skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Quoting some poll is not evidence for your deranged conspiracy theories

1. We're discussing why a democratically elected government is behaving in a certain way. Citing polling data is a perfectly reasonable way to determine that, considering such governments are supposed to serve their voters' interests

2. You resorting to name caling (ie. "conspiracy", " deranged" is disrespectful and against site guidelines. If you can't refrain from that I'm going to have to disengage with you.

>You seem hatefully fixated on things which really don't matter all that much.

Banning high res satellite pictures matters even less

>Why do you have to construct these vast strange conspiracy theories about the religious beliefs of some segment of the population? So you can have an excuse to hate them?

>Supporting Israel (note: that does not equate to the spontaneous creation of any laws) honestly doesn't seem like the world's biggest problem. America recently sponsored wars, genocides, toppling of governments in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan which seems a bit more problematic. Or do you blame the blacks and the Jews for those as well?

Not really a conspiracy when they admit that to pollsters. Also I have not expressed any hate at evangelicals or jews. That seems to be something that you're dreaming up.
What Facebook really believes is that they can escalate this and buy themselves a few months even knowing they will eventually loose. Whether or not it is eventually enforced, they’ve bought some time and they can easily afford the cost.
Why not let it output the gbuffer images instead, or perhaps even let it operate on the artwork instead? That way you could bake the changes into the game without having to run the NN in real time.
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Russia had something similar at one point.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Условная_единица

No pages in other languages, basically prices were in USD due to inflation, but at some point it was forbidden to say that and to actually use dollars to trade, so people wrote у.е. instead. It even made it into some laws. Google translates it as Conventional Unit, but it doesn't really capture euphemistic nature of it though.

There also was redenomination which chopped three zeroes off, I guess you can call it a new currency.

> In September 1993, the Soviet ruble (code: SUR) was replaced with the Russian ruble (code: RUR) at the rate 1 SUR = 1 RUR. In 1998, preceding the financial crisis, the Russian ruble was redenominated with the new code "RUB" and was exchanged at the rate of 1,000 RUR = 1 RUB.
I only remember once being challenged to a fight outside. I didn't find it difficult to turn down. Biden surely shouldn't have used a threat of violence, but, especially in context, I doubt the recipient took the threat literally. The OP's point is that it's a difference in kind, not of degree.

For the record, toxic masculinity is bad, and a power differential makes it worse. Toxic masculinity coming from Kamala would have been just as bad. It's the power, regardless of source, that makes the toxicity more destructive.

(A friend and I had a code word for if either of us thought we had gotten into a bad situation. She had been flirting with a really drunk guy in a bar, not really interested, just liked the attention. The guy started following her around the bar. I wasn't sure if she was playing hard to get, until she got into a corner and started shouting our code word, which just confused the guy. I put my hand on the guy's shoulder and suggested he give her some room, at which point he suggested he and I take a step outside. A simple "nah, I think I'm fine" was sufficient to avoid a fight, but didn't really calm him down. The only time I used our code word was when we were vacationing in a developing country, had both gotten drunk, and some people we met invited us to a restaurant for some sober-up food. The restaurant didn't have a restroom, and one of the guys clearly took me a long twisting way to a restroom and promised to wait for me outside. 30 seconds later, my guide was nowhere to be found. I ran back, the short way, to the restaurant to find my guide and the others pressuring my friend to do some shots. I told her our code word and we left some money on the table for a couple shots and walked as fast as we could back to the main tourist strip.)
Smaller changes have resulted in hard forks in Bitcoin:

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

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

So yes, it is conceivable to change the fundamental algorithms, but it would certainly be experienced as a fork to the extent that not everyone involved in Bitcoin participated.

Also, changing the digital signature algorithm is a bigger and more difficult change than the hashing algorithm in some ways, because you need a strategy to preserve people's existing balances, either one that requires, or one that works without, their active involvement (that is, generating signatures). If there is a feasible attack to forge signatures, then a method that can work without existing Bitcoin owners' involvement will leave them vulnerable to having their holdings stolen by forgeries in the future. You can think of this as somewhat akin to weak RNGs in Bitcoin clients (there have been a couple of these) generating vulnerable private keys -- if legitimate owners knew about the problem before attackers acted, they could act to protect themselves, but if not, not. A feasible signature forgery attack based on a quantum computer would put everyone who owns cryptocurrency wallets based on the vulnerable signatures in a position like that of people using a client with a weak RNG. :-(
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tried this recently and found "beta" to be an extremely optimistic description of the state it's in
Oh the majority elected Gmail alright. They just weren't aware they were electing a dictator, and that the term was for life.
I always found inflation to be this arbitrary intangible number. Consumer price index is probably a better metric here than inflation for majority of Americans. Basically comparing how much the price of stuff people spend money on is increasing vs how much their income is increasing.
The immediate parent comment is saying that ex vivo IFNgamma responses from T-cells in the blood to SARS1 is evidence of long term immunity to SARS1.

