skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, what a way to misrepresent that study.

The reduction in infection rates wasn't large enough to qualify as statistically significant. That just means that the reduction that they saw from cloth masks could have been due to chance.

Edit: Since the size of the cloth mask group is half the size of the surgical masl group, the effect in the cloth mask group would have to be comperatively larger than the effect on the surgical masl group to qualify as significant.

Somewhow you take that as evidence cloth masks don't work?
> My biggest challenge over the years was remembering what to do in each place as the security people at the airports had a tendency to get upset if you didn't do it their preferred way.

For as much as I complain about security theater and think they’re mostly useless, this is genuinely my biggest issue with TSA. It’s wildly inconsistent, there’s insufficient signage, and they act like you’re an idiot if you haven’t correctly guessed what today’s rules are.
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The problem isn't a single instance going away. The problem is what happens when for whatever reason the owner stops maintaining the project. This is a common problem and despite all the bluster and buzzwords, the IT community hasn't really found a solution. Torrents are the only kind-of-solution, but they are not ideal for something that needs to be constantly updated.
Dunbar's number and C. S. Lewis
Wow. If we focus more on innovation instead of fossil fuel interest, we'd have a virtually free powergrid in no time.
Yes, that's right. Perhaps I could have chosen a more specific phrase, but I wanted to emphasize that we don't owe our lives to the CEOs.
The stated goal is to make them think it's an expensive high end tool they haven't seen before to make them nervous. By definition if they don't know what it is you just wasted $60,000 to buy a rod they don't know about instead of... a $6 rod they also don't know about.

The only way the buyer was "in" on this being fake is via corruption and kickbacks.
It's interesting how almost all of the anti-vax propaganda has some weird kernel of truth which is then completely interpreted incorrectly or otherwise taken out of context. I suppose that makes it easier to rope people in.
Is that faint green line being mentioned the same green flash that one is supposed to see just after sunset (but which I have never managed to see?)
Any sort of compassion I have for those who are nervous about getting injected with medicine they don't understand is overwhelmed by disgust at the lying and magical thinking that surrounds that.

Vaccines are not perfect. They are not guaranteed 100% safe. But they're the best thing we've got for dealing with epidemics.
> the cost of reasonably using the API exceeds the cost of buying and operating a machine with 350GB RAM

Capex and opex of these two are quite different.
> The entire scenario outlined is for a production deployment of Websphere backed by Oracle. IBM specifically calls out 1:1 memory for production workloads (which oracle very much is) in their performance documentation:

This discussion is about the configuration of the systems, not this specific scenario. While this may have been the scenario outlined for you, it wasn't apparent from your comment.

Production workloads on busy servers have very different requirements than consolidation, VDI, resiliency/redundancy, hardware abstraction, etc. Every workload needs a different evaluation.

All of these VMs running production Ora/OAM/OEM/Websphere workloads? No, don't oversubscribe. Some of them running similar workloads? More oversubscribe is ok. Few of them? Lots of oversubscribe.

Similar for interrupt locking. The "old" synchronous interrupt lock I was speaking about was "I have a bunch of VMs with CPU oversubscribe, and even if they're doing nothing, 30% or more of your CPU time goes to interrupt scheduling so every vCPU for a given VM can schedule simultaneously". This is solved.

"I'm running a CPU-intensive workload on a massively oversubscribed server" is not, and we really shouldn't expect it to be.

I am having a generalized discussion about virtualization oversubscribe. You are having a specific discussion about CPU-heavy DB workloads. Apples cannot be compared to oranges.
>In another, I’m introduced as the head of the “UK bioweapons programme”, being caught admitting that the Covid vaccine could somehow destroy your immune system.

Opinions are undoubtedly protected by free speech(both the concept and the laws), but should misinformation like this be protected by free speech laws as well? Or can we carve out a narrow exception for just blatantly lying and writing fake news, like we already do in libel laws and in cases of phishing and fraud?

It feels like whenever this comes people seems to confuse opinions vs misinformation, whether intentionally or not, which serves their point.

I wrote about this a few days ago about how Reddit Inc. did that recently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28426181

Why can't we separate the two, both in discussions and in laws?
I can't believe so many here played D&D. I thought it was terrible, simplistic, shallow, restrictive and just for kids. I refused to play it. AD&D, otoh, is pretty great.
No, St Louis:

https://www.weather.gov/lsx/monthTab

It was in the upper 80s/lower 90s throughout July and August, when this data was likely collected. And relative humidity hit 80-90% every morning, averaging about 65% as it warmed up. It's sticky in summer. I live in Michigan, and even with a cool breeze from our magnificent freshwater lake, half an hour inland it's similarly hot and humid. I kept our house at 78 when we're home, 82 when it's just the dog, and 76 when company comes over. I think the air conditioner keeps humidity in the 40% range, though I'm reading this article because I lack a hygrometer/air quality sensor and don't really have hard numbers for that, only that humidity is significantly less indoors than out.

