skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [...] organizations that don't tolerate whistle blowing become more compartmentalized to force whistle blowing into a more deniable narrow scope, which of course means the same organizations increase their inefficiency.

This is the insight and strategy Assange laid out in his 2006 essays "State and Terrorist Conspiracies" and "Conspiracy as Governance"[0] and put into practice with WikiLeaks.

> Authoritarian regimes create forces which oppose them by pushing against a people’s will to truth, love and self-realization. Plans which assist authoritarian rule, once discovered, induce further resistance. Hence such schemes are concealed by successful authoritarian powers until resistance is futile or outweighed by the efficiencies of naked power. This collaborative secrecy, working to the detriment of a population, is enough to define their behavior as conspiratorial.

> We can see conspiracies as a type of device that has inputs (information about the environment), a computational network (the conspirators and their links to each other) and outputs (actions intending to change or maintain the environment)

> In a conspiracy, individuals conspire, while when isolated they do not. We can show most of this difference by adding up all the important communication (weights) between all the conspirators. Call this total conspiratorial power.

> Instead of cutting links between conspirators so as to separate a weighted conspiracy we can achieve a similar effect by throttling the conspiracy — constricting (reducing the weight of) those high weight links which bridge regions of equal total conspiratorial power.

> Literacy and the communications revolution have empowered conspirators with new means to conspire, increasing the speed of accuracy of the their interactions and thereby the maximum size a conspiracy may achieve before it breaks down.

> Later we will see how new technology and insights into the psychological motivations of conspirators can give us practical methods for preventing or reducing important communication between authoritarian conspirators, foment strong resistance to authoritarian planning and create powerful incentives for more humane forms of governance.

[0]: https://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf
Oh my. That was exactly what they said to me. I was like OOWWW and they said "hey look at the screen, we are going around the corner!"
A pitfall of Rust's move/copy/drop semantics and zeroing data
I doubt it would be the best choice.

Being so far from population centers can be a downside, especially when the real estate and cost of living is expensive. Things like local talent pool, latency due to geographic location, and business travel being more expensive can be an issue.

With the pandemic causing more companies to allow permanent remote work, I think existing tech facilities would be a cheaper option.
Africa is probably more likely to have experienced French or British occupation than American.
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Nobody's banning anyone from having an opinion on laws, so that's even more irrelevant.
Most companies I've worked for have just handed out promotions at seemingly random intervals.

You could ask too but it never really went over well.
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I literally just got my app going on a tethered RasPi this morning (via SSH + screen). Now I need to do this as a target? No rest for the wicked. Thanks.
Haha, I'm getting downvoted too, so I guess it wasn't because you didn't provide a source.

Oh well, love to hear anybody with a counter-argument. Is there something I missed?

It's hard to eliminate a virus that hides in reservoirs.

> "Practical disease control requires answers to two questions: 1) Can an acceptable level of control be accomplished without consideration of a reservoir? 2) If not, what populations constitute the reservoir? "

> "Given a target-reservoir system, policies to manage infection may contain elements of three broadly different tactics:

1) target control: directing efforts within the target population with no reference to the reservoir (e.g., human vaccination against yellow fever [23]);

2) blocking tactics: directing control efforts at blocking transmission between source and target populations (e.g., game fences to control FMDV in cattle); and

3) reservoir control: controlling infection within the reservoir (e.g., culling programs, vaccination, or treatment of reservoirs)."

> "These three approaches require progressively increased levels of understanding of reservoir structure and function."

Haydon DT, Cleaveland S, Taylor LH, Laurenson MK. Identifying reservoirs of infection: a conceptual and practical challenge. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002;8(12):1468-1473. doi:10.3201/eid0812.010317

Coronaviruses have a lot of reservoirs.

Shi Z, Hu Z. A review of studies on animal reservoirs of the SARS coronavirus. Virus Res. 2008;133(1):74-87. doi:10.1016/j.virusres.2007.03.012

Scope of the question was whether or not it is possible to eliminate the virus entirely a la efforts with poliovirus. I looked at the literature, and cited it. Doesn't seem possible at the moment, unless we decide to make all of the confirmed and theoretical animal reservoirs extinct (e.g. kill ALL pet cats and dogs).

Doesn't mean you can't vaccinate people so they don't catch it.
"Disgorgement" is the word I think you're looking for.
For the curious, searching for `"whewell" "coleridge" "scientist"` does give a few results about the 1833 Coleridge exchange that user disown is referring to. (Though many of them source it to Snyder's 2011 book so they're not independent.)

Even the 1834 article we're all talking about says:

>Philosophers was felt to be too wide and too lofty a term, and was very properly forbidden them by Mr. Coleridge [..]

... which he presumably wrote specifically as a reference to that 1833 exchange. This article is anonymous, but see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24864582 for why it's attributed to Whewell.

