skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
is the infection severity angle due to testosterone's immunosuppressive effects as a steroid? are women less likely to develop severe covid-19 than men?

I'm hoping I've gotten some extra protection by ditching testosterone for estrogen, but there's almost no data on infections in trans people on HRT.
Yes, some call this "Code is Law" - it is blind to race, social status or how much money you have.
Want to become a DIY master.. without spending thousands on tools?
I'm one of the people who totally missed the 25M coin patch when getting into the cheapETH community. After we got banned from their discord for discussing this, I wrote this short explainer about the situation last night: https://www.deveth.org/background.html
It only works if you didn't give them your name and address. At least in Europe some debt collection agencies will track you down and charge an enormous fee, and will leave you with a bad credit score.
The right don't have agenda-pushing affect their world view?

Huh?

There was recently an attempted insurrection based on fake news, you know.

I must say though that Fox News has gotten downright rational (on all things) since then. Politically biased, sure, but they're actually news lately.
I had a 20 minute conversation with what obviously was a bot (taking a painfully long amount of time for answers) to cancel an online subscription
>> Just because you (and I) don't like Facebook and Google doesn't mean they're wrong (in this particular case).

Have you ever considered that your dislike of this law stems from your dislike of News Corp?

If you hold the belief that our government is a puppet for News Corp, I could say to you: "Just because you and I don't like News Corp, doesn't mean they're wrong in this instance"
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This ain't LessWrong, I'm allowed to complain about a single child abduction as a stain on humanity. But yes, I appreciate your math.
Yes, many games, TV-series as well as films ('the Dig') seem to pop up signaling a renewed interest in this period. As a Scandinavian it is with mixed pride and horror that the savage war-loving nature of our past is uncovered, which at the same time contributed to the early formation of many of the most influential kingdoms in history after the fall of the Roman Empire. Such as England (the Anglo-Saxons, and later the Vikings), Russia (the Rus), and Spain (the Visigoths). Not to mention the mark that the Normans made in early Europe.

This influence is a tribute to the power of war and plunder and the renewed interest in the time period is probably in part related to the current zeitgeist in which chauvinism and the rattling of swords is once more on the agenda. Given the immense firepower at our disposal currently we should perhaps better try and counter with stories about the benefits of peace, too.
Just like a car load of hard disks driven 2000 miles has greater bandwidth than transmitting that same data over the internet, I wonder if you could arbitrage Texas electric costs by driving a semi-truck full of Tesla Powerwall batteries from Florida.
Ditto. I subscribed to the NYT when I appreciated their coverage, and unsubscribed...when I felt like it, around 2020.

I had heard horror stories about needing to call customer service, but they must have heard those complaints, because now their unsubscribe process is a simple form.

I'm sure they mean well, and hopefully their journalism department also has an ear to the ground. It'd be nice if they returned to centrist investigative journalism soon.
I closed a bank account in the UK in about 2001. I emptied it at an atm then walked into the bank to close it.

The cashier gave me all the cash I’d already taken from the account.
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After six years at a FAANG I just got blindsided by a choose between performance improvement plan or severance meeting.

I'm on an H1B and my legal status in this country is tied to my employer. What are my best options at the moment?
I'm not an apologist by any means - I absolutely hate Tether, and cryptocurrencies - though for perspective, the most optimistic take is that if you exclude exchanges that are known for reporting fake volume, the breakdown is roughly 59% USD and 41% Tether. [1]

It will likely take the whole space down with it, not just Bitcoin, because what'll happen is on all USDT exchanges and insolvent USD exchanges, the price of crypto will reach millions of Tethers per coin as people try and flee, then on all real-dollar exchanges, the price will collapse to pennies as everyone tries to sell their crypto for actual people money that you can use to buy goods and services in the real world.

Think MtGOX on steroids.

[1] https://www.bitcointradevolume.com/
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I wouldn't be surprised if this was coerced by the marketing department, trying to imbue that "ooh, look at me, I'm a bit crazy, so creative" vibe for a bloody shopping list.
Since you mention Linux, you might be interested in paid internships in open source:

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/Resources#internsh...
Same in Sweden, though probably for kids starting from around age 8.
Whenever I looked into buying an actual news paper subscription the fact that the was no price transparency made me conclude I couldn't do business with them.

I'm a supporter of the guardian, but actually buying NYT or some other high quality journalism I've given up on.

If I feel like I'm getting scammed when I'm buying the product, then I don't want to buy it!

