skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow this is a great little hack I am going to try it. I like how it works like the Pomodoro strategy does.
No, it is not implausible in the sense that "it could never happen". However, neither was it implausible for this to have happened with the myriad of other viruses which have jumped into our species across our natural history—and yet here we are.

Remember there is no motivation behind the virus to adapt, nor such thing as "wiping out" the immune response. At most, there are random mutations which, if they are more successful than the previous ones, will become more widespread than their alternatives.

Are mutations that are less sensitive to current populations' immune responses more likely to succeed? Yes, of course! But there is a practical limitation to how much a virus can accumulate mutations which evade immunity to previous variants: it must not break its ability to infect (human) cells. Eventually an equilibrium is reached, as it has thousands of times previously.
The notion that Iran's economic actions on 'oil pricing' is any material threat to anything is totally unfounded, as they don't have the economic power to do such a thing.

The notion that Iran's military threat exclusively down to antagonism of Israel is another conspiracy theory - because their actions clearly are much broader.

The concern over Iran is founded in the fact that since their Islamic Revolution, they've been an open antagonist of the US and the West, they constantly threaten the Gulf, Saudi Arabia, the stability of the Middle East. Since they have embarked on their Nuclear Program which they are using to Blackmail the world, it's become a much more significant issue.

Iran's 'problem with oil' is not their ability to supply, it's that they are literally attacking Saudi Arabia both directly and indirectly (via Houthis) and trying to overthrow House of Saud, Bahrain, and eventually the other Gulf states. They're constantly threatening commerce (mostly Oil) in the Gulf.

This antagonism by the way is rooted in centuries-old Shia vs. Sunni conflict over the righteous claim to 'True Islam'.

Iran's destabilizing and support of terrorism against Israel is of course well founded, but their actions against Saudi Arabia are more direct and have much bigger direct repercussions. Of course, the overthrow of Israel has probably the most indirect knock-on effects which would throw the entire region into chaos.

And by the way 'Big Business' in the world would much prefer to end sanctions. All of that Iranian Oil will be spent on US and German 'stuff' and Tim Cook would definitely want to sell them all iPhones.

Protection of individuals privacy, so that their emails and SS numbers aren't accidentally made public, are basically an orthogonal issue - not even business issues are aligned.

This talk of a nebulous 'overclass' is not helpful to your argument if you conflate their own needs especially 'money' - which most of them wold prefer to make in Iran if they could. The US has a complicated leadership class that's not easily lumped into groups. We're seeing more progress on issues of privacy so cross your fingers.
There are Palestinians living in east Jerusalem. There’s Palestinians who are citizens of Israel. His use of wording was ambiguous.
I had a job where I lived on planes and in airports (this was just before smartphones existed). The first day on the job, I logged in to the corporate network. It told me bluntly `This is the BigCorp network; there is no right to privacy'. The entire time I was there, I travelled with two laptops.

I don't blame BigCorp for their policies; their equipment, their rules. But I strongly recommend separating the use of business and personal devices.

And, no, if an employer demanded I install an app on my personal phone, I'd refuse.
I never had to unlearn this lesson. There's a second, related, lesson to unlearn though: The idea that the teacher is an antagonist.

The way it works is the teachers set up obstacles to you getting good grades, and any way over, around, or through the obstacles is fair game. Any good teacher is there to help you learn the material. They are your learning ally.
Yes, both employers and employees have to increase their productivity when the minimum wage is increased. It makes many jobs (like elevator operator) obsolete, those people have to skill up or take jobs that require them to do more. There could also become a point where skilling up/working harder is no longer feasible. In that case, a basic income starts to look a lot more appealing.

Minimum wage is set at the state and city levels. The federal minimum wage is probably obsolete in about 90% of the country right now, perhaps close to 100% now.
For the last paragraph it wasn't quite that simple, Nielson Media Research was aggregating audience statistics for market analysis since the radio days before TV.
> Trump claimed "there was fraud" a bazillion times, with no evidence.

How can there be visible evidence for a process that is very opaque, particularly because each state manages the process differently with their own standards on security and audits? There are some clear reasons to distrust the process: for example, the two major parties don't even agree on voter ID, which seems like such a basic requirement to have a trustworthy political process. Excuses against voter ID don't make sense given how much identification and validation is needed for the COVID-19 vaccinations, but they still persist.

Personally, I don't believe there was fraud at a scale that would affect the election outcomes. However, I do think there are a nonzero number of problems in every election season, many opportunities to improve the integrity of the process, and that we should strive for a perfectly trustworthy and easily auditable process. For now, identifying those opportunities to improve the process starts with speculating about what could have gone wrong.

> He also told the Georgia Secretary of State to "find 12,000 votes", and a bunch of other stuff. That's the attempted coup.

