skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, coming to the US from Europe/Japan. The food there is ridiculously fat/large. At least as long as you want to spend less than $30/meal.
The ear's whole function is to detect differences in patterns. This is how we identify the direction of sound with only two ears. For our ears, a delay of 30ms is an eternity.

The eyes on the other hand have very little response to this. Some will say they can spot a 15ms vs 30ms visual delay easily, but this is an open debate rather than an obvious fact. A 15ms delay in audio is noticeable to almost anyone.

Different senses, different sensitivities. Comparing them isn't very instructive.
It’s also not even clear whether he’s wrong! We now know COVID19 is far less deadly than we thought, including the fact that it predominately affects those in their 70s and above. But we also know that lockdowns have:

• causes cancer patients to miss cancer treatment, with an increase in deaths
• caused people to defer medical treatment, including vital “elective” surgery as well as diagnosis of treatable conditions
• caused harm to mental health and increase in domestic violence, which has led to suicides, and will lead to more suicides
• caused students to get a worse education and abnormal social development; with unknown effects on the rest of their life
• caused significant damage to the economy, limiting the economic potential of the future and the kids that are growing up now

When we tally up all the damage, and compare it versus Covid deaths of a no-lockdown but ban large events, isolate seniors approach, which one will win?

And I might get some flak for saying this, but I don’t believe all lives to be equal. A teenager who kills themselves has lost 70 years of life. A senior in their 90s who died has quite possibility lost 5 or less years of life.

If you’re interested in researching this further, I’d encourage you to check out LockdownSkepticsm on reddit. We aren’t against public health measures like universal mask wearing, but we are for evidence-based assessment of what has lower TOTAL damage.

And yes, the initial data supporting lockdowns did turn out to be incredibly wrong. We know because we went from estimating 2-3% CFR to 0.4% CFR (CDC, May 2020). And today, we know how effective MASKS are, which public health authorities discouraged during the start...
Hard to sort out what you are saying.

I was pointing out that "democracy" doesn't mean that "protest" is automatically lawful, which was the confused assertion of the comment I was responding to.

I'm not sure what anything I wrote has to do with government killing people in "immoral ways" or democracy having slaves or civilians being violent. That just seems to be a bunch on non-sequiturs.

I'll attempt to respond though:

Government officials can obviously act in immoral ways regardless of the political system. But that is basically just a statement that people have free will. Laws don't magically make people obey them, so we can have a discussion about what is or isn't lawful but the statement that people can be immoral is just an obvious assertion about humanity without some specific fact pattern to discuss.

A liberal democracy that upholds individual rights (which I claimed was what people mean when they use the shorthand "democracy"), can't simultaneously assert the legality of slaves. That is a contradiction. Of course reality can be full of contradictions and people and governments can fail to adhere to their own laws. Is that some surprise to you?

It is hard to know what "Why can't democratic civilians be violent" means. People have free will so of course they can be "violent" and those actions may or may not be crimes, depends on the motivation and target of the "violence".
He is an expert who in his judgment, advocates an informed decision. No one knows exactly what is the right thing to do so he’s making his own call.
Authoritarianism doesn’t happen all at once. Trump continues to test his limits. The DHS is currently being run by someone who was never approved by Congress and in violation of the law for how long an acting director is allowed to be in place. The DHS officers are now pushing our several blocks away from the Federal buildings.

Compare Trump’s response to how the government responded to the Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge where a federal building was occupied for 40 days and cost the Federal government millions of dollars. But the Feds didn’t escalate the situation like Trump and the DHS are attempting to do.

This is a three block area of Portland. The city is not overrun. The protests are largely peaceful. I don’t condone the graffiti or anyone trying to damage the building but the Federal response is over the top and unjustified.

Trump would like nothing more than a huge escalation in events.

That there’s any similarity between the events in Tiananmen and in Portland by the authorities is not okay.
This looks awesome.

As someone who's a bit newer to CI/CD, this solution would be ideal if you don't want to host Jenkins yourself right?

I just give you access to my GitHub repos, install the agent then whenever I commit something into GitHub, the agent will see this and perform the task/pipeline right?

Similarly to how Jenkins works, except I don't need to install Jenkins - I just install the agent instead.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this doesn't seem to measure input stack latency nor how long it takes for the pixels to be actually visible on the display after all of the compositing delays.

