skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For sure. If people want something enough, somebody's going to try to sell it to them whether or not it works. People really, really want lie detectors.
Yeah, basically your freedom (to not get vaxxed) shouldn't overrule society's freedom as a whole to move on and get back to a decent semblance of what it was .
It's not that people are more productive with private offices, it's that some (many) people are extremely unproductive with open floor plans. So that 2-3x figure is realistic, no matter how you average it.
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> why do you care if I get it or not?

Because every infection is a chance to evolve a new variant that my (and my family's) vaccination does not protect against.
I thought it was task tracking software.
Not exactly. The rule they violated was adding something that was a violation of the terms of service at the time. The agreement you sign with Apple is that you'll follow the rules. Once you break those, they have no obligation to allow you in the store. Epic has demonstrated that they can't be trusted. Good for Apple.
>In a normal year 40k people die of the flu in the US.

So we draw the line somewhere between 40k and the number of deaths from covid? Note, it's not 650K in the US, those are deaths after all the social distancing, mask wearing, etc and more recently vaccinations. The true number would have been in the millions just in the US if these precautions weren't taken. Actually the IFR/CFR would be at a higher rate than now because hospitals would have been completely pummeled so people who now survive due to hospital care would die at home or in an ambulance waiting for a bed. Not to mention long covid, organ damage etc. The economy would suffer even with everything open.

Are you saying that you would draw the line at more than millions dead in a year in the US for covid because we draw the line higher than 40k per year for the flu?

If anything can be learnt from this, I think the argument can be that we can do more to combat flu every year, make it socially necessary for sick people to stay at home or mask up in subways etc.(like in Japan), increase testing, increase uptake of vaccines, new better MRNA vaccines etc.
To be clear, that was sort of my point. This is being viewed as a loss to FOSS, but I think Manjaro was never a FOSS purist from an ideological standpoint to begin with.
I hate Firefox as much as the next guy and I wouldn't touch it with a... 10 metre pole? But they have a good content blocker built-in by default (not sure if enabled)
Thanks for that. I remember visiting the Redmond campus, back when you guys did the "Longhorn" dog-and-pony show.

I remember these narrow corridors, deep inside single- or two-story buildings, and small (like 8' X 8') offices, that were, nonetheless, surprisingly comfortable.
There have been many negative side effects of other vaccines which were discovered after years of study.

This is basic medical knowledge. Not a conspiracy.
As I mentioned, I replied to the wrong thread. Requiring vaccines doesn’t make us fascist. The tight integration of big corporations and the US government arguably does. By that definition, we’ve been fascist for a long time.

But yes. I think the more intertwined business interests and government becomes, the worse things will get in the US.
Yeah... the best thing about working remotely is having walls.
There's no degeneracy here. It's a perfectly defensible line of moral reasoning.

The constraint is, there simply is not enough capacity to treat everyone. If there was, there would be no problem. So should you prioritize care for people who are intentionally making themselves ill, or those who aren't?

You have to choose one, after all. Are you advocating that people with illnesses other than covid should get delayed or denied care? Is that not just as degenerate?

This is a well-explored situation in other cases of shortages. Suppose that there is a severe famine and the government imposes food rationing. The Smiths abide by the rations and eat small but barely sufficient meals for a month. The Joneses refuse (for whatever reason), buy lavish amounts of ingredients, and throw out leftovers. At the end of the month the Joneses have blown through their ration cards and say they will starve the next month unless the Smiths share some of their rations.

The morally defensible answer is no, despite the danger that the Joneses may die, because if you say yes, now both the Joneses and the Smiths will be malnourished, this is an unacceptable harm to the Smiths, and being willing to answer yes will just encourage other people to act like the Joneses.

It's a trolley problem. You always want to just stop the trolley of you can or get people off the tracks. But if you can't, you have to make a choice about who it hits. Being in the position of making that choice doesn't inherently make you a murderer.
There seem to be a number of successful companies in the travel space... are they not actually?
Manjaro used to do nothing around Vivaldi's package. It's just the inherited community/vivaldi package from the Arch Linux's repositories.

I have a Manjaro and an Arch Linux machine with me so I can just type "pacman -Qi vivaldi" on both of them and reveal the package's information:

Name : vivaldi

Version : 4.1.2369.21-1

Description : An advanced browser made with the power user in mind.

Architecture : x86_64

URL : https://vivaldi.com

[...]

Installed Size : 278,59 MiB

Packager : Ike Devolder <ike.devolder@gmail.com>

[...]

