skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments? We're trying for something other than that here, and this one is a noticeable step hellward.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've asked you this multiple times before. If you keep doing it we are going to have to ban you.
Here's a question I have:

Given a pandemic (past, present, or future, doesn't matter) won't the causal pathogen always look like it's been impossibly "well tuned" to infect humans?

I suspect in most cases it would. Otherwise a pandemic would never have occurred to begin with, right?
Not every city in America is terrible. I live in a city of ~250k, we have multiple competing cable companies here and we get very reliable, fast, gig internet for a good price.

In my childhood hometown they have muni internet. It started out great as it was cutting edge. They have barely upgraded in over a decade. It's crap and the cable company in town has largely won.

I also don't want the government tracking my internet history in any fashion. Too many government services could tie into knowledge about you and I want the government to have only the minimum information necessary to provide those services.
But they refuse to go back or admit when they are wrong. They simply have been stubborn. It's killing their trust
Amazon is smaller than Verizon Media in this space. Microsoft and Verizon Media are not independent - Microsoft handles Verizon's search ads, Verizon handles ads on other Microsoft properties: https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/ad-products/...

That said, single market players like TheTradeDesk or Xandr are larger in their own markets than verizon media, but probably not compared to the combined publisher and advertiser business: https://www.atlantic.net/vps-hosting/top-10-dsp-providers/
Polio and Smallpox are terrible diseases, causing terrible deformities or scarring, while COVID is essentially a slightly more dangerous flu.
If you think that's step 2, then all you'll be doing is playing whack-a-mole as the MPAA/RIAA will either sue hosts out of existence, or strong-arm them into implementing something functionally identical, or worse than ContentID.

The MPAA/RIAA aren't stupid, and they can smell money. Hosting firms have money. Users uploading infringing content to a service gives them a stick to beat the hosting firm until money falls out.
Experian API Leaks Most Americans’ Credit Scores
What a rabbit hole. I had no idea that one of the largest mass lynchings in the USA was because the mafia assassinated a police chief:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14,_1891_New_Orleans_lyn...
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Yes, an asset that didn't exist yet was indeed $0 in 2011. But I'm sure we can agree that starting your measurement from 0 is obviously a silly way to look at this, as any non-worthless asset class invented in the last decade has therefore also experienced infinite growth by that standard, tying them all for first with DOGE.

With regards to "all time", DOGE has more units but its market cap is still lower than BTC (in fact its 5th best by market cap), so I remain confused as how it is the best performing asset class of all time.

In any case, ETH is better performing by all metrics compared to DOGE. Infinite performance since 2011 and a higher market cap.
I think the high cost of water is largely due to sewage treatment costs, which are higher because we’re surrounded by water. I think Seattle Public Utilities contracts out trash pickup to companies like Waste Management, just based on what I see on the side of the garbage trucks driving in my neighborhood, so if they’re not doing a good job perhaps the city should re-evaluate that contract.
Fun topic,

I liked the intro in terms of things we don’t discuss very often.

It is quite interesting that free-will is by any meaningful definition supernatural since atoms just follow the laws of physics. If you believe in free-will, that is a leap of faith, like many other leaps of faith in life.

Taking time to analyze the axioms of your life down to the deepest level is a great exercise. The best reflections will improve your life :)
Deepfake Attacks Are About to Surge, Experts Warn
I think, fundamentally, physical locks _can't_ be solved. At the end of the day, given enough time, there will always be a physical workaround to a physical lock. Even with a "perfect" electronic lock, somebody could always just cut through the door.

IMO the purpose of a lock is to either 1) slow down an attacker long enough for (eg) police to show up, or 2) discourage an attacker from breaking into _your_ house in favor of your neighbor's house.
Is 21 months not enough time to execute on a strategy?
Indeed. Leadership has been the _opposite_ of flexible. They stubbornly hold on to talking points and policies.
Reminds me of FutureMe [0] which I've used in the past to set goals for myself for the year only to receive the email and realize I had failed miserably. Eventually stopped using it. It wasn't a reliable way to keep me on track.

