skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is, actually, antibody test. They are quite costly however.

Im my country, getting infected count as the 1rst dose (yes, i know, natural immunity is better with "real" infections, but rememeber that Covid sometime start an auto-immune disease, it's hard to test for this, so its less costly to just vaccinate people (the jab cost 12E)).

No scientific response. This is mostly pragmatic, and probably politic too. Its easier to just jab everyone you can while you can.

I know it's a bit hearthless, and i can't ask doctors to start triaging, but i'd really like that once everyone have had the possibility to get the double dose, we just stop everything covid related (maybe not the reduced maximum capacity and mask in public transport for the adults during peak hours: those restrictions should have been implemented way before covid).
Yep—my phone's gone the day they announce that, as in, I won't have one anymore at all (well, the watch will be my phone, I guess). The only thing that'll even make me hesitate, maybe, is the camera, but ultimately that won't be enough.
I replaced my Fitbit Versa with a Garmin Vivoactive 3 Music and have been a huge fan. Many day battery, GPS for runs etc, can play music and podcasts from the watch.
It wouldn’t be the first time they’ve gone a year without a processor update. The series 5 had no performance gain over the series 4.
> If you want to see what throws "FooException", you need an IDE to do it, unless you have the whole Javadoc memorised. It might be a hundred lines up and in the middle of a foo().bar().baz() chained series of method calls.

This isn't any different in Go. Tracing Exceptions is actually often easier since they have unique names that you can grep for, whereas err is always err, so your only recourse is to trace across the callstack.

It's, like, actually worse.

> Because of this, bubbling up raw exceptions out of deeply nested functions is generally a code smell, because by the time they get to the top level of even a module, all you know is "it broke". Unless you did the donkey work of wrapping the raw exception in something with more semantic context.

What? If you have a decent root level error message, that + a stack trace is almost always enough, and is as good or better than what you get in go, since the errors are more structured. I'd generally consider the donkey work you're describing an antipattern. Adding extra context or re-raising an exception should be done only rarely, when you have confidence that the new context you're providing is more useful than the prior (and lots of good languages support exception chaining so you get all of the context from many errors, instead of just one string).
> On a practical level, guns are available to anyone who wants one.

For the law abiding, that’s not true in places where you need a license just to buy one such as NYC, or in CA where most handguns and many rifles are not available.
Oh yes. Or renegotiate the contracts. And, IIRC, Biden got around that in the case of Mexico by "loaning" them the doses against their preorder that Pfizer couldn't fill yet.
Bespoke Synth 1.0 – open-source software modular synthesizer
Thanks for the links. For your first link, I’m not sure how that’s considered infiltration if the ‘infiltrators’ are proudly announcing their beliefs and intentions, and from what I understand as a group have doing so since the 19th century.

If there are actually folks that, for example, pretended to be atheist/agnostic, climbed up the ranks, and suddenly became an evangelical then your worries are more understandable, though I’m not sure if that’s happened.

The info in the second link does seem worrying if true.

For the last link, considering there are thousands if not tens of thousands (?) of Lt. Cols, and equivalent ranks, in the US military, it’s somewhat surprising but not that unusual, or worrying, that there’s public insubordination by a few.
Apologies, I thought you were stating in general.
It’s poorly written and a borderline run-on sentence. It sounds like it was written by a non-native speaker of English.
Facebook can do things to reduce dynamics that they know are harmful to children, just like they remove (some) content that is clearly harmful to children but not illegal. They just don't, which is their choice.
I'm extremely interested to see whether voting locations will start requiring proof of vaccination.
You are clearly dealing with other issues you need to sort out.
Stalin was worse
It's not that much revenue because the marginal cost of an individual chip is very low. Given that apple has plenty of silicon capacity, throwing away say 5-10% of chips that come off the line is likely cheaper than trying to build a new product around them or selling them off to some OEM who needs to see a bunch of proprietary info to use them.
> The point at which this breaks is when Intel doesn't have any real competition and uses segmentation as a way to raise prices on higher end chips rather than as a way to create cheaper SKUs.

I’m not sure that this is really fair to call broken. This sort of fine granularity market segmentation allows Intel to maximize revenue by selling at every point along the demand curve, getting a computer into each customer’s hands that meets their needs at a price that they are willing to pay. Higher prices on the high end enables lower prices on the low end. If Intel chose to split the difference and sell a small number of standard SKUs in the middle of the price range, it would benefit those at the high end and harm those at the low end. Obviously people here on HN have a particular bias on this tradeoff, but it’s important to keep things in perspective. Fusing off features on lower-priced SKUs allows those SKUs to be sold at that price point at all. If those SKUs cannibalized demand for their higher tier SKUs, they would just have to be dropped from the market.

