skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the problem seems to be we can't tax the rich because they take advantage of globalism to move their money around

The problem is that different places have different values and policies and compete with each other? The problem is that people have the audacity to disagree with governments and seek out different ways of living? Sorry but any proposal that disincentivizes or punishes free movement is atrocious and totalitarian. And I mean that literally.
That's old news, unfortunately. The latest data suggest that it is significantly more transmissible. "Up to" 70% more, according to the UK government's press conference. This is big.

Luckily, it doesn't seem to be more dangerous in terms of hospital admissions.

Statement from Chris Whitty, UK's chief medical advisor to the government: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/statement-from-chief-medi...
This was one of the questions someone posed during the FDA approval of the pfizer vaccine. I'm paraphrasing here, but you can look up the exact question on one of the youtube videos or read the transcription:

"Suppose someone was infected with a retrovirus, could reverse transcriptase embed that rna into the dna? This could be especially worrisome if we're talking about a pregnant woman and fetus undergoes rapid cell division... etc.."

I would be surprised if I did not mangle up some terms & concepts in the paraphrasing above. Someone who knows more can correct me or just watch/read the fda hearing.

Another thing that was mentioned in the FDA hearing was that pfizer also tested it on HIV positive people. HIV is a retrovirus which also carries the reverse transcriptase enzyme. I don't want to draw any conclusions from this because I don't have any medical knowledge. Maybe someone here with more insight could comment.
What if management is the judge, jury and executive? Who will bell the cat?
it blew everything else away pretty much immediately.

Right, I forgot people actually believe that.

Um, they were a little better, maybe noticeably so by one out of a thousand people. But wow, that's not why people switch search engines in droves.

The real reason, aside from their gift for self-promotion (I first heard about them in a science glossy, which was rare for a web 'company'), is that they had a cute, zany name, and didn't do the three things I mentioned.

Google was far more popular because of its spartan design, than its quality, regardless of how people mythologize the company now.
^^^--- to the top, my friend!
I agree that healthcare workers, firefighters and police should be the first ones to get the shots - and directly after them, politicians should, and that mandatory. Get the shot or lose your seat.

There are large parts of the population who say they won't get vaccinated because they're afraid that politicians exploit them as "guinea pigs" (especially the PoC community has a really bad history, e.g. Tuskegee syphilis study). Time to turn the usual situation around.
> We should be praising the Times for having the courage and integrity for alling out their own errors

Hilarious. I predicted "we should be praising them for 'admitting' their mistakes" was going to be the top comment. And here we are.

I bet you don't feel the same way about fox news or alex jones.

> This is akin to Fauci saying he didn't think we should be wearing masks, and changing his mind as more data came in.

It wasn't more data. It was politic pressure.

> Wanting people to never make them is impossible

Stop building up a straw man. Nobody is criticizing the NYTimes for not being perfect. People criticize NYTimes for being state propaganda. You know they spread pro-war propaganda and then "oops, we were wrong". Now praise us for admitting we were wrong bullshit. "Oops, our intentional lies/propaganda led to millions of dead men, women and children. But at least we are man enough to admit it" schtick that the dumb masses love.
The concept of meritocracy was born as satire, is currently a farce, and will likely never be realized as a genuine phenomenom.
Show me where he's admitted to "deliberately lying". In every interview I've seen he's said the opposite, e.g. [1]

> "I don't regret anything I said then because in the context of the time in which I said it, it was correct. We were told in our task force meetings that we have a serious problem with the lack of PPEs and masks for the health providers who are putting themselves in harm's way every day to take care of sick people," Fauci told O'Donnell.

> "When it became clear that the infection could be spread by asymptomatic carriers who don't know they're infected, that made it very clear that we had to strongly recommend masks," he said.

> "And also, it soon became clear that we had enough protective equipment and that cloth masks and homemade masks were as good as masks that you would buy from surgical supply stores," Fauci added. "So in the context of when we were not strongly recommending it, it was the correct thing."

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-doesnt-regret-advising...
I don't know, the gunplay and melee combat has been awesome for me. W/o perks and in early levels, the guns are pretty inaccurate, but once you start specializing into weapons you can do some amazing things. A couple examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/kfllqm/john_...
https://www.reddit.com/r/LowSodiumCyberpunk/comments/kd7994/...

