skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some of it is that, but engineers tend to be more pragmatic and willing to change their mind with new evidence

Going solely off the assumption this is true, which I don't entirely believe, the fact of the matter is: this is still not politics. We are a small profession operating on a small forum and for any of the discussion to be any more than farming engagement, the discussions have to escape the internet--leading to your next point.

> Google engineers can push back on this fundamentalist ideology instead of continuing to implement it.

At which point they could be fired and replaced with someone willing to do so. It's self replicating.
“Mindlessly” connect with their friends, family, and people who share their interests.
It's like a hilltop, without propellent to keep it near L2 it will roll off into solar orbit.
The anti-vaxx movement has always had folks like this. Even freaking Andrew Wakefield only claimed that the MMR vaccines were bad and was personally involved in marketing an alternative.

IMO, "I don't hate all vaccines" is just ideological cover. Regardless of your opinion of other vaccines, resistance to the Covid vaccines is foolishness. End of story.
You would think so, but I have yet to see any evidence that public policy has shifted to deal with this reality. Notably absent is any messaging around things people can do to lower their incidence of severe symptoms, such as getting vitamin D levels checked, and maintaining a healthy weight.
Nvidia CUDA Software Gets Ported to Open-Source RISC-V Gpgpu Project
Its a ploy of matrix to keep you convinced it doesnt exist.
if a child does not have an existing health issues the risk of covid itself is so low that even if the vaccine had no complications the cost of the vaccine itself would probably outweigh the individual benefits conferred to the child. it's very difficult to justify a medical intervention when the risk is so low. if you are taking a more utilitarian view then it is certainly better to be sending vaccines that would be given to children to other countries that currently have a shortage of vaccines for at risk groups.

the UK had a vaccine committee that authored a report on the benefit and risks of giving a vaccine to children. they concluded the benefits outweigh the risks but the benefits are so small that it is impossible to justify taking action.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/jcvi-statement-se...
There was a retracted study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29889622/
The last state lockdown orders expired in June 2020. Most lasted on the order of a few weeks.

The economy is not destroyed. Assets are appreciating, GDP is growing faster than it has in a decade and employers are desperate to find workers. The unemployment rate is near 5%.

If there is a weak spot in the economy, it is that rising case numbers of the Delta variant are causing people to voluntarily limit their in-person activities. When you ask business leaders what can help the economy, they say “more people getting vaccinated” because it’s the fastest way to reduce new COVID cases.
Never underestimate the efficacy of light to moderate physical activity in synthesizing information without necessarily directly thinking about the topic at hand.

We enter a different thinking mode, termed "diffuse", where the release of focus allows us to subconsciously zoom out and stitch together the newly acquired information and partial revelations into a clearer more advanced picture.
Auth/discovery service intended to help P2P app developers – written in Rust(tm)
"Linux Workload Performance on LinuxONE III / z15"

https://community.ibm.com/HigherLogic/System/DownloadDocumen...
A neat, elegant solution with one problem. The whales involved in these kinds of operations are using OPM - "other people's money". They can sign whatever piece of paper they want.

The people whose money they're 'investing' however will absolutely go to the SEC if things go upside down.
> Except now I’m supposed to show a digital vaccine record many places I go. Not many open source options exist for reading them either, so I’m just supposed to trust that the data (name, birth date, maybe location) isn’t being sent to some marketing analytics company somewhere.

If you think vaccine passports are bad just wait until you hear about all phones...
I feel like I’m about to rage quit. And I don’t work a retail/fast food job. It’s amazing what a toxic manager will inspire.
The data seem to indicate this is not the case.
I wonder how many of them are older people who were turned off by [1] or children of older people who warned them about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
After ignoring EVs for too long, Toyota will invest $13.6B in batteries
Well that's a large swing in the other direction, but I enjoy the hyperbole. You do realize lockdowns are the far other direction though? Do you see my point why lockdowns were bad?

