skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 3) If the canceler professes a change of heart, cease the cancellation, accept the apology (forgiveness/mercy and relatively simple reintegration for offenders is one asymmetric advantage the free speech side has going for it);

This is a vitally important principle in a great many scenarios. Sun Tzu mentions it, saying that when you surround an enemy, you should leave them an [apparent] avenue for escape. Backing people into corners they cannot escape from is generally a bad strategy since it will make them fight back twice as hard. I think this applies to nearly anything from casual conversation to actual war.
Is it only bullying if the bully throws a punch first?
CA recently is in a wave; the color from the linked page is about the new cases / capita in the last 7 days. Overall CA is doing better than the median state.
Generally speaking it’s better for the virus to not kill the host, yes. Covid isn’t lethal enough to burn itself out rapidly, but one can imagine that the R0 would be a smidge higher if it was less lethal, since all those dead people could’ve spread it just a bit more if they’d lived.

But it doesn’t appear like Covid is the absolute Max lethality possible for a pandemic; the 1918 flu pandemic seems to indicate that a virus can have a higher CFR and not burn out. So it could certainly get worse, but in general the trend is towards being less lethal making viruses more fit.
Not just the paycheck. If your boss is mean and stupid all the time, you'll learn so little from them, the net work experience you got from the job become a negative.

In my opinion, a good boss can be loud, but must also smart and willing to hear, learn and teach, which are essential if you want to increase productivity and get your team full of smart and idea generating people together.

If you work for a mean and stupid boss, not only you'll work in hell, if the business failed due to their mistake, they'll probably put failure on their employees. Which is really bad if their false words got into the ears of your next recruiter.

Life is short, if something is obviously bad, don't try it.
Its the banking industry: it is intentionally misleading/ They've gotten in trouble for it a number of times and even when the Obama administration cracked down on it, they eventually learned how to legally make their fine print incomprehensible again after a few years.
Wait you're wondering if not taking any action would have had the same result? Or masks on but no social distance? Or both social distance and masks on? Because social distance will preclude many activities.

But in any case, in my opinion more should have been done, not less. Specifically, cut people a check so that they can afford to stay safely inside.
I agree it will have had some effects, both directly and indirectly. It's not clear to me how significant the effects are.

Granted, we have to act on imperfect information at times.
Didn't Waze get bought out by Google years ago?
Okay princess.
Typer looks cool. I really like the idea of just writing functions to create command line scripts rather than using argparse.

Here's another library that takes a similarish approach using annotations, although it's not quite as polished: https://pypi.org/project/runcommands/
> ... but they have been working with them for years.

True - in vitro and in limited human studies. But not at scale in human subjects. That's just this year. Studying this kind of thing is new as far as therapeutics go.
I think the general meaning of this term has changed. Future is now considered a different type and I think we just have to accept that the older definition isn't really used anymore.
No. Absolutely not.

The incredulity is 100% genuine. Just seeing how everyone reacts looking at and seeing how absolutely fucking insane it is to have the FBI and their powers in a building named "J Edgar Hoover"

Someone said the fbi reformed since those days of criminality. Why would anyone believe that while they continue to celebrate J Edgar Hoover. While they go to work to protect the rule of law to a building named J. Edgar Hoover. Why would any judge take the word of any FBI agent when they've covered up criminal behaviour, and performed it and lied about it instead of arresting J. Edgar Hoover the first second they became aware of what he was?

They said they weren't criminals when Hoover was in charge. They lied. They continue to exult Hoover while claiming they aren't criminals anymore. Who actually isn't feeling sick at the idea of believing that? Hoover is the biggest FBI hero. A vicious criminal thug running the FBI as a criminal conspiracy is the FBI's biggest hero. Says so right there on their HQ.

It's something that's impossible to get your head around. 30 years ago. No sign of it changing?

The FBI flagrantly advertise their lack of respect for the rule of law. That's on all of us.
A long time ago in a galaxy far away I entered U.C. Berkeley as a physics major. Then I dropped acid and became very interested in consciousness, but didn't see that being taught in the physics track, so I dropped it. Now I see that physics is coming around to talking about consciousness. I don't know why they stopped, because I learned later that early 2oth century physicists did talk about it. Max Planck among others. Materialism reigns supreme and I don't know why. No one has to start being a theist when they stop being a materialist.

