skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a large company, this sort of thing is perfectly normal. There are plenty of buildings in Google where random Googlers working on Ads can't enter.

Unless your work interfaces with what happens in those silos, you generally don't have any idea about what's going on in the Android Hardware Testing building, or the garage out of which Project Loon ran before it was shut down.

It's a lot stranger in a small start-up.
That, or getting perfect feedback on how people reacted to ads?
My kids were never happier when being schooled remotely. Me on the other hand...
Immigration improves job prospects because immigrants are customers. If you're making supply and demand arguments you need to consider both supply and demand not just supply.

And in the 70s I think the poor population (esp. the black one) was much poorer and possibly not employed at all.
almost 40 years too late :) These ones have been selling Moon and Mars real estate for all that time https://buymars.com/mars-land/ . I'd say it is original NFT.

The current legal regime of the space is based on the notion of Earth sovereign states - kind of oxymoronic if you think about it. Basically the modern space treaties is an attempt to repeat that division of the world like Portugal and Spain did back then - which worked for some time only because of the strength of their Navies at the time. I dont think it would work this time as even at such early stage as today the private corporation space development beats any state one, and once we are more and more into space the governments will be falling behind in the technical development and more importantly - in the thinking, not being able to digest and adapt to the fast coming paradigm shifts and different mentality of the space farers and long time dwellers. The primary government advantage has historically been armed force, and any space faring private corporation will possess what is de-facto equivalent of state-level strike capabilities - ie. interplanetary rockets and nuclear/fusion reactors. Thus the future laws in space is just whatever force-based relationships will be established between corporations - i.e. what we call international law on Earth just substituting corps for states.
Well let's say there was one extra suicide caused by lockdowns. And we know that something like 2/3 of Covid "deaths" are occurring in nursing homes among very elderly who, statistically, might live a year or so longer had they not got Covid.

If we're comparing years of life, isn't one 16 year old worth 60-70 85 year olds in nursing homes? Maybe more because one year in the life of an 84 year old who's already experienced a full life is worth a lot less than a 16 year old going on 17. Societally wise, it's much worse to sacrifice a young person for an 80 year old who's essentially a burden on the rest.

This comparison of the value of a life is morbid, but we've been making decisions like this anyway, even if the media has refused to speak of it openly.

And of course this assumes that all these lockdowns, school closings, etc. made any difference. Again, we can debate that and both sides have data to make their case.

So yeah, maybe one or two suicides and the massive increase of unknown mental health issues weren't a good tradeoff for the unknown number of mostly elderly whose lives were extended a year or two.
Not necessarily. OP wrote a blog about their research paper. That is by definition a nov or rare topic.

If people use any kind of horse sense when choosing blogging topics they will either choose something:

1. Unique, or

2. Where what they have to contribute beats what already exists

To be sure, anything poorly done is clutter. But this applies to the work product itself too. If someone writes garbage, superfluous blog posts, why would you expect good research from them?

Despite the massive amount of information that exists the world certainly does not have enough good, specific information yet.
Spring and GraalVM and Kotlin = Interesting Results
When I read that I was also fairly skeptical... or perhaps it’s my BASH script reading and writing skills which are sub-par (which they most definitely are, but in most other programming languages I can at least appreciate the craft of a master coder when I come across it... but I’ve never ever seen any such wonderful source of amazement in BASH).
Probably, on top of injections of cash from his Wallstreet cronies. I don't think it will prove to be sustainable
I don't think it's correct and I don't think its correctness is objectively decidable.

It's one thing when companies have unforeseen flaws that end up causing injury or death. No one is perfect and, while they should pay reasonable restitution in line with the level of their mistake, it seems fine overall.

Other the other hand, knowingly producing a product that you are reasonably sure will unexpectedly[1] kill or hurt sometime should have severe penalties. Those penalties should be imposed not through individual lawsuits (which are a poor tool for assuring the rights of whole classes of people - class action lawsuits not withstanding), but through prevailing regulatory action. To be honest I don't think it would be going too far to, as a standard action, nationalize a company in that situation.

We really, really do not want a situation where companies are choosing to kill their customers because they think they will come out ahead in the end. Think about it - are we happy that the leadership teams of the tobacco industry, or the oil industry, or the fiberglass industry were kept in place? How much better of a world would we be in if tobacco companies were at existential threat from their behavior? Where they needed to sell cigarettes like the USA sells guns (with the understanding they may kill)? I think we should seriously consider that standard of product safety.

