skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the statistics themself are fact. ex: number of case and hospitalization for vaccinated people vs unvaccinated people.

I wish that as so.

The ‘factual’ statistics can be stretched however one wishes.

For example, what does it mean to be vaccinated? Or, for that matter, what does it mean to ‘hospitalized’? Does it mean Covid symptoms necessitated hospitalization? Or, perhaps, everyone in the hospital who tested positive? Does it include ‘recovered’ patients who, for unrelated reasons, are still in the hospital, albeit no longer in a Covid ward?

Etc.

The statistics for this entire fiasco have been garbage. I wish it were not so.

They certainly aren’t ‘facts’ as you suggest.
One of these terms can get you votes from naturalized citizens of certain communities. The other one won't.
It's a true statement. Surely connecting via social apps has had positive mental health benefits on at least one person. That alone would make it true.

I think the problem is most people probably read the statement and don't realize just how weak the evidence required to make it true is.
Isn't the dog whistle comparing COVID without vaccination/masking/distancing/etc to the flu, to downplay the severity of the pandemic and hence the need to take any action against it?

A comparison of COVID risk in vaccinated people showing that vaccination apparently reduces the risk to less than that of the average seasonal flu is the opposite of what the usually dog whistling people are trying to convey.
I played through Elite Force a few months ago, it was great.
Serious questions:

1. Where do you get the extra oxygen? There are places asking residents to reduce water usage because they are running out of liquid oxygen (used for water treatment in those places) do to medical uses. Do we have an enough manufacturing capabilities to produce enough oxygen to satisfy demand? Can this easily be increased?

2. "Beds" is not accurate. Often hospitals at 100%+ capacity still have physical space (i.e. "beds"), but who staffs the beds? You need doctors, nurses, and custodial staff. Where do those come from? Traveling nurses are a thing and places like Florida and Texas are hiring hundreds (thousands?). What is they supply of these nurses? What about doctors?

3. Where do the dead go and how do you deal with it? At the beginning of the pandemic NYC has to use refrigerated trucks. Now Texas and Florida (and presumably other out of control places) are also using refrigerated trucks to store the dead. This is probably one of the easier logistical issues because presumably we could just freeze the thousands of dead people every day until morgues and other resources could catch up.

I don't think this is so simple as "get more oxygen" and "add beds".
I would like to agree with that, since I would like to believe race is a construct that we can dispense with at some point.

That said, assuming the paper is just wrong is simply bias.

If there is an identity associated with race, there is no reason to think it doesn’t impact biology. There is no reason to assume it’s genetic.
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Generally, the benefits of progress more than compensates the regressions (if any)

Very few people today, after knowing how people lived in the past, would make that tradeoff and go back

P.S: "rich = bad" is an awful proxy for the real underlying problems
This fails to capture why the term of "social construct" has to be brought in instead of just talking about physical differences across a threshold. In these discussions, one may want to use the term "social construct" instead of "physical classification" because it implies an arbitrary degree of freedom for discounting a term based on its social and pragmatic significance.

This then lets you argue about the value of certain kinds of physical evidence over others when making social judgements, without having to consider the direct consequences of such evidence. In that sense calling the distinction between tallers and shorters a "social construct" does more than you let on when you are just subbing it for "shorthand definition for a rough threshold of height". It means you can give non-epistemological grounds for ignoring physical evidence.
"Treehouse rolled back the no-boss workplace in 2015, saying employees felt they were 'lonely islands with no support' without a management structure."
Run it in a container with a separate network namespace? Doesn't even need a container, just unshare -Un on linux.
Gamers have an intuitive sense of this. Your average framerate can be arbitrarily high, but if you have a big stutter every second between the smooth moments, then a lower but more consistent framerate may be preferable, typically expressed as the 1% and 0.1% slowest frames, which at a relatively typical 100fps, represents the slowest frame every second and every 10 seconds.
When I checked, it seemed that Yukihiro Matsumoto moved to San Francisco to work for Heroku but that's after developing Ruby while in Japan.

> Ruby didn't "fail" and it's not niche (GitHub is written in RoR, as well as discourse).

Ruby definitely is a niche language. I have never seen used outside of the web and it's pretty much always mentioned with RoR. That doesn't preclude success stories developed with Ruby to exist.

It failed in the sense that it has little momentum and didn't gain much traction if you compare it to something like Python. In a way, it's somewhat comparable to Ocaml which was the "failure" I was mentioning initially despite being a nice language itself and seeing interesting development right now.
No insurance required. It's a loss leader to get people into the store.
From the abstract:

> we reveal a simple and robust scaling law that captures the temporal and spatial spectrum of population movement

They throw around the word "temporal", but it's not clear exactly how they incorporate the time element without taking the plunge on the full study.
Companion trains dogs using computer vision
Maybe if Optional becomes a value type
Yes, lock down and social isolation does work to prevent transmission but it also weakens the healthy immune systems and makes the population more fragile going forward.

