skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was surprisingly similar to the current ARM transition if I’m remembering correctly. Many, but not all applications actually ran faster even in emulation. But there were certain tasks that didn’t emulate well and the pundits cautioned to wait to upgrade until the tools you used were fully ported.
> Just how much difference that makes, battery-life wise, compared to just leaving them, unused, out of the case, I can’t say. I’ve only had them a day and I’ve spent a lot of that time wearing them.

I realize that this is going to get buried in the 633+ other comments, but you can not adequately review a product like this in one day/24 hours. Give it a week or two, at least to see if they're really better, or just different/new.
Seems like LIFE IS and DEATH should just be pulled out so the last section reads like:

I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW
LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE

LIFE IS DEATH
Very curious how monoclonal antibodies seem to be usable for a very wide range of applications.

I have been taking monoclonal antibodies every 2 weeks for more than a year now with Dupixent for atopic dermatitis. In my 30+ years on this earth only steroid creams ever worked to treat my eczema, that is until this monoclonal antibody treatment came along and for all intents and purposes completely cured me.

To know that a similar kind of treatment is used for covid is pretty mind boggling since both conditions have very little in common.
I elected "NO" because I have already have had COVID-19 and verified antibodies, and an mRNA vaccine is unlikely to provide any additional level of protection. I believe this should have been a separate option.
Kind of surprising to me, given the thing that was most historically significant about that film, that they would have opted to do something like that, rather than just dropping some computer graphics in after filming.
> Society and accommodation could make up for 90% of the downsides

Why not 100%? For every downside you can come up with, can't you imagine some possible way for society to make up for it? Here's a simple one: calculate the value of whatever the disabled person is missing out on, and pay them a cash compensation.
flu season is pretty low as far as I've heard.

I don't have a lot of evidence only this and some articles I read last year about it being dead as soon as masks and social distancing came about

https://www.fox4news.com/news/cooks-childrens-hospital-repor...
Zodiac Killer's Z340 ipher cracked
Yeah I've tried DDG reliably for nearly a year. A good 30% of the time I end up having to run my query on Google anyway.

I will literally pay money for a search engine that's privacy focused and can get closer to Google in terms of performance.
Where do I go now that CentOS Linux is gone? Check our list
I know... but it's not the same as hearing the screams of despair as your arch-tank-enemy gets destroyed by your cleverly laid mine from across the office floor! :-)
Are you sure?

> employees pay income tax
This is simply incorrect, although I don't blame you for thinking so since there were some sensationalist news articles tripping over themselves to imply that it was the case.

Rates of COVID reinfection remain vanishingly small.
They may have been infected and not known it.

It isn't the most impressive of plagues.
Something that I've been wondering about is that maybe team's should decide what their metrics are for the upcoming 3 months and then come back and decide what the new metrics are. At the very least, it becomes a big game about the org then.

Impossible to have 'metric based reviews' at that point. But I think that's fine.
The people talking about it and making it their soapbox aren't the ones making it.

The people yelling that vaccines are bad usually know nothing about how they work. The politicians trying to take credit for them as miracle pills have had nothing to do with the research. And most of the people telling you to get vaccinated have had no involvement in the vaccine's development.

You can think all the people above don't work in your best interests. That doesn't mean the researchers and scientists developing those things also are.

It's fucking depressing to see how many people are so readily distrusting just about everything that makes the modern world the most incredible achievement in human history. They'll use and abuse every advancement in health care and technology all the while shouting their bloodshot eyes out against 5g, vaccines and whatever scapegoat of the day they decide to pick.
> VAT is more complicated than sales tax.

I'm curious - do you think this extra complexity is necessary (e.g. extra rules to reduce unintended effects), or is it implementation-specific?

> The simplest form of consumption tax is the
> (Australian) GST: a flat 10% on almost
> all goods and services.

But isn't Australian GST just a specific example of a VAT system? The Australian government says[0]:

"Generally, businesses and other organisations registered for GST will:

- include GST in the price they charge for their goods and services

- claim credits for the GST included in the price of goods and services they buy for their business."

This sounds exactly like a VAT.

[0] https://www.ato.gov.au/Business/GST/How-GST-works/
Honestly, I'd prefer if Whatsapp had some monetization. Because the current way of them making money is "belong to Facebook, give them all the data", and I don't like it.
> Is that a reference? Can you point me to it?

Yes. There was a lot more than this tweet, but there are screenshots.

https://twitter.com/spakhm/status/1333524631219822600
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https://twitter.com/silvestricodes/status/133354701095220838...
There's nothing particularly special about this vaccine (EDIT: okay, the mRNA is a little special), and we data information about long-term negative effects of past vaccines ([0] has positive events, plus several false positives[0]). Overall, sure looks like the risk is substantially lower than the risk of COVID-19 is, including for a young, healthy person.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history....
We are way better at treating it, there's just so many more cases. A lot of invisible cases where people get hardcore antivirals a day before they would be hospitalized, etc.
I did.