[1] Products like guns, which are intended to injure or destroy, are their own thing imo.
Can you please add details on what hardware you bought and what battery life you have achieved? I want to build something similar.
Rather then some government conspiracy , I think it's easily explained by media pushing fear to get clicks, leading to people supporting unnecessary measures. I still talk to people who are afraid to even do outdoor dining after they have gotten their second dose (plus 2 weeks incubation). People like that vote, post, and message their representatives, leading to where we are now.
> I don't think we've done a poll asking that question.

You don't have to, it is common sense. Would a country be willing to go into social distancing, schools and restaurants closed, etc. in order to save one elderly person somewhere? Of course not. How about two? That is where the debate starts, but that debate is foreign to people (whether public-health academics interested in pushing numbers to zero, or health ministers whose job performance is judged only on looking proactive) whose main concern is avoiding death.

Even in a representative democracy you don't have to expect leaders to trust the experts if those experts go beyond the pale. Among the scientific advisors to governments, a handful have suggested maintaining strict social distancing and masks even after COVID to have a shot at eradicating flu, etc., and from an expert public-health viewpoint they may be perfectly right, but would the public expect their elected officials to heed that advice?
Not necessarily. But at least don't actively perpetuate problems.
Some day there might be an actual reason for sawing the board in half...
It's a false dichotomy. You can work on deep technical problems and provide lots of value.
But the saying is the saying regardless.
we printed billions of dollars to bail out California.

Do you have a (non-opinion piece) citation for this from a reputable source?
match doesn't have fallthrough, so I imagine some C-style switch partisans won't be satisfied.
Do your numbers account for all the indirect consequences? Hospitals overwhelmed means people with some issues refusing to get that exam that would diagnose early cancer / small heart attack / some other underlying condition. Regular checks hugely postponed or cancelled. People with existing mental issues are a story on its own.

From what I recall, I've read some interviews with heads of cancer clinics in Czech republic which is hit pretty hard, and they reported that they don't see many new patients in early stages of cancer anymore, people who come to them are mostly late stage which manifests hard, and they often go straight to palliative care. Is this some peer-reviewed study published in Nature with nice numbers and graphs? Of course not, we'll get to those numbers maybe 10 years after covid is under control, maybe. But its real people dying out there, mostly quietly without much media attention.

Pregnancy is a serious situation with covid, it can lead to many complications, abortion, and in case of serious complications for the mother, doctors at least here in Switzerland either perform abortion / force early delivery depending on age, since mother can't manage to breath on support enough for both of them (my wife is pregnant right now and senior doctor and we both got covid some 2 months ago, so this is something we checked on pretty intensively... luckily so far so good).

There is no win, we all take a heavy mental toll in confinement / job uncertainty or loss. But the risks are real on the other side too and its not so clearly cut for everyone. I don't have a clear answer on this myself.

EDIT: related to original topic - we caught covid from our little son going to kindergarden. In semi/hard lockdown, small kids going to schools is by probably the strongest infection vector. They can't keep the discipline as well as adults can. Heck, most adults can't keep up the discipline 1+ year consistently.
GPT Neo: open-source GPT model, with pretrained 1.3B & 2.7B weight models
The rates seem to be indeed quite similar, but what are your sources for these numbers?
A simple Google search [0, 1] yields

California: 57.501 deaths, 3.641.664 cases (= 1.58%)

[0] https://g.co/kgs/kooiXn

Florida: 32.712 deaths, 2.004.354 cases (= 1.63%)

[1] https://g.co/kgs/Mrh3NR

Total number of cases to total state population is just shy of 10% in both cases.
Excellent video. Always happy to revisit the olden days with thier olden days.
No, it should not. If an employer has an issue with the way an employee conducts themselves during working hours they can discuss it with the employee and take disciplinary action if needed. That discipline can include reduction in wages, withholding wage increases or bonuses or firing. Plenty of options for an employer to deal with the situation.

If an employer denies legal wages they are thieves and should be held accountable by law enforcement for theft, just like any mugger or burglar would.
I've posted this before regarding the SA paper on AZ, worth taking a look at the below.

The probable outcome is minor to moderate symptoms that would normally be blocked by antibodies can still present (So no reduced transmission) but severe symptoms are still prevented by the vaccinated patients T-cells response.

