skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, believe me I've tried this. :(

Last winter, I even bought a mask from https://zerofogmask.com/?v=7516fd43adaa, which you heat up with a hair drier before wearing for the first time so it molds to the shape of your face. It admittedly worked better than a normal mask, but only partially and only for a few uses, which wasn't economical at $20 each. Plus, it was particularly uncomfortable.
Moreover, if the trespassing fan buys merchandise after the concert, you could argue it was better for the artists that they jumped the fence.
Additionally it's another feedback loop: Wealth makes people physically attractive. Posture, retinol creams, tailored clothes, and a good hair cut can do a lot to transform someone's life.
I am not entirely sure that a fake delay here is a dark pattern ... Computers cnan be blazing fast, and thus Usability principles allow the use of a "fake delay" to convey the perception that something is happening or has happened. (See - https://stackoverflow.com/q/536300 ).
Angels die when AT&T syntax is used. I genuinely hate it.
Why do you bring up being drunk? The analogy is much more accurate if you question why we're allowed to drive at all, even when sober.
The hospitals are clogged because the basic in person care is crippled by covid prevention practices. So instead of going to your pcp to deal with an ear infection or bladder infection the only place you can go is hospital as now any time you have covid like symptoms you have to get a covid test to get access to care.

Similarly you can’t get care if you have a slow growing cancer or need minor surgery. All these people are going to have negative outcomes
This is always a preference issue. You get strong types but the nature of hot loading and communication across clusters doesn’t leading to static typing being a practical trade off. The moment you add it, you end up with a need for contract enforcement across nodes that changes most of what the platform is designed around.

In practice, static typing just doesn’t add much other than headaches to a project of this style. Doesn’t mean you’re wrong for wanting them, just that the language might not be for you if you feel like you need them that much.
That sounds like a valuable and amazing resource, and something to which I’d enjoy contributing! Are they open to new members by any chance?
Which Scandinavian public sector?
Sounds like you are talking about client side java - applets maybe?
We're long past the point where "educating people" is going to help. The people left who still refuse to mask up are not doing it because of lack of education, and it's time to publicly shame them for their selfishness and arrogance, just like we shame drunk drivers or litterers.
> It’s UL94, so lower octane (94 octane, as the name suggests). However, this is still fine for lower performance aircraft that make up the majority of the GA fleet.

The standard story seems to be that 20% of the planes burn 80% of the fuel, and need all the octane in 100LL. And GA is such a small market that airfields can't justify having multiple fuel grades available, so 100LL everywhere it is.

But yes, nice to hear that UL94 is nonetheless available in some places.
The associated paper was published in October 2020, so yes this was developed well before delta (at least well before delta's arrival in the UK), most likely in the period between the first and second major peaks in the UK. Given the way academia works I doubt it has been updated significantly since then.
But the vast majority moved because they could make more money in the US. They behave unethically because they don’t want to give up that income. It’s a purely mercenary calculation. And it does make a difference whether it’s a want rather than a need. I want lots of things, but if I behave in a shitty way to get them I should be condemned.

I’m sure there are some people in the unfortunate position you describe, and in their case it’s understandable. But it’s not the general case.
At the beginning of the pandemic, health agencies started misrepresenting and overstating the certainty of science, in order to attempt to get more buy-in from the public.

It started with masks. The studies that we had about masks really were not great, but they did a risk-reward calculation behind closed doors: worst case scenario, the surgical masks don't impact the spread and it changes nothing; best case scenario, we reduce community spread. The problem with this is that if they told the public that this was how they were thinking about the problem, they wouldn't get people wearing the masks, so they overstated their confidence in it when speaking to the public. A good amount of people truly believe that the science was clear. But it wasn't.

It continued with tests. It's much better to have a high rate of false positives than to have any rate of false negatives, so they pumped up the cycle count to accomplish this. They later toned it down. To the public, the tests aren't even questioned, most people believe they're pretty accurate, and most people are unaware that they have changed the criteria throughout the last year and a half. They sold it to the public like this because they knew that people would avoid getting tested and staying quarantined if they didn't trust the tests.

Lately, it's about the vaccines. There is no serious scientist that believed that the vaccines would prevent COVID from becoming endemic. It was obvious that this was going to be with us for the rest of our lives back all the way in April of last year (or earlier). There are no serious scientists that believe that 2 shots and a booster is going to be the end of it, and yet they're happy to tell us that we "might" need boosters. Do any serious scientists actually believe that? These aren't "breakthrough" cases, because it's not truly a vaccine in the sense that the Polio vaccine was a vaccine. It's a prophylactic. We always knew it was a prophylactic, but they sold it to the public as something else, because people wouldn't get it if they didn't lie.

