skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post I replied to said that if the world had adopted city wide lockdowns covid "would have been eliminated from the planet entirely". I objected that this doesn't account for covid in animal populations. Your reply mentioning China in 2020 doesn't address that objection.

Are you saying that you agree with the original poster, that city wide lockdowns could have eliminated covid from entire planet?

Even if every person in the world were isolated for weeks, so that covid no longer existed in the human population, many animal species would still carry covid, like rats [0] and pets like cats and dogs [1], and humans would become reinfected again.

Unless perhaps we destroy all those animals? And deer, and minks, and bats, and perhaps a few dozen other species [2]. Bats carry hundreds of different coronavirises and spillovers happen all the time [3]. There's evidence that Omicron evolved in mice then jumped back into humans [4]. It doesn't seem possible to eliminate covid from all those animals, does it?

That's why city wide lockdowns could never -eliminate- covid from the planet, as the original poster stated. They could only temporarily suppress covid in human populations. Like what happened in countries that did impose lockdowns. Temporary.

Here's what the scientists say:

> The coronavirus’ ability to infect so many different animals, and to spread within some of those populations, is worrying news: It means there’s virtually no chance the world will ever be rid of this particularly destructive coronavirus, scientists said. [5]

I assume that some people don't want to face the fact that diseases spread between animals and people and there's nothing we can do about it, and that scares them. Some people get so afraid they would do anything, even the impractical, to believe they retain some measure of control. They might not want to face facts that conflict with their fears. Not everyone thinks this way.

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-so-ma...

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/e...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_that_can_get_S...

[3] https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/20/8077428...

[4] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/covid-19-did-omicr...

[5] https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-06-09/coronavirus...
Metallica hard-wires a different set list every night
Needs more context. I glossed over the PDF, but couldn't figure out what this is about. ELI5.
The thing is, if these people are going to act completely unreasonable, and completely unwilling to learn new trades, they aren't going to get a lot of sympathy from the rest of us when they go around screaming nonsense and filling their kids heads with outright lies. As others have pointed out, most of the coal jobs are already gone, these communities are already fucked, and protesting clean energy will do nothing to un-fuck them.

I fully support jobs programs, training programs, welfare programs, and a whole host of other "liberal" things that would help these communities transition away from being dependent on fossil fuels, but they just get super pissy and throw all of that back in our faces.
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Interesting, but i'd really like to see some figures on fast food growth in the 70s onwards. Not only growth in fast food, but some sort of metric of quality of ingredients (probably doesnt exist).
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/arts/music/metallica-set-...
> Conservatism has always been opposed to democracy

Conservatism distilled to its essence can probably be summarized as Chesterton's fence: to not make rash moves changing the status quo without fully understanding both the reason the status quo is the way it is, and the nth-degree aftereffects of the change.

So I grant you, in the beginning of democracy, almost by definition conservatism was against it, when the status quo was a feudal monarchy or whatever; but there's been a few hundred intervening years, and I don't think it's fair to make the argument that "conservatism" is still, and will always be, opposed to "democracy".
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> then the risk is pretty low

And then Amazon buys Hashicorp.
There are but they are ceramic which limits their applications because of poor mechanical properties.
who would have imagined a post from 30 years ago might be in cold storage and take a lil while to load.
The UK makes up less than 1% of the worlds population, so it does make sense that there are many more driving deaths globally than in the UK.

I can agree that complete safety is not practical or desirable.

But in our current society, simply walking down the street can get you killed by a driver. That is not freedom in my mind.
Biking in the winter in chicago really isn't so bad. Stay off for a day or two after a snowfall to avoid ice, but the actual snow is plowed very quickly.
Can you provide more info on the mRNA vaccine efficacy changing weekly?
> ( whatever that means )

I inferred that the intent was to say that not all people using React fit into one category.

> ~80% of all the stuff they build does not require React or equivalent js frameworks

I'm well aware of this for some portion of the things I build, but I don't agree that these frameworks are generally unnecessary or not preferable. It's also hard to say when something "requires" these tools or not. Arguably you could say nothing requires them these days.

I like to build with all kinds of tools though, and React and Vue are for example are often more helpful than harmful to my development experience. I'm speaking as someone who has been building things for the internet for around 20 years, so I remember life without these tools.

> that would be both an ego and economic/résumé problem

Maybe. I think this might be more true in roles that are closer to entry level, though.

edit:

From your previous comment,

> fast forward to React with the young energetic bros building dead simple 5 page websites with a Rube Goldberg setup of front-end frameworks

This is a good point. It's still a thing and will probably never go away, regardless of which frameworks we have. I think it stems from people fundamentally misunderstanding our core web technologies and not realizing how easy it is to do what they're doing without React or Next or Nuxt or what have you.

