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by JPKab 3y ago
Sweden has the lowest excess deaths count in the western world. They didn't lock down. That's not a coincidence. Lockdowns increased social dysfunction, and this is the root of excess deaths. Funny how you also aren't ment
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by JPKab 3y ago
I didn't say "gain control". You said that and put it in quotes. Public health leaders, such as Debbie Birx, believed that the ends justified the means, and knowingly obfuscated the risk stratification by age in a cynical ef
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by JPKab 3y ago
Both you and I had similar experiences. My wife was hospitalized for unknown bacterial infection what the doctors assumed was caused by masks. I contracted covid in February 2021, before my age group was eligible for vaccine. Like you I ha
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by JPKab 3y ago
> "BEFORE VACCINES, BEFORE masks, before much at all was known about how the novel coronavirus spread and whether it lived on surfaces (remember wiping down grocery bags with Lysol?)" There is a strong "what were they thin
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Gitlab is down for many users(twitter.com)
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by JPKab 3y ago
On point. It amazes me how much energy some people waste by packaging their personal grievances as "influential" blog posts.
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by JPKab 3y ago
> So those outside the US can get insights into what the US is and how it thinks from threads like this. No, everyone outside of your head can get insights into your willingness to cherrypick a single comment and extrapolate to fit your
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by JPKab 3y ago
Several years ago, I worked at an enterprise software company that partnered with plotly and we had to use Dash to build a Tableau-like drag and drop dashboard builder. Dash had some amazing ideas and architecture, but suffered from too lit
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by JPKab 3y ago
Thanks! I've looked at haystack a little bit and was wondering how involved it would be to set up for a research spike.
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by JPKab 3y ago
One of the topics he briefly touches on is indexing for vector similarity based retrieval (essentially search). Has anyone on HN tried replacing systems like Elasticsearch with an LLM based index? Curious. One of the systems at my startup
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by JPKab 3y ago
I met her in 2003, along with her aides at a party I was invited to (in a fluke) in Palm Springs. She was a moron then, and now she's a senile moron. Her aides, who ended up hanging out with me all weekend, were a perfect illustration
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by JPKab 3y ago
Yep. Nothing worse than when journalists try to turn the genesis of musical genres into a defined, definite thing and play the game of accusing some of "stealing" from others. It's absurd, and defies everything about art.
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by JPKab 3y ago
Agreed. A typical New Yorker attempt at maximizing controversy by framing a German city celebrating it's own techno pioneers as "stealing credit" for techno from Detroit. As a guy who got into electronic music in the mid 90s
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by JPKab 3y ago
Former defense contractor here: This has similar econ dynamics to defense contracts. The market competition between companies is entirely limited to competing for the exclusive, government granted monopoly of winning the contract. This is
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by JPKab 3y ago
"Y'all colonized the poorest parts of the city and gave the poorest folks nowhere to go" 1.) I grew up in the rural South, and was literally harassed for most of my career for saying "y'all" and "folks&quo
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by JPKab 4y ago
Correct. I wasn't as clear as I should have been but you are exactly right. Dogmatic homeless advocates are extremely similar to Evangelical activists: They refuse to allow facts to penetrate their belief system. My mother became a d
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by JPKab 4y ago
Did you not see the note at the bottom of the dashboard that says it excludes murder, rape, and domestic assault? Did you unthinkingly look at the aggregate, and not click on specific crimes like commercial burglary and see a massive drop
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by JPKab 4y ago
The stats on the previous DAs dramatic reduction in prosecutions are publicly available via Google search. If you actually cared about interrogating your own beliefs you would look this up yourself but you don't. I don't waste ti
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by JPKab 4y ago
SF was always unequal. I lived there in 2002-2003 for a year. There was a ton of inequality. The crime is out of control NOW for obvious reasons that conflict with your prior beliefs, so you embrace this silly theory of "if people h
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by JPKab 4y ago
> It seems to me that the basic problem in SF is wealth disparity. Really? > police budgets have gone up rather than down. And what do you think the police are supposed to do when the prosecutions by the DA fall off a cliff? Don&#x27
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by JPKab 4y ago
I'm American born, but grew up in a high crime area. Something that most Americans who grew up in very safe environments don't understand is that once order begins to decay, it accelerates exponentially. Growing up in highly ord
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by JPKab 4y ago
The fashion industry is essentially devoted to planned obsolescence based on arbitrary whims produced by top down influence. Perfectly good functional clothes are suddenly deemed to be unwearable and in need of replacement. When you combin
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by JPKab 4y ago
Note that whenever you are looking at homicide numbers over a period of decades, you have to factor in the advances in medical technology that have made huge improvements in the number of people who survive being shot. When you look at the
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by JPKab 4y ago
Just call it CramerGPT and get it over with.
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by JPKab 4y ago
Thanks! I asked a question and now see you had already answered it. For those who are curious why these frameworks are great: I'm an experienced full stack developer, and I can write React apps in my sleep and I've used a bunch o
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by JPKab 4y ago
I'm extremely familiar with both Plotly Dash and Streamlit, two frameworks which accomplish the same thing. How does this compare? Please please tell me you're aware of those two and didn't build this unaware of those option
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by JPKab 4y ago
It's too depressing for me to take that hypothesis. It's far easier for me to believe that Yellen is a deeply intelligent and talented economist who lacked the ability to protect her cognitive processes from optimism bias. People
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by JPKab 4y ago
You're on point here. Your analysis will be wasted on the dunning-kruger comment you're replying to. Apparently Larry Summers, probably the greatest living former treasury secretary and architect of the only balanced budget in my
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It's absolutely not luck and you are betraying an ideological point of view. It's obvious you never studied economics and you're just sitting here parroting partisan talking points. Anyone with common sense is aware of the
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by JPKab 4y ago
That's the point. I don't think I'm qualified for the job, and yet it was obvious inflation wasn't transitory. The fundamental drivers with money supply and in particular, velocity, pointed this out clearly. A quick l

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