skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From NPR: "After more than 45 years as a listed species, the gray wolf has exceeded all conservation goals for recovery," said Interior Secretary David Bernhardt

And who is this Secretary judging biological metrics?
A former coal and oil industry lobbyist and lawyer, no biological training.

He was on the board at CESAR, which is a purportedly "scientific" organization that takes huge donations from fossil fuel and conservative interests. CESAR is known to have funded climate denialism, and they seem to be intent on filing lawsuits against environmental causes.

Why is it that conservatives are so motivated to not conserve the nature they see around them?
The WWW or Web, along with email, telnet, ftp and dsniff are applications that run on top of the internet.
And in other ranked-choice voting news, two more states have ballot measures to institute it:

* Massachusetts: https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Question_2,_Ranked-Cho...

* Alaska (with open primaries): https://ballotpedia.org/Alaska_Ballot_Measure_2,_Top-Four_Ra...
One person's trivial 1-day of effort is another person's month. There's a solid jsonwebtoken library that could be used in a custom token authentication middleware, if the one in the ecosystem is unsatisfactory. It's not trivial to learn a web framework and how to write custom middleware, but if you know where to look for actix-web there is an example: https://github.com/actix/actix-extras/blob/master/actix-web-...
I'm pretty sure, medium allows non-members to read a few Paywalled articles per month free, free articles are still free.

The thing with medium is I can write a tech post, and I may not get good reach, but I can syndicate it to another medium blog like the startup, and then it gets mega reach and I make like $100 easy.

I guess I could just repost my content on my personal blog and charge people like $10/month to access all my posts. Seems $5 though for a multi-publisher paywall is a lot more reasonable than say the wallstreet journal, or new york times.
I wouldn't buy a Tesla to share it out... so that price is steep.

Will I be able to rent other peoples' autonomous Teslas for trips?

My current ICE vehicle lease is up in 2 years. It'll be interesting to see what options exist when considering a replacement/alternative. I'm partial to thinking it could be a VW ID.4. But I don't expect it to be autonomous Teslas.
No, here's one: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.19.20214940v...

But the lede is buried for some reason, perhaps due to the absurd politics around HCQ:

"This is another paper where positive effects of HCQ are left out of the conclusions the paper reports. In the Table 2, the line for mortality at 28 days shows a cut by a factor of 0.54 on HCQ. The difference is not at the standard 0.05 significance level, with a p-value of 0.22. However this does not mean the result is false. It could just as well be the sample size is not large enough for the significance to reach the 0.05 level."

And some of these studies are having a hard time because the Covid mortality rate has dropped tremendously:

Internet survey RCT subject to survey bias. There was no death or ICU admission. Low risk healthcare workers, median age ~40. 494 1x/week dosing, 495 2x/week dosing, 494 control participants (1x and 2x participants received the same overall dosage).

They studied 1500 participants with no deaths.

One that shows as "Negative" : Early terminated PEP RCT comparing HCQ and vitamin C with 781 patients (83% household contacts), reporting no significant differences.

`Therapy started one day after enrollment and study supplies were sent to the participant "either by courier or mail". So the arrival time of the medication is not specified. In Boulware et al., the shipping delay was up to 3.5 days, if the delay is similar here the overall delays may be:
time since first exposure - unlimited
time to enrollment - up to 4 days
time to telehealth meeting - 1 day (3 days if Friday enrollment?)
time to receive medication - up to 3.5 days
Most results including the primary 28-day PCR+ result has not bee reported yet. The study uses a low and slow dosage regimen, therapeutic levels may only be reached nearer to day 14, if at all, so day 28 results should be more informative when available (although labeled a PEP trial, with the low dosage and continuous exposure for most participants it is more of a PrEP/PEP trial where benefit might be seen later as HCQ levels increase).
Endpoints were:
Primary outcomes:
PCR+ @28 days - NOT REPORTED YET
PCR+ @14 days - aHR 0.99 [0.64-1.52]`

Right, so this RCT took up to 7 days for medication to arrive. Most people completely heal from Covid before 7 days is up.

