skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The precise mechanics vary on a state-by-state basis, but in a lot of cases a MD will write a blanket “prescription” that covers a class of patients, and that’s what fulfils the legal requirement for a prescription to dispense/administer a drug. In others, healthcare workers who don’t ordinarily have prescription authority are granted authority to prescribe vaccines by a state law.

The “prescription” here isn’t something the patient will see or be aware of, it’s just part of how the legal requirements around dispensing medications and the logistics of vaccination providers interact.

There’s some information on this from a pharmacist perspective here: https://naspa.us/resource/pharmacist-authority-to-immunize/ .
Right, meaning, no, the CTO would not be "surprised" that C++ was a candidate for a high performance system. C++ is the defacto, and Rust would be a "new" option.
I wear pants inside of duck boots, and I generally get bitten at my waistline.

I catch a lot of them before they get that high, but some slip through.

My dogs get a ton. When they have the oil insecticide, they'll die while still on the dog. They do get a lot fewer with treatment.
What would be a right reason? In my experience, all reasons boil down to either someone getting money or someone feeling good about themselves. It's just that, in this case, interests align - nothing more, but nothing less, either.
single and childless at 36. just frees me up to constantly travel fro place to place without a care in the world.
Yeah, I can sudo on the NAS, but not on the nis server
They are on a PR roll! I saw one of their billboard today with just "Thank you, science".
Get RES
I almost never get useful results out of a web search, nowadays, unless the query is very specific (like looking up a website I forgot the domain of). This is not particular to google search, which in fact I don't use anymore.

Trying to find information given only fuzzy details almost never produce relevant links; anything remotely commercial, like trying to find a product reviews, film to watch, a store nearby, etc. produces tons of synthetic websites full of ads that magically match my query; specific technical information can result in low-effort blogspam or total rip-offs from other websites (stackexchange answers, other blogs, etc.); and the list goes on.

It seems to me the only actually interesting material is now found in forums, message boards, wikis and other kind of websites where users generate the content. Unfortunately searching these is far from handy because they aren't always indexed or have archaic interfaces or require a login. I think search engines in general, either by prioritising revenue or being tricked by spammers and CEO, are now blind to the real information contained in the web. I wish for a search engine that would only index a curated list of genuine websites based on a topic, but I don't think we'll ever have one because it's not profitable.
Man those text colors are pretty awful though.
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I'm pretty sure some schools are made to overload students. We showed up at 8am, had 5 80min long classes with 15 minutes in between with an hour long lunch, to go back home at 5 pm and do homework and study at least two hours a day. Those are around 9 hours of learning by brute force. No wonder I can't remember much from school.
My mom had a special whistle she'd use to call us when it was time to come back to her at the store or wherever. Now I'm wondering how she got started with that.
Frequently with an E13 it's just an item stuck in the pump outlet plumbing.
Level 2 varies dramatically by car maker. On the low end you have companies like Ford and Honda doing lane keep cruise control, and on the high end you have Tesla which does automatic lane changes, takes on/off ramps, and stops for traffic lights. Tesla also charges a high premium for their software making it basically the opposite of a commodity.
I think Steve Jobs was one of the most amazing people ever to be alive. He was an ass but he also loved many, respected many, made enormous number of friends and literally changed the world. He was a brilliant, charismatic leader that inspired so many to work towards his vision.

I get goosebumps thinking about his life and watching some of the old clips on YT.
Game dev and embedded require very different skills but both widely use C/C++ so if you have knowledge from that area from your masters studies, then you could refresh your knowledge in those areas. Perhaps doing some projects in Rust might be another option for you.

If you like working with Python then DS/ML/AI might also be an option.

Look at the job listings in your area and identify what domains and skills are in demand and then craft a path to get to the area that most suits / appeals to you. Sometimes you may need to take a cut in pay to enter a very different field.
I think this is an even bigger issue: A cultural one. We live in a (western) society where NOT getting shit done has become the norm. Often things don't get finished at all and if they do they take forever. There seem to be only few companies/founders (have to mention Elon here!) that are able to break this habit.
More than half of the countries in existence are poor places to live. Generally if conditions deteriorate in a country it attracts attention - so in Hong Kong people clearly lost rights which they had because of CCP policies. Its not that people willingly ignore Cuba - its more to do with reaction to change which is perceived as negative.
Right, and what about rural waymarks? A highway in the middle of nowhere at night during a snowstorm?

