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(Layman here, take everything with a truckload of salt.)

I'm actually not sure they're "very" different risk profiles, though it isn't unreasonable to assume that before you analyze the situation further. My reason is that contagiousness peaks around 2-3 days before symptoms appear, and the false negative rate for a test is 100% just 4 days before symptoms appear. [1]

Now consider that tests themselves normally take around 3 days to come back. That means if you find out your test results just 1 day before symptoms appear, they'll be based on your viral load from three days prior, where (as mentioned above) the test would've had a ~100% chance of producing a false negative! (Things improve a little for a 2-day turnaround, not that much.) In other news, the only time you can really expect useful results is on (or after) the day of symptoms... at which point you would already be staying home.

I do see 2 places where this argument breaks down:

- For asymptomatic carriers. I don't know what the rates are like, but asymptomatic people won't know to stay home without a test, so tests would seem to have some value there for the purpose of making public gathering safer. However, intuitively, I wouldn't expect it to be a game-changer—I'd only expect it to stretch the runway a little bit (say, get you a few extra days/weeks), but you'd still be back at square 1 having to shut things down afterward.

- For people who aren't cautious and would go out to dine even amidst symptoms, but wouldn't go if they test positive. Which seems ironic because you could say reckless behavior here would (in some sense) seem to create a positive feedback loop justifying more reckless behavior. That not only seems like a questionable way to justify public policy, but it also seems to suffer from the same problem as the last item: it'd only delay the inevitable by a few days/weeks.

- For rapid tests (< 1 day, preferably < 1 hour). I don't expect rapid tests will be available to the masses for everyday activities.

So, at least on my end, with traditional testing that takes 2-3 days to come back, it's entirely plausible (and moreover, likely) to me that testing has low utility for these particular purposes. But I would love to hear an expert's explanation that takes all these factors (and more) into account.

[1] https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2020/07/when-should...
For me, it's the fact it seems Google was quite willing to keep her around and keep allowing her be so toxic people felt they had to go to HR and anonymously give feedback and that they didn't just fire her straight away for publishing a paper they didn't like.
Land of the free? The US a has created its own reality and complicity enables it to persist. It made its bed, now lie in it or do something and stop whining.
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Look, I get people saying "use LSD for depression!" even if i dislike it thoroughly..their ideal goal is to deal with mental illness and chemistry in the brain using a different substance.

I cannot look at this and not say "slippery slope."

This is not biochemistry, this is not a medical condition, this is couples counseling. There isn't a condition you need to use drugs to get yourself back to the center to be able to act normally. This is more like thinking you need to drink alcohol to ask a girl out.

I literally wonder what is next. It keeps getting worse every time I see posts here.
What about people who put $100 a week in. Paying commissions on this, each week, is definitely unworkable. Was it possible before to do before Robinhood?
You’re missing the main point of the judge’s decision, which is that this strategy doesn’t factor in the severe pain caused to people’s financial livelihoods.
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Among the scientific community.
As I’ve said, I have no objection to using this sort of JSON as an input format, but I do object to deploying in this format.
I didn't get access either lol. You have to either have a great idea or had to join in early. Or do something like https://www.flowrite.com/blog/how-we-got-access-to-gpt-3-in-...
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Not only is that absolutely ridiculous on the face of it, because there's no reason to think that head twitching has anything to do with having "hallucinations", but 5-MeO-DMT is not related to ibogaine, of which this particular drug is an analog.

The most obvious question (apart from why the authors think that head nodding has anything to do with hallucinations) is whether ibogaine made mice twitch their heads, and why they didn't compare ibogaine's head twitching effect on mice to the effect the ibogaine analog had.
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Anecdotally, yes. Until fintech apps started actually functioning in the country where I live, the activation energy to set everything up to gain exposure to equity markets was too high for myself and everyone my age that I knew. I'm very happy with the app I use now that lets me hold equity in markets globally(!) for some minor transaction fees, much happier than I was back when I got my first paychecks and my only realistic options were to watch it sit in a bank account or spend it.
> How do we have a higher mail in ballot rejection rate in non-pandemic times than we do in pandemic times?

I mean, here's an explanation for a specific case

> According to the nonprofit, nonpartisan organisation Ballotpedia, Georgia rejected 6.42% of mail-in ballots in total in the 2016 general election and 3.10% in total in the 2018 midterm (here). These totals include rejections because of signatures, but also include, for example, ballots received late or past deadlines, problems with return materials or a voter having already voted in person.

