skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The effect of that would be that 95% of kids never set foot in a library.
School libraries could ask for these books via interlibrary loans?
> Data is deseasonalized, which does not mean what you wrote.

You are correct that I oversimplified a complex situation.
https://euromomo.eu/how-it-works/methods/ describes their method, especially section "Hypothesis".

Their model includes a sinusoidal seasonal component, as you noted. However, what I said is also true. From the Hypothesis section, third bullet:

"Parts of Spring and Autumn are less likely to be influenced by additional processes leading to excess deaths and the main pattern of mortality can therefore be modelling using only those periods, resulting in a baseline being the number of deaths expected when no particular process increases mortality."

As is clear from the bullet that precedes the text that I quoted, "processes leading to excess deaths" means winter infections and summer heat waves. So my description, while incomplete, is hopefully not too misleading. For completeness, I should mention that they also adjust for population growth. (You can't just do 2020-avg(2015-2019) because the total population is different.)
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It has nothing to do with reliability or space. Its political. ESA put in the budget for the launch and they got a significant part of the science in return. And ESA of course put it on Ariane 5. There was no competition or comparison or any of that.

Since then the price of the rocket has gone from like 20%+ to like 2% or less of the cost. But they will still get the science. So all in all, might be the best investment anybody has ever made in terms of a science project.

The Delta 4, Delta 4H and Atlas 5 would all have been fully qualified to fly the JW and likely could all have launched it. Maybe the Atlas 5 is to small but there were certainty rocket in the US that had the required certification from NASA.
I'm sure what 'censored inherently' means. It sounds like word salad to me. What does that mean?

You're understanding of the legal framework under which CP is censored and banned is incorrect, which might be indicative of a larger lack of understanding of what censorship means and how its used on a daily basis.
Yes, most students don’t pay attention in school most of the time because they don’t find it useful or interesting. This isn’t new.
I'm disinclined to think that a world in which we do not speak against the consolidation of the arbitration of truth to small groups of individuals is a good one, and its a particularly icy form of irony where such groups of individuals gained power on the back of the wave of freedom of information.

They're doing nothing illegal, I'll still speak out what I observe to be sad unfolding of events.
This is a pretty cynical view. It's not actually a bad thing to make folks feel like they have a sense of ownership over an idea; human nature is human nature and motivating people to work hard and feel ownership is its own challenge.
I gathered this from the descriptions. In the second case, Amazon is selling a b2b service, as opposed to buying from the producer wholesale.
Humboldt State University Is Now Cal Poly Humboldt
How difficult would it be to drill down through the ice? Would melting through the ice be a viable alternative or would that end up being less efficient?
I agree that Ars Technica seems like a very CDN-friendly workload. I'm curious what those features were that you couldn't ship because of the CDN. It's gotta just be ads, right?
I used pinyin and bopomofo on Macs in the 90s, pre-OSX
This isn't new to Amazon. Leaving written paper trails is often times attempted to be avoided by simple messages like "let's chat about this over the phone" or "let's chat about this over a cup of coffee".
Whether the irreversibility of payments is a feature or a bug depends on the situation. Clearly reversible payments are a bad fit not only for scammers but also for things like Turing Pi.

More interestingly, they're also a bad fit for online payment systems like Paypal. Paypal steals its customers' money like this because it's profitable for them to do so; receiving money from money senders and then just keeping it is very profitable indeed. But they get away with doing it, despite the bad publicity, because there's no less-corrupt alternative their customers can switch to. The other Paypal-like companies born late last millennium all failed because the reversible payment infrastructure of the credit card and banking system stuck them with the bill for whatever scams and fraud were perpetrated on their platforms.
> we've already crossed the Rubicon of denying free association and ability to conduct business

We’ve always had this. And its been strongly protected for centuries. And this isn't even the first time its been applied to health (lepers, plague victims, tuberculosis, measles, etc).

Its the right of the business to not associate with someone, for pretty much any reason. A person, outside of government owned businesses, has no inherent right to associate with a business.
This is how retail works, though. You buy from wholesalers at $X/unit. How you price it, and whether you undercut them with your own branded unit, are decisions for the retailer and has been for hundreds of years.

The wholesaler still gets the sales contract they signed.
Really? When was he most recently on Friedmans podcast. I thought it was like 3 weeks ago.

Friedman asked a lot of questions about his plans for the humanoid robots used in his plants and he basically said they were an afterthought and he hasn't really imagined how they might develop.
It is ironic you believe he went "off the deep end" after signing with Spotify, because many JRE fans believe he has gone soft since signing.

Personally I don't think anything has changed. He is the same, long form open dialog on topics he is interested it, we need more Joe Rogan's, not less
This seems a lot like an advertisement for Opta rather than really pointing out issues with Terraform.
> No doubt, these censors and would-be censors have the best of intentions.

