skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They didn’t vanish but it looks like multiple other viruses shrank.
they could preload them only for people who have the "never show images by default" setting turned on
Both the GuixSD and NixOS default system packages have nano and not vi. If you realize that you want vi, then you have to get it networked and change the configuration, all using nano, in order to install it.
> Being an independent contractor does not mean being independent of rules

Surely it at least means being independent from some of the rules that you have to follow if you have a full time job, or why do it? If it doesn't at least mean setting your own price, then what in the world is the point?

Imagine you are freelancing on a software project but you can't ever make any good money because, strangely, the price you're allowed to charge is set by Stackoverflow and not you. Seems kind of presumptuous of them to decide that for me, no?

I don't understand why so many people in tech will bend over backwards to not notice the most obvious, basic nature of the economic arrangement between these firms and the people who do all the work. Just look at this stuff straight on. It's obvious what it is. Imagine yourself as a worker instead of a boss for once.

There is an Upton Sinclair quotation that fits.
Source? As we set up multiple "legal" ways of abiding by the letter of the treaty while also selling arms.

Even if Roosevelt's goal wasn't to sit back and make a profit, he ran on that platform as the country did want that.
Building a game boy emulator with [insert trending programming language here]
I totally agree for 90, even 99% of the tracks from that era, but there are some serious gems in there. I really enjoy the Youtube account "TECHNO" for finding some of it. A few producers that stood out to me: Kobaya, Rino Cerrone, Samuel L. Session, Leandro Gamez, G-Force, Tomie Nevada, Headroom, Gaetano Parisio, Damon Wild & Echoplex (slightly difference scene), Ade Fenton ... and many others less famous and with fewer releases.

Adam Beyer's tracks himself and most of the stuff on Drumcode from any era though is totally boring, I agree. And we can also agree the Neil Landstrumm and Cristian Vogel (I'd argue early Villalobos too) are the height of the end of techno history.

Quite possibly I just like this stuff because it reminds me of video game soundtracks from the era.
> 2 was published in Feb 2020, so not sure how helpful that is...

It's a meta-analysis of many other papers. The estimates for the other ILIs have not changed significantly in 2020. Again, this is nitpicking that misses the forest for the trees: the differences in estimated R0 between these viruses is not so precise as to be useful for claiming the effectiveness of something like "masks and distancing".

> 1 is not normalized data. It does not account for testing frequency

This is incorrect. The data is normalized across all samples. Your hospital's non-participation may change the coverage of the sample, but that doesn't really matter when it's just showing you that rhinovirus hasn't gone away.
Yes, the same comment appears whenever this comes up on HN. Bottom-up would actually be something more like Nand2Tetris or Petzold's code.
I'm pretty sure that some French winegrowers do this as well during untimely cold snaps (or used to do it), either that or fly helicopters over vineyards to keep air circulating.

Edit to add: Helicopters: An Extremely Effective Weapon in Vineyard Frost Protection [1]

Also: Another method commercial vineyards use is to run giant sprinklers through the night, causing water on the vines to freeze over the tender growth. This works because, as the water freezes, it releases latent heat. It can be difficult to understand how ice formation gives off heat. (A chemist would describe ice formation as an exothermic process, one that gives off heat.)

- From a long article in WineMaker titled Vineyard Frost Protection [2]

So, it's not just the French.

[1] https://www.fairlifts.com/helicopter-services/agricultural/h...

[2] https://winemakermag.com/article/921-frost-protection
White side effects does Nix have when you install a package? IIUC it just updates the programs that are symlinked into various locations (like a directory in your $PATH).
Uber is the client, not the person the driver picks up. The drivers are contractors, and they contract to Uber (or Lyft, etc) to do some job, in this case driving some person to a destination.

Each requested ride is a new job. The contractor can choose to not take that job, for any number of reasons.

The fact that the job has a set rate is not abnormal at all. The fact that the client will “punish” you for not being available is also not abnormal at all.

Additionally, the contractors are able to work whenever they want, wherever they want, and for whichever companies they want.

The only real oddity here is that the contract work is dependent on the ride sharing companies. There should be an additional classification for dependent contractors. These drivers are definitely not employees, under any definition.
WWII training film for US soldiers – How to behave in Britain (1943)
> Universal healthcare, say Medicare for All style, does not have to mean higher taxes.

How would that be? It seems like it certainly would to me. Maybe by less than employees plus employers currently pay in aggregate healthcare costs, but I can't imagine a way where the government pays for Medicare-for-all and taxes don't go up.

Do you have a specific idea in mind that I'm missing?
"It’s encrypted and hashed. It can’t be hacked..."

It says so on the internet, so it must be true.
FWIW I've significantly improved my experience by breaking up my notebooks into smaller pieces such that each notebook only does "one thing", while using DVC to run them and keep track of intermediate results. Or in a case where the intermedaite result was itself somewhat "exploratory", having the notebook itself check for the existence of an intermediate result and load it from disk instead of recomputing it.

