skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>AFAIK they have kicked out all non-Chinese journalists so that they have sole control over the truth.

You'd be mistaken. Some American correspondents have had their visas revoked and Tibet and Xianjing are effectively off-limits, but there are huge numbers of foreign journalists working in China.
http://facesinplaces.blogspot.com/

Hasn't been updated in forever but I used to love this.
Early exercise and ISOs fix a lot of these problems.
Considering the uncanny similarity in names, I wouldn't be surprised if one inspired the other.
I dread the day I decide to go through all my photos and organize them. It's one reason why I'm so reluctant to move off of google photos, it's sooo easy to find stuff and it groups photos together nicely.

But I really want to move my photos off of google.
It is not >100% efficient in the energy sense. But it does create more than one electron of current* per incoming photon.

* Since current is charge per time, technically it creates more than one electron per second of current per incoming photon per second.
How do you like the reMarkable tablet? What does your workflow with it look like?
TL;DR:
A black hole accretion disks' emissions appear to synchronously evoke gamma ray pulses from a gas cloud 100 light years away.

The current (inconclusive) idea is, quoting:
"Energetically, the outflow from the disc could be as powerful as that of the jets and is believed to precess in solidarity with the rest of the system." (Torres)
The problem is not per se that execs at NPOs pocket millions of dollars. After all, that is the market rate - and NPOs have an interest in attracting (and retaining!) high quality staff.

NPOs and NGOs should not have to depend on people willing to exploit themselves for the cause, not on the leadership level and not on the base level (where this is even more common).

The problem is rather that CxO payment in general has gone through the roof over the last 60 years, with the problem becoming ever worse since the fall of the USSR. The ratio of CxO to average worker pay was 20-to-1 in 1965, 58-to-1 in 1989 - and in 2018 it hit 278-to-1!
Rights are a much broader concept than "natural rights". See: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights/ I certainly recognise property rights (although in principle there's no reason why one couldn't believe in rights without that being one of them), but I also recognise a lot of other rights (including "positive" rights). And don't recognise negative rights as being more fundamental than positive rights.

The positive/negative distinction
This plan assumes that tests in the US are readily available, cheap, and fast. I can assure you they are not, with public testing facilities in short supply, private tests costing hundreds of dollars, and test results taking upwards of a week.

Maybe an incentive would mean that people would actually go get tested instead of ignoring contact tracers, but as with anything healthcare in the US, they'd probably be more concerned with taking time off work.
wouldn't see people putting themselves at risk to go to a music festival.

Aren't music festivals exactly the place you would expect high levels of risk taking around crowds?
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I never said they were. I believe they are merely a symptom of it.
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Thank you. You get it. Agriculture (animal and plant) need market incentives to change. Not some feel good story.

https://thinkingagriculture.io/a-marketplace-for-carbon-and-...
As someone with dietary restrictions that prevent me from eating corn (among many other things), I do not find this argument very comforting.
"The external quantum efficiency of a device is 100% when one incoming photon generates one electron to the external circuit. 130% efficiency means that one incoming photon generates approximately 1.3 electrons."
> https://github.com/usefathom/fathom

Be careful of this one. It started out as OSS, but switched to proprietary once they'd achieved traction.
Wow - lack of demand affect the price of supply?

Who knew?!?
There are some companies that facilitate this, like EquityZen and Forge Global. It seems to be a legal gray area, since the options are legally non-transferable, so creatively structured contracts are used in an attempt to work around that.
I've had a milder form of this condition my entire life but only really acknowledged it a few years ago when starting a new job.

The main effect of this is that I am simply uncertain of the identity of those I encounter. A simple change in context, like a change of hair color or meeting somebody in a different setting, is enough to render them anonymous to me. There have been some deeply shameful moments... the researcher in another department who went out of her way to engage with me, until I mistook her for somebody else for an entire elevator ride. The student I ran into downtown who was hurt because his prof couldn't recall basic details of his project - I literally did not know who he was on account of his bike helmet, despite having in him in class not even a day before. Once as a child I backed away in fear from the dinner table when a stranger took my father's seat. All he had done was remove his 1980's mustache.

99% of the time this condition is invisible even to me. A normal work routine ensures that I only meet people in the places I expect them. I would never, ever mistake my wife for a hat. But if she turned up in an unexpected place, I fear I would walk right past her. And if I meet new people in rapid succession, I have almost no hope of recall unless they have conspicuous features like jewelry, tattoos or expressive hair. Art receptions are generally a breeze. Tech conferences are the worst.

