skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we analyzed Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready in-school assessment results of more than 1.6 million elementary school students across more than 40 states. We compared students’ performance in the spring of 2021 with the performance of similar students prior to the pandemic. Students testing in 2021 were about ten points behind in math and nine points behind in reading, compared with matched students in previous years.

> To get a sense of the magnitude of these gaps, we translated these differences in scores to a more intuitive measure—months of learning. Although there is no perfect way to make this translation, we can get a sense of how far students are behind by comparing the levels students attained this spring with the growth in learning that usually occurs from one grade level to the next. We found that this cohort of students is five months behind in math and four months behind in reading, compared with where we would expect them to be based on historical data.
Not everyone can take the vaccine. Which is why everyone that can, should, for everyone's sake.
> Same reason why folks who got chicken pox as kids don't need the vaccine; we already had it!

Chicken pox is a different disease. It's not the same as COVID-19.

There are a lot of questions around natural COVID-19 immunity that people who want to rely on it need to answer if they don't want to get vaccinated (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27987103). Then there's the question of why go through so much trouble to avoid something that's easy, cheap, and far more certain.
His job history explains his motives perfectly.
Worked for ISP -> ran the FCC -> now works for firm lobbying for and investing in ISPs.
At least they apologized, instead of hiding or denying it.
1% is used for habitation and other city based stuff.

50% of habitable land is used for agriculture.

uninhabitable land includes tundra, desert, exposed rock, mountains etc. That's ~29% of all land.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use
> It has not been approved nor completed normal testing trials. Otherwise it wouldn't have had to receive emergency use authorization.

That's false. The mere fact that a vaccine is EUA does not mean that it hasn't been tested. The vaccines available under EUA today have gone through exactly the same testing phases as fully FDA-approved ones. The only difference is that the phases were overlapping instead of performed serially. The link you reference already explains this.
I read Prusiner's book a few years ago and I was disappointed with his inability to definitively satisfy Koch's Postulates.

It looks like we can close the chapter on that one, horrifyingly.
Every time I hear about the metaverse, I think of that movie "Surrogates" with Bruce Willis.
This is what is known as a leaky vaccine.
Yes, this. Physics works, but I needed to be taught it and forced to practice it before I believed it enough to rely on it.
Somewhat related to this, I recently watched a video essay on VR Chat and one of the takeaways was how VR Chat is much more like the earlier internet (think around the dawn of Web 2.0 and before). There's no recommendation systems or an algorithm partitioning people into isolated spaces. It's just a bunch of random strangers browsing through uncurated rooms. And, as the author argues, that lends itself to a much healthier environment where people are exposed to and more understanding of those outside of what would otherwise be their bubble.

I definitely feel some nostalgia for those days.

To be clear, it's not like VR Chat or even the early internet were completely bubbleless. But without an algorithm dividing people, it was just the path of least resistance to ... explore. Click on links and see where they go. Would you end up on some neo-nazi forum sometimes? Sure. But you were just as likely to end up on a Pokemon fan page. It was far more random and diverse. As you point out, that's different today with these algorithms driving people directly towards radical content.
Plus, who knows how long this software gold rush will actually last for.

I make no claim of knowing, but developing software has paid well at least back to the late 70s, certainly into the 80s when I started. Not the ridiculous amounts some make now, but it has always (always == "within in the working years of those reading") financed an upper-middle class lifestyle in the U. S. I have no reason to think it won't continue to do so within my (albeit, short) remaining working years.

As for the topic at hand, many of the comments strike me as not appreciating what we have. You want to know what I don't want to be doing when I'm 50? Being an auto mechanic, which is what I did a long time ago. At least one person complained that writing software wrecks your body or some crap. Man, go talk to anyone that does any kind of physical labor for a living and see how much sympathy you get. I mean, those complaining aren't wrong, but go talk to a mechanic, nurse, or any similar job that folks will work well into their 50s, see how much sympathy you get. Complaining about Jira tickets sure won't garner much. :-)
All in one Microsoft Outlook web client to launch in preview in 1-2 months
The lament in this essay is that we're not open to persuasion in our politics. How about considering that politics itself is the problem.

A person of a more libertarian bent, like myself, would assert that it's the conflation of government and society, the political and the social, that's the problem. They are separate spheres of human activity. That same sort of person would tell you that politics is a method for conflict resolution, given the inescapable fact of force in human relations.

Politics is about force. The social, by contrast precludes the use of force. Society is about cooperation.

If you accept the above view, you try to reign in what politics applies to. But that is not at all what our politics is like today. Today, we try to do all sorts of things through the power of government. We inject force into aspects of society that should instead be left to cooperation. In fact, we go beyond that. We consider that use of force moral, since it's in the service of the pursuit of "utopia."

