skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the key is that, the machines that make extremely advanced machines are not that advanced in of themselves.

You don't have to go down that many layers from the machines that foundries use (arguably objects among the very apex of human technology) to bog standard fabrication machines like lathes and mills and whatever they use to cast metal. We have lots of those around the world. It will definitely take a bit of time, but I don't think it will be all that utterly devastating.
I don't disagree with anything you said, and I'm certainlynot an anti-masker, but was skeptical of the parent claim which seems to be

"Research shoes masks are still effective even when spending the whole day in the same room"

I'm not aware of any evidence that this is the case and I worry that people are putting too much stake in masks when really social distancing is much more effective than masks ever will be.
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We are reimaginning the relationship between consumers and the brands they love through crowdsourcing consumers' everyday purchases to make an impact/fund what matters for rewards and loyalty.
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Elon is working on ML, not AGI.

Carmack is working on artificial general intelligence. As far as I know, that's well outside of anything Elon is doing.
Yeah, but in the absence of better information, we make do with what we have, and pregnant people get vaccinated, right?

I see your point that more research is better, but given the current uncertainty you still have to decide whether Covid or Vaccine is the bigger risk, and all the science says that Covid is the bigger risk.

I'm honestly not sure where we disagree.
Great minds think alike ;)
Yeah, the amount of "revenue collection" they do borders on theft I suppose.
It's worth reading a bit into disability rights theory IMO.

Many so-called disabilities only become disabilities when individuals are confronted with a lack of affordances. This isn't just about wheelchair ramps, even "able-bodied" people can be situationally disabled if the affordances they take for granted are taken away (a sighted person might be more "disabled" in a dark room than a blind person who knows how to solve problems without relying on sight).

Autism is used to describe a vast swathe of "conditions" so it's hard to generalize but most autistics don't "feel" disabled except when interfacing with allistics (non-autistics). There are also studies indicating that allistics tend to react negatively (or even hostile) to autistics by default when the opposite is not true (nor between autistics).

Organizations like Autism Speaks tend to pathologize autism as an "insufficiency" by focusing on how allistics tend to perceive "people with severe autism", e.g. mutism, "stereotypic behaviors", etc. But that's a very biased view even of the small subset of autistics it attempts to highlight. For example I find it hard to argue that "parallel play" is inferior to "cooperative play" except that autistics tend to enjoy whereas allistics tend to prefer the latter; or that "special interests" (say, trains) are a matter of concern while obsessing with socially accepted hobbies (like historic football matches) are somehow not.

All that said, my country has banned a lot of early stage screening due to ethical concerns and while screenings for trisomy 21 aren't illegal (despite having very unreliable results btw) they're socially frowned upon by many people and rarely result in abortions. So yes, in my cultural context the general consensus seems to be that that could be considered a form of eugenics.
Again... I don't care about how much you, or I, spend on bikes. I'm a nerd, I do most of the work myself. You seem like that too.

I'm talking about cost in relation to alternatives. If the cost in relation to alternatives is low, then you can easily afford luxurious maintenance, as you'd be spending the same money, and lots more, paying for any alternative.
> let's not forget Biden, Harris, Schumer, etc saying they wouldn't take the "Trump Vaccine."

Could you point me in the direction of a source on this? I have done my own research and pulled up absolutely nothing. Actually that's inaccurate. I pulled up a BUNCH of 2020 articles where Biden talks about inadequate vaccination orders, etc. But I'd be interested in seeing the basis of your claims.
The better/safer option?

Perhaps. It's hard to know what the future holds. But I hate self-checkout in today's grocery stores. It's frustrating, annoying, and doesn't improve anything for me as a shopper.
What I don't understand is why the service person can see the PUK (1).

There are just way too many ways this can go wrong.

(1): Rhetorically, most likely because when their service system was developed this wasn't a concern and since then they never re-evaluated this part for security (or did and didn't care to change it).
I agree with everything you're saying, but one of the key social decisions I think that scientists need to make in this regard is to maintain deliberate neutrality on controversial political issues which aren't directly related to their field of expertise. Distrust towards science can't be prevented or mitigated in an environment where journals endorse presidential candidates.
Sorry to nitpick, but I wouldn't call the caliphs, sultans, emirs and kings of the muslim world of the 1090's "warlords". Even the Seljuks had essentially ceased being nomads by that time and had settled down.
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Post-Vax Myocarditis Also Mild in Teens, Early Cases Suggest. Follow-Up Urged
Yes, unfortunately the code example got somewhat mangled as it passed through the arXiv sanitization script [1]. The original is:

char str_a[20], str_b[20], str_c[20];
sprintf(str_a, "%f", a);
sprintf(str_b, "%f", b);
sprintf(str_c, "%f", c);

[1] https://github.com/google-research/arxiv-latex-cleaner
I think the claim is that they are actors rather than anti vaxers.
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You may have to network your way into finding customers. Who do you know who knows creators? Is there a way you can get in front of creators so that you can test your assumptions in front of them?
Moms on Facebook built island of good-faith vaccine debate in sea of misinfo
That is far from the whole story. FDR departed from the gold standard, devalued the dollar (or raised the price of gold to $35 from $20). And the price of gold was left fixed at $35 until 1971.

