skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm really starting to wonder why I bothered with the vax. This will just go on and on.

Don't worry. This will not go on an on, we're just living through the death rattles of the pandemic completely dominating global, collective, and media awareness over the past year and a half. Of course the BMA are concerned: they are doctors, they have taken the worst of the pandemic, and they just want this damn thing to stop. The difference is that for them, this damned thing is people needing medical attention, and they can only wish it were possible for everything to just bloody stop if that would release them with dealing with the worst of COVID-19. But it will get better, with minor ups and downs.

SARS-CoV-2 is of course not going anywhere. There will continue to be new variants, the media will for a while loudly (and clumsily) echo any clinical paper about breakthrough infections, or increases of cases in this or that population, or collapsed ICUs [0]. Meanwhile, vaccine manufacturers will try to lobby governments into buying and administering newly developed booster doses for this or that variant of concern. The new variant may or may not really be truly concerning for public health, but their business is manufacturing and selling pharmaceuticals, so fair enough.

But in any case, once a critical mass of the population is vaccinated, COVID-19 will gradually become irrelevant. Virtually everyone will have significant immunity, a few people will catch it and think it's just a cold, fewer people will catch it and develop a nasty flu-like case which will be correctly diagnosed as COVID-19, and there will even be nasty and even deadly cases in vaccinated people. But there are nasty and deadly cases of flu, and even nasty and deadly cases of common cold viruses. However, as the media little by little gets bored of making a big thing every time this happens, the epidemiology of COVID-19 will slowly become only of interest to people actually working in the field — just like they have been silently studying the epidemiology of every seasonal flu strain without any media attention.

[0] For Spain at least, I can find you news about collapsed ICUs... during pre-2019 flu seasons!
Show HN: Pen.el (Working GPT-3/LM for Emacs with easy Docker install)
This is an update to my previous submission a week ago.

- Easy docker install and run - one-liner
- A tutorial
- Rewritten most of the code to be
- faster,
- more featureful,
- more reliable, and
- much closer to pure elisp

pen.el is a GPT-3 editor based on emacs and an alternative to Copilot and is configurable to connect other completion engines. It's also an emacs lisp package that can be installed into your existing environment.

I am working on the GPT-j completer currently. Google has kindly sponsored a free TPU. Thank you Google!

I'm camped out in McDonalds using the free WiFi to upload the image. Thanks for sponsoring some free WiFi too, McDonalds!

Discard the docker image after use as it saves the OpenAI API key.

docker run --rm -ti --entrypoint= semiosis/pen.el:latest ./run.sh

Please give it a try and submit bug reports. P2P prompt sharing is on its way.
IMHO - This is on Elastic itself. AWS is not the only place or mandatory place to run Elastic search. There are tons of other cloud vendors, on premise farms and what not. That was more than enough for Elastic to be profitable in polishing their offerings for everything minus may be the 3 big cloud players.

This also goes for Mongo. The pricing at least was not clear to me for a deployment, I clearly and precisely articulated the amount of data and already 3 node MongoDB Cluster we have but the sales rep continued to insist on jumping on a call.

Here's the thing - what is so difficult about pricing that you cannot write a one liner saying XXX dollars per YY nodes per ZZ period?

I vaguely remember, it turned about to be around about 2.5k USD per month whereas infrastructure cost was to be yet paid by us.
This is fascinating.

Can someone help me understand why SDF-only techniques are valuable (aside from being interesting in their own right)?

I know very little gfx but so far I mostly saw SDFs used for accomplishing stuff in fragment shader that would otherwise be done with geometry, kind of as a workaround for limitation of shadertoy environment
Neovim – Init.lua
> I'd wager that the number of people who are English-German bilingual chemists with this book from 1982 on their shelf who edit Wikipedia is exactly one, and further, that he did not experimentally test or have other familiarity with the compound to sanity check the fact.

Well of course he didn't, he'd be violating their "no original research" policy if he did.
> This will not go on an on

At what point would you be willing to admit you were wrong? If we're still doing whatever-variant this time next year, would you reconsider?
Still works in Firefox for Desktop.

They dropped support for the pop-ups for installing OpenSearch plugins but still support the link relations method. The OpenSearch plugin repository at the Mycroft Project looks like it is still maintained: https://mycroftproject.com/
This feels like it's strictly worse than /r/datascience or /r/machinelearning. Too much fluff and self-promotion, too little comments.

Actually scratch that, it looks like ALL the posts are self-promotion.
Very impressive, runs absolutely smooth on a 2018 iPad Pro.
Show HN: Online Catalog of Pipedrive Integrations
https://github.com/semiosis/pen.el/
Just remember that their valuation does not represent their free cash flow, whether they are profitable at all, etc. It could be that open sourcing something kills your profitability in the back, while boosting revenue.
Algorithmic Redistricting: Elections made-to-order ]video[
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You don’t, unless the teaching staff decide to include a lot of numerical work in exams. Which I don’t know why they would do. I would presume that a calculus course would teach you algebraic methods that you work out on paper.

