skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many of those humans would have ever even existed without the Haber process? The moral equation is a bit more involved than just lives saved vs lives lost, especially considering the subsequent population explosion.
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Reduced access to healthcare, counterintuitively, reduces mortality in the short term, because it reduces complications from medical interventions.

On the medium and long term instead it increases mortality, as expected.

Moreover, lockdowns and social distancing also reduced flu deaths.

This means that the total number of deaths attributable ti Covid may in fact be higher than the excess mortality over the average of previous years, although it is difficult to quantity the difference.
The lack of rights one has when traveling through an airport is genuinely scary. As far as I'm aware once you start the security process I don't believe you can actually stop it without some similar interrogation like this.

I remember a while back I believe it was New Zealand that wanted the ability to search your devices for BitCoins. I believe at least in the UK it's a criminal offense to not provide the password to your encrypted device. Unless things change I'm sure this will just get worse.
Yes, so I hope it was okay with him when Lloyd Alexander took LOTR, watered it down, combined it with everything he could profitably extract from Mabinogion, and published the end result as the Chronicles of Prydain.

On a more serious note, I would suggest that Tolkien with his unabashed traditionalism was actually a major figure in the 20th c. postmodernist tradition. The "Cauldron of Story" is not very far removed from "Death of the Author" or "Primacy of Language". Tolkien was just peculiar in his choice of source material. He also managed to make his texts not look like romanticised folkloristic pseudomedieval fare of the early fantasy writers by adopting the technique of realist writers of the 19th century.
More recently, a recording's been released of a third Gould performance of the Goldberg Variations, recorded live in Salzburg in 1959. It's very nice.
I think he meant GPT-3 does zero human reasoning.
I have been in this trap myself. I tried writing only perfect code. I ended up thinking more about the design than actually progressing on the issues. The solution I found was to write explicitly hacky solutions first, then improve them as you go forward. Either hacky by being slow, or by not having all the features you want it to have eventually. Not hacky by having huge bugs, don't do that, as finding them is a huge cost the later you find them! Put TODOs about the aspects that need improvement, this allows you to grep for them. Also, as you write the first implementation, you'll gain more knowledge about the problem domain than any non-coding research could give you. Maybe you don't need that one feature after all, or maybe your approach was totally wrong and you should do a different one. It's better to find that out when you only have invested time into a prototype instead of a full generic solution!

And this is not an obligation. If you are really sure about the design of some component, you can also do it right the first time. But in most places, you usually don't know the design well enough.

Also, the imperfect solution can help as a validator. Have a problem that has a unique solution? Make a slow algorithm for it which you are sure is correct, then build a faster version and use the slow algo to compare for correctness. You can also use the slow algorithm to tell you about non-output values that both algorithms compute implicitly or explicitly.
If that's really the case, 3rd party analytic service can still work by taking over the traffic from the service domain, then proxy back the traffic to the web server, somehow like cloudflare.
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We already support the Postgres Wire protocol, it is still in alpha though. You can check the documentation here: https://questdb.io/docs/guidePSQL/

We do not implement 100% of the protocol yet, but the plan it to do so or at least implement all the features that people need.
One suggestion would be to implement a mode similar to Finale's "speedy entry", which allows for more efficient entry of notes, dynamics, articulations, ornaments, etc. without moving between modes and pallets, correcting and adjusting and so forth.
Maybe the photo got him free. Like an agent took it in order to explain to the others he was not in fact a Usama Bin laden guy.
IMHO: It’s best to respond here, since this post is on the front page now, has comments already and the other one is off the front page and has no comments.
"What should we think about the experts? Projections of failure were made by eminent, respectable, serious people. They spoke in considered tones of why AI hype was excessive and might trigger an “AI winter”, and the fundamental flaws of fashionable approaches and why brute force could not work. These statements were made routinely in 2014, 2015, 2016… And they were wrong. I am aware of few issuing a mea culpa or reflecting on it. It is a puzzling failure, and I’ve reflected on it before."

Who are these experts? Where are records of these routine statements? Seriously, I am an AI researcher, who said this?
It's not "guilt by association" - they are actually the guilty ones if they work on the software and enable the surveillance with their own code.

Guilt by association would refer more to say the office secretary in said company - or the founder's cousin.

