skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There ought to be statistical evidence now of whether and how much vaccinated people still get sick from Covid and its variants. Why do we still hear that epidemiologists have no idea about this?

How much energy do you want to put into tracking so that you can draw better conclusions?

We have good evidence that people don't become symptomatic, because that is easy to track. But we haven't generally been constantly testing to see how many caught it and fought it off. Or how many could have spread it to unvaccinated people while they were asymptomatic. Which are both very useful for epidemiologists to know for modeling purposes.
> If Amazon is serious about fixing the problem and committed to good labor practices, stop contracting out services and take control of the issue. Set policies in place with teeth that remove managers and middle managers caught pushing such work conditions.

We can see from Amazon's actions, and lack of actions, that they're as committed to not breaking labor laws as they are committed to not committing fraud and IP & trademark infringement by selling counterfeit items on their marketplace.

That is to say, it's all rhetoric and PR. After all of this time, and reading countless words from Amazon promising to fix it, I still cannot report to Amazon that I received a counterfeit item from them via their return process, and Amazon drivers are still making less than minimum wage.
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You are correct.

To be honest, for many millennials selling their organs and/or body products in supplement to a full time job may already be necessary to get a mortgage where they'd be willing to live before they're so old they couldn't expect to pay it off.
The idea of an insurance policy you have to keep secret reminds me of chancel repair insurance in England.

Because of various arcane feudal remnants, the ownership of certain pieces of land comes with an obligation to pay for repairs to the local church building. This can be very expensive, so buyers of land where there is a possibility that this liability might exist are advised to buy insurance to cover it.

This insurance is very cheap, because it's quite rare for this liability to be discovered- usually it's a one-off payment of about £30-50 on buying the property. It is, however, a standard term in the policy that it is void if you tell anyone that it exists.

The reason for this is that, while the liability for repairs to any given church originally attached to one piece of land, this land has often been subdivided. In this case, the owners of all the pieces of land are jointly and severally liable for repairs- in other words, the church can go after any one of them for the full cost. And, of course, a property owner with insurance is a more attractive target as they're more likely to be able to pay, and to do so without making unpleasant headlines about how they might lose their home because of an obscure mediaeval law.
And how all of this compares to any other bacterial or virus infection?
CM-5 Software Summary (1993) [pdf]
> Python is NOT a prescriptive language.

It started out as one. Anyone remember the Zen of Python?

> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
You don't need it to be maintained that long - you just need there to still be some support for Raspberry Pi's in Linux. E.g. I don't see a reason you couldn't run straight Raspbian on it.
Depending on how much content you've got, this blog post from HuggingFace might be interesting: https://yjernite.github.io/lfqa.html
Counterpoint: when every developer is urged to build something with "measurable impact", you end up like Google, where people launch something visible, get promoted, and move on, leaving the service to wither away.
You can’t hide it from the FDA, but not everything the FDA sees is available to the public and competitors.
I honestly believe these sorts of blindspots of morality and critical thinking are due to under-exposure to the humanities. A lot of guys in tech could do with reading something - anything - that isn't 538 or a tech blog.
Given how often I see a "better redux" being written and stuff like redux toolkit, maybe its time to admit that the redux design is just bad?
Indirectly they say you can donate money, in the form of computation that can be rented:
“As an independent organization, we are dependent upon donations for our computing costs. We are always interested in speaking with people who can donate compute times.”
Well, if neither you nor the GP are willing to be customers of Red Hat, didn't you get exactly what you paid for? Of course putting docs behind a paywall is hostile to non-paying users! So am I!

(it's also empirically untrue that it kills SEO, given how frequently the docs in question show up in search results.)

Like there are two clear options. You can contribute your own labor to a community distro like pre-acquisition CentOS or to Debian, or you can pay for the software you use - and it costs very little money to pay for it. If you do neither, and you lament that things are going poorly for you, you might want to rethink your expectations. Things are going very well for others.

An independent CentOS probably could have survived if people were willing to put in the work of release engineering. Unfortunately, there ended up just being one user of CentOS who cared enough to put in the work - and that customer ended up being Red Hat itself. That's why they acquired it.

Scientific Linux is also dead. The RHEL SRPMs are still there, just as they have been for decades. Anyone can step up to the plate and make their own community-run rebuild of RHEL if they're unhappy with how things are going.
RISC-V is not "unable" to trap integer overflow. They made a deliberate decision not to. And divide by zero as well.

Instructions that can trap -- but almost never do unless you have a program bug -- cause a large complication in pipelines, and especially in OoO implementations. Even a single-issue pipeline can run faster and be smaller without conditionally-trapping instructions, and as soon as you have even 2-wide execution it's just much better in every way to use explicit checks that use the same conditional branching facilities as the rest of the code.

