skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also Ben Barbersmith (in this tweet thread):

> From my limited understanding, Proof of Stake doesn’t require the same exponential growth of hardware & power. If that’s correct, then I’m not against it.

> I love the philosophy & promise of cryptocurrency! But I can’t excuse the negative impact of the current implementation.

> When proof of stake becomes the norm, I’m happy to reverse my opinion. If it doesn’t cost exponentially increasing power and hardware, I’m down.

Wish he would have informed himself a bit more before making blanket statements
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It's not much appreciated, but the Microbit V1 is an nRF51 and the V2 is an nRF52. Download the SDK from Nordic Semi [0], grab a copy of ARM GCC[1] or Segger IDE [2] (free for nRF5x, complete with drag'n'drop firmware upload [2a]) and you have a powerful Bluetooth LE/2.4GHz radio/LED blinky development environment (whatever platform you're on).

[0] https://www.nordicsemi.com/Software-and-tools/Software/nRF5-...

[1] https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/open-source-sof...

[2] https://www.segger.com/products/development-tools/embedded-s...

[2a]https://www.segger.com/products/debug-probes/j-link/models/o...
Theres a physical book as well. (It's nice!)

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/category-theory-sciences
Whether lockdowns/restrictions are "effective" is somewhat conjecture, but likely had an effect. It's also likely that given the global and nearly total nature of this observed phenomenon that other forces are at play such as the competition and immunity stimulus mentioned in OP.
They can figure it out by Google search volumes though of course this year would be problematic
Considering that one year ago the general advice was not to bother with masks, this would be a surprising 360.
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Common Expression Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25377620 - Dec 2020 (106 comments)
But that is not what happened. In the bug submission experiment they used Gmail addresses not their UMN addresses. The whole thing came up when one of the students (I think he was a graduate student working in the research group) submitted patches from his over eager static analysis tool using his uni address. So if anything the work from the uni adress received more scrutiny than the other patches.
From the UMN response signed by the Computer Science & Engineering department head and associate department head:

The study was focused on understanding a system by identifying mechanisms through which security issues could be introduced in Linux software. Therefore, purely as a technical matter, this study did not qualify as “Human Subjects Research” and received no further scrutiny or oversight from the IRB. Importantly, even if one believed the study did involve human research subjects (perhaps due to the interactions and the incidental collection of email addresses), the study would clearly be exempt from IRB oversight pursuant to 45 CFR 46.104(D). In other words, the UMN IRB acted properly in this case.

Full response:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z3Nm2bfR4tH1nOGBpuOmLyoJVEi...
A lot of companies also contributed to Linux, but that's not the issue.

The concern comes from having a *small* number of companies with a notoriously aggressive behavior controlling a project.

Google is especially known for using products as weapons against competitors and drop them suddenly after a while.
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I went through the wiki, certainly it was interesting. I believe the implementation is at fastlock.cpp [0], I will go through it. You said earlier:

> If we spin too long the thread will sleep although we wait much longer than any other lock you’ll find.

Did you do any tweaks to mitigate this?

> Generally speaking you don't want to be dealing with this stuff unless you really have to.

Ofcourse. I am just way too curious and excited to learn about these!

[0] - https://github.com/EQ-Alpha/KeyDB/blob/v6.0.16/src/fastlock....
How much other causation have you looked into? For example population density?

Miami is a small city of 500,000 people.
I wouldn't call vs code an IDE, it's closer to a text editor
So, basically, teaching. The best AI is a good teacher. What good is an AI if we can't learn something from it, after all? I would argue it actually has negative value if it takes over decision-making, as we slip further into learned helplessness and our expanding lack of agency leads to both oppression and depression.
Quebec has the least stringent incorporation requirements for small businesses
I had Covid symptoms but didn’t bother getting a test because I thought it’s better to stay at home than go out and spread it around.
How do they administer chemo or radiation then?

Or just do an X-ray for that matter.

Doctors make tradeoffs all the time.
There's intensive community monitoring for flu. Flu's a big deal, which is why there are internationally coordinated programs to monitor which strains are circulating, and then to create and distribute vaccines.

See this for an example of the work involved in the UK: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I first asked if we could try out WFH for a day or two a week, see how it went. I was upfront that my eventual goal was, if it went well, to move out of country.

It did go well, and I did move out of country (only 1 time zone difference)
My hunch is leaning towards the opposite. Social economic status is determine from primarily income, education and occupation, and each three is correlated to age groups and gender to a point where one can make pretty decent probability curves for each. There are not many 20 years old that share income of 55 years old. Naturally there aren't many phd's or people working senior positions at a very young age.

