skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a matter of perception and need in the end, I think. I am happy with XFCE, but then I don't do much with the desktop environment itself other than manipulating windows, having a nice panel on top and some key bindings. Occasionally, I use a file manager, but most of the time I am just in applications, so they are maximized.

With my really simple needs, macOS and Windows is just mostly memory-wasting fluff to me. I switched away from Macs when I realized that what I need and what I can get is cheaper than getting a Mac. ("Cheaper" because I am very sensitive to cost vs. utility. I am typing on thinkpad t430s I found in the trash which I spent just a little to get a better screen, having everything else already that was missing.)

That said, sometimes get frustrating, but they don't happen frequently for me.
Epidemiological studies of alcohol have one incredibly large problem, as both recovering alcoholics and teetotalers report no alcohol consumption.

There's some evidence that the beneficial impact of alcohol comes from the comparison between people who have one drink a day (relatively healthy) and recovering alcoholics (typically extremely unhealthy).
> It's no match to human intuition and reasoning.

Sure, you and I know that. But driving around with Google Maps in the city all year gives a false sense that it works great. Then when, once a year, you drive round the back of the mountain to visit Grandma you discover the hard way that Google Maps doesn't quite work so great.
UK deliveries of the Moderna vaccine aren't until April or later (and only 5m doses total) AFAIK so the Government / MHRA have probably placed it on the backburner.
Google Data Studio?
Actually a lot of high performance modules are wrote in c for python and you can do the same for node.
if there are any that don't sell your data, they are legally required to let the government see all the transaction data due to 9/11

the only way to free yourself from counterparties is to use cash or crypto. no company will help you.
I believe the 2 doses will be administered 3 months apart. This should help get people their first dose more quickly and there’s a suggestion that this approach also has higher effectiveness.
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That works for you short term, the other works for the majority over the longer-term.
It used to be (and sometimes still is, qv 2020) that people were "cancelled" permanently, fatally. Getting a new job doesn't seem that onerous in comparison.
What if you can reprogram the beam splitters to move into different positions?

Say the beam splitters can be actuated to different positions and angles automatically via code. Then you can build a general purpose rig, that can be reprogrammed to solve different quantum functions.

Then you can build clones of this rig. And stack them up in racks. And have thousands of racks. Now you have a super quantum computer system.

Then you can begin to miniaturizing the system.

The Chinese quantum supremacy solution only solved one problem. But I would gather that the beam splitters can be modified to solve other quantum functions.
Arrays at the hardware level can be implemented. Though, this wasn't always the case. Direct access to memory didn't really become a thing until the late 60s, with the advent of the Memory management unit (MMU). My first experience was with the 6502, and 6510. For instance the 6510 had 64k of addressable memory, but good luck ever having all of it.

Many architectures had each word loaded into a register, and you never had direct access to the memory. Those were absolute nightmares by today's standards.

On Intel hardware, we had different registers for memory access. I can't remember all of them now, but they were split between the code, data and stack. At some point we ended up with two different memory models, protected and real mode. This was the biggest PIA ever. We had MS/DOS in one mode, then Windows running in a different mode.

OS/2 came along, and we had a flat address space. What a novel concept. Windows NT next, and we were off, except for the addressable memory limit, which Intel resolved in one of the generations. DEC had a flat address space for almost 20 years, why was it so hard for everyone else? Legacy software.

On the Amiga, which I absolutely loved, had two memory spaces. One was called FAST RAM, and the other CHIP RAM. This was a decision by Jay Minor (may he RIP). I don't quite remember the reasoning at the time, but it had to do with the cost of memory, what was available, and what could be emulated. The last conversation I had with Jay was about Direct Memory Access (DMA). He said he wished he would have invented it. We had a bus mastering system on the Amiga, provided by Motorola, so devices could read and write directly to an address. This created other challenges, as we did not have any protected memory on the Amiga. If you program decided to overwrite memory of another program, or device, well, you had to meditate.

Children today are fortunate to be able to live in the land of purity. Flat address spaces, protected memory, distributed file systems. You missed the days of a sneaker net, having your hifi speaker erase your program, and the crunching, twinkle noise that came out of your floppy drive, and even hard drive if you were fortunate to have one.

So to what you said about SIMD, that literally has nothing to do with shit, and malloc/free. You're talking out your ass.
I didn't say arming slaves was good. I said it was the only effective long-term solution to the problem of liberating slaves. The consensus here is anti-slavery, so I accepted that premise.

The USA does permit minimum wage workers to purchase cheap pistols, which is probably why its police aren't brave enough to lock them down. Sometimes those workers even upset a predetermined election.

