skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a little surprised by the author's tendency of wondering abstractly and suggesting cataclysmic shoot-from-the-hip solutions.

There still hasn't passed enough time for us to make confident statements about immunity in patients who recover from acute COVID, not to mention make grandiose plans, either as a state or as a society of individuals.

A popular blog post or article circulated earlier, plotting very simple mathematical models of infection numbers based on some assumptions about the durability of immunity. But even without visual aids, mathematical intuition suggests that widespread immunity of short duration would lead to a relatively high constant number of new cases, with relatively frequent small waves. In contrast, widespread immunity of longer duration, on the order of a year or two, would lead to lower background level of infection, punctuated by larger, more severe, less frequent outbreaks, made worse if they are seasonal and coincide with the flu.

And these are assumptions, things we don't know. Which of these scenarios should we be making grand, nationwide plans for?

We saw a definitive report about an asymptomatic case of reinfection. That patient managed to get tested twice, despite being reported as asymptomatic the second time. Both times, the viral genome was sequenced, which is why we now believe this is a case of reinfection.

In the US, this patient would likely not have been tested at all. Should we update our expectations about the incidence of reinfection?

Are there differences in humoral and mucosal immunity to COVID? I don't think we have consensus yet. Do asymptomatic carriers infect others? We have some evidence that they do. Other diseases can be spread by asymptomatic carriers. As an extreme example, Typhoid Mary was a real historical figure who infected hundreds over a lifetime.

In this context, suggesting that we ship our most elderly and medically fragile members to some kind of COVID-free zone is... staggeringly whimsical.
Making your dbt models more useful with Census
Seattle is a city. If you want to live someplace that "doesn't feel like a city" then....don't live in a city.

While, perhaps, you moving might "contribute to that sprawl" that impact will be more than offset by multiple people moving into the greater density being created in Seattle. Overall it's a significant net win for the environment.
> In Portland the major and governor have ordered police to stand down. Rioters even occupied an area for a week or more, you might recall news stories about chaz/chop?

I went there personally. It was a defensive protest area with blockades against cars that had been running into protesters and aggressive cops.

> When your neighborhood is violently overtaken by an occupying force and the government does nothing, what do you call that?

"Violently overtaken". It's just protesters being in an area, most of which was a public park. It wasn't seized using weapons or anything like you might assume based on how you word that claim.

In addition, the denizens of Capitol Hill reported being much happier with CHAZ than the constant nightly indiscriminate and liberal use of teargas that seeped into their apartments and hurt their children and infants. CHAZ put a stop to that by preventing organized police aggression.

> And of course Portland is not the only city to have made the police stand down and refused to call in the national guard after 3 months now of nightly riots, they're just the most egregious.

PPD was extremely aggressive and escalatory. There's a reason they're targeted by calls to stand down or otherwise be massively restricted. They also have a long-standing history of collaborating with white supremacists. Nothing there is okay.

> I'm not trying to make this about any one thing, but I think it's foolish to imagine that the pandemic lockdowns have no impact on the proverbial temperature in the room.

I think it's callous and dismissive to speculate that protests about yet another unarmed black man being murdered by cops is about the pandemic.

> Police violence against black people is a problem in every way except statistically.

Hardly.
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I agree, quality communication starts by recognizing the other person's ideas and considering them first before you shut them down. Saying "you're wrong" as the first thing after they've told you what they thought is pretty dismissive, especially if they feel confident or have put effort into their thoughts.

So to me, that's the reason for change in language. First I want to express that I'm listening to what you said, I'm considering it, and I think it's really good, but there are certain aspects that I'm unsure about, and now I'd like them to consider those.
Oh yes that is exactly what I meant by not having access to the keys, I use one of such services myself. I do however consider them a bit more secure than signature stamps as should the provider become compromised, their upstream certificate would be revoked, to my understanding this would invalidate all of the signatures. The same as any CA
What we really need is an open platform on iOS for app stores, so that Facebook can launch or partner with a third party store that provides built in APIs to enable bypassing Apples restrictions. Maybe Facebook could make their app exclusive to it, so hundreds of millions of users are drawn to an App Store sub-platform subsidised by intrusive, data scraping, privacy compromising policies. Win!
What is it that you think is contradictory?
The silly thing in my opinion is that college dormitories are exactly that type of housing. No kitchens, shared bathrooms. Works perfectly fine for housing large numbers of young people.

