skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know genetics but this smells like weak instrument to me? The genetic risk score instruments explained only 2% of variation in vitamin D deficiency. Relevance in the first stage of an instrumental variables analysis is crucial to get power. So the analysis is using only 2% of the variation in vitamin D deficiency to try to explain COVID severity, and unsurprisingly getting not significant results.

Can anyone who’s up to speed on their stats figure out how big the causal effect of vitamin D deficiency on COVID severity would have to be to be detected by this data and method?
100% of cancer has water in it.
I was going to mention Martin Parr. His website (https://www.martinparr.com/) has a selection of his work.
It doesn't work for automatically deployed virtual machines that one would like to be connected to the vpn without interaction. You'll need to do a manual login before you can disable key expiry.
I think the idea is you leave it plugged in at home.
And 90% of the comments too! :)
That isn't quite true. It was not uncommon for the British lords to kick Irish off their lands. I have a hard time believing that was a unique circumstance throughout the history of various forms of feudalism.

See also the practice of "Enclosure" for an additional example.

In addition, being a peasant often had some properties of slavery: no freedom of mobility or choice and sometimes lack of pay, with the express approval of the local lord required for many things. See the Revolt of 1381.

The Lord-Peasant relationship is really not a positive example of preventing homelessness, but either way, let's face it: It was the Government supporting those people. Arguing from the historic example of feudalism as a method that prevented homelessness would mean you're arguing that the government should be directly supporting the homeless.
now sosumi is taken off snap store, probably due to pressure from apple
Even if he could, I don't think he would want to. It would mean admitting guilt and opening himself to give testimony on the crimes in prosecuting others as well as emboldening civil lawsuits. Also, since its an ex-President and leader of a political party there is no way to punish him without it being political, which means the next President is likely to pardon him anyways for expediency.
Sure. Recently I tried an Indian dish that quickly made Indian food go from being my 10th favorite option to my 1st. Turns out I just hadnt found the Indian food I loved until that night.

Now it makes me wonder if there is an Italian dish I would love that much.
DRM in hardware is about the only other possibility. Make the GPU do the DRM internally. This is actually relatively feasible since most DRM'd video content has hardware acceleration support and GPUs already support HDCP.

Full DRM in hardware would require a much larger coordination across manufacturers than any DRM to date (HDCP), and with AACS's key distribution problems greatly magnified. Specifically, preventing any software fallback would be required to avoid AACS's player key leaks.
A nice and powerful C++ flow-based programming framework is DSPatch [1]. It is definitely worth to mention here, check out also the examples in the audio domain.

[1] http://flowbasedprogramming.com/docs/html/index.html
Amazon offers to help U.S. with vaccine in letter to President Biden
Yes, this is very confusing. Some people could read this and mistakenly assume that their reflections are always kept secret (because they didn't read the second sentence).

It might be better to change it to "Reflection are kept secret until Sunday."

This might seem like a little issue, but it's not. All it takes is one over eager person to join the app in haste, not really read how it works, post some embarrassing secret thinking it will be kept secret and then become mortified when it's revealed. Then they will raise a storm online and your app will be known as something that causes drama rather than alleviates it.
> Remember: strong opinions, loosely held

I am actually thinking the reverse now: Loose opinions, strongly held. It's better to a vague - loose opinion like "do not harm" but held it strongly than something precise like "never kill someone" but held it loosely.
This AoS -> SoA feature is really cool
Jai changed quite a bit since then.

For more current info check out beta user's impressions (and the language primer) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1vbvikDiI8 (first video in the series)
Correct, but that wasn't given to them by the US constitution. Rather, that power rests with each individual state constitution. Further, depending on the state, it can be anywhere from unlimited to completely bound. [1]

The role of "governor" isn't defined by any federal laws or rules. It's theoretically possible for a state to decide that it doesn't need a governor.

