skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much "skin in the game" do people in the other social sciences have? eg. anthropology, political science, sociology, law. Furthermore, what if they do have skin in the game, won't the retort just change to "well they have a well vested interest to lie/mislead"?
Oh totally. Google did win because of personalization. However I don't think that is necessarily a good thing.
If you are going to go through with all of that, you might as well delete it.
You can see each vacation is like a trial firing, if they miss you then you get to come back.
Yes, it can be frustrating when your users don't know as much about your product as you do and ask for help in a vague way. It's unintuitive that a color named green would correspond to the color on the left that I don't think most people would think to check.

It's totally fine to have a policy of not supporting OSX, as long as you communicate it with professionalism or at least civility.
If anybody would had barely decent and meaningful answer to this question — they’d be too busy to describe it here anyway.

So i bet you’ll never find a wholy grail in some great advice from the internet.

What I personally like is the idea of “adjacent possible”.

If you dont know problem exists, it means you’re not on the edge, so you must first grow to be on the edge of some fields, only then you have a chance to see new opportunities there.
There is something special about Linux distributions: The Linux kernel. In lots of areas it is indeed better than NT and it's stuff that matters to userspace, too (file system performance is one example, process spawning performance another).
Since the way you died affects how insurance pays out compensations.
Something to do with Medicare or maybe Medicaid.
The problem is that there are financial implications for a state saying they have covid deaths. From some of US covid relief packages, the more covid deaths a state had, the more money they get.

As well, you get the over-the-top cases where someone that dies of a gunshot is included in the covid death count[0].

Some states have tried to do better by breaking it down a little finer. Like Colorado provides[1] a breakdown down by confirmed vs probable. But the data here is still not great.

[0] https://www.kmov.com/news/colorado-coroner-calling-out-how-s...

[1] https://covid19.colorado.gov/data
>It doesn't need to be a one or the other type deal.

Sadly it does. Search is currently the default. If you bring back type-ahead, that will de-prioritize search. Nautilus could copy the Windows approach but that would also bring along with it all the issues of the Windows approach, where there are two similar options with subtlely different behavior of how they match against file names, with no clear explanation to the user why this is or why some files are accessible in one way but not the other. You and I may be familiar with the approach because we're used to it but other users might not. I've seen some users that have been using Windows for decades and still they have no idea what type-ahead is because they never even thought to type into the file manager.

>I don't think you'll ever be able to improve the speed of a full search to a point that it'll match the performance of a type-ahead style search.

Why not? I would think search would actually be faster, because that only has to show a few relevant search results, whereas type-ahead has to keep scrolling the view around and reflowing the whole folder.
But their valuation isn’t directly based on that number. That’s the floor on their valuation. The ceiling is “how much more do you think they could extract per person?” Soon as they set a price and drop their current model they in effect put a ceiling on how much they can extract per person since upping the price won’t really work out so well. This grounds their valuation.
Right, I would say that's just sloppy writing in general and not sloppy because of the use of active voice (and certainly an example where passive voice is better).

You're right in terms of what I meant by "clarify", which was more about writing that looking less "sloppy". The examples I think about aren't ones where the investigators are referring to themselves by "We" but where you're writing a paper about molecules interacting with each other. So something like "A activates B, which in turn inactivates C" reads more smoothly than any of its passive-voice counterparts.
Guess it's the same as why we have locks on doors. Won't stop someone determined, but raises the bar a bit.
No, because without tests, doctors didn’t uniformly attribute deaths correctly to covid, and often the official causes of death even in cases of cancer are often “pneumonia” or sepsis, or organ failure — the literal thing that killed them at the moment of death, not the cause of the symptom that overwhelmed the body.
Apple has been pro privacy for decades.

They even called out google and Facebook 10 years ago and were vilified for it.
>against Web norms at the time

I would even say it was against social norms. Don't talk to strangers. Don't give away your phone number. Don't give away your address. Don't tell state your mother's maiden name.

It was such a simple thing to get all of those new people on social media to give up all of that very personal information without hesitation. Yet, if some random person at the supermarket asked you any of those questions in person you'd definitely raise an eyebrow and walk away. SocialEngineering++
Why Do Some Neurons Degenerate and Die in Alzheimer’s Disease, but Not Others?
A better understanding a human nature and what we're all capable of is certainly useful. Much of philosophy and psychology is devoted to this very idea.
Java compilers are getting more and more advanced, but I don’t think they will ever become the magical “sufficiently advanced compiler” that produces code that’s as good as humans _could_ (but often won’t, because of time constraints) write.

