skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed! But if look at the timing of it, the efficiency, accounting, and accountability seemed to be worsened 6x times more to date.
Do you have data to support this claim?
The agenda of reducing the spread of covid? Yes that's the agenda... It's a good one!
Scientist at Center of Lab Leak Controversy Put in Charge of Lancet’s Task Force
risk analysis != hamartiology

I don't see any punishment narrative. I think you a reading into the article to support your own narrative. Indeed, the entire article is about adjusting how one sees the related risks given the information that has emerged around the vaccines and the delta varriant.
At this point, the burden of the disease falls almost exclusively on unvaccinated adults. For everyone else, the risk is same order-of-magnitude as the flu. It's pathological and innumerate to obsess over COVID when we unthinkingly accept similar or greater risks. If you're afraid, stay home. Don't saddle the rest of us with the cost of your neuroses.
> Somewhere along the line we went from “flatten the curve” to “no one can ever get sick again”.

You’re right — I haven’t heard “flatten the curve” rhetoric since the earlier days of the pandemic. Taking the vaccine helps prevent healthcare systems from crashing. In highly vaccinated areas, is it accurate to now say, “Mission accomplished”? I don’t think so, given that children under 12 can’t be vaccinated. And yet we are sending them back to in-person learning in droves….

+1 about the inconsistent messaging and logic.
"However what worked well there was that I could trust my team to both execute their work and stay on top of things."

This is key. Do you have people you have to take by the hand and guide through every step, or do you have competent, capable ones, able to think for themself (who will get annoyed, if treated like childs).

Reality is usually a mix and a valuable leadership skill is finding out early, who needs close supervision and who not. With very competent people, you can have a very flat hierachie.
This is the reason for me too. Someone is making a handsome profit off my body parts and that’s not cool
Q1b. Are you the same person you were yesterday?
Well, yes. Maximum information = Maximum randomness.

This is why "modem sounds" are like white noise - both are maximum entropy. The probability of ANY state is maximized to the channel capacity. For binary words, that means every combination of bits would exist. That's not going to be as compressible as a situation with redundant bits or states.

Maximum compression is also related to this: if you have maximum entropy, you have maximum compression and maximum channel capacity. You also have "most perfect encryption" if the data has been encrypted - again redundancy means encryption can be broken faster/easier than maximum entropy.

All nicely related. All commonly dealt with in digital modulation and wireless technologies (I learned all this as an EE long before the digital communications revolution arrived - came in handy for sure).
Let’s separate the debate around vaccine mandates from vaccine resistance and other related debates (like doubts about its efficacy and safety). Is outrage over vaccine mandates really a “GOP stance”? I am pro vaccine but am also for bodily autonomy and am not a Republican. I feel any land that values civil liberties must, as a principle, uphold the slogan “my body my choice”, whether we are talking about abortion rights or vaccines. I feel it is illogical to expect one person to undergo a forced medical procedure so others can have a risk condition they like, when others can reduce their own exposure by skipping activities in public or by wearing protective suits. It makes even less sense when you consider that COVID has a low infection fatality rate and vaccines offer an imperfect degree of protection. A vaccine mandate is essentially arguing that one low-risk condition that is marginally better than another low-risk condition necessitates a breach of bodily autonomy. Consider as well that until this year, prominent civil liberties groups like ACLU were against vaccine mandates because they considered bodily autonomy a fundamental civil liberty and constitutional right. Also vaccine mandates have been so unpopular that until two days ago, the current administration was very consistently against vaccine mandates (https://reason.com/2021/09/09/joe-biden-vaccine-mandate-wale...) but betrayed expectations the public had of them with the new sweeping mandates.

Taken all together, I am quite perplexed as to why there isn’t more universal outrage over vaccine mandates.
A couple of contentions from 9/11 truthers never made much sense to me:

Firstly, why would the government plant explosives/thermite/whatever in the buildings? Flying planes into buildings would be enough pretext to start a war on terror, if that was the intention. You don't need to ensure they collapse with additional explosives.

