skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> likely enough true

Is this the standard we want for journalism though? There is so much that goes on in the world that doesn't get reported in the NYT which is backed by concrete evidence why do we need a speculative journalism?
> they can claim the highest standards of journalism

Just keep these failures in mind any time in the future NYT is quoted. They don’t deserve
As a resident in NY during the pandemic, everything that you would think would cause people to cling together and bond in common cause during a difficult time period if you were an optimist, actually caused an increase of rudeness, hostility, annoyance, and battle for resources. From sidewalk space to aggressive driving to competition in apartment buildings for rare gym reservations or even elevator space, people are awful.

Ready for a move to a house of my own without audible neighbors or selfish and uncompromising attitudes.

Struggle for scarce resources triggers ancient and primitive defensive attitudes. Either that or people in the northeastern cities are rude.
They're looking into it. In theory the vaccines should still be ok but we'll know in two weeks or so I think.
It seems like the framing around Readme sort-of backfired. It doesn't strike me as the core of this project, which is really a different take on the colab/jubyter paradigm.

I like the idea of spreadsheets as a first-class citizen in such a concept.
Curiously "single most important" is a qualitative value statement, masquerading as a quantitative statement: it implies a rank-ordering of Most Important Things. But there are no measurable, quantifiable units attached to such a list, nor could there be.

It's probably not fair to indict too strongly on this phrase; people use exaggerated language all the time ("X is the best" to mean "X is very very good"), and so reading it as "thinking quantitatively is very very important" seems appropriate.

Nonetheless, as valuable as quantitative thinking is, it has (immeasurable) diminishing returns. It can never be more than a tool to realize our qualitative human values. Somewhere we have to "cash out" the numbers into things we care about, which don't have numbers attached: human dignity; individual autonomy; the look of joy in a child's eyes; the emotional security of family and friends; etc.
> Jo was adamant that he didn’t want to end up in a long-term care facility like the one in which he’d visited his mother—sometimes with Robin along for the ride when they began dating as teenagers in Kapuskasing, Ont.—and he hoped that Canada’s legalization of assisted death would allow him to avoid that. But when medical assistance in dying became law in 2016, excluded were “advance requests” that would have permitted people with dementia to set out terms for their death while they still had capacity to consent.

Found this sobering. And somewhat relevant to my life, in a tangential way.

My grandfather passed away from his second bout with lung cancer, a couple years after Alzheimer's had started to take him over, around 5 years ago. He was a miner on the Iron Range in Minnesota, where my family is, so that explained the lung cancer.

My grandma passed away a week ago from COVID. She tested positive for it the weekend before, in her nursing home. The reason she was in a nursing home is that her memory had been fading, up until it was decided that she couldn't take care of her house alone anymore, around a year ago.

Her memory was to the point where she'd circle back to things she already told me about 20 minutes before. But she was still cogent and it was still her.

But she didn't like living in the nursing home, because it didn't feel like much of a life. More of a routine. All of our conversation were extremely positive--that's who she was, afterall--but they were always somewhat morose. She always made sure to devote time in each conversation to telling me how much she loved me, was proud of me, and I'd do the same, reminiscing on the memories we had of me staying with them over the summer as a kid.

But it was pretty obvious to me--even though she never announced she knew she was going to die without being able to return to that life--that she wanted to make sure I knew how she felt, that there was no room for me to have missed the opportunity to know that, and that she was doing that on purpose, with intent.

Some of the hardest aspects to her death come with the circumstances. When her oxygen dropped Thursday night, I couldn't call her. No one could. When she made it to the hospital, her oxygen dropped so far, so quick that all they could do was ensure her body didn't hurt as the virus suffocated her brain. No one could say goodbye, and she didn't get to say hers.

Now we're learning to grieve remotely. My mom has MS, so it's not even a question of gambling on the risks of a family gathering for me to see her. Long phone conversations. It doesn't get easier, but it gets more normal.

Part of me knows that death wasn't something my Grandma feared. It was the inevitable next step in her life, cornered by her body's incapacity to change it. I know she would've preferred for us to be there with her, and for her to have a chance to cry over it and say goodbye to the people she loved, the people that loved her.
small quibble - the limit is supposed to be 80hrs/wk

I thought about a top level comment to link this, but we are naming and shaming programs that exploit residents during this time.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZgEKvTr1lvTLHsREeill...
This sounds like one step closer to social credit. It feels like an arms race -- to the bottom.
Wealth and power are not divorced in a capitalist society. Jeff Bezos is powerful because he controls Amazon. He is also powerful because he has 200 billion dollars. He has 200 billion dollars because he owns a large portion of Amazon. If Bezos had only 1 billion dollars, he'd still have a lot of power, but much less of it. Further, the rest of his wealth could go to other good things (to the people living in the state/country or to Amazon workers, who I believe are more deserving (collectively) of it than Bezos.
Kindness takes courage.