I understand that console players are having a really bad time, and CDPR definitely blew it in releasing the game in its current state, but I love the gameplay loop of the side missions. Sneaking into an outpost, hacking a bit, getting into a strong position, then breaking into a killing spree amidst the incredible soundtrack.
Apple-1 computer modular schematics on GitHub [pdf]
A hike alone in the woods with lots of cliffs would work as well.
Absolutely, and that's the only place profit can come from. The distinction between wage and value is important because it explains the inevitable tendency of capitalists to suppress wages and working conditions as competition drives increased automation. As the share of value that fixed capital contributes to the end product increases, the only way to maintain the same level of profit is to squeeze workers more.
jpmattia says >"Tonsillectomies used to be very common when I was growing up, and eventually that stopped"<

Luckily, as a child I had my tonsils removed. It was just something almost everyone did. After that I had only an occasional sore throat. In contrast friends who still had their tonsils had serious illness, visits to the hospital, weeks out of school and parents who constantly worried.

So as far as tonsils are concerned my feeling are "Good riddance!"
On the German language we have the word "gratis" that's equal to "for free".
It's heavily used in advertisements like "get this phone gratis and for 0 € (but pay 29€ per month)".
I don't trust advertisements and never did. I hate it how the customer gets lied to with every word, sound and visual.
Facebook is nothing different, they are a company kept up for selling ads.
I not mad at them, it's just hard to ignore them when they start to cry because they try to lie to their customers...
None of these conclusions are based on any sort of evidence.

Pdf warning.

https://weis2019.econinfosec.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/...

Targeted advertising is a net boom for ad networks but not for the actual publishers of content.
Thanks! Complete layman here, but intuitively I always just kind of figured there was some more proximate connection through a higher dimension - kind of like we're 2D ants unaware of the shorter route through the folded paper.
One of the main risk factors is exposure.

Guess who is walking the halls filled with COVID-infected patients, and who is WFH, only having to leave the house once every two weeks for a grocery run?
As a 23 year old I personally cannot wait to pay for it. Nothing makes me happier than a nice big fat tax bill at the end of the year for the rest of my life.

Surely, considering the actual lethality of this, a better approach would have been education. Educate people of the risks, let them isolate if they want to, and let everybody else get on with it.
The naive explanation is that its mutation rate is low.

Also the evolving to be less lethal is very much a shorthand, and my impression is that it is a description made specifically to influenza, though it’s not entirely limited to that virus.
> FWIW from what I have read of GoF, I think this criticism about runtime polymorphism is spot on.

Here you are repeating second hand criticism as if it were your own because you have not even read GoF. Why would you promulgate discussion on something you have no first-hand knowledge? Everybody wants to be an expert. FWIW = nothing.
> They provide value to the consumer. They also are good for small businesses.

Apparently you believe that you should decide that. Which argument are you making? "Facebooks Ads are good" or "Even if they aren't good people should decide for themselves"?

Facebook decides that Ads are good for its users every time they show one. Either that or they know Ads are harmful but show them anyway.
My team struggled with this for two years. We ended up helping MSFT add a caching layer to the Kubernetes Azure cloud controller and creating a separate Azure subscription for each Kubernetes cluster.
R number changed when that one nucleotide change increased the number of spikes on the surface by 5-8X. This modification was seen occurring in multiple locations, so maybe not a single linage change. Maybe more like an increase in probability that one nucleotide would "flip" in multiple organisms, with enough organisms at hand.

The spike itself attacks/props open ACE2 receptors, like those found on your eyes, and is mostly encoded using ~39 some odd nucleotides borrowed from a South Asian fish. Plotting the number of "words" repeated in the genome (~30K nucleotides) yields a phi-like curve, with the words/codons in the spike occurring more statistically significantly than others.

The mutation is not expected to cause more severe cases, but is more infectious due to more spikes needing to be neutralized to fend off the infection. In bloodstream plant lectins have been shown to be effective at this, as well as llama nanoparticles.

All of this is Googlable using the right key terms.

Fish DNA in the spike: https://dnascience.plos.org/2020/02/20/covid-19-vaccine-will...

One nucleotide changes number of spikes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/06/29/coronaviru...
> I think it's pretty simple: the potential revenue loss to Facebook is much larger than the expected costs of cleaning up a PR mess.

That sounds like a quote from fight club and I guess you're right!
The USA does not promote peace nor democracy. This is not the result of good intentions gone awry. This is exactly what is intended.

We really have learned nothing from Vietnam. There, too, unrestricted murder of children was justified as removing future enemies.
It's really not enough though. Populations (and arguably esp. the American population) are not automatons that you can just direct and they will follow orders when you first tell them to go left and then soon after tell "oops, actually you should've gone right".

