skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Orc infantry line has big attacks and pays for it with high damage variance (and also a total lack of ranged attacks until T3, which can leave them quite vulnerable). The solution is to avoid fighting them full powered at night with your valuable units -- sacrifice some T1 units if you have to, hit the orc with a bunch of archers, slow them with a Shaman to reduce their damage.

Caves are particular challenges, and of course there's a map editor so somebody can just design a really poorly balanced campaign. But the Wose fairs not too bad in a cave because, well, they weren't really planning on evading anyway.

E: Regarding this lancer issue -- sounds like a bad map, but even the biggest attack can only kill one unit per turn. Set your T1's up to block your good units. Then, get revenge on your turn. Plus, as a bonus, Charge works both ways -- some of your T1's might get some big hits in or even some kills.
The first ones are, if you go by the popular definition of those born between 1981 and 1996. Others are turning 25 and most somewhere in between. There's a 15 year difference between the start and end of the "generation."

> Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
i don’t see how it’d be wasteful to know how many people have natural immunity. seems quite useful actually even if we determine they should still get vaccine
Too buzzwordy for me.
No, Mario was $25 MSRP. See here[1] for some old copy showing prices, the majority at $25, a few at $30 and $35.

1: https://www.quora.com/How-much-did-the-game-Super-Mario-Bros...
In 1989, those under 40 had 13.1% of total household wealth. In Q1 2021 that number was 6.0%. It seems 2009-2011 saw the lowest levels where it didn't crack 5%

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...
Can you give a particular source? The definition of M2 used by the Fed was expanded in May 2020, so the reading of any charts must account for that.

I also think it's kind of irrelevant anyway. Drawing down the duration of money by QE will increase M2, that doesn't mean money is being created from thin air. Bonds are drawn out of the economy in exchange for increased reserves. What are bonds if not a form of money?
That is only true if the distribution of things within the continuum is not "lumpy". For height it isn't, but for other things it is. For example gender is highly bimodal, yet still a continuum. Would you say that "male" and "female" are subjective socially constructed categories? Of course not.

Race is probably somewhere in-between. There are people all over the spectrum but there are pretty clear large groups with sparsely populated gaps in-between them.
> I'm not sure why people are so resistant to this idea.

At some point we'll run out of land to concrete over.

And before that point we'll experience more problems due to water runoff from the land we are concreting over.
This is called creating a narrative by cherry picking facts. This is what the media does, and is why so many people (most Americans per Pew) distrust them.
Sorry, still struggling to understand here. Today power and status is derived from scarcity. What is an example of power or status not derived from scarcity?
Royalties don't really apply when you're being paid a wage for the work in the first place. The cognitive dissonance in both railing against spec work then demanding a piece of profit in perpetuity is, well... impressive.
Curious if you could link directly to GCS standard storage and link to it directly - I don't know how slow, but could be reasonable compromise for historical access...

Interesting problem to solve.
Last year the 13 was rumored to be notchless.
Ah yeah HSBC Bank would never...
There is a lot of mixed interests colliding here. Is strange how few we know about a country that has 206 millions of citizens. Much bigger than Mexico, Russia, UK or Japan.

I don't see any problem with the architect receiving fame for the project. The only people that will never fail are those that never tried anything. It seems like a good idea poorly executed. The first airplanes were also ridiculously fragile structures if we think about it.

The government basically blocked the project until their momentum was lost. If the problem was that the structure was unsafe, nothing prevented them to use a few petrodollars to fix it or build a better one with a more experienced team of architects. They could do a lot of things, but choose to sit and watch the structure rooting or being dismantled one piece at a time by locals.

It seems also that the locals didn't wanted to support the school. To allocate resources was not a priority for them, and they expected instead for other people overseas paying for the education of his children. A low interest in education and high rate of dropouts is seem often in places taken by narcos or corruption, where illegal activities are much more profitable and appealing to youngsters

As the people was emotionally detached from the project It was useless as source of popularity for the politicians in power. It was obvious also that the project was nurturing some new community leaders. Ambitious people calling themselves "the boss", that were earning some social support and could easily jump to politics later competing for the power. I bet that politicians in power hated that.

Eventually everybody started quitting the project and the only people remaining onboard tried to keep the scam alive for as many time as they could, faking that the school was now just a facade to keep milking donors.