This is why science is not some popularity contest where you can scan for counts and average the results together. It's messy, it's nuanced, it's difficult to find the correct answers and there's hundreds of confounding variables that are difficult to control for.
XSV is killing it when cleaning CSV data
I'm not a hunter, but hunting does provide a revenue stream for wildlife protection & management. Presence of wolf tags might also make the presence of wolves more acceptable to both hunters and ranchers.
While you are correct that modern hunters are not to blame. Eradication by farmers was actually the final straw to an otherwise stressed population that had already lost a majority of it's natural habitat.
Wolves by and large do not attack humans:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_Nort...

We might be afraid of them but that fear isn’t grounded in reality.
I have general liability but some RFP require specific policy/amount in millions.
While testing for flu in the global sample is indeed down 21% compared to last year, positive cases are (currently) down 97%.

From their fortnightly report of 28 October 2019:

"data to FluNet for the time period from 30 September 2019 to 13 October 2019. The WHO GISRS laboratories tested more than 102881 specimens during that time period. 5005 were positive for influenza viruses"

And of 26 October 2020:

"...from 28 September 2020 to 11 October 2020. The WHO GISRS laboratories tested more than 81257 specimens during that time period. A total of 172 specimens were positive for influenza viruses"
I agree about sunlight being the best disinfectant, but I think social media like Facebook is a little more insidious than just "increased exposure." Facebook is designed for targeted messaging to people who are likely to engage with it. We've known about filter bubbles for at least a decade now. Amplifying disinformation specifically to an audience that is vulnerable to it is different than airing it on TV and increasing awareness.

That's exactly what algorithmically curated content feeds like Facebook and YouTube recommendations do. They amplify messages to certain people who are susceptible, and there's little awareness until somebody shoots up a mosque and then suddenly we realize there's a whole subculture of people that have semi-willingly brainwashed themselves with conspiracies floating around about white people being "replaced" and think Shariah law is being implemented in Western countries.

I don't think censorship of the content is the right answer. Short of calling for violence, people should obviously be free to propagate conspiracies, alternative history, whatever. The component that I am wary of is the algorithmic curation. It seems to tend towards "you like that? How about this slightly more extreme piece of related content?"
Author (Kendra Albert) here! We did indeed use LaTeX (more specifically Overleaf) to format the document.
You could also open up more elk tags. Plenty of hunters more than happy to take down a bull and have a packed freezer. Lottery systems to pull tags are not easy, especially for out of state folks.
No. A wolf has never attacked a human. They’re our friends. :)
Why My Grandmother Won Her Alzheimer’s Battle
I consider it is EPIC failure, here is why.

1)Marketing stunt: `For businesses, this is much lower than you’ll find with comparable do-it-yourself board designers, definitely less expensive than hiring a contractor or employee to design the board for you, and clearly more efficient than trying to do it on your own. We’ve been using it to run new product ideas and it’s amazing how much it saves us in schematic and hardware mistakes.`
Let's start from this.
Do you guys really serious about positioning yourself VS significant part of your customers base?
So you mean you make service that supposed to make EE unemployed and you think EE will keep buying your stuff and sponsoring your "activities"?

2)While it is fun and i enjoyed Sparkfun modules for prototyping, i would not consider them to second stage hardware development for functional prototype.
Let's talk about your MOSFET "block". You claim it is 50A, but thats it. No MOSFET model, means you can't really know absolute maximums, you can't know required Vgs to open it properly so it wont release smoke on load. Does it have any ESD protection? It claims to drive solenoids, but i dont see necessary protection for that.
And where gate pin is routed, to microcontroller? Or i need to break out header? If on MCU - which GPIO? How the hell it will be controlled?
I am supposed to play lottery and checkout (after many warnings of "NO REFUND"), pay $949 (or discounted 50%) and then hope for best?
And terminals offered in this block, looking to similar on your modules - can handle max 11A, nothing close to claimed 50A.

