skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I'm trying to combat, though! The math is not over your head. maximum, If you know high school math, then literally all one needs to start studying quantum computation is linear algebra --- you can study in a semester, as it is one of the first courses all engineering graduates learn, and is luckily quite intuitive. MIT OCW has Gilbert Strang's video lectures freely available (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra...), along with exercises and transcripts.

That's the beauty of quantum computation; it harnesses all the intuitions we already have about computation, skips the messy parts of solving stuff in quantum mechanics while still keeping all the fiddly interesting bits that makes quantum quantum.

I really do believe that learning quantum computation is the "correct way" (for some folks) to gain an intuition for quantum mechanics
Iodine in salt is also normal in Europe. I think mandatory in at least a few countries, possibly the whole EU.
There's a common list of providers mentioned every time on similar articles. Gandi, namecheap, dnssimple, and a few others. + all the usual cloud providers and CloudFlare.
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This is awesome! Very useful for writing highly portable software in C. I think I’ll use this library also with my students.
I was assuming hard science here (considering that's what the article was about). I agree with you that in the broader sciences this is a different debate. That said I do not share the distain for the "softer" sciences often found in the hard sciences. -- a bit of the side note I find the disregard for softer sciences much stronger among engineers than scientists. It seems to me that engineers are often much more outcome focused in their work, while e.g. physicist are much more tolerant towards research towards expanding knowledge which they also apply to other fields
You are aware that almost all of the AAA games released in the past 2 decades have used an engine of some sort?

Unity is popular with the indies, but Unreal and Frostbite have powered games with collective sales of several hundreds of billions of dollars.
What is the error rate in mass production of mRNA? What can mRNA with a few flipped/wrong molecules do?
I believe this is the wrong way to think about this.

Character flaws are often associated with certain effective traits, but are not chained to them.

In your example, one can be vocal, biased-twoards-action, and low-bullshit, while also giving credit where credit is due.

I think it’s far from obvious that Jobs would have been a less effective leader if he had addressed his character shortcomings.

I similarly feel the same way about current leaders like Musk. He could do some inner work, become far less of a jerk, and be equally or more effective.
Note: "seems" is not part of the URL. You can also use https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77617-7

It seems to work via n^2 non-linear, interconnected processes; details of the formula for a single process are in the article; it looks like a set of non-linear equations with n^2 variables. It's hard to tell from scanning the article how thoroughly they've tested the problem space, but all kinds of approximations are known for TSP. I recall being told in class about a simple geometric one that was (apparently) proven to get to within 10% or so of the optimal solution, if the distances were L2.
All this would be moot if the issues, PRs, discussion and everything were also in the (or a) git repository, so pulling would get everything, just as a matter of course.

I admit I was shocked, in the day, and appalled to discover that was not the way the site worked already.
How can one use the labelled edges in [[ ... ]]-formatted personal note collection to get any actual value from it? (personal note because that's what at least some people use roam, obsidian, etc. for)
That GroupMe stats project is something I've toyed with on and off over the last 5 years or so. Seeing it as a finished project and even generating revenue is definitely a bit of a wake up call for me. Thanks for sharing!
Nice to have theory confirmed by experience.
I remember it being a huge story when apple maps made a similar mistake. But according to the comments here google has been equally bad for years.
I doubt it very much. The user will see nothing until all your Strings are in memory (taking up unnecessary RAM). Update the DOM and it will be instantaneous (most of it probably won't be visible in the DOM, so likely to be very cheap as well).
I believe, a good guess, this company is forced to take these laborers.

The CCP calls the shots and if you own the company you have to go along or become one of the prisoners.

The CCP even has the forced laborers in a parade. They have their hands on it from start to finish.
I also really enjoyed MIT's "Mathematics for Computer Science" by Lehman, Leighton & Meyer (http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring18/mcs.pdf)
> With limited exceptions, a tech worker's location has zero affect on their value to the company.

Disagree. In most teams 1+1 = 11 happens only with f2f interactions and physically next to each other. AFAIK there is no substitute for human interactions.
Managing remote teams is hard. Maybe some day we will get there, but thus far our preference is to have a blend of home + office work.
Interesting shift in strategy. Instead of giving the second dose within a few weeks of the first they’re going to allow up to 12 weeks between doses. Allows them to get more widespread level of some protection with dose 1 before later boosting protection.
I would happily pour money from incarceration system into universal medical care and basic income, then we can talk about the incarceration system. Focus only on the incarceration system lose focus of how governmental budget works, and how society works. We don't even have generally available low-cost higher education yet.

