skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Vlogging Is Empowering a New Generation of Stutterers
Thanks for updating the page and for clarifying here! Bought on steam and patron'd :)
US policy thought is incredibly provincial. We refuse to learn from other countries, and not just on this issue. Consider our response to the COVID epidemic.

In the wake of the SARS and H1N1 epidemics of 2003 and 2009, East Asia quickly came to understand that masks are critical to slowing the spread of highly contagious respiratory viruses. US policy elites had about 17 years to study and learn from this, but somehow they didn't, and we were caught with our pants down in 2020. US authorities initially argued that the public should not wear masks. Then we were pushed into ineffective cloth masks, with the rationale that health workers needed the more effective ones. Meanwhile, policymakers did everything they could to prevent the production and distribution of more effective masks.

I don't exactly want the CCP to take over the US, but a bit of actual technocratic rule could go a long way here.
That's not a position the huge majority of doctors and scientists agree with.

Why should anyone believe you instead of them?
Basically it would be ideal to have a query builder that is easily integrated with shells and notebooks (so that it can be used outside the context of writing programs in a specific languages) and that is accepted across the community.
What you say only makes sense if your code is licensed under something similar to public domain. Some licenses, like the GPL, require derivative works to use the same license.
The problem with 10g is that most servers aren’t on 10g yet and if you’re transiting a peering connection of a smaller ASN at some point, even that is likely not 10g
I've had this experience, all that it's taught me is that Ubereats marketing is primarily just spam.

So I pretty much just assume that they're marketing department doesn't speak for them.

I mean what else am I supposed to think? The app works, it's not the best, I tend to prefer other choices before them, but I just don't pay any attention to their messaging whatsoever.
About zero for children.

Long-term symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection in school children: population-based cohort with 6-months follow-up (Preprint)

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.16.21257255v...

Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/obm0wy/longterm_sy...
An Adobe product described as "professional grade"?
> CarbonCure, a start-up based in Canada, has developed an add-on machine that injects CO2 at the point of mixing the cement with water and sand to create concrete. This permanently stores the CO2 and makes the concrete stronger.

I'm very sceptical of this. If you add CO2 to concrete, the extra strength comes from calcium carbonate, which accelerates concrete aging, and generally reduces its useful life. It's never a good thing.

I readup on what they do, and there is nowhere this is addressed.

Their official stance (https://www.carboncure.com/concrete-corner/key-differences-b...) simply restates the facts without addressing the ultimate fact that this concrete will have much lesser pH reserve for the corrosion to eat through, more porosity, and that this will reduce its useful life in the end no matter what.
I wonder if there's any data on this from countries that did a lot of contact tracing.

On the one hand, I thought it strange a year ago when some authorities based policy on the assumption that kids didn't spread it. On the other hand if kids are mostly asymptomatic it would make sense that they don't spread it as much. I know that private schools in my area were running normal classes, en masse nothing bad seemed to happen.

Hard data would be nice to see, if it's out there.

Also, old people can be vaccinated now, so fears over children spreading it to vulnerable population is becoming a moot point.
Sure, but that wasn't really the point of the article.
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The humans have been blindly copy-pasting from Stackoverflow for years, this simplifies that process. Especially for 10X remote engineers Copilot is a godsend.
As someone from the analytics side who's been working with SQL for 30 years (First Choice, remember that?) (but who also wrote a fair share of ORM boilerplate), I find these debates fascinating .. but also kind of trivial, in the sense that SQL has a lot of other pros and cons that app devs rarely consider.

Truly it is blind men evaluating an elephant.

Given SQL's roots as a human-friendly declarative interface, the only thing I see completely replacing it in the near future is a Copilot-style neural implant where you just think of the results you want.
What is the cost of storage you used in that comparison?

I remember calculating at some point that having enough battery storage to support my electricity needs for 1 day, costs about the same as the total of electricity I will use in 10 years. And this was with favourable numbers, and only accounts for electricity and not other forms of energy use.
I'm heavily introverted, and the lockdown has negatively affected me in various ways. Most notably, I've developed a severe case of contamination OCD that is crippling my personal development and career. After seeking therapy and talking things out, I've come to realize a lot of it has to do with heavy isolation. Now that I'm vaccinated and still seeking therapy, I find that going out and being surrounded by others significantly reduces the anxiety I get associated with my contamination OCD triggers.

This further proves the point that just because somebody is introverted, it does not mean they suffer social anxiety. At the end of the day, both introverts and extroverts need human interaction.
In my experience Apple does a pretty great job with redirecting around traffic and stuff too. I'm sure it won't be as good as Waze since that's their whole thing, but it's plenty good enough for me
Another CentOS based distribution. Red Hat sets the Standard ;) (disclaimer: I am a Red Hatter.
This is good! I need NDA’s fairly often at work and here it’s quick to make one
I opened up my settings to allow Google maps to have access to my location all the time, even when not using the app.