Somehow we've decided that we shouldn't give anyone other than college students access to that type of housing.
I do too! And initially had to broom my brain, who is this pollock person again?... then clicked the site, took 2ms to to revive brain cells :)
Lucid's led by the Lead Engineer from the Tesla Model S. The range is from official EPA testing (pre-production). They have already produced a fleet of ~40.

There is nothing to indicate that they won't be able to achieve this in production of their low volume luxury vehicle.
The EU should do the same thing, for the exact same reasons.
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They can't choose the cost of the hardware (typically mobile plus desktop = USD$1000s), the cost of the developer membership (annual recurring), or the percentage take given to Apple.
> In the end, if you're feeling lazy and bored, no amount of advice from underqualified and overprivileged yahoos on the internet is going to get you off your ass enough to do something about it.

I disagree that the content is worthless just because it doesn't have a lot of depth. Everyone knows that sugar is bad for you, but the idea that short-term dopamine - even when the activity doesn't have other obviously-negative side-effects - can be actively harmful to your mental health is a very counterintuitive one that I'd never thought about before, but which makes a lot of sense once presented.
If I am an expert in my field planning to volunteer or stake the next five years of my career on a slightly crazy idea, I could do worse than attach myself to a project headed by someone who already has their foot in the door with a lot of people who can get us financing or legislative help.

And don't most investors want some solidarity with their fellow investors? Brand recognition is a built-in safety feature that might help protect my money.
The people who design/build consumer software often eat their own cooking. Feedback cycles are rapid and short.

The people who design/build enterprise software rarely eat their own cooking. Feedback cycles are infrequent and long or non-existent.
> 1.) If it can be pirated, it should be pirate-able.

If it's data, it can be freely copied and processed. There's little anyone can do in order to stop it even if it's not supposed to be happening.

> Taken to the extreme, does this extend to the realm of people's appearance? With deepfakes I can 'pirate' someone's face and voice to be used for things they would never agree to.

I'm not sure about this. I feel that the real damage is the defamation of a real person's character by the fabrication, not the act of modifying an image or video of the person.

2.) All distribution mediums are middle-men between a creator and a consumer. Whoever is making money as a middle-man is in the wrong. The person making the least money as a middle-man is the least-wrong.

I generally agree with this. For example, when people buy music CDs most of the money goes to the record company while relatively little goes to the actual musicians. I think that's screwed up.

I also think it's extremely offensive when "pirate" sites try to monetize their sites in any way.

> Piracy services only make money on selling ads and file-download/storage subscriptions, and not on a per-consumption basis. They make the least profit from the middle-manning, so pirating services are the least wrong middle-men.

None of this is necessary. There is absolutely no need for centralized and costly streaming platforms or hidden "pirate" servers. All of these are solutions to problems created by copyright.

Were it not for copyright, we'd be able to share all kinds of data over peer-to-peer technologies like napster, torrents, IPFS. It's a solved problem. The solutions are so good they'd kill the content distribution industry were they legal.

> 3.) Creators don't need monetary/financial/fame incentives, they should only create for the act of creation-itself.

I have no problem with creators getting paid. I just think they shouldn't be able to get paid by exploiting the copyright system. They could create a Patreon and get paid for the act of creating instead. That'd enable them to release their works into the public domain.

> Consumers will naturally request and "commission" more work from the creator if their work is good.

Yes.
Common advice when designing an API is to experiment with using the planned API before you implement it.

TDD is one way of doing this exploration, where the exploration is codified into actual code using the API and including assertions about the behavior you intend to implement.
Parking strikes me as something the market will fix without a need for subsidized public parking.

Traffic needs system-wide reform. No argument there. Walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes, transit, etc.

Views - you don't (normally) own the views from your property. I live on a golf course; if it gets redeveloped into condos, I'm SOL.

Light - appropriate building setbacks mitigate this.

I'm not disagreeing really, just pointing out that your concerns are mostly valid, but have solutions.
I'm so excited to finally share this video. Years of preparation for such an uneventful flight. (In aviation, uneventful is good!) I'm so proud of our team. Thank you team, thank you families, thank you supporters. Exciting times ahead for autonomous aviation.

https://reliable.co
You're taking one state and applying it to all. Most states don't cost $1000/year, or anywhere close to it.
Surprised to see Kristian Birkeland missing from the list. Nominated 7 times, but never won.