[1] https://ccresourcecenter.org/state-restoration-profiles/50-s...
I'd go as far as 98%, but the problem is it's getting worse! Everybody's optimizing everything, creating ever crappier crap. To quote Jay Pritchett, "Crap. Crappacino. Charlie Craplin."
The best way to describe Indian "uncles" and "aunties" is that they are collective nouns for anyone above your own generation who are not your parents or ancestors.

They could be related to your parents or friends of your parents or a random person on the street who is older. Kids literally walk into mom-and-pop shops and address the shopkeeper as uncle or aunty.
Combined with the further "Strong Opinions, Loosely Held" this is very real advice.

Broad statements like this tend to be very inline with our intuitions for many things - even if we must admit that they have very little "real" evidence. It doesn't mean that such common aphorisms don't have value or utility in our lives...
C++:

Friends can access each other's private members in a public class.
Robert Heinlein's life and career was made possible by those incredibly focused 'insects'. It's a nice platitude, but in its strong form, it seems quite myopic, and more than a tad out-of-touch.
> The truth is that you'll probably have nearly as much fun if you just pick up one of six cartridges you've got (like we had to back in the old days) and have at it, than if you spent a week carefully selecting the optimal game from the tens of thousands out there.

As someone who enjoys bad movies more than good movies, this is simply not true. Pick any 6 random games on Steam and see if you find 2+ of them moderately enjoyable.

There really is just a lot of crap out there, and not everything is meant for everybody. Also over time gaming has become more mainstream which means more people interested solely in money, a larger audience for more niche genres, as well as half-assed hobby projects since Steam Greenlight (which is now Steam Direct) have cropped up over time.

I get the gist of your argument and there's something to be said for just trying something new and enjoying it. But your argument is roughly equivalent to "buy a plane ticket anywhere in the world and enjoy your 1 week vacation!" Chances are most people would prefer Paris, France to Paris, Texas. Even if a few people would actually enjoy the different experience equally or more, most certainly wouldn't.
The Lakota: A Human Story
Sony SLT A65 with f1.8/35mm, f2.8/85mm and f4.5-5.6/55-300mm (inexpensive lenses acquired one-at-a-time in that order; when I wasn't able to make the pictures I wanted with the lenses I had).

https://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/AA65/AA65A.HTM

I post-process raw files using https://rawtherapee.com/ so not really interested in filters/processing the camera provides.

I like otoh explicitly setting aperture / shutter / iso sensitivity; otoh the electronic viewfinder showing what will be recorded.

With $$$ to spend I'd replace it with one of the newer models — https://www.sony.com/electronics/interchangeable-lens-camera...

The basic technology has improved. Automatic following of eye-focus works a lot better. Autofocus micro-adjustment allows autofocus to be precisely fine-tuned for each lens used with the camera.

But the old stuff I have still works too well for me to upgrade.
Is this Luminati? [0] Because this sounds so much like Luminati ("Hola").

[0] https://luminati.io/
The nazis drank water.
Love Morphic. I implemented some ideas from it (in particular I borrowed the "halos" from Squeak Morphic) in my game engine a while back, and this year I'm rebooting the project:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjVbxH1kdkQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqISKf7vGuw
I dont know. Sometimes you really dont like that kind of game/movie/etc. And you prefer no game over that game.
Thankfully we still have laws of physics and the market that keep people honest. also there are always the independent thinkers who will March towards progress. things are not so bad / there is always a new hope !
The page says "Jai could be described as a modern replacement for C"

Rust and Zig are other languages that more or less try to be replacements for C. Without having looked too deeply, it feels like Jai could more or less be described as similar to D (with the -betterC flag, perhaps). Does that seem like a reasonable characterization? Is there something specific that Jai brings to the table that those other languages don't?
Are you referring to the mountains in the south-west direction from Liverpool ? Lovely place, a true Voyage going there.
Ahh, I wish they could do concise text updates like this article, videos are so time consuming.
Well this is hacker news and I’d consider this an art hack.
Debian tech committee allows Kubernetes vendoring
Fakery and the Russian Avant-Garde
Sure, and maybe this is my lack of understanding speaking, but if you're free to edit the source, recompile, and then use the DRM software, why couldn't you just edit the source to save the video?
Have used linux on thinkpads since the 90s.

