skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Throughout the pandemic we have seen many small studies that have had small hints of efficacy which later shows up as a null result in larger studies. Mostly this can be attributed to various sources of statical noise. In this case though, a 90% reduction is unlikely to be a null result, even though it is likely to be an overestimate. The signal is much higher than the background.
What else would you call a person born and raised in those countries, if not Russian or Chinese? Are descendants of Irish immigrants to America not American? Perhaps language is used differently in our respective circles.

If you're born in Russia, raised in Russia, you're certainly Russian to me.

A black man born in China, I'd absolutely include him in "Chinese" if the context was nationality. However, yes; Chinese is commonly used for both race and nationality, I'll give you that.

> you will definitely not call people from Tibet or Uighur "Chinese", right?

I will confess I am not educated enough on these regions to have an opinion here. Do Tibetans(?) identify as Chinese nationally? Or do they resent the Chinese takeover and view them as unwelcome oppressors? I think that would have a lot to do with my perspective on them (and I think maybe a lot of label-based identification comes down to perspective).
A dam that presents a deadly risk to downstream inhabitants is actually a really great short term captive market. You have to upgrade and stabilize it or catastrophe! Before you start work, you, the maintainer are in the envious position of being able to set a contract that is based around outcome and not price. Hence, you're going to be rich!

As the Dam owner, you're boned.

Morale of the story, never be there for the end of life of any infrastructure you commission.
Everything in my gut says we're not currently alone, and if I was offered a wager that was moderated by an omniscient being I'd be happy to bet at 1:10 to 1:50 odds.

Of course, nobody has specific evidence either way, this is all guesses through Bayesian reasoning (Anders Sandberg has a paper arguing the opposite to my above guess, along Bayesian lines). But no evidence is distinct from no information.
Perhaps the US needs something like the German Pressekodex to regulate how minorities are mentioned in the news. Auto-translated from German:

Directive 12.1 – Reporting on criminal offences

In the reporting of criminal offences, care must be taken to ensure that the mention of the affiliation of suspects or perpetrators to ethnic, religious or other minorities does not lead to a discriminatory generalisation of individual misconduct. As a rule, affiliation should not be mentioned, unless there is a well-founded public interest. It should be noted in particular that the mention could fuel prejudice against minorities.

https://www.presserat.de/files/presserat/dokumente/pressekod...
Reddit to me feels very undervalued. As witnessed by the GameStop saga and previously through the influence of r/D_T, Reddit has tremendous influence on modern society and shapes a lot of our narratives. They should be valued way over $6bn
What do you even mean if you call the US nativist? Native American Supremacist?
Most schemes have a gensym as a part of their lower level macro facilities. It is a part of r6rs (which at least has generate-temporaries, I don't know if gensym is actually standard. All schemes I have used have it).
Carl Hart: parent, Columbia professor – and heroin user
I imagine because the data gained is such low value.

I need to maintain three or four different semi-fully anonymous accounts just to make the site bearable.
Just replace the image... what app/site is this? Email me at my@mail.com
You misunderstand - I am saying they need neither the computers nor the networks.

By running with loose tolerances and loose guarantees (and keeping systems as simple as possible) they remove the need for these tools - and their attack surface.
Could you not argue that HN is the same thing, just at a smaller scale? HN is essentially just a front page.

Reddit just doesn't tailor itself to one particular type of discussion like HN does. But rather the dominant topics of discussion such as /r/funny frequently dominate the front page due to popularity.

Reddit is really what you make of it and if you only subscribe to topics that interest you, it becomes a vastly different experience than what a default account would be subjected to.
It's like Rogue played inside a Mandelbrot fractal.
Why would you not store every search ever? It's only a few petabytes, and you can find out all sorts of useful info from it.
440-year-old graffiti found at Gifu temple to be preserved
Much more readable with Javascript disabled.

While the power generated by hydro dams can be displaced by alternatives like solar, wind, and types of nuclear generation (if we'd ever get over the political boogeyman and have military engineers do what is necessary for safety and security), there remain two use cases that are less well served.

Dams provide reservoirs which are useful for managing irrigation and droughts; some might also have features like the Banks lake associated with the Grand Coulee Dam complex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Coulee_Dam#Pump-generati...
Prison is actually "fucked up" like that in way. Violent criminals are often locked up for longer than minimum of their sentence (denied parole), not for any revenge, punishment, or deterrence reason but only because they're judged as dangerous. That means the remaining time they spend in prison is because of their predicted future crimes.
That's weird... All the geo-related subs for my country are full of angsty socialist children or camped and permanently set to private.
2 girls one cup
Not just Asians. It’s like black on XYZ race/ethnicity crime is being ignored due to the progressive agenda.
Thanks for your Blog! It's a great resource - I love the generic form template and signal blog post.
It is really great and I recommend it to anyone who uses django
Pressekodex directive 12.1 – Reporting on criminal offences
Auto-translated from https://www.presserat.de/files/presserat/dokumente/pressekodex/Pressekodex_Leitsaetze_RL12.1.pdf

