skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not going to convince anyone that thinks differently than you, especially the koolaid part.

Even honest people who agree on a set of numbers, like the current U.S. death count of 1 in 493 people, may interpret those numbers quite differently. There's also still plenty of unsettled science around masks and lockdowns, and it's a shame that the news is not more honest about all this.
Credibility matters.

I think it helps to quantify things with numbers where possible, with experts to help put those numbers into context, and being prepared to answer follow-up questions and objections.

Personally I agree with you that the vaccine makes sense for individuals. But I'm not so sure about what you also allude to, how much of a difference that trying to force an extra 15-20% of the population to get vaccinated is going to make to those at greater risk. Those at greater risk will still be at greater risk, from delta (which the vaccinated can spread), the flu, other respirator ailments, their old age and comorbidities, etc. It's not an argument that's going to convince someone who thinks the danger of whole pandemic has been exaggerated. Remember that 1 in 493 number. Some people don't think that's a big deal, given how good we are in the modern age at keeping old and sick people alive until something like this gets them.

Forcing people makes them resentful, both personally and politically. Dismissing their opinions as unworthy sure doesn't help. And then comes the politicians and media ready to amplify and ride the wave of the disaffected, for better or worse. Alienating people for marginal benefit carries its own risk, too.
Counterpoint: http://boringtechnology.club/
I really like Windy's base maps. How did they generate them and what's the style?
Media Foundation and DirectShow Media Types
I think I'm being downvoted out of some sense of political duty to Hong Kong from westerners, but really there has been nothing holding the mainland back other than the threat of western power. If there is no threat, there is nothing that will hold them back, whether we find it tasteful or not.
Read parent's (emphasis mine):

> Even without sparsification, AVX-512 CPUs are far more cost-effective for inference.
Their costs are lower, so they offer it at a lower price to encourage more people to buy it. While still having a higher profit per unit!

That's normal business behavior. Why would it have to be "charity" or some kind of fake "PR stunt"?
> Maybe Apple can straitjacket them properly. "You must use XYZ API in iOS/MacOS and you must support one-click cancellation via a standard process." But I think the dark-pattern farmers who are angry about this would be angry about that, too.

Im not sure Apple want's to do that. By not restricting the 3rd party payments there is more of a case for using Apple's payment processor so you can cancel easier.
I imagine something like this could be a fantastic tool to teach about differential equations and their applications. Just looking at you can see specific hallmarks (sources and sinks), and how that sort of analysis can have super-cool uses.

Does meterology use differential equations to model wind?
Duh. You are going to find me complaining about large corporations not paying taxes as much as me due to their access to creative accounting too.

It's simply not good for the smaller developers. How more clear I can be? Tough luck, go be a large corp then you say?
> In fact, quite a few of the stipulations of ACA make health insurance premiums explicitly a tax from the young/healthy to the old/sick.

Why not make it official then? Why not end this "insurance" thing and start funding hospitals with taxpayer money? The US is absolutely rich enough to do it.
I had to cancel a debit card to get rid of WSJ.
A man the military saw as “imminent threat”/“ISIS facilitator” was an aid worker
ah, surely just incompetence or a bureaucratic black hole and not malice.

> But rather than immediately correct the errors, the company dragged its feet for more than two years, the documents show, citing concern about the increased cost to departments that rely heavily on temporary workers,

whelp
> And you cannot even refund your own customers...

I was looking at StoreKit earlier today and saw https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/transacti... as part of it. I realize that this is new with iOS 15... but there's something there now.
These things are fairly orthogonal. There are interesting problems, there's interesting tech. Sometimes interesting problems require interesting tech to solve, but not usually. Often boring problems are best-solved with interesting tech, but they can optionally be solved with boring tech. In my experience, solving interesting problems with boring tech is far more frustrating and unfulfilling than solving boring problems with interesting tech. But again, they're pretty orthogonal.