Allowing and encouraging people to go outside is the happy medium.
This reminds me of "portal travel." It's a half-joke, based on the vision of walking through a portal and showing up at your destination. Of course that's impossible, but...

Imagine a portal showing up outside your house, maybe on the back of a truck. It's got all the theater: the wavy green lights, smoke, the whole deal. You wave good bye to your family, walk in, and then you get chloroformed and pass out. Your body is loaded into a standardized life support container and driven to the airport. Then, you get revived 6 hours later at your hotel so you can take a shower.

Ok, so there are some details to work out but the point is that the typical air travel experience is so terrible it would be better to be unconscious for most of it. Portal travel!
For those more familiar with photography than astronomy, 200mm referrers to the aperture of the telescope, not the focal length. This is a telescope roughly 8 inches in diameter.

If you're looking to see it, Orion's XT8 would be a great starting telescope with aperture enough to see the comet
Jenny McCarthy?
Temperature difference helps if there's no wind. In winter time CO₂ drops from 4000+ ppm to ~450 in only a couple of minutes after opening a single window (with inside to outside temperature difference of 50°C or higher). In summer it drops to ~600-700 and stays there, and even this takes hours.
Supporting CUDA for an extended RISC-V GPU architecture
Ask Elon Musk or any uber-successful person in our culture. What would our world look like if Steve Jobs went home early every day?
> The curve is flattened, the goal posts have been moved out of the stadium.

How are you quantifying that? The original intent of flattening the curve was to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system and here we are... overwhelming the healthcare system(s) again. A quick check of capacity of ICU beds in the SE USA shows that on average, hospitals are running 92% capacity(1). Obviously you want right-sized ICU capacity, but I doubt 92% is a comfortable margin.

(1)https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-hospitals-...
The thing that sends my PM2.5 skyrocketing the most is, interestingly, my toaster oven. Like from 50 to 1500 in the space of 10 min. No food needed within -- just the heating itself.

I have no idea what the particles are though -- metal? Paint? Carbon from burnt residue? Or just whatever the heating element itself is made of?

Separately, cooking with gas (oven+stove) also sends CO2 way way up -- in my kitchen, from 500 to 1300 or so within 20 minutes. And that's with my range hood on.
You cannot seriously be trying to advocate for hospitals being run with unvaccinated staff.

> We treated your asthma attack, sorry about the covid that you got while you were here, hope those two things don't affect each other

I have to agree with the other commenter that you're either not arguing in good faith, or you're so blindly ideologically driven that you've thrown basic reasoning skills out the window.
I dug through the GCP dot page, and if I am understanding it correctly, their near-perfect RNGs have turned out to not be very random?
IMHO, in terms of integrations, Restya Core seems to have done it correctly. (disclosure: I was on their private beta)
Not sure where the VA comes from in the headline. It's not in the original article's headline.

Even if were added for clarity, it's just wrong. This isn't Virginia. It's Maryland. There is no Prince George's County in Virginia. There is a Prince George County, but it's quite some distance away.
Just think how much time gets wasted by every teacher writing a lesson plan, pop quizes, tests etc. Why not share the resources and spend the time doing more, or just do nothing instead.
Have you had a good experience with Awair? The last time I looked it seemed like they had no recommended way to clean the sensors. And in my limited experience PM2.5 sensors do need periodic cleaning to remain accurate. My air filter has one and the manufacturer recommends a bit of alcohol and a puff of air.
Are there even any great RSS readers anymore? I sure would like a nice win+linux FOSS reader with a snappy keyboard based UI. Or something.
In 1919 essentially the entire world was at war with the USSR, they couldn't provide Ireland meaningful support. By 59 they were stable and able to work with other countries.

Plus, the USSR was never that successful at embracing atheism, which should be obvious as thr Russian Orthodox church remains a strong force. Around 1920 was the about the most hostile period to religion.

