skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dissents relate to the issue of "Original Jurisdiction."

In cases where there is a "controversy between the states," as the Texas suit falsely claimed it to be, The Supreme Court is the appropriate venue for first filings (i.e., as trier of facts, or the original jurisdiction).

For all other matters the Supreme Court is strictly an appellate court (hearing appeals after inferior courts have already ruled).

The Supreme Court has only very rarely denied such cases, as it's the only jurisdiction for them.

Thomas and Alito thought that the case should at least be accepted.

However, and it's a big however, both "dissenting" justices joined with the other seven in denying the "injunctive relief" requested by Texas (IIUC, delaying the appointment of electors in GA, MI, PA and WI).

Since that relief wouldn't have been granted (that denial was unanimous), the certified electors would have been seated on Monday to cast their votes in each state.

Remember, this isn't an appellate case. In these cases, SCOTUS sits as the trial court.

Unless the court heard each side make their case, enter evidence, examine and cross-examine witnesses, rule on any further motions, objections, etc., heard closing arguments, debated amongst themselves, came to a decision and wrote an opinion prior to Monday (60 hours or so from now), the electors would have already cast their votes.

Once that's done, it would render the the proceedings and the suit (because the relief requested by Texas was to invalidate the certified votes and the elections in all four states and have the respective legislatures appoint new electors) moot since the electors had already voted before they could rule.

So. No. Unless the justices had granted the preliminary injunction, there was pretty much no way they could (let alone would) rule for Texas, since the relief requested would no longer be available.

N.B. IANAL.

Edit: Reorganized for clarity.
> Everything above. Friends don't let friends use App Engine, and by extension, fringe GCloud services they could break or shitcan at literally any moment

Not sure why you think they can shitcan them at literally any moment. Although GCP's track record of deprecation is of course far worse than AWS's, they do make and adhere to promises in their terms of service that, in most cases, they will give at least 12 months before deprecating services which have reached general availability. This includes both App Engine and Cloud Run, minus any features that have not yet reached general availability and minus one very fair documented exception for App Engine.

Details:

https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation

https://cloud.google.com/terms <-- search for "Discontinuation of Services"

Disclosure: I used to work for Google, including the GCP team, but I haven't worked for Google in over 5 years and am not speaking for Google here.
FWIW, you weren't downvoted when I responded to your post.
Honestly if the choice is between no bans and allowing the current trends of radicalization continue, almost any outcome is preferable than what we've seen happen the last 5-10 years.
Uh, well, I don't know that. Let me turn it around for you:

How will we continue as a nation if this comes to pass? How will you, knowing in good conscience that fraud changed the results, claim to represent the people when you have discarded the votes of 80 million people?

You are presuming that your opponents knowingly commit evil. They feel exactly the same about you.
You are right with your concern.

Fortunately, when you look at the latest version, Scala 3, you will see that they put more effort into simplifying the language and removing things that people complained about than adding new things.

To be a bit more concrete:

- Remove certain ways of using implicits and making them less confusing

- Cleaning up the language core and removing features (such as impure macros or constructs that are rarely used or confusing)

- Making syntax easier for many cases without adding new features

- Adding union types (comparable to typescript). This is a new feature and not a small one, but I think it will make the language easier to use for many people.

And I think union types and intersection types are a very practical thing to have. So all in all, I'm happy to see that Scala becomes more practical and less esoteric with this release.
Made a video about Datasette recently: https://youtu.be/sDi1HSy-NHY
That seems to be how quarterly planning worked in the largest org I've seen inside, though the PM and EM did most of the deciding and execs+board approved/disapproved.
Bay Area county launches door-to-door testing amid 'dire' surge
It's telling that of all the objectively better, more expensive, more complex space games I've played since my middle school years... Escape Velocity still ranks #1 in terms of sheer joy.

It feels a lot like Populous: more fun than the sum of its parts, and only explicable as tapping some Miyamotoesque yearning in the zeitgeist.
i enjoy a conspiracy theory as much as the average joe, but this stuff is getting out if hand
It’s very similar to your analogy. Basically, they have a ginormous database of how genes express themselves in various cell types, and they can run fancy queries against this database to identify which cells are most likely to be compromised by a virus of COVID’s shape.

From there, the process of developing the vaccine is training the body to fight blobs that function like COVID does.

The first shot introduces some COVID-shaped blobs, and your body develops some antibody factories to fight them, and keeps some around just in case the scary blobs come back.

The second shot introduces some more blobs, and your body reacts by producing even more antibody factories. “Trick me twice, shame on me”, in nature.

The hard work was building the database. Which was only possible because of the genome project and cell project.
Saying it can process twice as many instructions per clock cycle is an incredibly incorrect statement.

