skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except for physicists. They latch on to all sorts of crazy hypothesis to explain stuff they don't fully understand yet.
thats pretty rude to be honest. Netflix has done a better job than anyone else at creating a video platform
5 Steps to Design a Better Machine Learning User Experience
For a linked list implementation, car requires traversing one cons cell, cadr requires traversing two, caddr three, four for cadddr, and so on. That's about as textbook an example of O(N) as you can get.
I'm not sure what the end game is here. The original plan was "flatten the curve", which meant keep hospitals from getting inundated. Then it became wait for the vaccine. COVID is not going to go away. The vaccine has dramatically decreased the amount of people dying from it.

Cases going up without dramatic increases in death or hospitalization might not be a bad thing. The alternative is lockdowns that will never completely end the virus, and have a significant impact on our lives. It will just slow the spread over a very long time. There are ever present dangers that we just live with like the chances of getting in a car accident and dying, but we decide that these risks are low enough that we carry on normal life.
This[0] is actually a better reference; the official post by Elm's creator on how accessing "native" code used to work, and how it now works.

Essentially, the compiler only allows packages published by two official Elm Github organizations to include native code. I'm not sure what the process is if a key "native" feature is missing, as this limitation also drove me away from the language.

[0] https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/native-code-in-0-19/826
The Super Mario and Tag Heuer collaboration is a $2,150 Wear OS watch
I can’t remember ever having experienced a slow or laggy Netflix experience, on any device…
Science is not a religion and should never be believed on faith alone. Since we, as individuals, cannot duplicate every experiment we need to take all studies with a grain of salt and look out for, errors, bias, influence etc. Most hard science answers are not very controversial as those have actual overwhelming evidence. The scientific results that are controversial, generally do not have overwhelming evidence, which is why they are controversial. In this case, extra skepticism is required so we don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. That is if science stands behind all scientific claims that are controversial, and lack strong evidence, then belief in all science will decline. This is the danger of science on faith, and is evidenced by the current replication crisis.
There are some statistical concerns with how Israel came up with their numbers, so I would put more faith in other countries results, at least for now. My best guess is that the 64% is for any detectable disease, not symptoms (i.e. you test positive but don't feel meaningfully different), which means the vaccines do their job at quickly eliminating the virus.
As long as wages continue to rise, this is great news for the vast majority of Americans that are in debt. Congratulations, your mortgage and student loans aren’t as a big relative to your income.
Yeah, just curious how much is for crime. That’s not that much (thought it might have been higher)
AI’s Role in Debugging Software Code Is Expected to Grow
Ah, nothing says "credibility" like reiterating the good old burning covid-corpses of india lie, or removing India from your scary looking chart of new infections, because it would show India's steady drop in new infections.

Hopefuly Thomas gets a bit more convincing scaredata for the Lambda Variant.
Reposting because this was flagged. Why was this flagged? I have a right to my opinion and I'm not being abusive.

Thank God people are finally starting to stop listening to them mainstream media in the US.

The panic is absolutely ridiculous. The numbers of infected are tiny. The numbers of hospitalized among infected are less than 2%.

Vulnerable populations are already infected or they've been vaccinated.

IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON.

THE DELTA VARIANT IS BULLSHIT FEAR MONGERING IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO VACCINES
Yup.

I've been in ops last two years, and few things will kill us more than somebody not following up on a raised issue.

Now, in responding to a raised issue, absolutely: look at priority, big picture, context; maybe point them to a more appropriate resource or person.

But look at time stamps - unspoken part of this equation is:

1. Could you have helped this person resolve this issue by 12:17 by providing them a simple answer, instead of letting them struggle to find answer (likely through somebody else who bothered to respond) by 12:28?

2. What if EVERYbody took your approach - would they still have resolved the issue by 12:28?

I think they have found an approach that works for THEMselves, and are completely ignoring what's best for the system/project/team. As the op said - this is what perpetuates stereotypes of IT.
https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-what-do-we-know-about-the-c...

> The earliest documented COVID-19 case caused by the delta variant (B.1.617.2) was found in the Indian state of Maharashtra back in October 2020

It doesn't seem that blaming this variant on vaccines makes much sense.
>It looks like the risk of death is 2x higher for Delta than for the original variant:

2x of what ?

2x of low risk is still a low risk.
Purelymail does look great for personal use. But, be aware it wouldn't be economical for something like a big mailing list.

Try the calculator at https://purelymail.com/advancedpricing and put in some large number of outbound email sends, like 2 million in a year, and the cost gets into the thousands.

