skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do people need computers, really? A smart phone is a small portable computer with a phone built in. Maps is one of the types of apps that most people use but it's not the only one. Email, social media, text messaging, note taking, audio and video recording, a camera, a compass, pedometer, access to cloud file storage, reading apps like nook or kindle are a few of the apps that I use regularly on my phone in places where a laptop or even a tablet wouldn't be inconvenient or impossible.
Concerning 2) magnetic usb-c connectors are nice and wireless is an option, e.g. see the Lenovo wigig dock for an implementation.

Concerning 3) I think things are moving in the other direction. With immutable base OS and data seamlessy backed up (encrypted, of course) switching to a new device should be fairly frustration free.

For 4) I think we will see more and more of a mixture. For instance better integration of cloud storage, things like game streaming, more video streaming etc. . So not thin client, but not fully featured offline either.
10 hours isn't much.

Also new players might still lose with 80% of the map because they might not know how to scale their economy properly, or, in RTSes, just lack the speed to execute that.
32 minutes in and this has enough downvotes to be greyed out.

Way to prove his point internet rando's.

I can't downvote and don't care to, but have an upvote on me for expressing a valid opinion, which was proven true in less than an hour.
Denver's VF Corp. launches new incubator effort to back entrepreneurs
The incubator recently launched its first program to attract talent, an entrepreneur-in-residence challenge that will ultimately lead to winners working within Venture Foundry.
It was a good screed, not tedious! It made a lot of sense, thank you.
Except if there are severe consequences that will only arise years down the line, which we're already seeing, right?
Metaprogramming in elixir (i.e. macros) will definitely feel like magic to most. It allows for really powerful abstractions, but doubtful the new guy would have been able to be productive in a month in a large codebase full of them. Your standard phoenix app, yes it is fairly straightforward.
Wouldn't an entire city being sprayed with prions be a fairly apocalyptic event in and of itself? Those prions aren't going to go away, they'll get blown about and distributed by the millions of cars, buses, and trains going in and out of the city. What can you realistically do about that, go full Imperial Inquisition and raze the entire section of the country to the ground?
Paywall: https://archive.is/742qv
CUDA programmers choose CUDA because when you make a struct FooBar{}; in CUDA, it works on both CPU-side and GPU-side.

Vulkan / OpenCL / etc. etc. don't have any data-structure sharing like that with the host code. Its a point of contention that makes anything more complicated than a 3-dimensional array hard to share.

Yeah, Vulkan / OpenCL have all sorts of pointer-sharing arrangements (Shared Virtual Memory) or whatnot. But its difficult to use in practice, because they keep the concepts of "GPU" code separate from "CPU" code.

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When you look at these things: such as Triton, you see that people want to unify the CPU-and-GPU code into a single code base. Look and read these Triton examples: they're just Python code, inside of the rest of CPU-Python code.

I think people are realizing that high-level code can flow between the two execution units (CPU or GPU) without changing the high level language. The compiler works hard to generate code for both systems, but its better for the compiler to work rather than the programmer to work on integration.
Tell-Tale Tail Latencies: pitfalls and perils in database benchmarking
I see your point. Thanks for the Video.
> generate a massive subthreads of repetitive explanations

I just recently heard about a system where upvotes/downvotes themselves could be upvoted/downvoted. I could see a system like that to avoid the duplication, and if every original vote came with explanation, it would be nearly indistinguishable from regular conversation.

Plus, something getting downvoted would presumably get less traction over time since it’d get pushed down.
Natural immunity comes in a lot of variations, and sometimes its even so weak that reinfection can occur. Immunity by vaccine is comparatively very predictable and by nearly all accounts at least as strong as most natural immunity, with plenty of studies finding it to be stronger. So, that is part of the concern. Additionally, antibody tests are not fully reliable, whereas being vaccinated is never going to be "wrong". It's simply you are or you aren't, with no chance of false positives.
Right, yes, sorry I meant no potential green sources of hydrogen that don't come from electrolysis.
I hit the "ON" button and the screen lights up and it is responsive in less than 1s. I hit "ON" and immediately typed a number without waiting for it to light up and the number appeared exactly as I typed it.

I complain incessantly about devices that are laggy and I don't feel any lag with it.
I doubt Google will lose anywhere close to 20% of its staff, and I assume Google doubts that too. I expect the rest of FAANG+ will follow suit, and there won't be that many jobs where you can earn a FAANG-level salary without being vaccinated (either because they're fully remote or otherwise). When push comes to shove I don't think that many people will be willing to take six-figure pay cuts.
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Theoretically. If you had an office in Pennsylvania or Minnesota and employed a lot of people that were Amish or Muslim (respectively), and for whatever reason would not accept the shot, would you fire them or allow them to work from home?
Get the vaccine, dude. You are not a special snowflake.
VF Corp. Launches New Innovation Pillar
VF Corp. announced its launch of Venture Platforms, an innovation pillar that will focus on identifying and investing in new, future-focused opportunities.
So a marketplace booking system with payments would be that.

