skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love how you pivot from "demanding peer review" and a "high bar for science" to unleashing a great pile of anecdata about overreaction. Much of the science on depression and social ill effects of lockdowns is no more conclusive, but you're already 100% convinced of it, even making up numbers for average weight gain.

I find it bizarre that all the stuff about depression, unemployment, etc is always neatly pigeonholed into "lockdown did it". Yeah, like if we were all just going about our business having Brazil-levels of disease and death , we'd all be really cheerful and gainfully employed.

Anti-lockdown people somehow interpret the world entirely through this narrow lens - perhaps some people are depressed/suicidal thanks to dread of the disease or personal losses of friends/family members to the disease. There's an amazing rush to judgement to assume that all the risks are due to lockdown, especially in countries that have high rates - as yet I don't think we know what suicide and unemployment rates are for people with Long COVID.

It's something of a right-wing bit of unpleasantry to say this, but "facts don't care about your feelings" (ugh). If there is a looming risk of - say - 2% of long COVID suffers getting Lewy Body Dementia or Parkinson's as a result of "mild COVID", that's a lot of new horrible cases - potentially with years of suffering involved.

If these ill effects are in fact looming, they will ensure that 'bad lockdown' stuff is lost in the noise.

I'm not advocating 'lock everyone down hard forever'; I just think this is a counterpoint to the whole "freedom day" nonsense where it's assumed that once we have a goodly portion of people vaccinated we can just let the virus rage through the population unchecked.
what is your tech stack if you don't mind sharing?
That still doesn't resolve the ambiguity of Ontario, which is in both California (CA) and Canada (CA). Moreover, the search is getting a bit unwieldy.

The point wasn't to illustrate that there's no way to produce the information without personalization, it's to illustrate that search queries can become much more relevant and straightforward with it in particular, common scenarios.
I'd say "that trust you".

When a group do something that breaks you, it happens when you trusted them but they excluded you somehow (even not intentionally). If you don't trust, you'd have "protected" yourself.
> it's unquestionably a part of the western world

'Western' means west of... Greece. So Rome, which is west of Greece, was when civilisation moved west and when western civilisation began.
On the other hand, the UK nightclubs (specifically) I’ve been to seem to usually require and scan everyone single person’s ID, no exceptions.
Not everyone in the pre-vaccine world would have ended up on a ventilator due to covid.

If the was a subset of the population who are at risk due to covid. (other than the over 80s the sake of argument).
Its difficult to know how much an impact on this subset the virus will be having. Its easiest to assess this by looking at those of the population on who did end up in hospital and trying to determine common effects by looking at those who contacted them and comparing the probabilities.

Ultimately the end goal is to infer how much of a risk impact this would/could have on the total population.

Failing to correct for the statistical population differences before making an inference is akin to saying A&E centers in the US or the EU are great for preventing tiger attacks. They don't treat it due to there not being so many tigers.

Again reporting on the worst case scenario for the virus impact on over 80s as being something that would/could impact 8yo people is obviously incorrect and potentially dishonest.
The biography “Genius” has a picture of Richard Feynman’s New Mexico drivers license from WWII. Under name it just shows “Engineer #123” (can’t remember actual number) and address is “Special List”.
It’s called Amiga Denial Syndrome which is an infectious disease amongst computer enthusiasts. The sufferers of this terrible condition genuinely believe that the Amiga still is the pinnacle of computing achievement and that enlightenment can be obtained by ramming the remains of an A1200 corpse with various accelerators and hack boards hanging off it into a PC case, squinting and pretending it’s the A4000 they couldn’t afford in the 90s. This has an elite subcultural element which provides completely new hardware like this A2000 and even new software. None of these people actually have a working Amiga for more than 5 minutes a month however so have to use a PC running Linux or a Mac (but never evil windows) to support their normal computer usage.