In Swedish engineering schools, graphing calculators are banned from exams in almost all subject.
I’ve always found that asking questions about my work is a good way to find design issues.

Doing things like looking at code coverage for tests, is a good way to look at the implementation, but it doesn’t inspect the design.

The article describes a great way to teach newer folks, while forcing older folks to review their architectural decisions.

A good way to improve, once we have achieved a certain level, is to teach, and that works by forcing us to review what we do, from a new perspective.
It's an interesting and very clever technique. But those landscapes don't look real in any sense. They look like painted clouds. Uncanny valley? Maybe not even that close to reality.
Gpt-3 can not make questions from text. If would be better to give instant answers if it can read and realize the material, because sometimes I really do not need to read all the article.
I will be willing to admit I am wrong if, in a given country, we're still doing whatever-variant 6 months after the vaccination of school-age children is completed.
I have my personal LIR with RIPE and they do allow signing up as an LIR without being a company. As an individual you need to provide proof of identity via government issued ID and pay 17% Dutch VAT.

When I signed up I got a /22 of V4 space and /29 of v6 space, although for new signups I believe there's now a wait list to get a /24 and that's it for V4.
> If the people holding out won't listen to evidence

Different people have different definitions for "evidence". Something that can convince me, might not be enough to convince you.

That does not mean I can force my trust in a certain evidence upon you.
Distribution bullshit hurts sales more than piracy.

"You can only watch this two months after the US release", "This isn't available in your country", "You need an internet connection to watch this", "You can't watch this on Linux", "You need to pay for 170 channels to watch one", "This that one show you want to watch requires a £12.99 monthly subscription", "You will pay cinema prices but will have to supply the TV, seating and only get to play it back once", "You will pay new-DVD prices but won't be able to share it with a friend"

We pretend that the surge of Netflix, Prime, Disney online services means this is getting more open, more free, but it the same game via a different medium.

Piracy still offers a better service, less bullshit. If they stopped treating people like criminals, yes, they might lose some cash, but they'd also pull in the people they've lost to years of abuse.
Sorry, but even if you know that both releases should have sold roughly the same from past sales that doesn't mean it has to stay true forever. For example, the platform might've become obsolete, people got better things to play than rehash #9001, other sales channels became more popular, pirating to work around issues with intrusive DRM, dissatisfaction with past products, and many other possible reasons.

Maybe the full data is more convincing, but ultimately you can't really know whether someone playing your game would've bought it other than if they did. If, for example, each iteration of some franchise sells less with more pirating going on, it probably means your fans don't appreciate the way things developed and just want to see where their once beloved franchise is going. Assassin's Creed used to be one of the best in gaming, but for me it's not even worth pirating any more. Should've developed the current-year story like it was foreshadowed in AS2, but the whole idea of training Miles using the animus to defeat abstergo was jus dropped to milk the fans once a year. Doesn't surprise me when people stop buying in such a case.
Seatbelt's are for other people. If you are in the car with someone, and they are not wearing a seat belt, they are a projectile.

That's part of the reason debate over seat belt laws is often misguided under the guise of being only about self inflicted harm. It's also to protect you from others becoming a meat torpedo.

Which circles back to the crux of the original post. At what level does a society have the right to self assemble and govern and protect itself from others. Is it at the block level, the city level, the county level, the state level? Should people be able to go move to an empty spot in the desert and say "vaccinated people only" OR "unvaccinated people only." If those people only want to be around those people, are they allowed to carve out a space for themselves somewhere? When that area starts to rely on the infrastructure of others, how does that relationship change?
I agree with that sentiment. If I am renting my car to you and you somehow damage the bumper, I do not want you to duct-tape it and claim that it is fixed without any damage.
Wait, why did it cost $700 ? Looks like a $4 part and about 2 hours of labour, unless the drive to home-depot took the entire day..
This article is low on information. Reads almost like propaganda to me. I would expect a serious article about this topic to shed light on the practical usefulness of the armory. It more of less just name drops a few fancy material that are used.
There are github organizations. I checked this year and it allowed to create one for free.

https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/collaborating-with-...
Very cool! However, could they not compile the Haskell Elm compiler to JS using GHCJS and then write Elm bindings for it?
>quite misleading

Possibly. Or accurate.
I am about at the end of my PhD* (a few months left) and my supervisor's advice still rings true: try to keep the feedback loops short. If you have to spend months figuring out if something is worth doing, then it becomes rather risky to try. However, if you can shorten the cycle from idea to rough confirmation down to a week or two, then you can afford to explore the options.