There seem to be a lot of people who live at a level of abstraction where they perceive every interaction as being about dominance and submission. In my humble opinion it is a very limited mindset.

I consider myself to be generous person, and also slow to anger. As a result, there are people who think they hit the jackpot and found a submissive pushover who is like a flimsy tree that will bend over at the slightest breath of wind.

Of course it's much more like being water; moving around obstacles, yet always forward and unstoppable.

What matters is showing people that there can be real kindness and strength in the world. Sometimes it plants a seed for others to also have the courage to be kind. I believe that's how to make the world a better place. It sure makes life worth living.
The comedy of errors around the government has probably been worse though.

Barnard Castle alone probably killed thousands, the way this government is doing contracts is probably criminal, we fucked up the T&T for months etc. etc. etc. etc.
SfGate and NYT articles mentioned execs and admins.

I can't find direct links on mobile
The phrase "sweeping generalisation" comes to mind.
As computer scientists and adjacent, we have a whole taxonomy for algorithms. It should be noted that "sort by salary" is an algorithm.
It was Heinlein who said:
"
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

I like that, even if his politics are problematic.
We knew it was respiratory right from the start, but that doesn’t mean the virus load on small droplets is enough to cause transmission. There’s an awful lot more to it than that. As for credibility, suppose they had recommended everyone wear masks and it turned out to have no appreciable effect. What consequences would that have had, especially amongst those claiming the whole thing was a scare?
Stop Trusting Your Gut
> was ever posted

No, K was never installed.

> The point of these benchmarks is everyone being able to run them themselves, though.

Exactly.

And compare with programs in some other language:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
> property taxes are some of the lowest in the nation

That's like citing the average rent in San Francisco. Great if you've been living in a rent controlled apartment for 30 years, but irrelevant if you've moved there recently.
> What I did find is a lot of gameplay time padding. Wait for this or that to call you

You can just wait 24 hours instantly in the menu to get npcs to call you back. It was a narrative technique that I think balanced a sense of urgency while letting the player control which thread they want to pull on next, not meant to pad out the game. But I'd agree that the wait function in the main menu could have been introduced in a tutorial (As could most of the games systems)

The padding comes from the random events (Like assaults or robberies) that have no story, you just show up and start shooting (but don't hit any innocents, or the cops will suddenly show up, despite being too busy to show up when the bad guys shoot them).

Are you really surprised "the fat fixer" gets what's coming to him? He dies to show you how ruthless the corps are. He was already dead when the heist went south, and he knew it.

The character of Alt and the Johnny redemption arc was great for me. If you choose the right dialogue options Johnny basically realizes how being pure concentrated 80's sci fi action hero has made him toxic to everyone around him.
Not necessarily. Amazon's Leadership Principles, and the tenets of all the startups I worked at (e.g. Karma/Drive/Tribe/Focus at Segment), were developed long before any of them made any profits.
I don't think he "lied", he just weighed the pros and cons and gave an advice, which may not have been the best. Later as the pros and cons changed, he updated his advice. Did he even claim that "masks don't help stop the virus"? That would've been a lie but I don't think he said anything like that.
I just want to confirm the quality of this source, as someone who is not actually a biologist but who has been following the scene carefully since the beginning. Dr Hodcroft is in the top tier of science communicators. This "new strain" story is basically tailor made for misinformation and poor information, as it has such a strong hook.

The tl;dr as I understand it is that there may be something there, but it is too early to tell for sure.
Let's see here, from playing maybe 30+ hrs or so:

Never been launched into the air.

Never driven through any NPCs or cars without collision.

No wardrobe malfunctions. Slow loading of textures when switching armor through, in the inventory menu.

Once had a T-pose flickering for a few milliseconds while driving a bike.

My computer is a 4 year old system with a 1080 card, and I have not touched the graphic settings beyond turning off motion blur. I have had a few glitches but so far only one bug that actually annoyed me and force me to repeat content. After a long period of unsaveable and unskippable exposition scene, which I see as a bug in itself, I had a race condition where I tried to take control of a turret just as the turret died and I got stuck in the dead turret interface without any option to exit it. Those are the bugs that I suspect they are working to fix in the first few patches.
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One reporter's mistakes don't invalidate a whole newsroom.

