skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zero covid worked well for 1.5 to 2 years (most of country side), enough time to roll out vax and build out medical infra. ICU beds doubled from 5 to 10/100k, staffing them still issue since 2 years not enough time to train, but they're recruiting students. IMO about 4 months of excess zero covid was wasteful, should have openned up during summer but Xi waited until Oct party congress.

That said, impossible for west/rest to systemically lockdown post delta/omicron, R value too high. PRC travellers already out there, whatever variant is going to go global if borders remotely porous.
> Unhoused individuals who have the right to vote are unable to afford to pay for ID

It sounds like you should be arguing for free IDs for the homeless. That being said, I spent $12 on my most recent visit to the DMV to get a new license. It is not an expensive endeavor. This is not an argument against voter ids.

> Contrary to what you're saying, in some places it's multiple hours drive to find a DMV that's open on a weekend (which might be required for someone working a 9-5 job)

You can go to the DMV on your lunch break. You can also let your employer know you need a new id and they will let you go. People regularly take brief moments and breaks off work to tend to chores, children, doctor appointments, etc. This is a really bad argument.

Actually, to even be legally employed with a e-verify, you need an ID to prove your status.

Again, a poor argument.

> Some people lack documentation required to get a state ID or driver's license. This can happen for a variety of reasons, but previous homelessness is one. It can be expensive and time consuming to fix that issue in some cases.

There are programs to assist the homeless with this very thing. The homeless are < 0.1% of the population. It's great to be thinking about them. Programs should exist. But you can't possibly argue that such exceptions are an argument against voter id. The opportunity for abuse and manipulation in the absence of id is too great. Everyone is disenfranchised when voting rules are lax and ID is not verified.
This is an assumption that you made, not the author, in order to dismiss the concern about the book. It is in fact a pure straw man.

Here is a more charitable way to interpret the author’s argument: if first 4% of the book contains substantial number of severe factual errors, it is highly likely that the remaining 96% of the book will also contain many other errors of similar severity.

This argument no way hinges on your imputed assumption that errors are uniformly distributed. Suppose, for example, that there are four times as many errors in the first chapter as there are in other chapters. Then, instead of 125 severe factual errors, we’ll only expect 30 of them or so. How exactly does this detract from the author’s critique of the book? Is book with 30 severe factual errors no longer “riddled” with them, in a way a book with 120 of them is?

Look, you invented the argument the author did not make, and beating it would not even detract from the author’s point if he actually had made it.
But also SW attracts very specific kind of customer. If you fly for business, or just can afford other airline, why would you fly Southwest?
I tried learning a bit more of the project and couldn’t understand the design decision and how it led to the claimed throughput numbers. Then I found Shoup’s take[1] and it all made sense. Highly recommend reading it.

[1]: https://www.shoup.net/papers/poh.pdf
Is Jasper confirmed to be building on top of chat GPT or open ais platform?
> I keep wondering how these civilizations might have developed if we'd discovered them in, say, 1900 instead of 1500s.

there are plenty of cultures in e.g. The Amazon basin that are deliberately undisturbed. You can infer from these I suppose
One mis-touch and they're gone! There's no history.
Gear Cube and Brain Gear
A lot of cryptocurrencies are in Rust these days. Half of the crypto stack of Mina is, Sui is, Linera is, Grin is, Penumbra is, etc.
Clear preferential treatment of creditors at bankruptcy. That list would definitely make interesting reading and should be part of a clawback operation if they have assets outside of the Bahamas.
OK, class - use fallacies to your advantage. For example, label your position to win, even if inaccurate.

Exhibit A: The "West Bank".

According to Wikipedia, The "West Bank" is a landlocked territory on the East of Israel. [1] In geography, a bank is the land alongside a body of water. [2]

The "West Bank" is therefore not "west", nor is it a "bank".