It's not as incredibly incorrect as you may think.

An x86 instruction can be as big as 15 bytes and there's no easy way for the decoder to know where one instruction ends and the next one begins.

All ARM instructions are one size, making instruction decoding more efficient and makes out of order processing faster as well.

More details at https://debugger.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-32...
They had boxes of which vaccine? They all need to be refrigerated. Is this something you saw, heard about second hand or something you read on an open internet forum?
It’s a privacy focused browser. Considering all iOS browsers use the same rendering engine and most people are on DDG for privacy reasons, it might be worth considering.

Honestly, if you’re concerned about being tracked then you should ignore adds directly related to the webpage your on. Advertising yoga mats on a yoga website don’t take insight into you. Advertising yoga mats on a personal finance site after you visited the yoga webpage is another story.
Yes. Which and when? Very much TBD.
Totally valid point about California fires, but Texas is arguably worse off.

Travis county’s economy will probably be OK, but they’ll soon regularly have “high wet bulb temperature” days where going outside will kill you.

Also, their agricultural yields are projected to drop 67%, so any vegetation in the parks, etc will probably die off.

https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/

(Type “travis county, tx” in the search bar toward the middle to see the projections.)
No but feeding one opinion, slightly more radical than the last over and over very much does cause an increase in radical and extremist views.

This isn't about removing hate, this is about making sure it's not promoted at scale.
Many of those highly at risk (the immunocompromised) cannot take the vaccine and rely on herd immunity. It's the same story as with every other vaccines. (Why does it have to be repeated every time?)

Very simple: If you want to go back to a normal life, you want herd immunity. You want 60+% of people vaccinated. NOT the 2-3% who are highly at risk.

Furthermore, please remember that, much like many other diseases, you can still suffer severe consequences from COVID-19, and you can still die from it, even if you are healthy.

Not wanting the vaccine because you have "low chances of dying" is like not wearing a seat belt because you have "low chances of getting into an accident". Wear your fucking seat belt.
They only released the data 3 days ago. Or are you talking about the marketing release of data, which needed to be properly analyzed?
Covid related death is a highly inflated number, i mean it include people who die and happen to be tested positive for covid, not just die due to covid.
The development of a vaccine of this apparent efficacy at this speed is an astonishing scientific achievement, and if it is as good as it appears to be, it is an immense moment for medical science. Plus, the way this vaccine works is absolutely fascinating:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different...

In technical terms, it seems to me they're almost like unit testing for the body: You take out everything except the bit you care about most, and subject it to intense scrutiny until you develop a correct response.
> I think platforms like Youtube and Facebook have shown the dangers of democratised mass-broadcasting.

Does anyone know of any good research on the early days of radio? I have a suspicion we had a similar problem before regulation due to the overcrowded airwaves.

If you know of any good books that cover this era let me know please.
That's what people who don't believe in science and disdain listening to scientists claim.
There are many use cases for internal PKI. This is just one of of them. You’re nitpicking a default.

Credential rotation is good security hygiene. To suggest otherwise is malpractice. Our toolchain makes certificate rotation trivially easy. Why not rotate frequently?

Hopefully the threat model stuff made sense. It still feels like you actively want to disagree with me, and I’m still not sure why. But I agree that this is starting to feel unproductive.

I do appreciate the discussion. I understand your position on client certs better now. Your concerns are valid.

Maybe one day we can discuss over beers or something. It feels like that would be the right atmosphere.
Do you honestly believe that these lies that a huge number of people believe in are having a positive or neutral effect on the trust of our elections?

If it's neither positive nor neutral, then the only effect it could have is negative.
You’d need like Vantablack or something similar.
I used to enjoy harmless ones like aliens or flat earthers, but the ones in 2020 are just outright dangerous.
> Taibbi

Also this guy is not the same author some might have known a few years ago, he himself has been relegated to the regressive left Glenn Greenwald corner of the internet. Take his narrative with the proper grain of salt.
To be clear, you know multiple super rich people that were able to get a vaccine out of a -70C warehouse and keep it refrigerated while it was delivered to them?
Depends on what other people do. If no one takes it I’ll take it. If everyone takes it I won’t take it. We need 50-80% vaccination rate overall. So, if I take the values of this survey which is at 70% vaccination rate at the moment, I would take it to be on the safe side.
A somewhat historic article, but I think the comparison is off and dated too because the "Mac-ness" depends on the people's expectation of the day, which keeps changing. I tend to think that as more people are getting tech savvy they'll gradually move away from the classic physical metaphors and accept abstract concepts (e.g. "URL", "mention", "optional arguments") as natural.
Generally, health care workers and those most at risk are being granted early access.