[citation needed]
The first rule of being a monopoly is don't talk about being a monopoly.
> but only in certain specific ways and not others.

Yes of course. All languages have specific syntax and semantics. That doesn’t change the fact that you can encode all of math in it which is a huge deal. It allows you to prove code correct (see CompCert, seL4, CertOS etc.)

And yes you can’t prove anything unless the functions you use are total. That’s a basic requirement for any language where you want to use the type system to prove correct code. Allowing non-total functions would allow you to prove false. And you can prove anything you want from false.
If this worked it would be a prejudice detector. I find that I'm not entirely prejudice-free, choosing the death of adults over children and animals over humans. But I don't think I'd be comfortable with a car auto-pilot choosing between humans, or failing to choose life for humans over animals.

Software and legal codes are going to collide in interesting ways here.
But should these ideas be censored though?
It's almost like two sides can play that game. Who started the game anyway?

I remember some statues being toppled last year by very progressive minded people. Maybe you know destroying art wasn't the progressive thing to do after all.
I am not a child psychologist, so take all of this with a grain of salt. I believe children first learn concepts by looking at and playing with concrete things first. "Oh look at this fun thing... Oh whoops I moved it, it looks slightly different, but if I rotate it, it looks like it used to... It doesn't really taste like anything, but it feels hard... Whoa, what's this new thing over here? Oh wait, this is the same size and shape as the thing I played with previously... In fact it behaves just like the first thing did. Oh cool, there's a whole stack of them over here, I bet they work just like the first things did!"
This is how one might interpret a baby's first interactions with blocks. Later in life, they might find out about dice and understand some similarities. Later, still in school, the kid learns about cubes in geometry class, and can think back to all the concrete hands on experience he had and see how the various principles of cubes apply in real life.

So, people learn by experiencing concrete things first, and then grouping all those experiences into abstract concepts. Sometimes (ok, often) they'll group them incorrectly:
Kid: "This thing doesn't have fur and moves without appendages. It's a snake. Whoa, look at this thing in the water, it moves without appendages either! It must also be a type of snake."
Teacher: "That's an eel, not a snake."
Kid: "oh. I guess snakes are for land and eels are for water"
Teacher: "Water Moccasin is a type of snake that is quite adept in the water."
Kid: "oh. They look kinda the same, what's the difference?"
Teacher: [performs instruction]

This form of learning by compiling all sorts of concrete things down into a few abstract concepts is so powerful and automatic that we do it ALL THE TIME. It can even work against us, "overtraining" to use an ML term, like with our various biases, stereotypes, typecasting of actors ("this guy can only ever do comedies"). Sometimes folks need a little help in defining/refining abstract concepts, and that's the point that teachers will be most helpful.

So, for me anyway, and I suspect many others, the best way to learn a concept is to get many (as different as possible) concrete examples, maybe a few concrete "looks like the same thing but isn't", and THEN explain the abstract concept and its principles.

Or, to explain the process without words, look at Picasso's first drawing of a dog, and the progressively shinier simpler drawings until he gets to a dog drawn with a single curvy line.
No I'm not. I'm presenting a very large discrepancy in the data itself. Any inference you chose to make is therefore based on inconsistent data.
The choice on how to understand it is yours, I've led you to water.

Besides you need to renormalize the data based on demographic and at risk population as well as taking into account frankly several years of good fortune with regard to flu seasons and being prepared with working flu jabs ahead of time.

I'm not saying your wrong I'm just explaining how the data your using is faulty. Go away find a trusted source who can help understand the details and not just compare 2 big flat numbers that don't reflect the actual situation.

2 big numbers make for nice headlines though. Which again for agendas very well.

Ironically nobody listens to my point that we should have been innoculating at risk people as early as may 2020 when trials started, so frankly I'm not bothered with being accused of fitting an agenda. I'm not, only really to say that the politicalisation of this has distorted data and people's thinkings in a way that's needlessly cost lives. Please stop reading sensationalist numbers without understanding what it means in context.
They’re working on it. But the original target effectiveness during vaccine development was 75%. We got lucky it was so much better against earlier strains. It’s still pretty good — about the same as an average year’s flu shot.

It’s a far cry from the apparently very popular myth that the vaccines no longer work at all.
Right, invoking "ideology" seems a bit unnecessary and politically motivated. "More highly educated people produce better content." In other news, poor neighborhoods have more violent crime than rich neighborhoods...

> We then demonstrate that the filter's measurement of quality is unaligned with other sensible metrics, such as factuality or literary acclaim.

So the filter can't check whether something is scientifically accurate or artistically appealing. That makes sense. Of course it can't.
Walmart? I mean they're on Walmart's shelves. I'm pretty sure Walmart sets the price for everything that's on its shelves.