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristian_Birkeland

"Birkeland organized several expeditions to Norway's high-latitude regions where he established a network of observatories under the auroral regions to collect magnetic field data. The results of the Norwegian Polar Expedition conducted from 1899 to 1900 contained the first determination of the global pattern of electric currents in the polar region from ground magnetic field measurements. The discovery of X-rays inspired Birkeland to develop vacuum chambers to study the influence of magnets on cathode rays. Birkeland noticed that an electron beam directed toward a magnetised terrella was guided toward the magnetic poles and produced rings of light around the poles and concluded that the aurora could be produced in a similar way. He developed a theory in which energetic electrons were ejected from sunspots on the solar surface, directed to the Earth, and guided to the Earth's polar regions by the geomagnetic field where they produced the visible aurora. This is essentially the theory of the aurora today."

"In 1913, Birkeland may have been the first to predict that plasma was ubiquitous in space. He wrote: "It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds. We have assumed that each stellar system in evolutions throws off electric corpuscles into space. It does not seem unreasonable therefore to think that the greater part of the material masses in the universe is found, not in the solar systems or nebulae, but in 'empty' space."[7]"

"In 1916, Birkeland was probably the first person to successfully predict that the solar wind behaves as do all charged particles in an electric field: "From a physical point of view it is most probable that solar rays are neither exclusively negative nor positive rays, but of both kinds".[12][13] In other words, the Solar Wind consists of both negative electrons and positive ions.""

Without him, the modern study of cosmology and planetary science would be a mess.
Hmm I don't see that in the article? Other sources have the CEO saying it will be “well north of $100,000" [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lucid-motors-evs/lucid-sa...
Whoa! This is awesome. How does it work?
It depends on the kind of software. Should games be required to be accessible? I don't think so. Should banking apps be required to be accessible? That probably depends on the size of the bank. Should software used for accessing government services be accessible? Of course.

I don't think a law forcing all software to be accessible makes any kind of sense.
demo: https://naturalsql.com/
Stronger Hurricane Laura aims at heart of US oil refining industry – CNA
Reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia7fUQXskvA
How Vice chooses ..
One would argue that you should change your string fixtures to match and verify that the new API response doesn't break anything with your existing API client. Then you change the API client and verify that all the old tests still work as expected.

Better yet is if you keep the old fixtures and the new fixtures and ensure that your API client doesn't suddenly throw errors if the API server downgrades to before the new field was added.
It's not just about whether the US government trusts US companies more than Chinese companies; it's about gaining access to that data.

You can issue warrants warrants for your own jurisdiction, within your own country. Once data crosses country borders, it's much harder to get access to. The US (understandably) wants this data within their own country. Similarly, China also wants this data within their own country.
I apologize, that didn't seem to be the case from the bio you give on the site. the bio you link to, or your published research. Obviously you know your background better than I do, but you're not putting your best foot forward to build credibility.

I'm after pointing out that a self-promoted site on the front page makes grandiose claims about public health with flimsy support.
I think that it is quite nice, much better than most most modern sites (it does not seem to require js for example and it loads quickly) and I prefer it to the older one. My only is that it makes poor use of horizontal space - my screen is bigger horizontally than vertically, so much space goes wasted. In addition I would suggest offering more examples of sublanguages, such as of #lang racket/gui which the last site included.

Anyway, good work!
Presumably Rule 506(b) which prevents fundraising from nonaccredited investors. There is an exception for up to 35 non-accredited investors but taking money from even one non-accredited investor greatly increases the disclosure requirements on your startup. So the startup would essential need to do disclosure as though it were a public company.

https://www.sec.gov/smallbusiness/exemptofferings/rule506b
Haven't watched yet but this should be a gem: "Test-induced design damage"

In my own company we saw TDD create tons unnecessary indirection by introducing dependency injection all over the place. The only reason for that dependency injection was so the component could be sufficiently isolated for unit testing.

Although it could be argued that the components _should_ be highly compositional anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Corrupted is not the right way to describe it. Both TDD and agile provide something amazing to management: a way to make the black hole called "software engineering" into something tangible and quantifiable. This ofcourse also makes it possible to execute some bad management practices on software engineering as well. People like to complain about agile (and apparently TDD) but I would argue that there are also huge success stories that don't make it to HN.
That just your opinion, though. Others may want more.
I was a little confused by this, but correct me if I'm wrong but the 2500 sq ft limit is just for R5 lots correct? Larger lots, like R10, can have much larger dwellings on them still.
I find this application/library distinction hard to reconsile with the many long-lived, stable applications that exist. AutoCAD, for example, is older than I am.
You know what's better than being carbon neutral? Being carbon negative. I'd rather Prometheus pull carbon out of the air to help cover existing fuel needs than to just offset a huge increase in jet fuel usage.

