skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People who survive can have very serious complications.

This is true of several respiratory illnesses. For example there's evidence that the flu can increase the chance of a cardiovascular event for several months after recovery[0]. Is there evidence that covid has more severe long term complications than other respiratory illnesses?

>why should we only look at the effects on people younger than 70?

We shouldn't, of course. However we also shouldn't base policy off of a minority of the high risk population. Older people are also at a much higher risk of auto accidents. Instead of making the license process more difficult for everyone, several states have rules specifically for older people mandating more frequent vision tests and license renewals.

Instead of banning a low risk activity for a mostly low risk group, why don't we put resources into taking care of the high risk population(free grocery/medicine delivery, prioritized telehealth appointments, etc.) and let everyone else take care of their own risk assessment?

[0]https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/29/1/96/2398118
I would think air gapped networks probably ran Linux. But I know I heard once some nuclear power uses Windows, looks like that's in Japan. Kind of doubt people are using Macs in that sort of environment, other than maybe a client machine. Feel like it's either going to be Windows or Linux for more industrial stuff.
Dude, my GPA seriously suffered when we got Empire running on USC-ECLC (the DEC KI-10 that was running TENEX at the time, later upgraded to a KL-10 model B and TOPS20).

So thanks for that. :-)
When will companies ever learn that “welcoming” a huge competitor into your market with an ad, never ends up going well.

https://www.incimages.com/uploaded_files/inlineimage/630x0/w...

https://www.cultofmac.com/386189/how-apple-responded-to-the-...
> and the size of a dishwasher.

Checkout my PDP-11:

https://twitter.com/WalterBright
YOu can replay the past state in your mind, you have to get into a hypnotic / deep state.
> This means that macs, even the recent Intel ones, are now entirely unsuitable for certain critically important industrial applications

For "secure/offline data processing facilities" or "systems that must maintain cryptographic integrity", why would a closed source operating system even be considered in the first place? I don't think this is a good use case for a Mac.
From TFRP:

> Specifically, impression management tactics have been linked to greater subsequent daily cognitive depletion, exhaustion, anxiety, work-family conflict, and sleep (Klotz et al., 2018; Wagner et al., 2014), while potentially being deceptive to the supervisor themselves (Conger, 1990). Supervisors who engage in abusive episodes not only experience greater daily image concerns, but in attempting to resolve those concerns with daily impression management tactics, are likely to generate greater personal exhaustion, anxiety, and work-to-family hardships (Wagner et al., 2014). While it would be most beneficial for organizations to integrate training initiatives that aid supervisors to develop better interpersonal and leadership skills as a
means of curtailing abusive episodes in the first place (Tepper, 2000), * it would also be advantageous for organizations to provide support for leaders that have engaged in abusive episodes to more effectively cope with the image concerns they experience as a result of mistreating their employees. *

Emphasis mine. This is the one sentence in the research paper that made me scratch my head.
That’s just what kind of fees the lawyer takes. IIRC the US has something like that as well where the lawyer works for free, but takes a part of the money if they win.
I note that the Kaitai compiler is written in Scala and built using sbt, both of which are unfortunately not bootstrappable.

https://bootstrappable.org/projects/jvm-languages.html
I remember, a long time ago, I went to a barcamp-style event hosted at Google in Mountain View. This was maybe a year after Google Maps was released. I forget how it came up, but at one of the sessions, an attendee got into a heated debate with a googler over whether it was ok that Google was able to release Google Maps to the world for free, essentially putting for-pay map services out of business. Apparently, Google Maps put this guy's startup out of business since there was no way to monetize anymore.

Was Google Maps anti-competitive? Perhaps in the sense that it was incredibly hard to compete with, but that benefits the customer.

