skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think small towns could still replicate some of the exposure risk caused by population density since there will often be only one or two stores to buy groceries, generally located in the largest town in a larger rural area. People will gather in those stores in relatively dense numbers compared to the community at large.

Mix in a reluctance to wear masks and determining the correct multiplier becomes more challenging.
> This is an obviously impossible burden to load on someone, and I think you know that.

Oh yes, I very much do know that, it is why I asked the question.

> If democracy is legitimately lost in America, it will happen via a series of events that we today cannot conceive of.

I don't know about that, it depends on the level of precision you would require in predictions. That the future is unknown, and causation is extremely complex, are kind of my regular talking points, for which I am downvoted to negatives on quite literally every single post I make on this website.

The reason I ask difficult questions that cut through rhetoric (or "load impossible burdens on" people who engage in rhetoric), is because I actually take these matters seriously. This isn't a game, not entirely at least. The situation at the US Capitol is "a big deal" in my books, and but one of a very long string of big deals. Others proclaim to share this belief. And yet, if they are asked to speak truthfully and precisely, free of rhetoric and framing, they can't bring themselves to do it. There seem to be very few people who are willing or able to respond to simple but precise questions, to state their beliefs in unambiguous and unequivocal terms.

You don't put a man on the moon with vagueness and rhetoric, you do it with precise measurement and conformity to reality. Rhetoric can get you a very long ways in politics, but eventually Mother nature will prevent you with a bill for the party. It seems to me that we are nearing that point. It may take another decade or two, but we will pay for our actions, eventually.

> It is more useful to think events like the Capitol incident as causing long-lasting damage to democracy

I'm open to the idea, I really am. I hear all sorts of people making this claim, but very little of the supporting reasoning.

Perhaps starting with a definition of the phrase "damage to democracy" would be a good idea. I have no idea what that means.

> and there is a non-negligible possibility that societal schisms will widen, as opposed to heal. What that will look like in the future is anybody's guess.

Yes indeed! The societal schisms sure have widened because of this, and it was utterly predictable. That a large group of angry, extremist Trump supporters was on its way that day was very well known. And yet for some unknown reason, security was incredibly light that day. Was this an unfortunate oversight? Maybe. Maybe not. Will this be seriously investigated, or will it get the standard circus of rhetoric in the press? We shall see what happens, and we shall see if anyone cares if a proper investigation, that truly seeks The Truth, is performed.
There is difference.

King wanted the value of money stay stable or increase.

Fed wants to reach 2% average inflation target but it keeps failing.
We've still survived worse. The civil war comes to mind (although in some ways, current tensions are an extension of that conflict).
> Trump never called for people to storm the capitol.

Did he do so literally and overtly, no.

Was his call to march to the Capitol and give courage to members allied with his cause and prevent a failure of courage taken that way, and intended to be? Certainly, quite a number of the people who engaged in the riot claimed to do so at his direction, and “will no one rid me of this troublesome priest” style direction from leaders is not exactly a novel concept.
The speech situation in America is rightly fucked right now. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Shit on for deplatforming, and shit on by a different group for not deplatforming. How did we get here and how can we fix it?
It's seems the author didn't review previous literature on heard imunity on covid. For instance, Manaus had 76% of serumprevalence in October and the number of new cases seem stable. Fast Forward to this week, the health system collapsed, highest number of deaths in one day.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6526/288

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

Most (all?) highly contagious viral infection only achieve heard imunity after widespread vaccination.
Thanks for clarifying. I think your example is perfect:

Your conspiracy theory is not based facts, law, or well-established interpretations of either and yet you're fully bought in and sharing it. I see how that could be dangerous, but I think silencing you would be worse for you personally and society as a whole.

Just don't threaten violence and we're good.
You need to write books, really.
In medicine "quality care" is a binary attribute. Something either meets the quality threshold or it doesn't. And as the author found out, physicians do not spend their time researching medications. It's not their job, they're not trained in it, and most of them wouldn't be particularly good at it.

So I'm not sure why you would expect a psychiatrist to do something she's not trained to do to (maybe) increase an already acceptable metric some arbitrarily small amount higher.
So, I don’t know what VMWare does, but macOS Catalina on VMWare Fusion works just fine, in my experience.
They do treat sales people that way. Sales is ruthlessly managed and expectations are very important, especially at a public company.
I'm not sure what you mean by "employer can prevent employees from taping them." Do you mean you assume management corner offices are not taped? That's a problem with corporate culture, not video surveillance.

I still don't see a problem with video surveillance, with full disclosure and proper access controls. What difference is there with police getting a warrant to search your house?
I haven't seen this issue arise very often in software

No? Maybe not if you're a software-only company. But for pretty much every hardware (a gadget, a car, a rocket, whatever), the software is part of it and it aint working until the software is.

