skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>. And they are concentrated in certain types of places (e.g., poor urban ghetto) such that the parts of the country that aren't these places have vanishingly small probabilities of being hurt by a shooting.

And even then they are basically concentrated around illegal parts of the economy. Drug traffickers, pimps, etc. can't use the courts and the police so when it comes to settling disputes they have to DIY their own threats of violence that other people usually outsource to the state.
The problem is that vitamin D absorption is one of those things linked to ethnicity. It is very basic and undisputed science that lower melanin in skin = higher vitamin D absorption. No European educational institution or government wants to publicise research highlighting that ethnic groups indigenous to the northern hemisphere are more suited to the natural environment they are endemic too, and less likely to have vitamin D problems. Of course, the Vitamin D deficiency in people unsuited to non-indigenous European residents will naturally disadvantage them over time in nature.

https://www.longdom.org/open-access/the-skin-melanin-an-inhi...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4272394/

To give balance to reinforce that i'm purely speaking from a scientific-rational viewpoint, in Australia the government is trying to discourage people from being in the sun at all due to Australia (primarily european ethnic) having one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world, due to also not being suited to their natural environment.

https://www.cancer.org.au/cancer-information/types-of-cancer...
"the incidence of skin cancer is one of the highest in the world, two to three times the rates in Canada, the US and the UK."

The USA approach is quite different though - pills for everyone! Buy your vitamin D plastic chips and watch the stock market go up!
entry level CS is flooded and you will be entry level. you could be more like a project manager or use this extension [1] and maybe be a technical project manager.

take a few $10 udemy courses and just learn the concepts not the nitty gritty. if you can learn the concepts + personable + organized you can be a technical project person.

breaking in is another story. networking, contacts, cold calls, luck. first one is the hardest.

[1] - https://glossarytech.com/
That’s the idea I’ve gotten when looking around online. I figured I was in the uncommon situation of having a completely blank and ready system, so I could afford to just wait a few days.
Committed to the integrity of your root filesystem
If the possibility of “unfortunate side-effects” is so low then why remove the ability for legal recourse?
In my experience it is applied to people who are not ethnically Bangladeshi, or who are but were not raised in Bangladesh. E.g. https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2020/01/15/speaking-the-langu...

> In Bengali, the term bideshi is used to describe a foreigner. The literal translation is "without land." This past summer, during six weeks conducting research on a global health project in Bangladesh, I heard the term often -- in reference to me.

> It felt strange, as I was born in Bangladesh and lived there until I was 3. To me, Bangladesh is where I can easily blend into a crowd. Bengali was the first language I learned. I visit often to see family. I feel a sense of ownership and belonging in Bangladesh that I have not always felt in America.

Citizenship isn’t particularly meaningful in Bangladesh. You can’t become Bangladeshi by acquiring citizenship.
A lot of proctoring software will flag you for that as well. Then when the professor reviews the footage it will be obvious that you're talking to someone off screen.
> everyone repeating the same thing

Maybe "hive mind" is what you were thinking of (at least, I see it a lot in reference to Reddit)?
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Getting sunlight in the morning, in particular, seems important. Even in winter months, I'll go outside for 30 minutes or so in nothing but shorts and do farmer walks, etc. and feel great throughout the day.
I've never dealt with this software but when I did my CS degree, several of the applications we worked with throughout the course were distributed as Windows binaries. If you'd ever done homework or study at all, you don't only have Linux.
While I don't think Vitamin D is a covid cure - I think it's appalling that Youtube has banned anything that discusses vitamin D and covid. Especially when there is so much science behind it, and so much more that we need to do to understand it and covid better. I know there is rampant misinformation out there, but I fail to see how this censorship serves the public interest - and wonder what benefits google has to gain from this. People are dying from covid - we need to be firing on all cylinders, not trying to make a buck off a disaster.
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It seems that some analysis overestimates UMA. It won't accelarate simple CPU performance and won't reduce RAM usage unless its data is also used on GPU.

Possibly is they also call stacked RAM as "UMA" rather than shared RAM between CPU and GPU?
I agree with a lot of your comment, and I basically think large swathes of education are just fundamentally broken for a variety of unfortunate reasons.

That said, I would like to answer this question:

> Why are there still weeding-out classes?

In majors that are oversubscribed (e.g., pre-med, CS, etc.), these classes weed out the people who like the idea of the major/career more than the actual work involved. Good weeder courses (and I think that these exist) allow later classes in the major path to be more focused on the capable and motivated learners rather than baby-sitting the less-capable and less-motivated.

There are two reasons why this is desirable:

1. There is no way that a department could get through the same amount of material if they had to accommodate the less motivated and less capable in all of the courses.