The code size penalty is very minor in practice.
Let me try to be a bit more to the point, game engine features are not just "drop-in", by adding a feature to one part of the engine there's a high probability that you make another part of the engine worse.

There's a reason that they say performance is the most leaky abstraction.
> People doubting that a thing is actually art at all seems to be a fairly consistent marker of something being good art.

Survivorship bias. The successes are highly visible, and we never hear of the failures.

> If readymades are art, if a blank canvas is art, then art is just a scam!

Ceci n'est pas une pipe. All art is a kind of deception.
A great news story. I wonder what it cost them to rebuild?
Like others said, it depends -- if you have low latency streaming on as a streamer + low-latency viewing by the viewer + good enough internet, your "latency to broadcaster" can drop to 1 point something.

What you linked is streamers intentionally increasing their delay to account for stream sniping, but many streamers keep their delay not-extended to allow for better chat interaction. In some games, increasing delay to prevent sniping is just ineffective -- Valorant can regularly have 5+ minute queues in top ranks, and there's few enough players that even if you enter the queue very late, you can still run into them.
I think that pep is as obsolete as 20th century itself.
The big problem nobody talks about with actors and message passing is non-determinism and state.

If two otherwise independent processes A and B are sending messages to a single process C, it's non-deterministic which arrives at C first. This can create a race condition. C may respond differently depending on which messages arrives first - A's or B's. This is also effectively an example of shared mutable state - the state of C, which can be mutated whenever a message is received - is shared with A and B because they're communicating with it and their messages work differently based on the current state.

Non-determinism, race-conditions, shared mutable state: the absolute opposite of what we want when dealing with concurrency and parallelism.
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In theory the cm4 should match the 400: they're both based on the BCM2711 chip. There'll be differences in revision, though, and the 400 has a thumping great heatsink so it basically never throttles.

RAM-wise the CM4 they're using in the CutiePi has 2GB, while the 400 has 4GB.
No sound on my iphone x
Wellllll ... there are two lines in the Zen of Python that I think about here: "Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules." and "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

I fled Perl. I did so for numerous reasons, but perhaps the most frustrating was that there were so many ways to do something, and trying to standardize on an idiom was frowned upon, given "TMTOWTDI." This, in practice, is a contributor to Perl code requiring more cognitive load to read and translate into "What was the programmer trying to do?" Other factors added in, of course, but Python was comparatively obvious at the time: you look at the line, it is clear what is going on.

As the number of language features in Python expand, Python as a culture must rapidly settle the "idiom" or lose the "obvious way." Just how many flow control statements do we need? Obviously there is a bare minimum for Turing completeness, and beyond that a sweet spot.

But I fear that Python may slowly become a kitchen-sink language with no idioms, and so coders would be reduced to some of the downsides of Perl.

Myself, I try not to have opinions about how to do a particular thing so much as I care about that there is a settled way of doing it. The more ways that are common, the more choices I have to make as a programmer, and this also raises my cognitive load. "What's the best here? Is it sufficiently obvious now? Will it be in the future?"

In short, yes, I would like some prescription. Lessons from the past and all.
The Narrator screen reader built into Windows is also not bad these days, with recent versions of Windows 10. You can turn it on with Ctrl+Win+Enter. And while I'm here, if you're on a Mac, you can turn on VoiceOver with Command+F5. Both Narrator and VoiceOver have built-in tutorials.

Disclosure: I was a developer on the Windows accessibility team at Microsoft for a little over 3 years, focusing on Narrator.
I did not use included charger with my last three or four iPhones. Having unwrapped charger in the box added nicely to the resell value too.
The thing about Apple is it is pretty clear the company is not a giant fraud, as they have a long track record of shipping functioning products. The company started by shipping a product.

Theranos, by contrast, did not have anything functioning. Ubiome seeks not to have either though I admit it is less clear a case without expertise.
Quantum Computers Could Usher in a Golden Age of Computing Power
"Since the 1940s, classical computers have improved at breakneck speed. Today you can buy a wristwatch with more computing power than the state-of-the-art, room-sized computer from half a century ago. These advances have typically come through electrical engineers’ ability to fashion ever smaller transistors and circuits, and to pack them ever closer together.

But that downsizing will eventually hit a physical limit — as computer electronics approach the atomic level, it will become impossible to control individual components without impacting neighboring ones. Classical computers cannot keep improving indefinitely using conventional scaling.

