skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
aggressive test and trace
compulsory self-isolation

Yes.

An interesting question is why that has not been possible in European countries. A high-ranking politician of my acquaintance stated privately, and very clearly, that it was exaggerated concern for privacy (of a population that has no concern using the products of Facebook, Google and similar trackers, not to mention mobile phones), stoked by a "privacy maffia", made meaningful test and trace (along the lines of Taiwan and other SE Asian states) political suicide, which is why him and others, despite knowing better, did not bother floating this.
The vast majority of bids entered into the opening and closing crosses occur as close to the submission deadline as physically possible. It's just another speed game, as with almost everything else
It's not the sort of article for which you'd typically issue a retraction, since there are no incorrect figures cited and they are honest about the limits of their reporting:

There is little publicly available information on the number of masks and other supplies that Finland has or where exactly they are stored.

I'm not sure they are even wrong to have used that rosy, positive tone about Finland's PPE stockpile. Compared to the United States, Finland seem to have had things relatively under control in terms of supplies?

I mean, compared to the United States, Finland seems to have done pretty well since somebody who screwed up actually lost their job. Consider the difference in point of view: our federal government were screwing up constantly with PPE supplies and nobody ever resigned. All a topic for a different story, I guess.
From the Wikipedia sources, this one explains the bug best imo: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.05808.pdf
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And inflammable? Literal is a result of very recent extended use of exaggeration, but prefix/suffix oddities are really part of the language.

In places that use irregardless, I would view it as implying it is foolish to regard as opposed to regardless which often means foolishly not heeding. The fact that "heed" is missing from my spell check might explain why new intention distinctions were needed..
> I don't want to live my life where every interaction is some spy game or thriller,where everyone in the room scans each other for clues.

I had a coworker with this mindset and it seemed incredibly tiring on her mindset. She would routinely total up the cost of the exec's outfits and jewelry/shoes/purse and also always be measuring herself against everyone else in the meeting room. Who hadn't brushed their hair, who had recently gotten teeth whitening treatments, she even noticed when one of the directors got a facelift over work from home. She was able to point out his facelift scars via a screenshot she took.

She ended up getting let go for creating a "mean girl" culture when she iced out some new hires.

It just seemed like a very dystopian way to view our coworkers. I prefer to see everyone as a potential friend and not look for flaws.
> the under 20s almost completely ignore covid restrictions, and so does a substantial part of the under 30s. I can't even blame them as it doesn't affect them.

I think it's less because the disease doesn't affect them, and more because the restrictions do. If you're living as a family unit then restrictions are tough, but it's something else entirely if you're a single person living alone (or with people you don't like).

Indeed I've seen a similar attitude (although perhaps less actual rule breaking) from at-risk old people saying damn the rules, they'd like to see their relatives.

Not that I think this excuses it.
We've banned this account and a bunch of related accounts for abusing HN and breaking the site guidelines. If you do it again we will ban your main account as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> I think something is very wrong if safety of any system is dependent on reacting to any failure within 10 seconds

If you said 3 seconds when airborne, except for some engine failures, I'd agree.

On takeoff and landing you're looking at under 1 second response to stay on the centerline or abort.

When airlines transitioned from piston to jet engines, there were a lot of accidents. The reason was that piston engines respond to throttle input immediately, but jets took 6 seconds to spool up. So being low on landing in a jet usually meant hitting the ground before the engines increased thrust.
Ask HN: Will BitCoins be cheap ever again?
Anyone knows if bitcoins going to be relatively cheap again or is this something impossible now?
Was a subscriber too. cancelled for its politicizing everything, and a superficial and biased China desk.

Now I subscribe to New Yorker and Bloomberg.
For sure however...

> It's probably not fair to indict too strongly on this phrase; people use exaggerated language all the time ("X is the best" to mean "X is very very good"), and so reading it as "thinking quantitatively is very very important" seems appropriate.

To me, the point isn't about pedantic enforcement of grammar and linguistics, but more so about to underlying thinking that this use of language suggests. To what extent does lazy/imprecise/presumptive/forgiving communication and thinking permeate the systems that implement our incredibly technically advanced advanced societies, where it is simultaneously common to find people who smell like pee sleeping on the sidewalk, and hardly anyone bats an eye, or finds the situation even remotely curious?

This comment isn't directed at you, it's just more of an esoteric observation.
Yes, indeed, I didn't see that specifically, although I figured as much from the domain and the book, which is why included "smart person", which was not intended to be ironic. But it can be misunderstood, and I apologise for any offence I caused.

