skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost 20 years old, but this is not immediately obvious when reading it. I’m not sure if that says more about Neal, or the past two decades.
We ship everything needed for userland -- including parts of CUDA/CuBLAS and CuDNN that we need (which is why our binaries are so fat).

GPU drivers would be kernel-land and I don't think we actually can install GPU drivers as part of a `pip install`. Will look into what Flux is doing, but I doubt they ship GPU drivers.

Separately, thanks for flagging the Poetry issue, we might prioritize it, especially if the fix is easy.
Believe it or not you can feed the homeless and also want the city to do more for them without turning your streets into a slum.
We didn't get this vaccine out of nothing in 9 months. Every time there was a corona virus scare in the past (i.e., SARS and MERS) there was research into vaccines. After the panic dies down, these got shelved, but they served as a starting point. We've been developing this vaccine on-and-off-again for the past 20 years.
Apache Pegasus – Distributed Key/Value Store
Israeli-scientist-says-Covid-19-could-be-treated-for-under-1day
The self-service machines used in Germany to collect bottles and cans will do the crushing part for you (after reading the barcode)
Israel is reporting the vaccine efficacy goes down by 50 percent in 3 months and down to 16 percent in 6 months. Now they are talking about a 3rd shot. If despite all this, the FDA somehow approves this, I doubt it will convince people. This is especially relevant for millions of people who have already gotten immunity via infection itself.
Yep but you can call them early rather than finding your whole house in fire and then calling them.
Reading this, I wondered what might be keeping it from being fully FDA approved. I found this article explains it well: https://www.forbes.com/sites/leahrosenbaum/2021/07/30/why-ha...

A few quotes I thought were noteworthy:

> For emergency authorization, the FDA required two months of safety data versus six months for full approval, he explains.

> Pfizer submitted its application on May 7 and was granted special priority review status on July 16. In a press release, the company said the decision whether to fully approve the vaccine should come by January 2022. Other reports suggest Pfizer’s approval will likely be sooner, possibly as early as the start of the school year.

> As you might expect, clinical trial data is scrutinized, but the process involves more than just experts reading data. The FDA also inspects manufacturing facilities and meets many times with company executives.

> "I think a lot of us are baffled why the FDA is taking so long.” - Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health

> To that end, the agency has reportedly expedited the process, even deprioritizing other projects in order to accelerate the timeline.

That last sentence struck me strangely, seeming to imply reprioritizing other projects was a big deal. We're still in a global pandemic, people are still dying here in the USA, and the economic realities still actively happening... yeah, I think deprioritizing other things is about the least surprising thing imaginable.
The Nuremberg Code (1947)
Can confirm that it’s slow. I tried so many different things, different GFX cards while trying to run Windows (xp, 7, 10) on my Mac Pro (2012, 2 x 6 core 3.4ghz, 128gb ram).

The only one that runs well in virtual box was XP. Everything else had extremely slow disk accès, graphics performance and cpu. It took like an hour to boot windows 10.

Parallels was what I would consider native speed with better features. That was really disappointing as I wanted to use OSS.

Running links in Vbox seems fine though and I run a few vms 24/7.
Looking at his website:

"We will immediately house the unhoused. It’s simple. No house? We will provide a roof over their head."

Well, that was easy.

Obviously there are homeless and there are homeless. Looking back in time, any plan that doesn't involve being mean to some of them won't work.
> Some do not. This one does.

I am sure you believe what you are saying, and I am also not doubting that you have some education on the topic, but I have to disagree.

Take for example, this study [1] demonstrating significant loss of grey matter in the brain for COVID patients, both hospitalized and non-hospitalized.

As our understanding of virology evolves it is becoming more and more clear that the notion of ephemeral infections is just flat out incorrect. You likely maintain SOME impact from that infection, its just a question of how severe, or in some cases WHEN (see: chicken pox -> shingles). Viruses wreak havoc, and that is a point which is well documented, and slowly but surely people are starting to pay attention.

My gripe with your comment is that it completely disregards this point and treats the risk of viruses and either death, or no risk at all. The truth is far more nuanced than that, and there's legitimate reasons to want overall CASE COUNT to come down. It's about saving quality of life, including, actual life. Vaccination is the path to do that.

I also don't agree with your comment that "If the choice is to completely up-end our society to prevent people from ever getting sick again, then I'm strongly opposed."

Asking for proof of vaccination is not "completely up-ending" our society. It's quite reasonable to ask for certain personal hygiene requirements (shirts, shoes, etc.) but we can't ask that someone be reasonably protected from a getting and spreading a very dangerous virus? You're somehow OK with being required to wear clothes, which provide almost no protection from anything, but not OK with being asked to show that you're an unlikely COVID carrier/spreader?

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v...
I think it's weird when people take this hyper confident, hyper dismissive black and white "thanks for asking!" stance on an extremely complex topic.