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness
― Max Planck
See also “The Paradox of Tolerance” by Karl Popper.
Cut people a check so that they could have afforded to stay inside in a bubble.
lol! where are you from? its true my friend, ask any canadian they will have a similar story (at least in a city)
Would P=NP be a better example? Everyone keeps throwing time at it, but it seems almost everyone’s given up.
Usually graphics APIs abstract away these core concepts, but there's a lot of shifting responsibility between what you do and what the API/GPU does. It's good to have an idea what they're doing so you can better utilize the APIs, compare two different approaches, and often you'll find yourself hand-rolling aspects (like writing an exporter from something like Maya to be used in a realtime engine or converting Y-up data to Z-up data before sending it along).
It's debatable whether we'd be dealing with multiple significantly more transmissible strains of the virus if we hadn't amplified the evolutionary pressures (and time scales) necessary for it to happen.
A great showcase why GDPR is a good thing.
Great comment! So many, at least from my reckoning online, seem to assume complex AI is just a given and we'll have it soon enough, but the reality is that these things are mostly puppets and the kinds of brains you need to come up with a clever song and dance on your own as opposed to having one carefully programmed into you is night and day. I think there's a reason we don't have mini, less capable, robots like these in our homes. We have the bodies, sorta, but we just don't have the brains.

Dancing just isn't impressive and like you say, seems a lot like a higher tech version of Disneyworld. What I want to see is one of these, on its own accord, run into a burning building and save a child. Choreography just isn't impressive outside of the 'wow' factor. Without advanced AI brains, these bodies are almost useless shells and I imagine Google getting out of this space may have had something to do with that.
"The Millionaire Next Door" should be required reading in high school.
I wonder how much was done to increase surge ER capacity between May and November. The was obviously a possibility, there were a lot of warnings about holiday gatherings.

Hopefully hospitals are preparing for the surge in a few weeks, but I have a feeling they're too busy with the current surge.
Apparently the WHO is looking into ivermectin and might recommend it as a prophylaxis and cure in January.

https://c19ivermectin.com/

https://reddit.com/r/ivermectin

Edit: Why are people downvoting? The studies and experiences of patients are very promising.
There are 25 studies on Ivermectin vs. COVID-19

• 12 of them peer-reviewed and published in international journals

• 9 are randomized controlled trials

• 4 are randomized placebo-controlled double-blind trials totaling 640 patients

• Total number of patients treated with ivermectin in these studies: 6359

• Total number of patients treated without ivermectin in these studies: 8594
And Google intentionally make it difficult to get ahold of any actual human. I really hope they get broken up, they are clearly a monopoly and abuse their power.
This is, unfortunately, an old and well established legislative practice. It allows parties to combine minor interests with major interests in all-or-nothing bundles. It's essentially a (often misused) negotiation tool.
The last time I saw it featured on HN he took his site "down" by putting everything behind a basic auth requirement...
I"d strongly recommend Trey Hunner at PythonMorsels. The approach is to give you a concise problem that should exercise some part of your python knowledge, and have you write code, re-write your code, bang your head against a problem, and then, once you've written something that passes all the unit tests, you get a walk through possible solutions by someone who knows python well.

Trey starts with a description of how you might solve the problem (which is about how I solved the problem 50% of the time) that is almost always clearly wrong, even though it "works" - then he shows you a somewhat more pythonic and modern way - and you go, "aha!", and then, he shows you the elegant solution - and it changes your life, and you use that pattern in everything you write.

His focus though, is really on how to write clean pythonic 3.x code more than the latest and greatest features, but he tags his problems/solution sets, so if you really want to dive into decorators, or context managers, or dunder methods - you can zoom right in.

The only problem I've had with Python Morsels is I look at the code I wrote a year ago (I'm not a developer) and I'm embarrassed and ashamed at how gross it was.
I've been thinking about it lately how this may be a linguistic game. Science is just a label and when anything turns out to be wrong, we just say, "well that's part of the scientific process". In this way science can never be really wrong, because it is always open to being proved wrong and if so, it just incorporates that new fix/criticism as a new part of science. (Similarly philosophy seems to be impossible to criticize well without the criticism becoming labeled as philosophy itself)

I think it's rather that we have had a bunch of great curious people who worked on interesting stuff and found out a lot about nature. But we can't equate that with institutional credentialed authoritative "Science".

I guess there is some underlying scientific ethos, that can be learned between the lines, but I don't think it's a clear method (as in the intro textbook definition).
According to the link I provided to the CDC, CA is at 95 per 100k, which is way more than any other state at this time.
There are a few reasons for the mass abandonment of railroad track. Probably the biggest (at least in the US) is railroad consolidation--we've gone from ~100 Class I railroads to 7 (8 if you include Ferromex in Mexico). This consolidation means you don't need parallel mainlines. Additionally, train traffic has generally shifted from serving individual cars to customers along the tracks to a heavier emphasis on delivering to consolidated freight stations (with last-mile delivery handled by local truck), which means the utility of tracks in the suburbs is lessened.
IIRC the humanoid Terminators in the movie are infiltrator units. Skynet will definitely have more conventional aircrafts and wheeled vehicles to hunt us down.
Thanks I am in a better place now. What I have learned is that the dumb were eventually fired without me having to anything. They angered so many employees and left a burning dumpster fire. C’est la vie.
I think he is suggesting there would be a strong information campaign about masks, social distancing, hand washing etc then leave people be while moving on with the vaccines and so forth.

