skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For simplification. If a pound of coffee is bought at Costco, it's hard to figure out if it is for household consumption or for a business.
The business might sell a cup of coffee, or it could be a hotel that gives away free coffee to its guest.

So, at least for sales taxes, it is easier if everyone just pay it and the claim it at the end. It's the same as income taxes, where a set amount is deducted on a pay check and the taxpayer gets a refund at the end of the year.
I used to strongly believe this but now I think we've moved beyond having a public discourse and into things that are not protected speech. The president and others inciting violence against people doing their jobs, and those that are megaphoning those claims and calls to action deserve to be shutdown and deplatformed before someone is killed.
packrat parsers are fast (at expense of some memory)
> Text based browser. lol.

lol?

> I hope all the OS developers are taking note. OS might be just a browser plugin in the future instead of the other way round.

Maybe the promise of "thin clients" might be realized. Anything is possible.

> Humans have a brain that soaks new information like a sponge.

Where did "Can't teach old dogs new tricks" come from then? Maybe fpr young children, but older people have trouble picking up new technology.

> I think its a niche thing.

I guess you are right - like a sponge.
> We already had millions of doses in April/May.

No we didn't. :P The US has 6.4 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine now. Projections of up to 50M delivered worldwide by the end of the year. We're on a crazy ramp.

If you want to complain about a misallocation, a key complaint would be that they're holding slightly more than half the doses back to ensure everyone dosed can get a second dose... but with rolling production such a large holdback isn't necessary.

> What could matter is if delay increases the speed at which you can ramp up.

All the jurisdictions I know will blow through the entire supply of existing doses allocated to them very quickly. It doesn't go on a slow distribution ramp gated by approval like your ridiculous source suggests. What governs the ramp is production rates, which have been running flat-out irrespective of this decision.
First, I looked up the term "regressive left" and you might want to know your use of the term doesn't match its general usage, which might make it confusing.

Secondly, I think you're doing yourself a disservice if you dismiss these voices and are critical of them but not the mainstream pro-Democrat press. Ryan Taibbi, for example, clearly dislikes Trump, but also thinks the Democrats aren't responding to him well[1], which is an interesting perspective to understand if you are anti-Trump. If you are a liberal who fails to incorporate or understand even the criticisms of people who are close to being your allies, you may be less equipped to properly combat Trumpism.

Basically, it sounds to me like you are advocating ignoring these people because you disagree with them, which doesn't strike me as the best way to rigorously improve one's political perspective.

[1] https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-trump-era-sucks-and-needs-...
Is the meant to be 'How Americans' ?
What the fcuk is my password
Remembering passwords has never been easy.
The US also has at least a couple hundred million doses lined up of Moderna's vaccine. Their request for an emergency use authorization was submitted 10 days after Pfizer's so hopefully will be approved before Christmas.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25389340
Or you could just put a magnet and a notch on the top of the hammer[1].

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=hammer+nail+magnet&iax=imag...
That's two completely different things. Every x86 instruction is decomposed into one or several micro-ops that are executed. Hardly any x86 instructions are microcoded, which means that the decoder has to start streaming micro-ops from the microcode ROM.
It's not a bad thing. For those people expressing dismay that us older people prefer to keep to ourselves, get over it. You're not that great.

Bring us grandkids, for exactly one day, or stay the hell away.
I keep looking at the chart of USD compared to other currencies and it keeps going down. We are back to 2018 levels. [0]

It seems to me that people are buying things with their USD... stocks. That makes the stock market go up up up. Don't forget that the Fed is buying stocks [1].

While at the same time, we just keep printing more USD. You look at the M2 charts and they are up up up. [2] This says that inflation is coming, but I don't think it'll look like inflation of the past.

I just searched for an apartment all up and down the west coast USA and total dumps are going for $3k+ a month. Unheard of 5-10 years ago. Why is it generally more expensive to rent now? I think we've become numb to the increases in prices of things.

Plus, as the article points out, bad things are coming... covid has wrecked a lot of people. The govt isn't helping much. Even with the vaccine coming, it has to catch up to us eventually. Or does it?

[0] https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=EUR&view=5Y

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-fed-has-been-buying-et...

[2] https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_m2_money_stock
For example: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019... (AOC: “the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.").

This is flat-earth conspiracy theory level falsehood. And it’s a falsehood about an extremely politically and socially important issue that if widely accepted could have massive repercussions. Is YouTube going to censor it?
"LIBERATE MICHIGAN!" -Trump

And his militias answered, among their plans: A two week long televised execution spree in my state.

Now he lost the election. He lost his state and local cases contesting the election. He lost the supreme court case.

All this time him and his enablers have had their foot on the gas, grooming their extremists to sedition. Everyone who rules against them is 'deep state.' Every Republican judge who didn't support the cases are a 'Chinacrat RINO.' Liberals are considered sub-human.

