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> "equality of opportunity" for future generations.

What a bullshit idea. Different people start with different advantages in life. Some with wealth, some with looks, some with none. In your bid to make an equal society, will you throw acid on attractive people so they become less attractive?

Attractive people, men and women have a significantly higher advantage in life, maybe call it an asset.
Looks are an asset.

Wealth tax is a tax on your fucking assets. You gonna tax looks too?

If I consume less, I should pay less tax. A tax on wealth is a tax on hardwork and savings. People should be rewarded for spending wisely, not penalized.

Once you have a solution for other inherent advantages in life apart from money, and how to account for them, come back.
Oftentimes when this sort of stat is quoted, it is because of social security payments to retired people - for example, Florida
I'm not even sure this formula is WRONG. It's just not great for morale.

Residents are generally under 34 and in good heath. In the USA, only ~2400 people 34 have died from COVID--and that is mostly people with comorbidites.

In comparison about ~250,000 people over 55 have died.

You'd obviously have do account for life-years lost, risk of exposure [1], etc. I wouldn't be shocked if giving the vaccine to a 25 year old resident is a sub-optimal choice.

[1]Based on my MiL's experience (an ER doc), the risk of infection at a hospital is a lot lower than it used to be because they have PPE now. She's more worried about catching it from her son who works in an office. That said, they need to take into account risk of exposure and risk that the residents spread it to others.
> Here you are repeating second hand criticism as if it were your own because you have not even read Go

I literally just said I have read GoF, but go off. Maybe work on your reading comprehension, and also your tone.
The Mysterious Poets of the London Underground Drop Their Masks
> This is akin to Fauci saying he didn't think we should be wearing masks, and changing his mind as more data came in.

Those aren't similar situations at all.

Fauci's comments are based on the data that's available at a particular time, about an ongoing, evolving situation, so it makes sense that his advice will change as the situation evolves.

On the other hand, this news story was was about a series of events that already happened and were no longer on going. All of the facts were out there but the journalists just didn't do their research.

So it's great that they're retracting the story, but they never should have published it in the first place.
> The state of Texas as a whole is not going to do that.

What makes you so sure of that? Texas has a huge middle and working class. If asked I bet majority of Texans wouldn’t mind taxing their upper class. I think it is only a matter of time before politician is able to win over this vote share by targeting the state’s richest for taxation.
But framing was also the alleged crime: conspiracy to commit interstate harassment. If Zoom had disabled the user accounts or the meeting (which I'd argue are also "disrupting meetings"), there might not have been a crime.
That's interesting. Which historical fact from the 1619 Project do you dispute?
Is that because the European invaders almost wiped off all traces of culture, people, & civilization that existed before their arrival?
100% agree.

Wont stop the bad faith actors who love to erode trust in reliable media so their own (flawed and dubious) views become more credible by comparison.
Google is a victim of its own success and of the increasing global accessibility of networked communications. If 90% of the American search market were split between 5 companies of roughly equal popularity, the ROI of gaming ranking to trick any one of those implementations would be much lower. There would be fewer people who could make a living by faking relevance/quality signals for junk.

Right now the best paying job many people with unspecialized skills can get is "tricking people into clicking things they shouldn't." Google is sorely taxed trying to keep up with the antics of a million people whose career is trying to game Google. Early Google was better because the people really desperate for money couldn't even afford to get online. That was a glaring inequity that doubled as a crude spam filter [1]. I think about this every time a real live person telephones me on behalf of "Windows Support."

[1] This is a large part of what I miss when I'm pining for the early Web. Practically everyone publishing online then had to be either more affluent than average or cleverer than average to get into Club Web. People contributing on the early Web were almost all financially situated independent of what they were contributing, so Web participation was almost all done out of passion rather than financial desperation. Authors didn't worry about how to get paid for what they wrote online and readers didn't worry about how to support their favorite sites either. People in the club were understood to have other means of sustenance. If you didn't, you wouldn't be in the club in the first place!
Parroting Christopher Hitchens: what is presented without proof can be dismissed without proof

Mutations that have a real impact on the RNA of the virus are incredibly rare. Most random mutations and errors replicating don't produce any meaningful change in the virus and you have to get very unlucky for a deadly mutation to happen.

We should stick to scientific rationalism even if it has limits. There has been too much opportunistic fear-mongering and questionable decision making playing advantage off the back of a natural virus.

This thing obeys the laws of physics, kills people in a particular pattern and can be managed with scientific tools we have had forever. There is simply no need for everybody to be hysterical yet again, when the science of the virus can be so easily spelled out for the masses.

