skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree wholeheartedly with all three of your points. I disagree strongly with one of his positions (I don't think we should be opening schools while the rest of us are locked down), but I too find it very, very encouraging to have a public official obviously using his brain and being honest about the fact that nobody really knows the right answer.

And especially in the context about the use of power, the acknowledgement that imposing a lockdown doesn't actually necessarily change people's behavior all that much is a really good point. We've definitely seen that there are some that will intentionally do the opposite if they feel their freedoms are being impinged upon, so if it's not going to actually make an improvement, the gesture could be a huge mistake.
An added challenge is to efficiently construct hex grids by hand——quickly, at the expense of accuracy. I didn’t have access to a printer early in the pandemic, but wanted to put together maps for a tabletop rpg. This is a clever solution: http://www.rdwarf.com/users/wwonko/hex/irregular/ It has the added benefit of being easy to remember
We do know the risk factors. It's a respiratory disease that spreads when people who are breathing are near each other. We don't need a random control trial to tell us that practicing with your brass band can spread it. The solution is to stay very far from everyone until the disease is wiped out. Only very intelligent libertarian contrary Americans think we don't have the information we need.
> I am aware of no data that some of the business activities [...] are the major drivers of transmission

This suggests he is aware of data indicating that some of the business activities being restricted drive transmission, just not all of them. (I'm guessing maybe, say, indoor dining?) So should those known to do this be restricted or not? Did restricting them previously help or not? Should we ignore them?
The former emerges from the latter.
I do appreciate the willingness of a public official to acknowledge complexity and offer insights into why a decision was made. That’s risky, because it opens up debate on individual points that could throw the discussion off. I suppose it’s the style that I don’t appreciate, as I’d like for this information to be presented more like a medical report in layman’s terms than a heart to hear. Overall, Dr Morrow sounds exasperated. I don’t blame him for that.
San Mateo was the first Bay Area county to reopen and did not have transmission rates that were higher than nearby counties. The real point of his message is that it’s possible the higher levels of restriction aren’t working.
We have rocket stages that fly back to the launch pad to be reused.
yeah, butt it's medicine just a radio
I'm not sure you read the warrant correctly. They clearly state they've seen Taylor's car in front of the 2424 Elliott address. That wasn't the address issued for the warrant. This is an implication being made. The warrant is issued for 3003 Springfield.

Maybe go reread it.
I'm surprised by this. He lived in the town I grew up in, and we were told repeatedly to not visit/call/attempt to interview him. One of my friends tried anyway, and the interview was mostly grumbles about reading his book instead of asking stupid questions. He was known to be a sourpuss and to not hesitate hitting people with his cane.
It is a shame that Florida exists as a state.
Step 1: don’t burn bridges. Even in Silicon Valley, you are likely work with these people again.

Step 2: make sure you have contact info for the best and brightest and they have yours

Step 3: contact any recent people who left. They may be hiring at their new gig

Step 4: make sure you have submitted all your reimbursable expenses

Step 5: if the company starts to list, get to the high side, fast. (Couldn’t resist :)
Community trust and support is what lets police be able to police without lethal force. Treating it as a war between police and other citizens destroys that trust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
I live in San Mateo county, and am interested in knowing what to do to stay safe. This is the first I've heard about limiting outdoor recreation to within 5 miles of my home.

I haven't been notified about any of the details of any of the lockdowns. In the Spring, I encountered a group of people who had just been released from jail during one of my monthly shopping trips. Despite having just been in government custody, they didn't even know the basics about things like social distancing, much less any more specific restrictions.

How are these things supposed to be effective when it's so hard to learn about them?
Yes, smartphones are dope. But, what then?
What's the next groundbreaking evolution?
Let Freedom Ring!!
> Seeing those police officers enter someones home with their guns drawn and pointed was... a new feeling.

Is this not the culture in the US? Is it new cause they are doing it to someone white?
It's extremely difficult to facilitate USD money movement if you're blacklisted by the US treasury. Just ask Iran. I suppose technically possible (again: ask Iran) but somehow I doubt Facebook is playing that game.
I don't think they mean to try to anticipate the instincts of a child and act accordingly, but rather that children will be more likely to just do whatever seems right to them, rather than paying so much attention to social conventions and normal-situation rules.
Military definitely. Commercial passenger travel possibly.
> we as in his potential audience, the public, his readers etc.

we all have different perspectives and priorities, I'm not sure how you or I could decide for someone else that PG was not worth listening to and if I decide that for myself then I don't listen to him. If I want to persuade others that they should also ignore him then I make my case on the merits.

> I'm not taking someone's assessment at face value, I read it, considered the sources, considered pg, and am using it to build an understanding of his work.