I don't think we'll see a system that can handle that in my lifetime.
Because standards are always improved by creating new options, I should note runes here (simplified macaroons with Python implementation): https://pypi.org/project/runes/

Disclosure: I'm the author
I'm of the opinion that competition is unnecessary too. It seems more of a modern construct than a natural law - one aimed at disenfranchising workers and creating divisions between people who should be allies. If two lions constantly fight with other, do they get stronger, or do they become weak, injured and maimed? Much better to work together. I can't imagine that humans in hunter gatherer tribes competed with each other, nor in villages. What a waste of energy. Between two different ones, sure, but the default human interaction would have been a cooperative one with your peers looking out for you.
"Telling a programmer there's already a library to do X is like telling a songwriter there's already a song about love." - Pete Cordell
Could you not have some sort of circuitry that causes the battery to be completely bypassed when AC is connected

(Obviously the AC would be going through a power supply to convert it to DC of the proper voltage, but still)
Start applying to roles that interest you and see what happens. Even if you don't land any, you'll figure out what you need to improve on.
I don’t believe you’ve been to NZ. There are no abuses here, I haven’t seen a single cop since level 4 started and I live in a busy central city area. What’s happened is really quite simple. New Zealanders have come together, and all recognize enough about how a virus works to know how to best beat it as a team, and so can manage a little sacrifice for all the gains it brings. It’s really that simple. I’m sure it’s being twisted in your media channels but life is fine, I’m sitting in the sun, my neighbor is sitting outside working, today I sat in the park and ate a sandwich. In the next week our lockdown will be over and we’ll have no cases. Then life goes on as normal, just as it has for the past year, without deaths and without hospitals being overwhelmed. Completely 100% normal prepandemic life all for the easy price of a momentary blip of inconvenience.
"The best $FOOD in the world" is going to be an inherently biased list, no matter how you dice it. Any time you see something like that, mentally append ", according to the taste and experiences of the author" to the title, if that lowers your blood pressure.

Personally, I tend to agree with Varasano: I've never been to Naples, but I have been to Rome, and to my tastebuds, even US-cooked Neapolitan pizza is better than Roman pizza. But that's just it: that's just my opinion, based on my taste. Take it or leave it. You'll choose to leave it, no doubt, and that's ok.

> there are now many DC Neapolitan pizzerias of very high grade

This was written in 2008, so more recent establishments of course won't be listed.
Upvoted.

If anyone from Airbnb is reading it would be wise to lockdown these pages. Though it's probably too late, the Taliban is quite media savvy.

Edit: someone commented, and deleted, a question about how to escalate this to Airbnb. I don't work for them, so I have no idea. But if Airbnb is going to do something like offer a place to sleep to Afghan refugees, sorry they've just stepped into a geopolitical game they might not be ready to play.

Airbnb: delete these pages. While it's likely Taliban have already taken down this data, it's also possible they're too busy dealing with everything going on at HKIA that they haven't had time or they forgot or the guy who did it is busy doing something else. You are putting folks at risk.
This is nice marketing.

I doubt he has lined up 20.000 properties yet who
want to do this. So that will be fun distribution:

1 to Alaska. 3 in Portland, 1 in Colorado Springs.

On a more serious note. this is not a promising idea,

Nobody has any real idea who these people are.
What sorts of trauma they may have experienced?
What their medical, psychological, or sociological needs are.

There is also the tragic issue that inevitably there will be a
few among them who mean to do harm to a country that occupied
them for 20 years.

Random AirBnB hosts who probably mean very well have no training
or practice to do something like this. And once it gets real
they will not want to either.

It is not a hippie utopian meeting of the minds and "all is chill"
It is real people, Real trauma, Real culture shock, and quite different
means of resolving conflict.

I hope Biden will not just dump the refugees into US cities.
However, the camps that Obama, Trump, Biden are using now for
refugees on the southern border does not fill me with a lot of
confidence that the refugees from Afghanistan will get the
help, care they will all need and the reeducation some will need.

The state should be forced to build and staff suitable accommodations
that are warm, friendly and safe.

That are set up to help them through a process of adjusting to life
outside of Afghanistan and towards a life in the US.

They also need to be screened to help identify those who may have ill intent.
> we could try to divide them up by relational vs. non-relational (perhaps that’s how most of us think of the distinction anyway). But these two camps of databases are slowly converging too, with JSON datatype support in MySQL and PostgreSQL, and pseudo-JOINs and transactions in MongoDB

They might be converging if you use non-relational to mean something pretty specifc (like "MongoDB and PostgreSQL JSON"). But unless we want to coin another term that means something else than the natural english meaning, it's problematic.

