skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When talking about mortality rates I don't think it is easy to make a comparison of these two virus.

Firstly, the medical technologies of 1918 were nothing like what we have today.

For example, even though it would have been no help fighting Spanish Flu, wide spread use of penicillin was still some 20 years, showing just how far behind the medical system of that time really was.

That difference also shows up in things like life expectancy which back then was in the low 50s where as today it is in the 70s.

Finally the two virus are very different.

One factor that made the Spanish Flu virus so deadly was it killed both young and old.

If COVID-19 had the same death profile I suspect we would be seeing those same 750,000 totals.
We are working on a multi-process GPU accelerated image viewer with the ability to seamlessly browse and organise through hundreds of thousands of photos. Although it is multi process, all applications are embedded in a container application. The processes communicate using 127.0.0.1. All done locally.

It was specifically designed to handles hundreds of thousands of images and is in the final stages of release.

We have a little bit more information and screenshots on the website: https://www.pixolage.com and would be grateful for any community feedback (or beta testers!).

Disclaimer: I work at Pixolage
Imagine going before a Federal judge, whose Courthouse is under attack by people trying to burn it down, and then argue before the judge that Federal officers aren't warranted.

I would not want to show my face in that court ever again.
He does blogging and stuff. So this seems like a combination of unboxing, business expense tax deduction and simple expensive toys.

An honest setup could be had for much less. I think he could save quite a bit on his PC with custom built, screens by going smaller and more numerous, camera by going 1080p instead of 4k. That would be a perfectly good work from home setup but he wanted to go max and blog about it.

but tbh from the invoices i have seen for business 'expenses', 10k for a critical part of your work flow is forgiveable.
Correct. It was always said if someone was sick they should wear a mask (more studies have come out confirming this). Once asymptomatic became such a big transmission vector it made sense for everyone to wear a mask. PPE was/is still an issue, so cloth masks were also questionable early on, but have since shown effectiveness.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768532
You are not a Federal Agent.
Using Java to measure latency...
Does not sound very accurate.
In my opinion, the reason it works well for PTSD, is because it temporarily suppresses feelings of fear, shame and embarrassment. It also makes you more trusting of other people, which can be good in a therapeutic setting, as it might make it easier to open up. On MDMA, you can look at your own past without any judgment. That makes it easier to look at things in a way that's more detached, and begin to process what actually happened without being flooded by negative thoughts.
It’s the food. The USA has 40% obesity rate vs 15% of Canada. We just eat more here, and we eat more garbage.

Funny enough, if you chopped off the fattest 5-6 states, the USA would compare more favorably.
> It's called churning

There was an almost identical scam which has been going on for a while called "Brushing"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushing_(e-commerce)

Some of it is to get the "verified purchase" reviews, but the specific discussion was around the Alibaba IPO and whether it can be used to inflate stock price via fake revenues.
I've never noticed kudzu, but those invasive spiky water chestnuts that hurt to step on all over the Hudson are the real biological warfare.
A friend had his information (leaked from some company who he used to buy products from its database) used for this. I wonder if they usually get their information from stolen user DBs
Short answer: We don't know

Longer answer: Maybe nothing. Maybe it's nonsensical to think of something as being outside of the universe - as it expands, it creates space where there was none. Maybe a true vacuum that our universe is floating through. Maybe other universes. Maybe something else.

We might not be able to ever know the answer to this question - the laws of physics might prevent us from being able to decipher it.
All glory is fleeting.[0]

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPiH-LBna5I
I hadn’t heard of this video before, you’re right, it is amazing. It’s interesting, a little dark, yet some how comforting in a way I’m not sure I can articulate. If Voyager has a follow up, this is a message that should be on it. Thank you so much for sharing.
It’s still a country that has a massive portion of the population that’s poor. If you want the poor people in the world to stop trying everything they can get some of your money then vote for more income equality initiatives and cut your own salary.

This type of behavior is endemic with poverty and can be seen with Nigerian princes, Indian call center scams, or just your friendly San Francisco neighborhood bike thief.

This behavior has more to do with poverty and income inequality than Chinese people (or people of any country or race for that matter).
"Crypto is not magic."

"Don't roll your own crypto because its basically magic and you'll screw it up unless you're a cryptographer".

