skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why you think that's a problem. The vaccines offer better protection against variants than having had COVID and recovering.

Edit: Apparently this is new information to people: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...
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>Every cycle that the CPU doesn't spend idle

Such as time spent networking?
It ends when half a million+ people per year (in the US anyway) aren't dying of a preventable disease - not to mention probably millions more suffering long term effects.

I see a familiar pattern with sentiments like this: showing lots of hand-wringing over civil liberties, but seemingly no concern over all the people who have died and who have been incapacitated. Those people had a right to not be exposed to a deadly virus.
Measles

Mumps

Smallpox

SARS1

MERS

Chickenpox

Tuberculosis

To name a few.

Not a fools errand. Important to get vaccinated to prevent worse variants.
Unless it was updated, OPs language said “and insurance companies” so I’m presuming they meant life insurance companies.
Maximizing life is always in friction with social entropy. But too authoritarian is not fun either. New normals are normal. Vaccine mandates seem worthwhile from the current vantage point.

I guess I would look at what is actually practically limiting you living your best life; avoid too much extrapolation on the rapid societal changes that are certainly not limited to covid vaccine mandates. Our techno-capitalist-oligarchy social structure is changing everything.
It is certainly possible. What we think of as a long timescale for the age of the universe may be very short in some future epoch where the fundamental forces further split, just as we see the epoch of electroweak unification as being short.
Thunderbolt is the worst security hole you can imagine. It just gives direct memory access to, well, pretty much everything. So it's trivial to install a backdoor, like it was back in Win95 era.
About 2/3 of all jobs now require you to be vaccinated?
Is this an argument in favor of monitoring individual compliance with environmental standards using some kind of digital pass? That seems like something you should state explicitly.

Occupational safety regulation is typically targeted towards employers, not employees. This mandate actually flies in the face of that standard and the OSHA charter.
Yeah they (including younger me) loved abstractions and complexity I wrote or I read about.

But it’s complex and difficult to grasp, so it’s not fun when you have to get into someone else’s mind, or even to get back into your own thinking after period of a sense of that project/architecture
Right now? In the USA? "Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Florida and Arkansas have less than 10% left of their ICU bed capacity, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services. (...) Idaho had just four ICU beds available out of the 400 beds total in the state, Gov. Brad Little said."

https://www.wktv.com/content/news/These-5-states-have-less-t...
Is Word Error Rate a Good Metric for Speech Recognition Models?
Did you got to the University of York? I did and I've never met anyone from another uni who learned Ada.

I think I was lucky to go and work for a company where I got to do both Ada (specifically SPARK) and Prolog in a professional capacity. It wasn't until I used them "for real" that I really appreciated the benefits of both when used for what they were designed for.

Sadly Ada has a bad rep, in part I think because it was mandated on so many terrible death-march defence projects. It seems to be having a minor renaissance, with people like Nvidia using Ada 2012 and SPARK to code their Risc-v security chip.
> I'm still wrong because I point out based on facts that I'm correct?

No, you're wrong because you said "more protection is always better". That isn't true - sometimes the protection turns out to be worse than nothing.

> Is your freedom not impeding on other peoples freedoms (to live)?

There isn't a freedom "to live", it doesn't mean anything. Everybody dies in the end no matter what. Nobody has ever had a "freedom" not to catch diseases, if I had that one I'd have exercised it a few times in the past; I don't like throwing up.

> "Prevalence in those aged 5-49 was 2.5 times higher at 0.20% (0.16%, 0.26%) compared with those aged 50 years and above at 0.08% (0.06%, 0.11%)." [1]

They only opened up vaccinations to people aged under 40 in May, and it takes a few months to get both doses of the vaccine and that paper was issued in mid June. I'm not sure that tells us anything. Obviously if the majority of a population is vaccinated then unvaccinated people will be the majority of cases, that isn't in question.

> Your "facts" seem based on simple reasoning that I can't reconcile with what I consider facts to be, nor do I agree with the reasoning to begin with.

We're not disagreeing on any numbers here. I doubt you consider your reasoning to be superior due to excessive complexity.
Expectation of a single schema by existing tooling.
I can't believe we're still arguing this on this forum of all places.

The very worst estimates of the vaccines efficacy rate against the Delta variant sit at 30-50% for various measures. People on this forum are ecstatic about improving systems by 2-3% on the regular, and here is a free and easy measure that measurably reduces the mortality rate of yourself and those around you and we are _still_ arguing about it.

I used to think much more highly of the quality of discussion on here.
Ask HN: What's the best way to learn mathematics outside of formal education?
My maths isn't great, I've always found it interesting but I've never had more than a surface-level understanding of it. I managed to graduate with a computer science degree by learning just the mathematical concepts I needed for the task at hand and I quickly forgot most of what I learned after the exams were over. I've worked as a backend web developer ever since, which isn't an field that calls for much in the way of mathematics beyond the basics.

