skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is as the saying goes : "build and they will come"

60% of trips in the US are less than 6 miles. Electric bikes and road bikes are perfect for this kind of trip. I used to do almost all my trips in Boston on bike. However, I just moved to Bellevue and even though I want to, biking feels.incredibly unsafe. I know a good few people who would love to do their daily commute on bikes, but they are understandably scared to do so.

When bike lanes are added, they are done with so little thought that it is almost more dangerous to be on them than not (cambridge MA has been doing a stellar job tho)

There is a wierd conundrum at the core of american discourse right now. Housing is too expensive, but there is also too much space between places (requiring cars).
The US refuses to welcome housing/zoning laws that will allow for densification. On the other hand, they allow for sprawling cities like pheonix or houston to expand to grotesque amounts.

Biking + mass transit is very doable in many parts of the US. Parking minimums can be replaced with parking outside urban cores and taking public transportation after that. Building housing on parking lots would quicky begin densifying neighborhoods.

When the simple act of living requires 3 cars in a house and driving 10 miles to get groceries, maybe it is time to stop.incentivizing that lifestyle and urban development approach.

All of this being said, US public transportation/pedestrian/biking infrastructure is bad even when compared to similar cities. Cities the size of NYC, Boston, SF, Seattle, etc in other developed countries fare significantly better on all of the aforementioned factors. Maybe the US could start by catching up first and talk about 'doing better' later.
> Only bad places, where you'll work with other miserable people.

blizzard, amazon, apple, facebook and to a certain extend microsoft are filled with assholes and foster that culture, yet are considered good places to work at (for a long time at least)
> One particularly frustrating aspect of fraud prevention is that fraudsters are better than the rest of us at getting human support staff to do what they want. They have way more practice, and they learn techniques that work from other fraudsters.

Then put a flag on that account. Repetitive issues will make it clear what's happening.

Fraudster also doesn't have the same needs as most customers, they don't need to keep the same account... at best the same account will barely give them more credibility, but that would no longer be true if a flag has been raised previously.

There's plenty of ways to verify identities, use that when a flag has been raised previously. Again, something that sure a fraudster can do but lower odds than an actual customers.
I don't understand what artificial scarcity has to do with it.

Are you saying that if old games didn't eventually break because people didn't maintain them, new games wouldn't be made?
> Allow renters vote on local zoning regulation.

What does this mean? If any zoning regulation comes up for public vote, everyone elegible to vote gets to vote on it.

Or are you suggesting renters should have special access to vote on these issues?
This is known as a "Gravity Model" in the transportation literature and it's very far form being a new discovery. It's been around since the 1930s under various guises (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_model_of_trade)

We used the same concept in our 2009 paper (https://www.pnas.org/content/106/51/21484) but the exact functional form of the distance dependency (1/r, 1/r^2, 1/e^r, etc) varies with their exact definition of city due to the Modifiable Areal Unit problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifiable_areal_unit_problem). In our specific case (cities defined as Voronoi cells centered around airports) the dependency was exponential.
Interesting strategy, based on my interactions with AMD the work we're seeing materialize today was planned 5-7 years ago. I worked with the GPU team in Florida and they laid out at high level how AMD plans to attack Intel at business and consumer level. I'm not sure if it's viable but when Intel is hiring back old engineers and slashing prices it makes me think they lack a long term plan.
Upwork.

I know that many here despise Upwork, but they are wrong.

You will need to build a profile before you can earn higher hourly rates, but then it is great.

Better to invest a few months of your life in building a profile and then be free than to be dependent on others forever.
Music licensing is probably the biggest one.
>It is pretty useful though. Studies have found it compares well with vaccines or better.

My understanding was that there were many more studies of vaccine protection than immunity after infection.

Some links to those studies of immunity after infection would be greatly appreciated.
Theoretically, and in places of transient surges, sure. But most of US isn't currently at that level of health-care rationing.

You know who else puts others at risk? Vaccinated people, overconfident, potentially walking around with their asymptomatic breakthrough infections (whereas an unvaxed person with a rougher case would self-isolate). But we live with that, because people can still protect themselves with vaccination, & by choosing to only come within infection-range of other vaxed people.

It's looking increasingly likelt that natural immunity is stronger against future variants, or stronger against transmission (mucosal immunity in nose/airways instead of in bloodstream), than vaccination alone. So when a young healthy person who's unlikely to land in an ICU gets & recovers from a natural infection, they might be net-lowering their community's risks, over the long run, versus mere vax-immunity. These population-level effects are often weird & non-linear that way.