[0] https://www.futureme.org
This isn't detected automatically though, right? Someone would have to reverse engineer your setup and add it to the lists?
‘Cave Syndrome’ Keeps the Vaccinated in Social Isolation
In what market is Amazon a monopoly?
> Moreso in non US advanced countries that actually enforce the anti trust regulations in their laws.

I think it's pretty disingenuous to say that the U.S. isn't enforcing its antitrust laws, the DOJ certainly opens investigations against these conglomerates, they just don't take them to court, so there might not be enough info for the DOJ to think there's a case. We don't know the full story for any of these cases and thus can't become sole arbitrators of whether or not something is an antitrust violation.

The problem is probably that the DOJ doesn't like to bring cases against people in they they don't have hard evidence and a high likelihood to succeed in their prosecution - they have an average 92% success rate in the cases they bring against defendants[0]. I'm not one to say how to run the DOJ but chances are they could find more damning documents via court discovery (if they think they have enough of a case to get to discovery, at least).

0: https://www.justice.gov/doj/page/file/1249306/download#page=... (page 16)
It works great if you don't use modules internally. Either go with plain GOPATH, or use something like Bazel/rules_go/Gazelle.

Modules are not for monorepos and internal components, modules are for third party dependencies that need to be pulled in at compatible versions, and for general multirepo work.
It could be because the person who initially posted about it has also said that he made it up from stuff taken out of context: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/05/im-sorry-for-creating-t...
Two young math geeks solved the mystery of Mexico City’s Covid-19 dead
May I suggest adding Jira integration?
I wish there was some kind of non-blackout streaming for local teams. I paid for youtube tv before the implemented blackouts and it was great. I'd totally pay the leagues directly! The only option seems to be the massive "all the games" packages on top of a cable subscription.
Moderna to Deliver Covid-19 Vaccine to Hard-Hit Developing World
The J&J vaccine was perfectly functional, but because of inadequate purity it had the side effect of giving its users a lisp.
It's been a while since I looked into it but IIRC both Pfizer and Moderna used HEK 293 during testing phases. There isn't a vaccine available that is completely free of participation, however remote, in the use of the HEK 293 stem cell line or similar.
This was written pre-COVID to put the anti-vax movement in historical perspective.

https://www.oah.org/tah/issues/2015/august/vaccination-resis...
> GDPR has fines at max 4% of global yearly revenue

In other words, laughably low.

> or 100 million euros

Unless you're a small business, in which case they'll happily bury you.
I don't disagree with writing solid SQL. I would go so far as to say some things (most) need to be in stored procedures that are reviewed by competent people. But, some folks don't think about usage sometimes.

This is one of those things I just don't get about folks setting up their databases. If you have a rather large dataset that keeps building via daily transactions, then its time to recognize you really have some basic distinct scenarios and to plan for them.

The most common is adding or querying data about a single entity. Most application developers really only deal with this scenario since that is what most applications care about and how you get your transactional data. Basic database knowledge gets most people to do this ok with proper primary and secondary keys.

Next up is a simple rule, "if you put a state on an entity, expect someone to need to know all the entities with this state." This is a killer for application developers for some reason. It actually requires some database knowledge to setup correctly to be performant. If the data analysts have problems with those queries, then its to to get the DBA to fix the damn schema and write some stored procedures for the app team.

At some point, you will need to do actual reporting, excuse me, business intelligence. You really should have some process that takes the transactional data and puts it into a form where the queries of data analysts can take place. In the old days that would be something to load up Red Brick or some equivalent. Transactional systems make horrid reporting systems. Running those types of queries on the same database as the transactional system is currently trying to work is just a bad idea.

Of course, if you are buying something like IBM DB2 EEE spreading queries against a room of 40 POWER servers, then ignore the above. IBM will fix it for you.
Unscientifically, absent mother is seen as worse than absent father.

