skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Masks and the way this virus spreads isn't new.

New medicines, requiring trials are novel.

Golden eggs and apples shouldn't be compared.

What new data has finally come in that has shown that masks do not slow the spread or that they do? And new we have guidance?

The problem here is that the medical community, when they have skin in the game wear and recommended masks, from day 1.

Again, the virus is novel, how it spreads is not.
Putting bags in someone else’s dumpster is theft of services a commercial trash pickup is typically charged by weight.
True, and Google is slowly being disrupted by the next generation of Internet search (looks like disruption happens every 20 years or so).

The age where "search" is meant to return pages will eventually end. I know it's early, but you can think of GPT-3 as the next generation of search engines. You consume the entire "Internet knowledge", and you answer questions, by merging information from multiple sources. Not just returning one existing page. That's sort of what GPT-3 does, you just don't think of it as a search engine yet.

Google felt "magic" in 2000. A search-oriented GPT-3 will feel "magic" soon.
This is the one part of the blog post where I cringed. I like Gruber, read DF, and listen to his podcast but this is in the "technically true" camp at best and he knows better. Yes, you aren't forced to update but you get notifications, auto-updates at night if you haven't disabled them, and you can't rollback.

I understand all of the decisions that Apple has made and even agree with them on the whole but to pretend Apple doesn't try and force you at every turn to upgrade in a 1-way process is just disingenuous.
When I was working with agile I would hear about “minimum viable product”. If Cyberpunk is the victim of bad management a la agile, then the stakeholders clearly don’t understand what a “minimum viable product” looks like. MBAs can’t bend reality.
Classic "old man yells at cloud."

Nobody is stopping you from picking an album and setting it on repeat. Everything you could do before, you can still do, just without heading out nor opening your wallet.

The only thing that concerns me about streaming is that music might disappear in the future. Everything else is just your own nostalgia, I don't miss having to listen to my father's tapes on repeat.
Being able to think quantitatively is very important but saying being capable of thinking quantitatively as the single most important thing is a abut suspect.

There is also qualitative thinking which is criminally underrated. I reckon that one needs to combine qualitative and quantitative thinking. Qualitative thinking can drive quantitative thinking.
Some research on qualitative factors was done on Olympic swimmers. This link below shows its application for excellence for anyone interested.

https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/what-is-excellence
People have begun modifying themselves to be offended by everything. Allowing the offended to control culture is a death sentence.
The Pi 4 does, but it looks like you can pair the Shake seismometer hats with the Pi Zero W, those run fine with passive cooling (especially bolted to a concrete slab in the basement, I'd say).
> It isn't "rudeness," as so many people like to think of New Yorkers.

I've always suspected the perceived "rudeness" comes not from the residents of New York, but rather the people from neighboring locations that commute into New York for work. New Jersey, I'm lookin' at you.
It is so fascinating how some cultures are just ready for different environments on this planet.

Authoritative collectivist monocultures are doing great with this pandemic, and that is practically the only combination that has a grip on things.
> they start trying to "game" me.

Can you elaborate on it? I don't have much experience interacting with people.
Playing the game in Polish feels weird... as if the dialogue was originally written in English and then hastily translated. It's nowhere close to the first-class feeling of Polish version of TW3.
Don't take a footballer's advice as gospel. (He may be a smart footballer, or even a smart person. But even those are sometime wrong).

Lacking emotional skills is, when profound, a disease called Autism. Which makes a lot of things really hard. I don't believe there to be anything comparable for lacking quantitative skills while being of normal intelligence otherwise.

There's a thing called dyscalculia, I believe. Have you ever heard of it? Have you heard of dyslexia? Is the latter one more widespread, or is it more profound? The answer doesn't actually matter for the conclusion not to worry too much about the phenomenon.

The best advice is to be excellent at what you're good at, while trying to foster high regard for other disciplines, an to find people and involve them where appropriate, and to try to track how useful their advice is and, if it is, to seriously consider it.

