skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is far and away the biggest letdown of 2077 for me. There's no emergent gameplay. The world is simply a beautiful aquarium filled with schools of mindless, swimming NPCs.

Think about the rich interactions in Skyrim: you arrive in the town of Whiterun. Your inventory is full of junk so you drop some. A beggar picks up a discarded sword and excitedly asks you if he can keep it. Just as you say yes, a brood of vampires attacks! Peasants run for the hills, but your new friend and the nearby blacksmith joins your side and smashes them to bits with her majestic warhammer! The fight resolved, you decide you want that warhammer. So you wait for her to end her shift, head home, and fall asleep. In the dead of night, you steal into her home and snatch it for yourself. But her husband was awake and saw your robbery! The guards are alerted! You escape town with your life, but just barely. You decide to sleep off your wounds in a bedroll outside of town. But when you wake up, your eyes glow! You have fangs! You've become a vampire! So you decide...

I could go on. (Hell, I probably went on too long there.) Point being, Skyrim is flush with these unique experiences. Given CDPR's claims, I really, really hoped we'd get at least a few mechanics for unique encounters. But the world CDPR created is a beautiful corpse.
The photo of the stonehenge-like structure underwater is unrelated to the contents of the article. The actual structure is roughly a line of stones, not a circle.
> so many people (in my industry/nation/orbit) mistake kindness for weakness.

A complementary but closely related problem is that many people mistake unkindness for aggression.
> Mutation N501Y is one of six key contact residues within the receptor-binding domain (RBD) and has been identified as increasing binding affinity to human and murine ACE2.

> The spike deletion 69-70del has been described in the context of evasion to the human immune response but has also occurred a number of times in association with other RBD changes.

> Mutation P681H is immediately adjacent to the furin cleavage site, a known location of biological significance....

> nucleotide changes on this branch are predominantly amino acid-altering (14 non-synonymous mutations and 3 deletions). There are 6 synonymous mutations on the branch. This is suggestive of a process involving adaptive molecular evolution

> These include spike position 501, one of the key contact residues in the receptor binding domain (RBD), and experimental data suggests mutation N501Y can increase ACE2 receptor affinity (Starr et al. 2020) and P681H, one of 4 residues comprising the insertion that creates a furin cleavage site between S1 and S2 in spike. The S1/S2 furin cleavage site of SARS-CoV-2 is not found in closely related coronaviruses and has been shown to promote entry into respiratory epithelial cells and transmission in animal models (Hoffmann, Kleine-Weber, and Pöhlmann 2020; Peacock et al. 2020; Zhu et al. 2020). N501Y has been associated with increased infectivity and virulence in a mouse model (Gu et al. 2020). Both N501Y and P681H have been observed independently but not to our knowledge in combination before now.

> deletion of two amino acids at sites 69-70 in spike ... arose in the mink-associated outbreak in Denmark on the background of the Y453F RBD mutation

This doesn't sound good
"so "just wear a mask in public" isn't enough."

Did someone claim it was? The name of the game is and has always been suppressing the transmission rate of the virus. Masks are a low impact way to help a little bit towards that goal, nothing more.
maybe for single player games only
I share your concerns. I am of the opinion that we shouldn't be using machine learning algorithms to make decisions of consequence in people's lives without filtering those decisions through human operators. You can use machine learning to assist these human operators and empower them to do much more work than without the technology. But at the end of the day, you still have someone to hold responsible, and you still have checks on the ML doing something profoundly unethical.
Using that definition, why would you say that emteycz has special rights or advantages or immunity?
So never change any laws and or invent new things? I can't imagine many people really think that's the answer.

I'd also point out that arguments like this, while often well-intentioned, can also be abused, by people who don't like a particular new idea but can't articulate a defensible reason. It's easiest then to just fall back on conservatism.

The real answer is to invent new stuff and try not to be idiots about it. Use good design principles, don't cut corners, do the testing, roll out gradually when that's feasible, etc. For the Torvalds principle you mentioned "untested" new code, and Boeing definitely cut corners.
> I live in New York, which has a basic culture of "hyper aggressiveness."

Are you sure you're not over-generalizing from your social circles? That's quite the generalization. I think I know a bunch of New-Yorkers who would disagree.
Nobody is catching that residents are almost universally 25-35 years old, which puts them in an extremely low risk category for serious illness.

Which sucks, but is 100% the most efficient way to prevent deaths. Giving the vaccines to older workers first is correct.
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Especially when they don't have to deal with 37 layers of Windows/MacOS abstractions and backward-compatibility concessions.
Offer you one and then fine you. Seriously, don't forget and if you're forgetful then prepare early

I have one in my car, a spare in my backpack, keep one in my jacket pocket, and a cheap disposable in my wallet folded up. That way if I forget, I'll have one.

My city in Australia had a grace period for everyone to get a mask. After that a lot of fines were handed out.

