skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As has been pointed out in an earlier article about the "new strain"[1]:

"Let's not be hysterical. It doesn't mean it's more transmissible or more infectious or
dangerous."

That there are new strains of COVID-19 has been covered over, and over, and over, and over again on the This Week in Virology podcast[2] (which usually has 4 to 6 virologists on it every week discussing COVID-19 news), and they've always had the same message:

New strains naturally arise all the time as the virus mutates, but there is no evidence that these mutations make the virus more transmissible or infectious. Nor do they make the illness more severe nor otherwise affect clinical outcomes, nor make treatment any less effective.

People just love to talk up the discovery of new strains, thinking that coronavirus mutations are like flu mutations (which actually do require new vaccines every year), but they're not.

Coronavirus strains are kept an eye on by scientists for the purpose of tracking the spread and origin of the disease, and there'll always be one strain that will be more common than others, but it doesn't mean it's something we have to fear any more than any other strain.

[1] - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55308211

[2] - https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/
That’s quite impressive research! Why did you decide to look for this?
Boris just says stuff day to day. best just to ignore him completely because the next day he’ll be saying something different.
> "have historically"

vs.

"may lead" / "may not have", "can be no assurance that [they] will not" / "could contribute" / etc.

This virus seems to have the unique ability to cause cognitive impairments at a distance.
> Without personalized ads, Facebook data shows that the average small business advertiser stands to see a cut of over 60% in their sales for every dollar they spend.

It seems like the not-so-thinly veiled complaint is that Facebook wants to change what they’ve been charging but that their service will no longer provide the value it once did.

That doesn’t sound like an Apple problem to me.
Orwell is not subtle enough for this. In "1984" (spoiler), the tyranny wins because they manage to torture the main characters so much that their spirits were permanently broken. If memory serves right, that was the end of the story.

For a classical tyranny were deaths squads are almost never necessary, because mass control is extremely efficient, "Brave New World" is better suited.
It's very refreshing to see a local-only program with a nice native GUI these days, thank you.

It's also cool to see how the open source translation ecosystem has evolved. I worked on a Japanese<->English translation software just a few years back and you had to do everything from scratch or use per-language tooling (like Mecab or Juman ugh).

It'd be cool if there were metrics for your language translation models to be able to compare them to other offerings like google translate for example.
the property tax rate is fair. unless there is a cap on speculative activity on real estate with a real interest and initiative in keeping housing prices stable, prop 13 is the untouchable third rail.

just stopping foreign investment in california real estate will make an enormous difference. removing the prop 13 waiver for those who inherit property with the old tax rate will also help. with older people on the clock to die sometime within the next decade, ca will see a flood of plumped up property taxes when the homes change hands. but just the two measures is a good short term relief. million dollar homes are bought sight unseen and then flipped for 40-60% markup by foreign investors and people who dont even reside in california. making it a speculative rodeo circus. let the Gov. fix THAT first.
Seems the hospitals are still less busy than last year https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9043583/NHS-data-su...
Your comment prompted me to do some web searching for documents from our work. Here's a YouTube video of a presentation/lecture we made at the B.U Graphics Lab then, with one of our first rendered fractal animations at the 2:30 mark. I remember working on this. We had AED graphics terminals (able to display 256 colors!) connected to an IBM 3090 mainframe. With special priority, our processes calculating a fractal would only require a few minutes per frame at 256x256 resolution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QIhaDvTHXk

I fucked up once, trying to create a 256x256x256 fractal volume. How we were calculating them then was not optimized, and the hardware then is a fraction of the phone you own, and that hardware then was shared across the entire university... After my priority process calculating that 3D fractal volume was killed, because it ground the entire University Computing Center to a halt, the post mortem calculated how long the process would have required: 36 years. It would not be done yet if left running. Oops.
Fauci said plainly in an interview that he lied about masks, in an attempt to save them for front line workers, so that’s a questionable analogy.
Not everyone is pro-"privacy", at least not the type of privacy discussed here.

I am willing to give away my data to Google if it improves my searches. I am willing to give my data away to Facebook if it shows me ads to buy the things I was checking out earlier... or something related to pages I have liked.

And so are many other people. Some are strictly against this idea, which is understandable.

There's another group who doesn't care either way or hasn't made up their mind for various reasons. This group will do what is selected or recommended for them by default.

Facebook benefits from getting these people to share their data. Apple's business depends less on it, but they are not preventing themselves from tracking users, only others.