I don't expect non-libertarians to agree. I just want to point out that no one should be shocked at all the fighting in the political sphere. Moreover, I would further assert that no one should kid himself or herself that "openness" or "persuasion" is the solution. Lastly, I would point out that when the question "how should government accomplish such-and-such" is posed to someone of libertarian bent, no amount of persuasion is possible, one way or the other. All arguments are superficial. At the bottom, they ignore the point that government shouldn't.
FDA clears brain-computer interface device for human trials
If there were legal basis for that header saying "let me use your website without being tracked" and the website owner having to do so, then it would be worth it to enable it - but, in practice, having it enabled becomes a fingerprint datapoint, and since 99% of traffic doesn't have it enabled, it becomes a pretty reliable one.
I have been tasked with the configuration of a Jira project and just by seeing how much of a mess it is, I can safely infer that Atlassian is a political mess without a clear vision and the perfect example of Agile madness. It's layers upon layers of disjoined concepts that barely fit together. Features have grown over the years more like cancer does instead of proper functional body parts.
It's hard for me to tell what that means. Does it mean conservatives are doing more work empathy-wise? Does it mean liberal views have more consistency or derivable-reasoning to them, so that they can be understood even without holding them?

> For instance,when conservatives express binding-foundation moral concerns about gay marriage—e.g., that it subverts traditional gender roles and family structures—liberals may have difficulty perceiving any moral value in such traditional arrangements and therefore conclude that conservatives are motivated by simple homophobia, untempered by concerns about fairness, equality, and rights.

This, for instance, seems to boil down to an appeal to authority or appeal to tradition, which, yes, is in the name "conservative" but seems quite circular to use as a reason to hold the position.

"Your position is reasonable on the basis of the dimensions it considers but it fails to consider these other important dimensions" is also MILES away from how popular conservative pundits represent liberal positions.
DAD at the other end kills bad actors like this fast. But if the implementation at both ends is broken…?
> None of these articles support the claim that "death rates are the same in fully vaccinated vs un/partially vaccinated populations". Probably because no such literature exists.

The documents show that the placebo arms were terminated prematurely and the fact that there is agreement that they are still needed.

Here is Moderna[1]. If you look at Table 19,

Vaccine Placebo
Death* 4/15184 (<0.1) 4/15165 (<0.1)

Here is Pfizer[2]. If you look at Table 14,

Vaccine Placebo
Deaths 2/21621 (0.0) 4/21631 (0.0)

Locating relevant information for other vaccines is left as an exercise for the readers.

[1]: https://www.fda.gov/media/144434/download

[2]: https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download
It’s coming. I’m Unitymedia/Vodafone and I’ve been behind CGNAT for about two years now.
My experience is that on predominantly (left) liberal communities, that a gun rights topic’s top post will rarely represent the view of gun owners.

Everything else you said resonated, but that part strongly contradicted for me.
Not sure I agree with the conclusions, but I really respect the "unpopular opinion".
I think it's possible to stay a developer without being just a ticket monkey, but it's certainly true that not every organization is prepared to grant developers greater autonomy[1].

[1] https://rkoutnik.com/2016/04/21/implementers-solvers-and-fin...
I think I was remembering this DW video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr5PEAK1t3U
I think Substack achieves the goal of Patreon for journalism and has demonstrated market demand for high quality independent writing.

They even run a program that started several months ago where they offloaded risk from promising writers for a year by guaranteeing them a minimum pay in exchange for a larger cut of realized platform for the same year. AIUI several writers like Matt Yglesias et al have done well via this program and built audiences that will give them significant windfalls when their risk-mitigation contracts with Substack expire.

I think the agency of the future is just some sort of partnership between several writers on the platform or other similar platforms that allows you to purchase a group subscription to several writers at a small discount. I imagine that writers who are able to sustain such high levels of revenue may also be able to hire editors etc as necessary along with taking on intern writers to write [approved!] guest posts on their streams.
The issue really isn't the amount of buildings we have, buildings and most city infrastructure only makes up 1% of all the land.

The issue is agriculture which takes up 50% of all habitable land.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use

We have a really strong bias towards what we see around us, and for an overwhelming amount of us we see the cities, we see buildings, we see roads.
Prions are pretty robust…
Notes about C# records and Nullable Reference Types
Won't happen in total darkness. Also, it's happened in full daylight. Like all the sudden someones head just looks absolutely massive, like I've lost the ability to perceive size. I find the effect pleasurable so I kinda zone out and let it happen. Otherwise I can snap myself out of it pretty quickly.
I've had a good experience with https://www.carbonads.net/ which seem to be the same thing - ads based purely off on the content of the website.
The new Outlook is built using Web technologies. Web technologies are winning, even for building cutting edge desktop apps.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-replace-its-many-...
The New Moral Code of America’s Elite
I heard they would just experience the same infection rates but at a later date than urban which seems to have played out for the rural community I'm in.
> The vaccine isn't perfect, and herd immunity nonlinearly reduces the risk of everyone including the vaccinated from getting it.

