skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not specifically in relation to this latest Norwegian claim, but an excellent backgrounder on the blood clot problem: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/it-s-very-special-pi...
Yeah, I'm also surprised by this. The standard library itself explicitly warns you in a big red box that pickle is not secure. It also doesn't support NumPy, though NumPy has its own native persistence modules. I'd have expected people to be using something like hdf5 for this.
Ya remember that form letter reply to "how to stop spam" proposals? I feel like we need one for "how to stop fake news" proposals.

In fact I bet the same one would work, though I can't dredge enough of the text out of my memory to get a search engine to cough it up.

Though I suppose it comes down to "the people most affected by fake news really enjoy it and get outraged if you tell them that it's fake".
Wasn't banks pretty clear that the Culture was his attempt to come up with a society that is as "good" as possible - if nothing else to provide a suitable employer for his supreme military genius (who I shall avoid naming).

Edit:

CNN: Would you like to live in the Culture?

Iain M. Banks: Good grief yes, heck, yeah, oh it’s my secular heaven….Yes, I would, absolutely. Again it comes down to wish fulfillment. I haven’t done a study and taken lots of replies across a cross-section of humanity to find out what would be their personal utopia. It’s mine, I thought of it, and I’m going home with it — absolutely, it’s great.
Anyone can participate in consensus, but you do have to be trusted by someone else who already participates in the trusted consensus, so you're right that it's not completely decentralized (but is also not strictly centralized either).

Here's a current visualization of how many participants there are: https://stellarbeat.io/
I'm sure there's a happy middle-ground. I get the impression many places are just tossing lowest-bid LEDs into existing lamps and calling it good enough.

Somebody needs to drag the local politicians/town council to Home Depot (or the UK equivalent) and show them the warm-white vs bright-white vs other consumer LED bulbs. And if they still choose the bright-white, fire them/vote them out.
> have killed off high-RPM hard drives

Depends, 15k RPM are indeed gone.
10k RPM drives are sold and used.
That's a bit of a different case, though. Google isn't distributing it to end users the way Apple is with Darwin.
Your comment brought the prologue of this novel https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/32411/bens-damn-adventure-... to my mind.
I'm struggling to get my head around why this is a distributed programming language.

I saw the await key word for parallel fib but would like a bit more information about what's actually happening to be parallel.
Are all medications vaccines? Are all medications used to prevent an highly transmissive disease? Are all medications designed to be administered within a short period of time?
Come on it doesn't take a genius to see it's an apple to orange comparison
This doesn’t make sense. Japan and South Korea didn’t even lock down or close schools, and compared to the USA they’re doing fantastic.
I still have my N9 lying around somewhere - had to get the sim tray replaced two or three times but otherwise I loved it. How did you update the security certificates? I tried to boot mine up a while back but it was basically unusable on the web because of HTTPS.
A scientist has even found that dogs know when their owner is coming home [1]

Rupert Sheldrake had a Google Talk about this in 2008 [2]

[1] https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/dogs-tha...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hic18Xyk9is
When all implementations are half-assed and none of them do it properly. However they have plenty of flamewars and ideological arguments #LinixDesktop
Boston, NYC, Austin in the US.

Portland Or and Northern New England (North of Boston, NH, Vermont, Southern Maine) might just be part of the Boston hub but if it's separate is seeing a ton of startup's.
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Where can I read more about the "decrease quite a bit"? People have been predicting that for centuries (Malthus, etc.) and they've all been spectacularly wrong so far.
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One important aspect:
The AZ vaccine was in Norway (and many EU countries) initially only approved for those under 65. The AZ vaccine in Norway has therefore solely been given out to health workers. On the other hand, in the UK the vaccine has been given out to both elderly and to health workers. It is quite possible that the immune response from AZ is not quite the same across age groups and may at times be more severe for a younger population.
"More accurate" is not real

Which is it?

There was an input signal. Those samples will reproduce it. (Assuming an input matched to the sampling capability under discussion.)

That is what the video you linked tells people.

I am definitely one of the people, and have shared that exact one many times.

Showing people the input waveform makes sense. Overlaying it with the data captured also makes sense.

An approximation does not make sense.

Can we show them the input signal that generated the data easily? If so, great. Let us do that.

What I meant by "real data" is that list of integers. That is what is in the machine.

We both know that is not what comes out, nor what came in, nor what people hear.

Personally, I have always evaluated that by actually listening, or using my scope, same way that engineer did in the pretty great video you linked.
Is it significant? The contraceptive pill has known risks of blood clotting that are significantly higher than that.

