skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Little side-note: algorithm as given is scalar; however, its branch-free, and defined entirely in the header file. So, compilers will typically be able to vectorize it, and thus achieve speed up directly based on the vector size. I see potential [but architecture-dependent] optimization using Estrin scheme for evaluating the polynomial.
yep I think alternatives have improved but pre covid i traveled all over the world for work and the big thing was Zoom worked the best on iffy connections and also played best with multiple companies IT systems
Space Trader on FDroid is fun to play, and it seems pretty similar to the PalmOS version. The downside is that there isn't a ton of help for new players, so you do have to do some guesswork, but it's not too bad.
Taking steps to prevent future brownfield remediation costs when the business eventually closes and dumps the cleanup and tank removal costs on the public sounds reasonable, as is making petroleum consumption less convenient (climate change and all). There is a well known worn path of “privatize the gains, socialize the losses.”

No one is entitled to be in a business if the public decides it’s in the interest of the public good to sunset that business (just as new combustion vehicle sales bans come into effect at the end of the decade). Existing gas stations will still be on the hook for remediation and tank removal when gas sales decline below profitability inclusive of their convenience sales; they should probably have to put up a bond for that expense so they can’t walk away from the liability.

(the article also mentions most new gas stations are large chains, not “mom and pops”, so inequality isn’t a factor here; you can still put a convenience store in with only EV fast chargers as well)
From personal experience, anal sex is definitely not limited to sex between men. I'm going to guess that there are entire websites dedicated to that, and there are definitely sections of porn websites dedicated to it. Additionally, sex between men encompasses much more than anal sex.

Which all goes back to teh point: HIV transmission isn't related to sexual orientation, even if some sex acts are traditionally attributed to one specific sort of orientation.
This is a misuse of statistics. If the last 1% is the hardest (takes the most effort? takes the longest?), then they're not really 99% of the way there.
I'm a software architect and really want to transition to AGI work. I feel like it's the most meaningful area of advancement I can work in. Any advice on how to get involved without being a software developer? I refuse to go back to programming lines of code.
Targeted ads use data that are owned by each company targeting. Sure you can buy/sell data in the market, but its somewhat decentralized.

FLOC is centralized at the individual. That means YOU are profiled completely and all the profile info is centralized for everyone to grab.
Accessible Multistep Forms in React with UX
That’s the price we pay.

A reasonable alternative would be for example statically typing each column or row in the sheet.

So in one sheet column A contains only floats, col B contains only text, col C contains only dates etc. And in another sheet col A may be date type, col B date type also, col C and D text, and col E monetary amounts.

But this would come at the cost of not being able to mix types in column, and a lot of people want to be able to mix.

And that’s why we’re stuck
\o/ Please give all the hard problems to me! :)
/r/keming is still the best named subreddit on the whole site.
All of it is true since I refuse to be tracked like some cattle. This is a matter of principle. I'm a human being, not some cog in an inhuman system.

Where's the logic to let people use the metro without any QRCODE but they can't go in a shopping mall?

Anyway, soon the tests won't be free anymore. To have the same "freedom" as a vaccinated person would require to spend about 300€ per month.
This is actually going back to the old model where advertisers targeted magazines, tv shows, etc based on their audience.
Your website says:

> Crawls social media and image sites

Most social media and image sites are specifically prohibiting crawling without written permission. How do you handle that? Were you able to acquire written permission from some sites or are you liming yourself to sites which allow crawling (I am very interested in knowing what those sites are)?
Elementary economic thinking answers this question.

Benefits asymptote, so you'll stop at the point where the marginal benefit of an additional shot is less than the marginal financial cost, marginal opportunity cost and marginal cost of side effects all combined.

That's definitely not the case before two and may not be the case before three based on data we've seen. It might be the case before four.

And this doesn't factor in declining immunity over time. It might make sense to keep taking shots every half a year forever, until COVID mutates into something less deadly perhaps.
Unfortunately tree farms are absolutely disastrous when it comes to biodiversity, and biodiversity loss and climate change are not separate problems but deeply intertwined. You cannot solve one and ignore the other. Regular managed forest is better but not good either.
Any reason why this injection of OspA Monoclonal Antibodies wouldn't help in late disseminated Lyme disease?.

My understanding is that very tough cases of neurological Lyme disease often benefit greatly from IVIG. Wouldn't this be a more targeted version of IVIG?
I've been doing a lot of work optimizing EC2 boot time lately. I can get an instance up and connecting outbound to a network port in a few hundred milliseconds, with plenty of room left to optimize there. But all instances do indeed seem to take at least 8 seconds to come up on the AWS end, as this article points out. This has been why I haven't put much effort into optimizing further, because that 8 seconds is entirely out of my hands.