I would argue that the data now shows that herd immunity is not achievable with any vaccination rate. The vaccines just don't work that way, breakthrough infections are rampant.

> Unvaccinated people, who make up the vast majority of the cases, create an environment for the virus to evolve within, possibly mutating into a form that is more dangerous to everyone, including the vaccinated.

This is speculative. Vaccination-induced immunity is clearly not perfect, at the same it puts selection pressure on the virus. Natural immunity, going by reinfection rates, appears to be much stronger. I would speculate that in a population where 70% are vaccinated, where the amount of infections among the vaccinated is roughly the same, the virus is much more likely to mutate in the vaccinated individuals.
The article indicated the existing general remote work option is extended to 10/18 and that remote work by permission based on conditions will be available after.

If one assumes that Google cannot compel vaccination as a condition of employment (may be true of COVID vaccines in some jurisdictions), this would imply that “not vaccinated” will be a sufficient condition, in those cases, for remote work permission.
Yeah, I know. They are a private business and should do whatever they want.

From a customer perspective, they made me feel like a criminal for a few seconds :D
CarPlay is “literally” available to purchase as a BMW ConnectedDrive Service.

https://www.bmw.co.uk/en/shop/en/shop/ls/dp/Base_CarPlay_gb

It also seems that (after an extremely cursory Google) you can indeed retrofit a BMW Head Unit to enable CarPlay in older unsupported models.

https://www.bimmer-tech.net/blog/item/49-how-to-retrofit-car...

Are you sure it was a BMW you were driving?
ho ho HO your belief is correct!
You can SSH into it in order to add software to enable an external keyboard. But that's not the point of the device, which is that it's a digital pad of paper, and all the freedom from trying to draw perfect drawings in Powerpoint/Visio/Whimsical.com using a mouse.

The problem with the device is that, entirely unsuprisingly, it turns out I can type way faster than I can write with a stylus after years of typing. But I really like my Remarkable2, I just haven't figured out how to fit it into my life - I've spent so long wanting a device like that, that I've got all these other things in place that I don't seem to need it. I journal using google docs, and the Remarkable2 doesn't have any integration there. I use it for quick notes, drawing diagrams and also learning to draw still life.

I'm very happy with my purchase, but it is very much a niche product. I didn't buy one to get an eink terminal, so I haven't tried it out as such, and can't report on how well it does as one, but I don't think it would do well at scrolling pages like you would a terminal. (But I'm a fan of Alacritty on OS X, so my demands on a terminal are also niche.)
> ...also if something happens, you can't sue the vaccine makers.

Because the liability has been centralized in a fund that will pay you damages: the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

If "something happens," you'll still be compensated.
Things that would mitigate this to some extent:

1) Requiring an additional factor for disk encryption in addition to the TPM data. You want the TPM to be involved in order to be able to detect whether the boot environment has been modified and refuse to hand over the key in that case, but this case is an example of why automatically handing over the FDE key at boot isn't ideal

2) The use of parameter encryption. TPMs support the establishment of sessions that include key exchange, and can then encrypt responses sent to the OS. This isn't ideal - verifying that you're communicating with a real TPM is somewhat convoluted at this point, so someone with physical access can interpose the TPM and MITM the key exchange. This is a substantially more invasive attack, though. I'm surprised that Windows isn't doing this by default, which makes me suspect that there may be some corner cases that make this more difficult than I imagine.

3) Storing the VPN credentials in hardware. Once the attackers had access to the filesystem, they could simply copy the credentials. If the VPN key were actually generated on the TPM then this could be avoided. In order to get on the VPN, the attackers would have had to modify the filesystem in order to let them put the disk back in the original machine and boot it. This would mean they'd need to retain access to the machine for as long as they wanted VPN access, which increases the chances that the machine's absence would be noted and its credentials revoked.

4) Requiring user auth before any amount of VPN access is granted. It's a lot easier to manage systems if they join the VPN without requiring that a user authenticate to the remote endpoint, but this is kind of a failure of the VPN model - once you're on the VPN, you've got access to everything on the VPN that doesn't require auth, and there's probably (for one reason or another) a lot of that.

As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, using an fTPM (ie, one that's running on the Management Engine or in the Platform Security Processor) would avoid this (there's no convenient low speed bus for you to probe in that case), but I'm kind of reluctant to argue that the tradeoff is worth it.
The stock may go to zero. Or it may to to $20 billion, or it may to to $5 billion, or it may go to $5.1487 billion.

My point remains the same. The whole "has it in paper" as if that has no relation to cash, is not correct. Having stock is the exact same as having cash. Actually, it is way better. Because if you get cash, you have to pay taxes on it, so on $15 billion, that would be $5 billion in taxes, let's say. But if you get stock, then there's no taxes, but you get to borrow against it and get the cash anyways, as much as you need.

