skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the rise of type 2 as a co-morbidity in US health contexts, and links to poverty == inadequate treatment (probably also CVD) thus has potential to be very hard on lower economic status families in the USA.

Socialised medicine in Europe is going to make the impact different. I am sure there will be echoes of this but the corn syrup fructose disaster is lesser.
Most memes are bland and have no intrinsic humorous value. I see memes as a form of absurd and surreal comedy. Literal captioning seems perfectly appropriate to carry the point.
Depends on how you grade "best medical in the world." If it's how many people are covered and how easy it is to access healthcare, it's pretty low. If it's access the specialists and quality care, regardless of cost, it's top of the world easily. Problem is that only makes a difference for rich people.
The underlying hardware reality is that the IO die is organized into quadrants instead of being a full crossbar switch between 8 CCXs and an 8-channel DRAM controller. Whether to enumerate it as 1, 2 or 4 NUMA domains per socket depends very much on what kind of software you plan to run.

Saying that memory bandwidth is higher when configured as NPS4 probably isn't universally true, because that setting will constrain the bandwidth a single core can use to just effectively dual-channel. For a benchmark with the appropriate thread count and sufficiently low core-to-core communication, NPS4 probably makes it easiest to maximize aggregate memory bandwidth utilization (this seems to be what Dell's STREAM Triad results show, with NPS4 and 1 thread per CCX as optimal settings for that benchmark).
Great, this is how it already works in the EU.
Or maybe people won't move as far from their relatives in the first place. You can't just assume that more flying is better. Flying has complicated effects on society. It also has an effect on the environment, and the evidence there is overwhelming that it is a negative effect.
well, I can see an argument against this. Non tech user sees an app they want, they download it, app says you have to do this and this, OK the user says, and they've just opened their phone to everything.

This has already been abused with simple things like location and microphone, with people giving apps access to everything.

I think the current solution is sub optimal, but I like having the security on my iPhone to download anything and be fairly confident it won't send all my details to some credit acrd number collecting hacker.
If I was founding a new country today, I'd put in the constitution that governments shall not impose tax more than 33% aggregated in all forms on any person. Between federal tax, sales tax, social security, tolls, sales tax, property tax, registration fees, identity fees, license fees etc etc, governments all over the world have become one money-hungry institution that have failed to provide proportionally economically efficient services.
Not sure that's accurate. The article suggests the "clerisy" operates largely outside the market system, e.g. doctors, lawyers, with the exception possibly being consultants. The PMC is very much a class in the market system.
“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.”

― Douglas Adams
Its a really, really good language - there's links in another post to programming usage ranking blogs, Dart has spiked over the last year, and they note "for languages, frameworks lead adoption"
Because otherwise you would get annoying off-by-27 errors whenever you did time() % 60.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Binary_representat...
More like accepted their terms. You can't delegate what isn't yours to begin with.
If not advertisers, there's someone else giving them money. Everyone's job, media or not, is to appease the person who can decide they receive more or no more money.
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I'm opposed to the proposed rules. The traditional aviation hobbyist isn't ignorant, incompetent or malicious. And the problem we've seen from some drone hobbyists, resulting in the problems that this rule stems from, are ignorant, incompetent, or malicious. And this rule isn't going to fix that. It might make it very slightly easier to identify the rule breakers, but I think that's specious.

But now, there are all kinds of private for-profit forces at play to become the rent-seeking gate keepers for internet connected, and thus approved, operations. Commercial operators will have no problem with this, whether $50 or $500 a month, it's just a cost of doing business. And getting hobbyists out of the way is A-OK with them.

It's terrible, but also an entirely predictable consequence of decades of FAA defunding, and the neurotic application of politics in aviation causing decades of delays in modernizing the ATC system. Politicians and bean counters have the political capital to make the new system, not FAA enforcement experts, pilots, and user experts (including hobbyists) of that system. It's yet another example of special interests with the money winning.

(inactive CFII)
Covid-19 reproduction strategy is to use kids as carriers by making sure that kids (and other people with a strong immune system) are not getting too sick when they are infected.

That suggests that Covid-19 is, actually, not as deadly as initial reports suggest. Most likely the number of infected people is heavily underreported.

If number of infected people is underreported 10x, and number of people who died from Covid-19 is reported accurately, then Covid-19 mortality is overeported by 10x.

It is possible that Covid-19 mortality is comparable with mortality of a regular influenza.
Their entire job is to forecast climate into the future, and they do that well. Solar activity is an input, and is obviously not predicted. Your comment is gibberish.
It doesn't seem surprising that it's portrayed that way, given that it's from a (former) high up member of the military. It's not like failures tend to be popular. There's plenty accounts describing it largely as a failure of the military too.

