skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As this thread seems to be confusing two concepts, maybe worthwhile to post again:

"Vaccine efficacy, effectiveness and protection"

https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/vaccine...

Vaccine efficacy is found in trials, vaccine effectiveness is dynamic depending WHEN you calculate it and its found after 'deployment in the field'

"A vaccine’s efficacy is measured in a controlled clinical trial and is based on how many people who got vaccinated developed the ‘outcome of interest’ (usually disease) compared with how many people who got the placebo (dummy vaccine) developed the same outcome. Once the study is complete, the numbers of sick people in each group are compared, in order to calculate the relative risk of getting sick depending on whether or not the subjects received the vaccine. From this we get the efficacy – a measure of how much the vaccine lowered the risk of getting sick. If a vaccine has high efficacy, a lot fewer people in the group who received the vaccine got sick than the people in the group who received the placebo."

vs

"Vaccine effectiveness is a measure of how well vaccines work in the real world. Clinical trials include a wide range of people – a broad age range, both sexes, different ethnicities and those with known medical conditions – but they cannot be a perfect representation of the whole population. The efficacy seen in clinical trials applies to specific outcomes in a clinical trial . Effectiveness is measured by observing how well the vaccines work to protect communities as a whole. Effectiveness in the real world can differ from the efficacy measured in a trial, because we can’t predict exactly how effective vaccination will be for a much bigger and more variable population getting vaccinated in more real life conditions."
It's an American accent, but with rhotacism, a type of speech impediment. He sounds vaguely British at times because of the tendency for "R" to come out sounding like "W"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Arthur
> There’s no paperwork or background check on a private sale, so it’s almost a meaningless distinction.

If someone is willing to buy a gun illegally, they don’t need to go out of state.
Would love to know what caused this to happen, given (as the article says) huge amounts of money being poured into (seemingly) similar businesses.
Shouldn't averages&variance be enough for start?
Low orbit stuff gets naturally de-orbited after a few years/decades by stray air molecules from the Earth's atmosphere, so there's little point to manually cleaning it. Debris in higher orbits can take centuries or millennia to naturally de-orbit, so manual cleaning there makes more sense.
Web browsers, to start. Why are Apple and Google not liable for zero days of Safari and Chrome? How is it sane?

Grace period may be necessary, but it needs to happen.
> People are not 'race x' or 'race y' biologically, as if race is some discrete set of features common to a whole population. Every individual has a set of biological features inherited from their ancestors which, theoretically, could include any or all so-called 'races'. Human beings have a continuum of features that is heavily interlaced amongst all the 'races'.

Exactly. One of the people I'll always point to as evidence that race is a social construct is Barack Obama. He was the "first black president". In reality he is, genetically, as "white" as he is "black". We still call him black because of the color of his skin.

If people insist for long enough that racial categories are inherently biological you'll eventually end up in one-drop judgement territory. Not a great place to have a discussion.
But…. They picked up some signal, and the examples they give are both correlated with each other, and with our intuition? So what “is” that signal, and if it correlates well with the left-right dimension, what does it matter if it’s not exactly the same, or not causal in any direction?

All I can think of is that using this data to judge biases could be defeated by a simple search-and-replace if anyone wanted to. But I doubt publishers cate enough about obscure papers calling them conservative to change their language. (If they do stop calling all foreigners “illegal aliens”, that’s would actually be quite the feat for a lowly department of semantics)
No I meant they should try and accomplish something more constructive than harassment.
It has a name, its called "sophistry", and the practitioners "sophists". [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist
What is an example of a legitimate and rational disapproval of homosexuality?
Hi, I'm the author of the strava-map-switcher[1] browser extension and last year I published strava-offline[2], a tool to download activities metadata from Strava into local sqlite database (and optionally also activities as gpx).