Low introduction price without telling me what the real price is IMO criminal fraud. I might put up with it from an essential service provider because I have no choice, but not from a newspaper vendor.
True, the US sales tax thing is a great case-study on how it doesn't work. Taxing revenue probably also doesn't work due to large differences in margin. If you tax 1% on the revenue of a 1.5% margin kind of business it sounds rather unfair, charging a 1% revenue tax on a business with 90% margin sounds low.

So indeed there is no clear simple implementation strategy for this yet.
They make billions showing someone else content but will not consider paying anything for it. Something is very broken...
Online-Trading Platform Will Let Investors Bet on Yes-or-No Questions
> Who thought the Anglo-Saxons they were?

This doesn’t sound correct to me as a native speaker.
The plants on Oahu, where most of the population lives, burn heavy fuel oil and trash.

The other islands burn diesel, from the refinery on Oahu.

The ships also burned heavy fuel oil until this year.
What, no! Fuck this! I only have my job today because I had the Internet. People in poor nations will be ruined.
Spot on. By the way, one can purchase multiple units (brand new) for 1.2M€ per car, and that’s before negotiating. 2.5 is really expensive. And I am talking European price, not Indian or Chinese.
How does this happen in the richest country in the world which basically has monopoly on global monetary policy and prints $$ with impunity?
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That's a rotating joint, but doesn't include gears (though it is really cool!). Conversely these gears are not on fully rotating joints, but on pivoting joints.
>"Or limit cars so that you can only have one for every 3 families and then nobody can move around anymore. Problem solved."

Break out of the car-centric mindset and the better solution becomes "arrange city and traffic planning so that the majority of people don't need multiple cars or even any cars at all."
Are you sure about that? I see there's an article from a couple years ago talking about quad-core A53 CPUs with FPGAs. That's most likely used for the satellite avionics, rather than for the starlink radios. While it's possible the avionics and the radios are tightly coupled, I would be surprised if they were. They're probably mostly separate for fault tolerance reasons.

I suspect FPGAs wouldn't be fast enough to do the RF magic. I figure they likely partnered with a company like Qualcomm to develop some custom silicon, or adapted some existing cell tower silicon, since those chipsets are largely "software defined" these days anyway.
Never short anything cryptocurrency related.

There is simply too much counter-party risk. If the wheels fall off the Tether bus, they're going to take Kraken down with it, and you just won't get paid. Plus you're going to have to post collateral for your short position, which simply opens you up to even more loss potential.

tr0lly seems to think the market is pricing in a 50% chance of a total systemic collapse on a 1 year time horizon by working backwards from the 2% per month contango on CME futures [1].

[1] http://www.tr0lly.com/bitcoin/bitcoins-overnight-collapse-pr...
I don't know where that website is getting its info but it is way off from reality.

The cheapest possible PG&E (Silicon Valley) rate is off-peak (after midnight) winter rate. Looking at my January bill here right in front of me, that rate is $0.16675 for transmission + $0.05525 for generation. So that's 22.2c/kWh. That's the cheapest it ever gets.

The most expensive tier is peak (afternoon to midnight) in the summer, 62c/kWh.
Have you ever thought that the 'News' actually meant something?

Like, what you see on television or gets printed in a newspaper needs to go through an editorial cycle, fact checked etc?

The legislation is effectively giving actual journalists the ability to continue creating what we've historically considered news and protecting that form of occupation.

There's a lot of misinformation going on on the web and things can spread like wildfire.

No-one seems to care about this fact and instead focus on the wrong bits of this legislation.
I noticed some heated conversations about pharmacies losing money in the comments section on the story page itself and thought the same thing.

They can't get away with directly price gouging the consumer, so they transfer the price gouge to different parts of the supply chain so the pharmacy can eventually complain they're losing money. If anyone was actually losing money at the end of the day they wouldn't be involved.
Walmart is the App Store, Apple is the town, and Epic is the fertilizer company wanting to open a farming supplies store of their own because all the farmers already know them from farming fairs and word of mouth so they don't really need the exposure from being on display in Walmart.
addendum: I was on the fence about this project before and was willing to give the founders the benefit of the doubt, but after posting the above comment I was banned from the cheapETH discord and given the following explanation: https://i.imgur.com/Sor6TLi.png

The concept is a good idea in theory but the founders here are clearly completely incompetent. Steer well clear imo.
I'm in washington and it showed up for me too.
ICBM telemetry, spy stratosphere drones, emmm... russian sumbarines!
Again, you cannot make this argument in a world where cars are legal.
Hence the 2% per month contango on a cash-settled futures contract which is practically unheard of.

