skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, there is a major definition problem here.

Kindness can and should come with boundaries. No one is entitled to your time or energy. Choosing to spend that energy on another person, without thought of reward, is a form of kindness.

We can and probably should be polite to people by default. That is a way of showing kindness. If the other person decides to be a blackhole, leave them. If they are harming someone, you are free to (and probably should) warn other people.

Kindness does not require you let people take advantage of you.
Google banned Windows machines from their workforce a decade ago (due to getting hacked by the Chinese).

Has Google relaxed that ban in any way? I.e. does Google believe that Windows 10 is now secure?

What other major corporations or government departments have followed Google’s example since 2010?
He's had a lot of criticism, but I don't think he has done too badly. And that's coming from someone who is normally left-leaning, and not a fan of him. There were definite mistakes at the beginning, and a blase attitude resulted in a bad first wave for the UK. It's still not completely clear why the death rate was so high - may be related to the way the coronavirus ripped through care homes early on, or simply because the UK could have locked down a week or two earlier. Not to mention the mess up with ventilators and PPE.

But since then, the UK has handled the second wave reasonably well. People aren't talking about the crazy high rates in France and Spain which were exceeding the US for much for time, and with a corresponding high death rate too. I don't know what's going on with Germany, but their previously pristine record looks like it's being shattered at the moment...

I think something changed after Boris went to hospital.
The basis for the US being in Afghanistan is allowing the 9/11 operatives to train there, and yet we haven't bombed Florida (where they also trained).

And at no point since this madness started has there ever been a declaration of what "victory" looks like.

But yeah, let's celebrate the troops! Hooray for our warriors who "keep America safe". Let's pour even more money into this madness and wave the flag, shall we?
For those of us who don’t want the ads at all, oh well. When I want ads I can go to Amazon.
Masks might slow it, but they're everywhere in the Bay Area, and cases are rising faster than ever, and we're setting new records for new cases, so "just wear a mask in public" isn't enough.
You might be right, in any case the restrictions are not enforced immediately resulting in the bleeding obvious:

(steady stream of traffic leaving London:

https://twitter.com/Keyboar58668342/status/13403788744594022...
> If it’s so small as to not be meaningful, why collect it?

The way I see it, it is small for the taxpayer. It is not insignificant for the state.

Personally, I don't own any land and I'd be pretty happy if we stripped property tax from local government and made one uniform federal property tax set somewhere between five percent and ten percent of the market value of the property annually with the goal that you will pay about the sticker price of the property in taxes every ten or so years. In return, the state will grant a housing allowance to every eligible resident over the age of eighteen which covers two times the cost of a modest two bedroom somewhere in the US. It won't be enough for a two bedroom in mid-town Manhattan but we will have guidelines that enable you to live somewhere habitable (access to decent road/transit options, running drinking water and sewage, electricity, reliable wired Internet access).

No allowance is available to or for anyone under the age of eighteen. No provision shall be made for regional differences in cost of living. No exemption shall be made with respect to tax-exempt status or any other reason. All agreements made with local governments (like the ones corporations like Walmart make to not pay any property tax for a hundred years or something) will not affect the property tax they pay under this new tax regime.

If we implement this and close income tax loopholes, we won't need to have a wealth tax. We will also not need to vilify corrupt officials in the CCP government in mainland China and other investors for "parking" their money in empty properties in the west and driving up the cost of real estate. We will instead thank them for their contribution to our communities through property taxes.

The most important thing is there should be no loopholes in tax policy. I really think most people in the US will agree that we shouldn't be driving policy issues through tax credits/deductions. It makes no sense to me to give tax credits or deductions for buying a house, selling a car, having a child, saving money in a health saving account, investing money for retirement, or donating to charity. All credits and deductions (going forward) in personal income tax should go away forever. All of this is basically a human shield for the wealthy to hide their tax loopholes.
Since this algorithm is obviously flawed this way, is it likely to be flawed with respect to the timing of the second dose?

Every report I’ve seen from experiment subjects (who may have received the placebo) indicates that the second dose sucked for 2-3 days, and was much worse than the first.

If you give all your, for example, ICU staff the second dose at the same time, and then they can’t work for 2 days, how do you staff that?

Did you plan for this, or will it be a surprise that “The Algorithm” missed?
This is the best game I have played in perhaps a decade. There is dozens of bugs, but nothing big enough to break my enjoyment.
What are guard-bands?
Usually when a man speaks out against censorship, he tends to still want to censor whatever he finds abhorrent himself.

