skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's no measure that will be realistically implemented in the next month that would cut R in half

Universal masking can cut R substantially, but it requires high levels of compliance [1]

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2020.037...
What happens with trade systems is that they get gamed to the point of uselessness. They're implemented already and patently worthless, because the price would have to be truly high to matter.

This is not the way and a delay in implementing proper controls nobody can afford.
Blogger has been serving urls for something like 17 years. I’d wager its sites have something like 2x or more average url lifespan at this point than the typical site. What we want right now is more url stability not perfect assurance of 100 year url lifespan. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
> Is it realistic for a small-medium sized business to have more than one DNS provider?

Yes: as the weblog post points out, you can have EasyDNS as your master with their multiple DNS servers, and then also have (e.g.) Route53 slaved to EasyDNS and have those in addition to EasyDNS in your records.

DNS servers have had replication for decades.
>The important thing to understand is that there is no obvious reason why a language model should be good at arithmetic

If there is enough arithmetical structure in the training corpus, eventually the best way to predict the training corpus is just to learn arithmetic rather than memorize every instance of arithmetical structure. Transformers have been shown to be equivalent to graph neural networks, so in some sense they have the power to self-discover novel architectures in service to learning a data set. So it is quite reasonable that it could have learned generic rules of arithmetic.
I think maintaining a quality of life for humanity is necessary. Sacrificing everything in the name of the environment is paperclip maximizing - what we really want is to find the optimal level of attention to the environment that gives us the best value over time.
Tax is not good enough either, because of immediate gaming of "tax breaks".

Directly mandate use of clean solutions. No trade, just cap and regulate. Hard deadlines and checks. Including on outsourced deployments to close that loophole.
OP is simply meaning the steps are laid out for those disciplines - and one must follow the path. It just takes the time and effort and one can progress there. Whereas entrepreneurship is finding the path, along with much more - and failure is still a high chance.
They had schools before year after year climate-change induced temperature increases and erratic weather as well. Conditions change and we change with them.
Oh wow, I assumed mid twenties haha.

I feel conned.
It's not luck if you make consistent returns over 4 years. "gambling" is the term people use because they don't understand the stock market
It seems like they tested for antibodies, but this article makes no mention of challenges to the real virus.

It's important to remember that vaccines for previous coronaviruses (SARS/MERS) had reports of generating anitbodies, but also causing immunopathic responses or immune enhancement syndrome:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335060/

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/15/8218

>Is it safe?

It's really really to early to say yes or no, and the fact that the article tries to make a claim either way, is worrying. Vaccines for new families of viruses traditionally take years or decades to develop. We still don't have vaccines for retroviruses like HIV/Herpes (and it may not be possible due to the nature of those viruses).

I've had all my vaccinations; I'm not an anti-vaxer. But I do have concerns on trying to push out any novel vaccine in less than two years without adequate testing.

Although this virus has killed many, the risk factor for it is nowhere near high enough to warrant an emergency vaccine. There are trials underway for inhaled steroids that look very promising, and there's a good chance this virus will burn out in our population long before a truly safe vaccine comes to market.

Having a viable treatment option seems much more valuable and safer than vaccinations in this particular case.
The Nation’s Marquee ‘Smart City’ Program Continues to Evolve
I feel like we're arguing different things. The full paragraph that I originally quoted from says:

> The failure of generalisation of a particular skill, in fact, happens to occur in many other areas beyond chess – such as music training, which has been shown to have no effect on non-music cognitive or academic abilities. The same applies to video game training, brain training, and working memory training, among others.

But then, the article they linked to doesn't support that, and you yourself agree that you can train a particular skill through games that will apply to other, non-gaming tasks that use the same skill. Yes, it won't affect other cognitive skills (duh), but it does generalize to other domains that use the same skill.
I am not sure I understand this comment, in the context- cloudflare misconfigured some routes and it was quickly resolved. was this a DDoS?
I am not sure, if I would trust anyone who misuses the term "Single-Point-of-Failure" on matters of reliability.
Yes, although the design space explodes once you can reorder, so it's also interesting to consider the restricted problem where you can't reorder. This is still realistic since in many scenarios the layout may be fixed by an external constraint.
>I largely given up providing links to information when called out as well. It's not worth the time.

Demanding citations you don't plan to read, to either waste a person's time or to make them look unreliable, is a tactic I've seen used so often I normally don't care to provide links. Instead, I'll just point out some 'so you agree with my argument but doubt data backs it up?' at which point, if they respond, it'll be a negative indicating a link wasn't relevant except to waste my time.

Edit: To clarify, I mean discussions in other sites.
Datomic Samples
It's easy enough if you sign up with a DNS provider provider.
Vue 3 vs. Malina.js
Vue 3 + Vite + composition API VS Malina.js
It's only "gambling" for the losers who don't understand how the stock market works and lose their money.