Rules of thumb:
- Use older thinkpads off business lease is great
- stick to intel video graphics
- max out the ram and upgrade storage (NVMe)
Playing around with this, [count]iw seems to have some really strange behavior — I need to do 3iw to select two words, 5iw to select three words, etc.? I'm not sure if I'm missing something. (I normally don't use many text objects; bdw is in my muscle memory instead of daw, for example.)
i.e. all the folks who are using a macbook from work -- I don't think that's a small fraction.
What's available to the rich today becomes available to all tomorrow. Cars, TVs, Cell phones...
I was worried about something similar.

I was wondering if the artist at least applied some tape or something to the inside surfaces of the glass to prevent the shards from separating.
Since his earliest childhood, 2021 was showing a lot of character...
If you care about display, trackpad, and battery life, the M1 macs blow everything else out of the water, and for pretty cheap.
> Maybe you haven’t discovered the good 10% yet. Keep looking.

Keep in mind that 90% of your own opinions are crap, too - so you aren't likely to know the good from the bad even once you're exposed to it.

To put it another way, you can't really know whether you like something or not until you've a) gotten over the fear of it, and b) learned how to do or recognize it competently.
I mean, for buying stuff. And by stuff, I don't mean other cryptocurrencies.
I think it would be more accurate to say, 90% of everything will be crap to you. I listen to a lot of music and it is true that 90% of what I hear I consider crap. However, tastes very widely. I could find an amazing song and show it to all my friends--who like the same genre of music--and only a fraction of them will love the song also.
> That's a perfectly reasonable take especially on the federal/state separation which was novel, but is it really not possible there was some back-rationalisation going on?

Isn't this true of your own original post?
> the sitting executive used every trick he could think of to keep himself in power.

I agree. The checks and balances worked as they were supposed to.

Note that if there was evidence of widespread election fraud, the checks and balances on display here would (hopefully) provide a check on that.
"I am Devloper" on twitter is amusing:
https://twitter.com/iamdevloper
Doh of course! Hah I meant devs ;)
Sure, your own comment.
So good to hear that! Have you considered buying one off ebay? Still some good deals there :)
How to Re-Program the Mind for Success: An AI Approach
Car battery that recharges in 5 mins showcased
From inside a groupthink bubble, it seems like your half of the population are reasonable and logical people who are destined to win in the end, and the other side are an irrational and stupid cult. Which is definitely stressful, but at least there's the relief of thinking that your side are the good guys.

It's a lot more bleak when you realize there are virtually no good guys, and a lot of the people who might seem like good guys at first are either grifting or gazed too deeply into the abyss.
Trump has pardoned far fewer people, but for the same reason the ratio of compassionate to corrupt pardons under Trump is much worse. Dozens of Trump's pardons had some direct benefit to him or his cronies. And among modern presidents he has pardoned strikingly few people.

I am not aware of any corrupt pardons under Obama similar to that of Marc Rich under Clinton, much less more egregiously corrupt pardons like that of Ford by Nixon or Manafort by Trump.
Otter Browser tries to be a libre rebirth of Opera 12, BTW.
Schema validation, proper types, comments, IDE completion support, and no significant white spaces, just what I ordered.
I wonder if funding rounds, M&A operations for blockchain and crypto companies are made in dollars or in bitcoins? Asking for a friend.
The govt did it back when it was Japanese DRAM manufactures that were outcompeting the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMATECH
That reminds me of Animal Farm.
Kotlin is even simpler with statements like "hello $variable" or "hello ${function()}"
Whats wrong with Centos Stream?
My guess would be that the video buffer wasn’t cleared before suspending. If so, on resuming there is a race condition between painting the lock screen, and turning on the video hardware that will show the screen memory as it was when suspended.
> BTW, about crashing GPU drivers, on modern Windows the condition is recoverable. The symptoms are black screen for a second, then the OS resets the hardware, restarts the driver, and resumes rendering of the desktop. Observed quite a few times working on advanced GPU stuff, especially compute shaders.

