skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is this a case of people over-hyping the problem...

As best I can tell, this is the case. The price of helium has gone up quite a bit, but non of the commentary links that to the actual production volumes of helium or size of remaining reserves.

> Can you just put hydrogen into an existing helium blimp

We'd need to modify the envelope design, but the rest of the design wouldn't need to be modified (aerodynamics, controls, propulsion, etc.)
an IRC service kind of like how this was?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12490685
If race can be guessed based on skeleton, then “bias” could also be interpreted as “giving useful medical signal based on measurable traits”. In order to eliminate human bias, wouldn’t you’d need to strip the “race” info from the notes given to the radiologist?

It is not clear at all whether what the ML is picking up is from genetics or from other sources (e.g. diet and other practices that associate with the cultures that often follow along with visible markers of race). Getting the ML model to explain itself will be an interesting follow-up to watch.
>In programming we almost always have to handle the null case ("what if the graph is unpopulated?") and often an extreme case as well ("What if we end up with 10 million users? How to we quickly respond to XXX").

Even the extreme case has to be somewhat realistic to be worth considering. Physics has gone way past that point once they started building accelerators larger than cities to detect subatomic reactions. Not saying it's not worth investigating but it's not at all comparable to any practical domain, at this point it's l'art pour l'art.
But do you see the mosquito that bit you most of the time, unsmashed? Often enough to correlate?
It'd really be great if selfhosters could take snikket as container, tie it into one of their existing reverse proxies (like Traefik) and go to town. It's what I do for Synapse and it works a treat.
Flying a drone at or near circuit altitude within the vicinity of an active airport, without prior notification...
You can probably guess about the kind of person who was operating the drone.
It seems that they are adding up the margin of errors for 82/1461 and 87/1461, (schools responded divided by schools surveyed), giving a total margin of error of ~20% for these optional vs. mandatory masked student statistics. This is a problem with using surveys with a low response rate.

In their own words in that section, by the incident rate ratio it is statistically significant, even after having been adjusted for county level 7 day incidence.

You can try and figure it out on page 4 of the cdc report, it does not appear to be a null hypothesis test.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7021e1-H.pdf
Yeah, that's fair. If it's the standard library hashmap, then yes, that's an Abseil Swiss Table (well, not actually, but that's the thing it's reimplementing) and so yes it will have great performance if correctly sized and if it's relatively sparse I'd bet it's faster than the heap allocated Vec idea because so much of it will fit in your L1 cache and the Vec would not (unless you've got a complete beast of a CPU dedicated to this task).

I would add the size hint if your program has any reason to know what hint to give (blind guesses are worse than just calling new) and otherwise forget optimizing it until it's too slow.
You might be interested in PyPy, GraalPython, Mypyc, and Nuitka.

0: https://www.pypy.org/

1: https://github.com/oracle/graalpython

2: https://mypyc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

3: https://nuitka.net/pages/overview.html
The net-benefit of the vaccine in kids is likely to be borderline at best. That is because 1) kids are already at very, very low risk from covid 2) the side effects of the vaccine seem to be as bad or worse in the young in healthy 3) actually getting the virus allows the immune system to see a much more complete picture of the virus which may lead to better long term immunity. The kid who actually gets the real thing may end up having a better chance of being protected at age 25 or 45 than the kid who just gets the vaccine. See this article for some discussion of this issue: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58270098
amusingly there's nothing particularly new here in terms of the alternatives they're exploring. i used to work in a local bike shop and thought about even doing bike parts e-commerce in the 90s. bicycles and parts have always been a high touch business. manufacturers treat local bike shops like customers, assign reps who visit to ensure merchandising standards and have strict rules regarding pricing to ensure all the shops can survive.

it amuses me to read that they're setting that up now as if it's new, as it is how it used to work for a very long time.
I agree, elimination still looks a good strategy, it's too early to give it up yet. If we can punch out the current outbreak (I'd put money on it, but not too much) and get back to zero then that will re-legitimise lockdown as a strategy for a bit longer.

We've got a few "open 'er up and let it rip" friends and I just don't get it. There are so many potential game changers when you are an island. If a reliable saliva-based test appeared that produced results in say 2 hours we could reduce MIQ and use waiting booths at the airport. Even if it was only 99% accurate we could pool groups of 20 into rooms together while waiting for results. So many possibilities if we continue to think critically instead of politically.
Remember that your answer to that need not necessarily be accurate. You can invent a 'security city' perhaps and always give that... or just give a randomly generated password that you store alongside in your password locker.
People already can grow up billions of cells for experiments and use supercomputers to process terabytes of sequencing data with statistical modelling. The hard part isn't the scale, but designing experiments and figuring out what evidence is needed to answer specific biological questions. That stuff you can't speed up with robotic arms and more processor cores, it takes time for people to think about these things and have conversations with others about these topics.
Succinct but not very generous summary: "Journalist discovers brand names, does not like them."