Better to inoculate the most vulnerable, not the entire population for a fast mutating respiratory virus.

Polio can't really mutate and it makes a lot of sense to inoculate everyone for this.
Unless you plan to live forever, it's not a problem for you or your great great great great great grandchildren either. GP was pointing out that neither the Moon not the Earth care about human life and will do just fine without us.
I'd be glad to check out any examples of software that come close to this ideal.
I heard recently that there is a separate, lower minimum wage for people with disabilities, which I was pretty shocked and disgusted to learn.

I also heard that there is a separate minimum wage for tipped jobs - something in the region of a paltry $2.50/h, if I recall correctly?
I thought Bitcoin was interesting, and was sad because the bitcoin fountain had been drained before I got there, so I didn't get 5 bitcoin to play with. 8(

I spent money, got a video card, did some mining, and lost it all in MtGox. 8(

I'm now of the opinion that it's a speculative investment, subject, subject to the whims of governments who might have large pools of bitcoins in dark wallets.

The current boom in value is highly dependent on Tether, there's likely to be a 90% correction when that implodes.

Once that happens, far less electricity will be wasted on it.
iPhone 13
The heritibility of human height is 79% (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01157-y). The heritibility of human skin color is 82% (https://www.nature.com/articles/emm201228).
this clearly meets the threshold, though. i don't know a single person who has used social media that considers it not-harmful overall, mostly it's a justified use of "i need it for x so i have to put up with the downsides"

it just seems really silly to me to walk into this thread about how Facebook internally believes they're doing harm, and reply to a statement about how the harmed demographic feels they're being harmed, in the context of well-documented ways that harm occurs and what kind of effects it has, with a statement doubting the harm actually exists and questioning the self-reported experience of harm
It's fairly easy if you understand the meaning of "can be true". There can be countless instances where it's not true but if you find just _one_ instance where it's true, then your "can be true" statement must be true.
>HW decoding pretty much always means "ASIC"

Indeed. For example, hardware decoding is the difference between choppy video and smooth video on the PinePhone because the CPU isn't powerful enough and the GPU is useless for decoding.

(And to fguerraz's edit that their comment doesn't apply to mobile phones "where manufacturers control hardware and software end to end", the manufacturer does not control the software on the PinePhone.)
It looks like it implements hardware acceleration of the VP9 codec for some specific hardware (Rockchip VDEC and Hantro G2). This opens up playing, for example, lots of YouTube videos with less CPU usage on devices with that hardware. I can't comment on whether or not it "took so long" as I have no idea which hardware this is.

The title makes it out to be something fundamental in Linux, but this is just one driver becoming more complete.
No it's not. That's a gross oversimplification of what is necessary to build a nuke. These arguments have been made over and over about other countries. If Taiwan had anything of the sort, China wouldn't be itching for a fight.

It's also doubtful that Japan has any weapons grade plutonium left seeing that they handed over a bunch of it to the US in 2016.

"On 24 March 2014, Japan agreed to turn over more than 700 pounds (320 kg) of weapons grade plutonium and highly enriched uranium to the US,[43] which started to be returned in 2016.[44] It has been pointed out that as long as Japan enjoys the benefits of a "nuclear-ready" status held through surrounding countries, it will see no reason to actually produce nuclear arms, since by remaining below the threshold, although with the capability to cross it at short notice, Japan can expect the support of the US while posing as an equal to China and Russia.[45]

On 29 March 2016, then-U.S. President candidate Donald Trump suggested that Japan should develop its own nuclear weapons, claiming that it was becoming too expensive for the US to continue to protect Japan from countries such as China, North Korea, and Russia that already have their own nuclear weapons.[46] "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nuclear_weapon_progra...
It's a safe assumption that MOST are unvaccinated based on all available data. But of course not ALL (statistically speaking).
What's even funnier is, once you speak two languages, to compare coverage of the same news on the same network in two different languages (so aimed at different demographics).
Shouldn’t it be measured against human GHG activity like transport and agriculture, and not standard operation of the planet whether we exist on it or not?
Thanks a lot for the context. I have to say I didn't really have a hard time understanding him. I didn't even consider the possibility that it was a speech impediment.
Tofu is not delicious.
The economist Bryan Caplan recently wrote about the experience of his twins who recently entered college after doing homeschooling for middle and high school. There seems to be a lot of overlap in their experiences to this article https://www.econlib.org/our-homeschooling-odyssey/
Everything looks nice, but I really don't mind these devices if I can't install my own desktop software on them. Seems nice for things like casual content consumption though
Maybe 56 died?
> yes, to a mild extent and indeed they do

Thank you for agreeing. So your definition is so bad Apple qualifies as a pyramid scheme under it. That makes it appear that you have no idea what a pyramid scheme is.

