skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe (though of course it could well turn out to be wrong) that physics is much closer to understanding the universe than medicine is to understanding the human body.

There are big open problems in physics, absolutely. But in the domains where our theories currently apply and that we can experiment on, we can actually use them to predict with extreme accuracy how things will behave, and we have been able to exploit this to create marvels of technology like nuclear reactors, microchips, the LHC, MRIs and many others - all with essentially 100% accuracy in everything they do.

In medicine on the other hand, we barely have one drug that works or doesn't work predictably in every person; we're not sure what to measure in someone to understand what potentially impacts any particular disease; we are still discovering entire organs in the human body every year; we have only recently realized that the trillions of bacteria that naturally live in our bodies have more than minor impact on our organism, but we still have little idea of what their effects actually are; and if we start looking at psychiatry or neuro-science or nutrition, we're not even sure we're asking the right questions, nevermind giving any of the right answers.

Hell, there are some signs that we may have a microbiome in our brain[0], long thought to be essentially aseptic in healthy humans.

[0] https://www.colorado.edu/lab/neurodegeneration/there-brain-m...
An EU passport is nice to have, doesn't look like he's moving out of California though:

https://variety.com/2020/dirt/moguls/ex-google-ceo-eric-schm...
It's likely a simple case of following the money. Cost per action (CPA) ad pricing becomes a lot harder when you can't track people as easily, and that is likely a very lucrative ad format for FB.

Here's a good writup on the different types of ad pricing. There are a lot more features these days beyond clicks and impressions.

https://blog.wishpond.com/post/74072092834/facebook-advertis...
The NYT is good for crosswords and that's about it.
I recall hearing Airbus had its own messes to deal with... such as https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbus-probe/airbus-bribe...
I think the hype was part of the problem, but the developers focus on the game might be the bigger issue. It's hard to me to say from the outside if the hype caused the lack of focus or vice versa, or was just an aggregating factor, but after beating it (and having a blast), I think it would have been better to release only some of the ideas with more polish.

The game was extremely well written in my opinion, the gunplay was good, sneaking worked and combat reasonably executed. As a result, the linear parts worked well, but it has a smattering of rough open world mechanics tacked on, just enough to draw comparisons to gta (which are all very unfavorable), and many rough edges around core gameplay things like vehicle driving, enemy ai, and scripted events triggering out of order / not triggering at all. And that's assuming you are playing on pc, and not a console brought to it's knees every hour.

My diagnosis is that it feels designed by committee with no one willing to make deep cuts, and as a result suffered from trying to be everything ever marketed to everyone, and ended shipping all the ideas both late and unfinished. They seemingly had no time to polish the core of the game because it was too big.
"There's evidence that..." does not equal "To prevent Alzheimer's, do...." Science does not work that way. We start from a hypothesis ("Alzheimer's is a type of metabolic dysfunction."), to test that hypothesis ("Intermittent fasting may delay or prevent the onset of Alzheimer's."), to finally saying "There's evidence that...." Eventually, once there's enough evidence, we can say with some certainty "To prevent Alzheimer's, do....", but we're not there yet.
> San Francisco spends $50k per homeless person.

A commonly repeated falsehood. Is totally incorrect. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Bu...
I don’t think you know anything about the ad business other than being an end user. “They replace worse and spammy ads”? What does that even mean? Your post is a spam.
Absolutely, it made Peru extremely prosperous for decades [1], though you must use bird instead of bull.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Era
Bicycle route mapping is an iterative process, and often relies upon local cyclists recommending the best routes that they know of through a given area.

Cycling communities often provide guidance and cautions about route sections, and if you become familiar with cities & counties then you may be able to let them know about risk areas and possible improvements.

That said, if you want to cycle a given route and you know of better options than the existing roads, let the trail mappers know; it could lead to learning a bit more about their choices, and perhaps improvements to the maps.

Beyond that, let's hope that more roads and infrastructure are constructed with cycling in mind so that trail routes can be improved. It's an inexpensive, healthy transit method that fits to your own schedule.
My guess would be it’s more of a branding exercise. Quirky, colourful, friendly.
I think that's why they put in the provision that you have to keep paying the tax for 10 years after you move.
Personally, I disagree with the whole ideas of both wealth and income taxes. You should be taxed for consuming things, since that's the point where you're actually imposing a burden on the rest of society.

(Note that this includes consumption of housing, and VAT + imputed rent is basically a property tax.)
That's my biggest issue with stories like these.

Some news sources call out when they make mistakes and own up to them. And they get piled on for being wrong.

Other news sources (ahem...) say misleading stuff frequently and never correct it, never retract it and continue to mislead their audience.

