skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is disgusting behavior on your part. You should be ashamed.

This is hollier than thou virtue signalling on your part. You should be shunned.

Also, hypocritical. You're against "frail little minds" but are OK with yourself using "disgusting behavior" and "you should be ashamed", like some tv-evangelist...

>Even more so for the mental gymnastics you’ve written in this spastic and bizarre comment to defend and endorse using flippantly insulting language.

No mental gymanstics required. Devs are adults. The "ocassional flippantly insulting language" if fine and has been part of team work since forever.

Not to mention TFA author didn't target anyone in particular, but a category of people with zealotic behavior.

If you can't call out stupid ideas as stupid, and zealots as such, then we've regressed at childish levels of protection from the real world (which perhaps is all the rage in some rapidly infantilizing areas of the world, enabled early by helicopter parents).
Do you have data for that claim about food import/export? The data I found suggests that even if 100% of the export production went to domestic use there would still be a shortfall requiring imports and I’d imagine that is even more significant if you looked seasonally:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/food-statistics-p...
Putting on my armchair psychologist/anthropologist/whatever hat, I find the fact that you can sleep better with people speaking around you very interesting. I wonder if we are built to feel comfortable when we can hear people whom we trust (your background conversations in this case) speaking as we sleep? Means someone else we trust is awake and can be observant of dangers while we nod off.
> with sway

This made me think, "Sway. Sway. Sway. Sway in the Morning."

Not sure how many hip hop fans there are here...
I could be wrong on the most, but there has been a heavy push towards arguing for fitness rather than weight loss. The healthy at any size movement is a centerpiece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_at_Every_Size

It’s possible the movement is simply loud however and most people think weight matters more than activity. Can’t be sure. I should have edited that to “many”.
A (V)ay to write understandable software
I think you are right. They can borrow as much as creditors are willing to provide. Also, borrowing money and creating it are the same thing! Indeed, when money is borrowed, money is created:

DR Loan 100
CR deposit 100
uBlock Origin has a few lists that disable annoyances. They are disabled by default, but they're arguably the most important lists.

It's weird to borrow someone's laptop, and see a barrage of ads, notices, bars and other visual spam.
A good friend and current roommate of mine has spent his entire working life doing menial work. Kitchens and factories mostly. He changes jobs just as often as your average resume-driven-developer. Not for raises of course, those don't really exist in menial work, he just gets sick of one place's shit and moves on to a different place with a different set of bullshit to deal with, just for variety.
If that is true could Olympus elaborate on how?
Why Do We Find Things Beautiful?
it is rather unfortunate that we have people calling for the abolition of X in favor of Y, cannot see their own biases in the whole thought process.

Point to be made :

".....The expectation going forward is that something like 80 percent of new households that will form over the next 15 years will be these one to two person households. A lot of them would prefer an apartment or a condo—smaller units...."

This to me is at the core the problem. This statement is borderline revolting, with a holier-than-thou attitude. Why do we have an academic from an urban core opine on what everyone else wants ? Who said this person is an authority on how people that he does not know, want to live ?

The proof is in the details. People left cities to move to the suburbs because they hated what they had in cities. That was their solution. If people no longer want to live in the suburbs, they can do the reverse, or strive to change the suburb themselves.

Instead of advocating for "solutions" to impose on others, how about instead let people decide on their own ? Simply put, for people that want to change their lifestyle, they should be able to do so on their own.

Yet I never hear 1 expert - "let's open every metro city zone regulation to unlimited mixed use, and let's see what gets built".
These experts are probably afraid they may be dead wrong about what people actually want.
Just assuming that someone who donates billions is good without any research whatsoever is just as lazy.
Louis Rossmann did a video recently on the silly way the UK handles import tax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar_7Z-MzPv8
When does Hollywood cast any but beautiful people in any role?

Probably because a biography of Patricia Highsmith just came out, my first thought was of the movie The Talented Mr. Ripley. Matt Damon played Ripley.
Czech trainers teach dogs to sniff out Covid: 95-percent success rate
This very difficult time in your life you appear to have in common with your collegues if I’m reading you right. Can you elaborate a little bit on your work and maybe other novel coping strategies you and your collegues evaluated?
It's not monopoly conditions per se, I think. It's just the lack of compelled profit motive that gets you the ability to do basic research/exploration.

Society has another mechanism for people to do research without a profit motive - the university - but for various reasons that's been working poorly. (One is that they've sort of developed a profit motive, and at the individual level, researchers need to chase grants.)

