skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Applying the full amount of payroll (both SS and Medicare) tax to income regardless of origin, including capital gains (and the both-halves self-employment style to all non-wage income) or amount (uncapping contributions), while also uncapping benefits (but adding additional “bend points” above the current cap so the revenue-to-obligation ratio for high incomes is better) is a great way to secure the programs, increase fairness of treatment of labor and other income, increase fairness of taxation of low vs. high income, and extend qualification for social insurance to people of moderate means but atypical income patterns.

But it means that people with disproportionate political clout would be taxed more heavily than in the present circumstances, so it would face an uphill battle.
Yet One More Plot to Show US's Race Inequality
When I was a lad I had an illegal ancient motor scooter that didn't start. One of the dads told me:

"If it's got compression, and it's got fuel, and it's got a spark, then it's got to go".

He was right.
I'm expecting them to turn the radar off at some point on the cars with a radar, because in my own experience driving Tesla, the radar was good to trigger phantom breaking.
Deer population growth during that recovery period (of white tail deer at least) seems pretty exponential. [1] However in the absence of natural predators it seems that disease and human culling have pretty effectively kept their population to stay at about pre-colonial levels rather than continuing upward to the point of over population.

[1] http://www.deerfriendly.com/decline-of-deer-populations
It’s odd that truly offensive titles like Mein Kampf are missing. This study relies on self reported figures so may not tell the full story. This is also interesting: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/pvbkug/what_is_a...

Nothing about censoring COVID information either. https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-quietly-removes-coronavir...
This is a fascinating answer that has persuaded me to your side. I recall opting out of Dolphin telemetry because I simply couldn't be bothered to check what would be sent, but seeing not only examples of what data is sent but also how it's used in such a positive way will definitely have me turning the telemetry on next time I go to use it.
Cloud Act
The speed limit for most residential and commercial streets in SF is 25mph - something like 97% of all street segments in SF have a limit of 30mph or lower.
It can take into account predicted difficulties. The pandemic was difficult to predict, basically everyone predicted incorrectly, and chip supply is functionally inelastic over the short term.
Helium is a counterexample to that notion even if it is vaguely true for most other things.
Sparta was more than an army of super warriors
Congratulations @sskates!

My team has built a tool which can automatically add analytics/reporting to a code base (through code generation).

I have heard that Amplitude tried this as well, but didn't succeed. I find that hard to believe. Is it true? If so, did it not succeed for business reasons or technical reasons?
Yes - you may be able to.

This involves automatically pulling over and stopping the vehicle when a cop is behind the car and flashes their lights. The vehicle will also roll down its windows so the cops can access the interior of the vehicle and have easy access to passengers.

This also links in rider support automatically to communicate directly to law enforcement / rider support can also provide various commands to vehicle then.

They can also open a door, which triggers a an autonomos driving cutout. They can also contact these folks directly to gain access (ie, remote unlock etc).

To retrofit your vehicle so that law enforcement has this type of direct access may take some effort, but I doubt you'd have much objection - there currently is a real issue with drive offs and law enforcements ability to respond to those under vehicle chase rules. If you can set up your vehicle to override your drive-off efforts that will probably be welcomed, especially if it pulls over, stops, can unlock doors to provide LEO access to your person etc.

Separately, rider support can give permission for a vehicle search as the owner of the vehicle, so you'd want to register vehicle with a service that would give consent automatically and then provide instructions on where to find registration and insurance in vehicle. Waymo I beleive does it on the visors.

I'm not sure you fully grasp the implications of Law Enforcement Interaction Protocol efforts. In the future, the car may be able to drive you to a "safe" location for a car search and your arrest.
I'm of the same opinion - I'd rather not have to consider the argument order, and instead just be able to append flags to an interactive command in any order I see fit as I'm refining queries.
SC21 conference will require vaccine passport app
Silicon Lottery was great. Perhaps oddly I never used them for any of my desktops rather a few laptops. I'd get the top binned CPU I could buy from them and tweak the clocks so that single core was OC'd to the max and multi core was relatively close to stock but undervolted. This kept fans from going nuts without having to sacrifice a great deal of performance.

I really wanted to get my 5950X through them but the shortages at the time made it hard enough to get one at all and they eventually gave up even trying to list them.
I Miss the Dial-Up Modem Sound
Fully agree with the analogy but you disparage tontines!

49/50 US state workers pension will run out of money by 2033 because they are purely run as 'guaranteed' ponzi schemes.

The exception is the state of Wisconsin which operates more like a tontine in the sense that the payments you can expect is adjusted based upon on the mortality of other members in the system.

