skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but even that isn't any kind of guarantee.

I have noticed that many sites simply repost single-origin garbage, so it can easily look like it's multi-sourced.

Scammers and politrolls use this all the time. Marketers work really hard to get talking points pushed out to as many outlets as possible, so the "origin" may be different, but the text all came from one place.

"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." -Benjamin Franklin
Now that we've mapped crucial occupations we should double the minimum wage for those imho.
Employers in most European countries have to pay for healthcare, pension, unemployment, taxes. In US some employers do also pay for those, but in Europe it can represent a much bigger part.
When an American is paid 41% higher than Frenchmen, much (if not more) of those 41% are actually paid by the employer). The frenchman would have healthcare included, pension at 65yo, better unemployment protection, virtually free education for his children, etc.
From an employer's perspective, labor is more expensive in Europe than in US (even the minimum wage is higher in most Europe).
Not saying one solution is better than the other. Just comparing different approaches.
Not to belabor the point, but "r-factor" isn't the correct term here. If we're using a SIR model that assumes patients go from Susceptible (S) to Infected (I) and Recovered (R), we can still assume some proportion of patients can move back to the (S) compartment (i.e. losing immunity, what that is in reality for COVID obviously has a debate that I will not address here).

The "r-factor" (also called R_0, or attack rate), described the rate at which people once exposed to the virus move from S->I. The proportion of patients in (R) should not fundamentally change the r-factor.

That said, I do think your fundamental assessment in that moving more people from (S) directly to (R) would decrease the rate at which the disease spreads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmental_models_in_epidem...
If scaling is the issue, try pleroma. Its based on elixir Phoenix. https://pleroma.social/
You are likely dramatically underpaid.

See http://levels.fyi/2019

Get on LinkedIn. Update your profile and start looking for a new job. With a good profile recruiters will message you.
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It helps me sometimes to remember that my conversation has an audience, and just because my opponent didn't learn anything doesn't mean that I wasted my breath.
LyndsySimon says> "I’d say this is an excellent example of Poe’s Law."

Incorrect.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law:

"Poe then replied, "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article."

My earlier post reads:>"You can always carry a pistol unloaded, with ammo in a separate pocket, so you have time to think clearly whether to load should violence occur!8-)) "<

Note the !8-)) emoticon/smiley.

While your first affirmation/admission above ("Apparently I'm...") holds, Poe's Law does not apply.
We have a product that does this (generates E2E tests from user interactions) - it's very tricky. If you just want to cover the auth & checkout flows it's great but if you need to model the more complex and nuanced interactions record + playback is really a great way to go.
Girl Scouts USA has been a textbook example for decades now of an institution that misuses non-profit status for financial gain.
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The reason it feels like spam is because the summaries look like they were scraped from Amazon/similar.

There's no discussion about the books. Instead it is filler-content:

"Full of high stakes, thrillers, and fantastic twists and turns, fans of Ready Player One are sure to love this addictive read." --BuzzFeed"A potent commentary on how much we're willing to give up to the lure of technology." --EW "A fantastic journey from start to finish." --Hypable New York Times bestselling authors Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller ...

That tells me nothing about the plot. The world. Why it is related to Ready Player One. It even mentions that book in the information - almost like there is no effort behind it, and just random books pulled from other sites with no care, no attention, no real link at all.

(i.e. scraping and pattern matching. Not real curation.)
Ohh nice! I wondered where scroll to fragment did lead to.
Ask HN: What would happen if a tech giant like Alphabet Inc decided to shutdown?
Have consolidated tech companies created a risk of single point of failure OR are they safe to be considered too big to fail?

What would be the consequence of it on the internet as we know it? Are we prepared?

When it's a company like Google you're talking about, it's just hard to imagine a day when platforms like YouTube or Gmail might be killed off.

Are there legal clauses that would prevent such a thing? Or does the corporation have complete freedom in such matters.
It's probably less about having peers seed videos all the time but buffering bandwidth spikes.

Let's say a video gets posted and gets a million views in the first day. That's a lot of load on a server. But if thousands of peers can serve each other the chunks, then the server isn't responsible for all of them.

So WebTorrent can provide a level of scalability without greater hardware. Just doesn't mean that most of the videos are going to be served by peers.
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On the flipside, git is based on a full DAG. There's a lot of power within that data structure to capture a deep, nested understanding of the workflow/process/history/archaeology.

