skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Despite having obvious signs of illness, the Maplecrest employee went to work that day, and the next."

"The York County Jail employee showed up for an eight-hour shift despite having COVID-19 symptoms. It was the first of five consecutive days of work for the employee..."

I see the main problem not as the wedding, because an infection can frankly happen anywhere, but as a failure to accommodate people who feel they can't miss work even though they are ill (need the money, fear repercussions, policy that limits sick days, etc.). I don't believe the individuals intentionally exposed others, but felt they had no other choice.
>Radical philosophers have been saying for a long time now that everything is a question of power and domination, that anyone pretending otherwise is complicit, and that -- in the final analysis -- the mere classification of things is a violent act.

Which philosophers are saying this? I majored in philosophy, still read philosophy (both ancient and modern academic), and have never encountered anyone saying that classification of things is a violent act.

It's true there has always been a struggle, going back to ancient Greece and Thucydides, about whether politics should be about justice (or morality) or power.[0] Between what is right, and who has force. And some, like Chomsky (who some might call a radical), say that everyone living in a modern society is complicit in some way[1]. But I've never seen anyone say that believing in justice/morality instead of power makes one complicit.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism-intl-relations/#R...

[1] https://chomsky.info/200601__/
Your links do not support your statement. While the wikipedia article mentions some armed presence, it clearly puts that as a response to outside right-wing violence.
No mention of is made of an "rifle-wielding “security team” assaulted journalists, intimidated residents, and murdered an unarmed black teenager" in either article.
There certainly have been some unfortunate shooting deaths in the area at the time, but not much is known about either the perpetrators or their motivation.
The left had something similar in 2016, in Bernie Sanders. The differences were that he didn't have the locker room talk (that I know of), and he didn't have the dictatorial tendencies (that I know of). But he was an insurgent from outside the party (he wasn't a Democrat, though he may have joined the party in 2016 for his run). In the same way, Trump wasn't really a Republican. (He did join the party, but somewhat recently.) Yes, I realize that this is degenerating into No True Scotsman, but both were outsiders who tried to hijack the parties. Trump succeeded, Bernie failed because the Democratic Party manipulated things and the Republican Party let things happen.

The groundwork has been laid, on both sides. And the Democrats got raked over the coals for tilting the scales against Bernie, so they might not do it next time.
Yep.

The Pro adds

- Brighter Screen
- Better cooling for extended CPU loads
- Touch Bar (which many don't care for)
- Bigger battery.

The MacBook Air boosted to 16B is likely the biggest bang for the buck unless you are going to be hitting that CPU hard all the time. The iPad has pretty damned good performance without fans so I expect the Air will do quite fine.
Honestly it's like a rite of passage to use Paul's notes to get through calculus in college :).

Many thanks because without it I would've struggled much more!
Oh wow, I'd forgotten all about Q.E.D.

_Feels old_
Vitamin D is vital for adaptive immune system function too!

When a T-cell encounters a foreign pathogen, it extends a vitamin D receptor. A signaling device allowing it to bind to the active form of vitamin D. Only after this can T-cells perform their intended function. [1]

Which is likely why healthy levels > 40 ng/mL significantly reduce COVID mortality, there's been > 2 dozen obersvational studies and at least one randomized controlled one. [2]

1. von Essen MR, Kongsbak M, Schjerling P, Olgaard K, Odum N, Geisler C (April 2010). "Vitamin D controls T cell antigen receptor signaling and activation of human T cells". Nature Immunology. 11 (4): 344–49. https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.1851

2. Entrenas Castillo, M., Entrenas Costa, L. M., Vaquero Barrios, J. M., Alcalá Díaz, J. F., López Miranda, J., Bouillon, R., & Quesada Gomez, J. M. (2020). "Effect of calcifediol treatment and best available therapy versus best available therapy on intensive care unit admission and mortality among patients hospitalized for COVID-19: A pilot randomized clinical study". The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology, 203, 105751. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsbmb.2020.105751
Seems like the better advice is to not use Doordash. Doordash likes it when you let them advertise lower prices and then help pay for their labor costs via unstated cash tips. Workers might like it too to avoid taxes, but that’s opposite to my interests.
I care more about what is true than I care about trying to provide false balance between unequal positions. If you see me as missing the message, so be it. A request to treat "both sides" of this situation as equals is a request to ignore reality, which I refuse to do.
A great explanation of this that I read somewhere was that only a gay person could believe the doomsday scenario of homosexuality ending human reproduction. A gay person thinks “huh that’s scary, what if everyone is like me” while a straight person thinks “I have 4 kids, how could that possibly happen.”
> "How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even now. Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice — ‘Resist the beginnings’ and ‘Consider the end.’ But one must foresee the end in order to resist, or even see, the beginnings. One must foresee the end clearly and certainly and how is this to be done, by ordinary men or even by extraordinary men? Things might have. And everyone counts on that might.