I don't think the answer is to tolerate monopolies; I think there are ways society can better support people doing open-ended research without just telling a company "Here, have all the money you want and no accountability." I don't think De Beers, for instance, produced much valuable research for the world with their monopoly.
I appreciate the irony that HN's only comment on her obituary points out an accolade of a man in her life.
> That the money exists but isn’t moving through the economy means that we’re essentially building more pressure in a system that is already at 0% interest rates. This should be concerning to everyone.

I use a carbon / global warming metaphor instead of pressure, but same intuition. You're taking actions today that will play out in the future.

Assuming most excess money supply has gone into (a) stocks, pushing valuations up, & (b) real estate, pushing valuations up, what would cause a freeing of that money? Because until it's liquified, it's not impacting inflation.

The only way substantial amounts of money move out of stocks is if the Fed raises rates and bond yields improve. It has to go somewhere, and that's the only sink big enough to swallow the flow.

Real estate is trickier. There's only so much volume that the (at least in the US) inefficient process can handle, which means there's a fundamental process against a flash liquidation.
I experienced similar things and eventually I concluded they were due to lack of sleep and taking "being active/productive" too seriuosly. If you work a lot I recommend trying to get more vegetative time. Lots of guilty pleasure meals (sugar can be helpful here), take work less seriously and get a lot of relaxation/rest or doing only activities you enjoy. Got rid of the symptoms and SSRIs that way.
Is that really all that different compared to the processes water goes through before it makes it to our taps?
> Everybody needs community, there's nothing privileged about that.

It is extremely privileged to expect your job to provide that. Most people do not have that many different jobs with different considerations to choose from, and when they do choose they do it based on more important and immediate needs like working conditions and compensation.
That's not entirely fair. The other view: Oxford University pairs with a company with the global logistics and manufacturing capability to create billions of vaccine in record time. I much prefer the idea of a royalty-free vaccine open to all, but I also understand the more practical route of working with a company if it means faster delivery where time is of the essence.

The article posted here purposefully omits the cost price of the Oxford vaccine which is approximately £3 ($5). Even if AstraZeneca were to add a profit margin of a few dollars to the cost price (e.g. bring the cost to $10) that would still be cheaper than the vaccines from Biotech/Pfizer and Moderna.

Also, Oxford has always insited that they wanted to create a vaccine that would be as cheap as possible to manufacture so it would be affordable to treat people around the world.
can you share an example image of storyline meeting notes?
Bad press is only a problem if they can do something about it.

I don't think they can.
Yet more bait and switch by google.

Only recently was there discussion about how they used free access to widevine as bait while pushing EME, and now they conveniently ignore licensing requests...

More fuel for the ECs antitrust investigation I guess :)
I agree that it’s ‘naive’ to expect the Dems to be better on surveillance, but it’s not clear how this relates to what Greenwald wrote. He is writing about what he sees happening, not his expectations.

Can you explain where the idea that there is a conspiracy, or a secret comes from?
That tool has the potential to systematically reduce the likelihood that a certain disease/certain class of people receives extra scrutiny from a radiologist. That's maybe not mission critical on a small scale, but on a large scale it absolutely is.

Deep learning models are black box models, which means they are not formally interpretable. You can still sometimes get interpretations out of these models using various methods, but they are fairly underdeveloped, and without actual theories of neural network behavior I don't see that improving anytime soon.

You're right, it's true with or without ML. In fact, it's true with human-run systems, too. Consider a police officer who is more likely to pull people over in a certain neighborhood, and that neighborhood was 95% AfAm. IF they were asked why they pulled over more people in that neighborhood, they could say they were discriminating against the neighborhood, which, in and of itself is not racial discrimination. Of course, further inspection of that police officer's records could show that they are biased towards neighborhoods with a high AfAm population, which would be racial discrimination.

The same scenario can easily arise in an ML context, but interrogating a machine is a very different context from interrogating a human. First of all, people believe that computers are innately 'unbiased' because they are computers, so making the case that an algorithm is biased is already more difficult. Second, going back to the point I made before -- interpreting a model is not the same as providing a human-readable explanation. Asking a question about racial bias in a model which doesn't even encode for race (as many do, in an ill-conceived attempt to be 'neutral') requires skilled people to understand how to ask the question and how to interpret the answer. There's no plug and play process that one can follow to "scrutinize the solution to see if it's complete enough and correct enough".
Will Wilkinson fired from Niskanen center over one joke
Show HN: Sokyokuban, a puzzle game in a non-Euclidian world
It depends on how you define "friend."

I don't require that my friends have any interest in me outside of the contexts they wish to be friends with me in, though, and so I do consider work friends actual friends.

Same thing with cycling friends, childrearing friends, and hanging out and drinking friends.