I've recently been getting deeper into interests where this lack of a mathematical background is becoming a bit of a problem. I've been interested in machine learning concepts for a while so I looked into linear algebra, I've been interested in signal processing in music so I looked into things like Fourier transforms, the list goes on and I keep running into issues with my poor fundamentals. I just don't have a solid enough background with subjects like trigonometry and calculus to understand a lot of what's going on in many cases, I can kind of mentally "bodge" things together sometimes but it's a very inelegant way of going about it.

What I have found quite useful is the kind of tutorials where concepts are given a visual, geometric interpretation which is quite strange as I'm not usually a particularly visual person. I'm still running into issues with my fundamentals though, so I guess my question is: assuming nothing more than mostly-forgotten A-level maths how can somebody who works full time build up a solid mathematical foundation so that they can progress to more advanced topics?

Thanks in advance.
I mean to say the modern courtiers of the decrepit political class are the problem and warrior-kings at the head of barbarians are the solution. Hoppe would call this natural order.
Another (multi-platform) one, that packages Tesseract very nicely, is gImageReader[1]

[1]: https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader
They have a lot of recommendations. The problem is that they change radically about once per decade.

~10 years ago they still thought eating fat made you fat, and recommended high carb diets.

Perhaps the 2021 recommendations are finally the correct ones. But how do I know that?
And how do you propose manufacturers are to make money if they cannot rely on ad revenue and/or a monthly subscription service?
I misremembered both supplier AND price! It was Pine64, and only US$4.

https://pine64.com/product/pinecone-bl602-evaluation-board/

The Ali Express boards look equally intriguing. And the price is right!
What permanent changes are you envisioning?
Do you mean the article or the specification?
The main problem is that JSON Schema is still an evolving design. All tools may not yet implement the latest draft.
"They" might. I blacked out after my second Pfizer shot, and was ambulanced to an ER. This was $4k, not really my choice. Yes, I have health insurance. Everything was repriced to the 'negotiated' insurance rate, and it was still ~$2k. On top of the $1k/month I already pay (me and spouse). I would get the shot again, without a doubt, but it still hits people.
The World's Second Fully Modular Software Disaster!

It's just riddled with features.
I remember "The Last One", a program generator written in 1981. So the idea of programs writing programs is nothing new.

Improvements by purposeful self-modification would be a different matter...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/merriam-webster-redefines-racis...
I find the drug charges section especially damning, I'd like to hear more analysis of that particular part.
Are you asking if a photon is a particle or a wave? It is widely known to be something that our brains have trouble understanding, since it behaves as both at the same time. Thus, "shut up and calculate!" as the response when students try to figure out what quantum physics "means."
The best use case for NFT, and possibly all crypto, is money laundering. But, yes, it's not legit.
If we lived in a non-influenza world that suddenly experienced influenza for the first time, we would think it's crazy to not only allow, but many times encourage, sick employees to come to work and basically take out the entire office. It's like just committing to losing a week's worth of productivity across the board.

One nice benefit of going more remote is that we can hopefully "personalize" the cold/flu experience vs. making it a de facto office-wide experience, and without the bizarre politics around vaccines/masks/sick-days/etc.
Hence why we've seen the popularisation of fake-meats in the USA.
I have a semi-related anecdote about surprises from devices.

I use a CPAP. After a year, I went back to the doctor for a followup, and was asked to bring the SD card so they could review the data it collects. The device records the times and duration of use, various settings, and some metrics on breathing (apnea events, etc). I knew it recorded this stuff on an SD card.

I brought the card to the appointment, but the doctor said "I don't need that, I have your data here." It turns out that the CPAP contains a cellular modem, and it phones home and reports in real-time. I had no idea this thing was recording any data at all. It wasn't verbally disclosed to me by either the doctor or the equipment technicians. I imagine there's something buried in the fine print of the (long lost) documentation, possibly even in the fine print of some form I signed, but I was caught off guard and none too pleased.

I've since done some research on this and discussed it with my new doctor when it came time to get a new CPAP. The doctor acted surprised by me having a problem with it. She immediately jumped to the defense of the manufacturer and insurance company, claiming that they "needed" that data. She said that if I disabled it, insurance would refuse coverage.

This is insanely invasive, even with disclosure, and ought to be illegal without explicit, obvious verbal and written disclosure. The insurance defense is complete bullshit. For one, I paid cash for the CPAP because I had a high-deductible insurance plan and would have had to pay out-of-pocket anyway (and never claimed it even for the deductible offset).

I realize a CPAP isn't a fridge, and there's at least a case to be made for insurance enforcing compliance (at least when insurance claims are involved). I don't agree with the undisclosed enforcement mechanism, nor do I agree that treatment should be contingent on monitoring (it is for some other treatments, but not for most; no one is monitoring diet, exercise, drug use, cigarette consumption, or other risky behaviors, and threatening to withhold treatment for non-compliance).

