skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a textbook example of short-term business thinking, and it's especially dumb; besides using up packaging for no good reason, there's a natural limit to how small you can make your packages for any product. Your customers might be idiots, but they're not infinitely idiots.
I bought a cheap used miele canister after reading this: https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1pe2bd/iama_vacuum_re...

It has been great so far. The bags are a little expensive, but worth it. It is quiet and pleasant to use and has strong suction, and parts are available if we need them.
Non-citizens are not eligible for any public benefit. As regards medicare you're probably eligible the moment you enter the country. So technically you could head back if you 're having issues - ymmv.
> the old "wisdom" wasn't wisdom at all because it wasn't derived from data. It was a cognitive default bias of the human species.

I don't think that can have been a default bias, because humans most definitely do not default to thinking of large grazing mammals as asocial. We're more likely to think of them as belonging to herds.

And we're happy to attribute sociality to animals that really are asocial. That's the default viewpoint.
HTTP/1.1 pipelining is fundamentally flawed and largely unused. There isn't some conspiracy not to use it - many, many projects evaluated it and pretty much all came to that same conclusion.
I took one look at the second table and was surprised to see Australia hasn't won any gold medals.
And it’s a bat shit stupid business move
The most egregious example of this I’ve ever seen was at a liquor store where a 750ml bottle of Vermouth was double the price of a 1750ml bottle. Not double per ml, double of the absolute price.
> Parents can’t inform their kids if they aren’t aware

Why not inform your children of the potential consequences when giving them a phone? Why do you need Apple to notify you of inappropriate behavior before having that conversation? That's like waiting until you find a pregnancy test in the garbage before talking to your children about sex.
Looking at the API here, it feels very much driven by OpenGL. You create a shader, send some parameters, push/pop some of the state, and bam - here is some rendering.

I'm curious if there is still ideas to discover in the space of code-only 3d engines. Something more tied to modern API concepts, such as render passes and pipeline states.
That's a great question. I keep looking for Linux tablets but not much joy so far. The Pinetab is unavailable and pretty slow.

If I had to guess, I'd hunt around for a Windows tablet that someone had good luck running Linux on. Maybe a Surface Pro.
I found Orgmode was amazing for writing LaTeX documents - but I wasn't working with other people.

For a few classes I took recently, I used R-markdown. For one class's group paper we all collaborated with the same source file, I set up continuous integration on my server and hosted the result paper - which the other group members seemed to ignore, just looking at their local results, and at one point we had the numbers for numbered headings showing up twice in the document because one member didn't realize we were automatically adding them in.

For the other class, we had some group exams each over a weekend, and I found I had to organize everyone else's work, which was a lot of extra work. Some of them didn't understand they needed to give me a plain-text file with their contribution, and instead handed me MS Word with math, which caused some frustration for me. I emailed out the compiled document over and over, and we did essentially one-on-ones where they explained their work and I verified it, cleaned it up, and (re?)wrote most of it anyways.

If orgmode was my choice, I'd probably wind up doing the same, but you have to really behave like a type-A personality to lead the group, and stay type-A to get it done.

The takeaway I had is that if you take the lead and are willing to do most of the work you can use the tech you want to use and still be rather successful with a group.

But if you have to rely on them to do the work, they need to use technology they understand how to use.
Was it in a jurisdiction where there's heavy state control of liquor sales? Those don't behave like usual markets do.
I was thinking about a home setup. Opening the window lets in VOCs from outside, which the HEPA-filter is supposed to clean up. Seems a bit counterproductive or self-defeating, no? A more proper setup that you'd find in an office building is probably too expensive for home.
I'll post a spreadsheet in a moment, but here's the top 5:

- USA: 167

- CHN: 164

- ROC: 109

- GBR: 96

- JPN: 95

Which I think makes the ranking the same as total medals for the top 5.

EDIT: Spreadsheet is here
https://cryptpad.fr/sheet/#/2/sheet/view/yFp7KdPHA2hC1cBOL0A...
I see stores obfuscate this all the time by showing some unit prices as per lb, some per oz, and some per 100 count, all for different versions of the same product.
Don’t you think the most important column may not be the one you sort by? Most data will have an ID or label (country name in this case) that differentiates the row and gives it meaning. Putting this column last obscures the meaning of the rows.
The notion of anyone being an "expert" on AGI is rather silly considering that we have no AGI and don't even have a plausible path to build one. It's sort of like being an expert on warp drives or time machines.
the primary reason I disagree with this is because I didn't have allergies and I grew up with that theory, my immediate circle would criticize allergy prone people as being weak and coddled too hard, not allowed to be exposed to things

and then I travelled to another country with different kinds of pollen in the air and I wound up suffering from allergies there, how humiliating! so I thought, but really just humbling

looking up how to remedy it I found that one accepted train of thought now is that people are prone to develop allergies at any age, let alone being exposed to things different than where you grew up

so I would nip the over-sterilization argument right there. keep indoors clean, go outside.
AI-enhanced object reconstruction would be great for 3D printing enthusiasts. The entire object scanning ecosystem is kind of a shitshow right now.
So I hope I'm not talking past you, my perspective on the situation seems to somewhat oppose your intuition. Ivermectin is not a tightly kept secret. It has just been suppressed in the mainstream channels. Bret Weinstein has discussed this.

https://covid19criticalcare.com/guide-for-this-website/take-...

