skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO there is only one argument for not dropping all restrictions and a complete return to normalcy, it's "what about the children?"

Here is their BS response:

"The FDA is undergoing a process now to evaluate a vaccine for children under the age of 12, and under the President’s plan, the Administration will do whatever it takes to support those efforts, while continuing to respect and defer to the scientific decision-making of the agency."

I feel like our entire society has been held hostage by the FDA. I think a bold plan to completely get rid of the FDA would have been more appropriate. Just dismantle the whole organization. It's too broken to fix.

Figuring out if the vaccine is safe for children under 12 takes a maximum of 8 weeks (1 week to administer, 6 weeks to watch, 1 week to organize results).

It's been 4 weeks since the association of pediatric doctors reviewed the data and begged the FDA to lift the ban.

It has been well over a year now since phase II safety results were in from adults. It's been many months.

I don't understand why there isn't a wide, bipartisan push to remove the FDA from our lives. Multiple presidents, multiple heads, all a complete and total catastrophe.
It was a long time ago. If you remember, "Longhorn" became Vista.

That was an ... interesting ... visit.
That's the kind of stuff that ruined reddit
I have no idea what Verizon's plan was, but I assume Apollo's plan is to ride Yahoo into the ground, and they've forecast the present value of the revenue vs costs, and it works out.

I left Yahoo in 2011, but back then, profit margins were usually OK but not nearly as good as competitors. Mostly properties were run by small teams but competing ok against much larger dedicated companies. And then there was search; outsourcing it mostly to Bing but keeping a large team and crawling infrastructure to do customizations didn't make sense to me, but it's what happened.

I don't know how much of the small team enabled by corporate stuff + central advertising team still works at Yahoo, if it's still there, maybe there's hope.
Unfortunately you are going to have a hard time finding scientific agreement on which foods to ban. The science isn’t that good yet.
And Chromium isn't OSS?? Wrong. Chromium is a cross-platform OSS browser engine. IE was effectively a single platform closed source browser.

FLoC fiasco? You mean a feature you can turn off, that only exists in Chrome and not every browser that uses Chromium?

"Every major browser that uses the open source Chromium project has declined to use it..." [0] Gee, it really sounds like Google is in complete control of all other browsers that use Chromium right?

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22387492/google-floc-ad-t...
It needs a 2012 tag. I was excited to see what Yahoo trip planner does, only to find out it was discontinued long ago.
Can we ask Codex to write in languages like Haskell where it's hard to make "small" mistakes, because types are catching you? Or does it circumvent that?
Pretty much, nothing of value was lost today. It would be more surprising if Fedora started to bundle not legally available applications [0] or Debian added the nvidia or amdgpu-pro drivers by default.

[0] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/setup_rpmfus...
I love it, you dismiss long established, well researched logical conclusions based on understanding of software development and backed by studies…in favor of your anecdote about an engineer you failed to manage properly.

In my experience people who make extraordinary claims about how bad the “guru” employee is are just ignoring his actual contributions because he is focused on getting things done rather than shouting “yes sir” to their arbitrary and clueless demands.

Worse they think this anecdote justifies destroying the productivity of the entire company.

And yet here you are repeating this exact cliche.

It is still not logical.
Don't worry, I never had an account there, just observing from a sane distance this insane platform !
Is someone here complaining that the Round Table play about King Arthur is not historical [1]?

Or this year's interpretation of Cyrano de Bergerac [2]?

I do not get where this complaint about "historical facts" comes from.

The story about Vendée and Lafayette is not even in this year's programme [3] and I truly believe that French should be ashamed for shaving it off.

They've impoverished themselves and now they have one less thing to whine about.

[1] https://www.puydufou.com/france/en/les-chevaliers-de-la-tabl...

[2] https://www.puydufou.com/france/en/le-dernier-panache

[3] https://www.puydufou.com/france/en/grand-parc-and-shows
Sure but now the times are astronomical and they may take one look at you and say you're too far gone and let you die because ICU simply doesn't have any beds. So some dummy who wouldn't get the vaccine just killed (by proxy) your relative most likely.
I guess there needs to be some "design" involved in the process. So a python program determines the sequence of machine code instructions uniquely (given some assumptions of repeatable builds, or lets just say on a given computer without updates and so on...), an AI on the other hand needs to have some freedom to choose which specific program it runs, lets say if the specs say "feature X has to be user configurable" then the AI has to make the decision wether that should be in a config file or in a GUI element.
First, I don't know of any "brain damage"; and second, yes, it can result in brain damage. Simplest way, by inducing insomnia, but there are many others.
Citizenship comes with strings attached and I'm under no illusion or delusion that I am "free" in the objective sense. I'm also completely ok with that because society has afforded me great freedom(s) that I could not have elsewhere. I _have_ to work a job, I _have_ to pay taxes, I _have_ to enlist if called upon in the draft, I _have_ to be vaccinated to go to school.

