skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know, I haven't made any argument.

Regardless, the odds of COVID-19 transmission between two people standing together without masks must be at least 1000X higher than the odds that a nuclear attack will happen while they're standing there. That's enough for me to consider the two risks "different" shall we say, and guess which one I'm more likely to prepare for.

Nobody prepares for every contingency. Most people look for some value of risk reduction divided by cost. If I decide to protect my house from school-bus-sized meteorites, the chance I will bankrupt myself trying to construct an adequate shield is near 100%, whereas the chance of such a meteorite hitting the house is pretty small. Given how much more likely plain old thievery is, and how cheap locks are, I should probably prioritize just buying a lock for the front door and remembering to lock it. Just like people prone to die from heart disease or just slowly waste their lives away in traffic should probably prioritize a simpler lifestyle above nuclear war prep.

However and nonetheless, note that even with the small purchase of a door lock, I've already agreed to take on a (more than zero) costly and (to some degree) onerous preparation for something that may never happen. Who knows what the chance of a burglary is; you could estimate based on crime rates. But with 100% certainty, locking the door will be a small chore every day and will ruin some number of minutes of my life. Whether it was ultimately worth it would largely be determined by the value I place on certainty.

Speaking of values, they're subjective. Let's say the school-bus-sized meteorite is confirmed to be coming right for my house, with 100% probability. But let's also say that I don't care whatsoever about the house. So I will still not do anything to mitigate. That's how I feel about a nuclear attack. The chance of a nuclear attack is (some number), but the chance of a nuclear attack happening, and my giving a shit about anything whatsoever afterward, is near zero. "Will I survive?" My answer is somewhere between "Who cares" and "I hope not." So obviously I'm not willing to undertake mitigations or live in Houston. But I will wear a mask during the pandemic for example because it's cheap and easy, temporary, and it works to reduce a risk that is pretty high.
These are interesting scenarios, but let's not forget that the rules are only binding under the threat of being caught and punished. They aren't like the laws of physics. So if a lawyer isn't supposed to engage in trickery, they might do so anyway, especially if they think they can get away with it and their client happens to be a rich criminal who pays them extra to do shady stuff.

Source: Lawyers wouldn't have the reputation they do if all the members of the club had integrity.
It isn't just random residential IPs, but what appears to be BGP hijacking of/onto residential networks on top of that.
News Corp (who lobbied to get this bill created) already did a lot of that this year [1] - over the last few decades, they had bought up most of the newspapers in regional Australia, and then ended up deciding they were unviable and shuttered 125 of them in May this year.

They're keeping some kind of digital version but let go basically all the local reporters, photographers, etc. and closed all the local offices, and I think just run all the remaining online versions out of just a handful of locations now.

1. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-28/news-corp-makes-regio...
I bet it's #3, and not necessarily maliciously. Higher end Intel SKUs do outperform AMD quite easily on practical floating point workloads. That's a fact that could be highlighted by testing _Intel_ MKL side by side. I don't really think it matters a whole lot in the grand scheme of things - all the serious compute has been on the GPUs for the past decade, and that's not about to change. It is critical for Intel now to make their Xe GPUs viable for HPC - something they're well positioned to do, but will fuck up anyway because they're a huge, bureaucratic behemoth with lots of political infighting, and people on the top have not a faintest clue as to what's going on, nor the ability to acquire such a clue.
How is a court-appointed defense attorney supposed to do his job if he knows his client is guilty?
I've made that point before in a different way. Capitalism has achieved an ideological monopoly. There's no competition left from communism. It is not an accident that capitalism delivered the most for the average worker when there appeared to be an alternative way to run things. That's the period from about 1920 (the Russian Revolution) to 1980 (the USSR was still hanging on, but nobody believed in the promise of communism any more.)

China is interesting. It's theoretically communist, but in practice mostly capitalist now. It's authoritarian, but more by constant bureaucratic pressure than random hits by goon squads. There's central planning, and five-year plans that have real effect, yet most of the movers are private companies. Finance is tightly controlled; manufacturing less so. People move up in the government by starting in low-level jobs and getting promoted; there is not much movement between business and government. So far, results are reasonably good.
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I am no fan of this right wing government, which is letting Fake News Corp write it’s media policy, but Facebook does not have an inherent right to other people’s content.

Rather than redistributing ad dollars away from big tech, this is likely to force people consuming news to go directly to the source. Either that or it will further dumb down our discourse (though Fake News Corp is doing a pretty good job of that anyway). Time will tell.
"Bot Management" is enterprise only on CF, and Akamai is out of reach.
Google is a monopoly. Facebook is not. If google pushes their weight around they get targeted for anti competitive behavior.
Imagine all the droughts, floods, hurricanes, traffic, refuse dumps, water shortages, earthquake preparation, suburbanization, encroachment on nature, overuse, etc that we already have but multiply by three.