I'm using the example of the cross-reactive immune response from other human coronavirus to SARS2, and the lack of any protection conferred by that immune response towards prevention of disease or hospitalization to be a counter example to the idea that the ex vivo immune response is necessarily predictive of useful infection/disease/hospitalization prevention.

We can't say that the spike in IFN gamma correlates to disease protection 20 years later, there's a lot of dots to fill in.

There's a big difference between an immunologists definition of "immune response" and the public's definition of "survivor island" style bulletproof "immunity".

We know the body still recognizes SARS1 17 years later. We have no idea if that person would get infected if they had dinner with someone who had SARS1. They'd probably do better than an otherwise naive person, and i wouldn't bet against that, but a T-cell response in a dish in a lab, that isn't even neutralizing, is weak evidence of an immune response.
Do you have any other examples other than saying very early that people needn't mask up and then reversing on that point?
> The fact that they changed the currency even made poor people who had savings in cash (awful idea!), poorer when they forgot to exchange it.

Given the inflation rate of almost 2000% in 1993 and 1994, if poor people had savings in cash they would very quickly have been worth nothing anyway. (I was a kid in Peru in the 80s-90s when they also had hyperinflation and 3 different currencies.)

Reading your article, while I agree with you on the absurdity of Bitcoin...

> that day when you wanted to eat lentils, you had to go through the trouble of exchanging potatoes for beans, then beans for rice, then rice for lentils.

Potatoes came over from the New World and weren't commonly eaten in Europe until the late 1500s. Lentils are likely from Mesopotamia. Rice wasn't common in Europe until sometime after the 10th century.

> Metals, even more so scarce ones, such as silver and gold, quickly emerge in your community as an answer to this demand.

No they don't. Metals at first only were used for long-distance trading, ie luxury goods, and it's not until the rise of states that metal currency becomes a common thing (required for taxation and military), and it was devalued constantly at the whim of the rulers anyway.

> the United States, the Gold Reserve Act forbid the Treasury and financial institutions from redeeming dollar bills for gold in 1934. It was the last remaining nation with a national currency to uphold the gold standard and one of the fundamental reasons, along with free trade, that made the nation prospered so much – not wars!

Huh? You have this precisely backwards. The fundamental reason the US prospered so much was that it was continually expanding its borders much later than other countries (through war!), right up until the 1900s. (See also: every empire in history prospers while it's growing.) The US also had high tariffs for a long time, and it wasn't until the period of the late 1930s and early 1940s when they actually started signing free trade agreements.

> The Keynesian party of state-issued inflationary currency might be over within the following decades. If I had to make a bet, I’d say stock from publically traded companies might be the base asset for the upcoming currencies.

Publicly traded companies... in which country exactly? The USD has its power and stability because it has the US economy and military behind it.

This is my fundamental disagreement with libertarianism: your statement "I want the free market to thrive and the state entirely out of everyone's lives" is a complete paradox. The "free market" is a creation wholly enforced through the power of the state (and ironically always requires a lot of regulation to stay that way). I will gladly change my mind if you can give me an example of where this is not true.
Yes! So much yes to this. Depression, anxiety, burnout, these are all messages from your subconscious that you need change, radical, drastic change. You need to stand up and shout to the world and to your subconscious that you won't take this shit anymore.

There are a (probably) minority of people with genuine brain chemistry imbalances, genetic or otherwise, that cause depression. But for the vast, vast majority of people being fed pills and trying to ignore their problems, your mental health issues are signs of issues you need to deal with, unresolved traumas, unfulfilling work, love, family, or social situations, political problems that you can't accept but you won't engage with, and so on.
I think at this point Apple should just do something similar to Samsung Dex and give you the choice of using macOS when you connect your iPad Pro to an external monitor.
Thank you for stating this. So many people who write about homelessness don't even want to engage with the actual report findings from the agencies that manage homelessness. For example, here's the key takeaway from LA's 2020 homeless count [1]:

> In addition to the enduring impact of systemic racism, an inadequate housing supply, and income inequality drive inflows to homelessness. Homelessness starts rising when median rents in a region exceed 22% of median income and rises even more sharply at 32%; in Los Angeles, the median rent is 46.7% or nearly half of median income.

