skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> After a couple generations, rich & powerful families with status tend to have more attractive families.

...unless they inbreed (which a lot of european royalty did), in which case it works in reverse. Also, income mobility probably prevents this from having significant effects. According to [1] if your father is in the top pentile, you only have a 36% chance of remaining in the top pentile. Repeat this over 5 generations, and you only have a 0.6% chance of staying in the top pentile.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/02_econ... page 4, table 1
Regarding hiring actors to appear as family members at events: it's not common nor thought of as normal in Japan either.
You forgot:

3) created by people to automate repetitive or expensive tasks for themselves.

I’d be interested in supporting the project because I do my taxes every year and it’s a laborious process.

No reason to capture 100% of the tax code. An 80/20 solution would be great.
1.6% death rate is not conservative or based in reality. The CDC's best estimate for the IFR, currently, is 0.65% (almost 3x less.) As a population average, even 0.65% doesn't paint an accurate picture. We know deaths are disproportionally in the elderly and those with serious pre-existing conditions.

A better plan would be to do what was possible to protect at-risk populations, but not make the Faustian bargain we did to destroy the economy.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...
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Or making themselves unhealthy which harms their performance.
I'm not even American and I know him for his role in the Theranos affair...
Both players debuted in the NFL in 2011. In 2015, Kaepernick led the 49ers to a 2-6 start, while Newton led the Panthers 8-0 (and to a Super Bowl berth). Sure, the QB isn't the only player responsible, but he is the single point of failure. Isn't it possible that Cam Newton is just a much better player than Kaepernick, all else being equal? If Kaepernick were so good and such a talent that teams should have been picking him, why wasn't he winning?
Right, I like the "battery in front of a coal plant" option too. However, renewables (especially solar and wind) have the nice quirk that they require no fuel and thus no fuel cost. So solar for example is charging a battery in the middle of the day when the sun is high and solar dominates the grid anyway (solar being over capacity at noon, rates are cheap at that hour because solar is just pouring power onto the grid at zero marginal cost). Coal at that time would be just burning fuel to charge a battery, only slightly better than keeping the plant running below-cost for the sake of keeping it on through the rate dip to keep the lights on for the 5pm load shift to the suburbs (you know, back in pre-COVID days when we had a commute)

Curtailing a coal plant (turning it off due to overcapacity) isn't fast, as the boiling water only slowly cools down (vs a natural gas turbine is typically faster to turn off as it's working on expanding combusted gas through a turbine, rather than hot steam through a turbine).
I'm aware, perhaps I should've been more clear. By "go down", I meant a loss of confidence in the nation's currency/debt.
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it's relatively easy to imagine though,

tech is somewhat famously informal; so replace the black hoodie or conference t-shirt with: a shirt, tie and button-down vest.

Despite perhaps looking nice, it would undoubtedly look very out of place, you might even not trust the person as much.
Masks have been mandatory where I'm at since March, along with full lockdown for months, and the virus is still making it's rounds. The president here is a laughing stock because he recently stated that everyone is going to get it no matter what, so be prepared -- so everyone is asking what was the point of having the shutdown then. We know lots of people that have COVID now or have had it and they are all fine (except for one elderly lady that passed). Getting sick is pretty normal here. Mass hysteria is not.
True, so just make sure you're one of the first few to panic.
How has that whole checks and balances thing been working out lately?
What does "scientifically substantiated" mean to you?
Yeah, I spent a couple hours today trying to get pleroma installed on a pi4. Pleroma unhappy about the elixir version, elixir unhappy about erlang version. What a mess. Simple is not a word I think can be associated with it.
You're not wrong, but we're talking about 50c worth of deworming medicine to change the long term outcomes of someone's life drastically.

Thats just insane.
When I was involved in a lawsuit, my lawyer commented that both parties were the same race, sex, and socioeconomic status, so the judge would most likely rule on the actual merits of the case.
How do you know the perform very well?

I'd guess extremely unattractive people don't find sexual mates regardless of wealth.
Two sorts of questions for those who support this idea

1) If is is so workable, then why don't we have hydrogen test planes flying today? Are there any technological problems that remain to be solved?