There are a tremendous number of jobs using interesting tech to solve boring problems. This is really the bread-and-butter of most tech careers. You might be selling widgets or building another social network or something that is mind-numbingly boring and unfulfilling, but if you're into the tech, you might still enjoy your day-to-day. That's certainly been the bulk of my career. I've also worked on solving interesting problems using boring tech, and while it was nice to see the results at the end, the path leading there wasn't as fun.

If you're lucky enough to land both, that's great. I've worked on interesting problems with both interesting and boring tech (NASA projects), except it didn't pay well. I've worked on boring problems with interesting tech (fintech) and that both paid well and was actually more challenging and more fun. And I've worked on a whole lot of boring problems with boring tech (countless ecommerce web projects).

At the end of the day, if I can't have both, interesting tech is probably more important to me, because that's what I spend almost all my time dealing with, and I'm still a hacker at heart and appreciate the tech in itself. It does leave me feeling, most of the time, like my work has no meaning, but I can find meaning in other endeavors. There aren't enough interesting problems that also pay the bills to go 'round, so most of the time I just want my day-to-day to be engaging.
If it's well written, customers won't be able to tell
While there is a difference, bodily autonomy is about the right to make decision around your own body, not the right for your body to run on it's own. So I would argue it is not a good argument as you say.
In what world is it a good idea to take nude selfies on the same device that you use to take pictures of the whiteboard after technical meetings? A device that will be full of internal apps (to connect to Apple VPN, to see shuttle schedules, internal bug tracker, daily menus) not to mention the device that contains all your work emails, all your work contacts, and all your work events.

Pro-tip: don't take a picture of your tickly parts on a device that is one mis-click away from sharing to your entire team.

And don't freak out when you have to turn over your phone, untouched, if it's required for legal retention. In fact, retention policy is part of the mandatory training -- she knew what might happen with that device, but just ignored it.
PoW should probably be built in to the browser as a standard at some point if it is going to be in widespread use. If a website is trying to stop bots, the bots are at an advantage if they can compute the PoW using optimized C while legitimate customers are computing it in Javascript.
Where is this thing called "Free Market"?
How is this better than just running vcxsrv and inside WSL setting DISPLAY=WINDOWS_HOST_IP:0? I've been doing this to run graphical linux apps for a couple years now, both on WSL1 and on a regular Hyper-V Linux VM.
I think it's mostly a "because they can". WSL is a no-brainer because developers are used to Unix shells and most programming languages are Unix-first, Windows-maybe. But WSLg feels like a weird experiment with no purpose.
For those without access: https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/eclinm/PIIS2589-5370...
Asa paragliding pilot/speedflyer, I absolutely love this app/site. We use it all the time!
Awesome. Have actually been looking for precisely this kind of data for potential use in a game that we're currently developing. Thrilled to see what appears to be a solid API too, going to dive right in.

One thing I don't see mentioned, or I may just be unfamiliar with the terminology (and haven't dug much into the docs yet), is how exactly the 'map data' API (ie not the point-location API) works/what format the data is returned in, or if it's more expected to be used as an "embed".

My ideal, based on our current code/implementation thus far, would be to be able to supply a lat/lon coordinate bounding box & have it respond with the data in GeoTIFF format with multiple bands, one for each "data-set".

If anyone at Windy is here & might potentially be interested in discussing our game & the game's use-case for the data, please definitely feel free to reach out -- email in profile. :)
Does Windows think that audio devices are being connected or disconnected? That's the only time I've had the default device switch on me. Annoyingly it can end up happening if you have a display that presents itself as an audio endpoint and then that display is turned off or even just goes to sleep.
When you say Windy can get it wrong, isn't it really the underlying forecast models that are wrong?

It's unclear to me if Windy is doing much more than creating a great presentation of existing data. Their website does list an open ML role, though..