The harder part was getting elderly relatives the seasonal flu shot safely. Going to the doctors is unsafe right now if they have no specific appointment otherwise.

Luckily they did a "drive through" flu-shot event, and we got it for them that way. Essentially just stick your arm out the window, jab, and go.
> Making a working product ...

This is always majority of the work.

Often you get research lab products that are pretty cool (this is not robotic specific) and people think "Hey, we should spin this off/sell this/licence this, it would be a great product and 90% of the work is done".

Usually, at most 5-10% of the work has actually been done. 20% if it is an uncharacteristically completest lab. There are a significant number of "startups" dying on the vine because of this fundamental error.

Another problem with above of course, there is no such thing as "presto AI".
Your shareholders, the owners of the company who you are working for, care about what the trading price is.
You're presupposing that the vaccines make you incapable of becoming contagious - that has yet to be proven.
what kind of demongraphic do you represent?
I am in agreement with everything you said. That’s why I divide Agtech into Large commodity acreages(single harvest) and small acreage for food and cash crops(a 100-200 acre crops growing multiple perishable fruits/vegetables/flowers throughout the year for local fresh consumption.

Automation is a necessity for the latter. The former is already hyper optimized w/mechanization.
Me neither! I'm shocked that's the case.
You could make the same argument against any regulation of work. What about doing a better job than the person who's willing to work 12-hour days? What about doing a better job than the person willing to go without safety equipment?

Maybe we should have laws to prevent a race to the bottom on long commutes, living away from family, or having everyone in a household work, just as we have laws to prevent a race to the bottom on working hours or safety.
Something interesting has struck me about this thread. In almost every HN thread about higher education, there is a very strong if not prevailing view, that advanced degrees are primarily a form of empty credentialing or signaling. Yet a search for those terms in this thread yields almost no hits.

I wonder if what's missing here is a deeper dive into what MBA's actually learn in business school, if anything. Sure, they learn something. There are certain kinds of data gathering or processing tasks that I would assign to an MBA. But I've known several people who have gotten MBA's after getting advanced degrees in the sciences or engineering. They all expressed that the work was time consuming, but not intellectually demanding for someone who is basically literate and comfortable with arithmetic. Their MBA "capstone" projects were nowhere near as meaty as their MS or PhD theses. A perusal of the flagship Harvard Business Review supports this notion.

Supporting your idea, I've noted in the past (probably here in HN) that the people who value the MBA degree the most are other MBA's. The "problem" with the MBA might have nothing to do with the actual content of the degree, but the formation of an insular tribe that develops a shared language and culture with a life of its own. People of real intellectual distinction may be a minority within that tribe, thus its effect may be as simple as a dumbing down of management.

If I've noticed one intellectual trait held in common by the MBA's, it's the ability to speak in a language that avoids any mention of the human impact of their actions. A sort of learned sociopathy if you will.

"Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
Oh I see the problem: it doesn't seem like you know what you are talking about.

Both Chernobyl and Fukushima were critically close to absolute disaster.

Chernobyl was a potential kiloton-level steam explosion that would have jettisoned enormously radioactive material into the atmosphere and made country-sized swaths of land unusable for generations. They also exposed 600,000 people (the "liquidators") to direct contact with life-limits of radiation in the clean up. I also love the nukers going hand in hand with the oppressive soviet-era government in covering up the immense toll of Chernobyl, because it suits their argument.

In Fukushima's case, it was the fact they had decades worth of spent fuel rods that if they weren't able to keep them cool (which was a possibility in the first weeks after the disaster) would have ignited, once again releasing ungodly amounts of radiation. This practice of storing spent fuel rods onsite is also very common in the US, and it is a huge problem waiting to happen.

Great excerpt from suppressed Japanese report on Fukushima:

"A report delivered to then Prime Minister Kan Naoto on March 25 warned that if the situation at the plant spun completely out of control, authorities would have to issue mandatory or voluntary evacuation orders for all people living within 250 kilometers (155 miles) of the plant - a zone including greater Tokyo (population 35 million, the world's top city in terms of GDP) and the major cities of Sendai (pop. 1 million) and Fukushima (pop. 280,000)." source: https://apjjf.org/-Asia-Pacific-Journal-Feature/4706/article...

Gee, evacuate Tokyo. Oh well, at least we have our totally earth-friendly nuclear power!
Defund AND/OR disband. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2020/06/09/the-moveme...
Having antibodies does not guarantee immunity.

We don’t have enough information yet to say how protected someone might be from being infected again if they have antibodies to the virus.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/resources/anti...

How long IgM and IgG antibodies remain detectable following infection is not known.