Now, is that "gold is pegged to a fixed price" or "dollars are convertible to gold at a fixed price" the same as the gold standard? The very first sentence of that Wikipedia article says "A gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is based on a fixed quantity of gold." So I would say that yes, by that definition we were still on the gold standard until 1971.
Asking about the actual requirement sounds very much like what you do in real-time systems, vs just being happy with "faster"?
I would modify the cool side thing (being a sniper), if it highlights leadership skills, collaboration, and determination. There are many opportunities to develop these and many more in military and other roles before you get a first real job.

Depending on whether you took advantage of the opportunity and who you are interviewing with, it can be a strong differentiator and set you onto a quicker path to promotion.

The stars part is flawed because it's set against the 19 commits which don't really quantify anything. Both these miss after some good build up around the adoption of the Docusaurus. It'd be better to have a description of the impact of the 19 commits.
+1. Some of the worse burns I had were during overcast days.
Little details - making it to the article and the click out gives you the browser "Are you sure you want to leave?" prompt.

Scary accurate. I hate the web.
In case anyone else is looking for a tl;dr on "scene-referred" this link has a very simple diagram. https://www.filmriot.com/blog/scene-referred-vs-display-refe...

gist is whether you do your color grading in the camera's original color space (scene referred) or after transforming to display color space (display referred)
Since moving my totp keys onto a yubikey, I device hop with wild abandon since I know I can't accidentally bork my 2fa, it's great.
Yep, I studied economic history, I have read all of his books (including his first book on statistics in early 20th century Germany). His latest book wasn't that well received, and it is very far from the best book on the 2008 financial crisis (it is far too early to say which book is the best, but Tooze framed that book in terms of the bete noires of the left at the time, Trump and Brexit, which massively takes away from the book's broader relevance...it happens, it is how publishers sell books, it is not how writers produce great ones). Deluge and Wages of Destruction are considered his best books, and Wages is clearly superior (Deluge and Crashed are really more popular history).

Either way, I don't think I made any specific claims about the limits of Tooze's knowledge (I have no real idea what Tooze does or does not know). My point was simple: if you look solely at Nazi Germany fiscal policy between 1931 and 1944, it will appear very much like there are no limits to spending. He references this multiple times throughout the article. I also mentioned that the other very common place that you see this is is people who have studied Japanese economic policy in the 70/80s. If you take these periods and you want to believe that there are no limits in spending, these periods will allow you to make that argument (and it is common to see this generally: people who are experts in one period of history, often see everything through that lens...human nature). It is extremely common for people who believe in MMT or some variant of MMT to reference these periods (and again, not make any reference to other aspects of how that was possible i.e. politics).

The problem with this is that this information does not generalize (and I have said specifically why this information doesn't generalize in these cases). He refers to post-WW2 as an example of there being no limit to spending but, again as I explain specifically, it is an example of the opposite. I made no claim about why that is: all I said is that Tooze's expertise is periods in which the limits to spending aren't clear, and he is referencing a period which is a the textbook example of limits to spending (post-WW2).

I didn't say this but I know why he is making this argument: Tooze is left-leaning. Most economists aren't particularly familiar with the details of 1950s monetary policy (there are very few books on this subject, it isn't fashionable) but even if there were, people would still believe in MMT. The reasons why people in believe in certain things are not limited to evidence (Tooze was one of the public figures that was behind Corbyn's MMT-funded spending plans, he has taken a political stance on this). If this wasn't the case, I do suspect he would have a different interpretation of the post-WW2 period.
I recently started on my photography journey and is just starting with darktable. My biggest challenge is around multiple modules with apparently very similar functionality. It has been very hard to figure out what should I do to get to the end goal I have in mind. FWIW, most of my work is in underwater photography and what I really want is adjust exposure, white balance and change the de-saturate aqua and blue in masked areas and I got struck with filmic, RGB and a couple of others, with none being easy for a beginner.
Well yes, if the alternatives are viable.