And let's be real, it's not like Microsoft had never conceived of a chat client before Slack came around. Slack rode the chat trend. It didn't create it.
This probably reveals several things:

1. Newsom's authority is not respected by law enforcement

2. Law enforcement thinks the curfew is not necessary

3. Law enforcement doesn't enjoy a governor springing new rules on them without advance notice, which is the result of his making things up as he goes along

This is little league stuff. It's not the way a state in a first-world country should be operating.
Calling Apple “omakase” is a very classy analogy. Never heard that before, makes a lot of sense. Did you make that up? Just perfect.
did you consider using AWS eventing in API Gateway https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-websocket-ap... ?
Empire has the dubious distinction of causing many divorces and flunk-outs.
Pretty much the same here.. I drink a lot of coffee just to have a hot drink, but I can drink coffee at night and it doesn't seem to do anything. Maybe a little, but I hardly notice.
Well done Itay on such extensive and graphical explanation of scrolling.
It is interesting how wrong picture of scrolling I had before.
They didn't fire her. She said "I will quit if you don't meet these demands" and they were unwilling to meet the demands.

If she didn't threaten to quit, I can't imagine they would've done anything other than tell her no. But she gave them an ultimatum and they chose which side they would be on.
They boil them
I'm not very experienced with this in practice and can mostly only speak to what I was taught in numerical methods, but it was my understanding that a) relative errors don't arbitrarily depend on your units and b) they seem to be better behaved in theory, or at least, it's how algorithms are typically analysed - e.g. if you multiply two numbers that both have some associated error, the relative error is the sum of the individual relative errors (plus quadratic terms which you would ignore).
I think Microsoft bundling IE is a very valid comparison.

I guess it's hard to see what's a transparent attempt to crush Slack and what's just the regular enhancement of business. After all, you can hardly buy Word alone and no one complains.

The problem I run into here is that somehow relying on antitrust prosecutorial discretion does kind of make it hard to innovate, since you might be unsure about the line between outcompeting and being anticompetitive. Slack drove HipChat out of business because it was frankly terrible. But I do think the lawyers can mostly figure this out.
Do you have any recommendations for alignment software which is reasonably priced?
wow. no one is calling this the hoax it is. it’s reducing contrast on the SDR so that the HDR content is subjectively brighter. i mean it’s fine and all, but you’re not seeing HDR on a non HDR screen. you wouldn’t be able to use it for color grading.
Leonard French (copyright attorney and YouTuber) reviews what is going on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAoRO6GfXG8

The suspension is pretty complete in the circuit it is in and will likely be adopted by some other jurisdictions or otherwise make it impossible for him to enter an appearance in other jurisdictions.
Is.... this a joke? This just seems like shameless self promotion of no real value.
Pattern-Defeating Quicksort
Teams tends to be used by bigcorps with tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of staff. Why buy and audit another tool when you already have a Office 365 subscription for the Org.
My Mom got let go during the 90s DG downsizing.

DG is not Digital although in the book “soul of a new machine” they infer that some of the DG engineers got a sneak peak at the Digital Vax.

On the plus side Emc still pays my mom her pension..
How is that good? Nearly all other non-electronic products behave based on the fact that the one in physical possession of it is the owner, and that is a notion which has lasted for literally millenia.

Make no mistake, this is simply Apple's attempt to gain complete control over its users.
Wheels of Zeus, what a deep cut! I remember being really interested in the idea of tracking things in the real world from the internet back in 2002. Mesh networking was all the rage too. The world we got is different from what people envisioned then, with our phones being the hub for our personal area networks.
ding ding... did you too buy some MSFT stock?
A few observations and anecdotes from a lifetime smoker.

1) A lot of my friends smoked Juuls. Once those became hard to find, they switched to cigarettes.

2) I hate smoking lights or menthols because I need to smoke more of them to get the same satisfaction as a 100.

3) A lot of people don't know you can at least write-off smoking cessation aids on your taxes.

4) There are medications such as Wellbutrin that help reduce cravings. I've taken one, and it basically makes it so you get nauseous from smoking or dampens your ability to taste it at all.

5) It's annoying to get cessation aids. There are plenty of neighborhoods without even a basic pharmacy and no dearth of liquor stores.