Note this is in jest; as a vintage computing enthusiast I have nothing but respect for this and may be speaking from experience :)
> then we can do whatever we want with the rest

hmmm... Let's count : 8 hours of work = 8 hours + 1.5 hours traveling to work + 1 hour for noon break. Then I sleep 7 hours. Then I need 1 hour to get ready in the morning. In the evening, it takes about 1.5 hour to cook (don't tell me it's my choice to spend time cooking instead of eating pre-made-full-of-sugar-and-fat food). Total = 20. So 4 hours left. But somehow, work is sometimes hard, so I need about an hour of rest. So in the end 3 hours left per week day. On the weekend, I'll spend 2 hours doing groceries, 2 hours keeping the house clean and doing repairs. Unless you are alone, you'll have time spent socializing, which is not exactly a choice neither, you need it for your mental health. And if you do some sports, again because it's fun but also because, at some point, it's for your health (i.e. being able to use your non-working time in a useful way). So well, it's not like there's much left. And I don't even count the kids... (but that was a choice :-) )
Au contraire on the first point, Rust is super fun. But it should be clear that this is just subjective...
You can buy a fairly usable Android smartphone from Samsung or Xiaomi for less than $200. It’s not tough to see that if go and buy a smartphone in a poorer country or you’re not willing to spend the cash which option will win out.

That being said the budget phone experience is worlds apart nowadays from what even buying the first Samsung Galaxy phone was way back. Because that wasn’t even a budget phone and it was kinda bad. It’s much nicer nowadays so it’s fascinating to see the low end get so much nicer in about 10 years.
Not related to the discussion, but I need to say I didn’t know I could use NB (i.e., “nota bene”) in an English conversation. Thanks
Linux is only GPL because of a historical quirk. If the Lines of today had been deciding license back then it would be BSD-style
The beauty of cheap products
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> Also try to talk about Java 17 to clueless group of devs still delivering stuff into production with Java 8 in 2021.

Id say it’s part cluelessness and it’s part that they just don’t care. They’re comfortable with 8 and don’t want to learn anything new (even if 8 is a slower runtime).

I fear that the community will never move on past 8.
Flying Only with the Heat of the Sun
> you are limited by the language/compiler on what you can do

You can translate most C to Rust automatically (https://c2rust.com/) and there's nothing that I'm aware of that can't be done in Rust via unsafe and transmute. (technically some things like specific label jumps can't be translated, but all of those can be rewritten to other constructs) Do you have some specific cases in mind?
Sold. This is pretty cool.
The first oculus headsets used camera base stations to track the headset and controllers, all of the recent ones have used cameras on the headsets itself to track everything, these can be used to see the real world, however since they are infrared cameras meant for tracking there is no colour and the resolution isn't as high as it should be for AR to be useful.
How to manage your product feedback-loop?
As a product team, we received plenty of feedback from sales, customer success, marketing, and especially from the CEOs of the companies where I worked.

We have tried to manage feedback using spreadsheets but have failed. We also tried to include non-tech teams in the task management tool to keep them in the feedback loop in the same place as development and product teams. There are so many other ways I don’t even remember them...

This is how the idea of Producter.co was born.

I’m really curious how you manage user feedback, and is it possible for you to keep stakeholders in the feedback loop? or do you handle all these manually?
That’s a bit like saying “most large modern systems are written in C which was invented in 1972, therefore software engineering has not changed since the 70s/80s”. That machine is also probably not running a gcode flavour that would have made sense in the 70s anyways, with additions for active sensing, macros, etc.

Tools like UNISURF would probably not be able to handle the extreme level of detail on most of that model. The very long tool lengths you see in the video are much more complex than they look and require effort both from software and hardware to prevent chatter and breakage on titanium. The clearances in the video are also extremely tight in places, and while you could have guess-and-checked that in the 70s, it’s a very different workflow than the simulators that are basically standard use today.

