skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL, but the Supreme Court case I'm aware of upheld a Massachusetts law requiring smallpox vaccinations (in 1905). That said, the Supreme Court also upheld forced sterilization of the mentally defective in the early 20th Century so I'm not at all sure 100-year old court cases would be expected to be upheld today.

I don't really disagree with you in general. SWAT teams won't be holding people down and injecting people by force. But the practical effect isn't that different from a jurisdiction effectively requiring proof of vaccination to leave your house.
I love how Lupe doesn't simplify it so far to say "it never goes in reverse".
They can if they stop enrolling and paying tuition. There are plenty of options online for college-style certifications that most employers in my industry (software engineering) would accept.

I get that other professional training with certifications would be harder to do online, but those tend to be done in community colleges anyway. The most "abusive" shops are universities offering BS degrees to students swimming in debt.
Literally being worked to death. Truly disgusting.
This has been done in my last exam phase and has worked well. They cranked the AC to 11, which made it quite an unpleasant envirommemt, but I would rather wear a jacket than take online exams
Because they have no way of testing for side-effects that could occur 4 + years down the line.

> “This is a unique situation where we as a company simply cannot take the risk if in ... four years the vaccine is showing side effects,”
I was just googling this myself and I think this is a feature that btrfs has over zfs. There’s no way to do native offline deduplication as far as I could find.
So if you have odddouble.m with

function y=odddouble(a,b)
y=2*x+1
endfunction

you can do

>>> h = under(@(x) 1/x, odddouble)
>>> h(3)

?
If so, yeah, I agree you can implement under in matlab (as long as you have the symbolic toolbox as well); in which case it's probably one of very few non-CAS systems where you can define it.
I am well aware. But what is not essential are indoor weddings with hundreds or thousands of guests, a night at a packed bar, or a 30 person Thanksgiving dinner, when hospitals are overflowing and healthcare workers sick with the virus themselves are being asked to work overtime.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/14/9341852...

The virus has been around for almost a year now and people are still acting like we have no idea how it works or that uncontrolled spread can cause a disastrous collapse of healthcare systems.
Conda, the package manager that applies a bunch of weird patches to packages that sometimes leave them broken, has no lock file or reproducibility built in and suffers from the same issue when using “pip:” sections in your environment.yml?

Yeah. No.
I just recovered from it.

I'm pretty sure I got it walking out of a grocery store. I was wearing a mask, and was walking by another older man who was also wearing a mask and standing at the exit. He was hacking and coughing so hard that the mask did nothing. I tried to hold my breath as I got until I got outside, but it was to no avail. About four days later, I developed flu like symptoms. Sometimes, it doesn't matter how smart or "dumb" you are, anyone can get it.

We may have an effective vaccine now, but it will be another six to nine months before you can go to your doctor and request the series as a normal person.
Soooooo... If you were somewhat pragmatic, you'd acknowledge that a lot of people, maybe even a majority, actually support various social distancing measures and shutdowns. These measures certainly have a negative economic impact, irrespective of whether a negative economic impact would happen just due to the voluntary measures of these people.

And regardless, wouldn't it be a net gain to deploy a vaccine? It would certainly be more effective at placating this group of people than implying they're all idiots.

It would be a huge benefit towards resuming a relatively normal society, regardless of whether they're right or whether they're somehow all just a bunch of nervous morons. So why would you criticise it?
This is just my impression but forcing users to sign up for an account would be a problem only if it was directly owned and managed by your product and you were the possessor of the account data. Accounts for a third party, particularly for something ubiquitous like Steam, would probably not run afoul of this rule.
My vision for a helper robot is much simpler.
I want a magic wand (laser pointer) that I can use to cast spells (issue commands) on anything around me. If I tell the toy on the floor to put itself away (point laser, issue command 3) then it will put itself on the shelf where it belongs.(robot arm moves object to next empty buffer location on shelf).
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> I really can’t imagine this holding up in courts though.

Why not? Liability waivers are common in other industries.
"mRNA vaccines do not affect the DNA inside the cell – the synthetic mRNA fragment is a copy of the part of the virus RNA that carries the instructions to build the antigen of the virus..."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_vaccine
> There was recently an article about successful startups from Utah that worked 9-to-5 and still had a good and scalable business running. I see similar things in Germany. We do not have unicorns

You just answered your own question. Moderate success can co-exist with any number of other goals and priorities. Extreme success requires extreme dedication.

The great thing about the modern world - no one is "forced" to pursue extreme success. Everyone is free to pursue their own goals and life purpose. You don't have to justify your priorities, and neither does the workaholic.
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Those 2 numbers aren’t comparable.