I have found the Timeline feature in Google maps to be a huge game changer in terms of 'where ive been' and 'what Ive done'. I can look back months, see exactly what routes I went down, where I was at a given time. It will even match pictures with the locations.

Especially for journaling vacations (sometimes weeks later), and reliving memories, its the greatest app Ive used in some time.
Not the poster but I could easily go a few years without human contact. It's just not important to me.
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This is why I stick to science fiction!
I have literally worked on bot detection and the high powered company lawyers told me that it's okay for my code to collect and analyze PII for these purposes because GDPR has these exceptions. I'm not a lawyer myself though, so that might have been wrong.
OP isn't saying there are no preference differences, but rather all humans have a similar level of need for social contact.
I find the Copilot and AI discussions quite interesting.

On the one side its indeed problematic that Microsoft (and others in the industry in general) hardly ever ask for permission for data to train models.

On the other side, if you consider AI and computers to be similar to humans, then it's not an issue at all because humans also learn by reading code or information from various sources that are copyrighted or stuff they havent paid for directly (eg a library or "I'm just browsing in a book store" are an interesting for example, the later some books stores actually dont like).

For poisoning the well kind of tactics, the author forgets that you poison the well for everyone - not just ML.

An issue not brought into the mix with Copilot is that computers are superior in their memory and the amount of learning they can do (even now already in specialized domains), and hence maybe the fear, long term issues (incl ethical ones) and people being upset should actually come from that angle.

You know, a computer that can reprogram itself seems like maybe a bad idea.
Computational Social Science (from the point of view of mobile phones)
There are arrows on each side of the comic. They're transparent, but they're there.
We were already using Apple Maps pre-iOS15 because its turn-by-turn directions were far superior.

With Google Maps, we were often surprised by the directions: it would be like keep left... keep left...TURN AROUND NOW.

Apple Maps often shows the next two directions, and more clearly dictates what we should do next.

... with iOS15, Apple maps are just gorgeous, and I've completely deleted Google maps (I now have no dependence on Google services for personal life).

Google has sat on its hands the last couple years with Google Maps: it has hardly improved at all, and outside of their move to jack up prices for API users, I haven't heard of any real changes.
Because when you OpenSource and use the BSD license, then they are in violation since they will not provide you credit.

No one should use this, because you could easily be a derivative of something else and you are not in control of your own license.
The next step is to integrate actual parts of the software into the poison-pill, so that if the poison-pill is not included then the software doesn't work.

It isn't necessarily a good idea, but it's the next obvious step.
Ted Turner asks Carl Sagan if he is a socialist
That’s the right to full erasure. Revoking consent for processing your data for marketing purposes should be possible at any time and as easy as giving consent:

“The data subject shall have the right to withdraw his or her consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. Prior to giving consent, the data subject shall be informed thereof. It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent.” (Article 7(3) GDPR)

That does not mean that you cannot take a few days to process the revocation, but it does mean that you should handle it as soon as possible and the burden is on you as data processor to ensure you still have valid (non-revoked) consent before sending another mail.
But a map app is so much more than street maps and navigation. I have tried to switch to Apple Maps, and it works great for navigation or getting an overview of the streets. But I cannot use Apple Maps to explore!

With Google maps, I just fire it up and search “sights” to find places near that are worth a visit. “Public beaches” to find where I can go for a swim. If I try the same with Apple Maps, more often than not I get sent to a place in Myanmar or similar which happens to be tagged as “public beach”.

Also when I search for a business on Google maps, I get photos and reviews. With Apple Maps I am happy if I get a link to a website.
It seems like you "won" because you kept your job, living in a rural area and being introverted was just a side bonus.
Carbon taxes should start out very small, and phase in gradually over the equipment replacement period (at least 20-30 years?)

Carbon taxes need to drive a shift in planning - on the planning time horizon - for everything that emits carbon
especially when talking about UK, it's far from over (no matter what Boris Johnson is telling his people). With 30.000 cases per day and more opening up planned (and the Euro finals tomorrow), more and more people will get covid. Even if the death rate will be low compared to last year, people will get long covid. Probably hundreds of thousands of people. There are already 400k people in UK who suffer for more than 1 year from long covid. [1]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/01/almost-400000-ha...
Good for you one mega-city in Europe* got proper apple treatment after 10 years lets wait 20 more years for other monster cities, and then they can maybe add some cities under a 10 million population :D
But the old people are now all vaccinated so they won't get it or at least won't get really sick. I'm sure some will but a lot of the risk has been mitigated. There will always have to be some measure of risk we have to accept. We can't eliminate it completely.