This reminds me to other projects that seemed great in paper but are robbed in the process, or disappear without a trace, like those big balls of bamboo moved by wind that were claimed to be the future of war mine cleaning in poor countries.
I'd rather have an apartment with Internet access than a house without.
Where is the evidence that customers want it back?
That's interesting, what do you think sets Boise apart as a good leading indicator?

I was thinking the same thing myself, presumably the economy will crumble from the bottom-up next time. So once my rural hometown is a flaming pile of wreckage, I'll close out all my risky positions
He was a comedic genius and one of a kind.

I've been a fan since 1995 and have spent countless hours on YouTube watching Norm Macdonald clips from SNL and various talk shows.

There are so many great clips, here is one of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uarJj-K4XH4
It's like people speaking fondly of their old nokia phones with week-long battery life, while ignoring that it only had a 2 hour talk time. The Apple watch lasts all day when used normally (workouts, apps etc) - for people who are just using it to receive notifications, a bit of siri and telling the time - it easily gets up to 30+ hours.

All of this is moot anyway, it can get 8 hours of sleep tracking in 8 minutes, or fast charge in 45 minutes to 80% - these are far better metrics than if they managed to get it to last 2-3 days.
Yeah... walk into a grocery store and ask all of the people using Android if they're using Calyx or graphene.
You point out some important issues. I encounter this in academia— if each professor trains 5-10 PhD students, where will they go and be professors?

I just want to point out that these systems you mention are all changeable within the larger democratic/market system without a revolution. It might be hard, but lots of things are hard and still get done.
DR. GUPTA: "I get calls all the time, people say, 'I've already had COVID, I'm protected.' And now the study says maybe even more protected than the vaccine alone. Should they also get the vaccine?"

DR. FAUCI: "I don't have a really firm answer for you on that."

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1436417459314171904
That's ten file cabinets of storage capacity.
Yeah, but there's a soft form of collusion going on. If we live on an inescapable island of 1000 people, and I have 200 jobs, and you have 200 jobs, and Bob has 200 jobs, then the fact that you and Bob pay twice as much doesn't matter. You guys only need 400 workers, total. Those 600 other workers will be left to compete for the 200 jobs I have.

I still get to name my price. And once you see that I can undercut labor costs due to this, it makes no sense for either you or Bob to continue paying twice as much as I do.

And let's not pretend that if you don't have the very best workers, you can't compete. First of all, you can't identify the best. You hope to get lucky, but in reality, you're going to be paying not the best, but those adequate enough to perform the job reasonably well.

COVID assistance has changed the game. Because before, the choice was to have a job or starve homeless. You'd take almost anything in desperation. Remove desperation and people stop acting desperate.
puts the germany piece I only knew to date isolated into perspective, that was also a goodbye to letterman and kind of broke the 4th wall, thanks
I was reading about Kademlia and got to wondering what other distance metrics people had implemented other than xor. Turns out there's geographic routing[0], social routing, and all sorts of fun stuff. Very interesting field.

I also was amused to see what they considered social networks in 2004.

[0]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231183253_GeoKad_A_...
They seem extremely popular in aviation as well as in cars for off-roading or travel. Cheapest way to get some really great maps.
I think at least part of it is desperation.

Home ownership has been one of the very few reliable ways for the middle class to build wealth, and with housing prices skyrocketing and the future looking even worse, I suspect many people are trying to get whatever they can before any chance they have of owning is gone forever.
>Put a huge tax on vacancies and cap the number of residential properties a business is allowed to purchase in a year.

What makes you think that's an effective intervention? What do you think the vacancy rate is, and how much % of housing is being bought by businesses?
No, of course they are not, hence why we are vaccinating them. This is fud.

(Is this the dumbest argument yet? "If you just get COVID, you will have the best protection against COVID!"? I take it the dead people have the best protection to offer yet?)
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What is stopping companies is competition.

If you own a supermarket and want to pay a decent wage, bad news for you. Over long time you are likely to loose against your competitor who doesn't share your sentiment.

You may start with 100 companies of which 2 don't have any scruples and over time you will find out that these companies will take over the market along with other ones that will use this experience as learning on how to make successful business.

In the end the companies that are more aggressive win because that is just the nature of competition.