Secondly, why would they use a missile rather than a plane when targeting the pentagon? If you're planning to make the public think a plane hit the pentagon, why not just use a plane?
The Civil Rights Act was bolstered by the 13A, 14A, and 15A. None of these necessarily protect anyone by their political party.
I agree, setting up docker can be a pain.

> not get sucked into the complexity of the myriad ways they can set up their development machines

This is partially due to the tech-blogosphere advice being like linux distros: whenever someone feels like there’s too many blog posts with too many differing approaches, they write a new blog post which adds yet another search result to wade through.
Alternatives like TeaVM let you code Java in the browser but it compiles quickly to compact JavaScript. This way you can get the best of both worlds. A typed language, full-stack refactorings, and the security of the browser JS VM.

TeaVM Website: https://teavm.org/

Tutorial in Java Magazine: https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/java-in-the-browser-wi...
They should make a movie called ‘Photon’ and track its life. A parody based on science.
They are concerned about knock on effects related to negative coverage of a product that uses OpenAI
Any general AI that believes a chat bot is it’s ancestor has clearly failed to encode enough logical reasoning as part of its training set.

GPT3 is useful, but it’s only a tiny slice what a general intelligence would depend on. It’s akin to a small slice of a human brain.

Your speech centers are not you, and neither are they your ancestors.
...but you did make a Rust comment :-O
I really don't understand Google, why should I install some addon to stop myself from being tracked, shouldn't it be other way around? That is allow people install add-on to be tracked...
The PR doesn't do much if you look at the changes. It looks like it's mostly compiling as C++ and using things like 'auto' and C++-style casts.
It has to do with your probability of causing serious harm to other people. ~40k deaths/year from driving (presumably some significant portion from drunk driving, texting, drugs etc.). (EDIT: this number is in the USA)

The point I am making is that you are not free to do whatever you feel like you want to do. You wanna drive? Get a license. You wanna drive drunk? Not allowed. You wanna speed? Not allowed. There are people coming to this discussion from the perspective that their freedom to do whatever they want is absolute regardless of impact to others, but it's not.

It's a balance. For sure the measures/restrictions on freedom need to be proportional to the risks but this is not about individual risks. If you drive a tank and there's zero risk to you you still can't drive drunk.
> the vast amounts of money/influence Google was willing to put in to keep it's search ads property relevant

Mobile search ad clicks have been surpassing desktop search for a while now, If it was done solely through Google app and if iOS wasn't a thing then Google would have happily killed the web by this time.

I think instant apps is(was?) an attempt at it.
I think the process with the drone is at least partly due to aviation regulations, but with the camera it sure sounds like the Chinese have started copying the Western pattern of "cloud-ifying" products unnecessarily.

Then again, perhaps avoiding the bigger companies and going to the OEMs or other small manufacturers directly (who would specialise only in hardware, and essentially wouldn't have the resources to set up and maintain the server side, or even an app) might be a better choice.
> how is it that "many things happened" resulting in an orderly freefall that appeared magically homogeneous across the entire structure

I mentioned in my other comment the Surfside condo collapse, and that accidentally illustrates a key point about the WTC7 collapse. In the video of the Surfside condo collapse, we get a decent view of the origin of the collapse, so we can see how the collapse progresses. But with WTC7, the video we have is of the roof of the back side (with respect to the collapse origin). So we don't have visual of the collapse progress until it reaches the fairly homogeneous progressive collapse phase.

> resulting in a descent that is (afaik) largely indistinguishable from a controlled demolition.

