skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This highlights one of the problems with pop culture and science. Pop culture has a tendency to fixate on a small number of big problems or sexy technologies to the exclusion of all others.

e.g. If you bring up forestry management's role in setting the stage for megafires, you will typically be labelled a climate change denier unless you go out of your way to address climate change first, as this article does. Even then, you'll likely be seen by many as "minimizing the real problem".

Yes, climate change is a bigger problem, overall, than megafires, but past (and continuing) forestry practices are the larger part of the megafire problem. Should we ignore small problems until the big ones are all solved?

Of course not.

The problem with pop culture is that it influences everything. If you want to have any success with grant applications, finding ways to work in current pop-culture buzzwords in is essential. Anyone trying to do research on forestry would be well advised to have "climate change" somewhere in their proposal even if it's not important to their work at all.

If you want to get politicians to devote public funding to improving forestry practices, good luck! There's money for exploring the impact of climate change on forests, but not for improving forestry practices themselves. At least, not until enough megafires make people look more carefully at the problem.

The fact that our forestry practices, by artificially arresting a natural part of forest life-cycles, create powderkegs of old, unhealthy, and highly flammable forests is not news. It's been known for decades. It just wasn't something that fit into pop culture narratives, so we've let things get worse and worse.

The next time you hear someone saying that X is an important part of a problem that climate change also affects, pay closer attention. Don't just dismiss that person as a climate change denier. Make room for small problems as well as the big ones, because ignoring many small problems soon leads to big ones.
Ask John McAfee how not filing turned out.
It is beyond me how people intelligent enough to hang around HN can pretend to have no understanding of how systems work.

The justice system mostly works (relative to what its designed to do and the system it evolved out of, which you might both disagree with, but let's not complicate this). By the nature of what it handles (humans) and what you are (human) it will look abhorrently cruel when it fails. And, as with any system, it will definitely continue to fail as long as it is in place.

Assessing an acceptable failure rate is kinda hard – but realistically there has to be one or you will just have to do without any system at all.

So, more interestingly, the thing to look out for is whether a) there are institutions that report on system failures and b) we learn from those failures and correct them at all. As far as I can tell that generally happens in democratic countries.

The next thing to look at is the speed in which we do those corrections. Could they be quicker? Sure. However, it seems like democracies are a tad slow about everything to people everywhere. Or, put differently, we are all wired a little bit too impatiently for how our democracies are currently designed.

I feel that's good thing, constantly scrutinising our systems, keeping them on their toes and improving as we go.
Unfortunately a lot of science journalism is now funded by this kind of advertisement. The magazine publishes the story as handed to them by the advertiser without the journalist doing any scrutiny. No money changes hands so it's perfectly legal not to label it as an advertisement.
They need to stop calling it an iPhone. It's a govPhone. It now belongs to the government with "In-built Citizen Scanning" as free civic service. Thank you for serving the nation!
Right, the unique (for an RMDBS) properties of sqlite is that (1) individual values rather than columns are typed and that (2) "column types" are affinities that only affect the casting rules on insertion.

But your initial example only shows standard casting behavior in common with other RMDBS implementations.
There's obviously room for improvement here too yes.

Although I really really doubt anyone here would be arrested for having a doze on the pavement.
Ben Eater’s YouTube videos are a great crash course on how computers work, and will make this kind of stuff (and much more) way more obvious if you watch.
We don't know. We don't even know if milder winters are sustainable. Cold may be a temporary weather pattern if we keep pollution as the default choice.
It's still profitable
Throw shade much, Techcrunch?
­>In this study, there were more infections in the vaccinated group. That defies logic, though, and intuitively the infection rate of the vaccinated group cannot be higher than that of the unvaccinated. That's why I mentioned confounding factors.

Unless you're going to make a rigorous statistical analysis, no, we had studies on this subject with a proper methodology and this is not what they found : https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2108891 (88% efficacy found).

­>Yes, which means that it is more infectious. Its resistance (or lack of) to the vaccines isn't really relevant in a country with a 10% vaccination rate.

>The fact that it's outcompeting other variants in countries with relatively high vaccination rates likely means that the vaccines are less effective against it.

No one is disputing this. The point of contention is that the person I'm replying to had the thesis these variants arose because of vaccines, which is simply not true.

­> We're specifically talking about delta here, and I'm unaware of a study based upon a larger cohort where a statistically significant number of cases were sequenced, the variant determined, and the dominant variant found to be delta.

You've not been looking then. Entire countries sample variants in the population.
Why though? How are they worse than Google for example?

Were there any recent examples where they failed in those?
> If you can find an article that shows that vaccines cause evolution of variants, then post it

Here are several more peer-reviwed primary sources that present strong evidence & theories supporting the fact that "vaccines cause evolution of variants" [1][2][3][4].

