skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no real need for AI. If you combine Atlas with VR controllers you could have the robots be in the danger zone while the human controllers sit in a safe and secure place. I'd say we're about a decade or two away from that, but I can see the potential.

(Additionally add Starship as a delivery mechanism and Starlink as a low-lag communication channel and you've got a "deploy a battalion of killbots at any place on the planet within 1 hour, with 0 risk for the operator-soldiers" pitch for a defence contract)
> And of course you have the scientists that are being political.

Like Dr. Fauci? There are scientists being political on both sides, but only one side is censored.

Also, here is a list that someone else compiled [1] of censored scientists:

* John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University

* Scott Atlas, Stanford University

* Karol Sikora, dean of Buckingham U medical school

* Prof Detlef Krüger, virologist, Berlin

* Prof Johan Giesecke, former EU chief epidemiologist

* Michael Levitt, Nobel Prize laureate, biologist

* Prof Christopher Kuhbandner

* Prof Carl Heneghan, Oxford University

* Prof Sucharit Bhakdi, microbiology, Mainz

* Prof Mikko Paunio, epidemiologist, Finland

* Prof Dan Yamin, infectious disease, Tel Aviv University

* Prof Karin Moelling, virology, U of Zurich

* Professor Klaus Püschel, forensic medicine

* Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, physician, Germany

And [2] is an article talking about the censorship.

[1]: https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/46573762/why-is-yo...

[2]: https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/big-tech-censorship-science-c...
Off topic. I thought it was a nice website with great mixing of video and text.
That does read better, however I like the portmanteau of "regulatory + documentation"== 'Regulementation'

The NSA hardening docs could count as such...
There's a lot of css issues on mobile on imba.io
What's not respectable are how the bugs delivered in the upgrades have been increasing.
> It wasn't "very rare" and the side effect was that it literally gave people lym disease.

Again, 59 of 1.4 million. I call that "very rare". About half a million Americans get Lyme from ticks, every year. You do the math. Even if there is a causal connection to the shot (which has not been established) then that's still orders of magnitude lower than the risk of actually getting the bacteria in you if you somewhat frequently visit the woods. And if you don't, just don't get the shot. Your call.

So yes, that's a textbook "anti-vax" sentiment. It's not based on the actual scientific evidence but uses people's overall fear of vaccinations. And it hurts everybody, because the result is that even people who want the vaccine can't get it. Otherwise I wouldn't actually care. Let the anti-vax people suffer if they choose to, but leave me out of this.
At the end of the day, even if you assume good faith on Google's part (which I think is quite a leap), causing the user to present more entropy to the site will make them easier to fingerprint.

256 topics would be ceil(log2(256)) = 8 bits of entropy

30,000 topics would be ceil(log2(30000) = 15 bits of entropy

As a reminder, there are ~ 10 billion people on earth, so if you have 34 bits of entropy or so, you can uniquely identify each person.

So really, the way to think of this as "Google considers making FLoC 20% less effective at fingerprinting users", and that's not even considering other sources of entropy, like user agent or screen size.
> We don't put everyone on a statin simply because

Because there are known side effects that make them not suitable to some people. Pregnant women should not take them (nor those thinking about getting pregnant). Those of Asian decent need a smaller dose. Those who drink alcohol shouldn't take them. Those who take part in extreme exercise shouldn't take them. They cannot be mixed with some other drugs.

The above is off the top of my head. It probably doesn't apply to them all, there are several different statins to choose from, and many different dosages. A doctor really needs to work through the above (and probably more factors I'm not aware of) to figure out what is best for you.
When it comes to anything “Chronic Lyme” — be careful. There are two distinct worlds in Chronic Lyme research:

One world involves researchers looking for the cause of very real symptoms that can persist in some Lyme disease patients even after treatment. This could come from some damage done by the infection, a lingering autoimmune response triggered by Lyme disease, or some other unknown lasting state that occurs after the disease in some patients. This is commonly known as “Post Treatment Lyme Disease” syndrome and it isn’t as controversial as some of these articles make it sound.

The other world is an alternative medicine faction that has misused Lyme Disease as a catch-all label for unexplained chronic symptoms. They leverage the non-specific list of Lyme disease symptoms and some of the unknowns about the disease to convince desperate patients that Lyme is an explanation for all of the difficult problems their doctors haven’t been able to diagnose. They try to convince people that normal Lyme tests aren’t sensitive enough to detect infections and therefore should be ignored, leading many to think they’re positive despite negative tests. There are even speciality labs that claim to have developed their own Lyme tests. Virtually everyone who submits a sample to these labs comes back positive, regardless of their actual status.