3)This "autoplacement optimized thingy that you can't change" placed GPS module right next to the MCU with Wifi /PLL. Deaf GPS module is no good.
Worse, on demo picture you provide on your own website, i can see module with RF antenna in the middle of board surrounded with solid polygons. This is embarassing.
Also i was able to add 16 potentiometers, while ESP32 have only 10 usable ADC inputs (second ADC will be off as soon as wifi turns on). This means customer dont really know where they will be routed even single one and chance that even single potentiometer will be connected to ADC input that wont work together with wifi.
Sure i am going to buy a cat in a sack and hope i can figure out how to make such board work.

And as you claimed in some tweets, "you did research" and you are positioning your device for stage on burning man, replacing $20k consultant.
Well, news for you, most likely in this $20k most are paid for not screwing up stage performance. And your ToS pretty clear about liabilities.
And if someone really want "constructor", everybody know there is way more superior service, Geppetto from Gumstix, way more flexibility and choice, for way more complex boards.
Your market research is ... bad.

P.S. Sorry for the angry post, but i cannot be kind when someone claims that he wants to take job away from my colleagues and probably me.
Instead of cooperating with industry engineers, you claim from the start that you are their competitor.
You literally shot yourself in the leg.
I like the third one as well as the forth. Frankly the second is a bit edgy, but it could be used as a headline.

None of it is rude, bullying, or any kind of -ism, or anything that needs to be fixed. It is in fact confrontation, which is a fine thing. And whether it needs to be so "unduly" direct or not should simply shape the reader/listeners opinion of the writer/speaker.

It shapes my opinions when I see/hear/read so many people who conflate directness or disagreement with bullying. If you cannot stand criticism, your really ought not try to say anything.
Yes.

There's a whole field of study (often decried as pseudoscience) of the structure of subjective experience called Neurolinguistic Programming. Within it there's a constellation of concepts and techniques around deliberately altering your subjective experience.

For example, the first person / third person difference is referred to as "associated" / "disassociated" in the NLP jargon, and you can change which "mode" you use for a given memory and that will (typically) change the subjective effects of the memory.

You can use this to e.g., fall in(out) of love with someone. Recall all the good times with that person in associated(disassociated) mode and all the bad times with that person in disassociated(associated) mode and it will (typically) have a profound effect on your feeling towards that person.

Neat, eh?

There's a whole body of work around manipulation of time-coding. Some people see e.g. the past to the left and the future to the right,while others have the past behind them and the future ahead of them. Those are just two common styles of "timeline". Changing your time-coding can have profound effects on your psychology.

The real information revolution has only just begun and it doesn't have a lot to do with tiny transistors, if you catch my drift.
The Illusion of Multitasking and Its Positive Effect on Performance
How to Build a Startup Monopoly with GPT-3 (20 Techniques)
> Is COVID a real problem?

Not to the vast majority in every age category.

I personally had COVID and it was less severe than the last time I had the flu, so why should I treat COVID different than the flu or care at all?

> Are the current rules effective?

Not in liberal democracies, that's what the data shows. If you live in an authoritarian regime where people are willing to completely give up their lives then it is effective, but at that point you might argue are they still living or just existing like zombies? In all Western nations it didn't matter if one took more stringent or more lenient actions, everyone had a first wave, everyone has a second wave. Nobody invented a testing regime, a track and trace regime which allows us to live normally, so what's the point in taking those measures when they didn't prevent a second wave for anyone?