All this measures seems to be time from injected keyboard event until pixels change on whatever bitmap/surface in memory. Message passing, in other words.
I was thinking Little Shop of Horrors.
There is just way more money in being a specialist. I don’t really understand why specialists like radiologists or anesthesiologists make >500k by default While primary doctors make much less. In Germany the medical associations set reimbursements rates per specialty. I assume it’s similar in the US.

Simple solution: balance reimbursements towards primary care. But I assume there is a powerful lobby with deep pockets that will fight such a change.
Looks interesting. Similar ideas :) I have a bit of a different focus though; mine is more focused on self-host ability.
How would NYC have applied your ideas in March?
I had this too, but from Ukraine. I didn't get the seeds, just a letter from customs that they had destroyed some seeds that I'd never ordered. Really peculiar.
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I remember being in mexico city, and in one neighborhood, they would talk about "las minas", which were mines, right next to and in a residential area. Most of the people in that area got their water for showers from groundwater.

be careful what you wish for.
>animals that shouldn't be consumed

Implying there are 'correct' animals to consume
YouTube recommended this to me
Indeed it’s a great channel
> Are transfers that take like a day or two that inconveniencing cause instantaneous transfers would only benefit me in getting a tiny bit more interest for that extra day or two i could get interest on it?

Waiting in the case of a reasonable savings fund of 100k for way over a month (10k every 4 days in the example I replied to) to be transferred sucks.

> With how low interest rates are these days, that basically makes it useless for me.

It's not about the interest rates, rather a "peace of mind" thing. I am used to clicking a button in online banking and know that the recipient will have the money, and all of it, in maximum 2 banking days and I don't have to spend mental energy on tracking it, worrying about a physical check being held up or lost in postal service, the recipient taking his sweet time to cash the check...

> If your money goes to the wrong routing or account number, can they fix that (literally happened to me where money got sent to the wrong routing number and I went to a chase branch and explained what happened and they fixed it)?

IBAN prevents this by having a two-digit checksum, that catches 99% of typos, number swaps and other entry errors. If you still manage to mess up, you have a ten day window for a recall. Direct debits can be reversed for eight weeks.

> What other bullshit do you perceive we have?

Still using physical checks with all their downsides. Direct debit being insecure to the point that someone getting your account data (or card swipe) can raid your bank account with the money being tied up for weeks (SEPA direct debit reversal is instantaneous and fully returns the funds). CC "rewards" cost being placed on the merchants (thus raising the CC costs for all customers) instead of being capped like in the EU. Did I already mention physical checks?
I thought customs trying to control biological materials ("meats, fruits, vegetables, plants, seeds, soil, animals, as well as plant and animal products") coming into a country was a thing, long before present events.

Authorities get really uptight about invasive species and whatnot. Maybe groundless talk of biowarfare is "hysteria" but regulating biological materials going across borders is the norm as far as I know.
As I recall, he and Shelly both composed these in a personal competition, which Smith immediately conceded on seeing the other version.
5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel
Yes, because cheap food is not something that would otherwise interest lots of people...

Increasing corn production also does not play to a crucial constituency in the Presidential elections...

This obsession with “rich donors” ignores that voters will also get mad at politicians for the consequences of eliminating those subsidies.
Where are you getting your numbers? Canada is at ~29% and the US is at ~36%.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_r...

https://ourworldindata.org/obesity

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/obesity-r...
The article is a year old.

This source says Google was huge in 2018 (election year?) but much less in 2019:
https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/22/apple-lobbying-spending-2019/
I can’t either! I’m surprised at the comments saying they totally would. I guess I remember the anthrax scare when I was little, so unsolicited packages have always freaked me out a bit.
Due to family (wife and in-laws), probably South Korea. As per the recent COVID-19 situation, and some minor personal experience, their health care system is quite good and efficient. Housing isn't unreasonable by our standards (but it can be expensive for some people), food, transportation, internet access, etc. are all relatively cheap, high quality, and plentiful. We also have a built in network of family and friends there so we could get situated quickly.

Spain is in consideration as well due to universal health care, low cost of living, great food and climate, and a big expat English speaking community. However, it's generally harder to get some Korean food stuffs that my wife and I would enjoy and we don't know the language, culture or territory as well.
That sounds like it's measuring almost exactly the portion of the end-to-end latency that an application can actually do anything to reduce; the rest is in hardware and drivers. So it would definitely be a useful measure, but cutting this measured latency in half won't cut the entire end-to-end latency in half.
"Based on data from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship, he predicted that roughly 10,000 Americans could die."