So it's quite possible that he first spoke the word in the 1833 exchange with Coleridge, and first put it to paper in the 1834 review of Somerville's book.

Edit: See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24864563 which has a link to the 1833 meeting's report, which does not appear to mention Coleridge or this exchange.
Hope it's opt-in. Otherwise I'm moving to graphine OS.
Legitimate question, how and why is clickbait culture toxic?

I am not creating it or defending it. I am just a little confused what you mean by that exactly.
We’ve had IP laws in some form since at least the 16th century, probably earlier.
Are you sure? Maybe correlate those numbers with the number of victims of mass shootings who didn't die
Also the dosage can be unreliable. LSD tabs aren’t regulated (obviously) and mushroom can vary wildly in their potency.
a-shell uses ios_system https://github.com/holzschu/ios_system/ and can install WASM packages (if they exist?)

iSH emulates 32-bit alpine x86 and can install things from apk
How do you explain your contradictory beliefs that "Linux is huge and doing great" and that Microsoft is desperately trying to make its tools look credible with marketing and hype, and at the same time Microsoft is bordering on world domination with _disastrous_ news that might extinguish Linux forever? Or where Linux is the dominant computing platform everyone serious uses, and at the same time in danger of being squished by Microsoft?

> "As for Android, there is this thing called AOSP. Check it out."

It's what you get if you remove all the things people want, like Chrome and YouTube and drivers and Google store, and are left with just a kernel which nobody cares about. It's what manufacturers take, and put something nice but proprietary on top before it becomes desirable. (btw, if Android counts as a huge successful use of Linux, how is Microsoft adding a Linux VM option to Windows going to extinguish Android?)

> "MS executing its hallmark embrace-and-extend on it is _disastrous_ news"

It isn't news, WSL has been around for years, and before that the Unix subsystem for more years. And why are you afraid that Microsoft doing literally anything with Linux might lead to you running Windows? How is that going to happen?

> "Linux is anything but small; it is huge."

Then how is Microsoft adding a Linux VM option to Windows a "disaster"? Is it huge and doing great, or tenuous and barely holding on?

> "It is what allows me to keep the lights on and put food and drink on my family's table."

You just said you would use Windows if someone paid you. Linux being extinguished wouldn't stop you from earning. Not to mention the doublethink involved in how Linux can both "be extinguished" and still exist in Windows, or how Linux being used in Android, extended in proprietary ways, is great, but being used in Windows is not great.

Because it's just anti-Microsoft fearmongering, not anything which makes rational or reasonable sense.

EEE was about standard protocols; if Microsoft extend SMTP or HTML and everyone becomes dependent on their version, they could leverage that to kill Netscape. If Microsoft put a Linux VM in Windows, that doesn't change what happens on your server, on your phone, on your laptop. If people start developing for "Microsoft Linux" because it's /better/ because Microsoft builds things people want, that's called "competition".
I remember reading and do you know what the difference is between different distributions? basically a repository + a package manager. that is what a distro is.
You depend on:
- millions of square kilometers of paved roads and parking garages
- a long and complicated supply chain producing an difficult to maintain, expensive, and fast decaying machine which requires a non-renewable resource as fuel
- the forced indulgence of your fellow citizens as you pollute the air with noise and poisonous gases and make them deal the danger you impose on them (sometimes it will cost them their lives)
- the arrangement of our cities for cars and the damage that does to communities, quality of life, and aesthetics

You have lots of dependencies, the government and the car industry has just naturalized them and largely guaranteed them to you. That's why you see non-drivers as serfs. And that's why we see drivers as entitled.
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Is there reputable polling of ride share drivers' support for Prop 22?

I've heard anecdotal evidence of overwhelming support for it from drivers but I can't find any polling that's from an unbiased third party.
> It's so hot that eating outside is miserable half the year

This is wrong in my experience. There are hundreds of restaurants equipped for summer dining [1]. Lots of restaurants have open rooftops, patio seating, open-air "fireman"-style garage door walls, etc. Pretty much every BBQ joint and taqueria is outdoors.

Outdoor eating is very popular in the Georgia summer.

[1] https://www.gafollowers.com/13-rooftop-bars-atlanta/
We really shouldn’t let people become so wealthy that they can make public policy, whether it’s for profit or altruistic reasons.
It's not a urban legend I think because there are no friends of friends.

It's people who claim to have seen it. (Rather than people who claim to have a friend who's seen it)

‘I tawt I taw’ a bunny wabbit at Disneyland; New evidence shows false memories can be created

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Assange seems like he should have played that card by now.
Did you mean to respond to a different comment thread? The parent commenter indicated that they think it should be illegal for Uber to say it might not be feasible to operate in California if the law passes.
So how would a business communicate that it believes the employees' livelihoods are threatened by a law? Is it just flat-out illegal for an employer to tell people that lawmakers are about to put them out of work?