Assuming we ever get to work in close quarters again, try guessing at the identity of your co-workers from behind. Almost always you'll be positive whom you're looking at. But not every time. For most people, it would be enough for the subject to turn around and provide a clear view of their face. For those with face blindness, even that may not resolve the ambiguity. Now imagine repeating this exercise at the supermarket, where you cannot expect any particular person to be present, and you can get a sense of the anxiety this condition can cause.
Plenty of pseudoscience rubbish in law enforcement in the US (and elsewhere):

* lie detectors/polygraphs

* blood splatter patterns

* hair analysis

* bite mark analysis

* criminal profiling
Agreed I avoid shrimp from Asia as well. They are using manure to dose nitrogen but it’s still not a sanitary practice
So they're just rolling back the odometer, and destroying records of accidents (errors)?
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Who are these proposals coming from and what kind of traction do they have with voters? My answer to that is they are coming from politicians rallying their base for primary elections, knowing full well that the proposals are extremely unlikely to come into fruition.

I am suggesting something that might actually get the middle class, or those aspiring to join the middle class, to support and vote for the idea. I think it's pointless to talk about more radical concepts like a wealth tax or UBI without considering how such a thing could be made appealing to a majority of voters.
Nice work, however the colors are off

India saffron #FF9933, white #FFFFFF, India green #138808, navy blue #000080

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_India
It would be interesting to see what bidding conventions a machine learning algorithm would create.
For now.

Look at the PS5: the ability to put a disk in is a legacy that's clearly going away by Sony making it an option you'll have to pay extra for. The entry level model is digital only, for better or worse.
That was during the flooding in Thailand that took out a huge chunk of hard drive manufacturing capacity. Electronics stores started putting quotas on purchases, so BB offered a bounty to friends and family who would bring in hard drives.

They had a disassembly line gutting external hard drive enclosures for the hard drives, too. One of the drives in my array was acquired via a similar process.

You should read the whole story. I should probably read it again myself.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/
More like, there's always going to be a certain % of the population who believes the virus is overblown, and the measures the government are taking is too strict and/or bad for the economy. If those people also have guns, the situation gets much more dangerous.
> If there was a government cover-up and people were still getting sick then we wouldn't see people putting themselves at risk to go to a music festival.

A tad misleading, if people cannot communicate publicly about people getting sick or hear this from media, why wouldn't they go to a music festival? They wouldn't know. Interested to hear your thoughts
I'd even say it's more specific to the individual and not just the job. I have a boring, soul crushing job, but to someone else it might be their dream.
> We need to find sustainable alternatives that are better than the foods they replace. Just like we need electric cars that are better than internal combustion engines

That's already happening though. Meat eaters still don't seem to care. I'm a recent vegetarian and the food I eat now tastes better, is often more nutritious, and is easier to make.

The better alternatives are here. Oat milk! Wow! Have you tried it? I knocked vegan cheese forever because it sucked. But you know what? They are starting to make some that is better than some 'real' cheese. Indian food. Baked/BBQ tofu is amazing.

I've had veggie burgers in CA and WA that beat a 'regular' burger by a mile. Try Souley Vegan in Oakland for one. Wowza. Better than any meat burger I've ever had.

Not all vegetarian food is sustainable, I know. But it's better. I'm vegetarian for the taste more than anything really. It's not a sacrifice!

I think a lot meat eaters would be absolutely shocked at how delicious and healthy a lot of vegetarian food is now.

> Only a few will make personal sacrifice for the common good.

??? I didn't make a 'personal sacrifice' to become vegetarian. It's a literal animal sacrifice every meal the other way around! Vegetarian food isn't a sacrifice. What the world needs is to convert more to veggies is to squash the idea that becoming vegetarian means making a sacrifice.
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Melbourne Australia is taking this approach right now.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&obj...

Everything closed except food retail. Unlike the US where essential was defined slightly more broadly to include hardware stores and such.
Contact tracing every individual who tests positive.
The highest testing rates in the world.
etc.

It even gets into the extent where some sections of the city have buildings locked down completely. No one in or out. This is enforced with armed police.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8491177/Victorians-...

Americans might look at this in horror but in Australia the policy is popular and most people are accepting it as a necessity. There's also healthy competition between Australia and New Zealand here. We can't let the Kiwis embarrass us on this!
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> I don't see a lot of hereditary names

1. There's a very specific reason for that: the computer revolution and the monopolies created by it.

Wait a few years to see what happens to teh children of the people on that list.