Anyway, I've ranted enough, but there's a serious problem with the normalization of surveillance technology.
For a long time now I've been naming my computers things like "LG Refrigerator" or "LG Microwave" as a joke. I thought it'd be funny if someone was ever checking the network and saw them pop up.

I'm bummed that fridges actually use the internet now.
I'm always a fan of separate, native implementations, as opposed to "hybrid," ones, but we can't always make a valid business case for native apps.

I have told folks, on occasion, that have approached me to do apps (I write native Apple apps, in Swift), that they are probably better off, looking at doing hybrid apps.

One advantage of starting off with a single-platform native app, is that it can act as a "design spec and MVP" for the second platform. I suspect the Android app will be a lot better that the iOS app (which I wasn't really thrilled by).

They probably only had a native iOS app developer, on hand to do the work, when things got started, and it isn't actually a bad business decision, to start with Apple.

The app I'm developing now, is iOS-native, and we decided to go with Apple, because that was the talent pool on hand (Yours, Troolie), and a significant number of folks out there, have the ability to run Apple iOS apps.

Also, in my opinion, you are best off starting with Apple, because the platform is more restricted than Android, so you aren't as likely to develop capabilities on one platform, that can't be implemented on the other.
Weaving inclusivity, style into wearable tech
Just stating facts...
the best theme I ever worked with!
I always enjoyed Ada. Built an entire fly-by-wire flight control system in ADA running on TI chips. One of my favorite projects of all time.
Do the problem sets.
It's more invasive than that. I've seen MIT research using several WiFi routers to detect heart rate and respiration[1]. It's not too much of a leap to using it as a lie detector. A little more of a leap, and you get cameras watching window shoppers, plus some Machine Learning, to get a system able to detect which items excite which shoppers when they look at the items (via heart rate and respiration). Could also maybe be used to detect shoplifters.

[1] https://www.medgadget.com/2014/06/mits-wifi-system-detects-p...
Never.

People are demanding access to an audience like it's a right, and saying their votes don't matter if they can't reach an audience. It's the dumbest shit I've ever heard.
English is a good choice usually because tutorials are easier to follow, there are way more tutorials in english than in other languages.
My problem with Libreboot is not only that supported hardware is very old [0], but that all those devices are vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre, so you cannot run any untrusted code (not even Javascript).

[0] https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/#supported-hardware. It seems that the Chromebook is an exception?
The author (allegedly) confirms that this is what happens at [1]:

> it uses the internet to transfer the file while only sending the file's id though sound. The purpose of the project was to pair devices that are near each other without requiring the user to sign in to any accounts.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/pl749n/i_got_f...
"Most doctors are technicians, not researchers"

Thanks. Very succinct, and helps me frame my medical interactions a bit more clearly now.
Zba, Zbb, Zbc, Zbs (BitManip) have been approved by "Architecture Review" thus I assume they close to being ratified. Probably one of the first new extensions to be available for RISC-V.

Because it's not ratified the BitManip extensions are not listed in any RISC-V Profiles as supported (or required). Platforms specification is also not requiring it.

Note that the next Profiles will be for 2022, thus any extension ratified before that most likely will appear in a new profile (i.e. as supported, non-conflicting extension) in some set.
Slays me that wifi ended up with IEEE instead of the IETF for example. The profit motive really seems to drive a privacy-second approach to some of these standards.
No it can't be compared to OSHA or drinking water standards. For people to drink clean water requires a treatment plant to be operating correctly, not for every person that drinks water to be treated with a shot.
The Ray Tracer Challenge[0] is super fun and language agnostic. It might be a good second project when learning a language. He also has a book about mazes that is great but ruby specific. Though you could adapt it to another language.

The thing I like about the books is the emphasis on having fun. My understanding is Jamis used these projects to overcome career burnout. They are also good for exploring the basics of a new language though.

I interviewed Jamis about this subject and burn out[1].

[0]: http://raytracerchallenge.com/

[1]: https://corecursive.com/025-burn-out-and-recreational-progra...
Indeed. Despite all our efforts to improve, we seem inevitably stuck at might makes right.
Get vaccinated because vaccines mostly work, and then leave other people alone. People so publicly concerned with Jim Crow laws from over 50 years ago seem pretty enthusiastic to reinstitute them for a new contrived outgroup of the non-compliant. There is no return to normal, because the entire objective of this pandemic response was to destroy normal. Ethics themselves are an artifact of the world these policymakers and their tools want to destroy.

The mandates have almost nothing to do with a disease, and everything to do with instituting a social compliance regime facilitated by electronic passports. The arguments about rights not being absolute just means we can contrive their exceptions, and generations who have been trained that there is no truth are contriving exceptions with policies like this.

