skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>One wonders if the virus is now "airborne"? Is that something viruses can actually do, ontop of being passed on through water droplets after coughing/sneezing.

It always has been. The virus is aerosolized through exhalation, and spreads much like secondhand smoke [0].

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092575352...
Which side of a gun do you want pointed at you?
I remember the first time I had heard of Google -- it was ALREADY used as a verb!

I was interning at Xerox PARC (adjacent to Stanford campus) in summer 2000. As far as I remember, I used Alta Vista at the time.

Somebody asked a question, and one of the researchers/intern mentors said to "Google it"! I think there were some puzzled looks, but we tried it, and I started using Google and never went back.

When I returned to college in the fall, I remember my former housemate saying how good Google was too. She had started using it too. Once people started using it, they never stopped!
Nailed it, serfdom was implemented exactly for the purpose of preventing tax evasion. Something something... doomed to repeat it.
> He was caught on a timeline lie, confronted by the journalist, he adjusted his timeline

The fact that they kept going after this (and didn't investigate further) is when you start having serious issues. You can see her attacking the Canadian police once it starts coming to light more and more that he was lying - she was attached to the story (and the fame) and didn't want to hear otherwise. [0]

I am glad that the NYT retracted it, this was a good move, but I think this ought to be career-ending for her.

[0]: https://twitter.com/rcallimachi/status/1309620500176556032
Cool idea, but I think I broke the search with quantum computing. No papers to download, no links, and no related pages. Just 404s

https://inciteful.xyz/p/186039733?&keywords=hello&maxDistanc...
Exactly, it's not possible to control for that, just propaganda to promote volunteering as a good thing.
right, i meant in terms of elevation. any converted rail track would not be to steep for bikes.

but obviously, just ripping out the rails is not enough. a lot more work id needed to make a rail track usable for biking.
disagree. visible homelessness flows from drug addiction and mental illness. everyone else is unhappy not living in someone else's nice house that they think they deserve instead. its not because of NIMBYism. i support NIMBYs. if you dont care about your backyard, who will..its nuts to hand over your backyard to those who dont even live there. entirely irrational and illogical. do you expect some random stranger to run your house and manage your budget and take instructions from them? same thing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/17/bloomberg...
Especially under water.
I think we're making different points here.

Where a company comes up with some terms that are illegal those particular clauses in the terms are unenforcable, but if the terms are within the law then they're the contract between you and the company, and both sides have to agree for the contract to be binding i.e. before the company will provide you the goods/service specified in the contract. If you don't agree to the terms then there's no agreement between you and the company, and the company is under no obligation to provide you with service.
Yeah I was skeptical about the effectiveness of their statistical controls. But the study with high school tutors allowed to tutor or assigned to a waitlist seems like pretty conclusive evidence that volunteering actually benefits health.
That sentiment is quite understandable. But I think the health benefits of this outlook is more about being able to let go of these hang-ups and injustices that you attribute to other people. Victim-hood is mostly a state of mind. There reaches a point where you choose to stay there.
nah, if you make $100k (especially if it's straight W-2 income) you have basically just entered the range where you have enough disposable cash to be worth taking but not enough to do anything about it. no one will say so explicitly, but this group is the prime target for taxation.
PC gaming culture (you can play it on that rig but it'll barely run) Vs console gaming culture (it should work and performance shouldn't be a thing you think about)
> 1) They are difficult to enforce. How to measure the value of a famous painting? What if the value does down? Is there a refund of wealth taxes?

The Netherlands has had a general wealth tax since 2001 and there have not been many practical issues AFAIK. There are separate regimes for (1) primary residence (which get yearly assessments based on comparable sales/house price indices), (2) significant (>5%) business ownership (businesses need balance sheets/valuations anyway) and (3) all other assets taxed at around 1.2% of net asset value, first 30k exempt. There are no capital gains taxes. The value is assessed on 1 Jan every year. Whatever happens during the year is ignored.

For bucket (3) the vast majority are in practice held in financial assets (stocks, bonds, savings, loans) and non-primary residence) real estate, most of these are pretty straightforward to value. There are explicit exemptions for art and science artifacts, pension investments (401k), movable property for personal use (cars, furniture) [1].

There's a good degree of pragmatism is most of this. The tax authorities realize that trying to squeeze some drops of people with Picasso's in their basements is largely a waste of time and effort. Rich people typically don't hold a large part of their wealth in illiquid, difficult-to-appraise assets for obvious reasons.

[1] Here's a list in Dutch: https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontentnl/...
Don't you have a protest to be at?
You had "hello" as a keyword. I removed it and saw a bunch of papers pop up.
$50m * 0.004 = $200,000.

