skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By that, I presume you mean sit back and do nothing, and let 'immunity' arise from infections.

That doesn't work with Covid because the mortality rate is too high and the infection rate leads to healthcare being overwhelmed.

If there was evidence that the mortality rate was low (but we have evidence of the opposite) or that the infection rate didn't spike upwards and start clogging up the beds that hospitals have which are able to deal with Covid (but we have evidence of the opposite), then that might be a conclusion that would permit proposing it. But we have direct evidence of the opposite.
Just a data point here. My company got a five million loan that got written off. The company claimed that around 120 jobs were at risk. However the truth is that since we are a consulting firm and our clients continued our services, the jobs were never really at risk and the owners made off with 5 million. For a company that has yearly profits in the low one million range, the owners did hit a lottery while cutting our salaries at the same time .
Why downvote? Honest question.
> No-one credible ever denied that it was possible or even that it was likely that people would gain natural immunity.

Let's not rewrite history. It was clear that the media (e.g. BBC, below) chose to amplify messages that discredited natural immunity.

[Prof Wendy Barclay said:] "On the balance of evidence, I would say it would look as if immunity declines away at the same rate as antibodies decline away, and that this is an indication of waning immunity."

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54696873 Oct 2020.
Always reminds me of this:

> I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.

From Bertrand Russell. The full text is a bit longer, but I really like the sentiment behind these words.
OK, so document that?
Yes, it is funny.
Sometimes fools with big mouth get more attention than they clearly deserve.

By the way, I wouldn't like to be those three YC interviewers who valitaded this idiotic project into ycombinator !

"Le bonnet d'âne pour tous les trois ! "
You can, but it's not always respected by the user's device. Mobile devices will usually respect it but desktop browsers will often ignore it and start the video from the beginning.
Technically the wild and crazy ones were "it was bio engineered" and "let's ignore it and gain herd immunity". The former was being touted as justification for violence against Asians and the latter would involve millions of deaths in most countries. Tens of millions world wide.
When Americans smile, they think they are being friendly, but in some cultures it is perceived as a predatory grin. Cold War propaganda posters often show Americans smiling, and it's not to show the are friendly, easy-going people.
1500 compute nodes on GPC don't make a supercomputer the same way that all the computers on campus don't. Table stakes are a high speed interconnect, shared data storage, and a job scheduler. I know of a few devices built out of DGX machines with InfiniBand interconnects that are about half the size, and they were massive projects as well. You can't get there from generic cloud compute.
What yall be talkin about, usin all them big, five-dollar, city words? Not one of them "cowboys" with a big hat and no cattle, I hope? ;)

My mom's extended family has an actual long-horn herd around Seguin, so they get a pass on wearing boots and a Stetson. Meanwhile, my upstairs, sociopathic yuppie, mid-West hipster transplant neighbor walks around in cowboy boots on a solid floor for no reason (and no cattle) and has a man-bun despite it going out of fashion about 2016. I wouldn't even pretend to be a "cowboy" on Friday nights without actually roping and herding cattle, otherwise I'd feel like a poser.

:Waves from ATX by way of SJC; parents by way of San Anton; grandparents by way of Nocona, Vernon, and Wichita Falls:
> I don't understand this criticism. Using existing asset packs seems sensible to me

Code reuse is fine, but when 90% of your game is from various art pack, it's kinda like a software project thats 90% copy-pasted from StackOverflow. Sure, reusing 3rd party code is fine, but at some point, they've cross the line into "Do they even know what they are doing?"
Charles C. Ebbets and His Famous 'Lunchtime Atop a Skyscraper' Photo
I am Ukrainian. Came to the US when I was 14. I may never be cool like all the hard looking dudes in movies and whatnot but I smile all the time because either I find something funny in what I’m engaged in or if I don’t that I try to think of it as such. I have always been this way and I can’t imagine not doing it.

Also, I have read a few comments in this discussion about how fake American smiles and “how are you?”s are and I have to disagree somewhat. To a large extent Americans use “how are you” and “what’s up” as generic greetings but at the same time you can often tell when someone is using it instead of “hello” vs having 30-120 seconds to chat pretty easily. If my day is going well I make a point of telling the random person I’m interacting with why that is: “I’m doing great. The weather is so nice and I had a lovely cup of coffee on my back porch today.” Quick interaction, mostly meaningless, but to me it’s a nice way to break up the monotony. On the other hand if I’m having a bad day I don’t feel like hiding it but the trick is to not make it the other person’s problem: “I’m getting by. I blew a tire on the way to work and I just had all four tires replaced. But oh well, that’s just how irony works I guess.” Again, quick and simple and not the typical “fine” response. At worst they go “oh that sucks. Paper or plastic?” but more often it could result in a short conversation and I don’t think there is anything wrong with that.
Andreas has made a couple of videos about why he purposefully doesn’t use a debugger (which I can’t find now) but it’s related to how he prefers to focus on a whole programs behavior and work out what’s wrong from his understanding of what it’s doing by reading the source and logs.