The inconvenient truth may be that as society becomes more interconnected, the less objective freedoms we have because we're trying to scale humanity and reap the collective benefits. Again, I'm completely ok with that because even in software, we have standards that software must abide by in order to interoperate efficiently. You can't just say "I don't want to conform the society's standards" yet reap the benefits the collective has provided.

I'm content with my world view, maybe it's you that needs to look outside of yourself and see what everyone is actually trying to do here (outside of this immediate situation, I mean the species as a whole).
I agree that once the growth slows China will start to see cracks in its society. This, I submit, is the reason why Beijing is doubling down on the nationalist path. Cast the West as the enemy and China as the victim of oppression to drum up nationalist sentiments.

The social compact I believe that exists in China is that the people put up with the curbs either out of ignorance of the lacks of curbs or because of the promise of a better life which comes along with increased job wages as long as they toe the party line.

The moment the bargain is not held up for the increased wages, the compact starts to get eroded. Turmoil in China if it happens will have a widespread and largely unknown consequences. Unknown because too many pieces are intricately linked to the stable functioning of China.

For one, I hope to be able to witness this one day.
CVE-2018-13379: Access Information to 87,000 FortiGate SSL-VPN Devices Leaked
> I wish there was historical fiction along these lines.

Ah, but there is. I highly recommend S.M. Stirling's Emberverse series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emberverse_series

Well worth the read. One Second After: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Second_After is another great choice.
> Is it really wrong to request that if they want to use our health care system they take basic care of themselves?

At least in the US, there is no "our" health care system.

My employer and I pay about $500 / month in premiums for just me. My insurance company has made contractual agreements with the vast majority of health care providers (they've become more and more consolidated over the years) to provide service to their CUSTOMERS. On top of that, most Americans now have thousands of dollars in deductibles which are used to directly subsidize Obamacare recipients.

But you're right, we should expect people to "take basic care of themselves" if they want to freeload on MY health care system. So along with those who are unvaccinated, let's toss out:

* homosexual men. The rates of infectious diseases, including HIV which has a 100% fatality rate, are off the charts due to their very promiscuous lifestyles. Do you know the number of sexual partners an average gay man in the US has by middle age? It's shocking...

* Young black men. Lifetime chances of using ER services due to violence are so high, it'd make sense just to deny them outright.

* In fact, just deny all blacks in the US. After gay men, it turns out heterosexual black women are now the biggest carriers of HIV, and that is almost always caused by their choices (i.e. promiscuous lifestyles). On top of that, their obesity rates are so high that along with the fact they disproportionately freeload off the system (Medicaid, Obamacare subsidies, etc), our system would be improved drastically if we could cut that burden off.

* Undocumented immigrants. They rarely pay into the system. They tend to not use preventative care due to lack of insurance, thus they disproportionately use ER services which is a disadvantage to those of us like me who pay for the system.

I could go on, though I don't think you'd like who ends up being denied service because they "don't take basic care of themselves" and don't pay into the system.
Well someone at Employee Relations had a slot at 10.30PT filled on the company calendar. So it’s doxxing.
Compilation of the 125 times Econ professor said “beef” in one lecture
Codex has the capacity to write decent Python code. A large part of getting great results from it is writing clear, well separated, prompts. Also taking it off streaming mode, to get best N results, and penalizing repetition, improves the output dramatically. Even better if you can give further hints (e.g. import pandas) before submitting.

Of course, it's merely trained on code it's seen on GitHub, so it certainly has a particular smell to it (disclaimer: I focus on Data Science related code, which is not always of the highest quality and has its share of cargo-culting).

Most of the demos you will likely have seen are in streaming mode, have vague prompts with a high temperature setting.
"many negative side effects of other vaccines" is a profoundly unscientific statement, particularly when you're trying to prove the likelihood of a completely different vaccine having side effects for other reasons

if I could just offer a piece of friendly advice, for anyone trying to convince the majority that the COVID-19 vaccines show a strong likelihood of negative side effects long-term:

try to show the actual frequency of each long-term side effect you mention, as a proportion of # of those vaccines administered, and explain the physical mechanism by which each of those side effects will manifest in recipients of the COVID-19 vaccines
All culture is cultural appropriation. It doesn't manifest in a bubble. The staple foods you consume and assume to be Western are all historically the result of appropriation.

It doesn't really matter whether people want to call it yoga or not; we fundamentally have the right to practice whatever exercise we want, no matter our ethnicity or culture of origin.
> It is just so complex that it is impossible to use without heavy tooling support, and this tooling is only really usable in Microsoft's technology.

