skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you’re saying boils down to, we should assume that something will happen, and therefore act to deploy our limited resources to defend against this thing, just because it isn’t theoretically impossible.

Such an approach is guaranteed to massively fail and in doing so cost a lost of money and lives. It’s bad public policy because it is financially ruinous and leads to a greater number of deaths.

Here’s the logic: We know that resources (time, focus, money) can be wasted if they are spent on things that are not effective. We also know that resources are finite. There is only so much time, so much money, and so many different things that you can try to accomplish at once. Therefore, limited resources must be deployed efficiently — towards the most effective interventions — if we want them collectively to achieve the greatest effect.

This means dangers that are scientifically exceedingly unlikely to occur should perhaps not be entirely ignored but should not be driving major policy decisions.

The issue here is not an absence of evidence. There is an abundance of evidence that coronavirus mutations are fundamentally different from influenza mutations.
Notably, at a the time, a lot of those of us who were "power users" tended to stick with Altavista longer in many cases because Google was at first not so much better that they could compete with highly precise use of Altavista's search operators.

Google was much more noticeably better for non-technical who didn't know how to improve their results and didn't care to learn, but at the time that didn't translate to a massive numerical advantage in terms of users.
I am a physicist by training but have been doing scientific computing after my PhD. I worked a quant and now write code for numerical simulation of various PDEs. I typically use C/C++/MPI/CUDA/Python in a linux environment on large scale clusters.

I love writing code and do side projects from time to time but I really enjoy applying the programming skills to solve a physical problem.
I believe the competency at time of death requirement is being changed due to the existing limitations being ruled unconstitutional.

Per [0],
"This Bill would amend the Criminal Code to allow MAID for eligible persons who wish to pursue a medically assisted death, whether their natural death is reasonably foreseeable or not. The proposed changes will reduce unnecessary suffering in Canada. They will also support greater autonomy and freedom of choice for eligible persons, and provide safeguards to protect those who may be vulnerable."

0. https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/ad-am/index.html
> Parroting Christopher Hitchens: what is presented without proof can be dismissed without proof

This is nonsense that assumes an antagonistic purpose to a discussion, and not actually an attempt to reach a higher understanding.
If you read the article you'll see they did a prospective trial where they assigned either wait-list or volunteering to two groups. This wasn't just looking at correlations between volunteering and health.
Given that people whine if an app costs 99 cents, and that a lot of people proudly copy commercial software without paying... Maybe it's not just developers at fault here.

There are plenty of devs who'd be happy to ship extremely high quality, small & fast code. It's just that very few people want to pay for it.
Yeah, if this is as good as it sounds for users Facebook should have taken out full page ads explaining why they should just tap "Allow" instead of "Ask App not to track"
It's actually a plot point in Stevenson's Baroque cycle.
NYPost posted the photoshopped pic of a wrong person as Robinhood CEO
In general, wealth taxes are not aimed at 100k earners. Neither are capital gains taxes. Nor are "tax the rich" movements.

While yes, at 100K you can probably afford to pay some taxes, it's not where we should be looking to solve any real meaty problems.
Most of this isn’t true. This particular mutation is relatively new, only having been spreading much in the last few months. Also, there is little to no evidence that this strain is more or less deadly than any other strain, though there does seem to be indications that it is more infectious.
I was born/raised in the USA, and it's obvious that this OP is an American.

> Actions like these damage American moral authority in the region

America (well, technically, the federal government of the United States of America) has not had an ounce of credibility in 15 years, at least.

It's laughable to assume otherwise.

The USA has 5% of the global population. The rest of the 95% of the globe's population harbors no illusions about "American moral authority".

This article, and the story it contains, is abhorrent. Disgusting. Saddening. America is breeding, and paying, war criminals.

I have friends/family in the military. I don't talk to most of them anymore.

How can I pretend to be friends with people who are part of a system of global oppression, murder, and violence?
Yes, sorry :-).
What kind of obligation? Certainly not a legal obligation, which is the only obligation that actually matters.
The anti-masker movement would have happened anyway. There's no logical consistency there which is very apparent when you listen to their "arguments".
I prefer my readmes in plain text formats, be it Markdown, AsciiDoc, or unstructured txt.
This reminds me of two interesting projects, maid[0], a task runner that uses markdown files, and mandown[1], a markdown pager that improves reading markdown files in the terminal.