Purelymail sent emails are $2.03/1000 plus $0.18/GB. Compare to SES, which is $0.10/1000 plus $0.12/GB.
Yes! A more in-depth blog post is coming soon. We do host the hardware ourselves, for complete control over the GPUs. We found a great infrastructure provider that is also experiencing shortages.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17905574
In general, anti-viral treatments don't work very well. Antibiotics have worked great, but it's much harder to effectively target viruses with medicine (probably because they reproduce inside the cells of their hosts)
If that happens then it's definitely an issue, but I've had a couple cards with 3D Secure for about 6-7 years and it's always 2FA using an app ("Did you really buy X at vendor Y?") or, before that, with a keychain hardware token.

I wonder if there's rules depending on which country. When I worked for a small-time credit card "vendor" we could put pretty much anything we wanted in our iFrame.
I'm a fully vaccinated Canadian, and it matters to me because the vaccines are effective against Delta, but seemingly only barely so— and the longer it continues to circulate the better a chance it has of evolving further and then us all having to go into lockdown and wait for another booster shot that specifically targets whatever the new vector is:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/07/3-princip...
Deleting them on HN does not delete them from the internet. Sites like Ceddit already save/archive deleted comments from Reddit (and make some old threads readable, especially when the poster of the solution deleted his account for unrelated reasons). If HN would bring on this policy, we would get a "CN" within a day; probably even something more complete than ceddit due to the smaller scale. So, in the end, it would only make HN a worse place.
https://teddit.net
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I saw a thread recently that suggested reviewers should be running the code, not just reading it. Does anyone here run code as well? If so, I'd be interested in hearing about the experience.

I've almost always just read the code and "ran it in my head".
Their narrative is disjointed. Make no mistake, the cloud is NOT cheap - but this article doesn't show that.

> Cost of Cloud is going up

Well, the data shown is about more companies going into the cloud, so they spend more in the cloud

> Companies spend more than half of their cost IN THE CLOUD

They show companies architected FOR THE CLOUD, like snowflake- I'm surprised only 40% of their expenses are cloud (is the other 60% profit margin?)
We have gotten a lot better at treating COVID patients since the first couple of months, as we figure out which interventions work and which don't. Stuff like putting patients prone made a surprisingly large difference in the mortality rate.

Drugs like antivirals are "vulnerable to mutations and waning efficacy over time" just like vaccines are, and they're a lot harder to make.
Sorry that's a typo, they are K80s: https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/data-center/tesla-k80/
I love this essay so much. So much that I tried to implement all of the demos in JavaScript, which you can try in interactive form here: https://www.newline.co/choc/
That's an impressive lifespan and accomplishment. Did the cycling bump his lifespan or did he have a good genetics to begin with?
StandardML is a very underrated language that was decades ahead of its time.

It's the pragmatic ML. Unlike Haskell, it believes in side effects, optional mutation, and eager evaluation, but within a type system that is much more sound than the ones used in any of the most common languages.

It was designed with students and student implementors in mind, so is quite easy to learn (and implement). Despite this, it has the potential to be very fast with MLton compiling fast code (I'd say about as fast as golang).

It's also interesting in being pretty much the only unpopular language with very good threading support. Perhaps this is due to academic use, but CML (or PolyML's version) are very powerful, but decently easy to use (and I'd consider them a straight upgrade from golang's version of channels).

If a major company invested in the SML ecosystem, it would take over the programming world.
Housing is a policy area with a lot of unintended consequences. I honestly don't know how I feel about the Oregon law.
So important question, where should we be storing money that we need in the short term (down payment) and long term (retirement savings)?
I think your comment aligns with the article’s findings :). It seems the author has the idea in their heads that #{insert_topic} is settled. And, they’re shocked that in there is ongoing debate among the scientifically literate.

You saw this a ton during covid with things like masks, lockdowns, etc. People who knew the actual science were called all sorts of names when they pointed out actual data didn’t support policy - particularly with masks which had been heavily studied and shown ineffective for stopping viral spread.

“Science” has become somewhat religious among those who don’t understand it.
Fortunately, being forced to believe everything scientists say is neither a law nor a responsibility. And just as well because they routinely contradict themselves or turn out to have been lying. See: the denunciation of the lab leak theory by Daszak and other virologists, which successfully suppressed this obvious common sense idea for a year. So in fact people do have that "right".
> He believes Hollywood is to blame for giving dinosaurs their skeletal 'monster' image.