You might be interested in this nice lottery the state also offers. Some call it a tax for those who are bad at math.
thanks for pointing this out.
React is awesome. Can you share a link to the dev branch on which development is on?
I understand the default though on iOS is to have tracking enabled — but present the user with an alert to allow them to turn it off.
The UK government has stated that there is no evidence the vaccine will not be effective against this strain. And from the bmj:

The new variant has mutations to the spike protein that the three leading vaccines are targeting. However, vaccines produce antibodies against many regions in the spike protein, so it’s unlikely that a single change would make the vaccine less effective.

Over time, as more mutations occur, the vaccine may need to be altered. This happens with seasonal flu, which mutates every year, and the vaccine is adjusted accordingly. The SARS-CoV-2 virus doesn’t mutate as quickly as the flu virus, and the vaccines that have so far proved effective in trials are types that can easily be tweaked if necessary.

Peacock said, “With this variant there is no evidence that it will evade the vaccination or a human immune response. But if there is an instance of vaccine failure or reinfection then that case should be treated as high priority for genetic sequencing.”
I haven’t played the game and don’t play video games too often, so my thoughts here perhaps sound naive.

“NPCs not having a problem being attacked” and “cars running on tracks” could be intentional design choices, right? We can speculate that the game’s feature set is unfinished, but is it also not possible that this video game in its “finished” state just isn’t what people wanted it to be? Clearly there are bugs and I agree the product right now isn’t finished, but once any glitches and performance issues are fixed, I’m not sure if the gameplay will ever meet expectations.

Edit: not sure of why I have -5 points.
The proper technical solution would be to use a proper search backend, not solr, more like xapian, and sort by relevance. Newer and more relevant first. Even google codesearch can do that properly. And still tons faster than a dynamic ripgrep, which has to read every file.

Skipping old code might improve the noise, but people will always complain
California also has one of the lowest property taxes in the country. Income tax is high and so is sales tax but to look at a single form of taxation and conclude that taxes are high in general is a non sequitur. Texas, for instance, has high property tax but it would not be considered a high tax state for this reason alone. At the end of the day it costs a certain amount to run a modern government, the question is simply a matter of what taxes are the most fair way to finance it.

Note: California’s government probably could be leaner, but there is also broad bipartisan support for more prisons, police and firefighters. The California republican party’s focus on cutting spending overlooks the deeper problem that we aren’t getting good value on a lot of the spending and budget cuts only exasperate the problem. More meaningful institutional reforms are needed.
It's not bizarre. Certainly most "science-minded" people at the time of Galileo would be the most eager to burn him.
Part of what makes this difficult is a lack of written language for many of these. Also, humans existing in north america is a lot more recent than other ancient civilizations.
Why it is logical to buy Bitcoin (other than speculation) in 1-3 sentences?
Ehh, I completely and truly agree with you/feel the same way, but because I'm feeling a bit cynical right now, I have to say - the congressional representative getting it can be passed off as encouragement for his constituents to willingly get vaccinated in a time where there's quite a vocal bit of people who think Bill Gates is going to be swimming through their veins in a tiny submarine if they get it.

Now - could he have just vocally stated "I am your congressional rep - I have full trust in the vaccine and encourage you all to receive it as I wait for my time in the line of priority"

Yes, yes he could've.
Is that the case when the hosts are all in good shape (compared to even 200 years ago) and use "artificial" means to stay alive longer?
> Their retraction of a 2-year-old story was on their homepage (below the fold) yesterday.

Ultimately, whether she stays on their payroll is the decider for me as to whether they have journalistic integrity.

I was discussing this with my parents (both former editors of major publications) who have had to fire people for creating composite characters like this. The lack of basic fact checking, followed up by attacking the Canadian authorities [0] once it started to come to light that the story was untrue is very unsavory. I think this should be career-ending.

[0]: https://twitter.com/rcallimachi/status/1309620500176556032
> All FB does is lead to time-wasting, fake news, bigotry, envy etc. I'm glad I've signed out from desktop

This was good for a chuckle.

If you believe those things, why do you still have an account?
I read them the same. Now it is interesting that C++ is so much slower on cfold.
Wheat absorbs phosphorus from desert dust
Well, perhaps we are reacting to having been inundated with 1 & 2 for decades now and we loathe it, have found no benefit worth sacrificing our privacy for.
It depends on the type of the game. Deus Ex, Vampire the Masquerade, (many) Fallout games and countless others have no or little driving and I don't think it would really elevate those games.

Would Vampire the Masquerade be a better game if you could just drive between setpieces in a fully rendered city instead of having a loading screen? Probably, but it would also increase the development workload by an order of magnitude for what would effectively be a gimmick that wouldn't really add a lot to the game.