Obviously Intel is not a charity, and they’re not doing this for public benefit, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a public benefit. Enabling sellers to sell products at the prices that people are willing/able to pay is good for market efficiency, since it since otherwise vendors have to refuse some less profitable but still profitable sales.

It is unfortunate though that this has led to ECC support being excluded from consumer devices.
Kind of wild to say gay people actually didn't have it that bad, and that getting cancelled today is actually worse.
Once all who want it are vaccinated, and further 80-95%-plus of the population is either vax- or post-infection- immune, the alleged 'multiplier' of danger-to-others is negligible. The protected are protected; those who want to take thir chances will hurt themselves, & get the painful immunity upgrade, soon enough.

Even with today's HIV treatments, its fatality rate is in the range of COVID. (And: living with it is no cakewalk.) But we haven't outlawed risky sex. People self-sort into compatible risk groupings.

Also, people are most certainly "talking about mandates" when they're discussing whether natural immunity should grant people the same rights to engage in normal activities as vaccination.
The biggest hinderance to me adopting Java for anything meaningful was the build system. Too much XML and complexity. Maven for packages, ugh. Just give me a modern package manager. Does such a thing exist that is idiot proof?
I think the other reason, besides micotransactions being more profitable, is it's just a better business model for most companies. Having a reasonably predictable regular income is preferable to a one off hit or miss of a single player AAA game.

Companies like Sony still do it, but Sony gets a cut of every transaction on their platform, so they have their regular income as well.

Microsoft has sort of figured out a solution with gamepass where they can make large offers to devs in order to minimise their risk.

Whole industry is shifting towards it.
There are some funny ways to work with records. I can recommend this article: https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2020/09/19/fun-with-java-recor...
As someone who has worked with a couple of Class A A##holes I guess even they have to pretend they are nice when interviewing.

These were both technically brilliant but would backstab, take credit for others work, deflect blame, even include customers on copy when scolding me etc, so I'd definitely classify them as Class A A##holes.

BTW: Are you sure you qualify as Class A? The kind of technical brilliance these guys had, combined with such utter lack of respect for others and also the galls to be totally open about not respecting others, that is quite rare...
Dagger 2 is a fantastic lightweight DI framework that gets out of your way and keeps the errors to compile-time

https://github.com/google/dagger

After that you can throw in whatever libraries you want, dagger doesn't care.
Ok, let’s use your terminology and say they are postponing the rollout. You speak as though they’ve already rolled it out. It could also be an indefinite postponement. Yet you insist on painting the narrative as if it already occurred. Guilty until proven innocent.

I’ll be right there next to you protesting my right to privacy if they do rollout the feature against our wishes, but until then I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.

Also you mention every time Apple is challenged they contend that customers were confused what instances are you referring to?
but...in a perfect world this isn't a question, "Will my employer tolerate my sexuality at work".
Do you have to hide being straight at work? If so, I don't think we have the same idea of what work is. (the royal you, not you specifically. I think a lot of people think this way.)
Those bezels are crazy thin. I can’t think of any other product that has such thin bezels while still being uniform all the way around. Clearly some R&D went into that display.
I ran a Bitcoin full node for a while years ago to learn and contribute, also coming from a perspective that appreciates any viable alt-money. I lost interest when the network centralized and speculation came to dominate. Then there were the governance-- I'll call them failures-- that resulted in multiple forks. I mean, c'mon, parallel systems are one thing but it illustrates that no one even is available to dig a moat around the relevant trademarks. And finally what caused me to disengage was a lack of-- I'll call it honesty about this being a secure long-term store of value. This is a distributed, Internet-dependent software program with a minimally-functional development contingent, that absolutely is a creature of this technological moment-- relative to network structure, laws and the security of the various layers of encryption baked into the system. It's a very human system and not pre-determined at all. If those systems fail for a day, or a week, I sort of doubt BTC ever would recover.

These days I follow the price to infer which direction black market money exchangers in China are running-- are the illegal capital flows toward or away from China today? I also think it's neat that sorta 'banking as a commodity item' has a sticker price in BTC. That is all.
Urban Formal Order: Space, Anti-Space, Junkspace
Shocking and sad news. I always enjoy Norm and watch his work every other month at the least. The world has lost some light.

His ability to tell a whole absurd story that sounds like it's building into a huge climax and fizzles into an anti-joke is legendary.
Related to chip shortages?
I really doubt that’s true. It would mean that a foundation that owns any goods (buildings, rolling stock, etc.) would not be able to sell them, ever, except to other non-profits.