Why not Russia or Australia or Brazil or Argentina?

If people like an American lifestyle —which many people denounce as arrogant, entitled, selfish and wasteful, etc., they can build their own versions. We give you the blueprint. You know it can be done. Go do it.

No offense to China, but I don’t want that density. I’ve lived in that density a few years and if existentialism was something here, 3x the pop will augment that.

Also, China's pop is old. Soon they will be in the same boat as Japan confronting an older pop, so raw pop should not be a concern. Mao isn't there any more to command Chinese women to produce millions of babies (as he told Khrushchev he would command if Russia bombed them).
I think the fact the original tweet was not normalized in this incredibly obvious way is at least one valid reason companies could use less deep learning folk
Where are you reading that this affects New Zealand?
Thabks for the suggestion, but IME cmd+tabbing till the hidden app is selected, then releasing (ie, standard cmd+tab ux) does precisely nothing. Hence the question.
As always, Chinese takes this to the next level, since there are historical characters for which both meaning and pronunciation have been lost.

A famous one is 篪, used exactly once in the Classic of Poetry (1000 BC), whose meaning was unknown until another text surfaced describing it as a type of flute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon#Chinese_and_Ja...
Sorry, I wasn't aware. What's the major improvement?
There are many factors:

- more testing, as you said

- the most vulnerable people are already dead, and those who aren't are taking extra precautions

- currently, most new cases are from younger people, less vulnerable

- we are becoming better at treating it

Less viral load because of masks is just one other factor. There may be others, like weather or mutations.
25 years ago when I was an intern, I worked for a healthcare software company on the interface team. Our job was to get records out of a hospital’s system and into a home care provider’s system. We were an early proponent of the HL7 standard and our customers were thrilled with not having to repeat information like you experienced.

But as you saw (pun intended), it hasn’t gone far. Every time I see my doctor I have to fill out the same forms and repeat the same information. Too bad my work didn’t go far.
I think 3 turns on the fact that this is more specific than just “information that would inhibit prosecuting the case.” That would include exculpatory evidence, which the prosecutor would have to turn over.
"The bomber will always get through". That remark was made about the big bombing campaigns of WWII, and the planned nuclear attacks of the 1950s and 1960s. Drone attacks are the same concept in miniature.
Then what’s the advantage? I’m assuming said person isn’t 1:1 the whole time, but scaled to a number of concurrent planes, no?
And the ABC/SBS will not benefit from payments if this goes through. Nor will independents. Only the largest for-profit companies will. The gap ever widens.

I guess the level of science and technological literacy in our government here proves we are truly a representative democracy.
See also the Ball of Light series by South Australian based photographer Denis Smith: https://www.denissmith.com.au/ball-of-light
Push isn't exclusive to Apple anymore but others had to jump through hoops.
Why wouldn't the Australian government just make another law making it illegal for Facebook to block sharing of news on Facebook. If you throw enough laws at something, surely you'll get the desired outcome eventually (wealth redistribution from Facebook => struggling newspapers)?
You can still raise a vigorous defense without lying.
Live off what I saved up. I'm not rich, but I'll be OK.
Their point is even full daylight doesn't mean people are awake.
What sort of lies?
Nevermind the reasoning

If the result is no more/fewer news on FB, doesn't that mean it will be a more difficult platform for political parties and Rupert Murdoch's of the world to manipulate?
Most of the thriving non-GPL OSS projects are supported and funded by large corporate sponsors--not by communities or foundations (e.g. React.js by Facebook, Blink by Chrome).

Furthermore, many non-GPL OSS projects have eventually gone proprietary (e.g. MongoDB's switch from AGPL to SSPL).
News Corp is impressive I think they are the only company that can actually make Facebook look sympathetic.
Imagine still thinking ‘You’ travel anywhere - as opposed to the distance between objects and the matter there within expanding and contracting to infinitismally small and large (real-time/life-size) proportions... hmmm lol begs the question do you move through life or does life pass you by?
How exactly are Facebook and Google 'using' news content though? What we're talking about here is a link - a headline, maybe a sentence or two and a thumbnail image... The people pushing this bill are trying to make similar comparisons as you, to things like music, but there's no sense in which Google or Facebook are using news content in the way Spotify uses music content, for instance.

