skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They’ll scan content if you have it set to goto iCloud so as to avoid being an accomplice.

Turn off sync to iCloud, make local backups only.

Who is to say politicians who started threatening tech companies publicly haven’t made threats behind closed doors about Apple maybe being on the hook as an accomplice for distribution?

My company only exists because our CEO had input on an executive order years ago. We hardly “made it” in the free market.

The headlines never tell the full story. Media colludes with politics to generate “the right” sentiment. The spec and implementation details aren’t being discussed, just classic speculation on privacy and overreach.

So much for this site having a higher level of discourse and it’s efforts to dissuade repetitive and knee jerk commentary though.

We’d have nicer things if we discussed how things work and instead of what corporate media wants us to discuss.
I find it odd that the author dismisses hydrogen storage largely based on the requirement to mine water for electrolysis and then goes on to propose using ~12,000 tonnes of water for thermal energy storage.
This is pretty alarming. To me, climate change has always been real but I always assumed the effects were going to be much further in my future. Clearly I was wrong. In just the last few years there seems to have been a massive acceleration in the number of climate change-related events. How long will it take our political machines to finally be OK with addressing these problems? It has already taken too long, so I don't have high hopes. I would think an article like this would scare the hell out of coastal states like Florida. This time the ice melt remained largely inland, but one of these days we'll run out of luck.
> Concerning healthcare, you have to be your own project manager.

+1 for that. 10 years ago I had misdiagnosed cancer for 3 years despite seeing lots of doctors. The symptoms were there but none of the doctors connected the dots.

Since that experience I am coming to the doctors prepared and with defined expectations. And I engage them in well defined Q&As which have defined goals.

I am taking care of my 90 years old Mom now and I do the same - I read the medial literature and suggest to the doctors what results I am expecting. To my surprise most doctors are quite keen to co-operate.

I have improved my Moms quality of life suggesting replacing sleeping pills for mild ant-anxiety pills, and getting anti-depressants that work well for osteoarthritis pain.
There is a slippery joint conditional probability here. The article talks mostly of:

Pd1 = Prob(death GIVEN infected AND vaccinated)

vs

Pd2 = Prob(death GIVEN infected AND NOT vaccinated)

Which makes it easy to lose site of:

Pi1 = Prob(infected GIVEN vaccinated)

which is very very small compared to its opposite:

Pi2 = Prob(infected GIVEN NOT vaccinated)

Because Pi1 is so much smaller than Pi2 there are several consequences for Pd1 and Pd2:

- The small counts for "numerator" of Pd1 (zero in some cases) means large uncertainty in the ratio and that the centroid of the distribution is not particularly meaningful. Statistical fluctuations (just one more or one less death) will change Pd1 substantially.

- Statistically significant deviations between Pd1 and Pd2 do not point to a cause.

For example, it could be that those contributing to Pd1 all got a much higher viral load in order for the virus to break through the vaccine's defenses and high viral loads are known to correlate with death so once vax protection is defeated it is game over. The distribution of viral load exposure may even be the same in the Pd2 case, but for the unvaccinated a lesser load can be fatal. This explanation is consistent with P1d possibly being greater than P2d AND consistent with the given anecdotes of vaccinated tweeters saying covid is just the flu, bro.

The main take away is still: you do NOT want to get this shit and vaccine AND masking will help achieve that goal. And, unless you are a sociopath, you do NOT want to give this shit and vaccine AND masking will help achieve that goal.
> ...real estate, and other assets too.

This is why i "invest" in crypto. Because people have been treating real estate as investment and i'ts gone too far.

crypto is pretty much the ONLY way i will ever afford a home without taking on soul destroying debt.
Oh, what u r saying here is patronizing. Before you start to criticize others or another country, shouldn't you do some basic justification or research. Free speech is not about just blindly saying whatever u want. That's irresponsible. Ppl should be responsible for whatever they say as grown man.
When you are blaming China's behavior or any other country's behavior, do u see any proof abt those so-called bad behaviors? Or u just read some news and followed whatever ppl are saying.
In addition, every country has its own problems and own culture. Try to respect others first. If there is improvement other should have, what is needed is constructive suggestion instead of patronizing blame.
Indeed I am disappointed abt this student's behavior as he has studied in China for sometime and he made friends in China as well, he should have a good understanding abt the life there and would understand what had happened there during COVID. He could have been more responsible for what he tweeted.
Somewhat disappointed "securities fraud" wasn't mentioned, although the SEC is ever-present.
Dissmiss fits better than "addresses".

