skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Dr Fauci told us that wearing masks was ineffective in stopping the spread of the virus.

Masks are still ineffective at stopping the spread. This didn't change. What changed is governments all over the world understood the value of the way to mark the population willing to follow any stupid regulation.
The thrust of the article is that you have “misinformation”
Is simply a cudgel, and so these right wing conspiracy theories must be allowed to spread because “The public’s distrust is well-merited.”

Honestly? No. It is not well merited at all. It is deliberately stoked and manufactured for political purposes. It came from a decades old idea of discouraging and confusing science for economic snd politics purposes. These covid conspiracies come from the same genesis as climate change denial and smoking is not cancerous nor addictive. The article blames health experts and the CDC for antimaskers, when it was right wing politicians and media personalities promoting the ideas of “herd exposure”, and that it’s not so bad, and we “shouldn’t be afraid”, and the man’s is a “muzzle”. None of this passes the smell test.

This article is simply motivated and insulting, and promptly falls apart when examined by anyone with a memory of American politics the last 10 years, let alone 30.
https://archive.is/DZy0r
It makes it enjoyable to drive for whatever reason, there's something that makes me feel good and powerful when I drive it (note that my girlfriend tells me I drive like a grandma). It's a comfortable car to drive, and it's pretty dependable in the long term (so I've heard, never owned one long time personally). Also it's a super useful car for carrying things around, helping friends move, etc.
Yeah I’m sure Tesla is just chomping at the bit to take on a debt portfolio backed by ICE vehicle loans and leases. The assets underlying all that debt are going to have a drastic revaluation as electric takes over. I would bet on a GM bankruptcy within 5 years.

GM is blackberry it’s 2008.
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Hydrogen for Atom actually can have executable python in markdown, and more - write python in .py files and execute strings or define blocks by "# %%". It's not the same of course but for my usecases it's more convenient (given that it works in a proper code-editor with all needed plugins).
> weird additives and oils in things like the Impossible Burger.

Here's the ingredients list for the impossible burger:

Water, textured wheat protein, coconut oil, potato protein, natural flavors, 2% or less of leghemoglobin (soy), yeast extract, salt, konjac gum, xanthan gum, soy protein isolate, vitamin E, vitamin C, thiamine (vitamin B1), zinc, niacin, vitamin B6, riboflavin (vitamin B2), and vitamin B12.

The only thing unusual is leghemoglobin, which is fermented soy protein.
That car had two indicators for park, on the center console and the dashboard which Yelchin ignored. Plus, he never engaged the parking brake, which is standard procedure. His death was his own fault.
It's their room but my house. Just like in my house I still have to follow the rules that my government puts on me, they have to follow the house rules. They have some autonomy as to how they want to do that, but they still have to follow the rules.
There is CPU overhead for the gzip, which could be a problem depending on scale/caching practices.
To take your idea even further, one of the ideas i've been batting around with is to create some sort of learning algo which runs through a video or song, skips forward and back a set number of times to random timestamps to decide if that video or song is something I would be interested in based on my listening history.

I feel this is how I currently approach an unfamiliar artist or creator - skip ahead to random points in the video and if I still find them engaging, I rewatch from 0. This type of AI would be so great.
I you wanted to track just a handful of users for nefarious purposes tho...
How much does it cost to get sand out of a safe area? I bet it's cheaper than making this.
>It already is.

That's my point though, it currently is. There's no massive load, its not the majority. If the world switches, cities will be needing to do massive power overhauls and use more resources. This will be translated into electricity rates/taxes increasing. Will it be translated to the rate of gasoline? Who knows.

I feel like batteries are right there, and this tesla push for electric cars is giving battery research a new life and we might see batteries be a huge upgrade from gas but I don't think it's entirely there. If it is an upgrade, it's marginal.