They see the ones winning and say "oh, this MUST be luck"
Parsers VC finds 15% more VC fund deals than Crunchbase, 30% more than Pitchbook
Are you honestly going to try to weasel your way out of this by laser-focusing on the semantic and etymological differences between capitalist and Capitalism which so far in the discussion have been used inter-changeably?

> accepting that point of view is Marxist rhetoric.

So if one agrees with Marx on a single point one is spouting Marxist rhetoric just because he wrote about it first?

You just can't surgically remove selective things from Capitalism to get some wholesome version of it today. The patient would bleed out.

I'm sorry, but you might be the most dishonest user of HN, a constant barrage of cherry-picking, diversions, omissions etc, woven into a, albeit articulate, good news narrative about Capitalism, the US, and conservatism.
Why is that the case with the Oxford vaccine? Can you elaborate?
Why do you store plastic trash in the freezer?
Show HN: Twtxt v0.0.4 now with Markdown support. Sick of Twitter?
I assume it's not possible to clean up after a test since you directly interact with the web app, right?
The problem here is that you've got a subset/superset relationship reversed. "Dimension" is simply the need to add a number to fully describe a system, as I gave in the several examples. It is true that if there was some system of parallel universes that a number identifying the universe could be necessary to fully identify the location of an object. (Depending on the nature of the multiple universes, it could even require more than one.) But "identifying which universe something is in" is not the definition of "the fifth dimension". It is simply a particular instance/subset of the general concept of dimension, which happens to also be currently meaningless and without referent. But even so, it manages to screw people up and provide significant cognitive interference for the real concept of dimensionality, which is, as I said, much less "woo woo", which may be sort of disappointing, but also a much richer concept that provides much more to explore, because it actually has content to it.

You can also see the confusion in the miscounting of dimensions, because they are not being thought of as simply numbers that identify a place/thing, but some sort of ordered list of "concepts", where "things that don't exist yet" are somehow in another "dimension". But as I said, you don't need another "dimension" for that; it's just a time coordinate, which we already have, in the future. This is the sort of thing that drives me to post this point.

It's a surprisingly popular viewpoint. There's a YouTube video that does this sort of thing, which got very popular, and I don't even want to link to, because it's a steaming pile of garbage, leaving viewers who watch it feeling like they understand better when in fact they understand far worse. It's not necessarily in the top ten list of "ideas that will prevent you from understanding the world better" or anything, but it's certainly on that list.
Chimpanzee Adenovirus Oxford type 1

the 'nickname' follows a standard nomenclature for this kind of thing.

Chadox does sound like a new brand of underarm deodorant though
> This feels a little over sensitive. As you say yourself it’s just a turn of phrase!

That’s a limitation of text. Were we conversing in person, I doubt you’d have felt that. I don’t feel personally attacked by the sentence, I just don’t think it’s a good one.

> I could just as easily complain that assuming everyone has the luxury of ignoring the news

I did mention “for a while”.

To clarify, there are relevant news we should and want to know. My concern is about the barrage we are fed, not in the name of keeping us informed, but to keep us glued for more.
I didn't want to imply we automatically trust it more, but just skimming through a thread I realize that thats what usually happens. It is likely because I don't consume content in such a way (I am guilty of just reading the headline sometime and jumping to personal conclusions) but to even go through a normal thread it will feel very tiring to go and validate all claims.

It sounds very lazy of me but I usually just don't trust the web in general. I don't really have anything valuable on my computer but I still get scared some site will serve me malware. So now to get through a normal discussion we will have linked sources and discussions about the sources (with more required sources ofc). When do we get to the meat of the content? I realize HNers are more capable in digging through sources, but I'd like to think the rest of the users are more lazy-scared like me, so I am going off of that experience.

And ofcourse wild claims without any sources will always be ringing bells for me, I just want to hear the same amount of bells with the sourced claims as well.
Ford to develop collision avoidance system with Intel's Mobileye
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You mean like the Brussels Effect? Make it more expensive to not keep the rules.

Enough political will and all the polluters will bend to it.
If you're at the point of spinning up your own CDN and such, it doesn't seem like it'd be too rough to run your own peertube instance if you have enough of a fan base...
Per pound of coffee Nespresso is indeed very expensive (when measured against the volume of ground whole bean needed for a cup)
Is RH actually acting as an investment adviser in these transactions, or just a discount brokerage? If the latter, generally not a fiduciary, I think?
Obviously I'm cherry picking, but here's a explanation why we aren't

Earth Is Not in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/the-ends...

Pretty pic with info on the first 5 -
https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2019-11/file-20191111-17...

