skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well done by the author and thanks for sharing, especilly because of the immense mental pressure. I think it is great that the journal was cooporative for this. It would be interesting to see a single journal implement a very easy undo-button for peer reviewed research and see how that reflects over a series of years compared to the current model.
Although very ridgid, the scientiffic ecosystem is very robust, and we now see friction being removed with efficient pre-print servers.
I remember some early covid papers were redrawn from bioRxiv by authors request.
The author has a point but I also believe that it exceptional longevity also comes from the fact not many authors are writing books for Perl. More popular languages, like Java, JavaScript or Python have a lot more competition going on.
The steps in that blog post aren't difficult, but it doesn't include all the steps and assumptions:

* how do you roll that dpkg out to your fleet? Now you need a deb archive?

* "For Debian the tool is called reportbug". Note that reportbug is a CLI tool to send an email to Debian's bug tracker, whose status/tags are then also controlled by control emails. It has a notoriously difficult learning curve.

* Many Debian packages expect patches via email, rather than the more familiar git-based approaches. Some Debian packages do accept patches via git, I'm aware. Hopefully the package you're filing a patch against does.

* The blog post also misses out the work the Debian package maintainer has to do: use their own approach (and there are multiple) for doing a package release/signing. NixOS? It's a PR that's built by CI. Like how we usually handle software systems.

* You've patched a single version. What happens when a new package is released but your patch didn't make it in?

IME, after years of using Debian I made a few but barely any patches against Debian because of the frictions involved. The frictionless experience of NixOS has made me more active.
Nice, but such comparisons are kind of useless since the testing and reporting varies widely by country, so there's nothing you can compare when you look down into details.
Doesn’t that mean that 57% were symptomatic?
Why do people publish in Nature Scientific Reports?
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> The apparent learning curve for nix looks...steep.

It looks like so, indeed the manual is fairly extensive yet it probably lacks a hands-on approach. That's what I'm aiming to solve by writing a couple of articles explaining pragmatically how to use Nix (not NixOS, I'm not quite there yet), starting as a Homebrew replacement.

And really, at the end of the day the new language is not really harder than having to learn Ruby and the Formula DSL, or ABS idioms and its shell idiosyncrasies in PKGBUILDs.
Kim Jong-un's train possibly spotted at North Korean resort
The mere presence of cars actively hurts walkability and increases the risk of accidents for pedestrians and cyclists.

Cars need special roadways with expensive construction methods, maintenance, signaling and provisions for parking their bulk.

This takes up huge amounts of space that could have been used for waking streets, bike paths and attentive urban spaces, instead of large expanses of boring black asphalt.

Ask a shop owner whether she would rather have thousands of people in cars driving by her store and not even look at it, or hundreds of pedestrians who stop and look at her display windows.

Ask a cafe owner whether he would prefer to have his outside seating right next to a major thoroughfare, or on a busy walking street.

Cars actively make environments hostile and uninviting to people.
>I really wish there were laws mandating a very obvious " this scene was sponsored by X" overlay.

I don't think an in-vision in-scene notice should be required, as that is very intrusive to the viewer. However, I would support a requirement of full transparency, and I do believe they already notify people of product placement per episode (or am I thinking YouTube? I know I've seen recent notifications somewhere).

Alternately, I would support in-vision in-scene overlays if a subscriber could disable them. I can understand why it would be desirable to be enabled by default, but as an adult viewer who is quite capable of making my own purchasing decisions, I should have the right to consume media without that type of quasi-condescending warning invading my enjoyment of a given piece of media.
We seemed to have early fluffed the data out of the Diamond Princess. We aren’t even tracking how many people died - it seems once everyone got off the ship all interest in it was lost.
Sure, but Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora all provide great experiences for "I just want some packages installed".

Fedora nowadays has btrfs-level rollbacks, which although this doesn't interact well with cfgmgmt (unlike NixOS's excellent rollback support), it's perfectly fine for an end user.
What have we been led to believe?
Likewise :)
In SF there are 3 "major" rail links.

1. Caltrain which connects downtown SF to San Jose and Gilroy, notably bypassing both SFO and SJC airport [1]. This is a low frequency, mid-long distance commuter rail link that runs almost exclusively outside SF.

2. BART which connects SF to the East Bay, notably serving both SFO and OAK [2]. This is a medium frequency, larger train - think a hybrid of commuter and light rail. It's fast, long trains that run medium distances.

