skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always find it weird that people in these threads where compensation come up have a real crab in the bucket mentality. “I’m not getting paid that much! It’s not fair! You shouldn’t get it because I didn’t get it!” Instead of advocating for advancing their own wages - they instead wish to pull others down. I’d understand the argument if you were arguing against people who weren’t laborers (e.g. capitalists) but for fellow laborers - this is truly crab in bucket mentality and is abhorrent.
There are all kinds of abortion restrictions in the US. [0]

Even roe allowed for restrictions after the second trimester. The operative case law now allows any restrictions that don’t impose an “undue burden”.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_abortion_restrictions...
probably the Lex Fridman podcast interviews:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BdBfsXbST8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE1R8FYUJm0

the second one is definitely where the last paragraph in the article is from.
Weird that the interview is dated 2021-09-09 and the post is 2020-04-30?
> (oil and coal) via road, which I don't think is currently feasible

They'll be able to ship oil via rail and pipes from Western Siberia and the Russian Far East pretty soon, which, granted, is not as cheap as sea transport but is good enough. I think they have enough coal available inside China's borders.

I still cannot understand what the US strategists think when they're throwing the Russians (and their huge mineral resources) directly into China's hands. On this Kissinger is of course right, i.e. he mentioned recently that back in the day the US was careful not to diplomatically "fight" against both China and the USSR/Russia at the same time, for good reason.
Is it open source? I want to add clouds and birds and weather and time!

[edit] Also I'm getting a lot of "out of bounds" errors when I resize my window.[/edit]
Are people "riled up", or merely disagreeing with him (in full or in part)?
HIV is nowhere near the coronavirus in transmissibility. It's been around for decades, and even now only around 1-2% of the population got it, mostly drug addicts who shared needles and people who have unprotected sex (mostly anal) with strangers.
If Congress could get an amendment passed to the effect of "Abortion is a right", then the issue of how SCOTUS interprets the privacy argument becomes moot.
> Even with a few DAGs, Airflow will spike the CPU utilization of the VM to 100% for X minutes (in my case about 15 minutes) which is quite interesting. My tasks basically query SQL Server -> dump to CSV (stored on GCS) -> import to BQ.

Have you checked why that is? Airflow does Reimport every few seconds. We've had an issue where it didn't honor the airflowignore file making it execute our tests everx few seconds. The easy solution was to put them into the docker ignore.

You might also be having too much logic in your root levels. It's recommended to not even import at root level to make importing faster.

Not saying it's not an odd tool though.
What if you want to align things which are not grouped together in consecutive lines?

IE:

doSomething() // This is a comment
...random other things here...
doSomething2() // This is another comment, I want aligned with the first

That can be done with tabs/tabs replaced with spaces. I just need to hit tab until it aligns with the same tab boundry. But can elastic tabstops do that?
> I did not steal anyone's private keys. I interacted with the smart contract according to its very own publicly available rules.

Yes, it's a little disingenuous to claim "code is law" until it doesn't suit you anymore.
The data I've seen doesn't, by and large, bear this out.

The money goes to the athletics and the infrastructure. (Not in the sense of "the best infrastructure money can buy", sadly; no, it's more like "raise $300 million to build this new dorm and let the richest donor put their name on it, then spend about 30% of what it needs for maintenance for the next 30 years...and then spend 5x the amount we would've had to if we'd just maintained it in remediation and renovations".)
Yes, that is a good point. Staff employed by the hospitals are included. UC Davis alone is more than 10 thousand employees. I'd imagine a few of the other UC hospitals are also significant portions of that support staff.
> That leaves the question of whether a better (safer) smallpox vaccine could be developed.

I found this last week in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine#MVA-BN is a new non-replicating vaccine available since 2013.
So I got to spend an afternoon with one of those mad scientists from Porton Down, the UK biological and chemicals weapon testing place. The stuff they have there makes Ebola look like a walk in the park.