Beyond the above, about 22% of our homeless population in CA came from outside the state (see the full presentation). If you actually want to tackle homelessness in CA, the solutions have been known for years, we just don't have the collective willpower to do any of them. 1) make other states actually deal with their own homeless problems instead of just exporting them to CA, 2) fix the absolute insanity of the housing market, 3) implement an actual social safety net so that people losing their job or priced out of their homes don't immediately land on the street. THEN we can talk about things like drug abuse, mental health management, etc.

[1] https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=726-2020-greater-los-ange...
For those in the EU, the upcoming travel pass will cover three categories of people: vaccinated, PCR-tested negative, and recovered (i.e. positive antibody test of immunity), https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/all-your-questions-on-...

> For travellers who have recovered from the virus: date of the positive test result, an issuer of the certificate, date of issuance, validity date

The bureaucratic stumbling block will be agreement on antibody and T-cell testing definitions across country borders.
It almost sounds like you are saying that if China sailed ships in international waters it would start a war. They do that all the time, and have been doing so for decades. Did I miss a world war?
But people are fine with giving Plaid their bank credentials for some reason.
> It was reducing / stagnating inflation

I think the point was that Brazil attempted multiple times to stop inflation. The problem in a cycle of hyperinflation is that it runs away from you--any measure you enact to stabilize prices is immediately out-of-date. Depending on your approach, that leaves various segments of the economy, e.g. consumers, screwed. If you have 100% inflation per month, if you freeze wages (e.g. through state-owned enterprise) one week but market prices continue increasing for another month because of momentum, you can only buy half as much. This creates enormous political pressures and animosities as you allude, which usually results in the government returning to money printing.

Ultimately, a government can't dictate prices even temporarily across an entire market, at least not instantaneously amidst hyperinflation. The point of the fake money was to prime market expectations, presumably especially in the supply chain. Because attempts to manage and slow the built-in expectation of inflation of the existing currency repeatedly failed, instead they created an alternative denomination against which people didn't have set expectations, notwithstanding shifting conversion rates. And it apparently worked. This seems notable because the usual fix for hyperinflation is to just adopt a foreign currency. The fact it worked highlights how the problem at hand was fundamentally a matter of managing market sentiment, not some intrinsic quality of a currency or its issuer.
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What!? I hope your joking. Firstly, you cant legally force someone to have a home without violating their rights. Even if you force someone to have a home you cant force them to use it. Also what differentiates someone who is homeless vs going on extended camping/hiking trip.

The biggest problem from a large homeless population is trespassing and litter to those around them. The act of not having a permanent residence is hardly criminal. I would have to lookup it up again but pretty sure there is a supreme court case from around the great depression era that says its unconstitutional to criminalize not having a residence.

Its the other things some homeless do that is the problem, and honestly a lot them need help and a lot don't have friends or family to help them.
Good article on that here:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6530/741
And California gives out bus tickets to New Mexico, or so the rumor has it, we are attractive for similar reasons. It’s why the movie industry is here too. I have always wondered about the homeless in colder climes - I know that I would rather be in Southern California than Michigan if I was going to be on the street. Plus California is wealthy, so there could be a perception that you have better resources, even if that is not really the case. New Mexico not so much.
DAU doesn't really matter when you aren't selling attention, the number of paying customers is what matters. TC lists 450 MAU, and this article is where i got the 500 million figure from, which is also listed as MAU [0].

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/032515/whats...
> is it the airtag functionality specifically that’s bothering you?

Yes.
They have very reduced biological activity, but they are not inert. Seeds can respond to water, temperature, light, day length, chemicals produced by fire and smoke, and to different plant hormones among other things.
Why was the plastic shielding useless?
what was your vehicle of choice for the expedition?

Also, what was your most memorable place you've seen in the Americas? Africa?
> I think it's kinda obvious: there are more homeless because this spending makes it easier to be a homeless. Fighting homelessness is easy: make it strictly illegal, a felony punished (for repeat offenders) with a real prison term. It will deter many delinquents from trying, they will try to stick with some sort of employment and housing.

So, basically kick people while they're down until they're so bloodied and broken that they spring up and go get a job?
the fan-list pretty much went 50/50 on it. mashing several books together made sense filmic-wise but ruined the chance of significant followups on the real plot inherent in the books. It was beautifully shot. Rusty is a bit of a dog, but was a reasonably well cast Aubrey. I'm less sure Paul Bettany caught the Maturin role, but we're down in the weeds.

Peter Weir: Picnic at hanging rock, Gallipoli. Dead Poets. Trueman show. Amazing backlist of films.
Which “developing” countries are running world class fabs these days? Taiwan and South Korea are definitely first-world countries, as much so as the US.
Do you know how often people have the problem you help them solve?
> It seems like you've thought about this quite a bit — what would the reasoning be?

