skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) I'm sure the people in Victoria did a lot more things than wear masks. If you throw everything and the kitchen sink at a problem, it's very hard to figure out which of the things you did actually worked.

The closest thing I've seen to a controlled study was a Danish one that showed that wearing a mask - everything else equal - reduces your risk of getting it from 2.1% to 1.8%, which is a weak 20% reduction. No study on the efficacy of preventing spread to others. (It's a bit problematic to perform an experiment like this in a controlled setting to say the least.)

I'm sure masks do something, and mask mandates hopefully have a net positive effect, but how large is it? I have no idea.

2) I live in Hawaii which is also an isolated island in the Pacific, and it has a case curve that looks like this: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/hawaii/

The mask mandate went into effect on April 16th, and there's just zero correlation between that and the case curve. It's two weeks after the peak of the initial bump in cases, and apparently the mask mandate and obligatory quarantine for all incoming travelers and everything else in the emergency orders did nothing to stop the much larger peak in July-August. It's also not the case that people have been slacking off, mask compliance is very high.
I think your record of history is incorrect. Net Neutrality never existed and was not a de-facto standard. The time period involved most traffic flowing freely simply because there were no huge producers of content. When Netflix arrived it caused problems across the internet and the ISPs reacted to it. Tom Wheeler tried to introduce rules but didn't have the legal authority to do so which was overruled in court.
I think that's fair, but using the No Harm Principle as a guide, I think you should be liable for all the illness you cause should you infect anyone. You should be able to, of course, collect from anyone who could have infected you.

FWIW I also value personal liberty above restrictions but I do value internalizing externalities concurrently.
Is it tooling? I think it's a culture thing.

With Android/iOS/flutter/react-native there's an expectation that developers are a separate community from the rest of the users, one that might not even use the apps they right daily. This contrasts heavily to the web where the users and developers are often using the same tools.
It uses a random-number generator, no longer a physical machine
I believe the FAA should have insisted that the MAX get several hundred hours in the air - e.g. flying for courier companies over Christmas peak - BEFORE recertifying it for public use.
Honestly I hadn’t even heard of Manjaro until I saw that it was the new PBP default image. I’m not familiar with the drama. Sorry. It seems to be a smooth product so I do hope they work it out.
>My take is that they went with all their bizarre design decisions in order to keep normies and entryists out for as long as possible

But it's just complexity for the sake of complexity with no discernible benefit. It's contradictory and self-defeating to encourage developers to adopt Urbit while simultaneously purposely designing it just so developers won't adopt it. Urbit makes many weird and contrarian design choices without explanation. It's fine to explore ideas and try different different methodologies but you should at least be able to explain why you're choosing to do it and how it would be beneficial. Here's a good example from the documentation:

A loobean is a Nock boolean - Nock, for mysterious reasons, uses 0 as true (always say "yes") and 1 as false (always say "no").

So they create an alternative to booleans that's just a backwards boolean? And their explanation for this? 'mysterious reasons' What?!? The only thing mysterious here is why any developer would use this.
Reimagine the Org Chart
Or they do in fact want that clause just as it is. By design. They simply don't want to change it.

This likely isn’t about having different contracts for different hires. Its about their intrinsic need, or more precisely, their deep requirement, to have that clause in.
there are messages like this in the docs:

> "WARNING! LATERAL subqueries can be very expensive to compute. For best results, do not materialize a view containing a LATERAL subquery without first inspecting the plan via the EXPLAIN statement. In many common patterns involving LATERAL joins, Materialize can optimize away the join entirely. "

I take this to mean that Materialize cannot always efficiently maintain a view with lateral joins - that's fine neither can SQL Server, but it would be nice if I could find all these exceptions in one place like I can for SQL Server.

..fwiw I prefer the behavior of failing early rather than letting potential severe performance problems into prod.

[1] https://materialize.com/docs/sql/join/#lateral-subqueries
Sure you can say non-funny things, but don't expect your audience to stick around forever, if they are searching for laffs.
The terms for family sharing are the only thing keeping on YTM at this point.
2 weeks is not enough to create any meaningful connections, if you stay there for couple of years you will be able to create some connections, if you study some Japanese. It is also easier to create connections with other foreigners because of the common situation and not everyone is an expat, many are married to Japanese.
Exactly. This is the home of the HN community. They get to choose the mode of engagement. I, too, am frequently downvoted and often flagged when communicating civilly. This is, imho, just fine.
That water heater idea is interesting. You could put a thermostatic valve on the output that mixes in cold water so the output was always the same temp no matter what the inside is. Usually people turn the temp down to save money, but if you can heat it way up when energy is cheap, that might change completely.
A lot of bitcoin miners would love that rate!
My eyes are bleeding
I'm pretty sure FAANG pays quite a lot in payroll tax, property tax, and they also ensure that FAANG employees pay quite substantial income tax, property tax, and sales tax.
While it did mildly suck that the game was unrunnable in V86 mode from OS/2 or Windows 95, I can’t be too upset that Ultima VII used this trick.

