skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious what network detection could be done to detect this sort of thing. Clearly the code needed to make outbound connections to hosts.

Some thoughts: if there is an encoded sub domain, flag this as suspicious.

Any code that uses a function to decode a base64 encoded string should be a red flag.

Any newly created thread code should be detected and checked most carefully.

Any others people can think of?
I am planning on making the info in the BibTex files a bit more robust. Right now I'm just adding what I have readily available. But in general, if you are using Zotero or Mendely, the functionality to enrich the metadata on the entries does a good job filling in the missing info.
By suck up the costs I believe the parent is referring not just to the economic pain but also the cost of the extensive and unprecedented government support that Australia and NZ (and even in fact the UK) made.

Unemployment benefits and the aged pension were raised significantly, employers were paid a subsidy to continue to employ people of income dropped by 30% or more from the jan quarter 12 months earlier - and the support is clacheduled to continue until March at present.

This was also exceptionally well distributed and applied in almost no time.
because search is more robust and has lower overhead
Same here, I'm a paying NYT subscriber, never heard the podcast, but I did see the multiple stories of the retraction on the front page. I would argue far MORE people heard of the retraction than ever listened to the original podcast.
Winter air pollution is a factor - COVID particles hitch a ride on particulate matter:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/24/coronavi...

And air pollution weakens immune systems and makes people more susceptible to respiratory viruses:

https://www.iqair.com/us/blog/health-wellness/air-pollution-...

The effort against COVID should have been directed towards ending the burning of coal and oil.
The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations
As a European, I have had numerous work relationships and occasional acquaintances with Americans from California, Arizona, Idaho and NY. Yes, everyone has a different personality and the region matters, but compared to my own Eastern European culture, the difference in mood, confidence and talkativity is rather consistent. Maybe my sample of American people is not completely representative, but these are just my observations as an outsider.
Lots of things are "effortless tactics". If they don't work, it's just superstition. People will figure it out, and they'll stop believing you. If you have indoor mask mandates, and outside mask mandates, and shut down restaurants, and curfews, etc., and your cases are still shooting up, you're going to have a hard time getting faith in your actions.

So much of what governments are doing in response to this are just cargo cult science. We've had ample time to run proper controlled trials for much of this stuff -- the Danes were able to do so with masks [1], and there was a big study of gyms out of Norway [2] -- it's simply pathetic that our governments mostly haven't bothered.

[1] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.24.20138768v...
On PC. Bugs are in line with other games. Not nearly as bad as the original Fable or Watch Dogs (and Watch Dogs Legion), for examples. I do seem to get stuck in “can’t save” or “can’t run/crouch” mode occasionally, but a quick reload fixes it. Visually the game is stunning, it’s a lot of fun. Great voice acting and story development.

Combat is a little better than gta but pretty vanilla outside of hacks (not nearly as good as combat-focused games like dishonored, rage, doom, arkham, or more recent titles like Star Wars fallen order, not really as good as as borderlands et al either).

The game tries to do a lot, and some of it is great - it’s a long, beautiful story with an intricate world. There’s a lot of untapped potential.
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Here's their Corrections section, there are multiple articles corrected daily: https://www.nytimes.com/section/corrections
It doesn't have to be the states filing suit. It can be the rich taxed individuals. They can buy the kind of lawyers it would take to effectively run that lawsuit.
Ethics and Data Science (Loukides, Mason, Patil 2018)
> You are not genuinely curious. You are not genuinely asking. You do not genuinely wonder if there is altruism involved.

What the hell kind of comment is this? Who are YOU to make that assertion?
Look at the verbiage of the ad, Facebook lost its way. It needs to be replaced.
Thank you, that's a nice detailed read, but still relatively readable by a non-bio person like myself.
>Documents obtained through a records request show Foxconn’s rationale: it doesn’t think it was specifically promising to build an LCD factory at all. According to a November 23rd letter to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), Foxconn does not think the factory specified in the contract, an enormous Generation 10.5 LCD fabrication facility, was actually a “material” part of the contract.

Come on, the contract specifies a large manufacturing plant. They build a tiny storage building instead. I'll buy it doesn't have to be an LCD factory, but it needs to be something with comparable jobs.

Good on Wisconsin for holding their feet to the fire. Too many of these corporate welfare packages end up being paid out even though the company keeps none of their promises.

HP got a bunch of corporate freebies to build a big facility in my city. The promise was that it would be a high salary corporate facility with highly paid sales and engineering.

They built their big subsidized building and it ended up being a glorified call center.
Sony may have assumed based on past success they could make it work.