I mean, Walmart could just choose not to sell Kellogg's Corn Flakes at all. If that was more profitable, I'm pretty sure they'd do that.

They sell their own brand at a lower price point for price-sensitive customers, they sell the "premium" brand at a higher price for customers who buy on the basis of the name etc.
100%. We've had a few brainstorming sessions, particularly when coming up with new product ideas or features (aside from those customers requested), and while it isn't often that the outlandish idea makes it, sometimes, just sometimes, it does; and sometimes that outlandish idea becomes the most successful part of the company. I've seen it happen at least 3 times. In my opinion, it's one of the few ways to avoid constantly iterating and truly produce something exceptional.
Raspberry pi is just the motherboard. Add in a screen, power supply, keyboard and case, and that's going to inflate the total cost.
The abolished school libraries?
Enjoy your 10 second round trip time to earth. Hope you're not required to log in via remote desktop! :)
Meanwhile my friend who is a nurse in the UCLA hospital complex says they’re so understaffed because they let so many people go/nurses retired or quit that all nurses are allowed to come to work if they’ve tested positive but their symptoms are improving
You also forgot about not having one more battery to keep charged.
> If sexual harassment training was just obvious stuff that needs counseling to fix (e.g. harassing people after having advances declined), then corporations likely wouldn’t need sexual harassment training at all.

[Citation Needed]

I'm pretty sure don't take the team out to a strip club as a work outing is always on the training because people keep taking the team out to a strip club.
Isn't generating a ton of LOC considered bad practice? If my pull request is over 1K LOC, most likely my review will take longer, increase cycle time, and be more bug prone?
How does this exploit avoid environment sanitization? Is that because most environment sanitization (e.g. clearenv) adjusts the pointer rather than the memory, and argv[argc + 1] is the original environment location?
Those people aren't brainstorming; the rules should be that ideas get evaluated later, and that no idea is too outlandish, even if it "won't work". You write every idea down, and cull later, at which point people have had time to think about how something might get done, rather than simply to cancel it off the cuff.
The anti-CRT moral panic has created a mass-movement and normalized book banning.
Zhuyin aren’t Chinese radicals. They are derived from characters. For example the “b” sounds ㄅ comes from the character 包 bāo.
Actually, when you put it like that. Yikes! That's a crazy amount of energy!
They don't co-mingle inventory on everything, it varies from product to product (although the majority are indeed co-mingled). While there's no visible way to tell if a product is co-mingled, Amazon support is able to look it up. Whenever I'm buying an item that I would be unhappy with a counterfeit (so anything expensive, electronic, or that goes in my mouth or body) I contact Amazon support by live chat and ask them about that particular item. It generally takes about one minute of my time, spread over half an hour as they chase things down and escalate -- probably ends up costing them a heck of a lot more in support costs than they make on the item, but perhaps if it costs them enough they'll just expose the info?
Maybe I am too illiterate for this kind of blogpost but I simply don't get it. What's the point of it? Not being stressed out?
Earlier in the pandemic many public health agencies over counted COVID-19 deaths by including everyone who had tested positive regardless of the actual cause of death. Most agencies have now corrected those numbers to better align with WHO and CDC guidelines so current metrics are generally more accurate. For example Santa Clara County had to adjust the death count down by 22%.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/santa-clara-countys-co...
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I never realized AbeBooks was owned by Amazon, but I've never bought a book from there because the Amazon price was always the same or better. Now it makes sense why.
Planning to watch the 2hr video, but anything specific to call out?
Do you put a full-stop (period) at the end of a sentence?
They probably scream at everyone around them when they need to get a driver's license or can't smoke in a restaurant. They shriek, "My body, my choice", when they get behind the wheel drunk. And so on and so forth. :D
That's exactly right.

"It is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings jobs and homes to men. Then it elevates the standards of living and adds to the comforts of life. That is the engineer's high privilege."
- Herbert Hoover
The Cal Poly brand is highly regarded so this should increase the prestige of Humboldt with those who are not already familiar with the school.
My general experience is these products are often 70-90% just as good for my needs, at like half the price.

I also get duds, which I return and 1 star.
Well that's what they've claimed, but with the ongoing spate of race-relaced book-banning, it's a moderately hard claim to believe. How many other books in their library do you think contain the phrase "God damn"?
It feels like we're late to create the desktop experience where most things run in containers. My wish is to run something like Proxmox as a "stable base", and within it have a VM for my firewall (pfsense), my primary Linux OS (Fedora/Arch), a VM for services (Docker & k8s), and a VM for Windows gaming. I like the separation of concerns. I've wanted to do all of this on a laptop but I can't get a VM to exclusively take control of the GPU & display controller (overtake the laptop display panel).

