skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't this true of all new strains of all contagious pathogens?

Yes. The distinguishing factor there is that most new strains do not kill millions of people within the first year or two of discovery. Compare, for example, the H1N1 variant that caused the 2009 flu pandemic, which killed "only" around 300,000 people (based on best excess death estimates).

> One could argue that certain features of covid make it riskier with regard to long-term effects, but that is not a proposition that is well developed in the public conversation, especially by proponents of the zoonosis hypothesis.

This has long been an established part of the messaging: we're more or less confident that short term effects to young, otherwise healthy individuals are minor. The guidance has still been to avoid infection, because we're not confident that mild short term guarantee or protect against serious long term effects. Chickenpox (and subsequently shingles) exemplify this.

I understand the intuition that a non-zoonotic origin would lend credence to the possibility of long term risks, but I don't think the epidemiology actually supports the intuition: my understanding is that viruses that jump the species gap tend to have higher variability in terms of their harm to the new species.
From the article: "The nine dimensional haystack is a model used to quantify the parameter space Earth observers must pick through to rule out the existence of signals originating from extraterrestrial civilizations."

The image at head of page is of the well-known Wow! signal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
All of America's supercarriers have been nuclear powered since the USS Kitty Hawk was decommissioned in 2009.

But if you include "amphibious assault ships" like the Wasp class, which can carry a lot of helicopters and STOVL airplanes like the F-35B and Harrier, then US Navy still has a lot of conventional powered carriers.
Would you say the same about a $14/month Netflix subscription?

Because that actually has zero upside potential and does not fund local nonprofit activities (like lottery often does, depending on your location).
I worked at a liquor store and saw people spend easily $10/day, and very often it was the same people every day.

I wonder how much lottery is like other (gambling and non-gambling) industries where so much of the revenue is from "whales."
Is your salary a “marketing number” just because taxes are taken out?
Like that short story from Ephraim Kishon about the chess computers, where he and his friend each have one, and they play chess against each other while the humans go to the cafe and enjoy life?
Saying lotteries are regressive or “a tax on stupidity” is hardly new or weird, the quote was originally attributed to Voltaire
It's amazing how big these lotteries have gotten over the past 10-15 or so years. It used to be that $50 million was a lot for a lottery, but now we're talking Forbes 400 levels of wealth. This is like big tech or hedge fund levels of wealth.
Until your neighbors know, you can trust them just as much.

A winning lottery ticket is an optional life-changing object. A few seconds with a lit match, and life goes on unchanged.

(incidentally, before taxes, I guess that winning lottery ticket is worth ~12,000,000x its weight in gold)
The lawsuit stopped three Klansmen.

Fred's show inoculated a generation against their lies.

I totally agree.
Those routers you can get now are only for dumb residential nonces, and routers for anything heavier duty then that all have at least a console connection available, even if they have a cloud management component.
Roskomnadzor can block whole AWS and there will be neither rioting not even a significant outrage. They can even turn to whitelisting. The only reason they don't do it is that it is still considered unnecessary.
This might be what happens when the community seems to follow “composable libraries over frameworks”. You still have to do the composing, and it’s not obvious how to do that.
Some English-language coverage:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/samsungs-repair-mode...

https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-repair-mode-data-isnt...

https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj...
290K for those who do not use Freedom Units.
I worked at a phone repair place for a few years about a decade ago. This would have been great! However, it wasn't something that existed.
What salary? Seriously though, the main difference is the headline figure vs. the nominal payout. (Almost 50% difference). Then there's tax, which in many countries (not the US) would be nearly 50% again.
Like a Haircker News? That would be great.
a lot of gnu software is excellent to read, although sometimes portability concerns can obfuscate it a bit.

codebases written in functional languages are also good. in general, when there's a higher barrier to entry, higher quality work is more prevalent.

consider spending some time teaching yourself how to find the best codebase that solves a particular problem. not only does that give you leverage for more learning down the line, it also helps you to develop the much more directly valuable skill of selecting good technology (and detecting crap before it's too late).
Who else was expecting CGP Grey?
> $10/month over multiple decades really adds up, especially when you’re already poor.