A whole lot of business is simply not blinking or being seen as weak, and simply fixing it later.
Exactly. There can be a cottage industry using evolutionary algorithms in which the fitness to optimize is the benefit of the interested part. "This new algorithm indicates that the best way to improve the economy is to increase 3X the compensation of Senators".
ZimaBoard – A $70 Single Board Home Server
Yes, and it gives us a view into the headspace of the people in the finance industry. It’s true, these researchers don’t have direct power, but they do have influence. And that can be dangerous too.

This quote from the article is very illustrative:

> institutional banking system is facing a serious threat from tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple. The researchers identify two key areas in which this is true: Tech companies have greater access to soft-information, and messaging platforms can take the place of the physical locations that banks rely on for meeting with customers

This tells me that there are people in the finance industry that think that they are the underdog. They just want the same access to information big tech companies already have so that they could cut the little guy a better deal. If only governments and regulators could see that. Wouldn’t we live in a better world?

They don’t think that this could usher in a financial version of 1984 because they’re optimistic in the same way that Mark Zuckerberg was optimistic that making a social networking site to connect people together would be utopian.

These researchers are going to impart this idea on students and their colleagues, eventually someone is going to go into government with complete faith that giving financial institutions very fine grained information on citizens is in everyone’s best interests. That is what is dangerous about this.
Reassembling Victim Domain Fragments from Sunburst DNS
The Cyberpunk 2077 game is already amazing in terms of art direction, level design and story wise. I would also argue that the game is excellent in terms of graphics, although it has massive issues with performance. In my opinion, in addition to a lots bugs, at the moment the weakest aspects of the game are the complete lack of NPC AI, as well as some emptiness in the game world outside of story and other quests. The latter is understandable, there is room for multiple updates in the future, without affecting the storyline, including massive online multiplayer game mode.

As for poor, or rather the lack of, AI and NPC behavior was mentioned as a "bug" that will be fixed at a recent CDPR board meeting. In 2018 CDPR were advertising full day cycle AI system for all NPCs in game. The promise was not fulfilled. At the moment there is simply no AI, like it's 2003 again. Including awful police spawns behind player's back with no vehicle chase.

However, users reported that rare glimpse of intelligence does exist in the game, perhaps through an oversight, e.g. police is actually able to chase player in a car[1] (for a short distance though), and some NPCs can actually be found in unusual places[2]. We don't know for sure, but it's believed that CDPR hastily trimmed all of the NPC and vehicle AI in the game. If so, we can only guess for what purpose. Maybe they didn't have time to polish it for the mandatory release date on December 10, or perhaps older consoles weren't able to process it. However, in its current shape NPC AI is at the level of AAA games from 15 years back (GTA: San Andreas), not to mention the CDPR's own Witcher 3. In fact, it is so awful that it is even good: it gives hope that AI system will get significantly overhauled with one of the game's upcoming updates (two major updates are expected in 2021Q1).

Nothing of that prevented me from enjoying this amazing game for 100+ hours with great pleasure. I haven't been as excited about a videogame as a kid since 2004, when Half Life 2[3] was released.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-OZqwjzNas

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/LowSodiumCyberpunk/comments/kewbai/...

[3] The Prey (2017) was an unexpected gem which I fell in love with, but I had zero hype since I didn't know anything about the game beforehand. I highly recommend reading Aphyr's (yes, that Jepsen's Aphyr) excellent Prey game review: https://aphyr.com/posts/344-prey-the-real-and-the-symbolic
Jobs sound exciting? That's what the subsidy was predicated on, bringing high-paying factory work to the state.
If you believe “its human nature to turn all but the sturdiest surroundings into a war-torn desert”, all hope is lost, indeed.

If, on the other hand, you believe people can learn, or if you believe people can’t learn, but are driven by money, this project has a chance. As the article says, this forest brings jobs. Also, stopping the Sahara from growing protects arable land. So, I think he idea is that profit will protect this wall.

The project has a site (https://www.greatgreenwall.org/), by the way. It has more (likely biased to some degree) information on the project.
While I can understand your perspective and probably would completely agree in the past, it still strikes me as rooted in a transactional expectation. “I did something so now it’s incumbent on you to do something.” My definition of compassion doesn’t encompass giving compassion only if I have the promise of receiving it in return. I also think you can be non-transactional while still having boundaries. Not saying hi back is probably a boundary we’d disagree on.

