skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was listed under "The million dollar questions include"

I'm now realizing formatting / phrasing was unclear.

1. >10% of mild / asymptomatic cases have brain damage.

2. The million dollar question is whether this includes vaccinated cases. Vaccines reduce hospitalizations and deaths by far more than they do mild and asymptomatic cases.
I believe teachers and assistants are supposed to keep an eye out for things like that, specifically. Sorry it didn't work out like that for you; and best of luck
The company is in Asheville NC. They even allow tours.
but you aren't surprised eyes evolved separately multiple times? limbs come in even numbers (or at least symmetric if you count tails - but you don't see many 3-tailed animals)

you took the one example there is only one of.

besides it isn't necessarily AI decisions. these are statistical results, e.g. showing you which parameters have strong correlations. (some would argue this is all there is to AI)
https://github.com/judell/zotero

> sync hypothesis <-> zotero
If what you do comes across as manipulative, and specifically trying to manipulate me into believing you are more qualified, then it’s entirely rational for me to compensate for that by assigning negative points.

The job market is indeed ridiculous right now. Companies need more qualified SWEs than they can find. That causes wages to rise. Rising wages, buzz, and large numbers of openings attract more people to the field to compete for these jobs. Unfortunately, a lot of the people newly attracted aren’t fully qualified SWEs. People not qualified are rarely selected and so keep applying and interviewing. To inject some sanity, companies look for more ways to filter the incoming stream to find the signal in the noise. Applicants look for ways to make their application look more like signal. And the wheel in the sky keeps turning…
A lot of people (mostly older people in my experience) seem to think that people who work in the events industry should just curl up in an alleyway and die at this point. According to the more authoritarian-inclined, COVID means we can never ever have festivals, clubs, or anything like that again in the name of biosecurity. Personally I'd rather chew on razor wire than inhabit the mind-numbingly beige world of dull conventionality these people so clearly have never left in their lives.

I really don't like this new orthodoxy of "safetyism" which to me is a slavish adherence to the precautionary principle, a general approach of authoritarianism, and excessive influence of technocratic institutions which aren't subject to the usual political processes. This kind of ideology existed long before COVID but the pandemic has massively increased its influence. If people like authoritarianism and technocracy I'd rather they argued for them openly and in good faith than trying to use the pandemic as a smokescreen. There's nothing wrong with arguing for these things but I cannot stand people who dress their political opinions in lab coats and try to pass them off as science. There's no one true approach here, and pretending there is has caused a lot of avoidable strife in my opinion.

Politics is so much more than "follow the science", I think we'll regret in the future that we only gave seats at the table to epidemiologists and bureaucrats when it came to this pandemic rather than including a far wider range of scientific disciplines, experts in philosophy (especially ethics), and broader industry representation. The events industry has been done dirty in my opinion for example.
> We can see with SARS and MERS that a more deadly form may actually reduce overall mortality, since the virus can't spread as effectively. However, we haven't had this effect so far.

As GP pointed out, when the unvaccinated are at risk and vaccinated ones are carriers, the dynamics don't remain the same as in the case of Ebola / Nipah / MERS / J. Encephalitis, because the infection retains its virulence while evolutionary pressure selects for a fatal variant, a deadly combination.
Besides states, an intresting question is how soon it'll become cheap enough for underground orgs or religious fanatics to do it privately.
There is nothing critical about open source software. There's teens shilling how to use crypto on TikTok. We use it to breed virtual cats and buy expensive jpegs. You think Kim's hackers don't have access to YouTube? You think they didn't start mining Bitcoin 9 years ago? It's not that critical.

This is over the top and unjustified.
I don't think we ever tried to vaccinate against other cold viruses. With mRNA tech I hope we'll eventually try.
It's a general issue with every vaccine against an illness that has a reservoir. The reservoir can be other species (birds and various other animals in case of influenza) or it can be human populations that for various reasons have not eliminated the spread of the illness yet (measles in countries that refuse or make it difficult to vaccinate, polio if not completely eradicated yet). In this reservoir the agent has opportunity to mutate, and it can never be excluded that at some point it makes inroads into populations again where it was eradicated before.

Global eradication of diseases has been achieved with smallpox and bovine rinderpest precisely because they had no natural reservoir and all vulnerable populations could be vaccinated. With Coronaviruses the situation is not so simple, but it should at least be possible to eradicate the currently relevant variant.
A solution would be to reinvent the wheel invented by pixie and others (PDF has a TOC at the end, too, for example (in ascii, because PDF started life as a text-based format “postscript without the halting problem”)) introduce a convention that a table of contents gets appended as two files:

- a file named “TOC” with a well-specified format that contains the byte offsets of each file in the archive

- a file named “TOC-offset” with content the 8-byte offset of the “TOC” entry (keeping this separate means the file can be fixed-size. That makes reliably finding it easier)

Preferably, both files also would have some checksum. The TOC itself could have a pointer to the previous TOC. If so, it could be a diff.