If you are only interested in learning the brand names (the article itself adds little to nothing on top of that), you can check out the table in this Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#List_of_autho...
I know Bootstrap can get a lot of hate but it's given me the ability to create things that would never have been finished/made without it. It's a little like Electron in that way. I'm terrible at design, just awful at it, but I'm pretty good developer. Bootstrap lets me get my ideas in a working not-too-bad-looking state whereas if I was doing it from scratch I would have given up on a number of projects due to frustration and not being able to see a path forward.

Bootstrap might not be the prettiest but it gets the job done. I'm currently in the process of contracting a designer to re-skin/re-design a product I made using a bought bootstrap theme. I honestly doubt I'd have taken on this project (and executed it successfully) or be able to pay a designer to do this so that I can improve for next year's use of this project without Bootstrap.

I have a ton of respect for designers and what they do but I don't have those skills and often I either can't afford a good designer or it's not something that the general public will see, for those things Bootstrap is a godsend.
Sure but that's still only two levels of separation from rust, so probably good enough for a pun.

And technically iron oxide is already removed from the "true name": according to Graydon's recollection[0] it was named after the fungi[1].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/27jvdt/internet_archa...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus)
One part of me is satisfied that contemporary physics proved its quality.

Another part of me would like to see it crashing down, if only for the thrill of witnessing a scientific revolution akin to the introduction of relativity 100 years ago.
The paper uses the H1B lottery process as the randomization so there's no selection bias. All the companies studied applied for H1B employees, just some got approval and others got rejected at random by the lottery.

> In our sample of VC-backed startups, we observe that winning more H-1B visa lotteries
enhances startup performance. Specifically, a one-standard-deviation increase in the likelihood of
winning an H-1B visa lottery increases the number of VC financing rounds in the three years after
the lottery by 7.1%, the number of patents filed by 6.2%, the number of claims per patent by 9.7%,
and the likelihood of an IPO by 8.8%.
I get those reactions with one bite. If I get a lot of them I'm fatigued for days.
The article discusses a few of the potential harms to young children. At that age, children are learning how to read social cues, and they do that by observing faces. An indefinite mask mandate that lasts for years could have developmental consequences for these children.
Human shielding and how things impact a person
We should stop with the "it's just the Trump supporters" thinking. Yes them, but various other groups including PhDs. A Carnegie Mellon study identified the groups with the most vaccine hesitancy.

"independent hesitancy risk factors included younger age, non-Asian race, having a PhD or ≤high school education, living in a rural county, living in a county with higher 2020 Trump support, lack of worry about COVID-19, working outside the home, never intentionally avoiding contact with others, and no past-year flu vaccine. " https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v...
there's no credible "back" on this. It's absolute bullshit.
Lamentably, we're at the point where your information is likely out there. It is a shitty feeling, being the victim.

I got the email from my employeer this year that my application for unemployment was reject because I'm still working (I didn't apply). I had an tax check stolen and attempted to cash.. (the bank stopped that one.. Dominican Republic bank cashed that one..), IBM backup tapes with maybe my personal information went missing..

A friend who is supper vigilant had someone apply for a credit card with his credentials.. The card company sent him a letter asking if he had moved.. The card was approved and ready to go.

Its sad, but you have to stay vigilant. I don't know if its worth getting a new cell number. It is kinda your identity now.
Well one reason why someone might learn SQL without learning how to program is that you can get jobs for it.

Ah, but the response might go, lots of people learned SQL when there weren't a lot of jobs for people who knew SQL.

Yes, my response would be, but that was a long time ago and the incentives for people to learn technologies have changed, and I do not think a significant amount of people will learn SQL without learning to program henceforth; at least not amounts significant enough that anyone will say "Well look at that trend!".

here there can be several responses so I won't go through all the branches, but in the end I don't think there is going to be an interest in learning Sparql in people who are not programmers or at least programming adjacent professions, and from what I see there hasn't been that much interest from people who are programmers.
i have more sympathy today for the gatekeepers than i did earlier in my career. The main points that lead to this are:

1. many of these grassroots apps are a mess, filled with bugs and security flaws.

