skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't seem to explain how the "controversy" seemed to form almost perfectly along existing partisan lines in the United States, unless you're claiming that the baseline "trusthworthiness of authorities" was already divided as cleanly along those lines (which is not at all my impression). Moreover, I feel like preexisting "trusthworthiness of authorities" is very unlikely to be a good explanation for differences in views on vaccines, because I strongly suspect that people on all sides of these disagreements point to people they claim to be authorities in order to corroborate their views.
And that has almost nothing to do with the actual point they were making.
Imagine there's two different trolleys. The first one will kill 50 people if you don't pull the lever, or 10 people if you do. The second one will kill 1 person if you don't pull the lever, or 5 people if you do. There's valid debate both ways as to whether you should pull the first lever, but you obviously definitely should not pull the second lever. But in the case of COVID restrictions, society has decided that for reasons I don't understand, pulling just one lever is out of the question, and they can't pull either unless they pull both. (In case the analogy isn't clear, the first lever is COVID restrictions on high-risk people and anyone who lives with or takes care of them, and the second lever is COVID restrictions on everyone else.)
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Guidelines Tetris has a pretty fun one: the "Bag Randomizer" means that all 7 pieces come before they repeat. So all 7 Tetris pieces (named IJLSZTO) will always drop in equal proportions, but in random orders.

If you had say a 10% chance to crit, a "Bag randomizer" would have "0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, crit", or some permutation there-of (ex: "0, 0, 0, crit, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0).

This keeps the random property, but not "too random". Of course, throw more bags in as needed (ex: two bags would be two crit chances out of 20, leading to possibilities like "crit, crit, 0, 0, 0...", but then that'd create a drought of 18-non-crits afterwards).

Increasing the bag or decreasing the bags is the game designer's control over how random the process is. The more bags, the more it plays like true random.

Or really, two-bags would have the possibility of "0, 0, 0, ... crit, crit, (new bag), crit, crit, 0, 0, 0...", so a very rare chance of 4x crits in a row still. But that'd be far more rare than normal circumstances

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> Although the exact method must be more involved because what I’m describing could be trivially abused (you could actually execute on the gamblers fallacy — a miss-streak will likely be followed by a hit-streak)

Just call it a "game mechanic" and now the players think the abuse is skill. Advanced Tetris players abuse the bag-randomizer to create BT Cannon perfect clear loops (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmG0NcbrLTE). So yeah, its a skill.

That's why guidelines tetris players call themselves "Guideline Tetris" players, because we practice a very specific set of random-number generators to generate our tactics. These tactics don't work on "Grandmaster Tetris" (which has a different RNG algorithm), or "Classic Tetris" (for the Gameboy fans)

Is the "abuse" of the RNG fun? Is it a skill? Do the players respect the skill? Will the opponents say "that's cheap and unfair", or will the opponents say "Wow, he managed to keep track of the RNG bags and count things out during tight play. I should practice those skills more!".
Prolonged fasting 're-boots' immune system
To some degree, I agree. The problematic business models and practices enabled by tech are not unique to big tech. Their profitability helped grow some tech to big.
> It’s absurd to assume that the opposite of this fallacy is true indefinitely though.

But no one is suggesting we push the opposite indefinitely. We're suggesting to push it an amount commensurate with the rise in productivity.
Same authors.
Not dangerous for them except for all the ones who have died from it, you mean.
Use a networking library like relay, or react-query and 90% of your state management problems go away in most apps.

Your state is on the DB, those libs handle fetching and caching it.

Honorable mention, haven’t used it myself but there is RTK Query too, which is a library like those, but based on Redux, could be easier to debug.
That 7x that is lent will be deposited by the people it is spent on. The bank can then lend 7x that and keep fabricating money as long as there are people to profitably lend too. The rate of currency growth is then correlated to velocity for how fast it’s turned over from debt to deposit to debt minus the counter flow of debts being retired.
Has the productivity of minimum-wage workers grown in line with overall productivity?
Don't worry, even Google still believes SVC is our currency.

A search for "Bitcoin price" will show the price in SVC.
Hah! First Shaggy Moth joke in my life.
This is exactly how I roll these days! Avoid classes until I find myself doing too much argument plumbing, or having too many arguments to a function. Also love me some memoization. If I'm honest, I haven't tried aggressively using closures, but I suppose that would have been another way to do it...
I mean, definitely true on the level of making money (like every business), but SpaceX is doing things that haven’t been done before. (Landing and reusing rockets.) Related to that, making space more accessible is important for anything else space-related to happen. As an example, say Woz needs to send up robots to perform cleanup ops: that that of thing is probably only viable with accessible space launches. I’m not saying that robots will be used, just that sending X product or venture into space requires space launches to be accessible to more companies. And that’s possible because of these private launch companies innovating in the space.
Interesting. I would still consider that a unit test (I don’t insist that a unit test must directly call the method it’s testing - it could be it needs to put it in some sort of test harness to get it executed)

Much how if a piece of code uses a regex, I wouldn’t mock the regex library when unit testing it, nor consider a test that uses the real regex library as an integration test that tests my code’s integration with the regex library, I wouldn’t consider my controller code’s interactions with a web framework as ‘integrations’ to test. They are part of how the unit is implemented.