2) How is hydrogen supposed to be better than synfuel kerosene produced with renewable energy? And note than any argument must include the cost of replacing every current airliner with an all new hydrogen one, as opposed to keeping the present airliners.
She wants privacy for federal judges, not for people in general.
The only section I needed to read was "causation". Essentially, there's no evidence that this is a causal effect of attractiveness on sentencing, and there are many alternative explanations available.

So do an RCT please.
My main question is: For how long?

First, presume COVID will never be completely eliminated. (Certainly it will never cease to be detected by widespread RT-PCR testing with a 1-2% FP rate).

If you won’t grant me that, presume that equally deadly (to certain demographics) diseases will always exist.

Do we never get to go around outside without a mask on again?

Some cultures think that’s the right choice. Some do not. There are valid arguments on both sides, so I think it’s not appropriate to belittle either perspective.

Being required by law to wear a mask whenever you are out in public (and not eating?) is a major cultural shift. It’s reasonable that people will have different readiness to enact, e.g. a Federal law with major financial or criminal penalties involved.

My ancillary point would be that COVID is not the same level of risk in all places and at all times. So, e.g. a Federal mask policy with a $1,000 fine that applies in FL and MA all the same, where MA cases are basically at the noise floor of the test right now, is not justifiable. Or, likewise, a single policy which applies to nursery schools and nursing homes.

Particularly for large heterogenous countries, there is a huge benefit to local and regional government being able to set appropriately strict policies for their own jurisdictions.

There is also absolutely the need to be dynamic in your level of response. Look at Melbourne for example. You can’t lock down as hard as they will be doing indefinitely. Perhaps you can do it for a short time in response to an acute event. That’s just an extreme example in the overall scale of phased response protocols. Legally mandated masking is just somewhere further down that spectrum.
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There are trends in what is considered attractive, but I would imagine you're looking at a +/- 30% variability.

Would love to know how these studies measured it.
The button could also estimate if you were drinking alcohol based on the monitored changes.
Next time a student says they need an extension, let’s see what they were doing last night, and if they got proper sleep... shudder

What I’m surprised to see missing from this is proximity tracking to other buttons/phones. You would think that would be very useful for contact tracing
Should be in your camera app. Where, exactly, depends on what device you have.
United States, 1918.

Instead of projecting arrogant puffery, why don’t you think about the potential consequences of prioritizing your comfort and self aggrandizement to people whose lives are put in danger.

I have a neighbor who unknowingly was infected early on and likely infected several of her elderly clients, most of whom are now dead. She is devastated... think about how you will feel if you did the same thing, without the innocence of being ignorant.
Fun fact: Amazon DynamoDB was codenamed Big Bird, too.

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About half of the 5% of regular (ie baryonic) Matter was missing from usual astronomical observations. Some hypothesized it took the form of warm-hot intergalactic gas. This could in principle be detected by looking at the dispersion (ie slightly varying transit speeds of waves) through this gas of fast radio burst from distant galaxies, and we just found like five of these FRBs that showed dispersions that matched the predicted amount of baryonic warm-hot gas. Problem solved.
You are tripping over the Recency Illusion. As with almost all complained-about English usage, abuse of "literally" began (literally) centuries ago.

British newspapers regularly host shrill complaints about language degradation in the Colonies, but in every single case the reviled usage turns out to have started somewhere in England, typically before the colonials went. That shouldn't surprise: there is overwhelmingly more variability in English usage in England than the sum total in all other places.

It would not be at all surprising if "incredibly" went through a similar cycle 200 years ago. For a time, "nice" meant "stupid", before it meant "precise". For a time, "plausible" meant "implausible". Just be glad abuse of "exponentially" has fallen off.
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Lots of prejudices. University grads are also likely to be socially stunted, uncreative, and less empathetic.

Attractive people have the discipline and passion to put hard work into diet and exercise and makeup. They have good vision and taste for fashion.
> "tY1WKT...EEdLVw=="

Pretty sure it's base64!
> In China, all corporate decisions involve the CCP.

A ridiculously broad claim that your links do not back at all. Your Guardian article was interesting because despite it's lengthy tangents on Xi's past or Jack Ma being "forced" to step down, the only thing of substance it could provide was:

> The law states that “any organisation and citizen” shall “support and cooperate in national intelligence work”.

