican Party

B) it doesn’t matter how high the bar is set when one side refuses to do their half of bipartisan responsibility (see impeachment)

When people are strictly divided, the barrier to pass something should be lower so that elections change things again. A government that can’t act might as well not exist. There’s no point in holding elections if legislators never pass any change. The liberal values that make the West free depend on civic engagement.
Isn't live video just bytes being relayed around, thus you can serve encrypted content and have something in the client decrypting it into playable video?

If so you can reuse everything that the satellite TV industry (one single feed being broadcast across the entire continent) for their pay-TV DRM.
Care to elaborate how could a household receive 4k plus in stimulus? Was it 4 different people who had earned 99k or less in one household?
I think this is a great idea but for whatever reason, hardware that is disabled until I pay pisses me off. I understand the logic behind it and it's probably a win for both the company and the consumers. But it's still distasteful to me. Anyone else feel that way?
This was a real blast from the past. I got my first Mac a little after the switch and i remember reading through a lot of these pages back in the day.
- Characters and strings.

- Support for making a program using multiple files, and I/O.

- Error recovery
How many has Elon Musk gotten with the same strategy?
Looking at the John Hopkins graph a significant amount of countries are still peaking (including the global trendline):

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

Just because a few countries in Europe and the early big ones in China/SK have slowed down they act like it's over. Yet there's still plenty of very major outbreaks in South America, Middle East, India, Russia, south east Asia, some African. They all have upward hockey stick growth still. Not to mention the delayed US south/west wave.

It's far too early to pick winners/losers of COVID in the midst of the global peak, assuming this is actually near the peak. Let alone measuring the economic consequences.
I've rarely run in to this, but if you do then I'd expect most people will be happy to accept a PR.
how is anyone forcing anything on you?

also where and in what way did the mask pop into this at all?

we are talking about what a person would trade aka risk vs reward
>Yes, those metals at the concentrations in vaccines can cause minor side effects, though there is no evidence of serious side effects.

How about this to ensure safety: demonstrate that they are safe at say 100 times the amount used in vaccines. Has this been done? No, is what I understand. ( if you do find a study to that effect please put it here or email me).If that can be demonstrated then we can be reasonably sure that 1/100 the massive dose will be relatively harmless.

The way it is normally put : that is no evidence of serious side effects is disingenuous. It's the other way round, it has to be demonstrated that it has no serious side effects.
Does anyone know what he died of?

The Reddit discussion at https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/hmngx7/ron_graham_pas... has comments by puleshan aka Steve Butler giving the time and place of death as 7:30 PM Monday night in La Jolla. But nowhere can I find a cause of death.

(The obvious guess given his age and the times being COVID-19...just like Conway.)
Being admitted to a school whose standards you do not meet is not a reward, but the first step toward creating the circumstances to argue that the means of evaluation is racist.

Bad schools hurt, but discriminating by race at matriculation is about the most hamfisted imaginable way to achieve the outcome you're talking about. If the goal is to find and admit students whose worst academic years are behind them, overadmitting 1st generation Nigerian Americans because they look similar to African Americans is not the way.

P.S. it seems you switch from "tend" to "intend" mid sentence, so I don't grasp what comparison you're trying to draw, maybe give that another shot.
Ecommerce order/payment/shipping status is a good example. Anything that has a well defined state that can be changed by events is well-modeled as a state machine of some kind. Also anything that has to progress through certain steps and might be interrupted or have exception cases, and you want to proceed/retry idempotently.

Personally I have also found basic graph theory to be immensely useful for representing and reasoning about things.
I'm not so sure the regular Google support people have all that much power to change things; based on the various story I hear, I suspect they have very little power.
> Care to elaborate how could a household receive 4k plus in stimulus?

Married couple with up to $150K AGI ($2,400) + 4 dependent children ($500 × 4) is $4,400.
Yes, I think we called them quad-fat back then?
When I logged into Airbnb to fix this opt-in non-sense, I saw no such message.
San Diego Sees 900% Increase in Chinese Venture Capital
"TuSimple is not the only regional company that has benefited from a connection to the Far East’s technology heartland. We performed an analysis of San Diego venture financing rounds from 2013 to 2020 based on Crunchbase data. In total, we found thirty-five financing rounds with at least one financier based in China. 71% of these rounds were led by an investor from China. Stunningly, we found Chinese investment in San Diego has increased by 900% since 2015. 2015 had four venture rounds with Chinese investors totaling $57 M USD. 2019 had five venture rounds with Chinese investors totaling $514.4 M USD."
Henry Martin, Wry New Yorker Cartoonist, Is Dead at 94
Groups that identify as "black separatist" are fringe-of-fringe, certainly. But there's little controversy about the segregated dorms I mentioned where only black people are allowed to live.
I find it kind of sad looking at what popular Youtube channels looked like 5-10+ years ago, and comparing it to their videos today.

