skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great context. From that site:

> Sadly, much of the information out there is incorrect. For example, there is not a henge associated with the site and the individual stones are relatively small when compared to what most people think of as European standing stones. It should be clearly understood that this is not a megalith site like Stonehenge.
You can see why that's obviously a chicken-and-egg circumstance though.
“Or it could be working to preference its own tracking technologies that allow it to make digital dossiers based on consumers’ behavior within Apple apps and services.“

Seems like an empty smear from the NYT.

I agree with them that
Governments need to regulate privacy.

The irony is that Apple is being sued in Europe for not already having rolled out this feature.
Does it say anywhere at what depth they found this? Just wondering how it will ever be shared with people.
Agreed. Although trials don't have to have a placebo control, e.g. drug trials for diseases that already have treatment available often use the in-use treatment as control, so what you're trying to prove is that the new drug is better than what we currently have.
By that logic, we'd be ravaged by polio, the plague, tetanus, super-smart bears, and evil spirits.

We should also stop all research.

(I was going to also sarcastically suggest disbanding the military. But that actually happens to sort-of work along the lines you have in mind, because we can disarm tit-for-tat along with everyone else. So what we really need is for COVID to evolve faster, until it is capable of negotiating a truce and make strategic decisions)
Aside from the problem that Wealth Taxes have been tried multiple times in many countries and failed, or the fact that enforcement would be more expensive than the revenue collected-

I think most people object to the idea of taxiing people who pass through for 60 days then keep taxing them for a decade of their life to support a state doubling spending with no real improvement in infrastructure, health, education or our citizens well being.

The highest taxes in the country to support what? San Francisco for exampple, has doubled it’s budget in 10 years with the population growing only 12%. The California legislature keeps passing highly creative yet extreme anti wealth measures while massively increasing spending.

Can anyone say life in San Francisco has improved in the last decade? By any objective measure it's far worse. Not just for tech but for small business in particular- the regulation, taxes and cost of doing business in the state are oppressive.

Yet we want to enact more policies to drive out the tax base? Brilliant. The top 1% of taxpayers supports half the budget of the state. Instead of speeding this exodus up, why not enact real reform. The state needs a revolution- a massive reset in spending from ground zero- not a bunch of new taxes that force even more companies out.
There's a whole thread full of them on reddit[1]. I encourage going through the linked threads in the post, a lot of the details are crucial, and the sources for the "promise" are damning.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/kcve8s/promi...
2 is what happens in Argentina.
The root cause? It's that people buy snake oil from vendors to check boxes on meaningless compliance tests.
Not everything can be high priority. Stanford administrators several months ago would have been working on securing adequate supplies and staffing for the expected fall surge; that's a much more important problem, both to the system as a whole and to the residents, than who gets vaccinated today vs. next week.
Champion of small businesses my foot.
The video discusses the lake level dropping for a period of several thousand years. So there maybe is something in the geological record that allows for humans to be walking about there?
In all likelihood, this was an innocent mistake (i.e., not done with malice)... but it's hard not be cynical about it, especially when we consider the context.

Medical residents:

1) are at high risk, overworked, stressed out, and underpaid;

2) are regularly being called "heroes" in slick posters and PR campaigns; and

3) have just been left out of the initial vaccine allocation.

The combination of 1), 2), and 3) seems almost "engineered" to induce psychological and emotional breakdown in the very people who least deserve it. Horrible.
OTOH, they just got themselves a cash infusion ... proving the interest and the potential future ... found a lot of bugs ... and got a -whole lot- of free advertising. Rather like Librem, innit?
city-state. the future.

city states are like sleek yachts while nations are like ferry shuttles.
Does California citizens enjoy a far better lifestyle than other states that is cannot be attributed to natural gifts?Two things I can think of
1. No non-competes
2. State FMLA

What else?(real question, not rhetorical)

Does this warrant the taxes collected + the raise?
Because the law is always above an agreement. You can't put into a contract "if we kill you, we don't go to prison". I don't know how what the law is in the consumer rights area, but surely there is a degree of regulation there, hence me asking what it is if there is anything.
> Except that Facebook isn't benefitting from criminal activity, is it?

Facebook's activities may very well be illegal (eg: criminal) given the allegations in the recent lawsuit filed against Google.

The people using Facebook to perpetuate frauds often pay Facebook for advertisements and that can be interpreted to benefit from criminal activity.
Lemme put it another way for you. Because the average parent isn't rich enough to give their kids 13 years of school, but also the average parent isn't rich enough such that school doesn't matter, the underlying problem is income inequality.
What made them believe the US public was willing to socially distance in the first place? Was that backed up with data or was it another baseless assumption?