In theory you should be able to arbitrage by purchasing a bitcoin and shorting the futures contract to collect that sweet 2% per month. However in a wheels-fall-off situation, the price at USDT-only and insolvent USD exchanges could approach infinity, and since your real-world broker won't take your BTC as collateral, they'll simply liquidate you.

Appears arbitrageurs are willing to leave 2% per month on the table to avoid being strung up in the event the wheels fall off.
> lots of educational tidbits

If you think that it is useful in this way you may be interested what was excluded. See https://acoup.blog/2020/11/20/miscellanea-my-thoughts-on-ass...

> To say that the game sanitizes this history is a profound understatement.

(...)

> In short, your raiding doesn’t so much as inconvenience the civilian population.

(...)

> You are a viking (one thing they do right: viking is a job description, meaning ‘raider,’ not an ethnic identity) who does not kill non-combatants. This is akin to the famous joke about the pirates who don’t steal anything.

> We should be clear about what is happening in England in c. 875 when the game takes place. After almost a century of repeated Norse and Danish viking raids on the English coast (which, to be clear, were not merely raids for physical goods; they were slave raids as trading in slaves (‘thralls’) was an important part of the Scandinavian economy), the arrival of what the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle calls the ‘Great Heathen Army’ (in 865) turned that into a war of conquest. The Norse and Danes overran the English kingdoms (save Wessex) and settled in the area, subjugating the population, taking the best farmland from its former owners and generally wrecking the place in the process. Our sources are very clear that this was not a particularly pleasant process for the existing population and the surviving English kingdom of Wessex responded to it with a series of reforms that radically militarized the kingdom.
Do you guys really not understand the concept of humorous hyperbole. At first I thought you were the same commenter who posted above but apparently there are two of you!
Gas is basically an auction. Banning out-of-state bidders decreases the price in-state bidders have to pay.
Sadly enough, I found that the best way to cancel my NYT subscription was actually to cancel my payment card on which the payment was made...
yes, if you look globally. Just usa ? Not sure.

But i think that they would have to become ISP and comply with local law with most jurisdictions if they want to have local ground stations. Not sure how that will go.
This website is an example of web designers who hate mobile browser. Their GDPR pop-up takes up the entire screen and then some.
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Several of these are not just common to all shells, but even work in other tools, like emacs,

E.g. ctrl-l and ctrl-r
Which other paid news publications do you prefer over the NYT?
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One of the pool owners here. We're forking cheapETH: https://www.deveth.org/background.html
Author here. Code is in super-beta mode. Also, requesting for feedback on design, and code review/issues too.

Idea: You generate a vault, you induct someone else into it, with their public key. Then you can send them a vault file and it can be passed around, or via a Git repo. No cloud services required.
>>The legislation is effectively giving actual journalists the ability to continue creating what we've historically considered news and protecting that form of occupation.

Would you mind explaining how exactly does it do that? Maybe I am focusing on the wrong thing, but I haven't seen the side you've mentioned at all.
Curious to see how this plays out in a country like mine (India) where the government loves [1] to shut off Internet access on the flimsiest of excuses. Everything from entire states (like Kashmir), to few localities (farmer protests around Delhi) have had their mobile Internet access switched off because the government likes to curtail communication when it suits them.

[1] https://www.indiatoday.in/diu/story/more-than-400-internet-l...
The dollar doesn't claim to be convertible, whereas Tether does claim to be convertible and therefore needs backing.
The problem is that this is a lack of respect.

They are actively trying to scam me.
Why would I want to be a "customer"?
Elon in particular can manipulate Bitcoin price so out of them all he's actually one of the most rational. As for the rest, I would not necessarily consider institutional investors an infallible authority, they are prone to groupthink and have a pressure to diversify. Overall, we've been riding a long bull wave juiced up by the spineless Fed, and as the saying goes, everyone is a genius in the bull market.
Bash licensing (GPL)
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How does it work with geo-blocking? Especially in areas where the internet is restricted, or even shut off, by the government.
> increasingly uses CGN technologies (90% for mobile internet and 50% for fixed line)

https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/are-you-sharing-...
In my country there is a cancel subscription button. I canceled and renewe twice already. I’m in Philippines.
How I cancelled the New York Times:

> To: help@nytimes.com

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That's it.
I think the airline industry is sort of uniquely vulnerable vs other travel/experience related industries: in the short term, supply may outstrip demand for some time against a relatively fixed cost base; and in the medium term, there may be limited ability to scale back up rapidly if airlines are unable to re-recruit pilots and crews they had to let go to deal with the short term.
You can serve only so many phones and handle only so much bandwidth from a single cell tower. So they reduce cell sizes and install more towers to keep devices per cell down.
Starlink will follow local regulations when there's money to be made locally, but what's their incentive to comply with places like Myanmar or North Korea, where the regime is going to prohibit Starlink anyway?
It's a private organization with a public mandate. Big difference.
Thanks, I don't see a link to that from the submitted Press release. I don't think it's fair to ask me if I haven't actually looked when I did in fact read the press release.

