skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to ask but What's NPS?
Of course it does, it offers a pervasive arguement that the source is unreliable.
> as it was by a state without a mature domestic intelligence capability going to market to buy tools of one, to spy on actual spies in its borders

How do you intend to support your claim that the 11 US diplomats and employees from the US embassy are spies (and thus are supposedly legitimate targets in your view)?

Nowhere does it say US spies were the targets. And no other story on this subject has presented evidence of that either.
Google doesn't exactly have a great reputation for customer support.
Amazon shifts the responsibility for multi-AZ deployment to us customers, saving themselves complexity and charging us extra - win-win for them.
Could you elaborate on the differences? As far as I understood it firejail, or rather the Linux features that it depends upon, is far more powerful than FreeBSD jails.
The same could be said about most of what is taught in secondary education. At least an understanding of principles of grammar would help when learning foreign languages. It is also a transferable skill; a number of parallels to coding for example.
As someone who's been on the receiving end of unwanted touches, just keeping your hands to yourself and not asking at all would be perfectly fine.
The idea of "whataboutism" and attempting to present it as something inherently wrong awfully seems like a convenient way to dismiss uncomfortable points of the discussion and turn it into yet another two minutes hate.

Comparing how different agents deal with similar problems is not a thoughtcrime, you know. It is quite a healthy way of understanding how such problems arise and how to deal with them.
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This is what a liability state looks like. Nobody gets sued for following the CDC, that same CDC that says you should never eat raw sushi or rare steak
From your 2 responses, you seem like a difficult fellow to work with.

I wish the people who do have to work with you as little hardship as they need to suffer...
All the reports about how severe omicron is say they are preliminary. It’s just more jumping of the gun by news agencies. We’ll know more in a week or two
Germany is a net exporter. But the collaboration with France is very useful for both sides. Whenever there is free capacity of French reactors, they are exporting to whole Europe. In other times, France becomes an importer. Just a few days ago, 3 reactors had to be taken offline for repairs as some faults were discovered in one of them.
Nope but we can attribute properties to a group of brain cells that we can call a "human" the property of "wanting" without implanting incorrect analogies that, so far and according to our understanding of consciousness, don't impair the collective spread of the best knowledge we have about how "human" works. If you really literally think COVID wants something you are probably delusional or your understanding of what's a virus is like below high-school level.
Why make it an either/or thing? We should demand more of corporate-controlled software. The money exists to make both a reality.
Net Promoter Score: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_promoter_score

How likely are people to promote the thing?
Yes, if trained properly.
Are you sure? That's an almost impossibly high receive bandwidth for an older type of equipment I would think.

I've seen bandwidth ranges of 50Hz to 300Hz (that's Hz not KHz or MHz). This is swept or chirped over a frequency (bigger is better for that - so 200Mhz good and they'd probably want more).

But in terms of a guard, you should be able to guard much tighter than 200Mhz - that's what I'm not understanding - but haven't looked at it closely.
I wonder if there's extra selective pressure among relatively smart creatures like us. Supposing there's a really nasty disease that manifests after a week, and we're contagious for a few days before. Eventually we'll get wind of it and start being more careful. If it's a less nasty virus, we just won't care enough and let it spread.
> It's not a free market for manipulation.

Advertising, lobbying, PR, think tanks, ... are all legal. They are all in the market for manipulation.
Genuine question as I haven’t been following COVID news closely. What’s the hospitalization rate and long term effects from Omicron COVID? Do we have sufficient data to suggest that it’s milder than Delta etc?
ballistic parachute?
Correct. Will clarify.
> You have no idea how many of those candidates you interviewed were just having a bad day

Sure, which is why we have multiple interviews and not just one.

> or were too focused on trying to solve for "traps" in the interview they stumbled over basics

I disagree to an extent. Its not a "here is the problem, you have N minutes, go". I work with the candidate - guiding them, explaining, understanding their rationale.

> or had to do so much advanced string manipulation that got trapped in trying to re-simplify their concerns from real world practical work (forest) to "basic string manipulation" (trees).

I am talking about simple string manipulation which can be done with just loops.

> I think a lot of it gets down to what are we actually testing for here?