There are lots of databases that are not relational, but still have schema and structure in non table centric ways, like schemaful graph databases, object databases and things like Datomic and triple stores.
> They don’t care about Afghans just scoring brand points

Two things can be true at the same time. Scoring business points AND caring about Afghans.
I appreciate your insight, and it really speaks to the varied experiences people can have in very similar situations.

When I first started contracting full-time, I took a presumably similar route to others who made the transition and brought on my old, full-time employer as a new, part-time client for three days a week. When my "Monday" rolled around (was contracted Tue-Thu) I was so amped to get into work that I had previously felt largely indifferent about. Since I was suddenly able to focus my own time on my own projects, it was easier to stay motivated and involved when it came back to "working". The next few months consisted of some of my post productive days with that company.
>The second layer being that they can "incorrectly" brick someone's TV.

What gave you that impression? The statement put out by samsung? It's reasonable to think that they keep very good records of where a given TV should be and whether it was at a looted factory. If the TV was blacklisted, it's almost certain to have been looted. The statement is just a CYA to prevent a PR nightmare on the off chance that some TVs make it back into the retail supply chain and into the hands of an unsuspecting buyer. Legally speaking, it's still stolen property and the customer can't keep it, but Samsung doesn't think exercising that right is worth the hassle/negative press.

>The third layer, as mentioned in other threads, is that most people don't keep receipts.

People don't keep receipts for a $1000+ purchase? On the off chance they don't, they can get the retailer to make a copy, with supporting documentation.

>You don't need to dig up a receipt from months or years ago.

This is for devices that were looted weeks before. I see no indications that they're going to use this to do random ownership checks.
There was a tipping point just before smartphones where J2ME apps were surging in popularity and feature phones were getting cheaper and better, where it was obvious that something was going to happen. My phone had google maps, ebooks, the web browser opera mini, and a very slow gameboy emulator running on it as J2ME apps in 2006.
Indeed, Bolsonaro doesn't like non-Western shots. For instance, his supporters are calling Chinese offerings vachinas.
For anyone thinking to try this on induction: don't. A pizza steel will work on an induction stove, but it'll also bend. Stick to the oven, and leave it an hour to heat up.
Why voting me down? I am an African, and I live in Africa.
Whoa, hold up, if someone made a mess and then cleaned it up, that would be just fine. Great even. Almost nobody does that. Around here there are people making messes but getting shit done, people cleaning things up but looking like they’re getting nothing done, and people who actually do nothing. Somebody who gets something done AND cleans up the mess is automatically top tier as far as I’m concerned.
Strongly disagree. I am not an American, but I am aware about Hong Kong, but know nothing about, say, Burkina Faso. The reason is pretty simple - HK is going downhill (from my perspective) while there isn't much of a change in Burkina Faso, although I would rather be in HK than Burkina Faso. In other words we react to what we see as "negative change" from our own perspective.
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> In fact this level crap is bullshit. It's the speak of MBAs at Bain and McKinsey at who think they understand tech, not engineers.

So how do you explain, succinctly, the difference between a car that can hold 55 mph (but do nothing else automatically) without driver intervention and one that can change from 25 mph to 55 mph and change lanes without driver intervention.

The differences between levels are drastic in terms of implications on overall utility of the technology. There's a reason the terms are used.

> L4 is enough to be viable and safe, and is all that is needed.

Needed for what exactly? Each level has its own benefits. That's exactly the reason the levels were established. I want to be able to get into a car, put in an address and fall asleep for the whole trip. When do I get that? L4? L5? If I can't do other tasks while the car is driving, then the point of full autonomous is essentially pointless.

> not engineers.

Precisely. The levels have nothing to do with engineers. It's about understand the benefits for the population. For example - can I fall asleep in the back of the Tesla autonomous car? No, because it's not L5. That's the point.
This is nonsense, since nobody and no company is ever woke enough for the mobs.

Even the organizers of the French Revolution had their heads cut off in the end.

There's a reason for the saying, "Go woke, go broke."
Small amounts of friction make a big difference. Back when my gaming friends were using Mumble, half of the group wouldn't bother joining voicechat (and we were lucky to have someone technical enough to run the server in the first place); with Discord it's easy enough that everyone does it.
> who uses bitcoin for something different than transfering illegal funds and speculation?