To be clear: Patients in both groups are suffering very real symptoms. The debate is not about whether or not these people are sick. The issue is that “Chronic Lyme” has become so crowded by pseudoscience and quackery in the latter group that there are scores of people on the internet who don’t actually have Lyme disease yet are convinced that Lyme explains all of their problems. This has made a mess of the public discourse on the topic and even made such a mockery of the field that many researchers have opted to avoid the topic of Lyme research altogether for fear of being associated with the quackery.

We need to have sympathy for patients in both groups, as they are clearly suffering. However, we also need to be clear about drawing a line between the pseudoscience and the real science, which isn’t always as easy as it looks. Journalists and writers like this one tend to start playing a “both sides” strategy to blur the lines between the real science and the pseudoscience. When people have vague, unexplained symptoms, it can be tempting to go down the path of “what if the pseudoscience is actually right…”. Resist that urge, though. Too many patients are stuck with a misdiagnoses of Lyme disease when they really have some other condition. Encouraging the pseudoscientific chronic Lyme explanation for everything is only holding them back from finding their real diagnosis.
MS Office is React now? Wow. Does not surprise me though.
> Imagine if your email service decided you couldn't send or receive email to certain domains they decided were "bad people".

Almost every email provider does something like this - it is called a spam filter. If email of a certain type comes in, it doesn’t go into your inbox. Is that censorship?

Sure, you can go into your spam folder and see it, just like mastodon users can connect to an instance not listed on the main mastodon list.

Curating content is not a sin.
That is a fantastic video. Also, omg biochemistry is just staggeringly amazing. Whilst that video is short, the information it contains is just staggering when you think of the years and years of research that's been done on that virus.

Good luck to Moderna.
Mostly feelings of isolation and depression. For some, seeing faces (in person, not over video call) is super important for socialization. Basically, if you "get" people watching, you probably understand what I'm talking about. There's no studies as far as I know, but I imagine there's certain developmental aspects of interpreting facial expressions that young children are also missing out on to some extent. For me personally, I want to leave my house much less when everyone is wearing masks, both because it presents both a physical (however slight) and psychological burden on myself (it matters more for those with ADHD and other neurological differences). The biggest problem I have with the discussion now is that it borders on religious virtue signaling with how far people take it and you cannot bring up any counterarguments or examples without immediately being demonized.
In some countries, you can pay Uber with cash.
I agree. The real difficulty in software engineering is at the seams where systems or components have to interact with other systems/components. The more seams, the more difficulty.

The key though is that componentization is useful when you find yourself writing the same code over and over again. That's where DRY steps in and says yeah this should be its own component.

This is one reason monoliths are great as an app structure, because they let you be as DRY as possible and have as few seams as possible (making a component within a monolith doesn't create an external dependency, no seam). Additionally, there are options nowadays (ruby on jets for example) that let you have a monolith repo structure but each controller endpoint gets deployed as a separate lambda. So you get to have your cake and eat it too.

The analogy really does work fairly well at every level of software engineering, from frontend components to backend services.
> In the 80's we took perfectly smooth scrolling and animations for granted, because most 80's home computers and game consoles were proper hard-realtime systems.

Proper hard realtime means the software is designed to meet stringent time deadlines. If a deadline is missed then the system has failed.

Soft real time means you tolerate missing one or more deadlines if the system is designed to handle it.

The 80's hardware only ran the game code so there was never any CPU contention. There was no kernel, scheduler, threads or processes. The programmers could wrap their heads round the simpler hardware and use all available tricks to optimize every clock tick to do useful work.

Nowadays we have stupid cheap multicore GHz CPU's for a few dollars with GB of RAM so you brute force your way through everything on a general purpose OS like Linux.
Likelihood of Null Effects of Large Nhlbi Clinical Trials Increased over Time
I thought this would be for analyzing assembly with LLDB in Xcode :( left disappointed. Most of these are well known to advanced iOS engineers.
It's cool to be kind. It's not cool what you did.
Initially it was mostly through upwork.com, and the HN monthly who's hiring posts. The first hires were either for specific project work, or part-time contractors. I kept giving the best ones more and more projects or hours until they eventually wound up full time :)
Something I think everyone should know about Lyme disease: we have an effective vaccine!

I remember when this happened because work done in imaging the proteins from Lyme disease happened at a nearby lab (Brookhaven) in the late 90s. In short, it was withdrawn because of unfounded complaints about side effects (i.e. anti-vaxers is how I read it). We still have vaccines for dogs, and there are newer ones being developed, but the whole thing is just a terrible success for the anti-science and vaccine crowd. And knowing people that have suffered from Lyme, it is even worse knowing it was all preventable. A bit too timely these days, no?

