skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You are stealing their childhood away"

Stealing their childhood away, really? It's an article of clothing. My kid objects to wearing pants a whole lot more than he objects to wearing a mask. He still needs to wear pants.

Come to think of it, maybe that's why this is such a huge deal. People have come to think of clothing as a marker of your tribe, and not wearing the expected clothing as social deviancy. That's why wearing a hajib is so triggering for so many Americans, or why guys wearing skirts is an affront against nature (but strangely not in Scotland!), or why folks get killed over wearing gang colors, or why I desperately wanted a denim jacket when I was in 1st grade in the 80s.

And if that's the case, sure, you can have your tribe and I'll have mine, and my kid will wear a mask because that's what the people around him do, and yours won't because that's what the people around her do, and then maybe my tribe will still have ICU units available and yours won't. Okay. But I can assure you that kids in Singapore or Taiwan or now California, where mask-wearing is just accepted, grow up just fine.
Parent is not just a guy spamming Bible quotes. It's actually apt.
“Go hates assert” explain?

What is panic but a reaction to an assertion failure?
http://www.eusprig.org/basic-research.htm

> There is a very extensive research base on the risks of using spreadsheets within business see [Panko, 2000] [Panko & Ordway, 2005] [Powell, Baker & Lawson, 2007]. Much of the research has been coordinated and progressed by EuSpRIG [Chadwick, 2003]. Further significant work improving the end user approach to software has been undertaken by the EUSES consortium [EUSES, 2009].

> The main known risks of spreadsheets include:

> a) Human Error – To err is human, hence the majority (>90%) of spreadsheets contain errors. Because spreadsheets are rarely tested [Panko, 2006] [Pryor, 2004] these errors remain. Recent research has shown that about 50% of spreadsheet models used operationally in large businesses have material defects [Powell, Baker, Lawson, 2007] [Croll, 2008]. Approximately 50% of executives recently surveyed had encountered spreadsheet related problems up to and including staff dismissal [Caulkins, Morrison & Weideman, 2007].
It's pretty crazy how tunnels can sometimes just pop out of nowhere such that an automated system with extensive mapping can't predict them more than 5 seconds early.
Surez, anything looks like anything if you use vague enough terms.

But a public document proposing a collaboration between many sectors, is the opposite of a secret plan for a single unified government.
> During level-4, the R value is clearly lower than 1.0 meaning the infection shrinks

Delta is a different beast.

Here in Australia, Victoria managed to get the Reff rate down to ~0.75 during their OG outbreak last year with a strict lockdown. Delta has an R0 that is multiples higher than the OG strain so the same lockdown would not get it below 1. You can look at Victoria's current outbreak for evidence of this.

Now that doesn't mean NZ can't beat it. A part from Auckland, the population density is very low and as long as compliance is high you might be able to just about get it back down again; especially if you manage to keep it out of large households and essential workers.

I just wouldn't base my expectations on what worked last year as Delta is quite a different game.
I always do both -- it's hard to see how a project of any complexity can be effectively tackled otherwise.
The Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical is an amazing mouse. I've been trying to find a keyboard and mouse combo similar to the Apple Space Grey mouse and keyboard, and there is nothing to be found like it.

It's so depressing. You pay premium prices yet everything looks like it belongs in a 15 year olds room.

If I could have something like the apple mouse, with physical buttons and a scroll wheel - I would be in my happy place.

The Apple keyboard is such a pleasure to type on.
Seems like Anandtech needs to hire a few editors.
Firefox will have a setting. Chrome, maybe not. Console-wise, try axel or similar offerings which are far more modern than wget in offering parallel multi-socket downloads (huge speed increase in many situations).
That sounds fascinating and it reminds me I haven't read the Mahabharata (then again I have quite a bit of backlog going all the way back to the epic of Gilgamesh...)

