skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In an instance I'm vaguely familiar with, early in the War on Terrorism, US intelligence agencies, which rely very heavily on signals-based intelligence, especially the ability to intercept cables (including encrypted ones, thanks to a backdoor in Crypt AG's devices), telephone and satellite communications, radio/broadcast, and digital / computer communications ... were apparently stymied in trying to gather intelligence on Al Qaeda as that adversary avoided use of modern communications, relying strongly on personal messengers and physical media. Humint capabilities of penetrating cells or converting individuals were said to be underdeveloped.

Effectively, the NSA had excellent vision where Al Qaeda did not exist, and was blind where they did.

The quantity and low cost of sigint can often lead to a deprecation of humint. It's not sexy, it's slow, it's low-volume, it's expensive, it doesn't generate large support contracts with government suppliers.

But it can put precisely the right eyes and ears in precisely the right place in ways sigint often has difficulty in achieving.

Mind: this is based on open-sources discussion at the time. How much this reflected actuality vs. speculation or public campaigning / turf wars between intelligence camps (CIA tends to be more humint, NSA more sigint AFAIU) I'm not sure.

This is a much more recent article (I'm referring mostly to the 2000--2005 period), but makes similar points:

https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/enhanced-human-...
If you don't want to bother clicking on the article, here is a summary: Author builds a strawman called "Scientism" because he hates Richard Dawkins. Author proceeds to disassemble this strawman of his own making. The end.

The problem with this kind of stupidity is that it sounds erudite and learned, and quotes Hayek in a way that is meant to stifle all criticism of anything, ever, about religion or his branch of conservatism that thrives on wilful ignorance.

It's little more than the author saying he doesn't care his belief system and his tribe are irrational and you make him feel bad by pointing out that his irrationality is a dead end, potentially dangerous, seductive mode of thought that allows him to ignore all the experts in any field, on any topic, any time he chooses if it goes against his belief system.

He is doggedly anti-science despite using all the technology that scientists gave him.
*vindictive management at most hourly employers
Yes, removing the profit motive will surely incentivize such inventions!
> If the regulators had half a brain they would of taxed cars based on volume + mass.

Higher taxes on fossil fuels would have more easily accomplished this, along with killing many more birds with one stone.
60%+ of Americans work in retail once in their lives, where bathroom breaks are almost always monitored. The people working at Walmart, grocery stores, department stores, etc. are absolutely expected to man their shift until their scheduled break, as are many people that work in restaurants, on manufacturing floors, etc.

It's inhumane, yes, but it's not Amazon-specific.
> especially if it is high

Like the body of a larger person or a person wearing a backpack?
Stop shorter of the intersection?
Because your country:

1. doesn't have any cities, and

2. is an island in the middle of the Pacific, thousands of miles from the next
Tips for getting investors for an animation project
Sorry not Japan, this is the US which is who the person I was replying to mentioned. Sorry for the confusion!
Distance or Mileage involves an invasive inspection. It also runs the risk of violating privacy depending on how it's tracked.

Tracking it also just plain expensive, even if it's only required to report / measure mileage at time or distance intervals.

Arguably someone is _likely_ to drive however far they need to drive irrespective of the taxes and wear on any particular section of road is going to be roughly the same for any quantity of mass and axle count.

Speaking of mass, cargo vehicles should be taxed assuming some fixed duty load, like say 1/3rd of a year use at their maximum capacity rating, including towed equipment.
Agreed mate. It's like that grumpy bloke from England who can only swing the ball when the weather is perfect - clouds hovering, moisture in the air, slight breeze and yes, some fish and chips during the breakfast.
That's the absence of a positive - the person you're replying to is suggesting the presence of a negative. See the difference?
The top voted comment on HN at the time thought it wasn't believable either: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17115643
And some disadvantages in reliability, if the internet is to be believed.
Scanner is something you look in with both eyes. And then while your eyes are completely hidden you close one eye.

Heck. You could set it up so that it scans both eyes and then does a second scan where you choose what your ok signal is (both eyes, right only, left only, no eyes).
Gain some karma points in other subreddits. You can do it within an hour with enough effort. Each sub has their own rules for new posters. If you want instant answers, try a mailing list or IRC chat for whatever your questions pertains to.
NZ doesn't have any cities. Australia's outbreaks have both occurred in Sydney and Melbourne, each with a population exceeding the entirety of NZ.

Density is the primary precursor.
Who said it was about providing medical assistance of any kind?
The Glamorous Toolkit that the article mentions is worth a look if you would like to know more about this idea. It's a bit bigger of a project, so it has more in the way of demonstration YouTube videos and the like.
>How is that data contradicting the hypothesis?

Doesn't necessarily contradict the hypothesis on its own. My overall point is that the article cites different data, some of which is tangential to its hypothesis (while purporting to support it). Other data outright contradicts the hypothesis. Overall, the article was sloppy--just kind of throwing stuff against the wall, IMO.