What do you think gag orders and subpoenas are? I find it hard to believe that you would willingly ignore the widespread practice of warrant canaries.

Of course that detracts from the greater point that even after asking for specific examples, you could not find anything nearly as explicit as the TFW, only vague interpretations of foreign laws, and only a promise to "compile" more examples in the future.

I'll one up you, and give an example of the US ordering a Chinese company to do their bidding.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/zte-corporation-agrees-plead-...

> requires ZTE to submit to a three-year period of corporate probation, during which time an independent corporate compliance monitor will review and report on ZTE’s export compliance program. ZTE is also required to cooperate fully with the Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding any criminal investigation by U.S. law enforcement authorities.

Of course this "independent" compliance team will conveniently be made up of Americans.

What was their crime? Violating Sanctions, or if we weren't using newspeak, engaging in Free Trade.

If you reply with "whataboutism" please try to find out if you were lobotomized recently.
> there is no downside whatever to me from wearing one

The eternal refrain of economically innumerate people who can’t multiply.
That's the main argument of people who oppose all this obsession with "systemic" privileges. Each individual is born with a set of advantages and disadvantages, whether it is looks, wealth, IQ, family ties and myriad of other genetic and social parameters. Focusing just on two or three parameters which can be easily grouped is not doing a favour to anybody and is not fair in general, it is ignoring the concrete individual experience in favour of a very limited and fuzzy group experience.
If you want more science of attractiveness, see https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPillScience/top/?sort=top&t=al...

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Genuine question: If China's priorities are in the right order, then why is the US giving the social network so much attention, going so far as to label it as a "national security threat" (whatever that means these days)?

Also wouldn't that open US services like facebook and snapchat to the similar treatment by other governments? Why would the US jeopardize their industry like this?

Something doesn't add up.
Yes, this is sort-of the case in the US, with the quirk that we have 3 major grids: the Eastern Interconnect, the Western Interconnect, and Texas.

Within that are individual utility companies: some are traditional top-down utilities that own both generation and poles-and-wires, vs some utilities are competitively bidding generation (and sometimes bidding consumption). Layer on top of that many interconnected "power market areas".

https://www.epa.gov/greenpower/us-electricity-grid-markets
It's not massively subjective. FTA:

> They gathered a group of police officers and students to rate the attractiveness of over 2000 criminals. A scale of 1 - 5 was used and their ratings were mostly similar.
I think at a certain point, FLOP count will be more important than FPS. Like once you're running at real time, there aren't a lot of applications that care about 120 FPS vs 110 FPS. But there are a lot of situations where you care about the total number of operations (regardless of GPU parallelism) because you want to run on an edge device or have power constraints.
One gigantic advantage for synfuel kerosene that is carbon-neutral because it is produced with renewable energy, is you can continue to use the present airliner fleet. With hydrogen you have to spend many trillions of dollars replacing it.

Furthermore, replacing all the planes would take many decades, while synfuel kerosene might go into production much sooner.

Do the hydrogen airliner boosters take all that into account?
Aren't the vast majority of people in the US represented by public defenders? Public defenders who make salary, and are extremely overworked and often default to some subconscious rubic for how to allocate their efforts....
Open source was taking over enterprises long before k8s. There was OpenStack, Hadoop, and obviously Linux itself has been widely adopted since before New Relic’s founding (2008).

Arguably micro services have increased the need for observability tooling, but even that “sea change” is years long in the tooth. Sure large enterprises are slow to adopt such trends, but it’s been happening and is hardly a sudden shocking development.

Maybe I’m just being pedantic or nit picky, but it does seem extra worrisome when the executives for a struggling company say something that sounds dramatically out of touch.
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I completely agree with you; thank you for saying what should be the obvious (but isn't, sadly).
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But why aren't juries swayed by the lawyers and defendants?

I'd guess it's because conviction is binary, so there's very little signal for "guilty vs very guilty", "innocent vs maybe innocent"
> Rust has:

- monadic constructs (Option & Result)
- the error propagation operator
- the From trait, to automatically convert errors on propagation

> The combination of the three features above makes up the best error handling solution I saw in a language, being simple, sound, and maintainable at the same time.

I absolutely agree with this. The error handling in Rust is fantastic to work with.