More importantly:

The "West Bank" extends through more than 80% of the width of Israel. It extends vertically through half of Israel, and through more than 70% of it's length if one excludes the non populated areas of the Sinai desert.

As in: Detroit, Michigan, Denver, and Salt Lake City are all part of the "West Bank" of the U.S. (Amazingly, they are also all part of the North, South, and East Banks!)

Surely it is not that big of a deal if we gave back that land to the Indians!

There are many other fallacies to learn from the "Palestinians" (there's another!), which can be taught in debate class.

EDIT: I am not really advocating for using these techniques in debate. I am an old schooler that thinks that the ends do not justify the means, and that you should live honestly and fear G-d.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_(geography)
He's the tuxedo winnie the pooh meme version of Rogan.
Amazon is mostly an online company, they're not great at managing storefronts. They also really over-expanded their warehouses and physical presences which hemorrhaged cash (mostly led by Dave Clark who later stepped down as retail CEO) which was quickly shut down by Jassy who is more focused on AWS/cloud than retail presence.
While interviewing in the U.S. you'll get a lot of casual questions about your current job, such as what you like best about it, what skills you use there or why you want to leave. These will come from the recruiter, the manager and your future peers. These are both technical and social questions. Refusing to answer any of these questions would be very weird socially, and even very restrictive NDAs should allow you to at least speak generally about what you're doing.
> The thing is that prosecutors and courts are supposedly harboring some of the sharpest knives in the drawer, yet they cheerfully accept and often pass on BS at face value when it's expedient to do so.

Court system have one basic goal, to be a test if accused party have enough money to spend on lawyers, experts and their expertise. Affluenza much?
Nothing that dramatic. The guy just doesn't know when to shut up, and if someone else is running him then it seems like the safe choice to make sure he can't testify and say something stupid.

If my theory is correct (which I admit may be unlikely), then I doubt he'd openly admit to it. But he would feel cocky and untouchable, so sending him to jail in the Bahamas for a few days might be a good wake up call for him.
A good introduction but there has been much work since this came out. See these more recent books by an historian that looks at things through the lens of two prominent North American nations:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44310208-lakota-america?...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3304956-the-comanche-emp...
The people I would recommend are usually never needing help finding work and are probably already in their ideal role: I never have anyone to recommend!
I love Sherlock Holmes. I know it's implied he is just a normal human but I find it more entertaining to realize its impossible for someone like that to exist.

It falls apart due to the sheer probability of the events involved. However, the stories are almost always entertaining, despite that.

i.e. This story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red-Headed_League

Summary; Man hired to copy books for a large pay. Lots of things don't add up at all. Turns out, it was a long con to use his shop space (he was gone while copying books) to tunnel into a bank across the street. How Sherlock Holmes found this out is completely improbable. For some reason though, I just love watching all the clues fall together. They're also relatively short stories.

I really like stories like the one you describe too though. I think I just like mystery genre in general and I'm not super picky, haha.
Because it's a red herring, feel good but not very logical argument meant to shut down discussion. Doesn't matter that you need an id to work, to fly, to buy cigarettes, etc. No one is arguing that the TSA is racist for requiring id to fly.
Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 2: Initial Linux boot
> - huge stroke of luck, or something else, but Japan destroys a Russian fleet at Tsushima in 1905, and leapfrogs into the ranks of Great Powers

> - this goes to their head, and they proceed to do the most foolish thing at Perl Harbor, and pick a fight with the 800 pound gorilla

This summary reeks of the nationalist tendencies of Americans when describing historical events.
The value of crypto to many people was the fact that other people were willing to give them dollars for it.
I don’t recall any evidence that Tacitus was a Christian.

He was an imperial official and solider who sympathized with the barbarians resisting the empire. So it wouldn’t be surprising if he used sources outside of the mainstream of the day. I think the ultimate answer is that we don’t know who his source was. If you look at the entirety of independent sources mentioning Christ, I think most scholars agree that he was a historical figure… but the details of what he did when and why do not have that level
of consensus.
I think if you’re just looking to run the fossil fuel equipment from the UPS, you can do it by just ensuring that and all the transformers and controls are on that phase.