I wonder how much rolling your own weather forecast is tantamount to rolling your own crypto??
> US has universal ID(not secure though)

Do we? Our SSN is not a unique number, and not just because the keyspace is too small for our population. (It's worse: some of the prefixes are geographically related.)
I really don't want another war. At the same time, I don't want the world that would result from China taking Taiwan, either.

What's wrong with that world? 1) We didn't keep our promises. 2) Another 23 million people oppressed by force against their will. Even if it isn't our job to defend them, it still doesn't sit well to see it happen. 3) We can't get chips (much less important than the other two).

Where does that leave me? Not wanting war, but not wanting the alternative? There are a fair number of people with that perspective. If it comes to it, what will we decide? I don't know, even for myself.
I'm of a similar opinion. If they want to prove that they heart Linux, that's what they're going to have to do. Or, at the very least, document everything (including DX) so that the Wine devs can do their thing even if MS don't care to help. Until then, "MS <3 Linux" is nothing more than PR speak in my mind.
I also wonder if this is the end of the "embrace" phase or the start of the "extend" one.
Right, companies have fixed profit rate and they lower the price when the costs go down. Got it, thanks. Great business tip!
Don't forget corporate policy. I would do all of my work on linux except I am barely allowed.

Tools like teams and outlook are also just not as good on Linux, and really important for work.
This is yet another piece of compelling evidence showing that nutraceuticals can significantly reduce recovery time and improve health outcomes.

Combined with early treatment using widely available medicines, it’s clear we have a variety of tools at our disposal to mitigate this pandemic.

Unfortunately many people are unaware of the evidence supporting these types of treatments, partly because they receive such little attention in mass media.

As usual I’m ready for the downvotes - for some reason people here think this information is contentious or disagreeable.
For at least a year creating a new Apple ID requires verifying the phone number by providing Apple with an integer code sent to the number.

Getting a Google Voice number requires a Google account. Creating a Google account requires a phone number (which you must maintain access to, because they will periodically reverify it).
The end user experience isn't too terrible, big improvement over other captcha's I've had to use. Though I imagine it might get frustrating for things like logging in, where you might get your password wrong and have to start over. Or maybe it supports caching the idea that you've already proved yourself?
Why isn’t a toaster a general purpose computer? There are toasters with wifi, touchscreens and other functionality.

As for your car question - why not? No one would buy such a crippled device. The problem would resolve itself.

If a car manufacturer sold a car without a steering wheel that self drove, perhaps people would buy the car in spite of the limitations. What they shouldn’t do, is buy a car advertised without a steering wheel and then complain that it doesn’t have one.

https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Cooking-R180-High-Speed-St...
Oh yeah. Been there and still have faded T's.

But then there's the licensing and the sales guys. Talk about pure evil.
With iOS 15: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/transacti...

> Call this function from account settings or a help menu to enable customers to request a refund for an in-app purchase within your app. When you call this function, the system displays a refund sheet with the customer’s purchase details and list of reason codes for the customer to choose from.
I was made aware of this feature on my CPAP machine, though it was only mentioned in passing. I'm not super crazy about sending the data to the manufacturer, but I do very much like having it available to my sleep therapist.

As an example: recently, I started snoring more and more, though I didn't realize the extent of it until my wife told me that she couldn't sleep at all the night before. Concerned, I called my sleep therapist, and they brought up my file, looked at the data, and made an adjustment to the settings (I presume the pressure) right there while I was on the phone. The next night, my wife and I both slept great.

That said, I wasn't given the explicit choice to opt in or to opt out, and while I would have chosen to opt in, I'd wager there are a ton of people out there just like you who would be very upset to know that their sleep patterns are being sent to another company (or anywhere, really) without their consent.
No stats on Yahoo travel usage, no stats on how many people love to work on the travel product idea, no stats on how common the travel product idea is, no data on the problem of 'spending enough quality time with friends and family' or how that relates to travel.