Execution barriers are a nice idea though. There is/was a Jupyter notebook extension for "initialization cells", but the whole notebook extension ecosystem seems kind of dead and it's unclear if Jupyter Lab will ever have equivalents.
I never expected a Jocko Wilkins or a Jordan Peterson book here. It's curious how I find more and more psychology aficionados around here and people who enjoy their books without being.
Not sure what's obscure about ELF. Almost every one of the programs I use is wrapped in ELF format, except for maybe a bootloader and scripts.

If you want to learn from bottom up, then learning what programs are seems like an obvious approach.
It would be sensible to improve school air quality: increase ventilation, install air purifiers, etc

That would reduce the spread of infectious diseases even with schools open as normal.
Have they? I thought automated theorem proving was still super niche.
But I'm not questioning ethical vegetarianism, I'm talking about veganism's opposition to any kind of dairy farming over and above that.
Thank you for this. I was having a hard time finding Batman and Mr. Wayne in the same document at the same time. Definition 1.1.1 is blowing my mind right now.

It would seem I should dive into category theory to see how far this rabbit hole goes. From a practical modeling perspective, there certainly feels like a "done/correct" point where any further normalization seems wrong, even if you ignore all the specific rules.
If it's a scenario where it even remotely makes sense to do something like that, they probably should be employees.

There's a lot of jobs where work simply is not with a regular customer -- i.e. tradesmen, independent consultants, musicians, etc.

If a person mows lawns for 25 different customers in a given week, who gives them their vacation/retirement/health benefits?
U.S. faces Covid-19 vaccine surplus as demand slows
I strongly disagree that people want to be able to choose healthcare - Americans value the ability to choose their healthcare merely because it's being dolled out by corporations (on all sides - not just the insurers) that are trying to squeeze as much profit as possible out. When you're denied choice in American healthcare you get bottom of the barrel service so asking someone to surrender that choice generates a kneejerk response.

As an example my grandfather lost his leg to a blood clot due to being sent to an overwhelmed hospital that left him sitting undiagnosed for hours on end - it is easy to read that scenario as being forced into a lack of care, but choices wouldn't help things here. If he had a choice he would have advocated for going to his family doctor first which would have made the situation worse - in all honestly hospital overcrowding and underfunding is the only thing that led to him losing his leg.

Healthcare is a sector of the market that most people here (even me - and I work in a company that deals specifically in the US healthcare market) don't have enough knowledge to make intelligent choices in because the knowledge needed to comprehend all the random crap that can go wrong with your body is intensely deep.

I also don't think it's far to say the US favors individuals over the state - the US cares very little about individual health. And that's not precisely what you meant when you said it favors individuals over the state but I think it's important to highlight that the situation in the USA is quite detrimental to a lot of individuals.
Yes, check out this report: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-....
Sam, thank you for your talks on the Python.__init__ and TalkPython podcasts. I've appreciate how well you describe the problem domain.

https://www.pythonpodcast.com/oso-open-source-authorization-...

https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/294/oso-authorizes-pytho...
I believe that is essentially what airborne surveillance cameras (used to) do. They used a line-aperture moving film setup. I don’t know how they accounted for the velocity of the aircraft.
Hilbert's program was about whether every statement could be proved ab nihilo either true or false. The question remains: given a proof, can we verify it? Arguably, any proof conceived by a human mind should be verifiable in principle. So the Incompleteness Theorem doesn't really apply, either formally or morally.

A more interesting argument could be made on the basis of Rice's Theorem: for a Turing-complete language, the only non-trivial properties provable about a program are fundamentally syntactic. (Type systems can be seen as a way of elaborating your syntax to capture finer-grained details of your semantics). Here we have a richer and nearer-to-hand collection of programs whose properties are inaccessible -- take, for instance, whether the 3n+1 algorithm halts on all inputs. Again, though, if we have a proof of some property, we still ought to be able to verify it.
According to an Uber survey in October, 20%, of uber drivers are unsatisfied working for the company [1]. If you want to work for Uber, and you can work any time you'd like, why would you be dissatisfied with working there? The reason people work for Uber is that it's available as an opportunity, with a fairly low bar of entry, in a way that a lot of other employment opportunities are not.

The "gig economy" is a legal hack by corporations to pay workers less than minimum wage [2]. We can talk a lot about problems with government (there are a lot of issue there), but the fact that the government has issues does not act as a free pass to allow private institutions to pay workers less.

[1] https://mashable.com/article/uber-driver-survey-pandemic/

[2] https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-uber-driver-w...
That's just blatantly false. Rust takes extreme pains to be backwards compatible. When they wanted to make breaking changes to support some new language features, they literally spun up a separate compiler front-end behind a cargo.toml flag to make sure they didn't break any existing code.