...

it remains uncertain to what degree and for how long individuals with antibodies (neutralizing or total) are protected against reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 or what concentration of antibodies may be needed to provide such protection.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/resources/anti...
> Is it just me or are there fewer serial killers these days?

Maybe. OTOH, the decline in identified serial killers tracks with the decline in identifying the perpetrators of killings period, as the clearance rate for homicides has dropped. Plenty of room for serial killers to hide in that:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/10/are-ser...
In the particular case I mentioned above, it seemed the recommended avenue was to do sign in on the backend so you could mock it out.

Sounds fine on paper but in our case, we called out to multiple backends, with no unifying gateway that traffic reached them through as they were owned by different teams.

Realistically, that was a discipline issue rather than a technical issue of course but I do wonder how many organisations find tools like Cypress a non-starter due to their impure set up
I can't speak to a wide area, but where I live in the US, the flu is definitely not dead. Despite wearing a mask, keeping socially distance and basically not traveling except when essential, I caught type B of the flu, and my doctors told me they've had a shocking number of flu cases.

They seemed to expect to see fewer, too, but have observed the opposite.
It doesn't anymore?
You would buy fractional ownership in a house.
Another question you may ask is why get a vaccine for something your body has proven it can fight?
That's a start, although it'd then be good to compare to compare hospitalizations for flu as well to weed out some of the numbers.

I've long want to pull in some data locally and do so some data science on it.

Like ranking countries by cases vs population ratios.
I voted yes and got my flu shot this year.
Google seemingly does this a lot (although I don't know if it's included in their transparency report or if anyone has tried to measure it -- both of which would be nice). You can report predictions as "inappropriate" (look at the lower right of a prediction list in a desktop browser) and you'll see something like

Which predictions were inappropriate?
[...]

The predictions selected above are:
Irrelevant
Violence or gore
Sexually explicit, vulgar, or profane
Hateful against groups
Sensitive or disparaging for individuals
Dangerous or harmful activity
Other

If Google agrees with the complaint, the prediction could be removed regardless of the popularity of the underlying search.
That scene drives me nuts every time I rewatch Jurassic Park.
I don’t want to have to decide. So, I’ll get tested and hope that I’ve unwittingly already had it.
It's not that simple. There's a lot of predicting the future when it comes to power management. When you put things to sleep in order to save power you add latency, because waking up the hardware and restoring its state takes a long time. It's all tradeoffs, and "use minimum power" is taking the slider and shifting it all the way to one side.
If rents and prices fall to 2014 levels, would anyone notice?
There have been cases when genomic analysis was performed during the two infections and it "showed genetically significant differences between each variant associated with each instance of infection".

So reinfection actually is possible.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
> It could just be better policing.

If it was “better policing”, you expect the clearance rate for actual homicides to have gone up as well as the identified serial killers to have gone down. Instead, the clearance rate has gone down, as well. “Worse policing” of murder would better explain both reduced clearance of homicides and reduced numbers of identified serial killers.
Over three thousand banks were robbed in 2018 in the US alone.

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/bank-crime-statistics-20...
So if we only vaccinate people who haven't been infected does this mean we only need to vaccinate about 50% of the US population to reach herd immunity?
Are there any resistors that would not melt under this situation?
Of course the US is far too much of a debt-based society for things to change (well, without a lot of violence and instability) at this point, but mortgages aren't a thing everywhere. Home ownership does not automatically equal debt.
> I've been curious if the spikes we've seen since October is the flu season giving people with cold symptoms which get them out of the house to be tested and it caught many more asymptomatic people than usual.

I don't think that can be the explanation, because deaths have also spiked.
The Method objects are no longer created in most cases - https://docs.python.org/3/library/dis.html#opcode-LOAD_METHO...
This would cause even more short term thinking than we currently have. We need more companies that take on long term goals and projects.
I moved from Austin to SF in November 2019 (horrible timing, I know). Before I left I was at a piano bar downtown and some of the bartenders had shirts that said "Don't forget to leave" written on the back, I also worked with some native Austinites, this mindset is getting stronger.
In the last few weeks it's invaded my social sphere. Before that, not so much. I suspect it's becoming a lot less of an abstract issue for many people right now.
I love all of the photos. Lots of casual pics of happy people. Everything has a very 90s/00s vibe which I'm finding nostalgic.

Does anyone know where this database comes from? I feel like they were all scraped off old MySpace pages.
This uses an ESP32 MCU.

A naive question -- does that mean if I picked up one of those cheap 2-wheel robot kits from ebay (that includes wheels, board, risers, but no MCU) for ~ A$20 -- I could, in theory, turn it into a ROS-capable system by somehow adding in an ESP32-on-a-board?

(I've got about as much experience / understanding of ROS as most of the other people asking questions on this thread : )

Being in Australia, that 'under $100' is far from it - and the pathway to cheap discovery with some basic robotics is moderately opaque.
FTA (and I paraphrase)

Old people are alone because their friends (also old) are dead.

