skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The George Floyd protest and the Capitol Riot are each outpourings of rage, directed at "the system". One was directed at the ongoing and increasing seeming criminalization of simply being Black in America, and one was directed at what the people involved thought was an unfair and stolen election, designed to take from them what little they have. Different people, different plights, different ideas: same root cause.

Happy, wealthy, comfortable, safe people who believe a bright future is in store do not take to the streets, burn buildings down, and get into large scale fights with their local police force. They don't throw bricks through coffee shop windows, hang out in tear gas clouds, or crowd up during a pandemic.

Their willingness to do so, over clearly expressed feelings of hopelessness and loss of control or participation in the system, over a feeling that they are losing out overall, it's coming from a place of desperation. It is coming from a place of misery. You've got to be pretty miserable if you think fighting the cops sounds good.

I'm sorry that you see very little connection there. It may unfortunately be that you see very little overall, or that you're intentionally looking away.
The way I see it, losing superconductivity instantly shuts down the motor by tripping the circuit breaker, and causes it to transfer it's momentum energy into the surrounding liquid hydrogen. Some hydrogen might boil off, but it's nothing a safety valve can't handle.

The plane can then glide to the closest airport or switch to a non-superconducting mode.
No, but by using Google you did decide they were most likely to have a good answer to your query (or that they were most convenient), and if they're not allowed to rank results because of 'fairness' that would kind of break the entire value proposition of a search engine
AirDrop also shares your full name (seemingly the one associated with your Apple ID, not what you have set for yourself in your contacts), both by displaying it in the sharing interface on the involved devices and by attaching it as an extended attribute to uploaded files.

The latter is more serious imo, because those attributes live on your file system basically for ever, and they're preserved when transferring to another compatible file system or even when archived in a zip file. The meta-data can ride along with the files to completely unrelated systems even years after the fact. So if you AirDrop some files to your computer and then zip them up, anyone you send that zip to (a journalist, a public file-hosting site, w/e) will have your full legal name to go with them.

Even sharing your name through the interface seems questionable -- the fact that you and another person have each other's phone numbers is not necessarily an indication that you want to share your real names with each other. (Though i guess someone could usually find it out anyway if they already had your phone number.)

I reported this to Apple, but i don't think they care. Seems like it's by design.
Why should everyone read this? What did you get out of it?
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No. Stop spreading misinformation. Wearing 3 masks is less effective because it makes reduces air flow so much it starts coming out of the side of the mask completely unfiltered.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-false-post-mask...
Embroidered Ultrasound Helped This Blind Dad-to-Be to 'See' His Baby on the Way
More than that, I always assumed that the base models were the most popular. Since they are all M1 now, it would make sense.
I put my bitcoin on a hamster wheel. Turned into a perpetual-motion turbine. Hamster calmly got off and now sits next to it, wearing sunglasses and a little suit, monitoring his hodlings.
???

You do know that East Asia has been hit several times by local epidemics (for example SARS) and that people have gotten used - based on previous government recommendations/mandates - to wear masks? That same culture used to people wearing masks is obviously helping now.

Governments can't completely control a virus, but they can definitely help curb its spread by taking effective measures. And one of that measures is effective communication, for example.
> This is frustrating.

Understatement of the century. People started very bloody revolutions for much less.
How many people close their windows and use air conditioning in India nowadays? Is it that season now?
Except for Linux actively running on 99% of all servers on the planet. Vulnerabilities in Linux can literally kill people, open holes for hackers, spies, etc.

Submitting a fake paper to a journal read by a few dozen academics is a threat to someones ego. It is not in the same ballpark as a threat to IT infrastructure everywhere.
Deregulation in this case wouldn't lead to "allowing people to build more houses" but "allowing people to build more *unsafe* houses."

Regulations are written in blood.
People are well aware of theoretical risk of bad commits by malicious actors. They are justifiably extremely upset that someone is intentionally changing this from a theoretical attack to a real life issue.
> 200/1M

I understand the metric but we don't even have a million people in the state. so when you compare ratios it might look high when comparing to other populations, but in reality, it's remarkable at how low the numbers actually are, again, given the difference in mask policy.

again, there was no summer spike due to tourism. there was no spike due to almost half a million additional people riding in from out of state for the Sturgis Rally (temporarily significantly increasing our population!). iirc, two people died after returning home afterwards. very few bikers wore masks anywhere. more Rally-goers died from traffic accidents (as is usual for the Rally) than died from the 'vid.
That's right, but a company in a state selling to a state gov isn't engaging in interstate commerce. Maybe SCOTUS will use the cockamamie "but the market is nationwide so it still affects it" excuse but normally...
For those commenters who are skeptical of the numbers, sources can be found here:

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodities

The numbers below are one year commodity price gains, as of today rounded to the nearest tick (view the individual graphs, 1 year timeframe as % gain):

Crude Oil +25%

Corn +70%

Steel +50%

Wheat +25%

Coffee +35%

Cotton +20%

Copper +60%

Lumber +200%

Soybeans +70%
Your extrapolation provides clear context about how this can harm people, which is within an irb purview and likely their ability to understand.

