skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The steady state is exactly 1, which is like balancing a pencil on its point.

At exactly one, it's indeterminate; you could see a subexponential growth or decay. With no exponential terms remaining, lower-order terms that are ordinarily hidden by exponential growth become the dominant observables. (Since epidemic spread is also random, you're much more likely to see the stochastic terms show up in the overall statistics in these cases. You really can be lucky or unlucky with Rt ~= 1, but there's no persistent luck with Rt >> 1.)

This is also important before community spreading sets in, and it is the mechanism by which contact tracing can work. Rather than change the general susceptibility of the population to the disease (changing the effective reproduction number), contact tracing tries to operate at the level of individual cases in ways that cannot be scaled to uncontrolled community spreading (even if Rt is close to 1).

> and the border closures kept mutations from traveling: and influenza is notoriously mutation-prone.

Perhaps, but are influenza mutations an important effect within a single flu season? I know the determination of to-be-dominant strains has a great effect on the composition of each season's flu vaccine, but as far as I am aware we don't see declining flu vaccine efficacy over a season.
Hopefully this will provide a swift kick to the pants to encourage peaceful competition to get out there in space.
Which is why it's basically the only exception. No other non-milks are allowed that. Good
I don't know what to say about this, but it's fucking awesome. Read it.
There's a lot of jobs as a driver where you are categorized as an employee. I work for Lyft so I'm familiar with most of the talking points and I'll reserve my opinion on which ones are bullshit or which ones are not. That being said, that _most_ drivers don't want to be employees is undeniable, and even on polls that unions conduct the outcome is something like half and half.

You can say that they can't decide for themselves because they are being oppressed, etc, etc... and while I agree with the sentiment I don't think "oppression" here is that bad as to force people to vote what gig economy companies want them to vote on an independent poll.
"Why would a company actively hide from their target market?"

Much cheaper to make. Maybe their target market is "people who buy it by accident and throw it away".
It should be blatantly obvious that is is, especially in cases where software is making actionable decisions.

Is the software trained on sexist, ableist, racist, etc content that is illegal or deadly when applied to decisions? To answer that requires having the AI algorithm explain why its decision is as such. If we could see the explanation, we could either consider it or rule it out.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/01/21/137783/algorithm... is one such software that was trained on racist data. Black people get harassed and sentenced more by police than others, and thus have strong bias in criminal data. This AI software was trained with that data, and thus perpetrates the same.

https://becominghuman.ai/amazons-sexist-ai-recruiting-tool-h... Is a hiring AI that Amazon used - turns out when you don't hire many women, and train the AI on the data, it's very good at finding women's names to deselect from hiring. It's the same trend - poisoned prior data leads to future poisoned data at scale.

https://abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/ai-making-captcha-incre... And this is for general internet users, primarily ones who have auditory or visual handicaps. CAPTCHAS are increasingly hostile to disabled peoples. A CAPTCHA might as well state "no cripples". But this is done in the spirit of 'we dont want automated bots here' - and real humans suffer.

Why was WATSON, the IBM AI cancelled? Because it kept recommending "treatments" that would kill its patients. At least it was probably killing people in a non-biased way. https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/26/17619382/ibms-watson-canc...
nbterm [0] was recently released. You can also use Jupyter as a command line interface through Jupyter Console.

[0]: https://blog.jupyter.org/nbterm-jupyter-notebooks-in-the-ter...
The previous secretary of labor (the late Justice Scalia’s son) was an anti-worker ideologue who did everything possible to undermine/block the department’s mission, including helping firms to not provide health benefits, steal workers’ overtime pay, discriminate against women and minorities, avoid occupational safety rules, unlawfully block union organizing, etc.

It is a good thing for the leader of a government department to have ideological goals broadly aligned with the mission of the institution.
> A small child has zero degree of caution.

As a parent of small children I regularly have to repair electronic devices that have been temporarily broken (e.g. different languages set, screens locked out, tablet storage filled by thousands of burst photos of the floor) and a small but growing collection of electronic devices that have been permanently broken (e.g. antennas pulled off of radios, keys pulled off keyboards, ports yanked out) by this lack of caution.

> An older person knows they don't know and worries that ignorance will somehow break the device (permanently or temporarily).

This may be rational learned behavior. If they don't have someone on hand to fix issues then with many interfaces it's surprisingly easy to get yourself stuck in a situation where it's not obvious how to get out.
Ink distinguishes itself from other similar languages by having an ecosystem of libraries and tools, instead of being a single standalone editor.
Great to see the KDE development community being so active. I think it has really been showing in the end product. Over the past 2-3 years KDE has easily become my favorite environment, even over macOS or Windows as of late. For the most part things just work, all the default apps are solid. In particular Dolphin is hands down the best file manager out there. Kudos to the KDE devs.
This is such a wonderfully naive view. Nobody is doing it for fun. They're doing it because they don't have the money nor the time to pay the IRS and an accountant every 3 months.
My plumber can fix my pipes however he wants. He is a sole trader, I will pay him for his service.