2. Your department will get a reputation in the field for having students who are capable of X, Y, and Z.

Typically, if someone can't make it in the weeder classes at their school and they still want to enter that career path, then maybe it's better to go to a less competitive school. This sounds elitist, and maybe it is, but that's the workaround in our current system.
> Industry cares about results, its more meritocratic

Industry cares about positive results. If you're not allowed to fail, you will be afraid to explore. That's what Academia is. Then, the industry reaps the fruit of that exploration, which is as it should be.
The Android and desktop versions already do this.

Why shouldn't it be free?
Could be honest, based on their comment history
What about Vanced?
This seems like a great explanation, but it’s missing one key data point — how much tritium is actually present in the plasma at any one moment?

From Iter.org;

> Only a few grams of fuel are present in the plasma at any given moment. This makes a fusion reactor incredibly economical in its fuel consumption and also confers important safety benefits to the installation.

Consider me not particularly worried.

https://www.iter.org/sci/FusionFuels
> "Or can I get a meeting with GM with an animator and mockups?"

Yes, that and a $34b market cap.
> I agree at a high level, but practically speaking it's not realistic to expect colleges to completely reinvent their entire teaching systems for a temporary, 1-2 year remote learning period.

I don't really understand what you mean by this though. I graduated college in 2007, and all throughout my time from 2003-2007 I had half my courses online, including the quizzes and tests.

Online courses and asynchronous testing isn't something new to Covid, colleges have been doing it for well over a decade now.

Yes you had people try and cheat their way through asynchronous testing by having friends take them earlier, but why is that more of a big deal now than it was previously?
Yeah, but their support ticket handlers do have ethics. If Google support don't unblock your account to undo their mistakes, then it's still their fault.
Similarly, a Hacker News post from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902
It sounds like you are in a pre-med class?

My SO once TA'd for a pre-med class. Holy hell, the students were something else as compared to other disciplines. They literally would not leave my SO's office until they had argued up their grades on every assignment. My SO had to get security to escort them out, I am not joking. If they forgot, say, to multiply by 2 and then got the answer wrong, they still argued for full credit despite the very clear error.

There was no shame whatsoever. We figured the other Profs and TAs just didn't want to deal with them, so the pre-meds learned to just wait out the graders to get their grades.

To be clear, this was maybe ~15% of the class, but still a lot of students. The Prof was no help with this either and just advised to pass them along. What a mess.

I understand that med school admissions is about as cut-throat as it gets, but my lord! It's these pressure cookers that lead to MD burnout and mis-selection. After all those shameless hours in undergrad, then med school hell, you finally get to practice on people just looking for their preferred opioid.

Sorry to hear about the mess you are in, but you are right, it's systemic.
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I have found that sometimes it's necessary to say "this is an honest question, I honestly don't know the answer". Otherwise people infer a negative intent
They also ‘refund’ the rating hit you took from losing to the cheater. I think it works pretty well.
Why does it ask for age? Seems like a discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen.
I read an article a few years ago that postulated that Vitamin D itself (whatever it is) was only part of the Vitamin D story. Essentially, sunlight confers benefits that are associated with Vitamin D, but Vitamin D itself may not be the cause of those benefits. And so, supplements are not sufficient. Does anyone know enough to comment on that generally, and regarding COVID?

Edit: here is the article https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...
The main reason the plasma needs to be kept away from the walls is that they will conduct the heat away from the plasma and the hot gas will cease being a plasma.

It has analogies with static electricity. Static electricity might have a voltage of tens of thousands of volts, but it does little damage when you touch someone as the number of electrons (current) is so small that not much energy is involved.

Similarly with a plasma. The temperature (energy per particle) is very high but the number of particles is small, so the total energy is low. Touching something will cause the energy to leak away (cf. static electricity discharge) converting the hot plasma back to cool gas.
FWIW I've seen many open source projects like this.

edit: by like this, I was referring to using data/requiring local setup like this
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Even better! I have an open source heart rate monitor that’s been fun to write programs for.
>Why does foreign matter?

No or weak legal recourse in the event of wrongdoing being discovered.
As a Canadian: A tar and feather illustration is among the most memorable from my childhood.
> I've never personally had a painful experience returning anything to Amazon.

This is the number one reason I buy from Amazon. 90% of the time, it doesn't make a difference for me whether my purchase arrives in 2 days or 4 days. What matters is that if I do not like it, it is super simple and convenient for me to return it. I don't even have to put it in a box of print a label these days. I can just take the items to UPS or Kohl's, show them my phone code, and give it to them.

No other online retailer comes close to this level of convenience for returns.
It might be capitalism, or it might be ignorance. Josesph Fourier discovered the heat transference problem, also known as the green house gas effect in modern times. Also related to the codon problem (the DNA and RNA protein or chicken or egg problem).

