skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without mosquito's, we very likely wouldn't have Lord of the Rings.

Tolkien was suddenly taken from the front lines due to severe mosquito born illness, and the very next day or so his entire battalion was wiped out in an artillery barrage, or something close to that nature.

However, I don't particularly think it can be said that LotR makes up for the history of mosquitoes crimes against humanity...
Google to kill Android Auto on phones
Nah. It's great. You can view hidden files in the file manager without memorizing a keyboard shortcut or terminal command. Most Window managers don't rely on track pad gestures and so the mouse feels like a first class citizen. Window management in the big DEs is better than macOS. MacOS is a frustrating mess to me.
People do plenty of the easy things - people stop using single-use plastics, for example - and still work for the hard ones.
This is very worrying - do update this thread if you can get a resolution on this. I'm surprised to see this to be honest, but it's a good reminder to all who use cloud services to have a strong "fire alarm" plan whereby you can deploy quickly elsewhere without too much downtime to your app customers.
Based on current computing resource usage: ads.
So the explanation on why this is alright is that if the remote worker was earning the same kind of money then it would make people in her surrounding area miserable as she'd have much more money than everyone else.

Except... it would actually help everyone in her area because she will have much more money to spend around which would benefit local businesses? And the good thing is that because people would be spread all over the country then this wealth won't concentrate in one single area (which will lead to inflation in the local prices, as we see in SF).

This person says they've worked in tech and HR for a while but I don't think they've ever opened an economics textbook.

All in all, Google does this not because they think it's the best for workers, but because if they can pay someone in Nebraska 80k instead of the 140k they would pay them in SF they will be saving a significant amount of money. That's the bottom line. The truth is that Google will outsource as much work as it can, as people learn how to work online more efficiently it'll be much easier for Google to start hiring people in Argentina, Pakistan, Colombia, who knows.

I think a lot of people forget that automation and off-shoring are basically the same to any local employees and what Google is looking for is being able to get the work done with as little money as possible, in the end, that's one of the most profitable ways to run a business.
I don't think people are fools, but in general they aren't specialized in the nitty gritty of public policy.
the funny thing is that was a concession: normally legislators can't overturn California ballot propositions at all.
> The main problem with it as mentioned in the article is the incessant fixation on victimhood. I feel that our culture's relationship to victimhood is no better than the ancients but just in the opposite extreme. Before there were precious few 'celebrated' victims (victims lifted up and supported by society) - they mostly lived and died in obscurity perhaps not even knowing the nature of their victimhood.

One of the problems with the discourse right now is that white liberals amplify those who wallow the most in their own victim hood. The vast majority of Hispanics and Asians, for example (70-80% according to a study linked in this article) say they “never” or “rarely” experience discrimination.

But all the XYZ studies professors and activists marinate in feeling discriminated against. You can’t get tenure in an American university saying “yeah racism sucks but it’s actually quite rare.”
What Is Web3? The Decentralized Internet of the Future Explained
And you have not? I suppose I might believe you’ve never used “gypped” (c.f. Gypsy, which is itself a derogatory term for Roma)—if you’re quite young or don’t live in North America. I know I used it, up until I learned of its origin; now I try to avoid using it.

Learning is fun.
So I've been told that the default of a proposition is that the legislature can't overturn it at all, and the clause allowing a supermajority actually increases the legislature's power.

Is that wrong?
>This website is full of rich techies so won’t affect us. However will affect less well-off people negatively.

Just imagining the less well off losing huge chunks of their 401ks, IRA savings, pensions, and so on when Uber loses 2% of its market cap... it's giving me chills!

Volunteer at a shelter this weekend, folks. Many of those less diversified individuals in the bread line will have seen their net worth drop double digit percentage points.
A variant can be more dangerous even if it’s not technically more deadly simply because it’s more contagious.If a virus is 10x as transmissible, and a lot more people get infected than would otherwise, a 1% mortality rate would result in a lot more dead bodies
dig +noall +answer A ai
ai. 86006 IN A 209.59.119.34

For better or worse the developers of browsers/libraires decided to allow it, it takes extra code to check for it and block it. Now that sites rely on it they can't exactly back track. Another strange one is domains with names that end in hypen - "example-.example.com". These are technically against standards, and don't work on linux/unix based OSs. However they happily work on windows. I've seen a github username that ended in -, which prevented me from viewing their github.io site. (Github seem to no longer allow this).
Not to mention that the timing of GitHub embracing the name change made it an oftly convenient distraction from all of the bad press they were getting about their contract with the Customs and Border Patrol.