Is there a good English translation? Or a French one maybe?
Pfizer Jab Receives Full Approval from FDA
Who is "we"? Afaik the U.S. military power structure is based on soldiers obeying orders they receive from their superior.
I don't think claiming asylum and no questions asked go hand in hand. There are many forms and approvals.
Are you an adult over the age of 21? Cause if so all your info was likely dumped in the Equifax breach a couple years ago if you had interacted with credit in anyway. It's one of those things that you just have to accept its out there and secure yourself the best you can, 2fa everywhere, password manager, don't re-use passwords, etc. Most of that info is most dangerous when it can be used to break into a weaker account that may be used as auth for a stronger account, like T-Mo redirecting your 2fa texts to an attacker that paid off a customer support agent to sim swap your number. Your phone line is a huge security liability because of 2fa texts and the lax policies around line transfers. And this basically extends to any server, if they can get into your email, they can get into any account that uses your email as auth.
That's the fallacy the article is trying to combat. The war in Afghanistan did not take away from our capacity to build infrastructure at home. It's not like all the construction capacity in America was busy building stuff for Afghanistan.

> The real limit on government spending was not some artificial debt ceiling, or the risk of “running out of money”, but the productive capacity of the economy and the risk of sparking either inflation, or a ruinous multiplication of bottlenecks and dysfunctional backlogs of unmet orders. As Keynes said, we can afford anything we can actually do.

But the discourse about the war (as in your comment) focuses entirely on all the things we could've done with that money, as though building bridges vs bombing people was a binary decision.

It's not. We didn't spend $5T on war and leave our infrastructure crumbling because the war crowded out our capacity to build; we simply have decided, through our politics, not to bother with the latter.

The irony is that MMT has been perceived as a progressive theory to encourage spending on social programs. But progressives are arguing against war using the same austerity economics that conservatives use to justify not spending on said programs. Meanwhile, nothing about MMT is actually left or right; in practice the military-industrial complex in our government is evidence that MMT works.
Pandemic controls are already doomed to failure in the case of COVID. If you look at countries where they have had very strict and successful pandemic controls, such as Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand, they are finding it impossible to contain the delta variant. It has several attributes that make control difficult.

Would the delta variant have arisen were it not for social distancing? Perhaps, that's unknowable. But we certainly created a lot of selective pressure for it to exist.

That's not to say that social distancing was bad or wrong. It was our only choice at the time. But in a future where social distancing is much less effective and where compliance by vaccinated people will be low, the utility of these interventions is becoming ever smaller. You can of course do whatever you want individually according to your conscience.

Where do we go from here? The world needs to increase vaccine production to billions per month, and decrease response times to new variants so that if there is a new vaccine-resistant variant we can vaccinate the world again quickly.
I really wish Roccat would bring back the thumb paddle on their mice.

I had this with the Leadr model that they discontinued.

Yes, their software is horrible, but it's not necessary except for controlling the lighting. And the lighting is irritating. A lot of the custom buttons are superfluous for my needs..

But beyond that? It's a great mouse, the best I've had in decades. It's accurate, has great weight and traction, both wired/wireless options, and most importantly it has the thumb paddle so I can press down or up with my thumb to scroll.

No more repeated rolling of the scroll wheel, or pressing the wheel down while dragging the entire mouse forward or back...

Why don't more mice have this? And why'd they get rid of it on their newer mice?
The windows 10 settings app takes personal offense to this comment
Michael Hudson's "Super Imperialism:
The Economic Strategy Of Imperial America" explains:

"When the US payment deficit pumps dollars into foreign economies, these banks (have) little option except to buy US Treasury bills and bonds which the Treasury spends on financing an enormous, hostile military build-up to encircle (today's) major dollar-recyclers China, Japan and Arab OPEC oil producers" - essentially a process by which they finance their own endangerment.