There is open talk of executions again. 'Treason against (Trump's) patriots.' They say. Their proof is claims, claims peddled by who?

Trump and his enablers. The Koch's properties, Murdoch's. Lately Epochtimes and Newsmax have come into favor since franchises like FoxNews are considered part of the Deep State cabal.

What is @rayiner trying to say? Trump lost. He can say how many votes he gained over Obama but he wasn't running against Obama. Trump lost.

This needs to end. There has been too many shootings, a 'MAGA bomber.' Right now election officials have mobs outside their homes calling for their deaths. The AZ GOP asked supporters if they are willing to die.

Trump lost. He lost. This needs to end. It doesn't matter that @rayiner cannot come to terms and say that Trump lost to Biden. Talking about Obama doesn't matter. Trump lost, him and his enablers need to stop stoking their extremists and cultists because this has gone on too long.
Compared to AWS, the big thing cloud run and cloud functions are missing is per millisecond billing. Per 100ms billing is too wide grained. AWS lambda has per ms billing and it makes a big difference if your using a perf optimized language like golang or rust.
Just hang a microphone outside your window and pick up all the birds chirping and other street noises?
What stood out to me is that 71% of the respondents disabled tool-bar, 62% disabled menu-bar, 55% disabled splash screen, and 53% disabled the scroll-bar. This shows that the default user interface is perhaps better suited to the novice, not to an experienced user.

Shameless plug: I recently wrote a ~/.emacs guide to help beginners to Common Lisp set up Emacs in a DIY fashion rather than just installing the often recommended Portacle: https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl . Indeed the first few things this guide indulges in is to set up the user interface as follows before getting into setting up the environment for Common Lisp:

;; Customize user interface.
(menu-bar-mode -1)
(tool-bar-mode -1)
(scroll-bar-mode -1)
(setq inhibit-startup-screen t)
(load-theme 'wombat)
How does this work? Does Twitter allow this?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25390941
Talk about “AI” in the press these days tends to conflate two things
Western medicine is great when you can X-ray something, but quickly loses certainty when you can't.

Pain is something where acupuncture and other related methods might be better.
>Because it increases the amount of pesticides used (or incorporates them directly into the plant where they can't be rinsed off)

Does this argument work without the "all pesticides are bad" assumption? I searched up bt gene's use in pesticides[1] and it looks pretty safe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_thuringiensis#Toxicol...

>and pollutes the natural gene pool with artificial genes

As opposed to the natural gene pool being constantly polluted by spontaneous mutations? Or is that fine because of the naturalistic fallacy?

>The increased amounts of pesticide run off the field and mess up the rest of the ecosystem. Now you're seeing herbicide-resistant weeds come up in these fields.

AFAIK this is a non-issue except to the farmers. Resistance to whatever usually comes at a cost, so in the wild the superweeds will get out-competed by their non-resistant counterparts.
I'm ambivalent to your policy prescription; it might or might not work well in practice, but it does sound like it would work.

But I would hardly call that easy, when you need to undo generations of legislation, business convention, and nearly the entire structure of the financial markets, in order to accomplish all that.
It sounds like you would like god-mode: https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode
A community where it's easy to meet other people still makes it easy to spend time alone.

There's an asymmetry here, which is important to account for when designing environments.
Care must be taken not just in the composition but also in the execution and judgment of the law. Edit: and therefore I think flattening the issue into a single paragraph misses the point entirely
Many framing hammers have a nail set on top which is a t-shaped depression with a magnet in it to hold a nail. Set the nail on top, swing and set the nail int he wood up to half depth, then hit it two more times to finish nailing.
Is it just me or are the line colors in the chart way to similar to distinguish?
Meh, I'm not impressed. Of the dozen or so sources I looked at, half them are links to articles on right-leaning news sites or tweets parroting speech from Trump lawyers, with no links to primary documents. This isn't evidence.

One source was a video of election workers moving boxes around, with a conspiratorial narrative overlaid. This isn't evidence.

Several tweets showing "voting spikes" in favor of Biden as a result of regular counting operations. Nothing wrong here.

The remaining sources discuss "irregularities of expectation", yet none provide any plausible narrative of wrongdoing. The most plausible explanation is that it Democrat-favored voting methods were more streamlined, reliable, and less contested this year compared to years previous. Obviously this nets more votes for Democrats, but nothing practical is stopping a Republican from voting by mail, either. Also, I wouldn't be shocked if the 2020 election was actually more fair than in previous years, due to a large decrease in wrongfully-rejected ballots. I wouldn't be surprised if more Democratic votes were thrown away wrongfully in 2016 than fraudulent Democratic votes were accepted in 2020. If you're concerned about the legitimacy and fairness of U.S. elections, you can't talk about voter fraud while ignoring historical voter disenfranchisement. If someone thinks that mail-in voting was too easy this year, then their gripe is with the judicial systems that permitted this year's election rules.