99.9% of the time the NYT's scoops are subsequently verified by other news organisations in short order.
I think your opening paragraph is disrespectful and dismissive. He's a well-published professional mathematician. Why wouldn't someone take his advice just because he used to play football? Also, this article wasn't about him giving advice, so...
Practice it with things you care about. Resist the temptation to look up formulas. Trying to figure out your retirement? Get out a pen and paper (and excel or something to compute with). Curious about what that headline about income inequality or infection disparities? Google the relevant stats. Those are all quantitative things you’re probably already interested in. So nurture it by trying to answer your own questions about it (which are quantitative questions). Those questions will lead to other ones that you might not know how to work with, so look that stuff up. The only thing to avoid is looking up formulas to plug in.

Instead in trying to learn what formula to use, look up how to derive that formula. Deriving your own formulas is a skill you can develop that will change how you think, while collecting formulas to plug things into might be useful but won’t grow you new angles and frames of mind.

Most of all, just practice turning intuitive things into their mathematically precise equivalents, a level of precision and unambiguity you’re probably already nurturing as a law student.
> Solution looking for a problem.

Why do you say so? TFA goes:

In fact, the "one platform team supporting many product dev teams" pattern is so prevalent that AWS, in true customer-obsession mode, has now reasoned backwards from it to design Proton. Proton is a prescriptive way for platform teams to package up environments and infrastructure services...

Proton is prescriptive in the sense that it gives you a pre-baked pattern for coordinating application delivery, but descriptive in the sense that this pattern wasn’t dreamed up as an arbitrary “best practice” – it’s simply a canonization of what AWS sees customers already doing.
Yeah could be. I just disputed your other comment that lots of middle class people wouldn't mind taxing the rich. Whereas most of the conservatives I know are ardently against tax increases by principle even if the tax wouldn't affect them. But sure if Tx changes politically then ya.
I'm curious what ideas people here have to best address our world's collective quantitative illiteracy.
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In fact it’s worse, western nations have done the stupidest thing which is half measures. They’ve wrecked their own economies by taking measly half measures and not providing adequate relief. Wrecking people’s lives without actually achieving meaningful ends.

At risk of being labelled “anti-lockdown” or whatever, i’ll clarify my point is we should have done MORE. Strict lockdowns, tracing, etc... AND providing direct relief and freezes.
You've been downvoted to oblivion. Don't you think that's a sign that maybe you're wrong?
It's been bloody obvious for months that South Korea can't control Covid through test and trace alone without massive, economically-damaging social distancing and business closure measures - every time they lift them cases go up, and there's been a worrying increase in cases not linked to any previous known cases which implies an exponentially increasing pool of unknown infections entirely unimpacted by contact tracing. (They also have massively less testing than the UK and European countries, so they're probably detecting a small fraction of those unlinked cases.) One of the big things which seems to have changed in South Korea is that unlike the last few times there's no longer the political will to impose those restrictions. You wouldn't have known this from the British press, which has been pushing hard on the idea that they succeeded at this to convince people that our country could've too if it wasn't for our incompetent government (which they hate due to Brexit).

More generally, the press here almost exclusively report the facts that make the UK look like a failure and South Korea look like a success. So for example, the BBC reported on the removal of those social distancing measures, framing it as proof that South Korea's test and trace was so effective they could even reopen nightclubs... like, the day after they did, but making it sound like something they'd done a while ago with no ill effects. They then ran loads of reports on important topics like BTS whilst ignoring the explosion in cases. So everyone who gets their news from the British press is convinced that our government is incompetent, keeps on doing U-turns that damage businesses and the economy, recklessly reopened knowing it would result in the virus spreading, is behind the rest of the world in Covid testing, etc when we should've acted like South Korea... when in reality South Korea was even more like that and if the UK government had taken the same actions they'd have been described in that exact same negative way rather than glossed over and omitted. It's a complete and utter media illusion.
> What does "free as in beer" mean? In what way is beer free?

I believe another (perhaps simpler) way to say this, that should be understandable by English speaking people, is "free as in gratis".
I think it's funny that since I had js disabled all I saw was "Error - blah blah blah" and I thought this was arguing AGAINST using a notebook as a readme.

