skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are assuming causality here. You can't know that with associative studies.

All epidemics follow a natural curve where the pathogen initially spreads exponentially, but slows down over time as R(t) decreases due to the increased presence of population immunity. That creates a natural drop-off, and given that mandates and other "public health" responses tend to occur late in the cycle, it gives the impression that the natural drop-off is attributable to the intervention. It's rarely the case that it truly is. (By the way, if you look when they reverted to orange and then yellow the spread did not pick back up, which supports what I'm saying about this just being the natural epidemic curve)

If we want to talk masks specifically, the evidence that outdoors transmission of COVID-19 is rare anyway, and furthermore the purported mechanism of action of masks only works if (a) large respiratory droplets are the primary transmission mechanism as supposed to aerosol spread, and (b) people follow rigorous protocols to avoid contamination of the mask or from the mask. (b) is certainly not true, and (a) is likely not true when you look at the overall evidence of how viral spread (and specifically SARS-CoV-2) spread occurs.

Indeed, if the primary transmission mechanism is aerosol, masking could and likely would worsen transmission. The logic is pretty simple: masked individuals breathe more deeply to get the same amount of oxygen as an unmasked individual (this has been shown in numerous studies due to the local co2 buildup), meaning masked individuals move a greater net volume of air. Given masks cannot filter out aerosols, that greater volume of air will translate to worsened spread. This is made worse by the fact that when speaking to another individual, you have to speak louder for them to hear you through the mask.

(Sticking with the aerosol reasoning, there is one possible tiny benefit which is the masks still do alter the path of the aerosol; it smokes out and around the mask wearer rather than it being as directed as unmasked aerosol. But it's a very minor effect at best. You can look at any of the many videos of someone hitting a vape and then exhaling out of their cloth mask/surgical mask/bandana and you'll see what I mean)

So, in conclusion, no it's really not as simple as you're alleging, and this type of tenuous speculative post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning is all too common these days unfortunately.
We've know that COVID is airborne since the early days. Cluster tracing revealed clusters that just wouldn't be possible without it (the famous WA state choir practice[1] comes to mind). Blatant disregard for these simple facts (I wouldn't even call it science) has brought many countries into current situations. The more inconvenient findings were, the more they were disregarded in favor of other data points.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6919e6.htm
As I read this I'm upgrading an old Python 2.4 app to 3.8. It isn't just PHP.
It’s a shame they didn’t figure something practical out! For me, I didn’t want Facebook to have access to my phone, so I just used my personal phone for personal issues instead of using my corporate phone for everything in my life. That worked fine, I just had to pay for my own phone.
They aren’t even big enough for a “standard” 40x48 pallet, right?
sure, but I don't think that is the use case for this tool
> In theory, naval propulsion is more amenable to electrification than aviation, but that'll be tricky to do economically; that is another area that petroleum could have a long useful life in.

Over the last couple years / decades, ships went slower and slower on average as to save fuel (fuel became more expensive as well as environmental regulation on how much a ship may emit, which correlates to fuel intake).

So some people in the naval industry propose going back to using wind power, either via traditional sailing or more elaborate schemes (via electricity generation as an intermediary).
I like Chrome OS, but a lot of things have been lacking lately.
They even had humanint do drive by hacks.
A typical case of people not really understanding randomness, and assuming there was fraud when it appears less random than they would imagine.
Google Assistant on my phone just got better at handling timers.

It used to do a cheesy "Starting your timer.... Now", which would have been okay if a bit tedious repeatedly, apart from the fact that actually you could see that the timer started immediately, so the whole delayed "now" thing was completely misleading.
It was like that for well over a year until I noticed it was fixed just recently.
Web component UI library based on neumorphism design
Soft components

A set of decorative web components inspired by the neumorphism design

Hot tip: use the theme changer button (bottom right) to randomly generate a colour theme for you
Same as penalties for triggering fire alarms when there is no fire diminish 1A.

We didn't have FB, Twitter, Reddit 15 years ago and people could express their opinions. Currently those are being weaponized to subvert our democracy. Right now we have president trying to start a coup and 70M of people don't see problem with that.
Every slide will say unsubsidized or subsidized; generally Larard reports focus only on the unsubsidized cost.
Firefox has a single policy setting to use the OSes root store.
another one is outline.com/ , add this before any URL you want to read, support many sites, not mine.
It's very hard to imagine a machine that could pull this one off. Was each lottery ball prepared with a weight that would favor it? What kind of mechanical scheme is even possible that could do this? An extremely precise lightning-fast hidden OCR-reading robot system? I'm on the side of "shit happens" for this one.
Does plastic production necessarily emit co2?
Sorry didn’t see this until now.