This paper is looking at a small scale human study in SA with mostly younger participants, which does make the results difficult to apply to the wider population.
They also only use a 4 week dosing schedule where the suggestion and actual rollout in the UK is following the 10-12 week schedule between first and second doses which was shown to increase efficacy from ~70 to ~80% after the second dose (UK - Kent variant)

The variant in question seems to escape the majority of Antibody detection, but T-Cells still seem to provide significant protection against severe disease and death.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.11.435000v1

The main published results aren't yet from human scale studies but here is one in hamsters showing a comparison in organ damage and results between unvaccinated and vaccinated with the Oxford/AZ vaccine.
I was more wondering about the display brightness value given. Is the display on during standby time measurements?
> In the meantime the whole medical start up where they suddenly can test, for cheaper, better, etc seems to regularly come up short on the actual testing, results, or even just valid use cases.

That's because medical testing is hard, more testing doesn't always lead to better treatment, and the people who have devised existing testing processes weren't so stupid that a 20-year old with no background in medicine can just come in and upend the entire system on their first try.

You end up trying to build a startup to solve a decades-old-problem that already has reasonably-good-solutions, in a field where R&D takes decades, costs hundreds of millions of dollars, and where you will have to figure out an in into an established old-boys-network in order to actually sell your product, if you get it built. All in an industry that's both cost sensitive, and highly cost-insensitive at the same time.

If you actually think <some modern medical procedure> is overpriced, and wasteful, it would probably be good for you to work a few years on optimizing an existing lab's processes, before you jump straight from college into trying to optimize a novel process that hasn't even been invented yet.
Link sources.

Prediction: you are quoting the meaningless CFR number rather than reliable estimates of IFR.
Finlo: 22K+ upvotes across Reddit. Investment tools built for us, not Wall St.
Enter software optimizing routes chaining together restaurant stops for that extra competitive edge.

At the end of the day, you've got to accept that just because you can write software to do $thing, doesn't mean you should. If you're going that far into the tails to innovate, there's probably something more fundamental you've missed.
I'm suprised people were so opposed to it, that kind of system is standard in all UK Universities I've taught in.
In vitro literally means “In glass” (like in a test tube). In vivo means “in life” (like IRL)
Can you elaborate a bit on the 'insight' and 'idea' artifacts? What do those look like? Are they tied in any way to metrics for validation (and perhaps invalidation if something changes at some future time)?
There's a rule against making unsubstantive, inflammatory comments, especially on divisive topics.

The problem with what you're saying here is that everyone overestimates the "innocence" of their own comments by (say) 100x and overestimates the guilt/provocation of others' comments by a similar factor. That leads to a 10000x distortion, which leads to a worldview in which everyone else is getting away with outrageous shit while the rule-enforcers are picking on you completely unfairly. This is a standard bias—I assure you that the other side feels exactly the same way. If we stay in that perspective, the entire forum will turn into flamewar and burn to a crisp. That's not an outcome which serves anybody.

The only way out of this is to recognize the bias and work to overcome it in oneself. I think if you re-read your posts in that spirit, it's pretty easy to see how they weren't as coherent and innocent as you say—from my perspective they were very similar to the other unsubstantive/inflammatory/flamewar comments and all that is happening here is routine moderation.

Let's take your above post as an example. No doubt you have very coherent, cogent thoughts about this topic but what did your post actually say? First it repeated what the other person said, then it went straight to snark ("I understand that we need to rudely dismiss everyone who left NorCal") and then to personal attack ("maybe let's try to maintain some semblance of connection to reality?"). If you've read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, it should be easy to see that this is not the sort of comment that we want on HN. I'm sure that if a third party had posted that, this would be obvious to you, especially if it were about some unrelated topic that you don't feel so strongly about.

It's common for people to assume that their comment expresses their thoughts—their solid, substantive ideas on an issue—when in reality their comment has done nothing the sort. This is an easy mistake to make because to each of us, our own thoughts are transparently present, and we can just assume them. However, nobody else (with the possible exception of any gifted mind-readers among us) has any clue what those thoughts are unless you express them explicitly, and it doesn't matter how insightful or clever or right you are if your comment consists of snark and attack. To be a good HN contributor, you should therefore (1) express your solid thoughts explicitly, and (2) drop any snark and attack.

As for Antisemitism, you've made a pretty dangerous and damaging claim here, which is neither true nor fair, nor does it serve the cause you're supporting. I'm not going to take it personally, but in my view you should try to be more careful about throwing such grave charges. When you do it casually or unjustly (and you did both here), you cheapen them—and you can also really hurt people.
> Spending in general is not a universal or meaningful metric to measure quality of education

Right. Are you agreeing with me? Is this not my entire point?

> Huge sums spent on school security/meals/transportation

Any numbers on what fraction of school budgets these typically are?
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They had already instituted a heavy lockdown by April.
Oh that's clever, looks like the UK government's Nudge Committee has been busy, again!