I've tried changing the various parameters under my control: assigning a specific network address rather than making AWS pick one from the VPC, disabling metadata, using a launch template, not using a launch template, using the smallest possible AMI (just a kernel and static binary), using Fast Snapshot Restore on the snapshot in the AMI, etc. None of those makes the slightest difference in instance start time; still ~8 seconds.
It's interesting that now we have museums which show alternative solutions in computation technology, which faded away with times and lost markets to what became standard. Later we may have museums demonstrating similarly alternative solutions in space technology - if Russia would continue its slide, this area will too slowly dissipate.
I think the general idea is good, but then again I built a whole startup from the same principles ~6 years ago.

It’s actually pretty impressive how similar Imba is to motion, our project. We forked Babel at the time, added a “view” expression that worked like a class but far simpler, and within view bodies you’d have full reactivity of variables. What’s nicer than Imba, I think, is that you get mostly vanilla JS syntax, nothing new to learn, and it’s 100% React so click handlers are plain JS expressions just like React.

We ended up not launching it, and we were re-writing it but never ended up launching the re-write or the original (though the original is on my GitHub somewhere I think).

Best of luck!

https://youtu.be/HHTYHm6qLFY
Mitochondrial damage is probably the cornerstone of the side effects of this class of antibiotics, for the following reasons:

- Nerves, especially peripheral nerves, have some of the slowest mitochondrial replacement in the body. This makes them especially vulnerable compared to say the shortlived cells in your stomach lining.

- Fluoroquinolone antibiotics are designed to attack bacterial gene replication, but they are known to attack mitochondrial gene replication as well. [0]

- There's a surprisingly close resemblance between the diabetic symptoms caused by sustained high blood glucose and the side effects of fluoroquinolones - including tendinitis. That makes sense because mitochondria are the center of oxidative stress in the cell (due to their role in metabolism) and are also damaged, by a different mechanism, during periods of high blood sugar.

[0] https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/46/18/9625/5088042
The Wilshire Vermont metro station in Los Angeles has the longest escalator west of the mississippi river. It's so long that its much faster actually to take the elevator from that platform, if you can out run people from the train to the single elevator that is. The escalator system at Universal Studios Hollywood is also pretty impressive.
Apple's New Child Pornography Features Protect Kids but Reduce Our Privacy
US media blast President for his 'blame-shifting'
You can also do this with praying mantises, but they come as an egg nest. Put them under some leaves and a week or two later baby mantises everywhere eating all the bad things. After a couple months there's always a few big ones that stick around. Surprisingly intelligent and curious little things.
I wish I had not opened that link and read it.
The process has its flaws. Poorly designed drugs make it through the FDA process. Blind following is foolish. Skepticism is healthy. I don't get software updates as soon as available because, even with the testing, peer reviews, flaws still happen.

Further, there were big political and financial reasons to push the vaccines through. Those are all conflicts of interest. Pfizer had millions of doses manufactured before approval. If trial results didn't look good, they certainly had the incentive to "massage" the results to get it approved and get those millions of doses sold rather than a huge loss.

As the original poster shared, it should be a considered a reasonable position to be skeptical of small scale results. Pfizer's position appears to have scaled well (Moderna as well). 100s of millions of doses across diverse populations show its relative safety and efficacy.
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This is not only embarrassing, but far more common in many organizations that most lay people realize. Data loss is rarely publicized.

The shame is that for very little money, the Dallas police could have easily backed up all that data with a third-party service -- e.g., daily snapshots on cperciva's tarsnap would have cost a few grand a month.
> Not sure how you got from this that I was saying that there's no different between react and imba, or that it's not snappy/fast

And I'm not sure where you got that I got that you were saying that.

What I am saying is a direct challenge to what you wrote—no need to repeat yourself. I'm saying, positively, that the common standards in React projects produce bloat that is perceptible—in cases I had in mind, FWIW, that are even more trivial/lightweight, by comparison, than the example of 2000 entries you're relating here.

That you consider a threshold on the order of 2 seconds as beginning to be worthy of something that might need to be addressed is significant. It reveals a fundamental difference in our expectations of software. That "no impact" 0.3 seconds figure is already itself eons in CPU time.

