skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if N=1 is fine, accurate measuring is hard. There are many variables and placebo works very well. Is there any good way?
I agree that the fault also lies with other countries for letting the virus in so easily. But the grandparent poster asked for an example where the CCP lied and I obliged.
You're right, but an FYI: Madoff took the plea, that's why it was so fast in his case (well, it took fucking forever to "uncover" but then was really fast).
This is basically what the field of neural architecture search tries to do. Here’s a good (somewhat technical) introduction: https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2020/08/06/neural-archi...
> Once Covid is gone,

Covid will _never_ be gone.

Ever.
Thanks for the links! Mostly scams and very bad science journalism indeed.

However, he completely misses the mark in his video about the Science paper "Water harvesting from air with metal-organic frameworks powered by natural sunlight" [1]. He declares it a hoax, but ignores pretty much everything from the paper.

Surprisingly, far down the comment section, there is a comment explaining that [2].

[1] http://globalscience.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/waterh...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGTRX6pZSns&lc=UgzJoHtYGBwXk...
I think I agree with you (RE: make a comprehensive write-up), but I also seem to remember thinking the same thing when I was setting up the latest iteration of the server and then googling it and finding that such a guide already exists :) Part of the problem is that it's an evolving system and things change over time.

Spam is an interesting problem. Assuming one self-hosts and makes their email address publicly available, then one can get a metric for how much spam is flying around. Eventually one will try to stop spam from coming to their inbox, and on doing so one might build a mental model for how the big mail providers combat spam and realize why one's emails are not being delivered. Then one might realize that one is sending mail that one would not willingly receive! And then take action to resolve.

In general though, there is some base effort to establish trust, and as long as you don't ruin it by sending spam, then you shouldn't end up on a blacklist. If you find that your IP was on a blacklist before it became yours, then work with the people that are blacklisting - but at that point it does become a bit of a job. I actually ran into an issue in my professional life where an AWS WAF rule started alerting on one of our own servers hosted in AWS because someone had previously used the IP for malware C&C.

Anyway - I will think on this and see if I can write something up. It's a good idea. My main concern is that there is a gap between the way I did things (sysadmin style) and the "new" way of doing things (containerized).
I like to think it's a southern belle variant, "Lambda May", and it be coming.
Thanks for having the courage to write this. I couldnt agree more. I find the risk assessment argument of the thread parent really twisted. Younger people effectively have no risk of dying from covid. Elderly have. And now, the left is trying to force everyone to vaccinate, no matter how good or bad their immune system might be. This world has become a place I actually really dont want to live in. If this trend really wins and people accept a world of forced vaccination and masks and restrictions of public areas, I prefer to contract covid and die.
> Shelters are often unsafe and filled with people who have untreated problems. Violence is a real risk.

I've always found it a bit ironic when people intending to advocate for better treatment of the homeless proclaim that homeless shelters are havens of violence, full of dangerous people with drug and mental health problems.
Indeed, but that undermines the whole idea which is that it's a super cheap self-contained unit you can just install anywhere and all you need is an electrician with a hammer drill and a masonry bit.
Is she still doing the fake voice? I truly cannot get enough of this story.
> You're (intentionally?) leaving out the part where we don't know how the vaccine will pan out as more resistant variants get spread. This great vaccine might not hold, and getting a vaccine now helps prevent that from happening.

I don't know a lot of things.

I don't know that I won't die in my sleep. I don't know if I won't walk out the door tomorrow morning and get hit by a taxi. I don't know that I won't get botulism and die from a bad pickle. I don't that I won't choke on that pickle. I don't know if the next SARS variant isn't festering in some pile of bat poop in a Cave in Kunming right now. I don't know that I won't end 2021 in a hospital, dying from some cancer that hasn't yet been diagnosed.

Life is risky. On the spectrum of "things I don't know but worry about", the third-order effects of someone else's personal decisions is pretty far down the list.

...in fact, this risk is way below the risk that other people seem to be actively trying to take away my freedoms on a daily basis, because they're scared of what "might" happen, and want everyone else to live according to their rules.

But yeah, I'm pretty comfortable with my level of protection from SARS-CoV2.
Movie soundtrack has some really nice tracks though
I have discussed this issue with a number of space underwriters and they consider it to be such a small problem it does not factor in to their premium calculations. If insurance against something is routinely thrown in for free is it viable to build a business about solving that problem?
Weird, Metallic Star Hurtling Out of the Milky Way
I don't know, at some point, you have to look at every example of "slippery slope" over the past decades and realize that they've all been true.

Emphasis on the last year and half, too.
You seem to be projecting a lot on to the article that wasn’t actually there.

I would question why you feel the need to do that.
You need to qualify a few statements there.