When I mine cryptocurrency while playing games, I appear to sometimes run out of GPU memory (Both Task Manager and MSI Afterburner let me monitor usage) and I have experienced this reset. It's surprisingly graceful, even when a game is running, though NVIDIA Broadcast often doesn't like it and needs to be restarted, and I will sometimes see lingering graphical glitches in the game until I restart, but it's not game breaking.

You can also trigger a GPU reset manually with CTRL-WIN-SHIFT-B.
The IT department at the place where I work installs antivirus on all Macs. I’d guess it is the same at most bigger corporations
I'm curious your favorite anime?
Bit light on details about how they could help the effort outside of just getting their own employees vaccinated. Amazon might make a bigger impact on public health by reducing its actual level of workplace injuries instead.
we use synapse right now. Hopefully moving to dendrite when appservice support is added
What was it exactly? As for Italian one, did you try Sicilian Arancini?
So much for that "Native Chat Is Better".
It's not that.

WideVine and PlayReady and FairPlay don't exist because tech companies want them, they exist because movie studios want them - or to be more precise, they demand them.

Chrome plays non-DRM video just fine. No studio in the USA will make their films available on a non-DRM encumbered service.
I'm not sure what your point is.

I'm not disputing the fact that they took ideas directly from the British government. I disputing the fact that it was done without consideration, reform, or reason. There's ample evidence that they heavily debated each part of the British government that they adopted.

The fact is, the founders remedy for a corrupt president was impeachment. They made that perfectly clear. Corruption included things like misusing the pardon power (High crimes/Bribery).

What they didn't anticipate was the fact that we'd end up with a 2 party system equally spitting the country where neither side would remove their president from office. The put a LOT of faith in "honor" and the fact that the general electorate would punish dishonorable leaders. They did not expect things like wedge issues.
Does anyone here really entertain the idea that Facebook could be removed from the app store?

The stronghold it has over world politics has more power than an atomic arsenal.
That's another level of Duchampian right there.

If a work like this actually sold for a significant value, I would argue that the FedEx person who threw it about and broke it SHOULD be compensated for their contribution to the work, all the more since their unknowingness was absolutely part of the nature of the artwork (it wouldn't be the artwork if just the artist put the thing into a box and then dropped it).
Few things in science are more subjective than the relative importance of a piece of evidence.

It is not at all unusual for a key measurement to be wrong, but also not unusual to trust the wrong one.
The same sentiment was also described here:

http://absurdnotions.org/an20020724.gif

http://absurdnotions.org/an20020731.gif

http://absurdnotions.org/an20020814.gif

(Images taken from (http://absurdnotions.org/page104.html) and (http://absurdnotions.org/page105.html))
I think it's in a bookmark that shows up on the new tab page in Beaker itself, after installation. Not sure why it is not featured more prominently.
The Capitol Police retreated from most of the capitol building and only shot one rioter before eventually recapturing the building later that evening. Police responding to BLM protests shot virtually nobody and retreated from multiple police stations, some of which were either occupied for weeks or burned to the ground.
So according to this Biden has administered 16.5m vaccines in his first hours in office...? I don't think anybody in their right mind can attribute that to him.
Google could have bought Sun, decided not to take the opportunity.

They also made a clusterfuck job copying Java APIs for their Android Java (aka Google's J++) dialect, where Java library authors have to hunt down what works exactly in each Android version.

They have only themselves to blame.
As someone convicted of a low level white collar crime, who ended up in a prison with many violent criminals and saw people get stabbed, I would have to disagree. This is a totally incorrect speculation. BOP has no oversight and is totally wack. I'm glad he didn't go to prison: he's already suffered the reputation consequences he deserves.
Once the robot exists you can duplicate it cheaper. Once it works in SF with high wages it works in Montana with low wages. It may eventually not work out in poorer countries.
I agree it's going too far to say that computers are mostly about linear algebra, but computer graphics is one of the go-to examples of applied linear algebra. I believe linear algebra is also central to games' physics engines, but that's not something I know much about.
The one thing I remember surprising me was that the build scripts were also jai.
This excuse seems flimsy to me.