This is more like saying soldiers can't be held culpable for what their leaders ordered. And we know that's not a good excuse. The people developing these tools and writing code for them are the "soldiers" here. And they're happy to cash in writing them.
I have Home & End on my keyboard, but they are not very conveniently located. Mapping <Super>-A and <Super>-E to Home and End is much more ergonomic (or you can use other modifier like <Ctrl> or <Alt>). Not sure though which keys should be mapped to PageUp/PageDown. Those are not terribly useful keys anyway if you use touchpad or Space.
And it's still fundamentally flawed as ever. (since the suggested behavior in the HIG presumes contextual intent is something that's generally clear or even decidable from the content.)
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But looking at NYC now, after peaking in April, infections and deaths are way down and stabilised, in spite of rising infections in surrounding areas and very few travel restrictions. So something is going on that we don't understand, and it could have a significant impact.

If we have a higher immune population than we think, NYC might have passed the worst, if not millions will die in a second wave (though there are no signs of that yet). So this does matter.
> The numbers are supposed to be huge yet hospitals are nearly empty

Oh? Our local hospital recently had to take overflow from a neighboring county.
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That makes, let's see, at least 3 of us.
Contrariwise, people are avoiding treatment for other illnesses for fear of catching COVID in a hospital. Many people are depressed or even suicidal. And people are less active, which aggravates other health problems. All of these factors could increase the number of deaths.
I don't like it and it reminds me of Bitbucket :(
Most recent terrorist attack in the US was the 2019 El Paso attacks, which was a White American Male who killed 23 people

Before that another white american male in Poway (and an attack on a mosque earlier than that), another in the Pittsburgh synagogue, the Blaze Bernstein shooting, and if you don't include the ones where nobody died - the mail bombing attempts aimed at people like Obama and Biden

One thing all these terrorist attacks on american soil have in common? The perpetrator was a white american male.

This doesn't mean that all white american males are terrorists, but if we were to take the attitude that many have towards Muslims, white american males are at best supporters of terrorism.
There's a continuity of small changes between your backyard and industrial farming. Just like there's a continuity of small changes between you and your cat.
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One way to avoid Tolkien’s shadow was to branch into related genres. Cue weird/ubran fantasy (e.g., Perdido Street Station), historical fantasy (e.g., The Spirit Ring), or pseudo-fantasy (the Ghormengast series, The Buried Giant). Interestingly, it seems that only works from last category have some real literary value.
The original characterization and the comment manage to be rude, condescending and passive-aggressive all at once. It's straight up explaining to someone what their own motivations and tastes are. I honestly don't understand what the ballpark is supposed to be, the whole sport seems awful.
HEIF, AVIF and JPEG XL all support multi-layer images, so you could e.g. encode the background in a lossy layer (which works well on blurry stuff) and foreground in a lossless layer (which works well on screenshots).
I'm a data engineer, stopped trying to "upgrade" into ML years ago when I realised my skills were a lot more in need in the longer term than any ML specialists.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to report your feedback!

The `/sidequest create` is not context-aware right now, it will behave the same way no matter you invoke it (opens the creation modal).

Inviting the @Sidequest user to a channel (public or private) makes this channel visible to the app and allows users to select it as a recipient when creating a quest.

Will invest more time into documentation before final release. :-)
By the way, this is the primary reason I've never travelled to the United States.

The US is missing out on tourism because people overseas read horror stories like this and scratch it off their want-to-go list. I categorise the US alongside wonderful places like Saudi Arabia, China, and Russia as a place where human rights aren't.

I'm a white male of Christian background, I'm not on any "lists" that I know of, and have no reason to be. I work with government departments in my home country and have multiple clearance checks, some of which are very thorough. I sail through airport customs checks in every country.

But clearly the US is number one mainly at being a police state. It's the world's richest third-world country. It's authoritarian to its core.

In our country we have state-local police, one branch of federal police that exists only to protect politicians and a few other special duties. That's about it for uniformed people with arrest powers. Oh, technically we have the Office of the Sheriff for enforcing court orders, and I think Border Patrol aren't technically Police. I don't even know. It doesn't really come up as an issue for law abiding people, irrespective of their skin colour or time of year. Oh sure, you hear the homeless drug addicts complain about "the pigs" loudly, but... yeah. They're bound to.

Meanwhile, allow me to list the US police forces or police-like groups that I know of the top of my head just by watching US-made television shows: State Troopers, Local and county police, Sherrifs, DEA, ATF, DHS, Military Police, FBI, ICE, Marshalls, Campus Police(!), Secret Service, and I'm probably forgetting a few.

This is why the black-lives-matter riots are still going on. Your nation's law enforcement is a militarised, authoritarian nightmare. For someone who doesn't like being "not arrested for 18 hours" for "looking wrong" and using cleaning products, it's a place to avoid, not visit.
“Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.”