Directive 12.1 – Reporting on criminal offences

In the reporting of criminal offences, care must be taken to ensure that the mention of the affiliation of suspects or perpetrators to ethnic, religious or other minorities does not lead to a discriminatory generalisation of individual misconduct. As a rule, affiliation should not be mentioned, unless there is a well-founded public interest. It should be noted in particular that the mention could fuel prejudice against minorities.
Most definitely a slur, on the spectrum with “fag”. Special ed teachers are “tard wranglers”. Got that from one of my little ones.

I suspect “you retard” is stronger than “that’s retarded”.

Unlike various other slurs, the word has various valid uses apart from mental development so it’s not going away.
Stupid question: how did you reverse the app in Android Studio?
you are both correct, Orca was originally made in electron, the C version is newer
Such code should have tests, analysis, and documentation that ought to go a long way towards proving it correct in the time required to transmit data. If they can't produce THAT then they shouldn't use it in a court of law at all.
> Fascinating! To me this sounds like the mother's body is trying to "nudge" the odds towards a daughter after several sons, but sometimes the process "fails" and produces an effeminate male instead - a gay son.

You know that a homosexual not are "effeminate males" ? Man, try to revise these stereotype that you have.
I’m gonna have to disagree with the negative comments above concerning Igors tone. He made his point with clear respectful language that I would be happy to entertain at work, at the bar, at worship or while on a (previous to covid) group run or golf outing. so, to me, it looks like instead of an ‘agree to disagree’ while respecting each other, you disrespect igor by dismissing his arguments due to his tone, which handily allows you to ignore his content, such as it is. Therefore, in my judgement, you guys are being unfair to Igor while also being disingenuous about your reason for policing his tone.
>but I presume he did try to google things before offing himself? Or do you think he just panicked?

Total guess and speculation, but I think it is the latter. Because, at the time when this happened, I knew way less about option spreads than he did (I only knew that it involved two option legs), so I decided to search online to find out whether what he saw on the chart was normal or not.

Took me barely a few mins until I found a bunch of posts with people asking a similar question at many random points in time, with answers confirming that it was totally normal. And that was with my almost-non-existent level of knowledge about option spreads.

>We've had issues with people lying on online prescription forms in the UK and getting opioids and other controlled substances. Once one person has got them, the 'right answers' spread online and tons of less-informed folks get in. I don't think you can rely on any online form without checking documents.

Solid point, but most people can easily guess "correct" answers for brokerages specifically. It is just about earnings, and your experience with options. Maybe a few other basic questions of a similar type, like your employment situation or your personal risk assessment of your profile (been a while for me, so I forgot the details). Since it is a multiple-choice dropdown, you can just pick a really high earnings number and then for the other question pick "multiple years of experience trading options" (or something like that). While with your opioid example, i can totally imagine what kind of an advice people online would give, since the situation with that is a bit less trivial.

To be honest, however, I assumed they were checking this info on some level before granting a permission to trade options. But I am not gonna comment on that, as I have zero knowledge of how they process those permission checks. My permission for options was granted naturally through trading for a couple of years and slowly getting more accustomed to the whole process, so I didn't give much thought to that process.
That's a democracy where your voting power correlates with wealth, also known as feudalism.

No thx
Seems we've painted ourselves in a corner in several ways.

We figured out how to build dams and then quickly built a ton of them, without the know-how to assess their safety nor decommission them. And since we built dams so quickly, we ran out of new places to dam, so future generations stopped studying dam construction since there was less work to do. Now we have far fewer people than we need to keep what we have safe, and most are about to reach EOL.

This is the downside of geoengineering, or chasing any engineering trend: it's possible to build amazing things, but we always forget that maintenance in perpetuity is much much harder. Not only is it more challenging work to build things that are sustainable, it's also inherently less flashy than building the next new thing. Meanwhile people begin to rely on these projects and take them for granted. The end result is a ton of risk concentrated on a single point of failure.

Also in the news today is this piece [1] on a deadly flood recently by a dam under construction near the base of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand India. Engineers warned climate change induced glacier melt would cause catastrophic flooding that dams would be unable to withstand, but bureaucrats chose to ignore these warnings.

Basically, don't try to outwit nature.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/world/asia/india-flood-ig...
I agree. I've been holding BTC for a couple of years as I feel that international accessibility coupled with scarcity makes for a great store of value. But DeFi I still fail to wrap my head around.