Sports venue sign up and configure their fields (5v5 indoor, 11v11), onboard to Stripe Connect Express. Public booking page for the venue.

Players booking and reserving. Sharing invite URL with other players who can add themselves to the roster and make payments.

Venue sees bookings and payments.

This one is half done and I'm really excited about it.
What is: government handing billions of us dollars to moderna, pfizer and janssen
Totally! We're still working on firming up our existing niche, but looking to expand. You can subscribe to our newsletter to keep in the loop (~2x posts a month, sub in the site footer) and see our journey, but I'll also add you to a Trello card for folks to reach out to!
I would love to see more hybrid building in areas which can support them natively, which is the key (native species) - but I also would love to see combinations of aquaponics and LEED engineering coming together with new biomaterials to build more forest like ecosystems inside of our cities
This concern must be taken in context, myocarditis is also a side effect of COVID-19 infection.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266633762...

Last year a Red Sox pitcher missed an entire season due to myocarditis caused by COVID-19 infection.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30929594/red-sox-p-eduar...
That's exactly it, thanks. Once I opened in an incognito window it showed up fully.

I don't think Yost has any chance of successfully arguing that Google is a public utility, but it would be interesting if there was a public utility search engine. It seems obvious that search is something everyone needs, and perhaps if there was some legal right that the public utility had - for example, to index web pages without breaking copyright laws - then the public utility could actually reasonably compete with Google.
Eventually some employers will want everyone back in the office. And running the risk of being infected with COVID because your employer forces unvaccinated individuals into your close proximity is not a personal choice either.

The latter has a several orders of magnitude higher death rate than the vaccines. So which option should the employer go for? Mandate everyone to get vaccinated or mandate everyone to mingle with the unvaccinated?
It cannot be justified simply because "it is cheaper" for the government. It would be cheaper for the government to simply euthanize the mentally disabled rather than give them lifelong support and care that they can never repay, but we reject that as immoral.

Historically, we've seen that making arguments like this on the basis of costs, numbers, and science leads to eugenics.

It must be a moral argument, which has gotten harder to make in modern times as commonly-recognized sources of moral truth (religion, mostly) have been on the wane for some time.
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This phenomenon is studied in the history and philosophy of sciences; it is called "paradigm change" ala Thomas Kuhn. Yes, researchers who work in the dominant 'paradigm' tie their psychological identities with the paradigm they are working on. So, this resistance is expected.

'How to overcome resistance' is studied in Sociology of Science.
No, you don't. We do accept some risks, but in the case of cars, there are quite a few mandatory things involved designed to limit the risk: it's illegal to drive without a license, illegal to drive while drunk, cars are required to have various safety features to be street-legal, etc.

Same principle here. Vaccines don't completely eliminate the risk of danger from covid, they only reduce it, just like the car regulations.
Heart disease, diabetes, and lung cancer aren't contagious. Kids can't catch coronary artery disease in the classroom.
Shutting down the economy has consequences. There will be another shutdown. 20 million homeless incoming.
Yes because those causes usually dont affect others. With COVID, those unvaccinated people create a breeding ground for new even stronger variants of COVID that could kill millions more. Or force us to go back to quarantine even longer. If you are hell bent on risking your own life, fine, but your liberty ends where mine begins.

These kind of hyper libertarian arguments always just conveniently ignore everyone except the person making them. We allow smoking because it's your choice but not in public places because that hurts others. We have speed limits because your liberty to drive at 120 ends when it endangers other drivers. We have no restrictions on how much fast food you can eat because it does not impact anyone else.
Being a 70's kid, the current state of open source feels very similar to the 70's freedom movements, where a large majority ended up working in offices Wall Street style during the 80's.

Maybe there is a lesson there regarding human behaviour, and attitudes regarding the need of income in capitalist societies.
'Google announced Wednesday it would require all in-office workers'

First sentence of the article.
Ugg, why doesn't anybody, whether it be government officials, employers, whatever, ever consider those with natural immunity?

It's like some weird joke. The official CDC estimates over 115 MILLION natural infections in the U.S. alone, and that only accounts for February 2020-March 2021. It doesn't account for all the infections before February 2020 (I and most of my coworkers in downtown SF got it in January) nor any of the infections of the last 4 months, so that number should probably be at 130-140 million or more.