It's too valuable for Apple to be not doing it. The biggest problem for Apple is that they're not getting a cut out of it. I'm sure they'll implement tracking at a certain point which other apps can pay Apple to use.
They put the retraction in the podcast feed, which I'm guessing most people who listened to the series are still subscribed to.
Somebody at Google, Facebook and Apple definitely went with this. "Our company is awesome on internet. What if we do the entire internet in our walled garden?". </sarcasm (more or less)>
Search Ads don't count why?
no. Might work, isn't tested.
The NYT is compromising on comprehensive, un-opinionated, fact discovery, and is instead catering to an audience. The former makes a news org, and the latter (under the guise of reporting) makes for a tabloid. It's hard because there are some pieces that are unbiased and thorough, and NYT and their supporters can point to those in its defense. But a news org should be required to do that with almost 100% consistency. Anything less is an entertainment org that is taking advantage of being considered a news org.
It has a Wanted system like GTA. The comparison is accurate.

Most character skills are damage addons. If you don't pick assault rifle, your going to have a pretty slow time. Crafting is pointless, augments are just another skill tree.

'The way it's meant to be played' was the same apologetics we got with No Man's Sky on launch. Like three people wanted to play NMS as an empty grind-a-thon in a chill atmosphere that goes nowhere.

Cyberpunk failed to finish development. We all know it, why the rub?
They have great influences among the lawmakers. Rich people won't get themselves taxed(in general)
British Medical Journal (BMJ) page about the new variant: https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4857

It has 17 mutated bases (is that a lot? or typical?) Of particular concern is the mutated spike protein which "may, in theory, result in the virus becoming more infectious and spreading more easily between people."
What effect do you think those letters will have?
Bad open-world games are hard to develop. Good open-world games are extremely hard to develop.
I just googled "Apple Ad platform" lol
Reality is constructed of information states if we really want to be honest with ourselves. There is never really a _true_ information state. Charles Sanders Peirce called the world we build a 'phaneron,' the information state as presented by the senses. Everyone's eyes are a blurry figment of what the true photonic field is. Same with touch when it comes to surfaces and well, all the senses. And those senses degrade over time as we age.

I hate hearing the phrase 'real world' or 'physical' being used to describe non-electronic interaction. Call the in-person stuff analog if you'd like. But the digital stuff is just as real. We never have the entire quantum state of other people accessible. We always just get a small blurry sample of their true presence. Does it matter whether it goes through air or down a copper wire?

The only difference is with regard to security. I can see that argument as valid. But unless security/imposters are a concern, it's still the real deal.
To a very large extent, that's probably true, but there are some situations where a route that's OK for one mode of transportation is unusable for another.

Trains need gradual inclines and really large radius turns. Cars can handle steeper inclines and sharper turns. If necessary, humans can do very steep inclines and very sharp turns. And they can handle narrow paths. You'd obviously want to minimize that, but it's possible.

Since the requirements are different, the possible routes may be different.
That’s the right question, and it doesn’t seem clear yet. FB will have iOS 14 specific ad accounts due to how different everything is, and I’d expect CPA, VO, and LAL + retargeting to be neutered

They aren’t losing their audience for impressions, or their targeting data for FB users - unless shadow accounts won’t work as well, but I’m not sure how that data is gathered.

The removal of IDFA and shimming SKAdNetwork between the app and ad networks means the ping back of rich app usage is useless, which is what breaks more advance campaign types.

Traffic, app install, engagement etc will still be valid, and you should still be able to use existing FB audience details since that’s backed by FB usage data.

So I’d guess the impact depends on your ad type usage, and how you target users. Targeting parents in specific geos should work fine on IG and FB. FAN is going to suffer though since it doesn’t have FB account backing and relies on IDFA
He literally said in a later interview that he lied. It doesn’t require a conspiracy for someone to lie. People sometimes just lie.
what do you think about the fountainhead?
Good luck with that. I bet there is majority support already for similar tax measures in Seattle, Austin and Singapore. That leaves only Miami, which is going to be underwater in a few decades. So you are better of just staying and paying your extremely modest fair share
Could type inference be used to automatically propagate such annotations?

And then potentially be hooked up to a prettier plugin to adf explicit annotations if desired.
No. People who have good health have the energy to be kind to others.
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Would it not make more sense if the law was, move _back_ within 10 years and you need to pay the whole lot? I've seen that sort of thing in a lot of places before.
Somehow I doubt the NYT includes or mentions gender assignment surgery in this article.
Honestly, with both CP and TW1/2/3, I feel that if they scrapped the “numbers RPG” elements, they would’ve had significantly better games on their hands.
>CDC opposed mask wearing specifically because people would interpret it as a less-effective security blanket.

At the very least, they did a poor job of communicating this in the public sphere. The sound bites many Americans got was to not wear masks, which is quite different than "wearing masks is not a suitable substitute for social distancing". For better or worse, most Americans probably aren't going to search out CDC publications as their primary source for detailed information.