I'm a bit worried that because of a year and a half of mass fear even the slightest risk of covid will be blown up.

I saw this effect here in Barcelona. There was an article on young people thinking they could not get covid. And an ICU nurse was quoted saying that's not true and they have a girl there who is bad.

But this doesn't take into account that the numbers are so low. Many young people die because of traffic accidents and the like. There has to be a point where we say it's mitigated enough and just move on with life.

I'm not saying we're there yet but we should start talking about where that point is.
>presumably Python has a similar "cache" of such constant strings.

Not really. You're hitting constant folding: https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/constant-folding-python

This isn't a pre-made list of certain strings that should be cached, this is the compiler noticing that you mentioned the same constant a bunch of times.

Also in general you would see a lot of things with the same id because python uses references all over the place. E.g. assignment never copies.
Don't try TikTok then - I find it way more addictive
Article lead: The overall risk of children becoming severely ill or dying from Covid is extremely low, a new analysis of Covid infection data confirms.

As far as I can tell the linked report mentions nothing about severity of illness, only mortality.

Edit: Second study is linked to further down the page which addresses the severe illnesses, as ricardobeat points out.
If Amazon doesn't fix their horribly astroturfed review system, they will be worthless in a few years after enough people get burned.
Agreed on the mutability of these traits.

I have definitely become more of an extrovert as I’ve gotten older. Only child of only children growing up in a rural area…kind of an incubator for introversion. But having lived in a big city, been out in the world, seen what there it to be seen, I’ve become far more outgoing. [also maybe drugs, i dunno]

And I am coming out of the pandemic times rarin’ to go. Arguably too much—I am purposefully having a slow weekend after the madcap last 2 weeks.
Softwares? Software is plural.
Most energy intensive work is also mass/volume intensive as well - as in it's producing something. Obvious exception is something like a data-center.

Since transporting goods has a cost in itself, it'll probably continue to be cheaper to ship electricity across land, than to relocate plants (in general, there will always be exceptions), especially if we need big, efficient transmission to get energy from the desert into cities (cause those won't move) anyways.
Same here. I feel bad when I mention that my life has gotten infinitely better since Covid. I get to work from home and just be by myself, it's amazing.
Aye. It’s funny, perusing the other comments in this thread, how attached people are to these labels, which really have no factual basis at all. We choose the stories that we tell about ourselves; yet we act as if the stories chose us.
Every single time I express the opinion that these global scale criminals be brought to justice, this happens.

Cue the trolls with hot takes. Either they're ignorant or they're too invested in the current fossil fuel status quo, and fear change.
Oracle sells the test kit.

Sure, you wouldn't want to share the answers to the drivers license exam...are you saying that they should sell the answers instead? What the actual fuck?
Not sure what they’re pointing to, but TPMS tracking is possible as well.

https://youtu.be/TDYoo7TGNcw
I have daily human contact online at work. I've never met one of my coworkers in the flesh. In meatspace, I drive into a tiny village once a week to get mail at the post office, usually talking to nobody. Every other week I go to a more distant small town and hit the grocery and hardware store, and pass a few words with a clerk or three. It isn't unusual for a month to go by without speaking in the flesh with anyone that I'm not buying something from. I've had years go by without a non-commercial visitor to my home. I built a desk a couple of years ago and I'm still waiting to show it off to somebody.

It isn't a good way to live. But for some weird reason it isn't very lonely ... until I'm around people. Then the loneliness becomes unbearable and I retreat.
It's still wrong, what is your point?
Apple Maps tends to be better in English speaking countries, or otherwise where there's a lot of iPhones. Google Maps is almost universally better anywhere else.
The real question is energy storage.
I've tried to use Apple Maps but it just straight up cant find normal places that have existed for ages. I don't know what the deal is.
It looks like they need to tweak their Neural network some.

From the video it looks like the reconstruction network is confusing background and walls, which should not happen if they are distinct labels.
I suspect they are passing the pseudocolor labelled images between the two networks instead of the one-hot labeled data that a vision system would normally deal with internally.
In the U.S. you can sell a home "as is" and disclose the tunnels as a safety risk. The buyer can fill in the tunnels if they don't have a need for them. Homes are sold all the time with defects, code violations, etc... Sometimes the land/location alone is the primary value of the property. That is the case in my neck of the woods. Several of my neighbors had dilapidated homes with rotted wood, 100+ year old redwood septic systems and still sold for seven figures. I have no idea if you can sell a property "as is" in the U.K. I also have no idea in what neighborhood Colin resides.
The pro-nuclear argument there goes back to some people at MIT, which was actually talking about the need for "firming sources" of power. Going 100% renewable with just batteries for storage has the problem of rare times when there's an extended lull in wind and lack of sunlight.