Governments are there exactly to protect individual people from aggressive predation.
/Raises finger/

sighs

/Lowers finger/

Yeah, I'm part of the problem, but I'm also scared of getting fucked. I'm approaching my 60's and have The Fear. So I'm doing this "every man for himself" thing, because buying an investment property doesn't have a face associated with it, like mugging someone. I'm conflicted, but also worried for the future.
This is completely incorrect. Public health isn’t a personal choice.
Quarter after quarter companies are posting record profits. You aren't getting anything for free. You paid for all of that in one way or another. Wikipedia you might not have, its kept alive by donations. The others are paid for by either sitting through ads or having your data harvested and sold. Just because you aren't handing over money doesn't mean there is no cost associated with it.

This is a terrible argument that try's to gloss over the actual problem. Wages have been stagnant for decades while inflation is still a thing. The middle class is dying and its not because they have bigger homes and better tech. Corporate America is strangling the middle class then cries for bailouts when they hit even the tiniest speed bump(and gets it without much issue). While helping the average American becomes a massive issue.
Not true in educational outcome. Almost all educational outcome is correlated with parent situations, effect of the school is within the noise.
China is developing a machine that tracks data sent to other countries by cars?
Let’s do it!
The study says:

> The intervention increased proper mask-wearing from 13.3% in control villages (N=806,547 observations) to 42.3% in treatment villages (N=797,715 observations)

https://www.poverty-action.org/sites/default/files/publicati...
If you are anxiously hoping this might be the end of the petrodollar era, having hard assets like houses seems smart and rational. I'm not naive enough to think this will go down without bloodshed, however
In the TMZ article it mentions a 9 year battle with cancer.
That was not the question. One of the things people never factor in is all the government regulations around housing.

A single family home from the 1930's would be illegal to build today because building codes have been expanded some for good reason, others less so.

As such it make is hard to do a apples to apple comparison

This is a good video where an economic professor explains some of that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J5s6aZCPSg
You can get to know how many people have natural immunity without testing them all.

In a country as large as US it would be enough to test probably one in 10 thousand people to get accurate statistics.
> But the authentic ones are willing to do it for free.

The only scientists who can afford to work for free would have to be independently wealthy, that's not very common. I don't think there is anything wrong with charging money for work, even if you do enjoy that work. Like any kind of work, research science has its share of 9-to-5ers who don't really care, but those people have their uses, too.

> It's the ones who are always whining about how they need constant boatloads of public funding (which is supposed to be spent on public services)

The core problem is really that often public money spent on science leads to results that are privately monetized and closed off from the public who funded it. That's why I believe SciHub is such an important institution, because it makes research results accessible to the public who funded them in the first place. However, funding for space-based data gathering (such as telescopes) has generally led to publicly-available data - the same cannot be said for, say, biomedical research.

I would argue that research is a public service, as long as it doesn't get immediately spun off into patent-encumbered "university-adjacent" enterprise (which I would argue is nothing less than legalized corruption). Of course the issue becomes: how do you prioritize science funding and how do you balance it against other public services?
No, I definitely mean tax the land, not at a constant rate, but based on its value.

This was originally a solution to help deal with rent-seeking on privatized agricultural land, when some land was more productive than others. The more productive land results in excess, unearned profit for landowners (not the workers). Farmers are very different from farm workers. Farmers have millions in assets, and though they talk big game about being poor, they have immense wealth. They extract it from the farm workers' labor on their land.

This effect is even larger in cities, where access to the city is required for access to those wages. The landowners who hoard land most effectively take most of profits, and analyses of our growing inequality (Piketty and Ronglie) show that the source of our growing inequality is a larger and larger share of wealth getting transferred to housing and land.

If we have high taxation on land value, the most expensive land in cities will be used more effectively, no longer can landlords take more than their fair share of our labor, because all that land will be used more effectively. Which also means more land is available for farming.

In short, most of our problems are caused by allowing people to rent-seek on the one thing that we can never really expand significantly: land
> You're ignoring economies of scale

No, my entire argument is built on economies of scale. Which favor a vaccine for every person, rather than an antibody test for a subset of a subset.

> Did I say anything about 'self-certify' ?

You argued that people should be able to pay for and provide their own tests. That's self-certification. If you're arguing for the state to do it instead, then we're back to square one (i.e. that the logistics don't favor it).

> For the fourth time - show me the data on long term effects. Which part of 'long-term effects' don't you understand?

You cannot argue these two thing together in good faith:

- Natural immunity provides long term immunity, without long term data.

- We cannot know on the vaccine because we lack long term data.