Found the two Afghanistan books by Steve Coll interesting. Certainly not flattering of any group involved.
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> hotels and restaurants provide public Internet access by default, without nickel-and-diming customers or travelers; this access is usually via WiFi

Most sell your data.
I don't think that was inevitable. If the Bush admin hadn't fucked up on such a grandiose scale after the invasion the result could have looked quite different (still surely far from pretty).
>Many fans of capitalism believe it superior to communism because free markets and high individual initiative produce better outcomes than central planning.

You are incorrect, when you start getting into nuances. When you have the govt doing central planning, there is no way to get rid of them when they under perform. When people voluntarily form central planning organizational structures, they are eliminated by the free market if they under perform.

The difference between communism/capitalism is fundamentally of philosophy not of structure. In the former it's coerced co-operation (which almost always results in central planning) and the in the latter it is voluntary co-operation( there will be many organizational structures and some may have a central planning)

How old are you? (no I didn't make a mistake when I asked you that question)
I still think you're correct, actually!

Cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22448289
> I don't think Apple/Google/Amazone or any other company should need to find ways to "punish" a bad actor. Nor should they be allowed to do so as this is a abuse of power and a intervention into politics and moral aspects companies should not do. Nor feel the need to do so. (I mean who decides what constitutes as a "bad actor").

Apple didn’t take any kind of moral decision here. It just enforced its policy for distribution of apps, just like it did for Facebook and Google last year. The decision is not about whether Clearview’s app or service is a threat to society or privacy.
You're right. Iteration comes when you plan on building lots of something. If there was a plan to have 100 JWT type telescopes in orbit, then you build lots of prototypes and narrow down the manufacturing process. When there's only one of something, we see what we have now: years of delays and over-budget because the thing (JWT) absolutely has to work or the entire project is a failure.
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I'm not sure if you're implying this is not a new species (which would be possible, of course) - but it does not look like either of those you mentioned. Not to appeal to authority, but the two members who initially called out the uniqueness of that spider have collectively identified thousands of Gastheracantha observations specifically, and never previously claimed that any of those were new species so far as I'm aware.
Where are you getting your information? According to the Chinese CDC it is 20 times more deadly than the flu. And why does "most people only experience nothing more than a cold symptoms" imply that they "have an immune system able to fight this virus quite efficiently"? Younger and non-vulnerable people have gotten extremely sick (and died), one theory being that the more of the actual virus you are exposed to the more severe your symptoms.
> Build your time library on (un)signed 64 bit integers representing the number of nanoseconds since the utc epoch.

You poor sweet summer child. Has no one told you about the leap seconds yet? Unix time is not the number of seconds since epoch. It deliberately excludes leap seconds, which happen unpredictably whenever scientists measure the Earth as having spun at a different enough speed for long enough.

Time is fucked on every level:

- Philosophical: What is time? We just don't know.

- Physical: Turns out there is no such thing as simultaneity, and time flows differently at different locations. Time may be discrete at the Planck level, but we don't really know yet.

- Cosmological: The Earth does not rotate at a constant speed, the Earth does not orbit the Sun at a fractional component of its rotation, and the Moon does not orbit at even ratio either.

- Historical: Humans have not used time or calendars consistently.

- Notational: Some time notations are ambiguous (e.g. during daylight savings transitions) and others are skipped.

- Regional: Different regions use subtly different clocks and calendars.

- Political: Different political actors choose to change time whenever they feel like it with little or no warning.

- Religious: Many religions come with their own system for timekeeping, and people don't like when outsiders impose other systems.
Or maybe we should redefine 'vulture capitalism' to be borrowing money from naive Americans, Europeans, and Japanese by blatantly lying to them, then corruptly stealing and squandering the money, then refusing to pay it back all the while claiming that you are a victim and that the people whose money you stole are 'imperialist colonialist aggressors'.

Now that's quite a playbook.
Wait till you get a kindle. Amazon even locks your screensaver. You can't change it.
But the yellow vests are overwhelmingly lower class - and in France you might even say peasantry.

Weather or not some rich people are using these people by manipulating them is another question
1. A name points to a single authority for a resource.

2. Even worse, the single authority is bound to a single (logical) authoritative server.

Using pubkeys for names, like Freenet or IPNS, solves (2) but not (1). Which does allow content to be wholly retrieved from peers (a massive step up!), but still relies on a single authority. So I would think that well-known authorities will still crop up, centralize, and abuse market inefficiency. Although much easier to fork, so more pressure to behave (imagine being able to say hey use my faceboot alternative at http://newsite.com, and have all the content automatically there, without the hostile software!).