3. Muni Metro which is the SF subway and light-rail service. In the downtown corridor, all the major stations (from Civic Center to the Embarcadero) overlap with BART, but the trains continue out west into the Sunset [3]. This is high-ish frequency, smaller trains that (outside the downtown corridor) run overland.

[1] http://www.caltrain.com/stations/systemmap.html

[2] https://www.bart.gov/system-map

[3] https://www.sfmta.com/maps/muni-metro-map
He is talking about the other company mentioned, "Kiwibot"
UBI is not happening, but printing money to pass along to people and businesses still seems to be happening anyway.
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It is a means of control and creates white-collar jobs.
Nowadays books get leaked directly from the publisher, no need to OCR.
depends, shift might be fusable. First ARM chips had free shifts taking zero cycles http://www.csbio.unc.edu/mcmillan/Comp411F18/Lecture07.pdf
That advantage only works at time of sale, and that only happens when there are people around that can buy what is being sold. Houses here were stacked ten high and ten deep for miles with foreclosure signs in front during the last recession; a lot of them stayed that way for a long time.
The Traffic Power Structure (2016)
"The modern traffic system is ecologically unsustainable, emotionally stressful, and poses a physical threat to individuals and communities alike. Traffic is not only an ecological and social problem but also a political one. Modern traffic reproduces the rule of the state and capital and is closely linked to class society. It is a problem of power. At its core lies the notion of “automobility,” a contradictory ideal of free movement closely linked to a tight web of regulations and control mechanisms. This is the main thesis of the manifesto The Traffic Power Structure, penned by the Sweden-based activist network Planka.nu.

Planka.nu was founded in 2001 to fight for free public transport. Thanks to creative direct action, witty public interventions, and thought-provoking statements, the network has become a leading voice in Scandinavian debates on traffic. In its manifesto, Planka.nu presents a critique of the automobile society, analyzes the connections between traffic, the environment, and class, and outlines its political vision. The topics explored along the way include Bruce Springsteen, high-speed trains, nuclear power, the security-industrial complex, happiness research, and volcano eruptions. Planka.nu rejects demands to travel ever-longer distances in order to satisfy our most basic needs while we lose all sense for proximity and community. The Traffic Power Structure argues for a different kind of traffic in a different kind of world.

The book has received several awards in Sweden and has been hailed by Swedish media as a “manifesto of striking analytical depth, based on profound knowledge and a will to agitation that demands our respect” (Ny Tid)."

Disclaimer: I am not associated with planka.nu or this book in any way, and I am only submitting this for debate around the subject itself.

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Europe's cities had room for cars?
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You're nitpicking the example, rather than responding to the underlying point.
Hm, I think most of Oslo was actually built after cars. Oslo has about twice the population today as it had in 1950.
For many years, I resisted from using Facebook. Recently, I started using it more to connect with friends and family.

And holy shit. The amount of misinformation, fake news, and conspiracy theories on Facebook is insane. Facebook is a machine that breeds extremists.

I now understand the #deleteFacebook movement much more where I previously thought it wasn't a big deal.
Though it's deployed on Windows...
I enjoy writing typescript. I work at a really big bank. I am a part time soldier whose has spent two years in Afghanistan and is entering his 5th deployment. I have proven solutions to real problems in programming that nobody cares about.

I too have war stories both literal and figurative. Too many for hubris.
Yes absolutely. The actual parameters would be different everywhere but they seem to indicate that the symptomatic group is more infectious (which I guess is the base hypothesis for a droplet transmitted disease).
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Other thermostats don’t learn your preferences.

If anything, Nest gets in the way the first few weeks, then goes to the background.

I’m talking about product UX, how a Nest thermostat usually works, independently of Google getting bored ;)
You're thinking of Outline.com
They are keeping their wages low by avoiding mandatory pay rises that come with statutory overtime.

So to reiterate: they offer low wages, and their actions are consistent with that objective.

Yet the workers all chose to work there, implying it was better than the next best option available to them. For the employees, they are better off for that employer offering the employment, than not doing so.

So my point stands. You seem to not have even addressed it, and instead made an appeal to emotion by repeatedly referencing the low pay the employer insisted on providing.

>>How about not establishing regular schedules published in a timely manner?