On the other hand, 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.
Every single China thread on HN turns into a false equivalence 'no the US has far worse history / false whataboutism'

A couple Trump political appointees attempted to do that. The system worked and the US didn't jail the NYTimes and the press for reporting the facts. Their stupidly half assed political crap didn't work and they lost the election.

I wouldn't call Xi incompetent but instead scarily so. The power of Trump versus Xi & CCP are not even in the same ballpark

It's pointless to engage but sometimes I can't help it
How to Get Cycling on the Agenda? Bikenomics
I mean, the govt can make recommendations and let people decide what to do. I'm -not- an antimasker...and haven't left the house much since March. But it feels like our people will inevitably decide it's boring and give up, as I've seen not only in news but in my friend group. So it feels like we just delayed mass infection rather than preventing it.
I was dealing with a severe chronic issue at start of covid. Lost access to all my doctors. Avoided going to ER. Ended up having a small stroke. So yea. Lots of people suffering from general lack of care.
Those are some nice and lofty ideals, but I’m talking about the implementation and not the ideal. It’s implemented according the constitution which is just a piece of paper and as such cannot make anyone consider or consult about anything. Instead, it does the next best thing and says “One man, one vote*” regardless of how misinformed anyone thinks they are. There are no provisions for “the electorate was misled” scenario because nobody can be trusted to determine that. So you don’t think that’s democracy? Well, that’s totally fine, it doesn’t care what you call it. To me, if people just voted for whoever was the sexiest, that would still be democracy.
Makes me think of scaling-up the techniques in this old video on a larger platform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KxjVlaLBmk
Not sure what you meant, but you buy data like that based on airport codes, dates, frequency, and tier (like top 10% of spenders). I’ve only used visa data for targeted advertising. Like tourism destinations target people who are flying to their destination in the near future.
That's the thing. If you're in the market for a Tesla priced car today, buy a Tesla. It's amazing. In 3+ years re-evaluate the DC charging networks when you're ready for your next car.
IANAL, but would it be possible to sue Google (in small claims) over the nuisance?
I like String Theory. It's a beautiful theory that's striking all the right chords within me.

Lemme paraphrase the great Arthur C. Clarke about this. We are fish in water. And some time fishes do jump out of the water. And sometime fishes, while jumping out of the water are seeing fires on land.

That's String Theory for me - it's a fire on land that we get a glimpse of it and can't quite make what it is. And until we will not walk on land and make fire ourselves we'll never fully understand its potential. 20 years is nothing in this regard.

My 2 cents.
>The country that was founded on the principal of religious freedom, by people that fled religious persecution, and felt so strongly as to list religious freedom as item number one in their list of human rights, does not need to be "much better" to call out religious slave labor camps.

"The country that founded on the principal of religious freedom" is nationalistic trite, like "land of the free" (which ended slavery later than other western countries, gave poor, blacks, and women the vote later, has 25% of the world's prison population, and so on), and "home of the brave" (where the Army is professional and the majority of the population had never had the chance to fight in any war or suffer any war domestically for over a century, so one wonders how/what this "braveness" is measured with and against).

First, what the country was "founded on" means little. What the country has historically did and up to now does (warred, enslaved, invaded, occupied, strong-armed, intimidated, etc.) matters more.

Second, the fact that a country was founded by religious hardcores literally thrown out of Europe for being such, and that they wanted "religious freedom" in their new dwellings so as to they not kill each other, doesn't give it any special moral high ground. Heck, if it was up to any of the religious sects that ended up there, the others would be illegal (the US still has the most fundamentalist religious people in the West, which when they had the upper hand were ok with forcing their will as law on anything from abortions to music releases). But they needed "religious freedom" because none of them had the power over all the other denominations (all Christian at the time, mostly variations of protestantism), and thus they made a virtue out of necessity.

Not to mention that they still managed all together to opress the blacks (nuff said), the native americans ("trail of tears"), the early Chinese, Irish, etc immigrants, and so on...
We have other sources of education, if we learnt exclusively through violent games world would be different.
The OK symbol was just one of the many items designed to twig the left-wing paranoia over "dog whistles." See also "milk and racism." Essentially, people who see racism (or the Red Menace, or whatever) around every corner end up suffering from a kind of pareidolia of symbolism.