Messaging needs to be consistent and err on the side of caution... this was the exact opposite of both of those things.

SARS-CoV-2 is actually not that unusual – the mRNA COVID vaccines that have been developed are based on the spike protein that is common to all "coronaviruses" (hence the name) and was previously isolated from SARS-CoV-1 (i.e. SARS). At the very least we knew it was a coronavirus early on, so there is no reason you wouldn't assume it was respiratory in nature, just like SARS was.
Oh interesting. So that would mean it would depend on a compromised build machine. Yeah, that would make sense, and I guess you couldn't prevent it like this in that case. Thanks!
There also ought to be an economic incentive, for example refunds to paying readers.
> The site in Grand Traverse Bay is best described as a long line of stones which is over a mile in length.

Hard to imagine someone dedicated to pulling off a prank like that.
You can still recover a deleted email from the bin.
> I think the only way forward for cyclists is intense litigation

In my (non-cycling-related) experience, this is never true. That is, litigation gets you little, if anything. If there is no public, political way forward (inside or outside the political establishment), then you're stuck, and had better work on that.

Ideas:

* Promote use of public mass-transit instead of private cars (e.g. via infrastructure and mass transit investiment)

* De-motivate use of private cars (e.g. through taxation on car purchases and/or on gasoline, stricter pollution regulation, more expensive parking)

* Change the law so that in all cyclist-car-driver accidents, the car driver is at fault unless he proves otherwise.

This all requires a lot of public pressure, which in turn requires public opinion work through local advocacy.

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Alternatively, some people could go the vigilante way. I'm not advocating this, but in theory, acquaintance of the cyclist victim of an attack by a car driver can retaliate either immediately or ex-post-facto, not within the bounds of the law. That could mean something like a scratching a rebuke on the car's paint, or pasting a piece of material with a written message to the front window in a way which doesn't come off easily, or blocking the car from leaving its parking spot with some kind of inconvenience, together with a rebuke that is easy to remove (e.g. page of paper under windshield); etc.

This route does not require mass active support across a country or legislative district; it only requires passive local support for cycling and disdain for car drivers hitting cyclists - enough to create multiple potential suspects while making it very difficult for law enforcement to pin the actions on any one of them. i.e. if people in the same neighborhood don't rat them out.
Could you elaborate on the problems with this article? I couldn't find any info online.
One thing that jumps to mind is that there's a thin layer of lead and radioactive stuff on everything.
Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering [video]
> When he dies, his wealth should return to the society from which it came.

Sorry, but this stance is outright ignorant. What do you mean return to society ? His wealth is Amazon, the company, dozens of warehouses and an incredible logistics chain.

His wealth currently provides a pretty damn good service to society, in the form of being able to get items delivered fairly quickly and contact-less in the time of a pandemic.

Are you proposing we take his Amazon holdings after his death and give every person in the county a fractional share? Or however many shares it comes out to?

That's certainly a possibility, but the realistic outcome of that is that most people try to sell their shares for cash right away, thereby crashing the price, and most shares ending up in institutional investment banks and funds within the first year.

I'm not against a stronger estate tax either, but you have to be real careful when you're trying to divvy up massive amounts of wealth on a short time scale and think of the second order effects.
Three days ago he said it would be inhumane to cancel Christmas. Today he said the data from the last 72 hours forced a change.

Johnson is an oaf, but covid has kept him fairly serious. His waffling bumbling act was dropped.
If you go to a cookout or a party, people often bring more beer than they drink, thus people who didn't bring any can get free beer.

That kind of communal donation is similar to how people donate their time and effort to open source projects.
Deinitely lots of refinements!! But didn’t twin engine aircraft emerge with the DC-2/3 era? Unless I’m completely misunderstanding the term.
99% of people don't change the default, same reason why people don't opt out. It's not really an argument in either direction.
Yeah, the thing that set Google apart was that its web page had only: the logo, the search field, and the go button.

It was clean. It was lean.
I agree that Java is not the best tool for things like analyzing mmap'ed data. Java replaces C++ by being better in some things, not all.

I would go further and say that if your job is analyzing terabytes of memory-mapped binary files, maybe C++ is not optimal either, and investing in specialized languages like Shakti/K would pay off quickly.
Sadly, it hasn't been updated in a few years.
You're right, but I think nonexistent monitoring/debug capabilities are still a problem. For JS, if something goes wrong, you have a vast array of tools available to troubleshoot the problem. The amount of tools for WASM in the browser are smaller, but at least the code runs in an environment you know and can control.
With the WASM plugin approach presented here, you're dependant on the tools the host service (in this case Shopify) provides. There is probably not much hope that they will offer step-through debugging or stack traces in the language the code was originally written, so being able to understand the actual WASM might become more important.