A 1% death rate with a disease as contagious as COVID means more than 50 million dead globally at some point (not everyone will get it but the majority will eventually).

Near universal vaccination with a vaccine that is 95% effective at preventing severe cases means saving 47.5 million lives in that scenario. Despite the disease having a 99% survival rate.

If the vaccine provides sterilizing immunity (or just reduces your ability to pass it on), it could save more, and wouldn’t even require universal vaccination to do so.

Furthermore, people are staying home voluntarily in many places. An effective vaccine will alleviate their fears and help the economy. In a way that telling people not to worry about a <1% chance or death will not.
Oh yeah. Browsers are application runtimes. They have been for 20 years now.
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>> People that want to cheat or game the system will find ways, it isn't hard to do.

As someone who taught a college, that's a flawed statement. Let me propose this to you. You teach Calculus 1000 and there is an end of term exam. Your normal end of term exam is one where everyone sits in the same room, proctors are looking for cheats, things checked, etc. Instead this year you tell your students that this year it will be a take home exam with the following rules: 1) they have 2 hours to do it during the team home peroid; 2) no cheating by the honor system.

Do you think the rate of cheating will be the same? I mean by your logic, it should be.
IME, pip and its inclusion in python installations made a great and very positive difference for using Python on Windows: before, third-party installations mostly (sic) didn’t succeed; after, they almost always succeed. I’m grateful.
Why not ? I mean why would they be responsible for something they cant test ? Thats the part that makes no sense to me.

If you are (healthily) afraid of a vaccine because its not tested enough, just take your responsibility and dont take it. Or take it but dont come complain and attack other people for something that no one can do anything about now.
This is, IMO, just lazy professors that didn't bother to make exams for the digital space. Instead, they invested money and resources in digital proctors - with all the invasive pains that come with it.

If you can't bother to make a proper exam, don't bother. Rather make the classes pass/fail on project work, or grade the classes on projects / home exams. Trying to bring a 100% replica of the physical exam space into the digital space is just a recipe for disaster.
Frisian isn't too relevant to a discussion of Dutch accents, because Frisian is universally considered to be a different language than Dutch. After all, Frisian and Dutch split off from their common ancestor already in the first millennium AD.
Also getting your hand at good data isn't so easy nowadays. E.g. reporting date can be very different from actual date of death. My area once lagged 3 months.

Interesting to read about a peak at the start of November. Some regions of Germany where data for "date of death" is available also show a peak slightly before 1.Nov.

Some regions seem to have a constant lag for reporting. For others the curves using "reporting date" seem to be completely detached from the "date of death" data.
We will only know the secret if Gilbert gets the rights to make another Monkey Island game.
Not exactly the same, but I moved laterally from working in Marketing to working in Data. That meant going from managing Google/Facebook Ads in the UI/Excel to working with their APIs using Python/SQL every day.

I was fortunate enough to be able to make that move naturally at the same company I was already working in, solving some of the same problems I was already facing as an account manager. "Scratching my own itch" as it were.

While any role with programming is seen as glamorous from the outside, the actual work can consist of a lot of mind-numbing maintenance and glue. You don't get quite the same high that you do when working on new projects.

I have found that a lot of technical folks lack the business context to fully implement impactful solutions at their organization (outside of what's prescribed through tickets). On the other hand, business folks don't understand the nuances of the technology, so they set unrealistic expectations and goals of the software engineers. Since you're coming from the business strategy side, I think you have a unique opportunity to incorporate coding into your roles without making your career work 100% about writing code. Can you identify what challenges are being faced (now and in the future) by the business? Can you personally solve those challenges with automation and software? Can you lead a team to develop solutions for those challenges? Can you effectively tie business objectives to the solutions being developed? If the answer is yes, you can find a nice little hybrid niche that makes you invaluable to any company you work for.
Not saying you’re wrong, but what are you proposing as an alternative? How should comprehensive knowledge be tested? Weekly homework/projects?

P.s. love the user name.
OnePlus is the brand, One is the model, bacon is the codename for the OnePlus One. The OnePlus 5 is codenamed cheeseburger.
I'm using LineageOS on a OnePlus 5 and it's working great. I'm not using microg or gapps at all, but I'd imagine microg's variant of LineageOS should have pretty similar device support, so just check the devices page on the LineageOS site.
To be frank, I take issue with manifold and polyglot because both come across as unnecessarily pretentious use of english. The secondary problem is that I looked in two places to find 'what' the project is. Instead of finding information I found adjectives which can convey an intention to impress, this can easily give a negative first impression.

