skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not obvious to me this is the case. All available data suggest that between the vaccine and natural immunity, we would have reached herd immunity if such a thing were possible. But we have not, indicating the primary benefit of the vaccine is, and will likely always be, some personal protection. Put differently, we will all get COVID eventually, and would have even if everyone was vaccinated, and the question is just one of the severity of individual cases.
This is a special relativity paradox.
This aligns well with my claim that I am a non-practicing vegan.
'even in the "good old days" Usenet was absolutely chock-full of assholes and cranks'

Yes, but that's what kill files were for :-)

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> capital's corruption of the political system

Capital is a measure of power. Capital's "corruption of the political system" is use of that power. I'm not sure it's coherent to conceive a world where Capital retains its power but not use it to shape the people and instruments that manage society.
These indicators are far more interesting and useful than crash/recession predictions. Being so highly correlated with subsequent market returns makes your choice simpler - you don't need to predict the crash, instead you can simply see your estimated returns in the next decade (currently negative). Whether the crash comes tomorrow or in 5 years is meaningless.
> However, looking at it as a percentage of GDP is flawed and leads to an understatement of the effect. We need to look at it after adjusting for inflation only, since all that matters is how big these companies are in the absolute after applying the fixed threshold cutoff of 500. If you're normalizing by GDP, you're not comparing apples with apples when doing a temporal comparison.

There are plenty of historical companies with higher market caps than today's companies in 2021 dollars. And again, if you compare the largest companies in 2021 with the largest companies in 1965 (using 2021 dollars), you'd find that their market caps are only ~2.5-3x the size (but yet their CEOs are paid 15x more relative to the average employee). But I think this misses the mark because a bigger company isn't necessarily harder to run. Nor is it clear that the CEO is making dramatically harder decisions. In fact, it seems equally plausible that the larger the company, the less of an effect the CEO has.

> That's right, and I outlined some of the reasons for that, such as commodification of domestic lower skilled labor due to globalization and technology.

This argument doesn't hold water, because the average employee salary (the one we're comparing the average CEO salary to) hasn't dramatically dropped in terms of purchasing power. In other words, your argument is that the average salary has gotten lower and therefore CEO pay appears higher - this isn't the case.

> This hinges on how we define a "good job".

If CEO pay was correlated to performance, we'd find that CEOs whose companies did better were better compensated. But we don't find this - we find that CEO pay is most correlated to the stock market.

> This zero-sum mindset is just not accurate. If Tim Cook gets paid $500 million and his decision making leads to $50 billion in extra benefit for the org compared to what a second-best CEO could have brought in, then the org has gained $49.5 billion in excess value. Your mindset is that the org (and the people inside it) have lost ~$500 million without considering the unique value add that makes it worthwhile and win-win for everyone. If the board didn't think that Tim Cook was adding unique value above his compensation, then they would give him a pay cut or hired someone cheaper.

This isn't true, because as noted above there isn't evidence that better-performing CEOs are paid better. Tim Cook isn't being paid his salary because the board believes he's adding such-and-such amount in value, but instead because CEO compensation is not related to the value added.

However, you didn't answer my final question: is there a level of inequality that you would consider unjustifiable?
The Old Church Slavonic Bible (translated by 10 century Byzantine scholars) uses a word which now means "vital, necessary, important" in modern Russian, and is widely used to this day.
The cases range from very serious to trivial (and in my opinion not actually plagiarism). Some that should have lost their jobs did like Guttenberg, others didn't. And some didn't lose their jobs and indeed should not lose them, because there wasn't any serious plagiarism.

The case that started this was Guttenberg, and that was very blatant plagiarism on a large scale in his PhD thesis. That one was certainly intentional. The most recent one was the Green chancellor candidate in the current election, Baerbock. In my opinion her case isn't actually plagiarism as it was mostly about collections of facts in her book. So some very short passages were taking from other sources, but these were things like the list of countries that joined the EU.

What I hate about these cases is that it is pretty much impossible to determine how serious the cases are from the news coverage. You have to actually look into the alleged plagiarised sections yourself. The first case was a real and very serious case that rightfully stopped Guttenberg's political career at that point. But since then this has also become a political tool, and some of the people doing this have clear political motives for it.
My wife and I were living in Brussels, Belgium. She was General Counsel of Euroclear, the company that exclusively handles all back-end clearing and settlement of trades on the Amsterdam, Brussels, and Paris Bourses, as well as the London Stock Exchange, and the majority of all back-end clearing and settlement throughout Europe.