I’m not saying it is okay, I’m simply saying how this could happen.

It requires understanding the connection between inanimate object and personal harm, which in this case is 1)non obvious and 2)not even something I necessarily accept within a common rule definition of harm.

Annoyance or inconvenience is not a meaningful human harm within the irb framework

But, fundamentally, the irb did not see this as human research. You and I and the commenters see how that is wrong. That is where their evaluation ended...they did not see human involvement right or wrong.

And irb is part of the discussion of research ethics, it is not the beginning nor the end of doing ethical research.
> It is essential to a competitive game that everyone try their best in that specific instance of the game.

No, its not.

It is, of course, more desirable from the perspective of people who prefer that style of play that others conform to it, but it is in no way “essential”.

It may be beneficial to mutual enjoyment to have table agreement on metagame issues like this in advance (OTOH, one might do well to recognise the inherent incentive structure toward the metagame approach you decry in games which tend to produce a long, lingering defeat with no reasonable route to victory.)
Funny thing about Fidelity -- if you call them to deal with an account issue, the automated phone system asks you to enter your account password using the phone keypad. And it's quite impatient (I wasn't a third of the way through my 32-character password before it gave up and transferred me straight to a representative!)
It's about where you read data from, not how much data gets read. For example an AVX read is aligned if the address being read from is a multiple of 32 bytes, otherwise it's unaligned and runs slightly slower, and slower still if it happens to straddle two cachelines. The same applies to write instructions as well.

It's less of an issue than it used to be, the penalty for unaligned access has steadily been reduced by newer CPU architectures, but it's still there.
We all do stupid things.

The first job I lost because I didn't show up, did sloppy work, moved too slowly - depression and everything.

The second job I lost because I used my lunch break to nap at my working table (dead tired after carbs), cut off a rude customer and was generally the weird one. (I didn't know there's a code on how to dress, so I wore black long dresses and a big ass straw hat - never occurred to me to change my style to fit in...)

We get and loose stuff for the weirdest reasons, and we learn more when we have a sense of loss.
Also a heads up, the vanilla fade out demo doesn't work correctly (immediately disappears) as in the actual code it looks to be missing the transition line.
i think genes are a bigger factor
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Dear Microsoft, please release an open source window manager that runs on linux. You can call it windows. If you add tiling support I will never touch another Mac. Only you can usher in the era of the linux desktop. Make Linus’ dream a reality. Humbly, your servant.
I agree you have to examine both directions, and a common cause, but the article somewhat addresses that under "chicken or egg?" The headline is misleading.

Big idea: a common cause may be jaw development and the resulting lack of breathing (during the day and during sleep) in large parts of the population.

Jaw development has a strong claim to be the fundamental, common cause of poor breathing and sleep because it's derived from 2 fundamental differences between humans and animals: agriculture and speech.

It's a long chain of causation, and took me awhile to learn about, but it may be what you're looking for.

Of course it could also be the case that some people are just staring at screens too much before bed and getting poor sleep. But bad sleep is an epidemic and there is evidence of this all over the world, and going back hundreds of years. The books I reference tell of orthodontists from the 1800's who noticed this problem, etc. Our diets drastically changed, which caused poor jaw development, which causes bad breathing, which causes bad sleep (I learned about this from my dentist).

There are many factors that restrict airways, including weight. Remember that the average American male is about 30 pounds heavier in 2020 than in 1960 (and similarly for females). It's hard to imagine that not having an effect of breathing and sleep (and thus dementia). But I think animals can be fat and still have plenty of air for breathing; the same isn't true for humans.

Previous comment I wrote on this including recent books (2018-2020): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23435964

That article is "fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation and hardened arteries". That is another correlation, not a causation. So I would suggest that bad sleep, inflammation, hardened arteries, and dementia have a common cause in jaw and airway development. This is a lot harder to see because it took place over 10,000 years and it takes 30-50 years to kill you. You can have bad breathing your whole life but still be functional. It's very related to tooth grinding/bruxism, which is an epidemic as well.

Other threads on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24247066
There is only one real question here: why is that 1916-1980 Fed stimulus would tend to raise wages, whereas since 2000 Fed stimulus has no effect on wages but instead becomes asset inflation?

