skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm, maybe that's why - see my other comment, I 've had a few cramps while swimming and I've handled them without help, but I get those cramps out of the water also (especially when I stretch my legs during sleep) and I can actually feel them coming and I know what to do: the cramping muscle fights to pull the leg one way, I fight to extend it the other way. Eventually, I win, although it hurts like hell. Obviously I roll about in the water when I do that, but I don't have to sink, I can use my other leg and arms to float.

Anyway maybe that's something that can be trained?

(btw, this is not a humblebrag. I'm dumb enough that I almost drowned at least once and it was 100% just being dumb. Just nothing to do with cramps.)

Edit: I realised you can feel cramps coming by speaking with a friend who's a bodybuilder. He related a story where he felt a cramp coming in the middle of a set of squats and thankfully recognised it in time to place the bar on the hooks. When I first started having cramps I paid attention and you can actually feel the muscle tensing up so there's time to react to it, although I don't know how you can avoid the tearing pain. I only know to try and unlock the muscle by pushing the other way and massaging it.

Edit 2: Oh, er. There's menstrual cramps of course. I'm lucky not to get those. I don't think you can "push the other way" with them. Ugh.
> OpenCL is a standard that - at least in principle - is supposed to be supported on multiple platforms by multiple vendors.

As was C++AMP (which was actually pretty good IMO as a language). Just because its a standard doesn't mean its going to be used.

OpenCL 2.0 was very poorly implemented: almost no one used any of its advanced features. To the point that OpenCL 3.0 is resetting from OpenCL 1.2.

Only Intel really supported OpenCL 2.1 or OpenCL 2.2. The entire OpenCL 2.x branch for years was squandered with tepid responses from NVidia and AMD (yes, AMD had better OpenCL 2.0 support. But it's debugger didn't work, all of the code was tested on OpenCL 1.2 only. No one cared)

I dare say that OpenCL 2.x was about as "standardized" and respected as C++ AMP. Just because its an open standard doesn't mean that its actually useful. Any serious OpenCL programmer stuck with OpenCL 1.2, including both AMD and NVidia OpenCL programmers.
> then Meridian or the government offers them some sweetener to stick around with a new termination date

NZ government owns 51% of Meridian, so really in either case it's the government offering them a sweetener :)
People with allergies and pregnant can get the vaccine for the most part, but because I can't find relevant numbers, lets say (incorrectly) that anyone with a food allergy can't get the vaccines: that'd be 32 million people (https://www.aafa.org/allergy-facts/).

~60 million are <12 years of age, which means that they aren't eligible for the vaccine at this time, and I've seen reports that it is unlikely we'll have vaccines for the youngest among us. So 82% of the population is the absolute most we can vaccinate.

With the demographic numbers and the (admittedly terrible proxy of) allergy numbers, 86 million people wouldn't be vaccinated (~25%). With a 0.2% percent fatality rate, we are talking about 170,000 deaths if all of them get infected.
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I wrote "Most archaelogists", not all. Among the professionals, is that untrue or less than fair? If archaeology is predominantly a private industry I do need to update my priors.
> Pretending there are absolutely zero side-effects to vaccines

I honestly don't know how you got this from my post.
Well, the RSV problem affects babies the worst. I have a friend who’s baby is in hospital due to RSV: very worrying. https://www.health.govt.nz/your-health/conditions-and-treatm...

Note that one theory is that the RSV wave is due to relaxing rules on contact, hand cleaning, and mask usage.
Wow, super transparent with all the primary sources walkthrough and the links to everything in the description. Nice find.
This is tremendous news! Orbiter is such a fantastic sim, and even better with the high quality addons. I've learned so much from "playing" Orbiter over the years. Much respect to Martin for doing this.
Pretty much everything uses AES-XTS: BitLocker and FileVault do as well
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Well maybe CIA intentionally provided the wrong map...
This seems to be tied to CUDA? Why not build it on top of portable GPU programming base?
There was no major users of Scala prior to Twitter that I can recall. Twitter put Scala on-the-map.

Plus, there is far less of an "ecosystem improvement" to be made with Scala since it's riding on the Java Runtime (which already had massive adoption and development prior to Twitter selecting it).
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I think it was the best system. Importantly - not having the power to moderate all the time. You were given a certain amount of moderation points at random times so you felt like you had to use them wisely. This prevents a site from being consumed by the same active up/down voters which creates an echo chamber.

And yes, moderating the moderators was a decent idea too.