If we look at age groups, 20-29 is the most common age for criminals to be found guilty by the justice system which matches the age when people exit from schools and have the lowest amount of income and highest rate of unemployment. High crime areas also tend to have a lower median age than low crime areas. For being shot by a cop, this age jumps a bit to 30-40, but I don't know why.

The general problem with this kind of statistics is that you will always end up with correlations that goes both way. If a country has a massive wave of refugees of a certain age, refugees with a lower social economic status that the existing population, you get an obvious correlation with social economic status, age and refugee status. At which point some statistician try to normalize values and those numbers suddenly becomes a discussion about which factors are considered and which ones aren't.

Is the justice system ageist, sexist, racist, and -phobic? When it tries to do a risk assessment based on little else than demographic data then yes.
I’m not an expert in platform.sh, but when looking at this https://docs.platform.sh/languages/ruby.html
It looks like platform.sh has to add support for specific kinds of languages and frameworks. Release doesn’t work like that.

Ours is all based on K8s and containers. We use buildx to build just about anything and we then orchestrate the deployment of multiple services into our customers cloud accounts. We have a full
Ci/cd platform from build to production to even managing on-prem deployments following our customers business rules. Our goal is to “virtualize” your entire environment to be cloud agnostic over time. We have customers now that have chosen to have their ephemeral environments and production in different cloud providers and that is something we enable.

We have a workflow engine that allows you to run terraform, migrations, tests, anything you can think of as part of your deployments. You can customize the config for every environment from replicas to liveness probes to adjusting memory for every pod, or you can ignore all of that and just deploy away!

Hopefully that helps. Sorry I’m not to knowledgeable on their platform.
The older you are, the more you understand the importance of knowing this.
I think you need to adjust your internal model as to what constitutes solidly middle class. To quote some more realistic numbers:

>> Here, we define the middle class as the middle 60 percent of the income distribution in terms of what a family usually makes in a given year—ranging from $25,300 to $111,400 in 2016 (the latest year for which data is available). The median middle-class family has total liquid assets, defined as checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, call accounts, and prepaid cards, of just $4,000. Unsurprisingly, the top quintile is more secure with a median of $31,300 and the bottom quintile is even less secure, with just $600.[1]

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/03/26/the-middl...
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Ask HN: What kind of app would help Mom and Pop store owners?
An inventory and stock manager app? Customer manager app? Marketing app? Feedback app? Vendor manager app? POS app?

I'm curios about ways to help small store owners. What could potentially be useful and helpful to them?
Well, more like the common law in the 21st century in the USA. Quite useful in nowadays practice, but obviously neither universal nor eternal. But could be a good starting point as a running example, or a reference point when comparing to the "civil law" systems.
This is getting ridiculously contrived. You now demand to pick a vehicle capable of taking you to locations outside of round-trip range from a fast charger that lack any alternative charging facilities AND any place to stay, so you're going to drive straight there and back.

Are you writing a novel adaptation? This is how Heart of Darkness works. It... ends badly.

But sure: expeditions into the untamed metaphorical wilderness of the depths of the human condition probably do want to stick with ICE vehicles for now. But Tesla will probably get the savage wastes a supercharger soon enough.
I mean, just look at it. HTML 4 Transitional. Uppercase tags. And a note from the author that browsers don't handle the "new" standard completely, yet.

It's a gem.
No, it isn't.

It's a really nice framework though, but there's plenty (pleeeeenty!) of things that lie beyond its scope.

Idealizing CT and its applications only does more harm than good to the field.

Edit: Sure, I'll be glad to talk about it. Have plenty of experience doing (also, avoiding doing) things w/ CT. Just drop me an email (see profile), you're always welcome.
Fortunately, there's data on this.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm?s_cid=mm...

Although COVID-19 is definitely more virulent than influenza, it doesn't seem reasonable to just jump to the conclusion of saying "it must be the restrictions". That's definitely part of the equation, and maybe it will turn out to be the entire equation, but we don't know.