>Why is there a "but" there?

The gov't report notes that trucks/SUVs made up 33% of the total vehicle fleet (sorry, I didn't quote that important bit in my previous comment, but it's in the report), while they make up 40% of all fatalities.

That doesn't translate to a 2x-3x higher rate for trucks/SUVs.
Epic deprecated support for exporting to HTML5 from the editor back in 4.23. They barely put any effort into reducing the file binary sizes to make shipping a project on the web viable. Our startup is working on upgraded support for the engine, with plans to support WebGPU in the upcoming Unreal Engine 5.

We’re even working on WebXR support, which will play a key part in enabling the metaverse.
Why wouldn't we just pay for infrastructure that transports all the things that we all buy and benefit from from the general fund?

I benefit when my neighbor can drive his kids to school.
You can often find faulty drill packs and harvest the good cells from those and cobble together a pack. Charging it safely isn't easy but can be done. There are battery management systems you can integrate. It's difficult to put inside the seat tube but putting it in a custom container on the down tube works well and that's a great place to put the added weight.
Because, as the article explains, it likely has the flaw the article is about.
I wouldn't want this in git mainline.

git is a clear, simple file format (with a horrible user space) which makes sense as the back end of far more things than it is used for. I feel like integrating this into mainline is a little bit like integrating a visual database design tool into a database server. They're complementary, but different.
In other words, they're being stack ranked, right?
It's good that the license was only $3, but the end user also has to buy at least one disposable $80 cartridge (probably more, apparently false alarms happen) for a problem that can be solved with a push stick.
Which is the same as (a). Either have an USB stick with plausibly-deniable encryption or, better yet, store the data somewhere online (in encrypted form, of course) and download it once you crossed the border. There is no reason to have it readily available on your laptop.
The person you're replying to did not make any leap or make any kind of universal judgement. On the contrary it was the person claiming that everyone should be using the bathroom every 2 hours who is making a universal claim. All OP did was point out a single counterexample and in doing so is implying that there is probably not one single universal rate that people should be going to the bathroom.
Yeah sometimes I even take long lunches. With my supervisor. No repercussions. Ha ha.

There are so many salaried employees in this thread who don't seem to realize how vastly different it is to be treated like a misbehaving child (aka hourly employee) at work.
Can you flesh that out? Emulating New Zealand's death rate in the USA would have saved at least 600k lives so far.
Determinants of pandemic performance has proven to be very multi-factorial, but from day one, urban density has not that been significant a factor, especially in richer countries. The initial wave just looked urban because the virus reached each _country_ via internationally-connected urban centers.

Given that pandemic spread has almost entirely played out indoor, a much more likely risk factor is multi-member (and especially multi-generational) households. As mentioned in the article, Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia have a small household size and especially high proportion of single-person households.
Why steal if money is no object? If there truly was enough motivation in whatever circles these decisions get made in, they could just offer all the top folks at ASML an eight figure or nine figure salary package. The fact that this hasn't happened yet suggests that it's not as critical as it's made to sound like, or at least those key decision makers don't believe so.
Congratulations! You are today's 10,000th person to learn of: <Perverse Incentives>
If you read the article, it specifies lithium-ion batteries, which just about everyone brings inside the pressurized cabin.

So no, I am not joking.
Look, I agree you disagree with me too... (sorry I am Canadian).

That doesn't change the fact that there are hurdles that atleast factor in to how the human who was fired in that scenario may feel? And isn't that a major component to the human experience, how we feel, especially in the situation where your employeer fired you for a reason you learned was their mistake? That's full on feel mode for me, I don't know if you have an iron will or what, but you can't always assume that the person in this case would take a step back and accurately make the correct rational judgment you have outlined (see? more agreeing from me!). I would personally be afraid to be blacklisted from the law field, as reputation matters. Even being known as someone who is litigious against your employer whilst also garnering news coverage (great, your name is everywhere for future employers to see) seems to the very _least_ be a tradeoff of getting justice vs all that negative shazz I mentioned.
Someone diagnosed them with IBS
The thesis of the top-most comment was:

>>> And I feel like in last 6-8 years, people have become far more intolerant regarding free speech

That's the proposition that this particular subthread is discussing.

Perhaps you don't care, but in that case I'm a bit confused about why you're commenting this far down-thread.
From random reading on the DOL website I am pretty sure she should not have been fired. However, some of her pay could have been withheld (possibly contingent on her being classified as hourly or piecewise paid). The previously tested scenario was dialysis.

So as I understand it, if you have e.g. end stage kidney disease, you don't need to inform your employer of the fact you must be gone two times a week for three hours, and they can not fire you when they find out. But they also don't have to pay you.