The hardest part of the pandemic has been in the wind down phase, where I found out that many acquaintences were really just banal nihilists who are content to forfeit their societies for the perception of approval and alignment to a pernicious narrative. The last 18months were not a crisis, they were just frog boiling, and I predict much harder times ahead.
Arguments for thinking of the burnt-out healthcare professionals are tired and miss the forest for the trees. There are many reasons for healthcare professionals feeling burnt-out that pre-date Covid and were exacerbated by it. Where were your tears for them then?

You clearly don't value your liberty. (Maybe you don't even understand what it means, given your mockery.) Liberty refers to your right to govern yourself. If you would rather be governed by unelected administrative agencies, you'll be just fine in the new normal.
I loved using Ada for concurrancy at university. I'm always surprised how few languages seem to have such a good built in concurrancy toolkit.

I guess it's more use in the contexts where Ada is normally found.
You'd be amazed at how heavily many skilled professional writers, especially of fiction, rely on their publishers' staff to remedy basic failings in their writing. Their primary skill is not necessarily spelling, punctuation, and other mechanical matters.
Then why did we fight a war on keeping them together. Maybe both would be happier if south and middle states split from coast ones.
I don't see how yet another ui-definition-format will help to make things simpler. And what UI does a manpage need? Manpages are documents, they have no real ui.
> You can't teach false facts to people.

Then why are history books filled with false facts? And that's in the case the government didn't decided to suppress history classes altogether, as it might make people think (I'm referencing the deletion of history classes in scientific high shool section). Paille et poutre...
Dont be cynical. Do the math.

It usually boils down to some simple scaling formula. So work it out.

They say they are targeting expats (pulling driving data from multiple national dbs) which seems to be their differentiator from incumbents.

Say 5 coders + 10 sales guys acquire 1000 customers in 6 months costing 1 Mil.

So what can you pull off with 5 mil, then 20 mil, then 80 mil...
This is correct.

If I had used a more complex example, it would have been much harder to follow. This was the simplest.

We factor this out for our meta-schema construction due to reuse.
That reminded of my father-in-law's Chevrolet, every time you turn off the car it very loudly announces for you to "please check if you haven't left any belongings in the back seat" (or some nonsense like that).

So every time he drops us off late at night the car screaming wakes the baby when we arrive.
Maybe I read it wrong, but either way, life insurance companies have never required vaccinations after purchasing a policy to my knowledge, and if they did, it would have to be for new policies only. But I also feel like I would have read about it somewhere if that was true.

As far as I understand, ACA does not allow health insurance companies to require vaccinations to be eligible for coverage, but they can offer lower premiums in exchange for vaccinating.
We can already see where in the store you are.
Well then let’s bring out the big guns. HIV/AIDS patients. How do we keep those people from transmitting their disease? Should we force them to isolate and potentially even form their own cities?
Counter: I quite like the monospace type-face and find it easier to read than most other sites.

You cannot please all the people all the time when it comes to readability.
This article really motivated me to go do a quick set of squats this morning and now I feel so much better already. (work from, gym set up in basement right next to my office)

Can't wait for the next time one of these stories to pop up on my feed so I can get motivated to do another set.

But in all seriousness... my problem (as is the case with almost all the proactive things I should be doing in my life) is that I lack motivation.
Maybe think of the healthcare professionals who are being fired for refusing to get the vaccine because they believe it is medically improper for them to do so.
WOW - 100MB download for Mac!

However, once I installed it, it ran really well. Interface is smooth and nice.
My appliances are not allowed to have strong opinions. And when they have opinions at all, they’re not allowed to communicate them except for the most subtle of ways.
“Oh you’re emitting a nice, quiet ring because you think the fridge door has been open too long? That’s nice, it’s going to be open a bit longer.”

Heaven help my toaster if it ever stops mid toast because it thinks the bread is already done.
There's a bit in Ron Paul's "Revolution" where he points out that gov programs get added and grow but few are reduced or ended. His politics aside (i..e., regardless of party, he does have plenty of first hand experience), there's plenty of evidence to support this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution:_A_Manifesto

Oddly enough, a couple of weeks ago at the local thrift store I picked up "The Secret History of the American Empire" by John Perkins. Even if only half of it is accurate, there's also plenty of reason to believe there are less than noble forces at work given the current changes and the opportunities they create.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-secret-history-of-the-amer...
When I was a youth, most public schools mandated a variety of vaccinations. If you didn't get them, you couldn't go to school. Is that no longer the case?
> tracking can be done surreptitiously because Wi-Fi signals can penetrate walls, don't require light, and don't offer any visible indicator of their presence.

Maybe lead paint and aluminum siding will come back into style.
I was playing around with something similar a while back.

https://github.com/bluedaze/ytADL
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