All progressive collapses are going to look superficially similar. The most notable facet of a controlled demolition is the sheer sound of the charges going off to initiate the collapse. I've had the pleasure of being able to view a controlled demolition live, and I can tell you that the sound is loud enough and distinctive enough that all of the rescuers working on the debris pile that was the twin towers would have been reporting the explosions.
> To state that the speed of light is the same only because the relative time is variable for respective observers is unconvincing

Not sure what you mean by relative time?
No way, the 6th booster will definitely do it! Or maybe the 7th!
Your assumption is that everyone is just as rational as you. Scientific agencies should just give out the exact probability numbers and let people decide for themselves. That's not how the world works. Our brains just cannot intuitively grasp probabilities (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-our-brains-do...). Presenting the precise and most accurate information to the public without any embellishment sounds great in theory, but it doesn't work in practice.
...because it sold out to Google just like LibreOffice sold out to Microsoft?

...because they fired Mr.Eich?

...because they are more interested in spending Google's hush money than listening to their users?
> Humans barely agree with each other. Do you think are going to be persuaded by half baked chat bots like GPT3?

Isn't that precisely why we can be conviced by things like GPT3? Humans don't value other humans opinion that much, so it's easy for people to trust bot over other humans.
We didn't, email spam exists to this day. The solution has been to ban entire swaths of domains and even IP ranges by chucking all mail from them into spam folders
> while in the text you find the word "maybe".

I think it's fair to criticize a study if you think the headline (or the popular writeup) oversells it. However, my reading here is that the abstract basically says

"It's possible that W, X, Y, and Z are different in our populations. However we can't conclude that because after doing the appropriate controls, we only find that Y and Z differ."

The existence of Y and Z differences is itself sufficient to justify the language in the headline. What the authors are pointing out is that there are some obvious other variables to check, and they checked them, but their measurements weren't precise enough to detect differences in all of them.

> Have 10 rastafarie influenced people in the group and sure you will notice difference in the speech pattern.

But obviously this is not what they did. Again, this fails the basic sniff test of whether your criticism uses concepts more difficult than day 1 of statistics 101.

Yes it is possible that the cannabis sample is biased in some way. But the point is it's not biased in any obvious way. The same is true of any scientific study. All of Newtonian physics was biased against objects moving near light speed. That doesn't make it absurd or bad, it just means you had to keep measuring things until you found out what the bias was.

> And difference does not necessarily mean "worse".

Sure, but in this case it does. Intensity was decreased and the speech was more effortful.

> And of course, how much the "recreational use" of the person involved was.

"the researchers recruited people who reported low-to-moderate cannabis use" according to https://www.psypost.org/2021/09/cannabis-use-linked-to-subtl....
That may be true for art. But if art crosses territories with technology, then it needs to compromise.
Artists need to play by the same rules everyone does, their art must not harm people in the short or long term.
Right, and it's up to us to try and vote in politicians that militate against those tendencies, for example the way many financial regulations were swept away in the UK in the 1980s, or many examples of deregulation on airline industries (long way still to go), long distance telecoms and haulage industries.

Regulation is very much a two edged sword though. Too little and cartels and monopolies are unconstrained, and individual customers are too easily cheated by deceptive practices. Too much regulation and the cost of entry into markets gets too high. It's a constant balancing act.
In 2019 or earlier, when have you had to show an ID and proof of vaccination to enter any building other than your own house? And for schools, didn't you used to have private schools or homeschooling as an option to avoid these kind of mandates? And hard hats aren't really comparable, since you can take them back off at the end of the workday.
I was really into older (prob pub domain) black/white movies and Google Video had tons of them. Right after GV went down, most of them weren't to be found anywhere - so I lost interest in that culture and moved on.
Would fat cells be a scutoid, in this case? The way they are packed together is what comes to mind when reading the description of scutoids: multiple polygon faces with some rounded edges.
Bad driving begets bad driving.
Some jackass cuts you up dangerously, your adrenaline is pumping and you then follow too close behind a third driver repeat ad nauseam
Indeed, driving lorries and buses requires an advanced license, with far more stringent testing, presumably because, like in the analogy, you could kill a lot more people behind the wheel of those?
I guess this is where everyone with an "EM allergy" should be moving to or they are just spouting BS.
That link doesn't contain anything that justifies adding prolonged delays to applications. It documents that people can perceive sub-second delays, but this delay is tens of seconds. It's also only occurring for specific choices. That rules out any reasonable argument that it's a usability aid.
> but to me this is simply not logical.

