skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Just how many lives do we save by keeping restaurants open?"

You tell me. How many?

"People sacrifice their lives to eat in restaurants...implicitly, when they drive a car to/from and risk an auto accident. It is probably small numbers against small numbers"

Like I said elsewhere in this thread, just the other day the US had over 3,000 COVID-19 deaths in a single day. That doesn't sound like a small number to me, and I'd be surprised if anywhere near that number of people died driving to a restaurant that day.

"The poster didn’t propose to ignore effects on the 70+...where did you read this?"

Right. They just happened to only quote the IFR rate for people < 70 years old, and not mention the IFR for people 70 and older. That sounds like they ignored them to me.
I feel like Slack deserves some blame here for their poor uptick during COVID.

Slack's audio/video product has been abysmal, and hasn't improved during the lockdowns. If you use Slack on iOS and someone shares their screen, you can't see what they are sharing. My teams have never been comfortable using Slack for audio calls, and there were enough problems that calls were just done over teams instead. I know many companies that used Slack, and then used Teams (or Zoom) for audio/video. How does Zoom factor into all this which grew like crazy? Teams is technically competitive but Zoom really nailed an important part of the product.
I don't not agree with your sentiment, but responding with "How is that good?" to “the finder/thief just can't factory reset it and use it” seems like you’re not actually responding to what they said.
What control am I really losing here? There isn’t a way to implement this specific security measure without a remote service, so Apple provides the remote service. I get the security feature.
There are exactly zero tasks that can be done 10x better with C than with C++.
Air gapped computers run whatever. I've not personally seen MacOS though I wouldn't be surprised. There is a fair bit of secret mobile development, and that requires MacOS.
> In real life, if you go meet a few, I am quite sure you will find that many Muslims do not take their scripture literally.

My answer is three parts so please bear with me.

Firstly I understand your argument but then why you do not see any other community carrying out beheading to defend their religion. If this is the state of affairs today then you need to imagine how it would have been centuries back. Are you saying they were progressing and suddenly became regressive in modern era? What would explain that theory?

Secondly Christians, Hindus, Buddhists also exists in large numbers and Jews are the most prosecuted community. I do not see them carrying out random suicide attacks. How do you explain this behavior?

Thirdly Every faith have seen voices to reform vs other major faiths. Why don't you see any major reforms going on in Islam? Are they perfect and don't have anything to reform? What there isn't any major movement from within Islam against polygamy, halala, barbaric punishments, degraded status of women and minorities.

Note: Strangely I was stopped from replying by hacker new algo because I was apparently posting too fast. I don't know why posting 4-5 messages over an hour should be considered "fast."
> We can worship together and participate in protests, but can’t use outdoor playgrounds.

They'd prohibit both religious gatherings and protests if they legally could. These are both explicitly listed as protected under the 1st Amendment to the U.S. constitution, so it wouldn't survive a court challenge, especially since a similar restriction from New York has already been struck down as unconstitutional.
Yeah, TECO made learning VI trivial.
Of all the categories of social media apps I genuinely believe an entirely new professional networking app reimagined from the ground up could very easily “disrupt” a legacy app like LinkedIn. I’m honestly surprised I haven’t seen anything yet (or maybe just not paying attention).
Hubble captures fading of the Stingray Nebula
Not the most polite post, but I think this is necessary given that the authors continued to promote the scheme even after it was shown to be broken.
In the year 2000.

I have barely touched office over the past decade; been using Google Workspace. My past four employers have used Google. I have been using it personally, at work, for longer. My weightlifting club using Google sheets. My mortgage sheets were Google sheets.
Luck played a role in this instance as well.

Having a representative admit to violating their own policy/terms in writing is sort of a slam dunk.

The principle still applies though, good advice afaict.
Teams is awful. Specifically the non-native notifications which have been complained about for 4 years with no action.

Fix that single item and I'd have a positive view of the product.