I was between employers at that stage, and for some reason I had turned on the TV and was looking for English language channels. I stumbled across CNN, and decided to stay there for a while. After a little bit, they started coverage of the first tower being hit, so I called my wife to see if she had heard, and wondered if they had any customers there. Turns out they had a lot of customers in the towers, so she had me put the handset up next to the TV, and she turned on the speakerphone in her office. Everyone in her office gathered around.

Not too long afterwards, another plane hit the second tower. I watched it go through.

I think that may have been when the operations team went into emergency mode, and they had a TV in that room. I think she spent the rest of the day down there, although I don’t think she spent much time looking at that screen. Her attention was required elsewhere.

Later, when Prince Charles was touring the US, and specifically NYC, he talked to some of the people in the British companies that had offices in the towers, and some of those people spoke about how critical the support was that they got from Euroclear, and that this support saved their company.

I like to think that she played some part in the success of Euroclear in weathering that storm, and that I may have played some part in helping her.
I've been thinking about this claim:

The effectiveness of green-houses and cold-frames has been known since medieval times.

And Wickipedia tells us that in the 1920's Joseph Fourier proposed that the "greenhouse effect" is responsible for the warming of the earth.

At any time after that, the amount of heating which would come from increased levels of CO2 (and other gasses) could have been directly calculated.

So none of this is at all controversial to atmospheric scientists.

About the only "unknown" was just how quickly our use of fossil fuels would alter the earths atmosphere.

However the actual level of CO2 in the atmosphere has been tracked since 1958 at the Mauna Loa Volcanic Observatory.
I thought this was made pretty clear in the theme song's lyrics?

"They're Pinky and The Brain - Yes Pinky and The Brain - One is a genius - The other's insane"

Brain is clearly made out to be insane (in the cartoon sense), which leaves Pinky as the genius. QED, right?
Designing your own works much better than human labor + big brother deciding for you.

On the contrary, Newscorp for example is great to get dynamic patterns of headlines you don't want to read.
https://docs.python.org/3/extending/extending.html
> There’s a big difference between an Orthodox Jew being required to work on Saturday, and someone who just likes college football.

You can't just leave me hanging there! What's the big difference?

What if that Saturday watching football is the person's passion and the only time of the week they feel happy? Who is a 3rd-party to step in and be the decider of what other peoples' wants and needs and feelings and beliefs are?

Surely the default, simplest, easiest, and most just position is to treat everyone the same.

> Accommodations that come from deepseated beliefs need to be treated with utmost respect.

I don't think they need to at all. Plenty of flat earthers, anti vaxxers, climate denialists, conspiracy theorists have extremely deep seated beliefs to the point of religious fervor. There are also religions or religious people whose beliefs are abhorrent or wrong to others. Why would they or any other belief religious or otherwise entitle them to respect or rights or allowances that nobody else has?

Here's how you just completely skirt all that and make it fair and equal for all: give everyone equal rights and protections.
"The most accurate contemporary editions of the KJV" is adding a value judgement that wasn't there before. fastball's assertion was "most modern KJVs do not include it?"

Now, the question is what "most" means here (by number of publishers, by copies sold, ...) but it certainly doesn't mean "most accurate", true as it might be (or not)
Post-Covid, kids need to roam free – and be free to make a mess
My favorite part: “We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute.”
No matter what Adam Smith thought - inequality (of incomes etc) is inevitable part of any decent economical system.
Note that this is from 2003.
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He's not referring to arbitrary shared libraries but rather to modules implemented in another language, usually C.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32078764/how-are-python-...

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/import.html
> https://youtu.be/ncHmEUmJZf4?t=2220

Some good points, but also "calling find with C strings is slow", you are using C strings, don't expect speed from code worshiping strlen of all things. Also the issue with integer hash being its identity? That is the case for every language I checked (Python, Java, C#).
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Reality is not a democracy. Something doesn't become safe because "most patients" incorrectly believe it's safe. Doctors couldn't refuse to use disinfectant, for example, even if 100% of their patients believed bacteria to be a liberal hoax.

On top of that, medical professionals who do things that are unsafe or unethical can face consequences from licensing boards, insurance companies, hospital executives, and future employers.

Also, the key is most patients. What about the patients who don't believe in extremist conspiracy theories? Should they be exposed to a dangerous disease because most of their community is wrong about it?
> It's a hostile world for an independent browser.

Sure, bit it would have been a little less hostile if they hadn't brought quite a lot of that on themselves with their long history of hostile-to-tech-savvy-users decisions.
10 century Byzantine scholars

9th century and not Byzantine

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

but by that point, at least according to the article, the meaning was already unclear
Even if you could not lock the rear wheels on a regular manual car with the handbrake, these cars are always modified for instructive use. Think additional mirrors/pedals for the passenger.