If I sign a contract with him to go around other houses and make him fix the pipes the way I see fit, for example, using only black tape and stamp my logo on it, I receive the payments from the customers and pay him, he is my employee. People are not hiring him, they hire me and I employ him to do the job.

It's not even a marketplace, it's just me who finds the customers and the plumbers.
This kind of foundational (ZFC,CT,HTT) stuff is pretty niche in mathematics.
Set theory, though touted as the foundation of math, isn't really used to its full extremes (HOD, etc) by anyone but set theorists. Its more like... A common datatype?
And while CT could also be a foundation, as far as im aware its only practical uses as a tool are found in commutative algebra.

I think the truth is that most math is pretty simple to describe and doesn't require a grand framework to formalize.
> What's wrong with calling the vegan almond milk "almond-based milk alternative" if it's not actual milk?

Because that would be crippling for an advertising perspective. It sounds like something out of a satirical sci-fi dystopian environment. The goal is to encourage people to choose it as an alternative to dairy milk, not to use the most precise label.
> It's the ability to say that two distinct "paths" (lists of edges) give you the same "edge" (single step) that really distinguishes category theory from graph theory. Commutative diagrams are popular in category theory precisely because they graphically display which paths produce equivalent edges.

It's the idea of graph isomorphism that confuses me about this, because I have trouble separating it from recognizing two equivalent paths as a type. The main reason is I don't have depth in the concepts at all, but the secondary one is that di-graphs with attributes seem to provide a covering abstraction for this. I should probably RTFM, (or more accurately, Do-TF-Graduate-Degree) but every time I read an explanation it creates a curiosity I can't leave alone.
> This isn't a reasonable comparison. Your shitty laptop or OS was likely not part of the product

If a client hires me to build a web app, I get to decide how, when and where it is built. That means I get to choose if I use, say, Django or Rails on the backend, and maybe React on the front end. These are certainly part of the product.
The Rust Foundation is really new, it just started in February. That's probably why you've been hearing a lot of news about corporate Rust sponsorships recently, or if not "a lot" then more than you've heard about, say, corporate Python sponsorships.
Can it not just place the apples down without dropping them that hard?
Where does it say anything about creating an account via Google or FB? Or creating an account at all? (Except for on itch.io, which is a suggestion for hosting rather than Ink itself, and also doesn't seem to require Google or FB).
This one seems more promising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhswzqyVuLw

Articulated arm robots are neat but it take a lot to make them efficient.
This is also true, it but does not change the original thesis.
What's bad?
> Uber does not let you choose your clients because they discovered discrimination occurred based on who the client was and where they were being picked up from.

This assumes that the only solution for Uber is to stop drivers from selecting who they pick up and where they pick up from.

Another would be for Uber to allow drivers to make the choice, but subsidize rides from discriminated areas using money from desirable areas.
> Almost never eat out. Home cooked meals that I've prepped / washed. This was single handedly the biggest factor that completely removed "getting sick" from my life.

I highly doubt this is the case. And in any event, how would you know?
Buying a piece of art doesn't give you any part of the copyright in the art. The artist can retain that.
They get 5.3 kg CO2eq for asparagus because they are looking at asparagus air shipped from Peru. Of course that's terrible. Don't buy fruits and vegetables shipped via air.

If you buy locally grown asparagus -- where I live, that means around four weeks every year -- it's fine.

Stuff that gets put on a boat is in-between; no idea if that's viable for asparagus, it never occured to me to buy it out of season.
I meant learning the topology (I called it architecture) from scratch, or minimally from heuristics. What would I discover? Something that we recognize as an IIR filter? Probably not, but if it did, what would it discover that we didn't recognize over years of academic thought but could have from first principles? To me that's the intriguing angle.
Remove carbon from the atmosphere through reforestation
Banks, Enterprise management, ... these are all guarding extremely valuable assets so i considered them security websites (not sure what is more security relevant other than the master email account we all have). They are written in a way that is hard to secure through CSP, disabling javascript, etc.
I didn't care for the first iteration of the Impossible burger either. I thought it tasted just like a Morning Star Farms Grillers Prime, making it nothing special in veggie-burger land.

However, it seems to have improved significantly, to the point that twice now I've thought they accidentally gave me real beef, had a meet-eating friend confirm, and after talking to the waiter and cook and taking a much closer look decided I was wrong.

I love Beyond burgers too, but they are more distinct from real beef as far as my >10yr vegetarian tongue can tell.
> How can you explain people getting covid but not the flu when nothing changed when places started opening up?