All things considered, I keep my car budget around $1k and that's been working fantastic for me. That budget if ever possible, won't be viable for many many many years.
I actually don't like Pandas but I think it's pretty obvious that the array language style is an incredibly powerful way to manipulate blocks of multiple dimensional data. People here are complaining about not being able to use for loops, but why would you want to use them in the first place? Like let's say you want to add two vectors together. Looping over each index and adding them and assigning them to a third vector element by element is not only I expressive (and like everything else written in Python, computational inefficient), but it is an conceptually inappropriate solution to the problem.

You are operating on n-dimensional arrays, not elements, so your need to write code that expresses that intent.

Anyone who thinks that anything besides writing "a + b" to add two matrices together is a good or simple solution is crazy.

Operate at a higher conceptual level. Don't use loops. Transform and compose your data, not your datums.
Maybe not that. I am thinking something along the lines of "Have more stringent, less rational parenting techniques towards daughters" which would not necessarily be sexual.
> but it leaves out a fundamental truth about programming (and technically complex disciplines in general): most people that attempt programming will never be a good programmer - indeed most never even cross through the gate of mediocrity.

Isn’t this true of almost everything?

Most people who attempt [x] will never be at a good at [x].

Technical fields aren’t special in this regard. Replace [x] with running and it’s just as true despite the fact that just about everyone attempts to run at some point. And yet the vast majority of people aren’t proficient runners in any shape or form. But just about any activity could replace running and it’d be just as true.

Attempts aren’t worth much. Intention and dedication are what make most people at least OK at their craft.
The battery has to weigh a TON: I can’t imagine this being a shadetree job ever.
I can almost guarantee either the docs won't get updated, or new source code directories will get created without the ARCHITECTURE file.

At least having a single file means only one file potentially goes out of date, instead of dozens
cries in john deere
With Canadian border closed, 30-mile ice road connects NW Angle to Minn anglers
The Mustang Mach-E GT and Mach-E GT Performance Edition aren't available until summer 2021 but the lower trim levels are available right now.
as an adult, it's your responsibility to have more wisdom and experience than your kids, and to help them benefit from it.

This is true, but it's also your responsibility to help them gain wisdom and experience. Making decisions for them may leverage your wisdom and experience wonderfully, but sometimes it's important to let them make mistakes and learn from them.
I decided to avoid marriage and kids in large part due to the divorce courts, so you do have that option. Vasectomy is not the ideal option, but it’s seriously worth considering in our utterly broken society.
A remedy to that is available.

Right to repair has gained some traction in the automotive space in the past decade and Massachusetts has extended its law to include vehicle data standards. This is important because manufacturers generally don't like to make several variants of the same basic systems, so an individual state can have a nationwide impact.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/4/21549129/massachusetts-ri...
Herd immunity is literally the point of mass vaccines.
The overall portion of athletes are vegetarian or vegan is low, but the ones who are can still perform very well. This suggests that the difference is based, at least in part, on preference.
US cellular carriers do that by throttling bandwidth to the network ranges used by video providers
I don't disagree that there will be long term effects from the lockdown that we can't conceptualize or measure quite yet.

But the choice presented is basically between a relatively known effect (killing more people, especially those that skew older) and an unknown effect (mental health + economic + other impacts we don't understand as a result of lockdown measures).

People are losing mothers, fathers, grandparents, etc. that had plenty years of productive, happy life left. Families have been destroyed by this thing. There are major mental and economic impacts to killing more people.

Furthermore, this is a _new_ disease in humans and we're already seeing signs that it can may have serious long term health effects on people that survive it, including younger people. Any estimation of the net impact on society the virus cannot simply be a function of the number of people that are dead and at what age they died.

The _only_ reasonable line of thinking I can imagine to support not implementing lockdown policies at all is the hypothesis that most of the spread of the virus occurs via social interactions that are unaffected by the not-so-strict lockdown policies - by friends visiting each other in small, intimate settings unaffected by the not-so-strict lockdown measures, which would then only serve to cause economic turmoil without actual benefit. And I do think that this is something worth looking into [0]

But then when I see the instances of super-spreader events such as the one that occurred in that South Korean church or the Sturgis motorcycle rally (which, if lockdown policy were implemented at the federal level, would probably not have happened), it becomes really hard for me to think that, at the very least, preventing large gatherings of people is a bad idea.. including shutting down restaurants, where people are likely to take masks off to eat and talk.