You're moving the goalposts. January 6th in particular, has been consistently been portrayed as a coup, by dedicated activists, journalists, and Biden supporters more broadly. Words have meaning, and clearly January 6th was not a "coup". As for the "find 12,000 votes" comment - I don't like it, and I'll wait for the conclusion of the investigations to see if any laws were broken. I will say though, that people also "find votes" in other ways - for example ballot harvesting is legal in Washington state, and politicians/activists regularly hold last minute drives to gather votes from homeless people (which can be marked to any desired location), in a process of dubious electoral security that is nevertheless legal.
To expand on that: the home building rate kept pace with population growth up until the housing crash, and then collapsed. I'm not sure how much of a lag time there is between population growth and the demand for more housing, but eventually all the kids born in the last 20 years will need to live somewhere.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041889/construction-yea...
I love staying home. Get paid and spend nothing. Thanks Cuba for pioneering that concept!
Teachers would have more recognition and status if there were concrete evidence that their methods are effective and based on reproducible research.

Is there a 10x teacher or even a 2x teacher? Surely there is, but how would we know?

In Asian cultures a handful of teachers make a million dollars a year because they do test prep: it's easy to tell when their students pass or fail the big test. The most successful ones are treated by parents and test-takers as A-list celebrities, or even beyond that. They'd sooner swoon meeting Gwen Lee than Scarlett Johansson.

But if you're teaching something harder to gauge, like "writing" or physical education, then it's hard to know if you're a 2x teacher or a 0.5x teacher. And you can't point to your research-backed methodology, because everybody else's methodology is also research-backed (n=22, observed over 3~6 weeks, as usual).

The people who raise the next generation should have recognition and status if they're doing a good job. Are they? Would any random person off the street be doing an equally good job? We don't really know.
The linked article is arguing against a straw man that I don't think many ML engineers and researchers actually believe.

Whether or not loss functions and model calibration are part of the "data" or the "algorithm" is just a question of semantics. Nobody who knows anything about ML would argue, as is incorrectly suggested by this article, that the choice of loss function plays no role in producing bias or inequity.

The actual argument that most closely resembles the straw man in this article goes something like this.

"The general project of using deep neural networks is extremely flexible and powerful. It is possible to build datasets and train deep neural networks so that the biases in those models are understood and acceptable. When existing models show bias, there are usually engineering solutions that can remove the bias within the paradigm of deep learning."

Counter arguments to this reasonable claim are much more difficult to defend. The research community rewards "whistleblowing" much more strongly than finding solutions, which is generally a good thing. But a nasty side effect is that the majority of algorithm fairness research is pessimistic, despite huge improvements and widespread belief in industry that these problems are solvable using known techniques.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203042

Two solutions. The first requires an iPhone (to disable iMessages on your account with) and the other does not. This has been around for years now.
> For other upgrades, the owners put it up to a vote

2 vote for, 2 vote against. What now? All of the examples you listed are even splits (2 vs. 2 or 4 vs 4). Who resolves a dispute in the case of a tie?
Didn’t know this happens outdoors. Does the CO2 rise well above the surface though? I’ve heard there are “Dog Caves” [1] around the world where CO2 is low in the cave and will kill short animals but spare adults.

[1] https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/03/why-dogs-cant-stand-ca...
I’ll have to watch the video. It looks like there is some missing context in the article alone.

Still not sure how I feel. On the fence but leaning more good than bad. The thing I cant get past is “what else would a kid do with their time?” Even if its not a great way to make money, it seems like a better use of time than what I did. It just seems like it still provides a strong learning opportunity.

I think there may be a different argument about whether it exploits developers generally and not just kids.
>For me, other people's problems aren't my problem.

Just hope that in whatever society you live in, the people who do have problems don't get to a point in which they're so desperate they turn to violence against you, if you so have a lifestyle in which they feel you should be helping maintain said society.
Windows Hardware Compatibility Program Specification mandates that Secure Boot can be disabled and customized, by a physically present user, on non-ARM platforms, in early versions of the Windows 10 spec.

Disabling Secure Boot must not be possible on ARM systems. - WHCP-Systems-Specification-1511.pdf

