skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be the case for some gas stations but it is hardly the case for the vast majority of them. The majority of them are run by law abiding citizens who want to follow the law. They want no legal trouble.

I am Indian too, with a father that owned and ran a gas station. (My dad's shop was among the top gas-volume stations in America during his time, I forget exactly how much, but he had a few trophies from the company for it).

They preferred cash during his time because the 2-3% charge was a significant dent in margins. When credit cards started becoming popular, dealers still did not want to take it. So the company encouraged dealers to accept it by promising to refund the charges for a time.

I don't dispute that cheating like what you described happens. I dispute the implication that cheating the IRS is why most businesses prefer cash instead of credit.
Emacs is not listed? Am I missing it?
Voting?
Nobody gets money "out of the market". They sell to someone else, and use the proceeds of the sale to buy another asset. But the original buyer could also have used the proceeds too buy another asset in the first place. No money is created or destroyed in this transaction.

In fact these transactions have little to do with the real economy at all, they are merely pricing assets. You can buy and sell something 100 times or 10,000 times and none of that will have any bearing on the real economy or even on things like inflation.
Let's start with the simplest: tobacco. There is no way to make it disappear, you can only make it illegal. Our experiments with making other addictive drugs illegal had been a complete failure, I doubt you could even find convincing research that shows that making them illegal has led to less deaths due to them. Whereas vaccine passports appear to actually work. That is a major difference.
You are leaving out the other errors in the basis for your initial conspiracy theory, notably your false claim that Fauci was put in charge of Coronavirus response; as noted in my earlier response, no, he wasn't, he was made a member of both Trump’s and Biden’s COVID task forcez, but neither the formal head (the VP in Trump's case, the President in Biden’s) nor the lead member once elected officials are excluded (in both cases, titled “coordinator”, Deborah Birx for Trump and Jeffrey Zients for Biden.)

You also draw your inference of foul play from the claim that Fauci’s role as “director of NIH” has some nexus to gain of function research but, unlike the CDC, nothing to do with preventing the spread of disease, making his (nonexistent) appointment as head of COVID response suspicious. When informed that he was not head of NIH but of NIAID and never appointed as head of COVID response, you apparently double down on that, because NIAID has a closer nexus to gain of function research. But, NIAIDs nexus to gain of function research is precisely that “conducts and supports basic and applied research to better understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases”.

Theret nothing suspicious about the head of NIAID being appointed to a committee planning response to an infectious disease. It would, indeed, be suspicious if the head of NIAID was excluded from such a committee.
See my other comment for reasons why this would be in breach: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28501088
I think "the radical left" is mostly reacting to upbringings that quashed personal expression, which phenomenon has been documented in the USA for centuries. So, they (and I, past tense) are reactive, unselfawarely using the tools they learned from their oppressors to try to do the opposite.

And boy ever is the USA's right wing oppressive, but the oppression is in private, at home, in church, and in religious schools. What we're seeing is a breaking open and spilling over in a reverse direction of this oppression: an equal and opposite force.

Yes, the "radical left" could really learn to be more respectful, but the examples of how to do so will be hard to find. Mr. Rogers comes to mind.
I’ve seen all of these things in the Walmart parking lot.

I think there’s a lack of imagination or a desire to confirm one’s priors.
I appreciate that you are able to give people the benefit of the doubt, but that isn’t human nature. Most people are not self sacrificing do gooders. Indeed, almost everyone is self interested.

Don’t be surprised when the person you cite above who will “feel safer without that level of attention” suddenly decides to step back into the limelight seeking some higher office or elevated position.
This is true, but that is not what this article is about, because in terms of net issuance, the stock market has been negative for some time, with buybacks outpacing new issues.
Well, obviously China is suspected of having let Covid-19 escape, so of course this is first and foremost about restrictions that affect China..

What are you getting at?

Also, of course there are accidents in any lab, most of them just reportable incidents. Why are there almost no reportable incidents from Chinese labs? Usually because either they are not using those labs (unlikely) or because they don't do incident analysis and reporting. That the list contains almost no incidents from China means quite the opposite of what you are suggesting: It means that China regularly covers up even very small mishaps such as a mislabeled sample of something relatively harmless. Just stuff that cannot be covered up will be reported (such as the few thousand people infected with Brucella somewhere...)

Does that mean that all other labs are safe? Certainly not, and I'd suggest you read my other comments about improving safety. But quarantining a researcher after a needle puncture is the right thing to do. Recognizing and reporting the escape of lab animals is a sign of there being at least some amount of oversight. China quite obviously doesn't have that, because noone in their right mind will believe that a lab never has a reportable incident.

