skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you expand on the boringness? That conflicts with what I think because I believe that engaging hobbies are that vitality which manifests as “playful” and “fun”. Are you willing to try something new, and if you do, are you willing to learn to do it well enough to enjoy it.

Engaging with a hobby tends to involve making it part of me - the hobbies I haven’t committed to actually liking and just performed have always been the ones that get lost in the shuffle of things. Even more so, being so committed to a hobby pushes me to do more heavy lifting when it comes to doing it socially.

(Edit) After a bit more thought I decided an example would be good:

I love Jorge Luis Borges, so when my book club finally decided to read him I took the time to rate many of the stories, trying to collect an essence of his magical, gaucho, and mystical stories to help focus our discussion. That is what I mean —- to love something so much that effort becomes effortless because you’re bursting at the seems hoping to share. In this way we didn’t just read “Library of Babel”, but some of the little mysteries that show a different touch of his craft.
Indeed they don't appear on the member list: http://aomedia.org/membership/members/

ARM is listed as a founding member, though.
What? Our computers can't even do the tasks that even the simplest of general purpose intelligences in the wild can, how can we say that we are making progress towards general purpose AI? If we were making progress, like first fruit fly, then ant, then a mouse etc, then I'd see it. But now? Its just toys. Maybe I'm wrong, but it is pretty easy to not be impressed when they still can't do simple things that insects can do.
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I saw Hanlon, and again a pretty good paper (http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/215598/1/215598.pdf), but far off. First, it came out in April, when CFR in the USA was 6.2%, not 1.9%. So that alone would be enough to drive YLL of fatalities down close to my number.

> "used to construct a plausible scenario for the prevalence of combinations of LTCs among people who died from COVID-19 for the modelling presented here."

Second, the dataset used at the time to generate their synthetic data was weak. You can see it immediately in their bar charts, where they have mostly healthy 50-69 y.o. dying in their synthetic data, skewing their YLL to the right.

> Your own link states that healthspan is not quantifiable, so your claim that it is 3.5y doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

I provided a link to a "conservative" description of healthspan, but in the field people are more optimistic about it.

Very good questions you brought up though, thanks!
What I miss on lynx is to be able to follow HN's comment layout.
Tried it, liked it. Good job!
> if there was a virus responsible, wouldn't it have been found then?

Viruses are hard to identify, but the CDC here suggests it was a rhinovirus (not related to coronavirus): https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/health/outbreak-investigation-...

If it was SARS-CoV-2, the CDC could confirm that now retroactively with stored blood samples. I suggest it was probably not.

However, then, it does point to proto-pandemics happening as a regular occurrence. A fatal viral outbreak is contained within a care home rather than spreading - either by being slightly sub-exponential in the general population (R<=1), or perhaps just by pure luck.
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How would you trust this Chrome extension and install it? Does it seem it's useful or would you prefer to do it by yourself instead of using it?
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There are two terms that may be conflated in this particular discussion.

Reproducible: Can it be done again?

Replicable: Can someone else do it?

AF2 appears to be reproducible, but not yet replicable.

https://phys.org/news/2019-05-replicability-science.html#:~:....
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My son was very turned off by being told "It's OK to lie about this to get in; everybody knows it's how the game is played."
Antibodies mostly target the attachment heads of RNA viruses, which mutate very quickly to evade them. But that mutation also applies to its own reproductive mechanisms, like RNA polymerase, which degrades in the presence of evolutionary pressure from the immune system against the attachment proteins, so the latter strains become dormant because they lose reproductive integrity. It then takes conditions lacking an immune response to evolve back to a working polymerase and attachment head.

I think it is interesting to note that the immune system itself is largely responsible for spreading most RNA viruses: inflammation, coughing, sneezing etc. Is this us evolving population-level (probably more like Dunbar number than 8B) defense in response to the general threat of viruses, or is it a weakness that each individual virus evolves to exploit. It seems to me that this involuntary spreading behavior is much more pronounced in humans than other mammals.

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2020/04/03/how-coronaviruses-...

https://mbio.asm.org/content/2/5/e00150-11
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I'm pretty sure that's how it works already. They are looking mostly for teams of people, not a perfect plan. It's just that, building a business plan successfully is a decent project for assessing the effectiveness of a team.
Can you recommend some resources about using Vim effectively without turning it into an IDE? I'm a self-learned Vim user and I'm sure I could learn a lot by observing experienced vim users.