> Colouring the rules themselves as "silly" only reveals a bias in your argument

Fair point. Young generations have been taught for many decades now that we are not in this world together. Nobody pays off your debt. Nobody else will look after your health if you don't do it yourself. Nobody will come and provide you shelter when you become homeless. Look at the most woke state in the USA - California - every woke person walks past homeless people and couldn't are less. People who claim we are in this or in anything else together are selfish afraid human beings who want to control the population out of their own fear. The notion that we are in this together is wrong and that is the education that young people have been given for many years now. This is how it was in the last economic crisis, this is how it will be in this one too. So as far as I'm concerned COVID was nothing to me and my wife and it is not a threat to our family, so why should we care any longer about this? Other people's problems is not our problem. Just like every woke Californian walks past homeless people and doesn't care, I walk past the COVID death statistics and equally don't care. Why am I the villain now?
This is correct and I think it’s the healthy attitude of a pedestrian friendly city.

This is the sort of bar self-driving firms should be setting.
I wasn't much of a gamer but oh boy, did I love all the quest games, they totally appealed to my tastes. I loved the 2D-ness of the games, the attention to details, the scripts, the colors, the music. You could tell there was a talented team behind those games. Games have now gotten so complex graphics-wise but it seems to me that they lost something it's very hard to pinpoint, maybe the limitations of that age was what made the games more creative? Or maybe it's pure subjectivity on my part.
No GPUs with tensor cores?
Useless Inventions:Is Your Product a Solution in Search of a Problem?
Firstly, this isn't direct at you, more at the title. I think the title of "47 events" is greatly misleading. While the simulations are definitely incredibly valuable, it's misleading to use the figures from simulations in any argument for how careless Waymo is. In fact, I think the heavy usage of simulation to model realistic events should be a plus, rather than how the title makes it seem like a bad thing.

Secondly, If you read Table 1 [1] of the paper, you'll see that there was only 1 actual pedestrian event (and I guess 2 simulated events), and that was a person walking into a parked car (it's funny that they could measure the walking speed of the person at 2.7mph).

Lastly, in Table 2 they enumerate all the events that "were the fault of the other human driver". Most of them are "failure to yield", for example-- "failure to yield to a vehicle approaching from the left while making a right turn at an unsignalized intersection."

This touches on your bit on driver's responsibility. While it is true that Waymo isn't at fault, it makes me wonder how much "defensive driving" Waymo is including in their models. In the case above, without video/full context, you don't fully know whether it was an avoidable accent or not by, say, swerving to the other lane, or if that option wasn't possible due to another car. It'd be incredibly interesting to know the exact number corrective actions taken/attempted and number of probable accidents avoided.

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/sdc-prod/v1/safety-report/Way...
YCNews
On October 29, local time, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an overall forecast forecast that by November 21, there will be 243,000 to 256,000 deaths from new coronary pneumonia in the United States.

Statistics from Johns Hopkins University show that as of 14:00 on October 29, US Eastern Time, there were 228,143 deaths from new coronary pneumonia in the United States.
You can't graze your livestock on public land and then act confused when the public has a say.
The keyword is "evil", which is subjective, therefore an opinion. A Nazi Officer, for example, would disagree with your opinion whether what they did was evil.
Sensationalist headline, but the article doesn't reveal the data either, and it's not about misrepresentation:

more than 800 state-level employees have access to the daily hospitalization data it gathers, but only for their own state, unless another state grants them permission to view its data. Without a larger view into national or regional data, some states — like Tennessee, which has eight bordering states — are missing out on valuable regional data
I laughed out loud when I got to do not touch the tongue.
If you consider the rules for human defensive driving as gospel, the safety side of this problem seems to go away. Defensive driving doesn't act based on predictions of what external agents _will_ do, which may have regional variation. It identifies what external agents _could_ do, which does not have regional variation, and engages accordingly with rules and physics e.g. by making sure that the vehicle always has a safe escape path if it needs to stop abruptly or swerve to avoid a collision.
I actually used Google Cloud Print, Google Play Music, Inbox, and Reader.

It is annoying to use a service and spend time and effort getting everything setup on it (e.g. setting up computers and printers, importing music, etc.) to have the rug pulled out from under you without a replacement or explanation.

I value stability and long-term solutions so I don't have to continually "fix" things that were previously working fine.