Doing a quick literature review I'm not seeing much at all on the "Sixth Mass Extinction". There are mostly the same articles from wiki.

No one is doubting we are extincting species at a rate far beyond anything normal. This is nothing to do with a Sixth Mass Extinction though, that's many steps up.

What international bodies recognise it? Do we have any data on how many scientists agree?
I suspect the GP has mixed up several things here.

Many drugs in the UK are available “over the counter” in the UK for pennies - next time you’re in Heathrow Airport, if that ever happens again, check out a “Boots” store and you’ll find you can buy Ibuprofen for £0.25 for 24 tablets. I have never seen even a drug such as Ibuprofen for sale in the US for a price remotely comparable.

However, if a GP or secondary care doctor _prescribes_ Ibuprofen and you fulfill it via an NHS-servicing pharmacy, the price is whatever the prevailing rate of the NHS prescription charge is - currently £9.15 - though substantial discounts are available in many situations. Further, a friendly pharmacist will often advise patients not to fill the prescription at all and to buy the over-the-counter equivalent in such cases.

Also in the UK, generic drugs are issued _by default_ where possible, and only if the bioavailability of a particular medicine is important is it considered acceptable to dispense specific brands upon request.
How we solved for ETA (estimated time of arrival), and dropped costly Google API
Problem Maximisation
Not really. On paper it works, but in practice your position is large enough relative to the whole that your activity is affecting the price. You won't be able to buy as much as you think for that price because there are not enough sellers, and even if you did, your act of selling drives the price down. Big players worry about this all the time. Small players can safely ignore it. The line between big and small depends on the company in question.

I realize that you were talking about options which have slightly different rules, but overall the same applies, in ways adjusted for the rules of options. (I don't know those rules well)
Twitter has been orders of magnitude more harmful to society than any *chan and Twitter bluechecks should be thought of and treated like Twitter bluechecks think of and treat chan users. All those articles about how scary chans and the ~~~dark web~~~ are and how they corrupt people's brains -- in a sane world they would be about twitter.
Fahrenheit 451 "wall" family and the movie Her are futures I see from this. The paper also lists stuff like better auto complete.
So, could one avoid them by self-funding and growing very slowly?
> However, I believe it is somewhat childish and uncalled for to bash another company, because of a mistake.

The thing that they're bashing is not the mistake, which happens to everyone. They're bashing SPOF:

> EasyDNS was unaffected because while we do use Cloudflare to soak up large DDoS attacks against our nameservers, we don’t use them across all of our nameservers. I think somewhere in my book I wrote “DNS providers have a near-pathological aversion to SPOFs” (Single Point of Failures). Maybe only we do.
Any modern chip with SIMD can do comparisons in parallel. For example, almost recent Intel chip can do 16x 32-bit comparisons in a single cycle.

The bottleneck is not usually the comparison itself, however, but the data movement needed to gather all the elements to be compared. This cannot be vectorized efficiently since SIMD gathers tend to be inefficient.

The story is probably different on GPUs.
> Banks absolutely do just sit on these reserves

They have been to a much larger extent since the 2008 crash, yes. But not before that, as the graph you reference shows. What I am saying is by no means limited to the time after 2008.

> Banks do not lend reserves

There is a minimum reserve requirement, but for virtually all banks it is minimal--3% last I checked.

> nor do they need reserves or deposits in order to make new loans

They absolutely do depend on central bank policy, precisely as your second reference says: "The amount of money created in the economy ultimately depends on the monetary policy of the central bank."

What your reference is describing is not in any way inconsistent with what I said. It is simply describing the details of how the process works. Yes, the official line is that the banks create money by making loans. But how much money they are allowed to create this way is determined by central bank policy.

Also, the very fact that banks can create money this way, whereas you and I can't, is government favoritism of the banking system. In a sane economy, banks creating money out of thin air by making loans would be illegal, since it would be considered as what it is: counterfeiting money. But in our insane economy, this practice (fractional reserve banking with maturity transformation) is considered completely normal: notice how your second reference treats the idea that banks would only lend out money that is given to them as deposits as a quaint old-fashioned misconception, instead of obvious common sense.
It is a bit of an art to separate those who are discussing a point for sake of clarity or persuasion, from these bastards whose only goal is to get a rise out of you or consume your time with their own amusement.

Disengaging from those conversations is easier though. Don't answer, walk away, just stop playing their game. Although there is a part of me that wants to shout them down and ridicule them, that plays right into their bs as well.

Sigh. Hell is other people.
It's easy to replicate design and technology. It's extremely difficult to achieve such a high equilibrium of sellers & buyers on the platform. These businesses benefit extremely well of network effects, creating high barriers of entry.
In many places in the world, the government is corrupt and there is no transparency.

