skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And on the phone, it might as well be cell networks or other sources that tell you the position - not GPS - yet people call it GPS. The phone calls it location service.
This is really interesting, and I’d like to read the paper - do you have a link?

EDIT: here: https://www.poverty-action.org/publication/impact-community-...

That summary is really hard to draw conclusions from;

“However, cloth masks did reduce the overall likelihood of experiencing symptoms of respiratory illness during the study period.”

And “ A cloth mask is certainly better than nothing. But now might be a good time to consider upgrading to a surgical mask.”

But also “ Although there were also fewer COVID-19 cases in villages with cloth masks as compared to control villages, the difference was not statistically significant.”
I've been using Dell developer laptops with 4k+ screens and Linux for over five years. Haven't had any scaling issues either, since my external monitor is 4k as well.
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> It's not a matter of most people being enemies of free speech

I disagree. If you believe in censoring opinions and ideas, you do not believe in free speech. Period.
Yeah and even in personal config one could use el-patch[1], to make monkeypatching future proof.

[1] https://github.com/raxod502/el-patch
Which country has given up its ability to conscript? Not just chosen not to exercise it. I would call that general acceptance of that policy. In a specific case, whether to exercise on that policy is a more complex choice.
Antifa doesn't simply "oppose" those they disagree with.. they engage in actual violence. You've clearly adopted a cultist mindset...
You merely have to look at what's happened to the second amendment to see what could happen to the first (felons rights gone, including anybody caught with a wrong sized lobster or anybody who has lied to a federal agent. Regulated to oblivion in places like Hawaii).

The tyranny of the majority has already decided it's OK to require a license to exercise a right, in many US jurisdictions.
Just to dip in here and say that while I totally believe this, the playbook you're talking about is different than the one I'm talking about. I don't know that Boghossian is part of some organized right-wing effort to counter-program campuses (I kind of doubt it). Rather, I think he's in a low-paid, low-status academic job, and there are greener pastures in being a pedigreed culture critic with a "forced out of academia for telling like it is" calling card. Like I said, there are other examples of people very successfully executing that playbook.

That's all supposition, though. Ultimately, my complaint about Boghossian is that he's not an honest interlocutor. Why should I trust him about anything? I believe, based on what I've read, that he's colored the truth on other matters of less import than this.
> By comparison, solar panels and wind turbines are simplistic solutions that do not adequately address these problems.

Yes, that's exactly my perspective. The problems are enormously complex and will require a complete rethinking of every process lifecycle. Without that we will inevitably hit one carrying capacity limit or another. Today it's carbon, tomorrow it's water, the day after it's soil. Pasting solar panels all over everything is a gross oversimplification of the work before us as a species. We will find ways to reach for sustainability and settle for mitigation along the way, sometimes only when we are absolutely forced. The solutions will reach into thousands of seperate domains. If the first three centuries of industrial development were about building our capabilities, the next three will be discovering how not to lose them.
> Who decides what counts as shitty views?

Society.

> Is it decided solely based off your political preference?

No, you might have "good" politics and also be an asshole.

> How do you feel about people who march in pro-socialim rallies facing see non-governmental consequences for their actions, during the mccarthy era?

I would suggest that the fact that the era's named after a US Senator implies it wasn't all "non-governmental consequences".
He was pretty effective at taking down the Hunter Biden stories right before the election.
"The average web page has nearly 1MB of images."

LOL What. Make it 10mb.
> Yes: taxation.

I agree. But then, how do you decide where the money goes ?
This is key. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
It's a sad sign of the times that "scientific consensus" doesn't sound crazy anymore. It was scientific consensus that the Catholic church based on to sentence Galileo. He was a lone dissenting voice. A bit of history for you. And this is besides the fact that true scientists have never sought consensus/peer-review. I'll stand by as you come up with non-modern, paper-churning, publish-or-perish examples of great scientists famous (or great) for work or theory that was accepted by means of consensus.
Thanks, but I like my privacy. Nice that I get a 6% speed bonus in return for self-respecting my freedoms.
Nonetheless, impressive. What I couldn't see quickly how storage I/O fared. I thought one of the big bottle necks was in that area for WSL2?
That's a good point about the extraordinary measures taken. Accordingly, since the number of deaths from the top three causes of U.S. deaths in 2019 were heart disease (659,041), cancer (599,601) and accidents (173,040), we should boycott all propaganda or misinformation around how being overweight is healthy, immediately close all fast food establishments, provide free fruits & vegetables for all Americans, close all beaches to prevent anyone from getting too much sun, immediately ban all products containing cancer causing agents of any kind, mandate all cars & trucks contain ignition lockouts that would prevent the vehicles from starting if seat belts were not worn properly, immediately ban all motorcycles, immediately ban all swimming pools or mandate all Americans wear flotation devices or risk fines & imprisonment, immediately ban all guns & knives regardless of their intended purpose, immediately ban all contact sports and other sports that are considered "extreme" or high-risk, and ban all ladders & stools. If we can reduce or eliminate outright the 1,431,682 people killed from these causes, regardless of the impact on the economy or personal liberty, it would be worth it. Those people are also dead and definitely not coming back. We owe it to their families and communities to do everything we can to prevent further deaths from these causes as well.
Oh Yeah?