2. Look at the Waltons -- The only reason Bezos is the richest person in the word is because the waltons share the inherited wealth between them.

Look at a list of families, for a more accurate view of the Aristocracy:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/070116/top-25...

Most of these are ~100 years old.

Walton, Koch, Cargill-MacMillan, Cox, SC Johnson, (Edward)
Johnson, Hearst
This has been flagged before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24189002

And is also misleading:
https://rationalconspiracy.com/2020/08/15/mit-technology-rev...
>> that "the billionaires", in their infinite wisdom and generosity, will pull magical solutions out of their hats and save us all. Like you mention later, yeah, right.

I think its more that they have the means. Cant get anything done on a large scale without lots of moolah
The issue is that we cannot rely on it to actually be there, and to come in time. I agree that we cannot efficiently regulate our behaviour, but I believe that will be our end eventually, science and engineering marvels not withstanding.
It was actually gifted to him by his parents, in the form of a $300,000 loan. How is it so difficult to accept that the vast majority of the wealthy were helped by having wealthy parents rather than pulling themselves up their bootstraps?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos#Business_career
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They do have a published schedule, but yeah, it's weird that they don't do notifications.

Here's the schedule for all three: https://imgur.com/gallery/3FW3u3k
You're basically trolling at this point. Java the language has major shortcomings, including an absolutely neutered and broken type system. Kotlin is an improvement, but still limited by its Java roots.

The JVM is a specific product. When people criticize Java, they are almost always only referring to the language called "Java".
That's what they said about income taxes too. It will eventually expand to include most or all people.
Yeah, I meant "(has the key) and (has my password)", not "has my key which has my password". The reply makes a lot more sense now, thanks for the clarification! I'll try to be more unambiguous.
But the irony is that loss leaders are a sign of market abuse / market power. That's the normal anti-trust claim - predatory pricing. If anything, Apple is charging a premium price for their experience.

Apple has become essential and trusted in part perhaps because it has exercised near iron control over almost all aspects of their platform.
Alternstive medicine is big business in China...but not like it doesn’t have a big hold here in America too. Administration of the coronavirus vaccine will be a big hurdle since so many Americans are afraid of vaccines.
> I expect the statement in born from the misconception that "game" meat as found in restaurants and for sale is from wild animals, when it is actually farmed.

If we assume that about the bison and venison I have had over the years, it has been at least over a decade for me. Not sure if we farm muskrats.
Any reasonable server side processing thing will exclude the obvious bots, which almost always have some kind of "Bot" wording in their user agent header.
Why do so many APL articles show up on HN?
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What? Agriculture is hyper-efficient in the biggest areas of the world (US Midwest, Brazil, Eastern Europe).
taiwan, japan, south korea?
Ultimately can't rely on this. The LOS devs are good but there's still going to be a point where blobs can't be adapted well or at all to new android major versions.

Also specifically more on point with Samsung: They are a vendor that's notoriously bad to community support. I would not make purchasing decisions based on the hopes that the community is going to pick things up after Samsung decides to drop the ball.
What kind of power, though? Political power and economic power are fundamentally different.
> All due to runaway global warming acidifying the ocean with CO2.

Doesn't an increase in water temperature release CO2 from the water, because warm water binds less CO2 than warm water? I remember this as one of the many serious effects of accerlating global warming (more CO2 in the atmosphere heats up global temperatures, thereby heats up ocean water, which releases even more CO2).

As CO2 acidifies water shouldn't global warming thus basify the oceans?

Wikipedia about CO2 [1] states that ocean absorbed CO2 from burned fossil fuels. While CO2 from fossil fules is a driver of global warming, the act of global warming itself should actually counteract the acidification of the oceans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonic_acid#Role_of_carbonic...
These comments and the article show a remarkable misunderstanding of a wealth tax.

I'll focus on just the article. If, as wealthy person, you can't make about 5% each year to cover that top tier of tax, I think it's totally fair to tax that wealth. That money is sitting in an account doing nothing and that person's additional contributions to society are near zero. Having that money invested in an index fund basically covers that 5% in the long run.

It's unbelievable how selfish you would need to be to be upset about paying a wealth tax. If you had hundreds of millions of dollars... What exactly is left that you can't afford to buy? As the article implies, all the wealth comes at once up front - so you deserve to keep all that wealth for some best case one time remarkable burst of effort and genius or worst case accidental lucky windfall while the rest of your peers and community work tirelessly to earn a living wage?
It's funny because I used to be more obsessive about storing my knowledge when I was younger. I kept track of tidbits of information using various systems (emacs wiki mode or OneNote), but as with you, I always reverted to paper, not so I could "look up" information again, but as a way of sketching out ideas. I might refer to the notes a few weeks later, but beyond that, likely not.