[0] I found one datapoint here: https://static.dw.com/image/55445964_7.png And the big light blue lines on top would describe the method of infection I was referring to. But this is data we received from a country that instituted lockdown measures - we don't know how the numbers would skew if nothing was done at all. So we would need to find a similar country with similar demographics and behaviors that implemented none at all in order to truly understand these numbers.
It can be much better, but a quick glance at what a lot of retail investors are actually doing with options (basically just buying calls) shows a lot of high-risk and reckless gambling. While I'm fine with people choosing whichever risk level they desire, some of the images I've seen of e.g Robinhood UI's are pushing it far beyond what I'd say is reasonable (and perhaps even to the point of illegality), for example https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtfOof8XIAMhaX6?format=jpg&name=...
Meat subsidies in Germany are so successful at helping farmers compete with low cost countries that Germany is one of the biggest exporters of pork.
The average US citizen eats around 100kg of meat per year. You could easily cut that in half and still eat meat every day.
No, the 2015 Grand Cherokee shifter doesn't randomly change gears. There are known cases of it being accidentally hit from a passenger since there is no locking mechanism. That said, it is standard procedure to engage the parking brake and anybody that doesn't is a bad driver.
> As a meat eater, these recreations are a joke.

Also a meat eater, and the impossible burger is great - certainly way better than many cheap meat burgers I've eaten. Not as good as a premium or homemade burger though, I agree.

However, it's early days. These products have only just started to be made in the last couple of years. It's hardly surprising they are not yet perfect.
With the Canadian border closed a small resort area in Minnesota was cut off from the rest of the state. This map gives a better understanding of the problem:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Angle+Inlet,+MN+56711/@49....
I'm sure you could make it out of corn.
Capital is there. But that capacity isn't going to come online over-night. "Just sourcing mines"... the capacity for raw materials doesn't exist. New mines have to be dug. That means acquiring property with materials, permitting, sourcing equipment to dig the mines, digging the material, building refining equipment, building factories to package the batteries. All of this takes time to bring online.

I'm not saying capacity will never exist, but for the next 5-10 years, auto manufacturers are going to be fighting for as much lithium and battery raw materials as they can get their hands on. Tesla has a handle on this, Ford doesn't.

How many years is it going to take for that capacity to come online while Ford/ GM/ etc bleed market share?
Not 6dof!
ALB and SQM are two of the big boys. Can't say either is my favorite but I am long an upside butterfly on ALB. Not a fan of SQM because of nepotism and bribery at the top. Seems like a really underdeveloped sector. I don't think people realize how earth-shatteringly huge lithium is about to be.
Whether earlier Islamic ceramics using tin-opacified glazes similarly depended on tin from southwestern England is a matter of speculation, but it is interesting to observe that the earliest such glazes seem to have their origins in Egypt in the eighth century AD, which is perhaps suggestive, given that tin seems to have been known as 'the Brittanic metal' in Egypt only a century earlier.

This stood out for me -- that tin was apparently known as the Brittanic metal. Linguistic hints like that are sometimes excellent clues to historic events, assuming this is accurate and all that. It suggests that Britain was the sole or primary source of tin to the region for a while.

Makes me curious about other aspects of the history of metal production, metal trade, etc.
It doesn’t have to be one or the other at an individual level, but the social and legal norms we create have aggregate effects, not just individual effects, and we should be able to talk about those as a distinct issue. From 1960 to 2010, in the US, the percentage of kids living apart from their fathers has tripled, and the percentage of kids living apart from their mothers has doubled.