This whole concept of pile one because someone admitted their wrong has to be the least healthy event I've ever seen. And yet instead of it going down as upholding editorial standards, it will be a case of "see they're wrong, don't trust them".

As an example, a significant portion of an American political party spent years believing (still believe last I checked) a former US president was born in Kenya.
Psychology has found almost everyone has rationalized their beliefs & behaviors in some form or another, even if it's fairly transparent such as "The best thing for everyone is if I'm in charge"
I was lucky to take my bike up to Cumberland, MD from Raleigh, NC a couple of years ago by train to do the C&O trail. I really do wish they’d offer more ways to travel with your bike, because that was a great experience. I’ve also done the trip from Raleigh to Durham, which makes for a nice little day trip.
New York's plan:
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/ny-unveils-draft...

Phase 1 says "Healthcare workers in patient care settings"

Tennessee's:
https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/cedep/nov...

Phase 1 says "hospital/free-standing emergency department staff with direct patient exposure and/or exposure to potentially infectious materials"

Other states have similar wording. You'd really have to twist yourself into a knot to convince yourself that a work-from-home administrator falls into the categories specified above. Shame on any state who didn't include wording like that - there was nothing stopping them from putting some common-sense wording in their plans. Beyond the written rules, you'd also have to be a selfish idiot to think that just because you're related to a healthcare company that you should get it this week if you're working from home. If I were in that kind of role, shame would be enough to stop me but as we've seen the elite often have no shame.

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California's own plan [0] says Phase 1-A includes "paid and unpaid persons serving in healthcare settings who have the potential for direct or indirect exposure to patients and infectious materials and are unable to work from home". So if Stanford was really vaccinating admins who are working from home, then it seems like they violated state guidelines and should be punished appropriately.

[0] https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20...
Show HN: Created a Soundtrack, Just for Fun
Apple uses dark patterns and doesn't provide a "stop bothering me" option. I used to get nagged by Apple so I turned on the auto updates just to not have these popups. I guess it worked..

https://imgur.com/7ErVNiw
I don’t think const or non const is the main issue- some data structures just require cycles like graphs or circular linked lists.
> As I remember the series, they presented pro and con arguments about believing him near the beginning, and never expressed certainty that it was true, but felt it was likely enough true that it was worth reporting.

I remember this, too, and it's the second part I take issue with. A judgment call of "likely enough true" when the reality is "entirely fictional" points, in my opinion, to either a lack of judgment, or a lack of journalistic ethics. As others have pointed out, very basic fact-checking was all that was needed to figure out this guy was a complete fraud.

We should not be praising the New York Times for letting its standards slip because the story was so cool, then eventually - years later! - realizing they'd let them slip a little too much and half-heartedly apologizing.
This makes me think of a common refrain when dealing with parasite infestations: If you see one, there's way more than just one.

Deterministic builds cannot come soon enough. And really, builds are not enough, we need to be able to extend confidence in the execution of the programs we write much deeper than just builds.
People who don't like facebook should stop using it. I don't get people treating it like a utility that they are entitled to.
Evidence like this suggest that medical leadership for the most part care very little about house officers (residents), and that is pretty universal.

Our institution built a new billion dollar hospital and did not include call rooms.

Great job.
Yet. If they are cheap enough - all the airlines will be interested. I'd guess Boeing is nearly giving them away now.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-delta-...
Safety doesn't cost that much in compilation time. `cargo check` performs full type-checking and borrow checking, and it's reasonably fast already.

Rust's performance depends very much on optimizations, mainly LLVM. It could be faster if you were willing to accept less optimized code, or change coding style to use fewer libraries and fewer abstractions. But if you want the same speed without any compromises, then I don't see any way around that.
It's probably this you are thinking of:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-rent/palo-alto...

It sounds dumb but IIRC it's an attempt to have teachers and police and city employees able to live there...
> We should be praising the Times for having the courage and integrity for calling out their own errors…

Absolutely — this is just basic "how humans work". Anyone complaining about this positive action (performed with the understanding of the PR cost) doesn't understand how to get what they purport to want in the world.
> If you're going to move where you live or significantly alter where you spend you time because of 0.4% of things above 30M, that's a real sign of just how far American greed has gone.

I would say this isn't any different than any other greed at any other place or time. It's simply a cost-benefit tradeoff decision. If people perceive that being in California makes more money than the wealth tax costs, they will stay. If not, they will leave. There doesn't have to be any moral or principled component to this, just simple self-interest.

Also don't overlook the deterrence factor. The wealthy currently in CA may stay there if moving represents a greater overall cost. But anyone not currently in CA would have a great disincentive to never move there.
It wasn't retracted, why should it have been?