Again, gotta call BS here. My early career was 100% SOAP and related WS-* technologies. And it was all in Java, Apache Axis and friends. Wildly popular at the time. Give it your WSDL, out pops a nice Java client. People didn’t like it not because it was difficult to use outside of the Microsoft ecosystem, they didn’t like it because it was the concepts were difficult to understand and there were many complicated technologies piggybacking off of it. It was hard to debug issues, Visual Studio or not. If you had to do something that a generated client could do, it was difficult, Visual Studio or not.
I've been finding that vector.dev keeps up well. Before I moved to containers, I was using rsyslog, which also kept up incredibly well. I've had both set up to pour directly into elasticsearch, which, if tuned, can keep up as well.
I'm happy to be corrected. Can you provide some sources? And what about edge cases where people follow low caloric diets and persist their weight?
Rails 7 will have three great answers to JavaScript in 2021+
> Influencers are actually some of the only advertisers who aren’t well regulated in Europe,

When was the last time you saw product placements being clearly labeled in TV shows/movies? For most people, the answer is "never".

Just because we are used to it doesn't mean it's fair. Tom Scott explains it much better than I can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-x8DYTOv7w
I think the whole sentence should be "don't talk to the police without a lawyer / let the lawyer speak for you". And in the case of an executives talking to the SEC you should absolutely have a lawyer, or multiple, with you.
How much existing advertising technology works seems to be questionable. Lie detectors aren't admissable in court for good reason, but they are still considered useful to help lead investigators in the right direction, especially against people that aren't trained or trying to defeat them.
Amazon Dangles Free Bachelor’s Degrees as New Perk in Fight for U.S. Workers
Newly discovered dinosaur predated T-Rex and a bigger apex predator
> The US government has done a poor job of accurately tracking the deaths of even US service members years after their exposure to radiation.

Meanwhile, the US performed unethical radiation experiments on its own citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...

This one is particularly noteworthy:

> In 1957, atmospheric nuclear explosions in Nevada, which were part of Operation Plumbbob

> determined to have released enough radiation to have caused from 11,000 to 212,000 excess cases of thyroid cancer

> leading to between 1,100 and 21,000 deaths

Do you really need enemies when you have such a government looking out for your well being?
I've been fascinated with the place since my father worked there after the war, and as a Northern Brit I'm comfortable in and like rugged, remote landscapes.

More to the point, most of the bad shit to happen after a significant nuclear exchange will hit the Northern hemisphere and wind currents being what they are will mostly keep the fallout up there. Well, here.
"Oh, you're following my navigation directions? I'm going to re-route you with no notice."
Lol to think masks and getting vaccinated to help society continue to function is as hyperbolic as you portray, what a way to go through life. I hope you find a way to release your anger and learn to help others.
Just because its easy (relative to everything else, also it depends on what you mean by "all the details"), doesn't mean it doesn't take time and therefore money.

You might argue, "well then generating the code is still a win" and it might be, but its a micro-optimization. If the AI can do the easy part but not the hard part, its akin to shaving seconds from an operation that takes hours. Its focusing on the wrong thing. If the AI could instead do the hard part, you would save a lot lot more effort and therefore money. Once that's done, by all means, automate the easy part too, but until then, the priorities are off.

You might still say that this is worth it, saving those seconds still means you don't have to pay for them, even if the majority of the cost is still there. This is possibly true and all well and good. I don't really care, because I'll still have a job doing the hard part. The issue is that when these AI's are mentioned, the "hard part" is always glossed over, the AI is sold as this thing that will automate all development, where it really should be sold as a thing that shaves a little off the total cost of development, but that the hard and therefore expensive parts are still there.

Sure, there are some development tasks that are fairly trivial and some companies that do mainly these might go out of business, but you still have the stories of oracle selling a website to the government agency for $100 million, because it has to interact with a slew of legacy systems, deal with ambiguous tax codes/regulations/requirements. There's a lot of tech out there that has these complexities and that's not going to be automated by these AI's for now, until they tackle "the hard part".

A note on "all the details": if you truly have all the details (refined unambiguous requirements, detailed architecture with all the use cases and edge cases outlined and documented, technology tradeoffs investigated and documented etc etc) then great, it would be quick, easy and cheap to implement then. Unfortunately, what is more common, is that a non-developer will say this and "all the details" really isn't all the details at all and just the tip of the iceberg.
Please visit r/HermanCainAward to see a representative sample of people objecting to said “forced medical procedure” and their arguments why.
That's not how acoustic resonance works, and if it did happen, it would be hard to not notice.

The whole "sonic weapon" thing is backwards reasoning where it was asssumed, because people heard things, that the sound was the cause, rather than a symptom.
> But people are notoriously terrible at estimating their own productivity and how they spend their time.

That’s true.

> Almost everyone I know who has tried time tracking and life logging is shocked at how different their expectations are from the reality (mostly that they do less and work less than they think).

