skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The optimism around the mRNA vaccines should be tempered: there are reports of coronavirus vaccines causing heart inflammation (particularly in youngsters); and causing substantial changes in the immune responses. These admittedly infrequent or possibly benign consequences will need to be understood much better for mRNA vaccines to become mainstream.
> ultra-wide distortion

> they can't apply simple lens correction

You're confusing ultra-wide rectilinear lens distortion with barrel or fisheye distortion due to lens construction limitations. The latter is correctable in software, whereas the former is what they're joking about.

> it's really not some sort of mind-blowing, next gen thing

Sure. But why has no-one else implemented it in a selfie camera yet? I'd put $ on this camera being a major marketing point for either this or next year's iPhones.
He knows what he's doing. He's been harassing @boop for a long time now.
Among a list of covers, your cover loses out. It looks like a blanket on fire in a Nazi guy's bedroom.

The title or cover doesn't convey what "Golden Seed" is supposed to mean - nor does the description.

What kind of marketing did you do to make sure it is seen by people?

On a side note: Congrats on the Computer Graphics book.
Bad things compared to what? Unity which does not have half the features out of the box and every other game implements basics like FPS limiter wrong?

Frostbite or Dawn Engine with its bad editors and performance problems?

Crytek used by few games? (This one has a chance to challenge UE)
Unigine which is also rather rare?
Yeah... I have a hard time imagining anyone in the US describing today's NPR as "nice polite Republicans"... Perhaps Bernie Sanders would possibly describe them as centrist?
Clearly not to someone in the chain of reporters and editors - since they compare it to rent, which doesn’t include these things.

Either describing the number as per-tent is misleading, or the comparison to rent is misleading. Either way, part of it is misleading.

They even basically acknowledge it’s a misleading comparison in the article!
Only 8% from government.
Any thoughts on re-listening to your previous podcasts, finding interesting topics that were either skipped or digressed from and inviting back the guests to do a Q&A style podcast? I feel there are deep wells of interesting topics to be discussed.
If they use a hydrocarbon propellant it’s not unlikely that it would contain some benzene. You could probably find some in many spray cans.

The EPA recommends avoiding aerosols if possible.

One of the down sides of moving away from CFCs is that some of the other chemicals used have their own problems.
Obviously not ideal, but it could for instance come up when the file format has one overall endianness but wants to include fragments of data conventionally encoded with the opposite endianness. Trivial example would be a .tar file containing an assortment of other files, but this would also include say embedding network endian data or images within a larger file that contains other data.
I made a janky AR rig with a webcam taped to an Oculus DK2 as part of a hackathon. My code ran at 15fps. after taking off the goggles, my vision was 15fps.
Is it possible to upload to arXiv but have it as private, but have the upload date reserved. Then if something like this happens, you can turn it to public and show that yours was uploaded first. Obviously arXiv itself would need to be a trusted middleman and guarantee that the system isn't being cheated.
They are small-c conservative progressives.

They are not into spectacles or aggressive populism, generally correct, a little effete, but are definitely progressive.

They are like the 'Vermont' or 'Nice Schoolteacher' or 'Librarian' of Journalism.
> As I understand it, the Church was willing to let go of the Ptolemaic model in favor of a model of Tycho Brahe, which supposed that the sun revolved around the earth, and the planets around the sun, which preserved the apparent lack of motion experienced on earth. They also told Galileo that if he could furnish empirical evidence to support his model, they would have to re-think their interpretation of the Bible. The letter from Bellarmine to Galileo is preserved.

I don't think this is entirely true. First, because there is no "dogmatic stake", as it were, in either geocentrism or heliocentrism. That is, the Church does not hold a position on this matter and a moment's thought will make it obvious that the Church isn't in the business of making scientific pronouncements anymore than a lawyer makes pronouncements affirming or denying what his mechanic says is wrong with his car (bad metaphysics and ideology masquerading as science, on the other hand...). True, the Church has been an energizing force behind the development of science, but this is a reflection of the Christian spirit and worldview, one which embraces Creation as good, beautiful, rational, and intelligible and thus capable and worthy of study. There never was a need to reinterpret the Bible because there's nothing in the Bible that depends on one or the other model being true. The Bible is not a scientific textbook. It doesn't matter which orb revolves around which.

The whole Galileo affair is routinely misrepresented because the fable we're given is the result of Enlightenment propaganda desired to create the false narrative that there is some grand battle between SCIENCE(tm) on one hand, and faith (Christianity) on the other. The historical accounts of the affair say otherwise. Mostly, Galileo was kind of an ass and it took years of making enemies before things turned for the worse.
A long time ago in a university far-far away, I stayed up for several days straight writing code for an aerial robotics platform. I was so focused on writing this code that even my dreams were trying really hard to be expressed in perl. I woke up extremely tense and in a sweat because I couldn't figure out how to express a strong emotion in perl.