But this is just a naming debate - I’m in agreement that that is a useful kind of test to write.

I just reserve ‘integration test’ for contexts where I am testing that multiple individually tested components of my own work together as they’re supposed to when combined - not that they integrate together correctly with something else I didn’t build.

There’s a danger if you go down that path of ‘testing the framework’.
Fascists are close to take power in some Europeans countries just because they had to accept a few dozens thousands of migrants from Syria/Afghanistan. And you expect rich countries to stand when dozens if not hundreds of millions of people will have to leave their countries?

There would be mass murder for the rich to keep doing business as usual.
> I can't copy+paste without introducing bugs

What OS or clipboard manager are you using that strips out whitespace?

I've used Windows, macOS, and a whole host of Linux flavors. I haven't encountered this clipboard issue on any of them.
Clearly a large part of the country finds masking indoors onerous, ridiculous as that may seem.

Edit: look no further than the fact that this comment is downvoted for confirmation that some people feel this way.
The main goal is to prevent a recession. They do this by encouraging spending. They encourage spending by making money cheaper. They make money cheaper by buying bonds using their money printer. This makes interest rates cheaper.
Can you back your remarks up with references to proof of your statements?
>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.

"Take this medical treatment you don't want because I believe in economies of scale"

"My body my choice, and you can put your economy of scale wherever you want but not in my bloodstream - I'd rather not since I've already had covid"

"bbbut I believe in economies of scale!"

the end

Forcing people to take medical procedures they don't want might be last step in a long chain of things, which include a test for natural immunity due to presence of antibodies.
Speculative assets, wild swings in value, terrible as a currency -- I hear you on all of these.

My point is simply that the author of the article used "hyperinflation" as one of the weaknesses of Bitcoin. Though Bitcoin has many weaknesses and ills, hyperinflation is not one of them.
Oh this is so interesting. I switched to NixOS (with Flakes) about a week ago and will really love to see more projects in the ecosystem.
Good point, it got me thinking about what a young person (or someone who has yet to make an impact in society) might obsess over on Instagram. Changed my mind about why this matters to people in my demographic.
You fail to recognize that 30% plus genuinely did have covid. Why focus on a handful of potential bad actors when largely you should give the benefit of the doubt.
> “… from the perspective of legislation, their judgment has been written” sounds great to do some fund-raising or lobbying sales off of.
The war was a direct response to 9/11, they're directly related, just like vaccines and mandates are a direct response to COVID. The country was ripped in two back then two, you just didn't hear about it as much.

I was wrong when I said the media disagrees with you though. Maybe the difference is that the anti-vax side has managed to organize through the internet and has gotten a lot more coverage, so they look bigger than they actually are?
> and no precedents were set in this situation.

Time will tell.
Suppose all of those mitigations in your second paragraph are true. If phytoplankton die off in meaningful amounts, where will we get our oxygen?
You forgot "...and how often?"
As someone with a 500mb data plan and $1/mb overage, this scares me. A month of data gone before I can stop the download. I hate living in a country with third-world phone plans (hint: it’s north of the USA).
In the UK's vaccine surveillance report released today it showed the rate of infection in vaccinated individuals ages 40-79 was significantly higher than unvaccinated.

Edit: Link to report (pdf warning) https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Because it's a terrible policy prescription. If natural immunity is acceptable, what proportion of the unvaccinated-uninfected population will just take the risk? Half? More?

Millions of people will just (continue to) take the risk, get sick, go to hospital, and die (in decreasing proportions), incurring substantial personal and social costs along the way.

Accepting only vaccination as evidence of protection reduces the size of that risk-taking population, and the concomitant social costs.

Should there be a third policy option - accepting test-verified infection and recovery as of _now_ as evidence of protection, but discounting future recoveries? Based on the observational studies cited all over this thread , probably yes. Seems like associated costs would be higher though, and the only benefit would be less gnashing of teeth here and elsewhere, so its understandable the CDC isn't rushing to implement it.