>[...] but I definitely don’t agree with the “it’s just fun” position

How do you feel about people going to vegas to gamble? Does that also not count as "it's just fun" because they're losing a significant sum of money?
I suspect the reason you don't understand is because you're unaware of the reliability issues and health risks associated with the alternatives.
So, what are we supposed to do with actual Russian disinformation? Or are you saying it doesn’t exist?
No, I am not sure it is attributed to him, at least, not with any proof. Voltaire is often a good target for fake quotes.
Every programming should care about UI design
I personally think of buying btc/eth as playing a lottery, but with better odds.
> To change a person's behavior. If someone keeps lying, cheating, and stealing in society, we want to make them to stop so that they can reintegrate and become a beneficial member of society.

I think a common criticism of this stance is, that it does not ask why a person does something that others want to punish. Obviously there sometimes are no answers, but often it's poverty and lack of options. So this begs the question, why people come to steal and murder etc.

I personally don't believe that "punishment" is usually well invested in a person. Rehabilitation and support structures are probably the better option.

I am also realising that it gets very interesting for white collar crime "without a victim" such as tax evasion or manipulation of stocks. My intuition is to punish exactly these crimes, but I think that's my bias showing.
No disrespect to Mitchell, who notably doesn't make many if any mistakes during performances, no small feat, but alternate tunings do not increase the difficulty of fingering 6 strings. In fact, alternate tunings nearly always decrease the difficulty of fingering, requiring less fingers per chord. Folk guitar is folk guitar, it is open chords and strumming, majors and minors, always with 4/4 signature, not much to it. Classical uses the same chords as folk but requires a rather uncomfortable form as well as odd timing signatures such as 5/4, while Jazz employs Majors 7th & 6th, Minors 7th, 6th, 9th, 11th, and 7th b5, dominants 7th, 9th, 13th, diminished 7th, and altered dominants with b9 or #9, b5 or #5, #11 or b13.

Again, no disrespect to the artist, but Joni Mitchell is not Eddie Van Halen or Jerry Garcia or Pat Metheny. She is a folk artist that plays guitar, not a guitar player in the sense of Steve Vai or Carlos Santana. Mitchell's guitar is her accompaniment; her instrument is her voice.
I've noticed the same strange misaligned covid explanation/behavior. Lab leak would make me more fearful of the virus itself, pure zoonotic origin and I say Jesus take the wheel and by that I mean countless generations of evolution tuning my immune system against similar virus for familial survival take the wheel.
Netflix is capped at $14/month. One may "lose" time or attention or gain many different emotional experiences they didn't want, yet I think their monetary spending is quite capped with Netflix compared to the lottery and other pay more to get more games.
Nuclear reactor output scales with volume but cost scales with surface area. So a larger plant is more efficient.

If the smaller reactors can take advantage of easier fabrication and logistics they might be cheaper, but that is an unknown.
When they had their famous PR campaign closely coordinated with RKN.

Telegram wasn't even removed from appstores, unlike Navalny'a app a bit later or LinkedIn a bit earlier.
some people put a good % of their income in this. goes beyond just for fun.
> They also encourage you take money every year for 30 years instead, probably paying out a bit extra and banking on your incapacity to calculate for inflation.

Knowing that most people winning lottery ends up as a bankrupts I would encourage that as well. Maybe I would even took that deal, even if I earn more than most people having that much money is very risky
The US Navy has fumbled a few nuclear bombs too (from airplanes and also submarines), their impeccable safety record is for nuclear reactors specifically. They've lost two nuclear powered submarines, but neither of those was due to reactor problems.
France uses electricity for most of its heating, thanks to it's extensive nuclear power.
Smart = spy
Living in America, I would argue that AI is already smarter than most people here.
There was a study I read over the last year, maybe it was posted on here, that said we mostly seek revenge out of spite not deterrence. I hope I can find it again.

