skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, most of the childhood vaccines have their liability covered by the US Government under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Covid-19 vaccine liability is covered by the US government under the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program.

Drug companies have big pockets, but the US Government has even bigger pockets. I care more about being able to seek redress than who it's coming from.
Even if the new stdlib is 100% backwards compatible (which I think is the goal), it still needs rework to make it use generics where appropriate.
Terribly misleading title. Packages to allow Python to create/manipulate Excel files have been around for a long time.

Like MeinBlutIsBlau, I thought this was going to be Microsoft finally ditching VBA for Python as its macro language.
Indeed this is certainly more broadly applicable. But if this is the case for a school as prestigious as Columbia in New York City (i.e., a city with a thriving television industry), things must be even more dire at no-name liberal arts colleges in flyover states.
> measurements are in millimeters! Why all the big numbers!

Precision, usually if you are getting something fabricated the numbers are quoted in millimeters if the millimeters is under 10,000. So a desk might be 1800x800x700mm. I don't think I have ever seen something listed as 120000x10000x10000mm. At that point they would switch to meters.
Durham-Raleigh is young, lots of tech there, and real estate isn’t insane. You’ll also be close to some great incubators and Angel investors.
Japanese Americans are a group that has a sizable population of people who have lived their entire lives in the US. If you think that they would be more likely to behave similarly to people who have spent their whole lives in Japan, the burden of proof is on you, because that certainly is not a mainstream view.
How does liability on vaccine manufacturers induce conservatives to take the vaccines and vaccinate their kids?
All have merit in their own right.
So show my remote-only plumber isn’t doing it for me…
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My school's CS grad students [0] currently get a net stipend of $17,664/academic year ($19,188 stipend minus $1,524 in mandatory fees) if they are either a teaching or research assistant. In my college town, that's a tight budget but doable with a bit of effort

However, given the state of even the CS intern job market, there's an interesting possibility where grad students could pretty easily make more in the course of a 10-15 week summer internship than they make over the course of an entire academic year (not counting the value of the tuition remission).

[0]: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/graduate/financial_support/assista...
I don't care much about tracking, but this ad is very effective. It's kinda dishonest about what tracking is (it's not bunch of people making job and purchase decisions for you, come on). But effective.
OP went to Duke, and no, people at (picking a nearby school) UNC can't generally move to finance, maybe data science at tech companies. And people at the also-nearby Wake Forest and NC State probably can't even do that.
Someone's life but not anyone's life. Not sure why the films listed on that page are about JFK and Bob Dylan if you can make a move about anyone.
You can just use an adblocking DNS server I think?
Actually the OP asked the question. By assuming a particular answer, you are providing the racism.
I think it's the new version of starting a war. Similarly, it's completely unconscionable that someone would start a war and send thousands or millions of their own people to kill other people and/or die for any reason other than to stop some massively worse event from happening, but our presidents do it constantly.

It was only 12 years before my birth that the US stopped forcing 18 year olds to join the military and fight overseas and we've started & joined in plenty of non-necessary wars since then.

Nothing is off limits when unlimited power & financial gain are at stake, I guess.
Most if not all of the US Navy was in the Pacific and there were enough defenses that the Japanese could not have taken Hawaii. The reason they could take much of Manchuria and southeast Asia is their defenses were mostly filled with pre WWI era weapons or had little to no defenses. They just blitzkrieged the entire place. Hawaii had significant modern defenses capable of warding off an invasionary force. Which is why Pearl Harbor wasn't a legitimate invasion. Japan just wanted to knock out US involvement. They didn't honestly want a long term conflict and take over like in "The Man in the High Castle."
I generally appreciate the opportunity to do things like dishes/laundry/make fresh lunch during the work week that WFH provides, however I've also had days where it was either ludicrously noisy outside or I was having some technical or it was 100 degrees in my non air conditioned apartment where I thought "man, being in the office sure sounds nice right now".
sent them another plane load of cash, probably
> Trump has encouraged a general sentiment of opposition to experts

Trump knew since May 2020 that Fauci was lying - he had the DOE LLNL investigate the lab leak theory, and LLNL reported that COVID-19 was possibly from a lab. So yeah, he doesn't believe experts who can't stop lying.

https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/exclusive-classified-stud...

