skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's a silly question because if the virus was 90% lethal, people wouldn't just walk around. It's a self solving problem. We wouldn't be discussing lock downs, because everyone would lock down without being told they should lock down.

No, it's not a silly question. You are making the ASSUMPTION that people will make the best decisions for everyone (including themselves). I don't think you have been paying attention this year.

And you didn't even answer the question- would you be for forced lockdown if it was that lethal? Saying "it's not even a question" is skirting the issue. Because what about 70% lethal, or 60%, or 50%.. maybe even down to 10%. If your view is there is NO level that liberty can be sacrificed- then prove it by thinking about this simple situation and saying it.

I do agree with your general sentiment. However you are acting as if there is NO situation in which limiting liberty is the right choice. And I am arguing that is simply not true by giving you some extreme examples.

>Mask mandates are a reasonable compromise

Yeah, and people can't even follow THAT. It's arguments like yours that people are like "A mask!? what about MY FREEDOM!". Your freedom becomes less relevant when it DIRECTLY IMPOSES ON THE SAFETY OF OTHERS.

>But, don't mess with our natural rights. Do not trade liberty for safety

Buzz. Wrong. Your natural rights don't give you the right to harm others.
Why is everyone busy inventing complicated penalties?

If wearing a body camera is a requirement of the job then the penalty for not doing so should be the same as the penalty for not doing any other aspect of your job, you get fired.
I don't know if you've ever played runescape but it has a very similar experience to the one you are describing.

It's interesting you compare your time spent in a game to time spent productively outside the game. One of the things driving the 'investments' in those style of games(MMO's) is that you get this feeling of progress and can compare your progress to your friends 'skills'. I've been writing alot in my personal journal on how to turn runescape skills into real life skills with achievements.

Ruby on rails would be a 'skill' and based on time spent doing pomodoros to earn xp for a 'Ruby on Rails' Skill, combined with certain projects awarding XP and achievements would turn real life into a game. Think like a self defined 'Khan Academy meets Facebook'.

You could see your friends skills and see what they are working on. Maybe a bulletin board/ social media style GUI that would say ' x just completed a pomodoro in Piano'. You could post to your linkedin account all the 'skills' you've obtained to show your various interests.
Twitter has global geo-political implications. Literally, a war could have broken out with Trump's account being hijacked. He just left Stripe, where he was responsible for a PCI environment. If anything, his last job he was "overpowered" for relative to Twitter.
It's a national problem in the sense that it happens all over the nation and isn't limited to a particular department. It's a state and local problem in the sense that legally, the states and local governments have jurisdiction over their police force.

The US is a union of states. Although we have a pretty massive and powerful federal government, many things are the responsibility of the states and the federal government has limited ability to intervene. Using the FBI is one of the avenues I believe though.
I find this a little ironic

> that email is providing something similar to a "paper trail"

because paper doesn’t provide non-repudiation and never has done.

The whole point of a “paper trail” is the “trail” bit, as it provides providence of a sequence of actions or communications that logically fit together. Hopefully providing evidence for your side of a dispute.

There’s no need for email to be non-repudiatable to achieve this. In fact I serious doubt a court would care if an email is DKIM signed. Very rarely are disputes so simple and straightforward that proving a single email was sent is enough to produce an outcome.

In short DKIM non-repudiation by default gives up everyones privacy, to protect a tiny group of individuals engaged in extra edge case disputes, where the entire outcome of the disputes hangs on the validity of a single email.
You are putting words in my mouth. I said the majority of people engaging in risky behaviors believe the whole thing is "about control" and other conspiratorial nonsense. Most others are just following the recommendations as best they can.
Sounds useful! I’m wondering whether the people receiving the info will see who else has access to it?
That's site is now notable as the worse site I've visited this month. It's in the running for worse site of 2020.
The previous strategy was to "flatten the curve" and nothing else. There was no vaccine or very effective treatment and this could go on for a very long time. The previous strategy was optimal for that problem.

Now that multiple vaccines are around the corner, minimizing infections can most definitely save lives. Would they have done better if they had been stricter? Yes. But there was no way to know this back then.

Imagine that there was no vaccine and the pandemic became an endemic that nobody could escape... and the only viable option was herd immunity. Had that happened, the Swedish strategy would have put them ahead of most. They would have taken a smaller hit to the economy while not losing that many more lives in a given period (do note that, in that case, the period would have been much longer and most of those who died last year had pre-existing conditions and something else would have most likely killed them within the next few years anyway).
It's interesting that they both missed the real killer edge here. Fred said it was Etsy, Paul said it would move up into hotels. Neither are really what happened.