Also, he mentions that the orientation of the case causes convection off the ESP8266 to increase the air temperature by a couple degrees (Farenheit).

If you're one of the Silicon Valley HN readers looking to move to the wide open spaces and relaxed culture of the Midwest, do be aware that climate is a big deal; coastal California's perpetual mild climate is an aberration.
https://catechism.cph.org/

Yeah, that's electric.
Who can be trusted with a rational opinion? Why?

As to morality and practicality, merit as the optimal way to building hierarchy has worked practically. In terms of morality, what do you have that is better? And why/who says its better?
I found this sufficiently uninformative that I went back to http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html.

Incidentally, if your language has big integer arithmetic (like Python does), the following is substantially faster than the usual iterative or recursive approaches:

def multiply_range(n, m):
if m < n:
return 1
elif n == m:
return n
else:
mid = (n+m) // 2
return multiply_range(n, mid) * multiply_range(mid+1, m)

def factorial (n):
return multiply_range(1, n)

Try factorial(100000) to see the performance difference. Why this makes a difference is left as an exercise for the reader. (Note, in some languages, like Ruby, converting to a string representation may be the biggest bottleneck.)
I promise you any Afghan developer reading this would prefer Visa sponsorship to get him/her and their family out of Afghanistan and the miserable refugee camps in nearby countries.

The US has a very high pay ceiling for H1B but in most other Western countries it should be feasible to do Visa sponsorship for an Afghan or Syrian web developer and his family.

I know Danish companies who hired Syrian engineers and it's been working well for them.

Also just a hint when hiring from Muslim countries: Islamic fundamentalism and bigotry is not an ideology of old men with one foot in the grave. Most Islamic bigots are young English-speaking tech-savvy people. Make a simple background check so you don't end up hiring a bigot.
> In the whole of Europe electricity prices are currently through the roof

If by "through the roof" you mean like 30cents/kWh, then thats exactly what I'm talking about: if you don't have a farm of bitcoin miners at home your electricity bill is bound to be a complete joke compared to groceries, rent or even mobile data.

If we had actually expensive electricity (and car fuel and concrete etc.), which could easily be compensated by e.g. income or even sales tax modifications, then people would have ACTUAL financial incentive to buy efficient fridges or bike to work (without any additional burden).
some might say, it's impossible.
The last time AirGradient popped up on HN, the guy who runs it said if you get in contact and ask nicely they might have a spare one to send you.
but it's obvious if it's dirty or clean dishes in the dishwasher, as long as you open the door and look in.

Okay, let's go with that: why open the door when a $0.50 magnet can be glanced at, along with saving (what is probably a trivial amount of) wear-and-tear on the door mechanism? It's a dishwasher, not a box full of Schrödinger felines: we're allowed to cheat and put the current state on the outside of the box.
It does seem rather astonishing that they don't test these devices. It's not only fraud you need to rule out, but also genuine manufacturing errors, equipment wear and tear, etc.

The only explanation I could understand is that these were deliberate false positive machines (either for illegitimate profiling or parallel construction), but that doesn't seem to be how they functioned.
I use this as part of privacy redirect extension.

In general I patiently wait for RSS and Specializes forums to come back. Social-network silos are optimizing UX for engagement in era of shortest attention span known to man kind. The idea of useful and balanced interfaces is long gone.
Some valid arguments, but in reality web3 is just the web where the backend is something on the blockchain. It makes sense to talk about how to make this experience more secure, but to say the whole thing is a stupid idea doesn't benefit anyone, because a lot of people want it and are going to use it. By the way, most web wallets have hardware support, so you can add an additional layer of security that way.
A lot of people in the NOVA area are commuting to DC/MD and vice versa. It seems like you’d need to be able to fairly exclude resident out of state driving for the proposal to be viable?
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Is anyone reselling mainframe-backed VPSes then? If all this is true, they should work better and be more profitable.
Granted, but the US Army is the only one I have direct experience with. Hand to hand combat seems like such a basic component of combat training that I would be shocked to hear that it is completely absent from any armed forces boot camp.

You didn't answer the question by the way.
So I am not saying you are wrong, but there is the extra circumstance of not being able to fly a train into skyscrapers.
> It’s fine.

Yeah it's not the worst but it still removed functionality from a product for arbitrary reasons. Jony Ive just didn't seem to understand/care how people actually use a mouse with both the magic mouse and the hockey puck mouse.
> retalk

> Civil discussion for the center and center right

> Karl Marx: Atheist or Satanist?