>We know that the days to come will be filled with the screeching voices of the minority.

aka "We are Apple and can't do no wrong and they are just haters"
Pianists fitted with robotic thumb can learn to play with 11 digits
I think the distinction between frameworks and libraries is much more fuzzy and philosophical than what's presented here. A framework says "Here's how we're going to do things. I'll allow you to extend and build out in certain directions, but you have to use my channels." A library says "Here are some pieces, I don't know or care what you're going to do with them, figure it out." A framework is the Apple philosophy applied to code.

A framework's restrictions can be enforced by IOC, or by integration and compatibility between its subsystems (and incompatibility with alternatives), or just by strong conventions and tutorials/documentation that stick to a beaten path, or any combination of the above. I don't think the particular mechanisms of constraint are as important as the fact that there is constraint.
Which 'frequency band'? https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Spectral-power-density-o...
Is it possible to for cryptocurrency projects to rename proof-of-stake to something like proof-of-work 2.0 and validators to miners to get around this? Are these terms clearly defined anywhere?
As someone who spent a few weekends learning APL: no, the learning curve is not that steep.

The syntax is very simple, there's nothing scary about special characters if you can get over your fear of them, custom keyboard layout is absolutely not required (I've never used a custom layout for APL or Japanese or Cyrillic or Greek or any other non-latin characters that I type on a keyboard). Dialects are a thing but Dyalog is such an obvious choice if you want to learn APL that I wouldn't even worry about the rest. (K is worth looking into for its own sake but I don't consider it a dialect of APL; J might be a dialect worth exploring but so far it didn't impress me much and I found it much harder to read than APL).

One more thing: I find that reading APL is easier than writing APL.
So, to be clear, you're simply assuming that this article is false because... reasons?
Herd immunity can be achieved with natural immunity + inoculation + therapeutic/chemo prophylaxis. The only time in history where natural immunity has been considered insufficient for the goal of herd immunity is 2020+. WHO went as far as changing their definition of herd immunity last year to exclude natural immunity (check the way back machine).

Leaky vaccines can also cause mutation pressure on viruses, but the only acceptable public position is that the unvaccinated are causing the more virulent strains.

Propaganda from the top down to sell more (in patent) pharmaceutical products, with force and public shame. Think about this for a moment: someone at WHO identified their herd immunity definition on their website and willingly modified it to exclude natural immunity. Ask yourself how that is in any way scientific or appropriate. It is scientific gaslighting and the only explanation is a desire to sell more vaccines.
> The oil industry seems pretty important as well.

Not nearly as important as food; the only thing as important as the food supply is our supply of drinking water. Nothing else is comparably important, so you're wasting your time trying to find analogies. And the instability historically see in the oil industry is precisely what sane people want to avoid in the food supply.
> don't know how Apple has managed to get the image of a "privacy friendly" company while painting Google as "privacy unfriendly" at the same time. Apple is better than Google..

That's how.
That's what people don't understand. We don't think in code, we have a translation layer from human language/thought that we think through when parsing a programming language. As long as the comments are kept accurate, they can greatly improve your ability to parse through a block of complex code, which is crucial when you're trying to hotfix an issue. It also gives newer programmers to the codebase a chance to help understand what that block of code is doing beyond it just being some blackbox with an input and output.
I am not a PhD but I like to read cognitive science and astro papers. I was wondering if there is an annotated version of papers available? Like a rapgenius for academic papers.

Anyone know if this exists?
Insane. Thanks for posting!
Disagree with your disagreement. The Atlantic article is casting shade on free speech. One only needs to read the headline, which is rightly or wrongly what most eyeballs will ever see. If a headline is “iPhones have a lot of problems” and then body of the article explains that “despite that they are still pretty good” then it fair to characterize it as the parent poster did IMO. No person ever has made the claim that free speech doesn’t have costs.
@dang and other moderators: Please unflag this.
Here's some perspective on the amount of power needed to melt some snow quickly. https://what-if.xkcd.com/130/
Usually provided by American companies supported by venture capital.

As a resident of a very walkable European city I can assure you that most of us didn't ask for those pests.
This is a 2-3 person over a few weeks project indeed.

The more people you add to a project, the more the scope balloons in complexity, not faster.

I have seen this play out so many times.
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This is just known as a PO or Purchase Order in business/many regions;

and is also how physical credit card "swipes" (run through a carbon paper copy 'machine') were settled ('back in the day').
The author makes a critical mistake when analyzing the BNT/Pfizer clinical trial. Over and over when discussing the results they mention calculating efficacy against "infections" using this data. But this specific clinical trial provided no data about infections. The metric measured was symptomatic COVID-19 disease.

This kind of mistake is understandable, but doesn't really inspire much confidence in a screed about the mistakes others are making in analyzing COVID-19 data.
I’d suggest starting with a physical therapist. They are trained to look at you whole body and how it moves and suggest exercises to address issues.