That website lists doctors who will hotline you a prescription. Maybe it's harder outside the US, but I know you can get off branded forms of it (perhaps those are worth less confident in?)

I would argue the secret isn't being kept. It just circulates in one silo and not all silos of our reality schism.
Have you seen Bevy's new rendering experiments? Very much along the lines of what you're describing.
The Financial Times’ alternative medal table ranks countries not by their total medal haul but by the difference to the tally they are expected to achieve, according to an economic model that takes into account their economic, social and political characteristics:

1. Russian Olympic Committee
2. Australia
3. China
4. Italy
5. Netherlands
6. Taiwan
7. Germany
8. Cuba
9. Austria
10. New Zealand

https://ig.ft.com/tokyo-olympics-alternative-medal-table/
More of a grinder to make sure anything big enough to fall out gets smashed up into particles small enough to stay floating. (Less the occasional cleaning, which... isn't comprehensive. wash a used rug someday. ick.)
$100 on $699 is a little more than 10%…
Ask HN: What are the challenges of being an immigrant in the US?
Is the US a welcoming country overall? What if you more of a blue-colllared worker?
Two categories, VOC and particles, I don't worry about eliminating from the home.

I aspire to have zero particulates in my home air, it takes some doing. Much of the particles are of human/industrial origin anyway. Exhaust and tire particulate and various broken down human built materials. (and an overabundance of human pieces that fall off and collect in ways that wouldn't happen outside)

I also aspire to have a low CO2 PPM inside, this conflicts with the previous (i.e. it is difficult without intense forced air exchange with the outside to achieve CO2 levels less than twice outside levels.

But to the contrary, I do not use disinfectants ever except in very specific circumstances. I go out of my way to not buy products which make disinfectant claims.

I think human beings need to be out in nature, to regularly come into contact with living soil. Not just "nature" of curated footpaths and manicured, fertilized lawns and parks, but actually getting dirty outside where other organisms live. It's hard to do in cities, and growing up on a farm it still seems absurd to me that I have to aspire and do great organizing to find myself somewhere in a city where I am not standing on a surface that has been engineered by people. The closest I can get is usually the strips of grass along the sidewalks that act as nothing but dog toilets. (I love dogs, but city dogs offend me. They're animals, they want to be outside and not just tethered to you or for the occasional adventure to a park)

An somewhat gross anecdote:

Several weeks ago I got a cut on my foot from some shattered glass that developed into an odd looking infection with red stripes/blotches that I was on the edge of scheduling an appointment for a doctor. I happened to visit a local lake and dipped my toes in for a bit. The next day I was amazed, the redness which had been growing in intensity for a couple of weeks was just completely gone. Maybe it was a coincidence but I strongly believe that whatever was having a grand ol time eating my foot seems to have made a tasty meal for whatever cocktail of microorganisms were hanging out in that lake (I assume it was a fungal infection which was outcompeted by a restored microbiome seeded from the lake)
Uncommon Words of Anguish
That's a little silly, since in reality athletic skill is something acquired over time, but doesn't really require much economic input, relative to the overall economy.
CalyxOS is another option. It's hardened but also has MicroG installed.
I am not a "project", nor is my goal the support of online advertising as a "business model", it's information retrieval. I'm a web user. I "evaluated" HTTP pipelining 20 years ago; it has always worked great for me. It is not "fundamentall flawed" for my purposes. If it did not work, I suspect servers would have disabled it by default ages ago. They didn't. Today, I use it daily. The fact is, the majority of websites I encounter enable HTTP/1.1 pipelining. Therefore I use it.
At an even more macro level outside of momentary inflation, this feels like a great averaging of economies.

The US economy led the world in the post war period until the mid-2000s. Our potion sizes were internationally known to be much larger. (We were sometimes derided for the Big Gulp.)

Now we're approaching European and Asian sized cereal boxes. Tiny, less expensive cars are popular. More people are renters...

The wealth and low hanging fruit are draining out of the US and onto the rest of the world.

It's fascinating to watch. A lot of people don't seem to notice.
My big problem right now is adding a filtered fresh-air intake to my house. CO2 in my rooms spikes when working at home and above 600 is cognitive impairment and you definitely feel it (I'm pretty sure meetings which go off the rails at work have this problem too - I really need a wearable monitor so I can cancel them when it starts happening).

