skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly recommended anyone who hasn’t read this article to do so.
The problem is this incentivizes all the wrong things. This encourages the ultra rich to invest in land or large properties, driving up that particular asset class. Instead of venture capital, we’ll just get a bunch or people hoarding land
You spent so many words, yet you still side-step the main argument, and then further ridicule my argument by taking it out of context.

These are different contexts. I do not wish to read a 300 page manual when it can be described in 2 pages, similarly to not wanting to scan 10 pages worth of code that has hundreds of thousands of code I may be expected to have to look at. I require both enough energy and insight to solve the problem after reading.

This is a discussion forum. We write differently here. Information sharing is not our prime objective, unlike writing code.

>I am saying because of this contradiction all your logic flies out the door.

Contradiction solved. Now, will you answer or continue to side-step?
> They only reversed their stance when it became apparent that the US public weren't willing to use social distancing effectively.

Do you have citations for any of this stuff? Because I have seen places where Fauci and the CDC admitted that their main reason for discouraging masks was to prevent a run on PPE, and I've never seen one where they have explained that it was part of some broader strategy like this. In fact, my memory of the time where they were advising against masks is that social distancing was much less emphasized in the public health messaging than hand washing and avoiding face touching.
It's definitely not good for publishers (newspapers, etc). Because fb ads work so much better than newspaper ads.
Boris [and his fuckwitted cronies] can kiss my arse!

I [and thousands of other people] have already made plans and spent money preparing for Christmas visits to family we haven't seen for over a year. I'll be going, come hell or high water [and I don't think I'll be the only one]. If I get stopped by the police and turned back, I'll just try another route.

A government that; sent millions of school kids back to classes, dispersed hundreds of thousands of students all over the country to start second waves in most of the university towns, bribed people to go out for meals in restaurants, opened pubs to allow crowds of drunks to mingle on the streets, allowed people to go on foreign holidays ---because all of those were somehow "essential"-- while, at the same time banning people from visiting dying relatives in hospital and preventing families from attending loved ones' funerals, has completely lost the moral authority to give me any instruction on where I can and can't go and who I can or can't visit.
> Is retracting enough?

That's the modern propaganda M.O. Lie and then retract and demand praise for retracting.

Go look up Nayirah's testimony where a kuwaiti diplomat's daughter lied about iraqi soldiers killing "incubator babies" and the media, working with government, spread the lies intentionally to start the first iraq war.

Go read about the nonexistent WMDs that the media like the NYT lied about to start the 2nd iraq war.

> The only path forward is to fully hold NYT accountable. Fire the editor and journalist in charge of the story would be a start.

That's not going to anything. The news industry "recycles" journalists/editors like the catholic church recycles pedophile priests.

People should simply be taught what Thomas Jefferson knew. "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day"

The problem is that people expect truth and facts from the news industry. People should be taught what the news industry is - a propaganda outlet for the elites. And then let the people judge accordingly. The NYTimes will always be a corrupt agenda driven propaganda organization. You can't change that. What you can change are people's understanding of what the NYTimes is.
> In all likelihood, this was an innocent mistake

From the article,

> While leadership is pointing to an error in an algorithm meant to ensure equity and justice, our understanding is this error was identified on Tuesday and a decision was made not to revise the vaccine allocation scheme before its release today," they wrote.

The residents' point here is that it ceases to be an innocent mistake when it is pointed out to you, and you deliberately decide to do nothing about it.
It can't even really be measured economically beyond how much it costs to run the ad. They will see the result of the ad, but FB will never know how it would turn out if they didn't run it.
Not Another Shuttle Accident? Need Another Seven Astronauts?

When just recently I was explaining the Boeing situation to my children, my twelve year old mentioned that it sounds exactly like what happened at NASA. That's a twelve year old's conclusion, and I told her how insightful that was. So many people in the field are so blinded by their patriotism towards a company or organization that they are unable to identify the roots rotting out under their own feet.
History from Below
While this is true generally, please bear in mind that the numbers in the UK do seem to be somewhat concerning. I don’t have actual values yet, but from the announcements from the various UK governments it seems to be the case that the case rate in London has almost tripled in the past 18 days, and 60% of current cases are this new strain.

The response in the UK has been pretty rapid and strict, and this has been justified by the governments on the basis of monitoring of this new strain. It’s unlikely (of course not impossible) that this decision would be taken without some decent evidence backing it up.
Absent any special considerations, that's the general direction that pathogens go, more infectious and less deadly. Dead hosts aren't a benefit to the virus, and neither are hosts too sick to go out and infect others. Evolution is messy though, I don't know how likely a particular new strain is to go that direction.
Fair enough although I assume that realistically a bike is going to want at least a 3-season 4WD road through the mountains--and even that may not really be suitable for someone doing distance cycling. And, to your point as well, there are certainly (usually 3-season) roads through mountain ranges that may not even be especially challenging but aren't suitable for high volume traffic.
The issue is not the algorithm but that the issues with it were identified in the days before the allotments finalized.