Making this about religion seems forced to me. Even the article just throws that line in as a closing statement despite none of the article really discussing religion.
Strong shades of “Merchants of Doubt” here. One wonders where the funding comes from.

> However, it is counterproductive to promote EVs in regions where electricity is produced from oil, coal, and lignite combustion.

The above quoted opinion is naive and simplistic to the point of ridiculousness.

First, it suggests that even if these sources are not the only ones present in the mix, but that if they are merely present as partial sources, there is still no reason for promoting EVs.

Second, it overlooks that building up EV demand creates demand for battery power storage, as EVs can draw power at night. This battery storage can, in turn, start to at first incrementally, and eventually completely, replace the need for the dirtiest sources, as stored power can be used when demand peaks, cutting down use of the dirty sources.

Then as more EVs are added, the demand for batteries at night continues to grow, until eventually most of the dirty sources can be replaced by a mix of low carbon sources and batteries. (Lithium recycling is a problem that is being solved at scale. Other non-lithium power storage solutions exist too.)

Finally it assumes that the mix of energy sources in a given locale is static. That’s hardly assured.
The article seems to mix up "expert" with "world class" a bit. I do think that becoming one of the best in the world in any popular field probably requires suitable genes. But, to me, "expert" is more like someone who's usually the best person in the room at something. Quite different goals.
In 2009, researchers conducted the first-ever trial on cancer immunotherapy using mRNA-based vaccines in human subjects with metastatic melanoma. The results of the trial showed an increase in the number of vaccine-directed T cells against melanoma (Weide et al., 2009).

https://the-dna-universe.com/2021/04/15/the-history-of-mrna-...
> Funny how HN is so willing to agree with the absurdity of security theater at airports, yet so resistant to calling out the pandemic theater we're living every day.

Take a peek at a hospital if you have some time.
Not sure if this is DIY enough for you, but I'm using an MQ131 (about $20-$30 on Amazon, probably cheaper directly from China [1]) in an air quality monitor I'm building. There's an Arduino library for it [2], and from what I can tell so far, it does work, though it's probably not super accurate. It's also somewhat sensitive to environmental factors, but you can correct for some of that with known temperature/humidity.

[1] There are a few different kinds of MQ131 (for high and low concentrations); you'll probably want the low concentration one. I also removed the bare sensor from a breakout board I purchased so I could access it directly from my custom PCB.

[2] https://github.com/ostaquet/Arduino-MQ131-driver
Looks very cool. I hadn't heard of Looker before but I love seeing OSS alternatives like this.
Show HN: Outliers – iOS app to track all stocks in an index or sector
Next up, smokers and the obese.
> Nothing is sacred enough for some people I guess. Not science, not even the human mind.

Certainly not when the aims seem to be to corner the market in ruling over those minds.
Yes, but has the final assembly been calibrated against a known controlled environment?

Without that, the readings from the device become more of a crapshoot, which is fine if there is no desire for greater precision (i.e a just for fun project)

Sensor manufacturers cannot calibrate for every possible packaging configuration.