6) There's campaigns to prevent people from smoking and there's campaigns to help people quit. There's one way to moralize and there's another way towards harm reduction. Telling people they will die or get sick only makes them feel more cool. Smoking is cool. Especially when you're a teenager who feels invincible.

6a) I like this campaign they did in Japan produced by Japan Tobacco.
http://inventorspot.com/articles/japan_tobaccos_delightfully...

7) Encourage smokers to carry an ashtray. Muji sells one for $5. It is my favorite accessory, because I use it to pick up other people's cigarettes.
https://www.muji.us/store/d-aluminium-portable-ashtray.html

8) Cigarettes are incredibly valuable as currency and shifting their value towards the black market will backfire. The illegal cigarette trade has all sorts of geopolitical ramifications and even selling a loosie here in USA will get you killed.

9) Nicotine by itself is not sufficient for me. I smoke cigarettes BECAUSE they are dirty. There is something more than just nicotine that is addictive about the flavor. Substituting or replacing nicotine intake does nothing to change my addiction to the habit itself.

10) People smoke literally just to talk to other smokers. This is basically a science in nightlife culture and even a tradition in some places.

In conclusion: this smells like ethics washing.
The only "better" cigarette, is no cigarette.

The argument for a "safer" cigarette is old. And it's marketing.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cigarette/

There are substantial measures we can take actions towards to reduce harm.
Reduction of pesticides. Polonium. Regulation in cultivation and curing.
Did you know that tomatoes can get mosaic virus from smoke or ash?
Things like 'natural', 'organic', 'less-additive' create false perceptions of 'healthiness'.

Legalize cigarettes. Ban smoking.

Aside:
The title is 'easy-way-to-quit-smoking'

The headline is 'The Easy Way for Joe Biden to Save Lives'

The submission is 'Eliminating nicotine from tobacco products could help up to 5 million adult smokers quit within a year.'

I find the wording to be a bit odd.
See: Andromeda Strain.
Here's a quick, fun, path, that goes all over the place, but covers lots of areas, while being accessible to a tech guy:

1) Plato's dialogues. They are easy to find, including online, and easy to read.

A.N Whitehead once commented on Plato’s thought: “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. I do not mean the systematic scheme of thought which scholars have doubtfully extracted from his writings. I allude to the wealth of general ideas scattered through them”.

And that's not some liberal arts philosopher that doesn't understand science. That's the genius writer and mathematician A.N Whitehead that worked with Bertrand Russell on Principia Mathematica.

2) Aristotle, The Metaphysics

3) Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

4) David Hume's: A Treatise of Human Nature and/or An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

5) Nietchze, The gay science (meaning "the joyful science")

6) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

7) Existentialism Is a Humanism, Sartre

8) The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper

9) Against Method, Paul Feyerabend
You make a very good point. The central issue has become; What does the word Philosophy itself mean in the current time and context? The way i look at it is as a holistic integration of the essence of the various compartmentalized sciences. It is of necessity somewhat vague since everything plays into (in some form) what one may call as my emergent consciousness. As a living organism on a time scale, i need to continuously adapt to my circumstances but how do i do it and still maintain autonomy? Nature has given us a brain which thinks thoughts well over and above that of mere survival and reproduction. Hence my need for meaning and happiness.

One way is a completely materialistic viewpoint best laid out by Jack London in his novel "The Sea Wolf" - https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1jqpar/what_book_sin...
The other way is to either subscribe (suspending judgement) to an existing school and follow its Religion or come up with your own based on what appeals to you.
I think you are confusing her previous work (which was on race) and the work this article is discussing.

This research paper in question was about AI and natural language processing and its carbon footprint and all that. Nothing to do with race or political agenda.

Google also has done a ton of work on creating renewable datacenters, so I think they are definitely onboard with making tech have less of a carbon footprint.
The author is rightly excited about HDR, but could be slightly overstating its effect in some examples.