Can you share the basis of that understanding rather than expecting that we would take your assessment at face value?
A simple thing won me over XMPP to Matrix: .well-known domain delegation to use @asd:example.com as username instead of @asd:some.subdomain.example.com while being able to use the subdomain cert for the server instead of the parent domain cert. XMPP only supported SRV delegation which required the parent cert on the virtual (sub)domain.
Likely reflective of how little we really know. It’s also not clear from Morrow’s note where his estimate comes from.
No worries, I can see how you could read it as justifying their actions. I was just trying to point out that she likely made things worse.

I wish our police forces could be much more like the British where only a small percentage of officers are armed. The over-abundance of weapons here makes that exceedingly difficult, but it would be nice.

Certainly situations like this where the probability of violent resistance is so small should merit unarmed response, but that's just not the way we do things.
This is really sad. He was one of the greats.
> It takes leadership of government, focus, sacrifice, and understanding of the citizens to fight this virus.

Actually, what it takes is not to have 100,000 airline passengers from China per week into the US before Trump's travel restrictions took effect.

And stop meddling in US affairs if you're not American - you don't know what you're talking about.
Block it on your network or on your device
Sort of maybe... I feel like you've never visited Florida. I can't imagine a scenario where she is in the wrong, just that she didn't comply. Florida is full of authoritarian nut jobs. DeSantis is a literal plague.
That would just show that there's more advanced technology out there than the general public is aware of.

That wouldn't provide evidence of whether it was humans or other intelligent life that created that technology.
I like listening to podcast but I prefer reading. With reading you can easily search and index text. So can't see why I would go with such a service
Hah. So in this Mad Max world, the local clan employs a petroleum refining engineer.

Which now begs the question: where did they get the oil from, to feed into their refineries.
1903 - 1947 - 1969 - 2020, so 22 years not 12 (sorry, it just didn't feel right so had to check).
Me and my team prefer Option to nullable types. Option is much more clear and idiomatic FP than nullable types.

Granted, Option.map and flatMap and nullable type ?.let{} are functionally equivalent but the former just reads so much better, and we want not just functor and monad but applicative as well, no?

Eg given a List<Option>, we can use applicative to declaratively and with referential transparency etc etc (you know the usual FP sales pitch) turn it into an empty list if it contains a single non-populated option, or a list of Foo if all options in the list are populated.

With nullable types I don't think you could do it as declaratively and elegantly.

Actually, even if you could, it's kind of beside the point...

To me, the point is, Option has been designed from scratch to be an FP style Maybe type with all that comes with that in terms of it being a functor, applicative functor, monad etc etc whereas while nullable types in some ways are functionally equivalent, a nullable type doesn't implement a Functor interface, or a Monad interface, or an Applicative interface, and when it behaves like it does, it's mostly kind of by accident driven by a pragmatic need, not any real understanding of reusable, lawful FP abstractions.
It would be neat to see a game's proton rating displayed in Steam's client UI. You could just glance at your entire library and kind of feel out how comfortable you are jumping to Linux.
Microsoft bought GitHub and offers github actions. No need for them to also buy Travis. If Microsoft buying Travis would have "saved" it, then why are you worried about GitHub actions' future?
If you're interested or can't find it, I'll dig up a link.. but I recently unplugged my AT&T supplied residential gateway after installing a supplicant docker image on my UniFi Dream Machine Pro. It answers the authentication challenges with a reply using a CA from a jailbroken AT&T fiber modem (sourced from a guy on eBay!).
I see you're no longer on AT&T fiber, but if you would use it without their gateway, know that you can!
Yes because you can and should promisify old libraries.
Did any non island democracy do well? Also just to note I'm including South Korea as an "island" as its effectively one being a peninsula and its only land border being with North Korea.

Edit: Also, one of the main reasons vaccines were able to get through trials so quickly is precisely because countries like the United States, Brazil, the UK, etc did so poorly handling the pandemic. Doing phase 3 drug trials in a country that successfully dealt with SARS-COV-2 such as Australia would take significantly longer.
> The adverse effects for some of our kids will likely last for generations.

I came to comment the same thing about this quote. I don't understand how he comes to this conclusion either. Anyone know?
I think the word you are looking for is indifference
Of course. The real scandal is how bean counting has failed millions of Californians. Are that many people really eking out an existence so marginal, it has no impact on prices for homes, equities, goods and services? Or is there something wrong with what we’re measuring?
> You need union types if you have subtyping to avoid wrapping/unwrapping all the time.

