skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really annoying and unnecessary article. It is based on some personal anecdote of someone who was fully vaccinated and got symptomatic Covid for 1 1/2 days that felt bad. Judging from the description in the article, it lasted shorter and was overall better than a common cold - not the flu, just a common cold we all have had before. Doctors also confirmed that it was a mild case. Yet the author goes on to paint some kind of bleak picture. I can't really see why. The case described illustrates how vaccines worked as intended. Yes, vaccinated people should probably wear masks in closed confined spaces. But if so, not because of personal risks involved in getting infected as a vaccinated person but rather to limit infections of non-vaccinated with the Delta variant. The same is true for social distancing (with moderation) and washing hands.

AFAIK, the risk of dying or getting serious complication for fully vaccinated people is currently very low. Maybe future mutations change that but it doesn't look like it. If you insist on worrying about something, then worry about enough volunteers for vaccinations, enough vaccines for poorer countries, or getting refresher vaccinations once they are due.
I'm not sure what the point of your post is then - it was always possible to do a hard fork if the majority of miners/stakers/users agreed that a certain transactions was bad? That entire problem (consensus) is why blockchain supposedly exists and is purported to solve, no?
That neighborhood is hip _because_ rent is cheap
But why is that? Have they not completed the science? Or is scaling up the controllable elements of a lab environment for fullscale production really so difficult?

I've seen the inside of some magical labs...Their actual setup when you stared real close and knew enough of how they were doing things was anything but.
But there is an important distinction between global and local symmetries. Global symmetries, when you apply the same change to the field at every point, are physically meaningful, not so local symmetries, when you apply [potentially] different changes at different points.

For example the laws of physics are time translation invariant, i.e. it does not matter what point in time you call t equals zero which essentially means that the equations do not contain time but only time differences so that you can add the same constant to all your times and nothing changes as the constant cancels out when calculating a difference between two times.

Its the same with voltage, where you put your reference potential does not matter but this is again a global symmetry and you have to use the same reference potential everywhere, you will obviously get nonsense if you use different reference potentials at different points.

Local symmetries on the other hand are kind of defects in the mathematics of physical theories, they are the expression of redundancies in the mathematical description. Say you want to describe the orientation - but not the strength - of the magnetic field on earth and for simplicity lets assume the earth is flat and the magnetic field parallel to the surface, then you could do this by associating a two dimensional vector with each point on earth that describes the tip of a compass needle placed at that point.

But there is a problem, there are longer and shorter compass needles but that is irrelevant for the orientation of the magnetic field, the length of the vector does not actually matter. You could multiply this vector field with a different constant at every point, i.e. independently change the length of all the compass needles and you would still describe the same magnetic field orientation across earth. What you do to fix this is to declare that all fields are physically equivalent if they only differ by a constant factor - which may depend on the point - at each point.

The other solution is to use a better mathematical representation without the redundancy, instead of compass needle tip vectors you use the bearing angle and take the compass needle length out of the equation to begin with. Problem solved. Now you can no longer change the field value, i.e. the angle, at every point independently and still describe the same physical situation. Also note that there is still a global symmetry, you can still change all the angles by the same constant, you are free to pick which direction you label with angle zero, which is again physically meaningful and expresses that space is isotropic, i.e. there is no preferred direction and the equation therefore do not depend on the direction but only on the angle between directions.

And you can do the same thing with the known physical laws, you can for example get rid of the U(1) symmetry - which should better be called a redundancy - in quantum electro dynamics. The price you have to pay is that the resulting equations lack some other properties often considered desirable, for example they are no longer obviously local.
Yeah I was born in 1987, which is theoretically well into "Millennial" territory by the numbers, and honestly a lot of the "characteristics" section of that article doesn't strike me as particularly well researched.

"AOL Adolescence" Yeah, AOL IM dominated late elementary/middle school.

"Developed relationships before social media". Myspace was the big thing in high school, with facebook taking over senior year because you needed a .edu address to get an account. Before that social mediate didn't really exist in its modern incarnation, every friendship prior to that was pre-social media, and the original social media relationships were largely predicated on real world relationships. Was rather nice back when that was the case.

"They usually weren't on Tinder or Grindr" Uh, Tinder's only been around since 2012, and took a while to gain prominence. Most millennials are outside of the window for Tinder to be their first dating experience. Most of my cohort had graduated college in 2010/2011, I know some people who got freaking married before Tinder even existed.

I could go on, but it seems like just another incarnation of "millennial means young and tech-addicted, so we're moving the goal posts so it means what we want it to mean and we'll make up a new word for what's leftover"
The best way to make this better is flagging if you must and not commenting like this on articles you think are off topic. The second best is not doing what I just did reminding people to just move along.
PettingZoo: Gym for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
So what? Things that are still in the exploratory phase are also interesting.