> During the study period, states allowed restaurants to reopen for on-premises dining in 3,076 (97.9%) U.S. counties. Changes in daily COVID-19 case and death growth rates were not statistically significant 1–20 and 21–40 days after restrictions were lifted. Allowing on-premises dining at restaurants was associated with 0.9 (p = 0.02), 1.2 (p<0.01), and 1.1 (p = 0.04) percentage point increases in the case growth rate 41–60, 61–80, and 81–100 days, respectively, after restrictions were lifted (Table 2) (Figure). Allowing on-premises dining at restaurants was associated with 2.2 and 3.0 percentage point increases in the death growth rate 61–80 and 81–100 days, respectively, after restrictions were lifted (p<0.01 for both). Daily death growth rates before restrictions were lifted were not statistically different from those during the reference period, whereas significant differences in daily case growth rates were observed 41–60 days before restrictions were lifted.

This is one hell of a virus, but if what we are seeing is that it still spreads quite rapidly even with all the restrictions, yet the flu, which is also quite virulent, manages to disappear, then I don't think we really have all the facts as to why it has gone away. Maybe it is just that simple?

I guess what I'm saying is that it's a bit concerning just how fast people here are willing to jump to conclusions.
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Also Dan appears to be walking back some on his theories - https://twitter.com/FT__Dan
I believe the source of that quote comes from this Q&A session with Kary Mullis, the inventor of PCR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT3IqZjT_9A

The relevant quotes from Kary are:

"With PCR, if you do it well, you can find almost anything, in anybody"

"If you can amplify one single molecule up to something that you can really measure - which PCR can do - then there's just.. very few molecules that you don't have at least one single one of them in your body"

"It doesn't tell you that you're sick"

My interpretation is that Kary Mullis did believe it was at least possible to "misinterpret" the results of a PCR test. It doesn't seem such a stretch to believe that you could be sick with the flu, while also having a single molecule of a coronavirus gene present in your nasal cavity (triggering a positive coronavirus test).

Note: I know this is an inflammatory topic. The views of Kary Mullis are not necessarily my own. I am posting this here because I think it is interesting.
There's pretty convincing evidence that even human brains tend to make decisions first then rationalize them after.

I wonder if we could tell whether or not a sufficiently complex NN or AI were doing the same, or if it even matters. It at least feels somewhat useless if system A makes the decision but then system B comes up with justification (even if the justification is plausible).
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> And if there are fewer deaths from flu, and fewer from suicide [1], then excess mortality itself is under-reported and Covid killed even more than we thought.

The majority of covid deaths are those that on average had very few months left to live. There is a likely a high chance these people were going to die to the next "flu" that came around.

How do you account for this? It seems like adding flu deaths on top of covid is incorrect - both would only have a subset of people that are going to die from it, and while covid's is probably more than the flu (depending on the flu strain - we've had some pretty bad flu years), since they both share the same pool I don't think you can add flu deaths in.

On top of that, we had a relatively light flu season preceding covid. This would also need to somehow be accounted for, but I'm not sure how. There was likely a "dry tinder" effect.
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Does anyone have a comparison between this and Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective? I was planning to read that book and this looks like a similar resource.
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They do spend a lot of time telling admins that you don't need to do any of that scary coding thing...until you do.
Sadly that was about my work.
I read your comment and felt the same way. I also thought you didn't deserve the down votes (I think I even gave you an upvote to counteract, even though I hardly ever vote).
I find it rather alarming that you equate those improvements with lower cost.

Would it be an improvement to build my car out of wood rather than steel? It'd certainly make it a LOT cheaper!
Put another way: Just like you're being told by your manager that you must report to the office, your manager is being told by their manager that they have no authority to override that. If your manager lets you work from home without permission, they're endangering their own job, just like you'd be endangering your own job if you continue to work from home without permission.

You need your manager to decide it's a good idea to go to their manager and ask for an exception, and so forth, until you find someone with the power to grant exceptions (or set policy).

That generally requires one of two things: Either you are an extraordinarily valuable employee, such that your manager feels compelled to bring this up with their manager and feels like they have a chance of success at that argument (either because senior management knows your value, or senior management trusts your direct manager), or a whole lot of ordinarily valuable employees all ask the same thing.
Until the entropy in their wake catches up with everyone else
My undergrad CS degree I don't think contained any sort of OS course, other than maybe a survey of them but there was a graduate level class that was required for any higher degree. I took it before I graduated with an undergrad because it was interesting, and it was quite extensive as I recall. That was well over 20 years ago, however.
I'm really hoping that the culture change in the US is to wear masks in public to thwart facial recognition.
The problem is that RDBMS do not structure information as humans do, making them very bad at modeling and working with information as we humans do. We think in a graph of relationships which we recurse through constantly. These are the two worst things that RDBMS do, so the architecture of data is simply wrong for the job.
So did tulip bulbs, for a while.
"Hello Joe Smith. This is amazon. We had an issue processing your card ending in 1234. Please send us and updated credit card details or we will have to close your Amazon account."