Imagine a totally different scenario, where the government is about to cancel a defense acquisition program (like the F-22, which was cancelled). Could Lockheed-Martin bring this to the attention of the employees? If so, how?
What most of the population doesn't realize: There is no such state of "it being over".

I mean, human rights prevent forcing people to vaccinate. Especially given the facts that there was/is no time for a standard timeframe of human trials and verification of a potential medication.

The next decade will be very, very challenging for all of us. And mostly because of the stupid ones that insist on going to their effing vacations.
This is a good starting point to your question, from William Morgan who's attributed with coining the term service mesh: https://buoyant.io/service-mesh-manifesto/.

It's a fair question. Service meshes are a relatively recent development, and there aren't many papers on them, despite rapid adoption in industry (e.g. many large systems use a service mesh, and AWS App Mesh is in general release as of last year). This is a decent survey paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8705911.

Service meshes are intended to address some of the operational complexity of running microservices. To take Morgan's definition: "A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for handling service-to-service communication. It’s responsible for the reliable delivery of requests through the complex topology of services that comprise a modern, cloud native application."

To answer your question briefly, a service mesh is not a completely brand new thing, the pattern seems a natural improvement to having a set of SDKs (like Twitter's Finagle) and other things tying an SOA together. Consistency in an SOA is pretty valuable, and separating infrastructure logic (like retries, service discovery) from application logic is pretty nice too. Whether the improvement has been significant, I'd recommend searching for "service mesh" and you'll find some talks describing use cases.

What I have found tricky is finding critical analysis of service meshes beyond "do we need this" (i.e. what are service meshes missing, does the pattern give rise to other opportunities), but this should come as more research is done in the area.
SUVs, trucks, and Van's pretty much fall in the same category of large vehicles.

In states like Texas a huge portion of vehicles are not cars but these behemoths.
It's no crazier than an online bookstore doing it :)
"Good sir, it appears that our ice cream machine is down for scheduled maintenance, can I interested you in a piping hot apple pie perchance?" - teenage wage slave ;)
Well guarantee you every road has been cycled on, unless it’s a highway.
Attitudes like this are why I hate California, calling companies reacting to economic disincentives 'childish' with blithe disregard to the value they provide and the harm disincentives can have on the rest of us[0].

[0]Effectively banning Uber will literally kill people, for starters. To say nothing of the increased economic friction going back to the cab system.
Yeah, that has just little to do with the topic at hand. When you have a Facebook account, you sign a deal "your life for free stuff". Most people chose the free stuff. The only reason they can bring a suit at all is because people can't be assumed to be as aware as Facebook would like to paint them.

However, drug addiction is something entirely different. You don't expect people to override doctors decisions. Yeah you should question, but most people don't have the expertise to do so. The same is true with Facebook, however the premise is different, i.e. Facebook didn't sign the Hippocratic oath to only do good to people. So obviously people should be wary. And most of all, the harm done is virtual and not noticeable, to the individual that is.
I can absolutely assure you that in each and every European country the person leaving must show his/her passport.
That’s fine but then you can’t present it as a scientific argument. Choosing a few anecdotes and talking about it as if it is science is dishonest.

Face masks are a perfect ‘red herring solution’:

- They are very visible so you can see who’s using them

- They are slightly inconvenient so it makes users feel they’ve done their part

- However slightly, they infringe on the basic right to breathe so people have a reason to rebel against them

This causes conflict and gives the users a reason to feel superior

- They come with a plausible though difficult to prove or disprove story

But don’t forget there just is not a whole lot of convincing evidence masks and especially the kind used by the general population actually have any effect on the spread of COVID-19.
At least in San Francisco Bay Area, which has one of the worst housing markets in the country, it would be a net win.

For some people who've lived here a while and bought a house for cheap or have rent control, they're making money hand over fist.

But for the rest of us, a huge portion of our paychecks goes to landlords or paying a mortgage. It would be much more reasonable in almost any other US suburb and most US cities.
Wouldn't you multiply like you do for functions as an inner product for hilbert space?

Something like:
$ f \cdot g = \int_\infty^\infty f(x)g(x)dx $

No?

The schwartz inequality gives us that the product then has a value between 0 and 1. ...Not sure what it means if the value is less than one. What does orthogonality mean when it comes to probability density functions?
It's not binary (remote or office). My company was going to rent about 600 extra desks this year, but we added 0. Management is surprised how much we got done while being 100% remote. After the pandemic we will come back to a hybrid work schedule - 2 or 3 days a week from the office and hot desking.
In that case no-one really invents much these days... just rehashes and or iterates on good ideas and repackages them slightly different.
Was the owner just trying to state facts or were they trying to swing the local election by threatening employees? I think in your example case, no, the owner would not break the law by just saying the business will shut down.

