skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a rather chilling quote related to this that has stuck in my mind. Many doctors at the time were opposed to hand washing, and one famously summed it up this way:

"Doctors are gentlemen and a gentleman's hands are clean."

A search for this phrase finds many related articles:

https://www.google.com/search?q=doctors+are+gentlemen+and+a+...
They have limiter circuits to prevent a very high average power going through them which would overload the speaker-cone's travel limits, or would overheat the voice-coil.

On the other hand, very high-power, short-lived 'transients' are necessary to give proper clarity and realism to the music. Most amplifiers, even very-high power ones usully idle along at about one or two watts or less, but the extra couple of hundred watts available allow lots of 'head-room' for those high-power transients so that they don't get clipped and distorted.

A high-power amp doesn't necessarily sound very much 'louder', but it sounds very much 'cleaner'.
>90% of medical “experts” are totally incompetent.

My wife had breast cancer, muliple lumps irregular shaped, the only answer was full mastectomy, except the oncologist wanted to do a biopsy before they did they surgery.

"Why?" I asked, "You already said that the safest option is to perform the mastectomy, right?"

The doctor replied, "Well, yes but we'd like to know what we are facing before we got in."

Me, "Will it change what you do?"

Doctor, "No"

Me, "Isn't bad to poke the tumor because can't that actually cause cells to migrate?"

Doctor, "yes"

Me, "So what's the benefit?"

Doctor, "We just want to know."

Me, "It seems like either you are padding the bill or you are just following some playbook because you actually don't know what you are doing."

Doctor, "We're done here."

After the surgery,

Doctor, "We discovered cancer cells in the lymph node, but that's probably just a side effect from the biop........" At that point he realized what he was saying and he also realized that I was ready to launch myself at him.
I don't think that video made a decent case. It's a hell of a lot of speculation that sounds credible thanks to good editing and the gift of hindsight.

The truth is that when you bought Super Mario Bros, you read the manual from cover to cover before you started the game, and you looked at the box art and the stuff on the back of the box. It'd tell you everything; the enemies, some description or backstory for them... the manual was an important part of the package.

And that was how pretty much every game worked for a good 30 years since.
Thank you for explaining today’s XKCD for me! I didn’t get that reference.

https://xkcd.com/2478/
I mean, come on. Are you on a bunch of Slacks? At least one of them has a :resf: emoji. It's not just random Rust users; there are people deeply involved in Rust itself that disparage other languages. Maybe that's gotten better recently, but, again, come on: look at the "About" section on this project --- which is a great project! --- and how it talks about C/C++. I happen to think Rust people are correct about C/C++, despite loving in my bones how it feels to write C code. But that doesn't mean I have to pretend that there's a real norm in the Rust community of respecting other languages.

To me, this whole thing about Rust and its decorum in language debates reminds me of those projects that don't have codes of conducts, but instead a "be excellent to each other" policy. I believe what you're saying is something the Rust project wants to be true. But that doesn't make it so!

I say this with love as someone looking forward to the next couple thousand lines of Rust I'm going to have to write at my job.
That just makes it worse, doesn't it? Why have we let a private corporation that's stuffing ads on everything and has a bizarre view of fair use become the location of record for all video in our society?

We have an entire agency - the US Government Publishing Office - whose job is to maintain the Congressional Record and handle all sorts of other printing and preservation requirements for the government. Why isn't congressional testimony there? Like, yes, it's bad for YouTube to delete congressional testimony, but isn't it worse to entrust YouTube with it in the first place?
It's a requirement still.

Plenty of open source people have offered paid support so corporate clients could expense things.
The link is mostly a honeypot for Elon Musk haters. I wonder if they have bothered looking at the operating temperatures of other satellite Internet dishes?

A simple search will net you heating and cooling devices for satellite dishes. If you face more extreme temperatures, you need only go buy a heating and cooling unit.

http://www.dishcamo.com/dish_heater.htm
The rest of the interview provides an interesting context there. He retried in 1991, and, since then, he seemed to have been extremely uninterested in keeping up to speed with any newer programming languages.

