skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article uses the testing of asymptomatic people who've potentially been exposed as a jumping-off point to push the authors' proposal for testing asymptomatic people regardless of known exposure. These are of course completely unrelated in terms of actual benefits, practicality, etc but it treats one as though it were an extension of the other. It can even make sense to test selected high-risk or high-danger people without known exposure whilst not testing people known to be exposed in general; I know the UK is doing this to a certain extent for example.

As for testing of potentially exposed people without symptoms, it has its issues as the CDC pointed out. The test just can't reliably detect people who're infected but still in the incubation period of the disease, so testing them will tell a bunch of them that they're negative and some of them will think they're in the clear and go about their normal business. I think New Zealand had a incident recently where a health worker in a city they were hoping to stop the disease spreading to tested negative, went back to work, and then tested positive again later after developing symptoms and working for a while whilst infectious, though that one was probably hard to avoid. It's also not terribly commonplace, especially as a companion to mass testing everyone with symptoms rather than an alternative - I know the UK in particular, which is the other country with a big mass testing program and probably the only one with relatively working contact tracing too, doesn't do this as a matter of policy. It also consumes a bunch of tests that would be more usefully used dealing with the test backlog - finding potentially exposed people should work a lot better if you find out they're potentially exposed sooner, and the main tactic is getting them to self isolate.
This, posting on this site lets me interact with people who would probably never give me the time of day in real life.
It feels like being a handyman who gets to hang around engineers. It's like getting a little taste of what being successful in this field feels like.
WebMIDI is amazing. It's so cool to be able to hook up hardware controllers to websites so easily.

It's not only for music.
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That's exactly my use case: I use these images for (1) building packages locally (sbuild has a QEMU bridge via the autopkgtest mode), and (2) for autopkgtest.

A minimal debootstrap-like installation with only the bare minimum configuration is ideal for that, it ensures that nothing from my own environment bleeds into the build/test environment.

I've run into all sorts of issues on non-amd64 platforms, and debugging on porter boxes is sometimes cumbersome. Most importantly, however, is getting access to one. For Debian contributors, it's easy, but most upstreams aren't Debian contributors.

Unless I'm mistaken, I can now at least point them to one of the images you generate, and they should be able to run it with very little effort.
I use the magic of AirDrop as well :) Unfortunately, sometimes I'm on my Linux machine (in which case python3 -m http.server works just fine), or need to send a file to someone else and then I'd like to have at least some form of monitoring/progress.

Edit: magic wormhole is awesome! Thanks! :D
Negative Income Tax, or any linear system (as in a safety net that does not have discontinuities/jumps, so it doesn't make folks choose between having a shitty job or getting a shitty unemployment income).
I've currently involved with a system, written in C, which has been going for 30 years: GAP - https://www.gap-system.org

While I write a lot of C, I immediately disagree with the idea that C has a "simple (yet expressive) abstract machine model". Every so often we find a bug which has been present for over a decade, because some new compiler has added a (perfectly legal by the standard) optimisation which breaks some old code.

Picking one example: in the "old days", it was very common (and important for efficiency) to freely cast memory between char, int, double, etc. For many years this was fine, then all compilers started keeping better track of aliasing and lots of old code broke.

Also, while POSIX is a nice base, it stops you using Windows, and also almost every non-trivial program ends up with a bunch of autoconf (which has to be updated every so often) to handle differences between linux/BSD/Mac.

Also, definatly don't distribute code where you use flags like '-pedantic', as it can lead to your code breaking on future compilers which tighten up the rules.
If you do (which would be great), please consider adding it to this list:

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> My day job is primarily ML as well, so I might just go for the 3090. 24 GB of memory is a game changer for what I can do locally. I really just wish Nvidia would get its shit together with Linux drivers.

You might be better off waiting for Quadro.

GeForce, from NVIDIA's perspective, is the consumer line. The drivers are focused on getting the best possible performance for gamers (on Windows you'll see a big deal made of "Game-ready" drivers) and the hardware is intended for desktop usage, i.e. a couple of hours of gaming. GeForce hardware isn't intended for long-running jobs like ML and the drivers aren't stability-focused.

That's not to say that you can't train ML models on a GeForce card or that the GeForce drivers will lead to constant crashing or anything, just that NVIDIA isn't focused on this for GeForce.

Quadro and Tesla on the other hand are all about reliability. They're intended for use in servers and workstations where they're subject to all-day (Quadro) or 24/7 (Tesla) load. The drivers are focused on making sure things don't break.

Though I think the 3090 is intended to be the successor to the previous-generation Titan, so it could be that NVIDIA has different ideas about what goes where these days.
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OK so this is a partial tangent - but I have a washing machine that annoys the hell out of me for this exact same reason (I know washing machine UI is not a hot topic usually but it damn well should be!)

It has a dial on the front to choose settings. Potentially a great idea to skip quick to the one I want - BUT the damn thing can only detect 1 step of change about every half second. So if you fast-turn it 4 clicks, it still only moves one step. So you have to stand there, slowly turning it, click, click, click, click....