I found it only feels wrong because I expected something. So the problem is as much in my expectation as their behavior and based in a faulty assumption that interactions are a zero sum game. I don’t always embody non-transactional compassionate behavior but having tried both approaches, once you can get past the expectations of what people can do for you, I find it a better way to live.
You can define a trait and add an blanket implementation of that trait for `Fn()`

Somewhat like this: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

Edit: updated playground link
I need to see a citation for that. My gut tells be that if people had mostly accurate at-home tests they took ~daily, it would actually reduce spread massively, especially when it can be asymptomatic.
journalists that received their degree in social science and other similar fields probably never heard of causation/correlation principle and with no principle like this in their mind they can passionately promote whatever social justice agenda they have. (and im not against helping others or being kind. Im against nonsense in social columns on mainstream media like bbc)
Property rights are typically enforced if you are rich. It's pretty evident even just by looking out your car window at the condition of a place how the level of enforcement and tolerance for certain things changes the minute you drive from Los Angeles into other cities like Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Pasadena, or Culver City, for example.

The classic example of this differential response was in 1992, when the LAPD staked out defensive positions to protect the mansions owned by wealthy white political donors in Hancock Park, while Koreatown burned with immigrant shopkeepers left to fend for themselves by forming armed vigilante militias until the national guard was deployed and restored order.
The Short Big Short
I had a cousin with Pick's disease, which is a rare form of early-onset dementia which has similar symptoms to Alzheimer's.

(See https://www.dementia.org/picks-disease-and-dementia )

His sister (my other cousin) devoted a decade of her life taking care of him. (Neither cousin had married). Extremely sad and the effects traumatized the entire family. It is unimaginably sad to see a younger person succumb to dementia.

At no time did anyone even think of assisted suicide. I can't imagine how this can be done fairly unless someone is of sound mind.
> it's worth noting that bureaucracies can and do take better care of people than they do themselves

I strongly, strongly disagree with this statement.

First, even in cases like mandatory seat belt wearing, where the benefit is obvious, the rule would be better enforced by private entities like insurance companies. Get in an accident and not wearing your seat belt? Your insurance company won't pay your medical bills. People are more likely to respond to such incentives than to nanny state laws, however well intentioned. Also, once you've passed one nanny state law, it gets easier to pass more; even proponents of such laws admit that most traffic laws, for example, are just revenue sources for local police departments and have no meaningful effect on safety.

Second, restrictions on tobacco and alcohol sales are mostly aimed at not allowing sales to people, like minors, who are presumed not to have developed the full capacity to evaluate the consequences of their actions. They don't stop adults from dying from lung cancer due to smoking or becoming alcoholics. People who really want to poison themselves with drugs or alcohol will find a way to do it: just look at the rising popularity of vaping. The law cannot stop people from doing it and shouldn't try; the US should have learned that lesson with Prohibition.

Third, citing child protective services as an example of bureaucracy taking better care of people than people do themselves is laughable. Anyone who has had personal experience with CPS can tell you horror stories, and what statistics are available do not paint a pretty picture. Based on my own and my wife's experiences (my wife was a social worker for 20 years), I would say that roughly 80 to 90 percent of children who are taken from their families by CPS are worse off than they would have been had they been left with their families, however imperfect those families were. I suspect most people who have had personal experience with CPS would give a similar figure.
The main thing I remember about Google was that it was fast, really fast compared to AltaVista, which was becoming so slow as to be nearly unusable (sometimes you’d wait 30 seconds for a page load).
Re "there is no evidence": this is due to a mismatch between the medical profession's use of the words "no evidence" and everyone else's.

To a standard human, "no evidence" means "there is no evidence".

To a medical professional, "no evidence" means "there is insufficient evidence for us to be certain".

The clash of terminology is very unfortunate, and it prevents one from discussing probabilities at all. A statement from the WHO is either that something is "certain" or that there is "insufficient evidence at this time", even if there is sufficient evidence for one to conclude something with 80% probability.
I wonder what it would return for "Woman is to doctor as man is to ___". I'd bet money on the result not being "nurse".
Cyberpunk 2077 Was Supposed to Be the Biggest Video Game of the Year
Why? Southeastern Wisconsin has a decent amount of manufacturing and Kenosha specifically used to be a car manufacturing powerhouse as well as beds. So I assume this is more of a comment on Foxconn not following through on their end of the bargain.
Try to book one in the coming pre-Christmas week or look at lines for drive-thru testing.
Woah, it sounds really shady... Could you share what those claims were about?
The lists of questions that Google returns as snippets can be seen as possible elements of a paragraph for a process that doesn't quite know what a paragraph is. Clicking on them acts as a survey response, a signal for that element of information's significance in the topic for which you searched.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4814322
Two independent things might best be analogized as A:B as C:B. So also computer programmer.
Only if you assume the worst implementation without thinking of the necessary exemptions. Obviously don't cut off the food supply chain.

> time period during which the UK would've had to do this for it to be effective

.. lies roughly from Feburary to the present day. No reason to allow travel from countries with significant prevalence.

> all the right-thinking people were insisting that border restrictions were counterproductive, xenophobic and made things worse

[citation needed]
You should take a second to read the essay "On Bullshit." What he said there was bullshit, written to cause an outcome, not to tell the truth.
> We can’t just spin up testing capability, though.