People are free to upvote whatever content they find valuable.

(And the headline + post title are not misleading clickbait, which is often the case with such stories.)
Christianity’s American Decline
I’m tempted to get this.

But I think I’d even more want to have one for the NES. Does one exist?

Edit: the video actually demoed samples that sounded like NES, so maybe that’s included. Either way, I’m supporting this — super cool, and I would love to be able to tinker with songs using authentic samples from SNES.
I think the difference that makes me optimistic about Form is that their executive team is extremely experienced with bringing products to market. This is no guarantee, and the publicity at this moment in time might be more about their recent round than anything else, but I have a much better feeling than a random new tech from an academic lab.
> Of all the allegations the justice department has stated, not one of them sounds like they had no idea what they were doing. They intentionally went through Canada, met with third parties for payments, and traveled to the UAE then to Iran to hide their tracks.

Not to mention that the vendors they were in contact with told them that they can't sell them parts because the machine was in iran (as determined by serial number). Rather than taking a hint that maybe they shouldn't be doing what they're doing, they contacted more companies while omitting or supplying a fake serial number. Later on when they tried to ship the parts, they were told by several shipping companies that it was either not allowed, or required an OFAC license.
Experimenter effects and the remote effects of staring [pdf]
That's what inflation is for. Increase money in circulation by 10x such that price levels rise by 10x, and you increase both tax receipts and government spending by 10x. (Well, technically tax rates go up more than that because of bracket creep, and government spending goes up less than that because the government is a monopoly and can bargain effectively for specialized services.) The absolute value of the debt and the money needed to service it remains constant, though. Instead of public debt being 127% of nominal GDP, it becomes 12.7% of nominal GDP.

Just get ready for big-denomination bills, and, well, starvation and social unrest if you're in one of the social classes unable to raise your wages to capture some of that money floating around.
Hardware projects are massively challenging even for the most well-funded operations in the world. Something about retailing, returns, support, compliance, certifications, internationalization, contract manufacturing and the rest make it difficult to enter. VR hardware is especially problematic as you have issues like vision prescriptions, nausea, HMD related injuries/RSI, safety of people and property around the players, and all kinds of other interesting avenues of liability. It’s capital intensive, and a lot of capital got tied up in Magic Leap, which appears to be a dud. I hope I’m wrong and they flourish, but my father instilled in me a strong suspicious of all Florida based businesses and they have yet change my mind.
Via The Control Group is Out of Control

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-o...
Well, I am not your friend. I am very particular about who my friends are.

As to goalposts, the goalposts moved themselves. If everybody vaccinated when they had a chance there would not be any talk of goalposts.

Instead we will have more millions of people die because couple people died of vaccine and everybody else does not understand law of large numbers.
Agreed. They nailed CC-TV though and for a while it looked like another failed product like their VOIP solution. Curious to see where this goes. I agree this will most likely be more successful in an SMB environment. Especially since the leak they had I doubt large enterprises will trust them with security.
The kernel has accumulated a lot of technical debt.
Linus speaks openly about it.

Mixing in the new flavor into a codebase that is
95% (?) using (and abusing) C with warts and all does
not strike me as a good idea.

Interaction between assembly, C and Rust is not nearly
well, enough understood to start.

Now if it does go ahead, it will be a great platform
to figure out the edge cases, bugs and all those things
nobody thought about.

I am in favor of Linux.NEXT

Write a new kernel in Rust (if it's the best choice)

Take all the learnings from Linux and all the research in
operating systems that have occurred since
and make Linux.NEXT.

Steal from Linux, WindowsNT, Quebes, OS/400, Solaris, Minix, z/OS
Plan 9, Fuchsia, BeOS/Haiku, ESXi, QNX, and of course TempleOS

Creating an operating system suitable for 2020 with the way
technology, infrastructure, connectiveness, pervasiveness,
privacy conscious, built for the hostile world of the Internet.
You seem to be under the impression I made a scene. In reality they refused to answer any questions and were extremely rude for no apparent reason. Perhaps they had a bad experience earlier that day, but that's not my fault.
I have to admit attending a trade show never crossed my mind (I tend to default into the ‘the product is digital, so all promotion must be digital too’ mindset). Thanks for sharing your story!
“ Getting rid of COVID became impossible the moment governments decided to wait with restrictions until there is enough cases.”