That will take an HVAC person who knows who things work rather than just following colors on a wiring diagram. Probably easier and more supportable than trying to import and mod an out of region unit.
I think the key insight is that a CEO with a background in the field, and who loves the field - such as James Daunt who became B&N's CEO but has a background as a bookstore owner - can do better than your average MBA.

This is perhaps the passage from the article that resonated the most with me:

> If you want to sell music, you must love those songs. If you want to succeed in journalism, you must love those newspapers. If you want to succeed in movies, you must love the cinema.

> But this kind of love is rare nowadays. I often see record labels promote new artists for all sorts of gimmicky reasons—even labels I once trusted such as Deutsche Grammophon or Concord. I’ve come to doubt whether the people in charge really love the music.
Wouldn't #2 be better described as "no depth"?
yup there are a range of "CLIP interrogators" out there.

behold my collection https://github.com/sw-yx/ai-notes/blob/main/stub%20notes/IMA...
Sorry for the rant, but is there a navigation app that allows to turn off all those alerts and notifications? This is horrible. You begin driving with Google Maps and are barraged with endless pop ups like "would you like to save 2 minutes?" or "do you know this is a toll road?" or something else. The damn thing won't shut up and demands so much attention instead navigating - THIS is what's really unsafe.

Also, the overdensity of information on the screen is mind-boggling. Combined with the choice of mild designer palette robbing all the contrast - I wonder if this is only me struggling? Or am I getting old?
There doesn't have to be. That's why it's bias.

For a really contrived example, in a police department of one for the whole world, put the only officer in Antarctica. You'll find there's only officially shootings in Antarctica
Here's a clustered search on nightshade and arthritis of pubmed

https://search.carrot2.org/#/search/pubmed/Nightshade%20and%...
> And as I said, there’s a parallel here with Bitcoin. Despite years of effort, nobody has yet managed to find any serious use for cryptocurrency other than money laundering. ...

I suspect Krugman is being deliberately dishonest here. The use case is censorship-resistant money. Not just money laundering, but any use of money outside national jurisdiction. This includes routing around capital controls, civil asset forfeiture threats, and increasingly draconian financial surveillance. Not just in developing countries and in dictatorships, but in western-style democracies.

It's understandable that the privileged like Krugman hate this idea. It's not unlike thinking that the Internet's effect on the economy will be no greater than the fax machine. Krugman wasn't the target user then and he isn't now.
Oxygene was part of the sound track for the Peter Weir (Dead Poet's Society, The Truman Show) film Gallipoli (1981); an interesting choice for a movie set in 1915.
who cares, they can't take it from you
No one’s overlooking ethereum, it’s just not that useful to use the worlds slowest, most expensive computer when there is literally any other option for most cases.
Temptation has legendary threat value.

How does that ancient Christian prayer go? ...Lead me not into temptation...

What did Satan do to Jesus when he was fasting? He zapped Jesus with lightning? No, he tempted him.

What did Mara do to Buddha...
Would you be allowed to sell and distribute the original Disney cartoons? Just can't create any new stuff? (at least on a rolling X years basis?)
"I mean without details it is a reasonable alternative."

This defies what reasonable means. Reasonable would be someone disagreeing with you on your own volition.
Turn on the virtual home button in accessibility, it’s called assistive touch
Great idea! I'm not too skilled at SSH, can you share the alias?
Thank you. My wife suffers from this and its night and day different from osteoarthritis and my wife who has has been offered plenty of ridiculous "cures" that people somehow believe highly paid specialists just haven't though of.
The bookstores also still have an edge in terms of getting you a book right now.