Incidentally, all those are emotional skills and, in my experience, lawyers are far better at respecting statistics or math than STEM graduates are at not sneering at any intellectual endeavour that doesn't glorify Richard Feynman.

(who, by the way, was the rare exemption. And not only because it would have been awkward for him to sneer at any discipline that doesn't glorify him)
Many remains of the mound building civilizations in the present-day US were plowed away, as they were in prime farming geography. You're right that many of the structures were made of wood and dirt that are less lasting than stone, but there were a large number of them that were lost through field preparation. The reasons for this are complex, including a disregard for Native American structures, but in many cases people just didn't know what they were.

The mound building civilizations of North America are fascinating to me, not the least of which is because of the pyramidal-mound structures of Central America.
Maybe I came off as more definitive than I intended. I agree with the retraction. It was required, but it's really more of a follow-on than a retraction. An apology to Canadian police is more necessary, probably. That's a no-fault too though, in my estimation. They had to keep quiet while investigating, and temporarily absorb criticism. That's a hazard of the job though.

I see nothing wrong with this tweet, never mind "career-ending."

"1. Big news out of Canada: Abu Huzayfah has been arrested on a terrorist “hoax” charge. The narrative tension of our podcast “Caliphate” is the question of whether his account is true. In Chapter 6 we explain the conflicting strands of his story, and what we can and can’t confirm"

Shades of uncertainty. This is honest journalism. Whether or not she felt overconfident in any given detail or narrative, the we got to hear the account, suspicions, reasons to dismiss or believe the source (chaudhry). I don't think anyone reasonably concludes that his account is mostly honest or accurate, just that it may contain truth. He literally gets outed and confronted about being a liar.

I am not a journalist. I can tell from that podcast that there are reasons for the strong reaction that look different from a journalistic perspective and a layman's one. I think the difference (to me) is frame.

If in episode 3, she totally believes his account and by episode 6 she's dubious... that's the nature of doing investigative journalism as a temporal series.
I think the first search engine I used was Magellan. Until AltaVista happened. Loved AltaVista, until Hotbot/Inktomi, which was the only one I had trouble letting go of, I think only because of their really clean and minimal UI. Even when Google came along I was one of the few that had a finite number of web sites I used to use that made Google virtually useless to me. The only search engine I use now is DDG.

It was as insane marginalising Google back then as so many other tech fads since then, including IOT, Bitcoin, XP/agile, Netbooks, 3D TVs (remember those?), and so on.

There is an upside to not having used anything Google - to this day I have zero reliance on any single product of theirs.
Yup. I have a problem with “single most important”
Not engineers broadly or specifically, but I do think many people find a bit of schadenfreude when an overly confident expert is found to be wrong.
> I agree the writing is exceptional.

Can you give some examples? I'm half way through act 2 and I didn't find anything exceptional.

What I did find is a lot of gameplay time padding. Wait for this or that to call you (instead of going on with the mission). And you can not actually wait, have to do other missions. Go through this interminable chat with an npc where you are being given options that don't alter at all the end state (that milltech lady for example). Have this unsinkable part where you find out all kinds of crap about a character that you met 20 mins before and most likely not going to meet again. Not to mention he tried to kill the protagonist in 2 of the pre(?)-prologues. Why did the fat fixer have to die? Why doesn't every vet that panhandles have a story about the wars? I would love to stay a while and listen...

I didn't play enough Witcher to see if they have the same kind of issues, but I am ready to bet most of the success of that series was caused by the content they had to work with, produced by a real writer. I can't stop to wonder if there wasn't a better idea to not get Keanu involved and use that money to hire a bunch of sf writers. Is like GoT (the tv series), while they had content to rely on, all was good. Then we got Season 8...
I'm not a GitHub employee, but this is probably something that could be (either today or with some changes) via secret scanning[1].

[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/admin...
>> Also, the whole series was constructed somewhat naively.

