skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit strange it did not reach the front page. On the other hand, there is not much to discuss:

> And while I’m certain now that CentOS Linux cannot do what CentOS Stream can to solve the openness gap, I am confident that CentOS Stream can cover 95% (or so) of current user workloads stuck on the various sides of the availability gap.

I am not sure anyone felt "stuck" on CentOS 7 or CentOS 8 (of course, now they do).

Also, from https://www.itprotoday.com/linux/community-concerns-prompt-r...:

> [...] Fedora for example, do have a lot of bidirectional community involvement. Unfortunately, CentOS was never like that. It was always a community of users, so that that contribution model was mostly one way.

So I don't think they are wrong here but it's their fault. Canonical benefits from developers using Ubuntu on their laptops and private servers, maintining PPAs etc. Nothing prevented RH to give RHEL for free to developers sans support to get a similar effect. I don't think Stream is going to cut it. I run Ubuntu LTS or Debian on my VMs because they are largely in sync and I have confidence I can apply my experience in a commercial environment. CentOS stream will have little to do with RHEL 7 environments you'd encounter in the enterprise. I think HPC community will migrate to Rocky Linux around 2024, at least the academic part.
Ah, I can agree with that. Facebook probably does consider its actions from a moral standpoint if only to calculate the outrage potential.
Do imagine number of deaths Fauci caused. We wouldn't have been in this situation with promotion of masks. Even a cloth over the face helps.
Kind of a lot of people in the Gold Rush State. Between the dreamers of Hollywood and Silicon Valley, a lot of folks go there to become wealthy. And even if only a small fraction do, it's still more than almost anywhere else in the world.
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This reasoning is nonsense. The early days of the pandemic aren't going to have a high-N RCT, so reasoning from higher-uncertainty sources of knowledge is important. An obvious prior for a fucking _respiratory_ disease is that masks reduce population spread, and the no-cost recommendation to wear masks in the early pandemic is one of the few policy levers that would have actually saved lives.
Yeah, and they shouldn't allow it. Not sure what this has to do with my comment though.

Anyway, saying it's a mental health problem is really reductive. Plenty of people with the same problems aren't homeless; some of these people can potentially dig themselves out if given a chance, most importantly a place to live.
My hypothesis is they're most worried about people figuring out the CTR on their ads doesn't go down by much when the personal data spigot gets cut off.

We'll see what happens.
Jakarta EE 9 officially renames javax as jakarta
Facebook also serves as a birthday reminder service
this seems very nice -- very polished and gives good results.

I would like it if the bibtex entries had meaningful cite keys as opposed to long numbers. as is, it would be pretty difficult to actually write a paper using these bibtex files.
Sure, but it has nothing to do with volunteering or health.
Bigcommerce does have a developer blog, but it seems a bit more limited in scope:

https://medium.com/bigcommerce-developer-blog
Yes it was meant as shorthand, also I'm not an expert, but I worry that applying evolutionary pressure on the virus in the way it is done right now might actually produce undesirable results.
My understanding from the other threads about the Gmail outage is that Google will assume you're a spammer if you trigger no such mailbox too often (because they think you're generating random addresses and trying them), so they have conditioned other operators to permanently drop such addresses. So they kind of created the whole situation with the opaque spam filter system…
And being charged publicly is basically a mandatory social sentence, even if you end up being acquitted.
> I am starting to think as soon as someone asserts "there is no evidence" for something related to the coronavirus, it is a foregone conclusion.

I know that this is a joke, but it does rhetorically undercut your main point a bit. Hindsight is 2020 and resources are limited, if you let speculation without evidence rule the day you'll be drowning in potential problems, most of which will never materialize.

Nobody is saying "just ignore the new strains", they're saying "there is no reason to panic about new strains given the evidence", yes the evidence could change but that can be true of anything; you might wake up tomorrow to find out that new evidence suggests cell phone use increases risk of dementia, but there is no good reason to go around living your life like this might actually be true.
CDC is respected worldwide. Their recommendations had far reaching effect.
That's not really true. There's very few software that wouldn't exist if it weren't for Electron.

You don't need to port Electron tier-software. This was a solved issue long ago. Code it in Java, Python etc... Or Use Rust/C/C++ and a cross platform toolkit.
I hate the idea of cancelling student loan debt.

Why should people who chose to take on massive debt to go to private colleges get debt relief? Many many people made sensible decisions to go to lower cost schools, in-state schools or community colleges to avoid debt. Then there are people who chose to avoid college altogether to avoid debt. Some people religiously are forbidden from taking on debt and they oblige that by avoiding expensive schooling.