A good trainer might have this kind of outlook and training but most don’t.
> I wouldn't want to be his sponsor either. It just shows either a complete misunderstanding of the power dynamics of an outsider doing research in China, or poor judgement.

If your priorities are power dynamics, that would make sense. But there are other priorities, such as freedom of speech and open inquiry, which are more important, on which research and knowledge and freedom itself are based.
Keep in mind we have 30-year old A320s flying around using carbon-fiber, so we would seem to be out of the trial-period phase.

This issue appears to be a cosmetic one with regards to the paint layers, not structural (see my other comment).
Presumably as CS or engineering oversupplied the market, loan guarantees would be removed and other majors in higher would get a boost instead.
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Agree on the US partisanship, disagree on the religious angle (except to agree that religion could potentially be used, on a small scale (e.g. local churches), to disparage the vaccine).

On another note, I enjoy open debate regardless of the subject, and I appreciate that there are arguments against the vaccine (though I am vaccinated myself).
Nobody has to prove it's wrong. Analysis of studies is months of work in very specific domain knowledge. You're not going to find good rebuttals to medical data reviews in a comments section unless there's glaring issues and you happen to attract the attention of someone that knows better. Those people are generally not in comment sections, but working 80 hours a week.
They never mention salary just the educational genres you could be studying. The way it is written I wouldn't think it was geared to studying hollywood movies nevermind a career.

https://arts.columbia.edu/programs-study/ma-film-and-media-s...

It does say:
A few Teaching Assistantships are available. Student Service positions employ students as Programming Assistants and Research Assistants.
Sorry but this is absolute nonsense. Having awareness of a problem does not imply necessarily having the best possible solution and neither should pointing out the problem be gatekeeped by this stupid expectation that you suddenly need to do the job of the offending party for them.

You will also end up with solutions that are more reactionary than genuinely innovative in the sense of being designed from the ground up on the basis of first principles.

Your comment is implying that there is a universal recognition of these problems already but that's not true outside of our insular tech bubble. These lists are great for anybody outside of that bubble who want to rapidly get up to speed on all the problematic actions that Apple has taken, and with a lens focused on preserving the freedoms of the user.
It looks like Peter Thiel is selling his:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/125998977/peter-thiels-quee...
That doesn’t seem very healthy team dynamics.
This is really neat. One piece of feedback is it begins and ends TeX expressions by saying “dollar” which is distracting. Probably best to strip the TeX syntax while retaining the expressions. Simple ones like O(1) should be understandable aurally, even if complex expressions may not be.
While particulate pollution from coal is pretty horrible, natural gas have no advantage when CO2 pollution is concerned.

EDIT: apparently there's still a substantial advantage on CO2 too.
Even the NYT is willing to admit that the drop started in January, before vaccination can really be credited for it.
Oversupply affects the current marginal negotiation power of employees. By the time loan guarantees are removed there can be massive gluts of workers who are locked into loans they can’t repay.
If something hurts then why should the default reaction be to see a doctor? It makes more sense to start with a trainer or physical therapist first. Then if you're not seeing improvement after a few weeks move up the continuum of care to a physician and investigate medical treatments. We can't fairly criticize doctors for not knowing absolutely everything about the human body.
> This is a good question, but I’m not sure if there’s a good answer.

I think you've actually given a great answer here. This is essentially what I did in grad school as well and found it really helpful. I never thought to continue doing this in fields that piqued my interest. Thanks for the suggestion!

While we're on the topic, here's the advanced distributed systems reading list from UIUC:

https://go.cs.illinois.edu/CS525SP21ReadingList

I took the class a number of years ago, but found it super interesting.
You state this like I'm not, but this is just as complex and complicated issue. Do you pay farmers to just not grow anything in exchange for not over producinng? We kind of already do that in the US. Do you legislate that any producer must have primary buyers as well as secondary/tertiary buyers lined up to ensure never wasting the product? Do you legislate that any one farmer is only allowed to produce X amount of whatever, or state that only X amount of product can be produced annually in total, so put you bids in now for a stake? Do you take the farmer for any crop that is destroyed to discourage over production? Or you can do a startup to disrupt farming with a way to preserve food so it never spoils (a la Twinkies). Good luck selling that product.
The point made was that there are always flaws in these sorts of approaches that lead to false positives. If you can discover the flawed pattern(s) that leads to false positives and engineer them into seemingly harmless images, you can quite literally do what OP I'd suggesting. It's a big IFF but it's not theoretically impossible.