Covid starts from a higher baseline level of cases, and it has a higher transmission rate. When societies "open up" (resume social contacts; it's more than just government lockdowns), then we'd expect to see covid cases climb before flu cases. In fact, seeing the opposite would be very surprising.
> Uber does not let you choose your clients because they discovered discrimination occurred based on who the client was and where they were being picked up from.

It was pretty well known that getting a cab from certain (non-white) neighborhoods and just hailing one as a PoC was very hard pre-Uber.

You could always lodge a complain at the centralized taxi authority where some bureaucrats would input it in "the system". But in the end it achieved nothing. Uber kicking out racist drivers probably did more than decades of complains.
...This could be a brilliant technique for collecting funding.
Ah, I see. I don’t know where I got the idea that they were trying to use newer dependencies instead of just compiling newer code themselves. Thanks.
That source is awful, just an opinion piece, largely. "Wearing facemasks has been demonstrated to have substantial adverse physiological and psychological effects. " It's literally the opposite. Pure garbage, that link.

Here's some quality sources:

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118?fbclid=IwAR0j...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666142X2...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.12.20173047v...
No I'm using the second interpretation. It doesn't mean that there was one non covid death on each interval, but that there was one non covid death above the baseline of the expected number of deaths. Or in other words, deaths were always higher than expected, even after accounting for deaths attributed to covid.

The number of unattributed excess deaths is fewer than the number of covid attributed excess deaths, bit it should be zero, because the null hypothesis is that the only things killing people are "the same stuff as last year" and covid.
When you have to put "with real cheese!" on the label, it's not that real cheese.
I refer to mine as pint-sized biological weapons labs. I never thought catching a cold was such a big deal until I caught one that had been mutated first by preschoolers.
5,200,000 kg of quartz (silicon dioxide, a.k.a. rock) is about 4/5 the volume of an Olympic swimming pool, according to Wolfram Alpha; the same mass of iron is about 1/3 of that. So whatever the actual composition of micrometeorites it is not a lot of material even on a human scale.
How to make your apps stand out on the AppStore
My love of solving problems and my love of nature end up at loggerheads every time automated farming comes up.

Farm robots always seem to point out to me the 'white tower syndrome' that researchers fall into. Dirt and robots is like the old joke about spherical cows.

Guess what, plants grow where it rains consistently. Plants therefore grow in mud, and sometimes we throw poop at them on purpose. Sooner or later it will start raining just as you are at the farthest point on the property from shelter, and early season work often coincides with freezing rain or hail.

And the more you avoid working in the wet, the more you have to deal with dust and grit.
Well those are great too. Every donation helps the Rust Foundation do its work, it's as simple as that.
I don't know, a common issue I have seen is pointing the camera towards their face during a video call. These are people that have been taking pictures with regular cameras for decades, but give them a smartphone and they can't target their face to save their lives. They're not stupid, and I don't think it's a new concept, it's just digital instead of analogic. But a lot of older people struggle, I don't understand.
Then compare to China and Russia, both of which have better high-speed (in Russia's case, I'd say the same as the US - a single high-traffic corridor, but its faster than its American counterpart), slower intercity, regional, urban public transit. Both are bigger, with serious geographic challenges, and poorer than the US.
AirDrop Is Leaking Email Addresses and Phone Numbers
Did we even test for the flu? Or did we just presume that flu cases were COIVD because the symptoms are so similar?

The idea that the flu just 'disappeared' despite world trade continuing just sets off my bullshit detectors. Between all the countries that did little or nothing initially, and the people who refused to wear masks and didn't lock down...there's just no way it dropped to zero. Less? Sure. But gone? I simply don't believe it.
Last time I tried 'I Don't Care About Cookies' [probably more than a year ago] it really slowed my browser down. So much so that it became more annoying than the cookie dialogues it was supposed to be hiding from me.

Has it got any better in the meantime?
> ...and I will take that to my grave

"When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do, Sir?"
No. Copyright of the work is not generally transferred to the buyer of the NFT. You're buying a cryptographic pointer (URL) to the work, not the work itself.

https://slate.com/technology/2021/03/beeple-auction-christie...

"However, with NFTs, the owner typically does not get the copyright and can’t collect royalties from the art. That usually remains with the artist."
You do realize that normative claims like "they ought", "government should", etc. are precisely the faculty-lounge, haughty idealism, that's worth absolutely nothing to people as they are, spoken from a position of privilege, condescension and fake expertise?

Notice how teachers act as though they're above everyone else? Refusing to work, whereas normal people that aren't of means largely kept working, and didn't act like paranoid agoraphobes exaggerating their actual risk?