I'm quite a data nerd, so I wanted to track component wear in more detail than Strava allows. Some people on /r/Strava suggested their online web-based gear trackers, but I was always afraid of trusting them with all the data, and also quite reluctant to enter hundreds of components manually. I really prefer to keep this in git rather than in a 3rd party website that can go away. So now that I have activities metadata in sqlite from strava-offline, it was quite easy to create a local gear tracker that reads rules from YAML and computes component wear. Most of the work was spent polishing this and documenting. :-)

[1]: https://github.com/liskin/strava-map-switcher

[2]: https://github.com/liskin/strava-offline
And everything you detailed there is solely a management issue.

They could devote a market segment to support that as a long term emerging market support aspect of their business, but it's clear that short term hit-strike-price-for-execs has been the dominant management mode for quite some time.
His bias is the same as the deniers, he has publicly stated his position and cannot recede from it for any reason, otherwise he'll look unserious.
I think something that should be blatantly illegal is hidden fees. When I go to buy a car or rent a room and I end up paying 20-80% more because there are a bunch of hidden fees that is just too much. I could understand offering addons, but stuff that is required as part of the sale is just plain unethical. It's bald faced false advertising.
The Problem with Depression Doping
So the comments above seem to indicate that bundling 'JRE' with an app requires a license. Are you indicating that post-java8 model which builds a 'Custom JRE', and distributing that with your app does not require a license?
Is your weird neighbor's surname, Smith, by any chance?
It performs fixed-point arithmetic on 8-bit integers. You can mimick lower than 8-bit precision by using output_min/output_max parameters in XNNPACK operators, but keep in mind that:
1. This functionality is experimental and not exposed in TFLite. You'd need to call XNNPACK APIs directly from C/C++ code.
2. Computations would still be done on 8-bit numbers.
Show HN: X-Ray, a tool for finding bad redactions in PDFs
The baby boom was smaller in the UK, and a slightly odd shape. It did happen, but not to the same extent as in the US.
If this is the best argument one can come up with for not being critical here, for me it absolutely proves we need to be more critical here. Of course, I don't wish to see anyone suffer, but I'm seeing something like:

"Hey, we're paying a guy to dig holes and fill them back up with no value whatsoever, why are we doing that?"

"Hey, man, stop attacking hole-diggers, they're just trying to make a living."
Only JDK 17 is free. Earlier versions are not.
Actually, I think it would be the lombok @Value. Record classes are immutable, while @Data adds set methods.
I wonder why the rewrite doesn't have music.

The original js13k game implemented a small sonant-x player for the audio, both sound fx and music.
As far as a microphone goes, I use a Blue Yeti on a shock mount suspended next to my desk along with a pop filter (about ~$200 USD all together). To be honest, I've had it for awhile because I've played games or talked with friends on Discord regularly for years. We all started with the inline microphones on our headsets and collectively decided to move past what we loving described as "BART station audio" since it became an almost daily activity.

As far as work goes, a few of my coworkers use RTX Voice to remove background noise since they use their gaming computers for work. For headphones, I personally like over-ear headphones and use wireless noise-cancelling headphones.
I totally understand that sentiment. I agree people don't need to be particularly smart to do it too. I started with math classes that would normally be considered remedial and it was amazing. It let me zoom through what would be normal high school level math in about a year.

But too many people doing it would just turn it into High School 2.0 or worse if it turned into another competition among the smart high school kids.
For asus routers, there is https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/ as well.
I recently sat down with my design team and went through the process of defining our design principles.

What I think a lot is missing is that 80% of the benefits actually are found within the process itself. This is because the team gets to reflect, discuss, and show their own thinking.

We had 6 sessions spread out over a couple of week with different exercises and it was time well spent, even disregarding the actual outcome (4 design principles).
PCR doesn’t differentiate between live and dead virus molecules, which makes it less than diagnostic for active infection without symptoms, right?
I don't think the marginal value of a talking point is much. Especially if you believe your political enemies are comfortable with lying anyway.
The Tragic Tale of a Kamikaze Fighter Who Crashed into and Sunk the USS Drexler
Ask HN: Why are WhatsApp calls interrupted by cellular calls?
My VOIP calls on whatsapp, messenger, telegram... are always automatically placed on hold whenever I or the other party gets an incoming cellular call. It is annoying.

