skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another point to consider: the Rust implementation here likely doesn't support any of CPython's old APIs, many of which involve contending the GIL or are otherwise not great for performance. This is all speculation, but that alone might result in some nice performance boosts.
The net used to be a good place with open protocols.
I see an open source tool chain but not an open source FPGA. Doesn't that by itself prove the secret sauce is not that secret.
This... I absolutely Abhor what the web has become. Somehow, we need a new web (maybe out of the blockchain related work/distributed internet endeavors?) The current state is sooo bad.
Perhaps we should have nutrition passports. People wouldn’t be allowed to visit fast food restaurants until they have sub-30 BMI.
I have actually never worked in a team where CI was actually needed. If it hadn't been there, files would instead just be copied to production manually. One step.

Our industry is pretty crazy in the amount of tech it uses to move shit from A to B according to "best practices".

Not saying we shouldnt but I am saying that if we did start making things as simple as possible again, it would be extreamly productive and fun.
Awesome, but not complete. It's missing the GDPR popup and the "better experience in app" one.
They absolutely do depend on the premise that getting banned from Twitter isn’t that bad. I’ve made this exact argument here many times before; Twitter doesn’t rise to the level of ubiquity and necessity for us to consider classifying it as a common carrier. Meanwhile I absolutely can see some argument for email getting such a classification.

Any time that we discuss whether or not the government should step in and curtail the actions of a private party, we are explicitly or implicitly balancing the harm of government interference against the harm that such a private action might cause.
In the broadest possible interpretation, lots of things are social constructs, but I would imagine that any functional society would generally agree that murder, rape, assault, and theft should be discouraged.
Its not my job to figure out "how safe" or "how certain", but I can definitely say with confidence that "more safe than harmful" and "more likely than not" are both really bad answers.
Negative is subjective. This is like someone shitting on the model T and Ford because now bugattis and Rolls royces aren’t being found in streets commonly.

Bootstrap democratized accessible design. It might be vanilla and bland but no one had trouble navigating a bootstrap site so “negative” is a subjective judgement here.
SpaceX adding capabilities to Starlink sats, plans to launch them with Starship
Thanks. But to "easily port out the new number", how is that done using the PUK?
Yeah it's so weird - Im French, I emigrated to Hong Kong with literally no effort and will be permanent soon, I know I could go to Singapore, Taiwan, maybe Japan with ease and a good sponsor, or China with difficulty with a very good sponsor.

I think Canada is an english test away, Australia should be not too hard.

The US: just the whole thing stresses me. I d rather stay in Hong Kong forever than move to the US with all their weird paperwork, conditions etc. They dont want me, I wont insist :D
Apart from SMS as a second factor, what's this with "What number would you like me to send this [code] to?", where clearly an attacker could give an arbitrary burner number under their control. They should only use numbers already associated with the account, and adding/changing one should by itself require authentication. Oh well.
Bike shops in the US have been struggling since the beginning of the pandemic. Some got a slight bump with increased sales. And riders that couldn't buy new brought in old bikes for repair. Eventually, supply chain issues surfaced and you can't sell what you can't buy.
In addition, several of the "masks don't work" studies I saw had to do with people touching or messing with their masks undoing any benefits of actually wearing a mask.
Without knowing what people mean by "lockdown", it's incredibly easy to have two different conversations.

Why do you say the research is inconclusive?

The Wikipedia link showing support for lockdowns as you describe is https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7881715/ . Some quotes:

> Lockdowns are found to be the most significant NPIs in terms of variations to the Rt

> The results, which where published in July, paint quite a grim picture which unfortunately has been later confirmed: measures in place after the strict lockdown is lifted are not enough to avoid the overwhelming of the healthcare system.

> Early implementation of lockdowns has been found associated with large reduction of incidence.

> The results confirm the effectiveness of lockdowns and travel bans.

> Furthermore they suggest that partial lockdowns might be as effective as full lockdowns if implemented earlier.

Or, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8325386/ where Itay's red zone is closest to a full lockdown:

> the red zone policy was by far the most successful in reducing the rate of growth of new cases, hospitalizations in regular wards and ICUs.

> the red zone is an instrument that makes it possible to rapidly bring down cases and the speed of transmission of the virus and consequently both hospitalizations and deaths (being very correlated). However, it implies severe social and economic consequences due to forced economic activity suspensions and restrictions on the freedom of movement. Therefore, this choice can be considered as a tool of last resort in cases of dramatic spread of the epidemic or when the local health system is close to the collapse.

> There is a vast literature on the effects of nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) of various measures on the speed of spread of COVID-19 ... Many studies have proven the effectiveness of these measures in reducing the spread of severe acute forms of COVID-19

You write "we don't implement prohibitions at the same level with smoking, drug use and junk food".