Supporting tools could easily check for the presence of a TOC and either overwrite it with new files and wrote a new one, or just append new files and write a new TOC pair.

Attackers could thwart this by creating an archive without a TOC that has a file ending in what looks like a TOC/TOC-offset pair.

An alternative would be to write the TOC-offset file at the start. That’s more robust against such attacks, but requires the ability to overwrite the start of a file.
This argument was proposed by Nazi "doctors", they were doing experiments on patients to "benefit the nation". Of course, this argument didn't work and they got their sentences.
because the subset of lower ranked results is the set of all results minus the shown results, ie the entire index?
I wonder if they will get into collective agreements for seeds. :)
In 200-300 years, given the projections of climate change? Probably about as well as everything else...
> Now I'm not a user of this feature. But in my immediate circle, no less than 6 of the many people I know work with windows (maybe 30 folks ?) use the task bar on the left or right (they have different monitor setups)

That's very strange. I have been a Windows developer since the 90s so I've seen a lot of setups, between other developers and all the users I have had to interact with. So this number is in the thousands easily.

I've never seen a Windows taskbar not on the bottom outside of people just experimenting with layouts, similar to how people experiment with things like WindowBlinds or Classic Shell. I don't recall ever seeing this on a business user or even a developer machine.

I'm not even being hyperbolic here. I don't recall one single instance of remoting into a machine for support, or being sent a screenshot by an end-user, that has the taskbar anywhere but the bottom.

That's since Windows 3.1.
I wonder if it will show when Google has manually edited the ranking of results to suit their agenda (US election, COVID?). Another interesting example of this is the image result for “European art”. The image results have been modified to the increase diversity of the skin colours of people portrayed. I don’t have a problem with it, but they definitely surface specific results to fit their political/ideological leanings. It would be nice if they were at least transparent about it.
> It’s edgy because k8s is clearly the best system we have and has a lot of notoriety.

Best system for what?
Soldering is not a problem. Your average tech should be able to rework most of the things, maybe except BGA stuff. Problem is no access to spare parts.
I was convinced by the USofA politicians that Russia is "a gas station masquerading as a country" (Sen. John McCain, on the Senate floor nonetheless [1]) and that "Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbours, not out of strength but out of weakness" (POTUS Barack Obama [2]).

So, why is USofA obsessed with Russia, why is it even wasting its time on Russia? The US politicians must be right (and I really believe them; after after all, the US is the pinnacle in democracy and its representatives are all elected in free and democratic elections).

[1] https://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/john-mccain-russia-ga...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/25/barack-obama-r...
I have a huge respect for this guy, but the irony of this is not lost on me:

> Since most time scales are fixed by human re-
action times, habits, and other physiological and psycho-
logical factors, the effect of the increased speed of technological processes was to enlarge the size of units— political, organizational, economic, and cultural —
affected by technological operations. That is, instead of
performing the same operations as before in less time,
now larger-scale operations were performed in the same
time.

We call von Neumann architectures to the very devices that have allowed to operate--by proxy, so far--in different timescales. And we do tons of stuff these days in less time, thanks in part to von Neumann.

Had he lived today, I would imagine he would be still concerned with timescales and sizes of physical places, but from an entirely different perspective.
Live in Sydney and have had the cockatoos in our bins a few times in the past six months. They’re pretty brazen too, caught them at it a while ago and they carried on like I wasn’t there.

Started leaving a brick on the lid which seems to work.
Gamma isn't later variant than Delta. It's one of the first four concerning ones we know about for some time already.
>albeit we know now we have come dangerously close at times

Perhaps accidentally stepping over the line is the most likely use scenario.
I'll wait until there is an AMD CPU to buy with this setup.
The code is correct if you hit yes() and no() correctly depending on three conditions. There are 8 possibilities in both cases and thus you need 8 tests in both cases. Shortcircuiting is optimization, it doesn't reduce complexity of the logic.
If you like the "Takeshi Kovacs / Altered Carbon" trilogy, you'll almost definitely like the "Greg Mandel / Event Horizon" trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton.

And they're not bible sized tomes like some of PFH's later space operas (some of which I own, but am too intimidated by their size to have considered starting the journey).
You're not wrong, but there are a couple of things here that rub the me wrong way.