And even outside of RPGs, there are countless adventure and FPS games without vehicles. Doom doesn't have cars, neither does Tomb Raider, Devil May Cry or Resident Evil.

Of course if you're thinking of something like "GTA V, but you can't drive cars" then obviously that seems very tedious, but if you build the game with this constraint in mind it shouldn't be much of an issue. Then you can focus on other aspects of the game.

Cyberpunk is clearly not at its best when you're in a vehicle, and there's no telling what else they could've implemented and finished if they had cut it entirely and focused on other aspects of the game instead.
Good comment... you've made it clear with these two statements:

> On the one hand, the people who live there are genuinely horrible.

> So move to Texas or the south east. They clearly need an influx of ... something.

No, we don't. Please stay the fuck out of Texas. Its clear that what you really mean is, "These people don't share my radical political and social viewpoints, so they're bad."

Don't come anywhere close to our state. Californians are already fucking up Texas, starting with Austin. I've only met one California couple that were likable, and he grew up in a desert city of 317 and she grew up in Northern California.
Getting to the root of why and when our hair goes gray
Important to note that this has been known since early summer. There are multiple strains of SARS-Cov-2, and the original Wuhan strain is almost nonexistent in the US at this point. The mutated strain, while much more infectious, is actually much less deadly at the same time.
https://archive.vn/airAU
Here's what's on nytimes.come right now:

- UK imposes harsher crackdown in London

- Moderna's vaccine will be shipped next week across the US

- Pompeo says Russia was behind the SolarWinds hack

I'm not going to conclude from this that the UK relaxed its lockdown, the vaccine will not be shipped, and Pompeo said Russia was not behind the hack.

The happy medium is: know when a newspaper was in a position to know the truth and trust them if they were, or if the article explains its evidentiary basis in convincing detail.
I would say there's been a decline in American media since Bush the younger. As a kid the NYT and WSJ were both quite good. The WSJ sucks off the Republican party and the NYT publishes a bunch of crap. Neither really gets to the root of problems in the country.

For an internal publication the economist has definitely slipped. FT under Japanese ownership meanwhile is still quite solid.
> We're all aware, presumably, of cases where the corporate hierarchy demands action when the data suggests acting at all is harmful.

True in most cases - but probably not FB. According to Investopedia [0], Zuckerberg owns 57.9% of voting shares as of 2020-12-09. Board pressure has a lot less sway when the chairman & CEO holds such a majority.

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/082216/top-9-...

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EDIT: fixed date
Reverse-engineering the clock chip in the first MOS calculator
Early machine learning / deep learning algorithms have shown bias towards some results or behavior due to problems in training dataset. These problems are tried to be remedied with better training sets but I'm not aware whether it's completely eliminated.

"Money laundering for bias" in this context can be translated as "Finding a plausible excuse/cover for a specific bias (your computer/model says the same!)".
Magnetic Tape Has a Surprisingly Strong Future
You can certainly enjoy org mode documents read only without emacs, it’s ultimately plain text.

If you want to edit org files I really don’t think there is a good substitute for emacs if you want all the features, however you can definitely do basic modifications with any text editor.
20m * 0.004 = 80k. GP isn't bad at math, you just fail to understand how these types of taxes work.
Calling for pan-European commitment for rapid reduction in SARS-CoV-2 infections
Facebook Redesigns on Dribble
Curious about HN's rules on titles. How is the language relevant in any way to this particular post? That sure seems to be editorializing in an attempt to promote something other than the project itself (and obviously to get upvotes). Given the explicit rules against both editorializing and soliciting upvotes, I don't see why this title is allowed.

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

> Don't solicit upvotes, comments, or submissions.
I'm a big fan of trying new search engines for academic research; I hopefully am more likely to break out of whatever search bubble I'm unaware I'm in.

This one in particular had some very nice features, some of which are present in Semantic Scholar (my current favourite) but some which are certainly not.

Recommending papers based on citation graphs is a good way to very quickly get up to speed with fields I'm not to familiar with, but I'm always wary that I'll end up back in the feedback loop of very few popular papers rising to the top while perfectly good papers go unseen because they weren't well cited in the year they were written.

So I'll certainly keep an eye on this and give it a try, but I'm certainly still in the market for a "serendipity" slider on such recommendation engines.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Conten...
For the most part we don’t learn about them because we don’t know a lot about them. Many of the pre-Colombian civilizations either didn’t build permanent structures or built them from wood that’s long since rotted away. With a few exceptions they also didn’t congregate in large stationary cities where we can dig to find hundreds/thousands of years of artifacts in the same place . Again with a few exceptions, they also didn’t write down their history for us to read it.