I'd also support a system of moderation where you don't get to necessarily moderate whichever comments you want but rather are given moderation points and maybe a few comments within a topic are sent your way and it's you moderate those. This would prevent users from deliberately seeking out other users or topics to +/-.
Some tech people hate it so much that they delegate it to a password manager. ;)
On one side this is a bit of karma, the rioters had their own interpretation of the constitution , now the government is using their interpretation.
All jokes aside, no matter the mental gymnastics, 5th amendment etc, this is just bad and contributes to the erosion of civil rights.
Say, you have some darknet drug marketplace admin account on a laptop, and the police suspects that, forcing you to unlock the machine is of course forcing you to self incriminate.
Especially if you compare this to a street dealer, the non virtual dark web drug marketplace. Only the seller knows the deals of the past and where money and supply are stashed. Nobody can force him legally to disclose any of that.
Meanwhile , the laptop guy, by unlocking the laptop will hand them on a silver plate: past transactions and sales, delivery addresses, vendor data.

Both commit the same exact crime, one can't be forced to disclose a thing, the other can?

You can try to sugarcoat this in any way you like, if this is not defended against, this will come back to bite many regular people, probably even some who support it. Think of divorce cases, the lawyers are very creative, rest assured they will exploit this as much they can.
Exactly, a public utility is useful to the public.

Social media companies harm the public. Glad they finally admitted to this.
I tend to leverage the Lindy Effect in determining which skills and technology are worth learning: if it's been around for a long time, it probably will continue to be around for a long time more.

There are other reasons why I personally might not choose that route, but that longevity is an advantage.
Migraine. You needn’t have a headache either.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2289227/
I love when someone puts this kind of thought and philosophy behind some of the crazy choices we are making subconsciously every day.
My wife and I just had a day in Chicago, our original plans fell through so we ended up going on a little bike ride on the new(?) e-bikes by Divvy/Lyft, the actual renting of it was complete garbage (I've never used ApplePay before, so I had to set that up, cards didn't work, etc), but the actual e-bikes were bloody fantastic, a really fantastic way to experience the city, I think we did 10-20 miles and barely broke a sweat. I think we're going to buy one/two so I can nip out to groceries and not drive
This sounds like basically hand-holding for Python programmers to write simple NN-operations. I'm sure it's convenient and useful, but it's still glorified glue code.
If you overlay the point cloud with the image you're interpreting, it should become apparent that the "yellow light" has no accompanying red or green lamps, no pole holding it, no shroud around it, and is at some distance exceeding the depth limits of your lidar.
Looks like it's starting to respond again now (for me, anyway). Woo!
You forgot the “stay informed by giving us your email” banner with a guilt trip or hidden “no thanks” button, which pops up if you either scroll down too far or motion towards the back button
It's more dangerous than enriching Uranium. Uranium does not self-replicate, for one thing. It's also very easy to detect and ensure it has stayed contained.
They are huge so even with good isolation they spend too much energy in acclimatization.
That kind of urbanization is made for cars so the streets are empty and you need to travel by car everytime to some mall to buy things.
The author is unfortunately wrong. NVIDIA's Triton was referenced in marketing material as far back as 2018. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-serves-deep-learnin...
I wouldn't say it's an anti-pattern to have too much macros. Macros are a a tool to solve problems. If the problems require macros or at least benefit greatly then macros it is.
> deploy EVs too early

EVs get cleaner as the grid does, there is no need to wait. EVs are already at least on par with the cleanest ICE cars on every mix of energy generation in the US and only getting better as coal plants shut down and the grid shifts to renewable. Waiting is letting perfect be the enemy of good. No one is suggesting switching to EVs is a solution to climate change. Cleaning up the grid and electrifying everything is a solution, of which EVs are a part.

Used EV batteries command a serious premium for all sorts of re-use. Recycling of the raw materials will be economically valuable once batteries are no longer useful for even stationary grid storage

As others have pointed out, when the power is off gas pumps don't work either. If you're concerned about evac practice good charging hygiene the same way you would store potable water and food. Plug in each day and the battery will always have tons of range.
Posted a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27934539
With the extreme levels of government impotence and apathy towards prosecuting corporations and their leaders for crimes against humanity, I worry vigilante assassinations are going to become increasingly common over the next decade as justice is not otherwise being served.
Less than average.
Yeah, right shoulder pain os what let me to have vim everywhere, using trackball on left hand, but obly when absolutely necessary.
At my last job I made a feature to deploy arbitrary user code (most likely a trained model in Python) to a subdomain running a JS server that could take input parameters when called at that URL and would respond with the answer from the model. This effectively cut down DS deployments from potentially days to about 45 seconds. It was seen that be hard and I had a good amount of help from our awesome devops person and worked through a number of issues with the lead dev. When this was delivered everyone loved it, lots of kudos and compliments because it was seen as hard. I felt like a bit of a fraud as I felt I had a lot of help and it really was a team effort, I made efforts to highlight this.