― Paolo Coelho
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Menu bar widget for macOS with Covid-19 statistics
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This is dope!
> not restricted by technical limitations

Yup, if you play Sacred Gold or Disciples II using open frameworks you get a game that looks much newer. But more importantly, perpetually playable.

Disciples II has an edit that uses OpenGL that makes the game much faster and more playable, and gives widescreen.

Sacred has numerous mods, such as giving 1080p HD (and more).

The next question is going to be: "But why do you play those games?" To this I will ask, honestly, what is Fortnight anyway?
> You mean that people pop kids so that those kids would feel obliged to take care of them when they're old?

It's not based on a generational contract within the same family (i.e. my kids pay my retirement) but society wide. Instead of saving up capital I pay the retirement benefits of the current generation and when I retire the then current workforce will pay mine. For the calculation of median wealth this shows up as a big fat 0 (no capital) but it gives me significant financial safety of having a set income from the age of 67 to the end of my life, no matter how old I get. Shit system if you die at 68 (or even earlier), amazing system if you live to be 95.

The existence of this system is largely based on WW2. There was no capital to pay for people at retirement age in the 50s so the current system was developed.

> It's easily possibly working in tech in the US, a 10 year career basically guarantees you financial independence here barring any major set back (like divorce).

The US has always been a very individualistic society and it' s probably the best country in the world to be rich in. For tech workers in FAANG it's a great place to be. If I look at the long tail of workers I shudder. The living condition of the working class is far, far worse than what I see in north/west Europe. Of course there's poverty here too but at a very different level. Personally, I'm happy to pay my taxes and social insurance obligations so I don't have drive past tent cities on my way to work.

> Isn't that roughly same as saying people aren't wealthy enough to afford one?

Well I'd control for it by excluding the value of your residency from the household wealth. Your original post was commenting on median wealth compared to other Western European countries. I'm merely pointing out that this is too simplistic a number to compare without context.
Sorry, I added the edit, I'm quite new to this comment section and assumed it might show my edit by default
Maybe the right thing to do is to change your opinions on anti-abortion, and come to understand Sammy better?
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Well, they do have McCafé, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCafé
The thing about NSO is, they screwed up by becoming famous. If you're NSO, you want nobody in the tech community to know you exist.

I'm sure there are dozens of companies like NSO that you just don't know about.
While I wouldn't pick the exact word "loathe", the thing that really did it for me when I was reading SSC a while back was finding that one of the regular commenters who Scott engaged with positively had written a book that talked about how Obama should have stuck to jobs that were more "genetically suitable" for him. There were plenty of comments about this person being "controversial" on the blog so it isn't likely that Scott just didn't know.
Ham radio's purpose and band allocations are not designed to be a secure communication system. They're designed to be a place to experiment with radio, and as a substantial side effect of that can also be a communication system. Adding encryption (and I'd also argue proprietary encodings, but that's another debate) defeats the purpose. Similar to how it can't be used for pecuniary interest.

There are places you can use secure communications, for example in the ISM bands (like wifi) or you can license a chunk of frequency for your own use.
Same here. Makes me curious to see an article/study about exactly that, perhaps with info on alternative ways you might be able to deliver drugs to patients without the use of a physical note or pharmacy.
If you found out about Sammy's new job from a blog post on the internet, maybe you should give him the benefit of the doubt and ask him about it in person before ending your friendship.
It seems that nobody dare to say this, so I will do, because I'm an idiot.

This is the expected outcome by the recent "black lives matter" events. Right actions but really bad time choice.

I wonder why people expected other results.
You don't think I'm sincere, because I asked for a link to a blog, so you give me a link to Judith Curry's blog?

I'm familiar with Curry's "work". I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt, but then she went from warning about caution to outright lies. Frankly, I'd rather someone who was honestly stupid than Judith Curry who knows she's lying, but does it anyway.

See: https://www.skepticalscience.com/Judith_Curry_arg.htm

Oh, FFS, I just read through her last few entries. She's got worse. Now it's the Anthony Watts technique of linking to articles with suggestive headlines without commentary. Example: "Misconceptions of global catastrophe [link]". Now, that article is about the real issues that will arise from Climate Change, and about people's misconceptions about them, but she knows very few people will actually read the article, and will instead take the wrong implication from the title.
Gary Marcus?
I'm more scared than burned. If I saw this text in the wild I wouldn't be able to tell that it wasn't written by a human.
This is incredible! I love how they went ahead and did work on not just compressing it, and also making it such that it is easily renderable on commodity platforms (basically making explicit geo and atlased textures, kind of like a regular game render)
Facebook accused of trying to decloak domain owners' personal Whois info
Empty Ubuntu to Live Reload: Haskell IHP Web Framework and Nix
What do you mean with "perfect" unit tests? For this case, I wrote the unit tests to document the current functionality. That's basically what unit tests do: they document functionality and enable you to preserve that functionality of that piece of code. Of course once you realise that the functionality is wrong, you should change it and the unit test. And you can't fix the code if nobody knows what it's meant to do.

