skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several years ago, Rolling Stone published story about a rape that allegedly occurred at a University of Virginia fraternity.

It was the Washington Post and not Rolling Stone themselves that discovered holes in the story. But Rolling Stone owned up to it and engaged the Columbia School of Journalism to investigate the lapses in their reporting and fact-checking processes, resulting in a damning report which RS published in a subsequent issue.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rolling-st...

I don't expect NYT to be perpetually fact checking stories after publication, but when they "get busted," I absolutely expect them to re-investigate and publish their findings.
I can. I do give to charities.

But me giving had a much, much smaller impact than me pushing for everyone to give.

It's not just about their fair share. Income inequality is a feedback loop that has a predictable and quite unpleasant outcome. I'd much rather introduce mechanisms to slow that feedback loop down.

The parent poster argued that "don't the wealthy know they'll get taxed more?" I'd propose that "don't the bottom 95% know they'll experience a steady decline of income and purchasing power if we don't tax the wealthy more?"
How many people actually believe they will become the next Musk, to an extent that they are willing to move out of state in preparation to maximize their greed in the off chance they will succeed in this impossible task?
Yes, if you like the plebs getting arrested for spitting on the sidewalk or executed for shooting up, Singapore is the place for you!
Covid-19: Christmas rules tightened for England and Wales
This article is very light on details.

Here’s a better one:

“Update on new SARS-CoV-2 variant and how COG-UK tracks emerging mutations” Dec 14, 2020
https://www.cogconsortium.uk/news_item/update-on-new-sars-co...

Edit: Here’s a report:

“Preliminary genomic characterisation of an emergent SARS-CoV-2 lineage in the UK defined by a novel set of spike mutations”

Recently a distinct phylogenetic cluster (named lineage B.1.1.7) was detected within the COG-UK surveillance dataset. This cluster has been growing rapidly over the past 4 weeks and since been observed in other UK locations, indicating further spread.

Several aspects of this cluster are noteworthy for epidemiological and biological reasons and we report preliminary findings below. In summary:
• The B.1.1.7 lineage accounts for an increasing proportion of cases in parts of England.

• The number of B.1.1.7 cases, and the number of regions reporting B.1.1.7 infections, are growing.

• B.1.1.7 has an unusually large number of genetic changes, particularly in the spike protein.

https://virological.org/t/preliminary-genomic-characterisati...
Really? The average income of someone in the top 1 percent is around 1 million, and the average income of the average person in the US is around 50k. So the top 1 percent have 20 percent of the income, so a 10 percent tax increase on the top 1 percent corresponds to a total increase of 2 percent, which isn't a small amount.
The best of luck to you! And remember that the grass tends to look greener on the other side. At least you're on the side from where it's pretty easy to jump the fence if you should decide to – the other way around is a different story.
this is some abusive relationship type of mentality
All of the above? Throw in corrupted management that doesn't realize you can't coast on an old reputation forever, and if you keep letting quality slide eventually there will be a watershed moment.

As an aside, I think you can see this happening in California right now. California (and more specifically SF) has been winning for so long that now public officials have drunk their own cool-aid and seem to think Cali/SF is some sort of magic place and it's all the things they've done which have made it tech mecca. Except probably it's not, and that will become obvious as everyone slowly wakes up to that.
So some dude in Montana should pay for cleaning the streets in San Francisco?
That sounds a bit like taxation without representation.
> And the other major part is that the game simply did not deliver the promised features on all the marketing videos by CDPR.

Like what? I keep seeing this, but nobody is being specific about it. I’m genuinely curious.
The game is great on PC, and sure there are some bugs, but nothing catastrophic. I've been playing the game on GeForce Now and I was pretty amazed with how much game streaming tech has progressed since it was first introduced. There's something amazing about playing Cyberpunk on my mac mini with ultra settings and ray tracing on. Latency's not even noticeable if you have a good connection!
How do you think in 9000 years people will discover what we have been up to today? Most of our culture will be a weird looking silicon rocks.
Ask HN: Most reliable video calling options over Christmas peak times
Given a lot of people will be spending Christmas apart from family and the increased use of video calls this year, what does the HN community consider to be the best option when it comes to connecting with others at peak time on Christmas Day? Interested in either self-hosted solutions or recommendations on which of the big players is least likely to have capacity issues?
Maybe. But the point is someone thought of it. And we elected that genius.

That’s scary.
The Times isn't a child in need of operant conditioning; you've anthropomorphized a newspaper. But even if we admit the logical leap from an organization to the humans which collectively direct that organization, we must still contend with the fact that unqualified praise will be associated with the entire sequence of actions that led to it, rather than (perhaps) a single action that was only undertaken after making lots of unpraiseworthy actions.