And that's 10,000 assuming his preferred no-lockdown strategy and no vaccine. This prediction has not panned out.
Stock Market vs. the Economy: The Impact of Covid 19 [video]
You can also make positive doublers: long ago I made an EPROM programmer (needs 21 V from 12V) using a logic driven capacitor voltage doubler- basically this circuit:

https://circuitdigest.com/electronic-circuits/voltage-double...
The worst that could happen is something like (kudzu)[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu]. See the Invasive Species section.

Your passion for experimentation and cultivation is awesome. I get that you don’t want the government telling you what you can and can’t do. So, instead, what if you look at it as a fellow citizen asking you to please not plant random seeds from China in the ground outside, unattended.
This story why you should never take your medical news from newspapers. Somewhere toward the end, it's results in cell cultures. Animal studies pending, and human studies way out. Lot of things work differently in live tissue compared to cells in a petri dish.
Yes. As well as patriating most/all of our savings into the local economy via real estate, etc.
There are so many items that have reviews for obviously different items right now. I’ve seen it on a lot of COVID related items like no contact thermometers.

Should be easy to catch these.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hsWr_JWTZss
That was super cool! They really get all the details.

At first I couldn't figure out how to zoom in. I pressed all they keys. Then I accidentally moved the mouse over the window and it zoomed in.

So my first thought was, "how the heck do they capture the mouse in the terminal!".

Then I exited out of it by killing telnet, and noticed that my terminal was still capturing my mouse input! Just moving the mouse over the terminal put ASCII codes on the command line.

What is this sorcery?
What's the point of testing at all in places that aren't taking steps to reduce the spread?

Testing isn't the goal, it's data to use for an informed response. If the response isn't going to come it's just a morbid and useless statistic.
In this instance, “ye” is the plural form of “thou.”
His autobiography, A Man for All Markets, is terrific. It has wonderful stories of his childhood chemistry pranks, his blackjack adventures, his work with Claude Shannon on a wearable computer for beating roulette, and his quant trading (which included discovering Black Scholes option pricing model, but just using it to price option, not publishing as well as stat arb.
The US government already spends an absolutely incredible amount of healthcare, comparable to Canada or the UK (per capita). Medicare (old people), Medicaid (poor people) and VA, funds for people who don't pay emergency rooms. It's actually a huge amount of total spending, and while the government gets discounts (like health insurers) it's not radically more efficient.

The problem is, I think, often one of over-treatment. If hospitals are paid per procedure (as they are in the US) they are encouraged to do procedures that are actually bad for patients. Insurers can try to reign in over-treatment (to the horror of people who think that more healthcare is always a good thing), but regulators and customers (and activists) fear they do so targeting costs, not patient outcomes. It's all just a mess.

Here's a few issues:

* Over-testing is the most innocuous problem, but even tests aren't "free". At best, it's annoying and makes you not want to go back to see the doctor unless you know it's urgent (especially if it's costing you money or time). Tests might also the emphasis away from immediate treatments (both things that the doctor can do, and things the patient needs to do) as it becomes more of a "wait and see" game.

* Drugs. Obviously they cost money, and they can have side effects. Over-prescription is widely recognised as a major issue.

* Cesareans when they're a bad idea.

* Heart surgery when it's a bad idea.

* Aggressive treatment (especially of cancer) that statistically decreases the quality-adjusted life years a patient has, but hey you have to do something right?

I could go on, but there's really a ton of things where a hospital should do nothing, but has a lot of pressure (from patients and profit motives) to act. While insurers can try to control this, I think it goes without saying that they're also not entirely the good guys, and giving them too much power to reject treatments is also a bit worrying. Confrontational systems might work in the legal system, but it's too slow and expensive to work in healthcare.

Let's look at the special interests the US has (it's not just corn syrup!):

* Caps on doctor training spots. Obviously this is not unique to the US, but a free market solution is hardly going to work when you cap supply.

* Existing players (insurers, hospitals) want high overhead (regulations, admin) to create a moat.

* Drug companies in the US want high drug prices. Australia will subsidise drugs, but only if the drugs are priced right (which creates an incentive for companies to offer deep discounts in Australia). In the US, this kind of bargaining doesn't happen to the same degree. People online keep telling me that the spending on drugs is good though, because it's driving research (it's fine with me if Americans want to spend all their money subsidising the rest of the world).
maybe weight requirements?
Argh. Thanks. Didn't notice how bad a link I'd managed to get there.
I have heard that quant trading firms build software systems that have sub millisecond response times to data feeds.