Tell that to the President Of The United States; Or the tens of thousands of NY health workers just fired.
> It's not the wackos we should be worrying about.

It's really amazing to me how easily the "left" was able to be tricked in the same death of critical thinking as the "right".

The "stick to the libs!" angle is far more responsible for the rise in support of Trump leading up to the election. People on the "right" were manipulated for decades into reducing their political beliefs to defending themselves from a fictitious adversary (this is why I put quotes around these terms). If you listen to any radical Trump supporter you'll quickly see that a large part of their logic is based on a deeply held belief that roughly half the country is mind washed, irrational liberals that seek to destroy their way of life.

This rewriting of people skeptical of the vaccines as "wackos" serves the same purpose for the "left" and mainstream progressives have gobbled it up without hesitation. They now see roughly half the country as a bunch mind washed, irrational "wackos" that are a threat to the foundations of our society.

Both the "left" and "right" (terms which honestly don't make any political sense any more, evidence by exactly this irrational support for corporate suppression of voices on the "left" and it's dissent on the "right") are currently structured so that any real, meaningful political discourse about the future of the country is dissolved into two insane groups of people throwing rocks at each other.

If you find yourself defined by either of these major narratives, then you are being played.
Interesting - I guess I assumed the hurdle is both hardware and software. Oculus's hand tracking was a huge lift. Is there any commercially available software stack being worked on that is at least hardware generic? Or is everyone forced to build from scratch?
>Once the imminent threat is over, those efforts can and should stop, but not while the destruction is immediate.

The destruction is always immediate, there's always risks, and there's always going to be another possible (virus|war|dangerous criminal|wrong-thinker|...) in the future.

The only time I have any (although low) expectation of a policy ending is when I'm given a definite end date with a binding promise that it won't be extended.
The problem is unchecked propaganda could push you to make these same conclusions about anything and anyone.
So much this!. I'm writing this while sitting in my desk, in front of it is my 27in monitor and to the left is my Mac's monitor in on a stand.

Behind all of this is my room's white wall with an area of around 4x2 meters. Imagine if I could change my monitor with an AR version of it that mapped/projected the "desktop" to my wall.

And then, let's say I want to get into a meeting with a colleague to do some diagrams, so we "map" some Whiteboard software into another wall in my room and a wall in my colleague's room. We will be looking at the same and could even "draw" with hand gestures or something.

I have more hope for AR than for VR as well.
> I still haven't found the "holy grail architecture" for offline-first with backend sync where the backend isn't just a simple data store but also has business logic and interacts with external systems.

you might like the architecture of holo-chain (stupid name, imo), it's still mostly going under the radar (also because they chose to refactor their library from go to rust to improve security):

"Holochain combines ideas from BitTorrent and Git, along with cryptographic signatures, peer validation, and gossip. Holochain is an open source framework for building fully distributed, peer-to-peer applications. [It's] purpose is to enable humans to interact with each other by mutual-consent to a shared set of rules, without relying on any authority to dictate or unilaterally change those rules. Peer-to-peer interaction means you own and control your data, with no intermediary"

good dev intro: https://medium.com/holochain/holochain-reinventing-applicati...

"Holochain is [...] like a decentralized Ruby on Rails, a toolkit that produces stand-alone programs but for serverless high-profile applications."
> Training covid-specialized temps, perhaps?

You can’t. That’s the point. Nursing, even at the lowest level, is not a trivial skill. The only people you could scale up at short notice like that — if there wasn’t also a general all-sector labour shortage — is nursing assistants, who have to generally do their thing under supervision of a registered nurse, which is an Associate degree or a Batchelor degree.

(There is an intermediate level of Licensed Practical Nurse who can be unsupervised but can’t supervise others, which is “just” a one year vocational course).

> But I've innovated around similar limitations in my current domain expertise so I believe it is possible.

Unless you’ve innovated around a crippling multi-state demand spike, during a general labour marked supply shortage, in a sector where getting things wrong is literally lethal and where people sue for malpractice even for sub-lethal errors despite the government mandated minimum qualification levels, I think you are making an error in thinking your experience is transferable.

(If you do have that experience, please share, as that sounds like one heck of an anecdote!)

