skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI the interpretability standards passed recently were for the charging block. Every device has to charge from a usb c port so that’s why Apple switched.
I recently discovered 1440, a news email which gives you a 5-minute summary of the day's news. They don't know or care how long I spend consuming, so they don't have as much incentive to be melodramatic. I open the email, read it, and that's pretty much it. Much less time, much less melodrama, and if something enormously important happened that day I will still hear about it. It's really a lot more like the financial model and incentives of print newspapers several decades ago.

https://join1440.com/

Before you ask, no, I don't work for or have any financial interest.
In what universe was WW1 predictably stupid. WW1 happened due to a complex series of treaties, nationalism, and many other things.

Nobody thought it would get as bad as it did
Not to sound paranoid, but won't even LinageOS phones have to run closed-sourced firmware and drivers?
You can replace the user-facing software, but can/would you trust the baseband?
We did java 8 vs java 11 a few years ago:
https://www.optaplanner.org/blog/2019/01/17/HowMuchFasterIsJ...

TLDR: using the same GC (*), it's 4% to 16% faster (depending on the GC).

But be warned that if you don't set a GC, Java 8 uses Parallel GC (high throughput, so faster) by default and Java 11 uses G1 GC (low latency, so less hickups) by default.
Indeed it does: https://github.com/openSUSE/opi/blob/5fc82de009fb3e792550607...

I'm not sure what this proxy is for though.
Why not try out WSL? I'm not a dev myself, but for the bit of coding and scripting I do from time to time WSL is pretty good.
That was my experience as a cyclist, too — when I was in my 20s it was relatively straightforward to get my average for a 100mph ride with modest hills into the low 20mph range, while the people in the Tour de France are sustaining greater speeds over mountains. Going from that dedicated amateur level to even the lowest pro tiers requires both significantly more effort and a fair amount of luck in terms of genetics, being able to afford that time, etc.
> Instead, 5 years later there's Conversations, "information is not trivial to find" and "check your server for compliance".

If you think nothing happened in 5 years then you're very much mistaken. As I said, the information should be more easily discoverable, and I linked you to some of the projects working on that aspect.

You seem to confuse "not easily discoverable" with "doesn't exist", which are different things when it comes to the kind and amount of effort required to fix them.

My own work is on Snikket, which is a project working on XMPP clients for all platforms with a modern feature baseline. My belief is that simply telling people to "use XMPP", and requiring them to find appropriate clients and servers is solving the problem from the wrong end. XMPP-based solutions should be attractive to people in their own right. Whether we like it or not, the average person does not (and will never) choose to use software because it "uses open standards".
I believe Xiaomi left the Android One program last year.
This is a great idea, buuuut the issue is bias sneaking in...meaning that the American public should know everything that is public about the politician...there position, there votes on what issue, there attendance and factual information. With the age we live in though where mainstream for profit media and so much divisiveness among Americans it would be a quagmire. If you do start something let me know, I could lend some time to help...good luck
It's literary cataloging the deaths of people that believe that COVID is not real. It's about reality.
They have a slightly smaller red/black/white panel for about half the price of the 13" one too. https://www.waveshare.com/12.48inch-e-Paper-Module-B.htm
I bit this particular bullet a couple of months ago. Turns out that a very cheap board like an Arduino Nano Every has a power voltage regulator (that will accept 6-21V supply) and a built-in clock, so you don't need to integrate anything.

(As it turned out, I wanted a more stable clock signal for timing purposes than the arduino clock, so I attached a 32.768kHz crystal to one of the inputs, and that also was very easy. I also attached a 4-digit 7-segment display, as there are enough I/O pins, a thermistor, several buttons/switches, and a stepper motor controller. It was easier than I thought. Give it a try.)
Or rather RAII, borrow checker is a different feature that is not related to garbage collection
And even lower for the vaccines.

Ivermectin has been used with marginal side effects, since decades.
Yeah, stop watching cable news. Take anything news related on social media with a helping of salt. Serious publications are usually more reliable even if they have a little bit of a slant.

I also like skimming memeorandum.com since it mainly just shows what people are discussing. Important to know that articles there are popular topics, but not necessarily accurate/objective.
I can't find any mention of the used demonym in your linked article.
Do you have a citation? I had someone who passed away at home who had a period of greater clarity relatively shortly before they passed. Many things I think could have contributed - but it didn't seem like a myth.
Bandamp allows you to purchase music directly from the artist, in high quality, and download and own it permanently. They also let you stream it from them after purchasing it which is a useful bonus but the main thing is you own the music.
And likely will cover themselves as the corruption is widespread.
Are you sure about that? https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2007764
Ivermectin probably doesn't do anything to fight Covid-19, but the American media has really shown their corruption in the way they've treated it.