Kakoune has ambitions to be the true "unix way" editor, but it makes some very questionable design decisions like plugins made in shell scripts. For the sake of compatibility. Neovim's decision to fully support Lua appeals to me much more, I mean it is a compromise but a good one. It's a good and fairly popular language.
For Python vim is allright. The probability of making syntax errors is a lot lower than with languages like Java and you can see them without going through a build. But language servers are the only way to make vim an acceptable choice for a lot of other languages. Otherwise your productivity is just much lower than with an ide. Personally i use vim for terminal work, searching, merging, editing sql and other files, sometimes building and Eclipse for coding on my current project.
What a great article. “Earnest” describes some of my favorite people not just in business but in life.
Fair enough :)

I guess we're still well within budget.
That's awesome! I'm going to reach out about getting my hands on some of those stickers if the offer is open. ;)
They don't bully the tech corps, they bully content creators using the DMCA, and the tech corps have to let them do it by law. And big corps in general, tech or not, know that it's in their best interest to not blatantly and visibly break the law, lest it invite additional regulations or penalties. The problem fundamentally is a warped counterproductive copyright law that enables organizations like the RIAA to do what they do.
I own a /24 from the early 90's, registered before ARIN and the other RIRs existed. It is considered a legacy block and I've never signed the legacy registration agreement, so no fees for me! I do have it routed to my home network over a "business broadband" connection.
Actual koans do have conclusions, though. The westernised and mysticised ones do not.
If there was a chance they really believed it, and that very belief had a chance to destabilize the country, I'd take it very seriously.
Cool, that literature is pretty much exactly what I've been looking for.

Without having looked at the precise methodological details, it seems to broadly support my point, though:

"Our findings lead us to the conclusions that the rare nativelike adult learners sometimes observed would all turn out to be exceptionally talented language learners with an unusual ability to compensate for maturational effects and, consequently, that their nativelikeness per se does not constitute a reason to reject the critical period hypothesis."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232004616_The_robus...

(By critical period and maturational effect they refer to the hypothesis that age determines, or influences, whether you'll be able to attain a native-like level.)
I learned about colorblindness in a scientific visualization seminar. Before that seminar I wasn't aware that my choice of color scheme meant that some people couldn't interpret my plots. Now that I know, it's really easy to just google a colorblind friendly color palette and use that instead. I wish I had known earlier, and I hope that by people talking about it and hosting seminars like the one I attended it becomes a more standard practice.
I hear what you're saying and there might be some truth to it. I didn't read that "sophisticated cynicism" as very mocking. You could even say he's calling them cooler than us, in a very earnest kind of a way.
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Seems like an engineering feat that Windows XP could still run with 32MB RAM, even Nokia Asha feature phone comes with 256MB RAM
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Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking of when I said that certain sounds are probably harder to get right than others - R and S/TH being the two most common I believe. I'm not sure if this is the same thing as not recognizing how to pronounce a foreign language, or if it is more related to other speech impediments, such as stuttering.
I don't understand - how is using a debugger a waste of time?

I don't often use a debugger, but they have proven to be useful in a lot of cases.
Yes, in part, the API is but not the underlying data (at this time): https://github.com/kindspeech/api
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Though I agree with much of this article off earnestness can also be terrible in some circumistances. When people earnestly pursue something abhorrent or deluded.
This is my story.
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FUCK JACK DORSEY!

ARREST HIS ASS NOW!

ARREST SUSAN WOJCIKI NOW!
The 2 hardest problems in CS are: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
Wait the moon is not made of cheese? Where does cheese come from? Why did we go to the moon then?
> Interestingly, just as the word "nerd" implies earnestness even when used as a metaphor, the word "politics" implies the opposite. It's not only in actual politics that earnestness seems to be a handicap, but also in office politics and academic politics.

I don't think this is always the case. I've found that no matter the size of the business, they are made up of people, and people have bullshit detectors. When you are able to speak truth and find meaning in an earnest way, people will follow you, peers will respect you, and executives will listen.
Yes, you’re seeing two very different value systems run up against each other. Paul Graham obviously has a bias toward thinking the “founder culture” value system is better...but this stance ignores the fact that the European, more traditional culture leads to greater balance —stricter/better regulations around tech and privacy, ownership, and in most places labor.

In America you can make pretty much anything happen but at the cost of living in a society which is lax in terms of regulation, the consequences of which we’re seeing quite palpably this year (workplace discrimination, horrible environmental damage, etc.). While I won’t knock anyone for admitting they don’t know something, not every ignorant person looks for answers once those answers directly go against their agenda. This is what snobbishness, to a certain extent, helps regulate.
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The thinking of the opt-inners seems to be (roughly) that :

-IPv6 is fundamentally much more secure than IPv4 (no scanning, etc.)

-opt-out is bad for innovation, especially since the cheap default ISP router firewall software is likely to not even allow opt-out for any other protocols than TCP and UDP. (Heck, these days on IPv4 even anything different than HTTPS can be problematic...)