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/su...
I'm not "eager to punish people." Even for a junkie, it's not that hard for them to find a public restroom to shoot up and dispose their needles (at least pre-covid). They will almost certainly choose that if it means they won't get sent to jail. Right now, in LA and SF, certain areas are littered with needles and feces. I'm not blaming the homeless. I'm blaming the woke tech liberals who get offended no matter what how the police interact with the homeless. I seriously doubt that that anyone is allowed to casually shoot up in highly trafficked streets in Sydney or Berlin.
My company, and many that I am aware of primarily use google docs. I could get behind duopoloy though.
Most of those things probably are not made by Toyota. Maybe the seats are.
Yes, with the 8" floppy drives, and a VT-52 clone. I gave it away to a father to give to his kid. A couple years later, I realized my mistake and asked to buy it back, but he'd thrown it in the trash :-(

I still have that Heathkit terminal, but I haven't turned it on in 37 years or so, though it was in perfect working order at the time.

I soldered all three kits together, and it all worked perfectly the first time I turned it on. Those were great kits.

I also had a very expensive Diablo 630 daisywheel printer to go with it, built like a tank. But I couldn't give it away, and finally it went to the dump around 10 years ago.

I did keep my original IBM PC, but the chips went bad in it while in storage and it won't power up anymore.
Original sources are paramount to any real sense of understanding. In my opinion the best approach is reading primary and secondary material in tandem. Understanding ideas is important obviously. But there’s also something to be said about the experience of navigating a difficult text and beginning to grok it, and the process itself is rewarding and worthwhile.

That said if the person asking this question has no interest in being an academic, your advice is horrible. Imagine reading about Plato but never reading a dialogue, never getting a sense of being in a room with Socrates. Imagine reading about the death of God but not a single sentence of Nietzsche’s maddeningly beautiful prose. You need to engage with real philosophy.
Yes, users would need to take some action-- otherwise how would you know if your coins were being moved to your new key vs my new key. :)

We know how to construct kinds of forward compatibility that could allow being spent with a new scheme but the specific scheme would have to be set in advance so they users could generate the future keys at the same time the generate the current ones. And, as mentioned, the existing choices aren't that great (for this application).
It has its problems but so does Slack. It seems to be getting better quickly though. I applaud MS for having a Linux client that actually works. The biggest annoyance is that it doesn't remember my phone number when using phone audio for meetings. The UI is a bit confusing at times but I'm getting used to it.
You can use a stationary bike
That'd be like wrapping a potato in foil, you're just going to make it a lot easier to get your head baked.
Smallish autonomous craft picking one nodule in 10...
Wow, this is extremely unfortunate. And I'm pretty surprised it's the first I'm hearing about it, given that T2 chips have been out for a while.

Is this true even if the OS is installed to an external hard disk, such as a USB drive? That's not a great solution of course, but perhaps a partial one?
> Microsoft's Word/Excel monopoly is unbreakable

Is this really true? For installed software this is true. But at least with everyone I work with, it’s all Google docs now. I was honestly floored the other day when I got a presentation in an email rather than a link to one online that could be collaborated with. Maybe I’m in a bubble, but I can’t imagine going back to Word or Excel.
I'm fairly sure I remember the insect science community suggested cicadas or something at one point, I don't think it's impossible. More likely than antagonism honestly
I agree that there is no such thing as a "state of the art" in a subject such as philosophy... but you can read a lot of stuff from e.g. Plato or Aristotle that is just refuted nowadays. For example, I studied linguistics and whenever I had to read Plato about language I was reminded that he really had no idea what he was talking about.

I also personally don't like Plato (he always creates these absolute strawmen as opponents), but that's more personal. I agree though that it's valuable to read at least some of it and to see whether it speaks to you or whether you find the method of inquiry interesting.
That makes sense if Activation Lock is turned on. But you should be able to turn it off if you need a fully offline machine.
Maybe it helps Apple "gain complete control" over users, but you are gonna need more evidence to support that claim.

