skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Vaccine that has already gone through normal stage 2 trials ensuring safety? All this talk about a vaccine being 'rushed' is so anti-science, it's a joke. The vaccine may certainly be ineffective or undereffective if rushed through phase 3 trials, but the idea it'll be unsafe is hogwash.
Modern Analog in USA: those watching the most politically oriented sources, Fox & MSNBC are actually WORSE informed than those who watch no news at all.[1]

And those who watch actual sources (in the case of this study, the Sunday AM interview shows) are best informed.

[1] http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2012/confirmed/
You deliberately choose to ignore all of the studies that disagree with you except the one that you agree with that has very obvious flaws. Here's a summary of the literature[1]. Personalized ads have become popular because they perform better for the buyer, and that makes buyers willing to pay more to show them to their customers. Buyer goals align with conversions. The history of advertising online started with contextual, there is zero evidence to support the claim that revenue will only drop 4% when any company submitting bids for contextual vs personalized ads can show you that the CPMs they are willing to pay can easily be 2-3x if not even higher for high worth users.

[1]: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1juu6UBguR7ru1Rhfyor9...
What's the maneuvering ability of a coal plant? I looked at the article, but didn't see it.
> In the future, for Linux and Windows Runners, we will offer more GCP machine types.

I can see free plan users starting to see their CI jobs randomly timeout if they have access to those machines.

I get that execution time isn't a bad metric, all things considered. But I would have expected actual CPU `time` (1), maybe mixed with memory usage.
So I've actually tried to implement Eulerian video magnification myself, albeit using Python, because I believe when I first looked into this, ~5 year ago, the code was MatLab only.

I was really excited about it, because, as a cardiologist, I immediately thought we could use this to identify irregular heart beats in the patient waiting room, for example. This was pre Apple watch etc. I was thinking people could briefly sit in the chair in front of the camera if they are willing to be recorded, as a quick screening whilst they wait for the doc.

Unfortunately, I found it incredibly difficult to reproduce their results, even using similar data. I remember videoing my foot as I have a relatively prominent posterior tibial pulse, which in good light I can actually make out visually (but not in the video I took, as intended). The Eulerian magnification didn't seem to do anything.

Has anyone else had better luck? I did wonder if maybe I had to use specific video capture equipment, certain frame rates or filters, but if so that wasn't clear from the documentation?

It's been 8 years since this paper came out, and yet I still haven't seen it being used in the 'real world', so I am slightly suspicious that I am not alone in my experiences.
>it's all subjective.

Let's dream for a moment where the tort system worked perfectly. All environmental externalities would be perfectly priced by class actions. Cause $100,000 of lung damage, pay $100,000 to the survivors. If only such efficient courts existed...
” I try to focus on the ones that seem to feel they have a duty to report on the news”

Can you share an example? I have trouble coming up with any which aren’t burdened with profit or idealogical motives.
I have long thought about how to solves this problem with my cats. I currently have a two-door setup (analogous to an airlock) and this is not a problem. Nevertheless, what I try is to teach them that anytime I open a door which was previously closed, they have to first sit and then wait for me to give them permission (I say a specific word) before they are allowed to pass through it. Until then they must be seated. Sometimes I open the door, go to the other side and do my stuff and get back and don't let them through. This also lets them know that they don't _always_ get to go through that door. If I see them make the first small movement as if to get up, a stern "hey" makes them drop that idea. Of course, there is no risk _now_ as they can't go outside from the 2-door arrangement but I may move to a different house some time in the future and that might be set up differently. Also in general, I don't want them to have a habit of running through doors that just opened.
I cringe reading the deluded opinions from people in this thread that clearly do not understand the impact on the app ecosystem, let alone how ad tech works.

I'd liken it to reading a post on mumsnet.com with 100+ middle aged women arguing about 5g.
Your "in 10 years the teenagers..." part applies even today already. A German rapper I know had released a mixtape 3-4 years ago, but as he had no rights to the beats it was only a mediafire zip upload...

Not even he has the zip or any of the songs, as the files got deleted, managers changed and so on. And this was no mediocre stuff, I loved it!
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4062216
The complete disregard for locality and generalizations over an entire continent-sized country don't help either. It's like if a report on the Belarus election situation was used to insist the entirety of the EU was collapsing, while at the same time a report over protests in, I dunno, Sweden was used to show that everything in Belarus is peaceful.
The danger from radiation in these products is so low it shouldn't be a problem unless you ingest or inhale it.
Which is ironic because people with conditions like heart disease almost overwhelmed the healthcare system during the pandemic...

"Approximately 90% of hospitalized patients identified through COVID-NET had one or more underlying conditions, the most common being obesity, hypertension, chronic lung disease, diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular disease."