There's quite a lot you can refactor without breaking unit tests. If you've got a single 200-line function full of nested loops with cryptic variable names, modern IDEs make it really easy to extract those loops to their own functions. Figure out what they're meant to do, give them a descriptive name, and you already improved the code a bit without breaking any unit tests. If your IDE does this well, you could even do this without unit tests, but you really will need those unit tests once you start reorganising the code making use of the excessive number of parameters those extracted functions invariably end up with.

Of course you can write unit tests for super bad code. If it's a function that returns something, it's trivial to unit test, no matter how badly written that function is. If it calls other code, you have to mock those calls and test that those mocks get called under the same conditions. If they mess with global variables, that's terrible, but even that can be mocked.

If the code uses gotos to code outside the module, somebody needs to get shot, and I guess you need a unit testing framework that can mock those gotos. I've never seen one, because nobodoy uses gotos anymore.
Since the score is available, couldn't a modern synthesizer produce a pretty good version of the composition?
8 self-submits per article is a bit extreme.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=firmhouse.com
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I believe for eyesight it's important to change focus, i.e. the distance of the object you're looking to. Not sure if just moving your eyes help but looking up from the screen into the distance is certainly good for the eyes.
Right. There's room for research, and then there's room for commoditising existing research. I think the latter is where we currently have the most to gain from expanding our efforts in, and this was the context in which I made my comment.

I see now that I made that very unclear. Sorry!
Amazon Establishes Counterfeit Crimes Unit to Bring Counterfeiters to Justice
I only joined the project just this week, but I can tell you that the game isn't playable yet. It launches and runs, allowing you to create a character and walk around in town. Most functionality isn't wired up yet. There are a lot of opportunities to contribute.

There are no plans to support any other games, but it sounds like they expect to be able to use it to create new games.
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So what you mean is that a group that's about 100 times smaller only commits twice fewer terrorist attacks?

Sounds like they are overepresented by a factor of 50... And therefore stop and search overrepresentation should be 50.
Severely damaging air quality in your community should be beneath everyone.
Legally they are classed as scooter so I don't see why they shouldn't be driving them like scooters.

You won't see me near one, going fast on a racing bike is already dangerous enough, anything faster and I'll take four wheels over two any day.
I think nicer are these real time mini tube departure boards, apparently you can get them customized for any station on the network: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgLGKjj3GwI
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I don't want a mob deciding who should be harassed because of an article.
frankly the shire is quite similar to small Danish towns.
Nobody went through source and noticed the Dalek hiding in the comments? Made my day.
Cern is European, the counterpart in the US are fermilab, they are highly knitted together.
What was that website that listed successful projects and their revenue?
i remember a site were developers would write up their story for a project and share their revenue details, can't find the site now
That's not a surprise... It's pretty well known that Apple is working on VR/AR headsets.
GHC's type errors can be daunting, but the complexity of the errors usually scales quite linearly with the complexity of your code. That's good, it keeps you in line.

> The problem with Haskell is it's purity and thirst for abstraction means more and more complex type definitions and ideas [...]

If that's the case something goed wrong. Proper abstraction means having complex definition with simple types!
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> Campus Police

I went to a fairly large university in the UK, about 11k people on a self contained campus. I think there was a designated police officer for the university. I don't recall any security guards per-se, but there was a "porters" who looked after the main building, and there were a couple of bouncers checking ID on the on-campus bars (to stop townies from getting in)

Is it not just normal police officers with perhaps some extra training on dealing with student matters?
I honestly hate the design with the fire of a thousand suns.

The navigation aligned on the left and the main section with code centered is so unbalanced it makes me nauseous.
There’s a continuity of small changes between any two things.
E Bikes that require a license exist (Stromer, many others), those go > 25 Kph, which is a speed most fit cyclists can easily achieve. So if you want E Bikes to be licensed you should also require regular bikes to be licensed. Where I live that would cause a national revolt on the scale that no sane politician is going to go near it.