I'll again point out the guideline that lockdowns are meant as "short-term measures to reorganize, regroup, rebalance resources, and protect health workers who are exhausted."

With evidence that it works - experience in enacting a cordon sanitaire for smallpox, Ebola, and SARS outbreaks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordon_sanitaire_(medicine)

What sort of evidence is there that a short term intervention will help reduce deaths due to smoking, drug use and junk food?
99% of software projects have, at most, a few hundred users for internal institutional things.

The vast majority of engineers have never built things to "scale", and don't need to.

Even in large companies the proportion of things that needs scale is very small.
It just boggles my mind that with modern understanding of how these things work (and we have a MUCH more complete understanding than they had during the early 1900's), we repeat this ignorant mistake.
Nothing on the internet is free and has never been. If it appears free that's because somebody pays for it with time, money, hardware, or lost opportunities.
Having gone back and forth on this for a couple of years now, where does this put us?
One thing has visibly changed with the US occupation. Before, the typical Afghan fighter carried a Kalasjnikov. Now they will be carrying an M16.
Whereas tracked vehicles would (likely) be superior in practice, due to weight vs load-bearing area issues.

And most cranes don't have manipulator arms.
Presumably nothing, but without asking others, the maximum value of N is 1.
We'll spend a lot of time on certification. We need two things: a type-certification of the aircraft, and operator certifications for the organizations flying them. Both require a lot of flight hours, which will be our main development activity. There's no escaping aircraft regulation, but we have a clear path

Hopefully we've responded to practical constraints in other answers, but if not let me know questions.
Rust is specifically the name for iron oxide. Technically speaking, copper doesn't "rust". It oxidizes.
Are these videos working for you guys?
Nazism is not rasizm, Jews are of Caucasoid race as well as Germans, and all Europeans
Someone else mentioned the prevalence of vandalism against trains crossing the country, and that all too many trains arrive at their destination with bullet holes. A hydrogen-filled blimp would be a tempting target for people so inclined.
Another one: inventory pooling. When a product is “fulfilled by Amazon,” it comes from warehouse stock. However this stock can be contributed to by all sorts of sellers, legit or counterfeit. So sometimes buyers will receive a knockoff when they purchased a legitimate product. I have a relative who designs and sells electronics accessories, and he said this is a serious problem he runs into when selling on Amazon.
insane that we're still expending any effort on this. I can't imagine a single academic that would assist their own career by putting effort into this boring pseudoscientific nonsense.

Like, I guess you could do something like this if you were very late in your career with a little extra money and wanted to shake a stick at some halfwits but it would be very unwise to stick a grad student or postdoc on this unless you didn't care about them.

This whole thing is based on a confusion of group and phase velocity. Makes me so angry.
This isn't about Tegnell.

The question posed, and refined by me, is: if you were the PM of Sweden, what would you do in the scenario presented here? Nothing? Or would you have started changing the laws/constitution so you have more power?

As the follow-up question, how much monetary value do you place on human life?
The era of perpetual presidential impeachment is here
For me, it's hard to justify a mandate if we don't have a reasonable understanding of how much vaccines actually improves the situation. I agree, they likely do improve it in the ways you say, but if it's a cumulative 25% less likely to spread the disease, a mandate seems like overreach.
Makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to respond, I appreciate it.
I guess it's the same group (lead by Professor Tajmar), but this is definitely a new paper.
These are awesome questions! Here's a couple answers:

1) We're building our full size airship to fly at 60 mph, which increases the usability in inclement weather.

2) Joe answered this in another comment, but our airships use pretty small quantities of helium compared to the bigger ones, so it's not a major operational cost.

3) For sure this is an issue, but the bigger the blimp is, the more bullet holes you'd have to fill it with to prevent it from reaching its final destination. The german zeppelins of world war I were really hard to shoot down. See 5:47 of the below video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlQgprSGpNI
Probably nothing. Python isn't slow because C is slow. It's slow because of all the boxing and runtime type checks, which are built into the core language semantics. There are other reasons that could be addressed and maybe the developers of this interpreter addressed them, but I doubt it. If they could get rid of the global interpreter lock, that'd be kind of a holy grail.