The dial is the biggest design feature on there. Massive. Right in the middle. Bright lights all around it. But they couldn't even be bothered to make it solve the one problem it was there to do.
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A very long article describing an anecdote about a woman who is ill and has never tested positive for COVID-19.
What's the total cost of an employee that earns 150K or 200K in CA?

Usually the argument is that hiring one more employee would be more costly, but I'm not familiar with the exact numbers.
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Culture echoing biology.

Sexual reproduction evolves convergently from the fusion of similar gametes (isogamy) to those of dissimilar gametes (anisogamy).

Sexual differentiation produces dimorphic sexual asymmetry, a binary mating system of two types. Males produce many small gametes, females produce few large gametes.

Factored by the expensive cost of selection, copulation, gestation, and rearing, and females are naturally inclined to be more selective.

In a sellers market where everyone wants to buy, humans mate assortatively.

I highly recommend ‘The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems’ (1983) by Randy Thornhill and John Alcock. The diversity of insects provide excellent insight into the evolution of sexual reproduction.
Pakistan blocks Tinder, Grindr and other apps
I would invite you to examine the non-dischargeable debt claim before propagating it.
I've used BroadcastChannel and it is much more convenient than postMessage. My usecase was synchronizing logout between multiple tabs on the same SPA.
Wait... car mechanics too? If you’re already billed for human labor cost on your invoice, what percentage do you tip on top of that? How is it shared between employees of the shop?
> different languages have different specialties in representing some concepts

We make up new words and new grammar all the time. At some point we needed to encapsulate what a "boomer" is, and we didn't need to turn to another language that specializes in boomers.

When there's enough utility in encapsulating a multi-faceted concept into a single word or phrase, we get there.

If we needed to describe 50 different types of snow on a regular basis, we would.

It isn't as though there's any barrier in one language for coming up with new concepts compared to any other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow
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I guess that when working with 3D orientation data, this could be useful?
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> A few sensors every few meters.

The US has a total length of about 300 000km of railway network and that probably counts multi-track connections once. And it doesn’t include subway or anything. So that would be a lot of sensors that need to be placed and maintained. And you’d need to except some failure of sensors, so you cannot just stop if a single sensor goes haywire.

It’s certainly not impossible, but also not trivially done.
I managed to freeze a bottle of beer the other week when I put some in the freezer to cool down and forgot about the last one.

Bottle didn't break though the contents were sadly inaccessible - seemed to be an opaque white viscous slurry.
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Sure. We do all sorts of things. My point is there is an objective quality to each of it, which could (theoretically, for the point of it) be established by interviewing the individual and having them rank various forms of entertainment, while reflecting on the effect it has on their psyche.

I know very well that for me, jogging, or unwinding with a game is all right but not as good as sailing or mountaineering with a group of cool people or dancing with a skilled partner. Most things even have their place. But there is a real difference that can't be denied. We could even dissect the experience and find the rewarding or unrewarding elements: bonding with a group of people in nature and getting a varied excercise while doing it could rank very high (for many individuals).

If we agree on that, we can go on and see if some activities are bad for many/most people, and label them as such. A low-bandwith interaction with fake-emotion, a simple stimulation in a one-way relationship could then be categorized as Bad.

That's a long way to state the obvious but the sacred idea of the free will made it necessary for me to make this point :)
With Cantonese being mentioned in particular it’s worth noting that China has always acted to eliminate other languages in the country to the point where Cantonese and other languages aren’t spoken anymore in the mainland.

This may seem more efficient to the OP but we’re not talking about a common official language being known by all, but a single language displacing all others for the purpose to homogenise a country that consists of many cultures into a single one.

So it’s important to say: language is not only a tool but a reflection of culture, identity, and your part of society. We can learn a lot about people by learning their languages, and the disappearance of a language is always significant.
> Hmmm. I hope the firmware authors weren't that dense. I would imagine they do a write when you exit the brightness change menu.

This is not an option when using DDC/CI, where each brightness change is an isolated command. Plus, the OS is likely to emulate a smooth transition by sending even more commands than the end-user dictated.

Sure, the firmware could defer storing to EEPROM until a timeout from last command, but I would not credit the average display firmware as being that thoughtful.

> 100,000 is a typical eeprom guaranteed write count.

No, it's usually an estimated write endurance at a certain voltage and at 25°C, with the number based on calculated risk of failure being lower than a non-zero threshold. Higher temperature and voltage leads to higher failure rates.

I have dealt with several EEPROMs dying after just thousands of writes, including ones in products manufactured at a previous employer (where the EEPROMs were replaced with modern flash). Reserve EEPROMs for when writes are the exception.
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That generator function illustrates exactly the problem I'm talking about. The maximum length of a string in Java is 2^31-1 code points. If user is an 'arbitrary string', then it could be 2^31-1 code points long. If domain is also an arbitrary string, then it can also be 2^31-1 code points long. When you concatenate them and exceed the maximum string length, you will cause a failure in the test code.