I'd say, to the maximum extent possible: let their immune systems, and their peers, & their communities, learn in the way they choose. Some lessons are necessarily painful. Those with greater concern should keep their distance in the meantime – but realize the fastest & surest way to broad safety, via deeper herd immunity, is to let the laggards work through their hard lessons ASAP.
>The usual check size at an early/seed stage (re: angels) is around ~$25k, so this would mean having 132 companies in your portfolio. That’s extreme for anyone just getting started, even considering the “shotgun” approach.

With social angel & seed investing, the numbers have really reduced.

My early stage investment portfolio is ~$250K input cost, divided between investments of $1k, $3k, $5k, $10k, $20k, and $50k. Most investments I am trying to shoot for are in the $5k to $20k range. In doing this I have realized that a shotgun approach is better than big check to what I considered the best companies.

Most of the investments are around significant gaps in the market, or products I really believe will displace an incumbent providing an impaired service.

Am way up, mainly from SPACs acquiring companies, but the lockup periods are really really long.

The early stage investments are around 10% of my portfolio, and less than 5% with my wife.

> Most investors would be better off buying index funds - so you seriously have to enjoy this for it to make sense.

I don't believe in primarily buying index funds because I think they:

thrive during bull markets and die off during bears (survivorship bias)

Have outsized risks when serving as a majority of a portfolio

Overly risky due to concentrations

Vulnerable to black swan events

Rewards bad companies by lifting their stocks, regardless of how effective they are

Provide inferior returns compared to value hunting

Limits ability to utilize option strategies

I know these opinions might not be shared by many, and I recognize index funds are generally much better than active funds merely due to mgmt fees, therefore I try to limit my exposure to them to less than 10%, not including my gold hedge.
I see this sentiment all the time and some context is sorely needed because its a dangerous statement to make. Theres a reason why global state management is a thing and its not an edge case.

For small projects where you want to prop drill is enough, fine. But we are talking about very small projects. Anything bigger and there is a significant drawback to that approach.
45 minutes can be a lot if you keep it in hand over night for sleep tracking. You'd then need a to find a 45 minute slot every day to charge it and be consistent with it. With one day battery life you can't forget to charge it every morning for example. Or what if you didn't bring a charger with you for an overnight trip? Anything less than a full two day battery life is a deal breaker for me.
Didn’t they put this on hold for now? Or did I misread a headline and it’s still happened/happening
Ah, no I don't. Once I can workout again I'll definitely watch the battery life if that is a drain.
Even if someone solves the technical part (cheap recovery), there are multiple practical problems with salvaging.

1. Satellites don't have much to salvage at EoL, they are typically obsolete at this point, at least for their main purpose. Their components degrade as well - space is a fairly aggressive environment and they aren't designed to be reusable.

2. They often contain highly regulated components that have tight export restrictions.

3. They might contain state or trade secrets and recovering by a third party is highly undesirable.
The pencil is pretty fantastic for drawing.
I'm very skeptical of Apple's Water friendly claims. I bought a series 4, and took it once in the ocean. The water seal will fail after a year or so, and out of warranty.

I have a watch sitting on my shelf, and digital crown no longer works. Was very upset.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/swimming-killed-my-seri...
I find the opposite to be true - with a smart watch I can glance at what the notifications are about and avoid reaching for my phone for way longer.
That view of things denies the possibility that people would have found alternative solutions to problems if the abusive solution didn't exist. In a word, it's short-sighted. Competition tends to drive otherwise viable strategies to extinction if a much easier one exists, and getting rid of that dominant strategy can allow alternative strategies to thrive.
I completely agree we need alternatives for car repair that being said dealership competing on repair is hard to accept. Hopefully independent mechanics steps up and a way to certify that work would be great.
Just adding an Arxiv filter that allows me to set a minimum p-value or variation % would do it!
>"2) It increases greatly the complexity of client software that has to implement both accelerated and unaccelerated decoding, leading to poorer software quality"

I happen to have my own product having just that - software and hw accelerated decoding. It plays videos in few resolutions and presence of HW acceleration allowed me to play 4K videos (first on the market in my segment) with close to 0% CPU consumption on low end PCs. Competitors at that stage would not even dream about offering 4K content.

As to "poorer software quality" - please do not play FUD. I just looked at the source code - the HW accelerated path (decodes from source to DirectX texture) added miniscule 1200 lines of code good chunk of which are headers / declarations. The software is being used by tens of thousands of clients and I have about zero reports where enabling HW decoding has lead to error.
Access and valuations. Although YC does much better than other incubators in terms of outcomes, the batch sizes are quite large these days and the best deals are oversubscribed before the batch even starts. There's a lot of money chasing deals. So unless you have a solid reputation, it's hard to get started.

Obviously, you can overcome that by just spending the time, building dealflow, etc, but it suggests that new angels won't get access to the 1% deals. One of my batchmates was Cruise Automation which has had a spectacular trajectory. I don't know for certain, but I suspect Kyle wouldn't have been willing to take $10k from me. :)
The question in the title is very very easy to answer.