The problem is the road to hell and heaven are both paved with good intentions.

History is littered with so many warnings of false positives and false negatives, it's hard to be know what to resist and what to accept.

But power corrupts absolutely and I think it's safe to fear unchecked power and those who are loyal to people instead of loyal to ideas. Ideas don't change when they gain or lose power, but people always do.
What I don't understand is why people don't make better personal choices?

It's very strange that people won't just wear a mask (with it over their mouth and nose). There might be some tiny fraction of people that have a real issue with it, but not anywhere the number of people that feel the need to loudly object to it.
If the care facility is housing at-risk patients, they should have strict protocols in place for visitors. Shaming a wedding here seems irresponsible by the media considering these people could have picked up Covid anywhere like Walmart.
A day in the life of an engineering manager
Now is the time to stand on your principals & do what you know is right. It may upset your family in the short term, but you'll be able to look back & know you did the right thing. Imagine you gather, you find out you had Covid and gave it to a relative who later dies of it. How will that feel? What if you are "a bit sick" and a relative dies of Covid afterward and you never know if you were the one who gave it to them?

Make the choice that lets you sleep easy at night & be able to say "even though it was hard, I did the right thing." Standing up for what's right isn't always easy.
Our company has committed to using Google Cloud Platform. I do not see a lot of need for writing much new infrastructure. Someone needs to create and manage Kubernetes and its ilk, but the people doing this will make up a similar percentage of our society (and tech ecosystem) as people who generate electricity and grow food. Most of what we build amounts to modern shell scripts and crontab entries. The vast majority of what we create is mortar to cement together other people's bricks. This is a great victory. I love programming but I also love getting things done quickly.
"Not as polished" doesn't imply "not up to par".

Ironically, one of your two suggestions is a Linux distribution.
Escalating the situation and change public perception to "hurt the left" seems what I interpret from the situation.
The tragic thing is, it's much easier to measure "coronavirus deaths" and "coronavirus cases" than it is to measure the price we pay to minimize those things. It's your typical case of over-optimizing for a single KPI and losing the bigger picture.

The measures we've taken are deteriorating society in more subtle ways, and there are deaths and suffering indirectly caused by these measures. They are just not easy to sum up. How many people have killed themselves because of the lockdowns and economic problems? I know of at least one. How many people in third world countries are starving as a result of it? I've read millions. How many families are being torn apart due to increased divorces? These kinds of effects pay out their harm over longer periods of time, and in less obvious ways. We aren't tracking those on a widget on TV.

Because the pro-lockdown, pro-authoritarian case is so much easier to back with clear and obvious numbers the government and media are able to easily manipulate the population, most of whom won't consider the trade-offs, into conformity. This is so sad to watch.
I'm becoming more and more callous about people who don't give a shit if their selfishness kills others.

Guess what, that goes two ways. If you can't be bothered to wear a mask and socially distance, and you are fine with people dying because they've committed the sin of having asthma. If you're ok with perfectly healthy young adults having heart issues because they survived covid-19, then I'm ok with YOU suffering while the civilized world tries to save lives.
Because risk mitigation is linked to risk profile. Even in non-pandemic times an immunocompromised person or caregiver thereof must behave differently from someone who is not.
Usually make contact via email or Linkedin. Show your cards up front and make it clear that you're not selling anything, just looking to learn more about a specific problem you think they have. Set expectations that convo will be brief (<20 minutes).

If someone has a real problem, they will be actively looking for solutions and would be happy to chat with you.
Thank you for putting random third-party individuals in your social circle at risk.
It's also possible that people who are suddenly interested in losing weight and exercising more have an increased awareness in what they're eating.
>Trump I would suspect has nothing resembling a coherent political philosophy and couldn't understand classical liberalism

I have no reason to disagree. Trump is a symptom of the problem; the divide was happening before he came onto the scene. The actual problem needs to be resolved before it becomes a bigger problem. Right now in my point of view identity politics has created a political schism that's widening.

What's the status quo? Call everyone a racist white supremacist? That's going to increase the divide more.
pop_os is far from immune to this frankly.
Or they'd rather take a chance to see their loved ones, rather than be safe and isolated.
Extra credit for

- team accounts

- budgets and rules for new software

- password management with security audits and MFA enforcement

- automated purchasing during employee onboarding

- hardware and other purchase management like laptops and mobile device management
Because of... what the top-level comment in the thread you're responding to says?
Freedom is not absolute. As Hobbes said, without government to help organize us, life is "nasty, brutish, and short." Obviously there is such a thing as too much control, but there is also such a thing as too little.

