skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can F9 on "A1 + SomeOtherTab:B2" (just that selection) and it'll calculate for you. You can do this for all the dependencies under Trace Dependencies.

I admit it's not perfect but I have found it much easier historically to follow a calculation through Excel than through untested pandas code (people inner join and drop rows; they groupby and lose null groups plus related rows; they filter string data without case insensitive matching, etc.).
Exactly, "detected to date". The animal surveillance programs were inadequate at the time of the outbreak and have since been defunded and shutdown altogether.
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I feel that formalizing such a system would make it more vulnerable to market capture - there are powerful entities that spend a lot of money to control influence, and it's always risky to paint yourself as a target.

Any system you create would have to be distributed enough to be resilient to those forces. I'm not naysaying, but this is something I think about a lot and I haven't come up with (or found) a good answer to those problems.
Nope. The App Store wasn’t even a thing until iPhone OS 2.0 a whole year later. As mirthflat83 said, Jobs wanted an HTML5 future.
It's easy for middle and upper income individuals with disposable income to advocate for these kinds of laws. If you're using Uber to get home from the bar late at night once a week, an extra 25% is no big deal.

But if you're on the lower income scale and you need Uber to help you get between your second and third job (because you can't afford a car and public transit is unreliable) or you need it to get to a doctor's appointment, this kind of change is a big deal.

What will also likely happen is that ridership decreases at the margins. People won't cut it out completely, they'll just use it proportionally less. Drivers might make a little more, but fewer drivers will be able to make any money at all.
The most insidious part of mega bills is the surprises that get snuck into them that I'd like to believe would have been adequately thought about and debated if someone actually had a chance to read them. The article suggests the CARES act itself is to blame and the 14k charges are "fees on these facilities to fund the FDA's regulatory activities". It wasn't meant to attack distillers but that didn't stop them from getting swept up in a provision that didn't belong in this bill in the first place.

How is a logical person supposed to reconcile a bill that was meant to help the country deal with an emergency is actually penalizing the companies that stepped up to help and charging them for the extra red tape?
Had never encountered the field "epistemic topology" before. Highly non-trivial:

On the Solvability of Inductive Problems: A Study in Epistemic Topology

https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07518
Tell that to the U.S. Army.
Cloudflare manages to provide a certificate for https://1.1.1.1. (But not reserved ones; see [1].)

Aside from that, what is the purpose of this comment supposed to be? (The general tone reads as if its meant to refute the parent; did you intend it to be a reply to chrisseaton instead—and thus a defense of the HTTPS-complicates-things position?)

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16717849
All this recent talk about aliens by government officials has only on reason. Getting support from the public and defacto more funding for the space force.
> you can go to an airport, which has never closed, and buy a ticket in cash

This has not been true for some time. Ticket counters require payment cards.

I asked about purchasing things online because it's not safe to shop in person at the moment.
This is not an excuse for one cohort of poverty to subjugate the other by way of Silicon Valley. If public transportation is not reliable, make it reliable. If people aren't paid enough, improve wage and labor requirements. Many countries provide for their workers' transportation without Uber, so why can't we?

For example:

> But if you're on the lower income scale and you need Uber to help you get between your second and third job (because you can't afford a car and public transit is unreliable) or you need it to get to a doctor's appointment, this kind of change is a big deal.

If this is the problem we're solving for (getting you between multiple distant jobs that you desperately need to make ends meet), and have determined that Uber is the only or best solution, we have already failed. The solution to poverty is not serfdom.
Thanks! Yeah, that's part of what derailed me trying to make a paid upgrade for the old free version. I had to think of what features would be locked away in the paid version, how the player would be nudged to upgrade etc. It's a fair amount of coding work and planning, and it's not fun compared to working on the actual game.
> lockdowns are QALY negative because they harm the young to save the old/infirm.

You are going to have to show your work on that one. What numbers are you using?
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I share your concern completely. This is just something hacked together over a christmas weekend. The points you mentioned definitely need to be addressed before this library can even be called production-ready.

Though I would push back on the notion that because the problem is big and big players already do the job, why even try. There's a huge number of indie hackers, bootstrappers with small projects that can definitely benefit from an open source solution like this than have to pay $30/month.

I have already tabulated the items needed to make this a quality package and not just another hacky js library. I would invite you to keep track of the project and keep us honest :)
Yes, it’s ramen profitable, bootstrapped and growing. It’s just me at the moment and I’m still juggling full-time mobile app and IOT consulting. Since Label LIVE is a React app wrapped in Electron I’ve given a lot of thought to bringing it into a proper SaaS via browser but just don’t have the time.
My point is not that you can't reproduce any single thing with an HTML5/JS workflow. You certainly can.