Conclusion: The linked website doesn't seem to have very high standards of verification, as most items are obviously flimsy or easily debunkable.
The author got paid almost 30k, doesn't 6k... Yet paid 250? That isn't how the IRS reimbursement works.

The author is right, if he didn't do the work himself, he probably would have paid 250, as the labor costs on the vehicle works probably come close to 25k.
And there is one of the problems with Uber, and one reason why conventional taxis are not expensive.
> This is exactly the basis upon...

That's not something legally recognized though. You can't say you base this on something when there is nothing equivalent. An education is one thing. It's something that's been recognized in court.

Now, if you want to claim that public sites like YouTube should be forced to host content they don't want to from people they don't want to do business with, you'll have to explain how that equates with your established rights in the US?

More to the point: You'll have to explain why you want to take away my rights?
I wouldn't describe it as boring either, but maybe that's just me.
I saw this earlier as it was used for the SBA Paycheck Protection project ... and was impressed. Thank you for this work you are doing.

If you have any use at all for a free-forever rsync.net account, just let us know - I would be very happy to give you one.
Well-studied perhaps but often not effectively given due attention, except for modalities that are easy to apply (medication, TENS, ultrasound, etc) despite insufficient or quickly diminishing effectiveness. The US healthcare system isn't oriented around more time consuming approaches (highly individual; hard to "dose" and ensure adherence) for chronic pain such as stretching, stress relief, postural improvements, etc.

For acute pain such as the OPs experience, painkillers are/should be first line when treatment is indicated.
Nailed it.

It's epidemiology for ideas.
Interesting perspective. I kind of agree with you. I have a follow up question. Even within IC, there are different levels. One may want to keep a low profile ( for less stress, job security etc) and remain at the same level. But others around (including juniors) can get promoted to the higher IC levels. Due to this, people may perceive you as not good enough. How does one handle this?
Interesting, hadn't heard about Whyte's rule. I'm sure it is a valid observation, but I wonder whether at least part of it could be explained by a lot of corporations being headquartered on either coast. If your first HQ is as far west or east as you can go, then most places you could move are going to be closer to your CEO's home.
Ground Power Generator Review, Legit or a Scam?
It's been a while. However, he was begging from anybody and everybody--it could very well have been both.
Best expert discussion by far, Dr Griffiths on TWiV — https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-692/
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Does anyone know any interesting attempts of alternative models to WIMP? Everytime I think about it WIMP just makes more sense to me (productivity wise), it's really hard to think outside the box for this one..
Mandatory seatbelts happened slowly, not in an emergency, after years of debate and clear scientific research.

You can't compare that to the current situation with COVID-19. Remember that we've accelerated testing so much that we literally don't even know yet if these vaccines actually provide a mortality benefit: there just isn't enough data yet. You can't even compare this situation to other uses of vaccines. Not that I'm even aware of us ever successfully stopping a serious pandemic with a vaccine (with H1N1 the vaccines came too late to do much good, and the pandemic was much less serious than we thought).

Some countries simply can't deploy them yet, as their laws don't allow for emergency approvals: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/emergency-vaccine-approval-not-...
Show HN: Probably the most comprehensive weather API currently available
This was posted before but I'm quite pleased to share a major update for https://oikolab.com.

We now have available seven decades of hourly weather data starting from 1950 for any location in the world, thanks to the recent publication of ERA5 reanalysis data from European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). ERA5 is gap-free, gridded dataset generated using data assimilation method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_assimilation), similar to NWP models but with the benefit of hindsight.

As far as we're aware of, we're the first weather data service provider to have this extensive range of coverage accessible via REST API, where one can quickly query time-series of weather parameters for any location in seconds rather than hours or days from the original source.

Here are some stats:

Coverage: Global, from 1950 to 10 days ahead

Spatial Resolution: 0.25 deg x 0.25 deg (lat x lon)

Temporal Resolution: Hourly

Weather Parameters: ~30, including longwave/shortwave radiation, wetbulb temperature, windspeed at 100m, etc. (https://docs.oikolab.com/#3-weather-parameters)

NetCDF/GRIB Data Size: ~100TB

Data Sources:
Historical (ERA5) - https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/reanalysis-datasets/era5
Forecast (GFS) - https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data/model-datasets/global-forcast-system-gfs

Any feedback or comments would be much appreciated. Thanks!
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/04/facebook-p...

