skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any effort to retroactively count the actual Covid deaths? Because it appears that it could be greatly inflated because of the following practice as described in this press meet..

>Q Can you talk about your concerns about deaths being misreported by coronavirus because of either testing or standards for how they’re characterized?

>DR. BIRX: So, I think, in this country, we’ve taken a very liberal approach to mortality, and I think the reporting here has been pretty straightforward over the last five to six weeks. Prior to that, when there wasn’t testing in January and February, that’s a very different situation and unknown. There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition and let’s say the virus caused you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem — some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death. Right now, we’re still recording it, and we’ll — I mean, the great thing about having forms that come in and a form that has the ability to mark it as COVID-19 infection — the intent is, right now, that those — if someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210119100429/https://www.white...
As long as you can afford a half-minute precision for an event 8.5 years ahead, you still can assume that simple datetime arithmetic works. This is ignoring the complexity of the reality.

If you need a better precision, you store your date as a label saying "local midnight of January 1st 2030", and adjust its mapping to a particular number of seconds since epoch as time passes, or maybe do something even more complex. This is adjusting to the complexity of the reality.

The third way, mandating the reality to not be complex, is not available.
I don't think problem is with what is easier or harder. It's problem with tools that give you ready solutions, that make it possible to just use cookie-cutter approach without adding anything from yourself. Actually it's not even a problem it's just a consequence. Of course not everyone has time to write everything themselves, but doing that practically ensures that what you make will have unique feeling.

On the other hand, even if you use cookie cutter approach to game mechanics you could make other stuff more unique (like story or universe).
Let's say a chocolate bar is shaped like a row of mountains.

And then in 2016, some of the mountains are removed. And/or made shorter.

Also not captured in inflation, though the press seemed to pick up on it (hint: toblerone)
The air particles that are visible to you will mostly be caught in your nose and cilia, and either swallowed or spat out. They can still cause plenty of allergies. They are also too heavy to float long enough in the air to pass through the filter. That's why you need to kick it up from surfaces to see. You can remove it from surfaces with vacuum and wiping.

Smaller invisible particles, for example pollution or pollen, hang in the air and move with the circulation, so they will eventually be caught as air passes through the filter.

The amount of these particles could be reduced by cleaning the air at the "intake" of the house. If there is intake air passing through pipes, these pipes need to be kept clean. If the house is set up such that air moves in both direction through passages, the whole thing is fucked and need to be fixed. Even detecting where intake air is entering the house can be really difficult.

Because of indoor temperature and outdoor wind, a house functions like a pump that sucks in outdoor air, heats it, and ejects it. Intake air may be sucked from any crack in the walls, floors and foundation, where it picks up dust and mould. Equipping the house with an intake fan (and filter) will pressurize it and prevent this "sucking".
TBF that is within expectations. You’d have similar issues the other way around or between different countries. It’s rather frustrating (especially because of the different standards in tax freedom) but unsurprising.
If you're running microservices, won't you be running them on a platform?

If on Kubernetes, just install cert-manager. Or if using FaaS, your platform will already do TLS termination, no?
Can the legions of Apple Apologists on this forum at-least agree that all the talk about how well the iPhone supports individual privacy is just a bunch of bald-faced lies ?

I mean they use the privacy argument to avoid side-loading apps, lol. But scanning your photos is OK.

What absolute hypocrisy.
Type Phantoms and Safe APIs
Who ordered Apple to do this, "or else?" What was the "or else?" How easy will it be to expand this capability by Apple or anyone outside of Apple?

I expect that any time you take a photo, the scan will be performed right away, and the results file will be waiting to be sent the next time you enable voice and data.

This capability crushes the trustworthiness of the devices.
Without adequate measurements, you would be surprised how wrong your advice is. If there are wildfires anywhere upwind, you're better off (barely) with the windows shut and recirculating the air through the furnace filter.
Relationship Between Covid19 and 5G Network
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It won't be long before this is turned on political dissidents.

* knock knock *
"we received an anonymous report that you have hate speech an illegal meme on your phone, please come with us"
> I don't need to speak uyghur to hear their testimonials. I didn't need to be alive during WW2 to know what happened.

I find these comparisons extremely disrespectful to the memory of the Holocaust. The Third Reich systematically murdered millions of people.