But noo, we have to have a boogeyman to build a network of cultural changes. This particular mechanism of hijacking a natural disaster for control is embarrassingly transparent.
Or move to a place where the law is more supportive.
Also in the case of corona, the virus is more infectious if it is in the upper respitrory system and not in the lung.
Just not how it works, but I don't really feel like engaging in an argument. Technical readers of this chain will know who is right.
Strongly agreed on all points. If WA, TX or NC ban noncompetes its basically over for CA. All of these areas have some great universities, major airports and a solid tech base already.
Who wants to see ads? The fact that people buy on impulse shouldn't be the defining reason for trashing privacy. Like someone else said, we're not only consumers and the tracking goes beyond the boundaries of commerce.
1. Don’t outsource 18,000 organizations’ security to the same vendor.

2. Don’t homogenize all the platforms.

3. Reproducible builds; in all likelihood the build server was compromised.
Only use Instagram on desktop + browser. Switch your user agent in the browser to mobile and enjoy a less invasive experience.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25478166
What I'm really looking forward to is the modding community. A game about cyberpunk hacking and bodymods can only be enhanced by customization. What the communities have done with Oblivion, Skyrim, and Fallout series is amazing and I am sure we'll see some very good mods for 2077.
Homelessness is a mental health problem and judges won't allow forced stays in mental institutions.
OH no... I've had plenty of issues.

A lot of weird graphical glitches. A game-ending bug that locks you into the Maelstrom base and prevents you from leaving (had to restart from an older save game to get around that one). Non-aggressive NPCs can't always be hit by melee weapons, meaning I have to let the gang members go aggro on me before I introduce them to Mrs. Sockety Wench.

As far as completeness, I actually take a little of an opposite position. There's a lot of really neat side quests, and if you read the shards, there's a ton of interconnectedness. I was hired to kill a corporate executive, then later in just a simple assault quest, I got a datashard indicating she put a hit out on someone.

And there's tons of intersections like this. The Delamain side quest is genuinely one of the best in the game.

Yes, NPC and vehicle AI needs a serious overhaul. Yes, the game probably needed another 12-18 months of development, but its still a decent game even with all these faults.
After 15 years of Java and 4 years of Scala I have had a chance to use Kotlin recently. I was pleasantly surprised.

(+)
* Kotlin is basically a poor man's Scala. So you get most of the syntactic sugar with no need to study much.
* Seamless integration with the the Java ecosystem from libraries to IntelliJ. In contrast with the Scala world,
so far they seem to be pushing less for building Kotlin native replacements for already existing battle-tested things.
* Not that many people trying to write Haskel in Kotlin than in Scala. So less potential for scaring away people and especially companies.
* No big new ideas (other than concurrency but from what I have seen most people just ignore that area altogether) so easy adoption

(?)
* their idiomatic approach to concurrency is highly unusual. It feels very different in comparison to most mainstream ideas (j.u.c, futures, actors). Very unlike Java or even Scala. Very little literature available on the best practices. In this respect I'd rather see project Loom come to fruition.
* their approach to null safety is less verbose than Options but tends to permeate the entire code base quickly. I love me some ternary operator but their
abbreviations remind me more hard to remember Scala collections.
I am not convinced I want to see that noise for limited benefits (NPEs are more common than OOMEs but still unusual).
There will also be a little tension with DI/ORM frameworks where not everything is initialized in constructors.

(-)
No killer app (such as Spark for Scala).
No obvious candidate to be what Akka is in Scala or Spring in Java.
No traction in the Bay Area at least this year. I literally have not seen a single backend job. For comparison, there were Scala jobs
here in 2010 when the toolchain was worse than abysmal.
No buzz in blogs. Nothing like Scala/Clojure/Erlang ten years ago or Rust/golang nowadays.
GOOG PR probably makes people think it's a frontend language.

I routinely encounter companies/teams that say that they cannot attract enough smart people to migrate to Scala.
It's extremely surprising in 2020 but it's a fact. For those people Kotlin is a perfect alternative, 80/20-style.
This is the camel's nose in the tent. If this is adopted, the threshold will move down and the percentage will move up and eventually will touch everyone.

Liberal politics turn everyplace into a disaster. CA was at a high bar so it is taking a little longer.
I thought this was going to be about how the FDIC closes a failed bank. They have a good procedure for that. When the FDIC takes over a failed bank, they do it at the close of business on a Friday. On Monday, the bank re-opens with FDIC employees at the teller windows, paying out amounts up to the FDIC insurance limit. But that's not it.

Instead, it was about not disclosing the balance sheets of state banks during the Great Depression. The authors argue that a coverup of the condition of troubled banks helped to keep outflows down. It doesn't go into whether it minimized customer losses.

The US is down to four big retail banks now. The big four (Chase, BofA, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo) are all above $1 trillion. The failure of any one of those would overwhelm the FDIC. So seeing this paper from the FDIC and New York Fed suggests this might be political cover for hushing up problems at one of the big banks.