Meanwhile, Haskell 1.0 entered the world in 1990, and the Haskell community figured out how to use monads to solve the time problem in 1993. So, it's not necessarily that the problem wasn't solved, it just wasn't solved by him, and he perhaps wasn't aware of the solution.
More generally, sure. But it's not like you'd derive that from this tech, you'd just create it from some of the generic pieces that are already laying around. Finding people that are hurt and trapped and most importantly trying to be found is really useful in non-combat situations; on a battlefield, not so much, as far as I can see.
This is why some of the rustbelt cities like the one I grew up in (Buffalo, NY) will have a resurgence at some point. They have affordable housing, good infrastructure bones (including green hydro power from Niagara Falls), are on one of the world's largest sources of fresh water in the Great Lakes and have direct flights to most cities you'd need to get to for work when required. While the few months of winter rather suck, it is easier to deal with a few months of winter than these 115 degree summer days the article talks about (heating, an extra layer or two of clothing, etc.). Buffalo also has being on the Canadian border and being an hour and a half from Toronto going for it. I moved to Sydney, Australia to be with my Aussie wife (who wants to stay here) but I see several of my friends who had moved away moving back to Buffalo to be around family and buying a house for cash under these remote work conditions - and if I was States-side I'd be considering it too...
This is quite literally FOMO and can be applied to anything really. Who knows what I missed out on by not becoming an astronaut.
I also believe this was sitting on the ground on the tripod stand included in the box. I have ours roof mounted and noticed that the temperates were lower once mounted vs on the ground. That said our Farm isn't in AZ so it wasn't nearly as hot.

I think you're probably right about it being an edge case heatsink issue, one that was amplified by Dishy's placement.

Outside of that, Starlink has been great for us. Having a real connection rather than a 1 bar 4g connection has been life changing out at the farm.
I don't know what the problem with that particular long statement is.

You might just say that a thing is nonsensical if it's not provable but is not false either.

This might be sensible 'stack overflow' exception if we really are unable to provide reasonable limits on self reference reference and reasoning relying on infinities.
Hmmm, no comment from Mapbox management on the company "blog" just yet:

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/
Nothing that a really, really, really, really long extension cord won't fix. ;)

(Google Australia-ASEAN power link)
I’m going to be the voice of balance and say .Net and associated tooling is fine, but Azure should be avoided: never a more frustrating experience have I had.
How do you make this app load map tiles? I can't see big chunks of my city and just get blank yellow blocks (there is plenty of OSM data here). Zooming in sort of works, but it loads finer detail tiles that don't display when you zoom out.
We're talking about 122F and exposed to direct sunlight for long durations. So more like 150F inside that thing and then with one stroke you are locked out of using any sort of customer electronics parts or packaging. I'm sure SpaceX will look into it but you might not like the outcome.

(And no, most phones will not operate at that temperature for longer than a few minutes)
If your engineering team had to wait for a product failure to realize an item that's going to be outdoors in the sun is going to get hot, what on earth else are they missing?
Legal requirements can be funky. Back in ~2007 or so I considered doing my own WISP just to get any reliable internet that wasn't making 300 baud modem look nice (put enough latency on telnet and it will look like that).

Turned out that if we wanted to cross a community (smallest administrative region in Poland), to be fully legal we might have had to submit war and disaster preparation plans to Ministry of Defense. For cooperation with military and other services, just in case.
It's also content marketing for a content marketer who is talking her book. "Writer, growth hacker, and crypto enthusiast based on the East Coast", and her Substack is titled "Confessions of Reluctant Marketing Guru."

More power to her for going out and hustling, but understand that it - just like it's purported solution - is just marketing.
No, they're built with pretty extreme tolerances. Further, they're often placed on rooftops, so it's by design rather than convenience of the materials used.
It is counterintuitive but A/C in general has a much smaller footprint than heating.
Surprisingly, the heating element built in appears to be pretty solid, or at least that's been the responses on /r/starlink.