We need to decide if we're okay with science agencies lying to us. Is their purpose to exact change on society, or is their purpose to do good science and tell us honest results? All of the confusion in this article stems from the misrepresentations they sell us.
There's a low-latency, free/OSS driver to do this.

MacOS is a little confusing with it because you have to configure it in the MIDI setup utility, but it works very well.

Not to mention commercial product from Rogue Amoeba which is fantastic.
What's a parents' risk of having children that eventually die? What's your risk of driving and having a seizure at the same time and wiping out kids on the sidewalk? What's your risk that while leaving Home Depot you dropped a few nails on the ground and someone's car tire picked them up and now they'll have a blowout on the highway?

We can take this stupid premise to its logical end and never do anything out of fear that we might eventually harm someone else, but that's not how life has gone on for millennia. We have the vaccine which is the solution, by and large the data supports that the sustained overreaction is now disproportionate to the actual risks, time to let the science we supposedly all believe in aka natural selection run its course.
http://c-faq.com/versions.html has downloads for ascii versions (that may or may be up to date)

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/C-faq/faq/ has an ascii version from July 3, 2004 (again, I wouldn’t know whether that is up to date, but given its age, it may not be)
It only applies if you completely ignore the magnitude of the situation. Most US adults are exposed to cars on a daily basis.
It doesn't overrun the hospital system like covid. Cars are dangerous but covid seems much more so.
Apologies, I wasn’t trying to call you a troll, more that your first comment seemed to me like it might have been made in jest, clearly it wasn’t.

The articles you’ve linked to are interesting and there are clearly many scientific discoveries to be made by studying the early formation of the universe which will test our current models. However I don’t feel like convention is the right word for laws like the conservation of energy, even if there are some difficulties with tying up these theories and new experimental evidence from events at the scale of the Planck length.

Convention to me would mean something that has been accepted just because it’s always been done that way and people didn’t really bother to question why, but I don’t think that’s the case here. But we’re verging on pedantry now so no point going down that route any further.
Sure seems to be in the mid Atlantic region of the US. Also, I’m sure you get the point they were making, why be unreasonable about it?
> masks are to protect others at least as much as

I had a different underestanding: I thought masks are to protect others, overwhelmingly, and there might also be some protecting power for yourself, in a much lesser amount.

The concept is consistent with "since you can, limit dispersing the droplets".

I unfortunately do not have bookmarked articles about this though. Do you have any good source (e.g. to state that masks have a protecting power for the wearer comparable to that for the others)?
To be a bit more on the nose than the other replies? Did you read past the headline at all?

This is perhaps one of the best examples of not just making a new standard, but making one implementation to rule them all and implementing all the competing standards.

> Patiently waiting for Linux to have one audio server that will offer compatibility to all previous ones

That's PipeWire!

> then slowly phasing them out until we have a consistent, possibly layered, low latency audio stack that scales from small single board computers to full sized audio workstations.

Does PipeWire have its own interface for applications yet? I haven't heard of it if so. That's good; let everything maranate for a while before trying to design the "one, true interface".
> So we all took a vaccine that we were told prevents us from getting sick

At no point have I ever seen anyone claim the vaccine is 100% effective.
Come on - obviously bad driving is not primarily an infectious airborne pathogen. Bad driving is something you can unilaterally inflict on other people to permanently ruin their lives, as is an infectious airborne pathogen.
> sit at home 24/7 for the next year, or wear a mask every time I step outside

These are extremely extremely extremely different things.
They're not fragmented or segmented at all. It's like email—just because you have an account on gmail.com doesn't mean that you can only email people who use GMail, you can email anyone who supports the same protocol. In the same way, users with an account on any Mastodon server can follow any other users who support the same protocol, whatever server they happen to be on. (Modulo moderation—many servers with lax moderation policies may find themselves blocked by other server administrators. Again, just like email)
Yes, this is why I assumed that it won't just be three or five or seven jabs but jabs forever just like the flu. And every single one of those will have risks to the heart, unless there's something better that comes along. I'm not even sure that health authorities will even permit something better to come along, given the reaction so far to any vaccine alternatives.
We read that a local kid "hacked" a teacher's computer to create a WiFi hotspot. I assume he did that by activating an internal WiFi card and bridging it.

I would have thought that these cards would be pulled, prior to installation in a (local) government facility.
Those numbers are for people stumbling onto your web. If people are forced through your WiFi because they’re in a foreign country and get no data roaming, those statistics mean nothing.