> It may be that Trump was referring to the 0.15% of ballots specifically rejected for "missing or non-matching signatures" when saying that ballots rejected in 2020 were "almost zero", but this percentage is consistent with past years. The higher percentage he mentions for past years is likely based off the total rejected ballots (here) which can not be compared with 2020, as this information is not available.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-georgia-rejecte...

https://sos.ga.gov/index.php/elections/number_of_absentee_ba...

Edit: And just for fun, I pulled data for 2020 and 2018 statewide, November elections from https://elections.sos.ga.gov/Elections/voterabsenteefile.do

I looked at a largeish file (didnt want to deal with the 1gig state wide file), ended up being CHATHAM county. (file name 025).

In 2018, there were 351 rejections for 40683 mail in ballots. In 2020, there were 321 rejections for 110831 mail in ballots.

The interesting thing to me was that in 2018, 286 ballots were rejected for being late, but in 2020, only 191 were rejected for being late.

Which tells me at least some of the higher acceptance rates can be attributed simply to people being more diligent about mailing their ballots in.
> It's not really taught.

Critical reading of sources is part of the German high school curriculum, introduced around 8th grade; it is kept up until the end, and most people seem to come out none the wiser.

I think we regularly overestimate the role rational thought plays in people's decisions and opinions. It's not nearly enough to make rational appeals or offer factual evidence to convince people of anything.
Yup. You could sometimes find scene release group names in the metadata when Spotify beta launched. They cleaned it up in the "great purge" where 90% of my playlists became empty :)
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Hiring people based on their ability to predict your own idiosyncratic hatreds of specific technologies is just a horrible idea. It also ensures your ideas never get challenged and you never improve.
Not if plugins come into play, unless you want to go OS IPC for that.
> If you allow Islamic terrorists to publish their indoctrination materials, conversions to their cause will increase.

This is especially what I'm sceptica about, as well as the banning of publications such as Mein Kampf.

It seems to me that the proportion of those that were first unconvinced, and then read such material and become convinced by it is negligibly small. Rather, most of the followers never actually read the publications and mostly got into it to feel part of a group as their friends were followers.

They're typically publications that were never read by either the proponents, nor the detractors who wish to ban it.

> Most of the censorship cases i can think of have been religious or conservative groups and in all those cases i thought the call for censorship was misguided. There are situations where I’m ok with censorship. One of them is Islamic terrorist propaganda and fake news.

There is very few news that is not fake — the addage of “All news is accurate, except that one article about that one field one happens to be a specialist in.” seldom fails to hit the mark.

That you need to specifically single out “Islamic terrorism”, opposed to simply keeping it about “terrorism” as a general concept also betrays a deal of specificity in your view, which is often the problem with censorship — that not all are censored æqual.
To me it seems more like we developed, and approved, more vaccines in a shorter time period than ever before. So your argument would be much stronger if you provided sources and more details on which vaccines have been blocked by the FDA.
I deleted my account shortly after receiving their cryptocurrency spam.

In the early days it seemed like a good idea, to improve upon the ideas of the web of trust, but they seem to be a company who lost their way.
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Surely the whole point of tech is to make life involve less work? The problem becomes an economic one, how to you distribute the wealth automation enables.
nginx has a geoip module that you can use.
Totally agree - the phrase “reality has a liberal bias” is almost always a red-flag.

My viewpoints are almost all fairly liberal, but there is often no objective truth and suggesting there is one is dangerous.
Not sure how that'll work? GPT-3 has more data than us. I've heard they run a computer for something like trillion years.

> That's provided that I would be able to overcome the personal feeling that what I'm selling is useless and I'm essentially scamming every customer.

Some people are ruthless & well, some can never be.
etesync.com already does it, and has it for years. Open source and an open protocol. Supported in GNOME and KDE (starting from the next version) and a lot of clients for other platforms too.

Disclaimer: I created it.
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No, just fake news [0]. At any rate, there are pretty good actual genetic studies, honestly what you would expect from a natural virus [1, 2]

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/09/coronavir...

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.24.391763v1....

[2] https://www.pnas.org/content/117/17/9241
C with musl does just fine.
Nice work by vkd3d-proton and Mesa developers! It's not perfect yet, but it's a great start. There are some bugs to fix in vkd3d-proton still (various glitches).

And CDPR can release the game for Linux natively, since they already did the heavy lifting of releasing it for Stadia. At the very least they can add the Vulkan renderer to the Windows version.
Since you brought it up, for years isn’t all that “long”...
> So there is evidence is came from a lab

No there isn't, none whatever. The state department released internal cables saying the lab in Wuhan was poorly staffed, that was from years ago. What else have they claimed besides that?