From https://www.countercurrents.org/lendman010709.htm

Additional links:

https://mronline.org/2021/02/09/michael-hudson-changes-in-su...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtHX23Trvy4
Other people don't know all the things you do and vice versa. I would bet that less than half of the monthly active users on HN know who John Carmack is.
That's definitely the law here in the UK, although FWIW most of the time I don't feel the need to occupy the whole lane. Cars generally pass reasonably safely here, plus there generally isn't another lane on the kind of road I'd be cycling on.
They're even easier to solve on Linux with appropriate tools (e.g Valgrind).
What you described brings back distant memories of Windows. Since switching to macOS few years ago none of that behavior is a thing any more. Apps 'just work' and do so in a predictable way. There is no (noticeable) attempt from app makers to bundle bloat. This alone makes macOS much more comfortable to work with. And the bonus is there is an actual usable shell.
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I keep a list of personal/small websites as well. Sites that don't have this endless amount of marketing and tracking cruft.

Unfortunately it makes for pretty boring reading. So many sites out there have like 4 or 5 blog posts, and that's it.
The commenter is not questioning the impressiveness of the factory.
Are those not games he developed?
That matters less than you seem to think. Printing money doesn't magically create more stuff, nor does it change the economy's ability to create more stuff. It just changes who has the ability to buy what the real economy creates.

And...

> Right around the start of the war on drugs.

What, specifically, are you vaguely hinting at?
"Now I'm wondering if my idea is bad or if my distribution is awful."

This is a false dichotomy, I think. Trying to grow is an essential part of how you evolve the idea and discover what the "growable idea" really is. This is one of the core things I took away from this PG classic: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
Science supports that the sun really damages your skin, so you should absolutely use a sunscreen or SPF 30 moisturizer every morning.

Digging deeper into types of ingredients that block sun, things get a bit more tricky. In general I’ve read dermatologists say “physical” sun screen ingredients are best, like zinc oxide, because they aren’t absorbed through your skin like a “chemical” ingredient. But they also leave your skin looking more white.

And beyond that, just wash your face in the morning and night with a face wash product, not bar soap. Something simple from Neutrogena (Liquid Neutrogena).
Lyme is so prevalent... So much suffering could have been prevented, if weren't for these lawsuits.

FTA

> That's what happened with the last Lyme vaccine.

> Lymerix was approved and released in 1998 and gone — off the market — in fewer than four years.

> Some believed the vaccine caused early onset arthritis, and that in turn led to a class-action lawsuit.

> Its maker pulled the vaccine, citing poor sales, despite the fact that a 2001 U.S. Food and Drug Administration study found no link between Lymerix and early or late onset arthritis.
Buttonville airport is a small regional airport with few flights in/out on any given day. Anyone can monitor the tower on VHF and get a clue as to what is coming in, and some smaller planes do have ADS-B transponders and show-up on flightradar, or a basic SDR rig. It is flat terrain and any low-flying aircraft is visible well before it passes overhead. Can’t think of any excuse as to how this might have been allowed to happen.
Elon's been giving some lip service to closer-to-GI capabilities anyways, e.g. when describing how it would be optimal to be able to control Tesla's humanoid robot by saying "please go to the store and get me the following groceries"...

https://youtu.be/j0z4FweCy4M?t=7775

Whether Tesla wants to fund serious work towards that may be a different question (but they do seem to be serious about at least building the robot).
It means that no one wants to take responsibility for any side effects. And it obviously creates mistrust.

If the state is practically mandating you to be vaccinated for covid they (or the companies that make the vaccine) should be held responsible for anything that happens to you.

You can't have it both ways; either there are no distinctions between vaccinated and unvaccinated people (no measures that only affect unvaccinated people) or someone can be held responsible for any resulting disability or death.
>I would have to check to see if Sacramento is possible without resorting to rail or coach.