Meaning: administrators saw that the results were dumb, and didn't compensate.
The argument is against having higher marginal rates on billionaires than we do on anyone else. Whether we do or not currently doesn't affect the equation when you're talking about changing the existing policy to something else.

But also, billionaires and international corporations do pay marginal rates higher than the middle class. Their effective rates are lower because they shield most of their income, but what they have is still above the threshold for paying the higher marginal rates.

So, for example, a US billionaire makes $5B/year, only $1B of which is reported as taxable income in the US, cutting their effective rate by a factor of five. But nearly the whole billion dollars is at the high marginal rate. A piece of legislation that would cause their domestic business dealings to gain a hundred million dollars, so that they would make $5.1B/year and $1.1B in the US, would yield the US treasury more than the same total gain going to the middle class, because their marginal rate is higher even if their effective rate is lower. (And this is actually how it works because the shielded income is characteristically from foreign business dealings whereas domestic policy affects domestic business dealings.)
New Evidence Suggests Covid-19 Could Be a Kind of Autoimmune Disease. Here's Why
Western governments recommending against masks is one of the biggest government fuck-ups I've ever witnessed and now there's no lack of people trying to cover it up and find excuses for it.

The quote below is from "Professional and Home-Made Face Masks Reduce Exposure to Respiratory Infections among the General Population". There's enough studies looking at this for SARS and influenza- including for the general population - that it is highly irresponsible to err on the side of not using masks even if there's no clear evidence for population usage for SARS-2.

"Opportunistic data collected
during the SARS epidemic in Asia suggested that population-wide use of face masks may significantly decrease transmission of not only SARS but also influenza [3,4,5,6,7]. As part of pandemic preparedness, many are contemplating the contribution wide-spread use of masks could have [8,9]."

3. Lau JTF, Tsui H, Lau M, Yang X (2004) SARS transmission, risk factors and prevention in Hong Kong. Emerging Infectious Diseases 10: 587–92.

4. Lo JYC, Tsang THF, Leung Y, Yeung EYH, Wu T, et al. (2005) Respiratory infections during SARS outbreak, Hong Kong, 2003. Emerging Infectious Diseases 15: 1738–41.

5. Wilder-Smith A, Low JGH (2005) Risk of respiratory infections in health care workers: lesson on infection control emerge from the SARS outbreak. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 36: 481–488.

6. Wu J, Xu F, Zhou W, Feikin DR, Lin C-Y, et al. (2004) Risk factors for SARS among persons without known contact with SARS patients, Beijing, China. Emerging Infectious Diseases 10: 210–16.

7. Tang CS, Wong CY (2004) Factors influencing the wearing of facemasks to prevent the severe acute respiratory syndrome among adult Chinese in Hong Kong. Preventive Medicine 39: 1187–93.

8. World Health Organisation Writing Group (2006) Nonpharmaceutical Inter- ventions for Pandemic Influenza, International Measures. Emerging Infectious Diseases 12: 81–87.

9. World Health Organisation Writing Group (2006) Non-pharmaceutical Interventions for Pandemic Influenza, National and Community Measures. Emerging Infectious Diseases 12: 88–94.
This looks really cool! I've on a search project as well, that looks like it has the same goal, and uses a similar approach and philosophy.
A landmark study pinpoints the birthplace of modern humans in southern Africa
Your explanation sounds something like when a racist says that he doesn't hate people because of the color of their skin but because they bring diseases, take away jobs and are not cultured.
Ha, my cold dead hands
The possibility that a vaccine that has not shown any serious sideeffects until now will disable 20% of people getting it is extremely low. And you make the typical mistake of forgetting to weight vaccine risks against the risks of not vaccinating.

Is this possible that a yet completely unknown sideeffect that hasn't shown up until now will suddenly appear? Yes. Is it likely? No, absolutely not.

Is it possible that a mutated strain of Covid-19 will disable 20% of medical personel? Yes. Is it likely? No. But still: It's much more likely than a vaccine that has not shown any serious adverse events until now doing this.
Are you confusing medical trials with the vaccine rollout? The first vaccine was given March 16th.
The problem is not the implementation language of sqlite, the problem is the author. Hacks upon hacks, and nothing of it in the docs. Instead it represents itself as the most secure of all databases. World class, whilst being worst of its class.