[0]: https://github.com/egoist/maid

[1]: https://github.com/Titor8115/mandown
Having been on multiple juries involving suits between insurance companies and the people they were supposed to be covering, I know for a fact that you have no idea what you're talking about.
And chicken bones. So many chicken bones. So many chicken bones that they may think chickens were the dominant species, wiped out by some cataclysm.
What corruption? This is all intentional. America benefits greatly from mass murder & destruction of countries who are insufficiently deferential to the hegemony. Countries can't keep natural resources to themselves; American corporations must be let in to siphon wealth back to the imperial core. Don't like it? Enjoy having your economy destroyed & government overthrown. With a few generations' worth of atrocities just for good measure.
Why have we normalized dementia and alzheimers?
I think it's pretty obvious nobody is proposing giving homeless people 50k in cash, all at once..

I don't really buy that money would fuel the problem, is there any study that indicates that? They'd still be drug addicts, but they'd be more comfortable, well fed drug addicts which makes things better for everyone.

If anything I think money for a place, clean clothes, and food would make it much easier to get off drugs.
I would think that, if the compiler can check that the annotations are correct, it also can generate them if none are given (one way to do that: ‘just’ generate any possible combination of annotations, check which are correct, and pick the minimal set. Of course, a production-level compiler would use a faster algorithm)

If so, you still might have to annotate some library functions that are implemented outside the language, but that would be it. The annotations are there for the programmer as, without them, it would be hard to keep track of which of your functions are pure, which might throw, etc.
I live in London. The core issue here is that the government hasn't really taken any action. There are "rules" but they are full of loopholes and totally unenforced.

2 cases in particular stand out to me:

Compliance with mask wearing on TFL is less than 50%. "Covid enforcement" officers walk around about one train in 50, and despite it being 8 months since this started, "I don't have one" is an acceptable answer to why you're not wearing a mask.

Supermarkets continue to be rammed, but staff aren't required to wear masks. Nor are they enforcing the requirement on customers beyond the door. One staff member with covid will rapidly infect a few 1000 people given how busy they are on a Saturday morning. Wtf aren't staff required to wear masks?

The attitude here is rapidly becoming "why should I bother if no one else is?". And frankly, I think the government know and encourage this. Its all but policy. Time and again we see them decline scientific advice, then act surprised when infection rates spike.

I'm especially frustrated as my best friend lives in Melbourne. Despite lockdown starting at basically the same time, and some crazy bad luck/incidents, Melbourne is back to BAU.
The site guidelines and @dang suggest "shallow dismissal" is now the preferred term. Paul Graham, cofounder of YC explains in a comment, back when he still posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920
Related tip: avoid mean people
Yeah but in fairness, if you just stare at the cops too long in this game, they'll shoot you.

So I don't mind breaking out the monowire and fucking up every single one of them - even MaxTac - until they give up. Which is also funny... lop the heads off about 8 patrol officers and 4 MaxTac enforcers, and the cops get the message.
I dunno why this is downvoted. This phrase: "the problem seems to be we can't tax the rich because they take advantage of globalism to move their money around"

Is a tiny distillation of one of the most difficult problems facing legislators intending to mitigate wealth inequality across their society: if the rich get upset, they can just take their toys and leave.

This is, from the perspective of legislative generations, a very new problem that has crystallized in the past 40 years with the expansion and standardization of international trade law.
Looks nice!

Although, perhaps a word about why one should consider using that library instead of one using asyncio under the hood in lieu of untwisted?
Not quite sure what they thought would happen - lockdown in November and then unlock and open all the shops the three weeks before Christmas and expect everyone to be sensible?

Totally my experiences, but London looks like it hasn't given a shit for weeks.
Good for you brother. Don’t forget to take care of yourself, but the world would be a better place if more people did everything they could to help those around them in need.
> No fair! claims the company objecting to blinds being installed on windows it had long peered through unhindered.
>Every single hacker news thread about the Cyberpunk fiasco has had a ton of top comments about they haven’t had any issues with the game.

I'm convinced that anyone who says they haven't had "any issues" is either lying, has very low standards, or just doesn't pay much attention to detail.

The game, no matter what platform or settings, is rife with bugs. Many of the bugs, especially on PC, are not game-breaking bugs. Things like getting into a car and having it launch you 100 feet into the air before returning you to the ground is pretty amusing, sure. Being able to drive straight through other cars with no collision is actually convenient at times. Having your dong flop around while T-posing on top of a motorcycle is pretty hilarious. I think a lot of people are giving these bugs a pass because they're mildly entertaining... but they're definitely still issues that should be addressed, IMO.

I am having plenty of fun playing the game despite the "jank", but the bugs are undeniably there and completely immersion breaking. The game very quickly goes from being a serious game about sex trafficking, drugs, and evil corporations into a meme game about flying cars and funny looking character models... if you don't care much about immersion and just want to shoot things and look at pretty neon graphics, I can see why you would still love this game, but I can't imagine that was what CDPR intended.
It sucks because I have always believed in many of the ideals the Democrats have (I'm a socially conservative, i.e. religious, Democrat). I've always thought the government should be a refuge for the sick and the poor and the downtrodden in society.