> Candace Owens

> transphobic comic

> no links to github/gitlab

is this what passes for "civil discussion" and "center/center right" these days?
Azure has quotas that can limit things such as the number of VM's you can have running per region. It won't provision more vm's than you have in your quota. This helps you, for example, avoid automatically provisioning more vm's than you expect. These quotas can be edited manually or via API.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manage...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manage...
Can you enlighten me what CRT is. Cathode Ray Tube is about the only thing I can think of, and no big conspiracy there.
I think the disconnect between us is that this is running on a microcontroller. Think "a beefier version of what runs your smart thermostat." Linux isn't unheard of for such a device, but is a pretty heavy lift because of limited resources. Using a microcontroller has its advantages. One advantage goes exactly to the point--with smart design it can maintain a wifi connection, waking for milliseconds at the required interval, so when you want to use it there is no wifi negotiation time. Keeping things open all the way to the remote host is whole other matter, but I believe that's touched on in the document.

What is your use case for this sort of device? We'd certainly like to support as many as possible without compromising the overall vision. You mention PDFs--is your use case for reading or creating documents?

There was no plan to support local viewing of PDFs--again, parsing them is a pretty heavy lift for a low-power microcontroller to do with acceptable performance. We've got a related (very alpha) project that uses Chromium to render websites in a fancy text-only fashion. This is because for most devices, having a modern web browser is table stakes so we want to support that for this device. However, this browser would would be installed on the host you connect to with this device, not on the device itself. The browser can view PDFs (it uses Mozilla's pdf.js). I can show you screenshots of output of this browser, but not much else at this point. Those closest relative of this browser that is public is Browsh. It would give you an idea for what can be done: https://www.brow.sh/
The western nations have been seeing the opposite of an uptick. Churches are generally in decline, while the number of non-affiliated is rising. Even in the US. Some American denominations still have considerable political power because of various factors, but their membership numbers are shrinking.
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‘Break the economy’? Can you be less euphemistic?

And which economists make the case that regulatory prior restraint of individual investor choices is how to avoid a recession/depression? (Rather than, say, fiscal or monetary policy?)
> "For the most part, US foreign policy broadly pretends to promote and spread those values"

No, it's not "pretend." For instance the US just sunk something like 2 trillion dollars trying to build a democracy in Afghanistan, and you don't blow 2 trillion on anything you're only pretending to do (and if you think it's some conspiracy to line the pockets of defense contractors, there are far more efficient ways of doing that and it wouldn't have stopped).

> I'm not sure it matters if China is opposed to my basic values but doesn't do anything about it, and the US isn't opposed to my basic values, but kidnaps and tortures me for a few years because I've grown a beard and went on a pilgrimage to Pakistan.

You think China doesn't do that? I mean having "grown a beard and went on a pilgrimage to Pakistan" is a literally entry criteria to get sent to a camp in Xinjiang. Also:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48634136

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/world/europe/repression-u...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/world/asia/china-canada-s...
I still don’t understand why he was sacked. He was/is brilliant. All the best in Science! If you open offices in Europe let us know! ;)
GANTheftAuto: Harrison Kinsley on AI-Generated Gaming Environments – Ep. 151
Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27125763
Does the e-paper display you use have to "flash to black" on just about every change like so many of the Kindle whites do?
Great tool. I will take a look.
The WeMos D1 Mini link ends up at an AliExpress login page, not the product page for the D1 Mini. It looks like you linked to your order page instead.
As a twitter user, you'd damn well better expect all this.

The difference between this revolution in social media influencing, and previous revolutions in social media influencing seized and used for fascism such as the use of new radio preceding WWII, is this:

With radio, you were told things by a trusted stranger and believed them because it was on the radio and, thus, news.

Now, you are told things by what is apparently the personal friend of your personal friend, 'privately'. And you believe them because it is real. Your friend said so. Sort of.

It's an advance in propaganda technology for SURE. I don't know where it goes, but it's not like humanity hasn't had to weather this sort of thing before. The parallels are completely obvious, historically. It is nothing more than recontextualizing how to get information past critical questioning, and it's just as effective as the first radio was in its day.
Really bizarre that this author refers to the college student as a "child" and refers to college students in the 70s as "proto-adults" implying that today college students are children. College students are young adults. Its really frustrating to see people treat them like children and especially to imply that they should be treated like children.
Changes the power of the original argument/ statement for me.
Hah, thanks for sharing this dot thing, what a bizarre little corner of the internet.
You're right that FINRA is authorized by the SEC, but that doesn't mean that regulatory powers that FINRA has been authorized to perform can be pulled back on a whim. There is a binding charter in place, and there is plenty of history of FINRA telling the SEC to fuck off when something is clearly within their wheelhouse.
It depends, really. Sometimes it's just completely made up but ends up getting viral.
Generating a QR code with only ARM Assembly
Why So Many Indonesian Children Die of Covid
At what cost? If growth means the platform cannot handle the traffic properly, you’ll loose users.
Nice. That's super helpful!
The corpus callosum is pretty much exactly a signal bus between the two hemispheres. Granted, it's a 200-million wire bus, but it basically transmits entire "thoughts" between the hemispheres. I think the dream brain interface would be a tap on the CC.
Funny reddit quip you got there, but I'm talking about those who already have immunity, why should they risk the vaccine, even if small.