Quantum computing, an idea spawned in the 1980s, could one day carry the baton into a new era of powerful high-speed computing. The method uses quantum mechanical phenomena to run complex calculations not feasible for classical computers. In theory, quantum computing could solve problems in minutes that would take classical computers millennia. Already, Google has demonstrated quantum computing’s ability to outperform the world’s best supercomputer for certain tasks."
It’s quite useful for 3D printing enclosures or mechanical devices. Edit: FreeCAD is designed to work the way tools like CATIA work. Think of parametric CAD less as a “concept development tool” and more a “programming language that can be compiled to gcode”. Then a CNC machine can build your object from gcode. The expectation is a designer works on paper or a drawing tool first to conceptualize a part (like a UI designer might work in Sketch) and then a mechanical designer works in FreeCAD (like a software developer works on Angular).

MagicaVoxel is a much simpler tool that’s more like working on a sandcastle & can be 3D printed.

Blender is probably better for animation / games.

For home additions, Trimble SketchUp is more productive because there is a large library of building components pre-modeled (like doors or standard pieces of wood that can be purchased at Home Depot).

For PCB layout, there are other specialized EDA tools references in other comments.
What a waste of human effort.

If the landowners were adequately compensated for having arbitrary use restrictions added to their property after they bought it, they would have had no incentive to bulldoze it in the first place.

Cities change. Culture changes. It's okay to tear down bars and replace them with apartments. This reeks of Nimby-ism and entitlement on the part of the locals.
EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca Covid vaccines from Europe
iPhone 7 Plus. Purchased it brand new on EBay about 1.5 years ago for a few hundred bucks. Works great, new software updates keep coming, and battery lasts a dang long while. I use it for web browsing, stocks and banking, and reading every day.
Robot Hummingbird Is Almost as Agile as the Real Thing (2019)
not too sure what you mean by uncompressed because digital audio is always lossy by its very nature
Doesn't that correspond to the globalfoundries contracts?
This is incorrect. It's the GPT-3 model architecture and optimisations, and uses training techniques similar to GPT-3.
I already do this for myself with far fewer dependencies (see NCC's requirements.txt). I do not need to install Python. This makes it easier for me to set this up on computers with limited storage and memory. Plus haproxy and sslsplit are much faster than mitmproxy. The OS I prefer does not have Python in the base system.
US and Germany specifically even have what was leading edge just a few years ago. AMD's Zen 1 was made at a GloFo fab in New York.
It has been both enlightening and pleasant to not have caught any symptom-causing diseases in the past 12 months. Unknown whether mask wearing played a part of course.
Do you think his Marxist friend... owns Marxes?
As a game developer that's done a bunch of web games, thank you. Parent is trying to shame game developers for not making choices that would destroy their businesses. It's quite strange to read.

I think it's unfortunate that you can't have rock solid cross browser gaming yet (and Safari is not the only offender, but it's by far the largest). But that's not a reason to just shut it all down for the next decade until that's possible.
Intel is a private, global company, not a US secret.
They have different goals. Pytype does inference, which allows easier bootstrapping. Pyre is fast and supports some nonstandard control flow and taint flow stuff. Pyright supports partial validation for syntactically broken files, for use as part of an ide.
Also people lie about things such as whether they're vaccinated.
Sure, if it's simply a follow the car in front of me model. (Which is lightyears from FSD.) Also then it needs to be super-super finicky about what it interprets as a car/road/etc, and start disengaging the instant it detects something is not right. But obviously Tesla/Musk decided to just tone down the carefulness.
My Experience with NFT’s
I have a schiit dac and it has optical, spdif a and usb. Honestly it would be cool if it had two of each.
Did those engineers tell you that people enjoyed looking at ads, or did they tell you that people prefer looking at ads that are relevant to their search, when they made that search with commercial intent?

I have never heard anyone claim the first (Mind you, I don't go out of my way to ask people to say incredibly stupid things), but I have frequently heard the second statement getting misrepresented as the first. [1][2]

And there's also an entire canyon of statements on the spectrum[3] between the two, many of which I have heard.

[1] Mostly by engineers on, ah, this website.

[2] It's rather easy to make such a misrepresentation, just do a direct quote that drops everything after the word 'ads'.

[3] 'People prefer looking at ads[2] over paying', 'People prefer looking at X ads[2] over Y ads', etc, etc, etc.
I'd love to know the minimum hardware requirements to run something like this locally.
My Sicilian uncles prefer their pasta with a thinner sauce. My (German) grandma made very thick pasta sauce, and I was not a fan. (She also sweetened it, I found it gross. Sorry grandma. There were German dishes she made that I absolutely loved.)

I’m somewhere in between but my reaction was similar - I actually don’t prefer pasta that holds too much sauce. My penne is ... totally fine. But tastes obviously vary.
> How many times have the Gap or Apple been caught using child labor, only to terminate the contract and move on? If they don’t push these boundaries they’re considered irresponsible fiduciaries and may be replaced.