A few scattered, merely-the-facts statements that a business will shut down as a result of a new law is very different than a continuous campaign of political messages and surveys through the official work app. There's a lot more room to argue that Uber's communications amounted to an attempt to coerce or influence, though it will still probably be an uphill battle.

(I am not a lawyer)
The source that Wikipedia uses for the anonymous writer being Whewell is https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0003379620020272... , which says:

>From Todhunter's biography [9] we learn that the reviewer was William Whewell, F.R.S.

[9] in turn is:

>9 I. Todhunter, "William Whewell, an account of his writings, with selections from his literary and scientific correspondence", London, 1876, vol. i., p. 92. The editor of the Quarterly Review, J. G. Loekhart, had prescribed 'a lightish paper' for the review of Mrs Somerville's book, and he commended Whewell for his 'spirited' contribution.

This book is https://archive.org/details/williamwhewelld01whewgoog but archive.org's search doesn't find any mention of "scientist" in it, and it's 900 pages long so I have no idea if it's in there. "artist", and "philosopher" and "Coleridge" have 35 search results between them, but none of them appear to be relevant.
Requiring 7/8ths to overrule the public vote should be the norm for any ballot measure.

Florida pulled their stunt where they override the public referendum on restoring felons voting rights, because they wanted to and they could. You might not like Prop 22, but imho if the public wants an amendment then their will should be sacrosanct.
> In 2018 ~130 people died every day in the US overdosing on opioids

Alcohol kills literally twice that number of people per day and is a factor in nearly half of all violent crime and is a quarter of a trillion dollar market, and yet we seem to fine with that trade-off even though it has absolutely ZERO therapeutic application.

> putting "crisis" in quotes like it's a manufactured epidemic

The epidemic might not be manufactured, but given the numbers re: alcohol the outrage certainly seems to be. It's a moral panic, imo.
>Once you opt in to the notification system

For now, at least...
> I always hated the dull mathematic definition of "a matrix represents a linear map" because what the matrix actually represents is completely context dependent.

The projection and translation matrices you mentioned represent restricted sets of linear maps in some vector space, but the meaning of the restriction is also captured in other mathematical structures. See affine spaces and projective spaces.
It would work with HTTPS if you can set your software to accept a self-signed root cert. That's a significant if, however.
Exactly. If everyone just drive huge suvs all the time, there would be no pedestrian or cyclist deaths. This is genius.
This is vital if we are to move past coronavirus. It took longer than it should have to make this available, but everyone has a responsibility to install the app for their specific country. (The privacy solution is very clever. The most common criticism is health departments complaining that they want more information so they can trace outbreaks.)
I'm honestly asking because I can't tell, but is that sarcasm?
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Of course they hire non-PEs. You can’t get a license without years (at least 4) of experience first. Most consultancies I know of would not hire anyone who couldn’t pass the FE, though.
This is great and I applaud you for the effort that this took to put together.

I keep wanting to do something like this, but there is so much already out there with people that know more than I do that I feel it would just end up in the ether.
Oh. Oh my. I have studied linear algebra theory some. I have used it a ton. I have used eigenvectors to solve problems. I have never grokked them.

This description changed that. Thank you!
I'm so tired of everything becoming a subscription. The worst part is, in-app purchases don't translate to family accounts, so we're back to the Bad Old Days of buying apps multiple times for multiple devices. And that's even worse when it's a subscription.
Yep... Their onslaught of sudden ads felt ridiculously overconfident so that my first impression of them was negative. The ads were also bizarre and obnoxious, like "are you a getaway driver at a bank heist? Watch a quibi! Are you about to die?! Quibi time!"
Depends on how sealed it is. An actual greenhouse would not be. If the area is draughty and has a lot of air exchange it may actually be close to outdoors.

A CO2 meter can give a quick approximation of whether the greenhouse canopy spacs is more like an inside or outside.

My intuition was you’re right. But I could see it being the other way if it’s just a loose shield.
There was zero gain. Everyone found out and yet we moved right along, your woke outrage has done nothing, still is doing nothing, while two men who put countless lives at risk go on their merry way. It's only a truth to you, to everyone else its treason.
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It's tricky to meaningfully separate these cases, as many opioid addictions start with prescriptions and move to more available opioids when the prescriptions end.
Actually, E.F. Codd, who developed the concept of a relational database, moved out of the country. I believe this was less that he feared personal repercussions than that he found the whole business obnoxious.
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I've also tried and failed to find any independent polling. It's funny to me that both sides of this debate confidently claim most drivers support their position.
Because there is something about the Apple product they want, that they can't get somewhere else.
Really? What expenses have gone up?

Food? Unless your company provided a LOT of food?

Are you paying more for internet? Paying more for sq footage?

Curious