Compiler changes are tested against a bunch of libraries in the crates.io repository to ensure nothing breaks. It's just exceedingly rare that a new Rust version would break older code.
> wants to force independent workers to become employees

Sounds exactly like a gig industry talking point, a classic conflation of making something a right with forcing it onto people. At the moment, being categorized as an employee is not even an option for gig workers. How's that for choice?
With an experiment of this nature, it is not always possible to get universal consent-or-refusal, due to the nature of the experiment. If you're doing an experiment with footpaths and you want to close specific paths to see how people's behavior changes, you do need to seek permission from the owner of the footpaths, and you do need to perform some sort of ethics review to ensure you aren't creating severe mobility issues for those being experimented upon, but you would never be expected to seek permission from each person traveling those footpaths to waste up to a minute of their time by closing the footpath they intended to traverse. Whether or not that time waste is acceptable is ultimately the decision of the owner/operator of the footpaths, not of the individuals using it.

So, then, it is similar with a 'secret experiment upon unwitting people' and the Linux project. The owner/operators are Linus and Greg, and as the experiment cannot be pre-announced without tainting the outcomes, they are the ultimate "go or no-go" decision makers — just as the owner/operator of the footpaths would, too, have a right to refuse an experiment upon their participants. The individual Linux contributors who participate in the Linux project have no implicit authority whatsoever in any such consideration, and would not be offered opt-in or opt-out consent prior to it being performed. If the good of the project requires pentesting the processes that contributors operate, the project has every right to do so; it's for the good of the project, and contributors' time spent will have been net valuable even if the specific contributions are felt to have been "discarded" or if the contributors feel that their time was "wasted".

This lack of individual authority in many respects is not comfortable or appealing for open source contributors to consider, but it's critical for us to confront it and learn lessons from it. We do not perfect authority over how open source projects use our contributions, whether in time, money, or code. Some percentage of our contributions will always end up being discarded or wasted, and sometimes that will be upsetting to contributors. These are real aspects of project participation regardless of whether secret experiments are approved by the project owners/operators or not. I hope that this event helps us develop better empathy for large projects, such as Linux or other operating systems, when they make decisions that benefit the project rather than contributors.
i've been listening to dozzy's "plays bee mask" constantly for the last two weeks. really excellent ambient/synth/drone/whatever
> In contrast I don't believe the reaction was anywhere near that strong when it came out that the NSA likely subverted a crypto standardisation process

It was pretty strong. There were many calls to remove the chair of the IETF CFRG group because of his association with the NSA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942145
That's a possible mechanism, hadn't considered that.

However, a brief survey of gasses coming out of a runaway still puts it on the list of "Things I have no interest in coming near."
The university of chicago
Parent is referring to something a bit different - Hilbert’s program was about all of mathematics, even that which hadn’t been discovered yet, whereas the parent is talking about formalizing existing mathematical knowledge in some HoTT-enabled programming language or proof-checker (hence the emphasis on verifying and the problem of siloed knowledge).

Obviously true theorems with existing proofs don’t apply to Godelian incompleteness.
Emotional attachment is killing your startup
Things I learnt hard way while running my start-up. Let go of your emotional attachment to succeed.
"It's all a misdiagnosis and a scam" is trivially debunked. Anyone making this assertion is either incredibly misinformed or malicious.

The simplest way to debunk the idea is to look at total deaths, from all causes, in somewhere like the US.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

Again, total deaths. From any cause. A large spike is immediately obvious in the charting. https://imgur.com/a/cEhR0Eh
You’re treating healthcare overload as a binary condition when it is not. It matters how much your healthcare system is overloaded. If the system is 10% over capacity, then 1 out of 11 people aren’t getting proper treatment and run an increased risk of dying. If your system is 50% over capacity then only 2 out of 3 people are getting proper treatment. Neither is great, but they’re objectively not the same levels of risk or outcome.

Even if lockdowns are ineffective at preventing overload, it doesn’t follow that they can’t reduce the severity of that overload, or that the outcome would be the same either way.
There is a wing of the ethical-vegan community who disapprove of meat substitutes, arguing that we will never truly do justice to our animal brothers and sisters until we have lost the very appetite for their flesh. So, it is not just those who eat vegan out of health concerns, who are concerned about meat substitutes.
You're logged into the app. They don't need to fingerprint anything.
What kind of data transmission line can be used for this type of environment?
Yeah, the first page of this book being "Everything is a File in Unix" is already so high-level and far above what I would call the "bottom-up" of computer science that this book should be renamed "Unix from the bottom-up."

The "bottom" of computer science would be mathematically explaining what it means to compute, and building up to the abstraction of a Turing machine, and eventually getting to a concrete implementation of what we call programming and code. This book has code on page 2 - but code is nowhere near the bottom.
We want employers to provide benefits

"We" don't necessarily think benefits should be provided by the whims of private businesses.

as opposed to the government because that means higher taxes.

