skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government attempts to force everyone, at the point of a gun, to exclusively use tightly controlled, government manipulated "digital currency" will be a spectacular failure. Expect to see an explosion in bartering, the use of ad-hoc "currencies" (both physical and digital) and precious metals as this absurd scheme is rolled out.

Aside from the utter economic disaster that will result from central planners by the implementation of this scheme, just look at the situation in and around Nashville for the predictable disaster that will result from the first power or internet outage when legal, physical currency is eliminated. Without physical cash or a means of exchange it would be absolute chaos. This is perhaps the worst idea in history (which is choked with terrible ideas).
All early of course. But it doesn’t appear the new variant is more deadly, but also its not clear its less deadly yet either. Assuming it’s about the same severity as the current variant then that spells bad news. This thread here does a decent job explaining that https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/134356742510788198...
A similar story is the Kim family's disappearance and the death of the father, James: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/STRANDED-FATHER-S-HEROIC...

He worked for CNET, and it was a big story back in 2006.
I would if more non-commercial and non-monetized content were uploaded to Archive.org.
Yes, something like that. Users could pay extra fees for their transactions to be part of L2 consensus and to be loadable by light clients. If they don't pay, the event is still recorded on-chain, so apps and services they trust can still load their and others' tokens if its in their interest. Apps shoudn't have a problem keeping up, if they want to, so long as L2 state is localized (ie. colored utxos, not metacoins/accounts). They might even share relevant L2 transactions with other services that are also indexing that protocol in a sub-network. These are just some of the ideas I am exploring.
> I watched radio controlled boats go around lakes in 1970s.

Tesla did this in 1898.

https://www.engadget.com/2014-01-19-nikola-teslas-remote-con...
A real national commitment to testing and contact tracing early on. A full lockdown which probably needed to be done at a national level since states can't restrict travel. Pay everyone to stay home.

I simply don't get the "we couldn't have done anything" mindset when we see countries like South Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand with deaths per capita as little as 1%-3% of what it is here.
> Or did I misread this entire thread?

Yes. In fact most of the people you've responded to very explicitly said the exact opposite of what you've interpreted.
CA has had stricter lockdowns than most other states since the very beginning. Now our per capita rate is worse than Florida.

I think CA has many counterproductive restrictions. For example, outdoor dining should’ve been open which could, in theory, prevent people from gathering inside.

[*] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100k...
We've only eradicated smallpox and rinderpest, so we have almost no experience doing something like this. It was also crazy to think that short-term containment measures (masks and social distancing) wouldn't start selecting strains that are more virulent.

The good news is that vaccine distribution is moving very quickly--hopefully faster than the virus can mutate. The bad news is only developed countries, India, and China will likely vaccinate that quickly.
I think they were doing a thought experiment where you'd let it run wild in the beginning, and let people see the horrors of that, and let that fear be the motivating factor. Arguably fewer deaths could have come out of that strategy, because the anti-maskers and political covid minimizer have successfully spread the misinformation of "it's just a flu, very few deaths" etc. discounting the fact that the fewer deaths were happening coz of masks and lockdowns.
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Dr. Paul Marik, who has treated thousands of acute COVID patients, had been highly recommending Ivermectin as a first line treatment since about early November (see page 3): https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_...
But we have the vaccine rolling out now. So mass infection is not inevitable. If there was some leadership on the top and a working political system, we could’ve done a lot better
Fatalism ain’t the correct response.
It is, and I think I do!

We're doing well despite the pandemic; its been interesting to see how adoption of machine learning in consumer research has been accelerated during COVID because its no longer possible to gather lots of people together for tastings.
The.. whole point was delaying it by “flattening the curve”. We were not remotely prepared at all and knew nothing about the virus. Mass infection now is incredibly more safe because we know how to treat it, and most cities have extra buildings retrofitted as hospitals.
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> The CIA is actively trying to create Narrative #2, which is a bit concerning.

Not just Pompeo and the CIA, the mainstream news industry.
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having"
Just STFU already. I've flown every month since this bullshit started. I've flown international. I went to five packed bars tonight alone.

You liberal fucks are destroying the world. I hope you all die in hell.

Literally go fuck yourself.
Which is about 0.3%, and not 1% as the source claims.

I bet some of that goes into heating residential and non-residential buildings, that require heating regardless. So if one to speak about waste, it should be even less than that.

For comparison, I guesstimate ~6% is used for heating homes.
There’s been plenty of deaths to motivate us.
Having not used typer, your description is reminiscent of fire [1], which has worked well for our purposes.

[1]: https://github.com/google/python-fire
Sure of what? They were asking if it's less lethal.
I prefer the interior finish of the Ford.