Often the issue is not that the DAG can't usefully hold all the alternates and piecemeal sub-solutions, in useful ways that we can come back to and revisit as necessary, but that our visualization tools on top of the DAG aren't great about letting us meaningfully interact with that (showing it when we need it, hiding it when it is noise to the signal we are looking for). (And we have the power to build better defaults for our visualization tools and/or better visualization tools.)
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What's the point? If your business doesn't turn a profit then you don't owe business income taxes anyways. Most businesses take several years to reach profitability.
And yet despite this, graphic design in Asian countries still manages to use a greater variety of fonts than in Western ones. For example compare this[0] advertisement for curry to this advertisement for fries[1].

[0] https://chancurry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/9c0f748dfcd...

[1] http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1965451/thumbs/o-SATISFRY-570.jpg?...
Great reply, thanks!

The ones that definitely need to come down are the 1-200’ behemoths that are way too close to the house. I’m a tree lover, so, despite most people telling me to take them down yesterday, it hasn’t been an easy decision.

The shade is amazing. Also, nothing makes quite the shimmering sound that poplar leaves make. I recently read Homer’s The Iliad, and they talk often about their love of poplars.

You’ve given me enough pause to consider trying to keep a small selection. But I don’t know, lol.
Data interpretation is pretty hard and we get it wrong so often.

I'm such a buzzkill when people show a graph that does not say what they think it says.
Is that megabits or megabytes? Usually lowercase denotes bits, so I think you'd divide that total data size by eight to get 120MB. With a good codec 2mbit/s is probably enough for low-motion SD or 720p video.
I am not sure what is the effect of mandatory retirement. Maybe it is negligible and does not change much the unemployment rates.
Even if we would forcedly retire everyone at 65yo in US, it might not change much how we compute the unemployment rate. Do you know if in US we count people over 65yo who are not actively working as "unemployed" ?
It sounded like the opposite of what you wrote.
> wire serialization is a fundamentally different problem from representing data within your application

I agree with this and the author of the criticism evidently does too, but his position is that failing to make this distinction indicates that protobufs are poorly designed. I don't see how "programmers are lazy and fail to work around the poor design" is much of a rebuttal.

In my mind a good design has one or more appropriate representations for each abstract type. The marshalled representation is certainly one, but one might also want more than one in memory representation of the same type depending on the problem domain. The old Lisp trick of representing an immutable linked list with a single contiguous block of memory is one example[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDR_coding
You are getting close to just saying it's impossible to know anything and giving up.

The point of citing studies is to have some kind of empirical starting point for discussion, beyond just anecdata or ideology. Not as a declaration of absolute truth.

> 9/10 times the disagreement isn't data/citations but conclusions or criteria.

If it's not a good faith discussion, it's best to avoid those interactions entirely, or end them as quickly as possible to not waste your time.
I'm happy to see that Lusophone authors are being (re)discovered by the New Yorker set. (another recent article [1])

The big names in Brazil are of course Machado de Assis, Jorge Amado and Clarice Lispector (very abstract). Paulo Coelho does not count.

In Portugal, there's Fernando Pessoa and José Saramago.

Who else would folks recommend?

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/rediscovering-on...
It doesn't sound like they changed their mind based on new data. In June, Fauci said that they knew masks would help, but deliberately downplayed their usefulness because they anticipated a shortage for medical workers. Telling people "Yeah, we were lying before, sorry, but you can totally trust us now" isn't integrity.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...
As a reflective display, you want to optimise for the percentage of useful light reflected back to the user. Switching the white (or black) out for another colour will necessarily reduce the contrast ratio of the display, which is of course not ideal when you don't have much light to work with in the first place (as it's a reflective display after all). That's why reflective LCD displays were pretty much a disaster, since the LCDs require a polarisng filter which absorbs a large portion of the light, and reflective colour LCDs more so, because that multiplies with the effect of the colour filters.

Of course, you could simply make a matrix of tri-tone capsules, with white, black and colour. Then you have the contrast ratio and the colour space advantages. I don't know why this hasn't been done, I'm not an expert on e-Ink!
This is the scary thing to me about the GOP's new brazen defiance of the law - mob style tactics become more and more effective the more corrupt your government is, and the fact that they have captured the DOJ so completely has to make you doubt that anyone tries to trace this too far...
But they make it slow to monetize it.

I got the point, but it's not really fair towards content creators.
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Canada has answered this question. It tossed out millions of masks a year or two ago (the vast majority of its stockpile IIRC) 'cause they were just past the expiry date (the real reason was that a sharp-penciled bureaucrat wanted to save the storage fee.) Post-COVID they tested and found the degree of degradation in such cases to be very small. The expiry date is set by the manufacturer, after all; and it's in their interest that it comes up sooner, rather than later. Not the only business plan to ever cause mass death, I'm sure.