Each time Google shuts down something that I use, it impacts me and I have to change things. If they force me to change things, then I might as well look into alternative non-Google solutions that have better stability and longer lifespans.
Mutiny founder (YC S18) on how to push your marketing team to go faster
The first example (GPM -> Youtube Music) is a great example of why 'merged into other products' doesn't delegitimize complaints about Google killing products.

YTM (last time I checked) lacks feature parity with its predecessor, has a questionable migration path, and seems more interested in music videos that you can incidentally play as songs. It integrates messily with its host platform (hn comments on the last thread I read about it indicated that Google's algorithms were inadvertantly tagging unrelated content as 'music'), and dilutes focus on the prior project's core feature-set.

Just because another product's abstract contains some of the product I'm using's core doesn't mean I want to switch over to it because Google's got a short attention span, and wants to reimplement the product I'm using in the most approximate manner possible.
Yes, sure, but that's not a useful analogy when it comes to what people picked for their licence. There's no equivalent "company you were working for" to blame a process failure on, and picking the wrong licence isn't even a process failure. It's either an individual failure at the time, or it's someone who changed their mind.

I'm not arguing whether or not it's nice to do this, but I think it's important to be clear that what you set out in your licence is important, and your fault if it's wrong.
Where Cruise Ships Are Sent to Die
Hey Jacob, check out this platform:

https://quanta.wiki

A "collaborative notebook" would be one very good way to describe what Quanta is as well. I'm the developer of it, by the way.
With enough zoning it absolutely is, not to mention the lead time required to permit and actually build it. Once built depreciation kicks in - housing isn't permanent. It's a consumable.
I should point out that I'm fairly familiar with the literature roughly up to the level that Clojure takes advantage of (I've used it to implement custom versions of persistent maps and RRB trees that store to disk). There may be more advances since then or techniques I'm not familiar with.

I think the problem I'm describing is fundamental, but I'm not a researcher and am not claiming any advanced knowledge beyond being an experienced Clojure developer that is familiar with the internals.
>Also, rearrange the calculation.

Yep, for the nand2tetris course, we had division, but it was in the OS, and a really expensive operation. I wrote a program that needed to know which third of a line a point was on. (i.e. identify 4 on a 15-length line as being in the first third).

I naively wanted to do something like "if x < L / 3", but rearranged it to "if x * 3 < L". (Of course, the language only supported integers and not fractions or floating point, so I needed to do that anyway.)
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I don't know why but the idea of working on an engine management system is incredibly appealing to me. How did you get into the field? I unfortunately have no background or formal training in embedded systems so I fear I have no real possibility of success in this dream
Oh I agree 100%. My mind has been completely hijacked for the past week as the election comes to a crescendo. My priority when consuming information is to get some idea of the known and unknown truths. Unfortunately, the current climate makes this difficult to ascertain in real time. There is an absolute onslaught of new info every hour (not just from the Bannon/HB “drip” campaign, but also more general news), and nobody is objectively summarizing it.

The only choice is to immerse myself in this deluge of information and try to sort out the truth from propaganda myself. It’s infuriating that so few journalists are doing this for me.

I’ve never seen anything like this, on both sides. On the right, we have a carefully managed PR campaign that is, despite its agenda, appearing increasingly credible but also manipulating our attention. On the left, we have a unification of the media apparatus, the DNC and the FBI, actively suppressing information and misdirecting our attention.

I’m so glad Glenn Greenwald has staked out a position in this environment, because it really is an existential fight for truth. Now that Greenwald is on the case, I hope it forces the left and the Biden campaign to respond to this story. It’s not going away.
Why is this down voted? It's obviously a joke (and reasonably funny too)...
Ha, I made a track for a chip tune jukebox on the DVD menu, then they didn't even send me a copy so I never saw it. Perhaps I should see it...
The Witness also does this for me. At least as far as like the scientific method and problem solving are concerned.