skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great analysis.

I used to play a fair bit, and ultimately gave up due to the chained-campaigns, where if you "succeed" early, but not with enough high level units, you end up losing 8 missions later, leading to many hours of backtracking save files to consider when the last "good enough" point was.

Combined with some missions that just seem focused on taking out my army, it was frustrating to never know if you are actually progressing or not.

That said, my playing was about 2010 or so, I do not know if such issues have been addressed since.
Going to suggest that rather than mudslinging, you do the work of looking at VAERS [1] yourself

Alternatively, you could use VAERSanalysis [2], or Openvaers [3]

In this spirit of openness, here is also an NPR article [4] on VAERS data quality/verification issues, and how the data may not be considered high quality, that anti-vaxxers use it to spread disinformation. I'm adding that specifically because it is the contrary opinion about the quality of the data and I believe in an open debate. I am not an anti-vaxxer, being up on all my vaccines, and then some due to overseas work, along with one experimental vaccine, but not covid vaccinated yet.

[1] https://vaers.hhs.gov/

[2] https://vaersanalysis.info/2021/09/10/vaers-summary-for-covi...

[3] https://openvaers.com/covid-data

[4] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/06/14/1004757...
Slow down echelon. We're here debating if it's a good idea to clone a woolly mammoth. It's going to take decades until we as a society even start to contemplate the ethics of immortality
So I tried it out a little. It's a really nice api, buuuuuuut I am really disappointed in the resource consumption. A simple form with a few fields and a submit button was consuming 238mb of ram on my macbook m1 air. Then when I used raco exe the resulting executable size was 65mb! So for maybe large scale app it would be fine, but that feels really heavy for something small.

Its still smaller and less resource intensive than say electron, but man that executable size is pretty brutal for a native app.

For reference the same form made with Haxe + SWT + GraalVM on an intel mac(graalvm native image is not supported on m1 yet) is about 13mb and uses 100mb of ram. Also A jlinked and packaged swt app would probably have better memory management, and end up with a package size in the ball park of 70mb as well.

Again though the Racket API seems nice, but it doesn't expose the native window handle like SWT does which would prevent you from embedding a third party graphics context like GLFW which is kind of a bummer. I've done that with Nim+Tcl to have ab opengl context with Tcltk controls as well as Haxe + SWT + GLFW to have bgfx with native controls.
Then study different things, arrange something with the professors, arrange independent study or an independent degree program. It's up to the student.
There's also NerdSEQ: https://xor-electronics.com/nerdseq/ + actual Eurorack modules! :D I like the Ableton clip style main view in NerdSEQ which allows you to live mix and match patterns, haven't come across as good a flow for that in regular software sequencers, especially ones that let you do chains of patterns of different lengths and polyrhythm them, while having some of them be automation parameters for some part of the DSP and others notes for other parts of the same chain (Buzz, Buze, SunVox kind of let you do that).
The sequences use terms like "intelligence", "smarter", and "cognition", purely to place themselves in what they conceive to be the scientific genre of philosophy.
You are right. That paper does not show any difference wrt time. My bad. Actually another paper from the same author shows that social mobility has not changed.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w19844/w198...

This website summarizes a couple of key points from other papers from that author:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2018/01...

> 3. Rates of relative intergenerational mobility in the U.S. appear to have been flat for decades

> 4. It is a different story, however, for absolute mobility – which indicates how well a person does compared to their parents in absolute terms, rather than relative ones. On this measure of mobility, the last few decades have seen a sharp decline.

So I guess a better way to put it would be to say that because of rising costs in healthcare and housing etc, the social ladder has become more slippery; an accident or a medical emergency has a much bigger chance to push you down the social ladder that from earlier years.
>Calling the unvaccinated idiots is about as effective as calling the obese, alcoholics, people who don’t take their medication, etc, idiots.

I mean, we should. And I say that as someone who is overweight and drinks more than I should. (Hm. Are they connected?!)

I'm fully aware that one of the most significant changes I can make to reduce my risk profile for all cause mortality is dropping weight, and have at times done so, and at times slipped back into poor eating and exercise habits. I'm in the middle one of the trends to improve it, but who knows if it will stick this time.

And yep, I'm stupid for not sticking to it. Or lacking in willpower. Or some combination of things that you would be fully justified in ascribing some sort of negative label to.

But if I could take a shot that makes me significantly less likely to die from my love of craft beer and cooking delicious, delicious, high calorie meals full of carbs and fat and not enough veggies, I sure would. If I could take a shot that made my body recover from doing strength training now in my 30s like it did back when I was in my early 20s, and less likely to have minor injuries, or even more likely to get me to return to the habit after recuperating from those injuries instead of staring wistfully at my garage door and thinking "man I really should get back to lifting weights", I would definitely do that.