Also, some things I do less than travel:

* Amazon prime day sales (once a year)

* Christmas (once a year)

* Dentist (2/3 times a year)

* Get my car serviced

* Get my bike serviced
This is so very needed. As Justice Clarence Thomas articulated, big tech companies should be treated as common carriers (https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/clarence-thomas-is-ri...). They are the new public square and there are many ways in which they can be legally compelled, as a UCLA Professor recently pointed out (https://reason.com/volokh/2021/07/09/the-first-amendment-and...). Political viewpoints should constitute a protected class that is protected under discrimination laws.
I assume by that you mean the developer tools to create apps in the first place.

Apple is free to not make developer tools anymore, that's their choice. Nobody is forcing them to. They do it b/c apps make the iPhone better. In fact an iPhone without apps is pretty useless.
Honestly though, I went from loving my company to hating my company when they moved us to the new open office plan.

I'll tell you, that has about an 80% efficiency drop.

I love my coworkers though, that's why I stayed. And they are revisiting remote work, so I'm hopeful.
Show HN: LunarVim – An opinionated, extensible, and fast IDE layer for Neovim
You may be interested in this thread: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=178417

Edit: also this checker, when you get the device online: https://radar.qrator.net/

Unclear how old your firmware is, but it seems that the vulnerability was patched years ago. Check anyway.
Nvidia CUDA on WSL
Christopher Nolan to direct movie on the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Andrej Karpathy: “Browsing the web, 2021”
While I am confident there is a rational scientific explanation for the hexagon of Saturn, it is undoubtedly an incredible synchronicity that the storm exists. Saturn being the sixth planet from the sun it has historically been associated with the hexagon within occult symbolism since well before humans could have verified such a storm exists. Truly a remarkable find and fact of our solar system.
The Clickbait-Text on the end of the first post brought me to closing the tab. Sorry...
Actually, refusing the vaccine isnt the same as driving drunk. To be in a situation where you're endangering others by driving drunk requires an action: drinking alcohol recklessly (action) Refusing the vaccine requires no action on the person's part, but somehow are still considered to be endangering others (even if they're healthy and without COVID).
I usually solve the remember they've solved a captcha outside of the captcha solution itself - eg: session state, cookie, etc.
It isn't a bad site per se.

Just most links seem to be broken.
Googling Thalidomide may help you understand. The fda is the reason tens of thousands of US children weren’t born with preventable deformities.
FAQ says one gets rewarded to refer friends and the submitted URL contains a referal code.

Can you resubmit your project with more introduction, usually as first comment to the thread? And without a referal code? Example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28482331 "The project must be something you've worked on personally and which you're around to discuss." https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
The use case I care about, and I imagine the use case Microsoft do as well, is developing for Linux on windows, so running an ide and not having to worry about a complicated cross compiling toolchain backing it.
Fun fact: mutagenized crops are generally not considered to be GMOs.

From https://geneticliteracyproject.org/gmo-faq/glp-tackles-one-o... :

> [...] chemical/physical mutagenesis and a lot of other techniques are “unnaturally” performed “in the lab” but are not classified as GMOs.
I wish I could be given the option to just pay instead of solving a captcha. At the end of the day that's what bots end up doing (pay a human to solve the captcha for them), so why not just cut out the middleman, and let me pay the website.
That's a sad thought. I used to love Reddit
Who is "they" in this case? The manufacturer? Your insurance? The doctor? Startlingly bullshit behaviour from them regardless, but I'm curious.
I assume you have not encountered SharePoint. The SharePoint documentation I could get my hands on - even in books I paid for - was so bad it was like I was living inside some David Lynch interpretation of Ancient Greek myths of divine punishments unleashed upon the worst sinners.