Total electricity consumption peaked in Western nations over a decade ago and has basically been flat or dropping since [1][2]. So when you say, "In the future, we will need far more electrical energy" it's missing ... "in the developing world." Which, personally, is not my first choice for where to put nuclear reactors.

Second, we don't actually need to use a bunch of electricity to remove carbon from the atmosphere - I'm not sure what technology you're referring to there. The easiest way to do it is by growing as many trees as we can, which doesn't really take power at all aside from the initial planting.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-elect...
[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
Regardless of that it's not uncommon to have the same browser version support different media codecs/formats.

Regarding the examples, when it comes to Ogg Vorbis there is no issue with software decoding (it's software everywhere), AV1 was granted software decode support on some OS'es but not others in the exact same browser, version and hardware (and IIRC it's the encoding perf that is especially bad for AV1, not decoding) and the chrome on android issue also shows how legal or hardware issues are not the only things limiting what is available (it can also be bugs that just stay around).

All I'm saying is that testing for browser version A is not a surefire test. Either check the support or test on browser A version B on OS C version D on hardware E (for each of the A/B/C/D/E variants) or just stick with what works across the board. Either way you probably won't end up shipping a site with only webp support.
What ‘dark patterns’ are and why there’s now a tip line
Geosync satellites don't really contribute directly to the main debris problem; they are too far out and there are too few of them and when they end their service life they (usually) have enough fuel left to push themselves further out to make room for the next satellite.

The big debris problem is much closer to the earth in the cloud of crap between LEO and MEO.
Looks cool! How does this differ from http://particle.io ?
The vaccines kids have to get have a very high (near certainty) probability of preventing them from contracting the particular illness.

The covid vaccines do not. People are still getting covid after being vaccinated. This is happening a lot.
Multi-head self-attention seems to be the new trendy architectural primitive.

I don't know how feasible it would be - I guess you could take a set of base operations (matrix multiplication, softmax, etc.) and randomly generate feature transformations and check if any of them yield good features (stick a linear readout at the end of it and test the performance on some downstream tasks).

That would be an unguided search - I guess you could try something like GA or something. Also, it uses neural network training as an inner loop step, so it would probably be to expensive. Better would be if you could get the gradient w.r.t. to the tentative operation somehow.

Problem is that training NNs is nontrivial and you might need things like BatchNorm and residual connections to make things stable, so you'd somehow have to search for good architectures for each operation as well.
This is not a policy. This is a mandate. A policy requires discussion and almost always ends with some vote. There is nothing democratic about this mandate.
Precisely. I've been thinking of making a "toy" programming language, and that Idris feature gave me some ideas.

I like to use the select/project operator as an example precisely because it is so basic, yet so revealing of the gaps in modern programming languages (static typed or dynamic).

It really is very fundamental to not just verification of correctness, but also performance, data security, API surface design, and a whole host of things that are causing a lot of grief for a lot of programmers. The "ORM impedance mismatch" is in no small part caused by this issue.

Imagine a not-so-hypothetical scenario of wanting to make a Web API for something like "get cloud virtual machine". A virtual machine might have hundreds of properties! Everything from creation time, licensing mode, SKU, status, etc, etc...

So of course, for efficiency, you want the API to only return the relevant columns, right? Currently, there is no way to do this in most programming languages without reams and reams of dynamic typing of some sort, somewhere. One way or another you will be explicitly treating the returned rows as hashtables, arrays of "object", or something. More than likely, you'll have to dynamically generate the SQL/NoSQL query as text. You'll have to write nested loops to handle the rows and columns. Then all of this will have to be repeated on the client side, but likely with different languages. There's a decent chance that the trivial operation of "select {set of columns} from table" will end up executing a hundred megabytes of code in the end-to-end path and take multiple seconds to return a couple of kilobytes of data.

It's madness.
I dont get your analogy. You can get the vaccine to protect yourself.
> std::unordered_map: $100

+ in-template purchases for every specialization of std::hash for user type.
Wow, awesome, we’re so spoiled now
> So they end up not taking it for valid safety concerns.

Are you referring to the mRNA vaccine? If so, source for this? I see lots of articles that question whether the vaccines are as effective for immuno compromised people, but none that say they shouldn't take the mRNA vaccine. In fact, I see many studies testing the efficacy of mRNA vaccines for immuno-compromised people, which would seem to indicate we think it's safe. I only know one immuno-compromised person, and she got the vaccine.
Imagine if the same was said for criminality.
The authors are penny-wise, pound-foolish. They underestimate the costs of future disruption compared to the cost of a sustained eradication effort.