I was thinking of the following argument and cut it far too short: "Don't believe a mathematician that quantitative skills are the most important, don't believe a psychologist that interpersonal skills are most important, and don't believe a programmer that python is more important than English".
> It also seems some people take great comfort on the mask, wearing it even inside their cars or waaay out in the open.

Initially, in March, I had similar thoughts - in my case it's currently like this:

- with the temperature being 0-5 Celsius throughout the day the mask keeps my face a bit warmer than when not wearing it. I do like it in this context :)

- as I have to get off&on the bus and 2 trains, I just keep it on all the time while commuting. The recommendations are not to touch the mask's external surface (and not to indirectly get in contact with it), keeping it on all the time seems to be the least dangerous option.

- wearing glasses while wearing as well a mask can be very challenging (fogging); once I finally manage to make everything work (dozens of tiny adjustments) I "freeze" my setup and keep it like that until I know that I won't need the mask anymore.

Therefore, nothing extreme going on if you see me driving or walking alone with the mask on - just being practical :)
That's sort of what I was saying. They're trying to prevent info leakage hence submit at last moment, which causes volatility in expected match. However, it's not the vast majority, most liquidity is there already more than one second before match. Many ppl have archaic systems and don't care about a bit of extra slippage. I've checked this in some detail.
> For some reason we can manage to prevent drunk agro people entering a club with the wrong shoes

At least in the US, dress codes in nightclubs exist as a deterrent to individuals with gang affiliations. It's pretty racist.

Guess which race anti-maskers are predominantly.
If you ask people if they would pay $40/mo for the assortment of social media etc web services they use to completely avoid usage tracking, they’d probably typically refuse.
And anecdotally, these keen observation skills I think are more concentrated in women. A lot of times, I find that women in my life are more interested in how I or others are feeling/acting, than the exact details of what actually is happening.

I like to think of this as report talk vs rapport talk. Men may just report facts to each other with very little emotion attached, whereas women will try and bond and strengthen relationships by telling stories about people and their feelings. This is why men struggle to understand why women in their life are angry that they never talk or don't share how things are with their day. It's because a lot of times, the two people think that the information they are sharing is what is important, and the other person thinks that it is too much/too little detail.

I think those observational skills make women much more suitable for negotiating and understanding nuances, where sometimes men may struggle to have seen the smaller details.

But of course making sweeping gendered statements is usually not accurate or helpful, just some observations in my opinion, and of course MANY people do not fit into this generalisation.
I concur. I am happy with my lean setup:

- SyncThing: decentralized, fast & unix aligned

- CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted, real-time collaborative editing
Not that CPU in particular but you can buy laptop with desktop grade Ryzen 3950 CPU here: https://eurocom.com/ec/configure(2,463,0)NightskyARX15. I guess given time they'll update the CPU to whatever latest doodad.
It doesn't break down. Machines have been replacing workers since the dawn of industrial capitalism. That's not a new or future development.

The value that a machine imparts to its end product is equal to the portion of its total value which is used up in the process of production. Same with other forms of constant capital like tools and raw materials. So if a shirt machine costs $500 and can produce 1000 shirts before it wears out, then it imparts $0.50 of value to each shirt produced. When the end products are sold on the market, their price always covers the cost of replenishing the constant capital.

Constant capital is merely "congealed labor" meaning that labor had to be performed to produce it in the first place. When workers utilize the constant capital they unlock that value and also impart the additional value of their labor to the final product. The sum of the value of this labor plus the value of the constant capital expended equals the total value of the end product. When this end product is sold on the market as a commodity, its exact price fluctuates based on supply and demand and other factors, but its center of gravity is always the amount of labor required to produce it and all its components at a given level of technology.

Capitalists are the people who own the machines, tools, and raw materials. They pay workers a wage to utilize that constant capital and produce commodities for sale. This wage is determined by the conditions of competition in the labor market, but fundamentally it is anchored to how much it costs a worker to provide for his subsistence (e.g., food, clothing, shelter) and not the amount of value that his labor imparts to the commodities he helps produce. The difference between the value a worker's labor imparts and his wage is what the capitalist appropriates as private profit.

The development of automation like the robots you mention is incentivized by market competition. Automation enables capitalists to produce more commodities with less labor. Any competitor who can't match the level of production is driven out of the market. But because automation reduces the amount of labor required, it also necessarily reduces the rate of profit on each commodity. Thus to maintain the previous level of profit, production must be increased and/or wages and labor conditions must be suppressed. Over time, at the scale of the whole economy, this leads to crisis as neither the capitalists nor the workers can consume all the commodities produced (the capitalists are too few and the workers' wages are insufficient by definition).
I don't all the pros and cons, but SAR can see through cloud cover.
> Specifically: Create more value than you capture.