Situations such as this are extraordinary. We have a virulent and serious disease we're trying to control the best way we can. The best leaders are making difficult decisions using the best science we have to guide them.

Protecting the innocent and the vulnerable -- and valuing life in general -- is a tenet that our society has chosen to adopt. How do we do that? By balancing freedom with measured restrictions that are consistent with that tenet.

We can argue about whether the measures taken are effective, or whether they restrict too much freedom. But to just say "Fuck it all, absolute freedom for everyone! Everyone toss out their masks and get together indoors!" during this crisis goes much too far in my view.
What's the death rate right now? How many people have died over the norm?
Are you planning for holidays and Covid
This may be in a lot of people's minds given the current pandemic, and there's a similar discussion in [1], it may reach a bigger audience here.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25084165
'The insurance industry transforms from “recovery after risk” to “prevention of risk:”'

I understand insurance to largely already work like this: high premiums discourage risky behavior. For example, one might be dissuaded from building a home on a flood plain when one finds out what the flood insurance will cost.
And to be crystal clear, the emails should be done sending today. The changes—which will take effect on January 15—only apply to businesses that have had at least $1M in lifetime billing volume (or will cross that threshold this year). All others can continue to have Billing for free.
There were a set of rules. According to the rules, he won. That's not stealing the election, that's winning by the rules. That's like saying that one team "stole" a baseball game because they had fewer hits than the other team. Yeah, but they had more runs, and that's the rules of the game.
Not wearing a seatbelt hurts yourself only.

If Covid were an STD there would be huge social pressure on it even though it would be passed less frequently.
I strongly recommend finding a good counselor or something along those lines for the flooding-thoughts. Self-medicating will help you survive, but it will not enable you to thrive. I've been doing what is effectively group counseling for the past couple of years and I've slowly learned to identify what the pain is that is driving my behaviors (it sounds like you might already be there), and from there, identifying the needs that are getting unmet. In my case, it's a desire for what St. Augustine describes as "home", a place where you are welcomed, or more broadly speaking, "community" (as opposed to a collection of friends which is what I have). I still have no idea how to get that, but I am making concrete changes to my life to at least randomly walk that direction.
Investing and Causation
Sounds like PowerShell to me, each part isn't text but its own object that every other script can manipulate.
First off let me make it clear (1) I've mostly stayed entirely isolate since March. (2) I plan to stay isolated. So don't shoot the messenger please.

Anyway, I live in Tokyo. Tokyo Metro area has basically all of California (SF, SD, etc..) squeezed into an area the size of Los Angeles. 34 million people.

Tokyo has been mostly unlocked since June. Theaters and other venues are open (every other seat), clubs are open (WTFBBQ!), restaurants are open and many are full, everyone has masks off while eating and drinking though outside it's 99% masked.

Number shot up in the last 2 days, we'll see where it goes, but though September and October they stayed flat. About 100 to 200 a day (vs California, same population, 10k day or 100x)

Here are some videos from 3 different weekends in October Tokyo Metro Area

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0UP9v5zOh8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQQl6z45QxY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13WRmg1NX8g

No idea why the number are 100x less than California similar population. Especially given Tokyo is far more densely populated than California and trains are still packed during rush hour. Schools are open though they swap half the students each day. Lots of people have ideas, none of them proven.

* Japanese don't wear shoes indoors so don't track it into their houses :P

* Japanese are better at wearing masks? (ok, but walking by restaurants full of unmasked people doesn't seem to fit)

* Japan isn't testing as much. I think that's not true enough to get a 100x difference but even if it was hospitalizations and deaths would be up? They are not AFAIK

* Japan has a different version of the virus? Ok, so when the real one arrives were screwed.

* Japanese are healthier? (like obesity is 3.6% here vs 30% in USA)

* Japanese are not vitamin D deficient?

They have put lots of measures in though I assume that similar elsewhere. Every cashier is surrounded by various forms of transparent partitions. Fast food joints sometimes have partitions between every 2 seats. That said a cafe I used to hang out at as one large 20 person table and 8 or so bar seats near a window. I've walked by since it's near the grocery store I go to and it's full, people eating with masks off, no partitions.

I have plenty of pictures of full restaurants as I walk by.

Anyway, would certainly love to know why the numbers are so low relative to the USA and Europe. Maybe it's just luck? Seems unlikely
I understand they're working on producing their own laptops as well, but I bought a System76 Thelio desktop at the beginning of the pandemic ("guess I'm not going anywhere for a while") and it's been fantastic.

I also feel that calling it "just a rebrand" does a disservice to the engineering System76 has done short of building their own hardware. Pop OS is a real usability achievement, the tiling desktop is great, and controlling both hardware and software is how you get something as user-friendly as a mac. I especially loved this review of the Oryx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aJ9U5t9oD4
I believe that what you're thinking of was that Biden was counseled not to concede early (1)

Which is not the same thing. And given the way it turned out with late-counted postal votes, quite wise.