Now that I'm in my 40s, I don't care as much about recording information I encounter (other than for work). If it's worth knowing, I can look it up again. If not, ignorance is bliss.
Well said. I feel your pain.
This needs a video.
There's no reason that scale-free at the bottom (small business) entails scale-free at the top (deca-billionaires)
You can provide “evidence” that the Jews are “too powerful”, too.
Idk say what you will about Trump and right populism more broadly, it seems to be almost completely typified by the “why isn’t this made in the USA!?” sentiment. Pretty ubiquitous and as much as I resent protectionism, it’s in full swing. Even the Bernie contingent too.
I have, like, the opposite of this. I have an absolutely excellent face memory. I subjectively experience this as a separate unconscious bit of data that automatically appears in my mind when I look at someone: true if I've ever seen them before, false otherwise. I think most people have that same natural "ah-ha" or natural moment of recognition. For me, it seems to be stronger than most, based on a couple of online facial memory tests.

A weird side effect of this is that over the years I have often recognized people I'd who clearly didn't recognize me. In order to not embarrass them by remembering them when they don't recall me, I've unintentionally adopted the habit of waiting until I see a hint of recognition from others before I respond in kind. Brains are weird.
> ... Heh, at least, he said he did..!

He may have maybe thought he saw you a few times but only once (or never) was it actually you. It's a difficult condition.

As someone who has it, you learn to be cautious about "partial matches" where you recognize some elements of someone (backpack, waterbottle, gait, voice, hair style, etc) but aren't 100% sure. It's pretty embarrassing to realize that the person you just started talking to in fact is not your friend but just has the same jacket.
go for a walk in evening and pretend you are coming back from office and follow your usual post office routine
Even with a fairly substantial false negative rate, mass testing is incredibly effective for a disease that is contagious while you are asymptomatic.

Suppose the test only caught half of the asymptomatic cases and that anyone with symptoms was properly self quarantining. Then you would stop the spread of the disease by half! and if you had an R0 of 2, then you'd half it to 1.

Obviously, reality isn't as simple as this. It could be thought that these tests have false negatives when the viral load isn't high and when people are less contagious.

The fact that the US hasn't used antigen tests on every person in the country or at least in communities with high amounts of spread should be considered one of the great scandals of our day. A great article on the subject,
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/how-to-te...

Also, the fact that we don't do mass pooled tests in communities at the beginning of an outbreak like they did in the Xinfadi and later Wuhan outbreaks is also disappointing.

We could have had this under control by now.
>> Organic for the most part is a myth. What they do is either spray with a pesticide that can be classified as organic

That's demonstrably untrue. Many organic methods use no pesticides at all because they use things like row covers or greenhouses which replaces them, or crop-timing to avoid source pests. Look at any farm inspired by Eliot Coleman methods, which can produce crops cost-competitively with conventional agriculture.
I don't think you realize the permissions game makers need to even sell a CD that works on xbox. If that CD is not signed off on by microsoft - total control -> it's not going to work in your console - period. And the irony - EVEN IF microsoft does not market / distribute or accept payment for the game (Apple does all of this) I can guarantee you Microsoft (and sony) get a cut.
> You missed a major reason long-term capital gains rates are lower than income tax rates: they are not indexed for inflation in the US and inflation on income is negligible. As a matter of tax policy, it is much simpler to reduce the rate than to compute a very large inflation deduction, but you can find countries that go both ways.

Very interesting point.
IIRC it used to work a lot better (like, a whole lot better) but modern X apps mostly end up sending bitmaps over the wire, rather than native X rendering instructions.

Agree that it works better than other remote desktop options on Linux. Overall though I get better performance with RDP to Win10 running Linux in Virtualbox (!) than any other option I've tried though, including Linux on bare metal with a variety of remote desktop options, and Virtualbox's remote desktop server.
Again, how does that make the status quo untenable? It hasn't done much to hinder google's operations in Europe.
Why is this downvoted? This has been happening a lot recently on seemingly normal messages.
I follow a routine every day when done working. First, turn off my work laptop. Then read a chapter of whatever book I'm currently reading, do some personal writing, and exercise. It doesn't need to be a huge amount of each of those - it is just a routine of non-work activities that transitions me from work time to my own time.