My point is that:

The technical burden to do all the things you would typically use flash for (quickly create some complex animated vector art + stick some code on it + distribute it as a single file) is much higher and requires multiple toolsets that are not necessarily standardized or obvious to an entry level user. An entry level flash tutorial would show you how to do all these things and it would just work. An entry level HTML5/JS tutorial requires multiple dependencies and scary toolsets to a newcomer, assumes a lot more background technical skill, and is more likely to randomly break around the edges.

There was a special happy circle of toolset + community that made something we've now lost, and I feel that the critics spent all their efforts on narrow technical points, and thus missed what really made things special for us.
"One of every six custodial parents (17.5 percent)
were fathers." [1]

That means five of every six are mothers (83.3 percent)

Seems bias to me.

[1] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
I've been working a 32 hour a week schedule (in exchange for a 20% reduction in salary) for years, and I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't take that option if it were available unless they really need the money, or they're highly motivated by career advancement and think working a shorter week is incompatible with that. Or they really like their job.
I think AVRO is fairly well designed overall, but JSON schemas? If you need deeply nested objects just look away, it becomes unintelligible when trying to understand the schema with any real nesting. The company I was at used it fairly well as long as you keep things 1 or 2 levels nested at most, but we had a legacy schema that was 5 or 6 levels deep at some points and it was just a disaster. My anecdote anyways.
It’s easier to sell the fear of some foreign boogeyman, by claiming that foreigners took your jobs away. As opposed to robots that made your job obsolete.

Hey! Vote for me! I’ll bring those jobs back home!

Sound familiar?
> But those numbers aren't about total air travel, they're about air travel at the holiday at that highest point since March was _still_ a 50% reduction (which is pretty minimally impacted by business travel, so not sure why you're bringing that up at all.) Again, from your latest link

My point in bringing up business travel is that it still happens during the holiday, almost exclusively by air, but the rate of increased travel from late number until thanksgiving is similar to last year.

Meaning if the rate of change is the same but the amount is offset, that could mean either it’s business travel during the holidays, or that there’s a group of people who were going to travel no matter what (which is my point regarding a lockdown not being followed)

Vehicular travel is also representative because it shows how the behavior people who are within driving distance was hardly affected.

In any case my point was about a lockdown not really being feasible to begin with, which we apparently agree on.
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Do you not need evidence? Anecdata that results in wrong conclusions could cost people's lives...

For instance, what if lack of grief counseling after losing a loved one is a leading cause? We'd want to make sure people that need it can get the counseling, rather then just blame it on lock down.
It's of course just more anecdotal evidence, but in my experience if you dare to mention the possibility of the virus being man-made on Reddit, regardless of the nuance and sources you add, you will get torn to shreds.

This is not just me being salty about reactions to my own comments, I've personally never made a comment on the origin of the covid on Reddit, as I don't feel like I have anything of value to add yet. It's just something I've witnessed over and over again.

Like the GP of this thread I've never understood why such a relatively harmless claim would be so contentious. I've always assumed it was something political that as a non-American I simply don't know the context of. It reminds me of the drama around hydroxychloroquine, where mentioning it on Reddit would get you tarred-and-feathered as a loony Trumpist, even though it seemed like a non-issue to me. Obviously HCQ doesn't really work, but believing it does never seemed to deserve such harsh treatment, which I'm again assuming has roots in a political context I don't fully understand.
...and Ralph Baric (UNC) and Peter Daszak (EcoHealth Alliance) both:

Will we ever learn the truth about China and the pandemic?
Two inquiries are 'cloaked in secrecy'
WHO lets Beijing vet investigators and it
appoints British scientist with links to Wuhan

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9071191/Will-learn-...
And contracts can be changed in a future we're self driving trucks are the norm to accommodate this fact.
However, the mutation rate of SARS-CoV-2 is thought to be fairly slow for a RNA virus. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02544-6
It's pretty bad in the US also, going by investigative news reports where they install locks so easy to pick the news reporter learns to do it, and then a locksmith shows up and tries to scam them by saying it's a super complicated lock they wouldn't understand that is going to cost a lot more.
Indeed, that is a possibility. It's possible both for the virus to be engineered and spread from the wet-market, and to be zoonotic and spread directly from the lab (where a sample was stored). Perhaps the ambiguity there does contribute to some of the more extreme opinions and discussion.
> we could use the entire calorie count of a human over 35 years, leaving us with around 30000kWh (assuming a health, not-overweight human)

That's still too low, considering you can't just have a human eating food and educating themselves in a vacuum.