The last time I looked into this, no. There is a gap, I think around Solano, that requires BART or Amtrak.
Even if you were at 0.5% BAC (legal driving limit is 0.08%, and 0.5% would kill a lot of people), that's still about the alcohol percentage in NA beer. Unlikely to have any effect.
Except Tesla is doing the exact same thing as it's the only practical approach at this time. The only place Tesla is extensively using general approaches is in building a model of the world from camera inputs. Other companies aren't doing that because they get much, much better results than Tesla simply by using lidar.
Kind of, as you say it is time-consuming to keep up. A bigger problem is that it's not obvious what the impact of many discoveries would be on daily life; physics sometimes seems to have been stuck in an era of diminishing returns after important breakthroughs that led to a short era of rapid innovation - sort of how nuclear fusion has been 20 years away my whole life.

I've often felt part of the problem here is the relative decrease of manned missions in space, which are not the best bang for the buck in scientific terms, but at one time created a widespread of view of 'humanity's future in space' that provided the motivation for and wide public interest in many scientific endeavors.

Nowadays, there's a widespread feeling that planet earth has got very crowded and there aren't as many opportunities for big new discoveries (the sort that can be appreciated by anyone without specialist education/training), that the long-term viability of our habitat is Not Great, and that the prospect of space exploration is too remote and costly to have any impact on the lives of ordinary people, but is limited to a microscopic scientific or financial elite.

Of course, this is somewhat irrational; as a society we've chosen to have ubiquitous worldwide real-time communications devices that would have once seemed limited to star Trek. Computing has made big science small enough to fit in our pocket and allowed anyone who is really interested to be a software maven. But it's not as spectacular as the future anticipated a few decades ago.
Business doesn't welcome competition or oversight.

Competition is for losers - Peter Thiel (2014 speech at Harvard) ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

Rights have to be regulated in to existence or actively fought for. These days the populace is so zoned out on Tiktok and home delivery the chances of a popular movement are precisely zero unless it's toward a new TV serial.
I'm not sure it's a guarantee that the power is flowing from the top down. It seems more likely that the big players are just going where the money is, i.e. where their voters already are.
Immune response to the proteins in tick salvia create both a painful skin reaction and kill the tick.

Next, mosquitoes...kissing bugs...leeches.

"Swimmer's Itch" is caused by a small worm-like parasites called schistosomes that die when it tries to enter and live in human skin. Pretty sure this is an immune response too.
Yeah, I often do the calibrations in Python (OpenCV for distortions and rawpy and a flat frame for vignetting), spit out a tiff, and then do the rest in darktable. Lensfun is complicated so I never tried to go through that. Libraries are supposed to simplify things and it doesn't.
It's about 4.5% annualized increase over the 20 years (being almost flat in the second half). Yes, slightly higher than inflation (around 2.5% or so annualized), but I mean come on, it's not that large. As I pointed out, it's been decreasing as a % of GDP which is a more relevant metric.
Bitclouds.sh A programmable VPS platform. Rent an instance for 66 sats per hour
I think there's some overlap in spirit between the autistic community and the deaf community (in so far as you can cast this wide a net and call it "a community") in that the reason some deaf people argue against a cure is that it would eliminate deaf culture (e.g. sign languages). There's no real equivalent in the form of "autistic culture" but this is at least in part because most autistics who are able to have learned to "mask" (i.e. try to hide their autistic traits often to the point where they forget they're doing so). There's still a specific way of thinking and form of humor that's shared by many autistic people and which they fear would be lost if they were "cured".

Additionally the deaf community has every reason to be skeptical of a cure because many so-called cures come with massive caveats. For example Cochlear implants are often seen as a magical cure for deafness but there are many reports from formerly deaf people of experiencing intense discomfort if they gain any meaningful hearing from them at all. But due to the existence of these "cures" non-deaf people are more likely to treat deafness as a choice and affordances for deaf people as unimportant - similar to how according to some studies bicyclists are treated with less care by drivers when visibly wearing helmets.
Just to be clear, you said:

> The vast majority of currently active cases right now are for the 0-9 age group.

And then you shared data that shows 0-9 age group with less than 30%. Since we apparently agree on how to read the chart, I can only assume the words “vast majority” were not what you meant.
> A) I don't think this is needed you could just pin a older rust version. But if it's needed we are not quite there yet.