As for the harm, well ... that code led to a marriage which catastrophically failed. Lesson learned: keep code and emotions away from each other.
This is nice. Are the container stateful?

Are you thinking to add more parameters as environment
variables?

I think at the end of the day you will keep getting requests from users to support more and more features and it will ended up as a any other SaaS service.

Ping me at contact [at] wecloudpro.com
I was wondering when android would become "running on linux"
I haven't seen anything so far to convince me that it came out of a lab. But the hypothetical coverup isn't hard to understand. Everyone involved would look bad if this came to light, so there's a pretty direct motivation for all of them to keep quiet.
"silent, unswerving, leak-proof compliance of a vast network of scientists, civilians, and government officials".

Question for you: if we this state is so good at "disappearing or genociding the politically inconvenient", then how do we know they are doing it? Wouldn't a state that is actually effective at that kind of cover-up also be able to cover up the evidence of the cover-up?
Same for C, with its tokenization and undefined or implementation defined behavior.

It's a serious flaw in the language allowed because it makes writing optimizers and compilers easier.
I’m an academic computer scientist. I submit things I review through my institutions cheating detection system. I have found plagiarized submissions this way.
I hate to point this out, but this isn't a "regression" and it's been part of our civilization since our civilization became a civilization.

It's just a change in who the targets are.
> They had some physics at school and from their point of view the cable is just a bunch of copper and it should absolutely make no difference for how fast their phone charges.

Even if it is just a bunch of copper, there is thin and long copper and thick and short copper. I had a cheap, long micro-USB cable that was too thin to deliver 2A at 5V, my phone couldn't charge correctly. Using the Ohm's law, I could calculate that the voltage drop was enough to get it out of specs.

The cables you need to transport power at 5V can be surprisingly thick, and that's a reason why fast chargers are usually higher voltage. I ran the calculation to power a 5V LED strip over 10 or so meters, and came to the conclusion that I would have needed utility-sized cables.
I’m not following. What do you mean?
I certainly dislike the Chinese government for many reasons, among them the handling of human rights. But I do agree with you on that one.

Especially when you look at the actual timeline, where COVID was already unfolding in China and Western countries were still hesitant to do anything. It was a whole month from COVID becoming an non-issue in some far-away place in China to a global poandemic. China was already building field hospitals while the world did nothing.
2000-2018. Covid was 2020
Not my own code, exactly, but back in the day I was trying to get a balky dot-matrix print head working and accidentally sent power to it while I was holding it.

I had a row of dots tattooed on the ball of my thumb for a year or two afterward.
Depends on the laptop. Can't do really big statements.
> It’s both. We’ve known for decades that RISC was the “right” design, but x86 was so far ahead of everyone else that switching architectures was completely infeasible (even Intel themselves tried and failed with Itanium).

Neither ARM nor Itanium are RISC. RISC/CISC don't actually exist - CISC just means "x86" (variable length instructions, memory operands, 2-operand instructions) and RISC means "MIPS or PowerPC" (load store, fixed length 3-operand instructions, weird hardware exposures like delay slots.)

ARM is a load-store architecture and has a lot of registers so it's closer to MIPS but it has complex addressing modes and more instructions. Itanium is VLIW which is almost the opposite of how the M1 works.

Plus ARMv8 in the M1 is a total redesign so it's not exactly the same as older ARMs.

> Crucially, you don’t have to do any more actual hardware operations to execute the 4 or 5 RISC as compared to the one CISC instruction.

This isn't true because you can do a lot of that stuff in one step; just put an adder in the memory access unit. Some complex instructions really are worth putting in the ISA.

x86 uses this to its advantage; the µops can be very long and are not RISCy. RISC is actually harder to deal with here because it's easy to split up instructions into µops, but it's hard to fuse them together again. That's why ARM having condition codes and more complex memory operands is a win.

x86's variable length instructions also fit in memory better, which is good for performance, but they're worse on security because they're harder to parse.
Even then... I run Kodi on a Shield, which pulls data from a NAS. Copy the files to the right folder and let Kodi rescan. Still simple... the hardest part is setting up the network drive
The Inter font: https://rsms.me/inter/
The problem is you have:

Power: 18W, 30W, 45W, 60W, 100W, 240W

Data: No Data, 480Mbps, 5Gbps, 10Gbps, 20Gbps, 40Gbps

You also have a potential variety of modes that could influence your ability to achieve those speeds with certain devices.
I miss the days when browsers took pride in announcing[1] their new version passed Acid2/Acid3. Sure, the tests had issues, but they were self contained and anyone could see which browsers mostly passed and which were missing half of the features. Unfortunately, the modern trend towards monopoly is increasingly hostile to ideas like "open standards" and "interoperability", so I doubt we'll see this kind of test used again anytime soon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2#Timeline_of_passing_appl...
So your colleague submitted their paper before the other paper was posted to arXiv and yet it was still rejected? Crazy!
Microsoft president: Orwell’s 1984 could happen in 2024
Not everyone is a hack.

