skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good catch. This sounds a lot like race baiting.

Canada is a country of immigrants (to some fairly large degree, anyway), and we are well into 2nd and 3rd generations of immigrants without seeing this problem.

When we do have more extremist issues, it rarely is from this part of the population. A lot of times when peaceful protests get out of hand in Canada, it is because of infiltration from groups like the "Black Bloc," which despite the name, are primarily white and often white supremists. They tend to provoke rival groups like BLM, with a special intent on smearing them, which is seen often enough in the US as well.

We have had, and probably still have some specific incidents associated with known foreign terrorist organizations, but they specifically involve the "old guard" who were not born and raised here.
It seems to be consistently true that people are only price sensitive on some things. People stop for gas at a place that has a good price on gas, then pay stupid prices for candy or chips. Is it because that costs less than the gas, so they optimize for saving money on gas? Is it because stations advertise the price of gas, but don't usually advertise the price of chips?

Anybody know what's going on in our brains, that this works on us?
Did you read the linked article? The governor of one of the largest US states asked hospitals to delay elective procedures to ensure hospital capacity.
Ask HN: Does HN have an .onion page?
And we have laws to hold people accountable when under the influence, they do something bad and affect someone else.

That’s a fantastic idea: Start holding the unvaccinated criminally responsible, if they’re the likely point of infection for someone else.

Thanks for the idea.
As opposed to embarrassing for detaining alleged "terrorists" without accusations for a decade? You do know the entire world knows about it right? It's never been a good look for the greedy warmongers that are the American people.
I think what you are seeing is the effect of optical brighteners that are used in paper. They absorb UV light to and emit blue light to make the paper look whiter. The amount of UV light in the environment changes the color of the paper.
> this flow would be in breach of the GDPR

How, precisely? It's a one and a half second delay. Functionality is not changed one iota. No cookies are loaded.

Would it be better if there were an energy-burning inefficient server-side algorithm spinning away?
This was always my assumption. Narf.
You seem to be missing another option: that treatments get better so that hospitalization leads to fewer deaths than it did earlier. Which seems obviously true.

Why would deaths be the best proxy for hospitalization? Why don't you have actual hospitalization numbers?
Your calculations are mostly correct, but pretty optimistic when put in regard of your initial claim (“your winter is my summer”), so you end up with 3month or the worlds production where I end up with several years.

Couple examples: You put a line to cities in the south of Europe. But existing lines from there are nowhere large enough to take all that power, you will have to build lines from Milan and others all the way inside Europe. You can’t build a line to Gibraltar and call it a day, it has to go all the way up to Norway (albeit with tapering)

You also overestimate the efficiency of aluminium power lines, don’t take into account the amount of towers and/or plastic material that would be needed to wrap the lines if you make them underground.

We are talking about years of production, and that’s just for Europe, if you want to replicate this to other continents you quickly get a supply challenge, even if you spread this over 30years, at which point it will be too late, regarding global warming. Not to mention that m the CO2 emissions associated with building such massive lines would take decades (if ever) to be offset with the gains from the use of Solar, which was the point of the thing in the first place...

But in the end my point was not that this is impossible, but that efficiency is not the largest limiting factor here. Material supply is the largest problem. It is not insurmountable but it is a real challenge.
I have to believe locations will often be different.

If I had an EV and couldn't charge at home, I'd be charging at the chargers next to one of my local supermarkets. I'm not going to go to one of the gas station locations around where I live and twiddle my thumbs for 20 minutes even if they had charging.
> Talk to the different representatives of each company, tell them what you like, what you're interested in and _ask them questions_. What interests you about their company? If you seem excited about it, they are more likely to be excited about you.

Agreed, hiring is largely arbitrary when you're fresh out of school so if you can get someone on your side, they can go to bat for you when the decisions are being made. And if you have the opportunity to talk to the CTO or another big shot, make sure to take it. They can literally hire you with a word, bypassing or overriding any process the company may have in place.
Drunk driving is very illegal. If we could identify unvaccinated people who infected others and punish that with jail time, would you be happy about that?
> given the amount of people that claim to have switched to Linux Phones

If any significant number of people had switched, we’d have seen announcements by Purism and Pine.
We are already at 4 Million fatalities from Corona, with a probably significant unknown number of deaths in third-world countries without proper diagnostics and healthcare. Vaccinations are still going too slow and will take another 5 years to even possibly cover all humans. Within that timeframe, it is quite possible to approach WW2 levels of fatalities (around 80 mio.). Secondary damage due to hospitals being overwhelmed, imploding economies and hunger will come on top and are still not easy to estimate.