Stating your rationale doesn't mean your rationale is backed up with evidence.

Again, top public health officials need to be held to a higher standard. That means understanding how populations behave, not just understanding the medicine. That means consistent messaging. The message throughout should've been:

> This is a dangerous virus, and the best way not to get it is to avoid contact with any other people at all. However, if you absolutely need to come into contact with other individuals, risk can be reduced if everyone is wearing a mask. Masks are not anywhere near 100% effective, but they do help, which is why you should be avoiding human contact and only be going out with a mask if absolutely necessary.
> when many of said users were unaware of this, and might not be comfortable with it.

At this point if you are still unaware of that it's that you are either stupid or you don't use Facebook.

Don't forget that most people even think that Facebook is recording their voice full time to serve them targeted ads
You know it must be serious because Boris has been extremely resistant to imposing restrictions this entire time, and he knows how much people were looking forward to their Christmas. Apparantly it's around 70% more infectious, although I'm not sure how that's calculated.

I guess we all just have to hope this doesn't affect the efficacy of the vaccines. Apparently the spike protein is affected, although it sounds like the changes are relatively small and thus they're hoping it doesn't make any difference.
Because doctors prescribe unneeded procedures for kickbacks?
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It's like if you play Witcher 3 on the Nintendo Switch-- it technically works, but it's also a predictably blurry mess. Anyone who's read up on Cyberpunk knows that it's going to strain even the best gaming PCs, so it should be no surprise that it barely runs on last gen consoles.
If you view GitHub as a static infallible source, then yes -- your analysis is correct. But there are gaps anywhere. If you want perfect 1:1 mappings between source, the developers who make it, and the end builds, you essentially need a "chain of trust" that can be tested at every stage. For example: are all developers pushing code with encrypted SSH keys? Are the commits signed? Are the signing keys hardware backed? Does CI check the signatures? Is the CI server up to date? Are all packages on the CI server signed and trusted? Are all stages of the build pipeline testable for tampering and tamper-proof? You're not curling or apt-getting or running npm anywhere in your build server for some kind of Slack integration, right? The list goes on.

The issue is that most developers view "the code pipeline" as a trusted and complete system, for the most part. In the vast majority of cases, that's okay. The issue is that SolarWinds should have known, based on their very own customer list, that they were in an advantageous position in many organizations that are valuable targets. That should have _caused_ all of this thinking to happen, and led to changes internally to accommodate the new risk. That threat modeling/analysis either didn't happen, or the outputs weren't good enough.
I had the same VIP area issue, on reload I watched the guard conversation and then another guard goes to the bathroom where you can jump him for his keycard. There were a few different ways to do it I think.

I had a weird “is it a bug?” moment yesterday, later on there’s a mission where you hack a parade float. I stole a delivery van to drive in.

Once inside nobody saw me as a threat though which was odd. I was wearing an arasaka vest so maybe that’s why?

I was able to just walk past everyone and do the mission easily.
There is a logo at the top that says WSJ OPINION and it says "OPINION COMMENTARY" above the headline.

Maybe it's easy to miss for someone's first time on the site, but I've personally never had any issue.

Also when WSJ posts to social media they prefix the headline with "Opinion"
I don't know ... would you be willing to insert a $1000 bill every time you wanted to make a full pass over such a corpus?
Can we use simplex noise to generate music?
> Without countermeasures a virus looses lethality over time, these countermeasures select for virus strains which transmit even under extreme counter measures easily.

How do you explain smallpox, which has remained highly lethal for a very long time, during much of which we didn't really have countermeasures available?
> because of 0.4% ... American greed

San Francisco has a city budget larger than most other countries. This election, it voted to pass all nine measures for new taxes!

https://sfelections.sfgov.org/november-3-2020-election-resul...
He hasn’t been extremely resistant at all, the facts speak to the exact opposite.
Advertising aside, this makes some good points about general adoption of technology in large teams. It needs to be the path of least resistance or it won't happen.

Whether that "resistance" is red-squiggly lines in your editor, CI failures, code-review comments, or being told off by your boss for not following company policy, there needs to be some form of control.

From what I've read of Google's software development process they're pretty great at this. Editors warn about a lot of specific stuff (and adding more there is easy), automated code review bots point out issues (and again, adding more of these is easy enough), code-review has strict standards and a process to become a qualified reviewer, generated tests catch incorrect new uses of APIs, etc.