If you don't want your product to be held shipping because the software isn't ready, you better have some way of estimating when it's going to get done so you can either trade features, personell, or even just knowing that there's no point rushing the hardware because it'll be done way before the code anyway.
Congress was sacked while the legislators were in session with the VP...
Hmm. This is definitely interesting, and I appreciate the details, but I don't feel like I have a better understanding of what the maladaptive behavior looks like. I think you're describing the causes of being "not equipped", but I'm interested in how "not equipped" manifests itself in practice. That is: what is the actual behavior we see on the outside?

The story about the foster kid who gravitates towards abusive relationships is closest to the level of analysis I was hoping for. In that specific case, what is still unclear to me is exactly how -- in the details -- a lack of a stable/loving home pushes one towards abusive relationships

Do you perhaps have some anecdotes about specific people behaving in ways that well-adjusted people wouldn't? Speaking for the rest of us, I think it's hard to grok this kind of stuff without a lot of detail.

I recognize that this is a hard question to answer, of course. It effectively asks you to become a novelist. I'm grateful for anything you can provide, but also don't want you to feel obligated.
>Do you realize that numerous times throughout history people have successfully killed the actual president and it didn't end democracy?

I'm no historian, so was there ever a time the killing was instigated by a sitting politician who then was not punished? (Yes, the Senate has yet to decide, but chances are they won't vote for removal or banning from office).

Because politicians trying to have their political opponents harmed or killed is basically all one needs to have fake democracy.
I'll refer you to my other comment[0]. But no, Russian being an ethnicity is not common knowledge. At least in America.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25828088
Try a few more times, you might get lucky.
> Pretending not to understand the difference between chanting slogans and actually hanging somebody is silly.

Most people who chant performative calls for violence don't normally, build a gallows and then go looking for the target. But sure, no doubt they had no intention of using violence, other than, you know, against all the police officers who were seriously injured or killed.

But fine, let the record show that it's remotely possible they were merely trying to overthrow a government by the threat of violence against Congress and the VP, and not actual violence.

> There's no possible way of overturning any election this way [...] It is literally impossible to change result of the election by jumping on a desk in a Congress.

The people involved were acting on the belief that Congress has the power to change the result of the election, and they were trying to force Congress to use that power. That's also why they were after Mike Pence.

And were they wrong? As a matter of strict constitutional interpretation, I think so, but as practical matter, there's no particular reason to think it couldn't work. They wanted to get a resolution out of Congress announcing that Congress had counted the electoral votes and Trump had won (or failing that, some sort of resolution purporting to delay the inauguration, re-run the election, etc.) How the nation would have responded to that I couldn't say. I don't think it would have worked, but who knows?

In any case, yes, this is one of the ways you can overturn an election. It's happened before; no doubt it will again. It didn't happen this time, but it's absurd to pretend it wasn't an attempt, however inept it may have been.

> means armed violent action

And how did Sicknick die again?
Sorry, comrade, I won't buy it. Russians considered US enemy #1 for quite a long time: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.statista.com/chart/amp/1249...
Call this an insurrection and lambast the crazies for attempting to do whatever it is they were doing, but equally admonish the same that has been transpiring for months. This is no greater a risk or threat than the ongoing actions we've been subjected to for months.

It's all chaos and it's chaos that will be used as a means to reign in more control on freedoms and rights.
For sure it's more common than people think. I think it's good to de-stigmatize both mental health and addiction. IMO shame gets in the way of people asking for help.
I remember an interview at a well known tech-ish company where the question started out as “Estimate this project” with a good description of the scope and team. After I said something like 4 months, interviewer said, “OK. The CEO says it needs to be done in 2 weeks. What now?”

I thought this was a basic project management question about trading off quality, scope, schedule, staffing, etc. and offered the usual suggestions of cutting scope (nope CEO demands entire scope), cutting quality (nope can’t compromise quality), increasing the team, contracting out, reprioritizing and realeasing P1s in 2 weeks (nope, nope, nope). Obviously I didn’t get the job.

Later I learned from an acquaintance inside the company that the right answer was probably “Work the team 24 hour days, nights and weekends, for 2weeks to deliver what the CEO wants. I think I dodged a bullet there.
Jim Simons also developed Chern-Simons theory before leaving academia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chern%E2%80%93Simons_theory
You are conflating beta with risk. Beta is just the correlation to the SPY return. There might be an asset (e.g. Oil, dunno but using it here for illustration) which have low SPY correlation but still high volatility. Levering it up 2x will bring you portfolio beta wrt to SPY to 1 but give you drawdowns far greater than SPY.
Can we get some number or range for "lots of"? I imagine those words mean wildly different things (1-2 orders of magnitude) to different people.
That has a pretty healthy dose of speculation in it, but provided this is consistent with the entirety of formal procedures, it's not bad.