The same result comes out on both machines.
Are there any traffic pattern you can watch for on a router/firewall to detect these coming from your network?
I actually wonder would Argentina get to their territorial claims if Brits were preoccupied with other stuff...
My current office is the best one I've ever had. It's in my home. I have plenty of space for all of my working computers and screens, and I have ample desk space. Everything I need is a few steps away at most. I have windows that look out on the big trees in my yard. My standard poodle commonly sleeps behind me whle I work. I can close the door when I need to focus, or leave it open when I want to hear the goings-on in my house.

The second best office I ever had was when I worked for Apple's Newton team at the Bubb Road office in Cupertino. Each person had a proper office with a door that closed and a window to the outside. The offices were arranged around common spaces that we called "living rooms" and populated with couches, coffee tables, whiteboards on wheels, foosball tables and musical instruments. People who needed privacy to focus closed their doors. Those who were open to conversation left their doors open. Those actively seeking interaction sat on the couches or puttered in the small kitchens next to the living rooms.

Apple later moved us to a couple of the buildings at the Infinite Loop site when it was new. Those offices were pretty good--private offices with doors that closed and easy access to comfortable common areas--but they weren't as good as the ones at Bubb Road. (To be fair, though, Newton needed more space. There weren't enough of the good ones at Bubb Road for the team as it grew.)

Third best was at NeXT, which was about the same quality as Apple's Infinite Loop, or maybe a little better. My office at NeXT was larger than the one at Infinite Loop.

I've worked in cube farms, and sitting at a cheap card table, crammed into a room full of other people seated around the same things. I've worked stuffed into a small room with half a dozen other programmers, perching machines on whatever surface we could find. I can work in awkward situations.

I'll choose a good office every time, though, over something less good. I'll do more and better work in a comfortable office in which I can close out distractions. Headphones don't work for me, because anything I hear in them is just another distraction. Well, to be fair, I haven't tried something like weather or forest sounds. Those might work.

I've worked mainly from my home office for about fifteen years now. I've occasionally agreed to work from someone's idea of what a office should be like, but I'm always looking forward to getting back to my "real" office when I do that, and if you want me to work from somewhere else, there has to be a pretty good reason for it.
Welcome to realizing Insurance companies are soft control mechanisms and one of the worst in terms of justifying rampant data aggregation to keep the actuaries busy.

Also welcome to privacy violation via undisclosed industry collaboration. You'll find the same pattern pops up just about everywhere.
> GP explicitly states that it is their experience.

GP states that their experience gives them enough insight into other people’s productivity to make a detailed assessment.

> They do not need a peer reviewed paper to describe their experience.

They aren’t describing their experience. That’s the point. They are adding the words ‘in my experience’ to a generalization that they almost certainly don’t have the experience to make.

What would make their claim plausible would be if they were a researcher.

> That's ridiculous.

No it isn’t.
i'm curious - if you're worried based off that video - why?
That description is far more limited than the real-world role of pilot projects.
Probably that people are realizing that the fall of the Soviet Union didn't actually end the threat of nuclear annihilation, just pushed it to the backs of our minds. Now we know we have multiple potential civilization-ending crises hanging over our heads, and it's in the zeitgeist.
...at the tail-end of the apartheid government's reign, just before handing over power to a majority government and possibly fearing retribution.
very few doctors and nurses are "getting furloughed". Pfizer is a fully approved vaccine by the FDA. Those people are just acting like children.
> many years of unhealthy eating

Which itself is an epidemic. There are multiple levels of cellular automata at work here, riding on each other like layers of foam.

The Meme of COVID being all of the AJ talking points. The antivaxxers are a surrogate host, they act in symbiosis. The mind virus and the cellular virus reinforce each other.
This is hilarious, before this, HN was all for mandated vaccinations for healthcare workers because it didn't affect you. Now that it does, it's suddenly a moral/ethical issue. Hopefully you won't be one of the thousands who die from the vaccine or one of the million who have serious side effects, Good luck!
Government audit of AI finds no AI
I have noticed "don't talk to the police" being repeated often around here lately, with links to the youtube video. While it is probably good advice for your general day-to-day encounters with police, I don't think it is great advice for a executives of the corporation dealing with the SEC.
The flu definitely did something in 2017-2018 (although that was a standout year). However, that "overwhelming" was mostly dealt with by telling people to go home and take theraflu (and OTC medication). As in, literally a press at the ER/admitting, which resulted in people needing to be examined before they were turned away. And doctors/nurses had to work overtime to do that!

But the ICU beds never got overwhelmed. In hospital treatment never failed.