Note that, no one is claiming that ONLY vaccines cause evolution of variants - obviously a virus will evolve naturally through random mutation as well, and that is acknowledged in the cited sources.

> You are again posting evidence that does not back your argument

If you take a few minutes to read the sources I've linked to in the this thread, you will see that they corroborate everything I have stated. These ideas are relatively new in the last decade or two, so you may not have heard of them before. That does not mean they are unfounded or based on logical fallacies as you claim.

> Given that the evolutionary millieu had low vaccination rate and that the variants are more infective in non-vaccinated populations, we know this is not the case.

You continue to use the same unsupported points and build on them with logical deduction. I have given you plenty of counter-arguments supported by peer-reviewed literature.

If you have nothing else to add to the discussion, then I will not be continuing it.

[1] Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fj...

[2] The adaptive evolution of virulence: a review of theoretical predictions and empirical tests
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

[3] Why does drug resistance readily evolve but vaccine resistance does not?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2016...

[4] Monitor for COVID-19 vaccine resistance evolution during clinical trials
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
You have two primary misunderstandings AFAICT.

(1) You're assuming it's a "traditional" hash, as opposed to a perceptual hash. The former is purely based off file contents and thus any transformations applied on an image will lead to a new pseudorandom hash. By contrast, perceptual hashes are made to be able to still return a positive when a photo is resized, accumulated artifacts etc. This proposal is to use phashes, not hashes

(2) You have a subtle misunderstanding of how a traditional cryptographic hash function works. Such a function maps an infinite number of possible inputs to a finite number of possible outputs. To your point, flipping even a single bit will basically give you a completely new pseudorandom hash. However, given the infinite inputs and finite outputs, for every output (every hash) there is a countably infinite number of possible inputs that would hash to that value. Thus it's entirely possible to change the file contents and end up with the same hash, although (to your point) without doing any magic to intentionally cause a collision, effectively you will never get one because of just how many damn buckets there are
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To laugh, I just imagine the society of 30 years ago and what would have happened if someone would have tried to suggest to do something like that:

ie, have private company give themselves the right to go have a look through your belonging and in your home because you might be a criminal.

It is now well known that most citizens of most countries are criminals, so no one deserve privacy anymore...

But sadly, it looks like that intelligence and common sense has generally decreased in the population.

Btw, the appleTV and iphone, that are always listening to your conversations in your home to detect some bad keywords and then denounce you to the police is not yet ready? Nazi collaborators, from their tombs, are still waiting for this nice feature!

Anyway, iphone owners, let me tell you that you did a good job by stupidly giving your money and power to Apple!
Not shared. But, you want to run lots of times. So, 8 cheap GPUs can run 8 separate experiments in parallel.
But why am I downloading such things to begin with? Not only do these sound like very boring photos, given their providence I don’t understand this realistic pathway to get onto my phone.
It was, but it's a feature that's much less important today with less tight integration of removable media. Though it meant e.g. software on multiple volumes could just try to access a file on one of the other volumes and let the OS deal with prompting for it, even that is a quite rare operation today.

You could do it with FUSE relatively easily: Make a FUSE filesystem that acts as an overlay, so, say when you access /<path to the fuse system>/foo it looks for /<path to mount>/foo and if it doesn't find it, pop up a window with "Please insert volume 'foo'"

Frankly there are a lot of these things that would be quite straightforward to support on Linux that'd be "nice to have" but are not quite essential enough to motivate someone to do it.
A package to see if the given number is even or not in Go
I agree with you, I think you may have replied to the wrong comment.
I've heard it called drive-by management - same thing, different smell.
Obviously the author of the code didn’t know or understand the bit shift operator and came up with a less optimal solution.

I cannot believe that was done just to be cool.
New malware wont be inserting CP, but running GAN to create CP inside the target.
The serverless revolution is alive and well in the PHP world
Worth reading about the forced sterilization of refugees with HIV at Guantánamo Bay in 1991 as well:

> The blood of these refugees had tested
positive for HIV, and Camp Bulkeley, where they were detained, was set up as what Michael Ratner calls “the world’s first and only detention camp for refugees with HIV.” Subsequently, the women in that facility who were found to be HIV positive were subjected to forced permanent or semipermanent sterilization.
Cool name. I don't do blockchain dev but I guess I can see why people would need some kind of integration between onchain stuff and analytics/logging platforms.

The website is really light on informatin. I would expect an api/integration provider to have things like code samples or UI examples, not to have to schedule a demo. Even having a little info graphic showing the steps needed to setup the integration (before needing to make an account) would go a long way.