Until we actually understand what's being done to us, we're all just blowing in the wind.
Unfortunately pesky reality got in the way.
Frequently of occurance doesn't inherently mean severity of outcome.

In my top 100 threats facing the world and free society pornography doesn't make the list.
Does anyone have a mirror? The link is down.

Nothing against the OP, but I don't know how in 2021, websites can't handle a few dozen visitors at once. Even a $5 digital ocean machine can handle thousands simultaneously without going down.
> as a part of a swift and hopefully short response.

Unfortunately that doesn’t work because once you decide to close them, you also need to decide to bite the bullet and open them again.

And if it turns out it doesn’t work (or ‘doesn’t work enough’) and cases remain high, that’s a tough decision.
TLDR: AMD is becoming a bigger customer to TSMC because others are rightly hedging their bets with manufacturing at Samsung.
I think the strikers would get hungry before Goldman ran out of enthusiastic hires. Do you think they'd want to give up their twenties holding signs on 200 West Street?
I feel like naming your child Sunshine is just setting them up for some kind of delusional life choices like fraud.
Probably a good thing when you look at the prior art. Imagine a Juicero style ventilator that only accepts DRM'd oxygen tanks on a monthly sub and barely works better than a foot pump for an air bed. Or another medical device sold to an advertising heavyweight, like Fitbit.
How would this work under Public Law?
Major GUI frameworks agree with you and have already adopted this approach and it is already used by many applications, and this has already been the case for years.
I don't believe Bill Gates had anything to do with the virus, he was just naively trying to do good for the world and manages to get himself in trouble because of it.
I don’t think pihole blocks YouTube ads because they originate from their own server
I think you're missing the point of bragging rights in the first place.

It's entirely about the audience. Without even talking about NFTs in particular, you don't brag about something to people who don't care about that something.

I mean shit we have this page here that wouldn't exist if people didn't care, right?

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

There clearly is an audience that cares about NFTs, just like there is for plenty of other types of goods/accomplishments/ownership...

Don't get me wrong I'm not advocating for, or against, this stuff, just pointing out that there's nothing new about the motivations or desires of people getting into the NFT game.
California and Texas have been doing poorly compared to Florida

That is simply not true. California has had fewer cases per capita, fewer deaths per capital, and more tests per capita.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
> More fundamentally, though, for both music and books, most of the arguments and questions are music industry questions and book industry questions, not tech or software questions

I agree with this so much, but in practice people actually don't realize this enough.

When I work with business teams, they have a hard time distinguishing business rules from tech problems. So they'll say something like... Oh the payouts aren't deposited in time, we need to detect in advance that a payout is required and start the deposit process earlier. And then they'll say, that's a tech problem for the tech team to solve.

Except not really, yes it takes a software engineer to program a computer to enact these rules and this process, if you've chosen to have the process managed by a computer. That said, all the difficulties are in defining the business rules. When exactly should you start the depositing process? Based on what will you define when it has to start, what if it's started and the customer removes their bank details, or what if etc. This all becomes hard business problems for the business to solve.

So what happens in practice is, business domain experts overtime start to abstract more and more things to the computer, leaving the software to actually answer for these business problems and define the rules for them. In turn it is often to the developer to figure out the solution to the business problem and a strategy to solve it, and then implement it in the computer. Those things often end up happening together.

That's why I think in effect software companies slowly move to owning the business itself. And this is a part of software is eating the world.

As computers take over control, enforcement and execution of more and more business processes, the management and administration authority is slowly reversed, software becomes at the root, and software engineers at the helm. It becomes increasingly difficult for business people without that software background to realize that most things are not a software problem, but a business problem which they could be focusing on themselves, but are delegating more and more over to software companies and software engineers.

It's pretty common to ask a business domain expert about how should this be handled, and for them to ask back, well how does the computer currently handles it?
But it won't.

This is the key conceptual leap you have to make to understand NFTs, or cryptocurrency for that matter.

The blockchain is a consensus mechanism, with the emphasis on consensus.

A lot of people agreeing on something having value means that it has value to those people. They can then exchange that thing among themselves and thus transfer the value.

One person saying something has value means it has value to them. If no one else accepts it has value, it can't be used to transfer value.
Enterprise Rent-a-car used to have commercials all the time about how they're one of the largest employers of college grads. Why on earth does someone at a counter handing out car rentals even need a college degree?
> An undercover cop who pushes and prods and begs you to get them some pot until you give in is entrapment

Only if they are actually coercing you (e.g. by physically threatening you). Asking really nicely or being annoying doesn't count.