That said: One thing you could “innovate” that would technically work is making a roving vaccination drone that hunts down and forcibly vaccinates people that don’t want a vaccine. Even ignoring medical ethics, I don’t think that’s a great idea. But technically…
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Sure, in an ideal world we’d have some kind of review, but what we have now seems largely ineffective.
This is probably good for bitcoin.
Back in the day, the most dangerous man in the world was Otto Skorzeny.
yet we force our children to be vaccinated in school in order to be part of society.

we also force other things that impinge on personal liberty, such as wearing seatbelts, getting car (and medical) insurance, etc.

I can see the argument that this is a slippery slope, such as "well, the common good dictates that I get this neuro implant to ward off the 2157 neurovirus", and unfortunately, the short answer is "it depends on the context".

Right now, vaccine holdouts are really screwing things up for us who want to return to some form of normality.

as with war measures or other emergency measures, personal liberty has historically been set aside for the common good. I don't see this going away, nor should it.

The conversation should be how to draw the right balance, so that, when the emergency is over, we return to some modicum of personal liberty, while still preserving the common good.

In some cases, it means that the mandate becomes the accepted practice (e.g., child vaccinations). In others, we would hope, personal liberty returns (e.g., habeas corpus).

TL;DR: it is contextual, rather than dogmatic and a-priori
There wasn’t scientific consensus that recovery from COVID did not leave antibodies in your system so as to make vaccine unnecessary. It was undecided.
That’s awesome to hear that youve gotten a transplant and are still in good health. I suspect that you didn’t need one because of CKD caused by diabetes/blood pressure?
I think it's OK say that Marijuana should be legal but acknowledge that the concrete proven medical benefits attributed to it are pretty marginal.
YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content

Which will, of course, galvanize those who are skeptical of the vaccine and the intentions of our bureaucratic overlords. And because that's so obvious, it makes the conspiracy-theorist squirrel part of my brain wonder if that's the point.
then their location is known anyway
I like dithered images and appreciate the author's post.

If you don't, but you want your webpages to load fast, look into WebP and AVIF images. Load them opportunistically using the html5 PICTURE tag - no JS required and no worry about old browsers not supporting new formats. Even plain lossless encoding of legacy formats goes a long way. Test your own site for ideas:

https://webspeedtest.cloudinary.com
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Very interesting to see the argument that the requirement to wear a seatbelt infringes on personal freedoms. Couldn't you argue that the requirement to have a driver's license is similar? 'I know how to drive, why am I required to jump through all those hoops (and pay) to be licensed?' And ad infinitum, why do I have comply with building codes, pay extra for food that's been inspected, etc. True freedom from all that sounds... really terrible.
What authority does China have to declare that Tibet is China? Taiwan? Everything inside the 9-Dashed-Line? What reason do we have to accept China's authority to declare that foreign territory is in fact part of China?

In the same way, when the bank robber says that he was just withdrawing his own money, we do not accept that the bank robber has authority to declare "what is rightfully his money".
FOSS is strange to me, some are trying hard to raise money to fund open source, while others appear to be asleep at the wheel. I have reached out to one large project we use a lot at work, multiple times, looking to make a donation, never heard anything back. I guess some are doing so well they don't need any money?
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Oh, I thought you needed multiple processes for this.
That's a good point, and also, what a horrendous thing to have in your contract. I wonder if it's even legal for them to claim ownership of unrelated code done outside work hours.
In case anyone is curious about dithering in the context of audio, here[0] is an excellent video on that.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iDrbgfPjPY
I'm a big fan of this piece! For those looking to play around further, there's

https://ditherit.com/

and on the command line, good ol' imagemagick comes through with something like

convert picture_with_cool_colors_you_like.png -colors 10 -unique-colors sourcecolormap.png

convert source.jpg -resize 500x500\> -ordered-dither o4x4 -remap sourcecolormap.png output.png

mutatis mutandis. :)
https://archive.is/BxdfB
128 thread processors are already available at the prosumer level (hyperthreading is presumably a good use for python since it does so much waiting with pointer chasing, but even if not there will be 128 core consumer chips before long).
I _should_ eat vegetables every day, and I usually do, but I don't want to give armed police the power to make me.

It's not about the vegetables, it's about handing away more of your agency to those who can and will abuse it.
Lol, mask off. I don't debate bad-faith actors, and that's all this reply is; sensationalist and fantastical; not rooted in the reality.

"Burning down cities"; a few buildings across seperate incidents. Reporting focused entirely on senstationalizing that, and ignored the very real, very NEEDED progress made by the remainder of the protests.

Just pre-empptively (because I won't be further replying to this sub-sub-thread): It's well documented that inciting of violence is OFTEN done by undercover cops, well-to-do-white-supremacist-home-owners-using-spray-paint-for-the-first-time and neo-nazis.