My project is https://www.knotend.com if you have a sec, I have a top level comment here.
Yep - the goal is to move to ~real time transactions so settlement is instantaneous for most transactions with a much shorter window for settlement for those txs over some threshold (initial working docs said $25k, but it'll likely be larger by the time it rolls out).
I mean, for the purposes of `libphonenumber`, PrioA-D is not used.

Also, as far as I know most things are sent out-of-band anyways, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's some legacy system out there which work only on DTMF.
I actually do want a feature where I will get a notification on my phone if someone nearby has snagged a picture of me or my kids. A creepy shopper at Costco once took a pic of my 2-year-old. They pretended to be working up a conversation with my little kid meanwhile they had their phone at hip-level to snag a shot. I even confronted them about it. The Costco employees couldn't do a thing. Phones with cameras are useful but have also become a nuisance.

Edit: It makes sense that such a notification system would be impossible to implement. Perhaps, registered offenders should not only have their location placed on a map but their phones have certain privileges disabled or monitored.
Of all of the discussion, my brain has only keyed in on the child porn aspect. It just now clicked that if a missing kid is in a photo (even if not porn), it could help ID the missing kid. Some runaway at the age of 13 gets photographed in a group of other kids just doing teenager things.

So even if not running hashes against known porn, it could still be doing facial recognition. Wonder what kind of implications that would have for people in witness protection or battered spouses and other legitimately "disappeared" people.
That's talking about 1-2 sites. The vaccine elicits a response to a dozen or more.
RAD isn't really relevant anymore, but it was very handy on a floppy-based system without a hard drive.

Data types, on the other hand, were absolutely amazing. Sure, ffmpeg covers some of it, but datatype support was, and remain, a killer feature of AmigaOS. Want almost universal support for a new format, including support by legacy applications? Datatypes. Want to replace a common format's encoder with somerhing else? Datatypes.

The other killer feature of AmigaOS applications was the AREXX support, which allowed advanced scripting far before it was available on other consumer platforms.
If the vaccine doesn't protect from the infection but just the severity of the illness then other things could easily distort the statistics.

For example full vaccinated people could just act more careless because they feel protected. How is the severe illness and death rate in both groups is a more important aspect.
Agreed on all points. I'd also add that I miss table-valued functions in sqlite.
Hearing predators approaching from behind is the evolutioning justification for this trait.

Oculus, and other 3D platforms, utilize HRTF (head related transfer functions) with subtle millisecond phase shifts to localize objects.
Totally, I too am not in a pro vfx type person. But I have been slowly learning Da Vinci Resolve (which is really nice). I'm just a real fan of Serif, which as been producing solid apps for a reasonable price.
> That is a big problem tho, because it means journalists can't understand the papers. ...

When I thought about this, I immediately thought of a "TL;DR" section for any academic paper... until I realized that that's what the Abstract / Conclusion is sort of meant to be.

> ... the majority of academic CS papers are opaque and inaccessible like most other academic papers I've read.

The majority of CS papers' Abstract / Conclusion are also quite 'opaque and inaccessible'. Having gone through a fair share of CS papers myself (being a part of CS research), trying to get into a new area of CS is really hard when I try to read more recent academic papers, not just because of the technical jargon involved, but because of the unnecessary complex sentences that are required to convey the author(s) idea. A lot of things could be made simpler and easier to grasp. I largely agree with "it is helpful for people to bring this up and make people (especially people in academia) realize that this is a bigger problem than they think."
Fifth amendment holds that the state can't compel someone to give up their password.
I am so glad this exists, and take every opportunity to encourage friends and family to switch to it and avoid alternatives from companies with exploitative and unfair business models (like Adobe.)
Yann LeCun on his start in AI, recent self-supervised learning research [video]
Why does this article not share a link to the actual study?
What's the consistency model for operations against your API? When my backend grants a user access to some resource, will all subsequent permission checks immediately grant that access?

If not, how are user signups supposed to work? If I create a user and set up their permissions in Warrant, will my users' first-time experience consist of a permission denied error?
I force myself to use it in the same way. With time, it gets better. But the speed I had from working 20 years in Photoshop is gone.
Does social distancing somehow increase the risk of getting the Delta? I did some searching and couldn't find anything to back that up, if a certain state was better at social distancing the first time it seems like they probably would be for the next one too
Staking will still be accessible to those with less than 32 ETH via pooled staking, e.g. Rocket Pool: https://www.rocketpool.net/
You can join a staking pool with as little as you have. Just like joining a mining pool with your laptop.

And you can get eth with gasless minting of nfts. Draw a picture and sell it. Don’t have to spend any money.