> But at key parts of the story, certain colors eek outside of that self-imposed SDR container, to great effect. In a very emotional scene, brilliant pinks and purples explode off the screen — colors that not only had been absent from the film before that moment, but seemed altogether outside the spectrum of the story’s palette. Such a moment would not be possible without HDR.

I think the author knows that this is a special case of the effect where you limit color palette to some range of colors for a duration of the film and then exceed that range in places—no HDR in particular fundamentally needed to make this possible.

True, HDR can give a greater effect in absolute colorimetric terms when full palette is revealed, but the perceived magnitude depends on how restricted the original palette was prior to the reveal, and how masterfully the effect is used in general.
I sorted many of my trauma issues with nitrous oxide. Nitrous mitigated much of the PTSD anxiety so I could look at the issues objectively.
While it's about the origins of a now much changed industry, Earnest Gann's Fate is the Hunter is an astounding collection of experiences as a professional pilot during the early years of commercial flight. I ran an airline for years and my jaw hit the floor in several parts in this amazing book. Three thumbs up.
Install dwww in Debian (Ubuntu, etc.)

https://packages.debian.org/buster/dwww

https://screenshots.debian.net/package/dwww

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man7/dwww.7.html
ToxFlush Review, Legit or a Scam?
Teams and slack are both bad for Ubuntu users. Chat peaked with hipchat
How to start an online pet supply business?
I had the same issue due to excessive coffee drinking. Stopping cold for 2-3 weeks helps to bring back some of the effectiveness later. But any regular dose even after this is rapidly tolerance-building.
Check the shortcut for it and try. Does it work? Weird. I am using a Chrome-based browser though.
One issue that is very visible is the Control Panel versus the new Settings app.

A key feature of Control Panel was that it was "pluggable": vendors could add their own items, and often did. These are ordinary Win32 apps written to match the style of the era. Worse, some system control panel items have plugins in turn. E.g.: drivers can define extra "tabs", network cards have protocol-specific popup windows, etc...

There is just no way to update the look & feel of these to match the new Settings app style, most of the code is third party and ships as binary blobs.

The Microsoft Management Console (MMC), used mostly for Administrative Tools and server consoles has a similar problem.

Combined, these two make up the majority of the OS GUI!
I feel like I have to ask: where are you getting a server that'll run arbitrary erlang code for 2 bucks a month? The absolute cheapest I've seen seems to be 5, from digitalocean/linode
Containers with locks have existed for a very long time.
The reason they're built in C is legacy and the fact that Rust hasn't been around all that long.
Yes but my point is you don’t need to be readmitted if you take time off. At least under normal circumstances.
Funny DEC trivia, their "personal computer" ran a variant of RSX-11 called "POS". The joke on campus "It runs POS, and it is." It had some ungodly co-processor to run DOS or CP/M or something too. Mostly I've pushed it out of my memory.

Second, the book "Computer Engineering: A DEC View of System Design" is a treasure trove of information about early DEC machines and computer architecture in general. I have a copy that I got to get Gordon Bell autograph at a Computer History event. If you're interested in system architecture I can easily recommend it.

Finally, Ken Olsen's inability to see how "personal" computers would change the world is pretty legendary. It is right up there with the folks who believed it would never be possible for someone to make a business out of flying people places.
Whenever apple decides to shutdown the service that activates this hardware, many of these wiped computers will no longer be operational which won’t be great for future retro computer collectors and computer historians. Lots of ppl still run their Commodore 64, amigas, and even original Macs. JCS is even doing a whole video series on programming on the original Mac.
How might we access this HDR in animated/interactive javascript data visualizations?
Kind of unrelated: the font is a bit too high. I decreased it though.
Just a couple of days ago "the U.S. recorded over 3,100 COVID-19 deaths in a single day"[1]

I have a very hard time imagining that restaurant closings or any other lockdown measures are ever going to lead to this scale of death.