Edit: One more thing I can't let slide: Families can organize traditionally. Some don't get the privelege to choose; violence campaigns of austerity ripped apart their neighborhoods. Others self-determine that the traditional family structure doesn't suit them. Autonomy means we should be able to choose...

...either way, the forced assumption that "BLM is anti-family" is...WOW! This is a movement about family members having their loved one's LIVES ripped away by Illegitimate State Violence.

...The mental gymnastics you'd have to do to logically rest with the idea that BLM is somehow "anti-family", wow, ok buddy.

So nope, your little yugi-oh card does is not such a good uno-reverso, after all ♥
The metadata vdev is not a cache, it is the primary store.

Too many years of thinking of the aux vdev types like SLOG and L2ARC as caches, has made people confuse this one frequently.
So because the Constitution defines some rather extreme circumstances where Habeas Corpus is allowed to be suspended, the Constitution is "fair weather" when it comes to civil rights?
One of the most baffling things about HN is how commenters routinely and wildly underestimate the amount of resources it takes to build high quality software
People can still post anti-vax things on the internet if they want. Youtube is not the internet.
I'm a breakthrough case. Nobody in the testing office asked me if I was vaccinated. The breakthrough wasn't tracked in any system to my knowledge. How many more of me are out there? I only know anecdotally that at least 10 people 1 or 2 degrees of separation from myself are also breakthrough cases. I'm sure I was very contagious during this time but as soon as I tested positive I quarantined. I personally don't trust that these statistics are being tracked properly.

My point is that although I'm glad I got vaccinated, vaccination is not the panacea the media makes ot out to be.
Or, I mean, hear me out: buy a Kill-A-Watt for $50, plug it into the wall, and then check what the dial says when your computer is neutral vs. when it's looping your code.
Very vell, I will bite since there is no deconstruction of this yet and it will be a good workout for me.

You posted a video/article of some people making some claims. What is the argument you want to support by posting that? I want you to state your argument as clear as possible so that we are not strawmannig eachother. Debate me!

I will not even go into the value of that article because it immediately raises all kinds of red flags which if you are incapable of seeing, there is no point arguing about the article. Issues related to jurnalistic integrity (revealing your supposed whistleblower), deliberate cutscene use for manipulation, deliberate tangling of source material in order to string a narative , tainted entity (as GP said, which can not be ignored), and many more. These people are clearly shitty hacks.

BTW, "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Winston Churchill
And in this case, it did already get translated in several languages and spread everywhere in the span of at most 2 days.
This is generally some pretty terrible advice. Really, don't follow it. At least not without testing its impact.

Dithered 8-bit/256-color images will look 'better' than non-dithered 8-bit/265-color images, but it will almost always be worse that a 24-bit JPEG (no alpha) or 32-bit webP (includes alpha) and have a much larger file size.

I did some quick tests with https://squoosh.app. The 8-bit dithered PNG is >4x the size of the JPEG. It also shows some terrible banding on any kind of gradient in the image. The PNG is 5x larger than a better looking webP version of the same image.

I tested a lot of images (photos, drawings, digital artwork, etc) and some of the images were 10x larger as dithered PNGs vs webP/JPEG. Only one was smaller as a dithered PNG.
Agree. At the very least. Companies should buy support contracts for the free software they use. But there is not an easy way to do this either.
Critical thinking is at an all-time low in Western society.

Enough people aren't being trained to think critically nowadays, and increasingly, societal pressure, which used to put pressure on officials to vet and verify facts and positions, is diminishing. Until that changes, we will fall further and further into the cult of celebrity/personality, which is fundamentally appeal to authority.

A person reading this MIT article should ask "Why should I believe what this article says?" If the answer is "because it's MIT! Duh!", then that's the problem in a nutshell. MIT is not a substitute for their own critical thinking faculties, nor is an MIT professor/academic/spokesperson/author the absolute arbiter of truth.
Pi is a far cry from "Microcontrollers".

MQTT requires a TCP stack, which limits to the higher end chips.

But, for embedded linux, you're probably golden.
The metadata of the zvol on the host pool, does benefit from the metadata vdev (NOT A CACHE)
That's strongly parallel to Gall's Law:

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall.27s_la...
If ISIS can recruit in person by talking to vulnerable people in the right mosques, surely other extremists have backup channels as well.
> not an expert in game theory, politics, economics, or anything else involving policies affecting 350M+ people

To be fair, neither are most politicians.
Er, politics in the period of 1949-1985 was not, generally, “more boring” than 1985 to present. The last few years maybe have achieved the undesirable level of not-boring that was generally the case through most of the 1950s, 1960s, and much of the 1970s, but certainly overall the post-Fairness Doctrine period was more boring than the Fairness Doctrine period. (The Neoliberal Consensus is probably a bigger factor than the FD on that, though; it’s pretty hard to attribute much of anything about the overall tenor of politics to the FD.)
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