Why should a friend share extra time with me for some reason? In any case, the more time you spend with contextual friends the greater the likelihood you will meet a lifelong friend.
> Even the Pi Zero ($5)

may I ask where can I buy Pi Zero for 5 dollars? Even on Aliexpress (perhaps I wrongly assume it's the cheapest place to buy) there options start from $15 and up https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=S...

I'm not trying to invalidate your argument in any way, just genuinely curious. Also, does anyone know the actual production cost of such device?
>Why are 1-2 person households the trend?

All of these types of articles are just laughably wrong about the state of the world. They say 80% of new households will be 1-2 people as though this is a lasting trend towards smaller households. That's just people moving out of their parents house. The majority of those will eventually become 3+ households.

The people that the suburbs were built for still exist. People that aren't rich and want to have a family. They're just doing that in their early 30s now instead of in their early 20s.
It will be in a future edition
Keep reminding builders to build things users want over what they want to build is helpful. Thank you.
If I was discussing the idea of "wonderfull IP protections" and I claimed that it's evil, because Bill, an evil person, holds it. Then it would be at hominem.

It's not because I'm just judging Bill on the basis of the actions he (reportedly) performed and (imo evil) ideas (he supposedly holds).

By your definiton of 'ad hominem' many court judgements are just 'ad hominem'.
There is always some issues among people and some nasty stuff can happen, but overall there is more mutual help than in the city.
What I miss in the city is this kind of help easy to get by in a village, for example I cannot ask a farmer to remove a tree sump, I have to pay a professional to do it.
For those on windows(and with an Intel WiFi card) there is a hidden but an extremely useful feature - "project" can be used to turn any other windows PC/Laptop/Tablet into a second screen, just enable "cast to this PC" in settings, then from the host PC press Win+P from anywhere and the second machine becomes a secondary display instantly. To windows it appears as a normal display, without any hackery involved.
For some strong beverages, it's actually recommended to let it "breathe" several hours, to allow the alcohol to dissipate a little, which make the "good" flavors emphasized.
The current approach used by the NIH is a response to the failures of socialism. The Bayh–Dole Act was passed in 1980 and signed by noted right winger Jimmy Carter.

Advocating for central planning in 2021 is like advocating for NoSQL—-lots of pretty arguments vs the overwhelming weight of real world evidence.
You can buy dummy headless display dongles very cheaply, e.g.: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Headless-Display-Emulator-Headless-...
The governmental response to the pandemic forced the issue. The virus didn’t magically halt economic activity. Governments did, and we need to keep that in mind, because depending on the state, the government response was often far too harsh and not backed by science. Outdoor dining being shut down in California likely caused the spike they are seeing now, by driving people to socializing indoors in private locations.
Saying businesses closed due to pandemic gives the government a pass they don’t deserve. Too often, they could have chosen to require businesses to implement rules and procedures, but instead decided it was easier to just shut them all down.
In the recent court decision that overturned LA County outdoor dining ban, it was discovered that the indoor dining ban was implemented because 10 percent of restaurants weren’t following distancing rules. So they shut them all down as a response. In the same case, it was also discovered that LA County had no scientific evidence of any form to shutdown outdoor dining. Every study they cited was indoor transmission. When the court sided against the county, Gavin Newsom immediately responded by making the outdoor dining ban a state rule, forcing the litigants to challenge the law in state court, still with no science backing him.

A lot of economic damage could have been avoided if governments in the US weren’t filled with quantitatively illiterate do-gooders who say “follow the science” but aren’t capable of understanding it. The age stratification of risk from COVID-19 was essentially absent from public health discussion because of this.
Some responses:

Ezra Klein https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1352422157498781697?s=2...
@ezraklein
Ross is absolutely right. This is an awful decision by @Niskanencenter. @willwilkinson
made a bad joke, and he correctly apologized for it. But no one, anywhere, thinks he was actually advocating for violence. This is actual cancel culture, by the people who claim to condemn it.

Sean Carroll https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll/status/1352710832384163841?...
@seanmcarroll
Will was fired by @NiskanenCenter because online trolls pretended to be offended by a joke he made on Twitter. A model case for how organizations devoted to truth and discourse should not react. I'm sure Will we be fine, but my respect for Niskanen has plummeted.
I went through a similar phase, but I solved it with audio books. You might want to give it a try.
I don't know how it might be called in the US but in the town I spend a good part of my childhood, we had a sort of hub for clubs.

Sports, craft, games, etc... it hosted scheduled activities like workouts, helped organize event like trips, there was a room with a piano where lessons were held but was otherwise freely accessible, a small library, a bunch of chessboards from the chess club, again, freely accessible, etc... A lot of activities were aimed at kids but it spanned all age groups, including elderly.