Are the signals coming though these data feeds (reports by government agencies, news events, corporate filings) really occurring that fast? Or do the systems simply need to have low latency for responding to infrequent events (infrequent relative to the response time)? Or are the trading systems trading against each other in a kind of feedback loop long after a signal comes in over the wire?
Most all modern rs232 ports use a similar approach to generate the negative voltages needed as well. The ubiquitous max232 and its copies/clones all use charge pumps to convert a +5v rail to +/-12v rails for the line drivers.
The problem isn't that he was wrong, but that his method of reasoning about risk is dangerously flawed. Of course, you won't get much of that analysis in a buzzfeed article, but I recommend this article by Nassim Taleb: https://forecasters.org/blog/2020/06/14/on-single-point-fore...
If you want to train your own net for handwritten letters, you can start with EMNIST[0] and then move on from there.

[0] https://www.nist.gov/itl/products-and-services/emnist-datase...
With luck we'll develop the AI before the virus. At least then something intelligent will remain after we destroy ourselves.
Sure, although in that case why not use the GUI?
I like the "Ship of Theseus" name myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21547112
Agreed. No matter what advanced stenography they try to use, if the app’s upload volume increases when given camera permissions that'll be easy to spot. That alone wouldn't prove anything, but it would definitely be interesting enough to merit a deeper investigation. Jailbreaks on iOS are currently flourishing, and developing the multiple exploits needed to pull that off makes reverse-engineering the Instagram app seems easy by comparison.
You're confusing two different things. Ye as a plural pronoun is a bone fide archaic English word, ultimately sharing an etymology with the still-extant "you". "Ye" as an article ("Ye olde...") has the history you reference, where the y comes from a stand-in for a thorn (th), and so was not supposed to be pronounced as "yee". But ye as a pronoun (by far the most common usage, I think, and the usage in the poem) is just a normal word and doesn't share that history.
> We have millions of people out of work whom we could be paying to do contact tracing

Paying to millions of unemployed people to do contact tracing - does not mean effective contact tracing.
I think VC is a combination of status seeking, fun, and genuinely trying to advance things. Making money, not so much.
> Also I can’t imagine getting a box of seeds in the mail (unsolicited) and thinking to myself, “I should plant these and see what comes up!”

Is that just because of the fear you might spread an invasive species, or is there some other risk trying to grow an unknown plant entails?
Would reporting the tracking number on the package to Amazon help catch them?
Robots are foreign adversaries.
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Addendum:

OK, here's my problem... Soil temperature. That is, when you dig more than a few feet into the soil, more than a few feet into the ground -- what you'll find is consistent ground temperature, no matter what part of the world you're in, no matter how hot or how cold the above climate is.

See, if there is conservation of heat, and the center of our planet is as hot as the sun -- then why doesn't/hasn't this heat diffused out across the entire interior of the planet?

If you heat soil that's more than a few feet down up, it's going to cool, and if you cool it, it's going to heat back up.

Sure, you could argue that this heat is moved and diffused into the adjacent ground/soil, but are we really sure that there isn't some other kind of phenomena going on there?

Objects get very cool in outer space... near zero, yet they get hot, extremely hot, when the suns rays, unshielded by the earth's atmosphere, touch them.

How do objects cool down in space, if by definition, space is a vacuum, and vacuum = thermal insulation?

In other words, I have a Thermos(tm), with a vaccuum chamber inside of it on one hand, and the vaccuum of outer space on the other.

The Thermos keeps my cold beverages cold, and my hot beverages hot. It does this by preventing thermal dissipation. It does this by putting a vacuum between the interior and exterior containers.

In outer space, on the other hand, if sunlight is blocked for whatever reason, temperatures of objects get very, very cold. Where does the heat (aka, information) go, if space is a vacuum?

You see, the paradoxes with respect to vacuums, and thus heat transfer in vacuums, and thus Heat = Information abound...

Perhaps they would be solved if heat could travel through the vacuum (radiant energy?) in an effect much like Quantum Tunneling -- just the outer space / heat -- version of that?

I'm not an expert in any of these areas... Can anyone help me out?
either way, if your text editor editor lags, there must be a bigger problem... or are we back in the 60s?