And forgiving student debt is a punch in the face to all those people. If we forgive student loan debt we HAVE TO give the same amount to people who were prudent enough to avoid that debt in the first place or else it's all a sham.
1) For assets hard to value, the owner would have to declare the value of the painting. They would pay taxes on that declared value. To prevent the value from being too low, anyone would also have the ability to purchase that asset at the declared value.
Even in the US labour laws are not like that. The relationship between an employer and employees is complex and its legal aspects ever-changing. In Germany, the structure of companies is quite different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany
Exactly my experiences in London. Crazy isn't it? I just don't think people even believe it's real. Half the people with a mask on TFL wear them over their chin or with their nose out anyway.
I don't know why your comment is getting downvoted. I have read that depression and suicide rates for transgender people sometimes increase post-operation. I am not sure if that is true. Either way, it's worthy of a fair discussion whereby both sides can present their arguments.
Shen looks like a dream come true to me. Some key features: pattern matching, optional static type checking, macros, integrated Prolog, optional lazy evaluation. I wish I could use this in my work. In case you're into Emacs and would like to play with it there is an Elisp implementation with a REPL [0]. There are also implementations in Python, JavaScript, C, and others [1].

[0] https://github.com/deech/shen-elisp
[1] http://shenlanguage.org/
> why is the new strain causing any problems at all if it behaves exactly like the existing strain?

If it's true that the new strain is 70% more transmissible then that means more people will get sick before we can reach immunity thanks to a vaccine, hospitals will be overwhelmed sooner and more people will die.
It was included in the title since the author though that the language choice mattered.
Yeah, I can understand the debate for higher taxes in some cases but 60 days will make you liable for 10 years is a bad joke. This means people from other states won't even risk visiting
>I was wearing an arosaka vest so maybe that’s why?

Unfortunately I don't think any such logic is in the game. For whatever reason that game just automatically flags you as non-hostile if you drove the van through the gate. From that point on the guards will just ignore you, no matter what you're wearing (I was wearing some random shirt and no arasaka gear and got the same result).
Considering Google pays Apple a massive tithe to be the default search engine its not 100% adversarial.
I recently renovated two rooms in my house and took out the mid-grade carpet that the builders had put in and installed real hard wood flooring. I wanted proper trim in the room and I hired a trim carpenter. What I ended up with was pre-made trim from Home Depot and mitered corners. I hired someone who claimed to be a carpenter, and charged a carpenters rate, expecting, at minimum, that the corners were coped rather than mitered. I own a VERY nice sliding compound miter saw in my wood shop, and I could have very easily taken pre-made trim from the home store and mitered the corners myself, I hired someone who claimed to be an expert with the expectation of hand-coped corners, because that's a skill I don't have.

Just one of several instances where I found out that local carpenters weren't real carpenters. If you only know how to use power tools and have a pickup truck to get materials at the home store, you're not a carpenter, you're a handy-man. A carpenter should be able to work wood by hand. I aspire to gain those skills myself, and at some point I'll probably re-do the sad work that was done previously. At least they caulked and painted the caulk-line. At some point I plan to install crown moulding, but at this point I've decided I won't do it until I can make it myself.
> it was just an incorrect assumption based on nothing (or worse an outright lie based on a desire to "preserve supply", as this was known to be a respiratory virus well before his statement)

Do you have have any evidence of this?
It's absolutely insane (or a transparent deception) to make the argument that CDC in March saying "don't wear masks" is the problem here for eroding trust, when the right political wing was opposed to scientific voices even before that, and 9 months later so many people are opposing mask wearing now? How can one say out of one side of their mouth that the CDC was wrong then, and out the other side day that the CDC advice is wrong now?
If CDC was wrong about masks in March, why are people who say that still opposed to wearing masks?
>Q7: Thanks for that and regarding refunds – there’s no chance that the market will receive an update on the volume or number of refunds before the sales report around Christmas, yes?

>AK: We don’t know yet. Before Christmas we will release sales numbers, but in terms of refunds – we’re not sure if we’ll share this information outside of the company.
Blood pressure drug may be key to increasing lifespan, new study shows
What do you mean by "dependency graph" here?

Seems to me like this malware might as well have been added to the calling assembly.
> 1930's-1970's

The difference, however, is that today's rich people can easily move their residence, and with remote-work; maybe their companies.

In the old times, it was not quite easy to move to another country. I can imagine the difficulties (selling your assets, taking your fortune, figuring out the new kingdom, wars and instability, etc...). This is no longer an issue with city-states like Dubai or Panama; and the fact that your wealth is floating online on some stocks, banks, bitcoin, derivatives, or real-estate scattered around the world.

This doesn't concern the average joe, however. Which is why he continues to carry most of the tax bill and is cash-strapped.