> Of course, but most consumers outside of tech enthusiasts have no idea which stuff in their laptop is upgradable, even when it is, so they just buy a new device whenever they want to upgrade, because that's how they've been conditioned by the industry.

While that's true, that doesn't mean it should be that way. Having everyone buy a new device whenever they need to upgrade makes business sense for device vendors but IMO we definitely shouldn't encourage regularly tossing out good hardware. Not with the ecological costs of new electronics.

We don't need to turn everyone into a tech enthusiast or a computer service person. But if part replacements and upgrades were possible and people knew about it, a local shop or someone else could do the job for them.

> Come to think of it, even upgrading the multimedia unit is a hassle in modern cars as each unit is locked to its production vehicle.

The original comparison to cars might have been unfortunate (as usual), and you may be right that things aren't that different with cars. But again, things being in a certain way with cars doesn't mean that's how they should be with other devices. Or with cars, necessarily, but I don't know much about those so I'm not going to argue about that.
A friend of mine preferred Apple for hardware and Microsoft for software. About a decade ago he bought a MacBook and installed Windows 7.
Great application.
I am older then that and still don't fond that question extraordinary hard?
It’s easy if you know how to do it. You have to implement a backend that’s the issue. But I’ve heard that zappier might help you avoid that.
> Until content itself is cryptographically signed

At which point you have to determine which signatories to trust. Which is the same issue we currently have - which publishers (ie websites) should the search engine trust (ie rank highly)?

So really what we need is a more robust method of attributing publisher quality. Except that perception of quality varies drastically between different consumers. Also, most solutions you might propose quickly start looking an awful lot like a distributed web of trust but no one has ever managed to pull that off at scale so far.
This is a great comment. People can believe anything.

As a current example, in the United States the Republican party has been against vaccines. And have been telling their base to doubt them or not get them. Fox news has lead the way along with lots of other media channels.

But for some reason they changed this week and started claiming everyone needs a vaccine. So the complete opposite story. And no one batted an eye.

It is like living in 1984 to a degree. So weird.
Rainbow Lorikeets are similarly fascinating birds.

However like Cockatoos, if you forget to feed them, they will happily destroy everything. I remember seeing photos years ago of someone who'd been feeding Rainbow Lorikeets regularly from their wooden balcony.

They went away for a few weeks and came back to find that most of the balcony railing where they'd normally provide feed had been torn apart like a thousand tiny little woodchippers had been at it.

It was one of those stories that I've remembered and repeat to anyone who decides to feed the cute birds that come around.
I've found this to be a lovely app. It doesn't seem to have all the birds I'd like, but the way it organizes information and the general smoothness is exemplary.
He is rich because he provides you with stuff you want and are willing to pay for. Nobody forces you to buy from Amazon.

It is not your money anymore if you gave it to him in exchange for his services.
Israel's Minister of Health came out yesterday and said theyre seeing only 39% effectiveness now (delta). Based on prior reporting, Israel's vaccination program seemed to be the best in the world.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-23/pfizer-sh...
Coparing Jordan and Israel, their new cases and death graphs look very similar. Israel has a 60% vaccination rate and Jordan has 20%. Where did you get this "instantly eradicated" idea from?
Syncthing: Syncing All the Things
Some works of Stanisław Lem should fall into that category - such as my favourite "His Master's Voice".
Or giraffes find long necks (and other body parts) very attractive.
This sounds like it was written by GPT-3.
I’ve used the task bar this way. (Along the left vertically) it matches how I use macOS which has the dock along the left.
I do the same
And in Rebol & Red URL's are syntactically valid datatypes (literals): http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/datatypes/url.html

For eg. in Red console:

>> read https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/label

== {<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en-US" prefix="og: https://ogp.me/ns#"><head><me...
s/chancer/cancer/
Kuznets Curve
I don’t know much about this subject, but logically that seems to only be a good explanation if the long giraffe neck happened in a single lucky coin flip, ie in one mutation in one individual. That goes against my intuition of how evolution works, through many small steps over many, many generations. Happy to be corrected by someone who knows more.
Considering the timescale the asteroid belt could have formed a planet by now as well. Something doesn't add up about the established creation theory of the moon.
I think a lot of this comes down to replication, effect size, and sample size.

Yes, there are studies which show virtually everything, but in this case, we have:

- >10% of mild cases reporting long COVID brain fog (without MRIs)

- Visible correlations on MRIs with large n (cited study)

- Lots of small-scale studies / looking at specific cases

- Some understanding of a relevant mechanism-of-action (see: olfactory loss)

Together, that's about as strong evidence as you'd expect after 15 months. We have effect, we have correlation, we have case studies, and we understand why it's plausible.