Hardening sqlite to get some security back from the insanity internally is a herculean task. I only scratched the surface with mine. Fts accepting custom tokenizers by pointer, dynamically! If someone wants a different tokenizer it needs to compiled in.

Simple selects being destructive. https://research.checkpoint.com/2019/select-code_execution-f...
No security settings on by default. Dos'able. You can easily overwrite all internal and public tables. A hackers dream.

Rust would not help at all, only a proper rewrite.
I share your concerns about centralized management, which is why the money should be redistributed in the form of a UBI to enable decentralized decision-making.
Not sure on the new R number. Not a lot of data yet. Check this out, however: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201112144040.h...

> Kawaoka and Halfmann contributed their unique coronavirus study model, which uses hamsters. The University of Wisconsin-Madison team -- including Shiho Chiba, who ran the hamster experiments -- performed replication and airborne transmission studies with both the original virus and the mutated version created by Baric and Hou.

> They found that the mutated virus not only replicates about 10 times faster -- it's also much more infectious.

> Hamsters were inoculated with one virus or the other. The next day, eight uninfected hamsters were placed into cages next to infected hamsters. There was a divider between them so they could not touch, but air could pass between the cages.

> Researchers began looking for replication of the virus in the uninfected animals on day two. Both viruses passed between animals via airborne transmission, but the timing was different.

> With the mutant virus, the researchers saw transmission to six out of eight hamsters within two days, and to all the hamsters by day four. With the original virus, they saw no transmission on day two, though all of the exposed animals were infected by day four.

> "We saw that the mutant virus transmits better airborne than the [original] virus, which may explain why this virus dominated in humans," Kawaoka said.
Agreed. The first search I made on Google (~1999?), probably for something tech-related, turned up several porn results on the first page. Back to AltaVista, DMOZ, and webrings for at least another year…
So what does protect this wall from human nature on a economic downturn? Everyone can build a wildlife preserve from thrust-fund money, that will be a paradise/oasis, until the money runs out. What makes this project sustainable? As in, when the money runs out, the dessert will return because its human nature to turn all but the sturdiest surroundings into a war-torn desert. Where does this redirect/change human nature?
Hatred towards the rich when our quality of life has never been higher IS jealousy and petty envy. The fact that slogans like “eat the rich” have been normalized by Millennials and Gen-Z on Tik Tok is clear evidence of it. Imagine the irony of an entire society having leisure time to burn on Tik Tok (or other social media) via a handheld space age device that we couldn’t even imagine 15 years ago, and yet whining about how life is tough and the system is broken. The greed isn’t in those creating value and accumulating wealth - it’s with everyone else, who are enjoying an amazing life in an amazing time and yet are greedy enough to complain about not having more for free.
it's not like SF or NYC are tourists paradise. you cant walk down mission st without some random homeless person trying to attack you. Gavin Newsom and London Breed should just convert Moscone center into a homeless shelter. problem solved.
A friend of mine said: "People who try to control everything suck dick." I don't know what that translates into in German.
Slaves work for no pay and cannot leave. You are suggesting a tax on (massive) wealth you already have is the same?

> Bill No. 2088 would have created a new annual tax of 0.4% on individuals with worldwide annual wealth over $30 million;
John Urschel tackles his lifelong balance of math and football in new memoir
I am baffled that somebody could observe the actions of the UK government and come to this conclusion. They seem to have been determined to do the worst possible thing to the very last moment, then abruptly about-face when that position was unsustainable.
1) Google was the only search engine at that time that understood the power of search. Yahoo pushed its search box below the fold. Lycos, AV tried to bring more "content" to the search page.
2) It was blazingly fast.
3) It allowed you to test your current search with the competition search engines. After a few times you did that, you realized they were by far the best, and did not try it anymore.
And yet more than a million people migrate here every year. They must not be good students of history.
I've wondered this throughout my entire play through. Supposedly the lead voice actors for Red Dead redemption 2worked full time for ~5 years to get everything right (assuredly with endless rework). An A-list star usually spends 6 months to a year at max recording for a movie. How much did they have to tweak just to make sure they were getting the most from the Keanu investment vs. pivoting/cutting what wasn't working?
The tax is proportional to the number of days in California, and is only on wealth above $30M (married) or $15M (single).

How many people do you think have $30M and spend >= 60 days a year in California, that do not benefit from business/property/services/educated employees in California? Very, very few.
Clojure has transient mutable collections that are designed to become persistent once "complete". [1] Some systems have made use of using reference count of one (unique owner) as permission to mutate, something that TFA generalizes as memory reuse.

1: https://clojure.org/reference/transients
Well said reply.
Eh, I'll buy it from a discount sale in two to four years if they've fixed all the bugs.