There might also be the point of APIs. I'm no expert, but I imagine in-browser WASM must have access to some set of browser-specific APIs to communicate with JS and the DOM. Shopify won't have those APIs available in its runtime environment, but will probably offer different APIs to communicate with the purchase flow etc.
I don't know how the WASM tooling landscape looks, but if most tools assume the browser APIs to be available, this could make it harder to develop WASM for other contexts. E.g., you can compile Unity games to WASM, but that WASM will assume that it runs in a browser. You probably couldn't use Unity to write a Shopify plugin.
Well, that is better, but then there are those scooters and other small motorcycles that are allowed to go on bike lanes for some reason, which - while living in Amsterdam - I felt were a menace, regardless of whether they'd be assumed-at-fault or not.
I like Tidal’s browsing features, though the featured artists are never for me.

Almost every album in my collection has a linked artist bio or album review that lists influences. On top of that, there’s a list of “similar artists for each band, and it’s usually surprising and spot on.

I’m starting to branch out into more of their curated playlists too.

It’s basically everything I wanted a music store to be back in the day.
Oh thanks, I was just trying to understand what it's measuring. So are they saying its R factor is now 1.7R?
I see, that’s cool but I was referencing something different — That it was important for users to quickly recognize the publisher on the search result page itself. They develop more trust with some sources than others.

I wasn’t able to discern that. But if your goal is to showcase search capabilities to developers instead of a daily driver search engine it wouldn’t matter much.
This is just moronic. Any tax should serve two purposes: (1) provide funds for the government to serve public and (2) incentivize the “good things” and disincentivize the “bad ones”.

What does this proposal achieve for the second point??
Because those guys have great influence among the lawmakers bro. They are not going to put up laws that poverish themselves. Higher income tax, for sure, because maybe I take one buck as salary but have billions sitting on wherever the law doesn't reach. Just an exraggate example.
Company deploys sensors over half the world’s oceans
The podcast was an experiment at the time, and the people making it were outside the structure in which the print journalists were operating. The story was sexy, guard rails were not entirely in place, and everyone was enthusiastic about making the podcast so they overlook details they shouldn't have. They touch upon this here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/world/middleeast/caliphat...
An interview with kovarex, the creator of Factorio
> We should be praising the Times for having the courage and integrity for calling out their own errors, which many publications wouldn't do, rather than punishing them for not figuring it out in the first place.

I mostly agree, since I think the heart of your statement here is the times admitted they made a mistake, and that is good behavior. That's dead on.

I disagree a little bit, because I don't think they should be praised for acknowledging their mistake and correcting it: I think that's the minimum expectation we should have for journalists. I agree that it's a sign of integrity (professional integrity, specifically) to own your errors, but I don't think it's particularly courageous to do it; more that the opposite would be cowardly.
Profit comes from ownership, a wage comes from selling one's labor-power on the labor market. The only risk an investor assumes is of having to transition from the ownership class to selling his labor-power on the market if all his investments fail catastrophically. A worker assumes many more risks on a daily basis.
The separate cycling path is not a panacea - since car and cycle paths cross when there's a turn, or when a cyclist needs to cross to the other side.
> 150 hectoliter

It is funny. When I worked in the US people thought I tried to be funny or smart when I said "2 hecto gram" about weight or used decimeters.
Cloud momentum and CIO optimism point to a 4% rise in 2021 tech spending
We knew all along how viral respiratory diseases including corona viruses are transmitted, and that masks have some effectiveness in preventing spread for such viruses. In the absence of direct evidence one way or another for masking effectiveness COVID itself, the reasonable assumption would have been that masks are indeed effective until proven otherwise.
privilege, noun

a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.
It's never just about the immediate target and/or accounting of the numbers. The problem with going after the rich is that it's setting up a system for this type of control. Government leaders (especially the ones in CA) constantly abuse control, and giving them more points of control makes no sense. One year is a minority being targeted (just not if it's racial, gender etc), the next it will be some large group of people, maybe middle class, maybe small business owners, and they will extend such nonsense to a larger group. These laws have to matter in principle because it is much easier to extend their power then to weaken them or even harder, undo them.