> he's been kind of lukewarm on promoting the vaccines compared to Democrat leaders

Trump's Warpspeed (Spring 2020) funded the vaccines. I haven't heard him say any negative things about them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed

Republicans/Trumpists believe in personal choice, so I wouldn't expect him to be a cheerleader for getting a shot.

> the GOP has increasingly embraced conspiratorial thinking,

After Fauci lying for over a year, 2 failed impeachments, being deplatformed on social media, being told they have no standing to dispute elections, being told CRT doesn't exist - half of the country knows what a Marxist conspiracy feels like first-hand, and they're pissed.

Most of the major stories about Trump since 2019 on CNN, MSNBC and WaPo have been retracted in 2021 (after the election). I suggest you stop reading those sources and spend a couple months reading Fox and NTD - I can't think of anything they're retracted.

Do a Youtube search for "cpac trump full speech 2021" - the only full version is on Sky Australia's channel - for now. All the copies on US channels have been blocked or prevented.
If it's FOSS maybe you can make a feature request to the creator?
> I have a good guess what’s going on: It’s proving really hard to make a CPU (or SoC) that’s perceptibly faster than the M1. Here’s why.

This is daft. Chips are not something that you can finalise the design of and have in customers hands tomorrow, next week, or next month.

Whatever pro-level AS device Apple ends up shipping, the design of it was finalised by the end of last year at the latest. What's far more likely is they either never planned to ship it ad WWDC, or (more likely) they're affected by the same market dynamics as everyone else in terms of the ongoing semiconductor shortages.
I moved me and my company from San Francisco in 2018 and absolutely love it here in Nashville. I suspect we may have clashing world and political views, but that’s not the point. Nashville is an amazing city, opportunity is unlimited, amazing night life, food, culture, and of course music. Southern is way more my style and speed.

> How can I ask people who work for me to live here?

Frankly, there is already enough demand and highly qualified people moving here.
s/browser fingerprinting/device fingerprinting/

s/device fingerprinting/device detection/

s/defence against browser fingerprinting/control over "UI" selection/

A simple example of where Google uses device detection is Gmail. However the process is non-transparent as Google does not share the list of user-agent strings utilised, like the sample list provided by 51degrees.

I was sloppy with the terminology in the original comment and I apologise for that. I meant "device detection" not necessarily "fingerprinting".
This is COVID, not some rat behavior study. It will be replicated.
Kernel extension are still allowed on Big Sur (and Monterey).
Many jobs are location dependent for pragmatic reasons, e.g. firefighters can't reasonably suppress fires 1000 miles away.
The Green New Deal’s Big Open Secret: It Doesn’t Exist
This is Fair. For GP:

> Why were none of the Japanese executives arrested?

Then zero arrest is expected, or you have any suspicion?
I think using school property makes sense. After all, many schools have polling locations for elections. It's an easy, distributed place with highly predictable usage to host those sorts of things.

That said, vaccinations - like any prescription meds - are regulated far beyond alcohol and tobacco to the point where you need approval from specific people to buy them.

Making exceptions for parental consent is extremely risky now and into the future. While some make sense - like in an immediate emergency (ie. car accident, broken bones, etc) - this doesn't meet those criteria.
When you say rain in the Sahara would be useless, are you saying it's already a carbon sink or something? After all it seems that rain in the Sahara would eventually cause forests to grow, given a few years.
Don't create throwaway accounts to post 2 comments before making a new throwaway.
> Terribly misleading title.

No, its not.