> so the owners don’t have much extent

...but "to a mild extent" they do, so your definition calls this a pyramid scheme. The no true Scotsman fallacy doesn’t work here.

> [BTC] is structurally a pyramid scheme

The decentralized blockchain? You haven't posted a specific reason to say this that isn't abstract, despite two desperate tries. There are no recruiters, there's no one actively distributing funds for getting new recruits.

Just curious, do you know the difference between market manipulation and pyramid schemes? Pyramid schemes and Ponzi schemes? Pyramid schemes and other MLM schemes?

Or you just use them all interchangeably because you have no idea what they mean?
I imagine part of the problem is many of these coding schools are scams. It isn't that people can't learn from them, but what they are teaching is usually just too narrow to be all that useful.
> symmetric distributions definitely have it, asymmetric may or may not

Doesn't have to be any more complicated than that. It's more a curio than an important point anyway :)
The proposed solutions add complexity. Complexity make things brittle.

I'd think carefully before adding more complexity. Of course this is depending on what you are doing (accounting app vs a HN clone for example).
I don't know how the UK tool companies do things, but I buy and use a lot of German tools and it depends on the brand. Most use metric measurements everywhere, some of them that are more widely distributed like Wera will use SAE measurements in their US/NA literature and metric everywhere else and use geolocation to provide you the appropriate product page or data sheet. It is very common though to see 9.5mm or 12.7mm drive ratchets (I don't really look at tiny stuff, so can't recall ever seeing 6.3mm but I'm sure I have).

Anyone who works with hand tools should already be familiar with both metric and imperial and converting between them at this point, especially in the UK where /both/ measurement systems are used.
Simon is modest…there are many points that are really interesting.
I would use records a lot more (pretty much everywhere) if I could easily derive new values from existing ones.
I think it's a great option, mostly because it can run anywhere the JDK runs. I'm building and testing the JavaFX 18 early-access builds for Linux on six Debian architectures (amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x). I should have the JavaFX 17 general-availability release built this week on all six, too. See:

https://snapcraft.io/openjfx
The point is less "they're equally significant conclusions" and more "sometimes the thing you thought you discovered isn't a thing".
I wonder how many of the UNIX Hater's handbook authors now use UNIX in a way or another.
Yes, but sometimes overpaying for a service in order to provide high wages is net negative on society. Imagine trash service costing $500/mo or more. What's going to happen then? Probably people are going to stop paying for it and just illegally dump their trash. Then, even people who can pay are hurt because not only do they have to pay more for a service, but they also have to suffer the effects from people who don't use it.
> I just don't see why all the sites have to use it

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140908/07191228453/comca...
>they used their scientifically-informed expertise to a degree, but they also made a series of judgment calls about what policy goals we should have and the likely consequences of various actions on geopolitics.

Yes, that is exactly what they did, specifically because we don’t have other globes lying around that we can run randomized controlled trials on global events. Just because we don’t have perfect data on something, doesn’t mean that expert opinion based on detailed information is no more valid or valuable than any other opinion.

>Why are vaccine experts the right people to make those calls?

They aren’t making a call. They are providing their expert opinion in vaccines and vaccinations, on a topic related to vaccines and vaccinations, to inform policy makers that do make those calls. It is for policy makers to consult various data sources and experts in related fields to make an evidence based and evidence informed decision.
I will say emphatically that parents of teens are the most influential people in their lives

You might say that, but you would be wrong. Parents of teens have been the most influential people in their lives up to them becoming teens. Part of the process into adulthood is to break away from that pattern, to explore and build connections outside the family sphere. That's why teens are the most vulnerable demographic for a lot of things -- their brains are in the process of rewiring themselves for more personal responsibility and less parental oversight. So they're actively seeking to avoid parental control, but haven't yet learned to correctly weigh and assess long-term effects of their decisions.
That's what the onboarding, code reviews, programming conventions etc.. are for.

We've hired people like that, and while they require more initial tutoring that someone with 10+ years of programming experience, they pretty quickly understand what the "readable" code looks like, and start producing it.

On the other hand, it is pretty easy to accidentally introduce O(n^2) complexity into the system, and that is not something you can explain quickly during the code review.

(but maybe I am biased by my area, which has lots of data, tight timing requirements and non-trivial algorithms. Perhaps if you are working on web dev or GUI development your requirements are different? but then why do you ask about algorithms in the interview...)
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28527931
Is it using https://github.com/tvondra/tdigest under the hood, or a separate implementation?
iOS multi-tasking by dragging the “home-bottom-bar” is great. Manipulating “cards” of apps with ease and discarding them by swiping them up. It’s very nice, but could be better.
In other words, the perilous journey and initial exploitation by the cartels are the issue, not some semantics debate about the legal term "illegal aliens" and whether people invoke it because some alleged "xenophobia".