You're definitely right that people are hating on it. Most of the people I know in real life that knocked it have access to land based internet. Once you get out into rural areas where 4g is the basis for your internet, it's amazing.
Whoa. What guy? This thermal issue is critical.
Their growth hacking worked
Yes - this is the answer. I used to have an Aeron. Honestly now I just use a regular stiff office chair (not super cushioned). But I also strength train regularly and take a break to walk every 3-4 hours. In particular squatting and deadlifting has basically eliminated all my back problems (I used to sometimes wake up with back pain in the morning).

Now I no longer have to worry about what chair I have -- well as long as it isnt an Iron Maiden :)
After using the Steelcase Think in my office for a few years, I picked one up last summer and could not be happier. I spend a good deal of time at my desk each day and moving from a crappy Amazon chair to this one was an immense improvement.
Maybe they didn't do the math or are planning to improve upon it. But maybe they did do the math and consciously wrote you off.
It took me 15 years before I learned I had a b-12 deficiency. The test is simple and cheap, the treatment is simple and cheap, and the symptoms have been known for decades.
DI frustrates me every time I have to do it, or touch code that uses it. It’s all magic layers and unnecessary abstractions over the apparently heinous crime of “passing arguments down into functions” and setting it up feels like the programming equivalent of performing a sacred incantation.
The Wii supported widescreen system wide. All widescreen content for SDTV was anamorphic.
How has YC helped you succeed?

What is your future roadmap?

How did you find Sonya to manage your social media and generally do your PR?
People have lived in the artic at -50, and in the desert since recorded history. Lifestyles, and buildings were different, that's all. No need for modern tech.
I'm looking at this issue myself and after months of searching, the best ergonomic solution seems to also be the priciest and most thoroughly engineered.

The desk-chair recliner by Altwork is the way to go and demos are available in the Silicon Valley area.

https://altwork.com/

At some point, these will be cheap enough for the masses.
I'm a web developer and I sit about 6-8 hours on a normal day, and when I'm gaming or writing code for fun it can easily reach 18 hours uninterrupted (except restroom breaks).

Over the many years and different office chairs I've finally found the holy grail:

===> Serta Smart Layers Jennings Super Task Big and Tall

(NOTE: there seems to be another version without the word "Super" that I have also purchased and its bottom cushion/back support is sub-par. do be vigilant)

- Supportive, soft leather (or substitute I dunno) cushions
- Good neck/head support
- Comfortable arm rests (though after 6 years have begun to flatten)

Good luck!
That's a fair question, and, while writing the original comment I thought about mentioning it. The honest answer is that I don't know what I've missed out on without social media. I try very hard to cultivate "meat space" relationships that are authentic. Social media, while I tried it out, never felt authentic and after a while I realized that if a relationship is worth having, it will spill over and endure in "meat space".

I guess my point is that, unless you buy into the idea of having online persona, you may not feel homeless online without it.
And it's a failure in a beta, with a sample size of one. As the poster upthread points out, this is the kind of failure you want to find in a beta test of a new product.

But right right... I forgot. Musk.
I am somewhat surprised even though anecdotally over the past 18 months, everyone I know that got a new laptop went AMD. But I'm not an "average" person, so I've got tech-knowledgeable friends and family that takes my advice.

Asus Zephyrus G14, HP Omen 15, Lenovo Legion 5, Lenovo Thinkpad T14.

These are the laptops people around me bought. Ryzen 4000 proved AMD can make good laptop CPUs (APUs) and Ryzen 5000 has been welcomed by OEMs in a way that hasn't happened before for AMD.

But in business it's still much more likely for someone to go Intel...
This is a pretty good reason: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/faqs#why-are-there-missing-listi... Much of the input is scraped via scanning and OCR from physical copies of a magazine that is decades old.