It's like with Hepatitis C and Medicare. We have very efficaceous drugs and could eradicate the disease if we wanted to but we don't budget enough. Instead, we let it spread and evolve resistance and run up costs in the indefinite future for no other reason than a lack of political will. The more we treat it now the less it'll cost us later.
For retric: is there any actual evidence this “blood vessel” damage isn’t simply repaired by the body?
It would be incredibly stupid, at many levels, to lie about something that is so public and scientifically scrutable. There's almost no benefit, at a national level, to lying about this, and when the world eventually learns of the lie, which it would quite quickly, China would be the laughing stock of the scientific world, which is the opposite of what the CCP wants.

So no, this is not a lie, because it would be both obviously stupid, and obviously not in the best interest of China to do that; not even an amazingly shitty and disorganized government would be that stupid, and the Chinese government is quite coherent, and very good at acting I it's own interests.
In that case, the web site IS the API… only difference is data is wrapped in HTML not JSON.
“Dolls not making an impact” is exactly the point.
I think NAS is a bit higher level than what the OP had in mind - NAS isn't usually used to search for fundamental operations like self-attention or convolution. But I guess you could probably adapt it quite easily.
That's prevented by kernel-mode anti-cheat that's statically linked into the runtime.
I reread what he wrote and.. yeah, pretty nihilistic still. More-nihilistic-than-not? Hmm. Nah, that's too wordy.

And to point your point back at you, please re-read my post as someone who is trying to understand them. I honestly have no freaking clue why you think otherwise, other than the fact that I disagree with them. I literally asked them a question so that I can understand them better!
Spoken like a true ignoramus.
> and done: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home

Vaccine effectiveness is changing every day. In Israel they're seeing 16% efficacy 6 months after the 2nd Pfizer dose.

Also, benefits are only one half of the cost:benefit analysis. Where is the public data on side effects? It doesn't exist because all we have is completely unverified VAERS claims.

You can't make an informed decision when you only know half the equation.
Your truth is a dismal one.
> This is an assumption though...

Yep, but not an unreasonable one.

> Also an assumption; where do they mention specifically that they will be serving ads which are using facial measurements?

In the screenshot above that paragraph is a table from their privacy policy that says that.
Well done to them. One of the rare startups I've seen that are able to enter into this fierce assisted driving systems market without the hype, lies and deception with less funding and still profitable with hardware. That's how you do it.

This recent consumer report on comma.ai on the 'Overall Ratings Results' (page 6) looks very promising. [0]

EDIT: Care to elaborate as to what is the matter my comment about this hardware startup? Is what I just said about them all false?

[0] https://data.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/...
Is there a specific part of this website.. a specific product+service combo you feel competes?
Your use of "reactionary" gives me simultaneously both hints of an extreme lack of self awareness and a strong sense of "Conform or die."

Might wanna work on that messaging.
My uni had an entire course devoted to data structures (from b-trees, to relational db) so I beg to differ. Anecdotal (much as your comments are as well) but I've often employed the knowledge i gained in my classes as a CS major in subsequent engineering jobs. In the course of my jobs I've used everything from genetic algorithms to least squares regression, and everything in between.

And yes, there is a good reason that it's more valuable, particularly for a recent grad. It shows that a prospective job candidate has already put forth some effort in the field (from working on class projects, to exams, to working with other students on larger programs)
Large commercial drones have parachutes.
I've been against the grain here since my second presidential election as voting age
Also factor in cost of living and rent. That ~$72k is not going to fly in SF or NY after rent if you are trying to start a family and not have 3 roommates.
The racists are triggered.
US infrastructure bill could make crypto mining illegal
The bipartisan-supported infrastructure bill has a new provision that specifically changes the Tax Code to account for digital asset brokers which include all crypto miners. They will need to file 1099 forms that include their customer data which is impossible due to the nature of crypto transactions. What does this mean? It will be impossible for the brokers to fill out the 1099s and be in violation of the Tax Code and at the IRS' mercy. Essentially it would be impossible to legally mine crypto in the United States of America.
I'm inclined to agree. I've been meaning to take the time to implement a CNN from scratch, I went right to this article hoping it would have some code but no, just the same content over again.
Beyond based
what is the relevance of working in Silicon Valley?
One simple design fix for the Olympic medal tally
The Project to Clean Up the Pacific Garbage Patch Is Literally Falling Apart
You could convey your personal experience and how it weighs against the other person's without being an ass about it.

You may not like being in a marginal group, but you should realize how very few people in this country are discussing your situation when they talk about the unvaccinated. There are tens of millions of people in the country who are willingly unvaccinated, and almost the entirety of them are people who do not have autoimmune disorders. In fact, the people pushing for mandates are often using your situation - that of someone for whom the vaccine is ineffective - as reason for a requirement.

So chill.
Your original point was we got lucky with the Delta variant because our current vaccines still work.