If you look at the bill, bits of it are actually fairly carefully designed to work around the inconvenient truth that they aren't really directly profiting, and it actually makes other things (like whether the amount the publishers are asking for would be too damaging to Google/Facebook's finances) as big a consideration (or more!) than what the actual benefit Google/Facebook are getting!
We all are responsible for our actions on the world. The government doesn’t set policy that says pilots should be automated, and I wouldn’t necessarily assume this is inevitable at all. Government can only be reactionary, and these things are happening without a larger societal conversation that says yes we want this. So I do believe this is a fair question to ask. It would be unethical to not consider ones actions.
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Isn’t that basically what Instagram is? It seems social networks are cutting 3rd party content and focusing solely on UGC.

Question is does it increase or decrease subscriptions to news sites. I can see reasons it going both ways. Lack of traffic to news sites from social decreases subscriptions. Lack of news on social forces people to seek alternatives which increase subscriptions.
Yeah, I didn't realize how downright nefarious lawyers can be until I read "Bad Blood" and thought to myself "How is what David Boies does to help Theranos legal? This seems extremely unethical at the very least, and highly illegal at most"
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Will it support "true colors" (16M colors)[1][2]?

[1] https://github.com/termstandard/colors

[2] https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
1 in 1800 people has died in the US, and about 1 in 50 has tested positive. The rest of us have to stay home from work and can't go out to restaurants?

There's unemployment spikes, but that has happened before too... say, 2009? Several other previous recessions?

For some people it's the worst, certainly many have died... but the average person? the median person? Yes there's the inconvenience and stress of social isolation, yes there's unemployment... but still let's keep things in perspective, comparing it to a world war is a bit extravagant. Whole cities were bombed out of existence, the infrastructure of Europe was completely destroyed, the deaths around the world were enormous in places and primarily young people in the prime of their lives...

It just doesn't compare. Not that it isn't a very difficult situation all around, but don't overrate people's suffering.
It's not unlikely that Facebook will pull out of Australia for such follow up law, and US will retaliate against Australia economically for driving Facebook out.
All of your points are true, and would be brought up by an informed adult or smart kid, but notice how none of them defeat the underlying deductive argument. Simplicity is its strength. If anything, letting them make it complicated by questioning assumptions and revising them will just convince them more, because now it’s sort of their argument, not somebody else’s.

1) It’s not just in our lungs, but in our entire “breathing system”. Still need to control the breath.

2) Masks don’t block oxygen, but they block the wet part of the breath at least somewhat. The wet part is the dangerous part.

You could go back and forth with a so-called “anti-masker” and you’d prob be leagues ahead of where you’d be if you shared a masks article.
The way I see it, only those companies that had already been using a data oriented approach to business can really reap the benefits of ML. From a company's point of view, ML/AI should be a natural evolution of an existing tool set to better solve problems they have been trying to solve in the past using deterministic methods and then statistical methods, etc. Any other project that is diving right into ML is likely to fail because

1. There's no clear problem statement. They have never formulated one and now trying to bolt ML on to their decision making.

2. They don't have well catalogued data for engineers/scientists to work with because they never tried to do rigorous analysis of data before ML became a thing.

3. Managers have no idea how to deal with data driven insights. What if the results are completely unintuitive to them? Are they going to change their processes abruptly? What if the results are aligned with what they have been always doing? Is it worth paying for something that they have been doing intuitively for decades?

I'm not a data scientist. But the biggest complaint I hear from my colleagues is that they lack data to train models.
It's obviously hard to critique a study that hasn't been released, but I [again] find it bizarre how the "introduction" and "conclusions" in the abstract you linked seem to be asking two separate questions.

The intro says "This trial investigates whether the use of face masks in the community will reduce wearers' risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection." (emph. mine) ie. if everyone wears masks, does my risk go down? This seems like the correct question to ask. But then the conclusion says "We will study whether a face mask protects the wearer of the mask against SARS-CoV-2 infection" which is a different question entirely!

If what we have been hearing over the past months is true (masks provide marginal protection for the wearer, but catch a significant portion of aerosol droplets & therefore protect society against the wearer) - I would expect the answer to the first question to be "yes" and the second to be "no"!
Look at the whole picture. China is not known for God, guns, free speech, right to life, and rugged individualism.
Not on company time, but after leaving intel, some former employees added ARM support to ispc[0]. In the years since then, current Intel employees have maintained and even expanded the ARM support and Intel’s website even mentions it now[1].

[0] https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/29/ispc-retrospective.ht...

[1] https://devmesh.intel.com/projects/intel-ispc-in-unreal-engi...
The situation where the human driver is assumed to be guilty without evidence seems self-contradictory. A self-driving car would have abundant telemetry and video. If it didn't, if say the information gathering mysteriously failed then by definition, it's at fault.