[1] - https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2020/12/03/more-than-2800-a...
You seem to be prescribing a medical plan based off of less than two lines of text. That seems, at best, irresponsible.
trans people experience this a lot. It's a big reason why i decided not to get hormones from a doctor and instead order them online.
Try any of:
https://archive.today/8brwi
https://archive.is/8brwi
https://archive.fo/8brwi
https://archive.li/8brwi
https://archive.vn/8brwi
https://archive.md/8brwi
https://archive.ph/8brwi

List: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

Cloudflare is in a grudge match with archive.today: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...
I'm not a data scientist, but

> for all you know it decided that the 10th decimal place of some feature was predictive

isn't this kind of a misfeature of the model? If it really depends that highly on a function output that's not guaranteed to be precise even in the best of cases and certainly not when you have to assume noisy input data... that doesn't seem to be particularly robust.
Sounds like the kind of show over substance and obfuscation to prevent review snake oil that all too often shows up in crypto-currency. At least in ML the author isn't likely to get swatted for being critical.

I'm not sure what it is about one-time-pads (and generalizations of OTP like shamir secret-sharing) that cause it to so reliably show up in unsound work. Something about these perfectly valid (in the right context) tools is very moth-to-flamey.
> Did you make that up?

I stole the analogy from this article talking about Rails and applied it to Apple.

https://dhh.dk/2012/rails-is-omakase.html
Carbon tax is the simplest because you can do it at the well head or the port for imports.
Not even just big orgs. I’m at a small org, our infra is all cloud, office 365 and we use use Teams because why pay money for Slack if Teams is free?
I'm autistic, they knew it when I was little because I did not fit into the school with the other kids and it was not my fault. I cannot camouflage my oddness and I have suffered for it. On the Internet people make fun of me and say I go "reeeee", for example. I cannot help being this way, but it is the way I am.
It's funny how we've taken it for granted that the service of maps and routing (one I consider a technological marvel) is free just when Google starts to put ads in Maps. I guess it must have been hard to convince venture capital in 2005 to fund the innovation necessary (or, more likely, early Google engineers were incredibly good).
Well, but we are all philosophers -- lovers of wisdom -- or at least all who begin to ask about it are. Sure, it would be idiotic to say that such a book is the end of philosophy, but actually such a book as the beginning of philosophy seems pretty valuable. You need a comprehensive starting point to tell you give you some Wikipedia (or SEP) rabbit holes to go down.

Here is one very specific recommendation for a place to start: Richard Rorty, and in particular, his book "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature."

I've suffered through the tension between the Continental and Anglican worlds, and I think that Rorty is extremely valuable as a bridge between the two, and potentially an entry point to the one you're not familiar with (or both if you're familiar with neither).

Given the original question (about "mental models"), the Philosophy of the Mind is one of the more universal topics, that tends to be less controversial across the different schools of Philosophy. That Rorty book is a decent entry point to it, which will lead to things like...

A debate between Rorty and John Searle about consciousness (Searle is a mind-is-not-the-brain person):

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/425883

Correspondence between Searle and Dan Dennet about the mind (Dennet is a brain-is-a-computer person):

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/12/21/the-mystery-of-c...
It's more of a warplace than a work place thought. And ppl have been giving solders drugs forever.
> I don't think that CLIs are more suited to either humans or computers. CLIs are flexible enough to be effectively used by both.

Either a human is sitting at a terminal typing commands, or a human is sitting at a text editor writing a shell script, or a human is writing a program which runs other commands. In all cases, it's a bunch of strings pasted together and the computer can't typecheck it, so we need to make sure that the strings are readable by humans.

> Well, you're breaking everybody's expectations and many years of conventions by doing it. Saving one dash with every flag and losing the ability to combine short options is just not a good trade off.

If you've named your account on HN "gnubison", it's safe to say that you've got some biases. It might surprise you to know, then, that plenty of programs already don't let you combine short options, and that not everybody uses getopt_long or something compatible.

Combining short flags saves you a small amount of typing sometimes, but it adds extra confusion. So in general, I would say that most commands should not allow you to combine short flags.