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6915e3.htm
This was being done three years ago: https://www.powermag.com/thorium-molten-salt-reactor-experim...

Also, I believe Copenhagen Atomics is doing this at the moment, but couldn't (quickly) find a reference.
It can be, depending on the protocol. This was a double blind yet open label (?) study. I’ve never done an open label study so don’t know how they have to be powered (and I’m not a biostatistician so won’t render a guess)
Or solar. Or wind. Or tidal. The beauty of hydrogen is its a great way of time-shifting intermittent energy on a large scale (assuming a large enough water supply) for later use. I’m talking primarily about electricity generation as opposed to fuel for vehicles.
> We do not store private messages on our servers _once we deliver them_

Doesn't this mean that messages exist in plaintext on Facebook's servers for at least the time it takes to deliver them? To me this is equal to saying that everything is clear text anyway, since there is no way to ensure someone lawfully or unintentionally taps the text stream and diverts it somewhere.

Am I misunderstanding?
Wow, this topic is not that hot.
A very ordinary Iranian developer has a repository (which he shouldn't have it on github, since github belongs to MS and MS is American, at any moment they can close his account with legal excuses, just like what other Americans tech companies did to Iranian users).
A very ordinary Israeli guy made a PR and the repository owner politely rejected it because he doesn't want to interact with any person from that country)

US has a lot of law and rules against many countries including Iran, no one argues about that. And some guys want to escalate a PR up to governmental level. It's ridiculous...

There is no specific law for git PR. It's a very general law. Many middle eastern countries would not recognize Israel as a country, it is called Occupied Palestin.
Citizens of these countries shouldn't interact with ppl from occupied territories.
Google has every incentive to find you the least expensive lead, which is not good for you. The least expensive lead is the one that would buy from you even if they didn't see the ad. This means you wasted money, and a lot of it.
How to make your own lookalike Facebook avatar
Facebook recently just launched Avatars, a Bitmoji competitor, which lets users customise a virtual lookalike of themselves for use as profile picture or stickers in chat and comment. Let's learn how to use it to create a cool avatar for yourself!
The problem with assertions without any supporting facts is they can only be mirrored by the obvious counter-arguments:

In fact, Zuckerberg strikes me as someone acting insincerely, making arguments in bad faith, with no regard to civic responsibilities, which makes perfect sense given his self-serving ideals and well-known financial incentives. And I come to that opinion based on his views and actions, notwithstanding the transparent attempts to buy good PR under the guise of philanthropy.

Perhaps he is adding to the chaos and confusion in a uniquely consequential fashion, but at a minimum he is completely indifferent to the consequences of his actions. These consequences may be no worse than past consequences, so it would make sense that we should only take action comparable to past legislation e.g. passing new major laws as powerful as the Sherman Act so that his callous disregard for honesty, facts, injury and integrity do not become everybody else’s problem too.
So much of what we think is knowledge is actually just a construct to allow someone to make some money.
You cant make billions of dollars selling pills through educational reform.
Carbs have a longer shelf-life, high profit margin and are hunger inducing so fat was demonised.
Recycling doesnt work because its not cost effective but the plastics industry pushes it to shift responsibility away allowing them to fill our world with garbage.
You cant make money with treatments out of patent so meds like chloroquine are demonised with cherry-picked research.
We are swimming in an ocean of garbage presented to us as fact.
> However used improperly it can end in amphetamine addiction or even psychosis.

Someone I know managed to do that, despite being on intramuscular antipsychotics. Unfortunately no middle ground, the meds keep him anhedonic and abulic, but without them it's mania. I would be careful with stimulants.
(Not OP)
I’m not an athlete anymore, but I used to be. It would be physically impossible for me to maintain my muscle mass and have a BMI considered normal, whilst also having a body fat percentage >5%. I know many other (pretty much exclusively taller men) people in the same situation.
In case anyone is wondering about GitHub (not GitLab), they're planning to add multiple runner sizes[0]. Unfortunately it was moved from Q4 2020 to 'future' so there's no expected release time.

0: https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/95
How is this better than say Siri? Also does it support voice to text?
It's just that living conditions and average wealth has skyrocketed over the past couple hundred years.

Deirdre McCloskey refers to it as the Great Enrichment:

> The rise in the liberal nations has been a stunning 3,000 percent at the least—or if one allows properly for improvements in quality, such as better medicine and better housing (and for that matter, better economics), more like 10,000 percent. A factor of 100. Goodness.

https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/great-enrichment
I keep seeing this on different threads.

Be careful with supplements containing fat-soluble compounds , of which Vitamin D is one. Vitamin D is a hormone. Careful!

Same goes for any metals.

Taking supplements occasionally shouldn't be harmful. A vitamin D supplement every once in a while should be ok, specially if you are locked up and not getting sufficient sunlight.