However, looking at the -2004 spec, both customization and enable/disable sections are prefaced with (Optional for systems intended to be locked down) so it is no longer mandatory, even on x86_64 systems, to provide a physically present user with the ability to disable or customize UEFI Secure Boot. The same language is used in the -21H2 spec for Windows 11.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/com...
That's just fear mongering nonsense, like claiming that we can't reasonably say that aliens won't invade the Earth tomorrow. I mean I can't prove it's impossible but come on. There's no scientific evidence that a coronavirus can be both highly contagious and have a 30% fatality rate. CDC data clearly shows that the fatality rate in the US has been 0.6%, largely because we have a lot of vulnerable elderly people with serious co-morbid conditions. The fatality rate in countries with younger, healthier populations is far lower. And for vaccinated people of all ages the death rate is close to 0.
Yes I think what you're saying is accurate. My apprehension is the lack of concrete data we have for comparison at the time to whole heartedly put my life in the hands of engineers, for this particular thing. I do, however, look forward to a well vetted, tested and regulated, automated driving future.
I'm assuming you are then fine with Iran and other countries having a nuclear enrichment program as well, yes? As otherwise, why should "we" be able to "use it if we needed to", but not other countries?
I don't know about strategies, but I think the key principle is not to take it personally. It can be difficult when someone is dismissive of something you think is important, but hanlon's razor suggests that you take it as me ignorance. Recognize that this conversation is your opportunity to open their eyes to why something you care about is important.
You would first have to establish these kids were employed by Roblox, and I would predict that to be a very uphill battle.

It would be hard to argue Roblox is paying anyone in exchange for work.
> “We were bored doing the housewife thing,” recalls Ely today. “I was ready to be something.”

I find it interesting how it's generally acceptable for women to insult other women who choose to devote their time to raising a family. I mean, I get her point but the quote above is demeaning as hell.

Since that's not likely to end anytime soon, I suppose it'd be funny to see the insults fly in the other direction. Like, stating how "working moms" are kidding themselves that they have a full mother-child relationship. They've out-sourced a critical and singular relationship to paid employees (the nanny -- assuming their spouse also works). They don't know what's going on in their kids' lives, they don't know who in school is bullying them, they don't know which kids are getting into drugs, they only know the very surface of what their kids are dealing with. They're lying to themselves to think they can both kick ass at work and as a parent. They sacrificed precious childhood years of emotional, mental, and life guidance, in exchange for their paycheck.

None of the above is cool to say. But it's definitely OK to demean in the other direction.

Disclaimer: I'm a male parent, working full-time, wife quit her job when kids were born. She has never regretted the decision, and is always super busy and never "bored." And me, I know 100% there's an experience I've sadly forever missed of spending time with my kids, especially pre-WFH.
Methods File (1993)
Aren’t most modern game developers notoriously exploitative of their adult workers? And, increasingly, their users of all ages? Perhaps a “legendary” game developer isn’t the best person to weigh in on whether Roblox is “fine” or exploitative.
I'm not sure about bragging, but it struck me that given that winners identity (at least names) are publicly available, the rough amount, and the rough time, he is pretty much outing himself. Maybe that has something to do with it.
State Dept. scraps plan to bill Kabul evacuees $2K for flights
My excitement for another ACOUP post is only mitigated by how far behind I am in reading other posts on the site and how I just keep getting farther behind.
Fossil hunters unearth galloping, dinosaur-eating crocodiles in Sahara (2009)
You act as if heroin and sexwork are in two different universes. They are in the same universe and they overlap quite a lot. You can be pro-sex without being a Pollyanna about it across the board. Things happen in both domains that don't fit either the happy model or the doomful one.

Edit: you say recovering from heroin addiction and second-order effects are all negative as if sexwork has no impact on, for example, human relationships, and while I like some of the thought that went into your post, it still reads as a bit absurd.
I don't understand why
```
SELECT total(amount)
FROM orders
WHERE createdAt BETWEEN '2020-01-01 00:00:00' AND '2020-12-31 23:59:59';
```

would do a full table scan. Wouldn't the engine be able to use the index to find just the correct rows and then only do the total on those?
Wirecard just filed for bancrupcy after 1.9 Billion euros dissapeared.
I think the practical effect, if not intended design purpose, of a republic is to launder responsibility. To create a layer of indirection and uncertainty between the people who have power and the popular perception of who to hold accountable. The wealthy write the rules and use politicians as patsies. In return for their service to the elite, politicians are offered some privileges and a degree of protection from the angry mobs. The mobs are made to believe that the most effective way to effect change is to vote in new politicians, allowing the old ones to peacefully retire. The economic elite rest easy, knowing the new politicians will serve their interests just as the old ones did.

Sometimes a renegade politician who earnestly has the interests of the common people gets voted into power, but the 'damage' such a renegade can do is regulated by term limits (and sometimes assassination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracchi) Other times, the public believe they are voting for such a renegade, but accidentally empower a tyrant who aims to usurp the elite and have true power for himself. But by in large, a republic regulates the system, maintaining the status quo to the benefit of those who already have power in the status quo.
I think you're misunderstanding the concern. As seen in stories like the x-ray race detection thing (https://www.wired.com/story/these-algorithms-look-x-rays-det...), there's a lot of people in the AI field who believe that any correlation with race in a model is a "bias" which should be corrected. If a radiology AI model stumbles across some unknown condition like sickle cell anemia with a strong racial correlation, I think we should learn about it, and I worry that under the kinds of practices the source article suggests it would just be bias adjusted away.
Modern capitalism depends on fiat currency and investment from those with capital. Currency loses value over time to inflation, so investors are always trying to get better returns against a baseline. Even at 3% per year, consumption has to double every 16 years if investors only want to break even.