https://openvaers.com/covid-data
> Dunno why they can’t just pick an existing airport design and say “build that”.

Presumably because all airports suck, and every designer thinks they could do better?
I like the spirit, but you are only looking at it from the refugee perspective.

The amount of hurdles & risks the employer takes is pretty high (e.g. taxes, ID verification, risk of the refugee getting their claim denied, etc).

Seems your use case would be one-time work (e.g. need a static website for my shop) AND willingness for the employer to pay using Bitcoin (or other 'safe' method as you describe it). The overlap of those two seems very narrow, although the cost of an experiment to set it up is pretty low if you wanna venture into it.
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Also be white if you can.
I've been working with the NIST 800-22 evaluation suite [1] and yes, it is very hard. There are an infinite number of tests to determine if a number is random. Ultimately it comes down to probability that it is a good RNG/PRNG and the application. Ironically, if a PRNG is good enough, it can often be BETTER than a random source (which is why RNGs have a conditioning phase).

[1] https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Random-Bit-Generation/Documen...
Hm, I am not so sure about this. After all the site that you browse has a title of Hacker News. For me the information about "being written in rust" is exactly what I expect to read here.
Absolutely; I suspect it all comes back to cognitive dissonance.

"I am a smart and reasonable person" + "I'm afraid to get injected with a needle" metamorphoses into "clearly, my fear of getting injected is because I am so much smarter than everyone else", leading them to latch onto conspiracy theories as a coping mechanism to make them not only feel in control, but also make them feel like they're smarter than the average bear.
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It's incredibly unfortunate and disgusting that people died because this fake device was used in real settings, but that's obviously not the context being discussed here.
Ask HN: Are big tech companies still sponsoring H1B visas?
Hey HN,

I just got an email from Google stating that G would be unable to secure myself, an European, a working visa.

This is before any interview.

I am wondering if big tech have just stopped offering H1B, if it is just Google, or maybe the period of the year which is bad.

Any of you got any insight?

Cheers
It's a shame that the mainstream has adopted the term "anti-vaxxers" to describe people who don't want to get a COVID vaccine. Many of my friends and colleagues have concerns about mRNA vaccines, but they have no issue with any other standard vaccinations. Despite this, they get labeled as "anti-vaxxers." This makes them defensive about being insulted, thereby reinforcing their existing opinions. It's a completely counter-productive cycle that may actually increase COVID vaccine hesitancy.
cool idea, maybe zip the files for the user so people do not have to deal with multiple download prompts
I had a friend who bought what was supposed to be cocaine last weekend. This is not a regular drug user, he was just wanting to party with a girl, she wanted coke, he had a 'hookup'. It gets there and he does a 'nummy'to taste it to make sure. (I stopped him here asked him why he did this, saying that this wasnt the movies- he was dead serious when he told me this is what it is now, you have to check everything you get) anyways he noticed it tasted weird so they smoked a blunt of weed while they waited to see. Shortly thereafter my buddy just remembers hitting the blunt and waking up in the hospital. He is a huge bear of a man and OD'd hard. Had the girl taken it, she probably wouldn't have survived. All from a 20 bag of coke. One line, one bump- dead. That could easily have been me as a kid.

This is not new either, when I was young they would lace weed and coke with crushed crack to try and get people hooked. But that was rare and could be spotted. This fentanyl shit is everywhere killing people left and right and these absolutel pieces of shit get a pass and half the money.

The drug manufacturers and pushers don't want it legalized so they can continue to prey on us, I'm so fed up.

I have no faith left in humanity.

Edit to add- had the emt not had norcan or whatever it is to give him on-site, he wouldn't have made it to the hospital to receive it there. Fentanyl is beyond evil. I've watched friends and family start on painkillers and become addicts. Some kicked it, some never did. How can you destroy lives and families and not only profit but gain immunity =(
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What does this look like to the average user?

I'm imagining - finding a topic or person or something that you want to follow, and then, your 'instance' / host pops up with "the thing you are trying to get data from is banned from this host".

Seems like an excellent opportunity to upsell someone to starting their own host / own rules system.. Star your own droplet for $10 a month maybe?