skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks; that sent me on yet another YouTube rabbit hole around crows and their zany behavior.
But really, they were mostly just killed by Hippos. Just like everyone else in town.

I do believe you require approximately two fully-equipped and high-morale legions to kill a singular Hippo in that game, no joke. If you see 2 or 3 Hippos in a singular area, you'll need a substantial Army to clear them out.

EDIT: If you're lucky and can push the Hippos out to the river somehow, your Navy can bombard the Hippos with impunity, but it takes a long time for those ships to kill a Hippo. (I've literally built the Pyramids before the Hippos died. So a really, really long time)

The other plan is to set up a lot of Police Stations. Police don't have morale-stat and will fight to the death (in contrast: your armies will break formation and retreat). Each time a Police dies, they hire a new citizen rather quickly, eventually your infinite stream of Policemen kill the Hippo. This works because Hippos only attack citizens, never buildings. (In contrast, if you actually had an approaching army, the Police would die, and then they'd destroy the Police Station... so no new Police would come out to defend.)

Also, immigrants come extremely quickly in Pharaoh. You pretty much convert immigrants into Police (and then subsequently dying) at unrealistically high speeds. Armies actually need "training", "Morale" and all that stuff...
MS does offer W10 VM images that are good for 60 days (or 90, can't remember), to be used for development and testing.
I'm not scared for myself, I'm scared for people on anti-rejection medicine (for example) who have taken vaccines but still can't produce the necessary antibodies. These people have to contend with their fellow man deciding against all rational thought to become a potential walking plague vessel.

It is as if some subset of humanity decided to start driving their cars blindfolded and the internet commentariat proclaimed, "their car, their choice! Spare us your ludicrous moralization and judgement!"
>There is no point whatsoever for those people to get vaccinated

False, the vaccine is more effective than antibodies from a previous infection. It's not a huge difference, but it is absolutely statistically significant.
Minority communities have the lowest vaccination rates. They were also discriminated against in the past. Your argument is same as justifying segregation by saying "how being required to dine separately from another race is a severe restriction on someone's ability to live their life?"
Author here. Being conscious about speed and performance is different from making that your competitive advantage or USP.

Our main focus is usability, and one of our secondary focuses is to not look like clowns in the performance department.

So, we try to take more decisions that trade off performance for usability than vice versa.
Car insurance has capped payouts, and any policy which is considered by the insurer to be too much of a risk would be denied.

Unlike a car, health costs are both unbound, and good health has infinite utility (you'd always be willing to pay as much as you can for good health,) and unlike car ownership, is also a basic human right.
Plenty of birds of prey do this before going in for the dive
Presumably the "you" in question would have to be an American resident though, which Assange is not and never has been.
FUCK YOU NIGGGAAAAAAAA
I'm sort of perplexed that this is even a problem? Surely it's possible to dynamically disengage the charging mechanism once full?
The whole point of the entire series is to see the past on its own terms and give very detailed historical evidence why people who say the opposite don't know what they fuck they're talking about. Ferguson specifically is, to use the modern parlance, demolished.

On the other hand, Bret also makes it clear that then is then and now is now, and you can not simply transfer social concepts or policies.
These are limits on the states, not the federal government [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_Tender_Cases
totally agree, thanks
Since SARS-CoV-2 is now endemic in the worldwide human population plus some animal species it's impossible to avoid the spread. We can slow the spread to a limited extent but eventually all of us will be exposed.
I had this phone back in the day...

https://www.phonedaddy.com/products/motorola-droid-maxx-veri...
seems like an opportunity for some fun game mechanics!
> they should be civilly and maybe criminally liable

They should. But, how could this be enforced without even-more-draconian measures?
Facebook Disables Accounts Tied to NYU Research Project Studying Misinformation
It's the same sort of disbelief that I would have towards being introduced to a skyscraper made out of cardboard. At first I would think, "oh, this is just like concept art." ~No, we actually built it.~ "Err, so, like nobody can actually go in there." ~It supports people just fine.~ "Um, for what, 20 minutes." ~Well, Nick has lived in it for 20 years now.~

Finally, I'm not going to venture in (let alone actually live in it myself) without someone sitting me down and carefully explaining the structural integrity principles (and other logistics) that make the cardboard skyscraper possible.

Hearing business rules in sql works for some unknown entity doesn't really give any information about the viability for anything else. Maybe the initial modeling is really hard, but all your customers have near identical concerns, so you only pay that cost once. Maybe having multiple customers is actually the key because if one customer's needs violates some assumption that makes the whole thing work, you can tell them go to someplace else. Maybe your customers only have five business logic rules apiece that are all well spec'ed.