The counter analysis reported in November just wasn't as sexy so didn't make such headlines.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/10/22/venu...
Unfortunately it's not that simple. California (and every other state's) law already says that their taxman need not go through the courts to seize assets but can do so directly. If their tax collector contacts you and you ignore them because you don't live there, they'll just seize the money from your bank account (no matter where you are) and you'll be stuck litigating in California tax courts to try and get it back.

This already happens routinely-- look up the various cases of people who left California, and then the state came after them under the theory that they never really left. Here's a case[1] where they spent 25 years harassing a guy who moved out.

Even if you leave the country, you can be extradited since failure to pay tax is a felony. Unless you went to Russia, which doesn't extradite.

[1] https://reason.com/video/2017/10/23/gilbert-hyatts-25-year-b...
> The country pointing out how fundamentally insecure closed source, proprietary software is (SolarWinds), is...Russia?

I think this research was pioneered by US with Stuxnet/Flame? No?
"We actually cut someone open, then don't fix him"

Yes. There have been placebo-controlled trials whereby the control-group was just cut open, and left there for an hour. The placebo-patients believed they had undergone the actual procedure, and reported the same improvement as the actual patients. This is the placebo effect.

Although such trials are harder than giving fake pills, they might still be worthy of doing more often than we do now.
For me:

1) not true. (I am currently happy to get ads for condos in St. Petersburg and banks in Cyprus, as I hope it shows Google has very little idea of who I really am, or at least just that I'm an unsought demographic?)

2) not true at all, compared to the tracking available from broadcast and free periodical advertising, which was how local businesses used to do it: in local media.

3) People genuinely find products they like all the time without ads, also.

4) Whole categories of businesses were introduced before FB ads as well. I know someone who got rich on selling copycat Uzi sealing rings as a teen fad, and that was before AOL and Google, let alone FB.

You probably don't care about convincing me, but if you wished to, you'd have to somehow demonstrate that FB provides a great deal of additional value in return for all the additional information they collect.
Facebook makes $50 per user per year, so I would assume $1 per month is an order of magnitude less than what google is making from you at the moment.

$10 per month is probably more realistic.
You need zero permissions to get a list of all apps you have installed, your unique advertising ID and a common things like sensors and WiFi names. Plus full unrestricted internet access.
The route itself is very easy to follow and well-marked. I did the southern half (C&O), and if you camp along the way using the free sites, you don’t even have to get off the trail except to resupply.
> any semblance of journalistic integrity

First sentence of the article:

> The New York Times has retracted the core of its hit 2018 podcast series Caliphate after an internal review found the paper failed to heed red flags

Clearly it would have been better for them to have done their jobs correctly in the first place, but in what way are they not displaying journalistic integrity in this instance? Their retraction of a 2-year-old story was on their homepage (below the fold) yesterday.

Mistakes are inevitable (though in this case avoidable). Owning up to publishing something erroneous is the way you display journalistic integrity. I'll trust what you tell me today, if I can trust you to tell me the details you got wrong tomorrow.
There is pretty powerful statistical evidence that when Regan moved homeless services from the federal level to a state responsibility it cratered the numbers of beds (especially in small towns) and created an unsolvable situation in that when you're struggling in your small town who has zero homeless support, you make a move to some place else, somewhere where being homeless is not has bad weather wise and has a bit of infrastructure. So now you have all of the struggling people from "Mainstreet usa" moving toward the main cities all at once (over a couple decades) an essentially a burden on them to deal with EVERYONES homeless problem instead of historically their own.

This problem was working much better in the 70s and 80s when their was a national framework for it. While SF and LA's government is flawed, this blame state/city is like blaming the individual ushers when the fans run on the field after a football upset. It was more of a structural failure than a local.
I was in Nassau working between FSG/PM and the ACA/CORBA team. Recall many trips to the WRL, they always had the coolest stuff; network tunnels and firefly. Back then who you hated said a great deal and I recall several other CEs playing the silver bullet game to perfection.

I'm curious the relation to the corporate blockchain?
However bad the Java situation is, Lombok as a solution is worse. It uses unsupported and undocumented APIs of the compiler, it autogenerates code that is in some cases flat wrong (like the infamous enum @ToString), and it does this through a mechanism of the language specifically designed for pure metadata - code that compiles with annotations should not cease compiling without them. And, because of the way it does what it does, IDEs must have explicit Lombok support built into them. It is, effectively, a different language that's a superset of Java; at that point, you may as well actually use a superset of Java like Groovy, and then you don't have tools prone to breaking.
Does this mean that, as a consumer, if I need a specialized procedure I should be looking into regional variations, as there could be a material difference in outcomes?
> I guess that makes Tesla a South African company.