Back in March and April, I'd agree. It's December now, so there's no excuses for this. There's also no excuses for the problems with the vaccine rollout.
Caravans of Heavily Armed Trump Supporters Going to DC – 01/06 Showdown
Hmm, yes I think if you interpret GP saying 'greatest bands' to mean the most popular charting artists, it's more agreeable.

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

This is very true and likely part of it. Streaming services and the proliferation of headphones probably exacerbate the effect.

I think the genre/taste aspect is significant. Yes, rock is a great genre, but maybe it is not really possible for a great rock band to achieve mainstream appeal or even critical acclaim just on the back of good songwriting and great musicianship today, because that is not novel or interesting like it was in the 70s.

Personally I find just the sound of Sia's voice makes her much more interesting than a lot of the more generic rock songs from the 70s in that list.
Night City is beautiful, it just deserves much better AI.
Is it HN? Developers as fucking developers, who are writing the code.
It wouldn't have been that hard to implement quarantine for truck drivers (cleaning cabs and switching drivers at the crossing, etc). Not trivial. But not that hard either. There would be no need to shut down the supply chains.

> the WHO and all the right-thinking people were insisting that border restrictions were counterproductive,

I'd argue that these were very much the wrong-thinking people. And that the WHO advice has been pretty terrible throughout. It seems obvious to me that closing borders is appropriate in a pandemic. The UK still hasn't done this. Lots of people were going abroad on holiday between lockdowns.
I'm from Miami. Years ago, I was visiting my wife (girlfriend at the time) in the keys. We went out to dinner. I was apparently still in Miami mode. The server said to me (and this took about a minute for him to say): "Relax ... man ... you're ... in ... the ... keys ... now."

So, yeah.
It's nearly summer there. Respiratory viruses are far more common in winter. I feel this fact is conspicuously absent from talk of Australia.
I've read that COVID-19 can sometimes be found inside the body even after testing negative for some time. This being a reason for continued weakness and impairment after infection.

Could this possibly continued infection lead to faster mutation, or is the amount of people infected the cause for the rapid mutations, or something else?
The URL does however not reflect this, while it could. URLs are supposed to be informative.
> I think the argument is that masks are an essentially effortless tactic

Masks are effortless, but there is also a lot of reason to believe they are not nearly as effective as was sold to people in the early summer.

At some point we get into "just wear a crucifix to ward off the Devil" territory of superstition.

Masks are obviously helpful at preventing transmission of some illnesses, but I've seen enough evidence that Coronavirus spreads via aerosol to not really trust the things.
“Hammering the close” is a daily occurrence in the commodities markets and has been for as long as they printed a closing price. Lots of market participants are pegged to the closing price so it’s a very attractive target.

The open price is similar and (at least on some symbols) based on a short term auction right before open. Anyone with a data feed sees crazy stuff during those 2 periods.

Getting paid on both sides of your trade though is a special event for a trader.
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The problem should be real pain in the ass and you should suffer from it almost every day.
Last I checked it’s pretty hard to be an expert on something that’s only been around a year. Also, experts don’t dictate government policy, and as much as I dislike government policy, if they did I’m sure we’d be in a much worse position.

The international reaction to COVID-19 is hugely irrational and the cost far outweighs the advantages of this approach.

We’re ‘saving’ the lives of the elderly by giving them absolutely nothing to live for.
$70/130 for the 2GB/8GB versions... Not bad, nice I/O, certainly seems suited to the advertised purpose. I'm not sure I'd buy one at that price but I already have pis deployed for those jobs.
Try smaller stores. Gas stations, corner stores, non-chain places.

I see little to no compliance with customers or shop keepers in places like that.

I also saw lots of maskless partying and social drinking in November.
You are just describing a map of population density. Shocker, infections rising in the south east?
Covid is pretty contagious, but you really need to be around someone for ~15 minutes to have a good chance of infecting them.

Does that mean that someone has to breath in my virus for 15 minutes before there's enough of it inside them to infect them?

Or does it mean that if I'm the infected staff member constantly spewing virus near an ever-changing cast of shoppers, I can expect to infect about 4 people an hour, some of whom were near me for only seconds?
I'm in agreement wtih @yibg.

> "You mean the natural selection of hosts, not viruses",

No, just simply 'natural selection', as the overall process that determines which entities get to reproduce.

Natural selection for the hosts is about their chances for reproducing (before dying from the disease). And in this case, we don't care about that since its a fair assumption that the patient is not having sex in ICU. :)

Natural selection for viruses is about having the opportunity to jump hosts and replicate more viruses. The longer the host lives the higher the chances for the virus to propagate.