Incidentally Linus doesn’t use a debugger either.
I disagree. You can see clear effects from prolonged stress on the body. And in both cases, people still get lung cancer without smoking, and people can still die of heart attacks without being stressed.
Isn't this congruent with the "Invest in teams, not products" philosophy though?
Scoutium – Until there is no undiscovered talent
does "genetic" mean "inherent to the person"?
Snap is buying its AR display supplier for more than $500M
I go from sounding like an average Londoner to speaking in Received Pronunciation. The only problem is I'm American and not in London. I have no idea how that happened.
I don’t think they are very comparable. This is still very much a conventional supercomputer despite the marketing.

Here’s a fun comparison of total silicon wafer space used.

A Cerebras die is 46,255 mm^2.

1,500 Milan 64-core CPUs * 8 compute chiplets each is 1,004,832 mm^2. (Not including the I/O chiplet).

6,159 NVidia A100 dies is 5,087,334 mm^2.

These are all made on TSMC 7nm, funnily enough.
I didn't downvote, but the issue tracker is probably a better place to questions like this.
Desync is possible with UDP protocols, where a dropped packet would mean lost inputs, but this uses websockets, which are reliable TCP connections, so just the list of inputs combined with a deterministic engine is sufficient.
LOL @ taking an Unherd article seriously. What's next? Epoch Times? OANN?
Would being a result of gain of function research with a particular furin cleavage site be considered “bio engineered”?
POKEGB: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokemon Blue, in 62 lines of C++
> Evolving a new spike is extremely disadvantageous for the virus.

... Right up until almost everyone has an immune response to the spike and not to any other feature, at which point a virus which changes the spike and potentially keeps its other features is a winner. We are creating an immune monoculture.
I remember about 10 years ago the promise was that JRuby was going to let ruby be basically as fast as Java for many things. Invokedynamic and all that.
Yeah well that cultural revolution got taken over fairly quickly & subverted, turned into a stunning anti-revolutionary authoritarianism & wiped from the mind of the people. I dont think you'll see American's cultural revolutionary hopes subverted anywhere so quickly, nor do I think we'll see them given ability to take root so strongly in the first place. This article focuses only on the revolutionary part, but ignores so much of what happened after, how quickly things re-set, changed back, ignores how anti-revolutionary China became & how harshly & quickly the country snapped back.

There's a lot of decent history of China, with a surprisingly good variety of footage & audio mixed in, in Adam Curtis's recent (fantastic) Can't Get You Out Of My Head[1]. It's possibly one of the best tellings of the past ~70 years that's out there. It does such an incredible job describing how power gels, how it forms & defends it's turf. The story of China's revolution & it's rapid counter-revolutionary burying of that past is a huge theme through the series, especially as it relates to the industrial developments of the rest of the world.

The article here isn't much into all that. It's harping a lot on the very narrow window of revolutionary tumult. And throwing mud at those who would try to improve things, those who ask for change. It's a pitch for stability, for order, for respecting the 1% and 0.1% whatever the situation. It does detail the dehumanization, shows a rampant out of control anti-elite behavioralism, but ignores the deep iniquities & injustices suffered in America & instead compares the current activist protestors to the brutal violent deeply demeaning revolutionary politics, which seems completely batshit out of line insane. It's filled with Fear Uncertainty & Doubt, ultra-conservatism, messages like "Mobs have a logic of their own," meant to let the audience see those asking not to be the victims of endless police brutality as nothing more than a bunch of insurrectionist out of control threats.

I really really really dislike the gist of this article, in almost every way. I think there are probably some lessons, some things we could learn. But this feels like an incredibly sloppy onsided ultra-biased article, that links radically radically different situations through extremely tenuous connections. I don't like the axe this dude is grinding, and I don't think his so called lessons apply.

[1] https://thoughtmaybe.com/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head/
I imagine the silent downvotes are because that’s trying to solve the problem at the wrong layer.

For your suggestion to work, you’d need to also duplicate the logic that checks the redundant bits, etc, etc.

If you really want to do this, you end up doing what satellites do to deal with cosmic rays:

Ship three identical computers. If state diverges, majority rules. See page 9 (Radiation-Effects Mitigation and Hardness) for an FPGA example:

https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/white_papers/wp...
A. She did a very good job.
Are doctors and senior engineers making 1.4 million per year? I know Google pays well but I don't think it's quite that much. I don't know anything about regional vice presidents, but I think you need to be a really unusually successful doctor or engineer to make this kind of money. Like, top 1%.
I think people should get in the habit of deleting all their convos that are more than a month old. Most convos are 99.99% worthless, and it's very freeing to be rid of them.