A rather big difference is also the relatively lower level of activity on those alternatives.
> covid has kept him fairly serious.

no it hasn't, it's kept him doing what he always does, wandering from tactical decision to tactical decision. the March lockdown only happened when public pressure became unbearable, he allowed the treasury to subsidise people eating in restaurants, he continues, in month nine, to hand large contracts to unqualified mates, both wasting money and reducing the ability to deal with the pandemic, and despite it being a once-in-a-century pandemic, did not ask for an extension on the disorganised negotiations with the EU, meaning that in the middle of December, it's still unclear how trade with EU, including...food and medicine, is meant to work in 12 days.

his entire career is just making the easy choice in the moment with no forethought.
Cool. I like the work they did but the Pico-8 is not an 8 bit console comparable to the NES just for the single fact that it runs waaay faster.
Highly unlikely. You overestimate our ability to genetically edit things and predict what the outcome will be. The virus is mutating at a rate of about one mutation/month - that's fairly standard.
Not for rural sates. Farm subsidies, military spending, and rural healthcare initiatives etc, move a lot of money to such areas. Social Security disability is also used by poor states to get people off their welfare rolls.

Infrastructure costs are U shaped where extreme density is expensive, but so very low density. Mail delivery is a clear example where ultra low density just makes things more expensive.
Posting it twice is a terrible suggestion.
They don't support that content is king, they support that ease of use is king.

Imagine if, to upload a TikTok video, you had to bring it into an editing suite as complex as DaVinci Resolve and tweak all kind of things... add and refine audio tracks... color grade it, etc. It wouldn't have taken off at all.

What all these platforms have in common is that even idiots can use them to make "content"... if you can even call it that.
More could be had. That's impossible for anyone to argue against, I think -- there is a lot of wealth in the pie that most people don't have access to.

This idea that poor people need to shut up and stop complaining because "you have TikTok!" when there are tens of millions of people who don't know where their next meal will come from is, frankly, sickening to me.

I don't understand your perspective at all, and I don't know how you can look at the lives of the millions of people in the in the richest country in the world who can't afford medicine, food, safe housing, good education and say that "they should stop being so jealous."

Please, please change my mind. Tell me how your point makes any kind of moral sense.
The braking of the cars reminds me of driving my Mom's minivan in high school, whose brake pads had been corroded by road salt.
Just like carpeting a hillside with billboards would be? Ads are hardly a net benefit. Other ways of getting the word out to people who actually want the thing will be available.
> reduce their outsized power on the political system

Why do you want to take away decision-making power from people who know how to make [a lot of] money?
The game crashing consoles regularly is most certainly out of spec of any certification process. People have been reporting crashes as frequently as every half hour to every two hours.

This opens up liability to Sony, who have a high risk of many sales being converted to refunds, which both hurts their brand and is not great financially.

People can still buy the game in physical forms, but that at least absolves Sony from the sales side of things.

One suggestion elsewhere has been on Xbox where it may make sense to move the game to early access instead.

And again, regardless, the console version runs terribly right now. It should not be for sale on console hardware that can't support it, if the case is that the game requires better hardware. There's a reason minimum required specs exist on PC versions for example.
Maybe they meant to say 0.4, without any qualifier - i.e. that the rate went from 0.7-0.8 to 1.1-1.2? A change from the lower end of the old range to the higher end of the new range would match the 70% increase in transmissibility.

(though that would require an increase of almost 0.5)
TerraPi modular case system for Raspberry Pi supports multiple SSD's, DIN rail
CDPR is made up of developers, artists, QA staff, managers, marketers, a board of executives and other roles. Journalism reports and publicly available call transcripts are painting a picture of internal conflict between the creators and leadership. In this context, “developers” means the creative roles within CDPR.
Yep I think the project suffers from their own focus on racism has made them as biased as their competition. It's one thing to point out the influence and connections to racism/slavery/people of color on American history and society but it's incorrect to include it at the top of the food chain as the primary motivator of everything down through American history. That's just a naive and lazy argument. I love when people point out the hypocrisy of those who want to sweep such topics under the rug, but to consider them as the primary reason this country exists and why we are the way we are is ludicrous.
When many policies that start in California get adopted by much of the Democratic party, even the ideas being proposed show that it is the direction at least some subset of the party wants to go down. When WSJ opinion section is covering pieces like this, it's to point out the ideas that the Democrats are floating. While it may not have passed this time, it's setting the foundation for future debate on the topic.

If you want a news side of it, here's the WSJ news talking about it during the primaries when many of the candidates were discussing it: https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-emerging-tax-idea-loo...
I'm sure this is likely. It's quite concerning, as it may mean that we need a full lock-down (as in people not going to work) until we have a majority of the population vaccinated.
Yes, except Fauci was against masks because of fake science, I mean because of supply. I.e
He lied. (And has admitted it was because of supply).

https://www.thestreet.com/video/dr-fauci-masks-changing-dire...