The result was a game more sprawling and intricate than anything else that would be seen for decades. And it ran buttery smooth under MS-DOS in 8MB on a Gateway 2000 486DX2/50.
Since this article is about a union for Googlers, let's look at google specifically:

> Unions could negotiate for better parental leave

They get 14 weeks parental leave + some amount for medical leave for people who give birth [0].

> Unions could empower tech workers to actually push back on unethical policies and projects

Googlers pushed back on Dragonfly[1] and got it canceled. And they pushed back on Maven[2] and got management to agree to not renew any contracts associated with it.

What exactly would change for Googlers who joined a union?

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/tech/google-family-leave-poli...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)#Term...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/technology/google-pentago...
> All epidemics follow a natural curve where the pathogen initially spreads exponentially, but slows down over time as R(t) decreases due to the increased presence of population immunity.

We were absolutely no where near this point, we have one of the lowest infection rates in the world and other interventions (lockdowns) had happened weeks earlier.

> If we want to talk masks specifically, given the evidence that outdoors transmission of COVID-19 is rare anyway

Outdoor transmission may be rare, but this was a political decision so we could get to near 100% conformity

> and (b) people follow rigorous protocols to avoid contamination of the mask or from the mask. (b) is certainly not true

On the contrary, I just posted real world data that clearly demonstrates that mask discipline isn't very important. Maybe it's important under lab conditions but in the real world it's not.

> Indeed, if the primary transmission mechanism is aerosol, masking could and likely would worsen transmission.

So why did the reproduction rate fall and not rise after masks were introduced?
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-deus-ex-decision-which-ending-di...
Paying money to make Google Chrome faster and use less RAM
This is step 1.
I'm surprised it arrived this late.

I root for cryptocurrencies, but I think the government will deem them to be to risky for their monopoly on printing money.

Not to mention China investing tons of money into cryptos.
Most people aren't in a position of choosing whether to go into work or not. Talking about personal choice only makes sense after addressing the debt treadmill that's forcing most everyone to keep churning. Without that, you're fallaciously invoking libertarianism in support of what is really a top-down system.
It could be said that having to configure/test/deploy/maintain an "enterprise policy" for any given application is, technically, more work than not having to specify a policy for that application. The number of settings involved isn't strictly relevant to the difficulty of specifying a per-application policy, though it's certainly an opportunity for further complications!
Wait what do you mean?

My Siri's set to American but when I travel to London local maps and stuff all works fine there?
I doubt this actually holds, because thermodynamics. Since meat animals neither photosynthesize nor can they convert energy from plants with 100% efficiency, eating meat means you just indirectly eat even more plants.

Also, it's sophistry. We could farm people and kill them for meat by the same argument kill less animals by the numbers.
"Does anyone have any idea how many daily "official" lotteries are drawn worldwide?"

https://www.gamblingsites.org/blog/how-many-different-lotter...

Looks like a reasonable analysis. Their total is 180.
Something definitely needs to be done about it, but “too big to fail” is a very real thing. Regulation fixes, corporate culture fixes, something, but killing the companies that are “too big to fail” isn’t a good idea in most cases.
Wait, what?

Anyone have any more info on this? It seems completely insane for flight control inputs to invert themselves, but only in certain temperatures. I'd love to see the incident report on that...

EDIT: Ah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAir_Flight_427

I'm so sorry that happened to your wife's father.

The accident report is here: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...

Section 2.7.2 is interesting:

2.7.2 Unusual Attitude Training for Boeing 737 Pilots

At the time of the USAir flight 427 accident, no air carrier training programs were
specifically aimed at training 737 pilots to recognize and address a rudder jam or reversal.
The guidance available at that time from Boeing advised pilots, as a first consideration, to
maintain or regain full control of the airplane. Specifically, the guidance advised pilots to
counter unwanted roll tendencies from a malfunctioning rudder with the application of up
to full aileron control inputs. However, the guidance did not advise pilots that, at some
airspeeds, an uncommanded full rudder input could not be successfully opposed by full
wheel (aileron and spoiler) inputs and that a reduction in the airplane’s angle-of-attack
could improve the effectiveness of the roll controls relative to the effectiveness of the
rudder. Boeing’s guidance for relieving a jammed rudder informed pilots only that they
should use maximum force to overpower the jam and specifically warned pilots against
turning off flight control switches “unless the faulty control was positively identified.” No additional guidance was provided about the effects of flight control switch selections
on rudder jam conditions.
The quote is actually likely from a member of Dubai Royal Family.

An interesting fact here is that the UAE will never become poor.