It's clearly a safe drug to take in human-designed doses, and it's cheap to produce. Laughing at people for poisoning themselves with "horse dewormer" instead of pointing out that they are turning to the vet store because their access to medicine has been marginalized is sick.

And maybe it does help, I don't know. Unproven != disproven.
Sending one frame per message is quite expensive, I'd do some buffer aggregation instead
The other takeaway is that preprint publication is a pathway ripe for abuse. The major paper that drove most of this situation, and the meta analysis, appears to have been a straight up fraud. But it got circulated a lot as a preprint to people who didn’t understand the difference between a preprint and a peer reviewed paper. If the preprint had been more private, this might have been averted.
Around here, the major distinction is not between salary and wage, but rather between "mzda" (private sector remuneration) and "plat" (public sector remuneration). "Mzda" as far as I'm aware is strictly hourly. Perhaps the closest thing that comes to a salary in the private sector is a certain kind of arrangement called roughly "accounted working time" that ensures that even if your actual working hours fall below a minimum of something like 80% of your notional working hours, your pay will be capped from below at this rate relative to your long term average income. Or something like that. The whole regulation is quite complicated for a layman, me included. As far as "plat" is concerned, well, Wikipedia directs me to "salary" from the Czech page for "plat", whereas it directs me to "wage" from the Czech page for "mzda", so perhaps public sector remuneration might qualify as salary, with a number of qualifications (such as that the remuneration is never negotiated but dictated by government tables, that overtime pay is still a thing, etc.) The base component of "plat" is monthly, so perhaps similar to salary, except it's being adjusted in ways that make it difficult for me to tell whether the whole result is salary or not (think overtime adjustments, night work adjustments, personal performance adjustments, etc., most of which require working hour logging anyway).
Last time I had to deal with lots of animations, I used tweenjs. Granted, that was a long time ago. Didn't even know about the Web Animations API. Thanks.

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> There are literally no studies proving that the Pfizer or Moderna gene therapies are safe and effective, or even that they are safe or effective, at both treating and preventing the spread of COVID-19.

This is... wildly incorrect.
There is a business use case here in NYC. NYC to the Hamptons or out east long Island. The locals in the Hamptons are complaining about noise pollution from helicopters making trips to the Hamptons from NYC. If this makes little or no noise the current helicopter service companies will use them and people will pay $800 ( off-peak) - $2,500 ( peak) one way trip from the west side of manhattan / Chelsea area to east Hampton / Montauk . If you got the money that is :-)
Thanks for that! Some people I work with are constantly asking for ML, they invoke like its magic and will figure shit out by itself. Then when I push back asking how they would make the decisions themselves, their answers tend to be in the line of "it's ML, it should figure out by itself", and when I ask about the data to be used, "it sshould adapt itself and find the data". Getting to have a heuristic in the first place is so hard.

Reminds me of the book "Everything is obvious", where they experimented a few times and showed that in complex systems, advanced prediction systems made on many available and seamingly relevant variables are only marginally better (2 to 4% in the experiments) than the simplest heuristics you can use. They interpreted that as a limit of predictability, because systems with sufficient complexity behave with a seemingly irreducible random part.
Correct, its entirely possible they could be doing more insidious stuff at the firmware level, but dumb keyword checking is almost certainly implemented in userspace.

I don't think you can trust any proprietary firmware out there, its just a question of which you trust less than the others.
And how can one be worthy of living inside it?
I consider package management and selection of packages as something nice. I also consider interoperability and freedom as something nice. A lot more effort for those has been put into the Linux personal computing ecosystem than MacOS.
Big shout out to the Morte d'Arthur. I read it last year and at first found it hard to get into. There's tons of repetitive tournaments and jousting... the Marvel analogy is not wrong, it's a bit like a comic book. But gradually the characters get into your head, and the final conflict between Lancelot and Arthur really hits hard.
That had their drug approved by the same FDA that you suddenly trust in that regard.
It sounds like you want XFCE.

It's the boring option, but there's a lot of customization options and they've never broken anything I use.
I suppose this isn't important but I am really curious: in which languages? Also how did the Lithuanian government find out?
It's like learning to hit a baseball (at a little league level). You don't try to think about where you should swing. You just look at the ball and swing. Your mind unconsciously does the math for you.

That doesn't really work when the pitchers are throwing fast since you have to predict where to swing. But it really works for early levels of the game.
It matters a lot if ivermectin doesn't do anything to stop C19, even if it is otherwise safe (it surely is, dosed professionally). People take ivermectin instead of vaccinating or complying with NPIs. If ivermectin doesn't work, that is a very, very big deal.
I get frustrated with Google Docs because there's no good way to organize your documents into folders. Technically, there's a way to do it but Google makes it a pain in the ass and purposely hides it from you. Instead, they show a gigantic list of your most recent documents. For me, that's frustrating but I guess if you grew up with that being the default, that's just what you're used to. Like smartphones, technically the folder structure is there but it's hidden away and difficult to access, so almost no one uses it. I guess the latest generation have really just used desktops and laptops as portals to the internet rather than doing things locally on computers themselves.
>How does the current field of studies compare to Remdesivir?