Turns out in most places it's profitable to arbitrage long term property cost and AirBnB income. So you have a bunch of small time operators buying or leasing property and putting them on AirBnB. AFAICT that seems to be the bulk of AirBnB business. Not Etsy (person to person) nor Hotels. But a new kind of "hotel" that consists of one person running a handful to a couple dozen apartments.
Are they even interested in the long term rental space?
It's required for logical replication which is an important feature for downtimeless major version upgrades and more interesting replication topologies, change data capture, etc.
Not at all.

a) email being verifiable is fine
b) nobody should be so stupid as to use email for anything personal. it is not privileged communication and potentially permanent public record.
c) if you want to use email, you'd better encrypt it and only for recipients that you trust.
"How can we develop asymptotics for a world with massively many degrees of freedom?"

what...does that even mean? just knock down some exponents?
"once counterparties have authenticated each other's messages" is the omission that changes the meaning of the quote.
The video was posted by Joe Grand! But yes, that is Joe next to him (aka Kingpin).
It was predicted because the change in weather causes more people to be indoors, and poor indoor air circulation is a big contributing factor for spreading. Same with the onset of the hot weather and A/C in the US South in May, around the time cases started increasing there.

Also, catching Covid sucks for a lot of people, even if they survive. Encouraging people to catch it during summer seems pretty irresponsible.
It's more the other way around. The MIDI has extra information that obfuscates the original sheet music. Most commonly, timing variation which can be intentional and quite large, but also other kinds of variation and even mistakes.

Additionally, the system described in the article works on scanned paper sheet music, not electronic sheet music, so you also have to factor in OCR issues. All things considered it would be very difficult to manually write an algorithm to do this reliably.
Finally, a true use case for 5G.
Not killing people who aren't a threat is about the best one-size-fits-all policy I can imagine.
This actually is a good idea since calling them out can help. However, you then will need to open yourself up completely by making your plight public. I kinda like what little anonymity I've created ;-)
Has anyone done a comprehensive review of the Airbnb regulatory environment? I know there's a bunch of places where some of it has settled but also many where hosts might still be operating contrary to regulations. Would be interested in knowing how that breaks out around the world.
Hot take: subtle differences in algorithm choices have huge real-world implications. Facebook prioritizes engagement as their top metric. This means that divisive content which inspires strong emotions bubbles to the top of the feed. This has predictable consequences for discussions and communities.

Reddit prioritizes using user votes, which tends to result in less divisive content. But the way the community is broken down into subreddits can result in clear echo chambers at times as people reinforce each other's behaviors.
Release Radar · November 2020 Edition
Yeah, a state department side-steps a lot of those problems (but also possibly lets states ignore it). A federal law requiring police interactions to be recorded and submitted to a state entity and requiring it be stored for a certain period would probably suffice. Then the FBI or whoever investigated an issue Federally (if it got to that) could subpoena it, since it's supposed to exist, and be handled by the state.

I agree it should be a black box. Rule #1 for accountability is that you don't rely on the entity that's being examined to give absolutely correct info. Whether that's debugging a process or reviewing an organization, outside instrumentation is essential.
It's more like $3 billion, there's a notice that the IRS is telling them they owe $1.3 billion in back taxes, plus interest and penalties.
12 + 2 alternates. The trial itself took about 3 weeks.
Superliminal is a unique first person puzzle game now on Linux
You can use oat milk.
Was it the host's fault that you got punched?
Yes someone tried to book a long term rental with me recently and I said I wouldn't take it on Airbnb since they've screwed me over in the past. I realize people here don't like others being critical of quality of tech companies but it's just the reality many have experienced
He used a word I don't see very often (if ever)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenon
so is fox news spreading blatant lies or theories without evidence , so not only internet, but tv, radio or any other broadcasting thing.
> encourage healthy people to seroconvert

It's almost never a good medical strategy to intentionally get ill.

Pox parties are extremely dangerous.
> being able to prove the CH is an incompleteness in ZFC.

It's only incompleteness if the CH is true or false at the semantic level, "outside" of the logic system under discussion.

But the CH may be neither true or false, semantically, if the meaning of "existence of a set whose cardinality is strictly between that of the integers and the real numbers" strictly depends on the axioms and logic used to define sets and real numbers.
Show HN: Text-to-podcast: Repurpose any content into podcasts
I think it's worth considering that the absolute number of covid deaths in Sweden per day at the moment is around 15. I get the value of per capita rates, but do you think the numbers are as meaningful when they're that low?
I found the game quite interesting, and unfortunately nausea inducing.. 8:30 to get all the orbs.
Why is it that the same people who think that the solution to bad public schools is more funding also think that the solution to bad police departments is less funding?

If the police are substandard it means we need to pay them more to get better quality applicants into the system.

We also need a better funded prison/drug rehab system so that police don't have to waste their time dealing with the sort of habitual offenders who should have been permanently removed from society a long time ago.
> The US is a single country with a single military.