This is the only potentially abusive and fraudulent practice you cited, and I would support class-action litigation to punish employers who engage in it, and publicly funded advocates and watchdogs to assist low-wage workers who find themselves facing these kinds of practices.

The argument that low-pay jobs - that those working them willingly accepted - is by definition exploitation is, OTOH, an economic fallacy that misattributes the cause of low-pay and promotes regulatory restrictions on contract liberty that gravely harm society.
Do you mean display ads or pre-rolls? I don't get any display ads but I get pre-rolls constantly with uBO.
“oops. That was accidental. We’ll fix it in the next push in 2 weeks.”

https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871231792455686
You didn't teach anything. Period. This was the opinion of all my classmates and others I knew who took your class. If you don't believe me, see for yourself: https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=48636
And macOS! Catalina's read-only system volume has made the installation a bit more difficult. But once you have set it up, you get many of the same benefits (per-project virtual environments, home-manager, etc.).

We use NixOS on three machines around the house, but I use Nix + home-manager on my MacBook, and various Ubuntu servers at work. It's nice that I can largely use the same configuration across all machines. Just a home-manager switch and I am in my native environment.
I agree with you on that last point - I'm talking largely about the trans people who are very online and very vocal about it (a self-selected demographic), not trans people in general.
I don't follow. The proof is complete when all proof obligations have been discharged.
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Zeitgeber (Greg Egan short story)
In an extremely simplified way, from an economic standpoint, I see two ways this crisis can be handled:

1) Shovel money into businesses essentially free of charge, taking over responsibility for their payroll, giving generous low percentage loans or even free grants, and anything else that can simply be considered "free money" for company owners.

Or:

2) See this for what it is, which is an extremely high-risk investment that no-one else is willing to make. If a company was able to find a better deal on the market, they would take it. If companies are forced to apply for help from the state to survive, the state should get a (minority) share of the company and reap any potential future benefits until the owners have the money to buy their shares back.

The way I see it, in #1 we do our best to halt the crisis, but we essentially do it by giving away free money to corporations and small companies. In #2, we still do the same thing (because there's in most cases not much difference between a high-risk investment and a gift), but at least in this case the tax payer may get something for it in the future.

If public money goes to bailing out private companies, the public deserves a share of future profits, until those companies can buy the shares back at market value. I don't see a loser in this scenario, and in fact, it would be refreshing to see and end to this constant policy of "privatize profit, socialize loss".
To make it precise: growth is the next generation having a greater abundance than the current.

If you care about global poverty, disease, famine etc. then you care about growth.

Since we do not have levels of abundance which reach everyone even in rich societies, growth is everywhere a concern.

To "question its value" is to say: since I have sufficient wealth, that'll do for the planet.
Funny that you link to twitter instead of his post on mastodon:
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/104058537883273852
Japan's MUFG bank plans more staff cuts, totalling 8k by 2023: Yomiuri
The Perfect Meme -Cognitive errors in understanding 2019-2020 coronavirus crisis
So it strikes me as possible that SARS-CoV-2 has a very high r value and lethality on par with flu viruses, but is killing a lot more people than flu viruses due to the lack of pre-existing immunity, combined with the rapid spread through the population claiming those most vulnerable to it all at once.
For the uninitiated, a few bullet points I stitched together from Wikipedia and freedesktop.org:

The Mali GPUs are IP Core GPUs produced by ARM Holding[0].

Midgard and Bifrost are architecture code names[1].

Panfrost is a FOSS driver for Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs[2].

An older effort at reverse engineering exists under the name Lima, targeting older Mali GPUs[3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_(GPU)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_(GPU)#Variants

[2] https://panfrost.freedesktop.org/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_(GPU)#The_Lima_and_Panfro...
FWIW, perl3 circa 1990 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taint_checking#History .
> the exact same commercial for anti-AIDS drugs sixteen times per hour.

European here, I will go over my surprise / weirdness about having ads for chronic disease medication like that, to ask : do you actually, you as the patient, choose which medication you receive for disease like that? Does your opinion override that of the doctor? Is it not ultimately a moot choice both by you and the doctor because the one you will get is the one your insurance covers?

I have a hard time reconciling what (little) I know about in the US medical system between insurance behavior, doctor choice, and ads aimed at patient choice.

I understand ads for non prescription drugs and little things like cough, but ads for HIV treatment I can't fathom.