So yes, I'd suggest starting at the most unsafe labs, where quite probably Covid-19 originated, and improving those, e.g. by closing them. And rebuilding them somewhere safer, to a far higher standard. Same for the rest of the world's labs, of course, but priority is on those having started global pandemics in the past...
Thanks, I figured this was the case.
> The most compelling option was actually ethanol.

But from the perspective of GM, Kitman wrote, ethanol wasn’t an option. It couldn’t be patented and GM couldn’t control its production. And oil companies like Du Pont "hated it," he wrote, perceiving it to be a threat to their control of the internal combustion engine.

I'm generally an avid beliver in free markets as an agent for positive change, so these types of "revelations" are really disheartening.
What are the solutions to this? What governing system would have mass produced ethenol as the best antiknocker with no regard to the interests of top players?

Perhaps the government should open companies that are meant to lose money and are tax supported (for-loss conpanies) that compete with the industry with solutions that are good for the people but bad for business?
> strong security and privacy needs, then the Linux phone distros are not there yet

Citation needed. Android does plenty of homecalling and also a lot of phones came preloaded with bloatware with tracking functions.

You have to provide some justification to claim that a Linux phone protects users privacy less than Android.
That’s no “elephant in the room” it’s just the same old and tired non argument to justify holding people prisoner without granting them any rights or even charging them for a crime in a public court.

“Trust us, this guy is a criminal but we can’t tell you why or how” is not an convincing argument, particularly when it’s coming from people and institutions who are constantly caught lying.
Why do you assume this is the obvious thing? Maybe you shouldn't assume till you know all the relevant context?

I have a brick and mortar small business that takes appointments, have monthly recurring services and did not use Square appointments. We did everything manually to handle calendar appointments, invoice, charging for payments. Found out after a few months the time is not worth the savings and rather just get a service like Square. I thought maybe his client was the same and was trying to help.

But hey maybe Square was very obvious for your brick and mortar service based business and I'm one of the few "ignorant and stupid one".
Not to mention Janssen vaccine is a single dose and it's being widely used in some EU countries, which renders that measurement even more "useless" (in the sense that it doesn't give an accurate picture of the reality of the vaccination programs)
There are plenty of federal prosecutors and judges who know how to handle classified evidence in court. I can't remember his name off the top of my head anymore, but I recall when I deep-dived into the Gitmo suspects and military tribunals a long time ago, there was a judge's name who constantly kept popping up in the paperwork of related terrorism cases. Seemed like he was one of the designated "terrorism judges" who had the clearance and authority to review classified intel and info and make determinations on what can be used and presented. I believe he is from the Virginia district courts possibly
Wuhan is a large city with a big foreign presence. The US, the UK, South Korea, and France have consulates generals or consulates there. That places severe limits on just how effectively an epidemic in Wuhan can be covered up.
Really admirable, that is for sure. I am excited.
You're right, why even have consumer protection laws amirite?
Unfortunately graph DBs are a solution in search of a problem. The performance of a graph traversal in all current implementations will be at best equivalent to a well crafted join at worst much slower.

I’m unclear on where truly heterogeneous data problems would emerge outside of Q&A applications and potentially CRM. Usually the work to acquire a dataset is so large that there is limited reason not to properly model the data.
Yellow card: appeal to emotion. GP was clearly talking about practicality and practical effects of obsessing over lab-leak theories, not the moral or general desirability of knowing the truth. We can work toward better lab safety and oversight of dangerous research and responses to outbreaks without fueling nationalist/racist paranoia. In fact people are also doing so, while others use lab leaks as a pretext for driving division they sought anyway.
The downward spiral has been observed for long time now. Civil liberties aren't really important unless it's some nebulous discriminated class... Freedom of speech is just about government, not general civil liberty. Gun rights were relevant are not important. And so on...
Italian data protection authority investigating Ray-Ban-Facebook smartglasses
I did a PhD in physics, then transitioned to a career as a quant in finance, and lately I’ve gotten involved in the arts with some side projects (music, writing). I’ve written the draft of a kids sci-fi novel and have a few other stories in the works, nothing published yet.

First, I would suggest finding out what you want to do. You mention journalism and literature, which are quite different. Which one more appeals to you?

As you may have seen, many techies here have GitHub side projects. So I’d recommend starting off by continuing with your tech day job and treating your writing as a kind of side project.

If journalism is your calling, maybe you can start by writing a few free ‘articles’ on a blogging platform.

If you want to do literature, then start by writing something. If you have a story in mind, get started on it. Maybe it’s a short story, maybe it’s a novel.