> If you actually read the mainstream coverage, it's methodical, thoughtful

I read / listen to the mainstream news, both American and European, in a few different languages. I don't see how their coverage of China could possibly be considered "thoughtful" or "methodical." The major issues in China are barely covered. Western media tends to zero in on a few topics, to focus intensely on the negative aspects of those stories, to rely heavily on tenuous sourcing, and to ignore most of the background and context.

Just as a recent example from the New York Times: "They Relied on Chinese Vaccines. Now They’re Battling Outbreaks."[1]

The article is full of anecdotes like this:

> One month after receiving his second dose of Sinopharm, Otgonjargal Baatar fell ill and tested positive for Covid-19. Mr. Otgonjargal, a 31-year-old miner, spent nine days in a hospital in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. He said he was now questioning the usefulness of the shot.

You have to scroll most of the way through the article to find the first mention of the fact that scientific studies by public health authorities in these countries have shown that the Chinese vaccines in question have high real-world effectiveness, and are performing as expected:

> Data from Mongolia showed that the Sinopharm vaccine was actually more protective than the doses developed by AstraZeneca and Sputnik, a Russian vaccine, according to the Health Ministry.

After reading this line, I wonder, "Why did they even write this article?" If they wanted to write an article about vaccine effectiveness, they should have led with the scientific studies. Instead, they led with a litany of anecdotes meant to imply the vaccines didn't work, they wrote a title implying the vaccines don't work, and they buried what should be the main point (the vaccines work as expected) deep in the article.

This borders on anti-vax propaganda, but it's about Chinese vaccines, so it gets a pass. Try to imagine the NY Times setting out to undermine the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines in this way. I can't. It would be a scandal.

I could give examples like this from every day of the week. The news media don't really try to inform when it comes to China. As a consequence, most people in the US and Europe have a seriously distorted picture of the country - one which does not at all resemble reality.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/business/economy/china-va...
Unity doesn't have a single source code license or price. It's negotiated per-contract and usually has strings attached (e.g. be the first to ship this tech, attend UnityCon and give this demo). They only do it for big companies as well.
“Why Electric Planes are Inevitably Coming”

https://youtu.be/aH4b3sAs-l8

tldr: They’re already being deployed in some shorthaul routes.
If my parents had the feature to be alerted about porn their kid’s device while I was a teen they would have sent me to a conversion camp, and that is not an exaggeration.

Apple thinks the appropriate time for queer kids to find themselves is after they turn 18.
It's percentage of people over 16.
What ? I can install anything I like on windows. I cannot on my iPhone.
Oh come on, you really think thats their big plan? Announcing the scanning SW in public and then abuse it? If they want to to illegal spying they do it right. And without a second Snowden you will not hear about it.
I think the important piece missing from the headline is that these micro models are combined in ensemble like fashion. Because of that I wouldn’t really call it overfitting per se - more of a very restricted space to care about.
Yeah but serving traffic from an application server directly is probably even worse in plethora of other failure modes.

EDIT: and yes I understand that you should use http/2 on the LB and http/2 on the backend to get the best of both worlds.

EDIT2: anyway my opinion is that the general reaction to a security discovery like this one shouldn't be "let's stop using this tech immediately" but "let's get this patched ASAP"
I was seriously considering switching to Apple for my next phone because of all their privacy marketing. With this update, I'm not touching Apple with a 10 foot pole.
To explain my downvote, you are ascribing a perspective to the collective which doesn't match what many of us think. The letter is of interest because it presents the FTC's perspective on this issue, which is surprisingly nuanced. They are affirming that oversight of business practices is important, even when it comes from non-governmental agencies.
Is the option to buy prints still there? Some services offer the possibility to buy prints on canvas tied on a wooden frame, possibly manually retouched, which look much like an actual picture you can hang in your living room
From time to time I catch myself eyeing a used blue pizza box. Not sure what I would do with it but it brings back fond memories.
Given that it's an engine-specific extension, and they make no mention of other databases, I'm assuming it's pg-only.
"There is no proof of global pandemic ever have happened in our lifetimes, no need to prepare for them."

If you get bad news, look at the proportionality of cost preparing for the event compared to the cost of the event. A pandemic preparation and proper pre-warn system (as South korea and taiwan had it) would have cost absolutly nothing compared to the pandemic cost.

Same goes for gulf stream collapse. Cost of the for-warning system, cost of agricultural switch of europe to the canadian model, against the cost of not doing so..
Since openly development systems often give you the most choices, you have way more ways to install software than you listed.

But for most purposes, what you'll need on a typical Ubuntu box is all available in the Apt repositories.