The claims made in the article and their long history of locking down their systems against the user and fighting right-to-repair aren't enough evidence? Apple wants you to consume when they tell you to, and if you don't they can simply brick your hardware and leave you SOL.
"This was the end of 50s early 60s, seems we still did stuff like lobotomies. Idk if I can blame law makers for not taking psychiatry seriously at the time."

LSD was made illegal in 1968, so actually it was the late 60's (right at the peak of social unrest and reactionary backlash in the US), and they took psychiatry very seriously then, but they didn't ban lobotomies, just LSD.

It was pretty clearly a moral panic. Had absolutely nothing to do with science.
JAXA has several good videos:

http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20201206_fireball/
The set of things that are valuable to mankind and the set of things that are profitable to mankind only partially overlap, and we should optimize for the former
> To put it bluntly, we are not paying you for your conversions

How did the CEO write this and not immediately ^H^H^H it? Could he really not think of a better phrasing than "your conversions"?
I suspect that even though you have a lot of experience programming, recruiters aren't counting it as applicable experience to the jobs you want. You essentially have even less experience with cloud/ML than most college grads who at least took classes where they have applicable project experience.

Changing job areas is hard, the best way imo is to find a company that does both what you currently excel at and what you want to do, then do an internal transfer to build experience. I've seen it done before where a friend of mine joined one team building internal support tools, switched to a different team doing data science, and now gets job offers for data science.
You could get even more passive by just investing in a buy-write index ETF. e.g. PBP or QYLD.
Apple M1 Chips
Opinions on the new Apple M1 chips and their performance in terms of development??? Thanks
Sure. Microsoft’s main customer are large corporations. I work for one, and I can assure you (for security reasons) my company does not want Teams messages to leave the Microsoft ecosystem for the sack of better OS integration.
Contactless USB-compatible dock is not impossible
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_100

The floppy disk drives, known as the RX50, accepted proprietary 400 kB single-sided, quad-density 5¼-inch diskettes. Initial versions of the operating systems on the Rainbow did not allow for low-level formatting, requiring users to purchase RX50 media from Digital Equipment Corporation. The high cost of media ($5 per disk) led to accusations of vendor "lock-in" against Digital. However, later versions of MS-DOS and CP/M allowed formatting of diskettes.

Of note was the single motor used to drive both disk drives via a common spindle, which were arranged one on top of the other. That meant that one disk went underneath the first but inserted upside-down. This earned the diskette drive the nickname "toaster". The unusual orientation confused many first-time users, who would complain that the machine would not read the disk.
"Scars that have never fully healed." Oh, please.
Extended this tangent, the conventional expression for this is "opinionated", but same idea.
I have idle thoughts about porting TECO to D so I can lord it over those IDE people.
If Slack is better than Teams and boosts productivity enough to be worth the cost, why wouldn't you pay money for it?

I'm not saying this is the case, but just because Teams is free doesn't mean people won't pay for a better alternative.

Clearly there are examples of free office software suites that nobody uses because Office365 is so much better that it's worth the cost.
You might be surprised at the market share of Google docs
> Wouldn't it be more reasonable to assume that they're not trying to profit from their real estate side business and are instead legitimately interested in slowing the spread of COVID-19

No, if this is what they truly cared about, there wouldn’t be 3 different choices for students. All would be required to stay remote with special exemptions for those who don’t have a safe home otherwise.
Is this a different type of organism than Pando (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree) )? Pando is a "clonal colony" whereas Pirangi is actually a single tree?
Same here, I imagine this might be due to me drinking coke zero in huge quantities, and that somehow making me indifferent to caffeine even when i am not drinking coke.
Speaking of soldiers getting drugs, is there any literature that describes their perspective? It seems to be told in a negative light.