They can ensure this by copying the most successful apps in the App Store, down-ranking the original authors, and repeating this game.
I was inclined to agree with you, but then I remembered the case of Saudi Arabia's guys inside Twitter: https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-insiders-saudi-arabia-sp...
There's often a service providing rides on demand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_responsive_transport#Un...

(typically with subsidies or other provisions for paratransit)
You're right. Here's the back of the building - https://i.imgur.com/JRcer7d.jpg

Why am I worried about SAR when Google is ten times creepier, lol.

Could definitely be some kind of artifact
does the Ad business model work with GPT-3 answer ?
Isn't the point of google to make it 'confusing' enough to the point that I will click on the ad because it's clearer ?

How GPT-3 search-oriented answer would help with that ?
> I don't think the "capitalist" system would really have any effectiveness here.

But then you go on to explain how it would be effective:

> Think about people like me: I could easily afford to pay whatever it would cost to be vaccinated. But, it's largely pointless: I work at home and don't go outside except to get some groceries now and again. If I did get COVID-19, I'm at a very low risk of dying. I'm probably not going to spread it to anyone either; I live alone and would just stay in bed for the two weeks I was contagious.

I.e. you wouldn't find it worthwhile to pay whatever it may cost for an early dose (the LA Times reports people offering up to $25,000). Distribution by willingness to pay does sort by those who are able to pay and finding it worth the cost.
Confirmed, I am not an ancap.
Well, we already manufactured in Wisconsin a lot of the stuff you need for an LCD panel. 3M Menominee makes the light diffuser (Vicuiti) film that a lot of the top end LCD makers used, Wisconsin up until 2008 had one of the top flex circuit facilities in the US ( 3M Eau Claire). TTMI in Chippewa Falls has one of the most advanced printed circuit board making facilities (built by Cray Research/SGI).
I was no fan of the Foxconn plan. Wisconsin has enough smart people and know how to have done it themselves without a Taiwanese assembly shop. Pretty soon, making LCDs will be like making cheese. Just order the cheese making machines and go to work. If we don't have the smart people here (like Seymour Cray, Mark Andraesen etc) we get them from nearby states (Gene Amdahl, PhD UW Madison). Just call up Nikon, order the machines and go to work.
I played through the first 7 hours or so on PC, and, meh, the bugs aren't that bad. The performance is fine, but I'm on a RTX 3080 so that's to be expected.

What gets me is how utterly boring games have become. There's not really much of a game to even be played here. There's lots of talking, lots of sections where the characters are doing things and you end up pressing F to engage some action that continues the, erm, "action" to the next section. There are parts where you press W to get out of a pile of rubble (which engages the prescripted animation of your character getting out of the rubble) or "W or S to crawl", where S doesn't do anything and W makes your character continue his prescripted crawling animation. Press F to take your pills and watch your character perform his prescripted pill-taking action, etc etc etc.

The actual gameplay is very nearly nonexistent in the first 7 hours. It's just about 98% thinly-veiled cutscenes, where the only say you have in the "action" is pressing a button to make the characters continue to do the thing they're already going to do. Or picking dialog and listening to dialog. With maybe 5 minutes of really mediocre gunplay mixed in.

I don't really see how people have the patience for this. None of this is fun, none of this is engaging. None of this is high-quality enough storytelling to be as good as even the worst B-movie dialog and exposition. If I want to watch scenes where characters act out dialog and action happens, literally any movie would be better than this. I play games because I want to take part in what's going on. I don't want to watch someone else do it.

But, I recognize that I'm in the minority here, and most people would rank this game 10/10 if they had the right frame rate and didn't have any bugs. Because I guess people like this sort of thing now. Meanwhile I think modern gaming has just about lost me for good.

(Until I remember that Doom Eternal came out this year and that it's hands down one of the best games I've ever played, and I remember there's still hope for gaming.)
Not sure if it’s comparable with Skyrim. Apparently the graphics are just broken beyond repair with the frame rate dropping below 15 on a lot of scenes in PS4 which is just insane;m, and which I simply doubt that any post-release patch is going to be able to fix at all. It is simply crazy that they released unplayable games at this state for those platforms.

Also bear in mind that this is the PS4 version that’s being pulled. Maybe that’s where your confusion came from. The proper PS5 edition is not released yet. The PS5 runs this PS4 version somehow fine... But that’s definitely not how it’s supposed to work in the first place.
> this could possibly be due to running the ARM version of the backbone.