Giving options doesn't mean you have to use those options. With Ubuntu, you can safely assume (most of the time) that what you need is in a Apt repository. Compare this with macOS where applications does really come from anywhere and it's not safe to assume you can install application from any one place.
>False positives

If this was a problem, would we not be seeing a slew of complaints about innocents being dragged through the mud with OneDrive and PhotoDNA? The only thing unique about Apples implemention is that it's client-side.
Just this week I got the shadow maps working in LOVR, so that at least should land into example section soon. Raytracing shouldn't be too hard to get started, just draw a full screen plane using a standard raytracing shader (but it's not well suited for VR because you cannot keep the camera steady while scene is traced). GI is way above my level.

I agree it is much harder than clicking a checkbox in Unreal/Godot. The LOVR exposes low-level OpenGL to Lua, but in a boilerplate-free way, hiding many obscure and obsolete options. This means that there is a steep learning curve, on the other hand you have power to do things differently. Not only the code architecture of project (functional and dynamic VS object-oriented and stateful), but also how you utilize the graphics card. While it can be painful and frustrating, iterating Lua with low level bindings gives you a powerful way to experiment with gfx.

I guess LOVR would mostly appeal to people who want to learn details of hardware, but don't necessary want to create (and support) another engine. LOVR is high quality readable C code and Lua API is well thought out.
Hi everyone, I wrote the article. I do consider this overfitting because we are training on these frames way more time than would be normally advised for the size of the training set such that the error is essentially zero for these frames. The model performs well in "out-of-sample" here but only out of sample that is semantically close to the original training set. Besides, overfitting is defined procedurally, not by how well it performs. You could have an overfit model that just happens to perform well on some stuff it was not trained on, that doesn't change the fact that the model was overfit.
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That is exactly the "straw" interpretation I tried to argue against. It's not about God, at least not on this point.

It's about existential nihilism being pointless on its own terms. If you ask the question, "why does this matter" (and "this" can be absolutely anything) you've already assumed some things matter more than others. We absolutely won't get anywhere talking about God if we don't talk about this first.
Geez, I can't imagine running migrations without this.

You'd just run your migration statements one after the other and pray it doesn't fail midway? Or have a contingency plan for every possible point of failure?

Postgres has given me a sheltered life.
There are already makers that build heat exchangers, but there are a lot of catches and other unexpected impacts.

Install a heat pump and/or geothermal.
You're not missing something, but you're not likely to get real examples because as I understand it the algorithm and database are private, the posters above are just guardedly commenting with (claimed) insider knowledge, they're not likely to want to leak examples (and not just that it's private, but with the supposed contents.. Would you really want to be the one saying 'but it isn't, look'? Would you trust someone who did, and follow such a link to see for yourself?)
> The climate crisis is not because we're not carbon neutral, but because produce so much CO2/methane/[..].

Precisely. And who pumps out the majority of those gasses? The companies incentivised by capital to continue doing so!

I think people need to eat less meat. So I agree with you there. In fact I agree with pretty much everything you listed in your other comment.

But.. Doing all of that will not stop the companies that are actually destroying the environment. They will continue to do so unaffected by our personal choices, as long as they're being paid to turn our lights on.

Putting the burden on the individual to change their life is ridiculous when there are things out of people's control.
Yes. The concern is reasonable, but given that this technology is widely implemented in basically every cloud storage offering, there isn't much to suggest that the described outcome will actually happen.
Sharing videos on social media from Tokyo Olympics is not allowed: IOC
Yeah you can still buy prints but they're not manually retouched. You'll get product mockups and a buy option for your first 5 creations.
I can confirm real estate agents in the Bay Area are notorious for the first one you listed. They can make a shoebox look like a palace.
A service which is always provided for free - there are no countries that invoice victims. It’s the fact that the commenter assumed it might not be free that’s frightening.
Could you elaborate on what you think would happen in this case, vs. an iOS user sending an image to another iOS user?
In fact there are studies that show that even moderately high classroom CO2 levels are correlated with poor outcomes.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25117890/
List of top retailers in the US that use/don’t use facial recognition
Laws are fine, assuming they are fairly, firmly, amd impartially applied.

The (apparently) recent drift of the executive into selective enforcement has been most worrisome.

Perhaps 'twas ever thus, and there is just more information about this passive tyranny in circulation now.
Agree on this. Rectangles can also be aligned and given a logical order. It’s probably less nice to the eye than circles, but more useful.
Fear of vermouth or love of straight gin?
It honestly sounds like yet-another solution in need of a problem.