Who wouldn't hop on that positive PR bandwagon in their position? /s
If you come up with a cool service on top of Amazon's API, should Amazon be allowed to use your APIs to scrape your service data and use it in their offering?
Orlando mayor asks residents to conserve water due to Covid oxygen shortage
[Also a Googler here, speaking my own interpretation rather than any official policy.]

They make the official policy in-office to set the expectation that that's where you'll be, and then they can negotiate exceptions on a case-by-case basis. I've never seen a high-performing Googler (meaning one who has successfully launched a project) turned down for remote work or office transfers. They don't want the non-performing Googlers (who possibly might outnumber the high-performing ones) working remote though. If you're meeting with engineers as an external partner or customer, it's almost certain those are high-performing engineers, because they wouldn't be put in that position otherwise.
Reminds me of a quote. To kill a mosquito, you have to be the bait.
I’ll take a stab at it.

A racist is somebody who believes in race.
If you're not interested in taking, then don't answer?
Hm. I can see where you’re coming from, but I don’t think pretending the C declaration syntax is postfix or even involves a syntactic entity worthy of being called a “type” is particularly helpful (abstract declarators anyone? now Standard ML does in fact have a mostly-postfix type sublanguage). For example, what is the “type to the left” that the const in the constant function pointer declaration

int *(*const f)(void);

is supposed to apply to?
Today I learned: https://ballotpedia.org/Legislative_alteration

It still seems like California's process is the least democratic. It allows voters of the past to institute laws that are much, much more difficult to change than other laws.

The "Supermajority approval for ... years following" that North Dakota and Washington follow, or expiring the protection of the initiative from amendment automatically after some number of years seems appropriate.
It's not valid to go from "vaccine escape may occur" to "mass vaccination is a public health risk". You can't claim B, which doesn't follow from A, and follow B up with a bunch of citations that only support A. That's misinformation about a high-stakes public issue, it's irresponsible, and it warrants harsh criticism.
Link to opinion: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21046832-castellanos...

The key bits:

> The Court finds that Section 7431 is unconstitutional because it limits the power of a future legislature to define app-based drivers as workers subject to workers’ compensation law.

This was the key section of prop 22 which defined app-based service providers as non-employees.

> The Court finds that Section 7465, subdivision (¢)(4) is unconstitutional because it defines unrelated legislation asan “amendment” and is not germane to Proposition 22's stated “theme, purpose, or subject.”

This was the section that imposed a 7/8ths requirement on modification to the statute.
Don't overthink it. There are no standards for job titles in the software industry. Recruiters, HR, and hiring managers already know that title inflation is rampant and "senior" (and titles beyond that) are often handed out like candy. That's why interview loops are long and painful in this industry (I'm not defending it, merely describing the way things are) and tales of "senior" people who are objectively not that good are legion. I usually set my expectations when evaluating a resume based on the number of years of industry experience rather than the job title and that seems to be a common practice.

So relax. If your job title in the HR records was "senior", there's no reason not to put it on your resume.

[EDIT] As a brief follow-up, if the source of your concern is the job titling system used by FAANGs (SWE 1, SWE 2, SWE3, Senior SWE, Principal SWE, ...) as seen on levels.fyi, check to see if your employer is using an alternate job titling system used at a few employers where "senior" is the first level above the introductory level (Engineer, Senior Engineer, Staff Engineer, Senior Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, ...).
This must be why so many proprietary apps require you to manually download FFmpeg binaries during runtime. Thanks for the explanation!
One thing not clear: Would an average American benefit much if the US became “the STEM leader”?
Then most masks, by your logic (and not necessarily arguing your logic) aren’t working.

The only way to completely seal off your mouth and nose is to wear a more fitted mask. The masks most (probably 99%+) people are wearing are ducting air on either side of the nose.

And yes, most masks have the metal piece to help with this, but it doesn’t work. No matter how I adjust the metal piece, air makes its way out.

So if what you’re saying is true, these cloth/disposable masks are not working, and the CDC should be telling everyone to stop wearing them, and switch to ones that properly seal your nose/mouth.

> With some work it's possible to find and fit masks that don't fog glasses.

I’m not convinced this is true, or maybe my face just won’t work with the typical mask. But most (all?) people I know that have glasses fog them up, with any amount of adjustment of the metal piece/mask.