However the rules about salaried positions seem to imply they can't reduce your salary.
I just quoted the podcast which I linked. This isn't about commercial, its about residential.
I don’t respect people who can’t get their work done during regular hours. If you are not smart enough to focus on what is most important, and ignore the rest, then you are not as smart as you think.
> what are some examples of modern architectures that don’t use IEEE 754 floats?

Lots of medical devices support floating point format from IEEE-11073 instead. I'd guess there are a significant number of them in existence and they need to be done well.
You should try embedded systems work, Board Support Package (BSP) development, in particular. BSP development is about adapting an OS to a particular (usually new) board design/implementation. You have to understand how the system works from a bare-metal perspective, and most everything is problem-solving. The guiding motivation is what I came to call FIO "Figure It Out" -- often with little and/or poorly written documentation. It'll get you deep into the kernel (of whatever OS), device drivers, chip specifications (architectures, register configurations, modes of operation, ...), SoC's, microcontrollers, ... It's a fascinating, though low-level, world.

I advise this sincerely, as I did it for 10 years, and enjoyed it a lot. However, I got myself back "above ground" and into systems and apps again, because my inclination is actually exactly the opposite of yours: "I could care less about “making” things; all I care about is “fixing” things".

Over time, although the gratification of getting things to work remained, I grew tired of FIO every. single. day. I longed to again design and create solutions -- to "make" things. Different strokes for different folks. Best of luck to you.
> A measure which actually has some relevance on country scale is population weighted density.

I thought your comment was going to be about the fact that urban density didn't end up being that useful a predictor of spread, except to the extent that it correlates with household size. In general, people were catching Covid from being inside with others, not from incidental contact with subway poles or passing people on the sidewalk.
If you think that them finding your data is the better option, you can always revert to using your normal login credentials.
> If the regulators had half a brain they would....

No, stop this asinine cycle!!!!!

This sort of "well akshually I know best" thinking is exactly how we got into this f-ing mess.

You have a whole litany of things cars must to do be legally sold. In order to do those things and provide acceptable space and performance they have grown leading to the current predicament.
Perhaps I really was the center of the universe in my mind. Thanks for clarifying, I've retracted my incorrect tone, cheers.
Often new angles of thought come to me when walking.

Also, as others have aptly pointed out, people who are not wealthy are in fact the ones who will end up doing the most walking.

People who gravitate towards using the word privilege ... just yikes.
And $722 AUD on Amazon. Did they never make a second printing?
For a start: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/sleep-is-the-mate-of-d...
>We have the data to track mileage. Odometers are regulated and DMV already records mileage at various checkpoints. Why wouldn’t we use it?

Because it's a regressive tax and you can't even minimize it by driving a small economy car like you can with fuel taxes.
If used sparingly I think it would be really good. Just for UI hints, not for anything critical. A universal "what is this?" input for anything on the screen.
That’s true, but it’s because at the time the only way to become acclimated was to catch yellow fever, which meant running a substantial risk of dying or severe disease.

In the 21st century we have safe vaccines so if someone is not “acclimated” or immune to a virus, they can gain the status easily via a free and safe vaccine. This removes the problems.

In any case, the discussion here is not about immunity passports themselves. It’s about whether only a vaccine should count, or if proof of natural infection should also count as equivalent to a vaccine record.
> of heavyweight vehicles (e.g. a Ford F-150)

I don't think a heavyweight vehicle has been built since the 1930s, when they started building lightweight vehicles. Today, if you see a passenger vehicle referred to as heavyweight that is likely due to a marketing spin on how well it performs or the load it can carry. Even in that sense, a Ford F-150 is marketed as a lightweight and F-250 is a medium.
I just know that most ebike batteries only ship by ground and even that isn't easy. See this for example: https://entrepreneur.indiegogo.com/education/article/how-to-...

Sorry for the tone, I honestly thought you might be joking.
If what you are trying to say is that what's new and modern today will someday, probably sooner then later, be old and "normed" tomorrow, then yes...absolutely this will be the case.

This understanding is the basis of the Right's "slippery slope" argument...that in normalizing behaviors today that yesterday were considered "wrong", they tomorrow can we expect ever more and more outrageous behaviors to follow this same template?

The answer is, of course, yes.
I think you misread my comment. I'm specifically not advocating for different treatment. I'm saying any employee who wants to use the bathroom six times a day should be permitted to do so, IBS or no IBS. If you want to enjoy the ambiance of the bathroom six times a day, that's fine.

So, Amazon can easily write up neither employee, which means they don't need anything to justify the different treatment.

(Also, no, Amazon can write up one employee and another just fine. They're an independent company in a free country. They don't answer to Lord Business who tells them they have to run their business a certain way. They can do whatever they like, provided they don't run afoul of a few laws like Title VII or the ADA. And all that will happen if they do run afoul of those laws is they'll get sued - which is exactly what happened under their current policies, so....)
This distinction is becoming a big problem in our local mountain biking community.

