skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a middle class Spaniard, these are a few things that stand out about my country's economy:

1) Unemployment rate is very high (16%+)

2) Under 25 unemployment is extremely high (40%+)

3) Inequality is very high, with 10M+ people struggling to make ends meet

4) The country lacks affordable housing (property and rent are expensive when compared to salaries)

Some areas of Spain have implemented different forms of basic income for decades now (these usually go by names such as 'renta de gastos esenciales', 'renta de ingresos', etc).

I have lived in two of those areas and I can say that this form of income only mitigates poverty and improves quality of life slightly. You don't just get rid of the four points I mentioned above.
> several orders of magnitude more deaths than in comparable neighboring countries

One order of magnitude, not several.
Mixing vaccine types is under consideration. An experiment is proposed combining AZ and Sputnik.
Even roads that should be real are in different state of maintenance, there's some very bad roads here in central Italy, the likes that will tear a wheel apart from your car but due registration show white or even yellow on Google maps.

I do most of my intercity navigation trough state and road signage, with the navigator on but only for the last stretch, like driving me to the address once we're close.

Around here, "navigator shortcut" had already become a derogatory term for their inane suggestions.

There's some that provide a truck mode, but I don't know what weights they have on their algos.

Via Michelin used to have a main roads mode, but they didn't give turn by turn back then only planning.
Loss making businesses usually pay no tax, so how are you going to reduce their tax burden?

> healthy would have had a chance to flourish

There can be no healthy hospitality businesses during the pandemic.
I upvoted this. It's quite a lot more important than your elegant one-liner reveals. I think there's a gaping hole in many people's skills that need to be addressed. We're educating people in how certain models work, with lots of equations and diagrams, but we don't give most people access to the power of computation that would greatly help their studies.
> Intestinal tract infections can kill you within days after a single gulp of polluted water.

Your point being? What do you think water treatment plants are for?
As any biologist knows there are exceptions to almost all rules. It's not strictly correct there is zero risk of genomic integration, it's just very low. However there are some 4500 annotated retrocopies in the human genome, so spliced mRNA did cross back into the nucleus and was integrated in the genome at least this often in the human germline (with the help of retrotransposons).

Of course the likelihood of this happening, and then causing problems in vaccinated individuals are extremely small. Maybe even almost impossible as the mRNAs for the vaccines are heavily modified.
That assumes the bottleneck is in the actual vaccine constituents, and not in manufacturing or sourcing the billions of delivery mechanisms.
I'm currently working on my own little dashboard SaaS - https://statsout.com/

It doesn't have the functionality to perform custom REST calls yet but it's definitely on the list. For now you can get the basic metrics from Google Analytics, Search Console, Facebook Pages, Instagram, and Stripe. It's still very much in beta but you're welcome to try it.
> Likewise, the rest of Europe relies entirely on NATO's firepower against Russian belligerence.

Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean by "Russian belligerence"? Do you have some example of Europe relying on NATO's firepower against it?
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So, assuming that this is FB or Goog, then that makes sense. FB certainly encourage advertisers to use broad targeting with conversion optimisation.

This means that the audience is 18+ living in USA, but the combination of the targeting plus the optimisation (click and conversion prediction, mostly) means that it seems much more targeted than it is.
It is possible that whoever Google has hired for the local edits uses OSM as a reference in response to feedback received via Google Maps. Not explicitly of course, because this is strictly forbidden, both ways, due to license incompatibility. For OpenStreetMap this is a very important point, because well-meaning novice mappers copying streets or points-of-interest directly from a proprietary map put the project at risk of litigation. Google will likely have such a strong rule in their own internal documentation as well.

OSM strongly discourages the mapping of trap streets — fake streets that only exist on your map for unscrupulous competition to copy so you know that they did so — but it's possible that some mappers do put these on the map. I don't think one of the big proprietary maps has ever been caught copying one of these though.
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>It would help a lot more to compare footage with real-world people interacting with the bipedal robot.

Maybe I misunderstood your comment but there are definitely videos of people interacting with Atlas (the bipedal robot) to the point that it's a running joke that they'll remember said interactions. See https://youtu.be/rVlhMGQgDkY?t=83
On the other hand if it includes significant landed time as a fixed cam, 40 minutes seems miserably short.
Regulators get to determine what counts as a road and what is "just a trail" (it can be an important legal distinction), and they get to determine whether a particular road is public (even if it crosses private property), and in many places worldwide that official road map data is available from the government.