I'm saying it doesn't matter - even if we had a 100% vaccination rate, some new variant will develop someplace that's being ravaged right now (say, India) and spread to the US eventually anyway. If our vaccines still work - great... if they don't, well.. where are we then?

Lastly, the numbers already indicate it's statistically not a threat to the overwhelming majority of the US population as-is.
We just need to look at what society and the law have determined is acceptable risk for one individual to put others at. Driving a car puts others in danger, but not as much as driving drunk or recklessly. Being both unvaxed and unmasked is unnecessarily reckless toward others, simply because one such spreader can put exponentially more people in danger than any single drunk driver.
There's risks outside of infectious disease modeling. I'm not sure you understand the counterpoint they were making.
Thank you for the pointer, this seems very interesting. do you know of an example of open source code using io_uring and O_DIRECT to bypass the fs cache? What about posix_fadvise?

I'm reading here https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6467/use-of-o-direc... that some people don't think it's a good idea to bypass the fs cache like that. Perhaps mmap could have been salvageable if it had a better error handling API.
Are other viruses that I can interest you in being infected with? Let's see here, we've got HIV, HPV, Ebola, Rabies, Smallpox, Chickenpox, Polio, Hantavirus. Don't we need some time to...ehm, get "evolutionary familiar" with them, or whatever? I mean, why stop at viruses? Interested in some lovely bacterial infections like Lyme disease, staph, E. coli, Candida auris (oh, I love that one, I had it on my face!)
That’s why my suggestion is to offer them the choice to willingly use a shelter or go to jail. Homelessness and drug abuse can not be allowed to exist to keep public spaces safe.
I’m not pretending to know the intent of the company, but what the company ought to do from a technical ideology perspective, and why they ought to do in a practical tech business context aren’t necessarily equivalent.

Admonishing a company for - based on legal notice alone - not using some particular technical approach is unreasonable because it doesn’t consider the practical implications of doing so (systems complexity, data transfer, how good is the downstream software and what sort of preprocessing happens, tech debt and time to market, etc.)

At the end of the day, maybe they are generating training data sets, and if so, don’t use it if that bothers you. If there was evidence of them selling data, that would be something to sound the alarm over, but if it’s just some text a lawyer or ops person wrote, that’s a lot of extrapolation.
What’s the fake voice? Give link/examples
> I'm glad someone stood up to Jobs…

If you worked with Steve, you were going to be challenged. If you cowered, gods help you. But if you knew what you were talking about, you'd be fine, in the end he'd respect you more.

www.huffingtonpost.com/joan-michelson/one-lesson-from-steve-job_b_1100331.html
This is absurd. Ive lived in 3 large metro areas. Rarely do you see a white person riding a low seated trick bike. Thats who they're stopping. And yes, many of them are a-holes engaging in a-hole behavior (though not all of them).
I'm using a Pixel 4 with Google FI and haven't experienced this issue.
Still waiting for the Jennifer Lawrence movie.
I'm not sure what you should call this phenomenon, but it basically goes like this:

- There are plenty of laws that you may or may not be aware of whose enforcement is disparate across the population, or perhaps not enforced at all.

For example, in Texas it's actually illegal to turn without using your turn signal at least 100 feet before the turn [^1]. There are similar laws that exist in California.

If you've ever driven in Texas for even an hour within the city or suburbs you'll know this law is rarely enforced, even when police are present.

Given the lack of enforcement, the (illegal) behavior is normalized. However, despite the normalization the behavior itself is still illegal.

Now here comes the tricky part - since everyone is engaging in illegal behavior, the police, if desired, could focus on any group and trivially reprimand them for their (technically) illegal behavior. This enforcement will be reflected in the demographic likelihood of breaking this particular rule which will reinforce the very focusing on certain demographics. Recursive, if you will.

Unfortunately despite being aware of this I'm not sure what the solution would be, other than mass-surveillance. Ultimately you would need to know (1) the rate at which groups are breaking the rule absolutely, (2) the rate of which enforcement is overlooked and (3) finally the rate at which enforcement occurs. We only have but a small piece of the puzzle here.

As long as this paradox exists police will have plausible deniability backed by their very own (misleading) stats. In my opinion this is the main driver of seemingly racist law enforcement. That is, selective enforcement.

^1 - https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.545.htm
> In terms of murders I think it was something like 30 - 1 in terms of per capita likelihood of a suspect being black vs asian for example.

Suspect perhaps, but not convicted offender. And therein lies the bias & prejudice.

This table shows Race, Sex, and Ethnicity of Victim by Race, Sex, and Ethnicity of Offender, 2019

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

One thing that stands out is that more often than not, the offender and the victim are the same race.

And overall numbers are similar between white and African American.