If we are full of concern about this, maybe we should be focusing more on a drug that is used by millions of women year over year to improve its safety.

https://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/birth-control-method...
Is there any independent support of data which contradicts the claim?
Tangential, but I wonder how does it affect the cats having nearby another cat that's different personality-wise. I've a guinea pig that's kind of insecure, and planning to get another that's probably more outgoing. Can security be learned by osmosis?
In my towns in France, it's actually the opposite: more cities are turning of the lights between 23 and 5 and I personally love it. It gives a sense of "city-sleeping" peacefulness
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https://time.com/5929751/childhood-mortality-2020-covid-19/

That Reuters article is speculation from nearly a year ago.
Hard vs Soft lock down is maybe a difficult distinction.
Excluding China, Korea and Japan is a lot but
Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and Singapore all had lockdowns that were stricter (more observed and more enforced) than anything in California.
Of course a lockdown has less impact when it is not really enforced (California) and you could make the case that near universal mask wearing has been a bigger boost to most Asian countries’s efforts to stop Covid-19.
What's funny is that the "woke" companies are the ones doing this. The "woke" left is behind a lot of this.
Also, if this is some kind of polyurethane, they're going to have a hard time convincing anyone that this is an environmentally friendly alternative to rubber tires.
I think that was for 6 and for running the auction.
Yes. And with Mars, on a smaller scale, there is just about the same problem: Of course it is interesting and fascinating to explore it. Or go there once for the funsies.

Much harder to establish something that brings back more value than it took to bring it there.

Even just keeping Humans alive there will probably be a very expensive proposition for at least a century or more, before there is a solution to the apparent economic futility of colonizing Mars.

Bringing back stuff from another star? Forget it. The only reason to go there is to be there. Or even more precisely, you send your children/creations there for their children/creations to be there.
Indeed the warming is a natural event. The glaciers melted long before humanity could make any difference.

The new bit is that we are helping it along at what is probably an unprecedented rate. So it's not about the change. It is about the rate of change.

When I was born the atmosphere had ~314 PPM of CO2.
It is now north of 415PPM and going up ~2.5PPM per year.
CO2 is a greenhouse gas.

Now how could that relate to us requiring over 95,000,000 barrels of oil PER DAY to run our civilization? (it is closer to 98M in 2021)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/265203/global-oil-produc....

For perspective do some back of the napkin math on the height 98,000,000 barrels of oil would be if you made a 100x100 base of barrels and stacked them vertically. Standard drums have inside dimensions of 572 millimetres (22.5 in) diameter and 851 millimetres (33.5 in) height. (remember that's per day)

We have in all probability made the time when coastal cities are flooded happen sooner and it is highly unlikely that we can improve the situation very much in the short term.
Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js
I only partially agree with that assertion.

Regulating and restricting the use of facial recognition technology is entails creating civil and criminal liabilities. Such liabilities would make it prohibitively expensive for private initiatives to develop facial recognition products and services.

Such legislation doesn't have to target facial recognition tech directly. In many jurisdictions, existing privacy legislation already puts up barriers. And legal cases involving Clearview are testing these frameworks.

For instance, last year, privacy protection authorities in Canada launched a probe into Clearview and how it holds up legally (february 2020). Clearview subsequently shuttered it's operations in Canda (august 2020).

https://priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/2020/n...
https://priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/2020/a...

In Europe, there's the GDPR. Last year, Clearview was hit by a complaint in France. And just last month, february 2021, Hamburg Data Protection Authority ruled that Clearview clearly breaches the GDPR.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-ai-gdpr-complaint-...
https://edri.org/our-work/reclaiming-your-face-from-clearvie...
https://noyb.eu/en/clearview-ai-deemed-illegal-eu

For sure, legislation and enforcement don't root technology once it's out there. But that's not the point. If you live in a place where you don't have strong privacy rights, you, as an individual citizen, don't have any legal footing to begin with to stop anyone from appropriating your portrait and using that in ways you don't agree with.
In theory, they could create a wasm binary I know they are starting to incorporate more of it via blazor among others
Wild tobacco (Nicotiana rustica) contains around 9% nicotine whereas domesticated tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) only contains around 2%. It also contains a number of other alkaloids not present in the domesticated version.

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

Search YouTube for Thuốc lào which is rustica smoked out of a bamboo water pipe and you'll find plenty of videos of people falling over unconscious seconds after taking a single hit.
Wrestled from an early age. Totally agree. Takes a lot of trust to let someone shoot in trip and slam you. Knowing that it's your turn next. You truly know someone's strength and skill and all the social tough guy posturing means nothing when it's just two people on the mat.
I don't think we're that many decades from being able to send frozen eggs, sperm, microbiome and food production capacity in a spaceship.