The response then was "if you have a flu, call your GP who will just prescribe you the medicine over the phone". The exact same situation that most non-COVID patients have been in for months.
This is why the major nuclear powers are again engaged in an arms race to develop nuclear delivery systems that will be harder to intercept than ICBMs. The major focus now is on higher speed cruise missiles. Russia is also developing a long range nuclear torpedo.
When I was at Oracle even the interns got full locking sound-proof offices with mountain views.
The Proliferation of Covid Variants [video]
Couldn't it be argued that they have a moral imperative to protect their customers and those whose livelihoods depend on the Mac ecosystem (internally and externally). I suppose obligations to shareholders are similar, but more transactional than moral.
No... After all but the final pass of the image has been delivered you have enough data to start doing progressive rendering. The final pass contains most of the bytes, so you still get a pretty decent progressive render too.
‘Sissy men’ have become the latest front in China’s campaign against big tech
That's interesting!

Google's is very good, myself and my friends use it. Perhaps solely due to its tight integration with your Gmail and search.
why would they want to?
But that's exacly what happened as soon as the empire fell. Napoleon saved the revolution in the same way Caesar saved the republic.
Evaluated OpenAI Codex for weeks now. It cuts 1/2 the time off my current coding time, largely by producing syntax correct code & reducing lookups to docs/stack/etc.

At the same time, it's hopelessly wrong or broken about 1/3 of the time.

On balance - it is revolutionary. For real world use - it is still very experimental.
I wouldn't be so dismissive. I'm sure they ran some simulations on this.

With 3 sets of wings, the plane would have much more flexibility with the center of gravity. With two wings this needs to be where the wings are. This is why fuel is put in the wings in such configurations. It's a good design if you only have two wings. With 6 of them and the engines mounted on the back, you can play around a bit with different weight distribution.

I'm guessing that using fuel bladders on top of the roof would allow for flexible placement anywhere between the first and last set of wings. Also, you can pump fuel around as well to change the weight distribution (and possibly even trim the airplane's pitch).

Drag of modern planes is quite optimized for their current designs. However putting the fuel in the wings and mounting the engines on them probably adds a fair bit of drag regardless. Also such wings have to be bigger and stronger. I've had a window seat next to the wings of an A380; they are massive. So, I can see how changing that configuration that could eliminate some drag. And using modern composite materials without seams is also going to help with both weight and drag. Less weight means more fuel savings. If it adds up to 70-80% will be interesting. IMHO the real issue is going to be getting rid of kerosene as a fuel. Synthesized fuels like hydrogen or methane could potentially be a lot more sustainable.
> no one is monitoring diet, exercise, drug use, cigarette consumption, or other risky behaviors, and threatening to withhold treatment for non-compliance).

While an employer-sponsored health plan does not “withhold treatment” per se, they definitely draw a line around what they’ll pay for. Part of the physician’s (or more typically the hospital’s or physician group’s) reimbursement is contingent on whether the patient adheres to the treatment regimen [1] which incentivizes things like automated tracking.

Even though you have a high-deductible plan, you’re still involving your health insurance provider in the transaction. It’s not quite the same as a “cash for service” relationship.

[1] https://www.medscape.com/features/content/6006314
To minimize additional computation JPEGs often use a limited number of scans, for example 5.

By default JPEG XL's progressive uses only two scans, 8x8 DC, and the transforms in the second pass using a 256x256 tiles in encode-time chosen priority order. This choise allows JPEG XL to do only one round of DCTs even in the progressive case. The 8x8 DC is interpolated using cheaper methods.

Because of the design choices, every JPEG XL image is guaranteed to be at least minimally progressive in the same manner, i.e., 8x8 DC first. Having a guarantee will make it more rewarding for system designers to focus on extracting some user-experience benefit from that feature.
The (proper) strategic idea was as a deterrent, not _wanting_ to use them in an offensive manner. The strategy was in making an attack on "us" carry the high probability of annihilation of the attacker, thereby discouraging it -- it wasn't about "hey, let's nuke that country, then we'll gain an advantage".
Do other people have better walls than what I'm used to? I already know quite a bit about where my apartment neighbors are in their space and what they're doing.
The campus is large, and I certainly didn't see all of it. It's possible some of the older buildings weren't designed as well? The buildings I frequented had wide hallways, large windows and a decent amount of natural light (as much as you can get in Washington anyway :))
Pretty much and especially if you live in a city - really no survival is possible.

However, some in rural areas would survive - the odds would not be good but some would so humanity would survive the "eye of the needle" this would cause. Just not most people individually.
A Gopher’s Foray into Rust
Yeah most of the people refusing vaccines are conspiracy nuts and afraid of it because they've heard a talking head (that for whatever they trust) tell them not to take it.
Apparently, in the past, the Supreme Court even allowed knocking down people's doors in order to force vaccinations.

"That was a relatively easy no for the court. In a 7-2 ruling in Jacobson vs. Massachusetts, it decided that jurisdictions do have the right to require people to get vaccinated. Back then, the government was much more forceful about it, knocking down people’s doors to get them vaccinated, the New York Times says."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/10/republica...