The thing is I also need to do heat recovery, and since it's Australia, I definitely want to be able to do a filtered air overpressure in winter.
Hoopla and Pluto.tv have a lot of these cult films too.
There was a paper I saw about ten years ago that made the claim the influenza is airborne too. And that temperature and humidity have a large effect on how persistant it is in indoor spaces. And that badly ventilated workplaces and schools are large driver of infection.

Another thing I saw very recently is ventilation standards for buildings have been reduced by 75% over the last 70 years.
> To predict the baseline total number of medals each country might be expected to win in any given summer Olympics, we updated a linear regression model produced by Julia Bredtmann, Carsten J Crede and Sebastian Otten ahead of the Rio Olympics.

> Mimicking the original work by Bredtmann, Crede and Otten, we built the same model and fitted it on data for each Summer Olympic year between 1992 and 2008, and then used it to predict the medals table at London 2012. The full model outperforms a naive model that uses only the number of medals a country won and the year of the Games.

> We then fitted the same model on data up to and including the 2016 Rio Games, and used this to predict medal counts for Tokyo 2020 (using the latest available data for each input, i.e forecasts for GDP per capita and population in 2021).

Model: https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-...
Yes. The UK has pretty open borders for anyone willing to put effort in.
Yahoo has the worst graph of all https://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/tokyo-2021/
> at what point does the over-sterilization of our environment (specifically with regard to microbes) do more harm than good?

This is a valid concern, here is a relevant peer-reviewed paper that models the impacts that interventions such as lock-downs, masking, and excessive sanitization may have in the context of the ongoing pandemic [1].

Quotes from [1]:

> Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been employed to reduce the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), yet these measures are already having similar effects on other directly transmitted, endemic diseases.

> we consider the implications of SARS-CoV-2 NPIs for two endemic infections circulating in the United States of America: respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and seasonal influenza

> Using laboratory surveillance data from 2020, we estimate that RSV transmission declined by at least 20% in the United States at the start of the NPI period.

> We simulate future trajectories of both RSV and influenza, using an epidemic model. As susceptibility increases over the NPI period, we find that substantial outbreaks of RSV may occur in future years, with peak outbreaks likely occurring in the winter of 2021–2022.

> Longer NPIs, in general, lead to larger future outbreaks although they may display complex interactions with baseline seasonality

The most important takeaway from this paper is that it will be critical to prepare for this phenomenon to prevent the over-utilization of healthcare facilities across the globe. Personally I don't see how anyone could argue for longer and more intense NPIs if we begin to see this play out.

[1] The impact of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions on the future dynamics of endemic infections
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/48/30547
Using Damon for Proactive Reclaim
> the US, where land clearing has only been in practice for a few centuries

What? The natives practiced slash-and-burn.
I'm still mad about the BSD->SYSV switchover.
What’s the reference of licking cfcs referring to?
SafetyNet also exists to prevent people from running Android apps on platforms other than Android. You can't use SafetyNet-enabled apps on Anbox, which is what SailfishOS uses as their Android compatibility layer, nor on emulators.

If you wanted to do a WSL but for Android, SafetyNet guarantees many apps won't work.

It also puts alternative Linux-based mobile operating systems, like SailfishOS or postmarketOS, at a disadvantage because they won't be able to run certain Android apps for no real technical reason other than the protection of Google's money firehouse.
Radon buildup is also a potential concern if you have your house sealed up. Opening the windows is the best way to clear it, but activated carbon filters should capture it.

Just make sure you're masked when you clean or replace any of the filters.
>Oh, and stop using gas appliances indoors.

If you get a particle meter you quickly learn that the biggest source of particulate isn't gas but cooking (and especially lightly burning) food. The slightest smell of smoke means your home is going to be like (insert terrible air quality city) for a few minutes to a few hours depending on filtration.

One of the worst sources of this is the fact that so few places have real vent fans above cooking surfaces (the sucking through the microwave business does essentially nothing).
It's relevant as under 13 all online activity can legally be monitored by a parent/guardian. 13-17 it's a gray area.

Some countries have adulthood set at age 20. All the numbers are arbitrary in some sense, but local laws have to dictate that.
Eventually you introduce a new larger sized product and can charge more for it without the wrath of “raising prices”
Obviously missing total/number of residents.
Author here, agree that it would be a bit clearer if the multi-row values were vertically centered or otherwise visually highlighted. Unfortunately I didn't find the time to implement this for this post.
I kind of like Yahoo’s more than any of the examples. Having the lines be color coded quickly provides the information. Idk, I might be broken.
Oh, I'm sure the current owner of the IP would have no problem... what's that? Oracle? Oh...
Oh sorry, I meant this person specifically (they seemed really angry about it and/or surprised). I don’t find any of the rules surprising, so I’m genuinely curious which one is so offensive!
FYI you’re pulling out of date data it looks like

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/tokyo-2020-summer-olympic...