He has indicated PPE was part of the rationale:

"I don't regret anything I said then because in the context of the time in which I said it, it was correct. We were told in our task force meetings that we have a serious problem with the lack of PPEs,"

To be fair, he's been in a very difficult situation and I can only imagine the number of verbal miscues I would have made if placed in a similar scenario.
Sorry about that, added contact into to profile (long time reader, new at the posting and profile thing).
Profit is the wage of the investor that assumes risk in his enterprise. No profit, no investment.
I still don't think that marketing videos is the developers’ fault.
> You agree with his point that class hierarchies shouldn't necessary model reality.

I'm pointing out that this assertion is meaningless, because it completely misrepresents what is actually done with class hierarchies.

The class hierarchies in the domain models (i.e., Chair) is never the class hierarchies used by components in the the service layer (i.e., PhysicsChair). Functional requirements of specific services never sleep into the domain model. Call it bounded context, single responsibility principle, or encapsulation, but even if we play little semantics games a home is not the same as a mobile home. Pinning together unrelated concepts based on the naive belief that sharing a keyword is enough to bundle concepts together just misrepresents the whole issue as a straw man.

> Right, that's his point.

No,the point is that it's absurd to talk about class hierarchies with this example, based alone on the simplistic idea that having the word "chair" appear in the identifier is all you need to logically bundle unrelated concepts. The example is poorly thought through even through the perspective of a straw man.

> Again, that's the point he's making. In terms of modelling the world (...)

That's what you are failing to understand: they are not modeling the world. At all. And from the start.

Only the domain model (chair) models the world. The rest is not the domain model, but data types used in the service layer to meet functional requirements (i.e., PhysicsChair).

Let's put it bluntly: the straw man you are trying to defend is something that no one one the world at all ever mixes up. Ever.
A function that calculates Fibonacci is used as an example. Just a reminder that if you want to calculate the nth Fibonacci number you can use Binet's formula.

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/BinetsFibonacciNumberFormula.h...
From the article, it appears these death squads and their attacks occurred primarily during the Trump administration, as a result of a shift in policy: "Pompeo, then-director of the CIA, indicated that the agency, too, would pursue a more hawkish posture. The CIA, he said, “must be aggressive, vicious, unforgiving, relentless." And:

"The period in which The Intercept documented the escalation of violence in Wardak falls neatly between the first round of formal U.S.-Taliban talks in late 2018 and the signing of the Doha agreement early this year."

I can hardly say I know enough to clear Bush or Biden of using death squads, but it does seem like the major escalation and change in tactics occurred between January 21, 2017 and today.
I realize there are differences between fields and auto-props when using certain other features, but from a design perspective, these are identical within an assembly:

public int Foo { get; set; }
public int Bar;

Java has absolutely made important improvements, and there are even more impressive ones on the horizon. In particular you should look at Project Loom, which is Java’s answer to async/await. It’s not finished yet because the design is much more general and novel, and it avoids the “function color” problem that async/await has. It’s inspired in part by Erlang/BEAM’s green threading system.

You might also look at the JDK flight recorder, which is an amazing feature that .NET doesn't have. The Java perspective is adding complexity to the runtime fiest instead of the language.
Judging by the sonar image in the article linked in the top comment it’s 40 feet deep, which is trivial depth for scuba diving.
I agree; I'm not somebody who would have voted for him, but he's had some really tough decisions to make, and whether or not he's made the right call or dragged his heels at times, he's clearly been prepared to upend his own ideological leanings when needed and I respect him and the government for that.
Yes, it would be. But if they charge for it people would not want to be served ads, and they would need to charge a lot of money for that to make sense for them.
Just saw a green dot in my iPhone toolbar while scrolling in Instagram, meaning Instagram looks at me when I watch at pics...

Boy I'm about to delete my account, haven't found the button yet because it's well hidden, but trust me, I'll do it! (haha)
In the early months of the outbreak there was almost no evidence, and yet we reasonably expected the experts to give their best shot at an answer. They looked at the probabilities as best they could estimate them from the characteristics of similar diseases, that's all the evidence they had at the time, and updated their guidance as they got more data.

The problem has always been that this disease is very unusual in many different ways. This has quite understandably caused many best efforts at estimating it's behaviour to turn out to be wrong.
I don’t think you get the difference between seccomp and seccomp-bpf
The article addresses this:

> While leadership is pointing to an error in an algorithm meant to ensure equity and justice, our understanding is this error was identified on Tuesday and a decision was made not to revise the vaccine allocation scheme before its release today
It's hard to say. In the worst case, it could be a prelude to regulating AI in general.

I'm legitimately concerned it might be, if you read between the lines: https://twitter.com/RepYvetteClarke/status/13392973588158341...
> Boris has been extremely resistant to imposing restrictions this entire time

No. Boris has been had by China.