> Packages to allow Python to create/manipulate Excel files have been around for a long time.

Xlwings (1) has been around for a while, itself, and more to the point (2) isn’t just a “package to allow Python to create/manipulate Excel files”. It includes an Excel add-in to allow embedding Python in Excel, using it for purposes similar to VBA.

> Like MeinBlutIsBlau, I thought this was going to be Microsoft finally ditching VBA for Python as its macro language.

Well, it allows users to do that without Microsoft doing it, so that's closer to accurate than the description implied by your dismissal.
> Additionally, there is this weird stench that permeates everything I eat. I can't explain it, just a kind of smell I've never come across

Yes, this is exactly what she describes. The closest she could get to describing it was "cigarettes" when I pressed her, but she really insisted should couldn't even characterize it.
DCA. Don't go all-in at all time highs.

I don't even invest in stocks like that.
Which begs the question: if it's strictly neutral, why is it a problem to tell minors that they're due for a vaccine? They're still held to the same standard of consent as before, so why the extra indirection?

Even "advertising" and "pitching" are misleading framings. Vaccines are public health policy, notifying people of their eligibility falls squarely within the state's basic obligation to notify its citizens.
No credible leaker (Ming-Chi Kuo, Gurman) predicted a new MacBook Pro at WWDC.
There's likely a decade+ tail after the end of active particulate injection. If there is too much to begin with, you piss off all the electorates with years of chaotic weather, threatening food production, financial markets, and ecologies all over the world. Get it just right, you wreak less havoc, piss off fewer electorates, and lower global average temperatures. Get too small an effect, you risk overcorrection or the project failing before it has a chance to really work.

There's also the fact that you're altering a chaotic system, with fundamentally unpredictable side effects, some of which could last longer than a human lifespan. Wanna make California get monthly hurricanes? How about weekly tornados in Colorado? Bury New York city in ice?

It's not that any of those things are probable just that they're possible, and chaotic systems can drastically, catastrophically, and exponentially change configuration, and no matter how good your supercomputer simulations are, you fundamentally cannot predict the consequences.

All of human civilization teeters on the current climate configuration - geoengineering has terrifying potential. Humans have a horrible track record in attempts to predictably alter chaotic systems and ecologies. We damn well better know what we're doing before we use globally acting tools.
I have a $25-ish Xiaomi 20,000 mAh power bank. It is thicc and can crush your toes if you drop, but it's reliable to hold power enough for a week for my phone, has two outputs supporting fast charging, and has microUSB _and_ USB-c inputs.
This is the reason conspiracy theories are proliferating so far. The information provided by different parties is always different. I believe the best solution is for the party with the most authority (the FDA in this case) to publish an explanation that covers the differences. Otherwise lay people are completely justified in believing that Government agencies are lying to them.
Real estate has been getting pretty frothy there for a while.
> I don't think your second link says what you claim it does.

Based on the historical context of the standardization effort, I read "There is no standardized mechanism for users to add extensions to loop." as the standards body punting and basically giving implementers free reign to include whatever extensions they like. That's certainly what they did anyhow. However on a more careful reading I agree I probably misread that particular line. That's not to say that the practical effect isn't what I observed though. It's hard to find a solid reference, but look at this mess[1]. "Each of the above three LOOP variations can coexist in the same LISP environment." gives a hint of the messiness that follows.

[1] https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/src/code/loop.lisp
“I want to say to them very very few STEM graduates enjoy the success you have had. Could you teach your daughter how to be a TV producer?”

Perhaps, I’m reading you wrong- but isn’t that exactly their thinking? They understand the tenuousness (or luck or whatever) of their success and wish an “easier” path that’s less ‘winner take all’?
I think it's very misleading to put it like that. Xcodeghost came with an infected version of Xcode that was not distributed by Apple.