There are almost always constraints within the test data, but they're complex to properly express, so they aren't specified. Then one day, the generator violates those unstated constraints, causing the test to fail.
There was/is also a subreddit with a similar premise.
I experience this also, turns out the bluetooth was trying to detect keyboards and mouse even after I turned it off and explicitly turn off all bluetooth on startup options.
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How silly of me not to include "public golf parks", Italian town squares, and Singapore in a discussion about America. But then, there's nothing surprising about someone so privileged they can travel the globe having a loose grip on the reality being faced by most of the country.
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> I have heard of a few incidents [...] but there you have [...] crazy fans

Is there no "crazy fans" in the OnlyFans/Twitch community? I'd argue that the probability of crazy/mentally unstable fans would be a lot higher in this weird "parasocial relationship" environment compared to a typical music band fanbase.
I like how they avoided uncanny valley by using stylized model.
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My dream is to build something like this but in TypeScript, full stack. Using CDK for deployments, but also a really tight integration with higher order components. E.g. define a lambda handler and it automatically wires CDK code.

I guess kinda like serverless framework, but much less YAML and much more actual code.
What if it's a repeated field of a protocol buffer? Parse it into a set and then check it? That's exactly what `assertThat(expected).containsInAnyOrder(foo,bar,baz);` is doing anyway.
Yes. But it's all about dangling the carrot of promised sex in front of men, no matter how you dress it up. Self help is like selling a cookery book while porn is like selling a takeaway. Most people will go the route of instant gratification rather than a slow and difficult path.
The problem was not using an algorithm, it was that they used a crap algorithm that could award students grades that were higher than those even available on the paper that they sat, and made it impossible to get a high grade if no-one fromm your college got one before.

I'd love to see the details of the algorithm itself. Surely it can't have been too difficult to put some guard rails in there to prevent it moving any grade more than say, two places (maybe even one) from the predicted grade.

Instead it seemed to have the freedom to do whatever it liked. Moving Bs to fails. Students predicted to fail getting As.

That's just incompetence on the part of whoever made that algorithm.
I agree we can learn a lot about a people by learning their language and I agree that in some ways, but not all ways, language is a reflection of culture.

You can still have approximately the same root culture even with a completely different language as the daily driver. Jewish history is a good example of this.

If I could snap my fingers and eliminate all languages except for one, and have all cultures adjust/evolve to use that language instead, I'd do it. Not because we wouldn't be losing anything, but because the loss would be 1000x worthwhile.
considering that onlyfans and the like cater to porn , i doubt the publicity will much affect their bottom line

if anything, the publicity and ensuing scrutiny these sites get usually leads to them getting shut down
You don't.

Such monitor recommendations could only be based on people tearing down things, which is outside the scope of Lunar and f.lux.

There is never a guarantee that you don't get stuck with a dud monitor, in any aspect. However, companies making products with bad reliability is going to face high support/warranty fulfillment costs and get a bad reputation. And if it fails within warranty/consumer protection periods, you lose nothing.

So, write away, and flood bad manufacturers in complaints. It's all you can do as a consumer - the alternative boing to get AMD, nVidia or Intel (or Displayport/HDMI interest forums) to be interested in making requirements against display manufacturers on the matter.
Yet, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/B2G_OS/API

They are only harmful when one is the underdog and plays security as selling point.

Or one has a store to sell native apps.
That anyone ever thought it was a good idea boggles the mind. Random lot would have been better.
As you've admitted yourself, this isn't the kind of thing you're into and because of that, I think you're running the risk of demonizing an industry simply because you cannot understand nor relate to it.

Titillation has always been profitable (eg why product advertisements feature attractive models) and it's not always about loneliness (though I'm not going to dispute that it sometimes is). Sometimes it's just about fun or primal desire. I know couples who have been to strip clubs and paid for dances -- happy couples who just enjoy the adult nature of it after a few beers. It's also entirely possible to lust after something without being lonely. Just as it is possible that some people have a comfortable income and feel like they want to pay for the content they consume -- whether that's literature, music, film and TV, or nude selfies. You might intellectualise about which form requires greater creative input but ultimately there's still someone putting themselves out there and trying to pay their bills.

I tend to look at this stuff like fast food. Some people like it, some people hate it. As long as you consume it in moderation -- which most people do -- then it has a right to coexist with fine dining restaurants.
These are all terrible industries that are literally exploitative. Some in different directions.

This is filling a need like meth cures boredom.
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I am tempted to do so. My monitor is in warranty period. But it is not exactly cheap so there might be false negative.
It's only surprising for old people who have been unwilling to listen to complaints of school children for years now.

The list of problems that schools face (overcrowding, parental pressure, curricula packed with superfluous stuff no one will ever need again, curricula not even close to incorporating modern technology, buildings obviously in disrepair, way too early start times) is long, and it hasn't shrunk for years now.
Yes, clang compatibility is a single patch away. Google, unlike the vast majority of companies out there, is capable of maintaining it's own forks of the kernel.
Maybe that's because Ford makes cars.