I'm of the opinion that, when it comes to journalism, courage and integrity are table stakes. They need not be praised because they are expected, and their absence should be ruthlessly punished. Even with this premise, one can tolerate mistakes and errors without needing to praise non-mistakes and non-errors.
On the Hacker News's top stories telegram channel this post has a snowflake emoji near it's name due to getting 100 points in 2 days. Kinda cute.
I don't think that open source work is a commodity. On the contrary, when well done, it functions almost as standard bearing, PR and legislation. Nothing about that says commodity to me. In fact, it's the kind of differentiated strategic work that's quite far away from commodity.
In either case, the workers produced more value than they were compensated for.
> Certainly not Google, or Apple or Microsoft.

I hope this is sarcasm.
> I think CDPR also overestimated their ability

Totally agree.

Third person combat wasn't amazing on the Witcher 3, after 3 games polishing those mechanics.

Then suddenly CDPR thought they could pull off a FPS with stealth, open world, driving, hacking, etc. They simply needed more time.
> If they were ever doing their jobs this never would have seen the light of day.

Yes, it could not be more obvious that people fucked up.

Now you have an opportunity to decide whether you're more interested in nurturing your retroactive rage and inciting it in others, or if it might make more sense to reinforce the responsible media behavior that you say you want. In my experience, the latter is more effective and better for mental health.
The potential value the CEO can generate is outsized compared to a factory worker, yes. But if comp is just a reflection of the value added to the organization, and the total comp is a reflection of the entire value added by the staff, then why does it make sense for the poor & the wealthy staff to both pay low effective tax rates, but the middle to pay high effective tax rates?

In any case, high comp for executives would not be such an issue if money didn't translate so fluidly to political power. If wild success just meant cushy living, you might not see so much blowback, but when profits translate to power which translates to using that power to shield your profits, then claims about a rigged game are not so crazy.
My opinion is that you've misinterpreted and misstated. The way you've framed it, the question does not use the word "jurisdiction" in a consistent manner with its definition or practice and does not address operative elements of the international legal system. The framing of the question also is also not on topic: the question about the legal basis of the challenge (all the way at the top of the thread) is a general one, and your framing here hyperfocuses on non-operative concepts ("juristiction") and a single country ("China"). Not only have you framed the wrong question in my opinion, but the question is rhetorical, and then you also bother to provide an answer.

In summary I'd say your comment is not relevant to discussion about legal basis of the challenge. It contributes to a different topic not being discussed: "What is your personal feeling about China?" to which you've contributed a thinly veiled "Boo China."
I sort of feel the same? The main issue is I don't want my family to be burdened with the needs of a creature that looks like me and is continuous with me but isn't me. The suffering of that creature is a secondary concern, but also relevant.

I don't think in the US or Canada there is any way to legally end your life at that point. Maybe nowhere in the world. You would need to end it while still competent. That would be a difficult line to tread because you don't want to forgo good days and with dementia the good days are the ones where you are competent. By the time the days are bad you can no longer competently end your life.

In an ideal world you could specify some kind of ego-distance from yourself where a painless shutdown would be triggered. But of course we are far from having the ability to measure or even formally describe this concept.
An industry standard is not needed for any single entity to do it well.
I am an intermittent faster as well and IF got my blood pressure back to normal after 17 years of medication.

But I have my doubts regarding usefulness of IF against dementias. These are strange, autodestructive diseases. Maybe IF can lower their incidence or push them to higher age, but unlike diabetes 2nd type, I cannot believe it can reverse them.
> Unless this a compromise of the build machine ...

Assume compromise of the build machine. Start with, who builds the build machine, and how do they maintain it? Can humans get into it at all, such as in a break glass scenario?

Also, GitHub, GitLab, and the like, may not actually guarantee what you are relying on to enforce “the only way”.
The game was not advertised as Cyberpunk Witcher. It definitely was advertised with a huge focus on the open world.
The Sahara buried this ancient Roman city–preserving it for centuries (2019)
Small nit-pic.
select * from employees sort by total_compensation desc;

Otherwise C Level folks who take a $1 salary but receive tons of options would be put at the bottom.
This comment, along with the original comment of the same person, is laughable at best and downright Russian astroturfing in a less favorable reading.

Obviously, Russia has a policy to support whatever the US is angry about (SciHub, Snowden, ...). To paint these as altruistic is just silly - there is no chance on earth they would support Snowden if his leaks were about Russia rather than about the US.

To paint the SolarWinds hacking as "showing the world proprietary systems are dangerous" is intellectually dishonest at best.

You are not genuinely curious. You are not genuinely asking. You do not genuinely wonder if there is altruism involved.

GTFO with your doublespeak.
Good thing most programmers don't fall for the silicon valley.
A lot of locals and dog walkers mostly. Always see them go by twice. Once up once back.