With no context the sentence 'truly manifold long-term project devoted to ...' is meaningless to me, because I don't know if we share common definitions of four highly subjective terms: 'truly', 'manifold', 'long-term' and 'project'. On first impression this does not come across as a singular 'project' in the way I would define one. Consequently, as a first time reader a get confused.

In contrast to the site, your description in this thread 'thi.ng is definitely not a framework - it is a collection of ...' makes immediate sense. Here you expressed the essential information in a 20 word sentence. On the site the same thing is expressed in a meandering 40 word sentence.
It's possible but you'd need more training data IMHO the more similar things get.
I don't think you meant to do this but you seem to have inadvertently made a very damn good argument for "guns don't kill people people kill people.

People are getting screwed because they are at the long end of an unbroken chain of crap. Crappy organizations buy crappy software and crappy professors take the results seriously. The fact that there exists a crappy tool that flags all the black people as cheaters (or whatever, point is that the false positives are unacceptable common and unacceptably distributed).

Blaming the gun (the software in this case) is tacitly condoning the unbroken chain of half a dozen people/entities that are failing to do the job they are being paid to do. The software developers shouldn't be building crap software. The companies shouldn't be selling crap software. The universities shouldn't be buying crap software. The professors shouldn't be using the results of crap software. To look at that situation and say "yeah the problem here is that this crap software exists" is beyond naive. The problem is that nobody is being accountable for the bad outcome. I'm not asking for a whipping boy or a scapegoat here, the problem is that when nobody can be held fully responsible it seems like nobody even gets held partly responsible.
I thought that was too high, cheers for correcting me.

I think the general point is still valid though, as there's a substantial difference between the two regions.
I'm curious what those rare cases are.
Industrial carbon capture coal electricity production is substantially more expensive than renewables or natgas at this point, no reason to turn to it.

e: hm, somehow my comment switched chains?
Thank you for posting this
> but many were skeptical as to the longevity of the performance DeepMind was able to achieve

For a non-biologist, on what is this skepticism based?

Just purely based on following ML news it looks like the trend for ML solutions has been that they've overtaken expert-systems once they've gained a solid foodhold in a field.
Maybe this is some perception bias. Are there any cases where ML performed decently but then hit a ceiling while expert systems kept improving?
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Yeah, I nothing that’s just a way to allow you to finish when you get stuck. In most games I’ve played (and I’ve played many different ones on iPhone, computer, and consoles), I don’t think I’ve seen that. Usually once you’re stuck, they’ll let you know and you have to start a new game.

I have, however, often seen them allow you to replay the same setup to try and beat it again. Many also allow undo (sometimes limited, sometimes unlimited) to reverse your moves to get out of being stuck.
What Is a Knowledge Graph?
That's certainly fair and many ESOP plans are not really an especially good deal. Over the past few decades, in spite of a couple significant downturns, even index funds would have done pretty well for you with regular contributions. But having some good stock wins in addition to that certainly can help.
My partner recently finished her PhD and has started working as a medical writer. During her academic career, it was beat into her head don’t plagiarize, everything must be yours.

In her first review after a few weeks on the job, her manager says that she takes too long to do her work; they just need her to take what the client says verbatim, fact check it, and then slap it in a document. She was treating her work like an academic assignment and putting in the effort to craft something unique, when they really just need a fact checking typist.

8 years in higher ed, published study on cancer drugs, thousands of mice died, millions of dollars spent on the lab... all so she can transcribe some text and then validate it against the studies.

Academia is the worst job training program ever.
Four years after the Dyn DDoS attack critical DNS dependencies have only gone up
Not just in theory. The way modern register renaming works is that every single write to a register name always allocates a new physical register. It's not even possible for there to be false dependencies because of reusing the same name over and over.
> That's not what most people care about when they talk about how many registers a processor has.

I think most people do consider the instruction pointer and status word to be registers, despite also violating the constraints you specified.

Most people probably don't think about MSRs at all, and so maybe just aren't interested in a count of them. But I'm interested in counting the different pieces of on-CPU state that would be necessary to faithfully model an entire x86 core, and both Intel and AMD refer to those bits of state as "registers."
Yeah I didn't touch on that because some people argue it's still not enough, but if you're in the top 5% of earners in the US (which the poster above is in Germany) I think the difference in perks isn't as great as people play up
I don't think that's quite the advice they need. For any outcome short of dropping everything to rededicate their life to charity full time, the author will still have all the same questions about direction and priorities in their professional life.

I can share from my own experience (and from talking with the friends I've made along the way) dedicating your time and resources to charity volunteering is a fulfilling force, but never ultimately so. It doesn't stop whatever is really gnawing on your soul about direction in life. Those things have to be understood and addressed directly.
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ML is a super overloaded term.