For someone on grad student income, owning a car is largely not viable, it's not even an alternative that is remotely in sight.
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More than a hobby, it's like a gender roleplaying ritual for identity construction. ( And class I guess if it's expensive. Same reason me think golf is fun)
And they're also required to report misconduct of other officers, but how often is that ignored...
Iran is led by bloodthirsty dictators. If not for the sanctions they would have likely started wars with half the Middle East. Now they are merely antagonizing half the Middle East.
As well as being a carpenter
The "about to land" and "at Toronto Buttonville Municipal Airport" verbiage in OP's article is plenty damning, as it tells us that the police drone's operator(s) not only failed in their general duty to stay clear of and yield to manned aircraft, but did so in the vicinity of an active airport. My point (possibly not well made) was that "the cause of the collision is not known" is mostly irrelevant wrt. the culpability of the police, as in any incident like this there is a tiny keyhole of possible extenuating circumstances surrounded by an ocean of likely negligence.

I brought in the other source to verify the claims in OP's article, but the fact that the manned aircraft was literally on short final makes this incident even worse than the first article implies. It escalates the police misconduct from serious, likely criminal (by "civilian" standards, at least) negligence to something so absurdly over the top that I'm not sure what to call it. There is no more dangerous place to operate a UAS than in the glide slope of an active runway.

The term "reckless endangerment" comes to mind.
Not trusting that it's being distributed in the best way is in no way the same as distrusting the vaccine itself.
Million short sort of does this
Instead of a Lyme vaccine we should work on spreading this to everyone

(Or you know, we could do both.)
I am not saying there aren't good reasons to want that privacy, but as long as I can opt-out (which I can), I have no issue with the trade-offs, they benefit me more than they cost me.

This is in stark contrast to someone people who demand universal and mandatory privacy at all costs for everyone, regardless of that.
> Where did I even mention Twitter?

Nowhere, but I wasn’t actually saying that you were talking about Twitter. Rather I’m saying that you’re taking an argument usually relevant to social media companies like Twitter, and using them in a new context in a way that’s closer to a straw man than anything else.

> Looks like you just spotted a right list of "trigger keywords" and launched a counterattack.

No, I saw an argument I normally make being represented in an unfair way, and wanted to express my disagreement. Your use of the pejorative “hive mind” did not help my perception. Nor, frankly, has this response.
Yes, in the broadest sense we want to discourage crimes like murder, rape, assault, and theft. I don’t think anyone reasonable disagrees with this concept. The issue I’m raising is that what the definition of things like “rape” and “murder” is where problems start.

My cynical point is that socially we tend to define “real crimes” in such a way to reinforce existing power hierarchies. Steal from the register and face prosecution, steal from your employee and maybe be forced to pay it back (maybe). Shoot your neighbor and get executed by the state, poison the river and face a civil case, starve foreign infants and face no consequences whatsoever. Morally all of these are awful things, but which ones get criminalized and prosecuted is extremely selective. The rich and powerful often not only get selective treatment when prosecuted, but the kind of violence that can bring is often not even criminalized at all.

My most horrifying example is the fact that until the 1990s it wasn’t legally possible for a man to be charged with raping his wife in some states. 13 states still treat marital rape as a lesser crime than rape of a non-spouse. I think we’d all agree that punishing rape is a good thing for the justice system to be doing, but that’s hardly sufficient when the law has such obvious holes in it.
Yeah, but we are never going to stop that behavior by individuals choosing not to shop at Amazon. As an individual, my only two choices are to shop at Amazon and get the benefits and Amazon still exists, or don’t shop there and don’t get the benefits and Amazon still exists. Amazon is not going to care if they lose my business. The only person who suffers is me.

If we think Amazon business practices are immoral, we need to make them illegal.
It sounds like you have decided what you think the future will look like based on your own narrow experience of technology, and are not open to alternative viewpoints.

And to answer your question: museums and institutions have been collecting 2D and 3D digital art, VR, code based art, etc for years. The NFT space provides new technologies that can be used here, and an alternative distribution channel & market for this type of work.
More like, people want the illusion that they can make themselves more attractive. If you say the truth, "Well dear, your skin's current appearance is a combination of genetics and avoiding the sun," then you've basically said, "You can't undo the past, therefore all hope is lost. Also, you're stupid for thinking this cream can help you."
IMO you're misunderstanding this customer. The returns are pretty friction-less but they're still a burden that I'd rather not deal with - and I specifically don't want to order an electrical device off amazon and have it fail in a spectacular way that damages my other equipment.

The most luxurious thing you can tell me as a seller is that you're minimizing the longest potential time until I have a correctly functioning product - shipping is a big part of that, but not having to go through the hassle of getting it shipped out twice and returning one of them is another component.