More than once, the "solution" to my problem was a blog post by a SharePoint consultant from India describing some undocumented flag to pass to some obscure command, "but of course, you should never do this on a production system". (I bear no ill will towards Indian SharePoint consultants, to be clear. I just find it really creepy they seem to enjoy this kind of torment.)
the engineers etc i’ve worked with that were contractors were far worse and way below normal google hiring bar. sorry if that’s not PC but it’s the truth. if they could get hired at actual google they would’ve done it.

hell, if they could get hired as a SWE at a comparable firm they would do that instead of taking a massive pay cut to be a contractor
Reminds me of Adam Back's hashcash[1], which was originally devised for similar purposes and was cited in Satoshi's Bitcoin paper[2]. Bitcoin's PoW scheme is a sightly embellished version of hashcash. I wish this work cited it too.

[1]: http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf

[2]: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
> Such as, for case 1, considering Z(Z) halts. I don't think it's unreasonable to say that H(Z,Z) could in fact return true. It could read the code for Z, determine that Z(Z) will loop since H(Z,Z) would return false, return true, and then Z(Z) would halt since H(Z,Z) returned true. No immediate contradiction.

This doesn't make sense. You said in the same case both that "Z(Z) halts" and "Z(Z) will loop" and then "Z(Z) would halt". So there is a contradiction here.

One assumption that you may not realize without the necessary background is that (a) "Z" is fixed in any particular case, we don't consider counterfactual "Z"; and similarly (b) "Z(Z)" must either always halt or always not halt, by the relevant definition of "program".
Exploiting improvement of iPhone's built-in tech for software-only eye-tracking
> Once again as a final note: your corporate network may be using the formerly unused DoD space internally, and if so, there is a risk you could be leaking it out to a party that is actively collecting it. How could you know? Using Kentik’s Data Explorer, you could quickly and easily view the stats of exactly how much data you’re leaking to AS8003 (now AS749). May be worth a check, and if so, start a free trial of Kentik to do so.

Not that I don't appreciate the free trial offer. But before getting into data characteristics, I'm curious which addresses should be examined in a cursory internal look-see?
You can't bring up an Intel CPU when BootGuard is enabled, only Intel-signed firmware works for those.
As an aside, if you're curious about how you might be able to paint with such photorealism, be sure to check out "Tim's Vermeer".
I tutored algebra students and I reccommend the following approach with Khan academy/Openstax resources.

Order of Operations(No Variable)

Order of Operations(One Variable)

Advanced Order of Operations (One Variable)*optional

- Logs, Roots, Exponentials

- Polynomial multiplication/Factorization

Change the variable to random symbols

- Greek characters, shapes, animals

Order of Operations(Multiple Variables)

Introduce functions

- f(x) = mx + b

Connect Order of Operations with Functions

- Simplify an equation and plot as a function

Introduce units (basic physics equations)

- Simplify to formula and Plot

The goal in formal classes is to introduce order of operations with variables, the concept of functions, and how to manipulate those functions. If you are stem oriented, then this is the perfect time to introduce dimensional analysis(units) and physics-based functions. Instilling a sense of confidence and comfort with algebraic manipulation is critical. Prepping her for physics and working with functions is just smart.
This is excellent and very representative.
Bitwig is a very good DAW with native Linux support. It's made by former Ableton devs so it definitely leans in that direction, but it works pretty well for other types of workflows too, especially with the recently released version 4.

VSTs are definitely an issue; most high quality commercial plugins are still only released for mac/windows. However there are a few projects for running them in wine and it generally works pretty well.

I do think we'll see more and more Linux in studios going forward, but it would help if Linux got its pro audio story together. Pipewire is a big step in the right direction but not yet mature.
I don't really see why there would be any expectation of that from the legal system or for ordinary people, other than that Apple obviously shouldn't drastically reduce functionality of iPhones which they have already sold. But again, I don't think anyone is suggesting that Apple might stop having an App Store altogether, or that the outcome of any of these legal battles would be that iPhone users would have significantly reduced access to third-party software. You're just talking about who ought to pay for the costs of distributing third-party software to iPhones.
Fascinating, thanks! A field of turbines is like captured lightning strikes that go on and on.