The UAE has saved up over 1.3 million USD dollars per citizen[a]. And this is just the government’s savings. Obviously, there’s immense private wealth on top of that as well. Even if with investment returns as low as 4% per year drawn out, that would translate to $52,000 per citizen.

This is 52k of money that you could almost call free money. We’re not counting for the fact that at least half these citizens are not going to simply sit at home. They’re going to work, earn, start companies, etc. And the citizenry is very highly educated. And a lot of them actually have STEM degrees too (which correlates with higher earnings). So realistically, the per capita annual income could be in the over $100k per citizen range, even after the oil has run out.

[a] The UAE has about 1 million citizens (most of the ~9 million who live in the UAE are not citizens), and the UAE’s sovereign wealth funds have total assets exceeding USD $1.3 trillion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_soverei...
Ask HN: What are the best platforms for AI-powered web apps?
So I'm currently doing research for a machine learning project I want to implement. Outside of work for free online courses, I've only ever done linear regression, both from scratch and using scikit-learn. I learned that doing what I want to do would require neural networks (deep learning, which is best done with a GPU).
I have a few questions:

1. if I'm using prebuilt models (the app consists of determining the probability that a song is X genre) do I need a GPU? I know I'll still need tensorflow (the lib I'll be using).

2. What is the typical protocol for setting up AI-powered apps like this? This is the first time I'm doing this

3. If I need a good GPU, who is the best afforable host?

Thanks in advance
Admitting students that are not prepared for the coursework and academic rigor of these schools is only setting them up for more failure.

Forcing schools to admit students based purely on the color of their skin is not the answer. Providing these students a better base education - pre K through 8th grade - is the answer.
But you've probably heard of 形声字 and 象形字 right?
Make your own social network, Chronofeed, if that's what you want.
The official who says this combination comes up "all the time" seems to be stretching the truth - according to this wonderful lotto results site, this is the second time since 2009 that the sequence 5-6-7 has appeared. But 9-10-11 actually is the most common three sequence....having happened five times.
http://www.lotteryextreme.com/south_africa/powerball-statist...
In special relativity and electrodynamics c is sometimes used as a dimensionless constant (equal to 1).
> I think you should be liable for all the illness you cause should you infect anyone.

I don't know of any society that has had a social contract or laws to this effect, unless a person is maliciously, intentionally, spreading a disease.

The US is also full of people who literally cannot afford to take sick days, which creates a culture of people going to work sick and toughing it out. Even in middle-class and upper middle-class jobs there's a prevalent fear of having to be seen in the office at all cost to avoid being fired.

What you are suggesting is the exact opposite of this, with the addition of being extra cruel against people who are not privileged enough to have a cushy job that allows them to work from home.
That's the legacy of Reganomics and the collapse of the New Deal coalition. Sucks, but we'll do better soon hopefully.
Government subsidies stimulated the virtuous circle. Remember dry fossil fuel well costs are fully deductible too. Eventually both could be phased oit.
A deliberate, ad as it predictably turns out, fslse, piece of propaganda.

https://crookedtimber.org/2011/04/16/i-pencil-a-product-of-t...
Chinese culture and Japanese culture are very different related to this article and in the way we/they treat outsiders - the big Chinese cities are not good proxies.

In the last 20 years, a lot of Chinese tradition and respect has been thrown out and attitudes towards business and family flipped on its head with the rise of Chinese capitalism - a lot of hustle and winner takes all at the expense of everyone else attitude.

The elite and/or hustling Chinese embrace western things and incorporate them in their life -- even flexing their English knowledge is a way to signal social/economic class in China. I'm not an expert in Japan, but I don't see a lot of English flexing in Japanese culture.

In terms of being an expat, plenty of expat + curiosity in Chinese cities to never really be lonely.
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lots dragons
I agree that we should continue doing more things like the example given, also without using a labor union.
In Australia, the renter almost always pays the power bill (excepting share houses, usually students).

It's hard to market "you'll spend less on power so that's why the rent is higher".
How can a math teacher make such an obvious mistake? She's right it's picked less often than all other sequences combined, but that's not the same as being picked less often than every other sequence individually.

Best lottery advice I heard from a math teacher was only make bets that have a chance at a retire-early sized prize and preferably no chance of small winnings. The idea being that when he loses, he's donating to charity, which he would have done anyway.
No, really no, as someone who has worked on code bases where people followed the path of least resistance (PHP in this case) things turned into a giant mess of human suffering. Pick a language that has tooling for what you want to achieve otherwise everyone reinvents it or just makes a mess.
Sure. I’d call that the result of an intentional action, but maybe that’s just personal preference.
In case you need to do something personal that can't wait until you get home. More of an issue with a longer commute. Might have to pop down to a local coffee shop or use the personal phone's hotspot to avoid using corp net.