What's the domain? The industry? What problems are actually being solved? Can we have an example (even a contrived one)? Is there an open source example? How about a mathematical proof or even principle that argues for why this can be expected to always (or even nearly always) work? How about a youtube video with someone describing the approach?

EDIT: How about this. Show me a partial parser using this approach (grammar rules can be considered business logic, right). Just parse function declarations in C or something. I'll be able to project such an example onto what the full solution would look like to see if I believe it could actually work in general.
Whoa. Just yesterday I was talking with a friend who years ago was sent to London to deal with a UK custom software vendor. He had a Friday meeting to talk with the CEO and lay down the law: they had to show my friend the software they were building right away or the deal was off.

He showed up for the meeting; the CEO was called away urgently. My friend was taken out for a very boozy lunch and given many excuses and platitudes. He held firm, though. Demo or trouble. They rebooked his meeting for Monday.

Arriving at their office on Monday, he found that the place had been totally cleared out. The only thing left was a photocopier that had been smashed. The CEO had, in the British phrasing, done a runner, leaving the employees suddenly out of work.

The good news is that my friend ended up hiring one of the employees, who turned out great.
What a pointless endeavour
lisp finds a way.
You lose all credibility when you bring up the Biden/Harris comments.

At the time we were at the point where it was a real possibility that Trump would push out the vaccine regardless of the status of trials, etc. Trump kept saying dates and deadlines for all sorts of things throughout the pandemic that had no basis in reality, to the point that pushing out the vaccine early was a real possibility, just to make him look better.

THAT is what the Biden/Harris comments are referencing.

Could they have been more clear? Absolutely. But I'm confident that you personally know the difference and that you're just deciding to peddle that bullshit to further whatever right wing agenda you have.
> Then, over the last half century, symptoms for Marek’s worsened. Paralysis was more permanent; brains more quickly turned to mush.

Sigh. Could the author choose more inflammatory language?

This is half of the problem with Covid-related reporting today: hack journalists who simply cannot resist using horror-movie language to describe illness.

> Not trying to raise alarm here or say that this necessarily will happen with SARS-CoV-2, there are tons of big differences. In general, we should expect it to become less lethal over time, but the vaccines may have introduced a confounding factor to the usual selection for milder disease.

As I said, I think that's an over-statement, having read the original paper. But sure, theoretically, if you have a vaccine that only partially protects against some really severe strain, that strain could escape and go on to become more severe over time.

I'm not sure what we're supposed to do with this information. Not vaccinate? Stay inside forever and suck our thumbs?

In chickens, we probably don't care enough to invest a ton of money into in creating a new vaccine every year. In humans, that's not a problem. If a more virulent form of SARS comes along that escapes the vaccines, we'll make a new vaccine. We're getting pretty good at it now!

(I realize you're not on this side of the argument. I'm just reacting generally.)
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Direct link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_(revenue_leasing)
> ‘Well defined’ doesn’t mean anything. The vaccines have not been approved according to normal medical standards.

Except they have. They've literally been approved using medical standards developed to handle time-critical medicine approval, which is as much of an approval process as the standard non-fast-tracked system. The studies are there, they're just taken from much earlier in the development process of the medicine than usually, and the approval is granted for a shorter period with continuous close monitoring and repeated follow up reviews.

The reason this accelerated approval isn't used for all medicine is not because it's less safe, but because it's more expensive and more effort consuming for all parties involved. Things are less sequential and more parallel, but all the important steps are still there.

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/publi...

Compare:

Fast-tracked: https://www.ema.europa.eu/sites/default/files/timeline_-_fas...

Standard: https://www.ema.europa.eu/sites/default/files/timeline_-_sta...
COVID is still currently a major cause of death, so there's that.
Quick search gives a study on a subset of car fires:

https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v19i2.pdf

"Each year, from 2014 to 2016, an estimated 171,500 highway vehicle fires occurred in the United States, resulting in an annual average of 345 deaths; 1,300 injuries; and $1.1 billion in property loss"

That's 469 per day just on highway, given the date range probably 99% of them on fossil fuel cars.
Gold has been used as money in many places for a long time. It hasn't been the only form of money, and people stopped using it and went back to it at times (China flip-flopped).† But it is generally no longer used as money in the modern world: who uses it to buy groceries, or cars, or land? It's mostly used as a store of value: people generally trade cash/fiat for gold because they think they'll get cash/fiat back for it at some later date. There is little in gold as gold that is useful to most people (maybe some industrial process).

As the papers that the podcast pointed to indicate, there is nothing special about gold in protecting against inflation. The price fluctuations of gold, relative to USD, seem to be more crazy than any inflation most people have seen or are likely to see. Most people aren't going to experience crazy inflation unless there's some other crazy things happening in their country/area:

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1799102

Per the research done for the podcast, there doesn't seem to be anything special about any asset class that would protect you better than any other asset class.