Umm... ok...
Plenty of us still use Redux. It works well.
> And “liquid sugar” isn’t a problem. People choosing to consume too much of it is. I am perfectly healthy, normal weight, plenty of exercise and I like to drink Coke. Should I have to pay a tax or higher prices because some fat-ass makes the choice to drink it like water?

yes. we tax darts and alcohol - the medical cost of sugar probably well exceeds all risky outdoor activities by orders of magnitude. ~200 climbing accidents a year vs https://www.forbes.com/sites/danmunro/2013/10/27/sugar-linke...
I've always felt you are only as good as you are when your tools are taken away.
Necessary in the context of article 6 refers exclusively to processing that can be performed without consent from the subject. For example:

> processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject
Not true. It is much, much more energy intensive to run an RF link up to a tower or WiFi than to sum 2000 rows of 10 column wide data. RF works by emitting energy into free space, and there is absolutely no way it is cheaper for this type of thing (especially if it takes the transmitter out of sleep mode, like if you’re really out there and in airplane mode).
Same. I can't believe the FUD that's going on. What's the worst that can happen with a seed?? It will not open a portal to another dimension! A plant will just grow out of it.

You keep it inside and take a picture and you will know if you will get nice flowers, or vegetables, or...nothing. Just leaves.

As a kid I loved to plant seeds in plastic cups and see what grew out of it, and trying additives to see if they could help the plant grow. Once I grew a little tomato, and ate it. I didn't drop dead from tomato consumption.

It's innocent and safe. The government should have no business regulating what people do with seeds.
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I think it would make sense to start by legalizing mushrooms. The fact that they are very prevalent in nature will make it easier for people to accept them. They're also very safe, probably less addictive than marijuana (do you know anyone who takes mushrooms daily?), and there are already a number of studies showing therapeutic benefits.
Heh, remember tumble weeds are an invasive species from Russia.
Tiananmen Square is the one where they massacred civilians with machine gun fire. That's the difference.
Can you make it be about seeds? There's something fun and magic about not knowing in advance what you will get.

The examples you give like a bike repair kit are not really enticing.
They may be fewer people, and they may be confined area, but they are literally the reason federal officers are there.

Peaceful protests are not a problem to anyone.
More like Amazon should crack down on this to defend its reputation. Amazon is one of the primary beneficiaries of fake reviews on its own platform.
I feel you,
In several areas of my life (computers, stereo, photography, old truck, etc) I go overboard in building whatever it is I’m working on not because I strictly need that amazingness but because I enjoy having constructed it and the feel of using a fine instrument.

Building and using it sparks joy.

I also am irked by people who buy and use amazing things and display said amazing thing from a position of “I am amazing therefore I need amazing things” or vice versa. I dunno, it seems really inauthentic or something. I’m getting a little of that vibe from this article but OTOH I’m also getting a lot of the “Building and using great instruments sparks joy” vibe too and I think the former may just be coming across by virtue of writing a blog post to share the latter so, oh well :)
If I were running this seed company, I would personally be driving to this customers house to taste the fruit for myself and dig up the plant. I'd document it all with pictures and video.

While the seeds might only be worth $300, the reputational damage is huge, the lawsuits are big, and the chance of prison is very real. I'm totally wanting solid evidence to exonerate myself and my company if it exists.

If I do find the fruit to be extremely bitter, it's probably best to use language like "as a precaution" in my press releases anyway...
Naively, I would expect that an insurer is less likely to pay out if a basic pen-test suggests negligence on the part of the company.
They really made a mistake choosing something suspicious like seeds. They should have chosen something more innocuous such as a bracelet or a pencil.
There is only so much i can do - i'm not american and thats a change i can't make on my own aside from doing my best to be an ally when possible.

However i can open a few PRs and use some of my time to make that change. It's a minor inconvenience to me and if it makes even one black person feel heard and supported then yea, i'm gonna do it.
Agreed. AI-existential risk is still science fiction. The other two are much more achievable.

If we can't get AI to reliably drive a car, it wont be taking over the world any time soon.
No reason? They are literally trying to set fire to the Federal Courthouse in Portland.
Judging by comments hackers aren’t commenting on hacker news anymore.
I find a lot of the Chinese eBay sellers have a... bizarre... assortments of items for sale. I fear, one day, I'll order some USB cables, and get stuck having to explain to someone why child-sized lingerie has been shipped to my name.

So far, the only gross error I've had was a getting sent hairclippers instead of a Dreamcast controller. Could've used the clippers, but wrong voltage :(
Stage 5 would be pretty early on. However generally when talking about the HPC you're talking about cold air. At this stage, cold air that's sprayed on the turbine housing when engine power is reduced to thermally shrink the metal to keep the turbine blades and casing within tolerance for efficiency's sake.

All is explained in the link I posted, would recommend it as good introductory reading on the subject.
Conservatives would LOVE the Portland Ninth Circuit Courthouses all burned down. They are the most Progressive Courts in the country.