I don't think it's about undoing the damage, it's about evening the damage. If you punch me and I feel hurt two days later, then I may still want to punch back. If I have healed physically and emotionally, forgiven you completely, do you think I'm as likely to punch you then?
It was a "round table" kind of show with experts from the government, academia, science journalists etc.

It was interesting because it raised the right questions but unfortunately dd not beiring any answers.
Why not just install wireguard on that VPS then ?
>> Why is it that I am comfortable crossing the intersection when I have a green light? Because I have confidence that those who would break the social contract of following agreed upon laws will be punished, so they are deterred from breaking them.

Don't ever go to Phoenix.
> banking on your incapacity to calculate for inflation

$43M / year for 30 years sounds like a pretty good retirement in any sort of inflation short of catastrophic economic collapse.
Don't forget that for many decades "tough on crime" was an easy ticket to reelection for politicians.

The same era saw the 3 strikes law. Which saw relative progressives like Hillary Clinton giving speeches about how it was needed to get "black super-predators" off of the streets. And if you were accused of being soft on crime, well, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Horton demonstrated that a Republican could win in 4 out of 5 states (despite starting behind in the popular vote) by harping on that enough.
I was on the sub for three years. I am not aware that we had any incidents with the reactor. We had a pipe break and start to flood the sub, but that wasn't nuclear related. In the shipyard we had an incident where the neutron detector pegged high but it was determined to be caused by TIG welding.

https://www.twi-global.com/technical-knowledge/job-knowledge...
I am French, the word here is daltoniste. "red-green color blindness" is way too long :)
I was suggesting they likely offer now-payout-total + maybe 20% over 30 years. But at say 5% inflation you're worse off than taking the money now and having it work for you. Their main motivation in doing so is obviously to smooth out their accounting (cheaper to service their debt over time) but if they can simultaneously discount the payout by exploiting financial illiteracy, then why not?
Doesn’t seem so great. You'd always need to wear a sweater.
> I don't think that's true at all. People say that crime increased in San Francisco because of the more progressive DA, but ignore that crime increased less in San Francisco than nationwide.

Well, yeah ... if shoplifting isn't reported as a crime, then it doesn't matter how high the shoplifting rate goes, then official crime rate will still be low.

TLDR: If shoplifting is unreported, then reported levels of shoplifting will be zero.
This may be true, but it invites escalation. Ender's Game revolved around this philosophy from what I can remember, and in the end..well...I won't spoil it if you haven't read it or watched the movie. but betting on preventing future aggression != guaranteed peace.
If Darwinian theory is tautological, why was it so controversial? Indeed Darwin knew it would be, and so kept it secret for decades after conceiving it. Why does it continue to be controversial to this day in some places, such as the U.S., to the degree that organizations like the one you cited (the Discovery Institute) are dedicated to dismantling it?

The core of Darwinian theory is not "what survives is fit; what is fits survives." The core of it is:
1) Life can multiply extremely rapidly, outstripping the available resources to live on, meaning that only some offspring can survive (this comes from Malthus)
2) There is random variation in the characteristics of offspring, some of which will prove more successful at survival and reproduction than others.
3) The action of (1) and (2), starting from some unknown point of origin of life, can explain all the variation in types of life that we see around us today, from fungi to humans.

None of these are tautologies.
>You argue against cherry-picking, and then you think you can prove something with one single example?

Well... he can! He can prove, with one example, that the other person's thesis doesn't fit the facts.

And he did that.