Here is a direct comparison of the model Y and the Mach E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUjDBYQkhwM
I've seen some russian 4x4 videos through that area and further up north. You never travel alone in case anything goes wrong. You _never_ shut off your engine because it'll freeze and you won't be able to start it without making a fire underneath it (or heating it in other ways). You insulate your vehicle (double pane windows, other insulation). That area is no joke. Poor kids.
This may be true, but if you want to blame LA’s situation on anti-maskers you also need to answer the question of why LA wasn’t so bad in April or November when much of the rest of the country was spiking. And on the flip side, why is LA so much worse than ‘red states’ today?

I think a more likely explanation is that the lockdown worked up through the holidays, and then people went overboard the other way. If you lived in Texas or North Carolina, you may have seen your friends and family throughout the year. So it’s easier to keep Thanksgiving small, because the public messaging has been, ‘now it’s serious’.

If you live in California, you’ve been told since March that basically any activity puts you at risk of the virus. Depending on your county, this year you’ve been told to wear a mask when you’re within 30 feet of someone outdoors; that playgrounds and parks must be closed while bars can stay open; that indoor dining is banned unless you’re the governor; that there’s a 10pm curfew despite no evidence that such a curfew will slow the spread. At some point people get COVID fatigue and start to tune the messaging out. And I’m betting that point is around the holidays for many, many people.
> These purely social barriers

They're mainly biological by virtue of hormones. No amount of social conditioning will change that. It is inherent in our species.

> bigotry

Biology.
and instead decided on this? I do appreciate this over whatever comment you decided not to make, but still.

I would gladly pay up to $1 (or 100 upvotes) for every comment I make here if only to prevent the steady decline into Reddit-style self-indulgent noise.
Small point to make but I wonder how things like these are integrated into a typical infantry structure? Are they a section, platoon or company level tool? Do they sit with the platoon commander? Having them with Corporals may make sense though
that may be too far forward and lose some benefits plus overload them in contact. At the same time they could be very useful in a number of scenarios. I read somewhere the US Marines are testing adding a systems operator to be beside the Signaller in Platon HQ.
Infectiousness is higher. Don’t know about lethality (but probably not higher).
Half of what we're seeing right now is lockdown fatigue and a lot more people making the decision that the risk is worth it. It's not because they haven't seen how bad it could be, it's because they're numb to what they've seen, and 9 months is a long time.
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They do not want to stay inside, and that is the problem. In the small town I live now not far from LA, most restaurants are closed for indoor, as well as outdoor dining, but several places just refuse to obey this order . What do you think is happening ? They are packed to the brim, with lines waiting to get in and have their beer and fried wings their usual way. No need to say local community is split between outraged "conscious" citizens demanding managers' heads on a plate, and "freedom lovers" demanding first group mind their own business and stay the fsck out of others' way to have their regular fun.
I'm watching this hitshow with both amusement and fright .
>All in all the result is a vaccine much faster but with all the usual rigor.

It's not all the usual rigor because vaccines can have side effects that only show up one or more years later, and it's literally impossible to test for such side effects without observing people who've taken the vaccine for at least a year afterwards.
Sometimes these studies ask the wrong questions. I don’t want to censor video games but I do wonder what the effect of murder simulation is on people, along with regularly witnessing the frequent sexual assaults that get dramatized in our media (movies, TV). Does it lead to aggressive behavior? Maybe not, but I’d be surprised if these influences are a net positive for the well-being of individuals or communities. We’ve lost much of any ability to have community standards with any toolset other than the force of the law, but all this energy people put into trying to ban words or speakers, topple statues or cancel companies might be better focused into social disapproval of the portrayals of murder, rape and the rest of the violence we inundate ourselves and our kids with on a daily basis.
> Would/could it have led to a huge overwhelming initial spike that has died down months ago?

Highly doubtful. And you would have crushed your healthcare workers.

Even if everything we did just delayed the big spike until now, it's a HUGE win that healthcare workers are now getting vaccinated.
I think I’ve come across a PSA about this scheme. The story was that unaware translators puts discount on proofreading, so some clients send in dummy machine translation to qualify as “proofreading” task to get full translation at proofreading pricing.
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Why is CA doing so poorly? Is it just bigger cities? OR and WA seem to be doing relatively well
I wish these provided a confirmation number or receipt
No, not even close. It is 100% ethical to sell software but not the source to it. It isn't a social obligation of any kind to do so. You may choose to do so but you can't force that choice on others.
I've seen the "gift shop" thing reported by various sources today, but haven't found the origin of it. Doesn't pass the smell test to me. The logistics of gutting a gift shop and converting it to a treatment area seem non-trivial. Maybe it's just being used as a triage waiting room? Does anyone have any details on this?
Whenever any company seemingly supports "regulation" of any sort, it is usually to put a competitor at a disadvantage. This is especially true in zero-sum markets, where any dollar a competitor earns is one dollar less that you earn.
I'll pick on the curfew for outdoor dining. It was a restriction that was added in November. It did nothing, and could have made things worse by having people gathered in a shorter time window. I'm not sure if that's the case, but there wasn't any evidence suggesting it would help, either.
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Pretty much anything can have side effects that can only show up at a time interval longer than the measured time interval, that’s kind of the Nyquist theorem, the thing is, these kinds of vaccines have understood risk profiles. Yes literally anything can happen literally anytime, but we can guide our fears based on past experiences.