...not sure who's side the anarchists are on.
He may very well have it locally for better security when doing some of tne analysis and other work for getting those dumps.
In normal human arithmetic, it's equivalent to saying something like "7+5= 12" and remembering the "+5" so you can undo it later.
The receiver will just throw the seeds in the garbage, and depending on the hardiness of the seeds, that is as good as planting them in the garbage dump.
I'd never heard of these before: http://nyis.info/invasive_species/water-chestnut/

The other common name ("water caltrop") is illuminating.
I'm kind of surprised that congress critters are not focusing on home office deductions as part of the incentives. The $1200 is an advance (not free money), but an actual deduction would be useful come around next year.
U.S. eyes building nuclear power plants on the moon, Mars
>Who is going to decide which activities are "non-essential" ?

A nonpartisan government panel of scientists. I realize with the current political climate in the us, that might be a tall order, but that doesn't immediately mean the idea should be dismissed.

>How will they go about determining whether there are more benefits or costs associated with a particular activity?

Cost benefit analysis based on empirical evidence?

>People are already incentivized by nature to sort out on their own what sorts of activities will allow them and their communities to flourish. Let them. We will all be better for it.

The examples you've listed lie on a spectrum. Indoor rock climbing probably isn't too negative, all things considered. OTOH motorcycles is much harder to defend. You're really going to risk your life to save a few grand a year on gas and parking?

Like I said before none of this is new. The government has already deemed tobacco to be more harmful than good. As such, it's heavily taxed. I don't find it outrageous to tax things that are similarly obviously more harmful than good.
...windows login screen and start menu search

I don't use them.

I use Open-Shell (formerly Classic Shell). Before that I used Launchy (which is another crazy-fast alternative) tied to my CapsLock key.

I've also had tabs on my file Explorer windows, since Win 7 (thanks to QTTabBars). I'm commonly asked about that after I give remote desktop presentations.
This sounds big. Can anybody knowledgeable on the subject provide additional information?
> “The government of Virginia wishes to clarify there is no such thing as magic beans...”

I wish they'd went with a Glomar Response[0]. "The government of Virginia can neither confirm nor deny the existence of magic beans."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_response
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>"You might wonder how a charge pump can turn a positive voltage into a negative voltage. The trick is a "flying" capacitor, as shown below. On the left, the capacitor is charged to 5 volts.

Now, disconnect the capacitor and connect the positive side to ground. The capacitor still has its 5-volt charge, so now the low side must be at -5 volts.

By rapidly switching the capacitor between the two states, the charge pump produces a negative voltage."

That is a strange and weird effect of capacitors!

I never knew this, before this post!

I'll have to experiment with this weird but interesting effect in the future!
If you read my whole comment, yes, trolls are indeed just "wind power bad" and you don't need GPT-3 for that. You've had that forever.

GPT-3 has this quality that yes, it's very impressive but much less useful for a purpose than such impressiveness suggests. Like much of current AI, imo. Certainly there are exception, valuable uses, but still.
Baraka is a really good film. Samsara, made later, is also good, but not quite at the level of its predecessor. Both available on Amazon.
People are too quick to recommend accounting and finance books. Or... recommend super complex material because they think the subject is complex. If his/her goal is to learn what it takes to be more effective at the finance piece, they should follow my advice. If they want to go deeper for fun later, they can, but it won’t have as much value as improving the 3 things I mentioned.
> Chinese seller sends something cheap

I don't understand. Why do they need to ship anything in the box at all? They could ship empty boxes and still have tracking numbers show as delivered.
Useful for family trees!
People tends to compare latencies of devices to human cognition-action loop and declare it irrelevant, but paraphrasing what I’ve heard from a gamer, their understanding is their ability to eyeball sub-10ms range latencies comes from a fact that their I/O loop runs synchronously to real time by training, that added latency can disrupt and force re-adjustments in detectable ways. Like 1PPS signals can be used to sync time in orders of picoseconds, precision of an event is not limited by frequency, only by deviations. Isn’t that interesting?
There may be a slightly different interpretation too.

Ozymandias still has this traveler writing a poem about him and through it, us/audience, talking about him. Which (rightly or wrongly), is what Ozymandias wanted in the first place.
Nathan Pyle / Strange Planet is great. I would say there's some The Far Side spirit in there. Not sure what to link to since Instagram doesn't allow scrolling anymore but his Twitter seems to have plenty of stuff: https://twitter.com/nathanwpyle
You'll need to read advanced thermodynamic textbooks.
Why do they NEVER disclose the HDMI version? It is so important for 4k. Just maddening.
Drive the (26’ motorhome) RV. Somewhat limiting in cities, but the rest of the time it’s so much easier not towing.

