skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I know a guy who probably got it in late December. Here's what we know.

He is a bar owner in Austin, so he had a meeting with several people from China, relating to the (we thought) upcoming SXSW. Immediately afterwards, he gets very sick, goes to the hospital, the flu test comes back negative. He loses his sense of taste (so far permanently). One of the Chinese gentlemen he met with was soon thereafter dead from Covid-19.

Once antibody tests become available in the U.S., he gets one, and it comes back positive. In fact, so high that they ask if he can donate blood for antibody-transfusion based experimental treatments (he said yes).

So, in theory he could have been sick from something else, coincidentally after this meeting with people from China, and then afterwards had an asymptomatic case of covid-19 that would result in the positive antibody tests. But the anosmia makes all of that seem even less likely than it would otherwise. It will never be proven to a degree sufficient to convince those who require absolute certitude, but I have little doubt.
There is. It's called "projection."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
Flus and colds have significant differences.

If you develop symptoms abruptly and you have a fever and/or body aches it's almost certainly the flu.
The people who prefer not to confront the ugly parts of history directly. There are many.
I think this is a bad faith response to the poster you're responding to.
Entire counties can get their voting stations reduced to a few places that are super inconvenient for the parts of the county that won’t vote the way the people in control of the voting locations would prefer. Mail vote is a patch for this exploit, not an optimization.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27513938
After living next to a house that was on AirBnb for 3 years (rented at least 4 days a week), I want nothing more than the complete outlaw of the company and these types of rentals.
And on top of it I'll add that Syncthing added a feature called "untrusted device encryption"

https://docs.syncthing.net/specs/untrusted.html

So you can set a node in the cloud and set an encryption key between two endpoints, and whichever nodes that have the directory synced but doesn't have the encryption key will never have access to the decrypted data.
If you use an IntelliJ based IDE you can view commit entries for each line in the gutter.
Yes yes a thousand times yes, I miss this from when I lived in Seattle.
Personally, I have mixed feelings about this. Its a nice gesture, but I am concerned it’ll lead to two Fourth of July’s and further divide the country.
Observations:

1) Somehow I can actually play and enjoy it. I'm usually really bad at these sorts of games (Go, Viking Chess, etc.). But I find I win a good portion of medium games while not getting frustrated.

2) All animations need to be decoupled from the gameplay entirely. Don't remove them, but they have no place in the order of move execution. I can't actually play how fast I want to play because I still have to wait _a while_ for a previous animation to "finish".

3) If I quickly move my mouse cursor around and happen to move off the board (moving my mouse while thinking), it will actually select a random piece near the border without any click event ever happening.

All in all nice, but seeing how fast paced this game is (for me at least), it needs some major work to make it play snappy and predictable.
What regulations in particular would reduce the price of automobiles?
I think you kind of missed what I said upthread. Specifically if they had our resources (size, location, resources).

So, if they had the resources the US has, I very strongly suspect they would be more muscularly assertive than we are when it comes to world affairs --as I pointed, out, even at their reduced size and power, they desire quite a bit.

Also, correction, China is not only rattling sabers with Taiwan, but Philippines, Vietnam, Japan too.
I love this idea, but patriotism in the United States is mostly an act. Asking people to back their 'love of country' with an actual deed (especially one that shortens their time at the barbecue) would spoil the illusion.
Wow I’ve so far just watched the beginning with Papert but that is really good. Really got me thinking about how to teach robotics in “robotics land”. I’ve sort of done that once before but it would be great to do more.
> The question I have is, what is the obligation to report the facts of a story, regardless of consequence?

None. I don't even know why the news reports shootings at all. If they affect traffic, or the police are searching for witnesses or have drawings or photos of suspects that need to be identified, fine. Crime statistics, and the city's justification of the job they're doing? Fine.