My name is Charlie, a bit younger than you, I mostly hung out with Simone at camp/skiing. Older brothers you may recall are Brian/Mike/Jim. We spun outta YC long ago. Still have some family that go. Looks crowded :)

Hope you guys are well. If you’re ever in Pittsburgh or Naples FL, get in touch!
yatsuhashi!! My first taste of red bean sweets. So yummy
The main issues I've found in his games (at least for Shenzen I/O and TIS-100) is that the difficulty ramps up a lot in the later levels, and there are artificial limitations that are make the game way harder and less fun. For example, the lack of a "swap dat acc" instruction, having just 2 registers at most, among others. You can work around that but the game's idea shouldn't require you to exploit weaknesses of its simulation engine.
As a guy who's staffed permitting efforts for major linear corridors, I'm here to tell you that building out that kind of transmission infrastructure is a pipe dream. At least in the western US, the NIMBYs and enviros are too powerful.
It is one over 42 times 3 plus 11 (where the last two digits are uncertain).
Interested in how you feel about all the issues at Manjaro - specifically related to all the drama concerning Phil and funds.

It is something you view as a non-issue or is it just not enough to make you look elsewhere? I'm genuinely curious.

Best.
It’s sarcasm
Regarding Boeing, it’s my opinion that you don’t kill off the whole company but rather kill off all the regulation loopholes that allowed this 737 Max mess to begin with. If Boeing can’t get their plane fixed and certified, properly, then big deal. That’s their problem. If they fail because they can’t sell their “new” broken plane, they killed themselves off.

The even bigger problem is that our governments allow companies to get to these “too big to fail” states, and I myself am pretty tired of it. Every single time it is the consumer that pays, either literally or with their lives.
regulating the minutiae of people's everyday lives = big government aka leftist aka democrats. remember when Michael Bloomberg tried to pass a "public health" regulation telling New Yorkers how big their soda was allowed to be [0]? it's that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugary_drinks_portion_cap_rule
As a prank and/or to expose how unsafe the system is.
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It's not about workers being "willing" - it is about handicapping worker "ability." You surveil me and it will reduce my performance, creativity, etc. It isn't necessarily conscious on the workers part - it's like a virus that infects all that worker does.
That reminds me of an article linked few months back about opium farming:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53450688
The numbers weren't drawn out in sequence, but rather they're arranged in sequence after the draw (makes it easier to check). The article also didn't mention this, but a random-number generator is used. The older physical draw used to be audited, but I'm not sure if what happens now.

There are a lot of shady things being done with the profits of the lottery, like non-existent charities being funded, it's basically a fund that gets looted.

Even with that, the probability of this combination is 1/42 million. The draw has 5/50 and 1/20 powerballs.

The best thing about this happening is that 99 people got the 5-9 numbers correct, so this was a good redistribution of funds.
The prize was huge (114m), so each winner for a sizeable chunk.

Was it rigged? I doubt it, but I welcome the probe, as there is corruption in the SA lottery (even down to the awarding of the contract to run it).

I'm on mobile, so I didn't share links, of one would like them, I can add them.
Acting collectively with a guy standing with his knife poised above your back is a strategy you are welcome to. I don't think it's hard for you to see why I'm not keen on it.

But there is a simple way to solve this. If your union has, as a bylaw, "It is an immutable rule of this union that it shall never act to decrease or keep constant the number of immigrants to the USA. If this union acts in that manner, it shall be immediately dissolved and all membership rolls shall be destroyed after refunds for that month's membership fees", then I won't oppose it.

Considering that we are to act in solidarity, all I'm asking is for that measure of good faith. Just put down the knife and go stand in front. That's all I'm saying.
According to who? PHP is still behind ~70% of public websites: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php
if it's worth anything, I'm NOT in the US, and I generally take the position that I don't even have a job until everything is signed (that is to say, sent to me, reviewed, signed, sent back and receipt acknowledged). That action would include resettlement compensation if inclusive, or at the very least I wouldn't consider seriously starting the mechanisation of moving cities until that point.

I'm pretty taken aback to learn how culturally common this behaviour seems to be in this context given the feedback...

before this thread I would have said it's a red-flag for a scam and walk away at that point...
From certain perspectives it hasn't been that great of a state even with massive oil incomes. It will probably continue to be a state with massive wealth inequality and repressive government theocracy. It'll just have more social unrest to possibly change the status quo. Maybe people will really start to demand change there.
It hardly matters. The ethics hold, or they don't.
Great slogan. Great start!
Note that this is about Chrome, the browser, not Chrome OS, the operating system. Chrome OS has its own root store which apparently based on the Gentoo root store:

> The certificates in this store are installed as a shared library (libnss) by the package chromiumos-overlay/dev-libs/nss. It is a fork of a Gentoo upstream package with the same name, with added/removed certificates based on Google's policy.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/c...