Don't do this, though, I need you to buy it fresh so that new games continue to be made.
A big difference is that others can consume the same thing, a million content creators is more than enough to supply content to the entire world. There is no reason why consuming digital content should cost a significant part of your income when it is so cheap to produce at global scale.
If Austin adopted it, people would just move two miles outside the city limits. And the state of Texas as a whole is not going to do that.
... they also had the "I'm feeling lucky" button which took you the the first search result. Hinting it was intelligent, but still not fully so.
I believe the fire risk can be mitigated through better building codes. Florida solved this problem years ago. California is just stubborn. Sea level rise I think is much more problematic. Houston has had three "500 year" floods in the past 4 years. Parts of Miami already experience flooding during high tides at certain times of the year. Low lying coastal areas will continue to get hammered. Venice, Italy is another place...
That's already been perfected by early 20th century propagandists. Do we learn it in school? Not much I guess.
If you free up software subscription money, you can afford more AWS services
I land on the Apple side of this argument, but the best defense of Facebook comes from Ben Thompson’s Stratechery.

He does a podcast with John Gruber so they’ll likely talk about it at some point.

Privacy Labels and Lookalike Audiences:

https://stratechery.com/2020/privacy-labels-and-lookalike-au...
s/first/only

FTFY.
Exactly - owning land within a country is different from discovering an island and needing to hire people to defend it once you find oil or gold or have anything of value.
Learning to Read Japanese Fast
If you go read the original press release, they use the word "small business" 5 times in 3 paragraphs. The strategy is to spin ad-tech as necessary for the free services that we all enjoy on the internet, and using "the little guy" as the justification. It's pretty much the Trump playbook of leveraging widespread frustration of economic decline across middle-America to win the battle for public opinion. In other words, the elite of the elite claiming their actions will help the common man while being blatantly self-serving.

Will this strategy work? I'm not sure, but it's worth a try because putting the cat back in the bag around data tracking isn't happening. I'd guess there probably is a growing contingent of people who balk at the price of an iPhone and see Apple as representative of "coastal elites", which could play right into the hand of Google/Facebook.
What?

I daily a 2015 MBP. I own other newer hardware as well (dev kit; Linux box; wife has a modern MacBook I’ve used extensively). It’s not slow.

I just don’t run any Chrome junk at all. I still hit 8 hours of battery life and never experience slowdowns - even with Xcode running 24/7.

If you avoid modern bloat, we’ve had fast computers for quite some time. I’m sure the M1 is still another league, and I’ll likely buy one just to come forward a few years, but otherwise any Mac from the past 5-7 years is still very, very usable IME.

Short of that keyboard issue, that is.
Thanks but I'm still confused what 70% is referring to. Exactly what quantity is 70% higher than it used to be?
While your general point about anecdoes makes sense, your point about the 100 people and 50 dead is completely incorrect. and ironically that example is a made up anecdote, at least Hadfield is a real example. It's well documented across many studies that a staggering number of surgeries are unnecessary.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/18/unnece...

key highlights:

"About 10% of all spinal fusions paid for by Medicare in 2011 were not necessary, either because there was no medical basis for them or because doctors did not follow standards of care by exploring non-surgical treatments"

"An estimated 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures are performed annually with the number of unnecessary hospital stays around 8.9 million a year. One study determined that almost 29% were not necessary (Health In The 21st Century by Fransisco Contreras MD, page 212)"

"A 2011 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reviewed records for 112,000 patients who had an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), a pacemaker-like device that corrects heartbeat irregularities. In 22.5% of the cases, researchers found no medical evidence to support installing the devices"

Anecdotes are great for illustrating a point and making an emotional connection which is why I brought up the story from Astronaut's Guide. But there's absolutely no doubt that a significant and unacceptable number of surgeries are unnecessary.
You only need a state with an Austin adopt a ban on noncompetes, or a state that currently bans noncompetes that miraculously develops an Austin. Once either happens then it’s game over for CA.

The end of Silicon Valley’s dominance could have come much sooner had China continued its trend of opening up pre-Winnie the Poo’s reign, but that threat is gone for now. China is crippled under a dictator again
So if one year I spend 60 days in California, I owe the tax for the next 10 years? That seems indefensible. In fact, if they implement this, I'm pretty sure there's going to be a Supreme Court case, and IANAL, but I suspect California will lose.
Even worse is AMT. it was supposed to be a way to prevent rich people from hiding from taxes but now it just gets regular middle class people, and rich people avoid taxes other ways.
It’s entirely possible for a mutation to make the virus more deadly and more contagious at the same time, exploit a window of opportunity in an unprepared population, then “burn out.”
Man it’s great you gotta try it.
It blocks almost all the ads on your network