I don't think most dinosaurs are seen as monsters. When it comes to public relations "monsters", I think it's mostly T-Rex, and usually it isn't portrayed as skeletal. Depictions of most dinosaurs make them look cute.
IIRC this is the stated reason they're dropping radar, the camera network maintains object persistence but the radar disagrees very frequently with the camera network causing the flickering because the system doesn't know which input to trust. Apparently by throwing out radar signals they get smoother object recognition.
rest attempts to solve interface normalization between services

graphql attempts to solve query normalization over a single api

they're as related as a vcr and a broadcast system - the problems they solve are adjacent, but do not overlap, and whereas their default sensible use is together, they can both be used without the other, or with alternatives to the other
Modelling the recent common ancestry of all living humans [pdf]
> In terms of stem cell research, evolution, and the Big Bang, those with a stronger general education showed greater political polarization, with conservatives more likely to reject them. For those with a strong science education, those topics were also polarized, as was climate change.

This indicates the polarisation is not a consequence of whether people understand and apply scientific methodology, but rather is a consequence of network effects.

Even working scientists who practice scientific methods do not have first hand knowledge of much science. Time precludes them from working on anything other than their own respective special sub-disciplines. Rather, their knowledge comes from reading accounts by other scientists, or people they trust.

What people are trusted by conservatives? People who may be very well versed in scientific and engineering methods, such as mining company executives, and investors in mining companies. It comes as no surprise that for economic reasons, such people downplay the importance of climate change research. As a consequence, people in their networks don't rate climate change as a threat.

Likewise with the Big Bang vs Creationism. These are just proxies for social and political status that office bearers in churches, and anti-churches, enjoy, which gives them the power to communicate with and influence vast numbers of followers and acolytes. When you read about the numbers of people who believe the Big Bang vs those who believe in God, you aren't reading about a scientific evaluation. You are reading about political groupings in society amongst people who compete for power and resources.
I have witnessed plenty of cases where a lower-paid employee is performing a critical function that if not resolved has phenomenal cost.

e.g any number of administrators/co-ordinators/financial officers may get "paid less" than an IT support person; but a) the IT support person is explicitly being paid to support them and b) the value of actions they make is not 100% tied to their hourly rate - processing an invoice, writing up a contract, fulfilling some SLA, whatever.
In this talk from 2017, around 1h30m in, he says that he hasn't yet found a way to make no-till organic work in terms of weed prevention. But, he said he was close to figuring it out. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmIdq0D6-A

Has any progress been made since? Is this an area where technology could help (eg robotic precision weeding machines)?

Disclaimer that I have yet to read your article so it may already be covered.
But then future loans will be at a higher interest rate?
Subreddit moderators prefer first-party content instead of links, because all people do is fill subreddits with affiliate links or blogspam. Mods don't want to handle this, so they discourage external links completely.

In a lot of cases, a link will be posted, but the majority of the article text will be included in a message. So users can have a discussion without even visiting the page.
I work with someone who uses this strategy, and normally what happens is that they ignore the original communication and then come back months later wondering why their data/product/whatever isn't available.

Personally, I think this strategy can work if you intentionally ignore things after reading, but tends to fail hard otherwise.
$4 on ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/192313754025?epid=2260447290&hash=i...

Hopefully they have yet to incorporate security chips so the thing won't start with unofficial feet.
I think you do not understand. The artist wanted the show what is already happening, just something we are simply not protesting about in masses. Like the level of such hidden information grabbing is massive, but what do we citizens care? The photo had an effect, which bits and bytes are not having.

Yes the artist did something totally illegal and should be prosecuted. Who is going to prosecute the governments? I like your strong emotions and fail to understand why you do not see this is exactly what the artist hopes will happen - more emotional take on the current situation.
It's possible they have no classifier for "monorail column" so I don't think anything would show up even if it recognized an obstacle was in the way.
What about i.reddit.com for mobile?
You can very easily do a solar installation yourself. But even more interestingly, even biomass-derived methane is more efficiently burned in a CCGT plant (>60% efficiency) to generate electricity for charging an e-bike than in an ICE engine on a moped (~20-25%?). And even better, a smart charger can charge an electric vehicle from an electric mix (NG/wind/solar/nuclear) optimally, so you can run from whatever is best at that moment.
Apart from Hepatitis C, I don't know any viruses that can be cured other than waiting it out for the immune system to take care of it. Maybe that are more cases like that but I don't know of more.

So maybe it's hard to get rid of viruses? As an uneducated person in this subject, it looks that way to me.
Yes, but that fraction is exactly the one you want to avoid. Someone who just reads a thread or searches for a solution will move on unhappy. Someone who wants to find dirt on you will dig through these archives and mirrors.
The article states that it could be a way to use advances in
computer vision to succeed where RNNs have difficulties. (Kinda sceptical about the success of this technique but that's the claim.)
> Spending money on marketing lowers prices by increasing volumes.

Do you have any proof of this - had you said it increases profits - I'd have readily agreed with you.