But whatever it is : Start Today! Write just a single paragraph, even if it’s pure shit. And frankly the first paragraph of a first draft is likely to be shit so just let it be shit, it can be heavily edited or cut later. But you’ve written something, you’ve gotten started, and have planted a seed from which to build on!

Also, Twitter has a brilliant supportive writers community. There are all kinds of things like hashtag games where you write a snippet based on the “word of the day”, each day there are dozens of different hashtags. See #vss365 as one of the most popular ones.

Most authors I’ve seen and follow on Twitter have day jobs. Some have only quit their job after publishing a few successful novels.

But the key is to write something and get something down and make progress on it. Start as a side project and see where it goes.

And get yourself writing that first paragraph today!!!
If all else is equal (in reality it isn’t), you always get more efficiency by increasing blade length.

You want to maximise the momentum of the air your moving in any unit time for a fixed energy cost. If you double blade area you double both momentum and energy, if you halve the blade speed you halve the momentum and quarter the energy, so if you quadrupled blade length while halving the speed you get double the force for the same power.

This is of course a gross oversimplification, but it is why the human-powered helicopter a while back had such massive blades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVelo_Atlas
So why bring in FireWire at all to the argument? Why not give USB examples? Giving the benefit of the doubt, the writing is extremely unclear and, to me, gives the impression of a comparison between the two.

Same with referring to the other article, there's a general link to another article, where the reader is left guessing where they are making the point. To me, if you reference an article in this manner:

"Linux kernel USB stack which is not a strong barrier as shown in the Linux article"

I would expect the linked article to reference....well the USB stack, or USB in general. Or reference what section you mean, or quote it and bring it in to the article.
Gasoline is poison in general though
Because 1) the question was not "if it's safer", 2) "safer" doesn't mean "safe", and 3) safety isn't the only concern. For example, a self-driving car could be programmed to drive aggressively, not stopping at red lights, not giving way, etc. and this would be unfair to other road users, even if it was completely safe. Everybody who has a degree of intellegence understands this. You simply lack the intellectual stature to have this conversation, sorry.
Is that a good example, though? The reason I was investigating pun explanations there was precisely because that was something I expected GPT-3 to not be able to do because of how its data is preprocessed to strip away phonetics. (If you've read that far in my page, you must've also read all my material ranting about BPEs.)

The puns & rhyming are striking in that they are exceptions that prove the rule about GPT-3's general linguistic capabilities, and are clearcut examples of how BPEs sabotage GPT-3: you can see how its performance falls off a cliff as soon as you hit a BPE-related task (like rhyming or alliteration or anagrams or dad jokes). It's one of the first things I look for these days whenever someone says GPT-3 doesn't do something it seems like it ought to be able to do: "is this phonetics-related, or could in any way be damaged by BPE encoding?" (And despite my warnings, people still get tripped up by it sometimes, or don't believe me - if I had a buck for everyone in the OA Slack or forums who'd tried to make GPT-3 rhyme to prove me wrong...)

But I don't believe there is anything intrinsic to Transformers or self-supervised language modeling which requires this. BPEs are just a cheap performance hack that everyone does without thinking too much about. I expect that switching to character-level (or at least phonetics-aware) encodings and spending some more compute/data would fix all of the issues I diagnose.
> There reason you don't hear about these transitions too often is because it's virtually impossible to have a "career" solely in the arts.

My little sister has a fine arts degree and has worked as an artist. She's had lots of write-ups in local and regional papers, and has sold at least one piece for about $10,000.

She describes being an artist like this: "No one wants to pay you for your work."
Not surprising, the electric motor has some fairly high quality energy flowing in but the gas motor has to act as a heat engine as well, converting localized heat into higher quality energy as it goes.

That means a comparison of power densities between electric and internal combustion motors aren't entirely fair. But it also means that electrical motors have a big advantage in that it's a lot easier to add more of them. It looks like aircraft with many propellers along the length of the wing might have real advantages over single propellor aircraft and that's only something that's practical with electric motors.
HIV is believed to have first infected humans in the 1920s where it traveled up the Congo before arriving in Kinshasa. From there it radiated across Africa carried by truckers. Like you say, I haven't seen evidence to rule out rural circulation before arriving in Wuhan. Granted, I don't think this is the most likely series of events, but the GoF lab leak hypothesis is lacking support.
That's exactly what it is, and what the old Google Drive File Stream was.

Reading the comments here and in the linked forums, it seems I'm one of the few used to how Google Drive File Stream worked, and most of the complaints are coming from people more used to the folder-based variant, which has been now shoehorned into the other paradigm.
Interesting story: Gettier only published his paper on the subject because of pressure to publish. Apparently he wasn’t especially prolific and this led him to publish something, anything, to get people off his back.