In my experience, the option types are always more concise. That's mostly because having option types encourages people to build out nice helper functions like these[0] and these[1]. Haskell's do notation and Rust's Try notation also save a lot of space.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html

[1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.14.0.0/docs/Contr...
What an incoherent mess. The county should fire this dope. Government health officials need to be out there with a unified message that hits the main points:

1) Stay away from other people
2) Wear a mask if forced to go out
3) Go back home as soon as possible

This 15-point stream of words will only serve to confuse. The reason our kids are suffering from this year-long school outage is because our leadership is so confused. With unified, clear leadership we would have beat this thing in 6 weeks, tops. It is exactly this framing as a difficult moral wrestling match faced independently by millions of equals that has brought America to this depth of failure.
How do you go from one obstinate commenter chanting "I'm not owned" to the whole left?
What Victoria has done is highly commendable. The issue in the US is that there is no national commitment to reduce transmission to your levels. In turn, a single county, region, or state will be unable to reach the result you’ve achieved.
And if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like C++.
Okay, let's use another example: lifts don't move until the doors are closed. If the lift thinks the doors are open, it won't move. If it did, it would be an out of control situation just as quickly as a car misbehaving at 60 mph is. The expectation is that autonomous cars must be cautious.
It's not a great day for flying.
My first sentence explains why it was a new feeling.
I do believe that most people are responsible enough to take the recommended precautions and encourage their friends and family to do the same and not endanger others.
The only outcome I see here is like one of prohibition.
Our country was built on trust, integrity and distribution of power, much of this is the opposite in the name of public health when the numbers show otherwise.
Closing outdoor dining but letting the movie industry dine outdoors.
Closing salons but our own speaker of the house doesn’t follow.
Prohibition, no less.
is there an obvious best way to try sending today using some sort of digital message?
My watch is pretty neat. Self-driving cars, when perfected, will prevent incredible amounts of death and suffering. Electric bikes and the plummeting costs of solar tech and batteries will save the planet. And it's unbelievable how fast these covid vaccines were developed, tested, manufacturered at gigascale, and (soon) distributed to every corner of the planet.
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100% in agreement. Rather, we went from big, visual, dramatic accomplishments to whatever we have now -- a tightening of the status quo? advances that boost consumer spending?

I'm reading The Trouble with Physics (2007) now, and it's about the same themes (lack of progress in physics since ~1980s [besides higgs boson i guess]).

Overall though, seems that human advances, for the sake of humanity, have fallen by the wayside for...stuff like the red-bull sponsored jump
Not to be pedantic, but Star Trek predicted that America would experience an extreme period of inequality and social decay in the 21st century, only finding its way out of its selfish, destructive ideology after being ravaged by nuclear war. Seems pretty accurate to me (minus the whole genetic engineering war interregnum, but who knows, it’s only 2020...)

https://www.startrek.com/news/ds9s-take-on-homelessness-is-a...
Two out of the three times in my life that I've had a gun pointed at me, it was the cops!
Oh, there's a workaround for that.. I've unplugged my Residential Gateway and now my UniFi dream machine pro is directly connected to the ONT.

You install a CA from a jailbroken modem into a supplicant container that runs on the UDM pro. It confirms to the network that you are using "authorised" equipment for the connection and the packets flow!
Agree with this rhetorical question. What mlboss said should just be "automated company" not necessary a tech company.

With that definition, it's also unreasonable to me that 100 years ago, there wasn't any tech company
"I think people should stay at home, avoid all non-essential activities, wear masks, and not gather with anyone outside their households. I’ve been saying this for about 10 months now. If you didn’t listen to my (and many others) entreaties before, I don’t think you’ll likely change your behavior based on a new order."

Even for the many, many months in many, many parts of the country where case growth was stable and eminently manageable? Wouldn't we want to avoid the hardship caused by extreme restrictions when possible? The better approach is to match the level of restrictions with the circumstances within the region, and adjust as needed. Just because most states/localities have failed to adjust aggressively enough (or have abdicated responsibility altogether) does not mean they should have simply set a dumb and blind policy of maximum restrictiveness and then sat on their hands, assuming no better way was possible.
You helpfully linked to it upthread. I'm comfortable that I've summarized it accurately.
In Asia hard lockdowns aren’t seen as a silver bullet, and some countries like Korea never really had one. Centralized quarantine and mandatory symptom checks are believed to be comparably important.
I went the opposite way and got rid of Linux for windows wsl2. I have the random issue but otherwise things run pretty well.
No it’s not. This isn’t how arrests or searches are usually made. Even in extreme cases, officers don’t usually use more force than necessary.

Source: I’ve been arrested for murder.
12 years after Armstrong was the first Columbia flight.

We definitely did a lot in space since the one small step. The whole concept of orbital stations went from idea to everyday reality. Commercialization of space - like, successes of Ariane-4 and then Dennis Tito and others is also a significant step. We're expecting more any year now.
This is more of a λ-Calculus question (unrelated to combinators, really). But S takes 3, K takes 2, and I takes 1. This isn't strictly correct because S/K/I isn't a function, but rather a chain of lambdas with no free variables (and we get the number of "parameters the function takes" by counting the lambda symbols). See §1 in [1]. In your specific case,

S 11 12 = 12
K 11 12 13 = 11 13 (12 13)
I 11 = 11

Keep in mind that the literals "11," "12," and "13" in λ-Calculus aren't numbers.