Also pretty astounding to me that it seems the existence of a vaccine never comes up in Lyme coverage, nor do people that get it (or at risk, which is an ever widening area due to climate change as well) know about it.

(See here [0] for a brief overview, and the related references)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease#Vaccination
Synchronous vs Asynchronous Programming
There is a difference between vaccine skeptic and anti-vax. Imagine if we didn't have people watching over our tech industry because that would be anti-tech, or our banking industry because that's anti-bank. No, we call them skeptics because we realize that's very different than someone who says "abolish tech and banks."
There are other battery types such as sodium, liquid air, liquid metal, air-metal and so on.

Doing everything with lithium is not a great idea as we need that for cars mostly.

But I also always preferred nuclear.
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>Again, 59 of 1.4 million

Source?
Human remains in tomb are best-preserved ever found in Pompeii
Thank you! We will change that!
This makes you wonder - did the whole save the trees movement give rise to a far dangerous alternative, the mass usage of plastics?
> The fact that the OP had a different opinion to yourself about what he found readable is proof enough that it is subjective

Subjectivity isn't an absolute all-or-nothing question. An issue having some degree of subjectivity doesn't automatically put it into a purely subjective, "all answers are equally valid" realm.

> eg your attempt at providing fact while your evidence is just more illustrations of familiarity which is entirely subjective).

I referred to some quantifiable metrics. Those have nothing to do with familiarity. Whether a number is larger or smaller than another number is a fact unaffected by your level of familiarity with either number.

You're really not responding at all to the substance of my comments, so you really don't have any justification for calling me "laughable" at this point. There are plenty of ways you could try to substantively refute my comments, instead of rejecting everything generally while mixing in insults.
>This has the side benefit of modest carbon sequestration

There is no way that pulling timber out of the forest and converting into a product actually sequesters anything.
Hauling the wood out of the forest to the mill likely releases more carbon than is sequestered by the tree in its lifetime.
Show HN: QuickAI Version 2 Released
I am very excited to announce version 2 of QuickAI

Version 2 has exciting changes as follows:

* Image classification models can be saved in the Apple CoreML format, allowing you to use these models on Apple devices.

* YOLOV4 Inference can be performed in 2 lines of code.

* Custom YOLOV4 models can now be trained, also in just 2 lines of code.

* QuickAI can be run in a Docker container, making the setup/installation even easier than before.

Please let me know if you have any questions/feedback.
What's your perspective on the future effectivity (or decline) of current PrEP treatments?
I was about to dispute this and say, “no, most business relationships are win-win.” Then I remembered that Google’s business relationships aren’t with their users. So, yes, you’re no doubt correct about that.
The first out of the gate on new submissions are the knee-jerk crazies who didn't read the article, and who want to push their agenda instead of thinking about and discussing things.

Comment quality improves over time. As your own comment reassuringly demonstrates.
> Only thing that gets that treatment is the .gitignore [...] You don't have to pass around lists of LFS-managed files or checkout-patterns

I don't quite get this point. The .gitattributes file is key to the operation of LFS and is modified and passed around in exactly the same way as .gitignore.
I think current estimates are something along those lines. For a residential off-grid installation they suggest 100% kwh/day of battery storage. Grid power has backups and mitigation strategies that could reduce that significantly. I was mostly trying to be generous to grid battery installations. For the most part 1/3 is a bare minimum still requiring natural gas emergency peak plants.
GitHub repo here: https://github.com/geekjr/quickai
Qt5 switched to C++11 with 5.7.
For myself, I tend to be in the "let the professionals decide what to scrap" camp.

If the alternative is that I throw it in the garbage, what is the net loss by letting the workers who do this all day long decide what should be thrown in the garbage? As the OP says, they have various uses for items, so it makes sense to let them handle the sorting through of junk to decide what is ultimately landfill material. Sure, I could educate myself better about the details on what happens once I hand it over, so that time isn't being wasted, but I am, of course, lazy.
You'll also find that users of the instance don't all run entirely free software and yet it's still a relevant place to congregate and discuss topics like "why this open source project didn't work for me", "why this open source project was a great alternative to closed-source offerings" and all of the subtleties in-between. My experience of most of these conversations is that few people try to gatekeep or provide vapid criticism of people who aren't fanatical purists.
Yeah I've talked about it on a few podcasts. Here are a couple that focus a lot on the journey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r79AuXgTy-4

https://saasclub.io/podcast/ipinfo-ben-dowling/
If nothing else you would think "cops don't like losing cases, and prosecuting attorneys REALLY don't like losing cases". Like my comment elsewhere here, government tends to be reactionary and unfortunately incidents like this will keep occurring until the pressure is put on for change.
> It's practically impossible to forge those,...