But the best way to describe CA is mismanaged. Accidentally giving out $2 billion to fraudulent unemployment claimants? Spending more money on social issues like drug abuse and homelessness only to have record after record smashed in levels of both.

It's sad, but I really wonder if the compassionate thing is to resist the policies that sound compassionate because clearly, visibly they don't work.
Jeff Bezos is worth more than his warehouse workers because he creates jobs for the workers to survive. if the warehouse workers were worth the same, they would have come up with AMZN.

that amazon doesnt give out as much dividends and ploughs back all the profits to create new companies and new jobs shows that jeff bezos is more socialist than any self declared socialist. its going to back as wages! and benefits of society are for everyone. if this isnt more than fair, i dont know what is...if the wealth redistribution people ever lived in any other country other than california(i wouldnt include the rest of the usa), they would realise how socially responsible and beneficial ca's billionaires have been to california by contributing to not just california but to the rest of the world. if anyone is 45 or above, they'd know how it was in the 80s and early 90s. if anyone has lived anywhere else and shelled out double digit VAT, they'd know that the europeon mixed economies and social welfare states place a higher tax burden on the middle class for far lesser quality of life materially than in california.

i wish i can air drop the proponents of 'eat the rich' into any one of the dozen countries..not even third world countries..for about 3 months. they'd realise how good we have it here in CA. or rather..how good we have had it...all that is going to go.

it's ironic that the same people crying for blood and redistribution are the ones fleeing to tax free or low tax states. thanks for nothing.
Aussie and I think most impressively China too.
> But noo, we have to have a boogeyman to build a network of cultural changes. This particular mechanism of hijacking a natural disaster for control is embarrassingly transparent.

It might be a side-effect in many local politics right now (never let a good crisis to waste), and many of them act incompetent (or maybe they're always incompetent but now we see it clearer when they're in the spotlight), but I don't think that was the point GP was making. It also assumes a conspiracy of actors that want to change the world by "building a network of cultural changes..." (Occam's razor)
The US brought the practice of Bacha bazi[1] back into the mainstream with the tasset approval of the US military (basically US service members aren't permitted to interfere or discourage it). It was banned and severely punished under the Taliban.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi
Here is a good summary of what experts (which I am not) think: https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/science/112920/will-the-co.... Regarding the smallpox virus (as per the article): It is a very durable virus, compared to a flu like virus, that means it will have a different reproductive strategy.
Yes,they misled. Even a scarf over the face would have helped.

Fauci should be tried at Hague.
> Holy agenda pushing...

Mind explaining that?
Based on the wording by Boris Johnson the travel ban is advisory. He uses the word should and not must when referring to the travel ban: "People should not enter or leave tier 4 areas, and tier 4 residents must not stay overnight away from home"

Travel ban is advisory, overnight stay is banned by law.
This is being painted as a technical error, but the only actual mistake was a miscalculation of the amount of blowback they would receive.
> Imagine being a slave to a state you don’t even live in for ten years. What a load of garbage

You do know that the US taxes its citizens living abroad, right? I know someone who was born in the US, moved back to their home country at the ripe old age of 1, and chose to keep his citizenship when he turned 18, thinking that an additional passport won't hurt. Whoops! When he started making money, suddenly the taxman came calling! Even though he had not set foot in the US for 20 years!
Too many sponsored links, and too much personalization. What happened to displaying the best information at the top in an easily scanned fashion?

Maybe there would be more search engines in a less anti-competitive market... monopolies are hard to tackle.
Very strange we have to starve people to death (while sedated) so they can have their ultimate release. We'd never do something like that to a beloved pet.
I don't get it.
Worth noting: beer is encumbered by legal restrictions in many parts of the world. In these places, even free beer is still not legally available to anyone under 16, 18, 21, etc...
I do think people understand that. Blaming the algorithm is a way of saying that we agreed on the rules by which vaccines would be assigned and that they were fair. And that we can’t just go back and change them because we don’t like the results when the rules are applied. At that point why even have a formal process for assigning vaccines when all we’re doing is coming a post-hoc justification for a particular outcome. If we already know the outcome we want then just use that!
Yes, I don't disagree. I chose crystal healing because it's silly. I supported masks because it seems to make sense.

But none of that is evidence in the double-blind trials sense of the word. And you're actually making my case: there was a plausible mechanism for hydroxychloroquine, as well as for masks. But only one of them works, while the other probably killed a few people, and wasted a whole lot of time.
It’s quite simple. Don’t mock, do nice things like your friend did. It will feel forced and unnatural at first but like any habit you will adapt. No need to overthink it.
Other countries told everyone to wear pieces of cloth around their face in the early days of the pandemic hitting their country. There was no cloth shortage, and this was a basic precaution that could (and should) have been taken without badly affecting the supply of respirators for medical personnel. This is to say nothing of the lies[1] told in service of this policy: principally that masks aren't effective for controlling spread among the general public when there was no contrary evidence and the prudent prior would've been to use masks (for a fucking respiratory disease!) until proven ineffective.