I might want to revisit this in a year or two.
jasper yes was one of the first GPT3 companies. they have a joint slack and dave rogenmoser is presumably one of openai's biggest paying customers https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-best-little-unic...
I did a little looking up about Ballmer after reading a book that disparaged his tenure as CEO in examples. He was at MS from 1980. I don't believe for a moment that he didn't care about the company. It was a changing time for Microsoft, mistakes were surely made, but he also laid some seeds for future growth areas like Azure.

This is like the political narrative, economy was doing badly under party X, starts doing well under Y so Y must be better. No, there were cycles and much of what happens under Y was started by X, and/or both had a lot less control than people think.

We've all seen videos of Ballmer, he was obviously a very passionate leader. Gates, Ballmer, Nadella, they're all business people and probably as evil as the other, just so happens that it is now more of a business imperative for Nadella to be seen as a good player in tech.
I've been bitten multiple times by relying on external products, only for the vendor to either go bankrupt, or pivot, or get acquired and then prices exploded.

As a practical example, Heroku has been pretty unbearable support- and stability-wise since Salesforce bought them. But moving off their platform now that we integrated it into everything for 6 years is surprisingly difficult...

Similarly, all of our Allegoritic automatons became worthless when Adobe bought them and replaced $100 once perpetual indie licenses with $250 monthly rental. I've abandoned custom 3ds max and vray plugins for the same reason.

And ask anyone running a dropshipping store how renting their platform worked for them. Platform prices go up until you (the merchant) have practically no margin left.
Maybe it won't literally destroy their life--and I doubt that's what the parent actually meant, either--but even this ~25% pay cut would greatly affect their life. It's not the nature of life for most people to live greatly below their means, especially over time.
What the hell is pickleball?
Someone mentioned their pixel 4a called 911 when it fell and hit the floor.
> I am not asking them to fly in terrible weather

The way I read it, you kind of are, just without saying it out loud:

> we could just make airlines always liable for any situation where they fail to get you to where they said they were going to get you by when they said they were going to get you. Like literally any service that is not delivered as promised.

What incentives does that set up when terrible (or even questionable) weather exists at the departure or destination airports or widespread en route?
You just sandbox it like anything else. Doesn't matter how it works internally when it can only access a specific interface with controlled permissions.
Not really science tools. They want authoritative looking tools to confirm their biases and broken practices.

A scientific tool could prove a different direction than what law enforcement wants it to say.
The REAL history of US Banking and Business Cycles
i assume they're ok with it given @jitl is on this thread saying "I highly recommend using prompt injection" haha
Patience is a good advice. I'll also say, it's often important to let people in various functions add their input, even if you can operate all those functions yourself.

My super power is being able to understand many aspects of the business (engineering, product, marketing, sales, etc) and hold it in my head all at once. At least to a degree. But enough of a degree that I can make decisions just about instantly in my head that would require most people to have numerous meetings to bring the various stakeholders together to figure out all the related components.

It works really well and I can do things very quickly and effectively, but it does often bother people that they're not involved in the process because they're used to having their inputs asked for.

Usually what I is parallelize the process. I'll make a preliminary decision in my head, start executing it on, and then in the background, I'll also have conversations with the various stakeholders. Usually, nothing comes out of it, but they get to feel included, and sometimes they do provide valuable input, so it is beneficial too.
Best to use ground black pepper when you use turmeric: that increases the bioavailability of the curcumin
Love Vimium! Loved it so much I wanted it OS-wide. So I made Homerow, basically Vimium + Spotlight for the macOS user interface.

https://homerow.app
"List of reasons why" isn't meaningfully different from "list of factors causing X". To ask "why" is to ask for an explanation, and doesn't imply any anthropomorphizing.

This isn’t absolutely obvious, because reason has two different characteristic uses: asking agents their reasons for acting, and asking the reason some event happened. Philosophers have spent a lot of time asking how those two uses are related.
if you are preparing your own env, then I agree, but if you want whole team/company to share the same env then it's useful tool even with all complications it introduces. its even more useful when your dev env need to be updated fairly often.
> It was literally touted as the main reason why Apple shouldn't switch to micro-USB.