As an American we only learn fairly superficial details about the people who were here before us, because we know they existed but there’s just not a lot of historical record. Look up Cahokia, which was a massive city (at Cahokia’s peak it likely had more residents than London did at the same time). And yet all that remains is some piles of dirt.
It can affect non-snake oil from good vendors who provide useful solutions for meaningful compliance tests, too, though. Or just any popular B2B software provider.

If one of the big 3 superpowers really wants to backdoor your product, then even a top-notch company might fall victim. Hopefully this increased awareness will make it harder to pull off these subtle compromises without it getting caught sooner, though.
This is pretty accurate and matches all of my experiences with people suffering from this disease. It is hard on them in the beginning and then it gets to be harder on the relatives and friends. Nothing beats having the same conversation three times per day. I always figured that as long as it makes them happy that it should make me happy but people have varying degrees of tolerance for this and of course your initial relationship with the person factors in heavily there as well.
do you have evidence to support this position? they certainly weren't the only search engine with a cute, zany name. trying to recall exactly why i switched. i don't entirely recall, but i remember that at the time i used a rotation of multiple engines, usually starting with metacrawler and then branching to other engines that didn't index. after switching to google, that rotation immediately ended. my recollection is that results really were that much better.

i certainly appreciated google's design minimalism, but it certainly wasn't make-or-break, seeing as i was willing to go through multiple sites on every search.

i wouldn't have cared about what you termed 'tricking the user', which feels like a skewed characterization. i just interpreted such things as 'no results', the same way i do now.

that said, i can't really support my position either. i'm curious if anyone has tried to measure the quality of search over time.. you always see a lot of opinions about it here and elsewhere but it seems very much non-obvious to me, and hugely multivariate.
Offtopic, but the NPR is one of the few sites that I cannot read at all with cookies and javascript disabled.
If it’s so small as to not be meaningful, why collect it? How could it benefit the state to have so little money? If the state professes a genuine need for such a small marginal increase in its revenue, then shouldn’t the individuals being taxed be able to make a similar case?

This is like the conversation over signing NDAs, where one party pressures the other by saying it doesn’t matter...
That’s not the argument. Many people are willing to pay tax if they see evidence that it is being wisely managed and is improving the quality of life. If the money is disappearing into a vacuum of corruption and inefficiency then people will wisely avoid contributing to such a needless waste.
I owe most of my career to AltaVista after comp.lang., comp.unix., and comp.databases.* -- even more so because AltaVista had indexed Internet newsgroups.
I was doing all these things this week, and had a realization that the older I get more and more rely on me. I don't know how it got to be that way. But it was probably doing one kind thing followed by another. And now I'm getting all kinds of help requests. Just in the last week, I helped my cousin move (ridiculous amount of stuff), donated to my other cousins gofund me for his restaurant and stayed up 3 hours talking with him about his problems. Fixed a family friends laptop. The list go on. Its like snowball. I'm just accumulating connections I guess. So I suppose thats good, but on the other hand I probably spent 2 days last week on just doing things for people. If I reflect on it, I can see how this would improve someones mental health to be kind. You are connecting with people and interacting with them. So you definitely feel less lonely for example.
Money laundering hides where the money comes from.

Bias are subjective assumption you have of the world and people.

So this quote is saying that machine learning hides the source of bias.
I think this viewpoint doesn't get enough credence on HN.

As a consumer, I started doing ~all searches and browsing in Firefox with uBlock, and I never log in to FB on Firefox. The ads I've gotten have, indeed, become a lot less relevant. Honestly, it's not great! Lowest-common-denominator ads feel really gross.

As an entrepreneur selling a consumer product I created on Shopify, access to well-targeted ads would make a huge difference to my business. (I can't use FB to advertise since I sell a pandemic-related product, long story).

It's a niche product, so non-targeted ads like "local newspaper ads" would probably perform far too poorly to justify their expense.

People who buy my product tend to be very grateful for it, but not many know it exists! It's crazy how much your perspective on personalized ads change once you're on the other side – I really wish I could use them!
i disagree with all forms of tax. we should only be taxed for consumption. it would raise the cost of living but it would also create ways to govern ourselves better, improve quality of life and take care of those who cant through charity rather than punitive forced taxation.

it's charity because someone has to take care of your financial needs because you are incapable of managing it yourself. someone has to take over another in need and take responsibility out of the kindness of their heart. it cant be demanded. the notion that we deserve a portion of another person's hard word makes a mockery of their hard work and dedication.

assets become valuable over time and the value of some assets is completely relative. if jeff bezos sold all his wealth in amazon shares, first, it wouldnt be the billions it is now..(even if he could sell it..), secondly, it would take it with it millions of dollars of income for hundreds of thousands of people. the notion of 'wealth' is a man made construct. wealth is what we consume. everything else is a resource. you cant tax resources. it is an asset that hasnt been realised yet.