But I could imagine getting government-vouched drugs for free could be more than appreciated by soldiers on the frontlines.
Or, the market pushback isn't loud enough. (Or financially significant)
WhatsApp stops working after a while unless you keep it updated.
Wholly agree. A lot of work was done by Persians and North Africans. But the difference between the Abbasid and the Ottoman/Mughal/Safavids was that the Abbasid Empire encouraged such studies, since they were a relatively liberal kind. Except in theological matters.
The op I responded to

> I'm pretty sure the tendency for LSD users to ethically object to war or other offensive violence is exactly why the US decided it should be treated as more dangerous than crystal meth

The point I was trying to make

> It was pretty clearly a moral panic. Had absolutely nothing to do with science.

It has nothing to with being anti war, lawmakers panicked when it became a recreational drug and didn't know what to do.

Also california and nevada made lsd illegal in 1966
I agree with both you and GP at the same time. Here's what splits the difference: science can't help us answer your list of genuinely crucial and relevant questions... but neither, really, can philosophy.

GP is fundamentally right that those questions have proven intractable to philosophy. Philosophy is a standing list of all the theses put forward as solutions to those questions. But even people who are fully engaged with, have a stake in and spend their whole lives wrestling with such questions can come to diametrically or orthogonally opposed answers.

Shrug?

Philosophy offers lots of frameworks, tools, prior art, etc. to tackle such questions with. But it can offer you no sure answers and no means of mediating between potential answers.

Science, while it has huge blindspots and terminal unanswered questions, can goddamn perform in the areas that are well-trodden.
What happens if Google decides to exert its authority with its monopoly (charging a ton, charging businesses to appear, etc)?

Now there is no service for customers to switch to. Anti competitive behavior benefits the customer as long as the company wants it that way. The moment it decides otherwise, customers hurt a lot more than they would have by paying for the service since its inception (where there would be alternatives to the service)
Ex-Uber Exec Emil Michael on Autonomous Driving, Saudi Arabia, Company Culture
Pretty sure you’re just not the intended user. Many in finance are pretty much forced to use Excel, and specifically on Windows because there’s functionality that isn’t available on OSX
I’m curious how many users (%) are annoyed by this. My gut feeling tells me only HN/Reddit/tech is annoyed by this, most people aren’t. Which is why we haven’t seen a competitor arise
Snowflake requires a LinkedIn profile on their careers site. Seems so weird. I made an empty one just to apply. Got rejected.
Maybe the idiosyncratic BS of C++ is what's hard to express in a saner language? If someone only used hammers all their life, then they will say that a microscope is a bad hammer, which is kind of true =D
I wonder if the merchant is sneaking any gluten into their “bread”.

Edit: extra carbs I mean. Getting my diets confused here.
Not sure "upvote" is the correct response here but it's the only one I have :-)
Semantic segmentation algorithms do not generalize to off-road datasets
Ugh. That gig I did. Had to be on-site (10h travel). Had to leave facility to get Internet, get my phone out of a cubby and leave the building to text my wife. Big Security is inconvenient.
You want to know how to make LinkedIn even worse? Retire. You might as well be dead because you are now useless to LinkedIn. How about some cool projects other retirees with your interests are working on? Nope. You're suddenly in a graveyard.
I ran across this paper on the subject a couple of months ago:

https://www.sigcis.org/files/Goodwin_paper.pdf

As you'd expect for the failure of such a large company, it wasn't just one thing that went wrong. Among the reasons were: a too-rapid expansion into the commercial area, leading to huge redundancy costs when that had to be scaled back; management flailing about with competing projects; failures to exploit the PC and Unix markets; and selling off profitable arms to finance unprofitable ones.

As an example of the flailing, they cancelled their PRISM project for a new RISC architecture and OS (the immediate result of which was Cutler and others leaving for Microsoft), yet developed RISC later with Alpha. But they'd also been doing that kind of thing through the successful years. The last PDP-10 was cancelled when there was still a market for them, to the extent that two other companies made money by supplying PDP-10–compatibles that DEC wouldn't. I recall a DECUS conference from around the VMS 4.0 era in which we were told the cluster lock manager + RDB was going to eventually replace the FILES-11 file system; the lock manager was delivered, but RDB eventually sold off.