Looking at umatrix all the js is coming from a CDN too. I think it show the obvious benefit of readmes compared to a notebook which might be useless in 10 years due to link rot or the CDN going under.
Link to their GitHub repo is buried in the PDF: https://github.com/anchorhash/cpp-anchorhash
Just be thankful you don't work with them
Tim Pool is a fringe right-wing media figure who has little interest in seeking out the truth.
This could be a good response to the "I have nothing to hide" arguments.
Sounds like social credit.
I don't like the use of the word algorithm there. I would call it rules or formulas. Algorithm makes it sound like something more complicated when it was probably just a SQL query.
What do you consider a real newspaper?
That's a bit like saying "I didn't burn the food. The stove burned the food. I just put the food on the stove".
This is mostly hugely speculative.

Australia is in summer, so it would make more sense to compare it to the UK’s summer, if you insist on comparing two countries with very different population densities (a key factor in the spread of COVID-19).
That something, to my mind, is “brand privacy invasive tracking as bringing you free/cheap shit.”

It worked for the last decade. They’re doubling down, unaware the dotcom 2.0 bubble is not bursting but being left behind.

Apple shipping a SOC that can do it all will trickle into Dells thinking, driven by backlash against privacy invasive grifting we can do cloud work at home.

Concerns over screen time will lead to decoupling from screens. More IOT and voice controls and other input alternatives like smart sensors.

Facebook is not a laptop, or an operating system. It’s AIM. We moved on from AIM but kept computing. The tech industry hasn’t matured. It grifted on last generations addiction to TV.

More imaginative applications are yet to come.
It doesn't take any contortions to see. Just read what Baquet said:

> And I do think that race and understanding of race should be a part of how we cover the American story. Sometimes news organizations sort of forget that in the moment. But of course it should be. I mean, one reason we all signed off on the 1619 Project and made it so ambitious and expansive was to teach our readers to think a little bit more like that. Race in the next year—and I think this is, to be frank, what I would hope you come away from this discussion with—race in the next year is going to be a huge part of the American story. And I mean, race in terms of not only African Americans and their relationship with Donald Trump, but Latinos and immigration. And I think that one of the things I would love to come out of this with is for people to feel very comfortable coming to me and saying, here’s how I would like you to consider telling that story.

Anyone who's read the NY Times regularly over the years has noticed this shift. Zach Goldberg has put numbers to the phenomenon,[1] but the trends are so large that you don't need a detailed statistical analysis to notice them, as a casual reader of the newspaper.

1. https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1133440945201061888?s=20
I think the argument is that masks are an essentially effortless tactic, and if people can't even bother to put them on and the government doesn't seem to care very much, then what hope is there for more effective measures?

I don't live in the UK, just explaining how I read this comment.
The residents who didn't get it: those working 80+ hrs/week in the emergency room, in the ICU, intubating patients, operating on patients, etc etc etc

Some people I know of who got it instead: Radiologists who primarily work from home. Administrative roles with relatively low (or no) patient interaction.

Not saying those people shouldn't get vaccinated -- just that if you were asked to come up with a priority list, it wouldn't be this.

Disclosure: am a physician at Stanford.
And what cultures that did survive the Colombian exchange were massively changed to the point where it’s very hard to determine what they looked like before. This means that a lot of the traditions that survived into the 1800s (when good written records start) are probably not terribly representative of what might have existed in the centuries prior.

The horse in particular changed everything, and created the archetypical Buffalo hunting nomad of the Great Plains, a cultural arrangement that did not exist in North America before the introduction of the horse.
Or, alternatively, you'd need to buy a gun and defend your property yourself. Which many people do, and has become even more prevalent with the spate of looting in major cities with no police response last summer. You seem to be approaching this from a highly theoretical and ideological position, but that ignores the reality of the current situation, and the fact that the proposed law does not exist in some hypothetical world. The problem with tax impositions is rarely the theory (there's always a reasonable justification), it's the practical realities surrounding policy.
Christmas is a key Christian festival, and the UK is a Christian country, with the monarch as the head of its official church. So perhaps no surprises if it gets special treatment.
For this to work, it would have to become illegal to use VPNs or even do anything on internet logged out. Also probably need to eliminate the address bar from the browser -- you can only get to sites from a search.

Actually it wouldn't be illegal to have privacy, it would just become so expensive only the very wealthy could afford it. So the internet would mirror the real world ever more.

Maybe I'm overly paranoid, but it really does feel like the powerful are chipping away at every aspect of the internet and its empowering of the common person.
Their appreciation is useless (and speculative!) until you sell them. When you sell them the gains are taxed.

California doesn't even tax gains at a lower rate than ordinary income...
https://www.thestreet.com/video/dr-fauci-masks-changing-dire...

Discussion:
https://youtu.be/_2MmX2U2V3c

He did lie. He gave advice with ulterior motives.
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