2. often they don't align with standard platforms and technologies that are in use. this includes source control, CI, unit testing standards, SSO, etc, not just the code itself)

3. no one put together a business case, so no budget or justification exists for support and maintenance costs, and no planning has been done to execute on that.

4. the application was not built in compliance with internal processes. this can mean it will never pass an audit (because the org is operating under ISO 9001 or something). at a minimum, some valuable and time-constrained people may have to analyze it carefully to figure out what the risks are

for an IT org, there are usually a lot more good ideas than there is capacity for supporting, maintaining, testing, and managing applications. further, maintenance costs dwarf initial build costs. "here, I built you this" doesn't really solve the whole picture. it feels more like an annoying effort to skip the line and hand off a white elephant that has to be babysat for ever.

Note that this is not a justification for the stonewalling or cold shoulder. in this type of org, i'd expect IT to help write the business case and make it easy to do things according to policy
Substantially the same paper (just at a conference, not a journal). Same authors, title, diagrams, etc.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350108418_High-Accu...
They didn't die from cardiac arrest, they died from anoxia of the brain!
> In this example, the missing skillset is not memorizing a book of algorithms as you seem to imply.

No it's not. As I said in the sibling comment, competitive programming (or algorithm skills in general) isn't about memorizing algorithms, it's about developing skills that allow you to understand and create algorithms to solve problems. In this case, it would be sufficient to understand why looking up a phone number in a phone book should inherently be a O(log n) operation, not a O(n) operation.

> I don't want to hire software engineers who have memorized the algorithm book, that's not useful to me. I want to hire those who can apply discipline to the work, such as (in this example) be aware of performance and know how to analyze it and find solutions.

So we're discussing a hypothetical developer who has "no interest towards algorithms", and you're imagining that this person is going to run a profiler to troubleshoot a performance issue and subsequently optimize algorithms to fix said performance issue? This sounds like a fantasy to me. If you want skilled software engineers who have the ability to troubleshoot and optimize algorithms, you probably need someone who has some kind of interest towards algorithms.
I hope someone out there is documenting just how consistently, it's astounding.

I still wonder how this happens. The only theory I know of is that if they don't give them positive coverage then they'll never get comment form them again, but is that really sufficient for it to be so universal and why have so few papers gone adversarial on this?
What stack do you use, to avoid JS? I was reading about Phoenix framework which promises to lessen the use of JS, I have no experience with it though.

Also, how easy (or hard) is it to get a backend only job? I'd like to avoid CSS/JS completely, but unable to find such jobs.
NFT Painting Is a Work of Art
Determinism.

The laws of physics are mostly fully deterministic, even quantum laws.
For a shell substitute, though, Ruby and Perl are better due to their enhanced support for one-liners. Matz was smart enough to retain Perl's virtues when he created Ruby. Sadly Python has taken over in the same way that VHS killed-off Betamax.
The program doesn't really run at a constant rate and keeps stuttering so the rythms are all over the place. Too bad because otherwise it seems like a cool concept.
On a related note: interestingly, humans can develop immunity to ticks. Which means that if a tick bites them, it dies.

https://www.caryinstitute.org/news-insights/media-coverage/h...

Utterly fascinating. Our bodies are so much more complex than I could have imagined.
You speak about a fetus like it’s a thing. For me and for many others, it’s a person. Because it is.
The science of ants' underground cities
I did something along those lines as a proof of concept, seeded with links harvested from this site.

http://kakapo.susa.net:8080/cfs/

A similar (and in my opinion more viable) approach is Marginalia Search. This down-scores pages with a large number of scripts, among other heuristics.

https://search.marginalia.nu/
Mathematical model predicts best way to build muscle
> If they did, they could end the Taliban in the span of a few weeks, just like they did ISIS. It wouldn't be a war, it would be a rampage...

This whole paragraph seems utterly bizarre.

US did NOT "end" ISIS, certainly not alone. Most of the fighting and dying was done by Shia and Kurdi forces inside Iraq whose lives literally depended on stopping ISIS. US failed in Afghanistan precisely because no such ally existed.

And, what exactly do you mean by "rampage"? There seems to be an awful implication- "if US forces didn't bother about civilian casualties, Taliban could be surely defeated". Which I suppose is true, there can't be any Taliban if there isn't any more afghan.
Is the "Create Link" option more public: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Q5SeDkEnvyq6oMnZ8
"Only the civilians seemed to lose."

Yeah.