Without fines I doubt we'd have seen compliance anywhere near as high because there are a lot of people who don't want to wear them but do because they fear the fine.
Countdown to the End of Orange
> The UK relies on trucks coming across from the continent and continuing on to destinations throughout the country with their original drivers.

I'm not familiar with freight in Europe, so please excuse the diversion.

They drive freight vehicles onto the Eurotunnel Shuttle or on ferries? I'm guessing this isn't containerized freight, which would seem to make sense to transfer to freight rail (at least to cross the channel).
This is a strawman that gets leveled at people that want to increase taxes. It's an attempt to paint me as a hypocrite and therefore not acting rationally. It's flawed reasoning.

I invite you to consider:

If my stated goal is to increase the tax on wealthiest folks with the intent of distributing more to the lower class and reducing wealth inequality.

Should I:

a) Spend 100% of my surplus income on gifts to the tax authority

or

b) Spend 100% of my surplus income on organizations that will organize community efforts to achieve my goal.

It's a concept called the 'opportunity cost' -- option A is acting in the spirit of my goal, but does nothing to achieve my goal. If I am a rational player (and I'd like to believe I am), to achieve my goals it's considerably more effective for me to spend my money giving to charities that align with my objective.

Therefore, I spend my surplus income on community organizing, land trusts, and other efforts that will build support for my goals.

Edit:

This is the same reason why I don't ask people who care about the national debt to just open their pocketbooks. If that's a cause you care about, I'd expect you to advocate for it and give your time/money towards groups that make it happen. I happen to think it's a ludicrous thing to care about.

We can aggressively disagree about policies and still agree that we are acting in a rational way respective to our worldviews. There is room for both of our opinions here, but we should be able to discuss them without relying on these sorts of goofy strawmen.
In Casa Grande AZ there is a 2k yr old dirt house. If you go visit you see vandals carving their initials and dates from the 1800s
A conspiracy theorist acquaintance of my sisters sent her data in our country that was wrong, same argument - look COVID-19 isn't killing anybody, it's a plot, blah bah. The raw data (weekly mortality) is published by government on a weekly basis and I just explained to my sister how to download it into Calc or Excel or whatever and see for herself.

One of the recurring things with conspiracy theorists is that they aren't in the least interested in fact checking. They're engaged in a search only for reassurance that they're correct, if you give conflicting data they keep searching but if any source will agree with them it must be right.

You probably shouldn't add only 5% based on the remaining days. Deaths stats are frequently preliminary for weeks or even a few months as reporting itself may be delayed (in particular right now if you're quarantined and a sick person passes peacefully regardless of cause what's the point of breaking quarantine to do paperwork more quickly? They aren't any more or less dead if you do the December 1st death paperwork on December 15th)
Actually the title is :

"Trump Encourages 'Wild' Protests in D.C. on Date of Electoral College Vote Count"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

",,, please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
You were there?
“Money laundering” is taking criminal money (maybe marked currency or something) and trading them out for “clean” currency that can’t be tracked.

Imagine a dataset about healthcare outcomes. You want to know whether airlifting a patient is good or bad, so you train a machine learning model to predict mortality given airlifting a patient versus not airlifting them. Turns out a lot more of the airlifted patients died, and the model picks up on that, deciding that airlifting is dangerous.

Obviously, we’re airlifting the patients who are in the most dire circumstances, and that’s why they die more, but maybe the model doesn’t have the context/circumstance variables to see that, or maybe it’s just regularized and thinks those context variables are noise. So the bias of “airlift = bad” gets stuck in the model, but then people defend it as mathematically precise so it can’t be biased like a person can. They say that the model just reflects reality, pretending the model or data is wrong is blindly rejecting reality for the sake of political correctness.

It’s worse with really human stuff like recidivism because the context variables that might be useful (like the patient’s dire circumstances) tend to be very human and complex and they’re unlikely to be captured in a simple form. Even if they were, interpreting them might require human level AI. By analogy, it is frequently impossible (or just too hard to be worth it) for current technology’s ML to tell from the data we feed it that the patients being airlifted were most near death to begin with.

So you end up with an algorithm biased against airlifting patients getting defended as mathematically bulletproof.
Does anyone have a white paper about corner reflectors and X-band SAR?

For what it's worth, the state very likely needs a warrant to use technologies capable of looking inside structures [1]. Not that the law applies to them, but hypothetically.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States
Who cares about ML when we already do that:

https://www.slideshare.net/yuyomajadero/jobs-occupations-pro...
> what makes me angry is that the hype was so strong it made gamers fight each other

I mean, that’s really on them, isn’t it? It’s just a game. I don’t understand why people invest so much of themselves in something they have no control over or personal stake in (aside from maybe paying some preorder money?).

((As an aside: who preorders digital products????))