Given that Chrome now gets its own root program, I wonder what the future of this separate root store is.
I'm not so sure I'd call it a 'kludge'.

The implementation is certainly not "elegant". It's like this random batch job that triggers when some conditions are satisfied and does its own thing without regard for anything else, sure. Not integrated with the auto-pilot, does not display anything in the panel.

We have plenty of aircraft (even though most are military) which are aerodynamically unstable, and require fly-by-wire software to even be flyable. We don't think those are kludges. That's not too far from what Boeing has to do.

It could have been either a fancier fly-by-wire software in the Airbus philosophy that wouldn't let pilots exceed parameters(retrofitting it might have been a challenge, and possibly even more dangerous). Or it could be this non-elegant solution that behaves like an old-school stick pusher. Both could have worked.

The problem is that they did this while trusting a single sensor. And not informed anyone.
Energy storage is already cheap enough to provide this for a few hours in the evening, as long as it's guaranteed that the battery get to discharge (and get paid) daily. In the ERCOT market, one of the markets that's most open to new, independent entrants reusing to make money, the interconnection queue has more GW of storage than natural gas.

The much trickier problem is storage that's only needed once a week, once a month, or once a year. That's where we don't have batteries, yet.
I think energy companies factor in distribution costs and a bunch of other costs beyond pure energy cost per kWh, hence the hefty price.
If you have several thousand stored procs and triggers then having to not rewrite all of that is actually likely over a million in savings.
I think this is probably a mistake, as I doubt people who don't know they're purchasing a hobbyist/selfsupported device will know or care about the difference between "community pricing" and "retail pricing".

Hopefully it works out for them.
Sure, sure, it’s like, there is pi, and then there’s raspberry pi.
Agreed. A ready example is the jobs created by those who would produce, maintain and improve upon such automated solutions. Ubiquitous automation would imply robotics, permitting demand for classes of non-knowledge worker labour, who are typically viewed as the victim of this kind of shift in society.
> So some people in the naval industry propose going back to using wind power, either via traditional sailing or more elaborate schemes (via electricity generation as an intermediary).

I've seen proposals to use wind power as an auxiliary source. I have yet to see serious proposals to convert to solely wind power.
I never knew, thanks for the information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191
Google assistant is not able to play the next episode in a podcast. It can only play the most recent as far as I could tell.

This isn't great.
> AMD might not even mind this arrangement. Apple is essentially funding these die shrinks and AMD benefits down the road.

Agree with that. AMD is doing amazingly well with just architectural improvements for Zen 3, so I’d bet they’re plenty happy to just let everyone else work out the kinks in 5nm before they hop on in a year or so.
Each address ownership has to be tracked in the PKI database, so there's a big pressure to limit their number.

Users don't have to use a self-owned addresses (planets). They can use moons which are delegated by the planets that issued them. The only limitation is that they are not fully independent (can't be resold, can be "canceled" by their planet) - just like an account on the website (just being run independently).

> not to mention the 8-year-old daughters or 12-year-old daughters or 16-year-old daughters who need conditions on their digital freedom.

Nothing is really stopping them from using a moon issued by their school, university, a random website offering such an account, other family member or a friend etc.

Right now most of the world is using identities issues by Facebook, Twitter, Github etc. and not many people seems to mind. Also most people have their devices behind a NAT and also don't mind. That's exactly what using a moon would mean.

Having a planet is for more serious usage: where one wants to guarantee independence: proper identity that can't be canceled and so on. Akin to owning a root DNS name for your personal server. So 4 billion is probably even way more than we are going to need, even if world population grows x10.
First Alzheimer's Blood Test Rolled Out for Clinical Use in US
Just move to a different country bro
This one is a gem from docker:

https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/pkg/namesgenerator/...

>> if name == "boring_wozniak" /* Steve Wozniak is not boring
Here's an example of a series of phono-semantic characters that's fairly easy to pronounce for English speakers.

成, 誠, 城 all are pronounced cheng, so we say that 成 is the phonetic compound that the other two characters use to denote their own pronunciation.

言 and 土 on the other two characters then are semantic compounds that hint at the meaning of the character.

言 indicates speech/language and 誠 can be interpreted as "true to one's word," i.e. honest/straightforward/earnest/sincere.

土 indicates earth and by extension that which is built and 城 is in fact a kind of structure, namely "city walls" (later also just "city").

There's some subtlety here where the pronunciation rule doesn't always hold exactly, e.g. 盛 is pronounced sheng, and sometimes not at all, e.g. 兌, 說, and 悅 are all pronounced very differently from one another. This is due to a variety of hysterical raisins.
> it seems like XOR counts as 6 even though there's apparently a way to do it with fewer?