1) https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/hillary-clint...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-idUS...
are you calling your elected officials to initiate this against Andrew Cuomo for putting covid patients into nursing homes in NY?
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AI is wrestling with a replication crisis
Interesting, I didn't realize it was popular in prepper circles. I read it in early teenage years and just loved the mega-history of a book spanning several thousand years. Same with some of Olaf Stapledon's books-- before, I had only read books spanning a single persons lifetime. I guess it makes sense that preppers would also be drawn to it, given the nature of the galactic collapse and underdog civilization making it through.
My whole office noticed when the Corp backup software had an awful failure mode in this case. Zoom also kinda crapped itself.
This is a terrible opinion dressed up in nice writing and this approach is usually used as a tactic by far right conspiracy theorists to recruit people in doubt to their side. The left/liberal/progressive side is not nearly as offensive, manipulative, or fascist as the right/conservatives even in the most extreme cases, and saying so is harmful.
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And liability is part of that - that's why auto insurance is mandatory.

There's a difference between reckless endangerment/homicide than an accident. Ridiculous false equivalency.
There's also a strategic capabilities argument that never goes away.

I'm anticipating a significant investment in synthetic biology facilities in the next few years. Ideally these would be 99% automated, remotely operated via secure dedicated networks, and maintained by small on-site skeleton crews. They'd be geographically distributed, with a majority in 'red states', but not because of any jobs they might create.
>> It's like being trapped in a beautiful plastic cage.

To be fair, it's like being trapped in a silver gray aluminum cage with uniform body and irreplaceable bars. I wish more companies would make a PC laptop that doesn't suck aesthetically. Even when they use aluminum, most PC manufacturers don't spend much time on designing a good keyboard (arrow keys not having the same shape comes to mind.)
The New York Times editorial line is to side with killers and terrorists if it can be used to criticize the police or the state. They recently titled their article about a teacher being decapitated by an islamic terrorist near Paris "French Police Shoot and Kill Man After a Fatal Knife Attack on the Street"...

0: https://web.archive.org/web/20201016193107/https://www.nytim...
Gotta love how people will talk about how going to large gatherings is not just a personal choice during a pandemic but then if you tell them their demand for people to shove a bunch of birds in a damp warehouse with poor circulation and horrible conditions is going to cause the next flu pandemic it's somehow a personal choice.

Not that being hypocritical is always bad but in this case there's zero introspection.
I'm sure AI-inspired 5g cloud connected human brain interface gig economy algorithms will clean it all up in 2031, so why even mention it!?
Thanks for the reminder. I prefer that I can disable SmartScreen easily instead of making little snitch rules on macos.
I did not mean the network as the internet network, but as the whole replicated system including almost all the different layers.
I'm so glad I don't live in a libertarian world like this.
You now pay a premium price for beautifully designed spyware.
Why are you conflating "aggressively addressed this problem" with a strict lockdown?

The spring lockdown made sense, in that we didn't really have much information. At this point, we have a bunch of other tools that we aren't using, because people have decided that doing anything is somehow the equivalent of a strict lockdown.
I couldn’t agree more. I don’t know if people have a short memory, or if I just grew up in a particularly malware-infested part of meatspace, but in the late 90s and early 2000s doing extensive malware/virus scans on PCs was an entire industry and career path.
The last time I attempted was 2017/18. Pretty plain clone PC desktop - MSI motherboard, ryzen 1600, AMD Radeon 580, etc. I bought a couple a different WiFi dongles to make sure the chipset was supported.

Yet the problems remained. Maybe when people say they had lots of problems and it wasn’t worth their time, take them at their word ?
But the universe isn't 'composed' of subatomic particles in the way that a machine is 'composed' of parts. The laws governing subatomic particles, as far as speech is capable of representing them, are probabilistic. And, as we see in practice, we have surrendered to using aspects in the sciences. When useful, we speak of light as a wave, when useful, a particle. Really it is neither or both. The same gap in the work of the software engineer to depict the world in language. Any mode of speech can only depict one aspect of the truth at a time, even if a single language is capable of more than one mode, it can only ever express one aspect.

Your being a Neo-Darwinian and your confusion at the possibility of regression or a halt in progress are the same. Once the mollusc has "conceived" of his shell as an "adaptation" to a change in condition, he has "responded" so harshly to environmental dangers that he has closed them off almost entirely, bringing the process of speciation and adaptation to a near halt. In fact, there are countless examples of "tools" "conceived" by organisms that have been so immaculate that development has grinded to halt. Not all is progress... the world is not a machine...