California issue, however, is not the rich are greedy; but that its government is corrupt and inefficient. Raising taxes doesn't help but only grow the corrupt bureaucracy.
"The information used for tracking belongs to the users whose behavior and interests is being tracked"

I don't understand why this should be considered true. If I had a business and I jotted down in a notebook how rich I guessed each customer was as they walked in, based on things like what they're wearing and what they bought, and then used that to determine how rich I thought my average customer was, why would that information belong to anyone else but me?
We can’t just spin up testing capability, though. Normalizing violations of social distancing, then claiming that we will have a safety net for all the people who will hear that and think “oh, staying home? That’s for other people to do” when we can’t actually support everyone doing that is not helpful at all.
To add to the other answers, machine learning based on biased datasets results in biased models. For example, Word2Vec can be used to make analogies. Having it determine "Man is to woman as king is to ___." results in "queen", which is reasonable. On the other hand, determining "Man is to computer programmer as woman is to ___." results in "homemaker". The algorithm wasn't deliberately designed to have sexist bias in it, but there was implicit bias in the dataset from which it learned.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/07/27/158634/how-vecto...

As another example, predictive policing tries to place police in places with higher crime rates. Those crime rates are determined by looking at past history of police reports and arrests. That past history has human bias already in it, with disproportionately higher arrest rates in places with racial minorities. The effect of the predictive policing is to justify overpolicing of minorities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_policing#Criticisms
We don't trust ourselves. It's long way to go
Gurm in this case would be the deist type of God that spun the universe into existence and then stepped away...
A harness-wearing whale that keeps head-butting ships in the Arctic Circle[,,,]
Always a catch with these zero-overhead refcounting schemes. If the programmer has to use some equivalent to weakrefs then how is this an improvement over existing schemes? The possibility of cyclic garbage to accumulate is a very big drawback in many applications.
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A harness-wearing whale that keeps head-butting ships in the Arctic Circle could be a Russian military asset, Norwegian scientists say
This is a fantastic thing.

In the America of our imaginations, this modest low-tech thing would be done by 2025.

But the article states, it should be done by 2040. Which is a staggering underachievement.

There seems to be no will to actually get things done in America, anymore. This thing is one appropriations vote away from not being a thing. Over the next 20 years, you can bet on that happening.

It's conceivable that all the people who will see this complete are not born yet.
CDPR didn't produce and publish those videos?
Fauci would LOVE to add testing capacity.
You're blaming Fauci for Team Trump's self-serving undermining of Fauci's work.
Market is not really reacting positively to the current state of affairs either.
They likely put a program on the build server to make the changes after checkout before build. Which would be impossible to detect.
As a kid I couldn't see the political motivations and BS the media was peddling. Rose-tinted corneas slowly fading over time the more I could argue and see nuance.
handle 1. n. In the Advanced DOS and OS/2 operating systems, a binary value created by the system…

“Advanced DOS”, interesting. I think I recall hearing that was a potential name for what eventually became OS/2 back before it was announced. But I don’t recall ever having seen IBM use that name publicly.
Hah, I thought you referred to Ryan Gosling in the new Blade Runner and just phrased it oddly.
There has been a slow-simmering pop-hypothesis, fueled by a number of accidents such as AF 447, that Airbus' approach to fly-by-wire controls is less intuitive than Boeing's in a crisis. As far as I know, there is no real evidence for this making Airbus planes less safe, but until the 737 Max crashes, I think there was, if anything, a bias against Airbus.
Wealth taxes are extremely invasive. Commerce is inherently visible (because it necessarily involves other people). What you own is private.

The cost of even figuring out your net worth is substantial and would still be borne by people nowhere near the threshold... in fact, in the case of this bill everyone is required to report their assets to the state. The aggregate cost just from the reporting would probably dwarf the revenue.

Regardless of your politics or your views on taxation this is plan and simple a bad law.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm... (Bill text)
Values are quite often a consequence of profits, in that companies develop values that align with how they make profits. Ben Thompson once coined this "strategy credit".

Show me a company which has values contrary to its profitability and then I'll be impressed (because that company will be at a competitive disadvantage).
Personally I've only had two issues with the game so far beyond sub-par performance.

One is that the mission after "Transmission" didn't show up

The other was that trees would bug into view if graphical settings were too high.

All in all, it's okay except for performance.
> arrested for spitting on the sidewalk

Getting arrested is a bit much, but what's the redeeming quality of spitting on the sidewalk?
European viruses wiped out the people. Some of the culture is integrated, but most was lost.
“When the virus changes its method of attack we must change our method of defense,”

What did I miss? How is this mutation attacking differently?
My sense is if you put it on the public internet, by default you are giving people the ability to link to it. It’s just a matter of how hard or easy you choose to make it.