I know I'm an idiot for not taking enough control over my own life to take care of some of the single largest health concerns. But I'd be an even bigger idiot if there was something as simple as a two or three dose vaccine regimen available to take care of those risks that I ignored.
Isn't citing VAERS on anti-vax bingo?
This is a whole load of misinformation. Please stop spreading this BS.
> Also not trivial, given the legitimate hunger and compulsion someone with an overeating problem may have after suffering with it for years.

Yeah but you could just mandate it. Force them to eat small amounts. Fire them from their jobs, prevent them from traveling, and lock them out of civil society if they do not comply. Make them submit to weekly weigh-ins.

They wouldn't like it of course, but neither do the people being coerced into taking vaccines. Point is it's for the greater good, and if reducing their load on the healthcare system saves just one life, it all will have been worth it. Right? I mean while we're just here completely making up values and cost/benefit out of thin air, we can mandate pretty much anything.
I'm sorry, I don't get where this is coming from, the specialists don't need to be hired to write the same code again. The old code can just be re-used. If I could guess, I think this is stemming from a misunderstanding that "no plugins" means "no code re-use" which is an understandable misunderstanding (say that 5 times fast) but it isn't the case.

In my opinion, plugins only exist because it's convenient to package a synthesizer/reverb/whatever for users that way, but there is no reason that can't be supplanted with something that is more convenient. Of course if it's less convenient then that wouldn't be worth doing, if that is your concern then I agree with you there.
Git-Secrets: Save sensitive files in Git repositories securely
Lol are they?
You don't state your use case. Do you need a small device with lots of network connections? http://espressobin.net/tech-spec/
No doubt that this is true.
In the late 90s, my science teacher told me that we would run out of oil and the world economy would collapse by 2010. In the 70s, my parents were told that we would run out of ozone, kill all the plants, and die from oxygen cycle collapse by 2000. A century earlier, respectable scientists were making predictions that we would run out of food within a few decades and starve to death. The history of science predictions is a history of high-profile respectable figures making doomsday predictions that never come to pass.

If you deny the failures, climate change deniers will have the luxury of being able to easily prove you factually wrong. Don't give them that luxury.

Instead, use the history to argue for action. Why didn't we run out of food? Green revolution. Why didn't the ozone cook us? Montreal protocol -- we switched halocarbons in our air conditioners and now the ozone layer is recovering. Why didn't we run out of oil? Fracking. CO2 is the biggest challenge yet, how do we fight it? Solar, wind, lithium, nuclear. Let's spend the money and make it happen.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or something... It seems like your "carbon burners" are just people who can't afford a house in SV, solar panels, new appliances, and 3 electric vehicles.
If you die then it will be really bad for the economy, and you don't want a bad economy, do you?
That's good talk, I hope they can back it up with action. People say shipping's only 3% of C emissions, but untaxed shipping enables productipn of a lot of high-carbon low-value products and goods. This stands to have a much wider impact.
Basically says they’re bailing out of the US consumer market to focus on high net worth individuals and accounts. Basically the “1%”.

Executives are quoted, implying that the reason is due to their inability to compete in that market, but I wonder if that’s really why. I’m thinking that with US debt being so high (both consumers and the federal government), millions of job openings going unfilled, an end to eviction moratoriums, zero action on increasing minimum wage and all the other pandemic mess, that they’re seeing a dismal future for the US economy as consumers wind up with essentially zero discretionary income to spend, a government that won’t do anything about it, and another possible Great Recession triggered again by foreclosures on a housing market that’s currently overpriced. Add our mounting inflation to the mix and things look pretty dark. My guess it’s that’s what’s really driving things here.

Sadly it won’t be much better anywhere else, and some places it’ll get even worse. Man, fuck this pandemic.
In my experience, those that are actually the smartest are also down-to-earth and approachable -- the sort that you can have very interesting, thoughtful conversations with and enjoy being around.

I suspect folks who had bad experiences with a "smart" person might have been dealing with someone who was a "big fish in a small pond", who hadn't been sufficiently humbled by going to (or trying to go to, haha) a more appropriately challenging level of education or professional practice.

So generally, I think the difference is that truly smart and knowledgeable people have serious respect for the vast body of knowledge they haven't acquired.
I'm wondering if I should install the Linux Subsystem for Windows to use those tools. It looks like I'm going to need to be using Windows with these drives.
Cool. Now Ubisoft will never want for Splinter Cell game subtitles until the sun becomes a red giant.

