skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What profession is the Mac Pro targeted? They used to be great for video production and 3D modeling, animation, and light baking, but the current version just isn’t good enough and I’m seeing more and more professionals opt for a pc with a big dedicated gpu.
> at what exact what point did the UK postmaster system "fail" enough for an investigation?

There never was in independent investigation of the IT system.

"Justice Lost In The Post"

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/justice-lost-i...
> > One very reputable public health specialist expects that the population will be decimated by at least 10-15 million by the time Covid is done with Myanmar.

> The population is only 54 million. How could Covid possibly kill 15 million there!?

I think this number could end up being 'accurate' for many reasons:

* Their medical system is entirely overloaded. Dead people are simply being left in homes in Myanmar and people are being told to wrap them in cling film and try to keep them cold. The result of dead people in homes and streets will be more deaths from contamination.

* There isn't any oxygen for most people, and the methods they are telling each other to try are just insane. They are sharing information on Facebook about using tea and rice to prevent COVID, as well as using steam to 'burn it out' of the lungs. In desperation, people are more likely to try something crazy than to not try anything at all, as the act of 'trying' makes them believe they are helping.

* The military have vaccinated all of their soldiers, and only the close family of the soldiers (who would take it). Despite this, tonnes of their soldiers are now coming down with COVID within the ranks. I suspect this is because the military have been getting their vaccine supply from China, which has shown low-efficacy. (The 'samples' show high efficacy, but tested vaccines from batches have been incredibly low. Apparently China have been mixing their vaccine with foreign vaccines to bring up efficacy.)

* The military are literally just walking into houses and shooting everybody in there if they suspect they have any involvement in a series of bombings and road blocks. They are likely marking these as 'COVID deaths' so that they do not need to report they are killing people on the world stage, and to avoid local push-back. There is also the added bonus that they can receive global funding pretty much unchallenged for 'COVID relief'.
It doesn't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27852130
Except for the fact that it actually doesn’t.
In British Columbia I thought everyone did pretty well at navigating the different challenges. We had reasonable leadership and communication and I skied all winter. Would have sucked to be in Ontario.

The mix of vaccine shots doesn’t bother me.

Indeed comparing and following the USA is a problem.
I think the joke the OP is making pokes at the parasite's "mind control" abilities; i.e. that it's somehow controlling the human mind to think cats are cute.
The most common way to get infected is from cats. Specifically cat feces.
Yep. Hardware is hard and expensive. The real world is messy and complicated. Focusing on information wrangling currently has a much higher payoff.
> The sequencing machines were probably not designed to deal with dirt.

The sequencing machines are probably designed to deal with DNA that's been extracted and purified, which is presumably want the scientist gave it from the mud, rather than shoveling mud into a sequencer. (And, since once they had characterized “Borgs” from their samples they then found a bunch more in public databases...)
If that was the case, why would they be targeting their own diplomats? Wouldn't it be foreign adversarial diplomats getting sick?
IIRC toxoplasmosis affects the brains of rodents making them less afraid of cats, which means that they're more likely to be killed and eaten by those cats, which spreads the infection to the cats. I think there have been claims that perhaps it also makes infected people like cats more in a similar fashion, which I guess is what GP is referring to.
It's just higher risk and lower bang for buck right now.
Let's take the general case of a join: two tables that are keyed/indexed by fundamentally different data.

To distribute data, you have a data distribution scheme. Cassandra and various distributed hash maps (which is the typical approach) it is a consistent hash function. But even if you do distribution using natural ordering, the same problem exists:

The data you are joining is going to be on different nodes on a row-by-row case. Hashing will produce this by the design of the hash function. Natural ordering will do this because different key datatypes will order differently.

In the case of large scale distribution across a LOT of machines (which is what you invariably have to go to once you expend the options in big iron), that means a huge amount of network traffic, with each retrieval needing to be resolved for consistency due to if you want AP. If you rely on CP, then your join is dependent on SO MANY nodes correctly communicating that you become extremely exposed to network partitions, retries, etc.