If that has been done, then it simplifies the dispute as you can objectively verify whether the complaint matches the official data and Google should not be routing cars there, or if the maps are correct and the appropriate solution would not involve Google - e.g. if a road is physically impassable then complaints to whoever is responsible for maintaining that road; if there are barriers or "do not enter" signs on a legally public road, then complaints to the authorities to remove these barriers and punish whoever put them up, if a path is marked public but you think it shouldn't be then legal action to try and correct it (which may or may not succeed), etc.
> We’ve lifted millions out of poverty in the last few decades

Which "we"? Which millions? Do you mean in China?
You’re not wrong, but my philosophy is to use these things only as long as they’re friendly. I had “free” Netflix until a few days ago. I enjoyed it, but not enough to subscribe. I’ll just move on.
And who's supposed to take care of the elderly? Oh that's right, young people

Great plan
National debt and private debt are two very different creatures. National debt is for the most part a good thing, since it's a measure of the amount of a national currency is in circulation

Modern economic theory proposes that nations, with full control over their currency, have infinite spending power (aka can go into infinite debt) without any issues, as long as full-employment hasn't been reached

This is of course not entirely possible for many EU countries, since being a member of the eurozone means the country does not have full control over its currency - which was a large contributor to, for instance, the Greek financial crisis
Wouldn't having a nurse or some other full time trained person present be more effective than anything at helping keep "young people" from getting too close? And if these "young people" are out of control, how does lockdown help anyway?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

Catastrophic? They are pretty average for Europe. Cherry picking countries to compare it to makes little sense, as there are numerous factors other than geographical location that affect the virus. > 50% of the deaths occurred in care homes, as Sweden (like many other countries) sent older patients to them. Which is pretty much the opposite of what was I was suggesting.
He is the actually one of the original authors.
Depending on the nature of the business it can be cheaper to run own servers even for smaller companies. I see that in Norway quite a few places see that and the pool of qualified people to run them is not small.
You can’t use some restrooms in China without a face scan.
> Each belief is to some extent unfalsifiable

since the principle of falsibiability itself is unfalsifiable, I can't accept it on the basis of hypocrisy.
I don't understand your response. I'm suggesting trained professionals e.g. nurses, not random teenagers.
It sounds good to people who are (a) in the larger group and (b) not in the small group and (c) shortsighted.

People seem to be getting increasingly shortsighted these days.
Original title is "OpenStreetMap is Having a Moment (The Billion Dollar Dataset Next Door)".
What you wrote triggered in a thought in my head.

Eventually, once SaaS subscriptions become more commonplace among the rest of the population, a significant number of people are going to be annoyed by the disconnect between the automated emails they receive and the features they’ve already tried out as a new user.

One or two people will see an opportunity and take VC money to fix the disconnect: a way to make email automations smarter by deepening the integration between ESPs and SaaS code bases, as you have done with this oss project.
Ask HN: How to deal with feelings of being forced out of my research area?
As the title suggests, I am an academic working in a field of computer science which is adjacent to machine learning and deep learning (Information Retrieval and Databases). Without going into too much detail, I'm at a top UK University, and have a continuing position (assistant professor).

More and more recently, I feel that I'm being forced out of my field. My papers which focus on very core topics in the aforementioned fields tend to get reviews which indicate that they are not SOTA and/or are not of interest to the greater field. One particular work was described as an "applied application paper" even though it was on query planning (a very fundamental topic in the field).

Perhaps my work isn't interesting, and maybe I am out of touch with the interests of the greater field.

However, it seems that most of the focus is currently on how massive language models can help the field, with very little work focusing on traditional aspects.

Unfortunately, I don't find these deep learning techniques interesting, and I don't think I should need to follow these areas just because they are hot. That said, it doesn't seem like I'll be able to continue doing the research I enjoy, as the field is no longer interested in it.

I am looking for advice on how to deal with these type of situations: have you ever felt that your interests/skills are no longer useful, and how did you move past it?

I apologize for the vague question, but it's something I'm struggling to come to terms with, and it's difficult to describe my feelings on the topic.
We're saying exactly the same thing, but well...
Looks like it was edited? Yea, only symptomatic infections were tested by Pfizer iirc
Why we are opted-in by default?
Before you start working at Google and get an internal email address you have almost certainly communicated with HR using your external email address...a basic profile has been setup etc
you are that guy in the movies who has a family back home and he has no choice but to work for the bad guys. while some hero comes someday and asks you to leave the bad guys and show you love.
lol

sorry everyone for making this another reddit
This assumes that old people live isolated. In many countries this is hardly the case. If you take Greece or Italy for example, the elder live with their kids, and in many cases their grandchildren all together.
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This is not like a universal basic income though: it was not universal.