From Wikipedia: "Security firm Palo Alto Networks surmised that because network speeds were slower in China, developers in the country looked for local copies of the Apple Xcode development environment, and encountered altered versions that had been posted on domestic web sites."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XcodeGhost
Not sure if it's what you mean by blank (not a big keyboard geek, but I just got a Moonlander), but when you buy it there's an option for all of the keys to have "-" on them, so it's effectively blank?
Whoa Ag Stack is a fascinating idea. I love when two seemingly disparate disciplines come together to create simple solutions to complex problems. Seems like a lot of potential here!
> To get into a top grad school you need multiple first author papers.

What field are you in? Most engineering programs will not require this.
There are two theories to what is going on:

1) The best silicon designers in the world have hit a wall and can’t improve on a processor they shipped to production a year ago.

2) There is a massive, global-scale supply chain disaster that is largely hidden from the end consumer which is secretly driving every major manufacturer insane.

It seems that a bunch of industry “insiders” want to go with option 1; personally, I’ll take the second option.
Agree. Merely pointing out that most of the other points the commenter made is correct.
> 7 simultaneous integer operations, 4 simultaneous floating poin

The floating point is going to be an interesting thing to look at - the CPUs made targeting HPC workloads tend to be flops heavy, but the flops tend to be starved for memory bandwidth unless you're doing exactly the best vector processing you can & that fortran can do a great job with.

So you throw in a lot more oomph on the vector side and leave single operation float arithmetic at 2.

Floating point operations of a smaller size of values (more realistically, quarternions or rgba) would be the reason that M1 feels a little bit more snappy when it comes to basic things like text-layout code or graphics images which don't do SIMD very well, but still consume a lot of arithmetic.

I'd suspect that the vertical integration is going to be the secret, because it looks like more profile information of desktop apps going into chip design here.

A similar story is expected of the Graviton series as well, with AWS having a good idea what to build for.
Whoops, sorry about that, I'll edit my comment to note I just was totally misreading you. I feel like narcissism is often a claim leveled against the more identify politics parts of the left and I went from there
Can current tech tell us about the future?
There are a few prominent technologies that are currently the behemoths of the tech world, and those will define whatever content the future holds.
“Instead, our web products will be powered by privacy-preserving APIs which prevent individual tracking while still delivering results for advertisers and publishers.”

Still unacceptable. This implies psychological manipulation, price discrimination, automated racism, etc, are all still in scope.

Also, if you log into google, they’ll still track you for ad targeting. Finally, this wording implies the privacy preserving profile can be linked to your primary identity if you momentarily log in.
Social media no doubt facilitates this kind of harm but by no means causes it.
And support for two external displays
Yes, this. The M2 design has been finished for some time to allow plenty of time for testing. Same with products. I always find it hilarious when "journalists" write articles about how Apple is still debating X vs Y for some hardware feature on the next gen phones due in 3 months. No chance. Hardware is hard and takes big lead times and huge amounts of testing.
Let's start eating it then. That will solve the problem. :D
I wouldn't want my alma mater funded entirely by the state. They went on a real estate and related spending binge while I was in school. Some of my friends worked at the alumnus center, spending all their hours calling up alumni begging for donations.

Meanwhile, really useful classes that students wanted and professors wanted to teach didn't exist, because the school wouldn't fund the extra class time.

In short, out of all the school's top priorities, the students were nowhere to be found. Change that, and maybe I'll change my mind too.
Right, but in the case of a vaccine, you wait, you die.
Anyone else feel like this is quite the devils choice they faced: either they kept recommending vaccinations based on the strong data that it is best for nearly everyone’s health[no citation needed] against fears that this will undermine trust in the agency due to ignoring political pressure, or stop recommending it based on pressure from the public, and thus proving they aren’t trustworthy to make public health recommendations based on scientific data and study.