The key being "occasionally". However, if you routinely take them, please have a checkup done on the next opportunity you get. If you don't have any deficiencies, you shouldn't need supplementation.

Vitamin C should be fine. It is water-soluble, excess can be disposed of, if your kidneys are normal.
Can you provide examples please? I've followed Graeber for years, and this sounds nothing like the person I came to know.
Wireless Transmission of Energy
New Zealand startup Emrod is developing wireless power transmission technology. Moreover, it was quite successful: the transmission of energy over short distances took place. Transmission is currently limited to 130 feet (40 meters)

https://techxplore.com/news/2020-08-zealand-startup-eyes-global-wireless.html
You couldn't be further from the truth. App developers told Apple they are going to decimate their income and ability to survive.
It is under the hood but all of that is heavily encapsulated to make it more like other algol languages that people are familiar with.
Yup. This one is free. But your question is a good one! Any advice?
It's a people problem.

People are fallible on the best days, assuming everyone did their very best from nuclear physicists to construction workers, mistakes are made. You take steps to reduce the risk. Research gets review. Engineering schematics get review. Construction gets inspection. Still some mistakes will get through.

And people always act their very best all the time right?

You can even have a perfect design, perfect construction, that is mismanaged years after it's built, after the original engineers and bureaucrats lose control.

The same people problems apply to basically every human endeavor, but nuclear's capability to cause accidents that have a lasting impact is pretty scary. You don't feel even a twinge of existential dread when you think about? If you don't, then I don't think I want you working on a reactor.
This was helpful. Thanks!
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I think what they're saying, and they ought to clarify this, is that they don't store unencrypted messages, and they may temporarily store encrypted messages as part of the Signal protocol to deliver them later.
Thank you for destroying the free press
Ask HN: What are reputable sources of Covid-19 information?
It's hard to know where to look, what to believe, or who to trust regarding COVID-19. I doubt that anything you can find on a major news site, or anything ranking highly in search engines is unbiased.

I'd like to compile a list of resources (mail lists, videos, talks etc) that are at least somewhat reputable or trustworthy, not sponsored or skewed--experts who have done (or are doing) their homework and working to educate others. Of course no one knows the real whole state of the world with 100% certainty, but I know there are people who know better than me, and I'd like to find them!
> I've used laptops with Ultra High Definition (UHD), aka 4K, with 3840x2160 resolution, and I've found the text to be painfully small.

Where are you all getting this from? Win10, KDE scale without any problems for quite a while.
Oh good, another English dossier. Those are entertaining! One notes that at that link there are no specific accusations against Corbyn. It's all "Corbyn-supporting groups" and "concerns about Corbyn's leadership". Seems a bit thin!

We would have seen this fiction in USA too, if voters would have just forgotten that Bernie is actually Jewish.
It is off by default.
Why is wasm necessarily slower than the browser if the browser is already implementing canvas via skia? Just the hardware acceleration? Does that mean only gpu access or something more?

Not that that would make much sense. I’ve not been very successful at understanding what kind of problem canvaskit is trying to solve

What I am trying to do is the same as it was more than a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20339574): A tile based, web based view with prerendered image tiles from the server and on the fly rendered tiles on the client. Ideally the client side rendering is super fast, whether that means gpu is enough or multi threaded cpu I don’t know yet

So what I understand so far is that I can’t have anything multithreaded (yet?) in the web client and probably native canvas is the most performant. Even canvaskit with webgl won’t reach that performance (not sure here)

Otoh canvaskit could possibly be used in other browsers if they don’t natively implement canvas via skia itself to minimize render diffs

And lastly this project here could be the backend renderer instead of either headless browser via canvas api (hacky) or canvaskit in node (slow because cpu only)

But none of these offer and kind of performance increase over native canvas which is limited to single thread because of spectre and meltdown
The IRI and Das Kapital have nothing to do with each other. Moreover, Das Kapital is a treatise on economics, and says almost nothing on how a government should be structured, except that power should be held by the majority class. If you're going to make an argument for some other text Marx worte, AFAIK the only endorsement he ever made of a mode of political organization was that of the Paris Commune, which is, to put it mildly, completely unrelated to Iran's.

As for Iran having a similar structure to the USSR, you couldn't be further from the truth. To begin with, all parties are legal in Iran de jure, and are not obligated to hold internal elections. Whereas the Soviet system is that you have one party, which is legally required to hold multiple primaries, with the concept being that the party should be changed by the people (obviously this doesn't happen). The most powerful person in the USSR, the General Secretary of the CPSU, is not appointed for life, and is elected by successive representative bodies culminating ultimately in the Soviet, which has no equivalent in Iran. The principle of social control in Iran is the IRGC, whereas in the USSR it is admittance to the Communist Party. All in all, nothing in common.