I recall thinking that the famous paper of his was a little forced. As I understood it, it seemed to conflate the question of whether JTB is a good definition of knowledge — I think it absolutely is — and whether some given proposition is actually known. In the latter case, you would need to know that proposition p is true, that your justification is true, and that you believe it. This becomes a bit more murky IMO, but it doesn’t undermine JTB I would say.
Apparently there is a US federal law that provides $50,000 per year of confinement in the case of a wrongful conviction: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...

No idea if it applies to non-citizens.

Some Guantanamo detainees got compensation from the UK and Canada:

https://www.voanews.com/europe/british-government-pays-compe...

https://www.newsweek.com/guantanamo-bay-detainee-omar-khadr-...
Unless it's committed by the government of course, in which case it's business as usual.
> If you're vaccinated, you can still get and transmit covid.

I can win the lottery, but I probably won't. Don't think of it as black or white, binary, can/can't. Unless you talk about the probability of getting and transmitting COVID, and how vaccination reduces these, you will be making nonsensical statements like the one above.
> if these men are put on a public trial, the government will have to reveal intelligence information that may embarrass or endanger the lives of people in the intelligence community.

Handling classified information is something the federal courts are set up for already and do as needed. Its not a novel issue that excuses indefinite detention without trial.
Its pretty crazy to think about how the gas is delivered to gas stations: in trucks that themselves burn gas (diesel). Almost seems impossible. I wonder if those trucks could be converted to electric vehicles.
I was talking about the last few weeks. That is the almost straight line you see in the graph. You know what the curve looks like, and almost a copy? The curve in India one the countries with the smallest percentage of vacinnated people:

Have a look (13% vaccinated...):

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/india-covid-c...
Covid's more efficient. It has killed 4.6 million globally in the last couple of years. The US is at 660,000 deaths from covid.
> and that people, unless spending some time reading the spec (oracle basic doc website was utterly useless for me), will have barely no visibility on.

It's literally modeled after PATH, which behaves exactly the same and has been used just fine for decades. I don't really see the argument here.
Paper: NIH Funded Wuhan to Study Mutating SARS-CoV
The Future is Tiny Graphs! [1]

In the style of "Scalability! At What COST?" I've started a side-project bringing succinct data structures (rank/select [2], elias-fano coding) and modern instruction sets (popcount, pdep) to graphs.

For some reason the article doesn't mention the field of graph compression and I think it shows: for example most if not all popular open source routing engines don't do anything regarding graph compression. It's time to change that!
Reach out to me (preferably on the Github project) if you want try some ideas :)

[1] https://tinygraph.org
[2] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/zhou-sea2013.pdf
damn, I haven't played Team Fortress in so long lol. This is a cool thread, I'm going to have to Bookmark this so I can always come back to it for foundational inspiration and as a reference key for doing artwork.
If it is not rooted you may not be able to see everything. And still no warranties that the bootloader isn't full of crap, but that's a bit more rare.
Why does anyone need a site for this? I can pick my own random dates just fine. And ain't nobody got time to write down which random date they used on which site on the off chance they need it.
Genius. How can any programmer be bored on a Sunday when there are things like this. What a time to be alive.
Neil deGrasse Tyson said in an episode of Cosmos that even the Romans understood lead was dangerous, but it was a convenient metal to work with, so they used it anyway
Iran to allow new memory cards in UN’s nuclear site cameras
> You can still transmit the virus whilst double vaccinated. They do not slow spread

That's not correct.

I can win the lottery, but I probably won't. Don't think of it as black or white, binary, can/can't. Unless you talk about the probability of getting and transmitting COVID, and how vaccination reduces these, you will come to false conclusions like that.
Using one's intellectual property gives the moral right to demand payment? In that case, my quoting fee is $1000 per sentence. Please Paypal me immediately.
The whole HSL and HSV business has never been about hypothetical light sources. HSL and HSV are created from monitor CRT RGB using piecewise functions for the hue. No colorimetric considerations are given at all: it’s all about how to mix an algebraic mean.
No, but clearly many people do.

I don't think we should make distinction if person spreading virus was vaccinated or not if we start to punish for that. That should not affect the punishment or how guilty person is. I see absolutely no reason why being vaccinated should protect you from criminal charges in case we start to charge for spreading covid. The person is as guilty without or with vaccine. They should have gone be tested or taken actions to not spread it.
Speak for yourself. I've never voted for a single politician that supported the Iraq or Afghan wars.