It's no secret that most people overestimate their risk by an order(if not multiple) of magnitude.
Yup, the real estate stuff is interesting; most folks in the US buy on 30 year fixed rate mortgages, and the amount they can afford is based on their monthly payment. A reduction from 5% APR to 2.5% APR means they can afford a house 20% more expensive for the same monthly payment, and even their down payment isn't as big of a factor as they can just take out a non-conforming mortgage with a smaller down payment and once their LTV goes above 20% they stop paying PMI.
German Intelligence Puts Coronavirus Skeptics Under Surveillance
Yep I eat vegan 80% of the time and I have to agree. For some reason, delicious fake meat is a lot easier to make than delicious fake cheese.
That would be a great theory, except that gender segregation is similar for countries with European-like levels of parental leave.

In a Swedish study the term they used for the teacher profession was a "leaky pipe". The first year at university the teacher program is only somewhat gender segregated, but for every year that goes men either quit or refocus towards a specialty with more men. Once graduate, each year as an employed teacher the segregation rate increases with men either quitting or switching to a specialty like after-school sport.

The number 1 cause as highlighted by that study: culture fit and not feeling accepted.
This is brilliant. A single device that does one thing, and does it (hopefully) really well. It is a much needed antidote to the "all in one" apps we are seeing more and more of.

Touchscreens really embody the "all in one" design pattern, and lend themselves to those types of apps. That's after all what they're intended for: interchangeable interfaces. Nice to see a modern service being used with an analog interface.
Yes. Abundant Robotics has a more developed solution that is better suited to the task, I think. It uses a vacuum effector.

https://youtu.be/-PtqZA2enkQ?t=62
That would require Norfolk to be big enough for two airports :/ The next closest is Williamsburg/Newport News and then Richmond.
If you maintain the repository yourself now your setup instruction involves adding a custom apt repo, and then the installation. You also now have to handle multiple package managers, etc. A simple bootstrap script is pretty much as easy as it gets.
Not sure that the "pineapple upside-down cake" flavoring is widely available.
A traditional independent contractor would choose which jobs they take. Many musicians, for instance, might turn down a gig because they don't want to drive to the location, or might ask negotiate for more money because of it. A guy mowing my lawn might ask for more money if my lawn is particularly difficult, or deny the job if we can't come to an agreement. Rideshare apps deny their so called "contractors" this freedom that most contractors have. They could certainly give their drivers the ability to negotiate terms, as every other contractor gets to do, but they don't. It is the denial of this freedom that makes them employees.
> This is a silly argument. You pay for your healthcare no matter what, it's just a question of who administers it.

But who administers it has a lot to do with how much you pay for it. For example, a high deductible plan will save you a lot of money as long as you aren't in the 99th percentile of healthcare needs, and (unless the deductible is really high) still not bankrupt you if it turns out you are.

Any kind of government plan that doesn't give you that choice because it's paid from taxes rather than premiums is plausibly going to cost you more money. And that's true even on average, because high deductible plans make people more price sensitive, which exerts downward pressure on costs. (The fact that US healthcare regulations disfavor high deductible plans is one of the reasons costs remain high.)

The US system is also uniquely screwed because the rest of the world piggybacks on US medical R&D while in practice regulating prices even for products under patent. The result is that the US market is paying a disproportionate share of the R&D cost. Cost comparisons to single payer systems that pretend that single payer systems are inherently less expensive are ignoring the lower contribution of those systems to worldwide medical R&D. Moreover, the recipient companies are disproportionately in the US and have lobbyists and large numbers of voter-employees, so implementing a single payer system here would be unlikely to remove those costs. Then you're left with the resulting increase in price insensitivity and the US system becomes even more unaffordable.

It's actually a hard problem. The solution probably has to involve the other countries paying more of the R&D.
> It says that the publication has been retracted, but from what I can see, that's not true.

I'm sorry, you'll base your beliefs on an article in "Medical Hypotheses", but conclude that Reuters is making up an Elsevier spokesperson?

I thought "quoting Reuters is fine"; now they're fake news?
I mean, maybe they are, I guess that if you add "we somehow allow for binary packages to be distributed via crates.io" that would remove them needing to compile those dependencies themselves, right now, you do both of those things locally, so I was kind of assuming that was still the case.
...do not have the capacity nor the knowledge...

Health insurance was invented in the late 1930s as a political ploy to forestall government health programs. Did patients all get stupid at that time, or was it the case that they were all going to the wrong doctors and hospitals before then?

Please give human beings a little credit. We make decisions every day, some of which are a lot more substantial than which state-licensed physician to hire.

ps. you don't know what "market maker" means...
> But those engineers determined that their fix would only successfully transition the helicopter into flight mode 85% of the time. So Thursday's attempt may have fallen into the 15% of instances in which it doesn't work.

I really hope we get to see the postmortem on this. Any guesses what kind of software issue could cause a known but not fixable 15% error rate?