Thus you either shard your data so all data is on the same machine (but your joins are necessarily subsets of the overall data: only the shard), or you don't and prepare for extremely bad performance, unreliable performance, or approximations of correctness.
At that point you might as well just hook everything up to etherium; the judge is redundant.
Not the OP. Toxoplasmosis from what I understand can cause mice to lose fear of cats. So I think what the OP is suggesting is that toxoplasmosis is brain washing us to like cats and without it we would abandon some cats.
Glycogen is a polysaccharide, not fat. It is metabolized in a completely different way.
I agree that the quantum mechanics terms are often more confusing than helpful here. To the point that I wrote a journal article to try to demystify how the algorithm works [1].

If you're familiar with constraint solving, "superposition" is just "the remaining possible choices in the domain" and "entropy" is just describing how to select the next node.

[1]https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9421370
More people should know about YugabyteDB. Granted though, article talks about about „traditional RDBMS”.
Toxoplasma changes behaviour, GP is implying (likely facetiously) that liking cats is an influenced behaviour by the parasite.

We only have broad suspicions how behaviour affects humans, with different effects for men and women.
There is a theory that toxoplasmosis infection causes humans to acquire more cats. The analogy is that mice infected with it are more likely to be consumed by cats because they appear to have a lower fear response to felines
How Life Looks Through My ‘Whale Eyes’
There wasn't really a good place to cut the quote, so I trusted people to follow the thread. I have no intent to paint you as anything and don't think a reasonable reader would be convinced you're ignorant from what I replied with.

I have no real narrative to speak of in this conversation either, my only intent was to point out why I thought the great-grand-parent post had included those data points.
Kinda makes the inevitable conclusion obvious: non-fashion&beauty channels need not apply - non-legacy media will not be permitted much aside from topics that both have:

1) No possibility of generating an objection from the most sensitive of current and potential advertisers.

2) Do not compete with legacy media presently on platform.

Makes you wonder about all those outrage mobs that targeted companies with adverts that had the bad luck of randomly appearing in videos that demonstrated wrong-think, and how they've ushered in network television 2.0 while sticking it to all the totally-real-and-definitely-a-threat-to-our-democracy-neo-nazis.
Where can you get a good legged dog-type robot for US$12K? Because Spot is much more expensive..
Quite a bold claim.
Publishing a Unity WebGL game from scratch in under 30 minutes
I don't remember Obama being shouted down by anyone, for what it's worth.
Youtube only plays an ad if (1) Youtube decides to offer an ad slot and (2) a buyer buys the ad slot. This happens in a fraction of a second based on what the ad buyers have programmed that they want to buy. Ad buyers usually want ads targeted to users in certain countries and with certain demographics (age, income level, etc.). If your location or demographics aren't what Youtube can sell to an ad buyer, you won't see an ad.
This is interesting, but I don’t believe the study should be trusted. The authors determined toxoplasmosis status by asking the participants. This seems like it will introduce huge bias based on the bizarre subset of people who know their status.

A similar study that tested for toxoplasmosis antibodies would be much more useful.
The treatment for toxoplasmosis is the focus in this article.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11037196
The page suggested some people rounded to the nearest dollar. Maybe some adjusted for unpaid overtime.
Any particular reason you think personalized ads are ethical? Why do you consider it ethical to track the videos people watch, the subjects they search, the webpages they visit, and use this to make money off them?
Oh I see. I would have guessed that that was because this way relatively new. If it really doesn't translate to anything real then I definitely get your point.
Ethereum Co-Founder Says Safety Concern Has Him Quitting Crypto
Unitree A1
Correct. I have a 401(k) that I put my own money into and choose the funds I invest in. If I leave my job, I can take that money with me.

Companies should auto enroll and fund employees 401(k)s, which most don't do now. But they should not require 40 years of employment to be eligible to receive ANY retirement funds.