Energy, power, and information, metabolism all fundamentally "do work" differently depending on context. Man has good enough physics developed to solve for huge classes of solutions of earth models, but all of the shared spaces, including all natural resources, must be viewed intrinsically as a global problem. We've never been good at what we can't physical intuit or sharing resources (or intuiting over non-trivial side efects). Luckily, since it seems to more an asymptotic issue (in control theory parlance) now, so various policy forcings and incentivization changes will be tried till the glitch is fixed.
Nobody is doubting it was an act of violence. The oddity is that they're calling it an act of murder as opposed to an act of war. Murder sounds like a bunch of criminals, which is a really one sided take. The british soldiers were there to destroy colonial military supplies. It may be technically correct, but you don't hear about how the GIs murdered a bunch of Nazis on the beaches of Normandy or whatever other war suits your fancy. Save for the particularly one sided conflicts.

I got history from american public education, and while half of it was garbage, and half of it was dull internal politics of isolationism, there was no ambiguity that the revolutionary war was a bloody conflict.
Bastion [1] is also inspired by Erlang and provides many of the features described in this post. Although it does not compile to Wasm, it provides:

- Message-based communication

- Runtime fault-tolerance - a lean mesh of actor system.

- A Supervision system that makes it easy to kill or restart subprocesses

Does anyone have experience with Bastion or other Rust actor systems?

1: https://bastion.rs/
>it's almost sure to work

Famous last words...

>we need to build and fail a lot more

You know, that actually describes the early years of fusion research. People thought it would be easier than it has turned out to be. There are lots of gremlins...

I will also note that SPARC is a tokamak, the same as ITER. It's decades of steady tokamak research that has gotten us to this point.
It's unfortunate that it is not simple to get regular tests for vitamin and mineral deficiencies. The whole process seems to be stuck behind the doctor appointment firewall. This might be one of the reasons why Theranos was so readily believed. As the quantified self movement that gained popularity around the same time showed, there's an appetite in certain segments of the population for this type of testing and tracking but the process isn't very transparent and often expensive due to it being a profit center. Make it a simple yearly subscription where you can stop in at any time at a clinic like a CVS Minute Clinic, get a blood sample drawn, and then get your results a couple of hours later. Maybe a limit of once a month or once every other week depending on your needs. Only if something is out of standard range would you need to involve a doctor. It would also be good for your next annual checkup to have an entire year's worth of such data.
How about an all electric Hummer?

Seriously though, GM does make plenty of electric cars. Or are you suggesting they should use the Edison brand?
I'm talking about moving from software to another field, not the other way around.
Sick article. I'd say I'm a reluctant advocate of this style, and the author touched upon the two points that I always present to my colleagues:

1. The focus on verbs can make things clearer.

2. Under ideal circumstances, it's no more complex than Unix pipes.

But I'm still not 100% convinced it makes for more readable code. Sometimes I still need variable names for documentation purposes. This isn't so bad in Haskell, since the type signature can make the intention known, but something like J...
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I think that missed the mark, regardless of the rest of the discussion. It's like saying that the winner of the DARPA Grand Challenge for self-driving cars "solved" autonomous driving back in 2010.
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Well, we can agree that world peace is off the table!

Beyond that, let's notice that expert systems did indeed change how airports and freeways work: They improved the areas where they solved problems. Deployment happened.

What we're seeing now is new classes of previously unsolvable problems falling. Deployment in medicine is known to be particularly hard, but not impossible. My read on the situation is that there have been a number of ML applications in the current round that have been kinda-successful 'in vitro' and failed in deployment. That doesn't mean that all deployments will fail.

Furthermore... Neil Lawrence points out that in most cases we change the world to fit new technologies. For example, mechanized tomato pickers suck, so we develop a more machine-resistant tomato. Cars break easily on dirt roads, so we pave half the planet. ML/AI somehow flips people's expectations of how technology works, and expect the algorithms to adapt to the world. This is almost certainly wrong.

"it's specific problems chosen specifically for their likely ease in solving using current methods. DeepMind didn't decide to take on protein folding at random; they looked around and picked a problem that they thought they could solve."

I'm actually not sure this is at all true. Protein folding is a long-standing grand challenge on which no current methods were working. My guess is that it was initially chosen for potential impact, and chased with more resources after some initial success.
> Interestingly, for those labs to exist, being a monopolistic megacorp is a requirement. It appears to me that today's FAANG monopoly allowed the creation of Google Deepmind and OpenAI,

AFAIK OpenAI is still independent, despite its recent closeness with Microsoft. Deepmind existed and was active well before being acquired by Google. All these to examples prove is that today's big, monopolistic corporations tend to acquire research labs, not that they are a requirement for their existence or successful activity.
In winter, in the more northerly latitudes, being outside is not sufficient, because of the angle at which the sun ray hit, the skin cannot make vitamin D.
In case you live in a northern climate and want to catch some rays through a window. Glass filters >90% of the rays that cause vitamin D production.
Right, but my point is the behavior is the same on Twitter and nitter
If you care about the Web's openness and accessibility, register your own domain, host it yourself, and write Lynx-compatible HTML.