We need to account for energy going to and from school, shelter, heating, clothing. Basically all the necessities that enable someone to learn (and their professors)

That's another 5x at a minimum.
Have you tried booting into Ubuntu from a USB stick?
100% agreed.

The one ultimately responsible for Flash's death was Adobe, who neither felt it was worth investing in to overcome these issues, nor worth open sourcing to let the community give it a try.

What a loss.
I'm an actuary with a strong interest in this area - would be very interested to hear more especially on your R vs Python experience.
Reminds me of the clams that were getting high in Puget Sound -

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44256765
I think you are mocking me, but I'll bite.

Insurance companies are contractor heavy. They bill at $150 an hour. That's $300K annually per head. Won't take long to get a million, when you add PM overhead, information security oversight and governance, etc. Again, it shouldn't cost that much, but it does.
At this point my primary concern is that the language and severity you’re claiming here diminishes the impact of future discussions, when something vastly more serious may actually be an overreach.
Yes please. Or someone other than Stripe.

I spent a chunk of the Christmas period figuring out international B2B and B2C invoicing requirements, the rules for cross-border VAT/GST/BTW (UK [pre- and post-Brexit]/Australia/Netherlands/EU) sales tax, and when sales tax may be reclaimed on "invalid" invoices.

It was a surprisingly engrossing endeavor. There is a satisfying underlying logical consistency (from the point of view of a non-accountant). I even toyed with codifying the rules in a machine-executable form...
A shocking number of "native" applications are actually Adobe AIR. Brawlhalla on Steam (one of the top F2P games) used AIR as of a few years ago and still might! (They use a HAXE-based client on consoles)
Thanks!
I notice that that translation there doesn’t seem to describe the operation par , only oplus, otimes, amp, linear implication, and the of-course operators.

Do you know if the par operator can be expressed with this vector spaces over finite fields setup?
specifically he is a specialist in bat biology, but perhaps more relevantly he had a very interesting conversation with a russian virologist who also thinks this is the case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SRrsr-Iug

here is an essay written by his guest:

https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throug...
Sorry, but that's not a reliable source.
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Miele still produces in Germany, but quality has gone way down nonetheless. Repairability is also getting poorer, you no longer get parts you one used to get for 20 years after the sale.
The most effective managers I've had were the ones who mainly acted as touchstones of communication and prioritization, instead of authority figures. Maybe thrusting someone under-experienced into the role ensures a certain degree of humility? Sounds like that's what ended up happening here
Probably because he considers nine children to be a luxury he cannot afford.
"Third Point encouraged Intel to consider separating its chip design and manufacturing divisions, and instead seek a joint venture in manufacturing. It was also urged to divest its failed acquisitions, such as the $16.7 billion purchase of programmable chip maker Altera in 2015."

It's this a sound decision? It seems like it would be intel abandoning smaller nodes and sticking to 14nm whilst they go to Samsung or TSMC to manufacture their chips.

It's losing their competitive advantage. Of course they've been struggling so far with 10nm.
Yep. Another one I wish more people would act on: always shoot movies in landscape mode. There's a reason widescreen is a thing.
The analogy with elevators largely doesn't work. In the main the only individuals at risk from an elevator accident are those that chose to enter the elevator, this is vastly different for automotive accidents where the individuals affecting by the autonomous car are not those that chose to use one.
Back in what day?
People use wet market synonymously with 'exotic wildlife market' that sell living caged animals in outdoor unsanitary conditions. Often cages stacked on top of each other.

Factory farming of eg, chickens and pigs has previously led to avian and swine flu outbreaks, so there's strict monitoring of viruses around those farm monocultures. But in the wet markets of Asia there's often multiple species together that would rarely encounter each other in the wild.

Traditional Chinese Medicine uses bat feces, pangolin scales and other exotic products, with an emphasis on live animals. Bats and pangolins are a vector for virus and cross-species virus transmission.

Moving wet markets indoors into sanitary conditions, and banning the sale of live produce would go a long way to preventing future outbreaks.
Uber raising prices 24% in response to Seattle’s new minimum wage law
This is super cool! Any plans to support 4 players at once?
Not a biologist. But this interesting article [1] in Science Magazine, describes a possible route how SARS-CoV-2 may acquire multiple new mutations: Immunocompromised patients with long running infections.
Two cases have been independently reported in the UK and US. The patients have been infected for a duration of 101 and 154 days respectively. In both patients the virus acquired multiple new mutations, both were eventually treated with antibodies, but have still died in the end.
It looks like a weak immune response which is not sufficient to clear the virus, may help the virus by giving it the time needed to further adapt to it's human host.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/uk-variant-puts-spot...
It infuriates me that rideshare services have become the poster children for the "contractors or employees" debate because they're incredibly well-suited to being contractors. They genuinely get to work for competing services and pick their own hours. Uber and Lyft are the hammer used to smash people fighting for workers in industries where they're only contractors on paper. Where they aren't allowed to pick their hours or work for another employer in the same field. "Make everybody we can a contract worker" is a cancer eating the blue collar economy alive. Hair stylists, nail techs, estheticians, massage therapists, painters, plumber's assistants, etc are all suffering immensely. There are buildings with a set 8-4 schedule with hundreds of people in them of which only three managers count as employees.
Ack, still a bit too recent and bit too raw but here goes.