A mobile call wouldn't be automatically placed on hold because of a new call. So, why does this happen with VOIP calls?
There's been a lot of research on this.

Here's one of the papers: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10511...

It shows that AirBNBs do push up rents - but even in desirable parts of Boston with a lot of AirBNBs - it's /only/ responsible for a 0.4% increase.

Keep in mind that rents have been increasing by >4% per year for 20 years in Boston. A .4% increase is 10% of that. General inflation is /at least/ 50% of it. The other ~40% is coming from elsewhere.

Unless AirBNBs make up a substantial portion of new sales - it is hard to blame them for the majority of price increases.
Really pathetic but unsurprising that people here are downvoting this comment. It's not often that you see an author constructing a literal straw-man these days; the piece flatly ignores the importance of the massively powerful labor movements of this period--so powerful that states were regularly resorting to armed struggle with them--instead pretending that "social reformers" existed in a vacuum.
A couple of ideas that come with little knowledge, so take it with a big grain of salt:

1. "Electromagnetic Missile" with trajectory who's apogee is just below the targeted space junk. Turn on the electromagnet when just below the space junk to drag down its trajectory slightly, or even down to a de-orbit trajectory. Obviously, this only works with satellites built with magnetic materials. It may just be my outsider's perspective, but non-orbital missiles seem much easier and cheaper than rockets that go into orbital trajectories. Handling the return of the missile is tricky, perhaps it can also self-detonate fairly high in the atmosphere.

2. Ion engines or space sails driven tugs for use in getting to the space junk. My understanding is ion engines have a really favorable specific impulse. An optional chemical engine could be used to quickly de-orbit the tug upon reaching the satellite. Another idea to speed up de-orbit without requiring the tug the whole way would be a spring that would "push" the junk once it reached it, throwing it into an orbit that would more quickly drop it into the atmosphere. Newton could be used to our advantage to also push the tug into a new orbit to reach the next junk satellite sooner.

Obviously, arm-chair rocket scientist here, so feasibility of the above ideas can probably quickly be dis-proven.
No way; the half-busted chips go into low-cost products like the iPhone SE. It costs little to accumulate and warehouse them until a spot in the roadmap for a budget device arises.
That's kind of his schtick, though, isn't it? To make a narrow argument phrased to imply it demonstrates far wider applicability than it does?
There's a little bit of an unfair comparison here. You say the vaccine is a single choice, but what I see, continued boosters, masks, social distancing forever, "I'm willing to make a small change in my life to end this." And you might say "I'm not arguing for those things though" but if you stop at one shot, a year from now someone is going to be calling you an anti vaxxer or covid denier for not wanting to turn this one shot into a lifestyle change. And that's what is expected of us if we are being honest, not one quick shot, but a permanent lifestyle change. Some people don't even want to start down that road.
American, but he has a speech impediment.
Speer review: Researchers pick apart Node.js communication app
As I understand it, the blank 200s were needed for other games which didn't handle the connect refusal as gracefully .
Related: does toxic feminity exist?

I think most would say no, but who knows
A feeling that is constantly present will not be wrong at least for a portion of the time. Stopped clocks and all
I agree with arcbyte, and I got my second shot in March. The amount of government interference as it relates to COVID and vaccines is complete bullshit. I hope we look back on this in 20 years and feel a deep sense of embarrassment for how COVID and the vaccine has been managed and used to emotionally manipulate and divide people.

When 9/11 happened it united the country. COVID should have done the same thing, but it has been used as a political tool instead, bringing out the worst in people. It makes me quite depressed when I think about it for too long.
> One of the recurring criticisms of your ideas on progress is that our having an awareness of how much better the situation is for the impoverished today compared with the impoverished of the past doesn’t actually make anybody’s life better and, in fact, minimizes contemporary suffering. Is there a moral gap there?