You've really done a number on the meaning of the word here. Literally no evidence.
Contact tracing can work and NZ has had success, mostly meeting its “80% traced in 3 days” target. However the system cost is something like NZ$70m and can handle up to 1000 cases daily. Doing this for 225k cases per day seems almost insurmountable from way down here.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/122433365/...
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/oversight-contact-tracin...
Wow mate, I'm just an amateur cosplay photographer, but legit thanks for sharing. I'll have to investigate further but this looks exactly like what I needed.
I haven't really seen any hater comments, just hundreds of people in awe and admiration, cheering SpaceX
I am of the opposite opinion.

From seeing how the internet evolved from dial up days to what it is now, my initial reaction to any article written in a story-esque manner where the author tries to paint a certain bias with words like "unlighted, windowless room, draped in plastic, smelling of paint" is that its mostly just a very one sided account of things.

Its very popular to hate on rich moguls and big companies these days with the rise of online leftism rhetoric, and considering that most non subscription online media publication literally live or die by clicks, you should be suspect of them as much as you are of Tesla. Real factual stories with links are often very milquetoast and boring to read. Id imagine in this case it be something along the lines of "Tesla said this, Employee said this, we don't have proof of any of this stuff other than statements, so we don't know what really happened and likely never will"

For reference linked article here: http://deleter.net/index.php/news/5541/Business/September-11... paints a different picture of how the said employee acted.

It generally seems that the truth is most likely somewhere in between two extremes. Tesla is of course going to be corporate minded and not particularly care too much about employees, and its likely that the client in question is not fully guilt free either.
I think you missed the part about Russia, i.e. the subject of his lie. Also, Russia was wining and dining Flynn. Remember the photos of Flynn at the Russian propaganda event? I'm sure that has nothing to do with Russia, right? No Russian motive there, right? Just, you know, forget about Flynn pleading guilty in court and then acknowledging guilt by accepting the pardon. You forgot to mention those extremely relevant points.
CDPH (California Department of Public Health) has powers related to communicable disease control that are independent of an emergency proclamation. For example, whenever the public health is menaced, CDPH has the authority to control and regulate the actions of local health officials. At all times, CDPH has the authority to take measures necessary to ascertain the nature of a reported disease and prevent its spread. This could include orders for isolation, quarantine or “social distancing.” CDPH also has specific authority to quarantine, isolate, inspect, and disinfect persons, animals, houses, rooms, other property, places, cities, or localities, whenever in its judgment the action is necessary to protect or preserve the public health. Therefore, it is possible that CDPH may exercise these powers in addition to the roles and responsibilities assigned under the ESA and the SEP

Those are not emergency powers. Those are normal public health powers.
It says "December 8,2020: Assorted functional fixes". Apparently not security fixes.

I think the functional fix is that they show reminders because in the release notes, it says: "Some users may continue to see reminders from Adobe to uninstall Flash Player from their system". Adobe seems to say that there aren't security fixes, because they say on October 13, 2020: "Assorted security and functional fixes".

https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/release-note/fp_32_air_...
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This immediately follows the Slack acquisition which was sold at at price that is almost 1/10th of Pakistan's GDP. Keep in mind that Pakistan has 220 million people.

One individual company with less than 2k employees is valued 1/10th of what 220 million people collectively produce in a year. How can one explain this asymmetry. No doubt it was the biggest tech acquisition in the history but tech executives in the US bolstered by Fed's dollar printing have been breaking paper records almost every year.

Maybe I do not understand the economics of this well so I would gladly accept any roast of my above observation.
The most crazy thing in a while!
That'd also count as a 'bioerror'. But, what makes you think those Wuhan labs weren't doing gain-of-function research?

Or even: inadvertent gain-of-function selection, via other research methods? See the proud tweet about testing ">50 novel" "bat SARS-related CoVs" against "human cells", and using "recombinant viruses/humanized mice to see SARS-like signs, and showing some don’t respond to MAbs, vaccines" that's linked in my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25370869 )
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Play Music purchases could be downloaded directly through the service when it was still running.

They were also transferred over to YouTube Music (and I think can be downloaded from there also), and I believe are/were accessible through Takeout as well.
Guessing here - is there any value from a team / engineering point of view to having shared code for custom classes / data structures between client and server? Here I assume client to be mean browser
> Sadly we never released the game on Linux to the public.

What was the justification of ignoring Linux gamers, when you already went through all the trouble of creating the Linux version? Are support costs so high that Linux sales won't cover them after that?
Same for the Russians, I think
Pinker hasn't really had a field for some time now. IMO, this poster is basically correct though the mode of exposition is not very HN approved.
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I like Stadia despite Google, not because of, sadly. I don't like having so many eggs in one basket, but it really is by far the best streaming experience. I gave GFN and Luna a fair shot. I wanted to love Luna before it was even released.