Yet, for some unknown reason, natural infection is NEVER talked about anywhere. Why? There's an absolute ton of natural immunity that isn't being talked about or considered and it's very, very, strange. Many people have no intention of taking the vaccine because they prefer natural immunity.
interesting - I thought either HIPAA (thanks for the correction), FMLA or ADA protected employees from being asked about medical information that could result in they being discriminated against in regards to employment things.
Neat exploration, but it does highlight the mismatch in ideas between C++ and Common Lisp given the clunkyness of creating restarts with your lib. The whole conditions/restart system in Common Lisp was one of the really interesting parts of the language and it's too bad that it hasn't caught on more.
That's definitely the outer surface of the issue, you're right. Some issues have deeper things going on.
Not running out of addresses is the primary (and significant) offering.
Has anyone mapped this data with preventable disease outbreaks?
> I do think if Firefox/Safari had serious counter-proposals today that would work for everybody and limit the standards to mitigate the concerns, the Chrome team would happily compromise in return for wider compatibility.

I believe you‘re right but that leaves no room to say “we fundamentally believe this feature should not be part of the web”. Something I consider quite reasonable with regards to Web USB and Web Bluetooth.
and combined with reusable structures and prefab components like DIRTT and others
Safari isn't killing the mobile web, 'app nags' are
Before Obamacare, I did have to fill out my full medical history when starting a job in order to get the employer-provided health plan.

So we've actually improved on that, thankfully! The pro-vacccination crowd doesn't seem like the crowd that's looking to turn back that clock.
Pfizer/BioNTech already has full authorization in Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand, Saudi Arabia an Brazil.

Pfizer/BioNTech made application for full approval in the US and the goal is January 2022.

Phase III trial formally ends early next year. The emergency authorization has provided huge amount of extra data outside ongoing Phase III trial.
> Do not charge your devices by connecting them to charging stations, computers, televisions, DVRs, etc. Use only
issued chargers or those acquired with sufficient OPSEC.

I'm surprised the government/military does not issue its employees USB condoms to obviate this worry.
If you look at actual data you will see that people simply don't charge these cars as often and end up driving lots of miles with inefficient gas engines.

Your analysis basically assumes that people perfectly optimize their consumption, but actual usage data shows that they don't.

Also these cars driving experience simply can't compare to actual EV. Because of the high cost you simple and up with a cheap EV motor and a cheap gas motor.

There is a reason why GM didn't want to sell a million of them.
I also agree with this. I bought a Volt in 2011 because it was the best solution for 2011. In 2021, that gas generator that I hardly ever use unless the car tells me I have to because the fuel is getting stale feels like a huge weight and maintenance liability to carry around. The Volt seems a lot less like a great solution for 2021, especially as I've watched the rise in better cross-country charging networks and my friends are starting to buy Teslas after years of me as the early adopter telling them EVs were the present, not just the future. I'm convinced that my next car will be a full BEV and don't see any reason to look at any "hybrid" in today's present. (I'm just not yet sure which one yet, my Volt is doing great as the car I already have, and with the number of models expected to be announced in 2023-2025 am in something of an "I can afford to wait and see what happens next" mood.)
> We all know every user-configurable setting increases complexity.

They can also mean the difference between a tool and a toy or even worse, a slave collar.

One of the good practices in programming is to not hardcode things. Where that is followed, often the hardest part about configurability is the UI for it, since under the hood it's already determined by a bunch of variables anyway, and it's mostly a matter of exposing them nicely to the user.

Besides, it's way more complex to have a timed toggle than just a toggle.
That may have been from uncatalysed exhaust. My '66 Mustang also has a very distinctive smell, despite running an unleaded fuel.
One less reason to take up gardening? /s
Well of course you do get to choose to waive your rights to hippa protections, you can waive any right you want.

But you do not have to give your records and they aren’t allowed to obtain them without your consent. They’re also not allowed to “punish” you for failing to provide your health records. In this context, someone in the office may get promoted and someone WFH may think they deserved it. So they’ll sue on grounds that vaccinated people in the office are receiving advantage. Not saying it’s right or wrong but prior to covid this type of thing was an HR/legal nightmare any company would steer clear of.
> 1) That's not really a convincing response. There were only two viral vector vaccines ever approved for human use before 2020, both for ebola I believe, and therefore probably not widely administered.

So the concern isn't mRNA or is it?

> 2. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Sure, but it also means you need some sort of empirical or a priori starting point.

There isn't even a hypothesis to gather evidence for except "this vaccine might cause something spooky to happen in the future". What is that spooky thing? Let's gather evidence.
If you're vaccinated, and the vaccine works, how does an unvaccinated person endanger you so greatly that you feel the need to discriminate against them?
In what way would using ipv6 enhance your experience using the sites listed on the site?
That figure seems questionable.

1) high cycle PCR tests tend to produce false positives. [0]

2) recently (maybe now?) the CDC was recommending that the cycle count be lowered for vaccinated individuals (break through cases). [1]

If unvaccinated individuals are being tested to a different standard, that would seem to muddy the waters, wouldn't it?

