skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hepatitis A seems to have resurged in San Diego, California a bit over three years ago. It traveled north from there and reached Washington state I think like over a year ago.

In the meantime, I've seen articles about "the return of Medieval diseases" to California on the front page of HN.

The reason this stuff should concern you is not simply compassion for the poorest of the poor but because disease can be caught by anyone. If you create conditions that serve as a breeding ground for serious illness in some people, you create conditions that put everyone at risk.

This is also why more developed countries need to be concerned with what goes on in less developed countries: We are breeding antibiotic resistant infections in some places due to a lack of adequate hygiene and then sometimes those people get medevaced elsewhere for treatment.

The issue here is not "Wow, we treat homeless people like crap!" Yeah, we do. The issue is "And even if you don't care how we treat homeless people, you should care that we are breeding diseases that we see as in the past and this puts everyone at risk."

Social justice issues are public health issues a la "The life you save may be your own."
The elephant in the room (or even a mammoth?) is the social status. If it's not at the center of the analysis, the predictions will be flawed and the actions will drive you in circles.

The pieces of paper with "five dollars" printed on them, and the ways they travel between wallets (aka "the System"), form a very thin layer over the reality of social status (and other more intricate machinery between our collective pairs of ears). There are not many things that can be corrected inside that thin layer, there is about 5000 years of history of innovation in this field already.
My claim is that in culture where drinking is normalized, people dont perceive drinking risky. Consequently, drinking as activity is not all that much biased toward "risk takers".

It does not really matter how much risk it "objectively" puts you through. It attracts risk takers only if people consider it risky.
I've gotten a FAANG job, multiple FAANG recruiters and an investment banking job through recruiters asking me via LinkedIn. I get maybe 2 low quality recruiters, for every decent recruiter.

I used to get much worse messages from recruiters when I was junior, but since I've gotten experience and updated my profile well, the quality of messages has vastly improved.
Yes, situation is bad, but we will make it. Prof. Kluge does not sound too pessimistic. If you have time, take a look at his report about the flu season 2017/18. Pretty grim stuff, more than 40% of intensive care patients died.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333785335_Managemen...
Obligatory apropos xkcd...

https://xkcd.com/323/
For a non-blockchain version of this, in Europe there has been an effort towards developing and implementing a system called USEF [1], which allows entities like power stations, speculators and aggregators like British Gas across Europe to make available and trade future energy supply and demand contracts over chosen time periods.

At my last job, we tried to make an initial implementation of this, but the specification was extremely complex, and even worse, ambiguous in many places. We were frequently unable as a group to agree on what the specification meant. Maybe it has improved in the two years since I left.

[1] https://www.usef.energy
I tried this to get a feeling how practical this is.

It seems to me that this would only work in very rare situations. It needs some kind of pattern that is created with the same font. This pattern gets really large if you add a lot of chars (i.e. a-z already makes it huge).

I tried this with a really simple example (numbers only, cutting exact frame of pixelated image, same font for pattern) and it didn't produce any useful result.

TBH that doesn't look all that impressive. It's not a "throw pixelated image in here and get the unpixelated result" tool.

(It's still of course valid to make the point that pixelation can be insecure. It's of course very much possible that much better such tools - likely by throwing in some ML - are possible and may even exist in the hands of people who won't share them on github.)
> manipulated with media

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/18/books/how-the-cia-played-...
I mean.. arguably... if the sentient creatures have emerged then is it ethical to kill them?
Well, that is my experience, too. I'm very open so I examined several so-called proofs of alternative history. Unfortunately, in all cases they can be explained in more traditional ways, or were a fabrication like the crystal skulls. This doesn't mean that we haven't been visited by alien civilizations, but as far as I can tell we don't really have any definitive proof. Unless we equate aliens with gods - but even then the only artifacts we have are just scriptures.
These are the exact same arguments folks made and probably still make with the original iPhone release. A decade later, Apple is one of the most valuable companies, no one profits from mobile business more than they do and their phones are clearly the best premium phones (the majority of its competition is from the budget category).

The way it's similar is that you yourself make a clear case in the number of ways apple's new silicon is actually groundbreaking but then you really are trying to concoct it in a way to find a flaw. The only real problem that you point out here, which also exists with the iPhone, is the anticompetitive and customisable nature of the future Apple is creating. Someone taking a stand on that in principle is commendable though questionable practically. Ignoring that for a moment, it is not really up to argument except by biased "old timers" that this is truly amazing work in chip and software design. It's not like no one else wants or cares about any of these metrics, it's that no one has been able to get their sh*t together in a way that Apple has.