All that said, sure it could be shut down. But so could PS5, or XBOX. Sure it's probably less likely, but I've come to expect nothing is forever and to enjoy what's here while it's here. And personally speaking, this is probably easier for me since the number of times I go back to play an old game is essentially zero. I'd imagine most console folks are similar.
Alternative take: consumer behaviour that demands complex integrated products incentivizes the formation of large corporate bodies that can marshall the many skills and resources required to make them, with the economies of scale that make them viable.

Semi-facetious summary: there’s not a lot of demand for local, organic, artisan all-terrain robot packhorses.
Earth's problems are largely political, bureaucratic, and cultural. The people who love and are good at those areas have very little overlap with people who love and are good at tech, science, or space. The best we can do is provide something that magnifies our aspirations as a species, so that we and others will be inspired to improve our lot.
Let me try a different approach to explaining what I mean.

Let's say you're trying to argue why we'll run out of helium in, say, 10 years.

You could say: we have 10X quantity of helium, we use 1X per year, therefore we'll run out in 10 years.

Or you could say: we use a lot of helium. We're bound to run out of helium sometime, therefore we'll run out in 10 years.

The arguments presented in this bet are of the second sort. They do not say anything about why what they're betting on should happen in 10 years or in any other timeframe.

Sure, the bet is for the end of 2020, but in order to be persuasive you actually have to make an argument for why what you predict does or does not happen in that timeframe.

No such arguments were even attempted here. That's what's so frustrating.
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Whenever Stadia conversation comes, I always wonder if I'm missing something.
Why subscribe to Stadia and risk losing your games when you can subscribe to GeforceNow and play your own games in the cloud.
If GeforceNow goes under ... fine, you still have your games.

I don't get the appeal of Stadia and I'm wondering what am I missing.
Bullshit, it was about a biotech error, a menace created in the lab.

Also you need citations for you claim that it would have been possible to stop the spread.
You can add the GOG executable to steam as an external game and run it through Proton that way. Bit of an odd setup I suppose, but it ought to work.
In many ways a world where there were some baseline fees and it was annoying to sign up made it so no regulation was needed. Because it was naturally a bit burdensome to get started, there was no need to make law on it.

I don't trust anything to be done about it in 2020 - but it is clear if this was a time when regulators had a bit more sway that basic rules would be put in place to make this type of gambling behavior hard.
> doxed by New York Times.

Are you thinking of any specific case where the Times doxed someone for practicing intellectual freedom?
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>She was more than just let go, she was bullied, humiliated, demoted, threatened, retaliated against, and blackmailed among others. Evidence was tampered with, destroyed, or manufactured, along with quite the list of irregularities even judges observed.

Real quick: all of this information exists in your head because of online articles. You haven't seen the full proof of this happening. Be careful of making conclusions based on stories rather than evidence.
My point is that that's not necessary. It's a clear commitment to having an end date.
See sister reply, it’s all basically FUD.
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If i throw a ball, it's a suborbital flight.
The court decided not to approve an injunction to stop certification in the PA case. They have not dismissed the case, they have not indicated they will not hear the case.

Also, don’t mistake the lack of an opinion or dissent as unanimous. Court vote was not disclosed. No one dissented, which is interesting given Alito’s push in PA for them to segregate ballots prior to this.

The Texas case is not asking for any injunction. Now with 18-20 additional states added on it (amici curiae) is making a 14th amendment argument that the four defendants changed election laws without going through their legislatures, a direct and indisputable violation of Article 2. That this damages Texans, that if the states aren’t held to the constitution, then what is the point?

But I don’t think the cases will be heard, I have no idea, my point isn’t what the percentage chance is, it’s that it is not zero.... as I understand it.
The magic of headlines. My local media titled today: "SpaceX explodes during landing." :-)
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No, we will look back in bewilderment on how the whole world could have become gripped by a panic.

Looking back, we will be able to look at excess deaths, not alarmist predictions.
Exactly. Indigenous people in North America weren't just colonized, their cultures were systematically destroyed. Children were taken away on steamboats to boarding schools, forced into Christianity and beaten if they spoke their native languages. Now the languages are all almost completely dead and the cultures have suffered greatly. It was the explicit goal of the white governments to wipe out native cultures and forcibly assimilate them.

Decolonization is about recovering from that, not about eschewing cars for canoes.
Cloudflare offers a ton of free services in hopes you get attached to it and like it enough to try out their paid stuff.

So far Cloudflare cdn in my experience is much faster than google or Amazon. Google cloud cdn really disappoints me. Cloudflare v8 isolate based edge workers are pretty phenomenal too.