I also worked on my own (with the exception of some nginx issues) on a feature to keep an in browser file browse up to date for all users via web sockets. This was really a view on a git repo accessed through the Gitlab api, it was a nightmare to deal with because of the way Git tracks (or doesn’t really) folders. This feature was seen to be easy and I slaved on it for days and eventually weeks because of edge cases and feature creep to no kudos or compliments. Which is fine, it’s my job.

It matters, I think, not if the task is easy or hard but if management/product view something as easy or hard.
Perhaps because the explanation (and indeed concept) isn’t that intuitive so the comment may be read as dismissive?

If you see pressure as coming from the weight of the fluid above and now replace fluids with solids for a mental model, it obviously doesn’t work: imagine two parallel rigid plates connected by some rigid structure. The top plate will represent the (fluid) boundary between the top of the barrel and the tube and the bottom plate the bottom of the barrel. If you put a narrow column of metal on the top of the top plate, then the pressure exerted by the bottom plate is, say, p. If you make that column much wider, increasing the weight above, the pressure is say 10p.

I think the problem is that this intuitive model of pressure is just wrong but if it doesn’t come from the weight of the water above, it is hard to intuitively see where it does come from.
I get that this is a problem, and if I paid 10 grand for this feature I would be pissed too if it put me in danger. But it also seems that compared with many things they are working on a more solvable problem with more data.
You severely underestimate people's laziness. Having to schedule an appointment for a first jab is already an ordeal for most of them, so for a second one? Hell no. A non-negligeable group of people also think that only one jab offers enough protection in the long run (as it is the case for many other vaccines), so they do not bother to get the second one, in spite of scientific evidence.

Still, I wonder where we're going with the number of injections to be done. How many will we need in 2 to 3 years? 5 or 6? And what about people who are late on their jabs? This is gonna be some real mess. I guess the only way out is finding a functional cure for COVID.
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For HP this is not true. In college I rescued 2 HP EliteBooks from the e-waste bin and both had locked BIOSes. It was as simple as buying a cheap SPI programmer (I got a CH341A-based one) and dumping the BIOS chip, then unlocking the dump with a tool called HPUnlocker, and reflashing it.
Didn't even need to solder because the programmer came with a chip clip. These were EliteBook 840 G2s, but modern EliteBooks are still vulnerable to this.
How much lower the crop yields are without all this chemistry?

Hunger has mostly left humankind (any famines are first of all political troubles, not lack of food), but this was made possible by improving yields several fold. It's hardly possible without pretty heavy augmentation like fertilizers and pest control.
As someone currently fighting with IT because of their 64 character password and a Global Policy for a 5 minute timeout, I would be so happy to have 10 minutes.
True. We don't need roofs with gardens all the time. But urban planning needs to account for more green space. Of course we need to fix and leave more wild habitat to stay wild, but we also need to create more spaces for the wildlife to roam free. For example my city is packed on one side being the coastline and the other being a massive freeway. We have a lot of green space but not enough places for the wildlife to cross. We need to allow for that. An interconnected "freeway" and "city" system for wildlife made up of ecological reserves and green highways.
Well, the encrypted second stage firmware was decoded in software by a plaintext ROM stored in the southbridge that contained the keys. That 512 byte southbridge ROM also didn't do quality asymmetric crypto, so by dumping the RC4 key (and in later revisions the TEA hash digest) they were able to decrypt the main firmware in flash and replace it with arbitrary code.

With today's consoles, it's sort of assumed that the attackers will get read access to the first stage boot loader, so they use public keys to validate any stages not originating from the CPU die itself. Then attackers can't replace follow on stages even with read access to the first stage.
Another major reason that the spec was abandoned was that no one could agree on what "tracking" meant, and so what "respecting DNT" would even mean.
Steve Jobs was talking about the power of remote working back in 1990
Sounds like hard work..
Oh, I'm not saying that it was liberal in the modern sense of the word. And yes, most of those subjects' rights that I'm talking about pertained mostly to the nobles and the educated classes - that was the big difference between Russia and, say, Austria, not so much the difference in the day to day lives of peasants (although wrt the latter, the difference is that things were actually getting worse in Russia at the time, as serfdom - already some of the harshest in Europe - became more and more like full-fledged chattel slavery; but that problem would peak later, not under Peter).

But the important thing that this did was to establish the concept of the rights of the subjects vis a vis their rulers, and the requirement for the latter to maintain the legitimacy of their rule. When liberal thought emerged much later, it built on those concepts, extending them to larger segments of the population. In Russia, this happened as well eventually, but much slower.
WHO did give a good reason: “ WHO reminds IVD users that disease prevalence alters the predictive value of test results; as disease prevalence decreases, the risk of false positive increases (2). This means that the probability that a person who has a positive result (SARS-CoV-2 detected) is truly infected with SARS-CoV-2 decreases as prevalence decreases, irrespective of the claimed specificity.”