EDIT: I see a downvote already, so curious how this is a flawed extrapolation. My logic is simply assuming the parent’s logic is true, and extrapolating from that. I’m not explicitly agreeing or disagreeing with it. A downvote means you either feel my extrapolation is flawed (please explain), or you think the parent’s logic is flawed (in which case you shouldn’t be downvoting my extrapolation).
Addendum: I was looking for this short article from Physics Today (https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.882562) but page 2 is behind a paywall. Then there's the book (https://www.amazon.com/Lightness-Being-Ether-Unification-For...) which appears to expand on the theme (I've not read it).
It doesn't make sense to me how you can admit that "vaccine escape is worthy of concern" (which is an understatement at best), but then say it's "deeply misleading" to call it a public health risk. Yes you're right that none of the citations literally say "this is a public health risk" - but is it really an "inference" to say that viral resistance driven by mass vaccination poses a risk?

We clearly disagree so we needn't go on longer - but FWIW I can't help but feel as though you've been downplaying the significance of these risks with very little supporting evidence, other than your own logical reasoning and accusation of misinformation. I do appreciate you conveying your opinions in a respectable manner.
Regardless of the merits of arguments before the court, or the soundness of the ruling, I fear that this development will only serve to undermine California voters' faith in the judiciary and/or the ballot initiative process.
To every smoothbrain that responded thusly, if you only use a word in private amongst certain other people, then it feels a lot like we both know that’s a word you shouldn’t use.
>> However, the crisis in Afghanistan appears to have put that on hold for now.

I guess this is not a coordonation issue as much as it's a PR issue.

The Talibans would certainly have a big lough over this...

Thinking about Afganistan makes you really evalute U.S's defence capabilities against asymetric attacks from more powerful players.
Alternatively, mosquitoes not existing would have affected humanity much earlier, making even appreciation of high fantasy in question :)
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"Tech people are practical and will just learn whatever they need to get things done quickly without introducing additional complexity."

Surely this is satire or I want to work where you work!
You may find this sentiment to sour in our near future in which it will be mandatory to show your face in public for facial recognition tech to keep track of you...
If a foreign company breaks sanctions they are banned from doing business in the US, and any company they do business with is banned to. Without being an international pariah there is no way the get around US sanctions. Unless you want to base your free software project in North Korea (do they even have LLC's?) not being in the US won't help you here.
That's an orthogonal issue, we already use a pre-commit hook that prompts for the committers name instead of caching it. Who commits is one thing, who authenticates a push is another.

I guess we could have a shared github account and I could give it commit rights to the specific repositories. But that's still pretty silly that I should have to do that.
>the responsibility of white people to help fix past injustices

Not that I disagree with the overall sentiment of your post, but let's leave this "sins of the father" bullshit in church where it belongs, especially when the majority of those "fathers" didn't even take part in those injustices.
Did you try some psyclosibin mushrooms?
What’s to say any two oscillations of the atom are the same length?
> Ideally, you'd partner with one or more major employers and/or a University that wants to build a new campus so that people coming in have jobs.

This is really the beginning and end of planned cities. If you don't have an answer to "jobs" you're really planning a retirement community, not a city.
Ivermectin Poisionings Spiking in Mississppi
Sorry, I should've worded that better; "with their shit still together" is more in line w/ I what I wanted to say. I meant that rather than struggling to gain marketshare (like happened in China, Russia, etc), they ramped back up from 0% to virtually all of their lost marketshare, eventually causing local competitors to wind down.
I don't think it's a dns resolver issue.
I'm intentionally using 8.8.8.8 to prove the point (same results with other mainstream services like 1.1.1.1 by the way):

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$ nslookup google 8.8.8.8

Server: dns.google

Address: 8.8.8.8

Name: google.

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$ nslookup google. 8.8.8.8

Server: dns.google

Address: 8.8.8.8

Name: google

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(Edit: formatting).
It's going to be a hard stigma to drop but best of luck to you and with the launch!
That just reinforces how meaningless the concept is.
Constitutions exist to prevent tyranny of majority
As the Terraria developer showed with Google Stadia, even if you're actively developing software for their brand new products you'll be ignored
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The standard is a two-thirds majority, so Proposition 22 (with a seven-eighths majority hurdle) was written to be much harder to amend than most California ballot measures.

> If Proposition 22 passes, could it be changed later?

> It would be very difficult. Proposition 22’s text carries language that aims to block further legislative action targeted at gig companies.

> If passed, amending it would require a seven-eighths supermajority of the Legislature — a daunting hurdle.

> In California, a law created by ballot measure can be changed only by another ballot measure, unless the original measure specifies otherwise. Because it’s a hassle to push through ballot measures, initiatives will frequently waive this protection and provide opportunity for the measure to be amended by the Legislature.

> A two-thirds majority vote is a common benchmark initiatives use. A seven-eighths majority requirement is unheard of.

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-10-19...
Do you mean, advocate for disallowing exemptions from payroll taxes?
This is an important topic but the framing is not technically robust.