(This isn't generic anti-JS, anti-Web sentiment, by the way. In the early days of developer.mozilla.org—up until 2008 or so—I poured a lot of effort working on the JS documentation to make sure high quality docs would be available to a wide audience, so that even more people might pick up JS, which wasn't taken very seriously at the time. That's also, though, why I bristle at the state of React and frontend development—it has sowed the idea that JS, or maybe just software in general, has to be inherently slow and bloated. The average modern Web project on modern mid-range hardware is more top-heavy and perceptibly less snappy than the Electron-style applications like Netscape, Firefox, etc. from 15 years ago, which ran unJITted on sub-Ghz machines.)
why does a person's interest in the application of their work serve as a signal for if you should hire them? I mean maybe for someone in a product role, but how is it relevant to hiring an individual contributor?

not hiring someone just because of their internal philosophies feels like gate keeping to me.

if someone is a cynic and realizes most start ups arent out there "making the world a better place"... doesn't really have any bearing on their potential output.
If the world wanted Jeff Bezos to lead it, we would have elected him. Would we not?

Who exactly is he to make megascale decisions for the rest of us?
Thx, say I have 4x 1Gb/s old-school eth-port machines that want to saturate their capacity at the same time on one of these, should I just buy 4x 10GBase-T SFP+ transceivers for it?

Edit: Apparently LGS105/LGS108 has 10Gb/s switching capacity allready so I'm good!
Another good hint is the classical half-angle formulas. You can often avoid calling sin() and cos() altogether!
99% of Afghans want to be ruled under Islamic law
>I was told then when I asked this was an approximate value of their donation and it was used for tax purposes. So one is probably tax write offs.

Anything preventing them from just making up that figure?
The fact that they're nice and polite in contrast with literally every other state agency who's taking your money is an indicator that they don't have a legal leg to stand on in many cases and don't want people digging in their heels and hiring a lawyer.
The coverage in the media given to non-scientific points of view is also a problem, often turning into blatant propaganda.

I'm thinking of things like the story making the rounds last week about Jennifer Aniston cutting off contact with vaccinated friends, and the one about three unnamed people allegedly fired from cnn for not vaccinating. So many stories with scary headlines and adjectives that don't belong in news articles, and one-sided statistics trying to scare people. Basically telling them what to think.

Instead of educating people the establishment would rather manipulate them. The media and social networks seem happy to oblige. Shouting down those who disagree causes problems in the long run.
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Tracking and profiling users is completely unnecessary. Context-based, non-intrusive, ads are reasonable and better than paywalls and users won't hate them.
I wish someone would make https://ethicalads.io but not just targeted at developers.
American media (movies, news, etc.) is universal. People all around the world watch American shows and movies and are accustomed to the accent. This output dwarfs any other versions of English. So, to begin with, people are just more familiar with American English.

Adding to that, I’m not confusing prevalence with clarity. The standard American accent is clearer and easier to understand than most other variants, including American subcultural accents like the Boston, Texan, or Southern accents.
If someone wants a fast version of x ↦ tan(πx/2), let me recommend the approximation:

tanpi_2 = function tanpi_2(x) {
var y = (1 - x*x);
return x * (((-0.000221184 * y + 0.0024971104) * y - 0.02301937096) * y
+ 0.3182994604 + 1.2732402998 / y);
}

(valid for -1 <= x <= 1)

https://observablehq.com/@jrus/fasttan with error: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/hmncdd6fuj

But even better is to avoid trigonometry and angle measures as much as possible. Almost everything can be done better (faster, with fewer numerical problems) with vector methods; if you want a 1-float representation of an angle, use the stereographic projection:

stereo = (x, y) => y/(x + Math.hypot(x, y));
stereo_to_xy = (s) => {
var q = 1/(1 + s*s);
return !q ? [-1, 0] : [(1 - s*s)/q, 2*s/q]; }
There was a ton of high quality research on high quality N95 masks. Nobody doubted that. Also, we had no supply of that.

To get everyone to mask up, we needed to put the general public in low quality masks. And there was a whole heck of a lot less research on low quality masks being used by the general public.

But, regardless, I have no percentage in convincing you of what is true. Have a nice day.
Progress on our dystopian hell seems to be moving right along.
I don't see how anyone could possibly know what the subjective experience of being a day-old chick stuffed in a box would be like. But I can imagine what it would be like to be a human stuffed in a box, and that doesn't seem very pleasant. I don't see how the idea that it might be better for birds (who are pretty clearly sentient creatures) could be based on anything other than rationalization and wishful thinking.
A comparison with one of the many SIMD-mathlibraries would have been fairer than with plain libm. Long time ago I wrote such a dual-platform library for the PS3 (cell-processor) and x86 architecture (outdated, but still available here [1]). Depending on how standard libm implements atan2f, a speedup of 3x to 15x is achieved, without sacrifying accuracy.