As you scroll down the list of videos from oldest to newest, the lengths get longer. No longer are there any petty three minutes or five minute videos, let alone a one minute video. Now videos are all 10-25 minutes, the perfect length for maximum ad revenue.

Similar things happen to the thumbnails, which start containing more and more exaggerated, sometimes creepily-so, faces, reacting to absurd images that last for a fraction of a second in the video. The titles change too, becoming more and more outrageous, begging for you to click on them and spend hours watching anticipatory and 'exciting' content.

A lot of things have gotten better too, of course, and the amount of content that is available is amazing. But I do really miss when it felt like a place where people went to share videos and socialize, rather than where all the popular channels are ran like companies that follow the same clickbait format news organizations now also follow.
Trump Sets Date to End WHO Membership over Its Handling of Virus
Not sure how we can debug it. It seems the simulation is sensitive to

1. When you start each circle

2. Length of the wires

It would be neat if actual numbers were shown and rates could be adjusted via a hard reset.

I was messing with a procrastination model in
https://bit.ly/2ZPNXdo .. it seems if you are not feeling good and you procrastinate less, things improve over time. To test this, decrease the feel good and then decrease procrastination.
Which critical edition do you prefer?
It's not just you. It's not a win for the customer although people might tell you it is. Feels like dystopian sci-fi where people have to pay for everything and own nothing.
I feel that the ideal situation is your streaming platform offering a first-party app on iOS. I believe YouTube and Facebook already have this, but Twitch doesn't.
The fact that high school is mandatory robs it of much of its signalling value.

This will very clearly result in the same loss of signaling value for higher education.
Comparing disease outcomes at all is futile because they are incredibly sensitive to initial conditions. One sick person travelling in January made all the difference.
You need to communicate to work. Siloing yourself writing code is a sure way to write bad software.

Why is synchronous communication inherently a bad thing? Makes no sense.
I think your last paragraph gets to the point.

Goodhart’s law is not about people “gaming” the system. Sure that could be one of the effects of aligning incentives to metrics, but it’s really about about the dangers of aligning _goals_ to metrics (of course incentives are often tied to achieving goals).

For most non-trivial systems it can be difficult to correctly identify and describe all of the variables that affect the system and in what ways. For example, at a high level a company’s singular goal may be something as abstract as “make more money”. It’s pretty difficult to just _do_ that, so we break it down into smaller, more concrete goals that we feel will contribute to the above. How? Good news! Last quarter we hired a business analyst who started recording detailed metrics about our business and processes. Now we can simply look at the metrics from last quarter and try to improve upon some key numbers.

And this is where Goodhart’s law comes in. You see last quarter we were not _trying_ to improve upon any specific numbers. Although we can see that we achieved poor efficiency in our inventory processes last quarter, it turns out that focusing on improving this metric actually net lost us money because it created more inefficiency in shipping!

No one has to be “gaming” the system for the above to occur. A system full of good actors can fall prey to turning metrics into goals (at the expense of the system as a whole). Goodhart’s law is just a warning. Of course we still want to measure things!
My phone drained faster than it could charge with a laptop USB C charger and modern phone supporting fast charge. I eventually relented and just got a webcam, but it was a nice idea to have one fewer gadget.
I presumed as much :P

I'll offer two points, and then probably not respond much more because we're well beyond the initial discussion and while you've been very polite, we're moving further into space where things could become heated.

Forced integration was clearly not best for social harmony in the moment. It required calling in the military (not to mention things like bussing across district are costly and annoying). In general this is the issue with extending rights to minority groups: social harmony is easier to maintain if you don't upset the dominant group.

As for whether or not forced integration was the "right" thing. Consider that today de-facto segregation is still a thing, school districts are on the whole, still very racially skewed because people are skewed in where they live[0]. Where people are given choice, the privileged are unlikely to give it away, and because of how education works in the US (funding is based on property taxes, and de-facto again segregation and class differences), you can see stark differences in k-12 educational opportunities for minorities still today. Strategies to address this don't exist in many areas, or come with trouble themselves.

It's unlikely that on the whole educational opportunity would be more equal today without the temporary forced integration, unless you're valuing second order effects (like thinking that school integration "fixed" racial inequality) much more strongly than I.

[0]: And I'll ignore for now how things ended up that way, but it wasn't by accident
Russian election data revisited (2018)
Socrates and the Quest for Wisdom