Handing of the money in an emergency situation has also the fundamental difference that it isn't meant to be sustainable: it's one off, and the preparation does not include reworking the financial structure of the state to make it permanent, like all UBI proposals I've seen so far.
And how would this presumably completely non-disease-transmissible full time care manifest itself? With doctors and nurses that also have kids, and social lives, and thus a chance to transmit disease.
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Depends on where you live. Towns and cities with a vibrant downtown exist, from Carmel, California to New York, NY

Bedroom communities established during the mid century tend not to have those. My experience with those have been Fairfax County, VA; Fayetteville, Arkansas; and the suburbs around Sarasota, Florida. These are places that if you walk or bike around or take a bus, people seem to assume you are poor or a servant
Ask HN: What do you feel most ashamed of and can't tell your peers?
I don't do unit testing.

There in plain sight. I can move on now...
Not sure if you've heard this as well, but Astra and Gamelaya are actually trialing a combination vaccine (1 AZ dose, 1 Sputnik-V dose).
It has the inverse trend of a files/folders system. Roam graphs start out messy but a natural order emerges organically over time as a consequence of links. File/folder structures need regular maintenance or they become less organized over time.
What I would like to support is a large and long term study involving multiple families in multiple European countries with multiple values.
If you want to see some other opinion about your exact analogy, Richard Stallman--one of the most influential thinkers of the free software world--gave an answer to the same question, at large [1].

As a summary:

- Output from a proprietary program (in this case it would be food) is not unethical.

- The _user_ must be free, not the developer. The users of the recipes are the cooks, not the customers. Cooks are free to change and distribute recipes. There is no recipe that a cook can't make, because in this case, the cook is the executant, not some computer. There are no compiled recipes.

- If there were cooking robots that would cook compiled recipes that would not be free, he would be against it, as he is with proprietary software.

[1] https://youtu.be/jUibaPTXSHk?t=914
I ... don't get it.

You say you work for Google, so you must know that the company you work for amasses huge amounts of information on billions of people on the internet. It then uses that information to sell personalized ads to these people. Advertisers love that, and they pay the rates, and that's how Google makes money for your paycheck — and much more.

What makes you think they "require" any action on the part of these people to "create associations" between accounts? They are making billions by doing it because they can.
It could, any studies?

Going back to streamers and video games, Twitch has definitely had its share of toxicity:

https://gamecrate.com/how-twitch-now-holding-streamers-respo...
Thank you for the links! Here’s a review about autoimmunity in COVID-19: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089684112...

> There is a study[0] showing cross-reactivity between SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and other human tissues, thus predisposing the host to autoimmune diseases. This should apply even more so to any vaccine since vaccines produce a more robust immune response.

Since the antibody tested in the study was a commercial, monoclonal one, this is somewhat hard to assess. But I think you’re right given what they found in the blood tests.

> This does not really shine a light on pre-disposition to an autoimmune disease 6-9-12 mo down the road.

Autoimmune reactions should happen in the short run, right?
I believe that's a simplification. I think people tend to respond with alternatives--hopefully allowing discussion of comparisons. There's a bias towards free things because of barrier to entry and aversion to spending money. I see paid alternatives brought up often in discussions.

I would hope if a person is selling something there's a material improvement over free offerings--even if that's as minor as a unique voice, audience, or presentation. For example, the parent link is a series of static html pages with Javascript examples, while this post is a video series with compiled examples using SDL with extras like a discussion forum. I can see a good reason to pay money for that, but I can also see the appeal of the free alternative depending on your goals.
I know many have seen this, but for those who haven't:

Slaughterbots https://youtu.be/9CO6M2HsoIA
I’ve done this type of numerical work in code and it’s much more difficult than it first appears. It’s not like web development this stuff is much more like real computer science.

Tools like Excel and Matlab exist for a reason.
Presumably medical professionals would be tested frequently and would a much higher sterilization standards and training than the average person. They'd of course still use n95 masks and perhaps even full body suits when they are present.
Also, how does UBI work with different life circumstances. Does a disabled person get extra to cover wheelchair maintenance? Does allergic person gets more to afford allergy-OK food? Does woman get more to cover pads/tampons?
> Sweden tried this with catastrophic end results.

Tried what? They shut care homes as an afterthought, not as part of a plan to protect people (closing care homes came later).
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"The Little Book of Semaphores" also belongs here.

https://greenteapress.com/wp/semaphores/
From the news report it's 95%, not 90%. Presumably the data about sample size etc. will be available when they publish. You can't reasonably expect that level of detail from a news article reporting prior to publication.
And should they? Or is it reasonable to expect that those unable to work temporarily move to some low/reasonable cost area of living? Or find solution sufficient solution with the ubi they get.
I disagree. I don't think it's been "heavily" politicized, or even moderately, though I'm happy for you to point me to a clip or link of the Government taking claim for it?