Being privacy minded and traveling during covid has been a nightmare.
Not a good analogy. Many doctors chose to bypass chemotherapy and tumor excisions. Chances are the gain is a handful of years of utmost misery. If that.

https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2014/05/How-do...

> “dying patients continue to be hospitalized and subjected to ineffective therapies that erode their quality of life and their personal dignity” while doctors “have a striking personal preference to forego high-intensity care for themselves at the end-of-life and prefer to die gently and naturally.”
Well, they're crimes wherever they happen. They don't stop being crimes in combat. A spy is a spy even if people are shooting at him, her, or they.

And I'm pretty sure guantanamo isn't a live combat environment...
Infrared Saunas Will Not ‘Detoxify’ You (2017)
I don't understand how some of you seem perfectly content to want to wear a mask everywhere for the rest of your existence.
You're not too far off. The big advantage of ILP with respect to statistical techniques is the really extraordinary sample efficiency. Just a couple of examples are enough to learn many programs [1]. Moreover, ILP is pretty much the only machine learning approach that can make use of background knowledge [2] and in fact is characterised by this ability, and it is the ability to use background knowledge that is responsible for the excellent sample complexity, because if you don't have any background knowledge you are forced to learn everything from scratch - as in the "end-to-end" approach that is popular today.

So the work described in the paper basically benefits from ILP's ability to use background knowlede to reduce sample complexity. The terminology they use in the paper to describe this is a little clunky and I was a bit confused by it, so I imagine it must be even more confusing to someone who doesn't even have an ILP background.

To be honest I was most interested in the paper because it is based on ϑILP [3], which I found a bit surprising. For various reasons. ϑILP was described in a paper published by DeepMind a while ago and I had thought the line of work had been abandoned, but now it seems others are building on it, which is interesting to see.

_____________

[1] ILP learns logic programs and since these can be recursive, a very small program may be enough to represent even an infinite concept. As a for instance, think of counting over the natural numbers. Pretty much the only way to do that with a finite program is to use recursion, such as:

n(0) ∧ n(n(x))← n(x)

Which you can find as "the axiom of induction" in various different notations.

[2] Not just priors as in Bayesian learners, but entire programs from which a target program is built. A typical example: say you have definitions of "father" and "parent" as background knowledge and you want to learn a definition of "grandfather". A natural definition is "grandfather is the father-of-the-parent".

[3] https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/2018/0792.pdf

And a longer version on arxiv:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04574v1
And now I feel like an idiot for posting this having read who you are
wouldn't it go backward in time if it goes faster than light?
Light travels in null-time from point a to point b (light-perspective of course) - anything slower, needs time to go from a to b. if i travel faster than light, i can - but i travel to b before i start at a. Maybe because this is not possible.
Gonzo Journalism
It is not that simple, some of the faces are curved, so it is not just a prism with a slice, it is not even a polyhedra.

It is difficult to describe because the curved faces are difficult to describe, and mysterious because it was a mystery untill very recently.
> The freer a society is, the less control and influence bureaucracies and gatekeepers have, and the bigger the incentives are for gatekeepers to help others achieve success.

Not necessarily. Regulation can free citizens and business owners from enslaving business practices of powerful business. The mistake is to think that "free market", and much more so "free society", is the same as "no regulation". This is not true. Free markets, and especially free societies, need some regulation to keep the rich in their place and from smothering everyone around them.
I used the same graph as you but superimposed India ( 13% vaccinations only) pandemic behavior is a copy slight shifted in time 2-3 months:

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
They have a lot of zero days, and are constantly hunting more- presumably if you disable iMessage/FaceTime, they’ll use a different exploit

You should assume there are more zero days in iOS than any engineering team could possibly patch, given the history of other closed source software.
People believe this because most vaccines are sterilizing. If you get the measles vaccine you can't get measles again ever. The Covid and flu vaccines don't work that way.
That's the thing though, in the article the charged object does not move relative to the rod. The rod, object, and person B are stationary relative to each other. I was actually really surprised to read that two charged objects moving with the same velocity relative to each other generates a magnetic field from A's perspective.
It is oversimplistic too, ignoring many reasons to want to postpone tasks. And it's from 2019. I clicked it without noticing that, read for a while, then realized I had seen it before.
What a weird set of rules.

> We generally don’t approve chatbot personas of specific people, especially without explicit consent from the person it portrays. Deceased scientific figures are often a category of exception to this.

> Dehumanizing language / hate speech when prompted about different facets of identity (race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender identity, sexuality).

Considering _a lot_ of deceased scientific figures held views which would today be coded as 'dehumanizing language / hate speech when prompted about different facets of identity', I wonder how they navigate this peculiar exception.
Well I certainly do think people should consider others when they get behind the wheel.