There are definitely cases where machine learned statistical solutions do not perform as well as the systems tuned by the experts, but if you can define the task well and get the data for a deep solution, usually those will overtake.
> It's hard enough to find a concise post like this that is more than one person's opinion

It's not that hard with a collaborative editor like Google Docs or even git.

You usually have one or two people spearhead the effort, then a group of peers offer feedback, insight, corrections, etc.

Run the process through a few rounds and you have solid docs with wide consensus.

The key is having a good owner that fully groks the message they're trying to send and the audience they're targeting.
I'm wondering what this means for folding@home.
From the programmers point of view only the working registers are really important, other registers are just OS related (MSR), some are really important, but the internal representation may be total different.

Like a mode switch bit in a CR register. So MSR-r are just the interface. And the MSR register access can be "slow", so no synchronization or optimization required.

But, the idea of more register makes better architecture, is a total bad assumption. See the dead body of Itanium (128 general-purpose 64 bit integer registers, 128 floating point registers etc. )

With multitasking, one have to switch between context, and larger context (register file size) takes more time.

There are cases when you are better using just the GPRs, rather than the SIMD registers. (Linux kernel does not use FPU or SIMD registers)

Also SIMD usage may slow down the clock, like AVX in x86_64. So you may trust your compiler for vectorization, but it may make more harm than good.
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What are pid and lock files for?
Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory
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Hi phh, I remember using your software to root my Nexus 5X a few years ago, thanks for that! Good to see you're still in the scene.
I believe that the age adjustment is designed to compensate for that, but I’m no expert.
Consumer Reports Ranks Comma.ai Above Tesla Autopilot
But they trust bitcoin more than plain old gold. That’s interesting.
Yes and then people who don't have their diet under control will eat all the calories back up (because of the bigger deficit and exhaustion) and then some.
So no I would say you should get your diet under control first.
I think the market is taking care of it. That is why there are a million SAAS companies that seem redundant. Also why there are a million micro brands for simple things. I think this is a backlash exactly from this 100% efficiency thinking.

Software and manufacturing are both highly susceptible to misery from this efficiency BS. If you are gonna work to death might as well start your own company.
>Yes, it maybe there, but no, It's only a problem if people make it one. It's not there by default and unavoidable.

It seems to me unavoidable that human would look for sex. The notion that sex is pillar to human endeavour has been a strongly held view of a lot of psychologists. I also don't believe sexual social dynamics are a problem (but im not sure if thats what you were saying).

>victim

This mentality underlies a very unhealthy view of dating imo. You don't have to be friends with someone prior to dating them.
At least where I'm from (Norway), grade transcripts will show a class grade distribution/histogram in the background of your grade.

That way the viewer / reader will be able to compare your results to your class.

Obviously if 80% of your class got A, that A is not going to look as impressive.

On the other hand, if you're the only student that got A, while the class distribution is monotonically increasing towards Failure, that's going to be a good thing for you.
if its chitty why did you build it? Gots time to waste?
I don't log in to any google account on my phone.
Too me it is ironic that the one thing that made McDonald’s iconic is their fries and today the one thing that I truly hate about McDonald’s is their fries. So inconsistent. Sometimes hot and crispy other times limp and cold. Sometimes too much salt other times bland. I look forward to trying this recipe.
I would have actually enjoyed that, the challenge being to use enough hacks and interfaces (six, __future__, etc) to make the subsequent, inevitable move to 3 a well-paid but trivial task...
Yes, it also penalized attending college.
It seemed to work for those with a green card, at least, though I was sort of worried that it would be counted as 'public assistance' for the purposes of the 'public charge' rule that's now being enforced. Seems that it's not being considered as such, though, at least according to the lawyer I talked to.
Using this software sounds idiotic. They're trying to apply methods to in-person learning to distance learning. Instead of focusing on detecting cheating, they should be re-evaluating their grading and teaching methodology so that cheating is unproductive. Prioritize in class participation and essay writing. If tests are needed, they can be timed and open book.

Great example of why our educational system isn't all that good.

I took a year of Japanese in college. A big part of the grade was memorizing and performing these dialogs. If you didn't remember the dialog word for word, you'd get points off. I wasted a lot of time trying to memorize those stupid things when I could have been acquiring new vocabulary words or studying Kanji. I took a trip to Japan a couple of years go, and did some brushing up for a couple of months before I left. I learned more in those two months than I did in my entire time at school.
$17 billion for a bloated chat app, but that has proved it can (somehow) sustain a business model. IMO salesforce is just buying the missing piece of the b2b puzzle, and they believe 17billion is worth the market