No, Chinese government stalled, suppressed doctors and scientists who were screaming out about the virus months, literally, before anybody outside the Chinese government was aware. That’s a matter of record and easily verified.
I've read the whole thing twice, and I still don't see any reason why a "blockchain" is an improvement over a centralized system run by an auditor.
The big, large, heavy, cheap battery you are looking for is the lead-acid battery. The market for them is still larger than the global lithium-ion market, and they're quite suitable for stationary applications. Many off-the-grid houses use banks of lead-acid batteries.
Meta question: I just noticed, I can't downvote on HN, or at least I don't see the button. What's the social logic behind that?
> To give 3 examples of incentives/games which can accomplish things software may never can would be:

This portion needs to be rewritten for clarity.
> Except true criminals also like to talk.

So what? Just cut out the "assume that you are dealing with an actual cop" bit. What you're saying is no argument against the GP's

> Whenever someone tells you about All the Crime They Are Doing, I think you should [...] stop doing business with them, and cut off all contact.

Unless you're saying one's goal should just be to avoid sting operations, but not to avoid abetting or participating in actual crimes?
Patience and forbearance are great virtues, but if those are your only virtues you'll end being treated as a doormat.
When Uncle Sam Needed a Favor, a Landlord in Washington Stepped Up
Chinese government did what Chinese government usually does. Then the rest of the world decided to wait for couple of months to react even with full knowledge of seriousness of the situation.

"Let's wait before putting any restrictions on the population until we have enough cases."

Restrictions were probably unavoidable, but most of deaths could have been avoided by quick reaction.
Interview with him about the petition here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXftPsgaj4k
It's legal in my state, but they have to be surrendered to the police within 24 hours. And just because it's legal doesn't make it decent.
It’s a perk that you get with more karma.
I'm not here to argue whether a blockchain is a correct use case or not, that's why I specifically said in my parent comment I'm not interesting in arguing about that, and also said it again in my parent comment. There's always someone here that is looking to pick a fight about "you dont need a blockchain", and I'm not interested in having that discussion (mostly because I agree with it in this case)

But to your point that it's possible to hard fork, well, of course, computers being turing complete you can always go one level deeper into the platform and change the underlying system, but on a practical level forcing all of the miners to upgrade their software and coordinating this is a HUGE effort, and it seems like a very bad architectural decision to force an entire platform upgrade to deal with fraudulent users when safety can be built into the smart contracts themselves.

But I'm not arguing this centralisation is a good idea either, I'm merely pointing out that immutability isn't as final as the original post would make it seem, and there are ways of dealing with the problems they outlined (someone having fraudulently acquired tokens)
LA man who mocked Covid-19 vaccines dies of virus
For god's sake, you don't need ML to optimize a path.
Yeah. Start writing a program in 'myprogram.py' as things grow do the right thing and split a function out to its own file and import it. It doesn't work. Suddenly you need to learn a whole bunch about python modules and the import system and scripts vs modules, and some of the questions you have just literally have no good answer.
What's the problem with slowly drifting away from solar time? If 9:00am became 9:10am by the time I'm 100 years old I don't think I'd encounter any difficulties. Who requires this level of accuracy?
> TLDR, there are things one could do on land that might work, but not what is proposed.

I'm curious what these might be.
The epic of Glagalbagal the shepherd – Part 1 (mathematical thinking)
To address slow charging, could you have an array of them, some charging and some discharging? But you would need maybe 7x more then, so they would need to be 7x cheaper to compete. (Not quite sure how the math works out to account for charge rates and weather.)
Longi has a detailed comparison of boron doped and gallium doped cell characteristics here:

https://en.longi-solar.com/home/events/press_detail/id/228_G...

There are modest but real improvements in efficiency and resistance to multiple cell degradation mechanisms. Cell lifetime does not have a hard cutoff. Typically a panel's lifetime is limited by failed backsheets or wiring/soldering rather than by the more gradual optical-electronic degradation mechanisms that gallium doping helps prevent.
I was under impression that with recent first-to-file change, prior art, that has not been patented, does not matter. Is that not true?
Giám đốC
That’s probably true but the GP is likely drawing the distinction that iOS tries to do an “unrecoverable” delete as best it can whereas presumably the Echo is not doing this (encrypting the data and then deleting the key as part of the reset).
I received one as a gift too. Used it for about a week, got tired of it and creeped. So I pried it open, used a flathead screwdriver + hammer to chisel/smash any chips that looked interesting, and recycled it with some other e-waste.

I felt bad destroying a “perfectly good” device, but my reasoning was that the world is better off with one less of these spyware devices, and I resolved to never buy a smart assistant device again. I wouldn’t have destroyed it had I been more trusting of Amazon, but now I’m glad I did.
Was Ebola a Near-Miss?
I think there are no experiments in the lab or a direct measurement of this. Anyway, if the light is blended during an eclipse, the that light should have accelerated the Sun just a tiny tiny ... tiny tiny bit in the opposite direction.
Theres definitely an inflation problem but in addition US realestate has had issues for most of the 21st century.
If you haven't interacted with anyone on Earth in 10 years and don't plan to do so in the future, why do you care?