Other problem with rewriting the interpreter in Rust, though, is now you lose all the already actually fast third party modules like NumPy, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and what not that all rely on having the internal API to call C, Fortran, and CUDA. Until someone writes a CUDA interface in Rust and a BLAS implementation at least equal to OpenBLAS, if not MKL, but that doesn't seem to be a priority for NVIDIA or the scientific and numerical computing communities, who seem to be focused on Julia if they're not happy with Python, R, and MATLAB.
Sure, just thinking of the rusty brown color
For anyone wondering it is Electron app, that packs some heavy web app assets(300mb + 150mb runtime), but still loads rest of web app from https://client.getposturehealth.co, and then it uses google pretrained posenet tensorflowjs model[0][1]. (loads it from https://storage.googleapis.com/tfjs-models/savedmodel/posene...).

In perfect world one would made it offline, release it at fixed price and be done with it, in our imperfect world it is turned in infinite cash-cow that requires connectivity and bazillion metrics.

[0] https://medium.com/tensorflow/real-time-human-pose-estimatio...

[1] https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs-models/blob/master/posene...
These are great. I find they are slightly uncomfortable/painful, but only mildly so and momentarily. Much more localized than something like a hairdryer or spoon though. Helps with wasp stings too.
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It was making training army difficult for American troops for example. Soldiers complained about it.

Such high illiteracy rates will make it impossible to build enough of management and general bureaucracy needed to build anything large. It will make it hard to train workers in technology. You won't build railroads nor roads, you won't mainten them either.

Primitive mines are not competitive. They are not producing enough to feed you. And hungry people won't save money for school. You need technology.
The link is for the second sentence. To quote from the abstract:

> Overall, our results indicate that mild infection with SARS-CoV-2 induces robust antigen-specific, long-lived humoral immune memory in humans.

As far as the reports from Israel:

> By contrast, Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection, with over 3,000 of the 5,193,499, or 0.0578%, of Israelis who were vaccinated getting infected in the latest wave.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309762
> If you died tomorrow, someone could say that this comment caused it because it influenced the chain of events that lead to your death.

Yes, this is exactly the same as dying from chemotherapy when contracting a virus. /s

I suppose a more direct example would be a shellfish allergy. Nobody dies from eating shrimp, you die from the allergy. Dying with chicken pox is the same, it's not the direct cause of death.
That's really good point I hadn't considered. I'll bet you're right.
Hi Daniel, you didn’t waste my time publishing this stream of consciousness. You’re tackling something that can’t be broken down easily, and part of your prose painted enough of the mystery for me to believe that it had some shape, and it made me check out your books. Thanks for publishing. Would love to chat.
Depends. Nuitka, the Python compiler, takes the python code, translate it to C, then compile it. Not only does it result in a stand alone python program, but it can be up to 4 times faster. Of course, it does compile the python code as well, so it's not just a matter of implementation, but rustpython allows to compile it all to wasm, which, while not binary, is pretty fast.
Frankly, I don’t see the Open Insulin Foundation’s work as a solution to America’s problems, which are in the regulatory domain rather than the manufacturing/technology domain. I would see their progress as valuable for developing nations and locations that struggle to maintain consistent supply chains. That’s where small-scale insulin manufacturing could become quite valuable.

Despite the headlines, generic insulin is relatively cheap. You can go to Walmart and buy a vial of generic insulin for $25 right now if you want to. No prescription required. (Source: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/insulin-walmart-vial/ ). I don’t know if I see any open-source alternatives getting approval and also competing with that on price.

Certain insulin analogs are currently very expensive due to patent protection or, more recently, lack of competition. Walmart is also scaling up production of a generic insulin analog that won’t be $25 cheap, but will still be much cheaper than the full-price brand name version.
As other people have mentioned, landing pages + waitlists aren't the best nowadays. I do think a better way to get traction is to go and find 1-2 customers who will work closely with you to build a product. You mention this is for creators, so if possible, leverage their follower base to drive viral growth.
Exactly right. The parent poster you replied to is another in the long list of people that flippantly disregard the harms of masking. Good luck dealing with a generation that has developed unhealthy phobias and has severe emotional attachment issues that's also unequipped to enter college.
To me, trying to handle exceptions every time a NaN shows up sounds like it's riskier to performance than a few checks at important places. You wouldn't scan. Probably depends on code base.

> That does however seem strange - X was never set by operation NNNN, Y was.

If you're using NaN payloads, it would almost never be helpful for 95% of your NaNs to turn into a generic "used a NaN in arithmetic" version.
GP's statement contradicts the scientific literature - vaccination does reduce viral load of subsequent infection, and consequently reduces transmission [1].

However folks should be aware that immunity acquired through natural infection is robust and durable, and also has the same effect of reducing viral load and transmission [2].

It has been documented that people with asymptomatic infection will clear the virus quickly compared to those who are symptomatic [3]. Recent meta-analyses [4] and large population serological studies [5] have estimated the asymptomatic proportion lower bound to be at least ~33%, and the upper bound to be ~65% (even higher for young adults). Considering recent evidence that cases may be massively under-reported, the true asymptomatic proportion could be even higher than suggested [6].