People always have this sense that we are responsible for prisoners, more than we are responsible for law-abiding citizens in worse conditions. We often ignored those who need it most among the general population, we only do things unless they become criminal, because a criminal is at least seen, tried, in court, in news report, and those non-tried people almost have zero visibility. We can see the prisoners, since they are in low-quantity, and wouldn't be too much burden on the state fund and we can not ignore them, because we put them there. And yet we ignore those can be ignored, the homeless folks on the streets of San Francisco and everywhere else. It creates a weird system where if you are in worse conditions, you might be better off committing a crime than being a law-abiding citizen. It happens often because it cheaper to build better prisons than to offer better social welfare system for everyone, not because we have a better sense of morality, but it made us feel better about ourselves.
> it is deposited in our bodies

Through exactly which sources, and in what dosages?

> slowly killing us

At what rate? At what dosages? With what symptoms?

This is what I mean by "actionable information". If the article spent anywhere near as much time explaining the actual details of the risks as it did trying to paint DuPont as mustache-twirling villains, people might actually be able to make an informed decision of "alright, well I should limit my exposure to these things by this much, and keep an eye out for these symptoms, and we should enact these measures to prevent further harm".

And that ain't to say that DuPont is not a bunch of mustache-twirling villains -- only that the emphasis on presenting them as such is far less helpful than an emphasis on the actual details and an actual solution beyond "let's be mad at DuPont".
I've had the exact same problem, reported it, and been ignored. Not all of us work at Google.
Do longitudinal studies ever happen before a vaccine is released? Every longitudinal study I can find uses data from after a vaccine has been released to the general public. Stage 4 studies happen after the vaccine is in use by the general public.

“Even after the vaccine is approved and licensed, regulatory agencies stay involved, continuing to monitor production; inspecting manufacturing facilities; and testing vaccines for potency, safety and purity.

The FDA also monitors adverse events that may occur related to receiving the vaccine, including through its Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System and Phase 4 clinical trials—optional studies pharmaceutical companies may be required to perform after a vaccine is licensed to continue to monitor safety and effectiveness.” [0]

[0] https://www.jnj.com/innovation/the-5-stages-of-covid-19-vacc...
If you're in a high risk group surely you want the more effective vaccine?

I doubt you can have both (even if safe, it's not tested at all).
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It seems efficacy is not the primary driver (or there is an error in reported data)
RITE Method
I'd prefer them to have full hateful behaviour in their own playpen rather than reduced hateful behaviour where I hang out.
It's not clear if this is on an emergency basis or not. Also interestingly, the UK has not approved the Moderna shot yet
Fascinating. In an earlier life I worked as a graphic designer and always felt I had a keen ability to accurately visualize the art in my head before putting pen to paper, so to speak. But never like having a canvas in front of me, definitely more symbolic like you describe.

I'm not sure I can completely relate to your experience with needing CAD, other than I've noticed that sometimes the real world is flipped to my mental model, which can lead to funny results when my actions are backwards. I can usually 'visualize' things like that, at least in some abstract sense.

Well, that is, except specifically when it comes to my bother and father. They can somehow explain things to each other and know exactly what they are talking about with ease, as if they have some kind of telepathic link. They can say the exact same thing to me and I'll have absolutely no clue as to what they are talking about until they draw a picture. Now you have me curious to know if they are able to score 6.
I reach people mostly via SEO and content marketing. I started publishing articles about Django development back in 2018, and this year I spent a lot of time working on a series of guides to building a SaaS with Django[1] - basically documenting a lot of the things I had to do to build Pegasus. These serve as lead-generation and for SEO. Many of the guides have gotten picked up in Django communities/newsletters, etc. and bring nice traffic and product awareness in the community.

In the last month I've started my first experiments with targeted paid ads in relevant blogs. Still a bit early to say how well they're working.

[1] https://www.saaspegasus.com/guides/
The sad thing is, they don't need that personal growth. Their luck or other character traits made/make them successful, they're rich and quite powerful, attractive to women, etc.

So they'll never do what you're saying. For an extreme example, look at Trump. In Romanian we have a saying: "the only thing that will straighten a hunchback's back is the coffin".
Take a look at https://anvil.works - it's not just "low code", it's a full web-dev platform so simple that you can build a dashboard with a few lines of Python - front end, back end and drag-n-drop design. (I'm a founder.)

The trouble with "low-code" is that you're stuck on rails - it's very easy to do a few things, but the moment you want something the creators didn't anticipate, prepare for a lot of pain.

Anvil is the opposite approach - it's a dev environment that happens to be simple enough to build a dashboard in minutes, but with a Real Damn Programming Language. It's basically Delphi for the web: It's got a drag-n-drop designer, Python in the browser and on the server, code editor with full-stack autocomplete, etc.