In my experience, teams don't invest in this sort of tooling enough, which means that rolling out changes like "let's not use memcpy" or "let's move to Python 3" become much harder, and this certainly impacts security.
> Gun fighting doesn't "feel" real-time like it should. Shooting a goon 12 times with my revolver (6 shot) at point blank range isn't my idea of immersion.

Totally agree.

Going from a dialogue to a shooting scene is like going from a Rembrandt painting to Team Fortress.
That may be true if your conception of people is limited to their role as consumers. But people are more than consumers. They are also citizens, moral agents, members of families, workers, conscious and experiencing subjectivities, biological entities with evolved neurophysiologies and psychologies, and so on. What is good for people as consumers may not be good for them considered from a different perspective.
Absolutely. If you have a disease which is uncommon or need a surgery which is uncommon, consider traveling to a center specializing in treatment. For example, while a doctor at a regional center might have a 100 breast cancer patients in a year, other cancers have only 10 patients in the whole US per year. That regional center doctor is only likely to see a single patient with that disease in his life. In that case, I would seek out those who study that disease.
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Probably a decent fraction of founders hope to reach the point where the tax would come into play. Maybe some other locale can use this to finally convince VCs and startups to cluster somewhere else.
VCs prefer investing in companies in NYC and the Valley. So Paypal would have probably had to be built in one of those two markets. Once he had a successful company, I suspect he could have gone elsewhere and still received investment and convinced enough talented people to come join his projects. So I think for Elon in particular the answer is yes, but there might have only been a single other place he could have started in the USA, and we're specifically talking about Elon.
It's not, it's double negative. "Which company is performing...certainly google..."

Or that's how I see grandparent statement. Also can be interpreted as sarcasm if you want. I find English weird in that.
Being good to other people is just what’s right, it’s not about looking out for one’s own health.
As a consumer it would be nice to review a surgeon's track record in some way. Short of that - as a start - I'd say nobody should be charged for surgery if they die during the procedure. Then only the most skilled will take the riskiest cases.
Kidnapped Americans have much worse outcomes on average than other country citizens.

This is because the US makes it illegal for families to pay ransoms.

As with most things international, not being American is an asset in such a situation.

https://www.newamerica.org/international-security/policy-pap...
Teams now supports 49 people onscreen.

Thanks for the tip, I'll check for a new version, but I am running the Microsoft Autoupdater and as of earlier this week, it was still doing the 9-people-only thing and randomly shuffling around.
Why was it too late? They were still number one when pagerank was published, all they needed to do was put more resources into it. Google’s algorithms weren’t magic. The biggest problem was lack of vision, and willingness to bet on that vision. Investors in Google were swinging for the fences, that mentality would never have been at home at DEC.
Am I the only one who thinks this article is very poorly written? It doesn't really tell all the strategic reasons why Altavista fell into oblivion and its structure is all over the place.

I also love Paul Graham's framework for imagining the future and working backwards. If we think like that, Google is nowhere near the form of a final solution to information retrieval. An ideal state would be to retrieve information correct the first time with everything you need bundled into the page. If that problem is solved, then you have to tackle the question of why the user was asking the query in the first place, and how your product can help people have a solution to their answer so that the query is never repeated!
Depends if you want to build your own or not [1]. If not, I think purpleair is the way to go (I use the same sensor as them but they have two I believe for redundancy). As for air purifier, I highly recommend Blueair. They’re expensive but was the only purifier I had that managed to pull the PM2.5 indoors to near 0 during this terrible wildfire season in California.

[1] https://www.powu3.com/airquality/
I find soft-wrapping code pretty tedious, so even with huge screens IMHO indeed breaking around 80-100 (accounting also for indentation) is nice.

BTW I recently go a 24" screen (I was all about laptops, turns out I was torturing myself...) and I can easily fit 3 columns in Emacs, with a large-ish point size (238 chars across the monitor, DejaVu Sans Mono). If it's not a preference thing, and assuming (corrected-to-)fine eyesight, shouldn't 43" be capable of like 8x2 easily?
For a genetic variant like the one described here, there might be a chance -- although getting artificial mRNA to target specific cells in your brain seems like it would be an achievement on the tail end of the development.
It doesn't matter now because that's not some ingredient you can bolt on. It was part of the initial design process.

Sure, they could have shared all their secrets, and BioNTech theirs. Then, they would have come up with the same vaccine candidate and run two identical trials. Which would've been quite useless and far more risky.
> And I'm sure they're right. It's important to remember that Facebook can precisely measure the impact of news articles like this. And even without messing with the newsfeed algorithms, they have way more influence over consumer perception of Facebook than a few news articles do.