Right, and time tracking and life logging are now widespread practices, so people who do these things can do a pretty good job of estimating their productivity. Also we have things like the Pomodoro method, commit histories, etc. to give indications.

I completely agree that guessing your own productivity difference without doing anything to measure it will not yield good data.

Now look at what the GP is doing - they are using an anecdote of one person’s productivity to make a claim about the productivity of a wide range of people.

My point is that their experience is very unlikely to give them the data and insight needed to make such a generalization because they aren’t measuring anyone’s productivity - they are just using an anecdote.
A monarchy does not imply that things went back the way they were, be in France or even throughout Europe, or that he did not leave a huge legacy.

Napoleon deserves celebrating, at least in France.
20-25 % of JPEGs in the internet are progressive. MozJPEG outputs progressive JPEGs by default.

Safari chooses not to show intermediate results, but they are available with Chrome and Firefox.

The impact of progression on user experience is a complex question. It is for minimizing user experienced latency vs. (over)activating preattentive processing by images changing on the screen. Last year, Moritz Firsching (also the author of the blog post in question) made several improvements to the progression of traditional JPEG (libjpeg-turbo, Chrome, Firefox). Those changes -- in my opinion -- dramatically reduce the flicker and poor renderings that could occur from traditional JPEG progression, making progressive JPEGs more attractive overall.
But "servant management" raises too many ugly questions. Is that really managing the servants or serving management?
Thank you and please let me know how it works! I haven't used Linux at home in a few years and I didn't get around to test it myself.
If you come to my workplace and smoke indoors and refuse to stop, you'll be fired. At this point, I'd wager that the large majority of jobs in the US ban smoking indoors at the workplace. There are also various state (and perhaps federal?) laws that prevent indoor smoking in a great many locations.
Coincidentally, I was dabbling in OpenBSD at the time, so YouTube recommending both videos caught my attention. I noticed that they had been uploaded around the same time, and wondered if there was a connection there.

Here's a video showing Mental Outlaw's face: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y2Jmn5Mxxk

I personally don't think Mental Outlaw is a deepfake, and he looks nothing like Luke Smith. That would be a funny meme though.
> There's absolutely no way you can stress the nervous system and build muscle and bone density as efficiently as with lifting weights.

That of course assumes that building huge or strongest muscles is universal goal. It is not.
WhatsApp will finally let users encrypt their chat backups in the cloud
> “ "Why is it that you Spartan women are the only women that lord it over your men," she said, "Because we are the only women that are mothers of men."

Feels like 2021 could maybe use this sentiment.
Wouldn't the same argument work for a research on, say, cheap and efficient biological weapons?
True but irrelevant to the fact that this guy is rationalizing the reduction in performance (as independently measured by researchers) by ~%70 in favor of reducing costs %~%15.

And then he blames the victim and you fell for it.
Car dealers sell your info when you buy the car. Mostly used to try and sell you third party extended warranty and the like.
It's supposed to be a capital allocation optimizer and risk mitigator. Unfortunately, without hard limits on things, it degenerates to financial control mechanism formost people.
Please point a time out where it was spread across the country in recent memory at our current scale. You can't. No one is saying some regional event won't do it (hurricane for example). However currently it's a much bigger issue particularly in states that are still saying covid is basically the flu while their hospitals are over full and they're begging traveling doctors and nurses to come and help out.
Semi related. It's about re-working how processes handle I/O, but has some neat terminal UI elements

https://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/
Maybe not in a quantum universe:

> Similarly, cloning would violate the no-teleportation theorem, which says that it is impossible to convert a quantum state into a sequence of classical bits (even an infinite sequence of bits), copy those bits to some new location, and recreate a copy of the original quantum state in the new location. This should not be confused with entanglement-assisted teleportation, which does allow a quantum state to be destroyed in one location, and an exact copy to be recreated in another location.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem#Consequence...
AFAIK it's not running. At least it's not running on the CPU.
It seems to me that the problem from a programmers standpoint isn't that their job will disappear but that the definition of their job will change quite a lot.

I always think of the example of supermarket cashiers. Formerly a fairly skilled job but now merely providing cheap meat-robot manipulators for a scanner. The person is still there but has a job concentrated down to the few things a person does better, and those things aren't always the fun things.
Where is part III?!
This is a monitoring project. They're not looking at transmission through feces, which isn't a realistic concern in the US anyway.
That came later iirc - initially they were thinking of using them prior to running infantry in.

I think there are old public test videos where they actually did this kind of thing.

I also recall a group of scientists trying to elevate the understanding of the e-risk (pugwash conference?).

Basically people were becoming too comfortable with the idea of nuclear war because they knew how to “duck and cover” and had a little bomb shelter in the yard.

See this: https://youtu.be/IKqXu-5jw60

Dr. Strangelove is also worth watching for a satirical take from that time.