Copying copyrights is more complex.
> This is not a symmetric relationship. This is the thing you seem to have a hard time with.

Of course this isn't a symmetric relationship, but its nature, and even its legal nature, isn't ordained by nature, but is a result of political activism, and differs over time and place. Whatever that relationship is now in the US, it is clearly something that is as temporary as it's always been, and everyone constantly aims to change it. Google's executive and board are much bigger political activists than this group of employees, but they all seek to change the power balance.

> don't be surprised (and cry foul) if you are terminated.

You might not be surprised but crying foul is legitimate. Google does it all the time when it doesn't like various laws and tries to put political pressure to have them changed.
I think it's had too much hype and too many expectations. Marketing did too good a job. I didn't watch much of the hype just a few trailer videos, and it's meeting my expectations. But I imagine someone who was really into the hype might feel its not up to what was promised.

I like it. The world visually is like nothing else I've seen. Absolutely amazing. Missions are entertaining. Fighting isn't that good but hey. Few bugs of floating things in the air, but I can live with that. And they'll prob be fixed in a few weeks.
I was once a subscriber to the NYT and am within their ideological range to enjoy most of their reporting. I feel as if since 2016 they've lost a lot of credibility. Their reporting feels like editorials, and their internal issues often become public. It seems like a highly political newsroom (i.e., "what facts ought we to report" instead of "what are the facts to report"). I subscribe to a more local newspaper now instead.
This reasoning is implicit in the apologists for our early pandemic public health incompetence, but it's incredible to see it concretely articulated.

How do you add absence of high-quality, narrow evidence for effectiveness + strong prior for effectiveness + ~zero-cost intervention and land at "don't recommend cloth face covering"?

All the other examples you gave fail one of these criteria: there's no prior suggesting that Crystal healing is valuable, HCQ has side effects and presents costs/supply chain challenges that _cloth_ doesn't, etc.

An example from the other side is vitamin D: there's been enough weak evidence that anyone scientifically literate has been keeping an eye on their vitamin D since the early pandemic, given that: there's moderate evidence it's protective + there's a high chance you're deficient anyway + D toxicity is pretty hard to achieve.
Law student here who lacks this. Does anybody have any advice on how to begin developing this skill?
(It's odd to me that your post simply requesting clarification is being downvoted)

I'm not the OP and just starting to dig into the 1619 project so take this with a grain of salt. There's a few parts that seem to extrapolate too far, or view everything from a pre-determined lens of race to chose their narrative.

One example is the claim that the U.S.'s lack of universal healthcare is the result of racism. The project goes on to detail how the Freedman's Bureau (which provided healthcare to former slaves) was prematurely closed, making the case it was because "legislators argued that free assistance of any kind would breed dependence and that when it came to black infirmity, hard labor was a better salve than white medicine."

I'm sure there were legislators that took that view, but other sources point out the organization was only intended to last for one year after the Civil War. When an extension was proposed, the main objections were that it was too expensive and would infringe on States rights. (Unironically, some of the same arguments used today).

Race is certainly part of the fabric of the nation's history and colors many of the problems faced, but I'm not sure race can be used as the root cause of every malaise as the project seems to allude.
Project Hyper-as-a-HTTP-back end-in-curl
I wonder if podcasts are a much riskier medium because of this. When have 12 episodes drilling in ideas based on a faulty premise, it's a lot harder to effectively say "oops," and being longer, there are a lot more opportunities for something to go wrong.
Personally I've given a lot of money and personal help in the last year, probably more than the rest of my life added up. I think there are worse ways to handle crises.

Granted, I'm only thirty. Perhaps you were trying to illustrate someone I haven't experienced yet.

That this is necessary is really disillusioning for an understanding the US, where I live—both with society and the government itself.
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Facebook’s campaign against Apple is against users and small businesses
Perhaps another HN'er could explain it to you more clearly? Thanks for the insights and have a wonderful holiday season.
Would be so much simpler at the federal level, but if states have to do this first due to the Senate being undemocratic, then perhaps that is the best way.
> I think a Cyberpunk 2077 II will be a fantastic game in 5 or 6 years.

Assuming you can patch the missing systems back without disrupting the game balance and stuff. Will the voice actors hang around forever to modify plot lines? The game doesn't react much to your actions. Assuming unfinished systems even make sense in broader context and will interact nicely when fleshed out. If you make civilians properly panic and run away, or call police, won't that break some quests? How many cases do you have to handle in a quest if NPCs start wandering around?
It would have certainly happened. It could also never have reached such a magnitude had health authorities not proclaimed for 3 months that masks are the new facehuggers.