But the leering at victims and the poring over the perpetrator's life is just pornography. Also, unless the failure to convict or the conviction despite mitigating evidence is part of a trend, or an indication of specific corruption - I don't know why it's supposed to be relevant to my life except to make me vote for the politician who assuages my fears of violence.
This is linked in the article:

https://github.com/cynthia/WorldWideWeb/tree/master/NextStep...
> Can even get worse if the borrowed money only exists based on promises in the first place.

but isn't this all modern fiat money?
I'm curious as to why it was taken down too- the video, blog post, and Github repo are all gone. Here's a mirror to the original: https://archive.is/JguQH
Ryan getting immediately hit without even saying a word makes me laugh every single time.
Very few countries were
TLDR: ??
It's used in pandas and I love it!
> Germany (and many other european countries) has the idea of a trade school, in which one learns a trade.

And that is a problem. Want to be a plumber? 3 years education. Want to open a bakery? 3 years education. Want to work at a bank? 3 years education. Want to be a hairdresser? You guessed it right - 3 years education. Handwerker? No luck, 3 years education. Car mechanic? Forget it. It’s ridiculous.
> If hosts could be compelled to use digital keypads and change the code after each stay, a situation like that might be avoided in the future.

As someone who's family has run a couple rental properties, I can not imagine trusting a high tragic rental that doesn't use a keypad entry.

You would have to be negligent and perhaps criminally/grossly negligent to rent a vacation rental without changing the locks and/or code. Many states require changing locks after every long-term renter... short term rentals have an even greater need to rotate the lock.

At a minimum the code should be rotated a few times a year and only if you at least get door unlock alerts. If you aren't likely to notice suspicious unlock/entry times then you need to rotate every time. And this is for a remote, secluded rental.

For a high traffic unit in a major city, you should assume that renters are going to stay longer than they paid, enter early, cleaner will skip a scheduled cleaning, etc. The only way to run a decent/safe vacation rental is to use unique codes for every visitor and verify entries e.g. cleaners entered and left at X & Y times, etc.
This is actually quite a bit more positive towards Airbnb than I would expected. Anecdotally, I’ve had friends with plenty of bad Airbnb experiences, though nothing even close to the level of sexual assault. In all of those cases, Airbnb was extremely reticent towards providing any kind of help.
Why do you care more about this mythical spec - which clearly is s load of rubbish if IndexedDB is anything to go by - versus a working, powerful technology that is as close to being able to be dropped in quickly as one could hope for?
This past election wasn't exactly very healthy

What elections were?

We have a rigged two party system. Layer conservatives and liberals stacking the system on top of that and you have an unhealthy democracy pretty much guaranteed. Given the corrupt nature of the leaders of the US, and the corrupt nature of the voters as well if we're being fair, the US has a remarkably smooth functioning system. It's definitely breaking down and showing its cracks, but given the breadth and scale of the assault it's been under for about the past 40 or 50 years, you have to be impressed at how it has held up.
I lived next to a bad neighbor once, I want nothing more than the complete outlaw of home ownership.
What? The whole point of "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox" is that we should abandon the "consumer welfare" standard. Meaning that we should gut Amazon even though it provides enormous benefits to consumers in the form of low prices. Lina Khan may represent the interests of Amazon's competitors, but she certainly doesn't represent the interests of consumers.
This should be celebrated. Not spending money on projects that don't have a purpose is obviously the correct choice.

It seems however that it's being deprioritized in place of hypersonic missiles, which are a frightening and potentially destabilizing technology in their own right.
well, there's an entire class of seats that by definition can't really be gerrymandered (Senate seats are always statewide).

Those did not flip nearly as hard as polls had projected.
If I sounded sarcastic my bad, I genuinely appreciate the clarification.
Maybe your friends and family aren't the ones being targeted?
It makes things worse because the banks now have an incentive to engage in riskier behavior. Their downside is covered by the government and their upside is payoff. So reckless behavior becomes a nobrainer.
You're right, I shouldn't have jumped from one to the other, despite the phrasing.
Well inacessible sensors are rather useless weight
Still: A fast, composable static site builder in Elixir
Debunking CNN report of China Taishan nuclear reactor “incident”
I'm not trying to respond in bad faith; I'm pointing out, albeit by hyperbole, that "more voting" can still be anti-democratic.
It's a matter of frequency, opportunity, and deterrence. Do you have statistics to compare, or are you just making conjecture?