I would turn it around and say unless you have some reason why you would think that this particular vaccine design methodology will lead itself to having longer lead time side effects, a year of study is just fine.
Even if they trusted the sign, I have observed that people (myself included) often don't even _see_ all the signs when we're being directed by the GPS. I'd love to see a study on what changes about your perception when using a navigation system.
Why does Google not have these links accessible somewhere? It seems like you shouldn’t have to hunt through old forums to find the appropriate contact.... why can a Trillion dollar company not make this more easily discoverable?
Why did they not extend capacity with field hospitals weeks ago? They’ve been telling us it was going to get bad, then it did and they’re not prepared for it? What is going on here?
On one hand people preach "always have a local backup" and on the other "back ups on google drive is super easy". heh.

i guess we should get ready for next decade hearing a lot of "Have you lost pictures and memories of loved ones on Google Drive or a service affiliated with AWS? We at lawyer & lawyer ..."
If you are just starting out, just grab basic demo programs and compile them to get something running. Then you can change small things to experiment. It seems like everyone starting out goes looking for silver bullets and shortcuts by paying for videos. You have to get hands on, then read, but spend a lot more time doing something than reading about it.
I wouldn't imagine the power draw from always-on rear lights to be especially high compared to, you know, actually moving the vehicle, especially if those lights are LEDs. And the studies I'm finding measuring this exact concern don't seem to show particularly significant impacts on fuel efficiency / emissions for ICE vehicles (a couple percent, tops, and that's assuming small cars w/ tiny engines and some pretty comically inefficient DRL implementations - hardly relevant for creating a new standard that can mandate e.g. dedicated LED-based DRL systems).
too many stupid restrictions just made people fed up and ignore most if not all of them.

Anecdotal evidence, of course, but I was shocked to learn that many of my friends had inside guests for holidays. This is instead of going camping by themselves (banned) or going skiing by themselves (banned too). Even outdoor dining is banned - all you can do is gather inside now.
> Now our per capita rate is worse than Florida.

Total infections / capita is still lower in CA than in Florida.
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> I think the risk that the wealthiest few will rule the world is largely misplaced and overblown.

This has literally been reality in every sense for all of history, and the point here is it's getting worse which a quick google will find you mounds of backing proof.
If it’s more infectious it spreads faster, kills more people and overwhelms systems faster.
This was just luck. An aircraft with a special randomly-initiate-death-plunge function will crash somewhere first and somewhere else second. If the public is stupid enough to keep flying in it, eventually it will crash all over the place. In this case, the flying public decided that two horrible crashes was enough.
With mass testing, public awareness, social distancing, etc., I'm not sure if the virus getting less lethal will hold. We're certainly selecting for more virulent strains, though.
> Why is CA doing so poorly?

A lot of people who can't afford to stay home combined with a bunch of numbnuts who decided to go visit family over Thanksgiving.

This isn't even the Christmas burst yet. It's about to get worse.
Was interested until the author included their pitch in the wordcount.

Is there a TL;DR;BCOMGWTF?
Canadian here. No, people have stories that their uncle tells them happened to them or their friends, but actually the uncle just read about it online. And then you repeat it as though it happened to you personally. The healthcare system works well. I've been to the hospital for a concussion and was seen quite quickly.
CDC link above paints a different picture
>Each belief is to some extent unfalsifiable.

Core values can't be falsified, but a belief system built atop these values can be shown to be inconsistent, meaning it can essentially be used to argue for anything. Like in mathematics, an ideal system would pick core axioms/values that don't lead to inconsistency.
This -> if all the people would followed the restrictions to the letter it would been under control many times over, as demonstrated by NZ, TW, AU, CN.
More infectious with same case fatality rate means it’s more deadly.
> I cross reference Google Maps with Waze all the time back when I used it, but I wouldn't dare call Google Maps unreliable

Unless "back when I used it" refers to pre-2013, I'm not sure I'd describe that as cross-referencing.
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There are tent hospitals in the parking lots. It seems like they have been trying.
This is a really good question —- earlier this year we had setup unused overflow facilities and those were taken down. Why were they dismantled?
While Sweden did adopt the 'do nothing' approach, their results so far have hardly been a success story.