When you're near the target, fertilize in an artificial womb, raise the kids with Khan Academy v999, and let them land the ship when they're ready.
I wonder if subsidised door cameras (and dashcams while we're at it) would also reduce crime.

So sad for Sarah's family and friends!
Not to mention that if bicycles ever get something like this it'll be 30yr after applications where puncture resistance is a high priority (i.e. everything you see using solid tires today) gets them.
> that's just an implementation detail leaking.

I feel like this is every wart in the C++ language!
Ah good catch! The reason I thought the patent was assigned to the Smart company was because they list it in their Wefunder page[0] (under the heading "Key Accomplishments"). But actually all that's stated on that page is that "multiple patents protect this innovation", they don't actually claim that they have the patents.

I'm still curious how the licensing from NASA works. Do they typically grant a monopoly to certain companies or can multiple competing companies license this technology?

[0]: https://wefunder.com/the.smart.tire.company
Why spend $20 when you can spend many times more for the product without any real benefits.

"Polyurethanium" - when normal tire wears off you just replace single piece of rubber, when this adamantium dies one will have to replace that whole metal wonder.
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Thanks you, that's very helpful. None of the articles I've come across on this have explained the context outside Norway, including the one linked in this thread.
What does AOT have to do with benchmarks that don't use AOT and report great performance?

Also you're dramatically overstating how mature AOT is for dotnet

https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/tree/feature/NativeAOT

>This repo is for experimentation and exploring new ideas that may or may not make it into the main dotnet/runtime repo.
People often try and use walks to be productive too by listening to podcasts, calling family, or listening to music.

I find great benefit in walks with no additional inputs other than what I am seeing as I walk.
The numbers are three healthcare workers out of 120,000 vaccinated in Norway, with one death, so the risk is 1 in 40,000 from what we know.

On top of that we can speculate that healthcare workers are more likely to seek treatment than the average vaccine recipient and they are healthy adults of average age.
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Well, if going out of your way to hire people of certain race isn’t racist, this word has clearly lost all its meaning.
>The chance of getting a blood clot seems so low that it may for all I know be equivalent to the risk of dying in the streets while jaywalking to get to the vaccination center. Compared to the risk of going unvaccinated, it's an obvious choice.

Are you sure this holds true for a 25 year old healthy person?
this is the reason you're supposed to "leave room for jesus" when dancing. the evils of dancing have been propogated by religious beliefs directly because of its known proclivity towards initimate behavior.
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I used to be an avid reader. These days I just fall asleep when trying to read a book.

For other hobbies (roleplaying games and board games mostly) I do manage to make time, but they require some planning and commitment that they didn't need when I was younger.

Computer games go through cycles where they feel pointless and then become more interesting in. The game I once started writing over a decade ago hasn't been worked on for years.
Similar feelings in Chicago.

It also makes me feel less safe at night. I get that the orange glow makes everything look muddy, color-wise, but it doesn't kill your night vision to the same extent as the bright white LEDs do. Sure, things directly under the streetlight are lit up like it's daytime, but I can't see for @$#% in between the streetlights or behind the bushes or whatever.

I'm curious why it seems that no city has tried installing amber LEDs in an effort to try and realize the efficiency gains without quite so many of the downsides.
what would be a valid comparison?

my conclusion so far is that a lot of things use as much power as entire countries, but this unit of measure is a higher standard created specifically for bitcoin, and I'm waiting to see otherwise.
There are people who have built custom solutions on top of Chatwoot and selling it. There are people who are selling it in their country without changing the code and making profit out it. I'm happy to help those people out (not for free, would charge something obiviously). There are different markets where we might not be able to cater. Since the solution is flexible enough to build custom channels, I've seen people using it as "Whatsapp CRM for X country".

We are following the path Gitlab has taken. To sustain as a business, we will have some modules suited for large enterprises under an EE license, but it would not hinder the open-source part and the freedom that comes with it. If people want to build on Chatwoot, they will be free to do that.
JS before V8 was painfully slow. But yeah the startup times of Applets were an issue on a whole another level. I'm glad we have WASM now so maybe powerful and clean languages for coding web UI will be in our future.
Yes, because these are extrajudicial killings with high death tolls and serious injuries for bystanders.

Suppose China, Russia, or the EU would conduct drone strikes on US soil but only target evil people such as Donald Rumsfeld, who is known to have ordered torture and initiated a war under false pretense. However, many bystanders including women and children would be killed as well. Would you be against it?