1. https://webuser.hs-furtwangen.de/~dersch/libsimdmath.pdf
And how many clothes that we don’t donate to charity avoid the landfill?

Unless you’re going out of your way to buy more clothes specifically so you can give more to charity, the giving to charity part is not the problem.
self driving cars cannot (and will not) share the road with human drivers.

The issues are regulations and not technical.

They are barking at the wrong tree.
Wait, are you saying that disbanding a country’s security services, throwing the country into lawless chaos with no local force to enforce laws and keep order, and putting thousands of military trained men out of work, is not a good strategy?
The United States' belief that its laws apply to everyone in the world is one of the most insidious ideas of our modern world. If one outcome of crypto is that the US loses this ability to police the world due to automated and unstoppable services becoming ubiquitous then history might look at this era as the turning point of a truly free global society.
This isn't all that crazy in the context of a place like Australia or NZ.

In my state in Australia we have only had two very brief lockdowns of several days since the pandemic started and they were to let contact tracers get out ahead of a small outbreak when they were concerned that circumstances were not in their favour.
But then how do you gather promises together to run them in parallel? For sophisticated apps this is crucial.
I mean, I've had the same Pros since launch and I haven't noticed a decrease in the battery. I mean, I'm sure there is a decrease but I listen for hours and hours at a time without issue. If I go longer than 4 hours I might get the low battery notification but they charge so fast that I can either take a break or do the "charge 1 at a time" trick so keep listening.
I grew up rural and we fairly frequently ordered chicks by mail. I told the story in college of one time, a message left on our answering machine pleading "please, come get your chicks!" with incessant peeping in the background, as we must have not been at home during the mail delivery. For folks who grew up in the city, even the thought of the whole thing was a very powerful (and funny) story.
The use of tropical woods can basically be ignored in the discussion of deforestation.

1. When you harvest wood, the forest will generally recover and new trees will grow.

2. Lumber only accounts for about 2% of the total area deforested.

3. Agriculture accounts for 90+% of deforested area, most of this being for cattle or soy, and once land is converted to agriculture the change is generally permanent.
Yep, new variants are always the excuse. These perfectly designed and implemented "public health" measures would have worked to eliminate the virus if only India had put itself into a nationwide lockdown -- it might have caused tens of thousands to starve but we're just going to assume it somehow would have prevented the Delta variant from coming into existence!
Plenty of things in the world work like that. Half assing something often has worse side effects than whole-assing it. If we had 4 weeks of strict lockdowns and then returned to normal we would have both less covid, a better economy, and better mental health.
Not everyone only risks mild disease, the vaccine isn't 100% effective on anyone and some have less ability to defend against the virus.

Elderly, and immunocompromised are the ones who willfully unvaccinated people put at risk. I don't want my parents to die so you can argue on the internet. There's also a timeline on this, the longer people wait to get vaccinated, the less time we have a strongly effective vaccine as it appears to reduce in effectiveness after six months.

You're helping to cause this vicious cycle.
I think this is a pretty extreme take and probably not fully warranted. I do agree that the bigger problem is enough money not the same money sooner.

It is kind of messed up though that you put in work and then your employer decides to pay you 1 or 2 weeks later. As an employee, you're essentially giving a short term loan to your employer. You also carry the risk for whatever reason they wouldn't be able to cover payroll. Floating a week or two of personal expenses may not sound like a lot but if you're living pay check to pay check it can be a ton.

Is this idea going to significantly change workers' rights and standing? Absolutely not. Is it poverty profiteering? Probably not.
I thought targeted ads let you buy an audience using all the information the ad network had about them. So in your framing, the “company targeting” would be Google, and they already know more than a FLOC cohort worth of information about you.
I don't really understand this mindset. Google controls Chrome. They openly track every page you visit and show it to you at https://myactivity.google.com/ .

It's possible that Google is tracking you with FLoC or with extra HTTP headers or whatever. But they're also openly tracking you all the time anyway because you use Chrome. If you don't trust them to use the data they collect responsibly, don't use Chrome. (I'm not saying you shouldn't pressure Chrome to collect less data, I'm saying it doesn't make any sense to theorize about secret HTTP header fingerprinting operations when they're making literally no effort to hide the much bigger data collection operation right in front of you.)
I want to stress that cities are the problem.

Instead of being forced to trek into cities, people should be demanding to be able to work from any other place.
Explain your reasoning
> The insurance company doesn't have a hypothesis they're married to

While the insurance company as a whole didn't. There may have been someone inside the insurance company who wanted to justify spending funds to do this research and wanted a laurel on their cap about how they improved the accuracy of self reporting by X or Y value.