The Fed increased the money supply last year. A lot. So asset prices are going up. That much is straightforward. But in another era the same stimulus would have manifested less as asset inflation and more as an increase in wages. The only important question is why that has changed. As we saw in 2019, even very low unemployment no longer leads to rapidly rising wages. What is holding wages down?
Where does such "research" end... sending phishing mails to all US citizens to see how many passwords can be stolen?
Whilst demanding what could be compared to a participation trophy (unearned search rankings)
Any more info on this available? I'd be curious to read about it.
Requisition (symptoatic or asymptomatic), or simply acquiring viral particals and re-distributing them, are both possible.

It's also far easier to establish (and verify) a "masks requried" policy (visual inspecition is sufficient) than a "masks or fully-completed vaccination schedule required" one.

The ultimate goal isn't protecting individual health but public health, and here, social measures including distancing, quarantine, masks, sanitation (though perhaps less so than first thought), etc., all reduce the probability of transmission through the population at large.

We're used to thinking of individual health. Public health is related, but is not the same thing. Logics and measures that are appropriate or sensible in the case of individual health may not be for public health. (And vice versa.)

Public health is an emergent phenomenon of individual health.
I personally would like to thank everyone who caused the demise of Unity!
It seems to be a retaliatory measure against this:

> When Cellebrite announced that they added Signal support to their software, all it really meant was that they had added support to Physical Analyzer for the file formats used by Signal.

Your case is valid about potential judiciary impact, but it would require for Signal to monitor cases involving Cellebrite and step forward to help the defense while unprompted to do so. Furthermore, Cellebrite clients seems to include entities that do not care so much about a fair trial.
I consider part of the blame to lie with React. The React source code structure is pretty obtuse. Compare that to the Inferno.js source code which is easy to understand and navigate for anyone familiar with how a VDOM library should work.
You can read the (relatively short) email chains for yourself, but to try and answer your question, as I understood it the problem wasn't entirely the problems submitted in the paper it was followup bad patches and ridiculous defense. Essentially they sent patches that were purportedly the result of static analysis but did nothing, broke social convention by failing to signal that the patch was the result of a tool, and it was deemed indistinguishable from more attempts to send bad code and perform tests on the linux maintainers.
I sincerely hope he wins. I am not even sure how would this be legal.
Fun facts:

- Over a thousand whales are killed each year despite it being ruled illegal "for profit" 35 years ago.

- The biggest offenders are supposedly Japan, Iceland, and Norway who believe they have rights for different objective reasons.

- Whale oil, blubber, and cartilage is used for various supplement or sometimes the meat is consumed via traditional dishes.

- To kill whales, you use an exploding harpoon that can take a half hour to kill. Sometimes multiple shots are needed.

People are cruel. The bar for how we treat life and choose which animals can die makes no sense whatsoever.

More: https://us.whales.org/our-4-goals/stop-whaling/
I dunno what his schedule is. Maybe he just seems busier than he actually is.
> This is akin to a thought terminating cliche.

I disagree, because you trimmed to me the most important part " none of them are actionable".

I find these conversations interesting and sometimes educational, which is great. But the hard part of such a change is generally not technological, so when it evolves hand-waving about potential future technologies and then tweaks to them rapidly becomes less interesting because it avoids the core of the problems.

Technological discussion involving mechanisms to discuss evaluating/exchanging/etc. property right that does not at least try address the fundamental practical sources and control mechanisms of those rights seems doomed to be superficial.
They won't regulate the data broker industry precisely because they don't want the warrantless data pipe to be cut off. Location tracking is just a small piece of the invasive activities going on.
Unless you are an involved party you're just adding to the mob. The kernel maintainers said their piece there's no need for everyone to pile on.
I think that long-term, that's the plan. They're going to need a few years to switch their tooling over though, but I think Linux could have an incredible Windows Legacy Layer if Microsoft had the initiative to make one desu.
I hated my Surface Pro when I had, granted this was 3 years ago. It had terrible battery life, windows was horrible with the touchscreen, very few apps responded to touch events at all let alone correctly. All together one of the worst laptops/tablets I've ever used. I have an M1 macbook air and it's the best laptop I've ever used, same with my iPad Pro. Apple has really nailed the Arm device/os combo IMO.
Cool, GPU support via a D3D12 backend for Mesa! OpenGL only though. I hope they plan to do a Vulkan Portability implementation on D3D12 as well.

> rendered content needs to be copied to system memory before being presented to the compositor, to be brought back onto the GPU in the RDP client running on Windows (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wslg-architecture...)

Ouch, that's pretty bad for performance. I hope they plan to improve this as well.
By a truly unbelievable coincidence, I was recently out for a walk when I saw a small package fall off a truck ahead of me.