It's fairly straightforward to go after Airbnb: put some teeth behind the regulations with respect to enforcement and impose really painful financial penalties. Also criminal ones: it's pretty clear that the executives and senior management are flouting the laws and regulations--punish them for it.
Tbh this isn't my experience in the UK. Manager is just one path people take; others aim for tech lead, or principal engineer. I really don't see how 'status' comes into this.
I agree with most of the article.
Explain the why and tricky parts.
Attempt self-documenting code, don't loose your head over it.

On other aspect, I can't believe this lived for 6 hours without the mandatory quote: https://xkcd.com/1421/

Enjoy.
How so? It only affects the end consumer. It’s deductible for businesses.
As the saying goes. Out of sight out of mind.
Well that is certainly true. I seriously doubt anyone is being "targeted" however. Were you unable to vote for some reason?
probably replaced by the same AI that was supposed to improve hiring decisions but was mostly just using names, college location as racist descriminstors
I was confused too, but this actually explains it pretty well:

http://www.5z8.info/freeanimalporn.com-start-download_s2e9hb...
My (large media) company has had it as well. We've made inclusion and progression a huge point of emphasis over the last decade though, so it's not really surprising.
HN is really fucked these days. I see so many comments like yours that try to present factual data, but are spitefully downvoted - and obviously because those facts are inconvenient to a political party that is flirting with fascism.
I totally buy your explanation. Consumer devices are extremely noisy. Back when I worked on embedded, the only tests that I could trust were running on the boxes
> are already built into most phones

I don't know know about most unless you mean that most iPhones have it, but I wasn't aware it was built into mine, using Android 10. Just didn't put two and two together. My old smartphone on Android 9 didn't have it, I'm pretty sure.
I don't think you can.

But democracy's approval rating has been dropping for a while, so that's probably not the death blow it would have been. Democracy doesn't seem to be sacred anymore.

The number of people saying it's essential (rating a 10/10 on importance) to live in a democracy seems to have peaked for people born in the 50s in Europe and has been dropping for birth cohorts since the 30s. [Figure 1 in the source]

Source: https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/0...

Additionally, about 15-20% of people in the US (depending on age) seem to think democracy is a bad way to run a country [Figure 2 in previous source]

Even this pew article, which is relatively rosy on democracy, finds that ~40% of the US would be fine with leaving policy making to experts. The question specifically mentions excluding elected officials. [4th chart in next source]. We could probably debate on the merits of technocracy, but it's a very different thing than democracy.

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2017/10/16/democracy-wide...
> the sheer scale of it seems to have grown dramatically in the last few decades.

Do you have a reference for this? Because I suspect it is not true. There was certainly a peak in the early 90s, which is on the outside edge of the "last few decades," but there was also a peak in the 70s.
Unfortunately these have not (as yet) been added to http.cat
I like hotel chains as well,’but beware that they may not be as clean as we’d like to believe: nypost.com/2020/06/29/high-end-nyc-hotels-not-sanitizing-rooms-changing-sheets
Tried it and it says i have 12 hours to sunbathe before burning... I thought the site must be broken, then looked outside and remember it's the middle of the night. Touche
Some hindsight bias there I suspect. If it was so obvious a decade ago can you identify the next decades’ no-brainer investments?
this is actually what i want
Anyone using an apartment as an Airbnb (as so many in NYC do) won't have the authority to change the lock type on their door without approval from building management.
Or just do vote by mail like in Oregon. Works really well.
The f35 habit is a federal thing. States administer elections so that wouldn't help them at all (and it's not due to money)
Google was great until after they won the second browser war and gradually became used to power.