For a long while now I've wanted a stable, slim base OS. I actually thought Rancher Desktop was a rebirth of RancherOS: https://rancher.com/docs/os/

I really liked the concept of a "system docker" and a "user docker". I thought Fedora CoreOS had potential to be the first Linux "Desktop" container distro.

Oh well, maybe a desktop distro that aims to containerize all apps is a 2023 thing. Still remember that Steam bug?
Good grief. We got a real relativist over here. Maybe the “art” you keep and what you remove from public display reflects your values.

At least to me, the values of those in favor of keeping southern memorials and banning Maus seem pretty odious.
Ignoring those who are unvaccinated but had a prior infection seems like it can only make the data look better for the unvaccinated than it actually is, no? Because the "true" death rate among the unvaccinated-and-not-yet-infected will be higher than among the unvaccinated-and-previously-recovered group that already has that immunity you talk about.

So if anything, breaking that out just makes not getting vaccinated for those without prior infection look even stupider.

I'd have no problem with treating proof of immune response as similar to vaccinated, but I also haven't seen most of the outraged argue for that - versus just arguing for "freedom" - so... don't wait for me to make that case for them.
On HN I flag several unhinged posts a day by people who are complaining that somebody got canceled somewhere, complaining that another post got flagged, asking to delete their HN account because a post got flagged, or how their feelings are badly hurt because somebody downvoted their comment. (Contrast that to five years ago when the most problematic people on HN had some indescribable problem that had something to do with gender and you had to be careful engaging with them because they always had to get the last word.)

The right has taken on "free speech" as a cause lately. Big Tech needs to be defunded because Twitter kicked out Trump, etc. It pushes a narrative that the left is against free speech and the right is for it, but as usual, both sides agree they are happy when their tribe wins.
"Better" is just presupposing the conclusion: that there is something inherently superior about certain styles. That thinking is precisely the "language ideology" the authors are concerned about!

Better for who? For what purpose?
This is seriously awesome. I've tried it out and I love it. It gives me exactly what I want, and if I find anything missing it'll be easy to implement.

Thank you for sharing!
They stopped in 2014 and we didn’t die (although there was the taper tantrum a year prior).
Restrictions would likely achieve essentially nothing right now. Reducing R from insane to merely very high might slightly flatten the curve, but not likely enough to make much difference. Restrictions on a level like China are a different story, but that’s not about to happen here.

Vaccines are entirely different story. They seem to have little effect on transmission (maybe enough to be useful after three doses but maybe not), but they seem to substantially reduce the number of people who end up hospitalized. So more vaccines would lower the curve, not flatten it.

(Take this with a grain of salt. Great data on vaccine efficacy in the US is a bit hard to come by, and I haven’t run the numbers.)
I was a Disney Imagineer (they have their own braingstorming concept, which has psychological safety built in). This person's article is indeed missing the point, or at least arguing with a straw man.

I would encourage folks to check out the Walt Disney method. It's not hard to get right, and (in my experience) it works well.
>The statistical evidence suggests that even if you have had a previous confirmed infection, you’re still better off getting vaccinated.

Sure. And you'll continue to be better protected every time you get a booster, every 6 months, for the rest of your life. But all of us are going to stop getting boosters at some point. We're going to decide we're "immune enough", and go on with our lives, even though there will be some minute chance of getting Covid, from whichever variant is then around.

Many people with prior infection may feel they are "immune enough", and you can argue over the significance of the remaining risk, but ultimately that's a decision they make for themselves, just as all of us do in every facet of our lives every day.
Ledger and Trezor, I talk more about them in other replies.
One thing I dislike is superfluous code under the guise of best practices or defensive programming. Here's an opinion of mine I've found to be controversial: In JavaScript, I don't like to use ===/!== unless I'm actually operating on operands that can be multiple types.
I'm not sure that there is such a beacon of truth you are looking for. May be that should be the resolution after all the dust settles.
However much of a bogeyman the pandemic turned out to be, the concern is that the state, proverbially, doesn't let a good crisis go to waste. Such was the case after 9/11; and there are signs that such is also the case now.
Red herring.
You'd make a lot of money with this, I think. A lot of people don't have financial advisors and also don't have any method (or knowledge) of how to model various scenarios; if you built this out I bet you'd have a nice little passive income tool. Would it make billions of dollars? Probably not.

I'd use it and pay for it though, especially if it factored in historic market data, automatically figured out housing increase rates for my area, etc.
I'm not sure he's a great entertainer either, but for sure he's a great conversationalist.
Would those statues happen to be of traitors who sided against the United States and supported human slavery based on race?
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I don't believe the message here is to ignore the lesson, but to consider rethinking your responses if your responses are leaving you less than fulfilled. Over time, people develop rote strategies in response to lessons learned. We forget there's more than one way to tackle things. This is, ultimately, where "choice" inserts itself in life.