Sure, it might go to zero, but that's a pretty lame argument.
Targeting at a high level should mean your articles are a high level.

Junk sites target the average Joe doing something average.

This is not a good argument.

[Edit] Is this a meta article that's currently targeting us with a poorly written article?
Ah yes, as soon as the world stops cultivating peanuts to accommodate my lethal (and heritable) peanut allergy. It should be a no brainer after all, with the nearly infinite other foods we have available as substitutes.
I agree with your argument, but I don't think your example is good because I mostly read magazines while waiting for a doctor OR dentist. So if your example is cherry-picked from real life, that ad was there for a reason.
Do you believe we should require the flu vaccine every year?
We're actually working on a product to help with this. More generally, we're focused on the massive impact meetings have on our day/team and how we can get the most from them. One of our main benefits to start is that we automatically send a simple prompt to meeting attendees after a recurring meetings to rate the meeting, and then give you a view of that rating over time. You can log in and view the most time consuming meetings for the team and how their ratings are changing over time. This way, if a recurring meeting started as useful but is no longer serving it's purpose, it becomes easy to detect and eliminate. If anyone would be interested in joining our beta program, we're offering the tool completely free in exchange for feedback. Let me know!
Without reading the paper, I think you have it a little backwards - the IR doesn't itself allow for more general functions. More general functions are possible (in theory) because the frontend (this Triton language) is decoupled from the backend (CUDA) through the IR as an interface. In this way the Triton IR is no less domain specific than XLA (because both are IRs that represent sequences of operators that run on GPU (or TPU or whatever). I guess in theory Triton could be eschewing all of eg cuDNN but most likely it's not as NVIDIA's closed source kernels perform best on their closed source hardware.

Edit: should've read the post before commenting. Looks like they are in fact using LLVM's PTX backend (ie generating cuda kernels from scratch). Kudos to them
They teach the kids to seek out the edge of the pool, to try to turn towards the edge and grab it if they fall off the edge, and to try to get at least an elbow up on the edge of the pool. I suspect a lot of it is a preamble to learning to swim at a later age. By exposing the children to water at a very early age, they learn to accept it without a lot of fear. It preconditions them so they are more successful at actual swim classes when they're a little older.

We have two kids. I kick myself for not getting our youngest (3) started earlier. He didn't start classes until he was about 20 months. We all had a lot of health problems after he was born (all unrelated!), so his first year was a bit of a rollercoaster. Our oldest (5), we started at about 10 months, then had about a year and a half long break before starting him again. There's a stark difference in their comfort level in the water, even comparing how the 5-yr-old acted when he was 3, versus how his younger brother acts now. Yet they are the complete opposite regarding risk-taking behavior on dry ground.
In terms of land usage, I find it hard to believe that the type of house someone has won't be dominated by the supply chains that feed them and equip them with clothing and tools.

How much do you think a yuppie city-dweller's medium-density apartment and train usage offsets the rest of their consumption?
I thought this was already solved in Usenet around 1985?

"If there is two mediums moving at different speeds, we can harness this energy gradient to do stuff, like moving some objects at some speed. And those three speeds have nothing to do with each other, the generated speed can very well be greater than first two, if the energy harvested is greater than energy needed."
>You can hide profit, you can't hide revenue.

You can't hide revenue, but you can hide assets. You might get your $100M judgement, but it's pointless when you can't collect it because the company you fined is a pass-through entity with no assets.
Sounds like a normal day in office.
Educators in Australia embrace Swift to forge a new future
That is the most personally terrifying thing I’ve ever read. I’m a strong swimmer, and have never been afraid for myself in still water. Hopefully, if I ever get a leg cramp, your story will make me realize the danger and quickly scream for help before going under.
It's an improvement, but it assumes you already know who the best journalists to follow and support are, and you just need a way to support and hear from them. Curation is a useful service in itself; curation just shouldn't mean you get to extract the vast majority of the value.
Most enterprise machines (Lenovo Think, HP Pro/Elite and Dell OptiPlex/Vostro) will have a hardened BIOS that you can't reset unless you have proof of purchase of the machine.
> * they trust the management

For me this is the silver bullet. I'm only in my early 30s, but corporate management is a mixed bag so if there was a company where I actually had faith in the management, they'd have me for life. That said, I'm coming up on a 10-year tenure already (not always programming, but different roles within the same company), so it's not all bad.
Unforgivable.
The burden of proof is not on the people who have every reason to believe they have natural immunity.

It's entirely on people who want to mandate a medical procedure.
I wasn’t aware of the US specific aspect to Nissan, here in the UK the Qashqai flies off the production line as is pretty much single handedly keeping the North East economy alive with the Sunderland plant kicking out 500,000 cars a year