Remdesivir has three randomised controlled trials all of which indicate statistically significant effects, and there don't seem to be any credible challenges to these trials results. Currently given the concerns about the irregularities in the data in it's existing trials, Ivermectin has none.
I have noticed it's late/early sometimes, but it appears to me to be mostly on time. Note: I'm not an expert by any means.
This is actually how they manipulate / overcharge on pricing. Because the person paying is not the person getting, they can charge anything, and there is HUGE pressure to proscribe still.

If instead they even required patients to still cover out of pocket portion, prices would need to be way lower.

You see this overseas. People pay out of pocket. I was in a fair number of developing countries, it's actually a bit nuts for westerners. The process to get for example things like basic antibiotics is near over the counter. Other items are INSANELY cheap. And accessibility (if you have USD) is good.
People are literally taking horse formulations of ivermectin because doctors are rightfully refusing to prescribe ivermectin for an off label and ineffective use.

Oh, and the access to this medicine is “marginalized” BECAUSE IT DOESNT WORK TO TREAT COVID. We generally do not expect doctors to prescribe medicine that will not work or is not appropriate for the patients condition. Complaining about their access being marginalized is like complaining that my doctor is marginalizing my access to Ketamine because I don’t need it.

It’s not “corruption” to point that out.
The best case I've heard is helping to reduce traffic to places that expect a large influx of folks at the same time.

Concerts, for example - if you have a lot of these flying taxis, you can have people park in auxiliary lots that are 20 minutes away by car, then get shuttled over via air taxi. Depending on how many taxis and how fast the turnaround is, you could eliminate a non-negligible amount of traffic into/out of parking lots. Same with sporting events, etc.

And then on a similar note, airports - I believe something like this was proposed for LAX. In the same way that people park at off-site parking lots and take shuttle buses, they could park off-site and take air taxis.

These scenarios work relatively well because they put the air taxis in nonstop use for some period of time, and they have the space/infrastructure to set up spaces for them to land and load/unload folks.
Hah! When I’m doing reps at the gym, I’ll count down the Fibonacci sequence, so a set of ten I’d count five, then three, then two. Works like a charm when each subset is “easier” than the previous one.
IT phoned home: Storytelling box foils kindergarten thief
I wonder when it'd be accidentally turned on
> People leave. If your 10x (or 3x or 5x) engineer quits: are you really going to hire 3,5 or 10 people to replace them? Unlikely. And even if you do, institutional knowledge is lost.

When I left my last job, part of what I was doing was replaced by a team that built up to 5 engineers last I checked. They're doing it more intensely (although, I don't think with better results), and they've got to have a lot more communication than when I did it (I was trusted to do cowboy deploys to an isolated system, they've got to deal with code reviews and just making each other aware of what they're doing because 5 people in a small system means overlapping work). And, I did a bunch of other stuff too which AFAIK didn't really get picked up, but hopefully they've been lucky and not had weird TLS problems or other 'select is broken' experiences lately.
Not sure they have bombs but they are pretty delicate.
In reality China has another option. They could just demand semiconductors or else they would close the tap on rare-earth elements [1] and by doing so crashing the economy.
Even more so if they annex/invade Vietnam.

Other countries have availability, but only China has the supply chain to extract and process these elements at scale. For any other player to step up production to match current demand it would take years.

[1] https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/geopolitics-rare-eart...
Slightly OT: Does anyone know of a textbook or other resources where (dis(advantages of analog vs digital computing are discussed?
If you ever wanted to know if being in the Apple ecosystem is sometimes like being part of a religion, just watch at how far people will go to tell you they have left the ecosystem...
Cinebench is not a synthetic benchmark.
The Importance of Educating Students to Love Space Exploration
> Did anything you were "informed about" in the past by news made any real difference in your life (you having been informed, not the news item itself).

On the recent past, vaccine availability, COVID related restrictions, and when to relax a little bit on the extreme safety conservatism because hospitals actually had any room. Of course, those were on local news, that is much more useful than national or the completely useless global one. "The news" is basically the channel any large institution use to communicate with people, so any general institutional information comes from there.