(And unlike "low-code" tools, the runtime engine is open source, so you're not locked in: https://github.com/anvil-works/anvil-runtime)
The CCP has enslaved the Uighars, and gifted this manufacturer with some of them. How is this not chattel?
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They'll just throw out all the ones spammed from your IP. If you become obnoxious they will call the FBI because this would be a CFAA violation.
The whole article skips the question of the differences between the 60% and 90%. We still don't know the effectiveness on old people, but that seems to be the main differentiator. Not writing that in the article is dishonest.
> Tips to the police from "close associates" are probably the ones that are in most need of corroboration prior to a search, to ensure that police powers aren't being abused.

It is clear neither of us are interested in search warrants being issued on glorified hearsay. Let me be more explicit that it is the responsibility of law enforcement to ascertain the trustworthiness of an unsubstantiated claim and to determine whether or not it is worth going forward or if they need to gather more evidence, or if the entire thing is just nonsense. No judge in their right mind should be approving search warrants on the basis of hearsay and the evidence gathered would almost certainly be ejected at trial as originating from an invalid search if the sole evidence presented for the warrant was, "This person who claimed that they were so-and-so's girlfriend said he was building bombs." See: Aguilar v. Texas, 378 U.S. 108 (1964).

In this specific situation, the woman's attorney reached out to law enforcement after being alarmed at statements she had made to him. Local law enforcement met with both the woman and the attorney at various times and both appear to have expressed strong concerns about what the terrorist was doing. At one point the woman appears to have explicitly stated that bombs were being made. The attorney is on the report as having stated that the terrorist, "knows what he is doing and is capable of making a bomb." This attorney seems to have extensive local connections and had also represented the terrorist in a previous civil matter.

I think this is sufficient grounds for a search warrant, if the local authorities really wanted the warrant. This isn't a criminal trial nor a writ of assistance, we only need a preponderance of the evidence here and it could and should have been narrowly tailored to only target the RV. I think that local law enforcement thought this was a nothingburger. They did their basic due diligence -- they ran some background checks and they came up clean. They tried to establish contact with the terrorist on a voluntary basis and were rebuffed. They then basically seem to have dropped the matter. The attorney seems to imply as such:

> He disputes that he told police they couldn't search the RV.

> "I have no memory of that whatsoever," Throckmorton said of MNPD's claim that said they could not inspect the RV. "I didn’t represent him anymore. He wasn’t an active client. I'm not a criminal defense attorney."

Either the authorities are lying or he is.
Are you serious? The intermediate strings are comments to a blog post... putting them all into Strings then joining them all up means you'll have huge amount of RAM being consumed for no reason. Updating the DOM as soon as you get the information is optimal for memory utilisation and for user feedback, which are more important than the total time (even if the total time is longer, which I doubt because if there's a large number of replies, most of them won't be visible in the viewport and hence should be very cheap too.
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What happened? Some people got a one-time $1200 check. What could they have done with $1200 that made you lose faith in UBI?

Or are you referring to the $600 that supplemented the unemployment insurance? But those went to people who were just recently working and had their livelihoods wrecked by government action and/or inaction. I'm pretty sure you would agree they deserve that money and it's okay for them to do what they damn please with it. Even if that means them not going back to work for some time because they have the freedom to. Imagine how less fucked we would be if we just paid the majority of non-essential workers to stay the hell home. Less competition for the essential jobs, so people who do really want to work can work and the essential jobs will be filled.
Seems at least 60% is good enough:

> Simulation experiments revealed that to prevent an epidemic (reduce the peak by >99%), the vaccine efficacy has to be at least 60% when vaccination coverage is 100% (reproduction number=2.5–3.5). This vaccine efficacy threshold rises to 70% when coverage drops to 75% and up to 80% when coverage drops to 60% when reproduction number is 2.5, rising to 80% when coverage drops to 75% when the reproduction number is 3.5.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7361120/

Also, it prevents hospitalisations completely which is crucial.

I asked elsewhere but seems this thread is the busiest:

Also, does anyone know - supposedly the Oxford vaccine had swab tests for the virus every week to catch cases even if trial participants weren’t showing symptoms, whereas for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine they were only swabbing if someone showed symptoms. Would that not have a large effect on efficacy numbers?
Nope!

If the rand function produces uniform random numbers, then with enough samples the signal comes out ontop the noise.

If it is non-uniform, then with enough samples you can determine the non uniformity, and you are at square 1 again.

Use proper security instead of obscurity.
It's not about what the people done and faith in them or their claims from moral or other points of views. These $1200 nearly destroyed the European economies. My country is forever indebted now, and they handed out much less and not even to everyone but a small portion of people.
See another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25579393
I'd recommend MintData (https://mintdata.com)

It lets you define your dashboard logic in a spreadsheet & then drag/drop the dashboard UI and publish it for end-user consumption.
Then we control the input components.