As someone who has DIYed a lot of stuff related to indoor climate, I tend to save my effort for the mitigation work, and use well tested measurement tools to validate those. This is for the same reason that one doesn't usually DIY a multimeter before doing electrical work.
They are pretty different things, at pretty different times. We could make bad analogies all day long and end up at some very weird places. Like imagine that COVID was invisible Arab terrorists armed with a gas who killed 600,000+ Americans. I think the response and fear level would be very different. But it's a silly analogy and a real digression from thinking about 9/11 in its own context.
The "solarpunk" ideology seems to include things like decentralization, local governance, and anti-authoritarianism. In this respect, China seems like an ill fit.
Archive.is still doesn’t work if you use Cloudflare DNS due to a spat with Cloudflare and the operator. So to me, the continuity and reliability is already a big question. Not only is it a question of sustainability economically, but also ideologically: what happens if another similar decision is made to lock out a portion of users?
Pretty progressive of a publicly traded company to use profanity in their blog, I dig it! What is 99u?
Who is empowered when the masses are swallowed by fear? It is not some hooded maniac rubbing his hands together in his basement. It is the state, which maintains control. Control is maintained by fear; fear is engineered through psychological warfare. When did the state ever insruct us to stop fearing "terror"? Machiavelli wrote all about this.
Desperation for Cuba. Cuba had terrible relations with everyone except the Soviet Union. Ireland had good relations with everyone except the UK. In particular the US was supportive of Ireland.
After constructing a better diagram that lens idea looks false too. Similar triangles win again.
Haven't ever used it, but I can't imagine it raises above Twitter... That stuff have vile real-life consequences...
An infinite number of tests yes, it is like trying to find the best possible predictor of a source. No statistical test can prove that a source has full entropy and uniformly distributed, only disprove it. These tests are too often misused and are usually not very useful since they tell us nothing about how much entropy might be in the sample, and entropy sources are always biased anyway and fail the tests, and if you condition them then they will always pass the test even if not random at all. A better method is to develop a stochastic model of the entropy source and attempt to estimate bounds on the entropy, which is still generally not feasible. The statistical tests can then be used as a sanity check to verify your entropy estimates.
The RNG needs a conditioning phase, or entropy extractor to transform the output into a distribution that is indistinguishable from uniform as is needed in cryptographic applications and you should always include this stage because virtually no physical entropy source has a uniform distribution.
The best thing to do is to try to gather as much entropy as you can from sources and gather maybe 10x what you think you need and then put it through an entropy extractor like a cryptographic hash function to generate a PRNG seed then use the PRNG.
On RSS I'd agree, but I think you've missed the mark on HTTPS.

HTTP-over-TLS works fine across all "versions" of HTTP, HTTPS has been supported by browsers since 1994; over half a decade before RSS was even a thing.

Your criticisms of HTTPS seem more targeted at HTTP3, but that's actually a separate topic (HTTP3 may be HTTPS-only in practice but that's not the specific aspect you're critiquing).

RSS/Atom also work fine over HTTPS.
If we're talking that long of a timescale, how long does your typical book these days actually last? I'm no expert, but it makes me wonder how long consumer paper actually lasts. Reasonable(?) search result below.

https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-it-take-for-paper-to-dec...
I think the early access model lends itself better to some kinds of games than others.

Survival games, such as RUST, lend themselves quite naturally to early access because it's more straightforward to create a 'complete-feeling' and compelling demonstration of the core concept, and then to expand that with further content and further systems.

In something like Miegekure or the Witness a lot of the 'work' being done isn't in content creation or additional systems, but with work to the engine and other underlying tech that permeates all areas of the game.

Also, a survival game or a rogue-lite game has a lot of replayability that only gets more replayable as more content and options for a single playthrough are added. A puzzle game, or a game that is very narrative intensive, has a lot of the appeal being in the first run of the game. As such, if you experience a puzzle or an encounter when the game is only in the early stages of development then a lot of the intended impact of that content is lost, never to be recovered.
Could Jews attain Aryan status by taking shots?
They'll tell you it's not guaranteed (and it's technically not even guaranteed that you'll get PreCheck even if you've got PreCheck yourself) but I've also had a 100% success rate with buying tickets and having PreCheck applied to all of them.
New documents show Dr. Fauci has been keeping us from the truth

https://nypost.com/2021/09/07/new-docs-show-dr-fauci-has-bee...
Karen Miga Fills in the Missing Pieces of Our Genome
your comment sounds like what someone who doesnt fly might have said after 9/11. its not hard to think of some examples that apply to the covid security theatre. for example, there are fundamental freedoms, like the freedom of movement, that turn out not to be so fundamental after all. safety first.
> ...because the cost of a bad hire is so much higher than the cost on missing out...