A better reason for change: How about the fact that the Bitcoin network is currently estimated to use over 7 nuclear plants worth of electricity and that a single transaction uses like 6 households of daily electricity? The carbon footprint of Bitcoin is something like the city of Las Vegas. Can we fix that?
Potentially, there's a 5 year jail sentence for doing that[1].

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1204
Are you liable for illicit content being cached on your server? Like say a user on a server you’re federated with posts child porn, can you be criminally liable if it’s unknowingly downloaded onto the instance you host?
Yeah, I don't think you can compel debates. I'm sensitive to arguments about bodily integrity and complicity. People are exercising a right to exclude voices they don't want to hear.

But new tech lets us do it so well. And all-day, every-day people self-sort into silos, and then get a steady stream of "facts" about pedophile rings and pee tapes. QAnon seems like a problem of having too much power to self-sort, not a problem of "unmoderated free speech."

Is there a healthy amount of "hate" that makes us stronger, like mental exercise? If we don't owe it to them, is it in our own interest to give more to those who hate us or disagree strongly?
> Most Linux software is written by Red Hat.. even a major contributor to the kernel itself.

Oh! I didn't realize Red Hat had hired RMS. :-/

Setting aside the controversial nature of those three specific projects (and the fact that this statement is demonstrably false), this statement demeans the contributions of thousands of coders, even from before Linux existed.

(let alone before Red Hat was a gleam on Bob Young's head.)
I'm a firm believer in this, having lived through "NYC used to be so cool" or "Burning Man used to be so cool." If you focus on the essential 10%, you learn what that thing really is about.

NOW. Here's where it gets personal and interesting.

I went with a friend to a shitty diner and ordered eggs benedict. I love eggs benedict. And he was like: "Why did you do that?" "I love eggs benedict!" "I love eggs benedict too, but I don't like lame eggs benedict."

That struck me as so inconceivable.

Then I remembered a friend who would constantly order shitty burgers by delivery. And I gave them such grief: "burgers are only meant to be enjoyed when they are amazing, why order a mediocre burger??"

In retrospect, I realized that there are certain things that you will like even if they aren't great, once you appreciate them. And certain things you will only like if they are done the excellence. I like any egg benedict, even if it's lame. I am a snob when it comes to burgers. Switch this for your world-view.

The important point is that you must learn to appreciate something, before you sort it into "I enjoy it" vs. "not good enough". You can't simply dismiss an entire genre based upon some theoretical a priori motive. But after you have tasted it, and I mean truly tasted it, you can decide whether you can be an elitist about it.
The parent post was pointing out that Parler was banned because of an ineffective to moderate content going forward (not if things were historically planned there or not).
A brand is not just trade dress. It's a relationship between a company and the public. Recreating the brand means building those relationships.
OK - for future reference I believe I found out why this doesn't have more traction. It seems that in order to fully utilize their platform you need to go through a fairly lengthy and detailed registration with considerable legalese. Nowhere could I find sufficient reassurance that the required personal data (name, email, gender, country, phone number and more) will not leak (be sold or traded) to a third party. Not something that feels particularly welcoming.
I don’t need all the features Auth0 offers. And I can for sure implement an auth system, that’s a well known and solved problem since a while.
ever met a physicist? :)
Which would mean that it is actually "The bottom 90% is significantly worse than the top 10%".
> I'd like a chance to demonstrate its capabilities. For that I'd like to receive access to your hardware and a monthly stipend.

Bold.

I almost feel dirty for reading these, like I'm reading someone's diary without their permission.
Agreed. I'm kind of pricing in DNS as a public good that can't be cut off.