I would use the word naively if it weren't journalist Rukmini Callimachi, who has created her entire career on the basis of secret terrorism in the Muslim community. At this point, that is her entire narrative and she finds anything to support it and ignores whatever doesnt support this specific narrative.

Interestingly, he never covers similar things in other religious communities and focuses only on Muslims. She is this generation's Daniel Pipes.

Her association with the NYT is also shameful, because she is more Fox News quality w/r/t balance
Since I cannot vote, I am stating I am a male.
Seems like they would need to have a compatible Android fork for this ... anyone know what pieces would need to be carved out and rebuilt for FB to mount a successful effort? Ie they don’t want this to benefit Google in any way.

Or is there some other viable mobile OS they could use? Not obvious to me.
Source? The article irritatingly doesn't say.
WOW, where to even begin.

Money is not a resource like water, money is a medium of value exchange. In the case of income money is the medium where I exchange my Time, Knowledge, and labor for a given quantity of money which I then use for trade to obtain things others have used their time, money and knowledge to create

It is a simpler and more abstract instead of me having to grow wheat to exchange with a baker for bread

Given this, I do 100% believe I am entitled to 100% of my Labor, time and knowledge. You seem to have the belief that I am a subject or property of the government, as this the only conclusion one can draw in order for your world view to square with what money really is.

I believe it is unethical to take by force or taxation a persons labor, and thus by extension it is unethical to take a person income by theft or taxation
Something I always thought about is if there was advanced civilizations elsewhere in the universe colonizing planets they would probably build their settlements/bases underground or possibly even under water to protect them from cosmological threats like meteors, comets, solar flares/radiation, etc. akin to our nuclear bases like Cheyenne Mountain.
If I use YouTube's DVR, will they delete it if they delete the video
(This strategy is called “tit for tat”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat )
Ah, thanks (I could not parse the sentence somehow).

For an indie producer this is true in some ways.

From the point of view of AWS, if you have spent multiple thousands of dollars on a Houdini FX license you may in fact have more you could give them than a one-person indie shop on Blender, but knowing AWS’s pricing they will surely not mind getting both.

I wonder if Blender guys kindly told Amazon that they won’t spend time implementing or reviewing features required for various Thinkbox integrations unless Amazon forks over some support money.
I haven't played with assemblyscript, but just read today that it doesn't support closures. So no javascript good parts in assemblyscript yet?
I guess I took your "new" a bit too literally. My point was simply that I think there's a lot of great music out there being made as we speak.

Does it sound similar to what was made 20 years ago? Certainly not everything, but that's where I am with my tastes at the moment.

> The fact you are giving me band camp links only strengthens the point im saying.

I gave Bandcamp links because that's where I get all my music from, and because I think it's better for the artists to share Bandcamp links than to say Spotify.

> People arent going to go through everything on bandcamp to possibly find a gem.

That's why they have Bandcamp Weekly[1] and such, but of course there's lots of other ways.

> Rock is not a major genre any more.

Major as in there's not a lot of really big acts, ala say Kiss or Van Halen, then sure. Is that so surprising?

The affordability of audio recording and the internet means its much easier for smaller acts to find an audience. This leads to more variety, as people can make and find various niches.

Is that a bad thing?

[1]: https://bandcamp.com/?show=412
They were volunteering as tutors, and the study measured inflammatory cytokines.
I’ve had very few issues. One dialogue failed to trigger and I had to load a checkpoint to continue. I had some minor RTX shadow issues in the Hotel heist mission. Last night after about 15 hours of gameplay I had my first CTD. The most annoying bug is how frame rate tanks when in a car.

The game definitely has issues and the patch notes for 1.05 show how there are severe scripting problems in many missions. However there are also huge disparities between the game running on different systems and even within subsets of PCs. The removal of AVX support is particularly interesting in this regard.