My culture (and that of like 3/4 of the world’s population) says that’s a bad thing for kids and society as a whole. I used to think westerners were enlightened and had the right idea on allowing and encouraging individual freedom in this area, but now I think they’ve got it wrong. And it’s hard to really know without focusing on what’s been the aggregate effect.
How many early human species existed on Earth?
The thin slices shown in the photos seemed a bit suspicious, so I looked at the paper and they seem to be a millimeter thick:

> The obtained transparent wood (~1 mm in thickness)

And the wood was also from a balsa wood log, so this method is making something remarkably flimsy.

At least from what I saw in a previous paper on this idea, it sounds like it's fairly difficult to get the epoxy into a thicker wood sample.
I'm delighted at the multiple ways one can parse the headline!
GM has about $100B in debt https://www.benzinga.com/news/20/09/17407586/a-look-into-gen.... Help me understand how I’m misinterpreting this.
They also moved the indicators to the steering wheel in what looks like touch capacitive buttons. That also seems like a mistake to me over an actual stalk.
Tips on landing your data science job
WASM is only for the CPU. It doesn’t solve the GPU.
...are we the Fire Nation?
Ufa, Southern Urals, Russia here. Guess what happened on the other end of that? An arctic breeze with snowstorm and a 20°C temperature drop over night.
Replacing a Prius battery costs around $2k and usually happens around 200k miles. If you replace the individual cells that have gone bad, it can cost far less.
> If a guy here is being "friendly," you can pretty much bet dollars to donuts that he is really wanting to know if I will sleep with him

I understand what you're saying here, and I also understand that it can be very frustrating to have to be "on guard" all the time because there are bad actors out there. However, I think generalizing that all men that are friendly are after sex is insulting. There are plenty of men that don't pay any attention to what sex the people they interact with online are, and plenty more that just aren't looking for that type of thing during those interactions. I expect it's probably most of them, with the caveats that 1) I have no basis to back up that guess, and 2) the bad actors certainly stand out a lot more, so likely weigh the "feel" of how many bad actors there are to one side.
That number ("1/4 woman and 1/7 men") seemed unlikely high to me.

I looked at the source that was cited on the ncadv.org page. Maybe I'm misreading it, but it doesn't seem to support that. According to table 11 it's 2.8 in 1000 men and 8.4 in 1000 women.
Ubiquiti did disclose a breach on Jan 11, 2021. Is it possible that your data was compromised and they logged in and reset your data?
Teach Music, Not Coding, According to MIT
It's not a major issue among the Republicans who don't care, while it's often a major issue for those who do. You don't lose much of your base by opposing it, but you lose a bunch if you support it.

Representatives are doing their job as the system designed. I don't love how it's playing out, but I don't think there are shenanigans afoot.
I attempted this as a Haskell beginner. Positive it can be improved upon.

runLengthEncode :: String -> [(Char, Int)]
runLengthEncode [] = []
runLengthEncode input =
let
chFirst = head input
zipped = zip input $ chFirst : input
in
rle zipped (chFirst, 0)
where
rle :: [(Char, Char)] -> (Char, Int) -> [(Char, Int)]
rle [] (ch, count) = [(ch, count)]
rle ((ch1, ch2) : cs) (ch, count) =
if ch1 == ch2 then
rle cs (ch1, count + 1)
else
(ch2, count) : rle cs (ch1, 1)
It takes exactly the same amount of effort to make vegetarian food as it takes to make a dish with meat, cooking some lentils with vegetables and cottage cheese takes literally twenty minutes for example. And we're currently discussing why meat substitutes are expensive and how to lower the prices.
Hi Ken, I’m interested in the acknowledgements section:

> Thanks to David of Usagi Electric for driving the MC14500B analysis project and thanks to John McMaster for decapping the chips and creating the MC14500B images

How/where are projects like this initially organized and then driven to completion?

I’d like to answer the question “what went wrong with the first batch of 6502’s ROR instruction,” but don’t have the resources to do that entire project myself.
What's the best way to prevent this for Chrome? Can the F-Cache be disabled entirely? Otherwise, would
a Tampermonkey script or Chrome extension which just GETs /favicon.ico on every page load work?