Last side project which ended up becoming a bit of a rollercoaster was Brring Conference, a conference calling app where you could schedule conference calls ahead of time and it'd send out calendar invites and then automatically dial everyone in when the call time arrived.

https://www.brring.com

At the time of inception I noticed that the UK had terrible conference calling providers. They'd bill ~£50 for a one hour international conference call with 10 people. I did my numbers and realized I could provide the same call for 1/10th the price using outbound dialing and least cost routing via Twilio/Plivo etc.

I thought I was off to the races but I made the cardinal mistake of making every startup mistake in the book.

It took a few months to build a basic prototype and then using lots of my own money (and some begged, borrowed and raised) it slowly grew to become quite the monster in my life.

I wasn't a complete idiot though, I ran the idea by whom I figured my target market would be, wrote up a business plan, projected costing/break even and looked up how much my competitors were making via their company filings - the market (at least in my eyes) was there.

By the time I launched it was too little too late - our big competitors in the UK (and US for that matter) had completely revamped their products in response to Microsoft Teams. As an example of how competitive things became Google Ad spend for the term 'conference calling' literally went up 10x when I launched in response to competition between Slack, Microsoft and our own local competitors.

We obtained 100+ users and two dozen paid within the first month but the pace didn't really pickup much beyond there so after several months of adding features and running ad campaigns instead of parking it I decided to pivot the whole thing and turn it into a lead generation widget - like Intercom or Drift but supporting phone and WebRTC calling via the browser to a sales agent.

Things did better this time, I signed up paid customers ahead of time to figure out what features to launch with and ensure there was a market there once our product arrived - I was pinging maybe 30+ business owners a day asking if they'd be interested and I managed to get hoteliers, estate agents, cruise ship companies and travel agents interested in using my product.

We built Brring Live Dialer in a few months and things were growing better. Then COVID hit and our customers just evaporated. I decided I'd had enough of this side project which had become my life and slowly wound things down and started interviewing.

I have to say the experience of the above was instrumental in leveling up my resume. I came from a background of XMPP and telephony - where our software was deployed on-prem. I'd allowed myself to become deskilled so building an app from scratch using the latest web technologies of the time meant I had zero issues interviewing and landing a job.

Still smarts though, making so many ruddy mistakes!
Au contraire, I appreciate your "educated" opinion here. I just want to make sure I'm sufficiently "educated," so I can believe the exact same thing you do, with a straight face. If you didn't want it that way, you shouldn't have led with it.

Regarding A), there's no particular reason why that electricity can't be sent across power lines.

B) So what? Send it anyway, and replace 85-92% of the energy use.
My experience was that Flash ran like garbage on anything but Windows/Intel. Linux/Intel? Trash. Mac/PPC? Trash. The web at the time was unusable on my PowerBook G4 without FlashBlock. Maybe Flash would still be around if Adobe bothered to make it run well on anything but one platform.
If we reduced having children to pure economic calculation, humanity would go extinct.
People keep bringing up batteries, paint, USB, restaurants. We were talking about toy drones. Focus, people
>The prior probability of voter fraud is so low that it demands really incredible evidence.

The prior probability of voter fraud is the number of elections in which actors have engaged in fraud / the total number of elections that taken place. Consider any of the countless elections that have taken place around the world and throughout history. Do you believe that the number of them in which actors engaged in fraud is so low as to be incredible, when you think about countries and time periods that are not the country and time period you presently live in? Peruvian elections in 1960. Scottish elections in 1990. Zimbabwe in 1994. I'm just naming random countries/times here. What percentage of these do you think involved fraud? That's what the prior probability is.
You can't pop the skull bone of a human driver and peek into their brain either.

The way to determine the guilt of a driver, human or electronic, is through their actions.
>Mussels open the shells and every now and then take in a small amount of water, filtering out everything that is suitable for eating. When the water is polluted, they do their best to separate from it, and everyone’s shells just close at the same time. This happens within two minutes. If two or three clams close, it doesn’t have to mean anything, but if there are eight, it’s an alarm. Then our role is to find out what has upset them so much and find out if it is a real or a false alarm – says Podolski.