My own 10-year old plus stock of (industrial) N-95 masks were mostly sealed from oxygen (just in plastic bags) and did fine. Good as new as far as I could tell, certainly. A couple that had been left out for a decade had foam seals that crumbled away entirely, and rubber bands that were fragile. But those in held in bags were pristine.
"Sun could have just chosen the GPL if they cared about compatibility."

That's a very loaded statement. I've seen it said quite a lot over the years. But, have you thought about its implications?

The implicit assumption here is the primacy of the GPL over all other open source licences. Why should other companies and organisations treat it as "more special" than any other free/open source licence when it comes down to interoperability?

When it comes down to compatibility, the GPL is one of the last licences you should choose. Because by its very nature it is deliberately and intentionally incompatible with everything other than the most permissive licences. The problem with "viral" licences like the GPL is that "there can only be one" because they are mutually incompatible by nature. Why should the MPL/Apache/CDDL licences make special exemptions to lessen their requirements so that they can be GPL-compatible?
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And then, the suspect commits “suicide”.

Riiiiight...
People are given the agency to make their own decisions.

Nobody got fired for buying IBM, until they did.
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Eh, the cynic in me doesn’t think this is out of benevolence so much as it is to make sure they collect the best data possible. People without health insurance have worse outcomes because they forgo or delay necessary treatment.
This makes me sad. Based on what you're describing it's sounding like my dream of having eReaders that are anywhere near sharp enough to do visually rich, full color, documents justice (e.g. nature photography, comic books and graphic novels, well illuminated manuscripts) will never come to fruition. Barring some kind of transformative breakthrough, of course.
Just in this case I'd complain that it's not 30 minute Mars imagery I 4k :)
More importantly, CloudFlare is the world's largest man-in-the-middle.

You think your TLS connection is e2e between you and the website you are visiting? Not so much... because the website has given their certs to CF. Worse, sometimes/often the connection between CF and the website is not encrypted at all.
Not directly related but there's an awesome "Open Book" project which is an open source hardware e-book reader [1].

[1] https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book
Thank you for the thoughtful comment! Let me know if I miss any points:

1) We capture all attributes for elements and although we don't yet let you fail a test if the attributes are incorrect, that's where we're headed. So, you could imagine enabling/disabling accessibility validation at the account or per-test level. This is great feedback.

2) Re: pricing - thanks for this idea! Pricing is still evolving, will keep in mind.

3) We support parallel execution at no extra charge; it's only test execution time. So if you want to spin up 10 tests at once, that's fine. (We may need to scale up our infra at the outset, obviously.) There is no hard cap on the number of concurrent tests.

4) Our API (https://reflect.run/docs/developer-api/documentation/) is in the early stages, but includes endpoints for executing tests and fetching results for tests in JSON.

5) Runtime is the time the browser begins navigating to the page. You are not charged for time spent spinning up infrastructure or saving the test run. And just to be clear, you are not charged for any time spent recording tests.

Thanks again!
>You'd have the same spam and abuse problem that email has.

Don't you have that already, and they have anti spam measures? How would a facebook post coming from facebook or twitter change what they remove as spam?
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I tried to search through and figure it out before I posted the comment, figuring if I saw a few examples I'd get it, but I just got more confused. This sounds like a really interesting concept for building a essentially a human knowledge base with individual assertions built on eachother, maybe linked and networked with other assertions via the publications bit so you can start tracing where the knowledge came from/the background etc. But I couldn't figure out how it's supposed to do anything or how scientists are supposed to interact with the standard, and if I was even understanding the capabilities of this correctly. Is there a central repository for these, or a user interface to create/peer review/publish/read nanopublications? Who is supposed to implement the standard, who is supposed to use it, and how is it supposed to be used? I was hoping looking through examples would clear that up but I just ended up more confused and am hoping someone more knowledgeable can bail me out on that.
Even on the ground, at the airport the people checkin for tickets are way older in US, than their counterpart in Europe.
It is not just flying attendants. But maybe this is specific to US airlines.
"Focus on what you can control" addresses the root of the problem. It's good to know what's going on in the world, but there's no point in stressing over it. I know it can be hard, but once you convince yourself these things aren't worth your energy things get a lot more pleasant.
I think this is fair, but it's also somewhat predicated on the threat from deepfakes actually being a bunch of real people believing some big synthetic narratives and presumably taking some action they wouldn't/shouldn't have taken if not for this synthetic narrative.

