skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is part of the reason why I returned my AirPods Max two days after trying them out and stuck with my Sony WH-100XM4s. Even though the AirPods were better for quick switching between devices, have a better voice chat experience, and have better noise cancellation, they don't universally sound better. I wasn't impressed at all by the sound quality. They also clamp extremely hard on my big head compared to the Sonys. The lack of comfort on such expensive cans is a big deal breaker.

I'm keeping a close eye on what Sony does next, because most of what they're doing now is really good.
Do you have documentation or any blog post on your setup? Lsat I tried snapcast, it worked, but eventually had too much lag between nodes. And there is no UI bundled by default, so I was wondering what the most mature frontend would be.
Some takeaways I've had in reading Smith ... decades after he was assigned reading in my intro economics uni courses:

"Adam Smith's Lost Legacy: Or why you should read Wealth of Nations, that it's not what you think, and how the "invisible hand" is entirely a 20th century propaganda disinformation campaign"

- I didn't seek out Smith anticipating agreement

- Smith isn't an advocate of laissez faire

- Smith speaks of the "free market" only once: criticising business practices

- Almost all discussion of "Adam Smith's Invisible Hand" is absolutely, completely, utterly false, and a modern 20th century fabrication

- The exceptionally curious nature of the common presentation of "Smith's Hand":

- Smith does make errors: barter, US colonial advice, university compensation

- Read him yourself. Free, online

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4cyroa/adam_sm...

Adding to those ponts:

- Smith's exploration of pricing behaviours of various goods and services is both accessible and brilliant. Wages, commodities, stock (capital), rents, skilled labour (a five-point compensation formula), interest, assets (gold and silver), public goods, and taxes. Most of those are in the first part ("book") of Wealth of Nations, public expenditure is in the 5th part.

- His five-factor analysis of wages, again: agreeableness, ease of learning, regularity of trade, risk of success or failure, trust required by those employing the trade.

- Much on the relationship of workers and employers ("masters").

- Much sympathy for the plight of the poor, and the importance of seeing to the improvement of their circumstances.

- Much criticism of shareholder ("joint stock") corporations.

- Far more than you ever wanted to know about English monetary history.

- "Wealth, as Mr Hobbes says, is power." Yes, there are a few short sentences.
I have a CS background and are interested in learning more about electronics. Is there a good beginners tool I can use to accurately simulate electronic diagrams and learn from?
Has AI found a new foundation?
Something being easy to do doesn’t mean it is “normal”.
Are you sure it isnt the case of a Prenda Law copycat? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenda_Law We had one in Poland few years back after UPC customer data leak (name/IP). They filed court pre trial papers and started extorting people, finally vanished after one of the prosecutors got interested.
I’m in no way saying we know how thinking works in it’s entirety. But I am saying we know a fair amount, and it’s not supernatural. It’s determined by electrical and chemical signals in the brain. There’s nothing in theory preventing you from writing all that information down on paper, as it is after all, information.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_in_thermodynamics_an...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

If you’re claiming that thinking for humans involves a soul or some other supernatural element, then I completely disagree with that.

> It's meaningless to draw any conclusions from a comparison between ML and human thought which we don't understand at all.

Again, just to be clear, we don’t have to understand consciousness completely to understand thought to some degree. If you’re unfamiliar with work in this field, it’s quite complex, and there is a complexity of understanding even if we don’t understand everything. So saying we don’t understand thought at all is simply ignorant of the science. Here’s some basics if you’re curious.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience

Also, comparisons with ML are not meaningless in the slightest. Information processing is integral to brain function, so there are definitely things to be learned by comparing the two.

Indeed the Wikipedia intro to neuroscience puts it really well, illustrating why the comment that comparisons of ML are meaningless, just isn’t accurate.

“is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, developmental biology, cytology, computer science and mathematical modeling to understand the fundamental and emergent properties of neurons and neural circuits.”
A simple SASS compiler with zero dependency
Features : Variables, Nesting, Extend/Inheritance
, Operators, Mixins, Modules (@import and @use(which is more efficient than @import))

SourceMap etc...
It certianly felt that way from here in NZ.