Are there any non-profit car wrecking companies in Spain?
I thought it was amusing that they chose to show off the iPhone using a delivery guy on a motorbike, with the iPhone mounted on the handlebars, especially after warning people not to do that: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212803
When background apps close on its own to save RAM, for example. It depends on how hungry is the next app you open.
Supposedly watchOS 8 changes the upgrade mechanism such that it does not require pagan rituals. Although you need to get a pagan ritual to get it initially onto a Series 3.
Apply to engineering rotational programs for recent graduates (these programs usually start interviewing in November, for you to start in summer 2022)
What would jeffrey dahmer do?
I skipped high school because I started working full time to keep the roof over my families head at 15.

Extreme poverty is more avoidable now that we have the ACA and preexisting conditions can't be used to destroy multiple generations of a family's life.

If you are a software engineer it's fine.

Yes there are downsides, I know them all. I can talk about this for days.
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> its utility is very much real

What's the utility of the concept of race?
When the gov pays your bills you are in poverty. Nice try at redefining welfare.
> The CCP does not want peace, not sure where you're getting this from.

CCP certainly looks like wanting peace, judging against US, which CCP has always been open about to surpass or at least excel...
Thats kind of a hyperbole.

.net didn't add support for macOS on ARM64 years ago. .net also didn't implement 2D rendering on macOS via Metal. etc. As a matter of fact .net didn't even support any other platform then Windows until recently.
So brave, thank you for your service.
No, I'm claiming that both interviewer and interviewee have a similar workload, and that usually only one party feels like they need to engage, the other is in a position of power and is the gatekeeper to 'the job' and so feels no need to engage. I've seen this numerous times and it never ceases to amaze me that these little pointy haired bosses / team leads / whatever you want to call that particular flavor of middle manager this week don't realize that they represent the company during contact with an outsider, which makes them an ambassador of sorts.
by desktop I meant non-integrated/embedded. A standalone CPU you could buy and plop into any standard ATX/mATX/ITX motherboard.

But even if you have a Pro embedded, it doesn't mean you get ECC. My Lenovo ThinkPad has a PRO 4750U. But they solder on one non-ECC DIMM. So it's rather pointless. Plus, it's SODIMM. So that's yet another factor at play when choosing RAM.

The only real exception that I know of is the recent 5000G APUs may support ECC. But this seems to be borderline rumor/speculation at this point. Level1Techs made the claim on YouTube and were supposed to have a follow up. Not sure if that ever happened.
This. Even here in Germany it's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario. It's entirely polarized.
I've found the sleep function super valuable, it let's my quantify how small changes can affect me sleep. The smart alarm is also useful (wakes you up while you are in a light sleep cycle as opposed to deeper sleep).

As a runner, i've found the heart rate data useful for gaining insights.
You are incorrect. Google's AFA is viral in nature. Daring to ship a non-Google Android will cancel your ability to ship any devices with Google Play.
Having music and podcasts without taking my phone with me to go for runs or bike rides and still having the ability to make a call in case of emergencies.
It's been my observation that most of the time most people simply don't think.

I'm not super smart (nor do I in anyway claim to be) but people often consider me to be smart when really it's all down to two things, I think about things other people don't consider and I have endless curiosity about almost everything, I'm an eternal 5 year old constantly asking why.
Choosing the Right Pet for You
Mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcUKMO27yKY
I like how they copied flick type after booting it off the Apple watch for being a keyboard...
How this works in practice is that there are informal bosses and political infighting to determine who is the informal boss on a team. You can have pretty flat hierarchies where many teams share 1 director-type person as their boss and it works pretty well though.
Humiliation, bullying, shame, abuse.... these things have been inflicted upon millions of young people generation after generation just because they didn't fit a very narrow mold.

But you want me to shed a tear for who exactly? People who wrote hateful things and chose to share them with the public? Those are the very people dishing out the humiliation and shame and abuse. I for one am very happy that those behaviors are no longer tolerated like they were for so many generations.
IMO TouchID, Multitasking, Front Camera, LTE, Video, and the Touch Bar all fundamentally changed the smartphone experience and were worth upgrading over.
looking at a histogram is probably the best thing you can do to understand how data is distributed
It is an essentially inevitable result of technological development. If the 40 hour workweek people had protested 30 years earlier, nothing would have happened, and if they hadn’t protested at all it probably would have been achieved with less effort a few years down the line. You need occasional shocks to remove entrenched procedural traditions like work schedules, but the magnitude of the shock required decreases as the change becomes more obviously beneficial.
A&W Canada has been downright impressive in being consistently good. Around the level of south-asian owned popeyes franchises. Whatever culture they have behind the scenes, I hope franchises restaurants follow.
What kind of features do the cellular version of the watch not have that you would need to be truly standalone? It gets pretty close for me... I can take calls, view and respond to texts, listen to music, track my workouts, etc. all without carrying my iPhone. While still requiring the watch to be connected to the iPhone for system updates, installing apps, etc. is not ideal, that doesn't preclude somebody from using the watch without also carrying an iPhone at all times.
These claims surprise me.