I don’t think anybody fully disagrees with that. At least, I haven’t heard people claim int can be removed from the language because a good compiler can produce identical code for Integers.

And yes, that can also apply to instances that do escape. A sufficiently advanced compiler could in some/many cases figure out that an array of Integer can be compiled down to an array of int. However, it’s way easier for a compiler to check a programmer’s claim “we won’t use features of Integer on these ints” than to deduce that code won’t, so a little bit of programmer effort allows for a simpler compiler that can produce faster code.

For me, records and (future) value types are examples of such “little bits of programmer effort”
That's because our media has a gentleman's agreement to not show it to us.

If the news were running 24/7 with reels of disaster porn - images of people dying in ICUs, or struggling to breathe and unable to get treatment, we'd have been taking this problem seriously last year. Instead, it's this abstract, sanitized problem that only happens to other people.

What you don't see on the TV isn't real.
The existence of Spring Boot makes Java a very good choice for loads of dev shops. Good balance between features, ease of use, performance and security, not difficult to pick up, and very well documented.

In my personal opinion, C# is a superior language these days now that most of .NET has been ported into dotnet core. However, that's only been the case for a few years and before that, Java was in a league of its own with its excellent library ecosystem and omnipresent JVMs.

Java is a very boring language. Features get added slowly compared to other languages, improvements are generally quite gradual and new concepts only rarely ever get added to the language. This will drive away many hot startups and fresh CS graduates because they want to use the latest technologies in brave new ways and explore the ecosystem.

For general businesses, boring is good. Boring is predictable, understandable and maintainable. Java is not the fastest language to write software in, but it's fast enough not to warrant teaching your staff a new language for. It's missing many features that are standard in other languages, but there's third party libraries to make up for that.

In my mind, languages like Rust and Zig are the Teslas of the software world, exciting, new, full of flaws that need to be ironed out but ready to storm the general market one day soon. Go and Kotlin are the shiny new SUVs, impressive and high quality, but packed with weird design choices and opinions on how to use them. Java and C# are the old van the company has owned for 20 years. Nothing impressive, but reliable, comfortable, predictable, and with quirks that everyone has been learning for years now. Most businesses don't need a Cybertruck, they need to get around, and what businesses already have is good enough for the next while.
Pontem network is a fake defi project who makes the rich richer be very careful of this one! Pontem network will be using facebook's DIEM or Move code to launch their project on the polkadot network. But do not be fooled by the "DEFI" aspect of this fake project who is using that term for marketing reasons
As the other poster said, if that's the argument you're resorting to, I would say you've already lost.

I've found it is helpful to count by equivalent number of deaths to something that the person has actually experienced, as it is way too easy to brush away deaths that occurred in 1918.

For instance, it's as if you took the number of years of life lost in 9/11 and multiplied it by 120.
A few years ago, I closed my Amazon account partly because I felt like the company was a net negative for society. And I haven't missed it, even in the past year. I guess it's kind of similar to social media in that respect, you feel less like a clicking/buying machine and it's pretty nice.
Domain Hijacking via Logic Error – Gandi and Route 53 Vulnerability
If tied with a "make a paid account to access the obscured images", the non-obscured images may be useful enough on their own to be worth the initial buy-in. And the obscuring makes for a pretty strong block on use without at least some payment, as it's far harder to remove than most watermarks.

I do agree that a watermark is (strongly) preferable for choosing which individual images to buy - small details can make or break images, and this obscures a lot of the image. Just pointing out that there may be uses on the same kinds of sites.
“Good news” the variants, b117 and p2 are more likely to infect younger populations.
I grew up poor, was homeless at 16 for a year while still trying to go to HS, eventually had to drop out and climb up the career ladder with no formal education, now make well into 6 figures and I'm more than happy to help people NOT have to go through my situation. You should be as well. I am beyond lucky that I dug myself out of that hole and I know other people will not have my luck. If I didn't start programming as a kid because my school got computers early I would probably be in retail still.

And evidently your luck, as well.
Why not cancel the new invoice and pay the old one as they said?
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You are making an assumption that all (or even just the majority) of excess deaths are because of this.

Moreover, we know that there are examples of the opposite: deaths where Covid was on the certificate as a contributing factor, but not the primary cause. These aren't hard to find.