Some people use nuance as a bludgeon, but that fact wouldn’t imply that hand-waiving away details is somehow a valid approach.
It's easier to reduce the things you're testing to one single molecule, rather than something highly variable. But it's true that coffee is a different psychoactive cocktail than caffeine.
The idea/theory/plan to dismiss things using poor methods is it self an idea worth dismissing that some how escaped sufficient scrutiny. But when it is removed (as it should be) there is the challenge preventing the opposite from happening. I suspect we are capable of getting both wrong at the same time. Like 2 shit storms making a poop tornado.
This guy needs to learn R. Matrices are first class citizens.

They don't need to live in R but it's a nice place to visit to understand the paradigm they're discovering.
I heard Comcast (Xfinity) business model is forget about the threat of Cordcutters, and just keep raising prices, hoping the consumer doesn't notice the costs.

I head this from a Xfinity employee.

My mom showed me her bill and it was $240 month, for basics channels, internet, hbo, and one other lousy feature she doesn't use.

I trying to get it down, but their contracts have early termination fees in the contract.

They offer reasonable packed rates only to new customers. They know most people won't take back their equipment, and go a few days without service, in order to save $100 plus a month. I don't know how they legally get away with their business practices.

She has bern a faithful customer since 1972.

She is in Marin County, USA.

If anyone knows of a different company please give me some advice.

(I looked into AT&T, but they have almost the same business model as Comcast.)
One side comment: It's true that the focus on publications has made the # of papers go through the roof. On the other hand, I can quickly sift through papers using google scholar, whereas I never could before. For any fact I'm looking into, reams have been written about it. This is, to my experience, a huge boon to writing papers and doing research quickly.

This has nothing to do with collusion, but some in this thread are saying that just the number of papers is indicative of a problem.
Is it just for substack newsletters?

I like the concept. How will you monetize?
Or upload an encrypted version of the file or just a hash of the figure ahead of time? Then release the descrypt key later or when the figure is published, you can point to the hash which was uploaded publicly a long time ago?
I worked remotely from Denver during most of 2020. This is just wrong. Maybe only dodgy corporations that want to cheat their employees say the work can't be performed in Colorado.
I once programmed an arduino driving multiple solenoids with felting needles at pretty high speeds (wool felting uses needles to push wool fibers together into shapes), all pointing to the same target area, at slightly different timings. In the perfect case, it worked really well. Felting needles however bend and break with heavy use, leading to colliding felting needles projecting toward my hand. Ouch.
> Some problems though, like healthcare and homelessness don't get better if you spend more money on them.

I very much doubt that on both counts! But even still, I have a feeling that there is a very high cap for dollars spent directly helping homeless folks that reduce indirect spending 1:1 on other budget line items.
This is veryregion-specific. If you live in Oceania for instance then UV damage and skin cancer presents a much greater danger than in other places - the ol' ozone hole has made sun protection a lot more important here.

Melanoma rates are almost 3 times higher here than in North America, and we have have strong education surrounding sun protection: https://canceratlas.cancer.org/the-burden/oceania/
It's an American writing for what's presumably a mostly American audience (he was a reporter at the New York Times). It's unfortunate that despite his use of "Great National Misery", links to graphs depicting the pandemic in America, "3 million Americans die each year", etc. is not enough to set the context for the average reader. He's not conflating the world with America, he's pretty much talking about America. Covid is a plague on the world, but this article is about America.
So thankful for Operation Light Speed. It truly delivered amazing results.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/25/politics/wuhan-lab-covid-orig...

US intelligence reports that researchers from the virology lab in Wuhan were hospitalized with an unknown illness in November of 2019, most notably before the "patient #0" was infected.
Do you have any actionable next steps we could take in terms of testing to isolate his condition?

There could be a treatment that we've completely missed.
My assumption is that the distorted image (https://cms-cdn.lux.camera/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/261601...) is actually a corner-crop of a 120 degree wide-angle photo. For example if you took the corner of https://cms-cdn.lux.camera/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/261800...

Do you know if my assumption is incorrect?