I've been thinking about this for quite some time, and ideally (1) would be solved as well. The only system I've seen in the wild that attempts to distribute authority itself is Camlistore's "claims". But the idea being that a "far" link should truly be changeable by the end user, rather than to a singular authority.
You could still delegating the decision to Apple without restricting other people use of their general purpose computer[1] if Apple simply ran a curation service. Your choice to only use apps that have Apple's stamp of approval doesn't require forbidding other people from making a different choice.

A curation service that forbids people from using competing services (or making their own decisions without any curator) is a monopolist trying to control a new market.

edit:

[1] https://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html
Just like the $29 aren't really the true costs, that was a marketing scheme to soften the blow from the negative publicity of battery throttling.

Point is: It costs Apple more than $29 to replace a battery and not make a loss while doing it.

So ok, a battery won't cost $6, but a technician's replacement usually won't cost $29, either.

That means, the true costs are more likely to be $20 vs. $50. (And those $50 are brutally cheap, what are they paying their technicians?)

EDIT: FWIW, a "sketchy" replacement battery for the Samsung Galaxy S5 costs between 7-15€ on the German eBay. That was my reference, I don't use Apple products.
I have very severe celiac disease which went misdiagnosed for far too long (due to a false negative blood test and negligent doctors). It got to the point where I had severe balance problems, vision loss, paresthesias, chronic pain, and was barely able to take care of myself during the worst of it. Eventually my doctors started thinking it was MS, but a normal MRI ruled that out. I finally decided to go on a strict gluten-free diet on a whim and I made a full recovery a month later, which led to a celiac diagnosis (finally).

Since then I've been preparing all my meals from scratch - I don't eat out much. Thankfully in Canada it isn't too hard to find GF ingredients, but I sometimes have to get creative. I generally try to discover new GF foods rather than eating GF "knock-offs" (eg. GF pasta, which is rarely good). Not all places in the world use wheat-based ingredients as much as in the west, so I try to look towards other cultures with different cuisines (for example, I learned to make onigiri which is really good as a snack).

I almost never eat food prepared by someone else because it's just too risky given how severe my celiac disease is. I'll often bring my own food or help cook if I'm eating at a friend's.
Um middle class university jobs are badly paid compared to professionals working at say a FANG
> AMD's developer docs clearly state, and I am quoting,

Please quote something that's unambiguously supporting your claims. What you've quoted is insufficient.

What I said about a single-socket Rome processor is not "completely incorrect" under any reasonable interpretation. The latency and bandwidth limitations in moving data from one side of the IO die to another is much smaller than the inter-socket connections that were traditionally implied by NUMA, or the inter-chiplet communication in first-gen EPYC/Threadripper.

If you want to insist that NUMA apply to even the slightest measurable memory performance asymmetry between cores, please say so, so that we may know ahead of time whether the discussion is also going to lead to esoteric details like the ring vs mesh interconnects on Intel's processors.
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Celebrating the death of a group different than yourself, is not
better than a racist or bigot.

I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
most elderly are vaccinated against seasonal influenza, particularly those in a managed home like that.
Yes, I know exactly what you mean. I don't know what might be available to you. I would urge you not to watch CNN, they are in full destroy-Trump fear mongering mode. It's sick.

We are in the US. We watch BBC World News most of the time. Aside from that, the CDC (cdc.gov) is covering this well. Basically, if you can absorb reasonably scientific material the science news providers are a million times better than any news organization.

Here's an interesting YouTube resource:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quDYb_x54DM
The other response discussing conservation of energy and momentum is basically correct. However, the third particle doesn't need to be an atom! Emitting a photon with the right energy and spin will also suffice. Typically the transition rates via photon are extremely low, but they can be intentionally triggered with other photons. This yields the incredibly useful tool called photo-association to create molecules from cold atoms.
Nothing will happen, exactly like the last 14 years with the employees being paid salaries while users run the site for free.

Why do you think an IPO will be treated differently?
My Wife has it. We have to be very careful when eating out as there are about 6 different levels of gluten free support:

1. What's gluten? Or, it has rice so it's not gluten free.

2. Yes, these items are gluten free, and that's it.

3. Yes, however, they're cooked in a shared fryer.

4. Yes, cooked separate fryers!

5. Yes, everything is made in a separate kitchen.

6. Yes, the entire establishment is free of all gluten.

In the US at least the vast majority are at level 2.

You can find level 4 fairly easily in more major cities. Though you have to be careful because it can still be hit or miss depending on how careful the cooks are.

I know one level 5 bakery, and one level 6 cafe.