So there are parts of the body the immune system cant go, like the gonads, and eyes, the viruses like Ebola can get in there like toxoplasmosis (eye floaters from cat faeces) and then you become a carrier. Men can pass on Ebola through semen which was being seen in Africa not so long ago and yet still test negative for Ebola!

And then there is global warming like the Artic permafrost thawing that has the potential to release long since forgotten threats.
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Permafr...

So with increased numbers of people travelling and the global population going up, the risks keep going up so I'm not surprised WHO want to take control of this globally. At least they issued a directorate to reduce the number of cycles a PCR test goes through. Putting aside somewhere between 80 and 85 different PCR testing machines, which are not standardised, some countries were only using a cycle threshold of 18 whilst others were using a higher cycle threshold of 45. The cycle threshold can be likened to microscope magnifications, at some point the fluorescence of past viral debris will show up like a live virus the higher the cycle threshold goes.

Now with out this WHO directorate, you would probably be seeing more lockdowns in some parts of the world and other parts spreading Covid like wildfire.
Sure its hard to argue things could have been better or worst when we cant jump into parallel universes, but COVID isnt over yet and monkeypox could trigger more lockdowns.

It also shows that countries need global guidance.
This question and questions adjacent to it get explored a lot more thoroughly in many of Scott Alexander's essays/blog posts, particularly in the (from 2014, but still mostly relevant) "I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup"

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
Being a results merchant, I go only as deep as I need to in order to get results.
If the result needs improving, then I have a target to go deeper into. This keeps me from investing in unused knowledge. I find its turtles all the way down, so just tackle what you need.
Sars, mers, etc. were airborne, monkey pox is not. Monkey pox has hit the US before in 2003, not much media hysteria. I am saying that in the age of covid , viral infections generate clicks. I have not forgotten about hiv, this is not hiv. It's an easily cured, well understood virus with an existing effective vaccine. The point was that with the current method of spread already understood and identified as requiring direct intentional contact that this is not a virus we should all be panicking and isolating over.
Also, the @task annotation provides no facilities to name tasks. So if you like to build reusable tasks (as I do), you end up with my_generic_task__1, my_generic_task__2, my_generic_task__n. I've tried a few hacks to dynamically rename these, but I just ended up bringing down my entire staging cluster.
Assessing and assuring interoperability of a genomics file format
For more on this theme, see: https://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/edwardsd/carnegie.pdf
Sorry yes LIFO
Klarna lays off 10% of its workforce
I mean? Maybe? Bitcoin has generated more wealth for more people than Netflix and lost less value from its peak? Seems like things are going okay?

You seem to be hinting that there's a natural limit to what we "can" do for any given security. I don't think that's true: it's just all tradeoffs. Could a regulator have tried to stem the losses people experienced from Netflix? I mean, sure. They could've halted trading on Netflix. They could've artificially bought up Netflix's stock.

I don't think they should have done all that. The costs would have been extreme. But if you're all in on, "we did what we could," then I think the ball's in your court to describe exactly where the limits of that doctrine lie.
> I'm not sure how this would work in practice.

It's already working in practice for almost half the universities: summer stipends are guaranteed, but if students choose to intern elsewhere, you don't get the summer stipend. Nothing changes if their advisor is already funding them. I'm just saying the other half of universities should be doing this as well, that it should be universal.

Yes it does cost a bit, but if you think about what's happening now for universities with no summer guarantee, it's that PhD students without summer internships are getting no pay in the summer. And even the ones that do find summer pay, it's still a stressful situation for them during the academic year, so a complete distraction.

Honestly, I can't think of a better use of university money than to be paying PhD students who would otherwise be working for free in the summer (if their advisor can't fund them).
If you do a PhD at 21, you’ve got 40 years of productive research ahead of you. If you do one at 40 you’ve only got 21 years. Less time to research, so missed opportunity.
For posterity, I'll mention there is also The Economist Espresso for those of us who prefer a daily dose. It's a concise summary of the events of the day and entirely void of polemic.