The difference between this and hashes that require image data to be almost identical is that someone who accidently sees it can avoid and report it. If I can make cat photos that set off Apple's false positives, then there's a lot of people who will be falsely accused of propagating child abuse photos when they're really just sending cat memes.
In fact it will depend on the implementations. As you've found, the root cause of the problem is that H1 and H2 use different delimiting techniques for protocol elements. Some implementations need to transcode H2 into an internal representation. In this case, and provided the protocol elements are checked in the intermediate representation, any protocol on the other side will be fine. But if the internal representation is H1-like with poor message delimitation, you could very well end up splitting requests internally and emitting 2 H2 requests on the backend for a single front H2 request for example.

I'd say that the main cause of these issues is the directive language used in the H2 spec almost only saying "this must be done like this" without giving rationale for the rules, meaning that implementations that were unable to implement them exactly the same way were left with no hint about what the trouble was nor how to address it. The new spec in progress and the extraction of the core semantics makes the whole thing a lot cleaner.

In addition, H2 uses much more resources per connection than H1, which encourages to coalesce them between the proxy and the server. But coalescing connections can easily cause some head-of-line blocking if coalesced front streams show different bandwidths. So even end-to-end H2 is not always a panacea.
Absolutely. But again my first degree came from an online program, and that was the only choice I had at the time (poor and deployed in Afghanistan much of that time). So they have a place. They're just not going to teach you to be an economist / engineer.
Instead of trying to pass an amendment to the bill just for crypto they should be against passing the entire bill. What hypocrites- they do not care about freedom, only about what is good for their industry.

Also, it is clear that congress could care less about understanding what crypto really is in a deep way. They only care about using power and extracting their rents.
So, you are rejecting the medical studies done by the UK and Israel on the effectiveness of the vaccines because... why exactly?
Hmm...I first noticed the effects in 1976.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_1976_(Europe)
I suggest the poll add an option "still coding".
Yes. If I read the article correctly, the data in fact say you cannot determine whether the death rate in vaccinated people who become infected is different than in unvaccinated people.

However, 1) it isn't clear if Frieden is working from the same dataset as the author, and 2) a very slight re-wording of the initial statement would make it correct, i.e. "If you are _exposed_ to covid and you've been vaccinated you're about 100 times less likely to die."
There are remarkably few 17 year olds signing up for Master's Degrees. There's a tremendous difference in development between a highschool grad and a 22 year old with 4 years of undergrad.
Yeah, I'm not sure I understand the "I urge you to use R first" comment in the grandparent post, because I've used both and R's tidyverse was at least as difficult to approach as pandas for me. And what's the alternative, Excel?

So it stands to reason there must be a common explanation whey they are all so obtuse, which I would venture is something like: they solve a set of problems so broad and complex that the tools themselves must also be massively broad and complex, and so the only way to avoid API inconsistencies is to have the system designed whole-cloth from the very beginning, but doing so would make the development process so huge that it would take a decade before you had something ready for users and so it would never get off the ground. The tools that succeed in reality are the ones that solve a common subset of problems, and then grow organically as they are extended to solve other subsets, and the varying subsets have logical inconsistencies and conflicts, thus the state of tools available today having APIs with inconsistencies and conflicts.

That said, pandas is really good at solving problems with tabular data, and even though it's not easy to do complex work with I still like and appreciate it very much.
> allowing them to move from one solution to the other smoothly during the optimization step

Yes, and they are making this explicit in the paper.

However, where my intuition "doesn't believe them" is because:

- The problem has *physical* local extrema (e.g. two 3D circles of identical radius and axis when dipped in a soap solution can yield either a catenoid or two flat disks. If the circles are close enough to one another, only the former is a true global extremum while the latter is a local one). I can't visualize a transformation of the problem that would somehow simply rub out those local extrema: once your optimizer gets close to the two circles, I'm having a hard time seeing how it can "jump" back to the catenoid, *especially* if the method is local.

- the border can have an arbitrarily complex shape. That's a *huge* space to design from for a pathological border that will yield a whole zoo of local extrema.

I'm willing to believe they found a way, but I need to learn about differential forms before I can even try to understand the paper.

Also they claim to have published the source code to their algorithm, but upon download, it's turns out to be a binary turd that can only be interpreted by a proprietary package (Houdini) that coredumps on you unless it runs an OpenCL capable system.

Not exactly what I'd call easy to read code.
Hah I was actually filling out that application for the spring semester now! It’s a great deal relative to Columbia’s 120k remote CS masters program.
AccuWeather runs the most hysterical headlines constantly and this article is no different. The headline makes it sound like the end is nigh, the article language is dramatic, but a similar event happened two years ago

These kinds of articles are what make me question the climate change narrative the most. There's so much fear to sell, and the merchants are hungry.