Can't say I'm surprised that Facebook continues to suck.
> it is also a horrifying precedent that the device I put my life into is scanning my photos and reporting on bad behavior

apples new customers are the various autocratic regimes that populate the earth. apples customers used to be human beings. there exist many profiteers in mountain view, cupertino menlo and atherton in the service of making our monopolies more capable of subjugating humanity.
Who said Apple re-sends pictures?
Multiplexing API requests could be a thing if only HTTP2 pass through from proxies would be more popular.
There used to be rules per product/category, specifying certain sizes and prohibiting all others. So sugar was always 500g, never 460g or whatever.

I’m fine with the standardized prices now, and that seems to work for most customers.
This is great news! I love Love2D! I just have one gripe with this: "Designed for VR". You see, not everybody wants to put a helmet on their head just to play motion-controlled game. Kinect obviously is not an option as it's no longer manufactured, but there are many toolkits for motion tracking using normal cameras such as webcams most people own. I wonder how difficult would be to add this kind of functionality to LOVR.
I feel that all authentication standards are bloated. Maybe there are reasons why they are like that.
Love does work through wasm in the pure C++ approach, have been using it on a project for a bit now. It's definitely better that way vs. also using Lua since you can't use LuaJIT and vanilla Lua running in wasm esp. with a GC isn't geat perf-wise.

Agreed re: C API -- would definitely need a wrapper there. The C++ API is also a bit less ergonomic in some ways than the Lua one (particularly how images are initialized) but also more in others (type checking and autocomplete is great). Lovr (topic of this post) uses LuaJIT's C FFI actually with a C API internally so it's more in that direction, FWIW.

What does "library-driven approach" mean in raylib's case and how is it different from Love's approach? In both cases I just have a CMake project that builds my application to either a native executable (including mobile in Love) or web, with all dependencies vendored, calling functions and using types from either API.

I do think raylib's C API fits this well and with the least impedance mismatch, having used all of them -- Love in Lua, Love in C++ and raylib in C -- extensively. eg. you can directly manage and render vertex buffers in raylib and go down to the 'rlgl' level, in constrast I found Love's default image rendering to have perf issues in web (it uses buffer orphaning) and I had to do something more manual with Love's meshes.
Based on another comment, tires shed off much more rubber the more weight is on them. So an electric car will use much more than a regular one, and a bicycle will use basically none compared to that.
This sort of automated crime detection systems will be reserved for peons, i.e. 99% of the population.
I don't see why this is a problem though.

For almost any other country, if a wealth person moves abroad, they no longer pay tax in their original country.

So this just levels the field.
But there is a difference. Sure the same technology might be integrated into several cloud storage provider. But i can choose to use a storage provider or not. If Apple is activating this technology on your phone you can not opt out. Your phone will be searched.
The truth about climate change on earth
I don't know where you live, but that is way excessive for the developed world (minus wildfires).

But as long as you are changing out those filters on a regular (3 months?) basis, you can go on being you and being healther for it.
I suggest trying to make and release one of these "low-effort" games to see how much effort is actually required
> Ethereum is currently decentralized because of the initial POW distribution

Ethereum was launched with a 100% 'premine' of 72M coins, printed out of thin air and handed to the founders to keep or sell as they decided.

Since then another 44M have been mined, though it's not clear how much of that mining was also by insiders who influenced the work function's hardware compatibility or protected their hardware investment by controlling when/if the work function was changed or when mining was discontinued.
Thank you - I did know that they have their own research on economics (in relation to antitrust, for example) but didn't realize they are "endorsing" (can't find a better word) outside research.
I have a very common name too... I was an inch away to be denied a loan for my house because there was this guy with my same name, surname and date of birth that was in the CRIF (a sort of registry for people with very low credit score here in Italy).

I know the feeling.

And while we all agree about the fact the child porn should be stopped and people should go to jail for it, apparently "what happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone" only until Apple says so.

https://twitter.com/chrisvelazco/status/1081330848262062080
Depends on the colour of your skin.
Both photos clearly have the contents (in oz/gr) on them, and they appear perfectly standardized amounts. I don't think there's any conspiracy going on here. As to the conditioner, I quite like the trend of having multiple sizes of things (e.g. for travelling) and I'd hate the branding to be different depending on an implementation detail like the amount of product I'm buying.

I mean, you can see conspiracies everywhere if you look for them, but the examples you're showing don't convince me in the least.
Trantor?