Not... entirely accurate.

Many states possess their own military forces [0], and state National Guard units are dual-chained to both state and national military leadership [1] (in different scenarios).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_defense_force#Active_sta...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Guard#N...
89% for Expedia, assuming you count search + direct. Airbnb is at 88% for the same breakdown according to Similarweb. However SimilarWeb has direct for Airbnb at 61.47% versus Expedia's 37.72%
You mean like when you click on the search box and instantly you're in the address box? lol
The experiences that people report often indicate systemic issues within the platform/product, especially when they are as pervasive as some on the AirBnB platform are.* I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss them.

* I've had two shit hosts that left me up a creek scrambling to find housing, as has my S/O. As a consumer, I am way less likely to use the platform now because my experience has shown me that AirBnB either doesn't care or doesn't have an effective lever to pull to improve this situation.
Tesla Inc. (NASD:TSLA) will be added to the S&P 500 effective prior to the open of trading on Monday, December 21 to coincide with the December quarterly rebalance

Due to the large size of the addition, S&P Dow Jones Indices is seeking feedback through a consultation to the investment community to determine if T esla should be added all at once on the rebalance effective date or in two separate tranches ending on the rebalance effective date
Both sides.
Wouldn't it be easier just to punish and fire rather than creating yet another dysfunctional market?
I don't think PM itself had any contradictions inside of it, rather there are statements composed of the PM langauge that aren't reached from the axioms selected by PM -- that is one of the sentences Godel demonstrates in his proof where he gets one that basically says "this statement has no proof in this system" (so if it does have a proof it is a contradiction, but if it doesn't have a proof then PM is an incomplete system). Someone else in the thread mentioned the continuum hypothesis as something that couldn't be proved from the standard ZFC axioms, so that would be an example of a statement without proof (incompleteness) albeit not in PM. I don't know of any contradictory statements.
Only this week did I receive the final Google Play Music notification that the service is permanently disabled.

Just before that Google failed to properly implement the payment settings to continue my Youtube Premium subscription at my previous price in the bundled GPM monthly packaging that I received. Thus, I lost access to both GPM and YT premium in single day.

I will never purchase another Google product.
For some reason, high level managers need very expensive consultants to tell them the obvious truths.

As a very expensive consultant I am frequently appalled at how management teams completely ignore their own employees.

Forget about wasteful, these companies can afford consultants. It is just disrespectful to their own staff. Developers and operations guys already know the solution but can't get through layers upon layers of management. And so it takes a guy with salary high enough that he can be allowed to talk to the a high level manager directly, to get the message.
That is not what is meant by emergent property. An emergent property is a property of a system that is not a property of its constitutive parts. For example, none of the lines of code of the Linux kernel alone have the property of being an operating system, but as a whole it does have such an attribute.

So, a materialist would say that consciousness is an emergent attribute of matter, in that in a certain configuration matter obtains the property of being conscious whereas it didn't before.

This account is faillible, because it makes the following prediction : changing the material configuration changes consciousness, and that one can create consciousness via material means. The first one is indeed a correct prediction, the second one cannot be proven yet.

As for a mechanism for how exactly this happens, you are right that there are no satisfactory propositions yet, but non-materialists cannot generate one ether. There are ideas of how this could happen, for example I would suggest reading "I am a strange loop", by Hofstadter. There is no reason to believe that a materialist theory is impossible, though.

In the end, I fail to see why one should abandon such a useful framework as materialism because of consciousness.
Youtube-dl's counter claim states that though those lines of code did not violate the DMCA, they have replaced them with videos without copyright music.

That sounds like they didn't really have any reason to make major label music videos part of the tests, it was just a developers personal preference. Though, it doesn't prove this is the case.
Whether you should use replication for upgrade is a bit more of a loaded question. But dump/restore should definitely NOT be the mechanism for upgrades. Postgres has support for in place upgrades with pg_upgrade for some time now. This is the mechanism used on RDS, and the same mechanism we'll use on Crunchy Bridge, and what Heroku Postgres uses as well. I'm not sure that Azure supports in place upgrade yet, and GCP does not per their docs.

A dump and restore is simply not viable for a database of any size. 100GB datababase which is not at all in the "large" territory would be down for at least an hour if not longer.

Pg_upgrade is generally the right shape of thing for this problem. One could debate whether replication is a better approach for even reducing that down time. (Pg_upgrade is on the order of minutes, it is not a size of data operation but rather a size of catalog operation). But that dump/restore is acceptable and the best option isn't really the case these days.
Either way, ouch: https://www.plainsite.org/realitycheck/tesla.html
You are correct, my apologies. A better estimate would be 5,000 preventable deaths.
> You gave a example of a 'need' to do X that is specifically not legitimate.