> Pinker: I think that’s a fallacy. It can be true both that there are fewer poor people, fewer oppressed people, fewer victims of violence and that there are still poor people, oppressed people and victims of violence. We want to reduce that suffering as much as possible. The fact that there has been progress helps us identify what drives down poverty and violence and illness. But there’s also a moral component, and that is: What actually dislodges us from fatalism? What gives us the gumption to try to reduce war further? Maybe you can eliminate it, or poverty?

I think the bigger point of recognizing the progress that has been made is giving at least partial credit to the system of values and institutions that got us there. Many people want to burn it all to the ground. They think the natural order of things is progress and prosperity, when in fact the opposite is true.
If the software is told of the existence of race via an attribute in its ML training, then it will see race in additional data. Otherwise, it won't, IMHO.

Also, due to omission of many other variables (such as culture), those variables are being conflated with race. I personally think a lot of what is commonly accused of being racism, sexism etc. is really just "culturalism" or "preferentialism"... let me think of an example... Given two bars, one filled with rap music and the other filled with techno music, and I pick the techno one every time... am I racist (assuming the predominant race in these 2 bars differs)? Or just preferentialist, culturalist or (frankly) "techno-ist" (if that were a thing)?

Because I think it's much harder to get angry about preferences than it is to get angry about racism, I think that given a choice, we need to consider the less-triggery inputs to a perceived problem
SC:BW still had AoE attacks, arguably more important ones too.

Nuke and Psi Storm exist in both games, but Plague, Irradiate, Ensnare, Stasis Fields are all AoE effects... as well as AoE damage sources (Tanks, Archons, Valkyries, Devourers, and kinda-sorta Mutalisks).

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Lets put it this way: if you really wanted to, you could just have 12-units per group in SC2. But no one would do that, the APM-advantage of having a big group (and manually splitting in the rare cases where a split is needed) is far superior than using 9 groups to split up 108 units.

And sure, stronger players probably split their death-balls into smaller groupings of maybe 30 units or so (you don't want to just A-move all over the place, a degree of flexibility is useful), and only occassionally merges everyone together into a deathball. (Fast and loose is good: you don't want to dedicate an entire army to a battle, especially if they might lose).

But no one is making groups of ~12 in SC2. Its too small.
Can you use the junk's energy to power the cleaner? Imagine this: the cleaner has a big spring on the back of it. The spring is slowly compressed using solar power. The orbiter grabs a piece of junk, and then launches it backwards. The cleaner now has gained some of the energy from the junk, and the junk has lost energy.
That's pretty funny. Strictly speaking, there has to be more robots than people in the park at any time. Probably by a factor of 10-20 or so if you want people to feel like the real people tourists are a small minority. Implying each robot is earning about $2,000-4,000/day. Ignoring the fact that they get destroyed and other fixed costs, it would take years to pay these things off assuming they cost upwards of $10M each.
This is exactly the algorithm we developed at LogNormal (now part of Akamai) 10 years ago for doing fast, low-memory percentiles on large datasets.

It's implemented in this Node library: https://github.com/bluesmoon/node-faststats

Side note: I wish everyone would stop using the term Average to refer to the Arithmetic mean. "Average" just means some statistic used to summarize a dataset. It could be the Arithmetic Mean, Median, Mode(s), Geometric Mean, Harmonic Mean, or any of a bunch of other statistics. We're stuck with AVG because that's the function used by early databases and Lotus 123.
There are plenty of reasons to avoid Oracle, but I’m not sure what about the previous licensing change was a failure. OpenJDK builds have always been free (and provided by Oracle).

The community terribly overreacted and misunderstood the nature of that change, and indeed caused a lot of FUD.
See my reply elsewhere on this post if you really want to understand what you here suggest.
It's a speech impediment; he has trouble saying R's (and has improved as he's narrated more and more videos).