It would be appaling and immoral to let something of this magnitude go unanswered. If someone is responsible, they need to feel the consequences. Because the consequences of not reacting to something like this, and it getting out later, are far more serious and devastating: That would in one stroke wipe out all legitimacy of involved governments, leading to revolutions all over the west (and quite possibly the rest of the world).
Who doesn't want free things or "discounted" or BOGO or "Going out of business sales".

The linked article has nothing to do with the discussion here. You are just projecting something else here.
Why not apply that to also vaccinated people?
A revolting display of wealth that should be a public park a la Hearst castle.
Boys more at risk from Pfizer jab side-effect than from Covid, suggests study
The vaccine for measles is sterilizing. The vaccines for COVID are not. They're two completely separate classes of intervention. I'm not the one spreading disinformation here.

Just because substance A and substance B are both called "vaccines" doesn't mean that A and B have comparable effects and can be treated the same way.

It is simply not medically possible for COVID vaccination to stop the spread of COVID. We have to accept that and move on with our lives.

The government is not justified in mandating any medical treatment merely because that treatment is good for you. The vaccines seem beneficial, yes. This fact alone does not justify the use of state power. We have a 70-year-old taboo against involuntary medical treatment for a very good reason. The weak threat of COVID combined with the insufficiency of our vaccines suggests that we don't have a compelling case for breaking this taboo.

The vaccines may be beneficial on an individual level but I do not see a case for mandates.
Military justice is to justice as military music is to music.
They will be around as long as people need to eat and go to the toilet.
Minor correction and addition to [1]:

- It's not quite as bad as that, in that the job was from the U.S. government, not the prosecution per se. Col. Spath was set to become an ALJ.

- It's a bit worse than all that, in that one of Col. Spath's worst biased rulings was to imprison the chief defense counsel when he refused to make his subordinates represent capital clients without learned counsel.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/contempt-clash-erupts-guant-namo-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/11/02...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-releases-marine-genera...
Louis Menand's The Free World, a history of public thought in the cold war era, recently taught me about the relationship of the masses and totalitarianism.

The relationship appears to be : destroy classes & traditional relationships -> produce masses & the mob -> totalitarianism arises out of the masses' anxiety and the mob's despotic idiocy.

Something like how too many chickens in a big barn can't form hierarchies and so live in a perpetual panic, except along comes a Big Chicken who makes everyone feel better because they finally know their place again.

I hope something different and less awful happens. But the early results are worrying.

Can we just pull the plug on this experiment, please?
>"...At best it proves that gain-of-function research is not well defined and epidemiological researchers themselves disagree on what it means..."

If its not so well defined, the categorical denials from US officials, saying it was not happening, become then even more interesting.

The case from the article is a bit stronger I would say:

"Scientists working under a 2014 NIH grant to the EcoHealth Alliance to study bat coronaviruses combined the genetic material from a “parent” coronavirus known as WIV1 with other viruses. They twice submitted summaries of their work that showed that, when in the lungs of genetically engineered mice, three altered bat coronaviruses at times reproduced far more quickly than the original virus on which they were based. The altered viruses were also somewhat more pathogenic, with one causing the mice to lose significant weight. The researchers reported, “These results demonstrate varying pathogenicity of SARSr-CoVs with different spike proteins in humanized mice.”

But the terms of the grant clearly stipulated that the funding could not be used for gain-of-function experiments. The grant conditions also required the researchers to immediately report potentially dangerous results and stop their experiments pending further NIH review. According to both the EcoHealth Alliance and NIH, the results were reported to the agency, but NIH determined that rules designed to restrict gain-of-function research did not apply.

The Intercept consulted 11 scientists who are virologists or work in adjacent fields and hold a range of views on both the ethics of gain-of-function research and the Covid-19 origins search. Seven said that the work appears to meet NIH’s criteria for gain-of-function research."
I've seen your blocklist, and meant more that smaller instances that are cut from similar broad-culture cloth are likely to copy mastodon.social's blocklist (I think doing that makes sense if you know you share sensibilities with mastodon.social's moderators).

I follow plenty of people on mastodon.social, mastodon.tech, etc., as well as people from a lot of the suspended instances in your list, and I can clearly see/feel two (really more) different 'cultures' in the fediverse.

The GP is more aligned with the second culture, I think- the culture you could label 'free speech maximalist'.

I don't really think mastodon.social should change- you've banned things you don't like, you perceive certain messages as pernicious enough to warrant a ban, that's fair- you've made a space with a certain tone and flavor, that suitable for a certain type of person.

But people are diverse, and so there are plenty that find the culture and tone of mastodon.social inferior to, say, Poast.

I think people with different sensibilities are suited to different spaces, and that it makes sense to point out that some of the spaces on mastodon.social's blocklist have value- maybe not to the median member on mastodon.social, but to people not of your culture.