Most of us really wouldn’t mind if people who needed a little extra help (older people, injured people, people new to the sport) were riding bikes that provided a small assist to help out with the hills. It’s actually great to see older people being able to ride again with some help from a motor, for example.

But instead, we’re seeing a lot of e-bike builders abusing the concept to hack or build bikes that are basically electric motorcycles. It gets old fast when your local mountain bike trail is now crowded with kids motoring up the mountain on their modified e-bikes without even pretending to pedal. It’s even worse when they end up deep into trails they’re not qualified to ride with a dead battery and no natural ability to pedal back out.

The end result has been a blanket ban on e-bikes on most trails and a lot of animosity toward e-bikes. I wish there was a better compromise, but after watching all of the dumb outcomes play out on my local trails from a small handful of people abusing the concept, I understand why it had come to this.
You're not wrong, they're massive.

But the person he was replying to was being over the top sensationalist.
Maybe tax avoidance for the mob and for poor people. 99.9% of unpaid taxes are hiding overseas in digital accounts
> there has to be a line somewhere. is 8 frequent? 10? there is some threshold X, what we care about most is the response to crossing it

Are you okay with your employee or client installing screen tracking software on your computer so someone can decide appropriate thresholds for your work and bathroom habits?

> I'm sorry but this is the reality if you work a menial job where you are easily replaced.

Are we back to calling essential work “menial” already?
If you used that password twice two years ago when you installed the module and you're suddenly pulled in an interrogation room in a foreign country? When you have about one chance to enter it right while some very angry officers look over your shoulder?

I can absolutely see that.
The SF Bay Area allows this possiblity, though it would be most feasible by including local rail; a walk-on north-south trip between Santa Rosa and Monterey could be done by going SMART->ferry->BART->Caltrain->Hwy 17 Express->SC Metro bus. If you were very patient there are bus routes that would cover the SF-Peninsula leg.

I would have to check to see if Sacramento is possible without resorting to rail or coach.

Edit: actually, going to Big Sur looks to be possible with the MSC bus system. It's been a while since I rode in that region and Monterey isn't part of the SC Metro system anymore. From Big Sur I could imagine it's possible to get even further down the coast.
This is a new policy brown is enacting against the wishes of the Nurses union. There is no data yet, I'm just extrapolating based on the fact that these new requirements will cause some nurses to quit rather than be vaccinated, which will directly reduce the number of ICU beds while not contributing meaningfully to the % vaccinated.

If we are only to rely on already collected empirical data to make decisions or form opinions we would never be able to hold an opinion when it matters most... before
I'm in my mid-50s. IMHO, racial relations have become drastically worse in the last 10 years or so, most of which is done for political purposes.

I believe the best I saw it was in the 80s. I worked in an environment where people of all races worked and played together, everyone got along well. I had high hopes that racist behavior was mostly in the past and still diminishing. Sadly, it was not to be.

The world would be a much better place if we all took a deep breath and listened to Thomas Sowell, Tim Scott, Ben Carson, Benjamin Watson, and others that seek true reconciliation.
The state inspection that cars have annually in most states record mileage.
manager and paper pushers are mostly required due to regulations and government. It’s hard to fathom why companies just give 21% of their income to the irs, until you look up certain regulations.
These nurses have been unvaccinated for more than a year while in proximity with those with COVID-19. Exactly when are 40% of the nurses going to be knocked out in this model?
Everything in Babylon Bee is 100% satire and fake. It's used as a fake news source by people wanting to spread misinformation.
It sounds like you've never worked with people who intentionally "use the bathroom" to not work. If you step out of your white collar tech bubble for a moment you'd realize giving _two months_ to give a doctor's note before reprimanding this woman is perfectly reasonable.

Blue collar work / retail is not like tech where your output is not necessarily a function of hours worked. In tech you can go to the bathroom 8 hours a day as long as you get your work done. Can you say the same for a warehouse worker?
NTT Flets coverage is really good since they'll replace PSTN by FTTH. Wireless unlimited (*with speed limit for heavy users) internet is now affordable thanks to 5G plan.
In the before time, I'd optimize productivity with a mix of modalities. Some things were best done with technical pen on paper. Others as outline or text files. Others with assorted styles of coding. Whiteboards and discussion. And others with assorted styles of walking. The long slow ponder. The quick brief pace for a minor decision. The "what am I'm missing here?" distracted walking into walls.:) Matching modality to the moment seemed an art form.

I've fond memories of one site, a few cubicles and tables in one corner of a big otherwise-empty floor of a office park building. A floor wrapped with full-height windows looking out on trees. One could variously loop, without bothering anyone, alternating walking and desk work.
Where are these quick, affordable, walk-in GI specialist clinics you speak of?