Strange how these companies keep getting hoodwinked into profiting immensely from slave labor. I mean, how could a billion or trillion dollar company know whether or not its supply chain uses slaves to produce the goods they sell? It seems like the only way to know if slaves produced their goods is to get caught red-handed by someone else. How do these underfunded NGOs and regulators catch the companies innocently profiting from slave labor?
There are also political ones both of the incredible petty internal politics and salt at them contradicting or not promoting their ideology sufficiently in their view. Although the first could be argued as jobs/employment on an internal level.
Was the taskforce's job to make that happen to the whistleblower?
> Anyone else find it strange that a country that has often fallen in line with "think of the children" arguments for hypothetical dangers appears to be completely uncaring about very real dangers of social isolation that are impacting our youth?

No, because (1) it hasn't fallen in line with “think of the children” so much as invoked it as a post-hoc rationalization, and (2) isn't indifferent to the danger here; both the left side (who has been arguing the need to apply the resources for safe reopening of schools) and the right side (who has been opposing those expenditures but pushing reopening anyway) are in agreement that it is a serious concern.
It was a great time for body design if nothing else.
2.x dead? Not really: lots of 10 year old projects are in maintenance or even actively developed.

Migrating several hundred thousand lines of code bases with few people and many dependencies (some of them not maintained, not ported to 3) are not trivial.

These will stay for years still. Actually it is very sad, that significant new tools are basically useless on 2.x (e.g. vscode: lots of waiting on completion, or jumping to definition - if it works at all).
We'll probably never know for sure. But this article is sure informative.
Arguably that means you have bad easy-to-game metrics. I wouldn't call what many (most?) Googlers do "impactful". More like "Let's keep a bunch of smart people busy so they don't get hired by our competition"

If the service you built withers away when you move to a different team, it was a pet project that The Business doesn't care about (because it has zero impact). Literally the definition of a bullshit busywork job :)
Huh, I'm surprised this wasn't the case already. Apparently HiSilicon was the second largest before.

Guess I underestimated how much mobile chips there are, and overestimated how many Zen 2/3 chiplets + GPUs + consoles there are.
Seems low compared to New York City as well. NYC has already had 30,564 deaths. Even if the whole population had already been infected, that would put the death rate at around 0.36%

Antibody surveys suggest around 40% have been infected which puts the death rate around 0.91%
Sure. They have value because people will pay.

I still suspect most people think they're getting an exclusive license for a piece of artwork, and not a bit of performance art.

They almost certainly believe that the goods pointed to by the token are non-fungible. Not that they have a non-fungible reference to a fungible good.
In reality, "open source" means next to nothing if you don't get any documentation... which Broadcom remains hesitant to provide.

At least for the Mediatek stuff there's some leaked datasheets and programming manuals as well as board layouts and such.
After reading about this on HN previously, I bought some used screw jacks [0] and lifted half of my house.

They're amazing and effectively last forever. You can generally free one up with rust blaster + lube + muscle. If you have a rod long and strong enough, you can lift anything.

The only caveats I'd make are: (0) understand structural load, and what and where you're lifting, (1) be very careful with the placement of jack and getting a good vertical plumb on the post (lots of checks with levels, continuously!), (2) think about where you want permanent supports, as there's no "swap it in" when the jack is now holding up your house... exactly where you want a post, (3) buy multiples, as you'll always want one more, (4) lift to max < fully unscrewed, as they're weaker and less stable-tolerant at full extension, (5) put something squishy (e.g. pressure treated 2x) between metal and crackable surfaces to widen contact patch, (6) make sure to get a solid, centered placement on your lifting post.

Other than that, go have fun lifting the world with simple machines. :-)

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/House_Ja...
How does JAWS compare with Orca, a common screen reader for Linux desktop systems?

Does it even show in your radar, compared to JAWS?

I need to fix a site to work with Orca and it would be nice if that also made it be friendly to JAWS users, but I know next to nothing about either.
I had this problem and noticed it among others too. I think part of the problem is that in High School (and many times in undergrad, at least the beginning) you could get away with not doing the homework/studying/etc. So while you have the intelligence for the material you never learned the work ethic associated with achieving at the higher levels (and studying didn't force the material into long term memory as well). Sometimes I wonder how things would be different if these people learned an (academic[0]) work ethic early on.

[0] I stress academic here because at least in my case I was working a lot during undergrad. 40+hrs/week while in JC and 30+ when I transferred to a uni. But succeeding in those areas aren't the same as academic work ethic and I do want to acknowledge people that just ran out of energy.
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