Eating at home is far easier. We still have glutenful things as neither I nor the kids (so far) have a gluten problem. You just have to be a little careful about not handling glutenful food over gluten free food and dropping crumbs. It also helps that my wife does the cooking so when the there is gluten it is not to integral to the meal, or is extremely simple to make separately. (Such as a burger with and without a gluten free bun)
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Performance critical, for sure, but in more areas than you think: My 2012 thinkpad (i5-3320M) maxes out 100% one of it's CPU while I type on facebook messenger.
It is highly unlikely that anyone will build this and attempt to treat a patient at home without reading anything.

Citation needed.
While I have not read the Hayek work you mention, it is probably drawn from the same philosophical waters as a work that I recommend to anyone with an interest in this sort of thinking: "The Opium of the Intellectuals" by Raymond Aron. Aron was a French philosopher who contemplated the Intellectuals' fascination and infatuation with socialism and, at the time and place of writing (1950's France), Communism.
I guess we haven't been watching the same press conferences.

Care to elaborate what you had issue with?
> An HVAC engineer working for a university is no different than an HVAC engineer working for a market driven company.

Mostly true, but not completely. The private company has to serve customers at least as well as the competition; the university's outfit has to do not too much worse than what they could get from an outside supplier.

Compare the university administrator to the HVAC company manager, and the difference widens. Compare the university president to the HVAC company owner, and it widens a lot further.
There are also lots of additional references in the comments on Twitter. E.g.:

- https://www.venturekit.com/pitchdeck/ (pitch deck guide)

- https://www.pillar.vc/founders-guide/guides/full-guide/ (another guide to raising a Series A)

- https://www.fellow.app/blog/2019/one-on-one-meeting-definiti... (another guide to 1:1s)
Not much changes without a forcing function.
What are the forest spirits of the past then?
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There are a lot HN:ers outside of the US and Barcelona is one of the more startup/tech-heavy cities in Europe.
And if the staff is t trained on that particular model, there is no way they’ll use it.
Probably some of both with the added bonus that the supplies could be sold slowly over time as the demand never collapsed.
"Workstation software" to me means anything hardware intensive that you use to build things. Compiling large applications, video editing, music production, 3d modelling/CAD etc
>Often this is a conundrum of naive technologists clamoring to shove untested tools into production for... reasons? Excitement? Risk-taking adrenaline? I'm not quite sure.

My understanding is that you get promoted at Google for launching new things, not for maintaining them, so there's a perverse incentive to launch projects that become orphans almost immediately. So much so that I wouldn't even say that they retire popular services prematurely, but that because there is no institutional will nor support for these projects to survive into the future, they are simply de-launching proofs of concepts. Translation: nothing is intended to survive at Google besides search and AdWords, and everything else is subject to cancellation at any moment without warning.

I'm not sure what you're saying about sharing blame, that these products are too popular? I'm not sure that's a sufficient reason, but it would certainly explain Google's overarching product strategy through the decades.
The state was never about protecting people but protecting its masters (politicians, bureucrats).

It's a dangerous precedent to force distribution companies (in this case, Apple) to be able to decide to deny service to a vendor.

We want Apple to be able just to get rid of a bad actor.

Can people inside Apple theoretically abuse this power? Yes. However, it's way worse if Apple is forced to allow bad actors in the platform.

I'd say we might talk about better notarization approaches for app (mobile and non-mobile alike). However, getting rid of any notarization is a step backward.
Over 4 years there are a lot more apps and a lot more reliance on apps. There's lots more spaghetti out there since 2016 so more likelihood of bugs. I assume 2024 will have more.
If you draw lines in society, you'll always be able to find scenarios where people on one side have a conflict with people on the other side. The question is whether the lines are drawn to reflect real differences, or to stuff all the author's political opponents in the same bucket.
"elbowing" or "shouldering" could be eliminated by small vertical separators. These doesn't need to be big - just something separating elbow space and shoulder space to prevent spilling one passenger's body over to another's space.
Everybody who's chosen to use an iPhone has done so freely and without being coerced. Alternatives exist, including one that's wildly more popular than the iPhone itself.
Please slow down with posting your blog. At least wait a few days between posts. I don't want to flag your submissions, but they're getting a little spammy... especially since you don't seem to interact with the site in any other way.
That hasn't been my impression. While they may not be business owners, I think many of the yellow vests could be considered working middle class.
Why does this wave of coverage speak about OpenAI as if a postmortem?

Maybe it’s just me but companies are not public benefit enterprises, even if structured in some way as a not for profit.

This wave of coverage and the dialog around it seems to come from the view that OpenAI somehow owes the world something. When in fact it only owes its stakeholders none of whom are reporters.