So, yeah.
I funded their crowdsource and bought 2 more licenses for gifts.
Then they moved to a subscription model webapp which nullified the OG licenses.
Netflix cost is capped. People spend hundreds/month on lotteries.
Does SBCL compile binaries for Android/iOS ?
Large scale is not inherently hard, the problem is lack of industrialization (lack of economies of scale). The "West" after the Cold War went all in on short-term-ism (both fueled by market liberalization, financialization of everything, globalization, plus as a consequence of all this the political gridlock that ensued).
Waste is an incredibly easy problem to solve: bury it in impermeable bedrock. That said, there's no real point in storing existing nuclear waste since we don't reprocess our fuel. So the existing waste is a source of fuel in the future.

Solar and wind should also be transparent in the fact they require fossil fuels to fill in gaps in production. Thus, they do not represent a solution to climate change but merely delay it. Thus the cost of solar and wind includes the cost of climate disaster.
Snapchat Community App Anti-Competitive Marketing Policies
They sometimes rigged the game even if it was already very profitable to start with.
I'm sure that'll be helpful for the one person in the world who owns a USB-C multiport hub.
There is a big difference between proof and falsification. The grant-parent wants to establish a general rule, whereas the parent only wants to falsify it. Usually, a single example is enough for falsification. -- There is only one caveat (that's why I said "usually"): The evidence used for falsification must be true, which in itself is a deduction from many detailed observations.

The real flaw in the argument of the parent is, that in a direct comparison between Singapure and Norway Norway still wins: If roughly the same recidivism rates are achieved in a very punitive and a very supportive system, the supportive system is superior according to utilitarian principles.
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You should try fresh, 30 days, and 60 days. The cafe I worked only adjusted grinds for coffee which was 30 days after the roast date. Allegedly this was decided through many many taste tests.
> The lottery is a voluntary highly regressive tax. Poor people disproportionately play the lottery and are therefore disproportionately funding the lottery taxes.

If you are a regular non-connected, non-Ivy League folk, your odds of becoming a billionaire via day zero equity appreciation are roughly the same as becoming one via playing the lottery.

And yet this website is full of people deluding themselves that they can become one, and also cheering on other people posting their billion dollar delusions. It's always a real pain to watch the contempt that people who are doing well for themselves have for people who live in inner cities, while engaging in the same behavior, only from a relatively higher vantage point.

It's not even necessary to go all the way up to 1 billion, 100m net worth odds for a regular non-connected, non-Ivy League folk are also kinda the same playing lottery vs. day zero equity appreciation.

The crossover is somewhere below 100 million dollars, maybe even less than 10 million dollars or there about
Microsoft.

- don’t listen to me, it’s Google.
I literally have a picture of Mr Rogers on the wall over my desk as a reminder of how I want to be.
I'm in the US and I've never heard a whisper on that topic. I can answer whatever questions I want, I don't soeak on behalf of the company.

Personal references are personal. Your HR lawyer was either talkjng about some specific company reference, or was spouting the same nonsense as when the NFL says that any accounts of the televised game are strictly prohibited.
In many countries, salaries for jobs are discussed as the amount you get after the taxes are taken out.
Soft mental concepts such as wokeness are hard to study and quantify. That does not necessarily mean that they are meaningless. It is equally hard to study and quantify effects of societal trust, religiousness or nationalism, but most people would agree that all of those tend to shape societies quite radically.
>It's not that nuclear fission is inherently unsafe, it's just that every reactor needs to be playing it's A game every day.

The second half of your sentence is literally arguing that fission is inherently unsafe. Which is it?

You have two choices:

1. Fission is inherently unsafe: then why do the numbers contradict you?

2. Fission is not inherently unsafe: then what's the problem?
I'm a little confused by the discussion here. Please forgive me if I've missed something obvious.

Much of the discussion seems to be around the government (usually, but not limited to, police) monitoring the location and operation of a vehicle on public roads.

While I'm not a huge fan of government surveillance, registering a vehicle (and obtaining a driver's license) and monitoring the performance of that vehicle (and its driver(s)) are governmental functions purporting to ensure the safe operation of a vehicle.