-reliance on router firewalls is bad because they incentivize sloppy device security - the manufacturers should be instead liable when they are at fault for screwing it up (also, how many of these "insecure IoT devices running ancient software" are even able to run IPv6 ?)

source : https://lafibre.info/ipv6/ipv6-le-firewall/msg704095/#msg704... (fr)

Incidentally, one of the "big 4" French ISPs "Free" didn't even have an IPv6 firewall on its customers routers between 2008 and 2019, and it's probably still opt-in :
4 months ago : https://fr.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=202008121107... (fr)

So I guess that we're going to see in practice the problems that having no IPv6 firewall causes (most customers not having any idea about what even is a firewall) as it gets more popular... and since Free this summer boasted about reaching 99% IPv6 coverage, and is enabled by default, and can NOT be disabled...
> curl cheat.sh/python+unique+list+values+ordered

Wow, my mind is blown! I've been using cheat.sh for a little while now, but really only as a glorified man page interface...my mind is blown in a bunch of other ways that it can be used...Only now looking through what else is possible. I guess i should have actually read the manual on cheat.sh! Thanks for sharing! TIL
I really love cht.sh, but find I never actually use it except for the occasional git syntax reminder. I think a flow that went `cht.sh -> fzf to narrow results and select a result -> vim -> OS clipboard` would have me using it all the time.
The importance of being Earnest. [1]

[1] Oscar Wilde, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Importance_of_Being_Earnes...
It would cost them dollars. An IPhone costs < $100 to make. Obviously there's a development cost to it all. it's also easy to suggest that there's probably a feature missing atm :D
don't know why post above is being downvoted, trump absolutely has been acting in a way to instigate civil war.
Apple authorised service provider asked me 400€ for the replacement battery and labour costs. So I decided to replace it myself with iFixit kit and it was worth it. The iFixit instructions are really nice and not too complicated if you have a little bit of patience.
No, but I'd be polite to them and ask them how they know that. Like I just did. Maybe you can learn something from that.
Maybe even in a commercial context. In fact it's quite likely that concerts get treated specially. The issue is, these automated censorship tools don't encode the nuanced clauses of such contracts. They err on the side of banning, even if it's perfectly legitimate.

Also IMO in the digital age it's so stupid that teachers can't even read a book to children via Zoom without a license...
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Not quite. War is politics by other means. When you depoliticize what is essentially political, you set the stage for war. It's not Trump who has been doing that for decades.
There are 10 types of people, Those who understand binary and those that don't.
As someone who is most likely on the more boring end of the spectrum, I agree with many parts of your comment :)

Still, I have learned that being earnest and being fun are not opposites. Sometimes earnest people are spending most of their time focused on work (and if they are good natured, its fun to work with them!). But one can get better at being fun if you value and prioritize having fun with other people for its own sake.

I have also found that folks (including me) particularly enjoy friends who are earnest about their work / side projects. I especially enjoy spending time with friends who are earnestly interested in areas I know little about. Their energy and enthusiasm are infectious and talking to them about their area opens these clear windows into new worlds that are otherwise hard to find.
The right to say something is not to be confused with the right to be paid to say something.

In fact, monetization creates a perverse incentive to prioritize financial gain over informing the public.
978 deaths is equivalent to 1/18 of the entire year to date. The rate is increasing, and there's only one way to stop it.

Edit: And again, this number is with absolutely no comorbidities. Had diabetes for your whole life? not counted. Broke your arm? not counted. High blood pressure? not counted.

Plenty of people who would've lived decades more are not included in this number.

> With this number you want to have...

> shutdown business

Nope. I want masks and social distancing.

I recognize that businesses need to be open. Heck, I'm still working.

> restrict business

Depending on your point of view, yes.

Meaning that I think social distancing should be practised at all businesses, and people should decide themselves not to go to businesses that they don't have to. Note, this is "Free market" restriction, not government mandated.

> prevent gathering

Not precisely. I would say don't gather with people from outside of your region, and social distance when you do gather with people inside your region.

> safety theatre

Still waiting on a source for this, assuming you are talking about masks.

I haven't said anything about any measures other than the above, and masks to point.
This cracked me up :)
I know vitamine E acetate is a scourage in the vaping community, but I was under the impression that outbreak was a distincly different thing, at a different time.

Although the uninteresting answer is often true, I do dislike that people refuse to entertain anything remotely fringe. Some of the declassified CIA documents stated that they intentionally furthered this attitude as much as they could, as it allowed them to make many of thier projects dissappear.

What is the most promising theory of origin? A 5-10min search didn't help.

The lab theory is of course the most fun, but not the most probable. The fact that they were working on similar diseases, the lab was newish, and the country itself isn't exactly well known for IP security make me not discredit it as fast as I normally would.