I think aurum is a fine element, as are argentum, cuprum, platinum, etc. It's just whenever finance (and especially inflation) comes up there's all this talk about gold and I have no idea why. Just because it was used as money in the past, and there was for a time a link between modern cash and gold (as a kind of 'compatibility' layer), does not mean there is any point in treating it as special now. It certainly can be used as a store a value, but why is it better than anything else?

† The Aztecs didn't find it anything too special: it was shiny and flexible, so they used it simply for personal adornment (jewelry).
I really appreciate the first answer, from a guy who clearly has researched and knows about many things, where he immediately says he doesn't know enough about it to have an opinion but defers to an expert in the subject matter.
This is a good idea. I thought about this question a while back too and had a similar idea about publishing. I once worked on a voting system for legislators and I realized that no one cared about the details of how the voted were counted, because they all just watched their votes on a big screen on the wall. If it showed up wrong for any reason they could fix it or ask to have it recorded manually. A system for the public could work similarly by obscuring the personal details.

It does introduce one important constraint though, at least compared to the current US system: it's possible to find out how someone voted. I don't know if it's a deal breaker, but it is a significant change. Right now, in the US, once the ballot goes in the box, there's no telling who it belonged to. With the proposed system, a person could be compelled to hand over their secret ID, or it could be bought or stolen from them.
Julia has figured out exactly the right way to meld macros and ordinary language syntax. It’s really a thing of beauty.
If Operating Systems had TLS built into the TCP/IP stack exposed by the kernel/system, you would never need to shim it in anywhere. You would just make a system call and use an open file descriptor/socket. One of the many programming-in-1970s-style things we still have not fixed.

But 1) kernel hackers won't implement it, 2) app devs are too possessive of their stack/codebase to just use one standard implementation/interface, and 3) security people are too paranoid to leave something "so important" up to the OS so they'd rather everyone implement it poorly/fragmentedly.
pointless endeavor; a what?
Rebuttal:

* This vaccine does not stop the spread of COVID - https://news.yahoo.com/vacation-outbreaks-among-vaccinated-p... (ignore the headline and read the stats.)

* Hypothetical, as there is zero evidence that any government anywhere in the world ever intends to return to normal no matter the compliance rate.

* Not possible. We have never successfully eradicated a virus (smallpox still exists in the world.)

* This would require this to be the first virus in history that evolves to be more dangerous rather than less over time.

* There's no peer-reviewed evidence that "long covid" exists.

* Sure, this one's a gimme.

* What about the medical experts who aren't recommending it? Of course, you're not allowed to mention that they exist on any social media platform or news media, so you probably don't know about them.

* Coercion

* Coercion

* The demonstrated risk for young healthy people that's less than being killed by a lightning strike or a vending machine?

* Coercion

* Coercion

* Anecdotal evidence

So, the uptake to me is that the answer is, in most circumstances, coercion by government power or a 'promise' that things will return to normal.

If this vaccine was actually effective, then maybe. But it isn't. Coercion is all anyone has. And that isn't enough.
With all that experience, you need only one.
What if the triage criteria is to prioritize vaccinated people? Then the segment that suffers from lack of hospital capacity is the same as the segment responsible for unnecessarily burdening the hospital.

This comes full circle on the "show your papers" issue, but at least in this scenario showing papers is directly aligning cause and effect regarding death.
Firefox does the same thing.

It might be of interest that the DOM there contains no tr or td tags.
You may want to have av word with my wife who is under strong immunodepressants and did not react to the vaccine. Three times. Two kind of vaccines.

The healthy unvaccinated dickheads idiots, because they are idiots but do not realize it, should simply be forced to get a vaccine or be put aside from society.

And because they are idiots and won't understand it anyway, do not spend to much resources trying to explain that.
Whoami: Quick API that returns your IP address and headers
PoE can't do "purely" DC/DC regulation. They require (in any reasonable setup) a transformer for isolation on both ends, which lowers efficiency, especially at lower end. Now with that said you can definitely get decent efficiency with PoE, it's just that most people don't care and so it's not as big of a focus.
Shouldn't they have been wearing helmets when filming that segment? It was a quite busy work site with high altitude work (so a risk of dropping tools etc).
That's because seroprevalence isn't as legible to the state as vaccination is.
Yeah, how dare people have some fun trying to implement a Lisp in an esoteric language. They should be ashamed!
It's a big file, and they just have been Hackernews'ed...
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. 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 vaccines.
You are doing a good job balancing the two. For Julia's Flux, they did the opposite and it has severe performance problems compared to PyTorch despite being more usable and easier to install.