Corporate entities, like auto manufacturers, dealers and "tech" companies have no such responsibility, nor do they have any role in (except in abiding by the law/regulation -- e.g., emissions standards).

So, unless there is some sort of government mandate to collect such information, corporate entities have no reason (other than their own profit) to collect location, velocity and/or in-vehicle activities.

IMNSHO, that they do so should be much more concerning than red light or speed cameras, being followed for a few miles by the police, or as is popular where street parking is a thing, checking registration/inspection expiry.

Just as one (or should be) is horrified by the levels of tracking by corporate entities on IOT devices, "smart" TVs, dishwashers(?!?), etc., etc., etc., why are folks focusing on the government here?

They aren't gathering the boatloads of information being collected by the corporate entities (and if the government starts buying such data, they should be smacked down hard!) that are invading/destroying what little privacy we might have.

As such, I don't get why the focus is on the government rather than on the folks actually gathering all this data.
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I attended a well known university and I graduated before COVID.

Cheating in next to universal. You didn't just cheat with people you knew. You could go ask any member of the year above for assignment solutions and quiz/test answer keys. You could ask any member of the prior section for what was on the quiz. Student union ran a solutions bank for past tests.

And yeah, plenty of us had Chegg.

Why do we do this? Very few of us went to university to learn. We wanted an access pass to the upper middle class.

Same thing with the students I mentor for remote interviews. I offer to help them cheat on them by sitting on a second webcam and feeding them the answers. Only one has turned me down, and not for moral reasons, but because they fear getting caught.

If you offered to just give everyone an A for a given course, maybe 10% of students would attend.

I am not sure that businesses care all that much, because the same skills work in companies too and it is considered legitimate outside of the academic world to take the work of others. In school, using a library is cheating. At work, it is good work.
Outside of very few, select circumstances, violence isn't the answer inside of a household.

The exceptions are rape/sexual violence and self defense, and other crimes of that magnitude.

Even if two boys are fighting it out, I'm not sure if the right answer is to kick their ass and spank them / humiliate them over it.

People used to beat their kids up over bad grades or missing homework assignments. That's too much violence for sure.
What does PII stand for? Personal identifiable information?

If so, there is much more stored on a device then identity information.
01.18.2012 was apocalyptic
Smart repair shops will enable it (and document it) as Step 0 in a repair. What a great way to reduce risk and liability for everyone.
You let it be published and broadcast, like a normal free country would.
I don't know, dude, that sounds kind of machiavellian; I think I prefer the supposedly "autistic" idea that humans are more complicated than computers.
> probably paying out a bit extra

The "bit extra" it what takes you from $780m to $1.34b, isn't it?
It generally means anything sensitive.
How does this keep happening?
There is also Defender for Microsoft 365, which consist of Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Office 365, Defender for Identity, and Defender for Cloud Apps (which used to be called Microsoft Cloud App Security up until a couple of months ago). Oh and dont forget about Defender for Cloud (which is different from Defender for Cloud Apps, and is not a part of Defender for Microsoft 365). Go figure
Is this uncommon in the US? I’ve seen it pretty much everywhere across Europe. Usually they’re managed by the town council and reserved for apartment-dwellers
Having your money "work for you" requires discipline, awareness, and trust in economic stewards far beyond what the average lottery player is capable of managing. The annuities still offer life-changing sums of wealth, but also guaranteed to give you 30 years to learn how to handle that much rather than accidentally spending it all in 3 years.
Janteloven (Jante's law) of Denmark is rather similar. [0]

Also, doesn't English have the expression "Tall poppy syndrome"?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
Can I see your resume? :) I'm not trying to put you on the spot and I'll understand if you don't want to share. I'm just curious.

If you're feeling generous, you can email it to me at soft.desk0874@fastmail.com. If not, no hard feelings.
SOP: Build "from scratch" as a superset on the existing legacy.
checks out
we really oughta let the navy run the power grid