The US got a lot of recent medals which increases the lead
If it's any consolation, when someone says "British Isles", that just means Britain to me.

It's synonymous with "England" and "the United Kingdom".
How I interpret their methodology is they are trying to estimate the change in costs for existing owners. Is that correct?

What I feel is that mortgage payments have doubled in 10 years for new buyers. However, because new buyers are a small fraction of existing buyers this doesn't rapidly affect inflation as they calculate it.

Thanks for trying to explain it, I feel pretty dumb as I'm clearly missing something obvious.
A different way of thinking about it would be considering each Olympic trial as a voter and use gold/silver/bronze as 1st/2nd/3rd in a ranked-choice vote. Each "contest" effectively votes on a country.
Especially since anything sexual and related to queerness is way more aggressively policed than hetero-normative counterparts.

I find it intensely ironic that Apple's CEO is openly gay.
A decade earlier, this story at Apple

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
Not if they do it like this:

Step 1: Shrink existing packages but keep the same price

Step 2: Introduce a new package with a catchy name like "mega-sized" that is equivalent to the older normal size but now for a higher price

Step 3: Discontinue the smaller package

Step 4: Rinse and repeat
I have to say, well done. My intuition was also somewhat aligned with the previous commenter, but the blowout list really says it all, especially considering the relatively small size of the Netherlands.
It feels wrong to me to view it this way. The first column of a table should be the item, and the remaining columns should be the details of the item. This implies 77 total medals is the item, and the detail of that is the US. It just parses wrong in my head.

I almost wonder if the proper order isn't some sort of % of medals won vs participants for each country, so countries that have few athletes in the competition but all medal in most of the events they're in show highly.

Then again, I'm willing to admit I have no clue what people that look at these charts are after.
I do not have faith in our legal system. I have faith that, if Apple wanted to build a system to help frame its users, it could do so at anytime and it certainly wouldn't advertise it.

LE only gets involved when Apple makes a determination that 1) you have a high number of hash collisions for exploitative material and 2) those images correspond to actual exploitative material.

So if you are innocent, Apple would have to make the decision to screw you over and frame you. And... they would have to manufacture evidence against you since investigators need actual evidence to get warrants. Hash collisions are not evidence. They can do this today if they want. Apple can simply add illegal content to your iCloud drive and then report you to LE. But they don't seem to be doing that.
Not when it reaches escape velocity and accelerates further to hyperbolic excess velocity.
> It makes me angry that programmers feel that they "own" the concept of time measurement enough to propose the abolition of leap seconds.

Your assumption of what happens with smearing isn't accurate. Before and after a smear, the time reported by a smearing system would match a (synced) non-smearing system. The leap second isn't being removed at all: it's simply being applied over the course of an extended period of time rather than all at once. There's virtually no practical reason that any system needs to have a single moment where a leap second is observable. The leap second is still respected and applied.

Besides the point that other commenters made about dates in the future being unrepresentable with a timestamp like you describe, it's unnecessary: systems already compute time correctly with or without leap seconds, and converting between an adjusted date and one fixed to the epoch is fast and straightforward.

But moreover, what's your goal? If you're counting seconds, everything at the application layer that needs to present dates and times (and durations, and intervals) to humans then needs to be aware of every leap second. You trade one problem (date math that considers leap seconds) for another especially bad one (every date formatting library needs to have complete knowledge of leap seconds). I don't know about you, but the last thing I want is every programmer in the world needing to get leap seconds right instead of the few thousand people that maintain the runtimes and the OSs.
Just a joke, but at least General Mills isn't associated with non consensually "shrinking" my penis via unnecessary circumcision...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg
I’ve coined a term that describes a new form of inflation that I call “crapflation.” If you buy things on Amazon you often now pay the same (or even more) for the cheapest import garbage. Essentially stuff that would be in a dollar store.
I open the back windows not the street facing ones
More reasons to not learn unity. Free tier is to learn the product and test on various hardware. Do you know how many students rely on free tier to learn? Who exactly is selling games for consoles without a unity pro license? That's breaking the free license.
That snopes article uses these as references:

BBC News. “Kenya Catholic Church Tetanus Vaccine Fears ‘Unfounded’.”
13 October 2014.

Naz, Dr. Rajesh K. “Contraceptive Vaccines: Success, Status, and Future Perspective.”
American Journal Of Reproductive Immunology. 6 June 2011.

Obara, Valentine. “Licence of Industrial Lab Agriq-Quest Suspended.”
Business Daily. 12 January 2017.

Only one of those is a peer reviewed scientific study. That one study doesn't really relate to the other original peer reviewed study.

The article posted in the op was not retracted.
One of the least-likely page turners I’ve ever read is Sunflowers: The Secret History.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4667362