My spicy hot take: this shit is fantastically complicated. At the very least, I think it has to be acknowledged that accurate medical reporting at scale is apparently a Hard Problem and not at all as solved as we would like to think. I don't know how you're defining sources with a "credible tether to reality," but I'd point to the problem with establishing such things _as itself a problem_. VAERS is a perfect example of such a problem. Despite all the hubris in this thread acting like they've blown the case wide open, VAERS folks are well aware that their data is trash.
But sometimes you need to bill at a certain point in the month. I don't pay my rent every X days, I pay it on the first of the month.

The best solution for that may be something like establishing it as a frequency rather than accumulative addition. But that won't work in every situation. Dates are complex and require lots of thinking to do correctly in some circumstances.
Photosynthetic activity occurs at a relatively low efficiency. If the net energy demands during day and night cycles is not constant, then adding more time to the day could result in a surplus oxygen production, as the article suggests.

Mind, I've generally found the Great Rusting narrative to be fairly convincing: all the highly oxidised rocks on Earth's crust quite likely didn't arrive on the planet in that form, and picked up free oxygen as it was introduced to the atmosphere, effectively buffering the new addition. Though perhaps a slowing rotation did help reach and flip the tipping point of the Great Oxygenation Event.

Reliable witnesses from the period are hard to find.
(This post is not legal advice, consult an immigration lawyer, etc.)

Yes and no. TN is technically only for specific professions drafted in like the 80s or something. It's incredibly stupid. For example, many Canadians use "Computer Systems Analyst" for their TN which explicitly forbids programming, as a programmer is not considered a professional job in the eyes of NAFTA. It's bananas. If you don't have a decent secondary education with a recognized degree, you're likely out of luck.

And while yes, you can effectively ride TN status forever, it has a lot of downsides. For one, it's not portable, so you have to restart the process if you switch employers. In theory you can't even seek employment while on a TN. Two, the customs agent letting you into the US can decide at their leisure whether or not you qualify. It's rare but I know of a few instances of people getting rejected for no real reason. If they think you are abusing it, they will reject you, etc. If you lose your job for whatever reason, you have to leave ASAP. There is not much peace-of-mind with TN status.

Compare to an H-1B, which confers a ton of benefits, like a straightforward path to a green card (also possible with a TN but a lot of lawyers are less comfortable), easy to switch employers, your employer must pay for everything, if you're fired your employer has to pay for your travel, there is a lengthy grace period where you can be unemployed to either find work or wrap up your affairs, you can stay in the country while waiting for approval, etc. It's a million times better than TN.

Attorneys probably also dislike TN status because they really are not necessary. The applicant, not the company, must pay the application fee. In theory you don't need lawyers at all, but it is pretty useful for them to prepare the documents and cover letter for you. Get your ducks in a row, etc.

Most Canadians I meet in the US who are on TN status or H-1B visas are, at least initially, on the path to a green card. Most half-decent employers who are willing to sponsor want to put you on that path anyways, since it ensures your position is not going to evaporate because you were denied at the border or something. Most people on non-immigrant or immigrant-status visas want a green card anyways, so it is sort of the default path.

Lastly, most folks do not know about the downsides of a green card, such as the frustratingly complex tax burden if you are abroad, that it expires if you leave for ~5 years, etc.
Other laws explicitly define pseudo-photographs (eg: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/37/section/7) so I would suggest that this law does not include photo-realistic computer-generated images.
I think it’s consistent to both not want encampments in a particular location, and to also care about those who occupy them.

I agree it’s a bit weird though. She’s definitely not a pedestrian who just happened to be inconvenienced by the tents, but actually sought them out. Should make for some interesting legal arguments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts This was 116 years ago.
Have you ever worked in construction?
Yeah - the bullshit of attributing differences to diet, and ignoring lifestyle differences. For example cars per capita: US=0.8 Italy=0.7 and Greece=0.5 (so Greece has more than twice as many people without a car – ignoring distribution).
I think FORTH has something very similar to the lisp REPL, if I'm understanding it properly. I know little of lisp, but everything I've read makes it seem that it and FORTH are almost evil twins of each other. Opposite but equal.
Listen man. This has nothing to do with cowering in fear or staying passive. Please don’t make the mistake cowardice with pointlessness.

Do not underestimate the reach and abilities of a whole nation that want to shutdown critical voices. This was possible 80 years ago within a nation and it is possible on a global scale today. Nothing can be gained by just posting critic online. It will be stored forever, personally linked to the author and should it not be liked by some nations or corporations, the author has to bear the consequences. Possibly forever. We did build the Internet with good intentions, now we have a global harassment and suppression machine. We have to live with that reality now even if we dislike it. We can’t undo it.