Here's are the author's CVs.[1][2] The author from the Fed is a nerd's nerd of finance. Check out his papers. The author from the FDIC is more policy-oriented. Her work revolves around what happens when the financial system is in trouble, which makes sense for someone at the FDIC. She's spoken at the Cato Institute and the American Enterprise Association, which are right-wing think tanks.

Hm.

[1] https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/cfr/researchers/andersoncv.pdf
[2] https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/econo...
This guy is an Apple fanboy. How can you even argue in favour of its "privacy protections" when the OS has embedded advertising IDs you can only reset but not remove, logs and reports every application you launch to the motherboard, etc? The FB case is embarrassing, but let's not also drink the Apple kool-aid too.
Like Switzerland, but for Chinese people (and tropical, friendlier, flatter and grimier).
Show HN: Sticky-kubeconfig – Unique kubeconfig per terminal session
passive income is taxed.
This isn’t accurate.

The reason Fauci (and others) said not to wear masks early on is because there was a shortage and they wanted to be sure medical professionals could have access to masks.

Medical professionals have known for a century that masks help prevent the spread of disease - particularly an airborne or aerosolized.
In general, I have found any sort of kneejerk attempts of auditing “unsafe” functions and replacing them with “safe” alternatives to not really go all that well. Often, the people pushing the replacements actually have no idea about the supposedly “safe” replacements (almost all of them suck in at least one major way) and the people doing the replacements even less so. So people waste time and make their programs slower and harder to read for little benefit.
I'm not sure why it would be an order of magnitude more money. Bandcamp takes 10-15% while Spotify takes 30%. So potentially 90 cents on the dollar instead of 70. Unless you're including other factors?
> But of course we are far from having the ability to measure or even formally describe this concept.

I read—within recent memory—"Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts" by Stanislas Dehaene and was very surprised by just how much consciousness research is being done and how much has been learned. It was really very interesting and I think this research has the potential to make the trade offs between suffering and possible recovery much easier to answer. (This isn't to disagree with you, just to express my surprise that, although I agree with you, researchers actually know/suspect a lot more than I thought they did.)
It's a city with enough stuff to do for a weekend. Haw Par villa, the gardens and parks, etc.
Well, the US federal government thinks this is fine.
Citizens still have to file, and often pay taxes if they move out of the country.
If one renounces their citizenship they are liable for up to 10 years of exit taxes.
Support for that in Austin? I doubt it. Not enough support that it has any chance of passing, anyway.

(I say this as someone who doesn't live in Texas, and doesn't actually know. It's just my impression from afar. Add the appropriate amount of salt...)
Even an ethics researcher at Google can't give ultimatums. Who elected her the supreme leader of AI ethics? For example I have read her papers and Twitter messages and never have I seen any shred of inclusiveness towards my race. If some people are passionate and strive to do something, work hard and advance in their career, then all their accomplishments can be explained away as race privilege. The irony is that she's being presented as a fighter for equality.
... It's not the same company. The "HotBot" name and domain were sold for $155k in 2016 to an unnamed buyer[0]

0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotBot
Making of NER Annotator / NER Tagger for Spacy
I believe switzerland has no capital gains tax though. I did some napkin math a few weeks ago with a buddy who was considering moving there and we found that there are some situations where you would actually pay less tax vs US capital gains.
Yes, and I regret making a snarky comment.

There are clearly quite a few people who are determined to avoid flying on a 737 Max (or avoid Boeing altogether) and also seem to expect this to be a widespread view. While I can understand the former (though not hold it myself), there is no realistic prospect of the latter.

I can't verify the safety of airliners either, but so long as they are flown by an on-board crew of professional pilots, there will be a body of informed* people with a vested interest in keeping things safe.

* Though not always fully informed, which is, of course, a big part of the 737 Max debacle.
It's worth looking at ahem unauthorised versions before buying, just to check what they're like.

The Beauty of Fractals contains a lot of colour plates with images that were remarkable for 1986. There's plenty of math on every page. (It really crams a lot of math in).

The Science of Fractal Images is a bit longer. It has fewer colour plates. There's a bit less math (or maybe it's just spread out a bit more?) and there are some pseudo-code descriptions of algorithms.

The other two are much lighter. AK Dewdney's books were aimed at general readers of Scientific American who had access to a home computer. Computers, Pattern Chaos, and Beauty is eclectic. There's some math, and plenty of pseudocode examples.

Being honest: I don't know how well they've aged. Other people might have better descriptions, or alternative suggestions?
The photo in the article looks very murky. But Lake Michigan can look really Blue in the summer, and has places with great sand beaches. It feels almost tropical in the summer. Probably the zebra mussels filtering the lake have cleared it up.
American moral authority is mostly an American thing. The rest of the world has not believed in that concept since the end of World War II, because that's when America was seen as having it, and after that they did what they could to get rid of it with a small 'up' during the Berlin airbridge period.
Shen in 15 Minutes
AWS Proton is Conway’s Law-as-a-Service
The article calculates that the actual amount spent per "visible homeless person" was ~$3800 per year in 2018. The majority was spent on prevention.