Currently Swedish deaths sit at 837 deaths per million: https://epidemic-stats.com/coronavirus/sweden

By comparison consider Sweden's neighbors.

Norway currently sits at 80 deaths per million: https://epidemic-stats.com/coronavirus/norway

Finland currently sits at 99 deaths per million: https://epidemic-stats.com/coronavirus/finland

What is more troubling for Sweden is their current daily death rate is also very much higher than both Norway and Finland.

So if the aim was to try an reduce the number of citizens dying from Covid 19 then based on those figures Sweden's 'do nothing' approach has failed.
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Well,

"I have different idea about essential complexity and accidental complexity"

might mean:

(a) I think we should think of essential complexity and accidental complexity differently (legit, but can be confusing, and overloads the terms).

(b) I think essential complexity and accidental complexity mean something different (in general), and TFA got them wrong (e.g. because the parent doesn't know the traditional definitions of the terms, and thinks they're open to personal interpretation).

>Everyone seems to be just reverting back to the text book and rejecting the difference not on merits, but for simply not matching.

Yes, and I think those people are right. Whether the new idea has merit or not, it should use new terminology, to not obscure things. Then, we can discuss it on its own merit.

Even so, considering it on its merit alone, I don't think it has that much (more on that below). Because it essentially amounts "if you're programming in X, you have to deal with X (e.g. bash/html/etc.) and that has some complexity". Well, duh. That's true, but it's something we already know.

Whereas the accidenal/essential complexity in Brook's sense, is an important philosophical/logical distinction.

>But complexity is complexity. If we really want to talk about complexity and where the unavoidable part is coming from, then it's from the layer underneath also

Well, the original formulation is more useful though, because having to use bash or html is not "unavoidable". It might just be "unavoidable" because of one's employee insistence, or something like that, but that's not a computer science concern.

Whereas essential complexity in Brook's sense is completely unavoidable (in the logical sense).

A better and non-confusing term for what the parent describes would be, I think, "imposed complexity" or "circumstancial complexity".
The same New York Times that endorsed hillary?

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/opinion/sunday/hillary-cl...

I'd take anything the New York Times's "reports" on political/etc with a grain of salt.

Also, I'm of the opinion that all news/media organizations are propaganda organizations. But so what? Let these propagandists fight to expose each other rather than colluding together to mislead the public by serving the same state.
Most hospitals are maxed out and nurses are quitting and calling out. We just don’t have resources to fall on, the bench isn’t that deep.
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Imagine a world where the FDA’s Oxycontin response was as decisive and timely as their pasta nutrition enforcement.
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It doesn't really work any differently to v4. Most of your v4 knowledge still applies to v6's behavior. Subnetting and routing works no differently, and neither do the addresses themselves (other than being longer). It's passing packets around in exactly the same way v4 does.

There are a few differences, e.g. default routes, IPs and maybe DNS come from RAs rather than DHCP. You also won't be using NAT, but that removes complexity so it should make things easier to understand.
Because people refuse to social distance.
When cases grow exponentially, no amount of preparation will be sufficient.
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Pet peeve: Why do they use subdomains (marketingreportoptout.visa.com), thus making it a bit easier for the scammers to register similar domains?

marketingreportoptout-visa.com is still available for any scammer to register. It costs Visa (or anyone) less than $200 to register it for 10 years. Can't they at least register these very obvious domains?

How difficult is it to use URLs like this?
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visa.com/links
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Some guesswork here, but looking at the percentages in SoCal the hispanic percentage of COVID cases is much higher[0] and perhaps a driver for the bigger numbers (whatever the root cause).

[0] https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sdc/hhsa/programs...
I imagine in the US you can pay to have somebody else kicked out and take their bed instead
Which are nowhere near the most common type of computer, so it's a fairly significant change.
The biggest issue here is solve latency. If I'm on a page with a captcha, I would definitely pay $0.0005 to not have to solve the captcha (hell, I'd pay $0.01), but I'm not sure I'd pay $0.0005 and wait 30 seconds.
Yeah this is what I thought the US would do, as its a country where individual decision making feels like its prided above all else. I was absolutely surprised about this joke-authoritarian style regulations that CA and the counties tried to push over and over. Absolutely absurd.
From what I understand, space isn't the only limiting issue. You might find more space with some difficulty but you cannot suddenly produce more nurses and doctors, many of whom are overwhelmed or themselves ill and out of commission.
I'd love to watch these videos if you have a link handy.