I do not support prisons. On average, it is better to be the slave of an individual and work for him than it is to be the slave of a state and live in a cage full of predators. Although of course I would rather be imprisoned for life in modern Scandinavia than serve 10 years of "indentured servitude" in Plantation America.

Since doing good starts from home, I suggest you liberate your extended family's children from compulsory labor. Let us know how that goes...
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Well, types who buy cars like these[1] are usually not the type who cares. Those are mostly known as cheap cars for kids to put on 1 megawatt turbos, and giant spoilers on.

[1]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ONai65wZDk
That's funny: your post talk has exactly the same problems as string theory: untestable predictions.

How are you going to do experiments which test whether 'consciouness is fundamental' or not?
That's on purpose. They don't want people opting out.
Well, technically some AI programs are already pretty good at creating new songs and choreography. Google 'AI choreography' and 'AI songwriter'.
> "MBAs are running the show" is such a cliche. I see that more as simply a reality which is always constrained by resources.

I agree it is a cliche, but it is a very observable one over the last decades.
Regarding resource constrains. I argue it's just the other way around. If we were resource constrained we would not build huge administrative bodies to check that the scientists are actually doing what they are supposed to.
Take an example people here are likely more familiar with: in startups there are generally much less administrative processes, those come only in once companies get to a certain scale. Startups can simply not afford to pay lots of people to administer their "progress".

> Humanity can not afford to spend all their energy and resources for scientific research. We have many things we need for survival, and some for entertainment, etc. Obviously we do want to invest some amount of resources and human energy into research - but the question is how much is enough and which fields should we invest more or less ?

Considering the amount of energy we spend on things that are not needed and are actively hurting the planet and our survival, I would say we can't afford not to spend more on science.

> I claim that these questions are fundamentally unknowable / unsolvable. So we guess blindly (and very occasionally with a tiny bit of very myopic foresight), and mostly end up unwittingly relying on various historical accidents.

> This is a very, very difficult question for humanity overall, and we're never going to get "right" amount of funding or "right" structure as there's no right answer. "MBAs" do and can hinder progress unnecessarily, but not always - they do exist for a reason and they represent society's collective attempt to avoid waste or runaway spending.

MBAs are quite ill equipped for this tasks though. That's the my main gripe they try to apply a process that has problems even on the scale of a business (the problem of focusing on short term gains instead of long term sustainability) and try to apply it to society at large, even though there is no evidence that it would work.
Another way to meaningfully oppose "cancel culture" is to legislate (as in other jurisdictions) that termination may only be for cause.
thats pretty cheap considering the convenience and availability it offers
Your assumption is incorrect. There is no Federal government registration system in the US.

I'm in Australia and we are slow walking the process instead of using the equivalent of "emergency authorization". That's a risk that our Federal government is taking based on our very low case counts and infection rates.

Whether they roll it out efficiently between themselves and the individual state health authorities is yet to be seen.

Our Federal government has badly failed in its aged care response, which is its responsibility, while complaining loudly about states implementing border controls and other measures based on the economic impact.

Basically, governments that are run by inheritors of the Reaganite/Thatcherite "small government", "states rights" mindset are ignoring the fact that public health does not respect internal borders. This has occurred in the US, the UK, and, to a certain extent, in CA and AU.
> I'm Irish and the vast majority of the EU and other Western Countries (however that is defined) aren't in the business of disappearing people.

True, but that's comparable only if these countries had the same responsibilities (it's like comparing people, say a soldier vs a librarian). Ireland for instance has no Air Force, and has to call on the RAF to provide air defence (as it happened when Russian Tu-95s intruded). Likewise, the rest of Europe relies entirely on NATO's firepower against Russian belligerence.

You can certainly shape a better society internally and have equitable social justice if you're free from the distraction of having to defend against external aggression.
2 CIA agents believed that it's good for money laundering, and they got cought, as the ledger is public.

That was before chain analyzer services. Nowdays I would say stay with greenbacks for laundering money.
I liked "Hands on Machine Learning" by A. Geron. It's quite practical - you won't find careful progressive proofs, but it is very good at introducing the methods of ML and relating them to real problems. It provides you with a way to get your hands round the techniques - with an MSc in Stats you should then be well placed to understand where the gaps and problems are and to use things wisely.

It isn't quite state of the art, and it is very light in terms of how to evaluate and deliver the solutions. But I thought it was good. My team at work has gone through it selecting one chapter at a time this year in our book club - it's provided a good catch up and share forum for us. Some of the folks in the team are Engineers and so haven't a strong ML background, a couple are Data Scientists and therefore were in the same place as you (+/- some use of deep learning in a few engagements) and a couple of the folks are diehard ML researchers, but focused on different things (time series, NLP, evaluation) so there was a lot of crossover for everyone.
> I'm a strong advocate for free speech.