It seems pretty fair to say that being off by 10x is "totally incorrect".
I agree, it really is puzzling. I think a lot of the campaigns against Apple these days are trying to attack the one thing that Apple holds precious: it's Brand. I know it isn't working but thats the idea. Apple is not a company that likes to conduct the business in public. The brand is for consumers and they spent a lot of money on that. This could just be away of trying to attack Apple using something they care about. Fortnite I think is similar. It sort of worked. We now have a big thread on HN about Apple fighting. Apple doesn't want this, even if they look like the winner.
The Army just released footage of its next-generation squad weapon prototypes
US is looking to replace its SAW and M4 carbines with weapons using a 6.8 mm cartridge. This is a break with the past as NATO has standardized on the 5.56.
The mere fact that CP2077 is still called 2020's biggest game launch is a testament to how much overhyped the game was. Biggest by what measure? Nah. Most marketed.
That's not very reassuring, why is the new strain causing any problems at all if it behaves exactly like the existing strain? And if they haven't actually done any trials or testing, then they haven't really looked for any evidence. If they haven't looked for any, it seems rather too convenient to use the lack of evidence as a reason for hope that the current crop of vaccines provides any protection at all.
It IS the case, and to be clear, it wasn’t just Fauci. It was the entire government and CDC.

Because, for some reason, the US didn’t take the threat of COVID seriously until three months after it was discovered.
This is always said “if only we were more competent/oppressive/empathetic people - we’d have done fine” instead of perhaps wondering whether much of the mitigation efforts and their implementation are a fraught and possibly even net-negative exercise.
Still waiting it to turn in a No Man's Sky, I hope?

I guess agile methods are just leaking into game development, and it means games cannot really have a release date anymore.

Anyway as always, ambitious game visuals must die and leave room for creative gameplay. Of course there is a market for visuals, but the AAA game market with their burned-out crunch time developers, high costs etc, will keep having trouble, to the joy of the many independent game developers who want to get the money blockbusters are getting.
If it was standard to compare a dependency graph of the program architecture pre and post build, then you would catch these sorts of things right away. Supply chain attacks are not new and I imagine at least some companies have a process like this in place already.
Isn't that priced into the cost of wealth already through insurance?
Lol no it isnt. Way to blame the victim.

People who play loud music in residential areas should go to prison for disturbing the lives of others.
That has nothing to do with it. Economic migration does not say anything about the moral authority of the USA, it mainly says that the USA is better off economically than many other places in the world (not in the least because of the mess the USA is creating in some of those countries).
This is accurate. More often than not, trying to do something good for others will end up making you feel like an idiot. For the person on the receiving end, you are a jackpot. Instead of being shown gratitude, you're likely to be exploited.

But then again, would it really be a genuine gesture on the giver's end if they were to filter based on the receiver's character or whether they will be grateful for it?

The positivity from you is likely to be absorbed by the negativity, never to be seen again, instead of snowballing into a boulder of positivity as you'd hoped. I feel the only answer is to be an endless source of positivity. In that case you're not worried whether the drops of positivity from you end up somewhere they're appreciated or not. The negativity sponges might suck you dry, so it's not for everyone. For most of us the answer might be to constrain our positivity outlets into safer, more controllable spaces (volunteering for an organization, etc.) where it is less likely that we might feel anything negative for our efforts.
Thank you for bringing smarter, better information. I stand corrected then.

>a^4 = b^2 = 1, a^3 b = ba
>has exactly eight elements

I suppose the missing issue (or at least the one I feel could have had more sunshine on it) is how and why elements of the monster groups are represented as this would more subtly capture the symmetry that keeps the group finite.
It's not so much symmetry as a subject unto itself, as the subtle interplay between group operations on the form of elements with symmetry that keeps the group finite.

Your term "a^4=1" has exactly that missing emphasis: take element 'a' (i.e. a square) and rotate it four times and it's the same as multiplying a by 1, which is the identity element. Ditto b^2: perform the mirror operation twice and again it's the same as doing b*1 etc.
I recall there was a low-bandwidth, "text only" version you could use for some years afterwards which was just the search box. Probably suitable for Lynx users. Then they added one banner.

I don't think the UI switchover was uniquely AltaVista-- remember this was the time when everyone wanted to be a portal and had to have a section with sports scores, repackaged news, and stock tracking.

Yahoo was the last man standing on that path, but I seem to recall a lot of hay being made about the Excite/@Home stuff where the ISPs were supposed to push their portal on unsuspecting customers.