From a public safety perspective, I wonder if perhaps those most likely to spread the disease should be the first to be innoculated rather than those most likely to have a bad outcome.
If you look at it from a neutral point of view, you’re making a very politically biased statement.
You can read the CDC's plan here: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/covid19-vaccination-gu...

The initial rollout will target healthcare workers and extremely vulnerable populations, mostly seniors in care facilities.
Then you just cut them out of your life. Tell them to never contact you ever again and move once more.
Discussion from yesterday (same article on different site): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25381325
I have become more and more skeptic regarding our governments. The people who failed to protect us and the economy, now are going to "sell" us the solution. Where is their part of the accountability of what's happening?

I have invested in big-tech and bio-pharma companies, so I should be happy, but I am not. I cannot be happy when so many people are closing their small businesses and so many others die because of how the whole situation was handled.

I do not have a problem with the masks or the fact that we eventually will all have to take a vaccine.

However, the problem starts before that and doesn't end with the first vaccine we are going to get:

- Phase 1: Governments fail to protect the people during February-March by not banning travel from the infected areas.

- Phase 2: People should wear masks, socially distance, close their shops, self-isolate, etc. At the same time medical stuff should overwork and over-risk their lives.

- Phase 3: People should take the vaccine. At a low price initially, but big pharma will increase it at some point, (when they are done with the mass beta testing).

- Phase 4: People should keep taking the vaccine (at least that's the main story for the moment). They might end up having to prove that with a "vaccine passport".

I don't have problem with Phase 2. I follow the guidelines, since February, before they were guidelines of any Western government. Apparently, Eastern countries have faced similar outbreaks and there was plenty of information on what people there do.

I don't have a problem with Phase 3, either. I want to do as much to protect myself and others.

However, the current narrative is that people who do follow Phase 3 and then 4 (assuming they can take the vaccine but chose not to) are the "bad" people who do not care about the others. And they should be marginalized and even ostracized from the society.

>>> Where is the accountability for the governments?

They, before everyone else, put peoples' health at risk.

But I forgot. They "saved" the economy (only of some big tech companies and, eventually, the big pharma).
Robocop is intended to be funny.
I wonder how your partner really feels about that.
How are you arriving at 100M infected by February? The current case count is at around ~15M with ~250,000 cases being reported yesterday. To reach 100M by February you would need close to ~2M cases a day for every day between today (Dec 11th) and February 1st.
First time in history when the entire world was working on a single problem.
This in no way compares to what reddit is doing. There is nothing “toxic” or hateful about what they have already been applying this ban to. They have already been removing videos that are not partisan and not fake news. Merely being intellectually curious or examining various issues related to the election, even if they ultimately do not conclude that there was fraud, are being removed. It’s fucking ridiculous.
it’s more like stress testing for the virus to see where it breaks
Of course not, but the premise wasn't a 'small team' but a single person company. In any case, even if they were 3 or 4 orders of magnitude more likely, the odds are still terrible and therefore still not a viable alternative.
Just as an correction, this is the link I intended to post as the judgement:
https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/...

My position, is that Trump has indeed failed to prove fraud.

But I do think that Trump has collected a preponderance of evidence that election laws were broken. Many affidavits have been provided that substantiate this.

Below is one such piece of evidence:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25393225

> Hearsay has no bearing on a case requesting this outcome. The judge was even very, very lenient on asking over and over why this was not simply hearsay, and the lawyers kept trying to avoid answering, and they wobbled all over the place.

I can't speak to why Trump's legal team hasn't deposed more witnesses and gotten more sworn testimony. On this I am in complete agreement, it seems negligent. I can only speak to the evidence I have heard, and my reaction to it as a person, and not as a lawyer.

From a legal perspective, Trump's case may indeed have no basis. I'm not a lawyer and I don't know.

But I do know that there are hundreds of affidavits alleging that elections laws were broken, and very few people seem to be taking that seriously. Whether Trump wins or loses, I honestly & genuinely do not care (he lost; that horse has left the barn long ago). But I am disturbed by the ease to which people dismiss these claims, given that there is a substantial number of people providing the testimony, they seem to be genuine of character, and for most of them - their claims do seem to have merit (ethical merit, if not legal).

Even if their claims don't have legal merit, they should at least have ethical merit. Regardless of what a person thinks about Trump, there are honest people who are providing honest testimony about wrongdoing - and their claims and the people who give them voice, are dismissed with outright hostility & vitriol.
Oh for God’s sake—-attempting to execute a coup to end democracy in America is pretty darn unamerican too, don’t ya think?
Cydia Sues Apple on Antitrust Grounds
One actionable thing is capital gains tax is way too low. 5% is very little. That’s how the top 1% make money. It should be the same as what the bottom 90% pay. Income tax at federal level should be same as capital gains tax.