Something to keep in mind with everyone repeating the old "Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires" dismissal.
This is one of the things they do that could be spun as "pro seller".
As a consumer, I don't like buying from vendors that I can't verify how much I trust them.
So "fulfilled by Amazon" convinces consumers to buy with confidence, and even a no-name seller can get sales without having to compete on reputation.
This means that consumers actually can't trust where they are buying from.

I very much don't like this as a consumer.
> Very disappointing to see a supposedly serious corporation giving legitimacy to such a blatant scam.

This is marketing, and marketing can be one of the less legitimate corporate endeavours (being in most cases literal manipulative propaganda). Serious corporations don't really care what negative externalities they cause, just as long as they don't have to pay for them.

They've bought a little cred with whoever they wanted to impress (be that the crypto kids, or olds painfully trying to be hip).
> Us westerners like to look at > "The Taliban" as some evil anti-women hate group but what most woke westerners are too scared to bring up is that this is Islam in it's barest of forms. Especially among illiterate peoples. The Taliban has ridiculous support and has had it for the longest time primarily because many people want the sort of religious regime

Those are not mutually exclusive. You write about it as if there was contradiction and they somehow were not women hating as proven by them being religious.

They are exactly that. Besides, misogyny and authoritarianism/violence are related almost everywhere.
> If they could get rid of the global interpreter lock, that'd be kind of a holy grail.

The threading semantics and general dislike for global state seem like they'd make that more likely, although the C API could make that a more difficult proposition, even in its modern "restricted" forms.
From the abstract, I understand that this paper is meant to strengthen existing results about the impossibility of EM drives:

> We found no thrust values within a wide frequency band including several resonance frequencies and different modes. Our data limit any anomalous thrust to below the force equivalent from classical radiation for a given amount of power. This provides strong limits to all proposed theories and rules out previous test results by at least two orders of magnitude.
This is just your bias showing, nothing more. COVID has been shown to be seasonal and to hit different parts of the world at different times of the year. Southern states appear to get hardest hit in the summer, while the colder Northern states are harder-hit in the winter.

Florida has the second-oldest population in the U.S., but it's death rate per 100,000 is average among the states. NYC and NJ are two states with the highest death rate per 100,000.
They avoid you only when you smoke or in general, also when you don't smoke?
Damn, this is the second guy in this thread "just asking questions" about if genocide would have been a good approach.
Tesla is using all 5 tests.

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a33824052/adjustment-f...
> In practice it doesn't matter because prime shipping is so much better than any non-amazon option I just deal with that risk

Really? I'm strongly considering canceling my prime subscription specifically because shipping has gotten so awful. Amazon won't even allow you to select a shipping speed anymore. Pretty much everywhere else on the internet is better.
Yes it seems to be. You can view the picture in incognito node.
Agreed, nice to meet someone else who knows what a hybrid airship is! it solves a lot of challenges around ground handling and cargo loading/unloading.

The full scale design is a fatter shape that approximates a flying wing. That's why the aircraft in the demo video is two lobes - the final version will have an aerodynamic cover between the lobes.
Unfortunately, there is absolutely a lack of beds. Someone I know was in emergency last week (totally unrelated to pandemic) and had to wait an entire day before actually being properly admitted to a ward because there were no beds available for them. So they layed in an emergency room "booth"[0] for close to 24 hours, until a bed became available. There are lots of news articles about the lack of beds/capacity all over the place [1][2][3]

[0] I don't know the right word for it, but a small room usually used for short-term (<few hours) evaluation of a patient before passing them along to the next phase, like admitting to a ward or sending them home or etc.

[1] https://vancouversun.com/news/covid-19-kelowna-general-hospi...

[2] https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/oregon-e...

[3] https://richmond.com/news/national/with-no-beds-hospitals-sh...
The only thing I could imagine that would exonerate the operators of the drone would be if it turned out this was an unforseeable equipment failure (eg an uncommanded climb into controlled airspace), and they weren’t already being excessively risky at the time of failure.
> Who do you imagine this "Linux Desktop" is

The community of people who make and distribute Linux distributions and software intended for the Desktop use case, when taken as a whole.

> Various groups make desktop environments that may be used on Linux, as diverse as KDE, Gnome, Chrome, and Android.

Calling Android or ChromeOS a Linux Desktop is incredibly disingenuous.

> It could possibly make sense to complain about one or other of them, or even several.

Every distribution has the same problems because they are all built with more or less the same hodgepodges of desperately developed software.
For casual sex. Go to EVERY social event you can. Try to ask a girl out everyday.