I think part of our successful economic recovery is because it wasn't only OPEN but SAFE. In the US and UK there are families living in fear of infection, leading to less consumer behavior.
It clearly no longer compiles in a C compiler. With just a 30-second's worth of a quick look I found "auto" (type deduction) and "static_cast" in the PR.
Are they accelerating? Or you hear them at a constant volume?
On wages specifically:

The five following are the principal circumstances which, so far as I have been able to observe, make up for a small pecuniary gain in some employments, and counterbalance a great one in others: first, the agreeableness or disagreeableness of the employments themselves; secondly, the easiness and cheapness, or the difficulty and expense of learning them; thirdly, the constancy or inconstancy of employment in them; fourthly, the small or great trust which must be reposed in those who exercise them; and, fifthly, the probability or improbability of success in them.

-- Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book 1, Chapter 10

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_I/...
When I read a comment like that, I am happy I don't live in a city.
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want my kid to be born in a hospital where staffers are anti-vax anyway.
I use Facebook for hyper-local news and groups only. I have no other use for it. I use Insta to follow subcultural interests, such as vegan cooks, shapers, small niche bands I like, car modders, and unusual cat reels.

I had something interesting happen to me last week on Insta. It was very late at night and I was about to fall asleep, when a live feed alert informed me that a band I liked was talking live directly with just about anyone about their new album release.

It was amazing to see them that open and welcoming to their fans and to be able to instantly download their album after being told it had just dropped. That kind of instant communication is wild.
I'm not sure there isn't a path to banning circumcisions. After all the first amendment really only applies to the exercise of religious beliefs that affect your own personal autonomy. You can't claim a first amendment right to murder your enemies highlander style.

Ergo, while traditional, the fact that you are requesting the modification of another human (not yourself), I could see this not surviving a challenge down the line.

After all, female genital mutilation (which is obviously far worse) represents a similar request for modification of a living human - not yourself - for religious purposes, and it is outright banned in the overwhelming majority of the United States. While a Federal ban was struck down, it was not struck down on First Amendment grounds but rather due to same being outside the scope of enumerated powers of the federal government and not covered by the commerce clause. [1]

This leaves the state laws in force in all but 9 states.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation_in_t...
This is correct. Given any C/C++ program one can write an equivalent Nim program. But because you have advanced metaprogramming available to you it will probably be shorter and easier to understand.
What? Everything in the STL works fine without exceptions. Only wrinkle is if one wants to handle out of memory in way besides crashing, although there is generally nothing better to do. Besides, the kernel will often kill processes rather than return malloc failures (see the OOM killer) anyway.
As an adult recently diagnosed with a marginal attention defficit, who has recently started a perscription of dexies, I really think I'm missing some trick even more now. The only results I've seen so far are extremely subtle (general feelings of lethergy have reduced slightly, generally a little more content / less depressed, can read for longer periods of time during the day without falling asleep) only after weeks of taking concistently, the first few days I didn't notice anything. Nothing like the sudden surge of focus and energy described here after taking a single dose. What quantities are these kids/young adults taking to get this effect?
Presumably, those “Loose Change” frat guys made some money off it…
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47130268#:~:text=Images%....
"past the point of lockdowns stopping it"

You are never past the point of lockdowns stopping it. It just takes 14 days of strict lockdowns and all the people who are currently infected without knowing it have progressed to either known or recovered.

Then you just do some testing and contact tracing (while remaining in lockdown) to mop up the rest of your infected population.

This applies to any infected population. Note that most lockdowns define "essential" too widely - beyond just supermarkets, doctors & hospitals.
I've been using aria2c for some multithreaded HTTP downloading stuff recently. I surprisingly found it to get bottlenecked on a single core.

For torrents, I tend to just use rtorrent, which has worked perfectly for me for probably 15 years now. https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent. Nice, fast, doesn't seem to use many resources to get the job done.
So in other words, you want to know why a $4T high-tech sector comprising 18% of our economy didn't simply double their capacity during an unprecedented pandemic last year?

For your second question - why do you envision "hospitals" as some sort of concrete entity outside of and apart from "society?"
+1 to this!

I did something similar and you can deploy the whole deal on a cheep VM somewhere using https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/t...

It probably took me about 2 hours total to work through the documentation and get everything configured just the way I wanted it, then you just run a couple ansible commands and boop, you have a matrix homeserver + web ui + jitsi meet + bridges to whatever you want.

It's pretty great! It's my goto chat app now.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/350666/americans-getting-cautio...

Look at the table "Americans' Use of Face Masks, by Vaccination Status". 90% of the vaccinated still wear masks. 49% of the unvaxxed do.