I will have to try this weekly approach.
Eating seed oils increases sunburn risk
lots of middle mgmt.
This may be true for some colleges and universities, but certainly isn't universally so.
>Liberals seem to be always willing to entertain the discussion of basically anything. It's sort of a core tenet of liberalism... Open discussion and debate.

I'm not sure that is true anymore. Liberals have extremist wings (like Antifa) just like conservatives do. People making liberal arguments now spew the same venom that only conservative groups did 10 years ago. At least in my experience.

I think part of the problem is the news likes to take extreme examples of anything and present it as the norm. I have discussions over policy with people all the time and they are quite enlightening.
While you’re not wrong, in the sense that this wouldn’t hold up as a piece of journalism, anyone who’s been in academia will read it differently: this is an emotional, honest account of a problem common enough that even if this one case were not true, we know it is all too plausible.

I feel for this student. Both for what they’ve gone through, and also how this moment of catharsis has probably also caused additional strife for them in all the attention it’s seen. Honestly, I feel for the professor and the rest of the research group too, and all the perverse incentives that have lead otherwise smart people down these unfortunate paths.
I've not had the best luck with ExternalTaskSensors. There have been some odd errors like execution failing at 22:00:00 every day (despite the external task running fine).
Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Android just got a big update
Yes last-in-first out. My guess here is that they need to figure the points out that you mention so it's hard to say "we're letting X amount of people go".
This guys name shows up on almost every important combinatorics result . amazing how much he has done
and there's no way of knowing if you have prions in your body, and when your brain will turn to mush. CJD is nightmare fuel.
the rest of the car industry has already solved that non-issue with child safety locks
Look up "ACAM2000" and "JYNNEOS", those are the candidate vaccines for widespread use in the US.
This works iff you never want to tag anything but semvers. This is an unusual and strict policy. As soon as you want the ability to move outside this you need something like namespacing. Prepending v is a pretty lightweight way to do this.
Okay, maybe i misused the term and didn't explain my point well enough. To me, 'first mover' is like a brand. This help btc pricing, but when the image stop compensate the lack of utility the pricing will go down.

Despite my historic of shitting on cryptocurrency, i actually used monero and used the eth Blockchain, I'm really not anti blockchain, i just have a healthy skepticism of cryptocurrency as an investment tool.
How did that saying go?

It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It

Follow the money, people in tech get their paychecks from companies that do not respect privacy. And I don't mean that as an accusation: in capitalism it is your duty to do whatever you can get away with.
> the role of (conservative, patriarchal) religion in public affairs. It also ignores the mountains of bad faith

Thank you for summarising exactly what I was thinking - the justifications people will give publically are not the same as justifications people discuss in private.

This is most obvious in a debate about climate change, where no-one ever says 'I (errorneously) think it will not affect me personally, I don't want to pay for fixing the problem, and I don't care about poor farmers in bangladesh dying'.

Instead it will be some more socially acceptable line of argument, about science not being settled, technolgy not being there yet, or whatever.

Or in immigration - noone ever says: 'they are bringin in culture I am uncomfotable with', instead they will argue about economy or crime, which is more 'socially acceptable' line of argument.
This is so true. What really terrifies me is if this new monkeypox became more easily transmissible and killed millions of people. Imagine the backlash against homosexuals?
Why is no one considering that this PhD student is wrong and that his supervisor does in fact know what they are doing? Starting in a new field is hard, and it takes years to get a broad view of the field in order to understand what directions to take. As a PhD student you are not expected to be able to do this: this is why you have a supervisor who has enough experience. Maybe the supervisor does have a clear vision as to where to take the research, and the student does not yet see this?
> Plej verŝajne, neniu el vi ĉi tie komprenos ĉi tiun mesaĝon

Vi ne estas tiom unika, kiom vi pensas ;)

You're not as unique as you think ;)

> Jes, mi jam pruvis, ke la lingvo povas esti uzita en teĥnikaj konceptoj.