Similarly I think people should consider the risk to others if they get this pathogen rather than just the risk to themselves.
The vaccine does a reasonable job at reducing transmission in the aggregate. It lessens the average viral load, shortens the average time a person is infectious, etc.

Treating transmission as a boolean ignores the large-but-not-100-percent improvement. Better to treat it as a distribution.

I don’t see what you are blaming regulators for.
You most like used the online package manager then, what this does is download the sources and recompile the IDE so you did recompile the IDE. The 2 minute recompilation makes sense considering it is RPi.

Note that i did not write that Lazarus is bad for Raspberry Pi (on the contrary it is among the few actual IDEs you'll be able to use with the RPi considering how weak it is and how overbloated pretty much every other IDE with a similar overall featureset is), i wrote that judging Lazarus based on how it works with Raspberry Pi is not a good idea because it is a niche case, so you will find roadblocks that wont exist in other more mainstream configurations. It is simple reality that not as many Lazarus developers pay attention to ARM-based Linux desktop environments and Raspberry Pi as they do for x86-based Linux desktop environments and x86-based Windows. For most things it works because FPC and Lazarus are good at being cross platform and the libraries are largely the same between x86 and ARM Linux, but things aren't equal.

(of course you can use it to judge how Lazarus works with Raspberry Pi specifically, but this experience isn't something that can be extended to everything Lazarus supports)
I'm not involved in OpenBSD but I don't see the value in preventing an end user from installing arbitrary packages just because the compiler was updated recently. The person being notified of the error is the wrong person.
I'm impressed, it's no insignificant feat.

Although, I'm more amazed this post has been up an hour without any rust comments..
once again - it's bizarre that this got downvoted.

This comment is utilitarian, not really controversial.
I've always argued that modern (late-stage?) capitalism and state socialism have similar failure modes. In state socialism, the Politburo controlled economic distribution and used their power to enrich themselves and their buddies. In many modern capitalist systems politicians are captured by economic interests and so large corporations play the same role that the Politburo played in state socialist systems.

The failure modes always center around the capture of popular opinion, whether through explicit buy-in from the state or through aggressive PR campaigns.
There are nearly 50 Canadian crown corporations, including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the Canadian Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC), and the Bank of Canada. There was even a new one created recently. The government created the Trans Mountain Corporation when they nationalized the Trans Mountain Pipeline.
How many of the toxic fumes from unleaded gasoline bioaccumulate though? As far as I know, CO and NOx do not bioaccumulate. The other stuff, partially burned/unburnt hydrocarbons, I don't know about.
I once loooong ago tried downloading a rare music album but it was stuck at 99.8% with 0 seeders and 2 peers (including me) for months so I was pretty bummed.

But I neglected to actually check the download folder. When I did, I found out it actually downloaded all the important files, just the logo of the upload group was still a .part file…

So I quickly downloaded another more popular release by the same group, copied over the logo and lo and behold, now it got to 100%!

That day I actually felt like a hacker…
The hospital system is overrun by people who refuse to get vaccinated. If you're vaccinated, the risk is significantly lower than a car crash. And if you're not vaccinated, you should get vaccinated.
I wear a EN 149 P3 elastomeric half mask respirator (99.97% effectiveness) and face shield whenever I go into shops or other indoor spaces other than my own home. It's a lot more comfortable than a surgical mask. If everybody did the same then the pandemic would probably be over by now.
Talk to Kanye
I'm pretty sure this doesn't work out because you have to slow down.

So thinking about it, if you are traveling at that speed because of your inertial reference frame it is equivalent that everyone else around you is moving at (or near) the speed of light and they are moving slowly through time. This is the classic twin paradox and there is a resolution to it, which is that you can't instantaneously turn around.[0] Or in our case, we have to turn around to slow down.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iJZ_QGMLD0
ImportError: Attempted relative import with no known parent package
Living in a dense, student-heavy neighborhood of the Boston area, I really hope that this isn't the thinking of many students who just arrived, from all over.

The thinking is understandable, but a pandemic like Covid-19 seems like one scenario in which a billion small individual sacrifices together could've (and possibly still can) be a dramatically positive net benefit to the world.

One way to think about the significance of minor individual sacrifice like voluntarily masking (where it's not absolutely required by law/rules) is that every infection will tend to spread exponentially. Passing it on to even only one person seems like that would likely result in at least one tragedy for someone else's family. IIUC, masking reduces that significantly, so masking when I believe there's a significant risk of spread seems an easy decision to me.