Of course, it created a strong, unreligious community. Unfortunately, as it is often the case with these organizations, the few key players lost interest and no one took over, so while it still exists, not much remains.
Can't speak for the other poster but original post (Literally just "Good I hope the whole sale fails") provides no reasoning, information, discussion, or anything else of value, exactly the sort of low effort comment that the HN culture and dang usually discourages.
An advice that was mentioned many times in this thread to avoid writing to the wrong disk. Use the symlinks in /dev/disks/* instead of /dev/sd* directly. Since they are more intuitive, using them will likely reduce the odds of you making a mistake.
They are only making the vaccine because IP law and a culture that separates research and development allowed them to hoard the utility of publicly funded research.

We are paying off the ransomers we outfitted.

Maybe it's unavoidable this time, but I would sure like to see the system reformed to not get in the bind again.

Finally, taking a step back, US/EU complete reliance on a vaccine is also preventable. See East Asia, where the non-abysmal quarantine would allow a less desperate negotiation with the drug lords.
In general, the federal and state governments in the US don't track race because the government is obsessed with it. It's because our society was and still is obsessed with it. It'd be nice if we could ignore these vague and mostly subjective categories that don't even mean much genetically, but we'd be burying our heads in the sand to think they don't matter. Black Americans have been discriminated against more than white Americans, so those numbers help flag emerging problems. They're also the only way to know how much we're reducing racial disparities.
Good Lord, that's a great idea. They'd be able to sell the shares in no time. Soon as it hits public I'm sure a ton of folks who just invest in everything semiconductor would just jump in.

I've been avoiding SoftBank because they've got so many other risky ventures, putting money in company at large seems kinda volatile.
> Wasn't it the free market that led to situation that only few companies produce and research vaccines because of the low profit?

The free market seems to have done well into investing in mRNA vaccines which can be developed faster, safer, and more effectively than standard vaccines.

It took over a year for H1N1 vaccines to ramp up production back in 2009: and that was when we already had the infrastructure in place for flu shots. Today's vaccines were developed faster and safer than just 10 years ago: especially since we're looking at 90%+ efficacy rates.

Its not like mRNA was developed by Operation Warp Speed, that body of research was heavily invested thanks to free market principles. Operation Warp Speed decreased the time to mass production (by funding the last leg and also putting the vaccines on the top of the priority list for regulation). But the actual mRNA formula was developed very early in 2020. Most of 2020 was just testing for safety.

In fact: it was because of the years of investment into the SARS virus that these companies were able to quickly translate their SARS research into COVID19. Clearly, that's a risky move as well as a very forward looking investment.

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Anyway, I don't expect most people to be "correct". My first expectation is self-consistency. People are allowed to change their viewpoints over years, but the more someone sticks with a particular philosophy (both the goods and the bads of that philosophy), the more reasonable they seem.

Bill Gates has been preaching philanthro-capitalism for over a decade... at least, I've been following his discussions over it for at least that long. So there's a reasonable level of consistency here.
There's more to the story: it was a monopoly that was tolerated by the state under some conditions, like releasing patents. See for example https://voxeu.org/article/how-antitrust-enforcement-can-spur...
Copy-and-pasting a comment I left elsewhere:

> “Guys” (a plural noun) is gendered. “You guys” (a pronoun) isn’t. It’s that simple.
Wow, "revenge bedtime procrastination" is such an apt term (not being cynical).

In Chinese, it's a single, uhm, guess you could call it a word: 報復性熬夜

See also:

https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/advice/living/article/31130...
I found this to learn basic italic handwriting. Once you get that down, you can branch out in other directions. But things like consistent slant and spacing, which is what this teaches you, are the foundation on which everything else will build.

https://sites.google.com/view/briem/free-books/handwriting-r...
How's the latency on that? I've been looking for a good "dock" solution for my phone but as it's type-c port is only USB 2 it doesn't support video out with charging.
Of course there is. Write to your representatives on relevant committees and indicate, in specific ways, how the agency is not representing the interests of your community. Encourage other members of your social group to do the same. There are also meta representatives, like the administrators of political party you identify with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp4h-3vQafk
No, you should use proper abstractions to allow you to "easily" replace components down the road. There's no point in planning, designing, or building your application for a million users because by the time you get there: 1 - the business needs will be radically different from what you expected initially, and 2 - you'll have dozens more engineers who will probably do the actual work. It's exceedingly unlikely that the architecture decisions that you made will be relevant at that time.

Also, the overwhelming majority of companies that claim that they need to scale into the millions of DAU will never make it there.
No mention what consists of “lack” of sleep.