One of my friends had her H1B cancelled and was given a 10 year ban from entering the US because of her text messages. When she crossed the border back into the US, the border guards requested her phone, and searched it and found messages to her ex-bf about marrying him for a green card. She was joking but it didn't matter and she had to fly back to her country of origin that she didn't live in since she was a kid. Since then, even though I don't have anything to worry about, as a habit I delete all my apps except iMessage and delete all my conversations there.
It will still be picked up by a PCR test depending on the number of replication cycles. Which is why mass testing everyone, including healthy people, is such a dumb idea.
Yes, but think about the other perspective. The CEO decides to leave after 2 months, and they hang on to 50%?

The vesting keeps everyone honest and in for the long-haul.
Six-axis manipulation robot based on Raspberry Pi 4B sells for $699
Tauri vs. Electron is an apples-to-oranges comparison because Tauri uses system webviews, so you pay for that smaller runtime in both development and QA time (and possibly customer support time if you don't get those right). That's not inherently bad or good, but it's worth noting that the smaller app size is not free.
I'm probably an idiot for trying to write a response to it. I have no idea who this site is. I really want there to be a better way to understand the sites I read.

There's a semi-steady stream of Bari Weiss's new site that get posted here, & likewise, I just want there to be some kind of like social radar system, some way people can be warned, not to (like I just did in my comment) engage as though it's a neutral source they're engaging with. Beware!!! Bias alert!!
My (Seemingly) Random Walk to Netflix
I don't know that discrediting is a fair assessment. There is evidence of fewer or no markers in blood tests of patients who previously tested positive. Unfortunately it was impossible to tell whether that impacted immunity due insufficient time to collect data.

If losing markers is often an indicator of lost immunity then saying the expectation is lost immunity isn't wrong, even if that like ends up being false.

For instance data around infections from recovered and vaccinated people to others is still scarce to my knowledge. While we know that the health benefits for you are there whether it is enough immunity to completely prevent spread is still hard to examine.
The origin of pwn in gaming context is in quake multiplayer which predates CS by some years. I also recall seeing people on irc using it before that in the same context as cracking a system.
Actually "smoking kills X people a year" is also wrong. Yes, there is directly link between smoking and physical damage to the body. But two issues involved:

1. people usually do not instantly die after smoking. There is a long process from smoking to death.

2. people who smoke are different from people who do not smoke. There could be other contributing factors associated with people who smokes.

"smoking kills X people a year" was never a scientifically accurate claim. The accurate claim should be smoking increase * chance of ##, or on average people who smoke live ## years shorter.

However, there are cases where you can say smoking kills someone. For example, a woman who frequently smokes during the pregnancy gives birth to a baby born with severe life-threatening defects and the baby dies immediately after birth. In this case it could be OK to say the mother's smoking killed the baby, because:

1. There is a relatively short period of time involved.

2. There may be no other significant contributing factor to the birth defects, if we can rule out genetic factors.

Otherwise, in most cases, it is not scientifically accurate to claim smoking kills X people a year. In some cases, smoking actually could save people, who would otherwise use more detrimental means to release stress or anxiety.
The situation was that businesses were not allowed to be open.
I re-sealed mine with Sugru. It is as waterproof as it was before, as far as I can tell. Unfortunately I used too much and some of it got squashed under the glass so it's slightly visible. It's really hard to use the correct (very small) amount. There are other adhesive options that I haven't tried.
Here are more examples.

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/new-york/sunken-town-ny/

The state of New York has several towns submerged under artificial lakes created to give water to New York City.
Howdy, you might find this interesting --

I effectively automated this by tracking people and what they link.

https://insideropinion.com/
An anecdote, and something to think about next time...

A friend was the co-founder & CTO of a company that was doing quite well...or the CEO was telling everyone that.

In an investor meeting, the CEO inflated numbers, and deflated the amount of salary he was taking, etc. Just basically lying.

After the interview, my friend contacted the investor and told him flat out that the CEO had lied and that he didn't want to be involved in that environment and he was therefore leaving the company.

The investors response "let me know when you get on to your next thing, I'll be very interested to talk". I'm not positive, but I think the investor did invest in the next start-up.

I've seen SO many founders lie during pitches where there was absolutely nothing on the line, just to make themselves feel bigger.

It's a major problem in the industry, but you can stand-out by taking the moral high road and being honest.

I suspect this company won't go very far if this is the way they treat people. It's a hugely valuable lesson for you.