We've been talking about non-competes on HN lately. What could be more anti-competitive than having a 40 year cliff on a major chunk of your compensation? Tech companies have a 1 year cliff on equity, and even that is outrageous.
Last I checked, toxoplasmosis was curable:

>Most healthy people recover from toxoplasmosis without treatment. Persons who are ill can be treated with a combination of drugs such as pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine, plus folinic acid. [0]

Or is there something special about a latent infection vs an active infection?

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmosis/treatment.html
Quite a catch-22.

Try to find differences, you get accused of sexism and the study gets cancelled.

Or study only men, you get accused of sexism, but at least you get some results out of it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8209939/
Only if you believe the WHO, which has been hacked at the highest level by other interests.
Don't blame hypothetical children.
> The tooling doesn't make it super-easy (e.g. good luck sharding Postgres unless you're willing to pay for Citus)

There’s YugabyteDB.
Once in a past life I discovered that the asset tracking system I was maintaining had no actual security on any of the data it returned. Once you'd logged in as one user you could just change the URL to access whatever user's data you wanted.

I raised the issue with my manager, we had a meeting about security, I explained that I wasn't a security expert but that this was a big problem and we needed to do a full security audit. I guesstimated 3 months to go through the codebase looking for security holes (in hindsight, a huge underestimate) and they said it was too expensive. Talking to fellow ex-employees the issue was still there 10+ years later.
If youve ever known people that have been traumatized by their health or experiences, they like cats to keep them company because they give oxytocin, are really chill and don't require a lot of upkeep.

I don't see how it isn't obvious which way the causality is swinging. Toxoplasmosis isn't causing this great variety of symptoms, that makes no sense. It's more like people with a great variety of symptoms use cats to cope with life.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8209939/

Preliminary Evidence demonstrates Ivermectin does improve outcomes with those infected with COVID-19.
It does not matter whether you worked on ads or not. The fact that you have many friends at Google and spent years there has already shaped you as an employee to believe that whatever Google does is "probably not evil". This is not specific to working at Google, by the way, we all rationalize what our workplace(s) does.
> With a big influencer/creator it's a one-way relationship to the audience. With a smaller influencer/creator, it can be more two-way.

It's still delusional thinking you can have a 'relationship' with someone on the other end of a screen that you are never going to meet in real life.
Two Rods and a ‘Sixth Sense’: In Drought, Water Witches Are Swamped
I just got my second dose on Friday. It was exactly 8 weeks from my first dose that I got the text message notification for my second. There were 2 lines at that clinic -- one for Pfizer and one for Moderna.

In Canada, Astrazeneca was available to anyone who wanted it if you wanted to skip the line for mRNA and be vaccinated immediately. Originally this was before the (likely overblown) health concerns with Astrazeneca.

As a Canadian, I found the roll out to be quite organized. The original promise was that all Canadians would have access to a vaccine by September and it looks like we will meet that goal handedly. I wouldn't call it a disaster at all. But then I don't live in Ontario.
https://youtu.be/sSfejgwbDQ8?t=167
Only engineers can think about ethics? What about philosophers, ethicists and lawyers? How about law makers?
Software engineering hasn’t had our Quebec Bridge collapse yet.

It will take an enormous visible disaster that does more than cost a company a few tens of millions, or exposes a few hundred million social security numbers before we start holding companies and engineers liable for security flaws.
Smelly armpits are due to particular strains of bacteria that feed on sweat compounds and skin cells. If you haven’t been infected with the stinky ones you might last two days in moderate weather. Get infected and the time goes down to two hours. I found out the hard way, sharing a bar of soap. Avoid. :-/
> Relational with ACID guarantees can't be implemented in a distributed system.

CockroachDB and YugabyteDB would like to have a word.
Twitter verified accounts hacked to promote crypto scams
The greatest scam every continues at 3.5 years and counting.