The assumption here being that benefits from the government are paid with higher taxes, and benefits from employers being paid from the kindness of the CEO's heart and not from wages that would have otherwise been paid you.
I really like their vegetarian stuff, but their vegan stuff doesn’t work so well for me.

The closest brand in the U.K. (and, I think, the USA) is Quorn, which I’ve missed since moving here.
Normally I dislike Electron apps (with some very well-built exceptions) but in this case it makes perfect sense. It already renders HTML, CSS, and JS!
A negative production value society member needs to be carefully balanced against a positive production value society member.

Not balancing this means society will go into decline one way or the other.

Offering basic levels to society members is health if the society can afford it and allows the society to grow quickie because risk is removed.
I would honestly recommend not trying to emulate the gameboy if you’re doing emulation for the first time. I did this and it didn’t go very well (but perhaps I’m a below average person)

Chip8 or the NES (6502+PPU) are probably better places to start for beginners.
Kindergarten was open and closed here in Germany several times in the last 12 months. My kids both caught a cold several times within a week after reopening.
Ah yeah big fan of Wata. His remix of Blachington Mill is one of my fave tracks for several years, his “infinite arpeggio” thing is so unique: https://open.spotify.com/track/5MsKTeSpd6Lehr899HOjdN?si=fu4...

Also check this wicked set he did recently in Japan, amazing music and really nice visuals cut to Japanese nature: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tUva4XDGBm4

I’m in London so never had the chance to check out the US techno scene, have been to some great nights in the U.K. and Berlin though. Getting a bit old for regular clubbing now but I’ll still go out for the odd special night. I saw No Way Out have a cool looking live stream coming up actually!

And yea, Dettmann, Klock etc are great at what they do, would happily dance to them. And I was really into Pryda in 2007/8 kind of time so I’m with you there too!
You're forking a process, not the whole system. Sorry, but I fail to see the ambiguity. If the window is in the process as some framebuffer, it gets cloned too. That may not mean you'll get two windows on your monitor, because your display engine is HW thing, and not a process.
No idea on the technical answer, but the healthcare logistics answer is that because it's not all that likely, a positive flu test was a decent stand-in when COVID tests weren't widely available.
I bet a huge percentage of vegan cheese sales are first time customers giving it a try. That will drop off real fast.
As much as I appreciate such material, but this is not "computer science". Maybe "computer engineering", or some mix of "software engineering", "systems engineering", those things.

Computer science is about algorithms, complexity, possibly foundations of programming languages, cryptography, database theory, those things. Not about Unix or file formats.

Those are important too, but not "computer science".
Really enjoyed the article, and followed on twitter. Good luck with the launch.

Follow-up question: Do you see a correlation between your predictions and actual finishing order increasing over time? I ask because of some very weak seasons (Nique '86 and MJ '87) for 2nd-place finishers in the 80s. It made me wonder if the MVP is becoming more 'objective' now that the media is able to follow teams around the league more easily than before.
There's no real debate about those products. They're not cheese and can't be labeled as such.
I didn't know the article was retracted. Are there credible papers confirming that masks do help?

Edit: also, quoting Reuters is fine. However, quoting Forbes is not. Forbes is a trash publication, getting published there costs a few hundred bucks.
It is very interesting. It means that either covid deaths were undercounted, or something else unique to 2020 also killed a large number of people, or both.
This year was a great experiment in person hygiene. It was the healthiest I have ever been for a full year, no colds, stomach bugs, anything.

I'm not sure which practices I'll continue, but its definitely shown me that I have wayyyy more control over my health than I previously thought.

Curious what others think are the most effective continued practices. Seems like social distancing isn't super reasonable, but maybe continuing to wear a mask in crowded places?
I'd like to highlight this previous discussion on influenza: On the epidemiology of influenza (2008) [1]

In this paper, in 2008, researchers observe and conjecture a number of things that we now know also apply to SARS-Cov-2:

* The long-tailed distribution of R: Few infect many

* A low secondary attack (household infection) rate of 20-30%

* 'Asymptomatic' infection as opposed to sick-to-well infection

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26857283
I have had a flu the last year twice, both times tested negative.
I mean. Yes. But kids also touch things far more than adults. Combined with less developed immune systems, I suspect there is a floor to how well you can reduce transmission. More, it is almost certainly related to this densely populated the school is. Which, not surprisingly, will hit poor schools harder.

Edit: furthering this idea, buses are not likely to keep the same protocols they have now.
Yep, wonderful album. Check out his album K for a slightly more upbeat but similarish vibe, and also the Voices from the Lake album.

Bee Mask’s albums are fantastic too. Have been getting really in to ambient lately