The political reason that natural immunity “doesn’t count” indeed is not directly about medical reality.

To say things are political is almost an insult these days—I don’t mean it that way at all. But policy has medical implications, and so politics is part of it. This policy-decision is being made because there have been political movements since early on to do variations on “Let 'er rip,” that is, to allow COVID-19 to run rampant until a herd immunity develops, while maybe implementing decontamination procedures in nursing homes instead or so. The most notable statement to this effect was the Great Barrington Declaration but of course there have been smaller ones that hit wider spread.

Policy needs to factor in things like the huge early oppositions to shutdowns, the huge oppositions to masking despite it being absurdly effective for how cheap it is... there remain very strong political forces in this divided country which overlook the significance of younger people with COVID flooding the emergency rooms and overtaxing our limited health workers (NYT today reports that in the US South, they are at this level right now), and the death that can come from this, simply because the danger for young people is usually considerably smaller when those hospitals are operating normally. (See India for a cautionary tale, there.)

Given this political reality, ‘vaccinate everyone’ is a political countermeasure meant to create a potential-energy-barrier to lying. It’s not medical advice, it’s public policy. Lying to say ‘Yeah I was COVID-exposed but it wasn’t bad enough to go to the hospital’ is very very cheap. Forging a CDC vaccination card takes a couple hours of time right now and opens you up to some fraud risks—it’s not a huge cost but if it’s higher than the cost of just going and getting vaccinated, there is a hope that vaccination will win out.
Both of my last 2 large bank gigs (kind of the last places you'd expect cutting edge tech) were going all in on Kotlin. New projects were Kotlin only, and there was active work on sunsetting/migrating Java applications towards Kotlin. None of these were Android applications.

Sure, this is anecdotal. But I'd say the same of Java's dominance in the JVM space. Java's continued dominance is not a sure thing from my vantage point.
Turning off notifications is a set and forget thing. It’s a setting. It’s not a habit, not a technique, not a vague concept. It is a literal toggle switch.
It hurts to face this fact but exactly. As an eng manager my interview focus is to find a good personality. We don't do this by asking questions about personality, but by watching how the interviewee responds to questions, how they handle themselves and so far it has proven as a good method.

I've worked with/under/managed tech gods who were dicks and I would work with normal people who aren't at that tech level 10/10 times. I am worried with the current direction towards remote work there will be more space for assholes.
The Windows 2000 user interface. Uniform look and behavior, very discoverable, clearly identifyable controls, “boring” gray.
not likely that they will have one craft that is used to deorbit multiple items. more likely there will be one craft with 100 micro/cub satellites in orbit. once junk identified, mother craft ejects micro sat, micro sat performs one single burn to rendevu with junk over a very long period of time. passively connects to it somehow, like magnets or or something, then once connected, then does a single. deorbit burn to change the trajectory of the junk to deorbit significantly faster than normal. sacrifice itself with the deorbit
"If you die, the cancer also dies at exactly the same time. That to me isn't losing a battle, it is a draw."

He was one of the funniest people ever and there is probably no one who was a more entertaining talk show guest. I can spend hours just watching whatever comes up after plugging "Norm Macdonald talk show" into Youtube.
They used to call keeping your personal life separate from work "being professional". Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here... don't most companies hire people to do a job, not to flaunt who they are in their private lives in a distracting manner?
> Capitalism is the market and the market are people.

markets can (and did) exist before capitalism

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042215/what-differe...
It has been pretty easy for me because they let you filter exactly which apps can notify your watch.
I really like the Apple Watch. Beyond the fitness/health functionality, I love the on-wrist notifications (which I've tuned to only include the things I want there), and I also really like using Apple Maps for directions and having the watch guide me. Stuff like having my groceries and todos on my wrist are handy, as is being able to see my next-up meeting.
> In the grandparent post you were excusing Intuit’s lobbyism by using a what-aboutist look-the-other-way

I did nothing of the sort. You inferred your own narrative and are now blaming me. Know what that is called?
openjdk compik3d version is gpl eith classpath exception. so one can use it in production enterprise apps
I have iPhone 6, and it's fine with iOS 12.5.4 released in June 2021. I'm thinking about upgrading, but the current situation is still fine. The phone still works very well, and I use it a lot. Safari, YouTube, Reddit, podcast apps, maps apps, notes, messaging apps, etc. still work about the same. Photos would have better quality on a newer phone, but overall not a big change for everyday use. These newer displays look nice though.