I’d be surprised if people trust their governments in Poland, Bulgaria etc.

Government officials have more power to abuse people than companies. At least Germany has an established constitutional court that can still resist the politicians to some degree.

I think the american view is that governments are bad because they can be used to establish tyranny. Every citizen’s right to be judged by their own peers, their right to carry firearms and freedom of speech are the things that allow people to fight against corrupt governments.

This is my view being someone living in Turkey. I am even afraid of posting this comment.

Maybe this generation in Europe trusts their government and thinks that its good. But I bet people having experienced autocratic regimes can never trust their government.
SQL has taken over Data Science
The state is responsible for more death than any other group/ all other groups combined.
Bingo. Still a good read, and easydns is just trying to profit over a screw-up from a competitor, but still essentially an ad.
There's absolutely no shame in that (as long as nobody else uses your mug).
Ask HN: Is it possible to sell a startup, but also keep a small stake in it?
This is possibly a very stupid question, but I'm curious.

Imagine I own a start-up called Foo. Facebook offers to buy Foo for $n. This sounds great, except I think there's a good chance that Facebook will grow Foo to be worth 100 x $n in a few year's time, and I want some exposure to that potentially large upside.

What are my options besides buying some Facebook stock with my $n, or asking for something like 2 x $n?

Is it possible to sell, say, 95% for .95 x $n, but maintain a 5% "stake" in the possible 100 x $n business? I'm not sure how that would work, but surely start-up founders have faced this conundrum before -- how is it resolved?
It depends on the region, the age of the school, the wealth and demographics of the community. The poorer the area, its more likely the schools are overcrowded concrete boxes built in the 60s-80s.

US Schooling is very inconsistent and varies a huge amount by municipality.
You can't add disks to a vdev, though, which is what most people with a home NAS (including me) want.
Hm, unless I miscalculated the bit rate they use for the Simpsons demo is about equivalent to YouTube's 240p rendition (which uses 257 kbps; they use 250 kbps).

Looking at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1nmZq1KEHk at 240p I think their Simpsons rendition looks better. But that's probably because of the low resolution. Makes me wonder how well H264 would perform with the same bit rate but a higher resolution.

I think it'd be best to have a 1 to 1 comparison between the two right on the vectorly site. I'm thinking that they'd have done that if they believed they were already ready to outperform, but that's a bit of speculation.
Making TypeScript monorepos play nice with other tools (CRA, NextJS etc.)
They have a handful of truly wonderful products, but for everything good you just listed, there's at least 2-3 things that have been shuttered because they were poorly executed, or are currently struggling (Google Cloud). Android is hardly a product either, the Pixel 4 is a product, but Android is an avenue to sell apps on their app store and integrate their data gathering services for targeted advertising, and they didn't even build it. Google didn't build YouTube, it was already the largest video sharing platform in the world when they bought it. Analytics is probably good, I haven't used it.

> gmail is the best

That's a very subjective statement. I don't think gmail is the best webmail out there, but it's certainly one of them. It's also one of the oldest. It also adds the contents of all your emails to their profiling service.

I stand by my statement that Google is terrible at building products, they've only built half of the things you listed and bought the rest. One of them could barely be counted as a success (Cloud), and another isn't a product (Android)
Now if only my family could believe Snopes. They are too set in their thoughts to believe not everything is some conspiracy theory.

Now when I debunk stuff off Facebook they continue to disagree with me because I don't have "all the facts", not like they do either.

Sometimes a simple thing is just too simple for them, those coin shortages really are some sort of mass government takeover and not just caused by people not paying with coins as much & places being shutdown and less likely to redistribute coins back into the economy. sigh

... Now for my actual rant.. While I feel pointless I like to show for contrast.

Now if I actually bring up the attorney general for the US state of Oregon suing the Feds for actually kidnapping people eh... That's apparently not an interesting story and protesters or rioters in their eyes deserve it. I understand I don't know the whole story, but I think there is something there to follow.

As someone said to me recently, this is basically Vietnam story wise. Extremes on both sides.

Lol, my URL links, despite not thinking it helps much because I start off with the bias thinking this is wrong, because of the many different videos across the country showing protesters are not all rioters. And the freedom to protest is a right in my eyes.
Violence begets violence begets violence begets violence.

And yes, I know Obama signed this into law so legally the Feds have the right to randomly nap you but I still think it's a very questionable law.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/president-obama-signs-in...

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6997452-Markpettibon...

https://twitter.com/stoggrd/status/1282432033533210625?s=20

https://twitter.com/TrumpIsApandemc/status/12847377794239037...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53460495
Yes you can do it branch free, with only a single branch at the end (so your search actually terminates), but the benefits are not as obvious as you might thing per my other reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894709