> The reporting around it has always sounded a bit nationalistic.

The press have certainly reported that it's British developed, and why not? I'd say they equally reported that the Moderna vaccine was developed by Turkish Germans/German Turks.
You make a compelling point. I tried to rationalize their behaviour, but maybe they really are making a mistake.
Question: why don't the quadrupeds have a tail? wouldn't it help to improve balance?
The most popular consumer OS is Android. Arguing anything else goes against all known stats.

Microsoft's renaissance is mainly due to Nadella focusing on software and services instead of selling Windows. You mentioned Xbox as a way to support Ballmer. The Xbox story mentioned in the article does not support Ballmer.

Agreed re Azure but I don't know if Ballmer was still focusing on Windows for Azure, which seems likely. Keep in mind Azure is mostly Linux instances today.
AstraZeneca, Russia's Sputnik V developer to sign cooperation memorandum -Kremlin

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-astraz...

So, there is no reason to force down our throats the dubious vaccine from Pfiser which requires -70 C storage facilities. Not to mention of course the its creator has not been vaccinated yet. He said he did not want to take someelse's place.. What a horseshit.
Here’s the official UK data:

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths

Deaths are a bit lower. Cases are higher. Hospitalisations are about the same as the previous peek, but heading further up.
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Retool is amazing for building internal control panels and support tools.
"vulnerable" = 1/3 of the population.
I know of a few young and healthy people who have ended up in hospital due to COVID and still have longer term lunge damage. This whole “it only affects the elderly” meme needs to die. They’re just in a greater risk category of death but there are so many variables at play, such as the viral load. And if you’re allowing a virus to run rampant in the hope of gaining herd immunity then there’s a real risk that people will take in larger viral loads.

Also, natural immunity is only estimated to last around 2 or 3 months and offers no protection against other strains (some of which appear (statistically speaking) to affect younger folk more severely than the original SARA-CoV-2 strain).
NATO is seen as a deterrent to Russian expansion into the old Soviet territories as some of the states that are now democracies have joined NATO.

In the absence of a European defence infrastructure like NATO that's pretty much all they have.

Russian belligerence being invading the Baltic states. Crimea and eastern Ukraine were less clear cut than supposed for historical reasons but many in the East live in fear of the same happening to them.
Has to do with fixed headers that make the underlying elements not feel as native as they could be when scrolling. I prefer it honestly.
My point is, even with plutonium in water, India would have much bigger, and harder to fix problems that that.

Finding plutonium would be nowhere near as hard as thousands of sources of untreated sewage.
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Not really, because I think that tasks he picked as "essential complexity" are still fully "accidental complexity" in terms of how I understand Brooks writing.

I cannot agree with Dan, because I feel that all "computer stuff" is accidental complexity in Brooks writing context.

Some other replies change context into "from software dev perspective that is an essential complexity", now we are discussing what Fred Brooks wrote in 1987. If we change that context then I can agree with Dan, but if you want to refute argument you have to operate inside the same context.

What I see that Dan argues, is accidental complexity is not getting easier throughout the years. He does not touch anything about essential complexity being well "complex" and that we cannot do much about it. So I don't agree that you can refute whole idea based on those examples.
It’s another example of unintentional bias at play. Most “Googlers” living in safe, well-maintained suburban USA assuming the rest of the world is the same.
If you're talking about the stimulus checks, well they weren't universal, nor basic (but rather a long unpredictable negotiation), nor recurring income.
I really like Trevor.io

https://trevor.io/

It has nice gui for data exploration, clean charts and integrates really well with gsheets.

If you save the API calls in a database could use this?
Lots of interesting answers to your question, but if I may present another:

There is none.

These robots are currently in use screening COVID patients, assessing parts of the Chernobyl plant and working in warehouses. Those are just the applications that I know of.

I think the "barrier to industrial use" was simply that Boston Dynamics wanted to ensure they had a fairly mature platform before scaling up to significant production.
Employers choose who to hire and fire, they do shop around. I didn't mean wages should all be flat. I meant that if I'm of equal value to employer, why should they pay me less or more dependent on variables external to my actual work.
"Hateful" is subjective. Where you hang out simply has a different definition of hateful to where they hang out.
This sounds an awful lot like a PR move, not justice nor a way to ensure the same never happens again.
You can give https://chartbrew.com/ a try if you wish. You can make the API requests in a Postman-like interface directly on the platform. So you can have live-data coming in as the tool makes the requests automatically for you.

You can also have multiple requests made to different services gathering data on the same chart.

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of the tool, so feel free to ask any questions about it and I'll be happy to answer