HTTP access for older browsers is a nice touch. If your site works with Netscape and Mosaic, it shows you mean business.
I highly recommend watching this video:

https://youtu.be/Kvh4D_osFXs

Sunlight gives us vitamin D and nitric oxide (which improves blood flow and reduces hypertension). Vitamin D is crucial for the functioning of our immune systems, and the 1000IU dosage of many supplements is laughably small. A light skinned person in a singlet standing outside at noon for 30 minutes will produce between 10,000IU and 20,000IU in their skin. I would recommend supplementing 5,000IU vitamin D while also getting some exposure in the morning or afternoon (but avoiding the sun when it is high in the sky).
because diversity is an information discovery mechanism. More (or different) eyes see more. Diversity makes it so that your company figures out that the soap dispenser doesn't recognise dark skinned people in development, not when it already lands on the store shelf.
you can sanity-check your suspicion by looking at the data across countries. peru, spain, mexico and brazil should be enough to show that your idea is probably not correct
Quip has a mixed reputation. I liked it but I know a lot of people who viscerally disliked it.
Bezos has already effectively ceded “space guy” to Musk, might as well put in the cash to be “fusion guy”. Good way to make sure you’re in the history books for all time
>In other words, in an observational study design, it cannot be excluded that VitD deficiency represents a surrogate marker for a general micronutrient deficiency, which in turn reflects only the patient’s overall health status.

From the authors of one of the cited papers. I.e. if you are in generally poor health already, COVID-19 is more likely to kill you.
What is the actual RDA for Vitamin D? There seems to be some dispute on it. Not sure who to trust.
This does exist now. Places like https://www.everlywell.com/ will test all sorts of things for you over the internet -- no doctor required.
Those are entirely unrelated to this it seems, but still interesting links. Thanks!
The i7-1165G7 boosts to 4.7 GHz, 50% higher than the M1. A 75% uplift in IPC (20% more performance at 2/3 the clock speed) compared to Intel’s latest Sunny Cove architecture is enormous. Especially since Sunny Cove is itself the biggest update to Intel’s architecture since Sandy Bridge a decade ago.
Everyone’s talking about go karts (and older cars) but this is not the problem with modern drive by wire cars (in an emergency my car will shutdown the electronic steering module which will only give me like 10 degrees of steering, lock-to-lock). The real issue is with the airbag destroying your hands/wrists and chemical burns that come along with it.
Yeah that's a good point. Going outside when the sun is high would probably allow that person to not resort to shorts.
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All countries have servants. It's a question of who can afford them and what it means.

In countries with less income and wealth equality, only the really rich can afford servants. The rest would turn to machines and automation.

In countries such as Brazil and India, which have high inequality, even the middle class can afford a part time maid.
Reddit, along with Wikipedia, seems to have already slowly been claimed by groups pushing you to buy, only they're seeking something besides (direct) transfer of stuff for cash: buy-in and validation of which political positions are even valid to consider holding, let alone actually adopting. I'm on the left myself (although I think in terms of being liberal first over being "a part of the left"), and as Jon Stewart said during simpler times, "Reality has a liberal bias!", so I don't see it as much a direct threat to my existence as say a center-right conservative would, but oh geez. It's been getting really intense over the last year or two. Over the summer I was listening to a podcast where someone was discussing the remarks of a non-partisan entity (can't remember who, but the podcast itself was The Fifth Column), and the hosts referred to the undertones of those remarks as having an "implied 'we'".

Because the fervor doesn't match what I see in real life, I really do wonder how much of what's happening reflects actual public sentiment, and how much of it is the result of more subtle, nefarious things at play.

I recently found a Wikipedia article where some media organization had published an interview with a public entertainer, only rather than linking to this interview, the Wikipedia article in an attempt to cite a reference for the entertainer's quote linked instead to a Vox article that was, in consideration of prosaic matters alone, much worse than the original source. Of course it was really heavy-handed, too, and overstuffed with "implied 'we'". How did that happen, that piece getting linked in place of the original? Was it the result of laziness, ignorance, or something more intentional? I didn't dive into it (too much of a quagmire to try to wade in and correct it, either), but I wouldn't doubt if there was some monetary cause related to the big business of politics. It's certainly happening in other places.
Not only that, but a large fraction of the English-speaking northern hemisphere does not receive enough sunlight in winter months for the skin to produce Vitamin D.