We've all heard this enough that we don't need to keep repeating it. It's fast becoming a cliche, if it isn't already.
It's a rule because it makes it easier to keep things flowing. You don't have to trust that the person is right about their belt not being able to set off the metal detector.
I would also like to know anything rhel based.
imo DNS is much more capable world wide database.

also BGP...
When I ask small business leaders that they say to stop paying people to stay home.

I said middle class. Small business was destroyed. The corporations got richer.

How does your neighborhood look? All businesses still intact?

Not talking about the stock market.
It’s projecting. The person with theft in their heart is often the first to accuse someone of having stolen a misplaced item.

And then there’s deflection where you accuse people of things before they can accuse you of them.
You'd be humbled (perhaps not) by how little human capital gets assigned to review and correct anything under 5-figures at AWS. The account gets put into overdue and the services stay paused, you get an email every so often (if you even put in a valid email). Pretending they have a crack team of hundreds of analysts sitting there waiting to ban every account associated to an IP for $5 is pretty farcical. I have several 6-figure AWS accounts at present, and I can barely get ahold of a human being when there are issues related to wire payments not being applied to an account, let alone imagine they'd have anyone worrying about this beyond putting a dev on it to set up an ignore filter on such accounts. They have a manual process to allow any accounts to spend above $2000 or $5000 (I can't remember) where you fill out a credit application and they vet you to see if you are indeed good for it before allowing you to provision further. If you default on that, they will carefully weight the cost of collecting you or even reporting it to a credit bureau vs the amount due.

Not advocating for mass fraud here, or even petty fraud, just making it a bit more fair to those who have 0 provisions in the platform to prevent involuntary overspending.
I don't know the actual reason. However, I suspect its for the same reason why they used "bin" for binary, "usr" for user, "var" for varying, and so forth. There was a culture, back then, of not wasting characters because to do so resulted in a real-life waste of space that could limit what was possible (due to storage size constraints). This extended to the fact that the terminal you typed on was sending characters over a 150 or 300 baud modem. Every chance to save some space while still providing reasonably clear communication was considered desirable.
So your thesis is: "you should trust the experts because you likely aren't smart enough to read a bar chart on your own." ?
Did the author just forget about the attempted corporate take over of .org? [0]. Blockchains like Ethereum are part of the solution which help prevent something like that from happening.

They're not at the stage to be usable yet but it seems that is where we are going. It just takes more de-platformings, bans, hostile takeovers, suspensions etc to accelerate the need for this.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22122458
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28448593

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28455544
What about suspended water droplets?
You’re thinking of Ethereum’s Turing-complete scripting language, a prime example of why that functionality doesn’t belong on the base layer.
has there ever been anything remotely resembling justification for nighttime curfews? I've tried to find any reasoning for it and completely failed to do so.
My bro and I just bought our first PC, a cyrix 166+ and were playing doom when a friend of his shows up with a floppy and says: "my 3d engine is lagging on my PC and I dont know why, can I try on yours?".

What he showed us was the most beautiful thing I have ever see in my life at the time. My jaw felt on the ground and never my life was the same after that.

The guy's managed to software-render some sort of parabolic shape made of colored polygons in 13h 320x200 graphical mode. And it was fluid as hell. Nothing like Doom but just knowing he did that was enough for me. Later, he also made a comanche style voxel engine and something I've never seen since: real-time perspective-correct texture mapping on curved surfaces (we're talking about a program that runs at 60Hz on a 133Mhz cpu). Without internet, without books. Just looked at games. The kid was a genius and would have made a terrific career was he in the US. As would I. I study all his C and asm code and a few years later was making a software rendered quake clone. Disclaimer: I had books and Internet.
> The US has abandoned Syria, Iraq, Kurds.

It wasn’t much involved in any of those (and indeed had already abandoned the Kurds after the conflict which motivated the formation of al-Qaeda) when al-Qaeda actually got organized. It got reinvolved with them largely enabled by the political fallout from 9/11.

> The withdrawal from Afghanistan is a culmination of that.

Again, that's mostly a reversion to the status quo ante.
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