Isaac's earlier videos would show Elmer Fudd with the message "Having problems understanding me? Turn on CC." Example: https://youtu.be/gOu3zGfP-TQ?t=40

Source: I've watched lots of his videos and highly recommend them—mind expanding ideas!
8 million! How on earth did that happen?
This is spot on with my belief. Cool tech, but for the most part, all I see Crypto being used for is scams. Meme coins, pump and dump, token offerings only to cash out.

I haven't seen anything that actually makes Crypto worth the mining.
The 3.3m number is not the amount invested in angel investment, it is the person’s total liquid investment portfolio, of which 15% ($500k) is allocated to angel investing.
Nice short episode on them here for those who are interested

https://historyofphilosophy.net/sophists
>crazy things like blurring the image until it's just fuzzy blobs

That... that doesn't influence one of the presumed ways the NN categorizes images: the trend in bone geometry. The "blobs", while fuzzy, still largely retain the relative proportions to each other. Or, in other words, proportions of image elements are invariant for operations of scaling and of blurring.
Pirates, modders and reverse engineering tools.
I wasn't alive in the late 60s but most things I spend all day doing were literally not possible for consumers until the 90s-aughts
It’s a projection of the NLP’s vectors into 2D space. Remember the illustrations for the king - man = queen example for word embedding? They also often used a 2D space. You can sometimes, but rarely Intuit a sense for these dimensions, but they don’t come with any natural definition or unit.
> Can you provide some references for your (rather strong) claim?

My claim is self-evident, if you believe something absurd, you are by definition “far removed from any modern notion of truth”.
"P: Fine. There’s no need to get personal and blame “heartless management”. This isn’t the moral failing of any individual, but of a system...."

"I blame society."
To summarize both viewpoints in a single clichéd-but-true-timeless quote:

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, ... it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
~Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Link with respectives JEP [0]

[0] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/17/
There's also currency (one USD will always be worth one USD!) and capital gain tax (on your RSU).
Also, it should be noted that Google didn't just disallow shipping Google apps to forked Android. Google disallowed shipping Google apps to any devices from vendors that ship forked Android: if your smartwatch is using forked Android your ordinary smartphone also can't have Google apps even when it's using genuine Android. The KFTC made very clear that this is a nuclear all-or-nothing option to hardware vendors and thus constitutes an anti-trust action [1].

[1] https://ftc.go.kr/www/selectReportUserView.do?key=10&rpttype... (in Korean)
> end the massive subsidies for car based transportation. Require maintenance to be paid for by the users

What maintenance / subsidies is that?
>>> Young girls are mean to each other, that’s a fact.

>>> In all societies across time? Or just in American High schools and on Instagram?

>> How do you know this fact?

>My name is remarkEon and I went to middle and high school in the United States on a planet I call Earth.

Ok, so you think your American High school experience gives you insight into all societies across time.

Understood. Your answers make sense now. Thanks for answering.
NB: Post author here.

We've been meaning to add IQR as an accessor function for these, may have to go back and do it...the frequency trails [1] stuff from Brendan Gregg also goes into some of this and it's really cool as a visualization.

[1]: https://www.brendangregg.com/FrequencyTrails/mean.html
Yes, a both funny and insightful lesson on how weak basic indicators (mean, standard deviation, correlation) can be, the interest and limits of box-plot with quartiles and whiskers, the benefit of the violin-plot.

Definitely worth a quick look.
Generally speaking - You want a library computer booted from a throw away bootable usb drive, located in a library a few hours away from your residence.
I think it's the opposite. I don't know many (or frankly, I only knew 1)people who has has the high quality code lying around which is worth showing.

Most of the people(including myself) I knew only writes professional code for the job itself. We don't hate the job. On contrary, we love it. But we don't write much outside the job itself, maybe for some random exploratory stuff occasionally but that's about it. But it's definitely not a reflection of the quality or the real job.

At least the usual algorithm fundamentals are a predictable and fine metric, and you only need to learn once.