So, it's not "nice" if the economy grows, it's an absolute requirement to keep investors interested.
> We have been using Sturdy in it's own development

I'm wondering, if one person has some edits in progress (which won't compile), and another person wants to compile and run the app, then, does s/he need to wait for the first one to be done editing?
There is also Nextcloud Talk [1] (based on Spreed [2]) for those who have their own Nextcloud server. I use both Telegram as well as NC Talk, quality is comparable. Telegram is a more capable messenger though, that part of NC Talk is underdeveloped.

[1] https://nextcloud.com/talk/

[2] https://www.spreed.eu/
Unfortunately, for energy state of the art is calorimetry for now. But relying on just "energy" or calorimetry is a terrible heuristic for energy uptake or nutrition/dieting.

I am not a nutritionist but I'd probably choose something akin to blood glucose over calories for food consumption.

If I had to go so simple I'd probably optimise for sugar reduction. And after that carbohydrate reduction.

You'll find you can eat a lot of food and food will be filling if you have a pseudo keto diet. You have to work so much harder to get your calories and fats (when not mixed with sugar) is much more satiating.
3 ways an engineering manager’s role differs between a startup and a corporate
My understanding of the law is if you believe you have CP you must report it.
Not a startup, but on the birth of my second kid I committed to writing a technical book. About as hard as having a kid in my experience :) I averaged 60 hour weeks for about 1.5 years.

What made us not go insane was:

My wife was stay at home.

My wife supported what I was doing and bought in to the impact it could have on my career.

Grandparents nearby that regularly came to help out with the kids. My parents were very supportive (again they knew it would help my career)

I would wake up early on weekends and spend time with the kids so my wife could sleep in and have a break. This gave me 1-1 time with them. Usually I’d take them out of the house somewhere fun.

My main work wasn’t too intense. Indeed they even gave me some time to work on the book.

I’d say it’s doable if your full time job is laid back, your wife is fully onboard, and you have lots of extended family support. Even better if you can get your main job to invest or supportive!
This is whats so powerful and wonderful about it, your end result isn't simply based on the direct dependents, but also includes the build chain for all things.

That's just not that common in other build tools.
> benchmarking is hard

Well, the author's investigation was involved, although it seems like a labour of love, and I enjoyed reading it.

If benchmarking 28 vs 32 didn't yield an obvious result, lazier old me, if I'd even been benchmarking at all, might have tried more data points, hoping to reveal a trend line that points to somewhere interesting e.g. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32.
Millions of electric car batteries will retire in the next decade
Doesn't being electrocuted leave a weird scar with the paths of least resistance the electricity takes?
Pros and cons of this versus Commander X16 ?
> you don't automatically sound like a charlatan shilling a get-rich-quick pyramid scheme

Well they don't automatically, but this is still very clearly just a shady timeshare ad.
Some people think 'store water' and immediately jump to cisterns, or above-ground storage tanks. You simply cannot store a useful amount of water above ground, and exposing it to light and air (and thus mosquitoes) is a whole other set of problems.

Some people do it anyway, others get very upset about what they see as wasted time and resources.

Storing water [this way] is fundamentally about reserving the right to be wrong about where water 'needs to be' on your property, and I think without a way to correct it they feel like their hands are tied. The person I know who is loudest against this strategy is also very philosophical about not fighting nature. If a tree is happy, great. If it's not happy, then it wasn't meant to be. Let it go, get over the sunk cost, and try something else. To his thinking, trying things is cheap, forcing things is expensive (and arrogant).
This is getting at “saying the quiet part out loud.”

For a variety of reasons media and influential organizations have avoided considering the upper bound on virility and mortality (? Not sure the right term) of covid.

But to think delta is it would be some kind of miracle. It would mean we are going through the worst of it, and that after we handle delta globally, people can worry about other things.

But it doesn’t stand to reason that we are done here with covid. There are too many hotspots and I believe delta is older than most of the big ones right now.

How likely is a nasty new variant not pop out of Iran or India, or Texas?

What about variants created by non-human beings like rats? [1] Are we going to skate by on those? That would be great!

I suspect the public is not ready to fully address the breadth and depth of covid’s impact. I also speculate that the “booster” shot suddenly being prescribed is intended to help ward off future variants as much or more so than delta alone.

[1] https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/researchers-find-covid...
About Choosing Wisely UK
That reminds me of this scary preprint from January:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.06.425392v3

"in vitro evolution enhancing binding by 600-fold provides guidelines towards potentially new evolving mutations with even higher infectivity" :/
What does the “priority on the towers” do?