I did find one episode of Blakes 7 listed: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/98edb93a0b8d4797a7b6892c25c30e00
My iPhone starts panicking whenever it runs maps when the temps go over 100F which considering its 115F today is not a good user experience.
122+ F ambient on concrete.. it's going to be much hotter than that.
I spend 5 minutes per day on email
I learned this on QI! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOcmEpp5Kmg
The Global Chessboard
I had open heart surgery just about one year ago. It was done at UCLA Med Center, reputedly one of the best if not the best hospital in California, by the best cardiac surgeon west of the Mississipi. I spent a week in the hospital followed by one month of convalescent care at home. I'm covered by Medicare. My total out of pocket cost was ZERO, other than the standard insurance premium I pay.
ouch, I hadn't seen the updates, or followed along, thanks for the heads up.

I fought many years by hopping distros to keep init.d as my initialization environment. Eventually I gave up and accepted systemd on Debian, my otherwise preferred distro. Maybe it's time I go back to some frankenstein'ed Gentoo build or some other obscure distro.

This isn't any sort of "threat", we're not "customers" leaving money on the table or anything. But the permeation of LLVM into being a hard dependency to have an up to date FOSS system feels against part of the spirit of the movement. At least if I become part of some botnet or scanner getting distro popularity metrics my vote will be counted the way I like. I say this as someone who likes what LLVM has done, and appreciate having more compiler options. It feels somewhat wrong that we're putting so much weight on it though, its off putting we're now leveraging these languages that have only a single implementation. It's hard to describe because it's not inherently against anything FOSS or POSIX philosophy, but whereas one could make a mediocre C compiler in ASM in a few weeks effort, I don't think I can do the same with Rust, Go, or any other modern full featured language. Perhaps it's just me becoming increasingly the curmudengous old man that fits the stereotypes.

I don't really mind Rust, or Go, but I don't really use them either. I learned on C++ but later found I really appreciated the simplicity of C. Maybe I'll just finally start putting in real effort to contribute in the areas I care about.
Those look decent, and I had a similar outcome with my Aeron back in the day. Which size Titan did you get, the L or XL? Am same height as you and am guessing the XL would be better?
Texas is big. There are parts of Texas due to whatever reason it is sunny all the time especially west Texas.

https://www.kxan.com/weather/weather-blog/sunniest-cities-in...
Ok, but doing a little research on pubmed in March of 2020 allowed me to see all the research that had already been done on SARS, that showed spread within apartment complexes and indicated these sorts of diseases were almost certainly airborne rather than spread by droplets. And a lot of "outsider" aerosol experts were saying that all year. Still it took the CDC months and months to admit it.

When the experts start acting like experts, I'll be happy to hang up my shadetree epi role for good. But for now the WHO and CDC have been very political in their pronouncements and not as science-based as I would like.
Speaking of which, how could mobile phones be made to work in extremely hot temperatures for emergencies without shutting down?
What’s the point in posting paywalled nytimes articles?
Backups might get you up and running again, but the new hotness is threatening to release trade secrets, competitive advantages, and embarrassing emails. Even with an ironclad recovery some people might be inclined to pay in such a situation.
I agree with you, although I think the most pragmatic way to deal with it is to acknowledge when platforms have a de facto monopoly, and hold them to a standard when they do
I simply can't fathom why any organisation can't go offline for an hour or so to rebuild their systems from backups, rather than go offline for days or more while ransom is being paid.
There are multiple ways to stop people from being bullied and harassed. We shouldn’t leave it on everyone to defend themselves, but set baseline standards of acceptable behavior. This is uncontroversial as far as government in general is concerned. For whatever reason, people seem to get upset about it when organizations try to enforce standards that are more stringent than the law.
I’m on my second Steelcase Leap and don’t have enough good things to say about the chair. Only reason for the second one was having to leave it behind in a move otherwise I’m pretty sure these chairs can easily last 5-10+ years of everyday use
It's mostly impressive from a technical standpoint, since the programming of games from this era would be strongly tied to the display resolution, eg. a programmer could know which background tiles or entities could be shown in the viewport at any time, and dynamically load/unload them for performance reasons. All of these optimizations now need to be tweaked or removed in the widescreen version so things outside the original 4:3 viewport don't disappear at the edge of your 16:9 display.

More recent games use flexible approaches to allow for different aspect ratios, which would behave similar to eg. fluid design on the web.