They’re a lot like a revolutionary government that gradually becomes corrupt and as bad as the regime they overthrew.
Same. Last year it was a half day, but this year it's a full holiday like any other (observed on Friday, June 18), and I assume will continue going forward.
Exactly right. "The definition of X is Y. Y is actually good because blah blah". It's terrible.
Text-only version

https://text.npr.org/2021/06/15/1006807299/lina-khan-promine...

(Was having problems retrieving the full blown version.)
China already has several variants of hypersonic missile “carrier killers”, DF-21/26 for example; US DoD development of such technology is to maintain force parity, and long range ordinance protects high value assets (carriers) from close range combat.

I hope learnings from this railgun make its way into broad military power control electronics, and trickle down to consumers if there is value.
Haha ok

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27254748/
Briefing: Tech Critic Lina Khan Named FTC Chair
> You remain a foreigner, who should still work for less pay than those who grew up locally and went to an ivy league school, even though you have the same credentials and graduated at a top school in Europe (in my case, I have an ivy league degree on top of that).

Bingo. There's a set of something like ten schools from which Silicon Valley companies hire.

If you're not from one of those, you will be cordially invited to eat shit.
Why are you, as an Australian, so rabid about American politics?
The real WTF is Apple setting up a list of countries in the first place. There should be no list of "block downloads in these countries" feature, because there should be no record of what country any given account "belongs to".

The Internet never cared about countries. Then Big Tech came with all this legacy horseshit of dividing and controlling individuals, grafted proprietary software onto the HTTP protocol to create what is effectively Cable TV 2.0, and marketed the hell out of it drowning out actual Internet culture.

It's the exact same attack other countercultural movements succumb to, but that doesn't mean we should just silently accept it.
Being presumed innocent is not a court finding. The bar is much lower.
No it doesn't. Most COVID infections are mild. And someone who recovers from actual COVID should have had mucosal neutralizing antibodies in your upper respiratory tract and neutralizing antibodies in your blood, so you shouldn't have had any symptoms at all.

If you had extensive direct contact with someone COVID positive and didn't take precautions then you just got kind of lucky. You weren't immune.
Law is reasonable then. You track your user, you notify them . I fail to see the problem.

Then again, I am not running shady websites and selling user data
The craziest part about the CIA's LSD brothel is that the #2 man at the Bureau of Narcotics (which became the DEA in 1975) retired and then ran CIA's brothel for several years. Let that sink in. The number #2 law enforcement leader in the country switched jobs to secretly dose American citizens with an illegal drug. Laws for thee but not for me indeed.

Second, the most eye popping factoid is that CIA installed two-way mirrors and wired their brothel to record the John's with the prostitutes. I often wondered where did Jeffrey Epstein get the idea to secretly record his elite pals frolicking with his harem of underage girls in order to blackmail them. Epstein wasn't even the first guy to come up with this idea. CIA did.

I have done LSD several times decades ago. It is the most powerful drug I have ever taken. Nobody should ever be fed LSD without knowing it. I can see how a surprise trip could flip a switch in your brain and drive you insane, if you don't know what is happening to you.

I wish most of all that CIA would scrounge up their "lost" MKULTRA files and declassify them and at least tell us WHY they ran this brothel and secretly drugged Americans with LSD. If we knew their specific reasons why, at least we could then forgive and forget. As long as we don't know, we can only assume the craziest conspiracy theories about treason and political control are true.
Subprime mortgages were a thing for longer than leetcode was.

If they were bad for business, why was it a common practice for so long? Does a business have no clue what's bad for business? Or is it just self destructive?

If "it's an established practice" argument also enconoasses things that are bad for business, and things that are immoral and illegal, maybe it's not a strong argument?
In California we have lifted mask, and distancing requirements; in most situations.

In all honesty, I didn't mind wearing a mask, and distancing.

For one, I didn't have a cold, or flu, this winter.