> If you spend a billion dollars on R&D and then spend nothing on marketing and sell to 200,000 customers, they would each have to pay $5000 to fund the R&D. If you spend a billion dollars on R&D and two billion dollars on marketing and sell to a million customers, they would each have to pay $3000 to fund both the R&D and the marketing.

Or, in line with their "fiduciary duty to shareholders", the company still sells at $5000 to a million customers: see Martin Shkreli, Epipens, or dozens of other real-life examples that prove your lower-price hypothesis wrong. Without competition, drug manufacturers have no incentive to lower prices when they can make more profits instead.
But... why? It's just a balloon with internet. All the failures would be a lack of business model, not the technology.
the classic "we can't prove they weren't huge fatbirds": https://coelasquid.tumblr.com/post/111317780763/nebu-kuro
Short term: mattress, Long term: still in index funds

Warning, I am an internet rando and not an accountant.
Not that it is an unimportant question, but HN is not a finance forum. If you need advice about this, please consult a qualified professional instead of asking essentially random people on the internet.
Good to see that they at least plan to open source an old version before they shut down. This does happen sometimes, for example Synfig Animation Studio had this happen.
> As an aside, I never called you (or anyone else I was referring to) a bigot.

I didn't mean to claim that you did, but after re-reading the two sentences, I can see how it could be read as such. Sorry for the confusion!
This is not the case. The US CDC is heavily backlogged and reports of vaccine injuries aren't being processed in a timely manner, so we don't actually know how many people are being injured by them. We only know lower bounds.

If you look at VAERS then it's clear that this is by multiple orders of magnitude the most dangerous vaccine ever deployed.

https://swprs.org/us-vaccine-deaths-increasing-rapidly/

"The latest weekly US VAERS update added a shocking 2,083 post-vaccination deaths – by far the largest weekly increase to date – raising the total of reported post-vaccination deaths to 9,048. Not all of these 2,083 deaths occurred within a week, as there is a very significant reporting backlog. In total, close to 1,000 post-vaccination miscarriages, more than 3,000 heart attacks, about 7,500 disabilities, close to 20,000 severe allergic reactions, and close to 1,000 cases of heart muscle inflammation in people under 25 have already been reported to VAERS."
> Moving stuff around (from User-Agent to Sec-CH-UA-*) doesn't really solve much. That is, having to request this information before getting it doesn't help if sites routinely request all of it.

I think this is sort of ignoring the whole point of the proposal. By making sites request this information rather than simply always sending it like the User-Agent header currently does, browsers gain the ability to deny excessively intrusive requests when they occur.

That is to say, "sites routinely request all of it" is precisely the problem this proposal is intended to solve.

There are some good points in this post about things which can be improved with specific Sec-CH-UA headers, but the overall position seems to be based on a failed understanding of the purpose of client hints.
He is covering a lot more distance than the peleton. The peleton just rides the stage. Morton has to ride from stage to stage where in some cases the peleton may take a flight to get to the start of the next stage. Also he is carrying a lot more weight. He has a tent, cooking equipment etc.
Isn't there a Delta Plus variant now?
‘Haven’t read the piece’
The numbers are between 95% of Pfizer at his best and 50% of Sinovac. And we are not vaccinating to avoid a pandemic, we are doing it during the pandemic making the risk of it happening much higher.

But the final point I was trying to pass is that isolation of the sick will slowly push the virus to evolve in more contagious but less risky variants.
Undetected infections in the vaccinated might cause strains that evade the vaccine and possibly be more dangerous (because of the lack of symptoms and isolation.)
DRM! Reading the headline I thought someone found an open way to ship videos in a copyright friendly way
Most subreddits would be better as things like HN in my opinion, a lot of the negative things to do with Reddit are down the way the platform is run rather than the format itself. A decentralised network where each subreddit is hosted independently and controlled wholly by its volunteer moderators rather than the (grossly incompetent in my opinion) side-wide administrators would solve many of the issues the Reddit format faces in my opinion.
> (Well... light isn't quite unique. The speed of light is unique in that way. But gravitational waves also travel at the speed of light.)

Right - this is a subtle but important distinction! Photons don't have primacy, space-time does.
So cool! I'm really skittish with needles but looks like they can do TRT as cream or a chewable too!
As far as I understand (I don't have any background in biology), mutations will happen regardless of whether people are vaccinated or not. There might be mutations that make the virus circumvent some vaccine protections, but those mutations would take place even if we weren't vaccinating people. Nothing about the vaccines "guides" the virus towards specific mutations. Mutations are random. If this is correct, why would not vaccinating people be better than vaccinating them? (In fact, the fewer people that get infected, the less room for the virus to mutate).

Is my understanding correct? Can anybody point out where I'm wrong?