Once I learned about bullet three, error handling became less of a chore and more of non-issue while staying confident that any errors would be handled correctly.
People cheered that the government was finally getting more involved in tech when the House had the dog and pony show. This is the ultimate result. We already saw Cook kiss the Golden Ring with photo op he did with Trump at “Apple’s manufacturing facility” (that wasn’t really Apple’s). Just to keep the President from punishing Apple with tariffs.
I don't really get that logic.

Sure you can better decide on budget with Apple but only if you compare within Apple products. But you are not really comparing anything that makes sense at that point.

So you either care about comparing or you don't. If you care, having a wide range of choices is the optimum. And even if you don't care, you can still outsource your comparing job to the salesperson or your favourite pc part picker page, test magazine, etc.

There is no real upside to just go for Apple because you're overwhelmed with the possibilities of the alternative.
True generally regarding tenant responsibility if new tenant can't be found, but good luck recovering anything at all from a tenant who was evicted because they couldn't pay rent.

It seems to me that any landlord who understood the economic situation would work with tenants to keep them on paying something, even if they couldn't afford full rent. I expect landlords will end up better economically in the end that way.
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He’s been very clear about what he does and doesn’t know about the alternatives.
Ok, but interactions of type #2 are probably a hundred time rarer. Personally, I rather like that I have to actively decide to authorize the use of a password.
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You still have freedom loving individuals in places like New Hampshire who embrace beltless freedom, or even more stupidly riding motorcycles without helmets.

At least in those cases, that “freedom” usually kills only them when things go wrong.
See you're doing the same thing every other replier is doing. You appeal to de jure definitions and argue over semantics but you still can't provide a single specific example of them this blatantly ordering their companies around. At this point I think you're doing it on purpose. It can't be that hard can it?
It's so ironic that mainstream opinions in the US are nowadays so ideologically charged that TikTok is assumed, without proof, to be 100% controlled by the Chinese government and therefore this forced takeover is justified one way or another.

You see arguments all the time that start with "CCP is evil, X is Chinese, therefore...", which would basically justify any and every action against all Chinese entities.

Meanwhile, if you have even close to a clue about what's going on in China you'd know that ByteDance is bending over backwards trying to position itself as a multinational corporation with independence from the Chinese government, all in utter futility of course. That action actually drew the ire from the mouthpieces of the party.

Some rumors say that the reason TikTok announced the potential deal so fast is to make it so that the Chinese government won't intervene and turn it into another Huawei situation. Well, that kind of reasoning seems to be based on a purely fictional assumption that the US government is still operating on principal or in good faith.
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I believe the gravity keeps it from diffusing out too much. The high temperature creates a pressure that keeps it from collapsing into balls. Not an expert though!
I don't think there's any "gain", but there's possibly not as much downside as you're thinking. I just leave my adaptor plugged into my headphones all the time, so it's really no different plugging the lighting connector in compared to plugging a 3.5mm audio connector. More hassle if you have multiple sets of headphones I suppose (and I do, but only one cabled set that I use regularly, and a bluetooth set as well).

There's still a minor downside, I can't charge my phone with my (wired) headphones plugged in - but I can get almost 2 days without charging my phone (an XR) so that's never bothered me at all.

For me, the camera on the iPhone XR is _totally_ worth the "downside" of Apple's "no audio jack" decision. That's a very personal thing (I want great low light camera performance for band/gig photos) and it's not something I'd ever tell somebody else is an important purchase decision for them. Same for you, there's no way I'd try to "sell no audio jack" to you. But I might advise that whatever _other_ feature a specific phone has for your personal use cases might possibly override the downsides of no headphone jack.
Imagine if another country threatened to cancel an American company unless they merged with a local firm and paid a one-off bribe to the government.
Do you think you might trade in your 3a for the 4a?

Also, have you looked at the FDE.ai app to help optimize the battery life? I find my battery life to go 90 minutes to an hour longer now with FDE.
Jonan! Long time indeed.

Well, I am glad that they are all open sourced now. It’s a good decision.
Don't make decisions just anytime/anyday/anywhere. Make decisions when you are thinking clearly and rationally. And follow through.
Boy have I got news for you about foreign direct investment regulations....