The study hinges on a magical group of vax recipients that act as if covid doesn't exist now and behaved the same before the vax . There is little reason to believe this group exists in large numbers.
This is just a blind guess, but the difference may come when talking about impossibilities and/or extreme improbabilities. Empirically there might not be a way to distinguish between actually impossible and merely unobserved/improbable.

If an event is so unlikely that it probably has never occurred in the observable universe, how would you empirically differentiate between the two? Meanwhile I would think rationality and logic would face no such obstacle.

(Naturally rationality has it's own limitations, but that's a whole new topic.)
No, the ICU dictionaries are seen at: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/tree/main/icu4c/source/da...

I assume at compile time it's converted to a more efficient query format
It's already been phased out
"Something like boost but for plain C" is, exactly, Standard C++.
That would be most American banks.
ceramic travel mug. works great for warming up coffee and keeps it warm for awhile.
It sounds like an incredible book. I will certainly check it out. It fits well with my experience of China well - a place where Guanxi (關係）trumps all else. People fear it, hate it, but also aspire it. It's also interesting that how unlikely this book is. I've been in the West for more than 20 years, but I don't plan on speaking ill of China at all. Kudos to the author.

Another book that I really enjoy that seem to be of the same ilk: confession of an economic hitman
>BTW, I always think left-wing academics should just go out, open businesses, pay workers twice their market wage. And boom, a big win-win! You win your ideology fight and workers get better pay.

wtf are you talking about left-wing, there's no dialectical materialism or class struggle.
Covid isn't flu. It doesn't spread, behave, or affect people like flu. It's not a type of flu. There are some similarities and many differences. Do we really have to keep pointing it out?

I don't think current precautions are incongruous with the past. Because they are significantly different situations.

(Edit: Removed "inappropriately" from "incongruous", as it was intended to clarify but it proved unhelpful. Keeping this note because it gives context to the reply.)
Only because the investors believe that the workers they are paying are generating even more value than they are comfortable exchanging for it.
I agree shaping is hard. But so is a lot of other things we have done. We will just take it one setup at a time. I am sure with time we will conquer shaping as well.
And, generally impossible to write C generics so they may confidently be used safely. There are reasons why C++ was necessary.
The terms "coding" and "decoding" here are very specific terms of art, as it turns out. It's a confusing headline even for a general programmer audience.
Maybe! There are certainly some operational regimes where it would be less efficient to spin props than it would be to shoot out hot gas, but they might be places where an electric aircraft wouldn't ever operate.
Opened in Firefox on iPhone 12 and it seemed to open a f-ton of videos simultaneously when I pushed a wrong button. Glitched out and had to close FF then kill the tab to get back to working.
I really hope the Chromium team (or someone!) decides to support PipeWire for Chromium directly on Linux.
Was there really confusion? I thought it was pretty clear they were just saying "we're overwhelmed right now, please hold on while we catch up".

But I guess people be people.
Because everyone -- or at least I thought everyone -- understands that there isn't a "trained healthcare provider storage warehouse" that can ship trained healthcare providers into hospitals, which by the way, can't just be 3D-printed into vacant city blocks.
Is this targeted at parents or could an 8 year old grasp the book?
I use Wiktionary pretty often, and it has come in particularly useful this past week!

We're translating some strings on our software user interface, and checking the abbreviations and acronyms used. Sometimes there are amusing or [nsfw] connotations in other languages! Thank you Wiktionary for warning us about abbreviating "low pressure" as "LP" in Taiwan.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/LP#Noun_2
'green goo' has a biological imperative to be only as destructive to the environment as required to maximize spread of it's genetic material.

Grey goo need have no such limitations.
It should be very easy to believe considering the half life of R-modafinil is 15 hours (armodafinil and half of regular modafinil). Even a single dose could cause sleep disruption for multiple days and longer if the initial disruption leads to circadian disruption. But it is interesting that both somnolence and insomnia seem to be in the "very common" category (1-10%) of side effects. Sleep disorder is in the "uncommon" (.1-1%) category, which is quite a few people developing sleep disorders taking modafinil.

https://www.drugs.com/sfx/modafinil-side-effects.html
Let me guess: the Fall Festival sale at Falsetto Phil’s Fine Fricatives.
> The fundamental problem with labor unions is that they're stuck on negotiating with capital as an employer when the real threat is capital's corruption of the political system

While in the US there has been much work by capital to undermine union political effectiveness to achieve that, it is not true, even in the US, that unions are stuck on negotiating with capital as an employer without engaging with capital’s political influence.
Thank you. I tried to e-mail you at the address on your profile page to suggest that we continue this discussion privately, but Gmail replied with “Your message wasn't delivered to [that address] because the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail.” If you would like to chat about these issues further, please e-mail me at the address on my paper or at my personal website.
I think it's fair to say that in the past year and a half, we had time to build capacity slowly and intelligently. OTOH, that's not any individual hospital's job. In our capitalistic society, if OP wanted to go build their own hospital, nobody was stopping them.
Exceptions can be avoided with the use of `noexcept` whenever we can do avoid them, especially in sensitive areas that we cannot risk exception throws.