But nuclear is not well suited to filling in those gaps. The firming source that makes more sense is hydrogen burned in combined cycle plants (which cost about $1/W, vs $10/W for a nuclear plant). The hydrogen would be made with excess renewables during times of plenty and stored underground, just as natural gas is stored today. With this storage technology (as well as batteries and the like for diurnal storage) renewables provide "synthetic baseload" supply and will likely do it at a cost that nuclear will find difficult to match.

The relevant technological advance here has been low cost electrolyzers, suitable for use with intermittent power sources. These have been getting cheaper quite rapidly, and money is being pumped in to drive them down their experience curves just as PV and wind were driven down theirs previously.

Any additional sources of storage and demand smoothing (transmission, industrial thermal storage, large scale production of synfuels, intermittent CO2 capture) tilts the balance toward renewables as well.
Are we saying vaccines are not the solution?
I've had the occasional issue with location metadata but it's pretty rare in my experience
Strong disagree on it being a basic human need. I've had months without socializing and didn't think much of it. In fact, I was really happy during those times.
People have sued over similar stuff in the past, like Google training their language model on copyrighted materials. The legal consensus is that a model trained on a large volume of copyrighted works does not infringe copyright, even if it occasionally vomits up chunks of the input model.

That said, if you trained a model specifically designed to violate copyright I suspect the courts would have a different opinion. They consider intent just as much as (if not more than) what you actually did.
I've read this several times, but I'm nit actually clear what you are accusing the BBC or the government of. It's reasonable to call the first even from March 2020 a 'lockdown'. The rules in the UK were pretty clear - unless you are a keyworker don't leave your house apart from essential shopping or 1 hour of local excercise.

Since then restrictions have been eased in what can probably best be described as partial lockdowns.
The tough question is: how do the long-term, hard-to-pin-down, variable physical health effects of post-viral syndrome compare to the long-term, hard-to-pin-down, variable mental health effects of lockdown, social isolation, job insecurity, and disruption?
>Worst part is that the @Tesla driver was a young woman

Are women now at the level of disabled people?
I think the debate is reasonable, "serverless" (just like no-ops) implies that there are no servers (or ops minded folk), the reality is that you're outsourcing the operating system management.

For that, I think Functions-as-a-service makes more sense. Or, Containers-as-a-Service if that's your poison.
I don't fully agree with the article's definition of introversion. I feel it conflates extroversion with being outgoing, and introversion with being reserved. One can be outgoing and introverted, for instance.

My theory, btw, is that we introverts got our perfect dose of social contact by going to work and a few outings here and there. But during the pandemic it was easy to just do nothing with it as a "mental excuse", and when I didn't get social events handed to me it kinda just became nothing. Normally I wouldn't have to seek out social stuff to get my dose, but now it suddenly was too little.
That makes sense. A potential obstacle could be that a nation that does not have good relations with their neighbors may often be a nation where nuclear energy would represent a military/proliferation risk.
Yes. I stopped using Google Maps years ago because Apple’s estimates are far more accurate and less stressful (mostly DC-Boston corridor). Google would suggest routes which were allegedly faster but that was based on assuming no traffic anywhere so things like unprotected left turns across major roads would be a net time savings.

Actual arrival times tended to be about the same as Apple’s original estimates when, say, it turned out that I-95 really did have traffic at the same places it always does.
I think that's probably because Apple doesn't even know that backroads existed so Apple Maps couldn't optimize the route.

If Apple Maps had knew those backroards, they would probably output the same routes! :-D
An analogy would be this: it would be like flying in a plane designed by an engineer that calculated coincidentally correct values but arrived at them using completely incorrect methods and calculations.

The output happened to be right but the method to get there was fundamentally wrong and would be faulty if used in other scenarios.

Getting the right answer for the wrong reasons is still wrong in a way, the process to arrive at the conclusion is important.
We have a general rule on our team that complex SQL is a code smell. In our project complex queries are usually an indication of a poor design.

Anything SQL that can be made simpler via dynamic generation (which is safe as long as you use proper parameters for user inputs) is favored over creating logical branches in queries. Anything that can be processed further quickly in memory in the app (mapping operations, string ops, ordering/filtering predictably small data sets, etc.) we tend to offload from SQL into something more suitable.

And we tend to solve a class of problem in our data layer and reuse those generalized patterns heavily. This makes our codebase predictable even when dealing with unfamiliar subject matter.

Of course there are always places where some complex query is necessary (especially when building reports), but if it’s status quo then you’re doing something wrong—-it’s only a matter of time until you end up with a performance nightmare on your hands.