An 85 year-old with congestive heart failure and late-stage cancer and Covid reflects the modal situation here. It isn't some theoretical event -- it's incredibly common.
Or, maybe California was hit earlier, having a greater share of its total cases relatively early in the pandemic and geographically concentrated, meaning more overwhelmed hospitals and more use of early-pandemic treatment protocols that both overused ventilation based on generic protocols not tuned to COVID’ behavior and lacked more effective treatments developed during the pandemic.

(I mean, that definitely happened, but I haven’t seen analysis quantifying the significance of the total contribution.)

There’s a whole lot of omitted confounding variables in the “compare aggregate totals and jump to policy conclusions” games people are playing.
That's a theory not happening in practice. In practice Java programs are slow and memory-hungry because of those issues when some people think that it's cheap to create small objects or that escape analysis will solve their issues without verifying that it works for their case.
I certainly prefer the type system of C# over Java, but the latest things I've seen come out of the Java camp give me confidence that I could port most of the same ideas across the way without too much friction if need be.
I'd happily pay Google to not be data mined and for a guarantee that if one of their algorithms closes my account by mistake I can immediately get an actual person to review and fix it.
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You'll find this interesting then:

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

>As of 2009, non-military cryptography exports from the U.S. are controlled by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security. Some restrictions still exist, even for mass market products, particularly with regard to export to "rogue states" and terrorist organizations
Except that after 15 months of global catastrophy and investigation, no evidence has been found in support of that.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it would seem that if 'minks' were the problem, there would be trail of evidence to pick up on.

Hence the notion of speculation / Occam's Razor.
Another feature of the interaction that did not match OP's priors.
Rails + bootstrap ui. The fastest lane to up & running website.
What are you even trying to draw attention to here? This appears to be using the EN framework, which suggests it wouldn't have been approved for distribution if it collected any personal data or location information.

I get that you have an axe to grind here for some reason but I'm not even sure what point you're trying to make.
> factor large prime integers

factoring large prime integers is very easy =P
Everyone paying attention when Path et al were uploading whole phone address books (which lead to Apple adding it as a specific permission in the next iOS) knew this data was getting stored indefinitely.
They weren't mass layoffs, it was a handful of people. For some reason 50-190 people out of 9,500 is getting called a "mass layoff", when in reality it's nothing more than a fat trimming exercise.

0.9%-2% is not a "mass layoff".
It's pretty difficult to prove covid was not a contributing factor to a person's death. So unless there's clear evidence it wasn't, it should be listed as a contributing factor.

This isn't really any different than when a person dies some immediate event while also suffering from an underlying illness. If a leukemia patent suffers a an aneurysm, one would expect leukemia to be present on their death certificate.
Okay, I was actually responding to your "but these are virtually non-existent since peer review/editing is time and labor intensive", but I suppose you were referring to the process of finding peer reviewers.
While all those things are true, if they disclosed ITAR controlled jet turbine technical schematics to potential adversaries, that's a real problem... Having the most reliable, fuel efficient, high performance engines in current generation military aircraft is a major advantage.
It says the top 1% emit 15%, and then basically says they need to reduce that to essentially zero.

Then the bottom 50% who collectively emit 7% could triple their emissions.

Is it me, or is 100% - 15 + 7*3 > 100?

Either the UN report is not talking about reducing CO2 emissions or the reporter greatly misunderstood it.

Later the reporter puts great emphasis on airplane travel almost to the point of saying that just cutting that alone would be enough - yet airplane travel (all of it) is 2.5% of emissions.

This article pretends to be about CO2, but is really about inequality.
According to the below link, the revenue per user is US$32 per year and growing. It would need to be more than $1 or they are going backwards.

However they wouldn’t have to pay to maintain their creepy advertising systems and would presumably save on processing and bandwidth etc.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/234056/facebooks-average...
$15/h is insane. The lowest pay at a McDonald's in Denmark is $18+ which is a crap wage.
Divorced from learning? Let's say that it has been an open marriage for quite a while now. I leave it to the interested to look up Henry Adams's remarks on his student days at Harvard.
Again, voluntarily sure. I view redistribution of wealth via force to be a net negative on the wealth of society.

> evidently your luck, as well.

I worked at a Burger King, a hardware store, an apartment complex (plumbing toilets and whatnot), and finally put my self through college. It was an exhausting climb the whole way and I _worked_. I was never let go, and I hardly (like a $1500 a pell grant once) received assistance because I _made too much_ in my day job when I finally did go to school.