Pick one or the other. Not both.

> I've never made a single assertion about the safety of the vaccines other than that we don't know the long term side effects.

So you didn't make any except that same one in every single one of your comments?
> So you'll end up with team players but with nobody who will actually get the job done.

There are plenty of developers that are capable of writing code and explaining how and why they've done it. Your difficulty communicating ideas doesn't directly translate to being a better developer.

>The better way is as the interviewer to do your homework and to engage on the level of the interviewee

I'm not sure you've ever reviewed resumes, but they pretty frequently absolutely suck, targeted or not targeted, or otherwise not accurately representing skills. It can go from completely clueless "buzzword bingo" to "obviously I'm skilled enough to not need to mention the silly stuff like TCP"

>Realize that your company is as much in the hot-seat as the candidate is.

...and for those companies that do understand that?

Where is the substance to this comment? What stance are you taking or solutions you proposing?
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You can’t decouple the entire growth process from 0-teen though…
Naming is hard, but you can get better at it
Naming is hard because language is hard, and most engineers don’t have degrees in literature or creative writing. I wrote a blog post about how to get better at naming, and why it's worth your time.
Food insecurity remains a problem in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_in_the_United_States#21...
That’s a “no true Scotsman” argument if ever I’ve heard one. You can’t say nobody helps the poor, then disparage the significant amount of help people do give.

I belong to a church, and the minister frequently represents vulnerable people in the local community to politicians. He’s also sponsored by the church to attend events campaigning on behalf of low-paid people in the UK. And we contribute to a fund which publishes articles and runs events to raise awareness about homelessness.

If that doesn’t count as lobbying for people then I don’t know what does. I do wish it were more effective.
Interesting.

Does the US now have a digital verifiable certificate system for tested or previously infected as well as vaccinated or is it still a piece of paper?

Without this you have to just vaccinate everyone because there is no other way to manage it.
Cars have increased in price while the market has increased...
Yes, Kierkegaard certainly considers regret useless in that sense, but it is very easy to go from a position of not regretting things into a 'the dude' style indifference. He makes very clear that there is a difference between spiritual despair, which can exist even when mind and body are seemingly at rest, and that one need not even be aware of that despair.

It's one thing to consciously reject things that have no deeper meaning, and to engage with one's own mind, but in particular nowadays an attitude of indifference is also common. That is to say rejection of superficial things not because you're truly discovering your mind/spirit/faith etc but simply for safety and contentedness. And I don't think Kierkegaard had the intention to advocate for this kind of withdrawal.
FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
I've seen this cited several times in this thread, but I've seen no one mention that (according their own FAQ):

> medRxiv (pronounced "med-archive") is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences. Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been certified by peer review. They should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.

The context is important, even if it turns out to be true.
For teens, UK [edit:] Chief Medical Officer recommends but not mandates first dose, and does not recommend second dose at least until spring. The benefits are marginal.

2 ICU prevented admissions / million first doses

87 hospital prevented admissions / million first doses

0.16 ICU prevented admissions / million second doses

6 hospital prevented admissions / million second doses

> Having the vaccine is not compulsory.

> Prof Whitty said an "offer" of vaccination will be made to all children aged 12-15.

> But he said young people and their parents needed to be supported and there should be no stigma attached to their choice.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57888429
it's always sad to hear that somebody died of cancer. seriously.

but what I always found odd was that a lot of comdedians who I consider very funny - openly consider him to be the most funny guy every while to me he didn't seem funny at all. he had something striking and charismatic about him - I give him that. but I can't remember having seen any sketch or interview with him where I found him funny. often watchworthy and interesting - but never funny.
Skin color is one of the characteristics that influences our lived experience, and a lot of companies are seeking a diversity of experiences in their staff and leadership. They may look around and feel like they have a significant diversity of backgrounds and experiences, but not in one particular and very important way. So they want to correct this.

I'll readily concede that many companies do this for image reasons alone, though I'm sure some do it out of a genuine belief that diversity can lead to better business outcomes, or create a more desirable workplace for attracting new talent. But in the end, this is the decision of a private company and they are not being coerced to make these decisions by any authority, nor does it sound like they are breaking any laws.
> Even if they're wrong

well that's very loaded, as in, if they're wrong to the point of having long term damage to your body, then probably..don't just get it...right? albeit, we've seen no proof that this is the case at all thus far.
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