I would be against that, no doubt about it.
If you want background on the material in question here (nitinol), The Verge had a good video explainer about the material and a bit about how the “space tire” aspect will work. It’s really a fascinating video of you’ve never seen the metal in action. I can see why it would be chosen for the environment on Mars. I’m not sure if it would be better than air tires on Earth, but for the low atmosphere environment on Mars, it makes more sense.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/17/22334611/nitinol-metal-sh...

https://youtu.be/Pn-6bGORy0U
Is the community edition available in hosted form? Otherwise you may wish to consider aiming a paid hosted product at the lower end of the market too. We use Intercom in our product, and it's the one thing we explicitly don't want to self-host because it's what our customers use to contact us if our own services are ever down or broken.
I'm sorry, but anti-vaxxer nutjobs do that hype all on their own. And people are already sensibly worried about rushed testing, and approval processes.

(It is sensible to be worried, and to keep a sharp eye.)

Now there appears to be a complication with one vaccine. No hype is required, for people to become enraged if there is no investigation. Most jurisdictions have said 'pause for a few days, until we look into this'.

This is very, very sensible. Logical. Calm and cool, as a reaction.

Let me put this another way.

By your response, you're suggestion that we should not have even bothered with clinical trials? Just inject anything we thought might work, right away, just in case?

Because, if you're advocating against pausing, for something that would get a second look in a clinical trial... ?
Fast Iterations, Slow Progress
I tried to replace Zendesk (chat) with self-hosted Chatwoot for our SaaS in December 2020. Unfortunately I couldn't get email conversation continuity to work back then and the docs were lacking.

Happy to see that this now seems to be resolved. Will give Chatwoot another go when our Zendesk license is due for renewal.
Ha, then it's just me. Though... plant-based life coming out of the cold reminds me of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World
An NFT could work like that, though. There's nothing stopping someone from writing an NFT smart contract that directs a percentage (of any size, including 100%) of future sales to the initial cause.

The NFT standard itself is quite basic, nearly every NFT people talk about are controlled by smart contracts that expand on the standard.
Exploiting Spectre over the Internet
I use it and it's great. Best way to self host it imo.
Remote work is a blessing. I don't miss the office, not the commute.
I like the idea of learning a language with a spouse or partner, how about the usecase where neither person is a native speaker of the language being learned?
It's still too early for the general public to draw conclusions from the data provided. Derek Lowe had some early observations on these numbers and their significance in regards to the critical missing data needed to make decisions:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/03/16/wh...

> "...they say that is indeed “much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general population of this size“. It also appears to be similar to what’s been seen with the other coronavirus vaccines..."

Until we know the methods and expectations behind numbers provided, naively taking them at face value suggests that this vaccine reduces the risk of these blood clots in the general pre-covid population. In the absence of statistically robust information about these alerts, we're stuck assuming that the experts know what they're doing until the detailed work is available and recognizing that (as Derek pointed out months ago) public attention is going to find focus on the inevitable mortality and illness rates without accomodating that people also die and have health issues for other reasons. Watch a random selection of 17 million people for a month, a five digit number of them will die. More if they're predominantly on the elder end of the scale...
Out of curiosity, what is the domain for the prototypes you're building?
This video has a clear explanation of the shape metal alloy on the Mars rover wheel: https://youtu.be/2lv6Vs12jLc

Short answer is that the material is super elastic, and will return to its original shape either when heat is applied, or when stress is applied.
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I wonder what copyright issues this would have?
I'd want to see an overall calculation. Twice as many actuators means twice as many things can go wrong. I think I prefer KISS. On the flip side, I guess each actuator gets used half as often.

I use HDD for bulk storage and SSD for high-speed storage. I don't mind less speed, except insofar as it impacts reliability (e.g. a drive in a RAID fails, and the redundant drive fails while rebuilding the array).

It seems like competitors to HDD have become increasingly noncompetitive over time. Tape drives are insanely expensive at reasonable capacity. DVDs hold 0.1% of an HDD and are more expensive. Various newfangled optical drives (e.g. M DISC) appear more reliable than HDDs, but also cost much more per TB. Plus, you need to keep a big pile of coasters.
I run bitwarden_rs for my own passwords because I want to run my own stuff for anything like passwords. (Previously I used KeePassX, and my biggest issue with it was that it was mostly tied to one device, depending on whatever file-based sync you might set up, and I never did—barring backups—so it was only ever on my main laptop, not on any secondary laptop or phone unless I jumped through some hoops to use one of the backups.)

I don’t run the official Bitwarden server because its system requirements are much too high for my liking.

Meanwhile, bitwarden_rs uses ~24MB disk space, ~24MB RAM, and <0.03% CPU on my single-core Vultr box.

Oh yeah, one other practical reason I couldn’t/wouldn’t go with bitwarden.com’s free plan: I’ve got a few TOTP things in my vault, gotta pay for that.
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