In many cases I've worked with people who wanted to do the most trivial things in their UIs and they worked tirelessly and earnestly to implement it with React or Vue, but it was something that already exists in the Web API or HTML elements. Basic stuff like reinventing checkboxes. Or reinventing the button element by styling an anchor and altering its behaviour with JavaScript to submit a form. So many younger people have started their careers in web development on frameworks, and they genuinely don't understand how the fundamentals work.
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> In general, the US legal system legal system does not allow forced taking without appropriate compensation.

For the poor: Civil Asset Forfeiture "We'll take what we want, when we want, without trial."

For the rich: "Sorry sir, here's a blank check, how much do you want to get paid to not waste water?"
It's disingenuous to say that Disney invented these "colors", or that they're "colors" at all. The article is even explicit that they are many different shades, that vary according to surroundings.

More accurately this is a color design strategy to use muddy greens to blend/hide equipment/fences/buildings, and sky blues to make buildings seem shorter and less obtrusive.

You can see stuff painted dark green in any state park, so I doubt Disney "invented" that strategy. The sky blue technique is interesting, though -- this is the first time I've heard of or seen something like that.
> The willful gullibility of their African audiences is just as shocking.

What gullibility? What has many decades of cooperation with the west brought them? Whenever the west goes to those countries, it is bring weapons to fight terrorism, never to bring development and infrastructure. The west doesn't care about them, only to extract their resources and make them a center for "wars" on various enemies.
Which is how it's managed to persist because no one believes the victims. This is going to have it's me too moment at some point and people are going to be horrified how widespread it really is.
This is an incomplete analysis; it looks like he's read Kahneman but only read about Taleb.

Similarly,he does pay homage to power law distributions, but fails to note that normal distributions are assumed ubiquitous because everyone learns them in Stats 101. They don't apply to most of the interesting world.
From the article:

"VinFast closed at $37.06 in New York on Tuesday, well above the $10 price agreed upon when the carmaker merged with a special purpose acquisition company to secure a stock market listing. Its market capitalisation topped $85bn, at least $27bn higher than either Ford, General Motors or Fiat Chrysler owner Stellantis.

VinFast’s billionaire founder Pham Nhat Vuong owns about 99 per cent of its shares, leaving only a small amount available for trading. Only 1.3mn shares of the Spac were able to be traded after earlier redemptions and just $185mn in shares changed hands, according to analysts."

Pure market shenanigans.
There are endless papers generating data from them too. Any ML task pretty much gets done on these datasets. It means nothing.
I'm still surprised automated enforcement isn't more widespread. Where I live red light cameras are at almost every major intersection, speed cameras are on school roads and construction sites, school busses have ticketing cameras. But on the highway it's cops in cars (and supposedly aircraft) with radar/lidar. Thirty minutes a day on the highway is enough to know there's plenty of people undeterred from driving 40+ mph over the limit (20 mph over is enough to suspend your license after two strikes). I'd guess the 'math' (money, politics, initiative) doesn't work out, or maybe the tech is just rolling out very slowly and hasn't made it here yet.
no not really. If it were then the cost of water would be driven by market forces. Here it isn't, it's driven by old water rights. The price of water for agriculture is staying constant but demand has greatly increased. If things were working as they should be the higher demand (and constant or decreasing supply) would result in increasing price. Increasing price would drive agriculture to make more efficient use of the water but price isn't rising so there's no incentive to be more efficient.
Under this logic how are PBM’s driving costs up? Seems like they’re there to reach the scale necessary to maximize downward pressure on costs.
I just use rsync
In which case, the headline could be "7% of scientists have moved from twitter to other platforms. Could this be the start of a grand exodus?"
Don't forget that the canary in the coal mine is signal that you are about to get it, too.
Are you programming on a phone?
> I am very glad that I live in a country where you are not allowed to record and process this

Hehe, I don't even know if I do but honestly I'd be happy to let it come to it. Sometimes it takes a little escalation to bring about change. For sure I'll have a look though to see what the law says here.

I know how selfish I am here but I value my kids' and my community's kids safety higher than other people's privacy. And it's not that I'd publicize the footage. Not even the offenders'. Yet :)

> I do not think that this is the solution.

I can't wait for someone to implement a "solution" because that usually requires people actually dying.
Doctors behave as if medical knowledge was exhaustive, and infer that symptoms they don’t understand come from mental illness.

Most diseases have a psychological component, but patients are seldom referred to a psychiatrist for treating their heart ache when they get an infarction.