Twitter verified accounts still being hacked to promote giveaways

https://twitter.com/KrungsriSimple/with_replies

tons of doge stolen

https://blockchair.com/dogecoin/address/DMEhXC7bchfZGJn7JkuyCngkBoUsFSHZs4

Even people with close to zero engineering and coding experience have proposed solutions that would fix this problem if only twitter would implement them.

No shortage of victims no matter how many times the scam resurfaces, which is a testament to the popularity of btc and elon musk and the ineffectiveness of efforts to warn people. Binance and coinbase have combined 100 million of accounts. I have yet to a scam as lucrative as this one...not just profitability but impunity.

Even cartel/drug gangs and dealers and the mafia would be envious of these kind of risk-free profits (no DEA, no FBI, no dealing with rival gangs, etc). Same for ransonware, in which there is too much risk relative to reward.

If the scammer asks someone to send between $200-$200k+ of doge/btc, etc, in the promise of 2x more, some will send the max amount or close to it , which is like a single major ransomware payout but without all the risk and huge footprint that comes from spreading ransomware. The fat right side of the victim-distribution tail is in large why this scam earns so well.

My estimates give a total of $40 million stolen with twitter and $40 million with youtube since 2018 years with the bulk 90% of the profits in 2020-2021. The higher bitcoin goes, the more $ they make. It's hard to say which is better, Twitter vs. YouTube. Twitter I think is more lucrative only because of elon musk. 50 million followers + traffic from retweets means applying the Drake Equation to it guarantees a lot of $ and victims. IF not elon musk, then obv. youtube would be better
It's astounding that people pay for this nonsense service. Shame on the NY Times for calling it "disputed." It's been utterly and completely debunked many times.

See: https://skepticalinquirer.org/1999/01/testing-dowsing-the-fa...
Anyone that small yet competent either has a lot going on and can't invest in their parasocial services career, or is capable of growing to not be small anymore, so it's a narrow window.

(For the real biggest streamers who still get giant donations, like Hololives, it seems like the chat is actually in a parasocial relationship with itself…)
Interesting video, the guy talks about "hydro metallurgical processing batteries" but I wonder how much these processes (grind up in a vacuum, boil off/condense electrolytes, separate out plastics/etc and ground into black mask, acid bath of black mask and separate out into NiSO4, CoSO4, Li2SO4, etc) cost compared to typical mining operations?
Would you like some advice?
Sure, I think that would also be a reasonable guess, without a warning. Both are reasonable things for someone to think a company that shields itself in a cloak of magic were to do.

Honestly I stopped using USGS maps for moderate hiking and just started using google topo maps because they show trails, I'm not going to assume anything about a trail though just because google says it'll get me from point A to point B. I also actually know how to read a topo map so I know the kinds of things to look out for.

My point is that Google maps pitches itself as amazingly clever about giving directions. Expecting it to suggest when to change modes of transportation is totally within the realms of what Google certainly is capable of doing; they used to do that for that meme where they say to drive to some location in New Jersey and then swim the Atlantic to get to France. It still said where to start swimming from and where to dry off. And that was like 15 years ago.

Calling out warnings for dangerous trails like they do for traffic jams seems like an obvious thing to do for both situations, just do the same for when it's not actually suggesting a path at all. That'd be great!
https://udel.edu/~mcdonald/mythearwax.html
> It's the best introduction to these methods for the mathematically-minded that I've seen, in the sense that it gives quasi-rigorous justifications for a lot of claims, but at the same time doesn't get bogged down in rigor.

Agree! I remember that reference by heart exactly for that reason! :)

> They mention in the book that simultaneous updates with a checkboard are in fact OK.