It is not logical if you really believe that speeds add linearly (that is, if you are going 5mph past an observer and throw a ball 5mph, that the result is the ball moving 10mph).

Speeds don’t actually add linearly like that, but they come very very very very close to doing so for all speeds humans are used to dealing with.

So, we all have very deeply held gut feelings that speeds should add linearly. Once you let go of that, it becomes much easier to understand many of the things that don’t feel logical about relativity.

Ultimately, it is logical, but from a different set of axioms than most humans tend to have.
I didn’t read it as a correction to number but rather as a response to your “I don’t know why”
It's a pandemic. Why would you expect a firm end date?

I know we're living in strange and difficult times, but I feel like a lot of people haven't accepted that just because you're tired of it, doesn't mean the pandemic is over, doesn't mean it's a good idea to stop taking measures to reduce illness and death.
I am reminded of how Bloomberg spent $500 million dollars on his ill-fated presidential campaign that lasted 100 days....about 4 months. It was clear proof that money does not always result in impact.
Or that he was willing to risk his health for wealth at everyone's expense.
Let's Encrypt API v2 Service Disruption (12 Sep 2021)
The system is failing under the weight of its own policies.

Underpaying and understaffing nurses
Failing to provide ppe
And a whole slew of covid related policies that deny folks “non critical “ care like cancer treatment and surgery.
I mean my friends couldn’t even get in to see their pcp for 2 weeks for an illness that presented with fever, finally gave up and hit the er. Vaccines are nice but they won’t fix this
350g of gasoline (for a 70kg person) is a huge amount to accidentally ingest. That's an LD50 of 5g per kilo, which to put into perspective isn't really that toxic compared to ethanol which has an LD50 of about 7g per kilo.

Highly refined gasoline that you can buy in pharmacies as mineral oil is safe to put on babies skin. It's not toxic in the order of magnitude that Tetraethyl-lead is.
National Security.

It is accidentally for radio astronomy. But it's also the downlink site for SIGINT for military/intelligence agencies - the ban on radio is as much to prevent anyone from tapping into the downlinks as it is to avoid interfering with science.
They pay radio stations to promote songs.
From what I've heard, Reddit early on scrapped content from other sites. Mostly to actually make it seem like it had more users that it actually did. They stopped once they got to a critical mass of user generated content which was self sustaining. That's not exactly something that would fly nowadays.

Although, as Im researching this I can't find a source for this. So please correct me if I'm wrong.
Long time daily Fedora user here. PipeWire is what we've needed for so long in terms of audio, not to mention more recently in terms of screen capture with Wayland.

The only issue I've run into is that for some apps (Zoom, Firefox, Chrome) which are set to use my "default audio device" for input or output, it selects the correct device initially, but if I change the default/system device (via gnome sound settings) later while it's in use, most (all?) of the time, the application continues using whatever device was selected initially.

I haven't bothered to debug or see if this is a known issue as it hasn't bothered me much since most apps allow switching to explicit input/output devices which works fine. I believe (but haven't definitively confirmed) that changes via pavucontrol also work, so perhaps it's something with the gnome sound settings?

Anyway, huge thanks to the devs who put their time, effort, experience, and talent into making PipeWire happen. It's a huge step forward on multiple fronts
The war on drugs is a decades long deterrence campaign. We have more addicts than ever. It has failed.
The network load from P2P is about the same as it is from a very well distributed CDN. In theory the CDN could be a little better, e.g. if the network topology is such that a user uploading to another user on the same segment has to make a round trip through the head end, that will be somewhat less efficient than a CDN box which is already at the head end. But not by a lot. Linearly worse, not polynomially or exponentially worse.