Except this part:

> And that is how democracy dies in America.

Where does that part come in? Assuming your scenario did transpire, is there something in the procedures where elections are no longer held on a go forward basis? It seems unlikely to me, but I'm no expert on the matter - so, I ask you.
This guy is a master troll, check his comment history. That's his whole shtick, and then he'll respond with wall-after-wall of text.
A tale that is foundational and reoccurring.
Yes, it's like that. You have to move deals through many stages. There's expectations of timing into each stage in addition to quota. Most places will fire even senior sales people if they don't perform for a few quarters.
That’s different because the iPhone is not a generic object like a fruit. You could totally call a business Macintosh Records and get away with it though
Right, but what we've seen in the last couple of weeks is speech being physically prohibited.
> as long as the physical device is an Apple device

just get yourself an apple sticker to attach to your laptop, ah for real though in most jurisdiction it can't be legally mandated (even if Apple wanted that US law applied to the whole world).
Why is this "insurrection" vs "hooliganism" distinction important to the larger point about free speech? Is there some rule that AWS can/should kick people off its service for one but not the other?

It seems like you just disagree with the majority opinion, and are describing the people who hold it as "giving up on their ideals" because they don't share yours.
Sure, but that wasn’t the claim. The claim is falsifiable. Yours isnt, but may be true.
Not really when you consider that learning is always a prerequisite to the examples you listed.

You can't fix a Ferrari without learning about a car's history and the previous owner's maintenance to trouble shoot.

You can't fix a patient without learning about their history and learning about interactions with the treatment you prescribe.
Travels in and out of Australia physically emotionally metaphysically
The Anthropology of Childhood [0] has circulated in the blogosphere. These notes on LessWrong were interesting [1].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Anthropology-Childhood-Cherubs-Chatte...

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vwM7hnT9ysE3suwfk/notes-on-t...
Theory of Fun (2003)
Russians support Putin's regime en masse, so article had correct definition.
But I hadn't got my box filled up yet.
It was a strange offering from Amazon. They had a very limited selection coupled with poorly boxed items meant that I only tried it twice before giving up on it. All the items in the second and last order I received were thrown in a single box with no effort to protect the contents from each other.

I get the feeling this was a common occurrence, because the interest in it amongst my friends vanished almost as quickly as it started.
This is no doubt a reference to the alert whistle sound on Mac OS 7.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRh_-2R6juM&t=24
Sure, and it's fucking stupid they didn't have appropriate security given the nature of the day. The insurrection didn't start on that day. If the label is being applied, it started when police were assaulted, innocents were maimed and murdered, mass scale breakdowns of security and control were in play, and collectives attempted things as extraneous as declaring parts of the United States an Autonomous zone, a clear act of aggression/sedition.
I wonder if the people will wake up.

The "wake up" approach doesn't seem to be working, but we do need some way of reforming our society around the idea of the mighty middle that is not represented by the extremes.
How about that one side stops peddling conspiracy theories and following every idiot that promises them what they want to hear in terms of gun rights, abortion and immigration.

Compromise = fact based middle ground between reasonable people. When one side consistently treats politics like winner-takes-all and lies out of their asses to get to power and to stay in power then the burden to compromise would be on them.
A better headline would have been "Amazon merges Prime Pantry into regular .com site".

> "As part of our commitment to delivering the best possible customer experience, we have decided to transfer Amazon Pantry selection to the main Amazon.com store so customers can get everyday household products faster, without an extra subscription or purchase requirement"
At least for government projects the 'wrong' estimates are intentional. Admins always take the cheapest quote, so to earn money everything happening during construction has to be 'out of scope'. Like winter, or different soil layer than specified, or whatever.
"$$$ closed at the end of the period" causes negative externalities at the expense of value delivered in the long run (overpromising, misleading, mispricing). This isn't unique to sales/engineering, I've heard of it playing out the same way in "factory" law firms where sales-lawyers and delivery-lawyers are separate.
What is a lie though? And how do you legislate that people speak the truth.

Besides - everyone talks about speaking "their truth", not "the truth".

Trump got in trouble for saying "The election was stolen", but what if he said "I feel like the election was stolen". Its not a lie, he might feel like that.
I am sorry to have to be the one to say this but you are making a pointless semantic argument. Nobody is saying the USA is not a republic, it's a democratic republic.

This must be some kind of political talking point because I have heard it over and over for years, but it does nothing to convince anyone of your arguments and you would be better served to argue based on policy or ideology rather than this semantic distinction which is not even correct to begin with.