No, I did not spend extra time to click around, because I simply didn't care that much.

In any case I'm glad this doesn't fall under these shit laws (yet).
Counter-party risk is the issue. The only places you might be able to short for real dollars will require you post up collateral for your short. Then once the wheels fall off they'll declare bankruptcy and keep your collateral.
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Sorry but you're way off. Please take a look at an actual PG&E bill.
Not just at settlement, if one of the index exchanges goes insolvent and the price of BTC goes parabolic, it may push your short position past your brokers assigned personal risk tolerance for your account and they'll liquidate you. You'll be right, but broke.
Recently fell in love with fish. Sadly, subshell functionality is still absent, so I use it in interactive mode only.
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As many cards as you need
When I was in the US I learned to always start conversation with a bot by pressing random numbers until the bot gave up :)

Usually, hitting # like crazy will do that trick.
That just leaves plenty of time for all the sundry industry lobbyists, gladhanders and sleeve-tuggers to capture all the legislators and their advisors, ensuring the status quo is maintained and nothing ever gets fixed.
No supporting evidence was necessary if you were observant at the time.

In 1974 Dr. Thompson came to our university and didn't hold back how he really felt. It would not have been publishable.

Just like the majority of Americans who had fully realized his innate corruption, within a couple years you could not usually find an American, Democrat or Republican who admitted to voting for him and he had actually been re-elected.
So should your employer worry? Was it worth your time? :D
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Market cap of Tether is $33B (that much is "flowing around"). At the same time market cap of Dogecoin is $6.5B, only 5 times less. Everybody knows dogecoin worth nothing, and even it's creators are telling everybody that it's a joke. Whatever.
I don’t think any of the parent commenters were trying to say this phenomena didn’t happen on the right as well. Obviously we’ve seen a huge swell of right wing media trying to coerce the viewer into a certain set of opinions.

If anything that’s all the more reason to be very mindful of the same effect occurring in other media publications.
That and real estate prices. People borrow insane amounts of money right now because they can due to the ridiculously low (in some places negative!) interest rates. Once those go up to reasonable levels (say, 5...10 % annually) suddenly they won't be able to pay for their house anymore and it's 2008 all over again.
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I understand that there were likely recurring problems with him.

But, people opening jira issues on atomic tasks, refactoring todos, found bugs are generally doing good thing. Yes, you can keep it also on papers around or in .txt file, but if you dont keep it somewhere, it gets lost. And people who dont open jira tickets for these, basically never get around remembering these need to be done.

Also, people who split larger tasks into smaller ones that they track are less likely to forget some aspect of tasks.
Real estate. That's essentially an infinite sized sink for surplus capital.
> They don't refuse this, instead they fail to find an auditor that people actually trust that wants to work on a big crypto project. They are very open about this.

Claiming you don’t trust any auditors so you can’t do an audit is certainly one way of refusing an audit.
If the dizzying assortment of shell parameter expansion features (see man zshexpn), isn't enough to convince you, then the cause is lost.
They're in the US as well, both as a bank and as one of the bigger brokerage firms, TD Ameritrade
Don't credit cards usually expire after 4 years?

Otherwise, be European :)
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> Künstler

reminds me of Gunnm / Battle Alita Angel, where the author coined the term panzerkunst as a martial art name.. first time I read about the real life term.

slight anecdote: some people really do have a glow that we can feel but not really explain, something electric and immediate, that will either catch an audience or even stop the air in the room. I don't go to concert often but the few time it happened I was quite shocked. You can put all the best vocal or musical technicians next to them and they would not be able to create that.
This kind of attitude is just as unhealthy as the sociopathic management style it assumes is universal. It’s hard to hire good software engineers. You have more power to leave toxic situations than you might think.
No, they’re shutting down because their parent bank got bought by a bigger bank who likely wants the tech/team for something else.