That they can code independently, think about the problem, reason about the potential edge cases and communicate their rationale. Its not a binary decision, but how they are overall.
The Babylon Bee is a satirical website similar to The Onion, which Musk claims has become "politically correct." During his interview, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stated that the emerging "woke culture" suggests that a tendency to become politically correct may be counterproductive. "wokeness," according to Musk, is a "mind virus" that could become "arguably one of the biggest threats to modern civilization.... Wokeness wants to make comedy illegal. Do we want a humorless society that is simply rife with condemnation, and hate? At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people a shield to be cruel, armored in false virtue," Musk said.
>> The point of a simulation isn't for technologists to practice business continuity and recovery plans, it was for executives to determine who they align with once their primary stakeholder relationships fail.

Came to the comments for this. The simulation is being done out of fear that such things may come to pass. The number one goal is for the elite to figure out how to save themselves in such a scenario. Secondary goals are to help at various lower levels. This is always the case for every human being. In what order do you prioritize your allegiance to: Self, family, friends, company, country, coworkers, species, etc... ? These vary for each person, but typically self is near the top and some affiliations are next. I had to look at that list to see if I inadvertently put my own ordering... No, it's a mix of mine and what I suspect other peoples are.
Ironically mentioning this is whataboutism per your link. If you have an actual comment I’d like to hear it though.
Fear doesn’t work that way.

I was forbidden from including a smoke detector in a school show-and-tell (UK, circa 1993) because of the radiation symbol, even though there was a detector just like it on the ceiling of the same classroom.
That’s really interesting to know. Happy to see another desi doing really well.
Even ignoring deaths, "long COVID" is still a very real unknown: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/04/harvard-medic...

As I understand, we don't know much about whether omicron has worse, same, or better outcomes in relation to long-term consequences and persistent symptoms. Pls do share if you've heard otherwise
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This comment is parroting Chomsky critics that stretched pretty damn hard to find some way to defame him.

He compared the US media coverage of 2 similar genocides, nowhere does he claim either was "just US propaganda", nor does he downplay the seriousness of either, just that the coverage of it was handled different than the other.
Yeah, I've found nightlife tends to adhere to mask usage much less.

It's not necessarily correlated with age either. We went out to eat at a bar-like place that mostly 50-somethings go to. Most people didn't have a mask, even if they were just hanging around the bar doing nothing.

I think some of it is a self selection process. People that think the virus isn't a big deal are more likely to not care about masks, go to these places, and I would bet also not be vaccinated.

My wife and I have discussed this a lot. We are much more likely to do things with people that are taking it seriously but still have a social life, than people that never thought it was a big deal - the latter are much more likely to be taking absolutely zero precautions.
Wait, natural immunity is real?
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Their overall guard is 200Mhz on each side, so 400Mhz total, and even WITH that guard they are saying they have interference. This is what makes so little sense to me.

You should have an emitter frequency in the 200Hz range? sure, you sweep it, but you shouldn't need a total of 400Mhz for your guard.
I emailed contact@codecademy.com back in September of 2011 with ideas for the site, and Zach got back to me in no time. Been cheering for Codecademy ever since.

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Same for me. Full page add, no way to close.
It's a theory that there's a broad conspiracy to cover up how bad the pandemic hit China. This would require many parties (millions of people inside and out of China) to closely conspire on a singular manufactured narrative and prevent any leaks of the "truth".

It's a textbook conspiracy theory.
I'm not surprised those who choose to go to karaoke don't wear masks
>e.g. Ivermectin was approved as early as the 1980

Pretty sure it haven't been approved for covid in 1980
Right, these are legal and regulated forms of manipulation.

Covert manipulation is mostly sanctioned through platform TOS and laws.
Well, one small accident 35 years ago and far away, that could have been much worse - is still the cause that large areas are contaminated here.

It is rational, to be sceptic of such a technology.

Most discussions about it are not, sure. Anti-nuclear is a strong dogma in green circles and not to be discussed about - but there are still real reasons, why it became a dogma in the first place.

Because nuclear energy is not as save and easy as it was promised. It is heavily subsidized, but socialised the risk - and the current storage solutions to the waste are sub-optimal. So expensive and dangerous.

I am open to have them run a bit longer, and rather close the coal plants, but they are not a magic bullet solution.
Note that the video you linked doesn't show their latest "demonstrator". Here is a video of their latest one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqvMXoVZfDw
>What exactly are they waiting on?