[0] https://medicine.yale.edu/labmed/sections/virology/COVID-19%...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210623005911/https://www.cdc.g...
Not yet. I believe Novavax's protein subunit vaccine would use the same mechanism as the MMR vaccine. Well outside my domain but my understanding is that you're given a premade dose of SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins and an adjuvant to boost an immune rsponse to them, instead of producing the spike proteins yourself (as is the case for both mRNA and viral vector vaccines). [1] gives results of their phase 3 trials. The Atlantic [2] gives an overview aimed at a popular audience.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2107659
[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/06/novavax-n...
1.5L engines are still pretty sizeable once you take into account the head, valve cover, oilpan. Then all the external parts needed to support combustion like water pump, radiator, coils and their wires and engine mounts. The total volume is a lot more than the 1.5L cylinders. Add in the fact Volt can directly power the wheels with the engine and now you are forced to put certain components in very specific, highly valuable places.

BMW managed to hide their rex engine really well in i3 since it isn't connected to the wheels. That comes with it's own downsides as well, since you can slowly lose battery charge with the engine running while climbing steep hills in a rex i3.

Don't get me wrong, I think volt is one of the best cars ever made and at the time it came out it was the most cost effective way to cut your transportation carbon footprint while retaining a private car.

PHEVs are the best and worst of both worlds at the same time. The worst now outweighs (in this case literally as well as figuratively) the best. The downsides of pure EV are now at a point where they only truly impact edge case needs (apart from cost that needs to come way down, but PHEVs are very expensive too).
It seems that many commentors in this thread believe that the time for questioning has passed regarding EUA vaccines with completely new mechanisms. If it goes wrong later, well don't go blaming any of them since it was all "at-will" and "your choice".
HIPAA (not HIPPA) mainly prevents medical professionals from sharing your medical information with others. It does nothing to prevent you from sharing your own medical information with anyone you choose. It also does nothing to prevent companies from establishing vaccine requirements as a condition for employment, or to protect your ability to keep your unvaccinated status private if a company has such a requirement. If presented with such a requirement, your options are to either get vaccinated and prove it, or seek employment elsewhere, and HIPAA doesn't give you a third option.
I used to type ::1:9092 to connect to my Kafka brokers on my laptop.
Best shortcut ever.
The site has no Google Analytics or Google Ads. They didn't say no tracking, and they didn't say no cookies.
I'm pretty cynical about this. The CCP hasn't been very forthcoming so far and I don't suspect that to change.
Climate tipping points are now imminent, scientists warn
I wrote a full length response to this article here. Basically, I think it raises two questions: 1) what does the socratic mode miss? 2) is it better to have a conversation between two socratic types, or does does socratic dialogue require one dupe? https://whatiscalledthinking.substack.com/p/should-we-aspire...
Ecohealth Alliance with another "peer-reviewed" published paper attempting to quell the lab-leak hypothesis.

Peter Daszak being one of the authors of this paper basically removes any shred of credibility for what is effectively an opinion piece.
> Whether these particular vaccines are saving any lives is an open question

In no world is this statement justifiable. It is obvious from hospitalization & fatality rates of unvaccinated vs. vaccinated people that the vaccine has already saved many lives and was also probably a strong contributor to that "wave burnout" in the first place, especially looking at a country like Canada

> there is some indication that the time between the first and second injection is particularly risky.

There is no indication that getting one shot puts you in a "particularly risky" position. It is clear the vaccine only achieves partial effectiveness in this time, but that is not "particularly risky", that's slightly reduced risk against the null hypothesis of being unvaccinated. I challenge you to post any literature which shows anything about increased susceptibility of one shot vs no shots.

> It is not unreasonable for people to want to wait

Tell me, what numbers have you set in your head to make it reasonable to "trust" the vaccination? To me, seeing the Phase 3 trials without significant side effects was plenty. Now, we have probably 10+x that data over 2-3x the timespan, and the risk picture has not changed. What tipping point(s) will you consider?
I don't see why this is an issue. If you connect by usb-c that also charges. If you want it wirelessly you can still lie it down on an inductive charging pad, right? Or would that interfere with the connection?
If you're catching HIV from people while at work you're probably doing work wrong.

If you're in a business where that's likely, guess what, mandatory HIV tests.
I left my job (Embedded software engineer, linux, raspberrypi, no web, no javascript) to dive into NoCode and started bubble freelancing and then quickly a bubble agency by hiring/building a team in Pakistan..

Tried a few other platforms (wappler, adalo) but not much luck. Focusing only on bubble now.
Google is not a good place to send spam. They'll delete your account and ban the cell number you used to SMS verify.