I agree, and will may involuntarily postpone having kids because of that reason alone.
Rather than asking why use Novichok, one should be asking why Navalny did not actually die if Novichok was used (or why the job was not finished if the first attempt failed). As Putin said quite convincingly in his end of year address: if we wanted Navalny dead, he would be dead already.

The only reason to claim that Novichok was used would be to point a finger at Russia, which serves Western interests quite well.
I thought starlink was for people living in rural areas with no real broadband alternatives.
Sigh.... Not sure why it is so hard for people to understand my point. But lets try again with another example.

Lets say that you met someone who just learned about chocolate chip cookies. And they like chocolate chip cookies. They like them so much, that they break down crying, every time they talk cookies. Their entire life is now a cookie lifestyle. They have found a new cookie religion.

What would you think of this person? Personally, I would think that this person is mentally ill and needs to seek professional help.

This is an analogy here. Take everything that I said, about this cookie person, and apply it to clubhouse.

Sometimes, it legitimately feels like people are talking about clubhouse, in the same way as this hypothetically mentally ill cookie person.

Do you understand the problem here, of why it would be both a problem, for someone to talk about cookies, or clubhouse, in this way that I have described?
We use bazel. It's weird how different it is from the Go cli tooling.
It seems pretty hard to believe for that Harvard and Stanford, or even just the more "elite" universities capture 90% of circa 3 sigma high school students. My experience is that desiring to go to Harvard, Stanford, or other "prestigious" schools is way more correlated to the socialization of valuing prestige than anything, and that many of the very smart folks I've met value particular interests or other concerns much more than status signaling. I'm also not sure the most common admissions tools have great usefulness or accuracy into measurement above 2 sigma. (Though I'm sure people are pretty smart at these schools.)
Literally everyone who is taking jobs paying less than a living wage is forced to - by the lack of better options.

You know this and are making a bad faith argument.

What is your goal?
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It sees difficult for anyone who was in the ML computer vision or self driving vehicle field to have made those predictions, which make it all the more problematic that Tesla still decided too, despite having all the information at hand.
I figured GOPATH was designed around the monorepos and they've been trying to get rid of it using the module system.

"/v2", git tags but not branches, and the blast radius of trying to use a forked dependency: Golang's awful module system is top of my list for reasons to recommend away from golang. The design is full of weird kludges and your choices are zero documentation or overwhelming documentation that obscures what you really need.
Facebook in the last year or two was blocking the sending (in DM) of links to at least one (public) tweet by a family member of the US president.
Thanks for the clarification; that's exactly what I was referring to. I'd like to see fibre included in that since it's likely to be the physical medium that will last a century or more, regardless of the protocols on top of it.
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We are well past first movers.
NASA asteroid simulation ends in unavoidable disaster for Earth
Ahh.. retrospect prophets, the scarcest HN resource.
I don't have much respect for people who are that selfish. If the only reason someone is "hesitating" is because they believe other people are less important or more expendable than them, I'm not really bothered if their feelings are hurt.
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It isn't, but it is limited to a few source control solutions. If you use something other than Git, Bazaar, SVN, Mercurial, or Fossil, then you're not going to be able to publish Go modules.

Also, Go modules are dependent on DNS, so any domain name change for your repo will have to result in code (import path) changes.
Downvoters on HN are not required to explain why they downvote. That would just lead to massive numbers of low-quality "explanations" and tons more flamewars.

I'll respond to the point about duplicates below.
This.

They are also so good at building malls that they own the construction company and the supply chain of raw goods for the construction efforts (AWS). They use their scale to cut costs for construction globally so it doesn't make economic sense for others to build without them. Even some of their competitors use their construction company to build their vision of what a mall looks like. All the while Amazon is gaining valuable insights they can steal to use on their own malls.
That an ISP is municipal is hardly any sort of deciding factor on if government tracking has been welcomed into a given data service or not. Large private telecoms imho are both much more likely to be targeted and to cooperate.
Novichok is equivalent of public execution, to deter individuals from defying authority of the state, it's a terror tactic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_execution
There is zero upside to the free public API as far as I can tell. Granted it's low cost to keep it up, but it's not generating any revenue.
Can we just rule that internet marketplaces cannot offer competing products on their own platforms?