And that's assuming the CDN is perfect. That it has a node in every place there are users. Which none of them actually do because the world is really big.

Worse, the places without them are the places with the slowest networks in general. If you're using twice as much bandwidth on some 100Gbps piece of fiber in New York City, the users aren't even going to notice that and the ISP can just send more light through the glass. But when there are a hundred users sharing some 40Mbps microwave link in some third world village and all trying to download the same thing, there isn't going to be a CDN node there and only having to suck it through the straw once multiplies the efficiency improvement by the number of users on the far end of the line, which in that case would be a factor of a hundred.

Moreover, you can get the efficiency benefit of the CDN by replacing the CDN box with a box in the same place that seeds popular content using a P2P protocol, without losing the efficiency benefits of P2P for the people not near one of those.
Speaking as a C++ person - you're right that this doesn't _do_ much, but nevertheless this is still a significant effort. This kind of groundwork is _work_, and opens lots of doors for future improvements.

That said, there are definitely downsides here. Even if they manage to keep c++ entirely out of headers, consumers now have the headache of either building libtransmission themselves _or_ making sure they include a compatible runtime in their own projects.

As soon as c++ leaks out into the public interfaces, it's game over for precompiled binaries - everyone will have to build it whether they want to or not. Not the end of the world, but certainly it could be painful for downstream projects.
Because we think the powers that be might not ever let it be "over". Remember that after it became apparent that "two weeks" was a lie, the next lie where the goalposts were moved to was "once a vaccine is widely available".
Good point but I think the planes were a crucial control for their simulation/modeling.
The disease is significantly (primarily?) spread via aerosol. Against which officially sanctioned masks are a pretty marginal intervention.

https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/study-supports-widespread-us...
I'd also suggest you get the 2nd edition. It had coverage of some circuits (I'm reminded of a particularly clean 2-transistor 'stiff' current source) that are not subsequently covered in the 3rd edition.)

ALSO: if you do buy the 3rd edition, if you are really into this stuff, be SURE to consider buying "AoE - the X Chapters" which is amazing detail on various corners of EE. There is a particularly beautiful explanation of how to control motors with PWM, why variable resistors to control speed works but not well, and some rules-of-thumb learned. And much more.

And finally, if you are Truly Serious (of course you are!) about learning this stuff: Get "Learning AoE" and buy the components they recommend and do the experiments.

No excuses! Do it! ;-)
What usually happens now is researching and understanding the business domain is rushed, flawed assumptions are then mapped to a flaky, misaligned database model/prototype and then a mountain of code is furiously piled on top of that.

When you finally understand the domain, it's too late. Because you rushed to deliver "something".

Nobody dares to rework the DB model as it's too risky and expensive.

So you remedy it with transformer layers, refactorings, abstractions, advanced types, tools and tests.

You treat the symptoms.

Teams that aligned their DB model with their business domain early on have it easier in every possible way. Performance, correctness, stability, velocity.

Also, I can't remember the last time I saw data modeling mentioned in a job post. And I've seen thousands of them. From SWE to CTO roles.

My guess: business analysts, data modeling, diagrams, long research cycles sounded too waterfall-y so it had to be killed by agile.
This jibes with my recollection. I recall complaints that GV was aggressive about downing content that might be under some copyright.
Hell yeah we should have done it 20 years ago but now is the second best time.
> In 2019 or earlier, when have you had to show an ID and proof of vaccination to enter any building other than your own house?

I live in upstate New York - one of the more aggressive states for COVID measures - and have not yet had to do this, a year and a half into the pandemic.

(I did, however, have to prove my vaccination status and present ID when I became a naturalized US citizen quite a few years ago. https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-8-part-b-chapter-...)

> And for schools, didn't you used to have private schools or homeschooling as an option to avoid these kind of mandates?

These still exist.