skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good thing the mRNA vaccines are at least 90% effective at preventing infection from happening at all from the newer variants.
If the vaccine had been rushed under trump it would have been malicious, but if the vaccine is rushed under Biden it's kosher?
This is partisan logic and pointing it out doesn't make someone right-wing.
I'm baffled as to how we went from "if you have substance abuse issues you'll have trouble feeding yourself even when food is cheap" to "Think about on which side of history you take your stand".
Interesting.

A few years back I had the realisation that any actual "space elevator" was going to have a really interesting time dealing with electric potential and magnetic effects over the length of a long tether with some combination of conductance, impedence, capacitive, and magnetic interactions. I'm not sure I'd really want to be either on such a line or anywhere near its terminus.

Though that risk seems rather low presently.
Vaccinated people can still spread the virus according to the CDC. This is just an endemic thing we have to live with.
I can't disagree more.

Doesn't it feel a little too convenient to label your opposition as "beyond saving"? And how do you propose we "deal with this movement now" if you've convinced yourself they can't be reasoned with? I know it's not true from first hand experience. I've convinced a dozen people with hard-right political ideologies to get the vaccine. It hasn't always worked, but I've had much more success than not.

Respect is difficult, but it works. And you'll never be able to justifiably expect others to respect you if you don't respect them first. Be the change you want to see.

Also, one person being respectful is not enough to change things at scale - especially someone in as naturally divisive a position as POTUS.
Assange is accused of helping someone steal classified information, and that is a legitimate judicial proceeding.

"with the added irony that it was through collateral damage of their own journalists being blown away by a trigger happy numbskulled armed forces member out of control."

This is false. The actions of the pilpot, though regrettable, were within the boundaries of operational limits in that situation.

What people have trouble processing is that those are the many unfortunate situations that can arise during conflict. Journalists have to be responsible for their own safety when not notifying friendly forces going directly into a combat zone wit an armed guard, lose markings, and no real way for any of the combatants to be sure of their status or intentions.

Your comments about 'making him guilty by any means possible' etc. are unsubstantiated. I'm sure there are many people who feel that way, but they don't need to act outside the boundaries of the law.

Assange has published a zillion things many of which were damaging to the US and he's not being charged over them. He's being charged for material intervention in the theft of classified information. The same thing would apply to you or I.
That is not a vegan take. I am not vegan.

>perhaps we should eat a variety of everything in moderation.

That's what the quote means?
Kevin Paffrath has some ideas for solving this. The Democratic Party seems bent on preventing him from having a fair shot.
Where's the data in the OP's comment? Remarkable how fear and speculation has a lower evidentiary standard, isn't it?
Thanks, this is awesome. I totally expect to rely on this feature after using it for a few weeks and expect Mozilla to yank it out for usability reasons.
Goodbye, Internet Explorer 11
>I am vaccinated. I have friends who are vaccinated, and have still gotten COVID.

vaccinated people get covid and spread it like unvaccinated[1]. Then what is the point of vaccination mandate? I really don't understand.

Add to that that since May CDC stopped counting breakthrough cases which don't result in hospitalizations.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/30/cdc-study-shows-74percent-of...

"About three-fourths of people infected in a Massachusetts Covid-19 outbreak were fully vaccinated, according to new data published Friday by the CDC.

The new data, published in the U.S. agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, also found that fully vaccinated people who get infected carry as much of the virus in their nose as unvaccinated people. "
17,000 lbs. GVWR. Too big for the Tesla truck.
The problem is that "What is one month after 2021-02-28?" doesn't have a single meaning in plain human language.

It could mean 30 days in the future. Or the same day of the week 4 weeks in the future (i.e., 28 days in the future). Or the day of the same cardinality in next month. Or any date in the next month. And those are all equally correct.

It's simply not a precise measure of time when spoken from one human to another human in plain language. Indeed, I think we inherently understand it to be an imprecise measure of time just as much as "tomorrow" doesn't mean "exactly 86,400 seconds from this moment". "Next week" doesn't necessarily mean "7 days from now", either. That's why computers don't typically use imprecise terms. They provide feedback and say "this will occur at this time and date".

You always have to check what the operators actually do and what the requirements actually mean when you're working with times and dates.
In Finland it's legal to publish private correspondence, as long as at least one party gives permission (e.g. the party who receives email).
It seems like these vaccines don't actually do that, though. At least not when it comes to the Delta variant.
Random access vs. sequential access. Guess which one is more efficient?
At this point in time, children have experienced an infection rate, and complications that are near zero, statistically. To date, no child has received a vaccination.

Why would we punish the vaccinated, and children, for a minority unvaccinated population? A population that largely (entirely?) puts their own self at risk and no other individual that has taken steps to protect themselves from the virus.