And most anti-maskers are against it because of government overreach. Unrelated to science.

A third party has emerged. The "we'll believe and parrot anything because it's what we're told".

They act in the following realm (whether they are aware or not):
Cotton/cloth masks don't work. But it qualifies as a mask so checkbox! Moral superiority is on my side whether science is or not doesn't matter.
How long did it take? How many miles per day?
Yes, but from what I heard from my parents (who are ex-editor of major publications) there was a lot of skepticism from bureau chiefs on the war beat. The NYT is a diverse organization and there are factions.
I setup an ESP8266, (wemos mini-d1), to fetch a remote image and display it:

https://steve.fi/hardware/d1-epaper/

It wasn't easy as I couldn't get GIF/JPG, or similar, working. As the library I was using used a buffer my RAM usage was twice as much as expected. In the end I used a simple home-made RLE-kinda image encoding. Then I'd stream those updates.
Most podcast apps stop auto-downloading dead feeds.
My first question was how much academic literature written in rust is there.
Here are some tips, and I would say especially in law, where you may tend to talk in principles when in fact numbers do become important.

-- 1. Take an interest in data. Be interested in the details of how statistics and numbers make things more complicated than black or white. Take a look each day at some of the more popular plots on https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ . Go to wikipedia and read about the demographic distribution of the USA, or the federal tax brackets, and how you would visualize those in data. And think about what data, numbers, information you would need to plot such things. Write down the example data you would need and think about how to plot it, or make some conclusion about it. Think about where in your cases you would bring in data (and of what kind) to support the point.

-- 2. Be interested in why small differences in data can change the "takeaway" point of what you're seeing. What would it take in numbers to reach the conclusion you're reaching? How reliable are those numbers, and how do they interact that some error in one would change your whole conclusion? Learning to like the detail behind a "principle" is important. When Justice xyz questioned the petitioner on the distance radius of doctors who were able to be affiliated with an abortion-performing hospital and the effect on the number of women with access to medical procedures, why did that matter?

-- 3. Don't be satisfied with the summary numbers that someone tells you. Learn to ask the next level question about the numbers and think about what it means. When some article or person on the news says, "xyz went up by 30%", ask for more -- what number did it go from to? When was it measured, and by what metric? What was the error? If it went from 3 to 4, well, is that meaningful to say it went up by 30%? When they say a vaccine has 90% efficacy, what does that mean? What numbers are they looking at to say such a thing? What number would you look at?

You will know you've reached a level of quantitative thinking when you can call bullshit on other people's claimed statistics, or ask "did they really measure that in a meaningful way?".

If you don't take an interest in numbers and how people present them, and what they mean, you can just be led around by other people who are in control of them. It will be in your interest and increase your future success against adversaries to feel comfortable with numbers.
I think that misses part of the point.

WASM meets their feature needs. WASM is at the core of it.

But, they needed a widely accessible language to tell people to use. This helps with examples and guidance. They chose AssemblyScript due to their customers being familiar with JS.

It looks like I could write what I need in Go or Rust, for example, and build for WASM. They’re just not putting that up front. This is about making an easy path for most people.

The way it’s put together is about n making their customers successful rather than building all that’s possible
One side effect that was mentioned at the time was people engaging in risky behaviour thinking they'll be protected by the mask.

Medicine also isn't in the "we recommend it because there aren't many reasons against it" business. They neither recommended masks nor warned against them, but laid out the facts: "we don't (didn't) know. We're scrambling to get data. We'll let you know"

I'm honestly baffled that the concept of a trial is so alien to people, and that nobody seems to be capable of the tiny transference of recognising that masks are no different than a pill. I could come up with a possible reason Aspirin might work: maybe it's the fever that kills, Aspirin lowers it. The risk is known and rather small. Should medical science recommend everyone to take Aspirin? Does it seem entirely implausible that a significant number of people would say/think "It's not the best time for a wedding, but everyone has taken triple doses of Aspirin so it should be fine"
I don't see any proof / evidence in the article that it was the CIA.
> So Zuckerberg pressured people to 'do something about this'.

From which logically follows "This is something, therefore we must do it."

Yeah, the actual audience for the ad might just be "Facebook executives", and no one else, for all practical purposes.