To be frank, you're progressives. There's nothing wrong with that! Some of my best friends are progressives! But it's a lens that colors how you view the world, and what's ban-worthy. Again, nothing wrong with making a space that conforms to your sensibilities- but I wanted to make it clear to the GP that there are plenty of instances that don't have the same sociopolitical 'flavor' as mastoson.social, and that mastodon.social sits at the graph
-centre of a particular subset of the federated network that is of similar flavor.
I hypothesize that every philosophical definition is susceptible to a Gettier-type problem.
And the recommendation from the teacher comes with a friendly recommendation to a psychologist that works with other kids in the class. The teacher and the doc probably have wine together once a week.
> The vaccines are helpful to the recipient, but . . . not really that helpful to the people who haven't taken them.

This isn't true, though.
The only watch better than the Casio F91W is the Casio F-105. They are nearly identical, except the F-105 has a backlight that is usable. The backlight on the F91W is worthless, and there are quite a few mods out there showing you how to replace it.

Source: I’ve been wearing both of these models for decades, although I haven’t touched the F91W in years and never will again.
Thanks. That relates to the same point I conceded, but it's still interesting.

Unfortunately I seem to have turned conjecture from someone's tweet into a large thread which was the opposite of what I wanted. We have some developer's speculation and now we're all debating and theorizing about it (which why social media is a $%#* pile of rubbish).

Perhaps next week Apple Developer Relations will get back to this dev with more specifics.

Perhaps next week we'll find same is happening to other people's Qur'an apps.

But at the moment all thousands of us people discussing this tweet on social media are just bumbling around in the dark.
As an unvaccinated (but protected by naturally-acquired immunity) I completely agree with this. As long as the same is true for car accident victims (except pedestrians), HIV patients (except those that got it via birth/rape), obese people, smokers, drinkers, skiers, ... All these are 100% voluntary activities that put undue burden on the medical system.
My biggest complaint about perceptual colour spaces has been that they make working with colours near gamut boundaries really hard.

I agree, this can be awkward. I like using perceptual spaces because they are self-evidently a “neater” starting point for colour work than something artificially distorted like HSL or (horror!) RGB, but it’s important to recognise that they offer an incremental improvement and don’t magically solve all problems. In particular, producing a useful and/or aesthetically pleasing result still isn’t necessarily as simple as varying one axis in isolation, because you can quickly fall outside the available gamut that way.

As a practical example of this, I recently needed a scheme for a variation of syntax highlighting in a structured document. My requirements were:

1. around 10 clearly distinct hues

2. all colours maintaining good contrast with a white background

3. no colour appearing too bright relative to the near-black unhighlighted text

4. all colours at a similar level of perceived lightness to avoid unintentional bias or emphasis.

My starting point was to choose evenly spaced hues within a perceptually uniform colour space, pick a medium-to-low value and look for maximum chroma in each case. This wasn’t a bad start, but it still needed significant practical adjustments like increasing the value for colours around the yellow/green area and dropping a hue entirely so I could space others around the blue/purple area more widely. Otherwise, however perceptually uniform the scheme might theoretically have been, in practice it would have ended up with the yellow/green area colours looking washed out and the blue/purple ones not distinctive enough under some realistic viewing conditions.
Layouts are the parents concern, not the child. You test the parent for that.
OP said "bbc reporters", not "the BBC", and the first Tweet is from a BBC reporter.
I agree that c-store sales are huge. But I take issue with your numbers... are you sure premium gas has 80% lower markup than regular? The people who buy premium gas tend to be wealthier and less price sensitive, further, premium gas is far less likely to posted on the sign. The difference between regular and premium used to be 20 to 30 cents in my experience, now usually 40-50 cent difference.

I also question whether big brands have lower margins. People seem to gravitate to the Wawa and RaceTrak and Sheetz and Love's, often due to cleanliness as much as the store, and they usually appear to price their gas a few cents above no-name competitors and still be much busier.
I think he means that most secureboot implementations (ie. PC, since phones don't adhere to the secureboot standard), you can replace the microsoft keys with your keys.
I mean I think you can safely discard any notion that this article is written to be convincing when it makes no mention of satellite imagery one way or another.
I see you're being downvoted, but I do wonder to what degree that might be true. Working on a team that maintains something old isn't terribly glorious. Rename the product, and now you have a "product launch" on your resume.
And partial, no? So four states.
Declassified FBI report on Saudi Nationals and links to 9/11
It can't prove internal states, but it sure can rule them out.
A question to ask... is it the engine weight only, or engine + its gearbox?

It's very easy to make very high power to ratio electric engine, if RPMs, and voltages can be arbitrarily high.
If this is actually true, it does seem to be worth asking whether we're doing a good job with how we're structuring secondary education.