Which is interesting because just a few years back MacBooks became a very bad choice for anyone for a number of hardware issues (outrageous keyboard, finicky motherboards, etc). So this is a very interesting 180 indeed.
I'm not sure where this policy is written, but hn modifies titles all the time to reduce clickbait. however in this case I understand where you are coming from. the submission has added context. I think it's harmless.
There is no such thing as after the cold war, it is still happening to this day, see: 2016 election tampering
>> Every little bit counts

Unfortunately, like "better safe than sorry", this just isn't true beyond feel-good virtue signalling. When you're dealing with nature and the environment it all comes down to assimilative capacity; under it and we're fine, over and we're screwed. No matter how many Denmarks make dramatic changes it means nothing without movement by the biggest emitters like China and the US.
I understand what you are saying, but you can make the same argument for why littering should be allowed. Banning littering is also sacrifice. Very likely technical solutions alone won't cut it.

My issue with sacrifices is that they often punish the wrong people. For example, let's say there is a carbon tax on flights (very likely to happen soonish). People who travel for work and for other necessities should not incur the same penalty as tourists who travel purely for pleasure.
LuaLaTeX allocates memory as-needed, see section 3.4.1 in the manual [0] (and comments/answers in this thread [1]).
Base TeX has an arbitrary, by modern standards low memory limit, leading to a whole class of errors plaguing unsuspecting users [2], and spawning entire extensions to deal with these limitations [3].

This is simply an artefact of times past and has no technical relevance nowadays.
LuaTeX allows dynamic allocation, with the available system RAM as the upper limit (so effectively, no limitations in everyday usage).

Now, I could not find a mention of memory handling in the XeTeX reference manual [4]. People are using tricks like `tikzexternalize` with xelatex [5, 6]. Especially the first point makes me think XeLaTeX inherits base TeX memory handling/limits, but I cannot confirm this.

I just know that all my problems disappeared when switching from XeLaTeX to LuaLaTeX.

Lastly, see here [7] for a comprehensive (albeit somewhat anecdotal) list of advantages of LuaTeX over XeTeX. Of that list, `microtype` is another significant functionality I rely on.

[0]: http://www.tug.org/texlive//devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/doc/con...

[1]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/7953/

[2]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=tex+capacity+exceeded

[3]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/482560/

[4]: http://mirrors.ctan.org/info/xetexref/xetex-reference.pdf

[5]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/438131/

[6]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/334250/

[7]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/126206/
It seems you're linking to wrappers to the underlying https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/tree/master...
YMMV but I used a free trial of Adobe Premiere Pro to learn the basic concepts for editing clips produced by my Nikon D850 DSLR. At work I had access to Premiere Elements and decided this was good enough for me, as a hobbyist, given that going with Pro would massively increase my existing monthly fee to Adobe. So I paid the one-off license fee for Elements.

I'm currently looking at BlackMagic's DaVinci Resolve, which has a quite well featured video and audio editing package for free. But 'all' the free version does is edit video clips. You have to pay for additional functionality. Premiere Elements, in contrast, has lots of useful things like creating/handling non-video assets such as text for titles and credits, loads of (sometimes cheesy) clip transitions, etc etc. Resolve may be okay if you hate Adobe.

You'll need something more sophisticated if you are targeting non-standard playback devices, or want to participate in collaborative workflows, or grade raw sensor clips (assuming you can get this data off your video device). As a real power user you might also want to look at ffmpeg, something I simply haven't had time to get my head round.

Again, YMMV.

[Edit] I consider myself an 'advanced' stills photographer, who is much happier using manual rather than auto settings. When I started with video, however, I quickly discovered how much I didn't know. For example, what is the relationship between the shutter speed of the camera and the frame rate of the video? This was helpfully ignored in the camera's manual, and took some googling to find out. Video autofocus is also pants, on the D850, for the type of wildlife and action photography I like (it always refocuses just as the bird lands). So I'm teaching myself to use manual focusing, just like they do in the movies. A video tripod head was also essential so I could pan, elevate and focus with only two hands rather than three.
Agreed on Chomsky's controversial influence on linguistics (I know a few linguists who have said this).

Also agree the point on talent in general.

In this specific case though I get the impression Chomsky is more highly regarded than most political scientists.

GP comment set the bar rather low by associating criticism of mainstream media with randoms on facebook. Regardless of whether you agree with him I think Chomsky safely exceeds that bar.
The author appears to be suggesting people don't use third party services when they do development in a local environment ("Another limitation is you can’t use a closed source or 3rd party services."), which seems like a very dubious claim. I suspect there's some subtle nuance in his meaning that's not coming across in the way it's written.
> but cops are extremely respectful,

YMMV.

In India, the rank-and-file cadres that the common public interacts with: have the dirtiest and most disrespectful people one would ever face.
The Galileo Eccentric Satellite Surprise
Across every age group (except children) Covid is roughly 5x to 10x deadlier than the seasonal flu. It also spreads faster (higher reproductive number), is much more often spread by asymptomatic/presymptomatic people, and nobody has any apparent pre-existing immunity. (And the seasonal flu is a serious deadly disease which stresses hospital systems every year, not some joke. Even if Covid were only as bad as the flu, it would still be a real threat.)