Policymaking and public health guidance is complex. There are details of the population's behavior that can't be fully controlled, but can be influenced, and maintaining credibility is crucially important here. Burning public trust with lies (or worse, basic inability to think critically under conditions of uncertainty) early on in the pandemic was a lot more damaging than the incidental effect of a cloth-mask recommendation on early N95 supply would have been.

[1] Worse than and more plausible than lies is simply incompetence. The medical industry is famously bad at critical thinking: I've known people who came out of (top-ranked) med school _less_ able to reason under uncertainty and deal with statistics, because of the culture of oversimplification they're indoctrinated with. I have no opinion on whether this is wise for the field overall, but it's an especially poor fit for a fast-moving, low-information environment like the early days of a pandemic.
"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."

- Senator Soaper

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/07/foul-computer/#:~:t....
> How can the game be acceptable or fun when cars run on tracks and NPC’s don’t have a problem being attacked?

Because I don't interact with NPC's and traffic. I treat these aspects more like a decoration to the game, not an interactive content.
There is plenty of interactive content and side missions, so I have enough of fun spending my time there instead of killing NPCs and pretending this is a GTA, so that I can fight police.
It's not going to completely solve every problem - that's a pretty high standard! Maybe you could ask your father how he feels about it.

I see and experience the same things you do, and I choose compassion and kindness (my mantra with strangers is: trust, care, help). I can't change other people or the world, but I do choose how I respond to them. I can defy the evil, unhappiness and despair in the world. What I've learned is that it is so much better for me, and for the other people, and for the situation - it doesn't solve every problem, it's not the entire solution, it doesn't even work every time, but it moves the needle; perhaps most importantly, I think it sets an example and inspires others - imagine a world without the compassionate people. Compassion is armor: When people act like jerks, usually it's because they have their own problems, their are overwhelmed, they are afraid, etc. You and I act like jerks too. Have compassion on them and on yourself - life is hard.

> never interact with this kind of people forever

Whatever kind they are, they are everywhere. We all need to find our peace of mind, but at the same time I don't want to withdraw: What am I living for? To avoid? More people are more opportunities to live.
Okay, but my point still stands - that has nothing to do with what was posted to HN. That part was included in the title to get upvotes.
Do you know many conservatives/Republicans?
That isn't radical change. That's outlawing slavery. The system that led to slavery being allowed wasn't changed.

I'd love for you to make a list of countries that went through such a civil war yet kept the same constitutio.
I was reading an article this summer about another possible find under the Great Lakes. The article talks about things submerged in the Great Lakes. From the article [1]...

> John O'Shea, professor and curator of the Great Lakes Archaeology at the University of Michigan in his laboratory on Oct. 14, 2020. In 2009, he published a research paper on discoveries of evidence of an ancient culture around the time of the last Ice Age, 10,000 years ago, submerged off the shore of Lake Huron around Alpena, Mich. in an area that would have been dry land at that time.

I realize the article is a mix of things. Unverified possible things along with more scientific details.

[1] https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/14/s...
Well, I would also say that it helps to have family and friends and an environment that rewards and nurtures kids for having some intellectual capability + aptitude. Maybe having come from Canada is a contributor to that.

I'm guessing he's being highlighted as an unusual and inspirational role model case for an American kid (if he were American). Football, Baltimore, black. That example growing-up environment does not exactly favor a kid to be encouraged to pursue intellectual strengths unless you have an incredible teacher or parents for example. At worst, you are even harrassed for trying to escape your environment, and called a class traitor for thinking you're better than everyone else. This is a big problem.
That would be silly.

The games will stored be in the video gaming room, just down the hall from chariot storage.
Paris to Brussels: 3 hours by car, 1 by plane.
San Francisco to Denver: 26 hours by car, 3.5 hours by plane.

Hardly a comparison. Can't do an easy commute to the office with that. Most people with that wealth won't burn the money on uprooting their companies.
> Its objectively the most detailed city in a first person action/RPG. It objectively has the most detailed quests:quantity.

Sure, it's gorgeous and the on-rails scripted side-quests are fantastically written and animated, but driving around the city just makes me realize how empty it all feels because only the handful of vendors actually programmed to have an inventory are capable of interacting with you. But then on the other hand, they didn't animate half of the immersive shit you actually can do, like buying a drink from a bartender. It feels like a game that wants to be an immersive sim, but the second you try to immerse yourself in it you realize that it's just a massive facade.