I wasn't terribly lucky other than I `lucked` into a work ethic and I `lucked` into being born in a country that still had enough of a free market that I _could_ work my way up.

And thinking on it now I don't think I was that well served by my schooling. I feel if anything I was held back in an _almost_ deliberate effort to homogenize me.
The standard way to do it is to mutate clones as always in Java. Typically by use of libraries that provide this. You really need very bad code to have to think about if objects are mutable.
Failing to acknowledge the failures of others and focusing on scapegoating problems onto a specific group(when others are guilty as well) is also not a valid position.
Oh good god :) Picking up writing from reading the average paper is likely injurious to the health of your future readers. Few papers are well-written and you're likely to unknowingly pick up bad habits from reading the average paper. If your advisor was actively training you in good writing and providing you critical feedback on sentence construction, paragraph organization, the flow of ideas from one section to the next, then sure, you wouldn't really require a class. But I doubt the average advisor has the bandwidth for such feedback, esp. in my field of biology.

In the context where I taught, most students coming into the PhD program had no training in writing whatsoever. The first round of essays that people turned in were typically very poorly written. Most folks really needed the training in my view.
It's not that bad. I see the feed and can even comment. Mentioning people is a pain, but I can live with that.
Source? Hospitals bill based on services performed, not based on what the ailment is. Nowhere in my bills did it say I went in for a kidney stone last year.
Medicare pays 20% more if they say that a patient has COVID[1].

[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/21/facebook-p...
I don't feel the need to as one doesn't negate the other.
Distribution costs were about 20% of their expenses. Cover & subscription revenue was also about 20%. Let's assume that other expenses are about 60% and profit about 20%. Let's assume that making the paper free would increase distribution by 10X. So gross revenue would be 800%. Subtract 200% for distribution, and 60% fixed expenses leaving profit of 540%/20% or a 27X increase in profit.

Obviously it wasn't a 27X increase in profit to stop charging for the paper. Why not? Because a free reader wasn't worth the same as a paid reader -- a paid reader was worth about 100X a free reader. Most free newspapers weren't actually read, and paying readers are a much more valuable demographic to advertisers.
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The "last guy" is the scapegoat. In toxic companies, deadlines are the date at which you get a new deadline. The effect is that people hustle to make the deadline, constantly having the rug pulled out from under them by the deadline, only to realize, they have to hustle for another month... and another month...

Because the project managers are cowards. Unwilling to tell management they have repeatedly set unrealistic expectations for them and of the staff.

Of course they blame the staff for be lazy or slacking. The reality is, they were never able to properly define and estimate the scope.

They are folks who never take accountability for their responsibilities. They blame others. Even after they did their best to fix the problems and then got blamed for them all after they left.
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Isn't it plausible your medical friends mentioned it a lot because...others around them also mentioned it a lot? Doctors and nurses are just as capable as spreading rumors as anyone else.
Is "pointing out" data considered downplaying? ~5% of deaths had "covid only" while the remaining 95% had other factors with the average having 4 other factors.

From the CDC:

> Table 3 shows the types of health conditions and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The number of deaths that mention one or more of the conditions indicated is shown for all deaths involving COVID-19 and by age groups. For over 5% of these deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 4.0 additional conditions or causes per death...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
Checkout the shadow stack used for CET (control flow enforcement technology). It is literally this idea
Nicely done sir!
C'mon, man! With Facebook you will end up both paying for the product AND being the product.
But then why not make them classified instead of ITAR?
> As well, you get the over-the-top cases where someone that dies of a gunshot is included in the covid death count[0].

? It's incredibly clear by looking at Colorado's numbers, there was no misclassification at all. Definitely mistakes have been made, but this isn't even an example of one.

Your comment is bizarre. The same case you're criticizing is from the state you go on to praise in the next sentence. These, unequivocally, have never been included in "death by covid" counts.

> financial implications for a state saying they have covid deaths

Yes, but there are also immense legal, financial, and political implications for lying about covid deaths. There is no evidence of this happening on a widespread scale.
What if we gave every employee $30K/year to invest in startups?
If it were voluntary would you contribute?
If MacOS support is terrible, then they could either not advertise it[1] or disclaim it results in poor UX.

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty#installation

Labeling a piece of software as "cross platform" without testing on all platforms comes across as dishonest.
To be fair, y'all had some serious vulnerabilities, including zone escapes and arbitrary kernel memory reads, discovered by @benmmurphy.