This is a great game and tbh I think you're just butthurt because you couldn't figure out any of the optimal solutions. Xor is the first one and it sounds like you didn't solve it. (fwiw I haven't figured it out yet either)

1. It does only save one solution for each level but if you can do it in fewer nands, why do you need to keep the fewest components? Most puzzle games like this work this way

2. In later levels it uses your best solution from previous levels. The basic (non-optimal) xor solution has 3 compents with 6 nand. The first time I did half-adder, it told me my solution was 2 components/8 nand (a 2-nand AND plus a 6-nand XOR). After trying for optimal xor again (and failing), solving half-adder shows "2 components used. Mission XOR is not completed, so the total number of gates could not be counted." So it uses YOUR best solutions.

3. I mean it's pretty obvious. optimal == fewest nand, simplest == fewest components. If you optimize for nands, your solution is going to be less simple/more complicated.

I think it's a really great game. You should give it another try
Then why we still got train drivers? Trains are automated in many places but they still use drivers
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Hmm ... This is an interesting comment. Without intending to debate with you on the topic (I'm not an expert on this), I can say that, so far, I have only a positive impression from the only nootropics substance that I have personal and quite lengthy - several decades - experience with: Nootropil aka Piracetam. I have started using it periodically back in high school - following advice of a very good doctor neurologist whom I and my family have known for years - to improve my memory, attention span, resilience to stress etc. I have never experienced any side effects (including sleep problems and depression). I have continued using it periodically while studying at university (usually, close to and/or during exams and other stressful times). That was in Europe several decades ago. After immigrating to US some 20 years ago, I have used Nootropil and Piracetam several times over the years (for several weeks at a time), but I had to resort to asking friends traveling from Europe to US to get it for me, since it is not yet widely available here (fortunately, people are allowed to import it for personal use, which was the case). I feel that I would significantly benefit now from taking Nootropil, as my mental sharpness, attention span and memory are not what they used to be (not to mention a lot of stress and sleepless nights that I have gone through over the recent years due to some extremely challenging family circumstances). I've been exploring some buying options (including relevant info on Reddit), but various things have distracted me from getting Nootropil and, hopefully, improving my shape and life. Of course, I realize the importance of "good sleep, exercise, social exposure, and good diet" and I'm doing my best in this regard, though, for various reasons, definitely not enough. In any case, there is always some room for improvement. Having said that, I believe that Nootropil can help me further enhance various aspects of my health and life to complement the positive effect of the above-mentioned best practices.
We're super excited about materialize at Fishtown Analytics (the company that makes dbt). I think that the "reporting" use-case is well served by Snowflake/BigQuery/etc, but I do think that operational use-cases are left behind by batch-based transformation models.

The thing I'm most excited about in materialize is the ability to create Sinks (https://materialize.com/docs/sql/create-sink/). The combination of 1) streaming transformations over realtime source data and 2) streaming outputs into external systems feels like the way of the future IMO.

I saw a dbt-materialize plugin (https://github.com/jwills/dbt-materialize) out there in the wild. My guess is it's not ready for primetime yet, but would love to bake support for materialize into dbt when the time is right :)
That's not what my family in California tells me. Their bills are exorbitant for a more modest lifestyle, and this is in contrast to Oregon.
This seems utterly counter-productive, considering the Max is now the most scrutinized plane in history.

It's probably far safer now than other models.
Audacious might work: https://audacious-media-player.org/
Uniswap's Financial Alchemy
Dr. Fredirick Klenner was curing polio with intravenous sodium ascorbate, in the 1930's.

https://isom.ca/profile/frederick-klenner/

Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C
http://vitaminc.co.nz/pdf/CLINICAL-GUIDE-TO-THE-USE-OF-VITAM...

Other papers published by Dr. Klenner.
https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/hemila/klenner.htm
> Does plastic production necessarily emit co2?

I don't think so. But it currently uses petroleum/natural gas as feedstock.
Yes, I feel fortunate that I can say such things without being cloth-sacked away.

I'm not exactly pro-prison, but so far I haven't heard any alternatives that I believe would work as a solution to violent crime. I'm open to suggestions. It is certainly the case that the U.S. has too many laws.
The journey from the North Island to the South Island is a journey into a different scale of landscape. It feels as if you shrink to 10% of your previous size.
China has more people living in it than the US, the EU, the post-Soviet states, and Brazil —- combined. Does it really matter what “every other functioning, stable nation on Earth” does, when it’s patently obvious that China will be calling the shots from here on out, thanks to everything that the Trump presidency did to internationalism?
Thanks for the link - do they actually promote that anywhere as it's perfect on a mobile.

The rain radar map seamlessly combining radars is awesome.