> but I don't think GP deserved the downvotes for the speculation.

That's why I asked @squid_demon for a real example that possibly got bitten by it; else, it's simply an emotional reaction for favoring one tool over another.

If aria2 [1] that is implemented in C++ is extremely fast, then I can almost guarantee that transmission's refactoring in C++ will get there too, sooner or later.

[1] https://github.com/aria2/aria2
The original version of it was developed while teaching a data science course for non-CS grad students at the University of Michigan so most of our early efforts has been focused on the education market. My co-founder/advisor/UMich-professor has been using it to teach some courses outside UMich as well (namely https://pathbird.com/compml which is a very high quality math-focused DS course), so there's some precedent for it. If you're so inclined, feel free to shoot me an email (travis at pathbird.com) and I'd be happy to discuss things.
This is so incredibly obvious it’s amazing that anyone would think otherwise.

Say what you want about western government but I’d much rather anger the US government as a US citizen than anger the Chinese government as a Chinese citizen. In China I’d be extremely concerned about my family arrested, arbitrary trials, forced medication with debilitating drugs, bullet in my head, etc.

In America we may let the Sacklers buy their way out of prison but I prefer this to the fear, violence, illegitimacy, and madness of communism. You don’t appreciate the rule of law and equal justice until you are on the wrong side of power.
We did not really "need" a GIF decoder but it was a fun thing to make. It can decode many many gifs, but yes its still missing features. I hope to get to them though eventually.
The IFR is not the same for every demographic. In a population which is obese and older it will be higher.

More than half of adults in New York are overweight or obese (https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/obesity.p...)

If you are obese and contract the virus you are 113% more likely to need hospitalisation and 48% more likely to die than normal weight or overweight people.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2772071
No, the term is just a pejorative neologism. But vice signaling is certainly a demonstration of corrupt morals: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/bethany-mandel-grandma-...
On the subject of taxation, almost all of his admonishments were to tax less and less intrusively:

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

and

“[Governments are] ...without exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.”

and

“The agents of [government] regard the wealth of their master as inexhaustible; are careless at what price they buy … at what price they sell.”

and

“Those unproductive hands [in the government] … may consume so great a share … that all the frugality and good conduct of individuals may not be able to compensate … this violent and forced encroachment [of taxation].”

and

Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance.

and

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

and

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

and

“The profusion of government … [has] retarded the natural progress.”

and

The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.

His preference for ground rents:

Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without any care or attention of his own. The annual produce of the land and labour of the society, the real wealth and revenue of the great body of the people, might be the same after such a tax as before. Ground-rents, and the ordinary rent of land are, therefore, perhaps the species of revenue which can best bear to have a peculiar tax imposed upon them.
Good perspective. I would've guessed when you get to numbers like that it would even be worth doing.
> Inequality as the necessary trade-off for a more prosperous economy

Is this really what people got from Wealth of Nations? From what I felt was that his writing was trying to lift everyone out of serfdom by reducing inequality!
Just one question: where does he sleep?
Money can solve those other inequalities to some extent for an individual.
Tell that to Snowden and the other whistle blowers
I didn't say "inappropriately". And I'm responding to your flu comparison.
Ask HN: Are the police allowed to unlock a phone using faceID without consent?
If the police stops you and you have a phone where facial recognition is enabled to unlock it. Are they allowed to hold it in front of you so it unlocks and then go through the content of the phone?
I recall someone on HN mentioning how smoking inhibits production of ACE2 proteins on this forum at least a year ago. Also recall a French study noting the -significantly- lower number of smokers showing up with Covid, at about the same time. Hopefully this phenomenon leads to more preventives.
Chongqing police apologize after outrage at illegal subpoena and use of force
C has had generics since C11. Can't fault you for not knowing that, as they're a pain to use and I think folks would rather forget that the language feature exists.