Should those people just be allowed to assume the risk? Not while the costs are predominantly social. Insurance (or tax-payers) pay the financial costs, healthcare workers bear the burden of treating a preventable illness, and we all assume the risk that healthcare resources will be stretched to the point of unavailability. While risk-takers do pay into the same system, their premiums don't yet reflect the increased expected costs of their personal choice. While ICUs often run close to or at capacity in one hospital, rarely do they run close at every hospital in a region, as is happening in the south and will happen elsewhere. While it would be nice if there were more doctors, nurses and facilities able to treat patients, we're at war with the army we've got.
You make a lot of claims here, but it doesn't seem that they are supported by data. Hospitalization rates and death rates since early summer are drastically different for the vaccinated than for the unvaccinated. Different policies in different US states are producing very different outcomes. You claimed otherwise but did not offer data; here's some data you might consider.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/10/inescapab...
Urgent care in the states now exists due to people going to the ER because they either don’t have coverage/a primary care physician, or getting an appointment with their PCP is months to a year out.
Because the vaccine helps a lot; but doesn’t solve Covid.

Even at 100% vaccination rate there would still be issues, less issues, but far from Zero.
And natural immunity + 2 doses of vaccine is likely even better.
I have to say that their landing page is great. Short, sweet and to the point especially their `Development progress` and `Getting involved` sections.

I'm going to give it a try.
Oh god, do I really have to explain that part?

I gave an example of how some people move to another country with only a 20 dollar phone. I could've said with 20 dollars in their pockets or with a couple t-shirts in a bag.

You're supposed to be smart people and...nevermind, I deleted what I wrote because it's not worth it. It's increasingly difficult to talk to leftists on the internet, they take the most meaningless comment as an attack or a literal fact and they they try to downvote you or argue stupid things. Not worth my time.
> I was told “you work for the internet now”

Whoever said that, such wise words.

Never thought of it this way, but it truly reflects how it feels to work on open-source projects; no national, religious or corporate boundaries to honor is just liberating!
>tracking how much time they spent on their breakfast with a stopwatch

Masterfully stated.

One of the primary problems with this culture, and the general culture of quantified self/everything, is that the data doesn’t inform or change actual actions.

Most quantification is proffered as a solution by the Anxiety Alleviation Industrial Complex.

I’d argue a significant portion of consumer SaaS is just that.
You're an elitist.
Go talk to regular people who value truth.
I would hire a self-described asshole if he were honest and smart and took his craftsmanship seriously.

I understand such a person might call himself an asshole, but I don’t find that a useful descriptor. I would use the word “difficult.”

You need to find tough people who like hearing the truth. Working with difficult people is okay in proportion to their value. Be valuable and you buy freedom in other dimensions.

Nice people can be bad at their jobs because people like being around them (this explains a lot of terrible managers).
Hunter and gatherer tribes don't count calories, yet they're not fat. Obesity took off in the 80s, yet availability of fast food wasn't suddenly forced upon us. Exercise is healthy, but your metabolism adapt to the amount of exercise you do by adjusting its basal metabolism. It's not that great of a tool for weight loss, but you should do it for health.

Anyway, I am speaking of this as a person who lost 32 lbs over the past four months without having to count a calories and who attempted to overcome basal metabolism adaptation by sheer high level of physical activities.
No. Maybe you should leave your house more;)
In 1997 highschool smoking rate peaked at 36.4%. Resisting smoking is quite difficult as a teenager, in spite of parents efforts.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/images/p0612-YRBS.pd...
The default shell should be BASIC, as a homage to the ZX Spectrum.
Nix basically lets you compile to Docker containers, rather than running a pipeline of scripts with Dockerfiles. You can do that really fast, since you don't have to run the container to build it, and you can make images really small, because they'll contain exactly what they need.

It's like the difference between shipping an app and shipping an OS with the app-preinstalled, except in this case neither has any external dependencies to worry about.
> You argued that people should be able to pay for and provide their own tests. T

Where did I say 'provide their own tests'? I'll wait for a specific reference. That's about the 5th time you directly misquoted and misrepresented what I said. Liar.

Here's how it works:

You go to a government-certified testing location. You pay for your test and get tested. Which part confuses you so much?

> You cannot argue these two thing together in good faith:

You cannot reference what someone said while at the same time completely changing the wording. I don't understand how you still don't get that. You are just incredibly dishonest. Holy shit.

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

You realise that the ONLY data we have, as cited in the article of this very thread, shows that natural immunity is more effective than vaccines? Do you need me to provide you with more references? Will you admit that you are a dishonest liar if I do?

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

Yes, we do not know the long term effects of the vaccine. Do you disagree? I mean, you already stated multiple times that the vaccine is fully safe while also indirectly admitting that we can't possibly know.... which one is it bud?

> Pick one or the other. Not both.

I think I won't pick either one of your dishonest strawmen. How about that?

> So you didn't make any except that same one in every single one of your comments?