If someone isn't in a position where they have a medical reason to take this stuff, but they still feel like they need to -- there are a lot of reasons that might be happening, but it also could indicate something may be wrong with the environment they're in, and that should probably be a part of the conversation.
They are. They’re trivial to create with your own issuer but not to forge an existing issuer, unless their private key is leaked.
Yeah the best shit code in the industry is written by h1b's
There is Michael W. Lucas who transitioned into a literature career. Writes great technical and fiction books, even has one book detailing the path into becoming a full time paid artist (writer in his case).
If you're not able to refute their statement why would you dismiss it as a 'conspiracy theory'?

In fact your classmate is correct, you also need to be 'alive' for your organs to be harvested, there's an entire ongoing field of debate in the medical community about the ethics of this, which a quick peruse of the literature will get you upto speed on.
This is like saying that HTTPS is just security by obscurity because you have to keep the private key secret.

The distinction between anecdotes and data is whether you gather the information in a structured and reliable way.

I would, in all seriousness, recommend a high school statistics textbook if this is new to you. There's a whole bunch of interesting stuff, including how you don't need a very large sample size to be able to draw conclusions from the data, but you do need to ask your questions in a rigorous way.
The former works wonders for overall personal happiness.
>There are commercially available high-energy cells that provide ~900W/kg.

Can you please provide more information? My understanding is the best lithium is under 400wh/kg.

Edit: Sorry looks like you are talking about power density not energy density (watts vs watt/hours).

My understanding is range (energy density) is the problem not power output. Cruise takes about 1/3 the power of takeoff so maybe an hour of flight with 5 Mwh?
So should we invest in vastly increasing hospital staffing and facilities because the current ICU loads are the new normal?
Greater parasitic drag from the duct?
What percentage of people do you see becoming professionally funny to pay the bills from comedy?

From the open mic's I went to there was a very minscule percentage of them and most had been trying for ages.

Not sure it boils down 'just work hard'.
Don't conflate a people with its government. They often have very different motivations.
Assuming you have the underground tanks in place already, I don’t see why a gas pump would cost more than an electric charger. A charge point charger costs $7-10k, add in sawcutting/trenching/pipe/wire/txformer and you’re at $20k+

I’m not sure how much gas pumps cost, but you’d still need the sawcutting and trenching, along with pipe. Probably about the same cost.
The compression effect of the jet engine blades is what ignites the fuel. I don't think that part is replaceable, it's what makes a jet engine a jet engine.

The hot gasses from the fuel burn produce thrust, and also sends rotational force back into the turbine blades to keep the compression effect going.
Indeed, but the article is about a motor.
I gather they're basically big travel centers with a lot of food options, some of which is even decent. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/buc-ees-to-open-fir...

There are just off highway service plazas in many places which have various qualities of food. If I'm doing a drive, I might prefer to keep going but between rest and snack stops, something like this is better than a random convenience store.
No, not efficiencies. Jet engines have lower efficiencies than propellers up to near 0.8 speeds of sound, and terrible ones at low speeds, and low altitudes.

Last generation airliners have designed cruise speeds below 0.8 speeds of sound.

So, a propeller can still be a viable option at that speed, it will just have to be enormous.
vs. quite a few tonnes of jet fuel.
Interesting, I had assumed they just didn’t know that lead was bad back then. What’s even weirder is how there are still people today who insist that banning leaded gasoline was an key example of government overreach.

Someone once was arguing this point to me and I just had to drop the topic because it was such a baffling stance.
Beam/Erlang/Elixir Concept Explanations
Several hundred thousand people could have been saved in the US if these measures had been taken seriously, early enough, compared to other first world countries.

Social distancing, closing schools, etc. were proven methods that showed the difference between cities with horrible losses and much better outcomes for the Spanish Flu. (Edit: Washington had his troops in the revolutionary war quarantined, separated, and inoculated when small pox became a problem. ) We knew all that.

This weekend, we are mourning the tragical losses of a terror attack that cost the lives of 3000 innocent people. Because of people like you, who call proven measures against COVID ‘safety-isms’ we lose that many people every other day.

If anything, we clearly didn’t do enough ‘safety-isms’.
Can you think of a solution that doesn't just allow government officials to profit even more?

If you build in a system where the government can extract profit by not complying with their actions, what makes you think you wont someday find yourself on the wrong side of those actions?

Keep in mind, your side might not always be the one in control and once you hand over extra power to the government it's extremely rare for them to hand it back to you.
As smart as he is, I'm uncertain whether Musk should be considered a genius (part of that uncertainty is due to the poor definition of genius), but he is definitely a polymath, which is even less common.