China’s Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid...

> Initially, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also opted for herd immunity. But on March 13, suspicious accounts began storming his Twitter feed and likening his plan to genocide. This language almost never appears in Johnson’s feed before March 12, and several of the accounts were hardly active before then. Britain locked down on March 23.

EDIT: Flag away, won't change facts.
WA is way better than any eastern state for taxes.
Like the 3 waves of the Spanish Flu?
> I'm not sure what the problem is. When Democrat supporters demand more more more via the politicians who promise more more more, where did they think the money would come from?

Who are you addressing? The Democrats who “demand more more more” are likely to be the same people who are fine with taxing the rich more.
What does 70% more transmissible mean?
No way. Singapore gets a footing in the world not because it is a city state but because it's Singapore.
My paternal grandmother has Alzheimer’s, just like her mother before her, and it makes me worry for my father, myself, and my brother. I am often hyper vigilant to any perceived changes in my dad’s mental acuity and I worry that it hurts our relationship, even though I try to stay focused on the current moments I’m enjoying with him at any given time.

So far all seems well with my dad other than some expected age-related slowdowns in memory and processing, at least from my perspective. I can’t imagine what it would be like to deal with this so early in life.

I read “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande this year and it was very helpful in some of the conversations I’ve since had with my family about the future and how we should think about death. I wouldn’t have had the courage to ask my parents what they cared about in life and in death before reading the book, and for that courage I am grateful. I recommend it to everyone because death is the only fate we all share.
Bad analogy. From all indications, Fauci said what he said in good faith whereas Callimachi seems to have been desperate to confirm that her source was credible in the face of a preponderance of evidence that he was not [1]:

> The assignment, Mr. Flood recalled thinking, was both hopeless and quite strange in its specificity [...] Ms. Callimachi was singularly focused. “She only wanted things that very narrowly supported this kid in Canada’s wild stories,” he told me in a phone interview.

> Mr. Flood didn’t know it at the time, but he was part of a frantic effort at The New York Times to salvage the high-profile project the paper had just announced.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/business/media/new-york-t...
Alzheimer’s is a neurological disease with a well-documented physiological pathology and terminal prognosis. Mental illnesses generally lack both of those things. The ethics of assisted suicide for terminal patients are distinct, I think, and it’s understandable than terminal patients were the first to have this right recognized under law.
Scientists Created a Medical Nanomaterial from a Species of Mite
And who's job is it to decide what's best for the people?
I was also thinking of manipulating source code. Let's say there are multiple stages:

1. Source code as available on development machines and version control

2. Source code as available on build machines

3. .dll generated by build machines

I would assume (based on the article's language that you quoted) that manipulation happened on (2), not (1) or (3).
>Wanting people to never make [errors] is impossible, and just encourages them to pretend they are perfect by never doubting themselves and never revealing the truth when it is eventually available.

This isn't specific to this story, but it is truly bizarre that changing your opinions or beliefs based on new information is viewed as a negative trait by modern American society, especially in politics.
Nothing is 100%. It’s effectively impossible.
Java w/o IntelliJ would be miserable.

That said, I hate their nonsensical keybindings for (my) most common uses (looking at you function keys). I also wish their plugin API was more stable. A lot of great plugins seem to require a lot of maintenance work release to release.
I definitely agree with the GP. Here’s a list of top ten songs by year:

http://www.billyjamesmusic.com/erasongs.htm

This is an old meme because it’s been arguably been true since the 90’s.

According to that list, the sixties, seventies and eighties clearly beat the nineties in my biased opinion.

Part of it might just be a genre shift: The only rock songs that made the cut in the 90s were one each from Meat Loaf, Aerosmith, Eric Clapton, and Nirvana.

I think there’s a paradox where more excellent music is being produced every year, but genre fragmentation and the sheer diversity of it means the stuff that bubbles to the top gets more and more generic.

It’s like we used to get brie and roquefort, but now we have a larger vat, and velveeta is what floats to the top.
Useless surgery has been a thing since at least the 17th century, when Louis XIV had an anal fistula removed. After the successful operation, fistulas became fashionable to the point that some courtiers who didn't actually have an anal fistula demanded the same surgery.

https://www.bilan.ch/opinions/garry-littman/the_royal_fistul...
>you've contributed a thinly veiled "Boo China”

How can what I said be interpreted as a “Boo China”? You could try to apply local laws in any superpower and be ignored. Just because I didn’t needlessly maximize generalization at the cost of context doesn’t mean I’m singling out countries.
Wikipedia and the archaeologist's site linked here say 40 feet, in Grand Traverse Bay.
How do you define "privilege"? Isn't it another way of saying "wealth"?
Here's another classic: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-hel...