I have a feeling that you have read neither the Iranian Constitution, nor Das Kapital. I'm not making an argument about whether either are moral, but they really have nothing to do with each other.
>SpaceX could hit a button (well, run a script, probably) and Starlink would disappear within 2-4 weeks.

Make me wonder what kind of security is in place to prevent a bad actor from doing that.

Is there some 'field' of CS that deals with this? I would love to read about it.
> But then I start to wonder.. is this actually elite minds speaking ... Or, is it just some overly opinionated junior person

There's another dimension of the issue: types of the project the person has experience with.

Something that works in a low-level Windows desktop doesn't necessarily work in high-level Linux web. Something that works for NASA or SpaceX doesn't necessarily work for a mobile game startup. Something that works for FAANG is not necessarily the best way for a web site that's running on a single server. Something awesome for a social network is not guaranteed to do any good for a bank, or a research lab.

That "something" can be pretty much anything: languages, libraries, IDEs, frameworks, project management practices, hiring practices. The only thing these projects have in common is "people need to write code that does something". Almost everything else is different. And yet we have many discussions where people working in different industries, on projects with different requirements, budget, users, revenue sources are arguing which language is better.
Older Crockpots usually have lead in the interior coating as well. Found that out on Reddit when someone was told they should test their new Goodwill purchase.
Yes, and there is also now proof of sabotage by the right of the Labour party specifically in order to create the narrative you are repeating.

"The 860-page document claims that “an abnormal intensity of factional opposition to the party leader” had “inhibited the proper functioning of the Labour Party bureaucracy” and contributed to “a litany of mistakes” in dealing with antisemitism, which it admits was a serious problem in the party."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-leak-r...

Meanwhile, the Tory party gets a free pass on their rampant Antisemitism and stoking hatred of immigrants.
Maybe if they were better, people would pay for them. That’s how the market is supposed to work.
Lucky they found a use for the toxic waste from oil refineries by mixing it with sand and gravel and rolling it down on roads.

On the other hand, as vehicles go electric, there won't be any new asphalt to make roads for them to run on.
False equivalencies: Online activism from left to right
Anything important is deeply interesting after learning how so, so I'm distracted only when tired, then switch to a pending (or try a new) rested activity; so avoiding recursive digressions, I `work' almost all day every day.
In embedded systems, often times not all memory is equal. Pre-computing a lookup table at runtime may not be practical due to the limited amount of RAM vs. flash memory. A constexpr or template meta program is, as you touched on, a nice way to do calculations at compile time in the existing language without having to add an explicit autocoding build step. An explicit build step eventually makes sense for sufficiently complex algorithms, but it can be a lot of build system maintenance overhead for small to medium complexity stuff. Implementing esoteric code using obscure syntax may be bad for readability, but keeping it "in the language" has a benefit of limiting the amount of project specific knowledge required to understand it.
Can you use an oxygen tank to improve your O2 levels? Or is your rate of absorption a limiting factor?
My solution is I read the Economist and the Sunday NYT (which admittedly skews too much these days but then I guess so do I). The 1 week lag gives things time to settle. And I love the ritual of the paper.
I think wire services are generally pretty good, and Wikipedia Current Events Portal has a decent roundup of wire reports (AP, BBC, Reuters, etc) for stuff going on in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

Everyone has profit motives and stuff, but if you're well-read and keep an eye on what's going on you can usually subtract any bias you detect.
"We do not store private messages on our servers"

Are all messages "private" messages? Or is this intended to distinguish group chats from one-to-one chats?
> They made it all they could control it.

Didn't seem to work.

> The advertiser I'd had always been opt in so it was progress for privacy.

It's opt out:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074
A proactive way of increasing your attack surface no doubt.
In the interests of full disclosure:

Your butt and hands are never happier than when you are on a fresh stretch of newly minded asphalt. It's like silk sheets. If you're riding into a crosswind, the smell isn't so bad and the overall effect is quite pleasant.

But a tail or head wind on a hot day? Man alive.
I was going to write a snarky remark about how WhatsApp doesn't promise to be E2E encrypted, but it totally does https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/security-and-privacy/end-to... . Maybe they just store the hash? Definitely sounds shady
Not exactly the case for protects like Crank built in the JSX "paradigm".
> and whether those are ideal for longevity and quality of life in modern society

This seems like the real question to me; I assume pre-agrarian humans were biologically optimizing to survive famine. Not being an expert on the subject, I wonder what sort of tradeoffs are associated with intense exercise regimes (and how the balance ultimately comes out with respect to modern society).
Do the electronic exchanges mentioned in this paper include adds sold on Facebook and product recommendations from Amazon? It's hard to believe that Facebook's add space is that much smaller than Alphabet, and if Facebook is not included in the definition of "online display advertising space", then that seems like a pretty large omission.