If that's the case, what can be done about reducing that distortion? My layman's understanding is that it's like mercator projection - you simply cannot make a two-dimensional photo of a wide field of view without distorting.
I'm fully for vaccination as I wrote above.

But out of interest, what about the people who have long-haul COVID, do we know the mechanism how they experience long term effects from the actual disease.

Would it be possible that vaccines created long-term effects in the same way?
I used to do robotics, I can tell you that the fact that it was the cheapest or the most hacky does not matter in the least. Everything can and will go wrong, even the priciest and well documented part.

I used to have multiple clamps around the controller, message bus, the firmware and also a physical barrier, and yet would not feel safe with my fingers or person around moving parts.
People compare them like they have relative differences. I'd argue that they are two incomparable categories.

I'm a die-hard Vimmer who uses Emacs, and it's now clear to me that when talking about Vim and Emacs, one has to emphasize their foundational values, ideas at the root.

Vim is an amazing, incredible idea. It's the most satisfying and productive way to navigate around any kind of text. And as long as we have keyboard input and keyboards, Vim will stay relevant.

And Emacs is based on another fantastic idea. Arguably - the greatest idea in Computer Science to this day. Lisp. And understanding Lisp is a prerequisite required to appreciate the power of Emacs.

From my personal experience, when people try to compare one to another - there's usually one-sided incomprehension. They either don't have sufficient experience using Vim, or they lack understanding Lisp.
Man finds 2.2-carat diamond for engagement ring at Arkansas state park
I think in most of these cases, the accusations are correct. But some of them aren't correct and we must protect the innocent as well.

And me, as an outsider on the internet, has no business trying to pick a side or work out who should be punished. That's the job of the legal system.
None of the points seem all that bad to me, though I can see that their security mechanisms could cause issues if you're doing netsec. For instance is wrong with de-duplicating files on the backend provided they use a strong enough hash algorithm to avoid hash collisions?
Some say it couldn’t have been designed: https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-not-human-made-in-la...
In other news UK government along with Boris Johnson claims that UK policy was not initially based on reaching herd immunity through uncontrolled spread of the virus.
Would you ask this question as a chartered accountant? A lawyer? An actuary?

If you already have the education and the experience (you need both), why not complete the ethics exam and earn the license? Is it about the fees? The annual fee in California is $180.00 [1]. The annual fee in Ontario, Canada is $299.45 [2]. Does your company not pay you enough? Are you living on hardship as a software engineer to not be able to afford that?

The real question is this: Why do you feel entitled to a designation without completing the requirements for it?

[1] https://bpelsg.ca.gov/applicants/licensee_fees.shtml

[2] https://www.peo.on.ca/sites/default/files/2020-11/PEO-FeeSch...
There are not a lot of operations on large matrices in there. 8x8 at the most, and the memory access on those is handcrafted so language features wouldn't really help. (for instance the order DCT coefficients are stored in memory actually depends on the IDCT used, which is different on each platform and often written in assembly.)
very nice, it would be good if I could clear the tag without going down to the categories list
The part I found interesting was that the author notes that it is well-known that the quality of the work has little to do with its odds of acceptance even when the system is 'functioning' as designed. Is it cheating to game a system that is already fundamentally broken? If the quality of your work is inadequate to secure publication and your career depends on it, it wouldn't be very hard to convince yourself that you can't cheat a rigged game. What 'integrity' is actually being threatened? Perhaps some of the energy devoted to identifying these collusion rings would be better spent developing a review process that is at least somewhat biased in favour of good research rather than the density of the authors' professional network. Or at least in mitigating the poisonous 'publish or perish' rules that lead to this sort of phenomena.
> The idea of refusing to look through the telescope was raised as a rhetorical point in debate over the subject matter, but contradicts what actually happened.

Yes, the discoveries Galileo announced from his telescope also touched off an interesting set of debates about whether or not his observation of sunspots and craters on the Moon were actually real features on those bodies, or just artifacts of the telescope itself. Those debates are still with us today in a more general form. Anytime we use instruments to observe something, we have to be careful to make sure that we are observing something in the outside universe rather than an artifact of the instrument itself.
Depends on the laptop.

Don't search for the ASUS G14, the G14 is dead when plug too much power into it. Bold statement, but I've warned you. You need power, your going to hear the fans. There's currently no solution for cooling it quietly.
While I did not mean that and just failed at English, one can easily find documented instances of actual murders and lynch mobs directly caused by lies being spread on social media, so, yes?
To answer that we need to know what happened to / where is Shi Zhengli?

Are her social media accounts now empty shells run by the state to pretend she is still around?

Her history is spooky. And there is no evidence she is still alive.