That may or may not ever happen, but in any case it doesn't smell like a stable equilibrium.

Personally, I'm more concerned that the social gravity it exerts will be towards broad solipsism, which smells like a very stable equilibrium wrt to addressing much that doesn't affect an entire population somewhat simultaneously/equally.
That's curious. My observation has been that most of the streaming services have really high compression ratios with 4k streams. With videos like this one, which are built from still images, I imagine you still get significant improvements in quality, but for content that isn't so easily compressible (e.g. action movies), I've seen significant effects from compression in 4k streams as compared to "regular" 4k source material.

As far as "wasting computing power"... I hear some people play video games while watching movies... on the same machine. So that's probably what that is about.
You can't maintain an asynchronous conversation with a youtube video in the middle.

With a link I can scan for support of your position and mine. With the video the conversation just stops for 20 minutes while I watch a stupid video. And then I can't cite anything from it unless I'm a transcriptionist.
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It would matter for those who can’t be vaccinated (the immuno compromised, very young children) or for those whom the vaccine might not be effective (very elderly with weak immune responses)

It would also matter for eradicating the virus. If it keeps circulating, and vaccines only provide protection for less than a lifetime, then we will have to keep vaccinating just about everyone in the world indefinitely. Any place that falls into civil strife could also expect a virus outbreak eventually.

It would still be great to have vaccine that merely made the virus without effect! But eradication would be better.
You can get stereoscopic images from the Curiosity navigation cameras. You could do a much better job of correcting the lens distortion, but I made an example in 2012 (I decided to make the sky blue as a stylistic choice at the time, for which I was rightly criticized as Mars does not have a blue sky and people might think the images were from Earth): https://blog.mikebourgeous.com/2012/08/06/curiositys-view-of...
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Ah what you say is true... upon examination, this curriculum is for the 4-year ingénieur polytechnicien program, which culminates in a Master's degree (diplôme d'ingénieur).
Yup. Golden rule: don't use Safari for YouTube (or really for video content in general).
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What if you need to change code review systems? Do you just abandon all that information? What if your code review system becomes a central point of failure for information that you need about your process/workflow?

To use a DVCS in a distributed fashion, doesn't it make more sense to store that data in the DVCS itself?
> looks like dark politics playing here...

It's really too early to tell, especially after a lot of the early speculation about how the Fahim Saleh murder was a professional hit was totally wrong (it was his assistant, who had been caught embezzling money). Maybe the judge was killed by some no-name small businessman who was ruined in a tax evasion case she tried, whose mind went to a really dark place, ending in a murder-suicide. None of us know anything.
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Does cloudflare actually do geo-loadbalancing via DNS A records now? For years they only did anycast, unlike, say, Akamai, which hands out different IPs for each POP.
Earlier this year I made a video[0] where I took two images which are frequently posted on reddit that show the movement of martian sand over a day and interpolated (with python and opencv) the movement into a smooth video. I'm currently working on restoring some Apollo footage, but one of the pending projects is taking the Curiosity descent sequence (at 4 frames per second) and give it a shot at some nice quality, XXI century interpolation (we have some very good algorithms now, or at least better workarounds the artifacts).

[0] https://youtu.be/k7pfdFMVj-o
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Sure, why not? The airplanes, airports, pilots, flight attendants, and ground crews will still exist.
I'm a little confused on your point. We've had the situation where primary school serves a purpose of providing education, socialization, and giving kids somewhere to go where they'll be supervised for the workday.

When you're figuring out how the finances for raising a kid are going to work out it would be kinda weird assume that this core institution that you pay property taxes for and in a lot of cases likely moved for would suddenly go away and that you'd have to figure out how to afford the full-time salary of an in-home caretaker or how to live without an income (but that doesn't really work out for single parents).

This really isn't a question of bearing the responsibilities or whatever. Even if you send your kids to private school you're still in the same boat. This new disease-laden world is wildly inefficient because you can't benefit from having having a 30+ to 1 child/adult ratio and parents are just kinda stuck.
Once discovered, you could have a kind of outline builder where you provide all the right linking outline context to have it generate appropriating paragraphs around it.
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Is this about VP9 support?
There have been a few recent studies of cruise ships and meat packing plants with universal masking. In those cases an extremely high proportion of cases were asymptomatic.

To be clear, higher than in other cruise ships and other meat packing plants.
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