Robot uprising won't be an issue until the robots learn to operate and maintain the entire supply chain that goes into making them.
Trump is well-respected internationally, and will be remembered as having the best foreign policy since the Marshall Plan in 1948.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan

A lot of what Trump and Pompeo had to overcome was the treaty abandonment that peaked under Obama. Asia is arming itself to the teeth because Obama allowed China (Xi was actually personally involved) to steal the Scarborough Shoal from the Philippines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Shoal

If you're referring to NATO members underpaying their contributions to their own defence, that's on them. Of course they're whining about an increase from 1.5% of GDP to 2.0 - 3.0%.

It's sad that I have to explain this to HN readers on a monthly basis. You literally don't know what you're talking about on this forum.
Okay, I wasn't familiar with the term. English is not my first language.
It's a fckn disgrace that you and globular-toast haven't been banned already. Cancel culture you think? No it's just basic GC to not let a few dozens relics from the 1950s poison the environment with misogynistic bullshit for everyone else. You are toxic.
The reverse actually.

Whilst Oxford had the (generic) basis of the vaccine ready to go, prior to the COVID outbreak, it was the removal of all bureaucracy in this, and other, vaccine trials, that has allowed them to go from r&d to approved in 10 months or so.

Which is apparently what researchers will tell you is the 'real' time it takes to develop a vaccine. No time writing proposals and rewriting them when they get rejected, no awaiting someone to approve the proposal, no applications and waiting for grant money, no time spent waiting for volunteers for clinical trial groups, and so on.

Regarding the dosage, more information here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55308216

(edit) and the time to develop here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55041371
Where's the cia when you need them to topple a dictator who oppresses with slave labor
Brexit might have some benefits after all. Let the competition begin!
Downvoting comment with actually logical and real data is "immature" position. Just saying kids.

Let me clarify for the empathy disabled people: The problem is that "technological advancements" have little to no public oversight and MAGA(Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon) publicly are working with Military Industrial Complex. They all have political and financial power equivalent of small countries, private security armies, lobbyists on demand and PR masterminds.

I get it, lots of you are employed by them and they provide for you a standard of living.
But we as people are entering an era in which willing to act beforehand will define the future of your kids (If you will have them at all).

Long before AGI is present, the power of technology will be abused in "legal" or "illegal" ways.
Good idea indeed!
GTA V has a fairly detailed torture sequence as part of the main plot, and IIRC it was the first AAA game to simulate a first-person lapdance

Star Wars the Old Republic (the KOTOR MMO) gets pretty dark if you roll dark side. There's also torture, shooting innocents into the void of space, and a few of the class stories let you kill a lot of people for no reason other than that they're no longer useful to you. It's a bit campier than GTA but I can't think of any other RPGs that model being an real asshole quite so well. SWTOR is actually kind of an interesting example because it has EA and Disney behind it, even if the latter joined on after-the-fact and invalidated the canon the game is based on.

Spoiler alert, but one of Far Cry 3's endings sees you murdered after climaxing during sex, all in first person.

Hardly chaste, if you ask me.
metabase.com is amazing if you're dumping the data into Postgres or similar.
> Publicly state your intention to cancel anyone who cancels you

This doesn’t seem to be something that everyone can do. "Cancellation" irradiates someone as a racist or sexist. It’s a power reserved to those who can appear to credibly make that claim.
Different doesn't mean one is better or worse.

You get objections to GMO food in Europe while in the US this doesn't even have to be labelled.

Chocolate standards that mean most US chocolate cannot legally be called chocolate in Europe as it doesn't contain enough cocoa.

Chicken has to be chlorine washed in the US before sale, a practice that is prohibited in Europe.

Eggs in the US are washed before sale which makes it necessary to keep them in the fridge afterwards while in Europe eggs are nornally sold unwashed (in some countries (all EU?) It's even prohibited to wash them).

Let's not even talk standards for wine and raw milk cheese, use of corn syrup, regional denominations, slaughter and animal welfare rules, ...

Not easy to find a simple resolution to such strong differences in some sectors. Opposition to trade deals among Europeans usually stem from (1) fears of lower food standards (incl. animal welfare), (2) worries about slavery and labour exploitation and (3) worries about low environmental standars. I'm sure the US has similar recurring themes popping up.
The "shut up and calculate" method is common in university, but I don't think is antithetical to interpretation/prediction so much as metaphysics!

Plus, I think it's possible to have a smart discussion about QM interpretations without reference to cats in boxes.
What hurts more? Slamming into a 10 pound block of wood? Or a 10 pound block of metal?
In Germany only 2/3rds of the population want to get vaccinated. So they'd better be vaccinated with a vaccine with very high efficiency.