Something along those lines. Someone more creative could craft a better message.
Kary Mullis also doubts that HIV causes AIDS, believes in astrology, and once saw a fluorescent talking raccoon. Clearly a brilliant guy, but not someone whose advice should directly determine clinical practice.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/technology-history/man-who...

See my other comment here for the reasons why I believe almost all SARS-CoV-2 PCR positives are true positives (as to whether the patient is or was very recently infected; the kernel of truth is that they don't necessarily indicate that the patient could infect others right now).
Because Canada!
Canada is often more expensive in almost everything. If you think about the size of the country and population density, then it makes sense.
This machine totally destroys the ocean floor. Environmental destruction.
> The majority of covid deaths are those that on average had very few months left to live.

In England we know covid is killing people on average at least 10 years early.
My guess is it had an effect for a few hours that day.
This was inspired by an Andrew Yang tweet a few weeks ago. There has to be a better way to show people that we've been vaccinated without carrying around 5 inch piece of paper. Completely open source and easy to self host for maximum privacy.
> Vegan Cheese Is Ready to Compete With Dairy. Is the World Ready to Eat It?

I’m vegetarian and my partner is vegan - I’ve tried every vegan cheese on the shelf. The answer is no because it’s not even close to ready. It might pass an initial taste test where you say, that’s not so bad, but then you pick up on all the things it’s missing.

Sometimes the aftertaste is terrible, sometimes the texture or versatility.

Maybe someday someone will crack it but what’s on the shelf today isn’t close. I’m not saying it’s all terrible but you aren’t going to convince many non vegans to eat it (like may be the case with the current beyond/impossible burger tech).
Like I said, the wrench is not physical torture. By pressure point I meant things like blackmail, threats against your family or loved ones, etc.

Everyone has something valuable to lose.
I'm very sorry that this happened, and was not at all my intention. I had no idea that the post would be received the way that it was. Usually, if I make a post that has an extreme reaction like this one, I delete it shortly thereafter, but failed to do so here.

While I can understand how my comment could be interpreted as snark or possibly flamebait (despite neither being my intention), I'm not sure I understand the "generic tangents" or straw-manning claims. Can you help me understand which parts of my post cross these boundaries so I can avoid them in the future?
By estimation:

From the article:

"the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated there were roughly 22,000 deaths in the prior season and 34,000 two seasons ago." -- emphasis added
Well, the UKs priority has been getting FTTC to as many people as possible. Which has worked IMO. I would much prefer 99% FTTC coverage like the UK has with 20% FTTP in 2021, vs many other countries which have higher FTTP with ADSL everywhere else (I'm aware there are exceptions to that rule). 80/20 is more than usable these days, 10/1 ADSL isn't. You've got to remember that nearly 60% of people have VM so can get gigabit down (but pretty poor upload as you said).

The best alternative is 4G/5G btw. Can easily get 500mbit/sec up on 5G on vodafones £60 plan if you can get 5G from them.
Burnout is a very, very real problem for volunteer organizations in general.

There's also a middle ground where you are doing the most you can sustain. If you run a volunteer group where everyone thinks "I could do more" all the time then there are a lot of missed opportunities.

However, when everyone thinks, "I can't do any more", then any additional insult on top of that becomes a much bigger deal, because it is now 'too much'. For the group's sanity you probably want some fraction to feel underutilized at all times. When 'too much' happens, they get an opportunity to do more, and that extra effort is immediately appreciated.

But even then, sooner or later you'll have two or three dramas that overlap in time and energy and people will get grumpy. Has the kernel team been dealing with some other bullshit this last year? I mean, besides participating in the epidemic with the rest of us, which counts as at least 2 dramas. I think right now you still have to cut people a little slack for getting upset about things you think they shouldn't.
I was initially afraid this was going to be a solar self-filling water bottle KS. [0]

So, it's basically a porous mirror of the tried-and-true emergency solar water collector design. It seems legitimately legit.

I wonder if an extremely dark material (nanotube appliqué[1]) on a porous material would be able to process water faster?

The trillion dollar question is: How much material do you need to generate enough fresh water for an average human? And, can it be made more durable than a diaper?

0. https://youtu.be/aPvXnmBIO7o

1. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.9b08290