Jon Burton of TT Games has an interesting Youtube channel where he goes over some of these old school development techniques, if you wanted to learn more; eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96DO4V8qrR0 uses a lot of techniques that would be difficult to extend to a 16:9 display.
Even commercial-grade electronics have a higher temp range than this. Commercial
is typically 0C-70C. It’s insane that thermal shutdown is at 122F, considering it is specifically designed to be outside. You could get away with that if it’s a device that would never leave your desk, but not for this application.

Either this was a dumb oversight, or it was an intentionally cut corner because of schedule or MVP or something.
Supposing they have backups and that the backups werent compromised.
Πορτογαλια vs. Γερμανια, προγνωστικα στοιχηματος Euro 2020
Η Πορτογαλία θα προσπαθήσει να κλείσει τη θέση της στον γύρο των νοκ-άουτ του Ευρωπαϊκού Πρωταθλήματος με έναν αγώνα να απομένει, όταν αναμετρηθεί με τη Γερμανία στο Μόναχο το Σάββατο το απόγευμα. Η ομάδα του Φερνάντο Σάντος άνοιξε το Euro 2020 με νίκη 3-0 επί της Ουγγαρίας, αλλά η Γερμανία έχει δουλειά να κάνει στον έκτο όμιλο, έχοντας υποστεί 1-0 ήττα από τα φαβορί τουρνουά Γαλλία. Πάμε στα σημερινά Πορτογαλια – Γερμανια προγνωστικα στοιχημα Euro 2020
The same applies to the Gulf region. In fact, most people who can afford it leave the region during the summer.
They put a non-automotive grade LCD in Teslas. I assume because they thought they knew better. I suspect hubris is at play more than full-on incompetence.
haha somehow doubt these will ever become anywhere near affordable for the masses. very niche market with a very niche solution

nice find tho i might consider it for a change of pace one day
I’m happy with the one TaoTronics device I have. In the future, I guess I’ll use the DTC site. No chance of counterfeits there!
What a misleading article.

1) The weekly excess death tend to always largely fluctuate as far as I know.

2) If there really is a causation between excess death and vaccination, shouldn't the number of weekly excess death increase when the relative in crease in the amount of vaccinated people is higher (e.g. the steps between the measurement points is larger)?

3) The drop at the end is also easily explainable, it's a statistics over the first vaccination and vaccination takes some time to take effect and increasingly more people over the same time got vaccinated and once a large amount of people are vaccinated the excess death due COVID will notable fall. So not really that surprising.

Did I miss something?
If it were my business or my team I would want an ML Engineer to relentlessly knock down any barriers to getting models into production.

The deployment of ML is still per-paradigmatic in that people today deploy products based on luck, blood, sweat and tears. Many projects fail and many more never get started.

I am sure that somebody somewhere had a team that gets results consistently, I can partially picture what it would take to do so, but that's not the usual condition. (That team is so productive that it doesn't need to hire more people!)

For instance, you might not want to do any of these things, but any of them could be essential to putting something in production:

* manually classifying 10,000 images or documents
* figuring out how to run a program in the Java and C++ debuggers at the same time
* be able to convince somebody that their research programme is a dead end
* survive a 40 minute build process
* push back against a 40 minute build process and reform it
* reproduce a result from a scientific paper
* get a "data scientist" (who thinks he is too good to listen to you, or even to the CEO) to standardize their python distribution so their work isn't wasted
* find the scalability bottleneck in a system, where it is, not where you want it to be.

Many teams fail at ML because there was an essential task that nobody wanted to do that didn't get done.

People who do these things today will be able to say tomorrow that they were part of a successful team. Other people will expect great praise because they diddled around with Word2Vec for a summer.

Some day the social structures will be in place and they might have a role made for you that will make you productive but for now you must ask: who do you want to be?
Siemens seems like it does not know what it had acquired or who they are speaking to. Basically a bunch of PR gobbledygook that answered very little.
I'm ending this here. This is clearly not going anywhere that's meaningful.
Not to AMD, though.