From time to time I see what look like long haul bikers - proper gear and a pack. Couple times a month I’ll see em in the summer.

I am near the dead end side close to Ohio. Thinking that reduces the traffic a lot.

Also the WV leg of the trail is gravel. The PA side is all blacktop.
But... why were they rushing? It's not like the vaccine appeared out of thin air on Friday. Its arrival was known for weeks/months. The staff and where they work is known. The error itself is understandable but the conditions leading to it and its propagation are not.

The further, unforgivable sin is that the error was brought to their attention internally on Tuesday, the administrators didn't bother to fix it, and then when it became more widely known to the hospital staff Thursday afternoon they still did not act to fix it. And then Friday, suddenly they're in the news, they decide they're going to fix it?

Disclosure: Am a physician at Stanford.
I've never understood this idea that we shouldn't a fix problem we know about, on the grounds that we might introduce a new problem we don't know about. I think the best approach is to try to figure out everything that might go wrong, address those things, and then go ahead and try to make things better, instead of just giving up and accepting the problems we have. That's how civilization advances.

This particular problem is heavy on game theory, which is a pretty well-developed field at this point. So I think there are grounds to believe we might be able to predict consequences with some accuracy.
> This is because wealthy French people moved to Brussels, where you still have a pretty nice city and you can still speak French

Meh, as a French person, the number of people who did this is pretty low. People hid their assets sure, but the FTB is a bit better at this than the fisc is ;-)
One of a common modern thought about how to be successful when software is involved, is to favor time-to-market, ship first and patch later. That in a good number of areas bugs are said to not really matter that much because you gonna have some, so why not having some more so that you can sooner have something instead of nothing.

One of the sector where this can arguably be applied the most is videogames. Nobody dies in real-life, nor has their data stolen, when a video game crashes (esp. a single player one). Or when the polygons are sometimes all over the place. Or when characters randomly T-pose pantless on their motorcycle for 2s. Or when scared NPC just disappear when out of your field of view.

Well actually this is a reminder that enough is enough, and that garbage is garbage, and not a sign of success nor wisdom. And don't even get me started on the consequences of this attitude for people doing the real work. Would CDPR codebase be more easy to improve right now if management had not imposed this failed launch after repeatedely telling plain lies during months? I don't know, but from my experience this is likely. Maybe on some axis the operation will have some net temporary positive results, but in the long run this is just a complete disaster: the reputation and trust that permitted such many pre-orders in the first place is likely broken for years. This will also affect other important things for their business: current or prospect employees might be less likely to want to work there.

This is also a reminder of how fragile the value brought by giant digital stores is, (if it is even net positive, considering your own priorities). Between Sony and MS selling unreviewed garbage to their clients, GoG refusing games for political reasons, and concerned digital stores commonly leveraging (abusing?) being for a specific hardware platform for imposing partial (only possible digital store) or total (if the only possible digital store is the only possible way to install software) monopolies for said platform with completely arbitrary and changing rules, sometimes even fighting local consumer protection laws, one might think carefully if the positive things that remain, if any, are worth it. The current overall situation may not be in the interest of the developers, and even less so of the users. At least I consider it not being in my interest.
As a non American we learn (just a little) about ancient civilizacions from all around the globe but nothing about North American ones, as if they never existed.
40% of the people that live in Singapore are immigrants from different countries. They apparently value the trade-off.
I don't think marginal benefit of Jeff Bezos is what you are trying to measure. Consider, if a light bulb is broken having one Jeff Bezos replace it is hugely valuable. Adding a second Jeff Bezos to the situation doesn't help.
It's a good video but I wonder if anyone ever made a large quantity of 1-octen-3-one using oil and metal instead (or whatever is from the skin...). It seems like it could be simpler.
Homeowners are benefiting from these policies, at least in the short term, and statistically homeowners vote a lot more than renters or more transient residents.

At some point the most rational thing becomes to leave California if you are not a homeowner, or to never go there in the first place, and to geographically diversify the industries that are located there. All these things seem to be happening already. Ship may have sailed.
What? They have been proven to be infected (PCR positive) and they are now receiving the vaccine.
Norwegian here. Some filthy rich are moving their assets or even themselves to tax havens. F.ex. Norways richest man, the oil and shipping millionaire John Fredriksen made himself a Cypriot a few years ago. Some other are transferring their assets to their children who live in f.ex. Switzerland. But overall I don't think capital flight is a huge issue.
Personal finance is personal. If someone wants that level of comfort and assurance that they can survive for x number of years without work, that’s their decision.
Other states raise revenue by other means. Look at Texas property taxes. Also Oregon Income Taxes are about 3.5% different than California. Is it really that different?
Are you mixing up "it happens that the media is untrustworthy" with "nothing the media produces is trustworthy"? If so, may I suggest a logic course before venturing forward?
> (Look how much screen time aging Bruce Willis got in Looper and the new Blade Runner!)