Does Tesla mostly employ South Africans?
Maybe Orwell's point was that you don't need the death squads to manage tyranny.
It's worth listening to the 30 minute explanation on their podcast feed if you want a legitimate explanation to that question. They really try to account for it.

They relied on the gut-check from other terrorism experts, what was publicly available about Canada's investigation, and got a verification from a field commander in ISIS who said that he remembered the fraudster but the fraudster didn't serve directly under him like he had claimed. In retrospect, the hook of the story was so strong that they hadn't subjected it to the level of scrutiny of their other ambitious projects. He contrasted it with the Trump tax return story, where he had personally reviewed so many versions of that story that he had memorized the details. When they gave the same investigation to another investigative team who was familiar with the terror beat (with the benefit of hindsight), that team concluded that the story was a hoax.
Show me an objective publication and I'll show you a person with confirmation bias. I've come to accept that every media outlet is pushing an agenda, intentionally or not. It may be impossible to escape.

I think the best we can do is be cognizant of the intentions and ideological slant of the people and institutions and be extremely skeptical of these PR firms masquerading as objective media.
That's probably the stupidest part of it, because then you convince all the people who imagine they're going to be Elon Musk in ten years that they should leave California immediately.
Well, yeah, being alone puts you at higher risk of schizophrenia and dementia, experiencing and expressing negative emotions makes you stressed and tired, we're social animals.

Kind of interesting how as a society we seem to be rejecting it - a lot of technology enables us to be alone or at least not in direct contact with others.

I wonder what the ramifications of that will be in the future.
The tax rate will never be high enough for the California Government. It is so mismanaged the only plausible solution is a default on its endless obligations.

California should eliminate its income tax through ballot initiative. Moving it, from the highest in the nation to zero. Thats right. Zero.

Can you imagine how awesome California would become with no income tax? Everyone would instantly get a 10% raise. The quality of everything would go up and the cost of everything would go down. Standards of living would instantly go up.

Other states provide a much higher standard of living with zero tax. California can do it too.
That’s why if the tax gets implemented they’re gonna move away before the tax is implemented. Imagine being a slave to a state you don’t even live in for ten years. What a load of garbage, I’ll bet any other state will refuse to enforce it.
Which company ISN'T performing a greedy money grab? Certainly not Google, or Apple or Microsoft.
It's not just about personalized ads. That's only the happy revenue stream they'll talk about. The others aren't so spinnable.

Second, s we've learned recently, they also sell your data to others for whatever they want to use it for. The third of course is government surveillance. And fourth is face recognition services: they got in trouble for having that feature on platform but who knows who they're selling it to.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2018/07/20/faceboo...
I’m not sure if that take down says more about the NYT or the current levels of political polarization.
Now, seriously, why are you still on Facebook? No, seriously.

I left when Cambridge Analytica broke. Reflecting back, FB gave me very little. Now, 4 years later, it feels like complacent inertia there has not been a mass exit from them.
It's a shame that an escalation in civilian deaths is viewed as an evil, but that there are civilian deaths to escalate is viewed as a necessity of foreign policy.
Is this also your perspective on something like unit testing when your first regression slips through?

No, you fix it. Law is code, and needs tuning.

When people as so inclined to give up on first failing, then I feel it says more about their underlying worldview than it does about what's possible in the world.
I can only assume this is California’s version of seppuku.
In grad school, in the early days of the dotcom boom, some of us CS-ish people curious about startups would talk about them. One day, one of the PhD students asked everyone which dotcom's stock would they most like to have. I said Google. (It might not have been a company yet, but we kinda assumed.)

Google worked surprisingly well, obviously they were going to be hugely important (unless another player appeared and did a big next leap), and obviously they were smart. (On the side, I also got warm-fuzzies that the search hits I got seemed to have a strong Linux bias.)

The grad student who asked, coincidentally, ended up deciding not to finish his PhD, and went to Google. :)
It feels like the NYT is the USA equivalent of the BBC, where it has a big audience for the medium and on the surface seems like it should be trustworthy but often is a mouthpiece for those in power via insider sources ala Judith Miller for the NYT. Even that one writer Haberman who covers Trump often amplifies totally fictional favorable Trump stories on social media.
> an internal review

Yeah that's their spin on the story, the reality is that they got busted though.
Facebook has only been fined once for GDPR violations, and that has to do with a bureaucratic technicality. The actual cases against Facebook have been held up for ages [1]. You can look up all GDPR fines here: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/

1: https://noyb.eu/en/open-letter
There's an article or two about war veterans not able to adjust back to society. The plot twist is not that they were too traumatized to be normal citizen again.. but that the average modern life is a never ending fog of hypocrisy compared to the intense life-or-death honesty of relationships in wars. They said they ever felt doubt on the field, everything is simple.