The big question is whether it strikes vaccinated mild / asymptomatic cases. We don't know. There are a lot of cases like this.
Time required depends on complexity of the target architecture, desired performance and debugging, which is probably the most time-consuming.

At the beginning when interpreter wasn't tested yet we had a problem of Linux kernel crashing at the early stages of boot, IIRC that was memory setup. However, the bootloader (OpenSBI) booted correctly. Initially we thought that there was something unimplemented in the emulator, but it turned out there was a bug in one compressed instruction. Debugging this was a nightmare. After the fix kernel booted right to the userspace startup. So booting Linux took us about 2 months of work in total.

If you want to go form scratch compilcations will start to appear when you go out of the CPU and start implementing devices. You'll going to need them anyway because you'll want to boot from disk image or move a cursor in X :). Devices are independent of the CPU architecture and have their own standards, so implementing them will take some time too.
Open Source Software in Zoom Products
Please provide the RCT that shows that vaccinated individuals have similar levels of infection to unvaccinated individuals.

What the RCTs for Pfizer and Moderna showed was that the vaccines reduced the symptomatic infection rate by 95%. But you are misconstruing the language being used if you extend that to say "the vaccine is known to be effective on a symptomatic level". The statement about symptomatic infection just means that it was impractical to have 42,000 people take a COVID nasal swab every day, and therefore they can make no professional scientific statements about the actual rate of infection.

But if you are aware of an RCT that actually established the vaccine as being ineffective at preventing infection, I would love to see it.

EDIT: And yes, I linked to observational data from Israel (TWICE) that showed real-world effectiveness in preventing both symptomatic and asymptomatic infections.
I made what I think is a minimal example here: https://godbolt.org/z/dcnzonjar

Interestingly I couldn't get it to fail on GCC (even with -fnoexceptions and -Ofast), only on Clang. Maybe someone else has some info as to why this is?

There is a clear difference in the assembly output for the correct and incorrect implementations, with a testb instruction run much earlier in the correct version. You can see this at line 22 of the output, if you highlight it the && in the source is highlighted in bold.
Or a bit larger companys. They also mostly send no telemerty.
Bobby Kotick and "gamer culture" are extremely distinct, Activision isn't really a company in good standing in the wider community. Especially not with fans of Blizzard games.

They would still buy their games though, they buy everything...
The mobile landscape presents a very difficult choice.

Choose Android, get actual access to your device and install what you want but have your privacy completely trampled upon by Google

Choose Apple, get marginally better privacy but no ownership of your phone and no possibility to install what you want.

I wish we had a reasonable alternative, it's so frustrating to have to choose between two bad alternatives and the behavior of those companies that completely disrespect and tramples their customer right makes my blood boil.

I just want both the right to use my phone fully and the right to my privacy.
No that very obvious advice does not work.
I never had seen the scaling 2^(n^2) before. Can you provide a reference for that?

I am also don't understand the point of simulating noise correctly. If you get the result from computation on some vendor black-box black box quantum computer can you really know with what type of noise you would have obtained the result?

Another skepticism about the hype is that the result of quantum computation is just a matrix product on initial state from predefined gates. It is just linear algebra on large unitary matricies. Nothing quantum about it.
And that was in the PowerPc Era!

I think this is the video mentioned:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ2lWbRU3xM
Random access is a nice feature of zip, for a system I worked with I made HTTP API that could read induvial files within a zip archive without unpacking, trivial to implement and still performant, so we didn't need to change anything in how these archives were stored.
+1 for Seveneves. I found it so engrossing that just thinking about it now I can picture the shapes of that chain in zero-G, and the unexpectedly long-lasting hellscape consequences of the very early reveal. The CB radio...
4096 files is the limit when reading from SD cards on a Mac (not windows).

https://youtu.be/0bqOB_XGBVE
In what language are programmers writing?
Advice for Aspiring Science Writers
by this logic the compiler would optimize any short-circuiting because it KNOWS the programmer WOULD NEVER deference an invalid pointer
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27924207
A recent Windows update caused frequent BSODs with a fun variety of error codes. This would happen fast enough that I couldn't even roll back the update. So I had to wipe my hard drive and re-install the entire OS from a flash drive. I've never had a macOS update cause such a catastrophic failure.
I guess file formats also somewhat(?) suffer from the ‘Worse Is Better’[0] – a bunch of universal formats suffer from being not well-designed because it was a result of a popular program that worked at the right time…

[0]: https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27919894
Can I ask a follow up question; how would a study similar to eones like this one rule out getting their causation backwards?