Yes, the algorithms discussed in the reference were designed to do exactly that. However, and using the Wolff algorithm as an example, in a perfectly checkerboard at low temperature, a cluster would still not grow beyond beyond its confinement. So the initial iterations actually gets reduced to the single-flip Metropolis algorithm under these conditions, but would eventually break most of them and start updating large clusters every iteration. The only time where one would see only two states alternating is at when the simulation temperature approaches 0, where the cluster always covers the entire lattice.
I don't know the answer to this question, so asking, are more 'willing subjects' for these kinds of things, men? Or do equal numbers of sexes show up for qualification as study targets and only men are selected?
> Most of the time Copilot doesn't really understand what I'm doing or isn't useful because I'm doing exploratory programming. For the trivial stuff, I've found that it's easier to write it myself because then I don't have to correct what an AI is thinking so it fits into the project or compiles.

> I'm a big fan of Copilot.

Wow, big whiplash reading that. Your review makes it sound useless and obtrusive. Are you a masochist, or does it have some redeeming qualities you neglected to mention?
Google Translate has a handwriting mode, and an image recognition mode.
If a train derails, we call in the NTSB, but they don't investigate car crashes.

They most certainly do investigate car crashes. They just don't have the resources to investigate very many of them.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/10/ntsb-releases-preliminary-re...
Jesus Christ what shitty and inaccurate things to say. But just for some background, he had many different doctors throughout his life including Dr. K. in both the public streams and private sessions. Friends included were helping and watching him. He was getting a lot of help from different circles but unfortunately was a very sick guy.

Blaming a single person for any suicidal persons death is such a shallow and ignorant take.
> Leonardo Di Caprio is a surgeon picking his roles, he has had spells of 5+ years without a role. Doesn't interact or post on social media and he is seen as cooler than sellouts such as Dwayne Johnson who dilutes his brand on a daily basis acception roles in B movies and franchises, commercials and basically an all around dilution of his brand.

DiCaprio also can't do anything to defend his brand, which would've been good since everyone noticed he only dates 18 year olds and serially gets rid of them when they get too old.

As for Musk, I always thought his kids actually tweet for him…
> Being paid good sums of money by Google will certainly drive a positive bias towards whatever the company does

Any evidence for this claim, besides for your gut?

How do you explain all of the googlers who have resigned over Project X/Y/Z, or how Google handles sexual allegations, or who they do business with?
Sweat doesn’t smell. Bacteria strains common in Asia don’t produce stinky compounds.
To get replication and horizontal scalability for free (well, within the license fee). But I’d go for YugabyteDB instead of CockroachDB.
You have to ask Purism. Or it should be in the prospectus
I can’t read anything on the web with those idiotic ligatures or other typographic affectations.
All they have to do is convince everyone to do what their phone says, they've already done that with video.
You think that Google HR recruits random engineers to astroturf on HN?
Works pretty well for entire countries like Australia. Pretty arrogant to blame the vote counting system
It seems like what Dr. K is doing is the real-life (and modernized) version of the Frasier Crane show.

I can definitely see the value of a service like the one Dr. K provides... helping to destigmatize psychiatry and provide mental health help to the gamer community. Though I am sure the article is right that there are some potential ethical issues since Dr. K isn't truly providing therapy to anybody.
Every time I see bizarre comments like this, where the poster defends a vast, clearly corrupt and abusive company and attacks community efforts to combat said company, I can almost hear grinding noises coming from my brain as it tries to formulate an explanation for the the post. I usually bounce between two conclusions: some kind of mental problem, or naked corruption. I guess for this one I don't have to guess.
That comparison is apt. A big corporate entity is a mini command economy, and fails in similar ways.

There is an inflection point where the focus of the organization shifts from mission focus to control focus. Usually it’s when growth slows. A fast-mover industry like tech is a great example, but it happens almost everywhere.
Doesn't POSIX and Linux Standard Base already mandate certain scripting languages to be preinstalled, such as Python?
You have to integrate which means discretizing time. And you have to deal with collision and solve constraints. There are no exact solutions in physics simulation.
Contextual information is not the only reason. New content/new users is the primary reason my current work place wants more real time recommendation especially when we mostly want to recommend content created in the last day or two. Items that are more than a week old should rarely be recommended. This is common for social media platforms.