Ĉiuj lingvoj povas esti uzataj por teĥnikaĵoj, ĉu ne? (Nu, eble krom toki pona)

All languages can be used for technical things, aren't they? (Well, maybe except tiki pona)
Oh, we've noticed. Apple doesn't care.
> please read at least your article

Please refrain from accusations of someone not having read the article, it's unconstructive and against site guidelines.

I don't know how you come up with a different reading of the nau.ch article. It states (even though it's an inaccuracy as there are still some 1st generation vaccines available as we figured out):

"Der Pockenimpfstoff gilt als erster der Geschichte. Nur nützt das die Schweiz in der aktuellen Situation mit immer mehr Fällen von Affenpocken nicht. Denn hierzulande ist kein Impfstoff zugelassen."
I found this[1] section in the documentation on interoperability within the JVM. It looks fairly straightforward to work with. I'm not sure about FFI more generally.

[1] https://doc.flix.dev/interoperability/
Two of my rules of thumb are in conflict here:

1. Code-of-conduct rules of this sort are almost always only used to protect bad guys by being enforced against good guys

2. People who try to limit discussion (e.g., by hiding existing replies or limiting future ones) are almost always in the wrong
> The WHO is not really "powerful" like a nation is, as they do not have a military or enforcement arm, and they do not pass laws.

True, but a majority of policy makers and talking heads (that influence and approve laws) carry out their deeds under the guise of "Well, the WHO says so". Consider how frequently the "appeal to authority" tactic was used during the pandemic.

This isn't entirely without consequence.
I don't disagree. In a perfect world, branding does nothing as i said.
this communication channel is heavily censored, as evidenced by the fact that I've lost almost all of my karma (which is required to be able to speak) by having this conversation. I can only afford to speak three or four more times, and then dang and his crew will have finished silencing me for disagreement with the mandatory narrative.

edit since I'm not allowed to reply to you anymore, apparently:

Agreement with the narrative produces upvotes, increased karma. Disagreement is punished. On this channel, it tends to take longer to get silenced than on the more popular ones (post on facebook or twitter anything that goes against the obligatory viewpoint and your account will be shadowbanned or actually banned more or less instantly. Here, so long as you agree with the narrative more often than you oppose the narrative, you still can occasionally post -- though as you get downvotes (which only pro-narrative users can hand out) your messages disappear, leaving ... only the pro-narrative message visible. This makes organizing to oppose the narrative nearly impossible.

Look at the large counter-narrative groups. Their numbers were decimated by the lockdowns. They pretty much only exist in the few states that decided to end the lockdowns. Now that covid doesn't scare people into obedience anymore, there is the possible for organization again, which is why a new threat is required.

Anyway, I'm out. Dang's crew has effectively silenced me on the subject, because I am no longer willing to pay to be allowed to disagree with his mandatory narrative. It's really easy to chill speech, it turns out.
It's the ultimate example of 'you can buy it but you can't afford it'.
IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM
> I do not, it is how you gauge if something has been tried and tested in production

FAANG size company can use in production much less mature software than most small companies. If they want to use X they don't need to wait when X will be mature - they can make it so for the use cases they have (which may differ from the use-cases you have). They can hire an X expert or dedicate a few engineers who will learn X and become X experts. Even if they will encounter a problem in production (not every bug can be prevented by pre-prod testing) these engineers will debug and fix it and with the help of CI/CD pipeline the fix will be in production in a few hours or days at most.

What would a smallish company do in a similar case - report a bug to developers and hope it will be fixed and the fix will be included in the next release which will arrive as an OS package / Docker image several months later.
The source code is all there and not obfuscated. You can just download and edit it!

I'm probably going to continue working on it as a personal creative project, so I'm not planning on taking PRs- I hope that's ok!