Given that reason, cause and effect would be hard to pick.
Hey HN. I am seeing if people want an entirely new ecosystem.

- Windows 11 and Microsoft ruin everything they touch

- Apple is overpriced, and trying to take control of the privacy narrative

- Privacy should be a focus for the future

- Google's data collection is getting out of hand

- Linux, web 3.0, etc seem to be on an upwards trend

- No good consumer-friendly alternative to iOS or Android

what are your thoughts?
Most managers in enterprises will happily sit in meetings and check emails while pretending to be doing something useful in there.

I actually liked the article, but then point 5 directly contradicts itself.

Point one is what makes engagement clear. I.e. keeping people out of meetings that don't need to be there. People can happily play PS5 while on CAM, doesn't mean the meeting is any more relevant or people are any more engaged.

If CAM is what you need for measuring engagement, your metrics are completely off.

It's kinda like how people used to say that you have to keep eye contact when having a conversation. But for people like me I focus with my ears. I can pretend to care and look into your eyes, but if you want my full attention, I'm actually not looking at you, or anything else for that matter.
The censorship and limiting of discussion in the public square is the most troubling aspect of this to me.
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I can't understand why instead of using all the possible senses: vision, auditory, radar, lidar they want to only use vision as if there's some sense of "purity" in doing that.
Why is that surprising? If 100% of the population were vaccinated, 100% of the hospitalized would be vaccinated too.

More plausibly, suppose the vaccine is 90% effective against severe disease and 60% of the population is vaccinated. Then you'd have 6/46ths of the hospitalizations (15% roughly) coming from the vaccinated.

Effectiveness against severe symptoms is what matters the most (and effectiveness against transmission comes second). As long as the maths confirm the effectiveness of the vaccination, having a number of vaccinated people in hospitals is expected. A 90% effectiveness corresponds to having your ICU beds magically multiplied by 10, which is nothing to sneeze about.
> From your cdc link, it looks like less than 10k people have died in the under 40 age bracket. Am I looking at the right data?

I added every age group between 0 and 39, but took the incorrect column (Deaths from all causes, which is obviously incorrect), which puts me off by an order of magnitude.

> Also, are you aware you can be exposed to the virus and not be infected?

That is true, like with any virus it is a statistics game. It is also true that the Delta variant is 1000x more virulent/transmissible, so likelihood of infection is much higher today than a year ago.
I've started paying more attention to myself and other people recently (as opposed to singular focus on technology and architecture), and my opinions and thoughts these days tend to include a nod to the emotional realities as well:

I think how you approach this maker vs manager time / schedule interruptions may also be heavily influenced by whether you see meetings as productive (chance to align, ensure your work is in right direction, get and provide answers and tips, etc); or obstructive (changing what you're doing, wasting your time, interrupting your flow, etc).

Not only will you view the interruption differently, I think it will also genuinely alter how quickly and efficiently you actually return to productive state of mind. If you resent a meeting, the emotional state of your brain will actively (even if subconsciously) work to prevent you efficiently returning to your problem.

I've started actively trying to not resent even meetings that I personally find unproductive; looking for charitable angles such as "This may feel like waste of 30min to me, but it'll save many hours to many other attendees so it's a good thing overall" or "it'll accomplish these goals of client/business/management, and they're the ones writing the cheques, we are here in their service"; and I've found with some planning focus and discipline, I don't lose as much time as I did before.
Actually, this is poor skimming on your part.

Émilie Jaumain - the person refered to in your first quoted paragraph - worked at INRAE and the lab there works on prions that can infect humans. She cut her finger, and became infected.

Adriano Aguzzi's lab at the University of Zurich is the one that only works on mouse-adapted sheep prions. Presumably a similar accident wouldn't be possible there.
> Why wouldn't they want a second dose?

* If their reaction to the first dose was life-threatening due to anaphylaxis etc.

* If their reaction to the first dose was scary and/or long and they’re too scared to get the second dose.

* If they heard the first dose was highly effective on its own and don’t understand the risk around the long term efficacy.

* If they already had COVID (or just thought they did) and were treating the vaccine as a booster.

* If they had the first dose but their second dose was interdicted by misinformation.

* If they died or became incapacitated before getting their second dose.

* They did get a second dose but there are problems with the data collection.

* They had problems scheduling the second dose or couldn’t afford the risk of time off from work.

* They’re neglectful of their health.
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I would say that wasn't a slip-up, like getting a parking ticket or something. Several newspapers published his manifesto at his insistence, and his brother recognized his writing style.