One anecdote from the linked paper is particularly sad. John Sculley, of Apple, met with Olsen in 1991 to talk about using Alpha in Macs, when those were still 68k-based. But Olsen wanted to concentrate on VAX and wouldn't do it, so Apple went with PowerPC instead. The anecdote is referenced as being in an email from Sculley to the paper's author.
Toledo Zoo first to record biofluorescence in Tasmanian Devils
> Either way, you want to start with a working binary and gradually replace some parts of it (but not others) with C code as you gradually understand more of the binary.

The author found RetDec, but might not have known about McSema[1] and other binary lifters. The latter have this exact goal in mind: you lift the original binary to LLVM IR (and then potentially to C[2]) to perform transformations.

[1]: https://github.com/lifting-bits/mcsema

[2]: https://github.com/lifting-bits/rellic

FD: My company's work. But I don't currently work on either of those tools.
Distribution vs Product: What should an early-stage tech founder focus on?
I'd be pretty a-okay with it as long as that tax goes directly to Covid relief: PPE, vaccines, eviction assistance, etc. If they're high enough value to increase the risk for so many incidental people along the way, they're also high enough value to financially support those additional risks.
He's talking about Apple Configurator and yes, it connects to Apple to download the T2 firmware automatically:

https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-configurator-2/revive-...

"You may need to configure your web proxy or firewall ports to allow all network traffic from Apple devices to Apple’s network 17.0.0.0/8."
But did they find it in a small town where everyone was dead, and it turned out that the local doctor had pried open the capsule? :-)
I deleted my account when it stopped allowing me to update anything in my profile without providing a city.
Unpopular opinion but I like that if someone steals my MacBook, it’s impossible for them to factory reset it unless they get a BootROM exploit or even use it if they don’t have an early boot exploit. If there’s a way to “turn this off” then thieves would be able to use that mechanism to bypass the activation lock. If you want 100% total control, then don’t buy Apple.
Then perhaps she needs to spend some time screaming at the idiots who won't take precautions seriously.

We didn't have to be here. Covid keeps spreading because enough people simply won't take the commonsense actions. Put a damn mask on--especially when visiting people.
Under the assumption that Gavin Newsom and his administration probably aren't completely stupid, we can come up with a more charitable (and likely realistic) revelations:

1. County sheriffs only have direct jurisdiction over unincorporated areas, which are typically rural and are unlikely to be a significant source of spread.

2. These orders are likely intended to give local governments stronger authority to shut down gatherings, should they choose to use it.

3. Even if local authorities refuse to enforce the orders, there are no explicitly COVID-19 liability protections for businesses that I'm aware of. If an outbreak occurs that can be traced back to a business that was operating against regulations, that in and of itself would make the business operators jointly (if not entirely) liable, and would give insurance companies a defensible reason for not paying out claims.
I was doing some beginner gymnastics strength exercises. I saw an advanced video I and couldn't believe what I was seeing.

These advanced gymnasts stood on a box, bent down with straight legs touching their toes, grabbed onto barbell with light weights, keeping their legs straight, slowly stood up keeping the barbell close to their body.

The explanation was the back is designed to do that and if you don't it you lose the ability.

That's not something I would ever attempt, but goes to show if you know what you're doing and have the necessary foundation in strength and flexibility, round back is not only OK but necessary to keep range of motion and strength. Again, I would never attempt that myself.
My first experience with LinkedIn was being spammed by them, after a friend signed up with them. Asking, he had no idea why they were sending emails to me. A few years later, it came out that LinkedIn was using lots of dark patterns to trick users. With that as a first impression, I have no intention of using LinkedIn.
Tarva, the Lord of Victory, salutes Alambil, the Lady of Peace.
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

--Albert Einstein