Apart from all that the game is very similar to the Witcher 3 in terms of its core gameplay and mechanics. So yes, the implementation of crowds and traffic is poor compared to what we see in GTA. The world is a very densely detailed backdrop and not much else. It definitely could have (should have) been delayed but that would not change much about the core of the game.

If you want a Deus Ex game from the folks who brought you the Witcher this is pretty good, if excellent at times.
It's about pulling the ladder out from under you, so you grow with the commodity and control risk of upstarts. It's interesting to compare something like how aws/azure/gcp (IaaS and up) commoditize snowflake/databricks (data PaaS and up):

* free complement: drive to zero so you go up, and competitors relatively weak individually. A $T corp like aws doesn't really care if any individual sw vendor (OSS, ...) gets big b/c they're still small wrt aws's offerings. The few emerging big winners like snowflake/databricks makes aws more useful to customers and helps the on-prem -> cloud shift: aws and friends are focused on 30%+ quarterly growth, which is nuts at their scale. They can likewise slowly decrease the ISV margin at their leisure for the non-oss parts, and for now use them to keep juicing the growth.

* pricey moat: the hyperscalers keep reinvesting monopoly-margin-driven profits to be even more untouchable. $T corp building their own chips, HA, etc., layers. It's tough for a YC startup to decide to compete w/ AWS head-on - hw/sw codesign takes a lot of time & $, and getting even just sw would be hard. it took huge amounts of VC $ for snowflake/databricks to get where they are, and yet, it still probably doesn't make sense for them to compete w/ AWS/gcp/az via custom hw etc. (TPUs ..), vs. riding commodity hpc (e.g., databricks achieving its AI vision by reselling GPU hw/sw controlled by Nvidia+Google, unlike their past control of Spark). IBM buying redhat gives a sense of how hard it is to buy in at this point.
How would you expect the computer programmer analogy be completed? I legitimately don’t know what a reasonable answer would be.
the concept of velocity is too hard for people to grasp

they need binary good/bad cause/effect edicts, like children. state and municipal governments are poorly catering to their own velocity based directives, and the juvenile more simplistic expectations of their population.
Again, not saying both sides are without fault, but everyone seems to ignore the fact that the taliban do horrible shit too. What do the taliban do to girls that go to school?

The war is not black and white; good versus evil. Almost nothing in the world is that simple and straightforward. Do you honestly think it would become a great place to live if the US just withdrew?

This is not a competition to count up who did more worse stuff. We as a country have been caught in a slippery slope with no easy completely morally correct way out. The fact is that we are in the war now and playing monday morning quarter back does nothing.

I'm sure that our country didn't think their actions of having americans in saudi arabia would have pissed off Osama and the countless other hijackers bad enough that they attacked us on 9/11. But the fact is they did, then the Taliban provided safe haven for them and our only option to try to avoid similar attacks in the future was to go in and get rid of the safe haven. If we leave now, the taliban will take over and it will be a safe haven again. If we stay, our fellow americans continue to die in an ugly horrible war.

Where was the easy right morally correct answer in any of that that was readily apparent at the time?
I remember that! Had to be the most embarrassing ER visit. Right up there with the guy who died pee'ing on an electric fence.
Are bugs you don’t notice bugs at all?

You seem willing to discount the most important fact; people are still having fun. Why do you think it’s so important to you that this game be bad for everyone?
HCQ is a very safe medicine.
On a tangent, I’m mad there are no bouncy boob physics in the game. Like seriously? You can either classify this as a neckbeard comment or genuinely consider why leaving that out is stupid in light of the flopping dong.
Getting hung up on words is a thing with some people. Not everything can be put into words and have it stick for all time. Things change. Dogma emerges. Impermanence happens.
Also New Zealand?

Our (UK) response has been a bit of a clusterfuck so far, we're not a good example to judge by.
I don't think it needs that much explanation. The New York Times and other institutional press have often done this same thing. Which is, they report from "credible" sources without physical evidence of any kind. A source is considered credible by how much clout it carries with other major institutions or because of a history of trust. i.e. Even though intelligence and the military get things wrong all the time even to the point of outright lying, they are "credible".