EDIT: Seems to be preventable with a quick Tampermonkey hack: https://gist.github.com/lukepothier/1b18905039b1ed960efebec3...
> Maybe if it was done in a popup?

Funny you mention that, one of my friends was on a torrent site the other day and had tiny popup that appeared to keep redirecting. I assumed it was redirecting through multiple pages to generate fake ad impressions, but this is another possibility.
> I believe it’s usually a heathy practice in life to look for the straightforward explanations that don’t assume bad motives in the part of the actor you are looking at.

Do you believe that or were you just attempting to sound virtuous while making a snarky comment?

There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the motives of Tesla and the actions that they take. The actions of a megacorp don't even have to be outright malicious to be threatening to an individual -- it's not that they hate you, it's just that they don't care about you.
Is that what those circle things are on the wheel?

Musk's reply sounds like their AI will automatically turn the left/right on and you have to over ride with a touch screen - which to me sounded like a center console... Either way based on the many posts/videos on their current ML I don't think either is a good idea.
If you spend enough time living with a partner together in the same locale you are de-facto married in many jurisdictions

Being not married is often utterly meaningless. You will be caught up in the dragnet.
I’ve heard it hurts a lot?
Something like "Most candidates that I interviewed cannot write a function that does run-length encoding"
I feel like with the reliability and durability of EV's the used market will not have remarkably low prices compared to gas cars. Low income families will still go with gas as they will get cheaper as well.
I’m not a psychologist. All of my reflecting and self analyzing suggests current me and past me were basically the same people though. I’ve developed skills and my brain works better for certain things, but more or less the same person inside.

I don’t think it’s a bad thing. I was taught my entire life that I’d grow into something and certain things would happen that would make me an adult, and i suppose I inferred this would be transformative. Not really though. If I drop that inferred notion I almost find it freeing. I’m not a kid or an adult or anything besides “me”, whatever that needs to mean in the moment.
Gentoo is another one - I use it to make sure that my stuff builds on a bleeding edge cross-platform, but thats about it these days.
Quad group prepares first meeting of leaders to keep China in check
Foraging humans, mammals and birds who live in the same place behave similarly
Sand isn’t a uniform thing, for glass you can use wind blown sand from deserts because it’s melted. Which in practical terms is an unlimited resource as Si makes up 28% of the earths crust which is only behind Oxygen.

But, for extending beaches and most other uses you want textured sand that clumps together. As such people don’t mine river beds for large scale glassmaking as that sand is more valuable.
It's called FIRMware because it's the thing between SOFTware and HARDware.
Our livestock is given chemically manufactured b12 supplements because the soil is being depleted of the microbiology that produces and leaves it on plant material which is the natural way to get it. So everyone, including meat eaters are consumers of b12 supplements, unless they live in regions where modern agriculture does not have a strong foothold.

Similarly, modern western foods is full of supplements via “fortification” so to say that vegan diet is unnatural because of the need for supplements is a mute argument, so long as those supplements are part of everyone’s diet, and meat is just a carrier.

My point is still that the debate over plant based diets are too simplistic and based on anecdotes (on both sides). If we spent all the tax money we now spend on meat and dairy subsidies instead on unbiased research and education on general nutrition, I am convinced a lot of people would be surprised at the outcome.
I run Arch btw.
It won't. I'm a legalization supporter, but you can't pretend that being surrounded by states with legal cannabis won't cause the availability of cannabis to be huge. If cannabis causes negative effects, they're going to get hit with a double effect of readily available cannabis and no tax revenue to offset it.

Then again, I don't get the impression that it's ever been difficult to find cannabis, even when it was illegal all over the US.
Mediocre programmer + Domain Expert >> Expert programmer + Mediocre domain knowledge

I'm not sure if the book discusses it, but I think the top number differentiation between being a mediocre to an expert programmer is actually being an expert in the problem domain and less in computer/programming specific.