Are convolutions "biased" because they are amplifying variance between adjacent pixels? Yes if your definition of biased is statistical, No if your definition of bias is social.

I have $300 for someone who can make a convincing technical argument that the inception architecture [1] is socially biased, without actually training it on a dataset.

Until then its the data or implementations that are biased. Maybe your trained model is biased - yep that's the data. Maybe you're cherry picking your algorithm to give you the best result on your chosen dataset - that's a biased implementation.

More broadly though, the concept that "systems/people will make inferences on new data which align with patterns they see more frequently" is just a reality of intelligence at this point. Humans constantly fail at this.

So yes we should be better and bias is real, to solve it we need to get way more technically accurate on what that bias consists of please.

[1]https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
Speaking of the US

I think at this point, most of the vaccinated would no longer care if it weren't for the fact that procedures for things like cancer treatments and major surgeries are being outright canceled, for months, so that all resources can be spent treating all of the unvaxxed who are now scared enough about their "little cough" that they need to go to the doctor for it.
No idea where you are getting the idea that the flu predominantly kills the young? It is one of the major causes of death for the old. You generally seem to just be wrong with almost all of your points?
> Anyway, long story short, I think I see your point, which -- unless I have just projected a whole ton of additional meanings -- would be to emphasize Faith.

Yes. Structure can turn an animal into a man, but only faith can elevate him above that.

I do not much like the word faith, as it evokes in me the image of the "Christian faithful" all praying on their knees, hoping for a better future if they follow everything the two-faced priest says. Ultimately it achieves nothing, as blind structure following without feeling for anything deeper than that within yourself is a soulless activity. If you couldn't tell from those last two sentences, I'm not actually Christian. I have rather strong feelings towards them, since I have seen them pull the greatest trick of all: convincing the masses that religion is extrinsically rather than intrinsically motivated. "Faith" nowadays is orthopraxy.

The world is much more complicated than that, of course, and it is not the Christians who did it, or anyone in particular in my opinion. Religion is as much spiritualism as culture, and Western faith before them was explicitly orthopractic. But I feel much more at home criticizing a religion I have experienced, rather than far off ones.

As to my Matthew quote: it has a lot of meaning to me. It is the expression of a universal truth, that true faith (or true will, or spirit, the alchemist's gold and so on and so forth) is the power to change oneself, and thus change the world. Admittedly, the full story (Jesus heals the boy, who does nothing) does not reflect that, which ties back into my hatred of Christianity as a religion that teaches the masses to be powerless and seek their spiritual salvation in others, when it is readily available to them.

(I quote Bible passages with a perverse enjoyment, though)
I just want to point out that I've never heard anyone call for the eradication of mosquitoes that don't spread disease in humans, a major premise of the article.
> [...] the clause allowing a supermajority actually increases the legislature's power.

> Is that wrong?

Yes, because—and this is critical because it is the basis of the ruling here—the proposition purported to define additional legislation that did not change the proposition (and thus would not normally be restricted) as an “amendment” subject to its restriction, which as a non-germane provision is what was found to render the proposition invalid here.
Thank you. I appreciate you bringing these legitimate concerns to light and I hope there is open debate about all costs and benefits of mass vaccination. The lack of public discourse from a position of humility and curiosity has led to many bad decisions during this pandemic, IMO.

That said, public health requires the analysis of all costs and benefits using a consistent, logical methodology. We need to be very clear about the inferences supported and not supported by our evidence.

Saying that mass vaccination carries the risk of vaccine escape is very different from saying that mass vaccination is a public health risk.
I don't think it is a permanent lifestyle, but I think that there will be a growing share of people who will have a stage on their life (post-College, single and flexible enough in regards to location requirements) where such a lifestyle makes sense.

Individually, yes, I agree that after a while most people will eventually settle down back in their home countries or a place more similar to their native culture.

However, imagine if such a system like a described existed and recent graduates from the US, Canada and Northern Europe went on to live 3-5 years in areas with a lower COL but at the same time allowed them to build equity on a home.
Also head of Tesla’s AI and autopilot, Andrej Karpathy. Like car path. It’s crazy
Black person here. Wrong question? I'd say, no, I mostly don't care. But also, don't use it as an excuse to shy away from discussion.
My bet is on large tungsten rods which can be thrown down from orbit. 20 foot long, 1 foot in diameter, the "rod from G*d" would punch a whole in any terrestrial bunker, if accurately aimed.
No, it is impossible to reach herd immunity if Reff >= 1, but Reff < 1 is not sufficient for herd immunity. Herd immunity also means low enough incidence that a nonimmune person is not at significantly greater risk than an immune person.

Hence, “herd” immunity.