Many of us who have been following these developments are as well. At issue is the attempt to chill speech based upon the identity of the speaker.

If more institutions adopted the “Chicago Statement," then this would be less of an issue (at least in academia).

> Great, someone puts you on a block list on Twitter.

You are being disingenuous. "Go destroy the careers of these people on my block list" is a much different thing.
https://www.brimit.com/blog/how-microsoft-office-add-ins-sim...
The half + full dose regime appears to have greater efficacy but wasn't approved because of insufficient data. I hope more data comes in and permits this. Also:

"However, unpublished data suggests that leaving a longer gap between the first and second doses increases the overall effectiveness of the jab."

That may well help too. But at the end of the day, the world needs a lot of vaccine. It's better to have Pfizer/Moderna and the Oxford vaccine at our disposal, particularly when the latter is also much cheaper and easier to store (this will be crucial in developing countries and/or rural populations). What matters is having fewer people get sick or die, not ensuring everyone is given the vaccine with the greatest efficacy.
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BioNTech and Moderna didn't do weekly swab tests and they only tested the symptomatic ones.

The sample size of Astrazeneca is much bigger as well.

With Moderna one, some people are loosing antibodies with in weeks.
Well, yes! Substitute “zero profit” with “low cost” and it sounds like the same idea.

The key question would seem to be, who can produce and distribute those billions of doses first? Is the AstraZeneca vaccine being produced at a large enough scale already, and/or has the current capacity already been bought up by the EU and other rich countries?
ART is register based.

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/dalvik-byteco...
This isn't some random call to the police, this is from a person who was in the house, who witnessed the bomb being made and then reported this to the police.
I have had the same experience several times now. "Oh you have perfect hearing." No I don't, I can hear a constant ringing at all times and can't understand anything being said on a speaker phone. My high-range hearing is shot, you just can't measure it.

I even know the exact frequency of the ringing - it's 15,734 Hz, from the flyback transformers of old CRT monitors. It's kind of weird to know that but have multiple audiologists be unable to check.
I don't think a new social network should be centralized. what the world really needs is a user-friendly interface for urbit
Why would the vaccine only work on people that wouldn't die?

The vaccine trains the body to kill the virus (SARS-Cov-2) when it enters, not deal with the symptoms of the virus using the body to replicate (COVID-19).

Vaccines stop infection.

Therapeutics stop disease.

The map is not the territory.
they always seem to find additional data supporting this or that. Idk, to me it seems like their reporting is literally all over the place, how did they confirm 95% effectiveness? what's the trial-size, is it also 30k participants like the others? What's the age-distribution of those that took part in this 3-months trial, there are a ton of unknowns with that vaccine, and neither Oxford nor AZ are particularly helpful with clearing those doubts atm.
They are considering the same strategy in Belgium, but with even bigger gap. It seems that it’s the only way to achieve at least some herd immunity before summer.
There's this theory that humans are antennas, and that we pick up "wavelengths from above" to build and create the world we live in. Not only did we decide on the same project name and idea, but we also used the same pre-processor hacks. How surreal.

As for your pqueue implementation, the efficacy of an optimizing compiler lies in the inherent complexity of the language. I can imagine the optimization backend for gcc is simpler (and more effective) than g++, but I am not an expert on compiler internals.
This whole subthread reminded me of a science fiction story I read several decades ago (late 80s or early 90s, I think) about an agent in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Chocolate.

The story centered on an undercover ATFC agent who grew up in Hershey, PA (which gave him some sort of underworld cred) and had infiltrated the Swiss Cartels. As I recall there were some flashbacks about a chocoholic family member or lover that had died which was what set him on a path of self-righteous vengeance, and a raid featuring a showdown with a literally sticky-fingered bad guy. There may have also been a Bond-style femmes-fatale who managed to escape that was a scion of some chocolatier family (Mars, perhaps?). It's possible I'm confabulating some of these details.

I've tried to track down this story a few times without success, but it pops back into mind every time I see some mention of the idea of criminalizing sugar vs. decriminalizing other substances, so I thought I'd mention it on the off chance someone here recognizes it.
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Yes, it's all easy. I have a /64 assigned to my LAN, an /80 assigned to each of my hosts for allocating IPs to containers, etc. I have DNS and a text file listing which blocks I have allocated out of the /48 my ISP gives me. It's not hard or substantially different to IPv4.
Zapier/IFTTT with Google sheets & apis you want monitor?
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> "the only thing that will straighten a hunchback's back is the coffin".