There you go.
How do you figure he is taking both the standard deduction and itemizing the cost? He is saying he found 50k, at 59 cents a mile that is 29k. More than he made.
Bingo. But to be fair Big Tech didn’t cause this problem and it can’t solve this problem. There has been a general breakdown of trust in elites and media institutions over the past 30 years. It’s just spilling over to tech now.
My point was that "unsafe for pregnant women" does not imply "unsafe for not-pregnant or unsafe for not-women".
The burden of proof lies with those who want to deny me rights, not those of us who want to maintain those rights. FB and YouTube has a right to remove content they don't want to host, just like me. If you want to take away my rights, you'd better come up with something really really good.
Yes! Feel free to do that.
I bet you could find some patterns in street noises, but I'm also not 100% sure what entropy is
By early June Dr. Fauci was already predicting 200 million doses of a vaccine being available by either the end of the year or early 2021.
As opposed to? Government controlled or moderated media would be devoid of agenda? I also don't see how capitalism is to blame, we are already seeing new social media platforms emerge pandering to the other side of the partisan spectrum. At the end of the day, YouTube and their ilk have executive decision making over the content they surface. I don't believe they should be beholden to some 'higher' journalistic ideals around objectivity. As a consumer if I'm not happy with their policies (extending well beyond content moderation), I'm obliged to go elsewhere. Whether this drives further polarisation or results in the creation of fringe or radicalised groups is actually besides the point.
The problem is that YouTube, Twitter, Facebook et al. want to have the protections of social networking platforms (e.g not being accountable for the content), while at the same time be able to autonomously remove/censor content outside the existing legal system. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. (well, apparently you can in this day and age but you shouldn’t be able to in a fair society)
The article said there are something like 40 murders possibly associated with the Zodiac killer even though only 5 are confirmed.
I wonder if you could do this in a silent room with a cheap mic and just use the static white noise
> We’re talking about banning the President of the United States

Well, yes, we're talking about the President of the United States spreading FUD on a national election, just because he lost. That's how much America has fallen.

> further destruction of trust in elites, fracturing the media ecosystem, and opportunistic competitors arising

All of this has already happened - keeping Trump and his supporters in "mainstream sites" did nothing to restore trust in elites, or mend the rift in media, so I'm not sure why it would suddenly work now that he's finally being shown the door.
Isolating fringe radicals who explicitly aim to topple democratic systems is vastly preferable, in my opinion, to the actions of those fringe radicals to intimidate voters, threaten elected officials and poll workers with violence, and openly foment civil war that could bring untold misery to millions. It's not all that different from how the lectures of Anwar al-Awlaki were removed from YouTube back in 2017. Not every idea, no matter how pernicious, needs to be given room to flourish.
100 million people died due to communism and socialism. Should we censor that?
I just want to say thank you for posting this. I had no idea about the evolution of hammers, and this little bit of depth from an unfamiliar domain brightened my day :)
Earnings reports.
Now compare this with not having a sales tax or VAT and just having a tax on employment instead - paid by the business, not the employee.

Which follows once you realise that government taxes to release resources for its own use, which given government is largely service based means employees.

Now you have a tax that is progressive, not regressive and deals with the vertical integration issue.

Employees are what create the "value add". Tax is required to release employees for the public use, which means you want less employment in the private sector than there otherwise would be.
> it's ~3.5 years

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/36/22035

> We calculate, using these same cohort life tables, that the average person dying of COVID-19 had 11.7 y of remaining life expectancy
Any congressperson is free to enter something into the congressional record. That alone should hold no sway. As for this list, it includes tweets comparing trump to hitler as acts of "violence", and the fbi disagrees with your top-line conclusion that Trump's supporters are victims more often than assailants.
You are aware of the difference between "what you are" and "what you say" are you not? CRA prohibits discrimination on the basis of "what you are". So it's not really the same thing at all.
Software Ate the World, and Soon It Will Write Itself
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Switzerland

Calling Switzerland homogeneous because everyone there is white is as racist as saying that China and Japan are the same because they are all yellow.

The US is less diverse than Switzerland and using the current system when it was half the population of Switzerland. The only reason why we do not have direct democracy is because it's a lot harder to rob a country blind when everyone is involved in the decisions.
I've heard the same thing about 2008, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2019. It's not different this time either. Bad decisions from the top are the reason why the site is getting worse.
Salesforce ($205bn)
> Just because someone doesn't have much life left makes it no less of a tragedy when they die early.

At the risk of being cold hearted, isn’t this exactly what it does?
But he probably bought homes in cities he thought were good cities with a future.
I know people who lived like that and I did early in my life too and the politics are intense. Women get a short shrift and if you are in any way unusual you better move out. Someone I know moved countries so that his parents would not just take a bus or train and land up at their doorstep. Families can be toxic, large families more often so. The amount of abuse brushed under the carpet in order to keep the image of a large, happy family in front of outsiders can be staggering. Think of all the stories that come out of FLDS compounds.