As someone who's worked on more than a few collaborative text editors through the years, this just sounds like a correctness bug in how they're processing typing events.
The author is a friend of mine. His work is interesting but it can be pretty snarky. One of his influences is the Church of the Subgenius, an offshoot of Discordianism, of all things. He was apparently sent a mail bomb by another alt.slack user a few years ago...
Pound for pound.
The vast majority of software shops don’t even consider insider threat in any meaningful way.

Imo it’s would be trivial to compromise many. Most companies have soft underbelly units like offshore maintenance engineering, tools teams and patching teams who don’t get a lot of meaningful oversight and can bypass many controls.
>>Maybe you're lucky and the way you play doesn't expose you to a lot of the things people are complaining about but it seems kind of silly to dismiss complaints of game mechanics as "you're doing it wrong".

I think you're probably right, I'm 25 hours in and I haven't been in a single fight with police other than one scripted side mission. That's kind of what I meant - in GTA I just start going on a rampage randomly because it's a fun thing to do, seeing how the city reacts around you. In Cyberpunk I just haven't felt the need at all, there's too much focus on the story.
A lot of people find work to be very satisfying.

The issue isn’t one of work but one of many of the jobs we currently have.
Fwiw, the administration said:
“””
We are writing to acknowledge the significant concerns expressed by our community regarding the development and execution of our vaccine distribution plan. We take complete responsibility and profusely apologize to all of you. We fully recognize we should have acted more swiftly to address the errors that resulted in an outcome we did not anticipate
“””

The chief resident sent an email explaining the nature of the error. The chief resident is, per my limited understanding, a resident from the previous year who stays on in a leadership role. Not obvious to me that someone in that position explaining the root cause is problematic.
6:30 in this radio programme: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b04wv052

From 9:00 they interview someone who was on huge amounts of opioids and who managed to get off them.
Isn't it though? At least if it's intentional.
They're 2 different CPU with the different market. The only reason I think that this comparison is being made is that it is a response to an avalanche of articles claiming that M1 beats everything speed wise and is the best thing since sliced bread.
Back to the '70s with Serverless
You should look at second-tier object storage providers like B2 and Wasabi.

For software, look at Restic.
The 25–35 age group is not "extremely low risk" for a serious COVID-19 infection. The risk is lower than older age groups, but it's also substantially increased due to their higher degree of direct patient interaction compared to Stanford's executives and remote employees who did receive the vaccine. Also due to residents' high degree of patient interaction, they are at high risk of spreading COVID-19 to other patients and healthcare workers.

Your opinion is poorly thought out.
Beauty of Pure Functions
The Casa grande ruins aren't 2k years old. The main structure is a classic Hohokam pueblo, from around the 13th century as I recall with a few hundred years of earlier canal systems and villages nearby. You have to go a bit south to Tucson to see the 2-4k year old stuff.
Very cool. Re that latter, you might be interested in https://tonyg.github.io/squeak-actors/, which is similar (but not uniformly asynchronous).
It just works and does everything. I run it on a ryzen "server" and its super snappy and does everything I need. Its the glue between my apple and linux devices which makes interacting with files between them almost seamless.
Airbnb Denies Refunds for Cancellations Based on Pandemic Stay at Home Orders
I'll give it a shot!
What you're missing is:

- Boeing promised $1 million penalty per plane to Southwest if retraining was needed

- none of the planes had the right cockpit indicators, whether they were ordered as an option or not. The US pilot unions are pissed about this.

- the flight manuals were not accurate. This is a big deal from a regulatory standpoint, and means the planes were never airworthy. The EU could have a field day with this.

- the certification paperwork was wrong. The FAA could do basically anything it wants to Boeing at this point, including asking for criminal charges.

- pilot training is an on-going expense, forever. It actually would affect Southwest's business model, which depends on commonality.

- Boeing is the US' biggest exporter, so this incompetence actually affected us at a national and international level financially.
The most interesting quote in this story to me is the trader suggesting it was impossible for oil prices to go negative.

That would be seen as extremely naive by any commodities trader I’ve met, given physical delivery is almost always viewed as a worst case scenario in trading.

This feels like one of those situations where sophisticated insiders just get to skin new money. Those lessons happen everyday in the markets but these days the VaR is crazy high.
icewm used to be my wm, but it's been QUITE awhile. I wonder if it's time to try it again.
And covid is devastating the fare income for public transit. The systems need more money because of it, but will obviously get less.