Taken together, these results imply that a majority of the population has been already exposed to the virus, and either through natural infection or vaccination has acquired some degree of immunity that reduces the transmission of the virus.

Analogous to antibiotic resistance, vaccine resistance can evolve if vaccines are used indiscriminately [7][8][9][10]. So the benefits of compulsory mass vaccination may not outweigh the risks of such a policy, given the current state of affairs.

> so why all the fuss to force people to get vaccinated?

It is an important question with tremendously complex factors that go beyond the expertise of most lay people.

[1] Initial report of decreased SARS-CoV-2 viral load after inoculation with the BNT162b2 vaccine
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01316-7?origin=ap...

[2] Longitudinal analysis shows durable and broad immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persisting antibody responses and memory B and T cells
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...

[3] The Natural History and Transmission Potential of Asymptomatic Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266652472...

[4] The Proportion of SARS-CoV-2 Infections That Are Asymptomatic
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10.7326/M20-6976

[5] Estimating the asymptomatic proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the general population: Analysis of nationwide serosurvey data in the Netherlands
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00768-y

[6] Evaluating the massive underreporting and undertesting of COVID-19 cases in multiple global epicenters
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S253104372...

[7] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/

[8] Can we predict the limits of SARS-CoV-2 variants and their phenotypic consequences?
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/long-term-evoluti...

[9] Why does drug resistance readily evolve but vaccine resistance does not?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2016...

[10] The adaptive evolution of virulence: a review of theoretical predictions and empirical tests
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26302775/
> If you get you case in childhood, as most do, then you have immunity through adulthood.

Sort of. I got shingles (early 40s) this year. Completely knocked on my ass for a week and maybe 2-3 months to be mostly back to normal. I recommend the shingles vaccine to anyone who will listen.
"You make explicit that all data that people enter, they enter for purposes of sharing."

I think the data captured by CA was also entered for the purposes of sharing, (often) limited to friends and friends of friends. I think the crux of this all is that as a society we haven't really established how those rights are transferred. If I share my email address with a friend, can they share it with their contact management app? I'm not sure how you create a consistent policy in a federated model.
> Requiring an ID to vote is a violation of civil rights purely because local governments make it difficult for poor people to get IDs for free. If everyone was issue a government ID for free, this would be a nonissue.

No, that’s very much false. For example, Georgia offers free voter identification card, and yet its new voter ID laws were called “new Jim Crow” by prominent politicians. This is issue purely for partisan reasons, and the eagerness to introduce vaccine IDs while shunning voter ID shows it pretty clearly.

> I'm not aware of any grocery stores requiring a vaccine passport, but in general, the bar for a private business allowing customers in should be a lot more malleable fluid that voting restrictions.

The problem here is that the businesses are not introducing these restrictions out of their own initiative, but they rather are following government regulations. As a result, it is government which is requiring ID to enter a restaurant, but not requiring it for voting, and suggesting it’s actually private businesses enforcing it is just trying to shift the blame.
I'd like to use a Yubikey, but too few of the accounts I'd want it on allow multiple concurrent 2FA sources, and since I won't have my Yubikey on all devices/with me 24/7 it gets cut for HOTP/TOTP which I can have in multiple places.

I feel like failure by services to allow multiple 2FA providers concurrently is a common weakness that is rarely criticized.
Imho python' greatest weakness is the Gil.

There are many workarounds, but the Gil is still there.

If there will ever be a python 4 with breaking changes, I hope it will be to implement proper gil-less operation.
>I can still catch it

Yes, you can still catch it regardless what we do with NPIs. Stop living in fear.
> Their entire culture is optimized about fighting against foreigners and rallying locals. The more we kill them, the more they're able to recruit.

Afghanis stopped doing that for the period the Mongols ruled via one demonstration of regional depopulation through municipal-scale genocide [1]. But the Mongols were like that: they were quite progressive and often ran on a benevolent dictator model, but you cross them just once and they salted the earth after they were done wholesale killing everyone, innocents included.

But the Mongols' record in Afghanistan was likely only possible because they established a reputation for carrying out these genocides on various scales (Khwarazmian Empire being a notably bloody example). I suspect China comes closest in the current era to that level of determination; fortunately for Afghanis, China is not demonstrably interested in Afghanistan.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasions_of_Afghanistan#Mongo...

[2] https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/The-myth-of-Chinese-investme...
The only time it's actionable is if you inquire damages honestly. And even then it's an uphill battle cause you'll have to prove it was because of the leak and not something else.
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So you're saying it works as a preventative, as well.