I feel like consumers really need to reassess their relationship with these big companies. We still seem so naive and overly susceptible to marketing strategies. Superficially people seem to be more cynical than ever, but we keep falling for this BS that is sold to us. What’s going on?
I love this.

Any tips for doing this during a pandemic? Beyond just the usual of treating people well?
It’s actually interesting those are the samples as I would probably characterize the West & (North) East they’re all from as the most “hyperactive” parts of the country vs the South & Mexican Border at the other end of the spectrum, with the Mid West & rest of the East somewhere in between (but probably closer to the coasts than the south & border).

Look out for any exciting opportunities to visit El Paso, Texas or Birmingham, Alabama for a proper comparison sometime if you can.

Bonus points for Brownsville, Texas where you can get a well steeped mix of the South & border along with a rocket launch!
That doesn't make the game bad. Even with points being dropped for bugs it has got a 87 on Metacritic. It is clearly a great game and nothing to seem this upset over.
> If "I don't have one" isn't an acceptable excuse what am I supposed to do

How is it that after nearly 10 months of this would you not have a mask?

Do you also think that "sorry officer, I didn't realise that getting completely sloshed and then driving was illegal, what am I supposed to to? Suddenly sober up?"

> If I'm fined for not wearing it I'll stop wearing it entirely.

This makes absolutely no sense.

So you want to be fined daily because you got fined once for not wearing a mask during a pandemic?

And people don't understand why it's spreading so much.

That's like saying

> I was fined for dangerous driving, and because of this I'm now only going to drive on the wrong side of the road.
> Is retracting enough?

No. They need to fire Rukmini. Just because she is considered a "superstar" in the newsroom doesn't mean she gets off the hook for embarrassing the company with a debunked project.
You mean Warcraft 10.25?
Care to elaborate? I hope it's something more sophisticated than swap your normal financial portfolio in Dec for paper money / gold bars / bitcoins / Picassos, report nothing, and repurchase the portfolio in Jan.
Not that I saw.

Supermarkets do that sometimes at the door and good for them. But at this point, I'm tired of people "forgetting". I think it's time for actual enforcement.
Of course it wasn't using machine learn, there wasn't anything to learn here.

But the point that machine learning has become an ideal package for existing biases still is worth mentioning because machine learning becomes an ideal way to present mistakes involving values, such racism, as mistakes that are simply technical and can't be helped and this allows regular algorithms to also get this kind of pass.
In europe, the surrounding countries are your equivalent to the different states in the us
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An article I read said that they did provide hashes but they also provided instructions on how to install it anyway if the hashes didn't match.
I didn't say it wasn't real.
Your timing is out.

Melbourne started their lockdown in winter. Everyone obeyed it. It was strongly enforced [1, 2]. They beat coronavirus. And now they can enjoy their summer.

I live in London. At one point in the summer, our covid rates were lower than Melbourne's. But the UK's messaging was confused and contradictory ("eat out to help out", test and trace was shambolic, rules were not enforced). So no one is the least surprised that it has got out of control again so quickly.

[1] My parents live half an hour's drive from Melbourne. Police stopped every car on the highways to enforce no travel, fined the drivers and made them turn back home.

[2] One party of 26 people got busted ordering KFC to the same address and fined $26,000.
Also in London and 100% agree. I’ve barely been to a shop in 8 months because of this.

For some reason we can manage to prevent drunk agro people entering a club with the wrong shoes, but 8 months into a pandemic we can’t make people wear a bloody mask? It’s insane.

The government are partly to blame for making rules so haphazardly that even someone like me who reads EVERYTHING and wants to do the right thing 100% of the time finds them hard to be sure of.

But ultimately people have to start taking the blame for not even doing the basics or following the letter of the law but not the spirit - nose slingers are the prime example of this.

I’ve just decided to go my own much more stringent path and ignore dumb government advice.
Who are People? I’m fine with zero-price but I would also do okay with something-price, because I managed to live just fine before all of these “you are the product” (as technologists constantly gloat) services. What would happen if we reached something-price? I think, in my case, I would just stop using a lot of the services, because (1) I won’t have the budget to pay for for all of them as subscription services, and (2) see the aforementioned point about living just fine without them before.

Because here’s the rub: it’s not like people are addicted or have to have these services—it’s more like they are addicted or have to be a part of the network effect of these services. (Oh I don’t know about that guy, Tony, he ain’t got a FB profile...) And once these services become something-price they just won’t be viable any more, because they are not really essential and paying for 8+ services (or whatever?) is not feasible.