Nailed it!
yeah, but it fries anything that comes close. tough to scale down to a controllable level. AFAIK, the most efficient direct energy capture of gravitic confinement fusion are solar panels placed about 90 million miles from the fusion source. Huge loss of energy there.
> If nothing else, the math and statistics cited should be of interest.

This is true, but only because it is such an amazing example of bad statistics. It asserts that there is a “less than one in a quadrillion statistical improbability of Mr. Biden winning the popular vote in the four Defendant States”. It bases this on two things.

First is that Trump had an early lead, so it is statistically impossible for Biden to have ended up winning. Obviously, it fails to account for the fact that votes are not randomly distributed and mail in votes heavily favored Biden.

Second, that Biden performed better when compared to Clinton in 2016. Obviously, it fails to account for the fact that people vote differently at different times and for different people. The same differences would be seen comparing Kerry/Obama or Dole/Bush.
I don't know. Looking in their code, they have one for SSE and another for AVX2. The algorithm is identical expect for one is 128 and the other is 256 bits. It seems like something that would be easy to abstract over so you only had a single implementation (at least for x86 SIMD). But it is obviously a hard problem or it would be solved already.
The central bank buys bonds in the secondary market, and any effect on the risk premium is only indirect (investors perceive the bonds as being safer). This is completely different from the government "dictating the risk premium". The risk premium is the spread deemed necessary by the market to compensate for credit risk, and as such it can't be dictated by anyone.
One month ago:

> Overall, 77 million doses have been shipped from the European Union since early December, 88 million will have been distributed internally by the end of the week, and 62 million shots have been administered within the bloc, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/covid-vaccines-e...

The EU tried to play nice and it was screwed over by other countries and by AstraZeneca.

If you look at the numbers, the EU exported almost as many vaccines as it used, while its vaccination rate was half the UK/US one.
It isn't really a bidding war, it is everyone guessing at what the next best offer is and trying to beat it. I never understood why, if you have 20 offers on a house and $500k is the best, the realtor doesn't go back to the other 19 and say they need to offer at least $505k, and repeat the process until there is a single offer remaining.
One of the main values of Windows today, at least for businesses, is backwards-compatibility- not the GUI. DOS programs still run on it, if that tells you anything. So they aren't going to be dropping Windows Proper in favor of a skinned Linux distro any time soon.

That said, maybe it would be feasible if they built a "Linux subsystem for Windows" that could run any legacy Windows app inside Linux, just like Windows can currently run any legacy DOS app (without actually being based on DOS). An official Wine, if you will.
As a Minnesota U employee/student you cannot submit officially from campus or using the minn. u domain.

As Joe Blow at home who happens to go to school or work there you could submit even if you were part of the research team. Because you are not representing the university. The university is banned.
Other note...different irbs treat not research vs exempt differently.

One institution I worked with conflated “exempt” and “not human subjects research” and required the same review of both.

Another institution separated them and would first establish if something was human subjects research. If it was, they would then review whether it was exempt from irb review based on certain categories. If they determined it was not human subjects research they would not review whether it met the exempt criteria, because in their mind they could not make such a determination for research that did not involve human subjects
> With the power of multithreading you can now simultaneously be overloaded and still send keepalives! :D

Now that's progress!

Reminds me of some of the naive comments in a few of the recent posts on HN about programming multithreading. It's not as easy as just adding more threads.

Or sending in more trains :)
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This would have been way more fun if they had a Black trans Womxn submit the bogus patches. The blowback to the White maintainer’s reply would have been hilarious * popcorn *
Not yet, but I will at some point. I don't really have any pain points with pgTyped yet.
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Again, the point isn't the hypocrisy itself but rather the unfairness of the "court". The US gets to constantly blame countries it oppresses of various things without consequence, to the point where it hardly even matters whether what they say is even true.

Hypocrisy is merely a symptom.
I self reflect a lot, but don't dwell on things outside of my control. How an interaction with a co-worker went I might think about for days and even journal about, but I can't tell you what I read on HN yesterday unless it fit into something I'm working on.

I exercise almost every day and have for over 20 years. It definitely helps.

I do have a basic bedtime routine. I go to bed at a consistent time, but I don't avoid screens or anything. I do avoid games and any news type things when I'm winding down for bed, but will read and watch part (it's always a part b/c I'm asleep before it's over heh) of a show on my phone. Also, DnD kicks on about an hour before bed so a random work email doesn't derail me.

Finally, if there is something I'm worried about I take care of it. This goes back to not dwelling on things outside of my control, and dealing with the things that are.
Antibody response induced by mRNA vaccination differs from SARS-CoV-2 infection