More importantly, and I'm probally in the minority; I have Never liked people I don't know getting to close to me be at DMV, Doctor's office, or the supermarket. Tipsy at the bar is another story.

I was hoping social distancing would stick around after the panademic.

I guess I'm a bit anti-social?

I've noticed the vocal proponents of distancing, and mask wearing, are people whom salary depends on crowds, or packing people into small spaces.

I watching Bill Maher right now. He was a big proponent of being safe. Now---he's on the opposite side. Why--he makes part of his living by crowding people into stadiums for his chuckle fest?

Even before the pandemic, I always wondered why doctors were perfectly fine with having a waiting room with sick patients, all breathing the same air.
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Some people shoot places up for the notoriety. Not giving it to them seems reasonable to me.

That said, not perpetuating sterotypes is a stupid reason.
I like notebook-style programming (e.g. Jupyter, Mathematica, etc) for this. They don't quite fit the bill, and for example, don't provide a mechanism to render into a clean library with unit tests extracted from the notebook. But I still hold out hope for a good cross-language system.

Having read some of Knuth's literate code... good god that man is brilliant, but aesthetic language design isn't his wheelhouse
More evidence suggests Covid-19 was in the US by December 2019
And the CIA invented the term.
With black budgets shielded from adequate oversight, the people working in some of these agencies have escaped the rule of law and receive funding that allows rogue behavior. To some extent this is human nature, though taxpayers should stop funding it. A 50% cut in federal spending would be a good start.
No way you need to rotate a key after each use for a short term rental property. My family and my wife’s family have run beach rentals for years using a physical key. Cleaners do cause issues but they will also tell you if renters stay. They should be cleaning the same day as checkout. My father in laws beach house is almost rented year around you couldn’t stay late.
You clearly have never experienced medical gatekeeping. It can be really frustrating to be forced to change doctors or insurance and have to fight for years to continue the treatment regimen that actually works for you.

Your PCP is the tier-1 tech support of the medical world. They have basically zero specialized knowledge to evaluate different medications outside the brochure the sales rep gave them. There's a reason PCP's punt the responsibility for a diagnosis to a psychologist and then play the game of "spin the wheel of stimulants" to find something that both alleviates their symptoms and has tolerable side-effects. Having to go through the process all again for no reason other than weird politics or a doctor on a power-trip is the worst.

Ugh.
Yeah because it's like bribing a vote. If it was non partisan water no one would care but instead it's "Oh you're hot and thirsty standing in line? Here, have a cold one courtesy of Biden (or Trump)!"

Nothing is stopping voters from drinking their own water and eating their own snacks in line.

I applaud laws that limit "gift giving" at the polls. The polls should not be a place where your vote is swayed by a gift.
Since each of the people who responded to you, responded similarly, then perhaps the obstacle was your original wording and not with the people who replied.

What you wrote in this post is entirely different from what you wrote in your prior post.
One way around this is to use a lock that can send a signal through the door to unlock it, without requiring an exterior keypad.
>> Your whole framing can be flipped on its head be pointing out that Google, unlike Amazon has been willing to make such huge investments in the one public platform we've got.

True, as are some of the counterpoints. I don't think it contradicts OP's point though. FLoC is designed by Google, for Google's needs. Some/most of those are genuinely privacy related, the way that they're related is via advertising/targeting/tracking... which Google rely on for all their revenue.

Amazon, meanwhile, doesn't benefit from FloC much... hence conflict.

These datasets are being used as defining advantages by both companies. Why should amazon want to adopt/feed google's new analytics project?
If you spend 40 hours mentally preparing yourself to do a 4 hour task. Then during those 4 hours you are way more productive than other people, but since you had to spend all those extra hours to even get started your productivity sucks. It isn't hard to understand.

So then you take medication and now get started on the task immediately, but the task now takes 10 hours to do instead of 4. Your productivity during the task thus got reduced, but your overall productivity greatly increasied.