The trick is of course that there are several ways to approach this: you can develop more flexible tools, become more independent in the lab (if you have lab work), learn more theory, learn more tools, buy more compute power, pick easy problems etc.

Another angle I have thought about (and learned the hard way), is that there is a big difference between research and development. My topic is closely related to engineering and thus it is sometimes attractive to want to "solve a problem". Unfortunately, many measures of "good research" supposes a relevant application, but "solving a problem" is much more difficult than "understanding a problem". The understanding truly has to come first.

Also, these two pieces of advice (Short learning feedback; focus on understanding not solving), are not guarantees to produce "groundbreaking" research. In the end, the most important product of a PhD education is you and the skills you develop.

* A PhD in Denmark is a bit special, in that it is very short (essentially limited to 3 years) and thus has a slightly different scope.
Why? I've done calculus and analysis in college and no one has ever used a calculator, I'm not even sure what you would need one for, can you give me an example (seriously curious)

The only time I remember needing a calculator in my entire education was some circuit theory because those Thevenins and Nortons get real ugly real fast (but even then you only need +,-,*,/)
Any recent Stanford grads have a recent Computer Forum compensation survey?
"Diversity and inclusion" in action, perhaps.
It's not very viable yet because the only form of it we reliably achieve is a bomb. This makes the only useful spacecraft to use it something like Project Orion.

Such a device, while possible, is very fuel-inefficient: you need several kg of plutonium just to ignite the tritium. Peak mechanical and radiation loads are very high.

A thruster which could produce much lower thrust for a much longer time seems much safer and cheaper to implement, even if detonating nuclear bombs in space were not an issue. And a issue it is: you need to do it rather far away from all other spacecraft, which means some weird orbital plane.
If everyone else is vaccinated except you, you're protected from the effects of both covid and the vaccine.
- The contents of the article are less important than you're implying, most people are here for the discussion. Yes, sometimes not reading the article is a problem but many other times it isn't and this can be clarified in the course of the discussion. Very often the article itself is just a starting point to discuss a broader topic.

- People won't answer the questions like you suggest, they'll just leave. In a hypothetical world where your feature is implemented, it will destroy the site instantly.

- You're making very generous assumptions about what language models can do.

- HN is a website with very minimal features. We don't even have dark mode. I wouldn't expect complex AI features any time soon. Or ever.

- Seriously, take a second to think about the user experience of a discussion site that asks you to take a test before writing a comment.
>What if there's unpredictable long term consequences?

This is actually a smaller issue. The big issue is that measures based on science that is tainted with trust issues must not be mandated.

Have written about this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27817926

Basically, I think science require a global change in its perception that is updated to modern times.
Inventor harvests methane gas from ditches and ponds to power his moped
There is no time to write blog posts , every engineer is there to try and complete as many tickets as possible before the end of the sprint. I’m glad it’s different in your place. I’ve worked at tons of different companies and it was always the same. Careful what companies you move to.

As a final note I was not expecting any empathy it’s taken me aback slightly. I’m ok now guys I sorted my life out with another revenue stream thanks for replies.
Your posts wouldnt be blocked, you would have to verify that you have read the article first before posting.
It's incredibly valuable for people with chronic pain (e.g. military veterans) who want a safer and less habit-forming alternative to synthetic opiates -- as well as for people who are fighting opiate addiction.

There've been a couple pushes to get Kratom designated as Schedule 1 by the DEA over the past decade, and -- in a rare episode of democratic counter-pressure actually succeeding -- these efforts have, so far, been thwarted [ref: https://www.mintpressnews.com/dea-delays-unprecedented-ban-o...]

Despite having a very minor risk-profile -- as well as having significant public health utility as a means to alleviate the opiate epidemic -- a number of states have criminalized it.

The campaign against Kratom is very clearly distorted by pharmaceutical interests, who view Kratom as a low-cost competitor to their products.

There've been many reports over the years which illustrate this dynamic, but one of the most damning was unearthed recently through FOIA requests, revealing that the FDA was deliberately misrepresenting data on death/injury [Ref: https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/foia-docs-show-fdas-...]

It is worth noting that, while not technically an opiate, it does bind with the opioid receptors in the brain. So there is a risk of physical dependency and if withdrawal is induced with something like Naltrexone the symptoms are severe enough to register on the COWS scale.

Overall Kratom is very benign, and has been used in south asian cultures for thousands of years.