The problem I think is that SQLite is also used in embedded systems, they need to be predictable (for example, for all of its flaws C89 is still used in SQLite). So unless that there is a subset that is that stable, they won't move yet.
We will be paying the price for Facebook's 2017-era "Pivot to video" advice for years to come.
The big problem is that Carmack is an elite software engineer, and he's not at that same tier in rocketry/aerospace despite being good at it. Elite vs good. Which is to say, he'd have to take a back seat at SpaceX (which is running at full speed; Carmack would have to try to get back up to speed in aerospace just to contribute, difficult by itself). His ability to contribute beyond that of other industry specific talent is very questionable, and there are far better people - at rocketry/aerospace - working there than him. Carmack knows that without question. It simply doesn't make sense for him to spend his time doing that; it's not the best use of his time given that SpaceX already exists (vs trying to start what SpaceX has become, in his Armadillo effort).

It's the equivalent of Michael Jordan spending the remainder of his athletic career trying to play baseball. Sure, he could have done that. If the White Sox had allowed him on the team (ignoring the strike for a moment), more than likely all he would have been doing is taking the job of someone better at playing professional baseball than him; while his greatest ability by far rests in his basketball prowess.

Carmack already did a deep run at aerospace. He has N time left. Where can he combo make the greatest impact and enjoy the work. I'd guess that's something close to the equation, it seems to be for most people in that position/stage of life. Working at SpaceX is unlikely to be that place all things considered. What might have happened if Carmack had joined in the early days instead of doing Armadillo is an interesting thought (it's hard to see how the SpaceX outcome could be much better than it has been though, realistically).
Local bike shops aren't exactly rolling in dough. If you ask your local car mechanic how much they'd charge to remove a stuck bolt you'll also encounter a labor minimum that'll be a lot more than $40.
I thought some of the analyses here[1] were interesting. The economic analysis wasn't the most compelling to me. What I thought was thought provoking was the ratio of months of lockdown to months of lives saved. IIRC it took something like 51 lockdown-months for each extra month of life saved due to COVID (although the math is a bit back-of-the-envelope)

[1]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lockdown-effectiveness...
158MB mouse driver. Lololol
> I really thought they had a chance when armadillo won that NASA moonlander prize.

Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge.

I'd really wish John would put fingers to the keyboard and write the history of Armadillo Aerospace. From buying a peroxide engine from Juan Lozano (?) to decision not to continue, even with that grand CNC behemoth as a birthday gift.
> Elon just announced that they're building a literal android that is supposed to take verbal directions and perform everyday tasks for you. If that's not AGI, I don't know what is.

It's not AGI. An AGI is something that can think for itself, the way you can.
Maybe GP meant forced in the sense of giving right-of-way, which is arguably the biggest impediment to long distance rail construction. As of this January, California's High Speed Rail project still did not have all necessary right-of-ways [0].

[0] https://www.city-journal.org/high-costs-construction-delays-...
And I'd bet that half of those that do know who John Carmack is don't know he spent awhile building rockets, it's not exactly what he is known for.
Past threads, including one from last month:

Darktable 3.6 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27720908 - July 2021 (73 comments)

Darktable 3.2.1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24156113 - Aug 2020 (47 comments)

Darktable 3.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21874528 - Dec 2019 (120 comments)

Darktable 3.0 Approaching with Many New Features - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21440612 - Nov 2019 (1 comment)

Darktable 2.4.0 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16012499 - Dec 2017 (74 comments)

Darktable 2.2.0 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13261849 - Dec 2016 (82 comments)

Why don't you provide a Windows build? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12094038 - July 2016 (3 comments)

Darktable 2.0 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10789390 - Dec 2015 (44 comments)

A look at Darktable 2.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10640753 - Nov 2015 (10 comments)

Why there are no darktable builds for Windows - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9883018 - July 2015 (1 comment)