Also, a big constant is when to buy or sell government bonds (for other, more volatile and specialized things, the news is useless).
Peopleware is 30 years old though. Back then very few decided to become programmers. Today when everyone flocks to the field chasing money and you have several orders of magnitude more programmers the ratio could be very different.
All organizations, even ones which are policy based, function like an artist's collective at some level - the human level. They all employ humans, who have to interpret those policies, and can interpret them in favor of or against something they personally have an opinion about.
Where did patchwork store the data? I uninstalled it a while ago, but I'm guessing data is still sitting somewhere on my drive.
Any beginner's book about OpAmps will get you started.
Not really (on size), what mirrorless can you fit into your pocket? The smallest ones still are 3-4" thick because of the lens.
Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong, according to leaked memo
Thanks for the link! I hadn't thought about model averaging in this context but definitely bears on how to interpret this stuff. Interesting to think about too re: connections with model misspecification.
Sure that's a good point. But is mortality the appropriate clinical trial endpoint? Mortality rates are already low when following the NIH treatment guidelines, so it would take a large study population to discern any statistically significant effects.

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/

In addition to mortality it probably makes sense to look at other endpoints such as patient reported symptoms, RT PCR test cycle count, and time to hospital discharge. Those should allow us to tell if there is a real effect (or not) with smaller subject groups.
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While I'm with you on xmpp, calling Conversations "great" is dishonest. While the foundation is good and the xep support is great, the developer refuses to adapt the client to any conventional design standard, requiring the users to use either blabber or monocles to achieve some familarity. Besides that, message search is not able to link the message into context, while showing both timestamp and associated chat, requiring the user to go into the chat himself and scroll up until the message in question shows up.
"Listening to Music takes 3 clicks and just a few seconds Wired headphones never run out of battery and have superior audio quality ..."

This item is the reason I am leaving the iphone and trying an unlocked/stock android device.

My music collection is a directory tree that I have curated and organized since 1996.

The correct way to deal with this is to move this directory tree onto my phone (either via network transfer or attaching a USB filesystem) and then browse those files with a music player app.

Anyone familiar with iDevices knows that every piece of the simple, standard workflow I just described is totally impossible.

Instead, you have to manually build playlists inside of itunes while "importing" your music (and storing two copies of it) and then transfer those playlists (one by one) to the idevice and ... it's just insane.

It is a workflow built for people that impulse buy a track here and there ...
Fastmail is in australia though? Didn't they just get completely backdoored?
Would you say that Bill Maher occupied the same spot on the left? He was fairly prominent until he pointed out something that seemed true but was radioactive at the time, then was cancelled.
Someone said it and I totally agree:

Society is not ready to watch science in realtime.
> (good luck having those facilities intact and staffing them)

This is the problem with the whole "take Taiwan for the semiconductor industry" line of thinking. China needs foreign scapegoats (it's all _____'s fault that your life sucks) and prizes (look! we took back what is rightfully ours) so it can keep control of it's increasingly oppressed people.
> what is pl41nt3xt?

Leet-speak for "plaintext".
I think you answered your own question -- Remdesivir is an antiviral and Ivermectin is an antiparasite.
The LCD voltmeter is used for precisely setting coefficients, to view the output you need some kind of scope. This is typical of most analog computers.

https://the-analog-thing.org/wiki/Oscilloscope
The political and military 'elite' of the USA have been compromised. If there is a hot war with China, it will be one that America has been pre-arranged to lose, as part of a transition in hegemony.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/09/21/dou... Joe Biden and son are corrupt

https://www.dailynews.com/2021/09/19/patriot-or-traitor-mill... The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has said openly he would coordinate with the Chinese against America

The concept of nations bribing individuals to sway World Wars occurred in the last one:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/23/mi6-spain-200m-br...

"MI6 spent the present-day equivalent of more than $200m bribing senior Spanish military officers, ship owners and other agents to keep Spain out of the second world war"

Spain entering WW2 on the Axis side would have meant the Allies would be completely locked out of the Mediterranean, and probably changed the course of history. Bribing foreign government officials yields great ROI!

History has other examples of Autocratic competitors using Liberal nations' Democratic procedures against them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto

"The liberum veto was a major cause of the deterioration of the Commonwealth political system... when foreign powers bribed Sejm members to paralyze its proceedings, and resulted in the Commonwealth's eventual destruction and the partition of Poland"

The State Premiere of Victoria, home to the city (Melbourne) with the world's longest COVID lockdown, signed secret deals to partner with China for infrastructure development:

https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/paul-murray/frightening-s...

This is a country that America has just agreed to share nuclear technology and submarines with...
Welcome to the delta V problem....
Got one more that showed up yesterday. A doc was shared via link, but I didn't see where the link went so I searched for it by title (looking at the shared screen during a meeting). No results in google docs. Found the link, and the doc opened right up. It was shared and I wouldn't be able to find it.
It's like the time they raised their minimum wage to $15 but it was totally somehow evil, though.