On and up to the next great thing!
High Performance Battery – Solid state battery
Chrome gave me a segfault crash message I've never seen before by simply visiting youtube this morning.

I thought for a moment what the most likely explanation was, given Chrome has surely seen a boatload of stability testing. It's a sandbox viewing a website. A segfault?!

I wonder if it's cosmic rays on my non ECC RAM or some accidental rowhammer moment.
I don't feel like playing "there isn't enough evidence to prove me wrong"
GoDaddy estimates it at $25,000
Maybe this is off topic and a matter of taste, but wouldn't you hesitate to have a massive computer cluster named after you? While you're alive? Either out of modesty, or in the worst case, if something goes terribly wrong with it?
Some of the smartest people I've known ended up in prison or shackled to poverty. We waste so much human potential as a society.
True. Maybe professionals need to manage building series like this utilizing amateurs.
I’m not sure if all natural immunities are stronger, or even strong. I’m not denying those exists but I also personally know 3 people that have gotten COVID-19 twice.

If natural immunity only protects against a particular strain and the vaccine against a group of them I think that’s still a solid reason to continue pushing for people to get vaccinated.
> media [sic] chose to amplify messages that discredited natural immunity

The media is not a recognised scientific body.
> Microsoft Edge is using also Webkit.

No, it's not.

> if Mozilla ever tanks, we could have a complete WebKit browser monoculture

Not a risk. Chrome dominates, and it uses Blink, not WebKit. (Yes, the distinction matters, and no, it is not a distinction that is minor/negligible/insubstantial.)
I 100% do. Seriously. I don't need anything fancy or well edited. I just need ten minutes of you explaining whay you discovered to be the hard parts and what you learned.

You got me really excited when you said "the experts made it look easy but I discovered that..." Keep going. I want to hear more.

That's the videos I want.
A good MMO typically isn't just a large number of players walking around and not interacting with one another.

Look at Eve Online; you have a spaceship, you travel around and shoot stuff (this is simplifying it, but that's a big part of it). Sometimes there are 100 or 1000 ships all involved in one battle; what do you have to deal with in that case? You need to send all ship data (model, loadout, customizations) to every client so they can load in the right assets. You need to track where each ship is (in 3d) and where it's going at any given time. You need to track what weapons are firing, and who they might hit (there are missiles, interception missiles, "bombs" with an explosion radius, lasers that hitscan, guns that have tracking projectiles, etc). You need to compute status effects that may change based on distance between given ships. You need to send all this data to each client regularly (every second at least).

This really adds up, both in compute and memory on the server and in amount of data that needs to be sent to each client. It gets difficult quickly. Let's say all the info above can be described in 1kb/ship/tick - you get up to the larger battles, which in Eve have hit 5000+ (rarely, yes) - and you're dealing with 5000kb/tick going to every one of those clients.
If you had covid you also probably have a 1 in 10 chance of having long-covid for a year or more where your life quality is hell.

Lifetime antibodies are not very helpful if you have longterm or permanent damage from covid.
Slack came out of a failed attempt to build an MMO.

Tech cofounder apparently has some reasonable credentials and particularly if he's known to people within Ycombinator it doesn't seem absurd at all to me that they'd invest largely on the basis of "guy we know to be reasonably competent wants to try his hand at entrepreneurship".

Like its a hundred grand. They throw that at all sorts of companies. This aint softbank throwing billions at wework. I think any sort of "omg ycombinator funded that?" response has to come from people who havent ever bothered to look at the long tail of stuff ycombinator funds instead of their top few investments. It's not an elite club. It's the most throw shit at the wall and see what sticks style VC fund out of any VC fund.
https://archive.is/nDoiS
What's to suggest bonuses would not have been paid out in stocks even without the bailout money?

To me it reads as if grants reduced the loans they'd be taking, but they've rewarded their top execs with stock (meaning they need to have a lot of trust in company to they just arranged 3B worth of loans for).

To clarify my point: I just do not see a connection between bailout money and bonuses (mostly paid in stock), which the OP emphasizes. Your point stands regardless of subsidies.
> Don’t be surprised if I become violent from what you said

Imagine I walk up to someone and insult them to their face and when they try and defend themselves verbally they are shutdown and not able to speak by a mob around them. This keeps happening again and again and that person starts to visibly get flustered and wanting to fight. I then justify my insults by pointing out how this person likes to fight and is probably a violent, dangerous individual... what should I expect? Should I be surprised when they punch me in the face?

One side is provoking, and bullying people, then shutting them down, and then complaining that they are becoming more and more extreme, while using that as a justification. At some point we have to realize, we are asking for this and pretending to be innocent. Saying that they have a choice, is disingenuous.

I see both sides wanting violence, but only one side is being honest about it.