The animal->human route via food (or less likely, bites/other contamination) seems to be most likely. It's happened plenty of times in the past, and given the SES level of the area and cultural norms, it could have definitely happened.

The rest of the ideas seem like a long tail where all of them have fairly obvious "gotchas" that make typing them out a waste, but I'd love to hear what other people think.
See also: https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/10/22168295/cyberpunk-2077-...

> ... a certain song (CDPR didn’t say which one) during the game’s “Braindance” sequences might trigger a Digital Millennium Copyright Act strike. That’s even if you’re using the specific in-game setting designed to toggle off copyrighted music for this exact reason.
I had the same issue happen recently: replaced the battery, GPU soon failed. My trackpad also stopped working.

For the GPU, I took it to a repair shop here in the Bay Area. They were able to quickly diagnose and sent it to another shop in the area that specializes in it. Was told it was a simple soldering fix. Apparently a guy makes his living doing this since he knows exactly where to solder.

GPU issues aside, I think the submitter wanted to draw attention to the fake charger posting about a hotel fire. It sounds like a much more interesting story than this battery GPU issue.
Having read this in middle or high school (back in the 90s), and having picked up a copy of the book years later when I saw it at a Half Price Books, this comment makes me really sad.

A 5 sentence version of this story would not have stayed with me the same way this did. Just like Aesop's Fables, or the Brothers Grimm, wouldn't have the impact on people/civilization in general if they had been just the moral of the story.
I've been looking for a way to answer questions like:

- "How long did I REALLY waste on Reddit/Hacker news yesterday?" (39 minutes, not as bad as I thought)

- "How long do I spend in front of my computer on average?" (12 hours...)

- "Which project has taken up the most time this week?" (20 hours on XYZ...)

This answers all of these questions and more; without any input from me.

The best part is that the data is kept locally.

There is also a robust API so you can develop your own dashboards or programs from the data.
>On the flipside, when it reached Italy,

Only for the record/FYI, there is growing evidence that the virus (cannot say which strain) was present in Italy months before, possibly since September 2019.

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-tim...

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/2/20-4632_article
Accenture sells consulting hours to clueless public sectors.

It’s already one of the most cashless countries on the planet so us being the naive is something we even pride ourselves in.

Just know that it’s not going to become more than a Proof of Concept waste of money. In a couple of years it will be dead and buried when the money dries up. None in HN should be alarmed, except fellow tax paying Swedes.

We have a saying over here: if you are not voting left when you are young you don’t have a heart. If you don’t vote right when you are old you don’t have a brain.

There is a reason we have the highest income tax in the world: https://nomadcapitalist.com/2017/08/07/countries-with-the-hi...

We also have one of the highest numbers of public sector’s employees per capita:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_...

We accept it because crime was low and hospitals virtually free but these kind of things pops up all the time so we’ve learned to live with it.
That's probably the exact article where I first heard about it using polynomials. Perhaps it uses something like Shamir's secret sharing.

I found a Reddit post that explains most of the algorithm, but not much to do with polynomials. https://www.reddit.com/r/evnova/comments/g3ie3x/ambrosia_and...

(P.S., I did pay my registration fee for Uplink. Thanks for porting it!)
Ecologists push for more reliable research
There's the StackExchange English Language Learner's board - ell.stackexchange.com; while not an English or liguistics expert, I participate there, and questions on articles are common.

- English generally wants singular nouns tagged with a determiner unless the noun is being used to refer to the type of something rather than an instance of something, or in more than a few fixed prepositional phrases.

- Determiners, including articles, signify the importance and expectation around the question "which X".

- Definite articles are a signal to the listener/reader that the they should know which X the speaker/writer means. That's all. It has nothing to do with "specificity" as often explained by others. If the listener/reader doesn't know typically they will be triggered to ask.

- The indefinite article is a signal to the listener/reader that they don't have to know or care about "which X". It will trigger a listener/reader not to ask or wonder.

- Proper nouns don't take articles because usually the question "which John?", for example, isn't a concern.
PG is on an Aristotelian roll lately, talking about virtues and politicians... might as well read Nicomachean Ethics
It's easy to imagine this happening the opposite of what I presume is the intended effect. I can easily visualize a future in which these sorts of tactics inflame and divide, and cause some people to give the claims more weight, not less.

Less easy, at least for me, is to imagine a future where this strategy results in a more civil and evidence-based dialogue. If the surface on which claims can be compared and evaluated, absent restrictions placed by the platform itself, continually narrows, it seems to me that the civic dialogue necessarily narrows with it.

A desirable future for the information age is one in which quackish claims are endemic but ineffective.
But that's not what file_get_contents does.