CNC machining is a multi-billion dollar industry populated by smart people. While the fundamental technology of “spinning cutter driven by computer controlled motors” hasn’t changed in 50 years, the R&D departments aren’t asleep at the wheel.
They also sued polish company a.pl a few years ago because they said it sounds like 'apple' when you read it in english (.pl being of course polish TLD and it is read very differently than 'apple'). Not sure how this was resolved but the site is still up
I couldn’t think of anything worse than debugging mail delivery all evening in that time.
It's not only in silicon valley. My first company (in Switzerland) was like that. It was a start-up, mostly with people in their 20s fresh out of uni, no family and often expats/not from the area. Basically, people without their own life there, so of course colleagues become friends, and people recreate the university lifestyle they've just left, except this time you're getting paid. I think the appeal is clear if you're in that situation.
We beat sars-1 just fine, and mers, mainly by quarantining infected. Sars-1 literally no longer exists. This is very strong proof that we would have beat covid too, if it were less contagious.
Terry Davis has a very funny quote about Unicode hieroglyphics
You can indeed have that and many people do, but the problem with going that route is you can only use the lowest common denominator of features of any of the target databases, which wipes out a lot of the performance or convenience features you'd get from either.

(arguably SQL itself is/was supposed to be that common layer in the first place, but db vendors always want to be able to present users with new features that are not yet standardized)
For every article written about lock-in, hundreds aren't written because people get overwhelmed by technology.
The Full Stack Data Scientist
Ok I walked into that one. ;)

I was thinking more in terms of user applications. Bit having read your link I confess I had no idea about the seldom talked about endorsement keys.

On the one hand this will allow my IT department to completelyoxk down all out end user devices such that they cannot access any of our services if the device has been compromised. But the price well pay is that Disney will refuse to let me play video on my own device, and I expect sooner or later PunkBuster and so on wont even let me join a game server on such a device...

The future looks pretty bleak.
This is consistent with the elbow of the increase in obesity being about 1980. Canola oil was invented in the 1970's and really hit its stride in the US in the 1980's.
Is it plagiarism if the license of the original source allows such copying and the author complied with the license?

Isn't this outcome an expected one in which source code is made available to the public?
Microsoft Windows is proprietary software yes, but they have something called the Shared Source Initiative.

> Through the Shared Source Initiative Microsoft licenses product source code to qualified customers, enterprises, governments, and partners for debugging and reference purposes.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/

I say this as someone who doesn’t like Windows and doesn’t run Windows. We still need to admit that Microsoft does indeed let others read the source code, only that they decide who gets to read it and not.
Yes but the magical news stats from "experts" say I could die if I crossed the road without looking so I'll stay at home and order off amazon...
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You make solid points. I was thinking of the destruction of the library of Alexandria which I came to learn just recently was more a centuries long decline rather than a tear down by angry religious fanatics.
I find wearing a VR helmet for a significant period of time to be mood-depressing. I think with AR the problem would go away, but I find it unlikely that passthrough AR will be much better than VR. I will try these new demos when I have a chance.
I suspect given his background: PHP, React and Postgres.

I’d love to hear more!
Did anybody find it weird that a series that ended with a rousing affirmation of the value of truth was full of so much gratuitous falsehood?

I was just reading the article and a name popped up: "Mikhail Ivanovich Shchadov", who looked pretty flash in the series, so I looked the real guy up, and one commenter had this to say:

"Mikhail Ivanovich Shchadov, the coal industry minister, is portrayed as a young, weak and fop man who allegedly has nothing to do with coal mining and is far apart from the working class. In real life Shchadov was a strong, rigorous and togated minister who had worked in the coal industry since the age of 15. He was a former miner and mechanic in Siberia."

Literally every time I've looked up something from that series, this has happened. And I've looked up a lot of stuff, because a lot of it didn't seem realistic.