An upgraded handbrake doesn't seem far-fetched.
I'm not really sure what "economic freedom" means - and I'd be able to respond better if you defined it.

Haiti wasn't a tyranny. In fact, it was a prime example of proprietarian capitalism run totally amok - a regime in which the state did not restrict individuals from, say, owning other humans and reaping large profits on them.
> their material contribution to society hasn't increased fourfold,

If their contribution to the top 1% increased 400-fold, does that balance out?
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Generally speaking, when good things have to be imported from the past, that’s a sign the present is broken. The old things are still seen as good, so why couldn’t they be created today?

Why should we not allow new advancements? If a religion has a good idea, people in that religion should be allowed to experiment with it. Maybe it will turn into something that can benefit society at large.
The heuristic that market crashes every ~9 years seems to work well. 2020 had a pretty steep correction, so I will wait another 7 years and start worrying. That might not be optimal, but 70% of the time you can predict the weather by saying it will be the same as yesterday.
They're both possible dangers, even though you're trying to frame the Ebola example as a certain danger, which it just isn't, since there's a very decent chance that they won't infect anyone even without detention. It's not valid to label one as "reaction" and another as "proaction". They're both pre-crime measures for possible dangers. Neither of them is a certain danger.

It is also not "ineffective" in the hypothetical I was discussing. You seem to insist on the point that I wish to hoist forced vaccinations for COVID, which I don't. I'm strictly speaking in the abstract given a hypothetical where there's a vaccine capable of preventing transmission of a disease that is much more deadly than COVID.

But I agree with your main point that the circumstances should be very extreme before such measures are considered. If there's a contagious disease that is killing 10-50 percent of infected people and early quarantine measures have failed and we have a vaccine that seems effective at preventing transmission, then I'm probably in support of forced vaccinations, although I suspect it might not be necessary since everyone will be desperate to get it.
Is the "tree" an adequate structure to describe relations between languages? Wouldn't directed acyclic graph (DAG) be better?

IANAL (I'm not a linguist), but my understanding that languages - especially of people living close - do interact and influence each other, and discounting that interaction cannot give the whole picture. That may explain why

> it failed to reproduce a previously published relationship between Korean and the other languages in the Altaic grouping.

Does it makes sense to anybody?
It took me a while to understand that market valuation should not be linked to GDP, but to the integral of GDP.

Every year, companies add a portion of the GDP to their overall value.
Doesn't Flutter fail point 1: all widgets are custom rendered (OpenGL) things? So integration with the host OS's capabilities may be lacking (e.g. accessibility features).
Yeah, it's interesting, hey? I mentioned Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) - that's another one that is technically a trans fat, but seems to be beneficial (although apparently supplementation doesn't seem to have the same benefits as getting it in food, so maybe there's another interaction, like how foods that contain CLA also often contain Vitamin K2 as well).
Absolutely fascinating. But after reading the entire article, I still don't have a clear understanding of what "supersubstantial" means.
> 175 billion words

They probably meant “parameters”, although then the sentence makes little sense with that.
The title of the page is actually “Awesome-CV”, and the subtitle is “LaTeX template for your outstanding job application”.
>Cyril (born Constantine, 826–869) and Methodius (815–885) were two brothers and Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries.

OK, 9th century, not 10th.

>but by that point, at least according to the article, the meaning was already unclear

Well, the article mostly mentions Catholic Church and the problems translating the Vulgate. The same Vulgate which gave us "horned Moses" and other mistranslations. I thought maybe the Orthodox church has no trouble with the word.
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What I find most problematic is that there is clearly a mix of difference incentives at play. At the one hand, scientists are not getting tired of waving the scientific method about to the uninitiated. Claiming science has no agenda and is only interested in hard data. But on the other hand, it is rather clear that the career of individual scientists depends on how much they publish. Yes, there is peer review, but no, that doesnt help, because people form networks and have friends and allies. So, how do we ensure that the common people trust science more? I think we should start by ridiculing publications like this, if the scientific community by itself is not capable of filtering such noise out.
The solar system is traveling in space and is quite massive but I haven’t been crushed to death yet.
It's not an indicator problem, it's a problem of people trying to time markets. Also, there are two ways to use the Buffet Indicator - right and wrong. The wrong way is to say 'it's overvalued, I should do something - short the market'. The right way is 'it's overvalues, I should avoid doing something - buying overvalued stocks'.

Buffett has been sitting on piles of cash in the past for years and years, avoiding buying securities when they are overvalued. He never tried timing the market, simply waiting for the right moment. Nor did he sell stocks when they were overvalued in order to try to buy them back at a lower cost at least AFAIK from reading his biographies. So, for a value investor, it's a useful tool.
Off topic but I just noticed there are no spaces between words in the old Greek papyrus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_75?wprov=sfti1

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/-YQMdlv22BA8jnWvqnca...