Hmmm... Splinter Cell: Red Giant...
Land not a premium in Australia?? Averaged size blocks with no house or an absolute dump sitting on the block are selling for $1-2M
They were so concerned with whether or not they could, they never stopped to think if they should.
Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA damage, buildup of intracellular and extracellular damage, inflammation, a dysfunctional metabolism, etc. are all implicated in aging. This would remove at least two of those from the equation.

It's unclear what the restorative impact of a younger circulatory and immune system would be. Older cells may undergo elevated clearance and be regenerated.

We could develop drugs that target telomere loss. Cell turnover could fix more. CRISPR for the most common gene breakages.

Instead of saying we can't, say maybe we can.

Even if we couldn't use brainless cloned humans to immediately increase lifespans, we could have a nearly limitless supply of organs, tissues, blood, etc. It would also function as the best medical research platform in the world.
And that's why we have tons of studies checking these shots for efficacy and side effects. Studies the mRNA vaccines have passed with flying colors.
It did seem crazy at the time.

But not ill. Thanks for your concern.

One of the doctors was an ophthalmologist. Did the full vision test while at it. I was not driving - mostly doing uber to get around.

Made the mistake accepting the eye drops they often do for vision testing.

My phone was a complete blur after the drops.

Yes...I had a few more appts that day.

Trying to get around or even something as basic as calling was hard. Now imagine having to fill out online forms on mobile. Nightmare

In quiet desperation, i tried to turn on the accessibility settings on my android.

The phone suddenly started parroting loudly YOU ARE NOW USING ACCESSIBILITY SETTINGS PLEASE CONFIRM in the middle of a quiet waiting room.

The 3 hours that followed where the most vulnerable and humbling of my life.
Quick reminder that VAERS isn't a legitimate source. The data there is unverified.
My first thought upon reading the headline: "Which one?"
> To reiterate, I see a massive gap in how the effects of climate change lead to the collapse of global civilization.

some parts of the world/economy are stronger and more resilient than others

if, for example supply chains of manufactured goods from a few countries petered out, the effects would cascade up the chain to many other industries

just look at the effect of a covid, and microchip shortages, we can barely get capacity to build cars and even gpus now and its only getting worse

add some mass migrations here and there, political disruptions, markets pulling back investments (aka 2008) and more, and it becomes much easier to imagine our way of life being disrupted so such a degree that we "cannot carry on as before"
Are you suggesting then that the US should adopt something like Japan's "metabo law"? It appears to be at least somewhat effective in coercing people into losing weight.

https://www.jacksonville.com/reason/fact-check/2016-09-16/st...
Why do some incorrect predictions completely invalidate the devastatingly correct ones?
I love looking at pharmaceutical advertising in this way - what they do say is the absolute legally maximum they could say about the product. If there were stronger claims, they could make them.

Therefore, if they say "may help against X", then it doesn't really, because if they had substantial evidence of that, they would state that.
If this is your first time hearing about distill, they have so many more articles that are of equally astounding quality. I’ve been reading them for a while now and love what they do!
To Choose an IDE Instead of a Text Editor?
Actually no, we don’t even need a shot to lose weight you just eat less.

Also the government is actively promoting obesity by subsidizing cheap unhealthy food via agriculture subsidies like hfcs and soybeans.

So while there are some who have actually spoken out against obesity like Michelle Obama, most are silent as the issue is kinda politically inconvenient for both parties on a macro scale.

It’s disgusting and why I don’t support either major political party in this country.
The political discussion is more about whether booster shots should be mandatory or whether they should be forbidden.
I have switched to Pipewire but last time I tried JACK2 there were tools that would auto-start a2jmidi for all available midi ports. This is trivial to do. If hotplug was a concern then someone could just write it to run based on udev triggers.
Technically yes. But when you connect to the server the browser is also sending the address in plain-text (see SNI).

This will eventually be fixed with an extension to TLS 1.3 (see ESNI), but right now every address you access is sent via plain-text, thus can be intercepted by ISP unless you're on a VPN.

That said, PiHole's main selling point isn't that, it's blocking ad domains and for that it's doing a might fine job (I've had it running in my home for 6+ years).
I like rules like these. One context where preregistration, null results, and full data are all required are clinical trials overseen by the FDA. It’s no surprise that those studies carry a lot of weight.
Yes. I’m aware.

Context is everything, and the scientific community does not deem this concern catastrophic.

I invite you to visit that website (patriots…) if you want to see some spectacular bullshit.
i see, thanks for the clarification!
That is the single most comforting statement I’ve ever heard about cancer.

This year has been the absolute worst.
Pennsylvania at least has no-fault auto insurance.
Natural immunity isn’t a singular binary consistent thing: it varies greatly in duration and effectiveness. You have some natural immunity for some amount of time after you get COVID, but that is nowhere consistent as can a vaccine will give (and its much easier to track vaccine effectiveness, adjust as needed, then each individual’s natural immunity response). And vaccine are still beneficial to those who have natural immunity.