Vaccines (in the US at least) are free to anyone that wants one at this point. It's been that way for months. If someone doesn't have a vaccine, it's because they chose to not get one - and therefore take on the risk of becoming ill or death. That's their problem... not children's problem or vaccinated people's problem.

We're doing all this to protect a population that's actively resisting your protection.

With all that said, let's get back to normal here. People who don't want vaccines aren't going to get them even if you made it the law... be realistic.
Just get std::map. You can get std::vector<int> if you do std::map<int, int>
A cocktail of pesticides, parasites and hunger leaves bees down and out
The explanation for Schrodinger's cat is that in any practical box, you will end up as a part of the cat's state almost instantly. There will be one state where you're standing outside of a box with a living cat, and another where you're standing outside of a box with a dead cat. It's up to you to assign metaphysical status to those states, but the dynamics are clearly predicted.

I think you may be misapprehending the meaning of Aaronson's talk. He is saying that proving that a specific cat was in a superposition would be just as hard as changing its state from dead to alive, but that does not preclude the possibility of proving that several cats are in a superposition by observing the statistical properties of an ensemble of measurements. If that talk explained why Schrodinger's cat doesn't happen in our daily lives, it would have to address why we can't detect cat superposition probabilistically, like the way we detect particle superposition in most experiments (the interference pattern of the dual comb experiment only appears when there are a lot of measurements).
Kind of weird how one of the books hosted on that site is a PDF that carries the mark of the LRN piracy group though.

Reminds me of that time when it was found that Nintendo used some pirate ROMs in one of their emulation based products.
This is actually really interesting. Bravo to the Edge team.

And if I remember correctly, writeable memory pages were the main reason why iOS banned browsers like firefox from embedding their own rendering engines.

Perhaps this kind of approach could address such concerns and enable other rendering engines.
Anecdotal evidence is always useful for bigotry.
I went to an AME church (i.e., black) back in April and the church was denied vaccines.

The statistical facts are clear: POCs are much less likely to have access to vaccines, to be vaccinated, and to have IDs. Requiring ID is inherently racist.
Not the best argument. Adenovirus vector is possibly less studied than mRNA, with a number of not great failure modes.
We don’t tax household consumption today, either. If you grow veggies, cook, mend/sew your own clothes, wash your own clothes, change your own oil, mow your own lawn, 3D print your own stuff, or produce your own solar power, you’re not taxed on it (although that doesn’t stop some folk, whether utilities or whatever, from trying to effectively tax you on it). Of course, household production is massively less efficient for many things, although people are forced into becoming DIYers if tax rates are high, prices are artificially high (think rent-seeking behavior by monopolies like utilities), or if money is scarce (ie if there’s a recession/depression).

And my point about carrots was deliberately cartoonish. The point is that revenue, not profit, was taxed.
> This is about a restriction NY is imposing on New Yorkers.

So you're saying that since I live in Connecticut, I'm allowed to eat indoors in NYC without showing proof of vaccination? I realize that this is literally what the article says, but surely that must be a mistake, no?
I don't think this thought experiment is appropriate. On it's face you can use it to justify the status quo more or less at any time in the world. It's not a strong argument against the position that improvement is slow or stagnant.

Beyond that, no one believes that material wealth is fully useless. But we know that material wealth is not useful beyond a certain baseline to one's happiness, except as a means for the exertion of power. The hedonistic treadmill is inexorable.

If I could live in a world free of rent seeking and social domination with the equivalent of ~40k/year in material product each year, I would do it. Most of the reason most people work beyond that is to acquire fundamentally scarce goods such as housing ans land for which capitalism won't make the pie grow, is due to artifical demand brought forth by marketing, or simply doesn't actually benefit to individual happiness.

We already have fairly conclusive research on this, once you have enough money to be insulated against catastrophy and acquire stable living conditions as well as a sufficient social status, the marginal effect of increased income on your happiness is roughly zero.

Which is, by the way, not the opinion of the Soviet ideology, they were fairly committed to growth for a prolonged amount of time, though their economic system did not necessitate it to survive (geopolitically it was necessary for military reasons though)
There's also a difference when a business decides on it's own to mandate shoes, versus a government mandate for all businesses.

I would be just as against a government mandate that all private establishments must have a no shirt/no shoes policy.

I don't even think a vaccine mandate for private businesses would be constitutional under the first amendment, the courts have recognized multiple times that freedom of association is protected even if it is not explicit in the constitution.
It's so Instagram: "Vacations of the Rich and Famous".
>but why are these "survival cost" calculations always so dishonest?

Because GP mentioned a specific claim, which is food prices? If you're malnourished, and rent costs $1500/month but you can feed yourself on $150, how much are food prices to blame for that?
To be fair, vast majority of those scientists also claimed the lab leak theory was impossible and a conspiracy theory and 1.5 year later flip flopped. If it was so easy to silence scientists on such an obvious issue, what else were the dissenting scientists silenced on?
If Person A steals from (or rapes, murders etc.) entity B, then the nullification of their crime by some kind of international legal quagmire would be a miscarriage of justice.