As for your question, while the ad might be massively bad targeting for you, it might still be the best they have where you fit in the restriction set by the ad publisher, so better they get money on a poor match than no money at all. Usually a publisher that has terrible targeting.
> Walking or biking does not always imply high density!

Right, and yet it will get parroted each time the subject surfaces here (i.e. twice a week).

I never had a car. At the moment, I live in a municipality of less than 750 inhabitants. I've lived in small towns of less than 4000 inhabitants, in areas below 1 inhab. / km². I've never had a problem, everything has always been 1 or 2 minutes away with a bike, or less than 10 minutes by foot. In such places, the farthest possible shop would be a mile away, at worst. By definition, we might say! since the urban area doesn't spread farther.

Density is not needed and it often doesn't makes things better.

In dense areas, things are sometimes closer (which improves walkability, but has little effect or bikability), sometimes not. But everything is slower. Not only cars, but also cycling and walking. Cycling: because of all the cross-roads every 100 yards, with traffic lights or without, because of the need of taking care of the erratic behaviour of pedestrians, of parked cars, of cars going in and out of parking slots, because of traffic jams or traffic density causing irregular pacing, etc. Walking, the same: traffic lights again, erratic movements on the pavement, being limited to pavement and a very limited number of crossings, which lengthen the route. I can ride over 10 km and visit 3 villages in the countryside, in the same time I needed to ride 5 km in a city (not even in the centre of the centre).

Hell, American suburbs should be perfect for cyclability, if not for walkability. Either the hard grid type with its huge number of streets/lanes/alleys every 100 yards with very very low car traffic; or the smooth shaped housing estate suburbia with its super-wide and empty streets; even on inter-blocks streets, the car traffic is much less dense than in Europe because those streets/roads are 3 or 4 times as wide as European streets/roads with similar role! Yes, there isn't a small shop at every street corner of American suburbia, but even if a supermarket/mall world, almost of the suburban area is with 1 mile or 2 of distance of one of those supermarket or mall, which is perfect biking distance; in most cases you'll have something half-a-mile away from home. Yes, there are also places where people chose to build a fancy house in a fancy estate on a hill-side, which make everything harder, but the bulk of suburban area is not like that.

I am not advocating for urban sprawl, I just say that arguing that walking and especially cycling would be only possible in dense areas is plain wrong: both suburbs and countryside small towns and villages can be plenty bikable.
GEMM is a fairly special case, but the case is unproven as far as I can see. The OpenBLAS kernels are certainly bigger than they need be, but it's not clear to me they satisfy the request (especially addressing "holistic" treatment of registers), and "OpenBLAS" isn't a performance measurement.

Since I'm interested in this, I'd like to see the case to reproduce with an analysis of the performance difference. BLAS developers have made statements about GCC optimization failures (at least vectorization) that aren't correct in my experience with at all recent GCC. BLIS' generic C kernel already runs at ~60% (I forget the exact number) of the speed of the Haswell assembler code for large DGEMM without any tuning attempt, perhaps with GCC extensions. (I didn't check whether the blocking is right for Haswell or pursue an analysis with MAQAO or something.)
As far as I know, Netflix negotiates those rights independently so it varies per network. They're doing a new-ish model now, though, where Netflix actually pays to co-produce content with networks in exchange for getting faster and/or exclusive streaming access.

The most high-profile example off the top of my head is the new Michael Jordan doc; they split the cost with ESPN, and Netflix gets next-day international rights and accelerated domestic streaming rights (3 months after broadcast, I think).
Yes. There are a whole lot of approaches that are far more efficient way of doing pooled tests.

There have been around half a dozen pre-print papers published on this concept in the COVID-19 section of biorxiv in the past couple of weeks [0].

0. https://connect.biorxiv.org/relate/content/181
I guess the reason is that part of the benefits come from being a (largely) pure functional language. The property that an expression must always evaluate to the same value does wonders to reproducibility.

I agree that adoption would probably be larger if the language was not Nix or Scheme (Guix).
Taking a SaaS product to market, through marketing
Ah yes, the second tier of Carnegie Mellon and Cornell. Lol.
The best part of Debian and Ubuntu is package maintainers do all the heavy lifting for you.

So a simple apt get install package is all I need.

This looks like having to write packages again and that’s the very reason I use a Debian based distribution is for apt