For what it's worth I don't disagree with your substantive points.

All the best,
Makes sense: blood images are often blood from a wound in someone’s skin/flesh!
But we aren't talking about covering a significant portion of egg consumption. Only the portion of egg consumption from people who don't want cruelty free eggs.
We Honor Dr. King by Acknowledging the Messenger, and What His Message Was
Sure but I'm not sure you can do things like control background audio and data streaming which Clubhouse would need to do in the background so you can listen without being in the app.
This!

If you estimate, estimate a distribution.
Thank you for correcting me. I can drop that point (unfortunately, I can't edit/delete.)

I hope my point still stands though. "Nazis are about" is an inappropriate comment during this political climate. It would be similar to saying "looters are about" during the BLM movement.
Note: psychologists cannot prescribe anything here (Eastern Europe), psychiatrists can.

I do not see any issues telling doctors that they are prescribing the wrong medication because you may know it better than them. I personally learnt a lot about pharmacology due to my illness, and I know what kind of medications are should not be supposed to be prescribed which the doctor working at the ER at that moment may not. In any case, you could just point out the reasons, I believe.

For example: highly lipophilic beta-blockers are an issue in my case as I get anxious over its CNS side-effects that others may take it for performance anxiety, see: propranolol. The doctor prescribing me propranolol would be in the wrong. My own psychiatrist had no clue that lipophilic beta-blockers can cause all sorts of issues (CNS side-effects, such as brain fog) that lead to anxiety and even panic attacks for me. In my case, something like atenolol or even nebivolol would have worked better. Some doctors know this, some do not. I do not reasonably expect them to know everything though. It is sort of a detail that is not known because it is commonly prescribed to the elderly who do not report those CNS side-effects because they attribute them to their old age.

There were cases of metoprolol causing hallucinations[1]. The old person attributed it to having some kind of a super power of seeing the dead because their heart stopped for a few seconds and they were "dead". I am not sure if this is the article I posted, but there was such a case.

People who research their own specific illness may know better than some doctors, really.

Sorry if I was a tad off-topic.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3295654/
This is amazing insight actually, thanks for sharing your story. In civilian life, how are you giving yourself structure and holding yourself accountable? I ask because I find creating structure for myself as an adult really helps me do things I wouldn't make time for
Nothing. Its like forex trading. Completely random moves (but with more volatility).
Does Wharton’s book really say that?

If you just make value for the company it is a scam?

If you call it entertainment purposes I guess its fine
It is the magic string in the hit repo that is not allowed
But how do you explain that one knew what they where doing was unlawful? How can they if the law clearly states they cannot be prosecuted? If the law states that you cannot be fairly tried in that location, then to put them on trial would be a violation of rule of law. The people explicitly spoke through their representatives. If it was not specific or too specific, then the law needs to be changed by the legislature. This 'interpreting' the law to the detriment of the defendant is generally bullshit. If you use the basis of reasonable doubt and innocent until proven guilty, then it should result in defendant being dismissed. You can't expect people to telepathically know the law means something contrary to what it literally says.
The usual definition of "cruelty free" does not necessarily mean nothing is killed. Many consider humane methods of killing (culling) to be cruelty free.
> This seems unnecessarily hostile. Certbot is a complex beast that generates TLS configurations, has multiple plugins that likely require specific system configuration, and is I think charitably more than "a glorified Python script".

Yeah, it is complex. Far too complex for what it does.

What it does is implement a not particularly complex IETF protocol between your server and letsencrypt's servers, and run a few of your scripts when the protocol wants something done, like "install DNS entry".

In fact the protocol is so simple a bash script can do it. Dehydrated https://dehydrated.io/ is just that - a bash script that implements ACME. It also is in Debian. I moved to dehydrated when certbot was slow to implement DNS wildcards.

The nice thing about simplicity is it infects everything else: the document becomes simple, which is nice because I had to read certbot's doco several times just to figure out what scenario would work for me. And distribution packaging becomes simple, so no snap's needed. And installation becomes simple.
>I still have a bought-and-paid-for 3.5" floppy disk of PKZip from PKWare. I am the only one I know who ever actually paid for it.

I had one too, and I held onto the floppy and the plastic folder it came in for years, until I finally trashed it in a decluttering frenzy. I think the version I registered was 1.10.
It's also a throwback to Apple, post lawsuit-with-Apple-the-record-company, introducing sound to Macs. "Sosumi" is an odd (in context) but clever and reverent homage.
Tars Foundation Meetup India: Highlights
Perhaps the effect of the drug might have carried over to the next day - I’m sure this could be verified, but it’s something I’ve experienced with other drugs. You skip a day, intentionally or accidentally, but your system hasn’t flushed everything out so the drug is still taking some effect.