The question is whether or not Assange materially participated in the theft of classified information from the US government.

I'm sure if US citizens stole from the German government or private entity, they would respect the legitimacy of the German governments concerns.

This is why we have at least some international laws and legal conventions and this issue should see it's day in court, after which, we'll have to see how well the proceedings went, and what kind of evidence is brought to light.
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The unknown behavior of 1-30 + 1 month is a red flag that maybe you shouldn't be using "month" as a unit of time because it isn't.

Months suck. Bill for services every 10 days or every 25 days or every 50 days instead of every month.
Yes, the NHS is weirdly worshipped in the UK, but is much worse than the Italian or the German healthcare systems (to name the 2 I experienced personally). The emergency service is good, but prevention is borderline non-existent and getting referrals to see specialists may be challenging.
Yup. 15-20 years ago, factory floor, troubleshooting a problem that only showed up in production. I overheard a couple of guys saying that I was overpaid for being able to type fast, especially as I spent most of my time just standing there.
Right, a deadly virus. We're sacrificing the choice to go eat at Denny's unvaccinated to prevent spreading a deadly virus. Not for "sEcUrItY."
I'm simply interested in where civil libertarian absolutists draw the line. Absolutes are absolutes. Or are they fuzzy?
You believe in science? Great!

What does the science tell you about the risks to vaccinated individuals when exposed to other vaccinated individuals or to non vaccinated individuals?
Are the policy makers experts in virology? What are they basing this policy on, legally and medically? Is there scientific consensus among actual experts?
Thanks for jumping in. Composing is currently a paid feature, correct. You don't need a custom domain to activate it though, it also works with the in-house paced.email based email addresses.

Our underlying email provider is Mailgun and they handle the reputation. So far so good though, all seems to be working as intended a year and a half after launch.

Get in touch via the site if you want to chat more, happy to help if you have any questions etc.
Todd said she had gone to the overpass to distribute sandwiches, potato chips and water to people living at the freeway encampment.

Todd’s lawsuit accuses the city of allowing the encampment at the 101 overpass on Gower to remain for a “substantial amount of time,”

Why is she distributing supplies to a group of people she wants the city to throw out?
Of course they are overpaid as they are producing something of almost no value. You need patriotism, not education. Education leads to liberal thought, it's a bad thing!
That's what was originally announced for the health pass in France before public outcry made them soften the restrictions.
Have you looked at the "What-if Analysis" functionality in Excel? Scenario Manager and Data Table is designed for that kind of use case (one set of formulas, multiple sets of inputs/scenarios.)

Here are some videos on how to use them.

Data Table
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7S9ecg1wdQ

Scenario Manager
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_eFIdsV1Bk
The Supreme Court said it didn't apply about 116 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts
Yeah, success in this type of game is definitely about channeling a very specific set of power fantasies, delivered along with all those addictive brain reward feedback loop game mechanisms.

You're totally right about the limited potential for enjoy-ability of realistic forces in city/system simulation games. After all, the best examples of these games usually simplify. Like, the old SimCity games focus just on the zoning mixed with some taxes. Or, the Anno games depict colonization of (unsettled - haha) land mixed with maintenance of trade routes to reward the player with 'growth'.

The article however does deliver a pretty good idea of how one could go about depicting the specific area of interest studied by the author - medieval farming and village planning. I think all of us can easily imagine a very enjoyable game there.

The question of balance is interesting, and IMO highly dependent on how strong and original the selected set of core mechanics is. The better they are, the less of this 'fantastical satiation' aspect is needed to cover them up. But what is most interesting to me is the question of what should mechanics in such games themselves actually depict? Like, to actually be worth spending time playing?
Hadn't heard of Jevon's Paradox - thanks.
Politics in everything, the world feels broken. What happened?
Crusader Kings 2 and 3 are the only games that have ever recaptured the accidental all-night gaming session for me like Civ I and II did back in the day. Since discovering CK, I can't tell you how many times I innocently started a game on a Saturday night, have my partner come in and say good night... just to have my partner walk in the office and ask when I was going to sleep only to realize it's morning (my office has no windows). God I love it.
From tables 1 and 2, about noncrash fire losses / insurance claims from cars built in 2016-2018 if I'm skimming this right:

IVY RFC Make and series
36k 192 Tesla Model X 4dr electric 4WD
43k 140 Tesla Model S 4dr electric 4WD
50k 288 Dodge Charger HEMI
508k 101 Ford Fusion
151k 49 Honda Fit
21k 0 Chevrolet Sonic

RFC = Relative claim frequency which has an asterisk in the document saying "100 = all-passenger-vehicle result". If 100 is all passenger vehicles... result? I can't parse this sentence, but I take it to mean that 100 is the average of all cars.