The worst thing you can do is to take this kind of thing seriously.
Just some quick fundamental recap here.

1. A "market cap" doesn't mean anything for a currency. But let's say it did. You know that a market cap is simply defined as the most recent transaction price times the number of outstanding assets yeah?

2. So that means if you control the most recent transaction you control the price.

3. Tether is minting $1B of new coinage per month and accelerating. They then use this money to buy bitcoin. They structure it at opportune moments to prop the price up.

4. There isn't $512B in value you can actually extract from Bitcoin. If you began to sell, the value would rapidly deflate towards zero.

This is part of why market cap is such a poor way of measuring a currency. A small amount of transaction volume on the margin defines a false sense of value for the community.
The HK Government produces some excellent paper maps that have a water resistant coating.

I bought mine in the General Post Office in Central, near IFC. There's also the maps shop at the junction of Nathan Road and Gascoigne Road in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon
Submit a complaint to a state regulator. Someone at Google will wake up and sort it out once they get an email from their regulator to Google’s compliance team. If you can get a lawyer to submit the complain it’ll be even more effective.
Their anti-reality stance should not be tolerated. In a time of crisis we are divided over a piece of cloth. They are a net negative in our efforts to contain a highly contagious virus. There's nothing redeemable about them.
Has anyone gotten the RPi PRU to work? It would be really nice to not have to attach a secondary MCU just for stepper control.
Typer and specially diagrams look like will be pretty handy for me in the near future. Don't know how I missed then. Thanks for the list!
> What is the principle that determines that this treaty is worth signing but also determines that staying in the EU is not worth it?

That question cannot be answered to your satisfaction without answering this:

> I guess I don't see the sense in which Britain did not already have its sovereignty and now gains it by this move.

The easy way to distinguish the level of sovereignty is not to compare UK/EU treaties before and after Brexit, but to compare them with the treaties and level of sovereignty between the EU and Canada or Japan. The treaty we’re discussing now is of that ilk, and clearly, the level of sovereignty of those countries is of a different level to that of one in the EU. Can the EU make a law that Japan must implement domestically? No, they are covered by international law as a sovereign state. Same goes for Canada, and now the UK.

The argument that the UK had full sovereignty in the EU was a popular argument by those opposed to leaving but it was obviously false, which is surely one of the reasons their arguments were unpersuasive. From 22:31 of Vernon Bognador's talk[0] at Yale (which is fascinating from start to finish, by the way):

> When Harold Macmillan sought to join, he encountered fundamental difficulties, difficulties which probably have never been resolved, and the essence of the problem was one of fitting Britain into a continental system whose assumptions about constitutions, politics and economics was so different from those held in Britain.

> The most fundamental problem, perhaps, was that of fitting a constitutional system based on the sovereignty of parliament and the absence of a codified constitution into one based on a written constitution, the separation of powers, and subordination of the legal systems of the member states to superior system of European law.

Vernon Bognador is British Research Professor at the Institute for Contemporary British History at King's College London and Professor of Politics at the New College of the Humanities. He is also Emeritus Professor of Politics and Government at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, and has written several books on the British constitution and Brexit. He voted to remain in the EU[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMV9wSSLcCY

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/10/10/second-refer...

Edit: formatting, will I ever get used to this flavour of markdown? </lament>
If you want a real trip, I'd suggest getting your data from DT Client Services via CCPA request if you are in California. That was really shocking.
You did a good job including the fact that some of the states that are slighty better per capita are also states that just so happen to have officials raiding the homes of people trying to ensure accurate data is transparently posted.

Also the fact that some of said states are near entirely run by people who have claimed that the virus did not exist from the start. I wonder how that may affect the transparency of data we get to see...

Oops, I mean, cognitive dissonance is cool.
Your credit card mostly on gets merchant name and total purchase value, so the uses are fairly niche. It’s more likely merchants themselves indirectly selling your purchase data.

You can sometimes click the small blue triangle in the corner of an ad (called adchoices) to see how it was targeted.
The best evidence right now suggests that B.1.1.7 is significantly more trasmissible, but doesn't produce less (or more!) serious cases. (See the cohort matching study in this week's PHE report on the variant[0]). Maybe a statistically significant difference will emerge once we have more data, but at least for now it's better to not assume that.

But let's say for argument's sake that the new variant is indeed half as serious, while being 70% more transmissive. That gives you one single multiplicative change in hospital utilization, but a permanent change to the exponent of the epidemic growth curve. The multiplicative benefit will basically get nullified by the increased growth in a week or two, and after that it is all downside.

[0] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...