And there are tricks for dealing with cities, like parking on the edge and biking in. Or finding RV friendly lots using google maps satellite images.

Lately cities have far less to offer (no museums, galleries, restaurants, etc.) so it’s hike and bike and enjoy the beautiful country.
Great idea, but it would work much better as an educational tool if the text was also presented, with text highlighted to show the conceptual connections.
> "I wonder if this is an attack"
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This is an unvarnished hit piece on a scientist after months of hindsight.

"Don't ever be wrong or we'll punish you" is how you stifle science.

Edit: in light of comments, I'll add that I'm not saying he is wrong, but the culture of don't be wrong is crippling.
"Ignorance is bliss."
You are either a chinese shill or very ignorant.
The government can't tell me what to do! ;)
That's just a hoax of an investigation. Tumble weeds were from the wild west days. It too was clearly part of the plot from China. As they built the railroads, they were doing their version of Johnny Appleseed dropping the tumble weed seeds. The whole of the US Southwest was a lush garden like area until these tumble weeds took over and turned it into a desert.
It's harder for darker people to get id than lighter people? How so?
Invasive species are mostly bad for ecosystems. They introduce a lot of unknowns. There is nothing safe for neither humans nor wildlife about possibility introducing invasive species.
I wonder (with my limited knowledge on the exact nature of the language) why we still print 'ye' if the 'y' was a shorthand for 'th' and therefore it actually is pronounced 'the'. If we modify or modernise the other words in the poem, why keep 'the' spelled using 'ye'? As far as I can tell it only causes people the speak (or mentally read) the equivalent of 'yee'.
Or to stop paying attention, as when you avoid listening to that crazy person shouting in the subway
Ah, I haven’t seen a dataset I could use for that. Everything on the links I’m putting up is based on the country and state information.

I’ve seen timezone maps drawn, so this information does exist somewhere, but one would have to draw polygons for each timezone and do coverage checks, which seems complicated. The time zone lines zig and zag a lot.
Wow! How can TSMC survive that decimation?

One answer may be that 5nm was pretty much the end of miniaturization anyway, and TSMC would be stuck there
with a dwindling moat until competitors caught up.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/thousands-of-taiwanese-chip-ex...
It’s not even clear that he is wrong, but the article seems to be implying this assumption. Buzzfeed “news”.
Thanks! I will :) v0.0.8 (https://github.com/prologic/twtxt/releases/tag/0.0.8) is out nw with pre-built binaries and some nice new features!
That's cool. It'd be easier to use if in addition to the mouse enter and the arrow keys were handled. That tree gets kind of deep.
It is important to know what are A and B. Splitgraph\dbt\Dolt can work if these are structured tables in SQL database while DVC works if A and B are files or directories.
> I think the latency becomes most problematic when it's inconsistent

Indeed! I don't have a problem using say a SSH console with 1 second lag. After a bit of initial cursing, it works just fine, I can write my code or edit conf files just fine. It's not as comfortable as writing at home, but it's not really a big deal.

However if the lag is inconsistent, say due to packet drops, it's horrible. Even if the base latency is low.
This is just evolution in action. The quiet progressive evolution of A/B testing culminating in our current symbiotic relationship between our dopamine receptors and the news headline generators. :)
Then fix that?

Powerful donors should not exist.
> don't roll your own

But, if you never attempt to roll your own, then, how will you learn to make a basic version? Then, how will you learn how to make the next great encryption algorithm or program?
What Ioannidis has done for the last 3 months is not science. It is using his position as a prominent scientist to influence policy. His actions were widely criticized by the scientific community at the time, and in hindsight they are still allowed to be criticized.
Another D3 visualization of the Tractatus and also includes the earlier Prototractatus as well.

http://tractatus.lib.uiowa.edu/map/
Teachers are still working during COVID, in fact they probably have to do more work to adapt to hasty, scrappy adoption of online learning.

I don’t think the other ones exist in significantly large amounts to be meaningful and even then, keep in mind that furloughed people are not getting paid. The money has to come from somewhere to start paying them for whatever again, and states and cities have limited funding resources even before COVID blew a hole in most tax revenues.
We're in the middle of a global pandemic quite possibly caused by Chinese people consuming animals that shouldn't be consumed. "Open minded" is not the right description for this behavior.
:O That's a pretty deceptive way to get people to use your thing eh? NOt sure I want to do that ;)
What was the punishment in this case - being publicly criticized? That never feels good but it's an ordinary part of science and academia, especially when someone gets involved in policymaking.