'The same one in every single comment' being 'that same one' which you can't even directly quote a single time? I wonder why that is? Maybe it's because you are a liar?
We have thousands of years of oxygen banked in the atmosphere so it's not an issue on the same time scale as co2
Piracy is almost always more user friendly than a paid service, and has been for as long as I can remember - at least as far back as when DVDs had unskippable "don't pirate this" messages which didn't appear on the pirated version
the pandemic is not a philosophical problem, it has nothing to do with liberty or freedom. it is purely a scientific problem with a scientific solution - the fucking vaccine
My country started to vaccinate kids 6 to 11 yesterday. Let's see what happens.
5x and 6x loans also require lower LTVs
The "95" in "N95" refers to their 95% efficiency at filtering particles of the size they are least efficient at (.3 microns IIRC). They are more effective at sizes larger and smaller. The smaller particles get stuck to the mask via static electricity.
Yup, they'll know who told them not to do it, and being ordered to do something is no defense against war crimes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
The reason that it's lying is that natural immunity does provide decent protection. You're so focused on incentives in the small that you forgot about incentives in the large -- this type of bs is exactly why people feel entitled to opt into believing "alternative facts".
Your vaccine immunity will only last a few months. If you are in a vulnerable group, by all means vaccinate.
I find |> annoying to type. How about making it so unary functions can be invoked like this?

arg function_name

Then instead of

arg |> func1 |> func2 |> func3

you could simply write

arg func1 func2 func3

It might get a bit ugly when used with arrow functions instead of named functions, and there might need to be a special case when arg is a function, but if those problems could be handled not too unreasonably this seems a fine approach for a programming language.
Chatham House is a perfectly respectable part (perhaps the most prestigious—they’ve a nice place next to the London Library) of the (British) blob. Whether that lends itself to credibility is of course another matter and I won’t pretend to be able to answer it in one comment. But they don’t generally lack competent analysts or anything like that.
Silicon Valley stirs over proposal to end popular QSBS tax break
Did anyone download it and look? This is huge if it's true isn't it? I don't want to download it because I don't know what the laws are, but I'm really interested to know if it's true. Rob Monster is a really big domain investor, right?

This is really big news if it's true.

Edit: I looked it up. Rob started Epik [1]. I wonder if that's really his password. Lol.

Edit 2: I wasn't aware of Epik's reputation either. I just knew they're a big (ish) registrar.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Monster
Frequentist modeling isn’t useful, but that’s not how studies are evaluated. Let’s suppose your looking at a bunch of COVID studies and you ask yourself what if one or more of them was fraudulent?

Your investigation isn’t limited to the data provided by them it’s going to look for more information beyond the paper. This isn’t a failure of frequentist models because they evaluate the study and it’s output separately.
What are some of the ways percentiles can be abused?
But...he didn't.

He said its value sometimes "goes down as fast as during a bout of hyperinflation".

He was pointing out that when you try to use it as a currency, it shares some of the worst possible features of currencies, without their balancing benefits.
Suicide rate went down 6%: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-suicides-have-dec...
> The average AMD 400 Series motherboard has key technical advantages over the average AMD 300 Series motherboard, including: VRM configuration, memory trace topology, and PCB layers

So AMD told you that? And yet you don't call that market segmentation? Come on now. Lose the double standard already. AsRock (and I think Asus or Gigabyte?) has proven the b350/x370 chipset works fine with 5000 series CPUs. People have tested it and are using it just fine. VRMs are up to the motherboard. Why are you letting AMD dictate what motherboard manufacturers want to support here?

> look at the quality of the average X370 motherboard compared to 400+

Uh, what? The x370 is at a higher tier than b450. There are many b450 boards that are straight garbage (and let's be honest, garbage MBs stretch across all chipsets). The difference between a b350 and b450 is vanishingly tiny.

I'm baffled that people really think 300/400/500 series matter. You can run Zen 1 on b550/x570 despite AMD not wanting you to. You can't claim VRM/memory trace/PCB there. The only real limitation that I can tell is physical BIOS RAM capacity.

> Which Ryzen model doesn't have SMT?

The Ryzen 3, of course. Not that I meant literally all the steps Intel took AMD also took. But what the hell do you think the "X" series of Ryzen chips are? Or Threadripper and EPYC? It's all market segmentation. The Ryzen 5 is just the 7 with cores disabled. Why are you picking certain features as "segmentation" over others? It makes no sense.

> As for ECC: I don't believe I said they're perfect, but it's a heck of a lot better than what Intel has to offer...

How? Just so you know I spent literally months researching everything I've stated in this thread just so I could put together a Ryzen system with ECC. With Xeon I could have been done in a day.

Gigabyte allows ECC RAM to operate, but forces it into non-ECC mode thereby working as normal RAM. Good luck figuring out what MSI is doing. Asus, who the hell really knows. Their website spec sheet lists "ECC supported" and the manual for each specific motherboard says something entirely different.