I've taken it at times as a focus-aid, usually paired with coding, and found it generally agreeable. However I wouldn't suggest making a habit of it, without compelling medical reason.
So can't generalize. Which was the point.
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Changing it way way? Worse or better?
I believe the reason is because they allow for efficient raytracing via a technique called raymarching, which requires a way for it to tell what's the minimum distance from a surface given any arbitrary point, hence the need for a SDF. Quilez has many examples of this technique on his site
Show HN: Now You Need No-Code
I was at a unicorn that didn't have any career level/framework and was growing fast. _Many_ engineers and ICs were asking management to add such a framework. In other cases, other employees were complaining that "titles actually do matter", claiming that the lack of rank or title was hurting their future prospects (which wasn't wrong, for better or worse). A good amount of hires refused offers because their title didn't match their prior roles. And then when a title was made for them, the title became an informal career ladder within the org. And then comparisons were made and requests to be ranked similarly made.

So strangely, it was the employees that requested and pushed for this. Personally, back then I was not interested in the whole thing. Still not that into it, but I'd be more on the fence.
This. I'm on a rather long paternity leave as of now, and I really hope everything runs as if I'd never left when I get back, otherwise, the bus factor is too low.
Hang on, if it's rented, why is the rentor liable for the repair? Is this where we get into a discussion of damage waivers and insurance excesses?
If you're using paternity leave because "you've earned it", why should you get special leave? Just use annual leave! You've earned that too, and it leaves you on equal footing with everyone else without getting special brownie points for being a lucky husband.

At the end of the day, this is unfair. People who have - in this case up to 3 - kids get a structural advantage. We're in an era where not only do we expect a lot of people not to have kids, the ones who aren't having them are in some sense making a sacrifice of some very precious moments for the ones who are.

This is an expression of the same old arguments against maternity leave as well - at the end of the day, this is making private choices a problem for the company and (to some extent) the people working at the company. The effects of this sort of thing can already be seen in the differences between men and women's pay & career opportunities - it is a substantial handicap!

We should be winding back on this sort of thing, not encouraging it. People should earn their living and take time off at their own expense.

EDIT And, having thought about it a bit, it might favour wealthy workers. You end up with situations where effectively the janitor's wage has to go down to cover for the risk the software engineer has kids.
The amount of unsubstantiated and scientifically unproven or even completely unstudied claims in this thread is truly staggering.

These mRNA vaccines are safe for children? How on earth would you know that if the vaccines have only been studied on a handful of healthy kids for a couple of months. Does nobody understand the amount of time needed to do this kind of study properly and thoroughly?

I'd also love some scientific studies that prove that the following claims are true, because as far as I know they aren't:

"No chance of wiping it out without everyone vaccinated."

"It's like wearing seatbelts, but for other people."

"Variants develop primarily in unvaccinated people"

"The main goal of all these actions is to end the pandemic in just a few years."

"In the UK, most people getting into hospitals now with severe Covid are young and unvaccinated"

Oh and I expect to be thoroughly downvoted for this because, you know, group think and all.
Show HN: Slack Notifications for Google Forms
would storing them obsidian vault in cryptomator work?
Boo hoo. Open source licences are a joke, GPL is a deranged dream. There's no stopping the train of the software industry, and businesses have no interest in upholding some hippie mantras from a simpler time about free software love. Their developers are too busy writing throwaway code to set up the next A/B test of a feature that won't exist three months from now: who cares about attributing every if statement their editor autocompletes to some random evangelist who authored it in the 90's. Let's get real.
> Being new or not is not the crucial point.

When we're talking about "we don't know the long term effects", it's certainly a crucial point, because it shows that we can have a good idea of the long term effects already.

I agree there's likely to be huge political pressure to downplay side effects, however the scale of this rollout and the attention it's getting worldwide mean that it's going to be very unlikely such things sneak through, simply due to the size of the vaccinated population.
The problem is probably the distinguishing line. When is it a ML model doing something and when is it a human with tools doing the same thing?

In other words, to what extent does the color of the bits matter? [1] And does the output of a ML model have a new "color"?

[1]: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
> Give them a little pay rise every 6 months

Everyone gets the same raise as long as they aren't obviously failing? A lot of people who have a more competitive personality would be completely demotivated by something like that.
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I don't disagree with you that it's a lack of education and context, but I personally don't accept that as an excuse. Information about vaccination is totally ubiquitous. Being ignorant of this is just not okay. So no after a year and half of inundation of information explaining these basic fact I honestly am disgusted that people still hold these beliefs. I basically lose faith in society because of it.

As an aside, I never called you (or anyone else I was referring to) a bigot.
Only (well-written) f77 is faster than c
M80 Stiletto Test Ship Defeated Drone Swarms at Sea During Trials
The necessary mindset for small businesses
Driving may reveal early signs of Alzheimer's
Right, you could reduce the number of projects by grouping related ones as monorepos. I have published a serie of articles on how to create monorepos in JavaScript with Lerna, this is the first part: https://www.adaltas.com/en/2021/01/05/js-monorepos-project-i...