The method used to estimate flu deaths every year is far more expansive than the method used for confirmed Covid deaths.

One interesting thing to see is that the social reactions vs. Covid have radically reduced the amount of flu spread this year vs. previous years.
I did create low-fidelity wireframes in the past. But it felt like low-fidelity wireframes just added extra noise and additional needed iterations.

By using high-fidelity UI kits, it is almost as easy to create wireframes without having to re-do a lot of work again.

Nevertheless, I also understand that there are cases where it can be useful and necessary. This is definitely a nice kit.
That’s some selective consideration right there. Every large consumer tech company broadcasts their press conferences, because it’s of interest both to fans of the products and industry pundits.

Samsung broadcast their phone events every year. As do Google. Microsoft and Sony are very happy to get on stage to tell you about their new consoles. Tesla have got a new car to tell you about too.

Surely you can see why some people might be interested?
The regular/cloud chats are not e2e in the first place. e2e chats are opt-in at the moment, by the name "secret chats".
LaTeX is a typesetting ststem, not a documentation system. Doing typesetting of large documents is performance critical.
Sile appears to still be under active development: https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile
Oh, the benefits of OTP are huge right now. Just to mention two:

1. the implementation can be trivial and so there isn't really an algorithm that can be broken or a backdoor in a RNG on your device.

2. Protection against MITM attacks (or anything related to problems with certificates, even bugs in your software)

That's an extreme amount of difference in security compared e.g. the axotlotl protocol.

Now, the authors of Signal are smart guys and of course they used the axotlotl protocol for obvious reasons, namely to increase usability. But you can say exactly the same about telegram too. It only becomes a matter of where you draw the line.
UTIs are nicer than mime types in that they allow a simple way to make up a unique name you control (java style com.myurl.myformat) and in that there is an inheritance mechanism (you can say com.myurl.myformat also is a sqlite database, for example).

But unless I misunderstand something the fundamental problem of figuring out what particular logical type some collection of bytes on your disk has is in fact not solved at all, because the UTI is not stored together with the file in the filesystem (unless I'm misunderstanding something). As far as I can tell macOS, apart from a few places like the clipboard, basically just takes a guess based on registered file extensions (or, for rest calls, the mime type) -- is that not so?
Chinese photonic quantum computer demonstrates quantum supremacy
Cross-site leaks (XS-Leaks) Wiki
google might not be so keen to moderate that kind of thing since they effectively do the same thing
If people just banned slaves for moral reasons, they'd have come back eventually for economic ones.

Slavery started to fade away through the 1800s. This wasn't because people suddenly realised the slaves weren't having fun, or suddenly after millennia of religion someone decided to take the 'be nice to people' dogma seriously. Neither of those things take centuries to figure out.

The change was the industrial revolution that let relatively ordinary people create enormous amounts of wealth if left with their freedom. Slavery is a great example of liberating people to do things being much more impressive than bans. Banning slavery was a big step that sped the whole process up by a few decades, but the writing was on the wall once it became obvious just how much wealth a motivated free person could create.

> let people do heroin for example. would be very impressive.

Yeah, it would. Countries should have some faith in their people to figure out what a mistake looks like without the police arresting people. I'd applaud any government that can get to that level of enlightenment.
We don't exactly know where the catastrophic threshold for climate change is. So it's entirely possible that this little move might make the difference between 2C warming, 4C warming.
> In the EU every car insurance has to cover minimum 1 million euro in personal liability and 5 million in 3rd party liability.

Source on this? I've always understood you only needed third party insurance, and the EU website [0] seems to back this up.

> it's very hard to imagine how payouts would be anywhere near those sums.

If you kill someone or permanently incapacitate them, you could be on the hook for their lifetime loss of earnings. Here's [1] a family being awarded €650,000 following the death of their mother. Agreed, it's still hard to rack up €20 million and I don't know what the precedent is if you run over a billionaire, but in theory I believe the payout here is uncapped.

[0] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/vehicles/insurance/val...

[1] https://www.personalinjuryireland.ie/news/fatal-car-crash-in...
> The researchers found that it took Jiuzhang approximately 200 seconds to provide an answer. They noted that it would have taken the world's fastest supercomputer approximately 2.5 billion years to carry out the same calculations—a clear example of quantum supremacy.
Nice, my emails up now. Likewise I’ll send something in return, but there’s no obligation to provide feedback
That's an impressive set of claims. But following your profile link (via bog-standard iOS 14, current Safari) triggered a prompt for credentials, with no hint as to their purpose or usage. That's as broken and inaccessible a UX as I've encountered in a long, long time.
"Some people are just scum."