Public opinion.
In Fish shell:
function cansi
cat $argv[1] | iconv --from-code cp437 --to-code utf8
end
What happened with all that hysteria a few years ago that russia was using FaceBook and twitter to manipulate Brexit and American elections?
great thread on the topic of content ownership, content moderation, Twitter's business model, the nature of a user's relationship with a social media company such as Twitter.
Enjoy while it lasts because social media will spread their ambitions. In any case, woman desire for fit men is culturally universal so all should hit the gym and diet for its own good. Hard. Good luck making your game to the next level!
Normalcy. Right now everything is taken with an abundance of caution. Once stabilization occurs, normalcy will return (even if it's changed).
In that case the tool would need to lay out everything holistically but while it might do great arrow wise it could be useless for the user if they wanted the diagram a certain way for a reason.
If your device is jailbroken you can use SSL Kill Switch 2 + Burp Suite to get past TLS pinning. It doesn't do much if the actual payload is encrypted (then you'll need to use Frida, or lldb-debugger or something else like that)
I can't find the ones I saw before, but the OWID charts show that deaths in South Africa are still rising, and Omicron case counts just started rising 3 weeks ago, so I'm still holding my breath. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
In a technology driven economy (which we are), a 25 year monopoly on a new technology is a monopoly of a market for a generation.
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Full disclosure I work at MSFT and on the fluid framework.

If you are interested in this you may also be interested in the fluid framework, https://github.com/microsoft/FluidFramework

We use websockets and solve a lot of the state management problem called out here by keeping very little state on the server itself. The primary thing on server is a monotonically increasing integer we use to stamp messages, this gives us total order broadcast which we then build upon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_broadcast

Here are some code pointers if you want to take a look:

The map package is a decent place to look for how we leverage total order broadcast to keep clients in sync in our distributed data structures:
https://github.com/microsoft/FluidFramework/blob/main/packag...

The deltamanger in the container-loader package is where we manage the websocket. It also hits storage to give the rest of the system a continuous, ordered stream of events:

https://github.com/microsoft/FluidFramework/blob/main/packag...

The main server logic is in the Alfred and Deli lambdas. Alfred sits on the socket and dumps message into Kafka. Deli sits on the Kafka queue, stamps messages, the puts them on another queue for Alfred’s to broadcast:
https://github.com/microsoft/FluidFramework/tree/main/server...
Your comment is factually untrue. 17 people died yesterday. Didn't have this high number of deaths since last winter before vaccines, and from the chart deaths seems to have increased 10-fold compared to a month or two ago. I'd like to see a source for your claim that numbers in hospitals are decreasing.
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I was curious about the general sentiment of HN to lendup. If anyone else cares: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10956780
Transfer switches at any facility that's worth being colocated in are exercised as periodically as the generators to which they connect. In all of the facilities I have had systems in (>20MW total steady state IT load), that meant once per month at minimum to keep generators happy -and to ensure the transfer functionality works-, and more often if the local grid demands it, e.g. ComEd in Chicago, or Dominion in NoVA asking for load shedding.
SARS-CoV-2 Spreads Through Cell-to-Cell Transmission
Wikipedia has an entire section dedicated to his denial of the genocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#Chom...
ok, interesting. I just checked, as of right now I still very much get the message "Unsupported Browser - In order to provide the best experience we require you use a different browser." So I'm not sure where our configurations differ.

Firefox 95.0.2 64-bit fwiw.
Since you've editted, I will use a new comment.

Propaganda is among others what to say, or not to say. When to say it. What words to use.

1) Where the NYT uses manipulating western media, I would say China is engaging with world leading social networks. Basically China is buying likes. Big frickin' deal. But the NYT calls this manipulates Facebook and Twitter ( as if they are influencing the companies in itself ).

2) Manufacturing consent implies war : foreign adventures. It is not whataboutism because the US has a track record of these adventures and China has not.
I take it you're not Native American...

All authoritarians confiscate property when it benefits them to do so. When communists have taken farm land, they have mostly left it as farm land, even if production has sometimes decreased due to incompetence. No one with a clue would consider Hosni Mubarak a communist, because he transformed land that had produced grain for millennia into "investment vehicles" for cronies, and then into desert. Not even communists are that incompetent, or venal.
I'd imagine that somewhere there is always enough wind and sun in Europe.

The problem with this approach is that you need to overbuild the total installed capacity massively, so that every "somewhere" could, in need, play the role of an energy producing and exporting center for all the other regions.

If 70 % of Europe is calm and dark at one point, the remaining 30 % would need to produce enough energy for the entire continent. (This also means having very high capacity cross-continent links to move that energy around from anywhere to anywhere else. Not easy to build or maintain.)
> I'd imagine that somewhere there is always enough wind and sun in Europe.

* wind: wind power production scales with the cube of the wind speed [1], so actual production only occurs about 25% of the time [2]. Also huge areas produce at the same time: the size of the average depression [3] can often be as large as the continent.