Forging isn't necessary, just copying one that is inappropriate in a particular setting.

Forgery isn't difficult either if the QR code isn't signed. QR codes are standardized and software to generate any QR code is reasonably straightforward to write (one has to know a bit about Reed-Solomon error correction), but writing software isn't necessary because there are a number of easily available libraries that can be used to generate QR codes.

Cryptographically signed QR codes (which I believe are what you are talking about) would need to include location data that could be verified by the vehicle, such as GPS coordinates and the sign's facing direction. This might work, but of course the logistics could be difficult in practice. Since signs aren't on the internet, it would be impossible to update them whenever a signing key was compromised. Key compromises would probably happen because signs are manufactured all over the world.
I'm all for being critical. I'd find it terrible if side effects are just ignored. I wouldn't take any vaccines if that's the case.

But in this case, the facts are on the table. There is no scientific basis in pulling the vaccine from the market. But there was enough propaganda to stoke so much fear that everybody got scared and that was that.
edit to add: particulate emissions (diesel soot, tire and brake wear) stay local and don't ever become global.

The focus on "individual action" is a talking point that BP invented in the 70s (see https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sh...). I won't stop anyone from reducing their footprint, but we have tried this shit for decades now and it clearly hasn't worked a single bit.

We need to hold the big emitters of greenhouse gases accountable, they haven't been for about half a century. Remember the "ozone hole" and the CFC ban? That one worked, because the companies bringing CFCs into circulation were tackled instead of pushing the blame to consumers.
Yep, I asked people to do the same recently at a party. They were entirely shocked. It's like realizing that your disposable cutlery and plates are actually waste and seeing it going into the actual trash makes them realize how wasteful it is. Recycle (or charity giving of clothes) is such a "guilt free" behaviour, feeling like you do something good for no efforts, so I'm not surprised people would do it even when it makes no sense.
Yep, I'm on mobile and the website doesn't really give me much confidence in how Imba works with responsive development
the other comment already pointed out some maps that are as large as TAs larges maps where, but it does go even bigger in ZK. you can just filter for "big" on the map browser to find more of that size [1]

the biggest issue you'll have is finding people with similar skill level to yours, as its pretty much the same design TA was back then. RTS nowadays is much more balanced so that strength of a unit correlates with its cost. this is not the case in ZK at all, as you can destroy the most expensive units in the game with just a few of the very cheapest, so trading 10_000 for 200 metal happens if you get outplayed.

its especially hard to learn the nuances in this game if you play on large maps, because it quickly becomes an economic race, and these are so much harder for people that have little experience.

/edit: disclaimer: i haven't played the game since it was released on steam, so maybe there are more newcomers now.

on a sidenote: I find it really sad that the gesture menu for buildings like you could enable in ZK hasn't really caught up. it was such a massive improvement in usability/gameplay for this genre.

[1] https://zero-k.info/Maps?mapSupportLevel=2&size=3&sea=Any&hi...
It is not really clear that "lyme isn't the cause of chronic lyme". Borrelia bacteria are the prime suspects and are extremely tricky spirochetes to deal with. There are multiple variants and they migrate around the body traveling easily through most tissues. There are dozens of symptoms that may exhibit at any part of the body. So there could be many factors involved, but Borrelia really are complex and capable enough to potentially explain everything. The real question is how to deal with such an infection.
This is just a very bad idea.

Trucks are heavy. This means that they have a lot of kinetic energy. This means that they can do a lot of destruction to anything that comes in their way.

Trucks are big. It is very easy for them to block many lanes at once.

We currently don't have any fully automated driving normal cars (And IMNSHO we will not have them in the next decades). The risks with automated trucks are a lot higher than the risk with automated cars, so it makes no sense to start with the trucks until we are certain that we have solved the problem with the cars.
React is garbage I have no idea why it took off. Angular all day e'ry day.
> We’re tired of wasting our breath

If you ever had, you'd be more convincing. I never believed that the earth was flat, or that the moon landing was a hoax, or that 9/11 was an inside job, but I have seen fascinating, engaging, intriguing, careful takedowns of all the "evidence" that the true believers of those conspiracy theories believe. My kids actually did believe that the moon landing was a hoax at one point (thanks, YouTube!) until I pointed them to an article that debunks each of the conspiracy theory claims one by one in a way that appeals to rational intuition.

We're - what, 20? - comments into this thread and I'm being downvoted for suggesting that more people are willing to question Covid and climate change, being called an irrational moron, but nobody has yet linked to an analysis of their principal claims about, say, urban heat zones and mRNA vaccines.