I feel kinda bad for the whole situation this year. It is just so disheartening both ways.
I agree with your main point here but anyone who thinks violence as a political tool needed normalizing should not be listened to.
No worries, conveying ideas in this medium can be challenging and fraught with peril.
To read any of the other articles, you have to sign in and give up your data, open yourself up to spam. It's honestly terrible UX
Panasonic has made it way easier to use Lumix cameras as webcams
ad blocking is the #1 reason I open FF on mobile.
Ncem: Learning cell communication from spatial graphs of cells
I think a big part in the order of refresh is also minimizing the time spent in transition.

It's in Apple's best interest to stop selling x64 arch computers as fast as possible.

The logical order would be to do a blazing fast low end chip first in the Air/Mini (tbh I'm surprised they diluted the mbp brand with an iPad chip), with a higher end MBP/iMac chip less than a year later. The iMac Pro was already discontinued and the Mac Pro is vastly less important wrt the architecture transition and can easily be done last.

I expect M>1 iMac and/or MBP in September.
I’m in CS. I’m basically hopeless at this point of ever being considered more than an untermensch.
Assume they had a finalized design for M2 at the same time as M1. If their plan was to produce and roll out machines based on M2 shortly after the release of M1 they likely were not able to do it as planned due to COVID bottlenecks. Almost every company that produces physical products had to focus their resources on producing high volume parts. This has happened quite a bit in trailer manufacturing for example. All of the raw materials are going towards high volume selling trailer models. Niche trailers models are not being made in any significant quantity.
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Plenty of top grad schools are worth it, pay for their students, and are accessible from students who went to state schools in undergrad.

Also, top school names only matter when starting your career. What you do counts a lot more and can easily get you to many good jobs. It turns out good 17 yr olds can ride their momentum only so long. At some point you have to produce in your career.
> I thought this was going to be about python INSIDE Excel.

Yes, xlwings (one of the packagess covered by the book, and the one on whose site the page is hosted) absolutely allows this via an Excel add-in: https://docs.xlwings.org/en/stable/addin.html
People don’t want the government to say what they can and can’t do to their own bodies. I can see why people want to draw that particular line in the sand. Despite my personal desire that everyone do the moral, patriotic and practical thing and get vaccinated, I also don’t really want big brother super involved into individuals medical decision making. People should have autonomy over their own body, not the state. It doesn’t seem too unreasonable to think that reducing funding or even eliminating specific state managed health programs might be a great way to curtail such government encroachment and incentivize the massive health care system already in place to do its job so the big brother doesn’t have to step in and break everyone’s freedom.
> In the end, the best thing we can do is to insulate ourselves and our loved ones from government intervention, focus on local politics, and take control of our own consumption i.e. we can't rely on the government to do what's best for our children.

We feel that way too! So why don't you leave us alone? (If you hadn't noticed its not 1992 and nobody is trying to teach your kids abstinence-only education anymore.)
It’s a bit more nuanced than that. From what I understand it’s ripples from higher up in the supply chain that are causing delays (substrate, power components, etc.). TSMC on its own is doing fine.
> have developed the tools to mitigate workarounds

Well, that’s ominous. Presumably the plan is to close source Chrome or do some DRM thing to prevent sites from rendering if the Privacy Sandbox has been tampered with?

Great.
Kind of like climate change doesn't exist either:

https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2021/07/12/six_fac...
" But it’s been eight months since the M1 shipped and we haven’t heard from Apple."

Sheesh, 8 months is not a long time as far as these sorts of things go. Wasn't the M2 not expected until next year at the earliest? Given the current semiconductor production issues that might even be optimistic.
“ All the people who have made it in Hollywood did so through via nepotism/cronyism or by busting their ass making their own movies and getting lucky”

Having worked in the film industry, you’re more wrong than right here.
Hey Geo shut the duck up
Third theory. There is no problem. Apple is executing their plan on the two year schedule they announced. They are releasing hardware on the schedules they always have.
The problem was Jon Prosser who was telling all the YouTubers it was going to happen. Even though he's been seemingly wrong as many times as he's right.