Authorities aren’t trying to “trick people”, they are manage an epidemic with more of a sure thing (vaccines) rather than something that is much less reliable.
I would assume so, considering they are basically illegal in CA and legal in MA.
I wasn't overly impressed by Apocalypse Never. It has some interesting tidbits, sure. But ultimately a lot of the argument was about reframing harm as deaths instead of dollars: we have better technology so we can avoid deaths from natural disasters. That's good but if we are causing natural disasters to be worse and the sea level to rise that's still something we should seek to avoid.

I found Unsettled, [1] by former Caltech provost Steven Koonin to be much more compelling. The approach is rigorous and scientific. The author is not partisan. He did work for BP but also served in the Obama administration. He brings to the climate debate a rational skepticism that is typically discouraged in polite/liberal company. IMO it was at least 2x as compelling as Apocalypse Never.

1: https://www.amazon.com/Unsettled-Climate-Science-Doesnt-Matt...
Alternative implementation for serde at https://github.com/Lucretiel/kaydle, MPL-2.0
The primary usecase (which happens to me fairly frequently in Javascript) is when you need to operate on a native or library data structure with some function other than its built-in methods.

Some people also find it easier to program in an FP style (separating data and functions) in their app code. It seems to be a matter of neurodiversity.
ODroid always has nice boards: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-n2-with-4gbyte-ram-2/
Look at history, 150 years ago to be allowed to form a corporation you needed a legislature to pass an act after they believed that your enterprise was in the public good. Being able to form a limited liability company is a right granted by law and subject to limits.

Not that people pay attention today but if you read your states laws there are limits to what corporation can do, be named, etc.
I’ve read all of your comments, you’re being very picky all while you can totally afford to buy a house where you live. You won’t consider a townhouse, want a woodworking shop, a music studio, and a motorcycle shop.
Anyone remember XMLSpy?
USB → DIN MIDI adapters are expensive, unreliable (they may or may not work, depending on how the MIDI over USB device exactly converts MIDI in to USB), and another moving part to have in a recording studio.

It is a $50-$100 extra investment to get a quality keyboard with DIN MIDI, but those quality keyboards come with better software and have a better build quality to them.

It’s a lot better to spend the extra money up front to get a keyboard with a DIN MIDI connection (e.g. an Arturia Keylab or Novation Launchkey) than to have something which will need a hacked together USB-to-DIN box (and I notice I haven’t seen any names of make and models of MIDI USB to DIN boxes which supposedly will always work) if they ever want to go DAWless.
Remember when NYC sent the USNS Comfort back, after having treated fewer than 180 patients?

https://www.businessinsider.com/usns-comfort-nyc-coronavirus...

But yeah, bringing things back to this source:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/09/covid-hos...

In other words, the study suggests that roughly half of all the hospitalized patients showing up on COVID-data dashboards in 2021 may have been admitted for another reason entirely, or had only a mild presentation of disease.

I remember 2020. It was a brutal and frightening year for everyone because we had never experienced this before. Hospitals that were not equipped for any serious wave of a more infectious respiratory virus got slammed. I think they did the right thing to send refrigerator trucks as temporary morgues and scale up tent operations and even send in the USNS Comfort just in case. Hospitals got slammed for a variety of reason. Part of it was part poor planning, part new situation straining existing supply chains (which we're still reeling from), and part covid.

The evidence now, as of 2021 like in the article in the parent comment, suggests that half of the hospitalizations in 2021 were overblown though. I wonder what the media narrative about covid would be like if this information propagated throughout.
Strokes aren't inevitable in everyone. We can already tell which lifestyle factors are likely to result in one, and correct them should the person be willing. Alzheimer’s is trickier but recent research has shown promise, finding potential environmental links for instance.

Preserving the brain is preferable to consciousness transfers, unless you're looking for functional immortality.
But it's not lying. If you have had COVID, you should still get the shot. The science is not close on this, the vaccine provides additional immunity in addition to what you get from catching COVID.
So the answer is to simply get the vaccine... Though, if it's so simple then the vaccine mandate makes total sense.
It seems like Anwar al-Awlaki was what the US call a terrorist. I don't know why the CIA killed his kids though. It's too much of a coincidence that two of his kids were killed.
It has nothing to do with "deserving" it. Tax breaks exist, generally, to create specific incentives. In this case, the incentive is to promote small businesses by parking cash with them at an early stage, despite the added risk. Removing this break will disincentize early investment and/or make it harder for businesses to stay capitalized in their formative years.
Do we really need to revisit the "crying wolf" parable?