Things that are “hold my beer..” style only bring pain.
Yeah, it's a tough situation for sure. I've been wondering if there's a more creative solution that could be implemented here. Like someone from the FDA coming and saying, hey, we obviously won't know long term effects with 100% certainty until a few years pass, but all the signs we're seeing indicate the vaccines are just as safe as any other vaccines up to this point, we've gotten it ourselves, and it's our belief that you should feel safe getting it too. Or the FDA inventing a new type of temporary approval for epidemics or something like that that basically means "we feel this is safe enough to mandate amid outbreaks, but not otherwise". (An EUA seems almost similar, but to me it means "this is safe enough to use in an emergency", not mandate.)
I suspected this when I was playing with it, but good to have the confirmation. Thanks!
Imagine the products of a culture with less tolerance for untruth than our own. It might see more films with postscript reality checks, like Jackie Chan's making-of "if you do this, you will get hurt". More children's picture books with errata pages, like Penny Chisholm's. I wonder if some such might be encouraged somehow?
> That is not a vegan take. I am not vegan.

Didn't say you were vegan. Just like mothers telling their children "eat your veggies" makes them vegan. But the prevalence of that saying today is due to the vegan lobby.

> That's what the quote means?

Nope. A balanced diet perhaps, but certainly not your quote. Your quote part of vegan propaganda. Sneakily get the naive to accept "mostly vegetables" and then "why not only vegetables".

You see it everywhere on social media. It's a propaganda campaign funded by the largest corporations in the world and the vegan fanatics teaching kids/people a toxic and unnatural diet to humans.
Thanks for the info! This is all horrifying.
> Facebook Inc. has disabled the personal accounts of a group of New York University researchers studying political ads on the social network, claiming they are scraping data in violation of the company’s terms of service.

Behold now the clickbait, that I have made with you.

That is quite a different take than the title.
I was immediately intrigued by the proposal, though I can't imagine ever wanting to rely on my phone to be identified (what if my battery dies? I left it in another room? hey, a customer is gone and that sale has not gone through).

> They also allow users to share their subscription accounts with others, robbing companies of revenue.

This made me question your motives: "robbing" is a very strong statement for something like sharing accounts — even if you are in that extortionist camp that likes to get every last cent out of the customer, I wouldn't advertise it as widely.

Why do you feel that companies should be worried about people sharing accounts with people they have enough trust in to share accounts (and devices like your phone) with?

It's also the first time I read that OpenID requires somebody else to see your private keys, or to share any private data that you do not wish to share: can you elaborate on that?
I believe OP is saying that 80/90% or whatever should be displayed as 100% to the user, the same way fuel gauges in ICE vehicles typically leave a large amount of fuel in the tank while displaying as "empty".

This is mainly a U.S. practice, as many European countries like their gauges to be as accurate as possible.
> I don't pay my rent every X days, I pay it on the first of the month.

I don't want to pay rent that way. It's a good way to get scammed because they're charging you a higher per-day rate in February than January.

I'd much rather pay rent per day, if possible. If Amazon can take over my property manager I'm sure it'll be possible to bill it with the same flawless consistency of AWS billing, and have a concept of discounted "reversed instances" and "spot instances" for real estate.
> We cannot accept a societal change towards mandating choices for people. It will be very, very hard for us to walk that back.

We mandate many choices for people already, including, specifically, about taking vaccines.
This is not controversial, at least not in Denmark. All big pension providers invests your money in this way (unless you explicitly drop out).

I’m an actuary and reasearcher, and the theory is well explained in the academic literature. And you are of course right with respect to the volatility of your future earnings.
It's been awhile since I went down the cholesterol rabbit hole, but there was this guy out there claiming he could control his colesterol, and unless he was lying, the measurements back him up. He'd check his cholesterol daily and could influence which direction it was headed with his diet.
How can you afford to buy and operate a combustion vehicle when it’s contributing to catastrophic climate change?
So this is all about your feelings and not one single bit about your users.
First time I hear about it. What alternative implementations git has?
>(Also, since this mandate will disproportionately affect black and Latino New Yorkers, wouldn't this make it systemically racist according to the standards of today? Wouldn't you be punishing them for refusing to be vaccinated? Yes, reason has long exited the scene.)

Yes, 88% of blacks would be excluded from restaurants by this policy while 80% of whites will walk right in.

https://covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov/vaccine-demographic-dat...

I'm curious how this hasn't made the news...
Doesn't really matter what you would have done. It matters what the entire ecosystem would have.

As a user, I am very satisfied that Apple made this a requirement.

As a developer, I just implemented it without throwing a tantrum.
> There are, in fact, other solutions to homeless encampments...

Seriously, every time I read something like this I wish I was truly rich.

I'd hand whymauri a billion dollars and let them loose on the homeless problem. The postmortem on the crash 'n burn would be a priceless thing to listen to down at the men's club.
>Why is she distributing supplies to a group of people she wants the city to throw out?