IVY = Insured Vehicle Years, basically sample size

Given that a car with 21k exposure years can have 0 claims, and there are also combustion vehicles with higher values, I'm not sure how statistically significant it is that these Tesla values are >100.
Candid talk from the man behind your favorite Windows tools
So only the "investment class" can be "greedy"? If anything you're proving the parent poster's point, ie. "when market conditions are are in my favor (or against my adversary), it's just supply and demand. when they're not in my favor (or in favor of my adversary), it's a 'shortage' (or whatever sympathy-inducing phrase you can come up with".
Every now and then I come across a link to one of his webpages. I'm glad he's kept them up for so long.
>it has severe performance problems

It had. It's now around parity with pytorch.

And no, it wasn't about a usability tradeoff.

It was about being more general- More general compiler, more general code, more composable code.

Then, the team has been optimizing that and including compiler optimizations in the language that benefit all code. ML type code stressed that in a particular way. Pytorch does ML array heavy stuff as a special case.

Julia will be doing the same, but it's setting the groundwork for domain specific optimizations to be done in package and user space. A different sort of philosophy

It was about being more greedy and setting the groundwork for a more powerful tool in general, at some short term cost.

They could have just wrote a framework that baked in fp 32/64,16 with cuda kernels and tracing and operator overloading computational graphs and gotten more speedup over pytorch (in fact, avalon.jl takes that approach.), with better usability.

But they didn't and now there's a burgeoning ecosystem that does things no other framework can't. It's not quite as marginally beneficial for current vanilla ML because that is stuck in a local optimum, but I think that is going to change: https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/useful-algorithms-that-a...

In the meantime, places like MIT, moderna, NASA etc are reaping the benefits.
I like part of this concept, but I want to suggest that there can’t be two or more systems working in parallel. It seems like these would make the system more “trustworthy” but it would in fact do the opposite. Having two or more systems is bound to be even more open to corruption—either intentional or accidental-and this less trustworthy. Blockchain has been proven to not be immutable, and neither are existing voting mechanisms. It is a difficult problem to solve without a wholesale change in my opinion. A combination of date, time, location, identification, photo, authentication, etc. tied to a real-time ~100% available system would be needed as a start. The voter could then review and approve their vote as seen in “paper” form. That would provide the check and balance. I would love it if someone developed this system!
It's really the mechanics of it that keep me there. My mmr floats around high diamond to low masters depending on how much I play. Getting into a slow game like city skylines isn't what I'm after, just the competitive aspect of it.

I guess AOE would be a good substitute or maybe supreme commander.
That's computing based on purely the discounted value of money. The more useful metric is not the % of inflation, but rather the % you can get on your money lying around (your answer assumes that to be 40% annually as well - i.e. a real rate of zero, but real rates on all of your options could be deeply negative as well).

(though from an academic point of view you are completely correct)
I mean, GH's first, and so far only, TV run is from April 1, 1963 to the present day. I guess they wanted to spice things up at some point.
Proton [0] looks like a really nice exanple of Open Source collaboration.

[0] https://www.protondb.com/
> Every time I get a head cold, I typically develop a cough that lasts > 3 weeks.

Just a heads-up, that can turn into asthma if you are susceptible.
Take care to properly heal every time.

(That'd be 'long cold' I guess. We don't need more of that stuff.)
One could see i that way, i would see it as:

Microsoft has still problems with scaling ;)
So if you're supervising your vehicle being charged and it catches fire, what do you do? Are you stuck waiting for the fire brigade anyway?
> All the evidence is showing that this natural immunity is superior to vaccines

Does it? The evidence I've seen indicates that it's robust, but not necessarily superior to vaccines.
This is exactly right. He could not imagine delaying the development of Starship for the ~week it would take him to train for, orient on, and fly the mission. It would be a huge distraction for him and everyone in the company. Once the Starship trips are normal, operational, and for sale, my bet is he'll take a jog around orbit.
>Why is she distributing supplies to a group of people she wants the city to throw out?

Article is paywalled, but presumably she doesn't want them thrown out. There are, in fact, other solutions to homeless encampments...
I know a doctor at a hospital and he said that the current percentage of vaccinated Covid admissions is very close to the overall percentage of vaccinated people in his area.
The reason we cry about it is because they were extremely confident in their conclusions then, although in retrospect the evidence was terrible, and half of it even apocryphal. There's no break in continuity from the experts then to the experts now that I'm aware of.

The problem is not the gradual improvement through study, it's the cargo-culting, "common sense" that became prevailing consensus, and political motivations from the funders of research.

Science seems to know a lot about poisons, but not a lot about nutrition. It's like how neuroscientists know a lot about the results of ablations, but not a lot about normal function.
That is a good point. The awkward thing here isn't really "plus" it's "month".