Denying access to restaurants seems....timid? At least, in comparison.
The article you linked talks about a new law that invalidated those exemptions from that doctor because they were not supported by clinical guidelines.
Some past threads:

Scott and Scurvy (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17459053 - July 2018 (10 comments)

Scott and Scurvy (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13192278 - Dec 2016 (1 comment)

Scott and Scurvy (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367363 - Oct 2015 (6 comments)

Scott and Scurvy (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9747175 - June 2015 (1 comment)

Scott and Scurvy: How the cure for scurvy was lost - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1174912 - March 2010 (36 comments)

Also scurvious:

The Age of Scurvy (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24869920 - Oct 2020 (16 comments)

Scurvy is common and should be diagnosed and treated - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10605461 - Nov 2015 (51 comments)
> Their address is in a residential area, and the lot there (Mathews Manor) seems to be cursorily chosen.

Actually, two of their team have the last name Mathews.
The inherent value is that if you pay taxes in the US you need dollars to pay them with.
I think it's more that people outside of HN don't really care about their privacy if it's not visibly being violated. From there it's cheapest and biggest wins
Zero accountability, complete lack of responsibility, and a total absence of sufficient security in far too many instances. Something like this has been long long overdue.
More precisely, an issue with different literal types instead of one like in XML.

In XML, every attribute or text fragment is a string, to be POSSIBLY parsed as a string, integer, date etc. according to what applications choose to do (usually according to an explicit schema).

In JSON, YAML, etc. there are at least integers, strings and floating point numbers, introducing arbitrary representation choices (1, 1.0, "1", "1.0") and implementation artifacts (e.g. numerical limits).
What you describe is an interpolation. It is a solution for what already exists. You can interpolate this long, bisecting various axis ranges that specify a problem (short messages using text, using emojis only, using pictures, using videos, using...). This is exactly the stuff NN are good for - after all, they are universal approximators for functions with bounded domain and bounded codomain.

At some point of time you will need to extrapolate. Twitter was an extrapolation, Google was an extrapolation as well.

Can a system trained to provide you with system design of a Twitter clone let you help with the design of, say, Medium?
I think it's good to remind that a common theme in AI development history is that whatever advances AI tools demonstrate become considered "non-AI" - even if before it was seen as AI-worthy.
Oh believe me, I did. I did just about everything I could think of to cool my laptop (I had an nvme cooling pad in there, a shortcut to temporarily turn my fans up when the temps got a bit high, I even took a dremel to my laptop stand so it could get more air in and out, and of course as you mention the TDP settings). Either these measures were all taken too late (~6 months into owning it, though I had a stand and the nvme cooler from day 1), or they merely extended its life.

It has been a hot summer here, and UK houses are built specifically to trap heat, plus I have another which generates a bit of heat a few metres from it for work, so I am in a fairly hot room, but the thinkpad is in the very same room, without any of the cooling measures taken (I usually use it in bed, the bane of a laptops cooler) and as I say, its still chugging along.

Not saying its impossible to have a well built, well cooled gaming laptop, but in my experience, they're not the go to for reliability
I don't have a specific formula to answer your question, but there will be leakage regardless of size. This can be partially mitigated with metal screens or fully mitigated part time using steel scroll shutters or steel door shutters. Steel scroll shutters have the benefit of adding R/U insulation rating in cold weather and in some cases can improve physical security.
>>The constraint is, there simply is not enough capacity to treat everyone. If there was, there would be no problem. So should you prioritize care for people who are intentionally making themselves ill, or those who aren't?

You're missing the point, floors closed create the deficit in operational capacity.
>programming is more of an art than a science

Yes, that is a problem and one of the reasons why so much of the tooling is crap and so many projects fail.

If we are still here half a millennium from now, hopefully professional programming will start looking more like actual engineering.
I must have missed the study that showed the long-term side effects of the vaccine were determined by the long-term side effects of DDT

if you would be so kind as to link it here...
It's similar to the way V8 works.

This idea has a huge drawback. An instance, can have different shapes depending on the order you discover the fields, by example, if you have a point(x,y), the shape is different if you assign @x first or @y first.

So even if a code is not polymorphic for a human, it is polymorphic at runtime.

In practice, doing a static analysis of the code (maybe only the constructors of the hierarchy) is still needed to alleviate this issue.
"Designing Elixir Systems with OTP" is a great book.

It's not intending to teach you the basics of the language, it is instead teaching you how to architect real world programs, using a particular case study that they work through (a quiz game). It's basically about the 'functional core, OTP boundaries' model that is an excellent approach for building real systems.

If you don't know Elixir at all the Getting Started guide is good for teaching the language constructs: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html
I can recommend A Canticle for Leibowitz - it covers your last point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
There's no way to split geographically, and it won't be clean.