She would probably prefer them to be housed, not "thrown out".
They made hugely exaggerated/false claims while raking in lots of Patreon money.
I offload docker to another machine and I'm still using about 400GiB of storage on my relatively new MacBook; and I basically never use this machine outside of work (and even then I didn't use it for like 4 months because I preferred linux). it has no local media or anything.

I'm shocked by how much disk I've used actually.

https://imgur.com/a/iHV4IKn
Macron in France set the goal at 90% vaccination. At that level across a continent, Covid could be gone.

Rule #1 in politics: Always set the bar to success at idealistic level, so you can fail and blame it on the scapegoats who didn’t trust the government. “BECAUSE some people didn’t vaccinate, we must lock down everyone again and ruin your economy. Blame it on them!” (Mao revolution failed because there were still some naysayers; Saving women fails because there are still some men opposed to true equality defined by unreachable levels of compliance, etc).

But politicians are talented: When you can’t actually solve a crisis (and Covid can’t be solved because it’s out there, now), you’d better quickly find a scapegoat to concentrate everyone’s blame on.
Hmm, this is a very serious hypothesis. While not disputing it as a viable hypothesis, do we have good models that support this conclusion? Also, how do these (SEIR?) models distinguish E=100 from E being an aggregate of different variants, delta etc? Finally, what is the relationship between E=100 and R0? I wouldn't expect it to be fixed (model independent) but rather a given model will assert some relationship between E and R0.

Sorry if this is a lot of questions, I do think it's valuable to address this with actual models and supporting data.
Not just "free" as in beer; free as in "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC-ND)"! You can put the book up on your own web site! They're a little confused, though; they specify "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", which is CC-BY, but also "CC-BY-NC-ND", which is Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives; and then they explain, "allows you to freely copy and redistribute any chapter, or the whole book, as long as you give appropriate credit and you are not using it for commercial purposes", which would be CC-BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial).

The actual book download link seems to be https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-1-4842-7... for now (884 pp., 262 MB!, md5sum 0e23ade6512d9a3ffa97a17d45521563). At the moment, the book itself claims to be CC-BY-NC-ND on the colophon page, but then later repeats the above confused text from the web page with its three conflicting licenses.

The book content is SUPER SWEET. :)

When I was a kid I was really fascinated with POVRay, but my 286 was too slow to make it very much fun. And I sucked at programming. A few years ago I wrote http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/aspmisc/my-very-first-raytra... and it was amazing. 200 lines of C, one night of hacking, was enough to get from floating-point arithmetic, scanf, and putchar, to gorgeous glowing shining spheres. And it took under a second. On my netbook. Fucking magic.

But the techniques in this book enable orders of magnitude more amazing stuff than that!

If you're writing this stuff in GLSL instead of C, aside from the speed, you can save about 15% of the code --- you don't have to waste 20 lines on teaching C how to do math with 3-vectors, you can write v - w instead of sub(v, w), you don't have to spend 8 lines on teaching C how to write a PPM file, and you can immediately see the results on the screen. But parsing an input scene file is gonna be a little tougher.

That program is just a standard Whitted-style raytracer. (Interestingly, Whitted works at NVIDIA now.) More recently, I wrote a minimal SDF ray tracer instead, in Lua; it's a lot less code: https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos/-/blob/master/yeso/sdf.lu...
No, you are bringing up extreme examples. Other vaccines:

> It is not known how long people who received IPV will be immune to poliovirus, but they are most likely protected for many years after a complete series of IPV.

>Measles vaccines became available in 1963. If you got the standard two doses of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine after 1967, you should be protected against the measles for life.

>Several studies have shown that people vaccinated against varicella (chickenpox) had antibodies for at least 10 to 20 years after vaccination.

Covid vaccine in Israel is showing to lose efficacy down to just 16 percent in just 6 months.

People who have already gotten covid infection are extremely unlikely to get it again and some reports are saying that they have stronger immunity than vaccinated ones. This is not the case for things like polio, chicken pox, measles etc. Plus based on Israel, the vaccine is also losing efficacy after 3-6 months so they are giving a 3rd shot now. That's not the case with polio and other vaccines which provide a lifetime protection.

Also comparing going to restaurant with going to school is absurd.
>newer variants

Against the original Alpha perhaps. However Delta effectiveness is nowhere near 90%...this is precisely the reason for the push for boosters.
This has some of that towards the end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPXkRzY26eg
> if you are fully vaccinated, you are at essentially no risk of serious illness from SARS-CoV2.

This is demonstrably false if you actually look at hospital admissions.
> This is mainly a U.S. practice, as many European countries like their gauges to be as accurate as possible.

-Add the Japanese to that list. My Land Cruiser's low fuel lamp comes on when there's 22L/5.75 US gallons left.
The alternative is the Trump party?