I just mentioned these findings (and others about autoimmunity against the satellite cells in dorsal root ganglia) to my mum, a doctor specialized in physical therapy and rehab. She went into retirement this year and many patients with ME/CFS.

Her reaction: "So fibromyalgia is real now. I have a hard time believing it… I spent my career fighting it."
Ever mixed two blobs of paint to get that perfect shade for your canvas? Congrats, you just "invented" a color.

The content isn't as interesting as the title makes it seem.
Golang is relatively easy to unit test if the code is architected to enable it (with di-like patterns) and from experience, that will catch things that integration tests can easily miss. I would rather see both sets of tests for something dealing with security.
All of these nice features of the JDK yet most Fortune 500 companies probably still using JDK8 or 9.
If you can afford it, the fastest and easiest technique I've found is just showing up at HQ. The front desk is kind and helpful and knows the right person to route you to.
I'm living in Northern Thailand and I'm wondering this daily. Thailand has about the most dangerous traffic in the world, lots and lots of people dying annually compared to the size of the population, but still constantly I see people, even with their kids, driving a motorbike without their helmets on. It's actually almost rare to see a good helmet, it's either nothing or a mostly useless bowl to avoid fines by the police. If I tell people I won't drive in some situation as I don't have my helmet, they'll just tell me there's no police on the way..

Though in here I think big part is religion - karma / Buddha protects good people, and most people feel they're good people, so their life is already protected, you'd just think they'd get it some day as the fatal road accident numbers are so high every year and everyone knows someone who was "a good person" but is now dead from traffic..
It's interesting that "go away green" is so close to "industrial" or "factory" green, the standard shade used from the 1920s to around the 1980s to paint industrial equipment.

Especially because, in the industrial context, you actually want to see the equipment! (But then, in an industrial context, everything around the equipment is white or silver or black, rather than natural colors, so a drab green does stand out.)

AFAICT from some research, the use of that shade of green to paint industrial equipment, itself originated as a private-sector cargo-culting of what was originally an accident of history in public-sector use: a lot of drab green camouflage(!) epoxy paint was left over from World War I, and worked perfectly well as an industrial one-coat anti-corrosion sealant over bare steel; and large public-works industrial machines like the insides of power plants don't need to be any particular color, but do need to be corrosion-proofed; so the specifiers of these plants went with what was available. (In other words, industrial machines are painted, literally, "armored-vehicle green." Same paint, at least originally.)

If states hadn't had that volume of green paint laying around, I'm guessing they would have just used the cheapest anti-corrosion paint they could lay their hands on... which would very likely have led to industrial equipment painted red-barn red. Farmers paint that color because it's the cheapest anti-corrosion paint to buy, in turn because it's the cheapest anti-corrosion paint to produce, in turn because the red is literally just "iron, powdered, and left out in the sun to rust." (Thus the name of the paint brand Rust-o-leum!)
How would that be relevant to what he did 20 years before? Also, because these conspiracy theories are bullshit?

His death was a tragedy and a symptom of our times, but there’s no point banging on about it here.
Google reportedly building A.I. that offers life advice
what are you consistently using it for?
the dystopian nightmare of state-controlled restricted movement because of (fill in scary threat) is increasingly becoming a reality. that said, driving down the road it seems like 20% of drivers are glued to their phones and one evasive braking action away from slamming into my car with my kids in it. We should try and solve for both. More police? Faster deployment of driverless cars?
FAANG/big tech companies operate under the same IP and employment laws as every other company. The laws in the US tend to favor the employer, and of course any large tech company will have vastly more legal resources available than a typical employee.

Whether a company will negotiate different IP agreements would depend on the employee and the situation. Some people will have better negotiating positions than others. As you pointed out with more colorful language, just asking about negotiating possible IP ownership sends a message to the employer, which they may interpret differently depending on the employee (or candidate) and the situation.

I have done this before, quite a few times, with legal advice as I suggested already. How hard I would push on the issue depends on the situation and how much I want the gig.

I don't think anyone can give a probability of what you might experience. You may get some anecdotes, but your question is like asking "Do FAANGs pay for business class travel?" That would depend a lot on the person traveling, the occasion, and other situational variables that make an average or probability meaningless. In general all employers who produce valuable intellectual property -- which includes all of the FAANG companies -- will almost certainly take a "we own everything you create" approach. Signing an agreement granting all IP rights to the employer usually happens before employment starts. If you already own IP you will want to list that and add the list to your contract so it's clear that your prior IP is excluded from the employment arrangement.

I prefer not licking boots and brown-nosing, as you put it, so I freelance. I still have to consider IP ownership implications, but the relationship is more clear as a freelancer and customers generally don't expect to own any IP beyond what they specifically contracted and paid for.