Sadly yes. There are usually thousands of reason, why they became scum in the first place and it is important to ask those questions and find ways of improvement - but those are not helpful for the present situation at hand, when others have to deal with actual fear.
Lot's of people are using restream.io. Good solution to stream to multiple places at the same time.

Doing you own single-tenant stream is hard to manage and scale in general.
I'm a day late to this immense comment chain, but my point is that Bell's Theorem specifically rules out local hidden variables unless scientists are forced to choose never to conduct an experiment that will expose those local hidden variables.

I'm not talking about determinism, I'm talking about Superdeterminism, which is akin to saying that coins will always land heads-up because people are compelled to avoid flipping coins in situations where it will land on tails. Please see my link.
I want to start a Tree-Planting Carbon-Capture Proof-of-Growth Eco-Coin. Who's with me??
What you described just seems like a form of financing. Companies would presumably invest in energy saving and get some future savings which they can use to repay the financing. Companies can (and many do) already tap existing credit lines to invest in projects that save them energy (costs).

I'm reminded of Matt Levine's comments on crypto:

> The blockchain-y reinvention of everything in the financial world -- money, contracts, companies -- is fascinating and impressive and, viewed from a certain angle, adorable. But sometimes it could stand to learn from what has gone before. After all, the elements of finance -- money, contracts, companies -- have already been invented. Perhaps their historical development might hold some lessons for their re-inventors.

A price already exists on energy and companies have an incentive to reduce their energy consumption if only to save money. Maybe you don't agree with the price, or maybe you don't agree with the cost of financing, but those two levers you can more directly control and certainly don't require blockchain

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-05-17/blockc...
The NYT experience is indeed the fastest way for a company to lose trust. It took me 3 tries to cancel. First rep said: yep cancelled all done. Except it wasnt: renewed at a discount. The 2nd rep: said sorry sorry and produced a chat transcript where I supposedly said thanks for the new discount, k thx bye (I didn’t). Said it was cancelled now. Surprise: it wasnt. Third rep got it done. For real this time. Still disappointed at how this played out.
The article’s interesting but but the Manchester study does contradict the others, all depends on whether the animal study is reliable. Animal studies don’t always reflect human behavior properly
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Shipping hardware instead of a simulation is the killer move here. It really distinguishes this class from others you can take at home.

I would be curious if any other course pairs their offering with hardware. The big one is Udacity and I cannot tell from their syllabus if they have hardware. (They don't mention any, so I assume they do not).
> What's your take on how everything works these days?

Mostly, I wish technologies to make unreliable P2P transfers more robust had been widely applied to point-to-point transfers. I wish my phone, for instance, used low-data-rate UDP (with TCP-friendly flow control and a low priority IPv6 QoS) with a rateless forward error code (such as Network Codes) to download updates. There's no reason an update download should just fail and start over if WiFi is spotty or you move between WiFi networks.

Power, CO2, and cost efficiencies of scale due to centralization are nice. The shift to mobile makes P2P more challenging, see Skype switching to a more centralized architecture to make mobile conversations more stable.

I wish we had somehow come to a point where users were incentivized to use P2P programs that marked P2P traffic using the IPv6 QoS field to flag P2P traffic, rather than relying on heuristics to try and shape traffic. Using heuristics to shape traffic incentivizes P2P traffic to use stenography and mimic VoIP or video chat, making everything less efficient. Monthly data quotas at different QoSes, after which all the traffic gets a low priority, would incentivize users to use programs that explicitly directly signal traffic prioritization to the routers.

Comcast's traffic shaping attempts using heuristics seem to have caused it to forge RST packets when Lotus Notes (mostly used by enterprises) downloaded large attachments, breaking attachment downloads.[0]

> Do you miss p2p?

Sometimes.

> Do you think we could ever get back to it?

I think that really depends on corporate censorship (with and without government pressure) trends in the near future, and how hard the average person wants to push back. I think P2P is unlikely to see a major resurgence any time soon.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071114/175325.shtml
Well, playing and recording a live instrument is much more expressive for many reasons. But the biggest thing are these little random bits and noises that can be present when recording with a microphone and inconsistencies such as pitch fluctuations. This can be emulated with soft synths and samplers but with many limitations.

When I produce music digitally, I usually get the most interesting results by randomising devices. For example, in Ableton Live there is a device called "Device Randomiser" that can randomise other devices. A few of these in a chain can produce crazy sounds over time. Then these can be used together with more traditional soft synths, for example by using them as an external vocoder signal.
This dismisses the successes eg Fridays for Future had. Making high-CO2 lifestyle choices (frequent international flights, SUVs, fast fashion, ...) socially less acceptable and “uncool” is absolutely part of the solution