I get trying to make a story dramatic, but when the whole thrust of the movie is about the price of lies, what are we supposed to think? Genuinely baffled.
Bravo. This restores my confidence that there are still creative hackers out there doing things besides trying to "get funded".
Since you also focus that you want to keep a high bar for good science, where are you studies that claim that “ overreaction already killed more than even the (reasonable) estimated worst case scenario”?
I think part of it is the level of car use. Most places in the US, everything is quite far apart, and everyone has a car. The main way that people get home after drinking is driving. Hopefully they take an Uber or have someone else to drive them, but many times that is not the case unfortunately. So there are a lot of young people on the road or freeway on the weekends who have been drinking. And it is a fairly common cause of young people or the ones they crash into dying.
> You just kind of wait for ethical people to come forward and explain bugs they've found

And the same apply to open source software. It's not like all the bugs in open source software was fixed in audits or that you somehow magically know how long time the issue has been attacked by bad actors.
I’d argue for having environment-if you do specify it in your resource name- should be at the start, and ideally capitalised differently: in the awful event you somehow find yourself in some kind of environment where dev and prod services are inexplicably listed together, you probably want it to be as clear as possible which one you’re accessing/reading/etc.

Personally I think applications should be blind to environment and have the relevant configs passed to them and said environments should be as well-separated as possible. Ideally in different accounts. With different URL’s. That are co-inaccessible.
You're mixing a lot of things for no reason, the problem you describe really have very little or even nothing with open source or proprietary or even OSes.

Points 2/3/4 are exactly the same on other OSes, even open sources ones.

Point 1 might be easier to answer by yourself/someone who is not the vendor with open source OSes, while for Windows or OSX you depend on the vendor to tell you with certitude "starting with X" (which they always do). But on the other hand the centralized and streamlined patching model makes it much much easier to identify just which patch caused it, compared to "which level of package mainter or upstream caused it, is it a flaw in SOFT or in debian's SOFT-up3 or what ?"

Point 5 has nothing to do with open source either, on either you can easily test if it's fixed or not.
Whether it's considered bug of feature-wont-fix is pretty much always answered so you don't have to actually ask yourself (but if they do consider it normal then you can't fix it yourself on closed source proprietary, though they usually give you a config change to get what you want).
>eg Samsung Galaxy, iPhone X series and Huawei, and their displays haven't degraded over say 5 years from what I can tell.

Of those I've only had the iPhone X and now iPhone 12 (and will note that the iPhone X only launched in November 2017, just 3.5 years ago, and I'll never know how it lasts to 5 years anyway because my upgrade cycle remains faster than 5 years for now). But on the iPhone side of things at last, there are a host of mitigation measures both inherent to iOS and new since the LCD. The iPhone X series for example is quite aggressive by default about powering off the display. They do a decent job of it thanks to the Face ID sensors letting them have some form of attention monitoring coupled with fairly transparent quick wakeup/unlock, but it's still noticeable even now. iOS in general also has very, very little fixed chrome. Not nothing, but not much. Most of the display, as with TVs, is constantly shifting content. Even browsing the web on a tiny screen involves lots of scrolling and movement.

None of this stuff makes much if any sense in typical desktop/notebook computing. There are a lot more static UI elements present all the time, and that's a good thing with high precision mouse pointers and large screens. We count on screens to passively display information constantly, even if we're not actively interacting with them right that second. We also tend to use computers for a much longer time. I don't have a 4 year old phone. I do have a 10 year old system still in a final few months of service, and a number of 6-7 year old systems that may last longer. There are LCD displays at work even older than that still doing well.

Maybe OLED will evolve far enough to handle that acceptably as well, but I don't think you can extrapolate from phones. It's not like the industry hasn't been able to make big high resolution OLED displays for a while now. The curious dearth of them in notebooks/AIOs/standalone PC monitors points at something.
I only use AWS because companies I work for are locked in. When I am spending my own money, I love the low costs at Hetzner and when I need to spin up VPSs I find GCP much more convenient to use. I am also evaluating Oracle right now because they have a generous free tier VPS and their services are easy enough to use.