Obviously this would be very hard to pass through Congress as that’s how the senators also make most of their gains.
I reboot my phone all the time, because the fingerprint reader stopped working, and for some reason that makes it work again. I could enter my password after X number of failures, but rebooting is easier.
Recent Papers Related to Fuzzing
For SIMD it is fairly easily to predict the range of performance of an optimized kernel just based on looking at the micro architecture.

M1 = 4x128

Zen3 = 4x256

Intel = can't make up its mind some are 2x256, others 2x512, and some others are weird combos like (2x256 or 1x512)

M1 on paper looks half throughput compared to Zen3 SIMD per cycle, but because of larger caches and lots of other small advantages it probably closes that margin a little.

Zen3/Intel are also running at higher clock rate, at least on a desktop version.

https://www.sisoftware.co.uk/ is a good benchmark for SIMD code, but it is Windows so no M1 results:(
"An abstraction is a sign for a computational object."

Writing that on my wall.

Over the past year, I have revisited the SICP [0] and the audio recording of a one-week short course that Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman taught for HP [1]. You nailed it.

[0]: "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation...

(see also https://github.com/sarabander/sicp )

[1]: http://cabezal.com/sicp/
> It really only takes about 100M vaccines to hit herd immunity.

Citation please? Dr. Fauchi says we need 70% innoculations to achieve herd immunity.
https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-america-reach-herd-immunity-004...

From the numbers I've been able to gather, you need 200M vaccinated people to achieve herd immunity, which is 400M doses.

Sources:

Wikipedia gives the US population as 308,401,808. Seventy percent of that is 215,881,266.

Latest COVID-19 infection totals come to about 16 million.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-c...

Unclear why I'm being downvoted.
Thanks for posting. Fascinating. I’m glad youtube prevented me from seeing this earlier.
To biologists in this field, I suspect this statement reads something like “this is the first Python client for our Node gRPC service, we have no idea if the language interop will work”.

It ignores all of the hard work over literal decades that has gone into the work of developing mRNA-based medicine (gRPC and protobufs), which was developed literally for situations like Covid-19 (polyglot services communicating over network interfaces).

Yes, mRNA is basically magic from a distance. So is all of modern technology. But it’s built on and hardened by iterative experiments, not conjured from thin air.
We get about one or two a month here in the summer, in the house. There’s plenty more in the yard. We found one in our daughter’s crib and another stung my wife while we were asleep in bed. We’ve got brown recluse, black widows, and rattlesnakes too. Welcome to Texas!
How do you know if you cannot safely take the vaccine?
Sorry, still don't understand.

Are you saying that without communicating progress there is no person who understands the context in which the issue is being worked in?

That doesn't make sense to me and seems to be totally orthogonal to any communication of progress.
How is newsmax “radicalized”?
Obviously enough, attitudes like this weed themselves out of the gene pool.

I'd like to paraphrase an old HN comment which said that maybe eventually a culture will develop in which industrial and post-industrial transitions would not drop fertility, that is, the propensity to have more children than needed for mere reproduction. With every post-industrial country having fertility rate below reproduction level, such a culture would eventually take over the world.
And a reason we turn our boots upside down before we put them on!
Yes, I used it constantly day in and day out on a mac for years. I honestly never experienced the things you mention. But I do have a high end mac, so maybe that has something to do with it?
He's saying that if 100M already have natural immunity, then 100M with a vaccine brings us closet to that 70%.
And of course they use a measure of toxic which means "is a republican".

Go on the front page of reddit and count how many posts from subs like /r/insanepoeplefacebook, /r/publicfreakout, /r/idiotsincars, /r/trashy, and the like there are, right now it's at 15/25. On most days I've done this is close to 20/25. Today there are 5 posts about the TX appeal not being heard by the SC which has pushed some of the usual garbage off the front page.

5 years ago there were none (or maybe one if you squint hard enough): https://web.archive.org/web/20151212085428/https://www.reddi...

Reddit has become a more mean-spirited place the more subs have been banned, and every time the increase in vitriol is used as an excuse to run the next set of bans. People cheer this on until they get banned and then act surprised it happened.
51 Years Later, Coded Message Attributed to Zodiac Killer Has Been Solved
It is from the point of view of ISPs. E.g. they are being censored from using their bandwidth as they desire.
See also Parkinson's law: "Work expands to fill the time available for it's completion"
Since the OP offers a relative comparison in saying COBOL jobs pay three times more than a Java jobs, the currency or any currency conversion to $USD really doesn't matter.