I've had to check an account while at work to deal with my kid attempting to pay college tuition with one of my credit cards. Also looked up records so he could call the DMV to rectify something. Yeah, sometimes they're things that can wait a day, but a break from bug hunting can be nice.
If I start reading I go for hours haha. Am I correct that it inverted/reversed?
That's hardly scientific though. You can't say with such certainty that masks caused that reduction - in the simplested terms there are too many uncontrolled variables. As one example - was the rate of testing over that time the same? You also share that there were lockdowns during that time, which would obscure the true effect of the masks.
It is an insidious assumption to me, personally. I have been living on my own since midway through the pandemic, and have been enjoying it. My productivity has gone through the roof, and I feel grateful to be alive – I've enjoyed the ability to spend time rediscovering who I am when not constrained by constant micro-pressures of social gatherings. The best is the endless ability to cancel social engagements without feeling any repercussions – there's always the excuse of the pandemic.

My mother has also consciously decided to live completely on her own throughout this time, and I've seen her make some tremendous personal growth during this time (more than in the past 20 years, which were filled with a handful of male partners).

Being familiar with Japan's recent problematic (lack of) discourse around the issue of domestic abuse, this statement (especially on the heels of the women telling the source that they have problems with family and boyfriends) seemed facile.

I'm startled by your use of "indisputable fact" there – anything branded as "indisputable fact" is a lofty claim, especially when it comes to lived experience or subjective states of others. We're just willing to no longer investigate the cause of this sudden jump in suicides, because we can simply write it off as "normal" loneliness? I don't like it when others presume to tell me what is "normal" for my (or any) gender, especially when a mysterious jump in mortality is involved.
Yeah I get the same vibe from the whole thing. If someone can't read the obvious disclaimers on the store that the device is community driven and to expect some work to make it run, what hope is there that they will understand they HAVE to pay that 10$ increase?
Haha, that makes me laugh
There is a very strong resemblance between these patterns and the function of a neural network
I've told the few people I know who play the lotto they should pick "1,2,3,4,5,6" and their faces screw up. I tell them it's just as likely. They don't believe me. I ask, then why are you even playing if you don't understand the game? That doesn't go over well.
Alternatively, it's time to adjust expectations and understand that if a product or service doesn't hit the growth curve Google expects, they sunset it.

A lot of businesses would be more successful if they learned how to do this across their own products and features. Instead engineers drown in KTLO, adding to cognitive load not only for employees but customers too.
This was an option on the Moto X second generation phone. I have no clue why Google decided to remove the feature of setting the wakeup phrase, but at the time they were actually touting it as an upcoming feature (I guess to get me to upgrade my phone).

So being forced to say ”OK Google" is actually a regression from previous capability.

https://www.droid-life.com/2014/12/04/moto-x-tip-use-a-whist...
This isn’t really what happened, you know. I think this is the “game of telephone” effect in action.

It was a configuration change to an extension already installed by google onto employee computers. Hardly injecting malware.
I’m not proving anything of the sort. In another comment I invited GP to find the audience they desire. But that doesn’t mean they’re entitled to an audience on someone else’s dime.
Bombardier, Embraer, Ilyushin, Mitsubishi, Tupolev, BAE - have flown on all these and really liked Bombardier and Embraer, very quiet, generally pleasant, for a short haul I'd opt for these rather than a 737 or A320.

An expectation of a product creates a product. And a product (can) create(s) demand with or without that expectation.

Of course that won't happen as aerospace is such a strategic industry.
Dr Fauci came out in an interview and admitted that he was knowingly lying about masks being ineffective. He did it to manipulate the public. He didn't want people to go out and buy/hoard all the masks, especially masks that can be used by medical personnel[1].

Whether you think the ends justify the means or not, I think it's a great example of the politicization of covid.

[1]: https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...
The lack of a path to changing your economic circumstances through work or education is the problem.
That’s a fair point. In that case it would be the result of a both a mistake and randomization.
> If that argument works with dairy, why doesn't it work with rape and sex slavery? Or keeping a Gattaca clone alive so you can enjoy some spare organs?

Because cows aren’t humans? I don’t think this is the gotcha you think it is.
I couldn't find a source for that, but if they did that, they are screwed, because no physical chain of evidence (videos of the drawing, the actual lotto ball machine, etc)
Unicorn in the patch: Calgary software firm Benevity achieves rare $1B valuation
Yeah but you don't get a say. Only all of us as a collective gets a say. That's in the fundamental nature of taxation.

My alcoholic racist uncle who beats his family receives welfare check for his disability. I am clearly paying into the system and he hates me extra for being an in interracial marriage. I don't like to have my money go towards him, but guess what?

Same here. You don't like that your money is being spent on people against your wishes? You just discovered the true nature of taxation.