This fear makes no more sense to me as the sentiment that nobody will be able to afford to insure a non-self-driving car in the future.
Thank you for sharing your story! Even though selling my side projects isn't the goal behind them it's nice to see someone creating a side project in a short span and actually finishing it.
> In many situations there are perverse incentives to operate inefficiently.

Would you mind taking the time elaborate on this? Inefficiency in the US healthcare system is something everyone talks about but concrete examples are few and far in between. I would love to get an insiders perspective on this!
It will probably hurt independents a lot more though. So while they may lose the most views, they might grow their market share.
Some of the more entertaining defenses I've seen are netting and actual hawks trained to snatch them out of the sky!

Nets tend to be a sort of one-hit thing, so if you miss you're out of luck. They're obviously not ideal around airports and other infrastructure.
Unlikely because newscorp controls the government in both Australia and the US
How much do we have to pay Facebook to do this in the US?
Yes, I did not specify which standard temperature and pressure were required for the correspondence to work, because I thought that was an obvious requirement when defining units in the metric style. In fact stp differs between the metric system and the imperial system. There was no stp for the Queen Anne wine gallon because there was no intention to link units of volume and weight.

The stp for the metric system was initially freezing point but was changed to the point of maximum density of water because that was easier to practically implement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_metric_system#T...

The Wikipedia article I linked above says, “The 1824 Act defined as the volume of a gallon to be that of 10 pounds (4.54 kg) of distilled water weighed in air with brass weights with the barometer standing at 30 inches of mercury (102 kPa) at a temperature of 62 °F (17 °C).”
> the entire Australian media has been nothing but puppets controlled by murdoch

You're going a bit heavy on hyperbole there. There's a decent amount of non-murdoch news; ABC, SBS, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, The Conversation, etc.
And this is mostly because we have designed our zoning and land use policies to favor big, centralized stores over lots of small, little ones.

An interesting parallel is Japan; Japan doesn't require parking with its properties, and to buy a car in Japan you have to produce proof of a parking space that you have (probably by purchasing a spot either with a property or in a lot somewhere), and the market has mostly sorted itself in favor of extremely dense networks of small shops.
You know the sort of person who comments 'Just install Linux' in every thread about more or less any kind of computer problem? You don't want to be that sort of person. If you're starting your comments with 'I'm not going to stop telling you to install Linux', it's probably a good time to check if you're not turning into the sort of person who's always telling you to install Linux.
Murdoch already has his news distribution systems in place in Australia -- the less other outlets can gain visibility the better as far as he is concerned
Oh how wonderful it would be if Facebook were to pull out of Australia.
> of course people can write unsafe C++ if they want to.

The problem is knowing the safe subset of the language requires continuous study and deep understanding. It also has changed with time.

I used to have a bookshelf in order to understand C++. I suspect that has not changed.

I do not need a bookshelf to understand the "safe" subset of Rust.
Maybe not, but if the EHR systems used in high-income countries are as universally awful as I've heard from doctors, and if GNU Health is at all better... I'd ask why not then!
There was a talk right after ours about LTO! I only half paid attention to it because I was catching up on the chat, but it sounds like Google is doing kernel LTO in prod for their internal systems (and maybe also for Android and CrOS?):

https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/7/contributions/798/ (slide link at the bottom)

https://youtu.be/FFjV9f_Ub9o?t=3844
Looks like Level3/CenturyLink has broken IPv4 in a significant part of Europe
I encourage everyone to have a read of the actual draft legislation along with hearing Facebook's reaction to new regulations being imposed on them.

The actual legislation sounds well thought out to me: https://www.accc.gov.au/focus-areas/digital-platforms/news-m...

The FAQs: https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/DPB%20-%20Draft%20news%...

See also the ACCC response to Google's open letter, which contained misinformation: https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/response-to-google-ope...
Very little. What was there was dismissed as contamination, though a 2008 analysis showed small amounts of water locked inside pieces of volcanic glass inside the Apollo samples. The recent tremendous emphasis on the Chandrayaan-1 mission is motivated largely by the failure of Chandrayaan-2.
Yeah they exist and most of them are good (certainly a lot better at least) but it's not what the mainstream majority of "Aussies" read and they don't have the advertising power or control of the Murdoch press here.
Facebook is not taking anyones content. News companies willingly submit their content to facebook and now demand that facebook should pay for the stuff they submitted. So facebook is taking the logical step by stopping them from submitting the content.

I can't walk up to someone and hand them the keys to my car and then demand that they now owe me the value of the car.
Most of them are specifically excluded from this legislation.