But realistically services like FB are just stuck with their current business model; they will not pivot to something else because they know they would be screwed. But they, of course, twist that into some kind of consumer+small business sympathy spiel.
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My point was, the comparison was invalid due to the seasons but _the comparison is invalid anyway because the two countries are extremely different_.
Your point on FBs targeting is correct. I've extensively tested ads in forums and the reach, targeting and click quality are much lower than FB, esp at any scale.
Right?!? There’s no scarcity at all, now that we have digital distribution. No reason at all to preorder.
Same. I've been using Bevy to experiment with some accessible game mechanics for the past few months now. The speed from which I can go from "I really want map exploration to report this and that detail on an entity, based on this and that characteristic," to code that just works and does what I want, is astounding. The degree to which I can then optimize that code, to only run it when this or that component changes value for instance, is also amazing. And when some Bevy subsystem or other isn't up to my standards, I can plug in some other library, add a few components in my game, and more or less forget about the details of the lower-level integration. It's an amazingly productive engine. If it'd launched a year earlier, I'd probably have built my just released game in Bevy rather than Godot.
And buy what? USD?
This seems unclear. I mean, either X causes Y or it doesn’t. (If you change X, holding everything else constant, does Y change or not?)

One thing you might mean is that causal chains are very complex and variable, so the average causal effect in a large population is not very informative about any individual - it’s an average of many different sized effects.
The contexts remains ReadMe files on Github. Remember that.

If you wish to write a program to do Y then write the code your tests etc using whatever encoding makes you happy.

Nowhere have I said no Unicodein any repositories which is the strawman you are reachinging for.

You can still write Readme files without Unicode so that the great majority of user of public Github can see what your project is about.

Now there are many close editors today that do not support full unicode

Presumably advocating unicode should not discriminate against languages with Arabic.

Most code editors can not do that right out of the box. More and more can.
> They drive freight vehicles onto the Eurotunnel Shuttle or on ferries?

Both, although more volume goes through the ferries. (tunnel trains is 1.5 million trucks a year or something in that ballpark if I remember correctly)
I think I’m appending “Reddit” to about 70% of my searches these days.
Excuses. If the state really wants to do something, they can. It is just a question of the costs.

NZ is not a state, but instead has a precarious relationship with the USA and other countries, which can ban-hammer us for things it really shouldn’t have any say in.

A better example: “Since Canberra pointedly demanded an investigation into the origins and spread of the coronavirus, the number of Aussie businesses being squeezed in China has exploded. Crates of Australian rock lobsters have been left to rot at a Chinese airport, and mountains of coal have been stuck in Chinese ports. Beijing turned the screw again, hitting Australian wine exports with punitive tariffs of up to 212 percent, essentially closing off a US$1 billion market.” “Australia's virus-weakened economy is being targeted for political retribution and the two countries may be sliding into a shadow trade war.”
There are numerous large audience streamers doing just fine with the game. A few have described their issues and most are related to undelivered original promises of content that would have been in game. However I have yet to see one play on anything other than a PC

It is pretty easy these days to generate outrage and make an issue appear far larger than it may actually be. It also can be an incident highly isolated to subset of gamers who play the game.
“The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality”
Wild stuff! Hard to imagine being a day trader and taking $100,000,000 dollars home from a moonshot bet while sitting in front of your computer. I don't fully understand how the TAS agreement works, but it sounds like they started the day by essentially putting in $0 and a promise to pay up at the end of the day -- where they could have easily been out ~$10M each if the markets recovered.

>If the group had made $7 million that day instead of almost $700 million, they’d probably be celebrating. But the size of their winnings, coupled with their backgrounds—and political pressure to understand what happened—means that Vega has the attention of regulators.

Indeed...
The IMF is hardly the "finance industry". It deals exclusively with countries, and serves as the lender of last resort to nations denied by the private markets, or who want better rates in exchange for structural adjustment.

There are no 'students' at the IMF, and their 'colleagues' (e.g. the World Bank staff) similarly do not deal with the internal policies of first world nations.

Simply put, this isn't a slippery slope to anywhere, its just a research paper.
Why? If a worker loses his job, he also has to sell his labor-power on the market.

But if the investor diversified well his investments, he's likely to have lower risk than an average worker.

Ownership requires management and the steps which were required to achieve that ownership. Somebody maybe had to work hard to own, while others inherited.
Sun was destroyed by commodity Intel hardware on one side and free open source software (Apache/Linux/GCC, etc) on the other. In the very early 90s Sun workstations and servers could do things x86 boxes couldn’t do. Once that changed they were doomed.
Can someone edit in a comma to the HN title?

"No, SAR Can't See Through Buildings" is the real title, which is completely different than the current (awkward) "No SAR Can't See Through Buildings"
This advice does not apply if you are a successful domain squatter/seller.
They are trying to generate earned media from the press, and it worked.
Any decent static code analysers should be able to detect things like this (catch all’s statements, base64 encoding etc), I am surprised none seem to be used for production code.
Correct. You have to smoke exactly the right amount.
I wouldn't normally bother posting this, but it's directly relevant to the (ongoing?) Cyber-stramash.