The fundamental conflicts of interest will always persist otherwise.

This is going to sound radical but I think Google Search should be broken away from everything else and/or Google products should not be accessible via the search page (or allowed to buy ad space)
The greatest fear of Telecommunications companies is being reduced to a 'big dumb pipe':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_pipe

The entire purpose of their marketing departments to delay that happening for as long as possible.
I agree a general lack of understanding of the scientific method is a large part of the issue. I think an additional issue is how some politicians/political individuals treat science--"Scientists say X, therefore X is now gospel, and anyone who even questions X is morally at fault and an uneducated idiot."

Those sorts of inflammatory, controversial statements get amplified far more loudly than the actual statements of scientists, which are generally, "We think X is the best method, so we're trying this for now. But we have limited data, and as we learn more, we may have to adjust things in the future."

If the public only hears the first kind of statement (which are the type that fill social media news feeds), they're quickly going to grow skeptical of "Scientists say X" statements. Which appears to be exactly what's happening for some people.
I put in one for their own use of recaptcha. Unfairly punishes people who want to stay anonymous, and people who are disabled... All the while enriches a private companies AI.
Doesn't mean her concerns are warranted when the vaccine has been given to hundreds of millions and we have data on it.

A phd is just a certification. Take from that what you will.
Someone can argue that only the USA used nukes on the civilians and not once but twice, therefore it must be them again because who else would do such a cruel thing? False flag operation operation, they can argue.

As long as you don't have a proof, it's words in the winds really.
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It seems like this was more driven by a desire to have television shows that addressed real world problems. "Rural" here is basically a euphemism for "sterile world where nothing bad actually happens." It's just easier to sterilize a cabin in the woods. Plus, the country has always been idyllic in American culture.

This was an era where pregnancy was a forbidden topic (among so much more) and where parents were shown sleeping in separate beds. It's not surprising that people eventually grew to hate this fantasy world.
Well, yes but. Why do you need 15 tables for analysis queries and why isn't someone rolling those tables into something a bit easier with some backend process.
https://sat-smt.codes/ comes up on HN with some regularity, i think.

"practical uses" tends to mean whatever the speaker wants it to mean, so no guarantees, but i think it covers a number of small useful tasks, in addition to many of the common code golf type things.
I don't disagree. Most people actually working with the actual science are good people - just as in tech. The problem comes from ruthless profit incentives, lobbying, marketing, investor pressure etc.

Nowhere did i say that the everyone in the industry are bad people, my whole point was about history of shadiness. That's not controversial - again just as in the sector big-data / internet business that i work in.

Anyone should be highly sceptical of any huge corporations.

I find it very weird that there have literally been non stop scandals, and huge ones too, and still people get angry when people are sceptical of anything "big corp".

Always be sceptical of anything with billions of dollars invested, armies of lawyers, PR departments that would shadow small governments etc.
"They" don't set the goalposts - reality does. Also, they are not saying that no level of vaccination is good enough - they are saying that the level of vaccination needed is dependent on a variety of factors, and that level is becoming increasingly difficult to reach due to variants and vaccine hesitancy. From the article:

> Early on, the target herd immunity threshold was estimated to be about 60 to 70 percent of the population. Most experts, including Dr. Fauci, expected that the United States would be able to reach it once vaccines were available.

> But as vaccines were developed and distribution ramped up through the winter and into the spring, estimates of the threshold began to rise. That is because the initial calculations were based on the contagiousness of the original version of the virus. The predominant variant now circulating in the United States, called B.1.1.7 and first identified in Britain, is about 60 percent more transmissible.

> As a result, experts now calculate the herd immunity threshold to be at least 80 percent. If even more contagious variants develop, or if scientists find that immunized people can still transmit the virus, the calculation will have to be revised upward again.