I’m curious how much more difficult it would be to learn to read in a largely illiterate world without many documents around. While having the additional burden of identifying words within one long string of characters.

Google tells me it’s called Scriptio Continua and the first documents to use spaces and punctuation were later Bibles.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua?wprov=sf...

I know it’s common in some Asian languages but their character systems account for it better.
This TEDEd video works through the thought experiment, with messages sent from each twin to the other at 1-year interval (in the sender's frame of reference).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8GqaAp3cGs
That's hilariously enjoyable
You feel this is causing great chaos in the world because...
I used to compulsively store erotic images and it would take up space on hds but I made myself stop. I wouldn't look at them again so idk why I saved them. Made me think of a background nudity scanning model that cleans up your computer.
> a slow toxic spill (of e.g. azo dyes) from a factory giving many bladder cancer.

It should be noted in context that azo dyes are what the general public call "food colourings", at least the common, bright, inexpensive food colourings. And their accumulation in the body cause other types of damage as well, which is why there is no safe dose.
You can actually create negative interest paper bank notes without needing cryptocurrency. One example is stamp scrip, where one must pay a recurring fee to maintain the note's validity:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip#Stamp_scrip
Right, that was clear to me and I never saw an episode only heard the theme song... it's very clearly insanity to try to take over the world and also being cagey about which one is insane it's again obvious it's not that the one whose name would imply it.
USA cannot end the trade deficit. USA is a parasite on the world economy: it prints dollars and buys everything it needs with a pieces of paper (or zeros and ones in some bank computer).

Unlike almost all other countries in the world, where they have to work hard with their hands and brains to get something. USA printed more trillions only in the last year, that China - country that provides all the world, including US, with clothes, electronics and just about everything else - managed to save in the last 20 years.

This position is incredibly profitable for the USA, but it needs the largest military power to maintain status quo, because all the other countries understand they're being ripped off. And this military power immediately kills anyone who renounce use of dollar for trade (see Iraq, Libya).

If USA will end trade deficit somehow, it would mean that it would be on par with other countries, and population of USA would have to reduce its consumption of goods and resources by 15-20x. It will be the end of USA, most probably civil war and collapse.
If we could somehow make it into a donut planet we could presumably sit in the middle of it experiencing no acceleration. Would the time dilation effects still occur then?
Windows 8 really broke the UI, to support tablets, and the OS has never recovered. :(
You have an interesting point. However, if a biased, power-hungry organization says that the temperature outside at a certain time & location is 27° C and that really is the temperature there, the bias and ambition are less relevant.
> I think a lot of people assume that this means you couldn't go more than a few (~100) light-years in your lifetime... But this is not actually correct

It his, it just depends on the observer.

An external, stationary observer will never see you go further than 100 light years, but yourself? Assuming you are able to make your ship go any arbitrary speed approaching c, you could be traveling billions of light years.

It's just that when you stop (if you manage to stop), the universe around you will have aged billions of years, while you will only be a few years older.
This exact question has been making the rounds. I suspect it's some meme amongst conspiracy peddlers and conversation de-trailers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/pldkd4/what_...
https://archive.is/9LASs
two resources i enjoyed:

"nim in action" by dom96
https://www.manning.com/books/nim-in-action

nim days by xmonader
https://xmonader.github.io/nimdays/
Indeed, there is a whole lot of room for improvement. In fact, a makeover is in the works. There's not a hard timeline, but it will take a bit of time to weather anything new before it fully replaces the current, somewhat cranky, one.
Omeprazole is already an approved drug. In fact, I was about to swallow a pill as I was reading this.
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The OP point is still clear. If the law says "You must do x unless you have a religious exemption" then why should anyone at all be expected to do x if clearly it isn't important enough to enforce on all people.

If your religion includes killing people, it is still illegal regardless of your religion. So it seems reasonable that any law which can be overridden by a religious exemption should be dropped for all people.
> From the photon's perspective, it passes earth immediately.

To go even further: to a photon's perspective, it is able to teleport instantly anywhere in the universe, because time doesn't elapse for it.
I don't think you need someone amazing at maths to teach kids. In fact that would probably be detrimental for most kids.

I don't say that teachers don't provide much value because they're useless, but because they are usually very generalized and most kids don't seem be to that interested in learning.

Even if you fix problem #1, you haven't fixed the arguably bigger problem. I also don't think that significantly increasing the quality of teachers would change much for most kids.