I'll be forced to update when enough apps (not Apple, but third party) stop working because they no longer support iOS 12. Currently, there are only 7 apps out of over 200 that I have installed that don't support iOS 12. So I have to run an older version of these apps. Eventually there will be many. And the older versions of the apps will eventually stop working as well (if they connect to some web APIs that will be deprecated). This is what forced me to upgrade from iPhone 3GS to iPhone 6 last time.
Is it ? Is it too damn hard to turn off notifications? I fail to see how disabling one feature is equivalent to Airplane mode or turning off a PC which disables multiple functionalities (with the later making it unusable). The matters are obviously not solutions since other use cases require their useless. Turning off notifications have no effect on any other feature of the watch.
This makes sense, but I guess personal disposition makes a difference.
You can. My Series 6 lasts about 36 hours per charge.
JavaFX was... too little, too late...
I actually have the same impediment but never knew the term `rhotacism` - thanks!
In the last sentence of the article he posted, it's unclear to me how that applies to a system with two photons in it. If I have two photons heading off in opposite directions, I'm in the center-of-momentum frame for that system. Then the invariant mass is equal to the system's "total mass" in that frame. For two photons, is that 0, or E/mc^2?

I know what your position is. I'm just not sure that the quote from his article supports your position.

I will grant you that if you take the energy-momentum equation and apply it to such a system as a whole, and plug in the total energy (non-zero) and the total momentum (zero), then out comes a non-zero mass. I just am unclear on whether that's a valid thing to do. (I also don't know that it's not valid.) Can you make a convincing case that it's reasonable to apply that equation in that way?
Is this a defense of cancel culture, or saying that ruining someone's career is in all cases appropriate since they must have view X which they wouldn't share with an employer? It's actually rather hard to know the views of people who've been mobbed on social media, since millions of other voices drown them out and make assumptions without them having a proper chance to defend themselves. Moreover, an employer may believe such a person to not hold noxious views, and still find them unemployable because of the social media backlash. Are you seriously arguing in favor of mob justice on the basis that the victims of internet mobs should be happy to not be employed by someone they disagree with politically?
Thats because in the react world its all about state management. Once it clicks that the view is just a function of state then these discussions will make more sense.
I do enjoy the idea of a journal focused entirely on the review of statistical methods and underlying methodologies applied in modern day research. Could act as a helpful signal for relevant and applicable research.
Its worth noting that the reason this happened is because management bought out the company from Unilever. They were able to switch to a long term vision, then transformed and succeeded.

Just goes to show that the boardroom can absolutely hobble a good management team.
13 Pro looks like a great phone on its own but not compelling enough to upgrade from 12 Pro.
Re: scanning email, I did not see any articles that specifically said that Apple was scanning mail on-device. Can you point me to an article that states this fact clearly? As you say, scanning on the cloud isn’t really an issue since everyone is doing that anyways.

But as a developer you should know email is inherently not a secure method of communication thus you should not expect any privacy when using it. Email is analogous to sending a postcard through the mail system.
Why wouldn't you figure out the anchors/margins/separation during development? Why wait for debugging to do this?

Qt Creator still has the form designer (NOT the debugger as mentioned in the post) that can be brought up on any component. It's not optimal either, but it's better than modifying item scalars by hand.
That depends on the salary and the caché of the position. Plenty of people will put up with an asshole boss if the price is right, or to fast-track a career.
Since I wear my 6 at night, I need to charge it in the morning. That takes about an hour. The last 10% is at about one quarter of the bulk charging rate.

If life interferes, and I have to pull it off the charger after 40 minutes, the watch typically won’t make it through the following night.

Two days would be helpful. Either that, or cut the charging time down to 30 minutes, which is about the time it takes me to get ready in the morning.
Probably my favorite comedian. No wonder we hadn't seen much of him for awhile, e.g. when Conan O'Brien's show was ending.
Give me variable interpolation in strings and I'll be happy.
Apologies, for the late reply.

By deep functions I simply meant small deep networks embedded in probabilistic models as a drop-in replacement for probability distributions, like e.g. a neuralHMM: https://pyro.ai/examples/hmm_funsor.html

Aside from looking into Pyro docs and all references, another good entry point is this publication: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.05735.pdf. Here the authors show how to use deep networks to aid sampling of complex probabilistic models.
That’s true, but the claim was that getting respiratory viruses is good for overall health, because sterility is bad.

Sure, our germs make isolated people sick, but are we healthier because of the respiratory viruses, or are we merely germier?

OP seems to be arguing the hygiene hypothesis applies to respiratory pathogens.
> tend to use a different brand of X-ray film

Most of us radiology folk abandoned film 20 years ago and went to digital systems (CR or DR). This doesn’t negate your query though, as vendors do have different technologies and their images do not look the same.
U.S. Treasury Data Lab
The mods are surprisingly responsive on this site, so I say this without a hint of sarcasm - try emailing them about it. I recently had a thread unflagged within an hour.