My main concern being: DeFi could get harsh competition from traditional financial actors by them getting up to date on accessibility. Thus appealing to a new, more decentralized userbase.
Is this something real (in US, most probably)?
I was going to suggest Something Awful but you might win, though Wiki pegs it (heh) at 1999...
Just wanted to report in that I went ahead and signed up for a demo of Fastmail's Standard Plan and spent some time this evening routing to "me(at)(mydomain)(dot)com", it absolutely supports the "send as" functionality that you're talking about. Yearly plan runs 50 bucks a year. Very easy to setup, big fan.
I'm curious, what makes the mobile app easier to monetize than their mobile web version? I get that push notifications can help bring people back, but other than that what benefit do they get by forcing people from web to native?
Pretty sure all conversations are public, so you can just scrape for free.
Love it, but i still prefer old traditional method.

https://geekever.com/google-sheets-budget-templates-for-ever...
I have no data but i imagine 95%+ of the reddit user base provide no engagement (lurking only) or want to stay anonymous.

That must heavily influence the quality and worth of any data Zuck would want to suck out of Reddit.
Let's not blame the knife company for the actions of a couple murderers.

To put it in a different way: "Teamviewer: so reliable and easy to use than even your grandparents can install it."
I think the problem is that, a lot of time when we deal with strings, we are thinking about ASCII strings instead of other encoding like UTF-8. If we treat them as ASCII strings, an array of characters would make sense, but it is not that simple for other encoding.

One of the languages that considered the issue is Rust. In rust, we don't really index into strings, but use iterators or other methods to do the operations required. https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html
> I can't quickly find the appropriate data, but would imagine it's worth looking at the pre-Covid19 risk of dying in pregnancy vs dying as a result of Covid19 for an otherwise healthy woman in her 30s.

1. Dying in pregnancy WITH COVID19 because you can't breath seems like a higher-risk situation.

2. Reducing oxygen levels is likely bad for the baby.

> Joking aside, are we really seeing a data-driven approach to dealing with Covid19?

We can't afford a data-driven approach. It takes months to answer questions with a study. We still don't technically know if vaccines prevent the spread of COVID19 for instance (even though its widely assumed).

I don't see any evidence that contradicts the assumed vaccine protection (vaccines protect us from other diseases). So why not assume until data proves otherwise?
There is no reason to presume they did their own validation correctly absent proof of same.
Ohhhhkay?

Nobody was suggesting that it does. The person you're replying to specifically said the opposite.
It would be funny if the reflection in the sunglasses only count as 1,
> “We can stay retarded longer than you can stay solvent.” ... has vast complexity?

It’s good, and better if you’re baked out of your gourd. But a tad melodramatic.
> It is either a novel mutation or something that is selected for.

You know that homosexuality it's very know to happen on many animal species ? It's not a "novel mutation"
My memory is fuzzy now but this dates back to when there were only two datacenter regions and one of them held all the primary DBs (2011 or so). All write endpoints were served in that region, so if a user routed to the secondary region did a write the request was proxied to the primary region. After doing a write a cookie was set for the user in question which caused any future reads to be proxied to the primary region for a few seconds while the DB replication stream (upon which cache invalidation was piggybacked) caught up, because if they went to the secondary region memcached was now stale.

It hasn’t been this way since around 2013 but again I am fuzzy on how. I think that’s when most such data was switched to TAO, which has local read what you wrote consistency. As long as users landed in the same cluster (and thus TAO cluster) what they wrote was visible to them, even if the DB write hadn’t yet replicated to their region.

FlightTracker postdates my time at FB (ended 2018ish) so I’m not sure how that is used. These systems evolved a lot over time as requirements changed.

I don’t remember anything about writes being batched in memcached and merged in on page load.
I might be misunderstanding a valid criticism, but your complaint is about the parent comment's using "are" rather than "is"?

That's simply the plural version: if one person is asexual, multiple people are asexual.
I was not suggesting it was, I was talking about expression of sexuality, both in the construct of the self and in society, that was a different part of my questioning. To be precise, it’s non-applicability in the case of asexual people, but I simplified to make my point to say it is extremely diverse and complicated and these studies are really not helping (I believe) by using a very large hammer to nail a multi-dimensional non-euclidian nail.
Appreciate the correction on the grammar though and I knew that resource already but it’s always helpful to reread :-)
Attacker and terrorist convey the same thing as hacker, that it was not negligence but a very motivated enemy. Vandal works better.
Agree after that period where you stopped needing to manually install drivers and configure things I'm sure tech literacy dropped off - there is no reason to know how your technology works these days (to survive) unless you like tinkering. I am sure it is the same in other technological areas too - I grew up fixing the family cars and now it seems every minor problem goes to the garage. I think black boxes are just the norm now - I'm guessing there are large portions, both young and old, of the population who don't use the internet outside of a smartphone or tablet which they use until it breaks or slows down and replace with another magical app machine. No understanding of tech required.