Maybe I should make a community fork?
How appalling does the representative of a political party have to be to be able to call them appalling and also espouse "a willingness to understand" in politics in the same breath without necessarily being hypocritical? That sounds sarcastic, but it's absolutely a real, pragmatic question (with no concrete answer, really).
Heh, that's a really interesting question. It's easy to forget that not everybody lived in the world of PC's running TeX / LaTeX, and Postscript enabled laser printers, etc. I have no idea how math got typeset back in those days... I'm too young to have any appreciation for that era in that regard.
It sounds like he's just talking about using variables to solve equations. I think the point he's making in that section is just about learning a good process so you can solve harder and harder problems, e.g.

Problem 1: Two numbers add to 100, one is 20 larger.

Smart student: oh, I see, 60 and 40.

Dumb student Knuth: x + y = 100 and x = y + 20, solves to x=60, y=40.

..

Problem 2: Four numbers sum to 1024, one is half the sum of the other three less 17, one of the others...

Smart student: uh, I don't see the answer.

Dumb student Knuth: w + x + y + z = 1024, w = (x + y + z)/2 - 17, ... solved it.
Why was the first debate embarrassing? IMDB notes indicate it was "spectacle over substance", is this what you are referring to?
I can't tell if you're advocating for more centralism, or less.
While we are at it, we can say that mask manufacturers benefit. And morgues, I guess. That's not what I meant and you know it.

Here's the thing though - it's not sustainable. The entire world is either in a recession or trying their best to not be in one. Inflation is rampant globally. Supply chains have been disrupted. We can't have nonstop pandemics.
Assuming a container name of `nginx`, you can `grep` for it to see if it's already there.

docker exec -it nginx \
grep -a 'dns_cloudflare_api_token' /data/database.sqlite
This argument falls down when talking about sending American troops to any situation, however. Not sending troops in would be a passive lack of support. Sending in troops would be the active killing, on a national level.
Is it the understanding or the bringing it up at inappropriate times that gets the pushback?

If it's the latter then it's probably just some missing social skills. At least that's my take speaking from personal experience.
Seems like China is gonna be have the best nuclear energy tech in the near future. They currently use French and U.S. designs, but within a generation I bet they'll be making their own, probably better ones.

"""
Lufeng, run by China General Nuclear Power Group, will receive a pair of third-generation Hualong One pressurized water reactors. China General Nuclear and China National Nuclear Corp. say they together independently developed the advanced reactor, which is based on U.S. and French designs.

Haiyang and Sanmen, which are run by State Power Investment Corp. and CNNC, respectively, will receive CAP1000 pressurized water reactors. The technology is based on the AP1000 reactor developed by Westinghouse.

China had 53 nuclear power plants at the end of 2021 with an total generating capacity of about 55 gigawatts. The government plans to expand the scale to 70 GW by 2025. Capacity is expected to grow further until it reaches between 120 GW to 150 GW in 2030, which may be enough to surpass the U.S. and France.
"""

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Energy/China-greenlights-6-....
Former public defender, all of my clients were homeless individuals. Also live within walking distance of Skid Row.

I can say from personal experience that the majority of the homeless I meet are (a) on drugs and (b) choose to stay homeless over utilizing shelter space (because almost all shelters in LA are sober). LAT literally just had an article about this confirming this. The vast majority of the visible homeless in LA are homeless by choice. And we have thousands of empty shelter beds every night because of this.

And to lay all this addiction on the addicts and not the pharmaceutical companies is brave of you.

Opiods were not the root cause of drug addition for most of the LA's homeless drug addicts, so blaming the pharmaceutical companies is silly of you. Opiods only recently overtook other drugs on LA's drug scene.

Try giving a homeless person food in LA when they ask for money for food. 99% of the time they'll just throw it back at you, because they really want the money to buy alcohol or drugs. And I say that from experience.
He also did an interview for the Web of Stories project which is available on YouTube and has his thoughts on his life and various other curious topics.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzeNLngr1Jq...
We promised to adopt metric, if everyone else agreed to GMT.

They all adopted GMT offsets, yet we have been quite slow to adopt metric.