This has lead them astray many times in much more significant matters. Once reported, they treat contrary evidence as innuendo in all but the most severe cases of contrary evidence. I think they only bothered with a significant retraction effort here because the evidence of their error was so compelling and public.
I think I was agreeing with you.
> On the other hand, determining "Man is to computer programmer as woman is to ___." results in "homemaker"

Who are we to decide for the woman what she should feel about it? Is bias absolute or relative, objective or subjective? Is there a one true policy for dealing with bias or can there be one?
I disagree—-that’s exactly the the “bias laundering” discussed above.

The people/organization deploying a system are responsible for evaluating the system and how it might fail. You can’t just throw up your hands and go “Well, we had that data and this network so...it is what it is.” You could have fit a different model—-or not at all.
> Go and talk to someone who isn't on the mathy side of nerdness. It is as if an entire world is missing, and not just missing.

That’s not really fair. Someone who doesn’t like to dance? Entire world missing. Only speaks a single language? Doesn’t really appreciate or enjoy food? Worlds missing.

Doesn’t know a lot about music or art? Has poor emotional intelligence? Enjoys history but not literature?

Worlds missing.

Only socialized in a real way with people like them? World missing.

I can go on. But yeah, quantitative skills are important, and yeah the world is big. It’s even bigger than math.
Hmm, read this after I posted my other comment :) So, is that a setting? Does a search for "nonexistin gcrap" return no results for you then? It does for me..
Nope, but for masks, overwhelming evidence exists prior to 2020.

Just because you don't understand how this virus spreads does not mean that we need a new trial before we can make a recommendation.
Journalism’s Ivory Towers
When everybody is doing AI and deep learning, then everybody wants a GPU. Good for Nvidia.
If you have problems with fluids gathering in your lymph nodes (which is a medical condition that often arises from e.g. having some lymph nodes removed due to tumors, cancer, etc), your doctor will prescribe you regular lymph massages, to do exactly that. It's a specialized field and not the usual muscle-focused massage, but a physical therapist might train for that as an extra.
TFL Rail, the Eastern half, Romford, Chadwell Heath etc. To be fair, it got better on the central line. This was mid day not commuter rush. I do think East London is pretty poor at compliance culturally...
Might look to "Innumeracy" by John Allen Paulos.

Though written a fairly long time ago, the subject fares better over time than many more qualitative ones.
I specifically said that even I am having fun, despite the bugs. But again, that doesn't mean the bugs don't exist, and it doesn't mean the game wouldn't be better without the bugs. Where are you getting this "the game should be bad for everyone"?

If people enjoy this game, then that's wonderful. Far be it from me to interfere with someone's enjoyment of something. The problem is when people insist "well I haven't seen any bugs so the game is perfect and anyone saying otherwise should be ignored!" when that is clearly not the case.
A lot of you missing the context of what's been going on here in recent days - they've seen an unexpected spike in infections and it seems to correlate with a strain with an unusually high number of mutations. So they're not totally sure the new strain is responsible but it looks serious enough to get extra cautious.

By tracking the growth of that strain then reckon it's 70% more easily spread. That could be statistical fluke due to a series of superspreader events or something like that but it seems less likely day by day.

See here for strain analysis
https://twitter.com/firefoxx66/status/1340327606303027201
No it doesn't. An elite class of beltway insiders benefits to the detriment of the greatest portion of the American public. We've spent trillions on war and what return has the average American seen? Middle class is squeezed out. And no, our economy does not recoup as much as we spend on unproductive wars. Our economy was fine when we were non-interventionist.
But media can just add ", person X says" at the end of a sentence and then the burden of proof is no longer with them. They can report that "Obama is born in Kenya, President Trump claims" and, hey, they're reporting the true fact that Trump claimed something...