I fail to see how building yet another luxury transport service will meaningfully help the world compared to tackling some of the bigger problems in energy and environment. Especially since there's no possibility that Boom is more efficient than existing modes of travel.
Fear and dislike are two entirely different things. You do not need to fear death to recognize that it is a bad thing. You do not need to fear your own death to recognize the pain that death causes on those around the deceased. You do not need to fear death to recognize that allowing or accelerating global catastrophes is not ethical behavior.
Absolutely.

Now there is an interesting question. How could Watson and Crick have figured out Franklin's data faster than she did? The answer turns out to be coincidence. There are 230 crystallographic groups. As a crystallographer, Franklin knew them all, and had to rule them all out. However Watson had done his PhD research on a protein that happened to have the same crystallographic group as DNA. So he knew one group really, really well and it turned out to be the right one.

Sometimes luck is more important than skill.
But if that one time they are against you they short you in the back seven times, suffocate you for nine minutes, or arrest you on trumped up charges, it doesn’t really balance out does it?

That’s about like an abused spouse. “He doesn’t always beat me”.
I'm OK with these sorts of "in defense of us all" regulation, but I think the wealth test in particular is a bit perverse. I think this "anti-classism" critique is better than the libertarian critique.
Fair enough.

I probably shouldn't have mentioned Android at all because it's not about phone brand so much as it is my right to tell advertisers no.
> That's good - we've moved from no harm to a balancing competing harms, which I think reflects the reality of the situation.

Not really, because there is no balance. Way more harm is done in the name of protecting people than is done by allowing freedoms.

The rest of your argument is predicated upon there being some kind of balance. There isn't one.

You don't need to look any further than The War on Drugs to see this. It's already been scientifically proven that letting people do what they want is far better for society. The only people who work to keep drugs illegal are those who benefit from them being illegal. Same thing here.

There's not much more to say about this. You're never going to convince me that removing freedom is better for society when people will always have the choice to remove it for themselves by making the right choices about who to associate with or who to do business with.
> People who accomplish their political goals through violent means continue to be violent because you're teaching them that its effective.

This sounds like a description of police departments throughout the United States.

> The more you surrender to violent rioters demanding policy change through fire and violence rather than the ballot box, the more you demonstrate that violence is the way to accomplish anything.

The rioters aren't doing that. The rioters are releasing pent-up frustration and anger at a system that abuses them. They're not sending any message other than their own pain.

The organized protesters are making such demands. They're being met with extreme police violence and aggression.

> The outcome of surrendering to violent mobs is to embolden and empower violent mobs. There will be more and worse.

Please actually attend a protest to see how the power dynamics work.
Better quality of life? I've seen those submarine tours on Youtube and they look cool initially but I could imagine it could get old pretty quickly eating freeze-dried rations and living in such a small space with no homey human elements to its design. Even the Antarctic bases have mini-libraries, and ping pong tables and whatnot that look like they would be much nicer to spend an extended period of time.

Humans weren't meant to be cooped up in a vessel. In space we don't really have the tech to build something bigger but I imagine in the ocean we could do it if we wanted to.
You don't need to file yearly taxes? I thought this is linked to the IRS rather than Ohio.

Also, apart from the franchise fee, there doesn't seem to be anything else for the Delaware C-Corp.
Is there any literature on this? A test suite that runs in 1s is...kinda crazy sounding on any non-trivial codebase.
I was curious, so I went and looked up what a Red Notice is:

> What is a Red Notice? [...] Information related to the crime they are wanted for, which can typically be murder, rape, child abuse or armed robbery. [1]

Using it to go after people who share movies for free seems like a gross abuse of the system.

[1]: https://www.interpol.int/en/How-we-work/Notices/Red-Notices
The Owner of the Ammonium Nitrate Ship and Lebanon Relationship
Y Combinator CEO Faces the Crisis and His Critics – The Information
>> Why does Netflix USA/UK/etc have different content? Why do games have region locks and ridiculous DRM?

I pay Netflix in the country I live, but I can't find content in my native language, so, guess what? I get pirate movies. Similar reasoning applies to some old films: very hard to find online in any legal way or at a reasonable price.

I'd love to pay a fair price to get access to films, but the industry makes it very hard for me. So thank you pirates, you make my life easier.