* sun: solar panels don't produce at night. I don't think I need to source that claim. Cloudy weather is not good either.

If you want more data, I suggest heading over to https://app.electricitymap.org/map

[1] http://xn--drmstrre-64ad.dk/wp-content/wind/miller/windpower...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/555654/wind-electricity-...

[3] https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/...
> Scientists have believed for a long time that severe damage to the visual cortex in the left side of your brain will leave you unable to see out of your right eye, assuming that the ability to see out of one eye is largely due to the visual cortex on the opposite side.

IIRC it’s well known that the left hemisphere processes visual stimuli from the right field of view of both eyes…
I agree that the platforms have too much market power... but astroturfed propaganda from a centralized authoritarian power requires a centralized defense; a true "open competitive marketplace" of ideas and discussion would have just as much astroturfing and more.

I'm not arguing in favor of Facebook at all, shut them down and lock up Zuck, but I'm simply saying "careful what you wish for".
I found this by accident once, and promptly deleted all of my unused connections. I had stuff from hotels, airports, Disney World, and other locations.
"We've always hated X therefore X must be bad"
Good point. But at least we know the ML algorithms are related to ML performance, we don't know that about QM.
Advertised content is supposed to be marked as such; not guise as organic content and upvoted by lots of bots disguising as real users.
6. If everyone had the same electricity mix than Germany we would have total blackouts everyday
Actually I think you're right, yeah. I don't know why your original comment is being downvoted. I suppose it testifies to the fact that comments are downvoted either because they're too stupid or too smart for the audience.
We have basically unlimited uranium. There’s no risk of shortage. The average cubic meter of crust has more breedable fuel energy in it than a cubic meter of coal.

Fission is effectively as unlimited as renewable energy is, about a billion years’ worth of crust. Even if we stick with typical U235 reactors, sufficient uranium ore exists for hundreds of years, although no one will bother to formally “prove” the reserves for a constraint 100 years in the future.

What’s limited is the atmosphere’s capacity for CO2. Not much else matters in the mid/near-term, except perhaps for ensuring we have enough energy for civilization to function.
From a linked press release RE: violations of the Military Lending Act:

> The MLA puts in place protections in connection with extensions of consumer credit for active-duty servicemembers and their dependents, who are defined as “covered borrowers.” These protections include a maximum allowable annual percentage rate of 36%, known as a Military Annual Percentage Rate (MAPR), a prohibition against required arbitration, and certain mandatory loan disclosures.

These seem like good[1], common-sense, consumer protections. Why aren't these extended to credit consumers in general and not just military personnel?

[1] I think one quibble might be the 36% max APR. This might be too low for some high risk customers to be able to get credit at all. But I'm not sure if there's any research around what a reasonable number might be instead.
Convert EVs to have 10kw+ of grid intertied inverters. Build GWhr capacity batteries at the old nuclear facilities. Those facilities should at least be kept in warm standby. Machines switched off will rot and the whole steam and electricity aspect of a nuke plant is the same regardless of where the steam comes from.

Sad, but we should work with what we have.
Ummm, Europe is close enough together that night falls over the whole continent before it rises again. So no there's not always sun somewhere in Europe.
They block upload even if you're not sharing it.
And obese! https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n623
It's fascinating to me that a multiple of 2-9x the median flu in YLL (after mitigations) in only a few countries "clearly justifies" the quite disruptive mitigations. I look at the same measures (and I'm implicitly estimating that the non-vaccine mitigations were around 50% effective) and conclude that the mitigations [excluding vaccines] were, in retrospect, probably not justified for as long and as impactful as they were on daily routines.

They were (IMO) justified early on when vaccines were not available and when we knew a lot less about the effective treatment regimens.

Imagine a reliable oracle tells you: "The flu season in 2025 will be 10x as bad as the typical flu season." Is that cause to shut down restaurants, bars, close offices, schools, and universities, shutdown borders, etc, etc. for 12 months to make it only 5x as bad? For me, that's cause to make sure I get the flu vaccine that year, wash my hands a little more, not go to work if I'm ill, and pet my dog.

Some jackass tried unsuccessfully to light his shoes on fire and 20 years later we're still taking our shoes off at the airport. I hope we have a more threat-appropriate response over the long-run here.
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I would say - congratulations to the Go team! It's a huge accomplishment and a testament to the quality of their software engineering process.
Actual legitimate research to understand existing privacy legislation, which can be used by policymakers to iterate and ensure that legislation is effective without being wasteful.
In other news, heart disease is still the number one killer in the US.