I have not, no, this is just guesswork, but the reasoning is how much of an unknown quantity the covid risk still is. If Bob's doctor says it's not safe for Bob to return to the office because Bob's wife had a pulmonary embolism two years ago, who's to say the doctor is wrong? If Bob's psychologist says he has PTSD and the only way he can work safely is from his couch, how can you argue that allowing him to wfh isn't a "reasonable accommodation", after he's done it for a year and gotten a good annual review?

But again, I'm talking out my butt on this. My point was not that medical necessity is a convincing case, just that conjuring up the specter of medical necessity might change things if they were only loosely committed. And I don't think this is duplicitous: I think a very likely outcome for a lot of big corporations will be a "mandatory" return to the office which, in practice, is so riddled with exemptions that everyone who wants to wfh is allowed to.
If I was your manager, the questions I would ask are:

- Do you have a designated space that is adequate and safe for work?

- Do you have an ergonomic setup including an ergonomic chair and desk?

- Do you have reliable / high speed internet connectivity?

- Do you have a proper microphone setup? (and camera if required)?

- Will you commit to be responsive via instant messaging or another communication solution during office hours?

- Will you comply with good practices regarding the handling and disposal of confidential or sensitive information?

If you can answer yes to all of that, I would have no problems with you becoming a remote employee.
While I agree the numbers are high, just saying "California spends more than other states/countries on [xyz]" is pointless by itself. California spends more on everything. It's an expensive state. If San Francisco is spending 2x more per capita on housing, social services etc. than Harrison, Arkansas, that is still a lot less than it should be given how much everything costs in the city.
No useful threading in Slack, which is still one of its silliest issues. You must be using a paid version of Slack to see messages from a long time ago, as they have a limit on the no-cost version. This probably makes you dependent on your employer. When one switches between channels in Slack, oh boy is that think laggy! Sometimes I can wait for 5s, before the thing has switched, on a fairly modern CPU and up to date browser. In Thunderbird I can switch to saved searches and folders seemingly no matter how many e-mails I have in there in what seems to be perhaps 100 milliseconds. Lets face it: Slack is hopelessly bloated slow and laggy to no end. E-mail does not have these issues, if you use the right tools, as in not using anything like MS Office 265 Outlook to access e-mails, because that is broken in similar ways.
i literally selected "SARS-CoV-1 still have a strong immune response almost 20" from OP's questioning comment, right clicked, selected "Search Google for..." and the same article was the first result.

Nature is a reputable publication.

I think this boils down to internet folks assuming their conversational partner has the same level of knowledge they do, don't believe the other party, and then ask for proof, rather than educate themselves. The citation was trivial to produce.

"Citation needed," and it's cousins should be reserved for things that aren't easy to find. This is just embarrassing.
Many homeless people in NYC live in the subway. I guess other large cities have similar informal systems.
> I guess I'm still confused. "Pays well" as in, pays well above average? I'm taking average to mean ~$130,000 in California / Bay Area.
> So you made well above that for 9 years AND lived somewhere with a lower cost of living?

As I said in my original post, I've been very fortunate, and my situation doesn't apply to everyone even in tech. But yes, though I started out lower than that at the beginning, it just grew rapidly over time. This is the pay grade I've been at for the last several years: https://www.levels.fyi/company/PayPal/salaries/Software-Engi... (3rd party source, not implying anything about its accuracy)

> Then I could understand saving so much that you don't worry about retirement. But if you're making "good" but average salary in the bay area, and even saving a lot, you're still eating into savings to take months and years off.

I'm going to ignore compound interest and taxes for simplicity here. If I save 50% of my salary, and take one year off, I lose two years of savings -- one year of spending and one year of making up for what I spent. If I save 10% of my salary, and take one year off, I lose ten years of savings -- one year of spending and nine years making up for what I spent.

> Maybe an easier way to ask this is... What would you consider to be enough saved in the bank, at say, 35 years old, to take a whole year off?

This part of the answer is actually terrible advice because it's so over-simplified, this is just meant to make a point. The shorthand rule is at a 50% savings rate you can retire after a 20 year career. So you don't really need to have anything saved at 35 beyond what you'll spend to take time off, because when you come back you'll still have more than 20 years left to work.

Keeping my savings rate high is fundamentally what allows me to do this, more because I'll make up for the "lost time" quickly than because of what I've already saved.
1.5 million public school students experienced homelessness in the most recent year data is available for [0].

Should we also demand that they seek treatment before housing them?

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homeless-population-there-are-m...