Installing PyTorch with Poetry is next to impossible. Flux got this right by bundling the GPU drivers. Their installation is also standardized and does not require the weird pip -f flag for CPU only installations.
If you've had COVID you are more likely to have an adverse reaction to the vaccine, it's just how the immune system reactions. If I knew I'd have 2 bad sick days to take 2 doses of a vaccine that I have already beaten.. meh.
AtoB (YC S20) is hiring to build Stripe for Transportation
PM at CRL here--we love Fly too! Definitely can see our two products working together!
I'm not a lawyer so I don't know the specifics of whether this is weird or not. Generally, my impression is that in these kinds of cases the government has quite a bit of latitude in structuring the agreement almost however they want because they're negotiating with a party they have no authority over and they're seeking to get something out of it. I'm not really sure I'm following what you find so abnormal here.

If anything, this is an indictment that the US penal system is so badly structured that people have legitimate claims of concerns over inhumane treatment. That the federal government has ad-hoc legal workarounds they can employ is likely a feature & not a bug at this point. It lets us keep this medieval system as the stick which puts us in more favorable situations generally for negotiating extraditions. I'm not saying this is good or a just system. I'm just saying that, without hearing arguments from legal experts, this doesn't seem out of the ordinary & I could see how we've rationally arrived at the status quo.
I thought this was an absolutely masterful explanation of engineering design thinking. If I may, I would also like to add to this list another thing he mentioned: "each requirement must have a name attached to it."

I believe he was referring to the first step. And "Name" was really "a person" as opposed to "a department." This was his way of saying DRI all the way down to each individual requirements, to force someone to be accountable for it. His example was that SpaceX interns previously listed requirements, that were later assigned to a department (e.g. avionics), and when prompted, no one in that department really knew why it was there.
OK, but we need to make the vaccine passport thing work better, and fast.

California has

https://myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov/

and I can't get that to recognize that I've been vaccinated. I was vaccinated at Stanford, and their health record system, which I can access online, shows that. But the data didn't make it to the state system. Stanford customer support blames the state. State customer support says "contact your health care provider".
Tullimonstrum
The New York rules are less restrictive than Jacobson v. Massachusetts. Jacobson v. Massachusetts actually forced people to get a smallpox vaccine, this is about getting into Fudruckers and Planet Fitness.

The Supreme Court found, 7-2, that it was not a 14th Amendment civil rights violation to have compulsory vaccination and that police powers extended to protecting public health.
Externally managed cloud provisioning can be a win from a SOC2 / ISO compliance perspective. You've just changed from having to manage controls on local environments yourself (e.g. antivirus, MDM, logging etc ) to offloading the risk to a third-party vendor. Now, you may think that is more INSECURE because now someone else has control over your environments, and that may be true for any arbitrary cloud desktop provider. But when it is Microsoft themselves, it will be hard for an auditor to take issue; they already manage the risk of the OS security itself.
Gitea is a portmanteau, which is explicitly covered.
There are many but the ones that I'm familiar with are mostly somewhat uncommon (I can't really list all them off the top of my head but I've done research on localized brain injury and one of the standard reasons for injury in the datasets I've worked with was viral infection). Herpes is actually one; enteroviruses are another example; there are others.

The pathophysiology of COVID kind of makes sense in terms of cognitive impairments, especially given loss of smell being potentially (often probably?) mediated by olfactory bulb damage. There's a prototype of SARS-CoV-2 infection progression that begins in the nasal cavity and sinuses and progresses downward (this is one reason for a renewed focus on nasal spray vaccines). This sort of process is not uncommon in virally-induced brain injury; the viral infection starts in the head, and progresses into the brain. The olfactory bulb area is a common culprit, as it's close to the nasal cavity/sinuses, and in the frontal area of the brain and close to areas closely linked to "higher level" reasoning and similar cognitive processes.
Tesla is the market leader. More people have heard of Tesla. Tesla makes a lot of promises about safety.

For all these reasons, something involving a Tesla is news in a ways that something involving a rare car like the Bolt is not (but note that the article also mentions Bolt and Kona fires as well).

If Tesla can't take the heat, then maybe they should cut back on the self-congratulatory marketing.
> We have absolutely no idea if there are any long term side effects of these vaccines.

By that logic, we have absolutely no idea if there are any long term side effects of COVID-19, and how they might compare to the unknown of the long term side effects of vaccines.

We do know that many COVID-19 patients have had very bad effects over many months (I'm thinking of long COVID here), not to mention the possibility of death. We don't know what it'll be like 5 years from first getting COVID-19, but we know long term problems happen from the virus.

Compare that to what's known about the vaccine: we haven't seen any indication that the vaccine is causing very bad effects over many months in any significantly large percentage of the population.
How does Parallels work? Why is it faster?
We're still taking off our shoes at the airport even though it was a "temporary" measure started in 2006.