I've only noticed the use of WiFi to mean Internet pretty recently. Its thoroughly confusing when you are trying to trouble shoot WiFi problems for someone and you realise their WiFi is working fine - their ISP just has an outage. I'd say this is a modern problem but I remember people calling the computer tower the CPU for as long as I can remember.
Ignoring a societal problem and mandating that the press boycott reporting on it sounds like a very ineffective strategy for actually improving the situation.
The effect looks like lensing
Evolutionary psychology is always such a stretch, but I had never considered that possibility before. If there are a lot of extra males, if all were heterosexual there could be destructive competition over female mates. So asexual/homosexual/etc may become selected for if a disproportionate number of males were in a community (still community resources as you say but not destructively competing for mates).
> Just take a step back and think about what you're saying: that a bitcoin transaction would cost £3.40 in the UK

I hope I'm not misinterpreting your point, but bitcoin transactions cost even more than that.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f...

Users have to bid for space on the blockchain to store transactions. Early on the space was cheap and miners got their profits from the # of bitcoins they mined. As that dries up the incentive to mine shifts toward transaction fees.

The electricity costs right now are unclear to users because of indirection. Mining dilutes the value of bitcoins each user holds but they do not see a loss in their wallet. I wonder if once confronted with even greater transaction fees over time whether users will be willing to continue to pay up to use it. One has to cross their fingers that the demand stays high enough to sustain enough mining to prevent the from being taken over with 51% attack.
> The world was brought to the brink of war when the Soviets, in retaliation for US missiles in Turkey, placed nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Odd how the world was not brought to the brink of war when the US placed missiles in Turkey. Only when the Soviets responded in kind.
Probably. Will it make more? Probably. It is not even clear to me that Reddit's value to an investor is entirely in virtue of simply how much money it can make.
"To win the competition, teams must demonstrate a rigorous, validated scale model of their carbon removal solution, and further must demonstrate to a team of judges the ability of their solution to economically scale to gigaton levels. The objective of this XPRIZE is to inspire and help scale efficient solutions to collectively achieve the 10 gigaton per year carbon removal target by 2050, to help fight climate change and restore the Earth’s carbon balance.

Teams can submit entries across natural, engineer and hybrid solutions. Judges in the competition will evaluate the teams based upon four basic criteria:

- A working carbon removal prototype that can be rigorously validated and capable of removing at least 1 ton per day.

- The team’s ability to demonstrate to the judges that their solution can economically scale to the gigaton level.

- The main metric for this competition is fully considered cost per ton, inclusive of whatever considerations are necessary for environmental benefit, permanence, any value-added products; and

- The final criteria is the length of time that the removed carbon is locked up for. A minimum goal of 100 years is desired. "

Just providing the criteria for those interested. This is from the Xprize website.
https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk
Can you give any causative evidence to this rather than correlational evidence?
recommendations work well, but that's practically the only method.
The logic of federal wealth tax is that you can't really move away from them - you're taxed on exit, not to mention access to USA.

Washington state wealth tax can be modeled similarly.

The point of wealth tax is not even to get to equality - even if cutoff is on 1 billion, this level is still very different from the average. The point is that most - all? - billionaires grow their wealth faster than 1%, so wealth tax is just another tax - which still allow billionaires get richer.
I dont think tesla stock is fairly valued . the same way i believe it was undervalued from 2016 - 2019 what happened in my understanding was that long shorts were tired of paying interest for a stock which just wont move down bellow a support so they decided to close the positions and as they did it hit the stop loss of other shorts cascading .into a short squeeze ... but now after the s&p 500 you cant short it cause there isnt much float available with every single fund forced to buy it ........ that is the story of the stock , but i do take offence to the word "ponzi scheme" the cars are real , the solar roof is real , the exponential growth is real ... you are free to draw the line where you want but "ponzi scheme" is a very legal thing and you better have proof.
Those people are going to be bigots regardless, towards all the other things that are behavioral, such as most mental illness, addictions, sports accidents, drug convictions, political persuasion, religion, etc. So many ways to be judgmental of people's behaviors.
Here's a previous post on HN with lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18805624
For practical purposes its not in the interest of justice to punish people before we have found them guilty as a matter of law and justice. If it really requires 8 years of work to prove whether the tools they are using work or not then they haven't independently validated their work in the first place ergo we have no reason to suppose it works.

We should either pay for multiple people to work on it so we can have the answer in less than 8 years or we shouldn't use it at all.
I don't have an opinion on Chea Boudin, but I have yet to see an detailed article that compares SF and other major cities crime rate in the past year .
Crime is up nationally.

Maybe there is one but generally its like here this crime, must be Boudin's fault, without real analysis.