It would be interesting to know whether any metrics (NPS, perhaps?) are even being tracked that the campaign is intended to influence, or if this marks a regression to the "half of my ad budget is wasted, I just don't know which half" days of yore.
> South Korea

You might want to check the news on South Korea. They're hitting daily records right now. This isn't to say they're at US levels, but with their current measures, they don't have control of the virus.
I don't mean necessarily in this case, but I did mean in general. However, simply pointing out a section heading isn't enough (and I didn't see anything on page 47). What do you think of the evidence they presented?

Additionally, grand juries are well known to simply be tools of the prosecution with >90% of grand jury presentations voting to indict, in part because the prosecutor can present whatever narrative they want, in secret, without any checks other than their conscience without a counter narrative.
"It's important to remember that Facebook can precisely measure the impact of news articles like this"

What would that measurement look like? What is the control group for a news cycle? What signal would you expect to see change?
>This is not correct.

No it's not.

That 200 USD fine for smoking in hotel rooms? What do you think happens afterwards? Buy a bunch of activated carbon filters? Or get a professional ozone odor removal provider to roll in their with their gear?
My entire take was explicitly _not_ based on discounting the value of older people's years. Also, the loss from death is felt by loved ones regardless and is approximately the same whether someone dies this month, next month or next year. Generally, w.r.t. the pandemic we are very rarely talking about someone that is losing more than a couple years. I explicitly said I was not discounting the value of older people's years - for the sake of conservative argument. You aren't arguing against my point. You just found a way to turn it into an emotional issue. I care about old people. I have 3 grandparents in their mid 80s who I love very much. Although it might be easy to allow yourself to dismiss my argument because you can convince yourself that I just don't care about my fellow man and the aging population - that is simply not the case. I was saying that a reasonable argument could be made for discounting those years, but I didn't for my numbers arg. My point still stands.
Yeah, I wish that there was an option in Google (or anything else) to rank my results based on a criteria other than "many people near you have searched for the same thing". Sure, this is helpful for current events but for other things I've been finding that my results are garbage blogs written by an AI and I'm needing to append "reddit" to the end of my query to get a real answer
“Apple is only different in what they don't collect“. This seems essentially false.

Facebook makes almost all of its money out of targeting ads based on user profiling. Also true for Google.

Apple makes none of its money that way. Apple is the same as almost all businesses in this regard.
Corruption: Greasing the Wheels of the World
I've tried to make games in my spare time before. Working in Bevy is the first time I've made actual progress on my projects.

There's something about the way the ECS framework is designed that just works. In particular the way the "systems" part of the ECS is automagically generated from regular old rust functions is just brilliant to me.

Aside from the ECS stuff, the WASM support is something else I'm pretty happy with (shout out to mrk-its for their help here). I can compile my game for native when I'm working on it locally, then when I want to show it off I can just `aws s3 cp` it up to a bucket and have people try it out in their browsers. The performance is still great there.
My mom died of that at 67.

And now I wait in fear it will happen to me too.

That was a great article. Sad I missed the original discussion.
>A function is a "thing", you should rather compare it to an entity in the English language.

It's more a verb that does an action on a noun. You can't express the concept with just a word.

add one to number

>Why do we say washing machine instead of a home appliance powered by electricity used to wash laundry through the use of centrifugal force?

Obviously there's no need to describe the plumbing behind the machine just the purpose of the machine is good enough. Everyone understands what a washing machine does as it's culturally a part of our language. If I lived in a civilization without washing machines and I had to implement it as a variable name in code I would call it "clothes_washing_machine" because of added clarity and no actual harm done with the extra word.

>When naming things you need to balance descriptiveness with conciseness, a name is not a definition.

Sure and I'm saying most people are wrong about where this "balance" actually lies. People place too much emphasis on conciseness.

>As a rule of thumb, avoid specifying things that can be easily guessed, especially if they are right there in your function signature (!):

I don't like readers to do any guessing at all. It's wrong to make assumptions that a guess that comes easily to me will come easily to my audience such is the nature of documentation and documentation as code. I want people to read my code like they read english. But that's just my opinion.

def find_animals_in_pic(picture: Picture) -> List[XYCoordinates]:

I mean what's the benefit of shortening this. I'm looking at this function and I'm feeling nothing happened. You just did extra work.

If I want to be nit, XYCoordinates should not be plural, List should contain many Types each called XYCoodinate. XYCoordinate(s) is better used as an alias for the entire list.

Additionally my function only operates on cats, dogs and baboons. It does not operate on all animals. Someone can mistakenly use this function to try to find lions and tigers and bears Oh my!

But that's besides my point. You attempted to shorten my function name while preserving meaning for which I totally understand the point you were trying to convey. What I'm saying is your changes are logically negligible. They do nothing to improve understanding of the program while trivially shortening things. Nothing practical occurred here. It's simply the scratching of an OCD need for more poetic names.