[1] https://personal.utdallas.edu/~gupta/courses/apl/lambda.pdf
it is not the norm in the US involving nonviolent crime regardless of skin color.
Nullable type is the biggest mistake in all the "modern" languages

It should be a type Optional<T>, not built into a language, it make no sense memory wise

It's like NULL, it should stay, it is not an issue, it is how computers work!!!!!!!
Thanks. Fixed it.

We went to the moon in half the time it took us to go from first flight to the speed of sound.

We accomplished a lot in about 70 years.
It's unfortunate, is all. For someone this distinguished, with a career spanning decades, to have their announcement of death go up alongside a bunch of nonsense conspiracy theory retweets. It's just seedy— it's like if the official obituary was published in the Enquirer.
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There are three kinds of liquid fuel stoves:

1) Burns Alcohol directly, runs in liquid cycle, somewhat inefficient. Think Sterno burner type deal, I know there are others.

2) Burns Naptha, starts in liquid cycle (by lighting the volatile components in the fuel), then starts running in gas cycle once it heats up. (this is a normal Coleman Fuel stove)

3) Burns Kerosene, these stoves must use either naphtha or alcohol to start by burning in a staring cup, this is the kind of stove featured, Kero is not match lightable (not enough light volatile components in the fuel), so you preheat the gas generator to turn the kero into a gas, which can be match lit.
i didn't know we as users could flag things

it should be up to the moderators no?
But it probably doesn't have to. The finder could file anonymously to be joined as a party, and could request that the case be sealed.
> "I also believe these greater restrictions will result in more job loss, more hunger, more despair and desperation (...) and more death from causes other than COVID. And I wonder, are these premature deaths any less worrisome than COVID deaths?”

There's been a total of 164 registered COVID-19 related deaths in San Francisco county, the vast majority of which had other comorbidities, assuming trend[1]. On the other hand, there has been nearly three times (~460) as many deaths in San Francisco related to overdoses between January and August alone[2].

It's hard to disagree with his sentiment.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Co...

[2]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2020/sf-overdoses-inter...
Why would you want them to?
The future comes in many forms and I find this kind of talk to overlook the phenomal advances all fields of science have made.

From the stars to the cell, the future isn't lost
You’ll be simultaneously grateful and also resentful towards the squandering of resources that you could direct towards better ends.
I can agree with that. How do you propose to deal with the criminal element?
Really well written comment about the history of these challenges and distributed.net.

“Cracking DES”, a book published by the EFF, contains the necessary information to build your own Deep Crack DES brute force appliance. It’s available in the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/crackingdes00elec
What have you tried to stay notified about details? the SMCAlert system texts and emails me links to details as soon as any changes occur. It has been fantastic for this and other situations.

https://hsd.smcsheriff.com/smcalert
Put it on a rocket and set it up for a 1000 year trajectory that would bring it back to Earth (or simply a local orbit that decays over a millennium). I’ve only played KSP so I’m sure there’s some impossibility in this (could a parachute last that long and remain functional?). The medium of the message is another interesting question for this.
With telemetry as a bonus
It’s going to take at least a year to get the vaccine at scale and a significant portion of the population straight up won’t take it because they don’t want 5G autism.
If you go back and read his earlier statements, you can clearly see the evolution of his frustration. He's been a straight shooter on this from the start.
I was really into flight when I was a kid. Sometime before I was a teenager my mom found Chuck Yeager's autobiography at a garage sale and thought I might be interested in it. Who would've guessed that the Edwards AFB test pilots flight adventures would pale in comparison to their off base antics at the local bar/brothel. Apparently not my mother.

RIP Mr. Yeager, I learned more about life from you than I expected to.
I first heard of that name with Chuck Yeager's Air Combat on MS-DOS. An amazing game associated to hours of good time.
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Only informally as far as I know.

https://twitter.com/HousingValley/status/1125959134329708545

https://twitter.com/HousingValley/status/1154781703262498816
You're arguing about the individual definitions of specific words while ignoring the overall question. Nobody here cares about the subtle differences you see between "ethics" and "morals."

Here's the question: if you have the opportunity to save hundreds or thousands of lives by breaking a minor law, are you justified in breaking that law? Many of us would say yes. The alternative is absurd, it doesn't hold up in the real world. How many widely accepted historical heroes do we have who broke laws to save lives?

tfehring's point still stands, and I think you should respond to their post using the meaning that they obviously intended before you get mired down in a more pedantic debate over the technical definition of individual words.