Thats so cold.

Do Romanians generally call a spade, a spade?
> The vaccines seem to be causing serious side effects. People are going into anaphylaxis (at higher rates than usual) with the vaccines. Bell's palsy, 105 degree fevers... This isn't like the annual flu shot, or getting vaccinated for measles, where you get the shot and that's it.

Source? I'd had heard about very rare allergic reactions, but all the rest is news to me.
Pretty sure Wikileaks has been a front for the FSB for a while now. All the ideological people were pushed out a long time ago. They're not the release everything group that everyone wanted them to be.
It looks like 'fake' and animation because it _is_ an animation. The dancing was likely motion captured and/or hand animated and superimposed onto the robots basic balancing control system.
The community platform I'm building was linked in a Voat thread about alternatives to move to, which led to a bit of traffic a few days ago. A number of people (20+) signed up but haven't posted any voat-like content yet.

I suppose the focus on tech/code and lack of political content dissuaded them completely. Good!
Here's a hobby drone getting 41 minutes of spirited flying, with live HD feed, and it only weighs 50g more:
https://youtu.be/u2v1QLmhNxM
The world would have 2x the vaccine available if they can fast track approval of the lower first dose. Hopefully given the prevalence in the UK they can now quickly do that work.
> Through exactly which sources, and in what dosages?
So any teflon product, non-stick pots and pans, waterproof clothing and furniture, self cleaning ovens, microwave popcorn bags, pizza boxes, and much much more... Non-sticky nature, has a nature of non-sticking to those products as well :P it seems ...
Through those products goes directly into the body, and then when it is disposed goes to landfills, from there to water ...

> "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".
As I said, you cannot, you are already poisoned, and you cannot remove it from the nature. You can just try to stop "mustache-twirling villains" to do the future harm, as they shown in 2019 they are capable of simply giving Zero Fs for what public wants.

Additionally, calling them "mustache-twirling villains" it is downplaying danger turning it into the light comedy piece, which will make public care even less about the issue. Just imagine I poison you and then when you get angry I use perfect stand up comedian skills and everyone laugh at you, and say "don't worry you will be fine, people dying anyway" - (Which was exact sentence of the women from Scotland refusing to wear the mask during Corona virus pandemic while she was thrown out of the airplane)
Pfizer has the highest efficacy endpoint (95% at preventing symptomatic infection, which would theoretically also prevent spread and symptoms at higher percentages) with equal efficacy across age groups.

Moderna is 95% at preventing symptoms (100% for serious symptoms in their trial but insufficient sample size). They also reported slightly lower efficacy for the elderly.

AstraZeneca is 62% for preventing symptoms (unknown for infection and spread).

So it's not quite a trade-off of spread prevention vs symptom prevention, because Pfizer claims to do both significantly better.

edit: reading the data in more detail, all 3 don't have sufficiently significant data to claim anything other than symptoms. So preventing spread is just PR-hype.
Due to popular demand, I will implement unordered_set after the holidays, once the new year is in full swing.
Ha! It doesn't generate much, but yeah, I was surprised too!
Easily accommodated for. I can get the execution run-time and store in an average in memory for some time-period and have the sleep function top-up the difference between the two paths. Not sure what the "proper security" method is to prevent execution deltas.
the 62% efficacy rate was for symptomatic cases, which makes those numbers comparable to the Biontech/Pfizer one. I think it was around 50% effective in stopping asymptomatic cases, which is also pretty good. But that main number comes from symptomatic cases
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They obviously don't treat all leaks as equal. Just look at the official wikileaks twitter to see their bias.
I read the first sentence and thought you would comment on the fantasy of the ultra violent burglar who is intent on murdering someone who has barricaded themselves in a closet …
That sounds good, the article doesn’t make this clear at all.
Another idiot talking out his ass. Listen child, you don't know dick, and you don't know computing.

You literally don't know shit about any of those above, as Intel wasn't involved. Let's just take the Alto, which I developed on heavily. MSI made that chip you twit, not Intel. Intel was a little twit company at the time.

So fuck off.
Yes. Maybe AstraZeneca should up their vaccine price by a few dollars and hire the PR-team from Pfizer.
And that’s part of the reproducibility crisis. R/Python code published on GitHub is a much better way.
Watched it - totally forgettable, had a couple laughs. Not worth the time. The only take away for me was the term "Coronasploitation".
That looks more like Wikileaks cares about who it is damaging to.
Mutation?
They do during summer. If you zoom into the Bear Camp Road, you can see that it currently says "(Closed Nov-Jun)". If you set your leaving time to July, you can see that the other route uses that road.
Or some corrective surgery.

Voluntary or otherwise