Unless you were selectively quoting parts of my sentences for another reason. You didn't exactly make a rebuttal.
Protecting trade routes from whom? Itself?

https://www.voanews.com/extremism-watch/us-seeks-seizure-ira...
Lawfare has done a little on this.

(Article)
https://www.lawfareblog.com/ransomware-payments-and-law

(Podcast)
https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-how-can-congress...

The article is a bit long, but I think the most salient parts are:

> Consider, for example, Section 2339(B) of the material support statute, which makes it a crime for a person to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization. [...] But, at its core, it’s a ban on the giving of something of value to a designated overseas group. There is no exception in the law for circumstances like ransoms, though nobody has ever been prosecuted for material support in a situation involving, say, a kidnapping or hostage taking. So if Hamas or Al-Qaeda got into the ransomware business, it would already be a crime to pay the ransom—though it’s not clear whether the government would ever use its enforcement discretion to bring such a case.

> [big list of similar laws]

> Each of the aforementioned authorities is a piece of a legal puzzle that allows the government to target individuals and organizations in certain contexts. But these authorities are generally not well suited to be effective against current ransomware payments in general.

> Generally, most of these laws, like the FCPA, will not apply, because the offending party often has only a tenuous connection—or perhaps no connection at all—to a government official. Even if it does, a prosecutor would have to prove that the payer knew this, which seems improbable.

It seems to fall into this weird gap where it isn't clear if it is more like paying a ransom, paying for an IT service, or more like paying a bribe to continue doing business.
Funny story about microwaves, theres basically only 2 main manufacturers. They're both in China, and you've never heard of them. But if you look at various brands in the US and take them apart, you'll see the only difference is the interface. The insides are literally the same.

The only exception to this are Panasonic microwaves.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-microwave/

Granted, a microwave with a half broken M1 in it would be awesome.
Not exact this but I had my account in some suspend state twice saying I was on Match list

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26320429
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21306225

In both case Edwin has helped me a lot to recover my access.

But it's a hear sinking moment and a few anxiety days because without Stripe I don't really know what option I had out there. Paypal is probaly what I will do next in those case.

PS: if you're here Edin, thanks so much for helping me solve those issue in the past. I finally be able to bootstrap by SaaS and profitable with it.
My Bosses at McKinsey Made Us Get on 2 A.m. Zoom Calls
What will be the crack and cocaine in this situation? What other untold horrors will unfold while privileged or naive citizens and politicians all around stay cozy whilst the war on drugs caused havoc and destroyed so many lives and communities.

“We” certainly blamed the users of addictive substances and vilified or at least looked down on them. That is until it was heavily white and middle class or above people with opoids. Even then it was slow, but some things were done. Far more than what was done with other highly addictive substances. It’s a disgrace.

I shutter to think any drug banning history happen in any other context.
Ask HN: What’s the Budget for Apple Event?
Your guess
Link is broken - it's a 404 page. Interesting though, are you queuing this up for future HN karma? Or am I mising something.
a separate implementation
Ask HN: Where can you apply for a programming job when you are a Class A asshole
Do you love tech but hate tech interviews with a burning passion?

It really rubs my fucking rhubarb the wrong way when I am in a technical interview and the interviewer starts asking me some random assed questions either technical or voodoo doodoo mumbo jumbo personality type questions.

I understand they have to ask something in a interview but its the questions in of themselves that they choose that has me hanging the phone up on their hot ear.

After years in the industry I have come to the conclusion I am actually no longer employable! I am crankier than bag of cats on their period!

Where can i get a job as a programmer where class A assholes can apply? I mean with all this diversity and inclusion woke culture surely they can include me in their inclusion diversity quota . Assholes need to eat too you knoe, and the garbage cans are slim pickings these days i'm only getting pure slope now with all the grabbing hands!
Or by haplogroups.
> If China drops some of their own thermonuclear weapons on Tokyo, what's Japan's response? Dropping a fission weapon?

I don't think it works that way. Fission bombs are perfectly capable of leveling a city. If a city gets leveled, no one's going to shrug it off because it was done with the "wrong" kind of weapon.

IIRC, modern thermonuclear warheads have yields along the lines of a couple hundred kilotons. Even through theoretically they can be made much more powerful, in practice they aren't.
Still no in screen fingerprint detection, that big button at the bottom of the IPad is so old tech.

Looks like USA tech is falling behind Chinas. I expect to see this trend only accelerate..
Ahhh, then it is disappointing. Anyone can do photoshop.
With all due respect to Woz, having him headline your company is an admission of a scam. He's let his name get attached to so much garbage.
What do we do about sheriff gangs?