The example was that two parties are disputing a contract, the court is attempting to resolve the dispute, and the court has a need to authenticate the contract. Can you explain why you think that this is not a legitimate need to authenticate a document?

> I'm not sure (and decline to speculate) whether you're confused or malicious or some other problem entirely, but you are wrong.

You "decline to speculate", and then proceed to speculate anyway? Ok. Well, it's certainly easier to resort to calling me names, than actually defending your position with arguments.
It's not really an operator, it's part of a pattern-matching syntax. "_" is called Blank and matches anything. Putting a name in front of it just makes it available by name -- like referring to capture groups in a regex.

So when you call a function on some argument or list of arguments, the interpreter looks up all the function definitions and finds one with a pattern that matches.

Double[x_] := 2 * x

Will work for Double[3] but not for Double[3, 2], the latter doesn't match any patterns, and the interpreter doesn't know what to do with it. You would have to define another function with the same name to handle other patterns, like overloading in C++

You can further constrain the pattern to types like this:

Double[x_Integer] := 2 * x

And now the pattern only matches integers.
More in the manual, "Patterns"[0] and "More about Patterns"[1]

[0] https://www.wolfram.com/language/elementary-introduction/2nd...

[1] https://www.wolfram.com/language/elementary-introduction/2nd...
Square did this for some of their merchants through Loyal3 (which appears to be dead now), so it’s plausible.

Disclosure: am employee
If you format it that way (the spaces in front for a code block), we can't click the link.
When are they going to require an always-on camera to protect the user from potentially being held at gunpoint? Or is Apple confident they're the only party that gets to do that?
Actually that's not what I said it all. The concept on in/out-group can be completely arbitrary, e.g. assigned by flipping a coin. The principle still holds.

That said, since you bring it up, the history of humanity is largely the history of war between different ethnic groups. So yes, hating people based on ethnicity has been the norm for most of human history. It's still largely the case in varying degrees in different parts of the world.
This will be in the next Console email, which you can subscribe to if you'd like to keep up to date on new open source projects :)

https://console.substack.com/

I also put an interview with one of the developers in each email.
Can't you spin up your own software in a docker instance on the cloud? what does official support mean here?

New to cloud.
The hypothesis of the video is that lactose intolerance is why they don't generally drink cappucinos after 11am.

But even a small amount of milk can create a large amount of flatus (gas). And now you're back in the office, in the middle of a meeting.

Come to think of it, not a bad idea: next time, cappucinos on the house at lunchtime for everyone! Maybe add a few milk-based Indian sweets to the snack tray too, for mutual enjoyment. Serve it all up "tout suite!" as the French say!
> If MSFT advocates for content on that platform, it could be portrayed as a conflict of interest by the RIAA lawyers

Well, that's what they are actually doing now; factually, it does not matter whether there was a letter by EFF or not; they should have come to the same conclusion even without the EFF; moreover, Github/MS are not accountable to the RIAA; conflicts of interest are not an issue here; in fact, to meet the due diligence a hoster would have to check whether a DMCA request meets the formal requirements and is well substantiated, otherwise the hoster could even be liable to pay damages to the unjustifiably blocked project.
If this in the context of the BBC Micro, Acorn had already used the 8271 for floppy support with previous “System” and “Atom” models[1], so it’s probably chosen through inertia from a previous design choice.

As for the older systems, does anyone have a date for the WD 1771 (the more common alternative)? The data sheet shown on the Wikipedia page is dated April 1979, and if that’s the release date then it would have been a new, unproven part compared to the intel chip when the System and Atoms were released 1979/80, assuming the floppy drive was an early upgrade (again, I don’t have dates to hand).

[1] http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/8bit_Upgrades/Aco...
if your api surface supports it, a simple and effective solution is to restart the process
Joe Gould’s Teeth: The long-lost story of the longest book ever written (2015)
Ask HN: Documentary: AlphaGo made me weep for humanity
Just fyi post.

When you get a chance, you all should catch the free documentary on youtube:

AlphaGo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y

There is a point in the show when you start to really really feel for humanity. AI is kool but I never fathom the emotional and mental toll felt at the highest level of human intellect when AI was used against it.

I weeped several times... it was unexpected.

I fear for the future.

[UPDATE] Many insightfulness here. I just came off reading too much of Jung's work. ;-) And as one commenter stated; I'm just rambling :) No worries. Just wanted you all to know of a well done documentary. Stay safe!!
>Being police is a luxury not a right.

It's a service, not a luxury.
Keeping losses flat while going through the pandemic is a feat in itself tbh.
Wow, PG is pushy in such a way that really shows his dedication to the team. Really interesting to see.
I would argue that this auditability is a bigger factor than GP's "computing power" claim.

It's the result of hiding the process from users under the name of convenience.
I was - thank you for the clarification! :)