Wikipedia does not appear to describe the term AGI as being used only by a, ah, clique or uh, relatively small faction, or however you would describe “ Ben Goertzel et al, and the LessWrong/MIRI community”.

Perhaps this is because the editors of the Wikipedia article on “Artificial General Intelligence” are aligned with LW-ers.

However, the article seems well cited, and says that ‘the term “artificial general intelligence” was used as early as 1997, by Mark Gubrud’ (and provides a citation for this).

Ah, ok, Wikipedia also says the term was re-introduced and popularized by Dhane Legg and Ben Goertzel, around 2002. (Sorry if this is nit-picky, I’m writing this as I read about the topic, with only a little editing of parts I’ve already written.)

Wikipedia in particular defines the term as referring to the general capabilities idea, and its article on AGI doesn’t even seem to mention the specific architecture that Goertzel proposed involving ‘a network whose nodes and links carry probabilistic truth values as well as “attention values” ‘ (to quote the article which is about Goertzel himself) .

So, Wikipedia at least gives the impression that there is a fairly clear consensus on at least generally what “AGI” means (even if not on the exact details of a definition / criterion. It lists a number of proposed tests which seem similar enough in terms of the kind of things they test.)
Citation needed for Android doing this?
> Since the data on vaccine safety is a settled issue

I'm arguing against this particular point not the others.

I can't say whether the vaccine is safe for those who have already been infected the drug companies excluded those people from trials. Do you see what I'm saying here? When have we ever taken the position of prove its dangerous before you try to stop me from putting this in your body. Its always been "no you prove to me that it is safe".
I admit that my previous comment was tongue-in-cheek; I found it interesting that the two numbers were so close. To make up for it, I'll try a more serious response.

I suspect you are making a category error comparing "two parents who are both rather taller or both rather shorter than their child" and "two parents who are appear to be of one race, but their child appears to be of a different race".

To put the two into the same category, you could compare "two parents...taller or shorter than their child" and "two parents...lighter skinned or darker skinned than their child"---two aspects that are single traits. And no, I wouldn't be crazy surprised in either case, unless you were specifically thinking about Robert Wadlow and Zeng Jinlian giving birth to Chandra Bahadur Dangi or two parents of Danish descent giving birth to a child with a Bantu skin color. (And no, I don't know the relative frequencies of such events.)

The other way to resolve the category error, if you prefer to compare bundles of traits, would be two people of Italian extraction giving birth to a stereotypical Irish child. That sounds pretty unlikely, especially prior to modern travel and migration patterns.

But the real, underlying question that is the base for "many people really, really don't want race to be real" is, "So what?"

Yes, human beings tend to share traits with other closely related people. So what? Individual variation is pretty large, too.

Historically, Italians and Irish were considered to be different races. Not so much today, because "race" is a social construct and the difference between the Irish, southern Europeans, and the canonical northern European isn't a big deal today.

Races are defined to be a way of applying a group of conclusions, which may be difficult to perceive directly, to an individual who has an easily perceived marker for the race. That can be more-or-less neutral to somewhat pernicious. ("You are Asian, therefore you must be lactose intolerant!" Well, maybe.) Or it can be straight up evil, especially if the conclusions you are making are simply made up to enforce your superiority to the individual.

As a result, race is either not real, or real but completely uninteresting. Any other option is intellectual laziness at best and at worst....well, it leads to poor outcomes.

Now, neither you nor I particularly care whether homosexuality is genetic or a choice, but I hope you can see how someone who has to respond to "So just don't be gay!" might prefer one over the other.
> they found it looks at the name of the patient on the border of the image or something similar.

The images were anonymised. If they AI cheated, it’s not obvious how. The paper is interesting.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10356
Nice tool at a fraction of the price of others in this space, but to be honest I'm not sure how it is a "better tool" - it's a code pad for coding interviews, but there are no rich features or any ways it distinguishes itself from others.

There are many gaps in the way code interviews are done, and especially with remote now I think there's a lot of ways you could have a tool which really differentiates itself in features and functionality. Good start though!
“For this reason, your app will be removed from sale on the App Store”