You have a blockchain, that much you can be sure of. If you want the blockchain used on Earth in 2021, you won't need to trust any specific person. If you believe everyone on Earth is lying to you, you are still hopeless and helpless.
> Real estate is often used to launder illegally gained money[0], so likely drug money as well.

Yeah, there was this guy who did a lot of deals with more or less shady Russians, for properties in Florida and flats in this eponymous Tower he has in New York city and so on...
Depends what services you need. I used to be doing a lot with my server but then it became just static web hosting and nextcloud which I replaced with the cheapest google storage plan and gitlab pages.

These days power usage might be workable with something like a mac mini server. I did a test and my ryzen 5 server with 3 HDDs was drawing 75w minimum and my area has quite expensive power so it just didn't make sense to keep running it.

A VPS also comes with a lot of really useful advantages. You aren't tied down to the hardware. As your needs change, you can change the scale of the VPS. Right now I still have the homeserver sitting here waiting to be sold as well as some other previous machines which were not powerful enough.

A VPS is also relatively unaffected by things like power and internet outages. It just keeps working. It's more convenient when you move house since you don't have downtime in the process. It has a dedicated fixed IP address and ipv6 with no fucking around with CGNAT or blocked ports.

Just buying a fixed IP address would cost an extra $5/month.

Once you consider every cost, a VPS can seem pretty good value in many cases.
It's not obvious that there's a need to have a “generation” for everything. People then start countless discussions about the name as if the name is what really matters.

In my opinion, the characteristic aspect was the widely accepted (and promoted) idea that everyone should learn how to use a computer as a programmable device in the broad sense (whether it was kids with LOGO, professionals with professional software, or general public with general tools and UIs). That education was an important project on a state level. Then the goalposts were silently moved, and it was declared that user already knew enough, and the “intuitive design” or some other thing would deal with the rest. (That doesn't ring true: for some reason, people still need to spend 10 years at school instead of “intuitively” learning all those other things. Moreover, it was the crowd of already prepared people that allowed these practices to be viable.)

A couple of iterations, an today, in the “bright future”, there are crowds of computer illiterate people using computing devices as if they are another kind of TVs or phones. Which is, of course, good for the ones who sell those TV-like devices or software services, but is not good for the rest of the people. Despite all of the promotion, someone who, say, places “just” an internet-connected camera into a home or an office to “simply” check the video stream in a “convenient” smartphone application does not make it “more secure”. On the contrary, all kinds of trouble are to be expected, because a little bit of theory tells us that this system is only secured by someone's promises, and a little bit of practical data tells us that the hardware, software, and security practices in such a system are going to be awful most of the time.
To be clear, the ICE policy isn't an agreed-on Debian-wide opinion, it was just added to the page by a Debian contributor who is concerned about it.

I agree with their concern that hard-coded STUN servers are a potential issue, since the user is not in control of where their traffic goes and whether or not they trust that location.

I agree the suggested best practice doesn't work great for software with a non-technical audience.

Perhaps there needs to be a public ICE pool like the public NTP pool as well as a shared list of known public ICE servers that each software needing stun servers could depend on. Then you could say "cannot contact $foo directly [info link about IPv6, NAT etc], who would you like to try to contact them via?" followed by a list "volunteers" (the pool), Google/Ekiga/GNUnet/Mozilla/etc, custom.
Your smart contract proposal doesn't contradict my concerns about immutability. What if the contract is improperly written or does the wrong thing? What would be done then? A smart contract isn't magic. So again I'm not really sure what your point is?

Is it that if everything goes perfectly with smart contracts being written perfectly with no bugs and all contingencies being taken into account and participants of the contract agree to the terms of said smart contracts in the event of fraud that's identified and confirmed it can be reversed? OK, point understood.
I'm going to avoid dog-piling on Amazon - because I think that is too easy in this day and age.

Instead, I'll firmly agree with everything the author said about prioritization. I think he gave great examples and he is right. When you have 16 different "priorities" and "objectives" that are shared by each employee, you actually have zero priorities. I've seen leaders list many objectives, then say "these go to manager 1, these others go to manager 2, etc".
Nigeria's hipster herders – the funky Fulanis
Depends how you define blame. They chose to invest in the area which comes with its risks?
Apple, Google and aligned incentives (2020)
I’ve seen people use Gameboys as instruments.