Apple using it as an excuse has nothing to do with it being a problem in the real world.

> it breaks way too easily and seems to take very few connection cycles before it stops making a good connection.

Never even heard of this actually happening in practice at the time. How hard were you pushing them in?!

> - Symmetric: Every laptop has host-side USB-C.

A few laptops have it. No peripherals (outside of those docks) actually use it because the hubs barely exist and very few have more than one.

> The micro-B "3.0 appendage" is ridiculous and huge

So? It's still tiny compared to the cable itself, this isn't a real problem.

> and no device which uses micro-B ended up supporting it in practice (except for I believe a couple Samsung phones?)

Those devices don't supposed 3 over USB-C either. If anything, USB 3 support in peripherals has declined the last few years.

> - Power delivery: Qualcomm QuickCharge is proprietary garbage. It could have been standardized yes, but is there any reason to believe Qualcomm would have wanted that?

QCQC over USB-C was a thing too, for a while. I guess we'll just have to wait for USB-D for fast charging!
Build one to throw away. Build a second one to find some of the problems you missed. By the third iteration you might just be close to what you wanted in the beginning.

Houses always cost more than you think, and take longer to build than you have planned for.

Landscaping tends to get forgotten. Landscaping costs are generally about one-third of the house. When it comes to planting stuff, always remember that plants take a long time to grow. Purchase time by buying years-older plants.

Pay attention to drainage. Do not build where it floods.

No matter how well you plan, you will find that you have given too much space to some things, too little to other things. See my first point above. Sometimes that means that a single doorway will be misplaced, and ruining a whole room-usage.

Running costs are probably more important than building costs. Make sure that enough insulation, draft-proofing, and HVAC is provided for when building.

Inspect the site carefully, you may have to mirror-image your plans to make sure that the correct orientation of the house to the Sun, views, and access work out properly. You may even need to completely replan the house.

If you must move dirt, in cut-and fill operations, make sure that the excavator saves the top-soil separately from the sub-soil, instead of burying it under layers of clay. Then you have to regenerate the topsoil over a decade or so, or buy some in to replace what was buried. (Happened to me.)

DO NOT OVER-CAPITALISE. DO NOT OVER-CAPITALISE. DO NOT OVER-CAPITALISE.

In case you missed it, DO NOT OVER-CAPITALISE.

We all want something special to live in for our 'forever home', but don't do silly things like put Western Red Cedar under the eaves, when ordinary pine (or even cement-sheeting) will do just as well. And what happens when that expensive 'forever home' has to be sold eight years later because you can longer afford to service the debts on the over-capitalised house?

Final word: Never let your Ego get in the way of your cash-flow.

True story:

Like the rest of us on 'pill-and-drill hill' I had an over-capitalised large house. I spoke to one of the town's dentists who had an ordinary 3-bedroom house in town, and asked him why he hadn't 'followed the herd' and built a big house too.

His reply was simple: 'A small ordinary house will be sold quickly to practically anybody because it isn't so expensive that you have to wait for the right cashed-up buyer to come along when the time comes for you to sell. A smallish house doesn't mean a large mortgage, and so allows more spendable cash during the year for skiing holidays overseas. A smallish house means less money and time spent on maintenance, and more of those available for personal enjoyment'.

It was a lesson that taught me a lot.
Computer History
I can't get past the feeling that all these discoveries are 'convenient'.

Ok - so meat eating wasn't a big deal in the dim and distant past (scientists say).

But beer was. And cooked food.

Despite not eating all that much meat, humans still exterminated the megafauna. We're always doing this apparently.

Dogs weren't related to wolves, but they want to find that connection.

So, our ancestors were almost vegan, beer guzzling, dog loving folk, who went around killing all the animals anyway. We've always been a cancer on this planet, apparently.