A couple of months ago, a combination of Covid-related travel restrictions and new EU KYC regulation lead me into a situation where the only way to renew my VPN in a timely manner was through crypto. I was really lucky to have some.
Guess a variation of that could work, I reckon it's gonna be some Excel work and analysis, holding presentations etc. Maybe if there's a product responsibility without too much administration stuff.
But also don't let that one attribute of the person taint and overshadow a lifetime of accomplishments. I've seen a lot of this in the last few years on these sites. You start a thread about someone with a lifetime of achievements, and someone will inevitably come out of the woodwork to remind everyone: "Buuuuuut he was sexist" or "Buuuuuut he sometimes beat his kids" or (going farther back) "Buuuuut he was a slave-owner", implying that one attribute nullifies everything else the person did. Yes, everyone has flaws. Nobody is perfect. Particularly when you use today's more sensitive moral yardstick to measure yesterday's actions! You're never going to find Mother Teresa (who, by the way, is also a target of these kinds of "but she also" nit-picks).

History books should also talk about the bad, but it usually doesn't deserve even a single chapter, let alone be a major theme of the book.
Why would faster turns require AGI? Assuming the position/velocity of the all nearby cars is known it's not a hard problem.

Also even Tesla handles the obstacle in the road situation well. Their FSD beta will happily enter the left lane to go around obstacles.
Genuine question:

How did the United States cause the Taliban control of Afghanistan?

The Taliban were in control before the US invasion following the 9/11 attacks. Although the US failed in training the Afghan military, it seems like the Taliban would be in control regardless. The alternative to occupation would be a more complete destruction of the country.
Right, true. Hovever, the matter of goodness/ethics, etc. is probably best summed up by G.E. Moore in his 1903 work Principia Ethica:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Ethica
I guess one could productize that but not sure if the market is big enough to simplify the process even further without getting into full enterprise MDM business. If you got a Mac, the productization is called Apple Configurator 2.
>Cash is a note saying you own a store of value

It used to be a note redeemable for a certain amount of gold.

Hasn't been true since 1971, I believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock
I always prefer to SQLite3 & MySQL(>=5.7) .
CA/OR/WA are buying motels to house homeless people.
If I were a gambler I would probably take that bet, but the real problem here is that we currently have no way to tell who won because one of the options is not widely available to buyers.
Russia isn't the only country to have trialed Sputnik. From a recent Nature article (July 2021) titled "Mounting evidence suggests Sputnik COVID vaccine is safe and effective" [1]:

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Figures released by the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Health, on some 81,000 individuals who had received two doses of the vaccine, suggested 97.8% efficacy in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100% efficacy in preventing severe disease.

Since then, an as-yet unpublished study from the Buenos Aires health ministry in Argentina, involving 40,387 vaccinated and 146,194 unvaccinated people aged 60–79, found that a single dose of Sputnik Light reduced symptomatic infections by 78.6%, hospitalizations by 87.6% and deaths by 84.7%.

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Or, here is an article on Moscow Times published today reporting a trial from a different Russian group, independent from the manufacturer [2]:

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The study tracked outcomes for almost 14,000 patients who contracted Covid-19 in St. Petersburg between July 3-Aug. 9. It was led by Anton Barchuk, head of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Health Research at the European University in St. Petersburg, and eight other scientists from Russian universities.

Of the 12,154 patients who tested positive for Covid-19 in the study and were not vaccinated, some 467 were hospitalized — a ratio of 3.8%. Meanwhile just 17 of the 1,291 vaccinated patients who caught the infection — 1.3% — were hospitalized. After adjusting for age and sex, the scientists assessed the vaccine’s effectiveness at preventing hospitalizaiton among those who were infected with Covid-19 at 81%.

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I am pretty sure Sputnik V is fine. It has been administered to tens of millions inside Russia itself. If there were massive problems with it, we would know by now.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01813-2

[2] https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/08/24/sputnik-v-gives-st...
Oof! No, you can't. :D
Reading the authors section on culture fit I found this:

"Bonus points: financial stability. This could be a low personal burn rate, or ability to take a low salary either through a past financial success, being straight out of school so living costs low, or other means. This means the person may be more willing to take a low salary in exchange for more equity, which helps the company survive longer on less."

This makes me worry they have no respect for their workers and want cheap people the can bully into long hours, high workloads and low pay.

I don't know if you can read that much into the comment but it would scare me away.
Over the years I run into so many idiosyncrasies in btrfs that I have come to the conclusion (a) you better understand the internals of it _very_ well or (b) only use it with small volumes. I have gone with option B because I don't read their mailing list on a regular basis.
There is evidence that each neuron performs calculations equivalent to a small neural net: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S08966....
Does not make much sense..

Much more likely is that what they were putting out was simply the truth, and people who didn't like it were calling it propaganda and mis-information...
Would I care do compare apples to 15th century Venetian artwork? No, so I won't do it here either.

The reason that companies were so hellbent on getting "smart tvs" into our households is because of the ad revenue that come with them.

They aren't simply TVs, they're paid marketing platforms with captive audiences.
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