Are we 100 percent confident that FB is doing this because the math works out and not because the pressure from the board is to 'do something about this'? We're all aware, presumably, of cases where the corporate hierarchy demands action when the data suggests acting at all is harmful. It seems silly to assume FB is the one company immune to those pressures.
> Personally I disagree with the whole idea of wealth taxes, you should be taxed when you do things, not taxed just because you own something worth money.

I used to as well, but now I flipped. I don't think you should be taxed for doing things, I think you should be taxed for wealth. I think there should be no tax for working ( income ), buying things ( sales tax ), etc. Activity which promotes economic growth shouldn't be taxed. But wealth should be taxed. House/assets/etc should be taxed.

It's insane that you get taxed at 39% for work ( income ) but someone letting his money "do the work" gets taxed at 20% ( long term capital gains tax ).

> I should be able to go live in the woods alone and not have the government take some percent of my net worth just because I exist.

But the government protects your ability to do so. So no. Though I'd be in favor of governments setting aside land internationally where people are allowed to live "in a state of nature". They are not allowed to form tribes/governments, but are allowed to live "free" as they wish untaxed without the help of society.

> If I start a company and it gets valued at 30 million dollars, why should the government be allowed to force me to sell my company to pay their wealth tax?

Cause the company exists in a society governed/protected/etc by the government? It's the beneficiary of the environment.

> Now the government is going to force me to sell my car?

Nope. You could always go out and work to earn money to pay the wealth tax too and keep your car.

I'd be in favor of removing all taxes for one wealth tax.
Texas Instruments was probably not founded in California, so the center of mass could easily shift again.
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Force? Silicon Valley engineers are not serfs.
Can you please share the name of Calculus textbook?
You think it's practical to run the query on the index, materialize the full result, re-index it, run the full query string, and rank? This suggests you do not understand the scale of the problem.
Wealth taxes are immoral and should be illegal. Someone can play by the rules, pay all the taxes as they go, and then suddenly have what they’ve already earned confiscated under threat of government force? I feel like that’s normalizing a world without private ownership of anything. After all, a wealth tax would mean that the government can change its mind and seize what you own retroactively at any time. What separates such a “free” society from China? Property taxes are similarly immoral because they undermine private ownership.

Not to mention, with the government’s famous lack of efficiency and accountability, all the stolen wealth wouldn’t accomplish much. California already has an enormous public bureaucracy and has nothing to show for it. There isn’t a single public amenity or service that is any better in California than states that have lower taxes, smaller governments, and higher efficiency. Washington is a great historical comparison point for this (although the politics of WA have changed significantly in the last decade and it is turning into CA).

I’m also concerned that this is going to reduce the attractiveness of CA as well as the US more broadly for economic activity and innovation. Why would the next wave of builders trust in an environment and government that could take away what they’ve worked hard to build and earn?
> What made them believe the US public was willing to socially distance in the first place? Was that backed up with data or was it another baseless assumption?

Maybe all of the other examples of Americans coming together against a common threat from the last couple of centuries?

The messaging wasn't consistent. The POTUS ranted and raved on Twitter ad nausium about how its all a hoax.
How many people do you know that have left all of their bad relationships on day 1?
I don't think that's a reasonable expectation of someone in Fauci's position. Wearing a mask or not is a binary decision, when people ask if they should wear masks of someone in that role they reasonably expect a binary answer of what they should do and at any given time he took his best shot at answering that question.

What he said in March was that he didn't believe there was any reason for most fo the public to wear a mask, that's because he didn't have any evidence that it was effective at that time. Evidence is a reason, absence of evidence is not a reason for action. This is very simple. I happen to have thought even at the time that we should be wearing masks, but that was just an opinion and at that time the opposite opinion was also reasonable. We were still working things out.

Accusing him of lying in service of some conspiracy theory really is going too far.
Yeah this is a "don't live here if you plan to ever be rich" law. Fortunately that part of the law is unlikely to be constitutional.
This has bothered me for years! I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who didn't already understand the concept of "free software" for whom this expression was actually helpful. (Maybe RMS lives in a world where there's a lot of free beer.)

A better way of explaining this is surely that the "free" in free software is about freedom rather than about its being zero cost.
The plot with keanu was one of the few parts of the game that felt well executed. I think they could have done more cutting and focusing elsewhere too.
You mean something like a Berlin wall to stop the people leaving the paradise or a new kind of serfdom, where one should be tied to the land in which he was born?