I much prefer this to burning up electricity which basically hands the network to energy suppliers and asic manufacturers.
I rarely notice politicians, but Wyden is frequently in the fray on the right side of a lot of issues I hear about. Seems like he got this one right, again.
How is it more centralized than PoW? I see multiple factors that hamper decentralization:

- Fixed costs that act as barrier of entry

- Economies of scale that lead to centralization

- Geographic factors (operation costs being different in different parts of the world, regulation/taxation, supply chain...)

This is how I see each factor playing out in both scenarios:

- Fixed costs: PoS runs on consumer-grade hardware, while PoW requires specific HW (ASICs or high-grade GPUs). PoS requires a minimum amount of stake but there are pooling solutions, which effectively make this minimum non existent. All in all PoS is at advantage here, unless you want to insist on solo staking in which case PoW is at advantage.

Analogy: This would be equivalent to flat fees to open a savings account or a minimum amount balance required to open it.

- Economies of scale: In PoS they are almost non-existent. You don't stake more efficiently by having a more powerful machine. You just get to reuse the same HW for more nodes but since fixed costs are low this has a very small impact. In PoW there are economies of scale, though, better/more expensive ASICs can mine more efficiently than smaller/cheaper ones. Same with GPUs. Someone with more initial capital can get ahead faster in PoW, while in PoS earns at a same rate as everyone else.

Analogy: This would be equivalent to the interest rate you get in your savings account being dependent on how much money you have. In PoW, the richer you are the higher interest rate you get from your bank, in PoS everyone gets the same.

- Geographic factors: Cheap access to energy has a large impact on PoW as it dictates most of your OpEx. In PoS this is largely irrelevant (PoS is 99.95% more energy efficient than PoW). Taxation/regulation would need its own analysis but I imagine is equally spread across both alternatives. Supply chain is again in favor of PoS as it can run on general-purpose HW, while ASICs are heavily centralized around a single manufacturer.

Analogy: This would be equivalent to different geographic locations resulting in different conditions for maintaining open your bank account or taxing your accrued interest.
Yep. And if you dont like it, build your own iPhone.
Look up "Accidental Americans". It's been a problem for a lot of people including, especially Canadians and Mexicans who were born on the wrong side of the border.
How does Australia improve its quarantine situation by preventing people from leaving? Halting the flow of incoming visitors temporarily makes a certain amount of sense, but a departing person lessens demand for local resources.

this is a first, prior to this I have only heard of such exit controls in the USSR and similar totalitarian regimes.
I mapped a button to disable mouse input since the pad is right under my wrists when I type. For selecting one or two radio buttons or text fields, it's quicker to use the screen.
Thanks. We currently have access to an employee base of over 200,000 from the MoUs we have signed. We are currently piloting so will know shortly in what salary range the product uptake is highest. However we feel that the product will be most useful for those who are earning between PKR 25000- PKR 100,000/-.
Is there a law of the internet describing the phenomenon whereby any comment criticising cryptocurrency will promptly elicit a response comment proffering a cryptocurrency that's somehow different and "not like those other cryptos"?
Climate and Earth’s Energy Budget
The fee for renouncing Australian citizenship is 265 AUD equivalent to 196 USD.

https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/citizenship/give-up-citizens...
"I have no illicit images, but false positives are always going to be a problem"

Or someone that doesn't like you can MMS/iMessage/e-mail you images that match PhotoDNA image hashes. Maybe even in a way where the images don't appear to be anything alarming.
While I totally believe the lab leak theory, it's important to note that this isn't an "official" report, but a document prepared by the Republican party -- that may color your views on it.
> Great, so what's the solution? What are you doing to fix it?

Nothing, because my phone is rooted Android.
Actually, literally none of the article you linked have evidence that any of the current variants are due to vaccines.

They provide a plausible mechanism by which future variants may be cause by vaccines. But simply none have done so by now.

I'm going to stop replying because you are actively mischaracterizing your argument, ie, arguing one thing and then providing evidence and arguments from another.
It seemed obvious to me from the beginning that hospital capacity would slowly decrease over time the longer the pandemic wears on.

I mean you can run people ragged for a while, but eventually they will give out on you. It works the same in any profession.
Think of the children will erode everything. It is magic.
Not w.r.t Fone but the input side of the threaded tweets are being addressed by app(web) like typefully, it splits long post into tweets and it does it well.

Reading side of threaded tweets require invoking bots like threaderapp, I'm not sure whether there's enough need for an app which renders threads as a post directly but I'm trying to find it out[2].

[1] https://typefully.app/

[2] https://needgap.com/problems/279-better-way-to-read-twitter-...
I believe that US federal agents tasked with investigating these kinds of crimes typically only do so for a limited time.
I don’t think these people have the right qualifications to make that determination. Seems unlikely.