Old people are alone but they aren't lonely.

... bit of spin there
Seems like the AdAway hosts list blocks assets.dwell.com for some reason... Not entirely sure why.
Me too. In my opinion the Bay Area has nearly nothing going for it except the abundance of high paying jobs and all the effects of that line networking, visibility to early stage investors, etc. The weather is nice. Which is a lot. A whole lot. But if it becomes apparent you don’t need to be there to start a technology company (or rather there aren’t as many advantages) or to reliably find the best jobs due to the open location policy companies could move to, it begins to lose that.

NYC is still NYC for example. It will suffer for awhile but people will continue to want to be there because being there is different than anywhere else. It doesn’t rely on an industry or on locality of an industry. It will rise as it has many times before as a capital city of the world. The surrounding suburbs in NJ and CN are well served by trains which the Bay Area can’t really say.

The Bay Area is just another sprawl of highways, strip malls, and parking lots. You could be anywhere if it did t happen to be there.

I think there will remain a certain prestige in the Bay Area though. But maybe not a monopoly like today. Sort of like how Wall St. is more a legacy than an actual locality that matters in the finance world.
Indeed the microchip is not the opposite viewpoint. The opposite viewpoint is "I won't take the vaccine" or "I won't take the vaccine right away". GP is saying the #1 reason for that viewpoint is that people think they'll be microchipped.
This is an important and under-considered factor when people are deciding about getting vaccinated. Other groups of people who can't currently get vaccinated, at least in my country, include children and pregnant women. They all deserve protection.

I wish you safety and good health until a suitable vaccine becomes available to you.
I didn't because it's really hard to get it in my country this year. It's been prioritized for those highly at risk. At this point I'm likely not going to bother given how difficult it is.

Usually I do take it fwiw.
I reckon I'd pay for that too, actually sounds really, really awesome (assuming the performance is there)
Shootings in general are way down, though, even with mass shootings included.

Many people don't realize that the US is at some of the lowest gun violence levels seen in decades right now. The 90s were way, way worse.
Plus:

- "These are the first mRNA vaccines ever released. We don't yet know the long term effects."
Are you insinuating that without the media coverage, it wouldn’t exist?
people have been saying this ever since I joined HN in 2009
> It looked at all these components of immunity up to eight months after infection and found that some of these "memory" cells responded to the coronavirus, or parts of it, in more than 90% of people, said Daniela Weiskopf, an immunologist who participated in the study. "This is good news," she said. The decline in response was slow, a sign that immunity could last a long time. But Weiskopf emphasized that "nobody knows" how things will look in a year or 18 months.

> Worldwide, there have been less than 30 cases of known re-infection among COVID-19 survivors, although more are suspected. Experts said the numbers would likely be much higher if most people had not developed immunity.

> "I think that tells us that there's some level of immunity after you've recovered from the primary infection," Wherry said. "We don't know how durable that is."

It's hard to read even this article as anything but "It seems there is a high level of immunity, but we don't know for sure, so let's be careful."

I don't know any reason to say otherwise, except if you are afraid people will get infected voluntarily for immunization.
Tetanus is highly fatal, 2015 saw 209,000 infections with 59,000 deaths. That includes people who are treated with the vaccine after potential exposure.

It's not a good example of something to which people develop natural immunity, because if you are infected, you'll probably die, and even if not, suffer life-changing injury.
While you are correct, Elon's point is about "the writing on the wall" and in that, he's on point. Other than the small (OK, small-ish, given Virgin Orbit) startups, most aerospace companies are leaving CA or not bothering to incorporate there.

So much modern aerospace technology historically comes from SoCal, and yet CA as a state doesn't seem to care about hanging on to world-changing industries like it.

Your example about Aerojet Rocketdyne is telling. They are contracting - I believe the Aerojet facilities in Sacramento are being divested if that's not already done. Boeing is divesting most of its Huntington Beach campus, and Rockwell in Downey is long-gone. A lot of Space Shuttle Main Engine/RS-25 work is done at their Stennis facilities or in Huntsville.

Aerospace in CA is not healthy.
Way to create confidence in this vaccine by threatening the people who are trying their best to make sure it's safe. /s

From what I have heard there is still documentation missing from all 3 promising vaccine candidates and the German as well as the Swiss version of the FDA will most likely not be approving any of them until early next year.

The Swiss FDA said it will not be approving the Vaccine until the study results have been properly per-reviewed and published.
Maybe they already had COVID-19, are in the high allergy group, are under-18, or hit one of the other medical exclusions (e.g. HIV, pregnant/trying, auto-immune disease, etc).

There are legitimate "No" votes just on purely medical grounds. I voted Yes though.
Probably one of these: https://www.zojirushi.com/app/category/breadmakers
Neoliberal politicians make that assumption.