Also I think AliExpress is a pretty terrible comparison - Amazon does beat it hand over fist. I think Amazon wants to be NewEgg but with less shipping time (and maybe the reputation it had a decade ago - it seems to be struggling lately). And it wants to be every other specialist store as well. I think it's possible for them to do this, but the thing they're lacking right now is the budget or motivation to actually vet products - they rely on peer reviews and manufacturer statements to try and suggest products.
Sorry. I had relatively strong reaction (weakness, soreness, slight fever, and overall malaise) starting about 6 hours after the shot and lasting for two full days.

Get the shots, but if you get them on a Friday, you might be writing off the weekend.
At least in the US there are both LEO and military aircraft that fly around with their transponders turned off. I’m not sure that “sense and avoid” would’ve worked in this case if the cops decided for whatever reason they’d turn off ADS-B.
None of what you said makes any sense. For people like me, here is an explanation of scene referred workflow

"The scene-referred workflow places an emphasis on performing image processing in the linear scene-referred part of the pixelpipe. This helps to reduce artifacts and color shifts that can result from processing non-linear pixel values and, by decoupling the image processing from the characteristics of a specific display, it makes it easier to adapt your work in the future to new display media, such as high dynamic range displays."
That’s unreasonably generous to cops, IMO. They have a pretty long track record of doing all of those and getting away with it.
> you do your color grading in the camera's original color space

you do your color grading in linear color space (or something that roughly maps to linear color space) is what that actually means. Linear meaning, the exposure of a pixel is supposed to be proportional to the data number, and the exposure is theoretically infinite (since you can have anywhere between 0 and infinite light). For display color space (for photography this is more in line with "print media color space") there is a maximum brightness and minimum brightness, and you have all the numbers to map brightnesses between the two.

The math is a lot cleaner with linear color spaces.
Except for all those stories of people who have been interviewing for months but can't seem to land anything. Much better to realize you have developed some behavioral problems and seek treatment for them while you are employed rather than after you leave your job.
For anyone caring just enough to wonder what scene referred and display referred are talking about…

scene referred does its filtering and mapping work on the pixel values in a linear space, presumably linear to "photons observed" but I could be wrong there.

display referred does its filtering and mapping on pixel values which have already been through a nonlinear function to make them appropriate for display.

The scene referred people say they don't tend make silly skin tones and avoid "rat piss" sunsets as well as reducing artifacts like halos around blurs. (I presume that means the blurs are something like Gaussian blurs performing linear operations on the nonlinear data.)

This is all I know.
It’s probably a sign of the times. We’re very polarized and I feel very strongly about my opinions. I feel like modern feminism is a cancer eating away at American society. I’m very progressive about pretty much every other “politicized” opinion, maybe besides guns.
Who doesn't know Carmack on HN?
I think the only company that has ever asked me for this has been Google.
Agreed. MongoDB isn't UUID per se but apps that use the IDs directly somehow usually don't realize they're leaking information for the exact same reason.
He was years ahead of the curve [0] on mobile-first VR. By that I don't mean "stick a phone in Google Carboad," but truly self-contained and portable VR built on mobile chipsets. The success of the Quest and Quest 2 is proof of that, especially in the context of years of slow PC-only VR user growth.

[0] https://venturebeat.com/2016/10/07/oculus-john-carmack-argue...
Perhaps you could start by comparing longevity and mental faculty between countries with/without large amounts of mosquitoes.
Depends upon what is evidence, what is influence, what is not allow … and do not hypothesise ! The whole science is based on doing hypotheses. And imagining something not allowed or again st established thinking based on fact on the ground. Who has not. Medical journal has not. It killed us …
I mean, 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 may not be very likely to happen anytime soon, but the ambition is there at least.

If you haven't watched the Tesla AI presentation, I highly recommend it. The dancer in a spandex robot suit is getting all the headlines but the technical presentations are the real deal. Karpathy in particular is an excellent technical presenter and he didn't hold back.
> True, though usually viruses mutate into less virulent forms.

Citation needed. The delta variant is the prime counter-example with higher R0 and slightly higher mortality. SAGE admitted SARS-CoV-2 will very likely mutate to defeat all build-up immunity. Variants of SARS-CoV-2 (SARS and MERS) showed the potential to have very high infection fatality ratios.

There is no reason at all to suspect COVID will suddenly become mild.
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This is my solution as well. I find that an intense heating session will keep the itch at bay for up to 8 hours.

I think the hot spoon that others have mentioned is also worth a try as the circumference of the bite and spoon could keep non bite areas from burning.
Its forgotten how many benefits warfare can bring to humanity. WW2 transformed the US into a global superpower and an industrial powerhouse of unprecedented scale. Technologies invented to aid warfare are improving the quality of life (e.g. aircraft, radar, computers, internet etc etc.) I think that the war industry actually brings us tremendous benefits with a good ROI.