If you came here to pick a fight with your new anonymous account, fine, but I'm opting out. Stay anonymous with posts like this. Your attitude and language won't do you any favors at big tech companies.
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Somewhat off-topic, somewhat related:

Is Hibernate moving towards Java generics, about 2 decades after the fact?

Spring seems much bigger and seems to moving much more quickly, but it's weird that Hibernate seems to still be stuck somewhere around Java-in-the-00s.
I imagine the amount of agriculture going on >100 years ago is but a fraction of the amount of agriculture happening today. Or are you also arguing that the amount of agriculture in the region stayed constant over the last >100 years?

Its pretty disingenuous to argue the impacts of agriculture today is the same as >100 years ago and act like all the expansion has been the cities.
https://archive.is/E1pfm
Would love a rust version of caddy. Performance of Cady vs nginx is not as high. But overall an amazing project
Classic, and depressing.
I was thinking along similar lines, it does smell like search to me at its core. But do you think there is a meaningful differentiation for something more nuanced like AdamW? Does the latter fall into the "brute force search" category too though it tends to converge faster (and arguably more optimally than SGD per Jeremy Howard's observations)?
First time seeing a web app version of a Thread. Glad to see it's making progress in that regard. With regards to the Zuck vs Elon cage fight, I see it as merely bread and circuses. This is not the Roman Colosseum.
Price is set at the margins
I get it that at some point (long time ago) Apple traded colors for resolution and had a highest resolution monochrome screen among the generic computers. That allowed it to occupy a desktop publishing niche. I get it that for certain amount of time iPhone had (has?) the best photo / video capabilities among the smartphones. But overall the Apple's market success is not something that I can easily understand. iMac success in particular is a mystery to me.
> I'm still waiting for Web Based interfaces to catch up to where we were with Visual Basic 6 and/or Delphi decades ago. It seems like this is a hint to move in a better direction.

This is pure insanity, we left those in the dust decades ago. Those were horrible interfaces.
Thanks for your suggestion. It's a good one that I might consider in the future. I ran normal VMs in Proxmox for years, so I'm quite familiar with it. But I feel like having two separate systems gives me a more flexible playground for my homelab.
> good oversight of police departments

Where I'm from, the police actively resist oversight, and have not responsibly used many of the systems they already possess.
The police already have access to a ton of cameras everywhere (which I do agree is bad)! The only thing changing here is that they are now using those cameras to stop maniacs on the road.
IMHO coal should be banned as an energy source and efforts made to convert existing plants to nuclear.
> In Facebook world, you might get a post post deleted, a warning from a mod, and maybe get your account suspended

In Ireland sending dick pics is now illegal and can result in legal action.
Needs a 140 character limit really. An exploit is far more fun if you can root someone's stuff inside 1 tweet.
QR codes shouldn't exist in 2023, change my mind. We can recognize plants, animals and lanmarks using our phones, why can't we just read URLs with our cameras?
The way it works is the manager of the 10x engineer has already scheduled 100% of his time.

The manager of a different team asks to borrow the same engineer for a week. The engineer’s managers obliges because he is a team player. However he does not adjust the schedule or reduce the engineers’ workload.

Junior engineers will place demands that said engineer mentors them. Again no additional time is allocated.

Meanwhile the high impact project literally affects the survival of the company. But hey the 10x engineer is a team player. He is the golden goose that deserves to beaten so the company extracts as many golden eggs as possible. Never mind if the golden goose dies. The company can always find another. /s
I agree, a real world test is key. But as structured, the test was doomed to fail. It would need more groundwork & education, probably A/B testing of signs to eliminate min/max confusion (e.g., would a sign saying "Speed only 65-75mph" be better than the "Speed 10mph minimum"), TV public relations campaign and even advertising about the test, etc. Maybe some of this happened, but it wasn't evident from the article
Hibernate is probably held back by JPA, which evolves slower than Java itself.
To be fair, geldings aren't really a part of modern farm life. Steers and barrows are still common if you're in livestock, maybe wethers, but horses are more a hobby and only coincidentally associated with farms.
Not to mention all those freshly unemployed horses.
No, that's not the point at all. Inattentive driving is a risk to others. Risk of death or life-changing injury.
So... you're saying "People don't like spending money."

Oh, you don't say? Gee, what a worthwhile comment.

Back to reality--

Energy is such a critical industry. And given the size of the USA, for example, the maintenance of energy infrastructure is never ending.

So, this argument the idea of "zero" is quite meaningless in the context of reality.
And? Top Gear insults a lot of people too.
Still didn't prevent us from taking a wide berth around the idea when I was working on my first title in the industry. The studio was aware of the patent and wasn't willing to take on any risk.