Bruce Willis wasn't in the new Blade Runner :)

You're probably referring to Harrison Ford.
Bezos started with hundreds of thousands of dollars and a secure living arrangement, from what I understand.

And if you are making $100k, you aren't the target of anyone's tax plans.
> Some people here are saying they shouldn't be praised for the retraction because retracting an error is merely doing what a publication should do.

We should be praising five-year-olds for brushing their teeth, but from adults we expect it by default. And while NYT went down in quality in the last few years, let’s not treat it as if it is a five-year-old.
Let's call it ASV - ASCII Separated Values.
I highly doubt the're gonna be changes on the gameplay. As you advance theres way more to do unlocking abilities and skills, but the core gameplay is the same.
California will do absolutely anything to raise revenue except repeal Prop 13.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-do-anything-to-en...
This seems as likely to be a prank as real. The great lakes were formed when the glaciers melted. Prior to that the area was under kilometers of ice. Nothing in the geological record seems to allow for humans walking about in that location at any time.

But we shall see...
> should be a very big coincidence

If life in the universe is common, then it should come as no surprise that it is found close together.
And that's nothing new. One of the most famous examples in History is Caesar's cruelty act when the Gaul was almost totally conquered. He wanted to discourage the few inhabitants that may rebel against Rome's authority, so he "resolved to deter others by inflicting an exemplary punishment on these. Accordingly he cut off the hands of those who had borne arms against him." Thousand of men were mutilated and scattered across Gaul to send this terrifying message.

The main account about this is in the last chapter of Bellum Gallicum, probably written by one of his lieutenants. A translation to English: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_the_Gallic_Wa... from the Latin: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/caesar/gall8.shtml#44
It's a tough ugly war with no good options. I absolutely agree that this type of death squad summary
execution crap is unacceptable. It's less reported now, but the taliban use the same type of tactics of fear to project control over the population. Leaving a power vacuum for the taliban will also lead to atrocities and medieval rules for the female population. I'm sure the military industrial complex has played some role in this war, but there really are lots of people in our military trying to be honorable and do the right thing.
> Shooting feels like my bullets are digital slot machine values.

In a tabletop RPG they are literally rolls of dice, and CDPR set out to build Cyberpunk 2020: https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Cyberpunk_2020

So, the question may be: is this an RPG or an Action/Adventure looter shooter?
As someone who lived in Nv for 10 years - I'm 50/50 on suggesting further people move there. On the one hand, the people who live there are genuinely horrible. Maybe an influx of new people will help the culture. Especially if they bring new industry with them. That said, the local industry pushes anything not-gambling or hospitality out. I suspect it'd just become more densely populated and even more hostile/violent.

So move to Texas or the south east. They clearly need an influx of ... something.
Genuine question, as that doesn't sound like a a fair experiment.

Couldn't they just limit the amount you can emigrate from the country with.

So if you emigrate, you can only take a maximum of, say, €10 mill.

i.e. earn it in France, using French laws, a French education and French infrastructure, it stays in France.

Obviously it clashes with EU free movement, but basically the problem seems to be we can't tax the rich because they take advantage of globalism to move their money around.

Isn't the solution to stop them moving it, rather than giving up?
That isn't at all true. If you took 5 minutes to actually read the detailed rationale published by CDC, you would see why they opposed masks.

People tend to use mask wearing as a replacement for social distancing. They aren't. They are a risk mitigation method for cases where social distance is unavoidable. CDC opposed mask wearing specifically because people would interpret it as a less-effective security blanket. They only reversed their stance when it became apparent that the US public weren't willing to use social distancing effectively.
Economists love to believe that humans are rational actors, even though it has been shown again and again in experimental settings that only a minority acts in an economical rational way. Economical self interest is a really poor predictor of behavior
The best thing the Cyberpunk team could have done to ensure success where they could avoid a myriad of technical issues is to have limited how many platforms they supported when they launched the game. Trying to simultaneously support high end PCs, and lower end last-gen consoles (PS4 and Xbox One) with a 2020 release was just foolish.

I think it would have been a fantastic game if it was a console exclusive, or a launch title for PS5 and Xbox One along with PC (since many CDPR fans are PC players). Yes this would have limited how many copies sold, but it would have set them up for building a long term franchise too.

Half measures to support their last gen console support was ultimately what killed their PR for the game.
States like Montana receive far more in federal tax dollars than states like California. If you think Montanans are going to be subsidized Californians and not the way around, I have a bridge in Montana I've got to sell you.