I pay $$$ for Apple’s products and services, but I don’t enjoy using AWS. I do enjoy Amazon’s sales and delivery platform for buying physical things, and their digital media, so I don’t mind paying $$ for that.
What language is this? Or is it just a mathematic editor? Just wondering it is interest whatever language it is.
I think alcohol is better for the simple reason that the negative consequences are more immediately obvious. Cannabis is much more sinister in that the negatives usually creep up on you before you notice and so long as it has you in its grip you may not even notice until you stop.

I've witnessed people have acute psychotic breaks after smoking strong cannabis for the first time, and met one man with schizophrenia who attributed his condition to his past cannabis use. Whether he's right I don't know, but the connection is at least well acknowledged nowadays.
> How does the life of the average human looks like in a world with net zero emissions?

For one, net zero houses look pretty comfortable:

* https://www.chba.ca/CHBA/BuyingNew/Net-Zero-Homes.aspx

If you go further toward "passive house" you can have 5000 sq. ft. (500 sq. m.) of living area and only need 1500W (a hairdryer) to heat it:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vul4vMFdkA

Residential energy use accounts for roughly 20% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States:

* https://www.pnas.org/content/117/32/19122

IMHO there's still plenty of low-hanging fruit in just efficiencies that can be plucked before lifestyle sacrifices would need to be made.
The Beautiful, Brutal Tentacles of Hydra
> In general, I would avoid exposing Rust subsystems to C. It is possible, of course, and it gives you the advantages of Rust in the implementation of the subsystem. However, by having to expose a C API, you would be losing most of the advantages of the richer type system, plus the guarantees that Rust bring as a language for the consumers of the subsystem.

This feels like putting the cart before the horse. "we shouldn't integrate Rust into the kernel in a modular sort of way cause it's not as optimal as more thorough type-aware integration."

Like, cross that bridge when you come to it, eh? The kernel is currently comprised of hundreds if not thousands of components, talking to each other via C API/ABIs. And talking to hardware is almost entirely ABI. That is how the kernel do.

Would we benefit from more type knowledge across boundaries? Absolutely, but this is hard (especially given how different the c and rust approaches to allocation are), and shouldn't stand in the way of progress.
the results hint at your question:

"The scale of the observed deficit [of people who had covid] was not insubstantial; the 0.47 SD global composite score reduction for the hospitalized with ventilator sub-group was greater than the average 10-year decline in global performance between the ages of 20 to 70 within this dataset. It was larger than the mean deficit of 480 people who indicated they had previously suffered a stroke (−0.24SDs) and the 998 who reported learning disabilities (−0.38SDs). For comparison, in a classic intelligence test, 0.47 SDs equates to a 7-point difference in IQ."
edit: well, on further thought, a stroke is not the same as a disease but still there's insight here.
How would you protect any other mechanisms from being gamed to an even higher degree of inequality without using crushing force?
Why is the target impossible? We have had successful nationwide vaccine programs in the past. Polio is a distant memory because of this.
I recently created a throwaway FB account for "work stuff", and the amount of spam mail I'm getting now each day from Facebook to "engage" is shocking. Also: I didn't register the account with my real name and a different email address, yet Facebook magically featured out who I am and is sending out invites to the friends on my (long dead) real Facebook account. It's all creepy AF.
I think the last quotation marks are just in the wrong place (should be at the end of the sentence).

Fwiw, the sentence didn't impede my reading flow.
Want Driverless Cars on Roads Now
> mobilized a book-buying protest

Consumerism as a form of protest!
Let's play devil's advocate here and assume I am the dude selling the list.

I would ask for monero and would not care if the FBI is the buyer. The most they can do is to watch exchanges where monero is exchanged versus dollars or other cryptocoins. Then do this a few times over and start buying goods with those then sell the goods on Amazon/eBay for hard $$$. Small amounts and even with 50 cents at a dollar is still worth it for one person.
https://consumerist.com/2010/02/23/verizon-didnt-know-differ...