I know this because I am making progress convincing governments and supranational organisations that the only sustainable pension system is the one we are enabling through our platform at https://tontine.com
Sorry, but I did try this, and it sounds absolutely awful. There's a ton of noise. I don't know if my Pis (and I've tried 3 of them) are different from yours, but a cheapo $20 USB sound adapter already has a much better noise floor than the built-in one. This is regardless of what I connect them to.

There's "audio woo" where you spend $1000 for a USB to SPDIF adapter that literally does almost nothing, and spending $50-100 for a decent DAC that doesn't have an audible hiss.
The original margin for overclocking was in fact a result of being efficient.

Let’s say you build 1000 chips and bin them in two categories 900 came out near peak performance. Then you get orders for 200 of the top performance item, and 700 of the low tier. What are you supposed to do? Build another 7k chips and store the high performing ones?

The obvious solution, pick 600 top performing chips, relabel them as low tier, sell them at lower margin, and if needed you can start the next batch.

From computer accesories to top tier processors, the problem is not in profit margins, is in cashflows.
This is the type of proud indifference that is going to lead us down the path of no return in no time.

The world is not made better by shrinking biodiversity especially in the long term. But screw posterity right?

I hope you don't have kids.
Unless things have changed I'm not sure it's accurate that you only get charged for external traffic on AWS: I recall having pretty substantial charges internal to AWS just for traffic between different AZs in the same region, for example.
> Perhaps a very convenient chip shortage?

Absolutely not. Margins on new vehicles are the highest ever.

> Anyhow, why not build a care without electronics… because that’s exactly what I want

You should just buy a low mileage used vehicle
It's more dishonest to read one part of one line and draw conclusions from it without quoting the entire response.
Anecdotes are always a mistake in these situations. You might have better luck with your tractor, which isn’t a car, but the average age of cars on America’s roads has been rising for decades. Your experience is, frankly, an outlier.

Also, comparing tractors with cars is an extremely dubious proposition; these are different vehicles with different engineering constraints, uses, and consumer expectations. How many OEMs for cars still make parts for the 1978 vehicles? Hell, what percentage of Americans have the space, knowledge, and interest to build up a garage to service their own vehicles?
a quick search found me this:

"During spring and summer, bears eat around 5,000 calories a day, but in the fall, they are trying to eat up to 20,000 calories every day."

Gives me a stomach ache even thinking about it.
That doesn't really account for multiple orders of magnitude in price (although yes it was a chunk)
Why do the scalpers get first dibs on the supply?
Most Audis have indirect systems, but they have direct TPMS as an optional extra. At least that's the case on the European market, unsure about the US market.
Some premium Audis also have loose wheel detection, which is based on a similar technology as the indirect TPMS.
Something being flagged doesn't automatically make it go away. The moderators review flagged posts (they are flagged for review) and decide if it should stay up or not.

The worst a mob can do is alert people that there's a decent number of users who don't think a post should be on the site, which is true.
AMD and Intel have gotten much better at pushing the stock CPU frequencies up to the actual process limits as compared to 10 years ago. Also the various Turbo boost features now automatically push it even further towards the limits when there is thermal headroom. Therefore, there is hardly very much headroom left on the table anymore for overclockers.

In 2009 I overclocked my i7 920 from 2.66GHz stock to 4.2GHz fully stable with custom water-cooling. More recently I have used i7 7700k and Ryzen 5950X under custom water-cooling and manual overclocking gets you less than 10% at most. Hardly even worth it. Just keep the CPU cool and let the built in boost features work.
A distinction should be made between banned books that were actually censored by governments, and "banned books" that merely featured in pathetic political quarrels at American middle schools and whose "banning" consisted of a school board of boomers removing them from the school library
And more:

https://twitter.com/NeolithicSheep/status/144324842853702451...

https://twitter.com/FlintDibble/status/1443244748794441730
>SSDs are getting better and better, however it appears that if they die, they do without giving any hints

Is this backed up by empirical evidence? I've heard of SSDs randomly dying, but I've also heard of SSDs going into read-only mode. Apparently for hard drives only 64% of failures can be predicted by SMART:

>36% of failed drives did so without recording any S.M.A.R.T. error at all, except the temperature, meaning that S.M.A.R.T. data alone was of limited usefulness in anticipating failures.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.
Check out the Ars Technica story. They confirmed with sources. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/former-blue-origin-e...
> d) by the way, did you know that many ISPs' caching nameservers don't respect low TTLs and will hold onto zones longer than they should?

In fairness, this part really is a dumb problem on the ISP's end.
Not on their backend. S3 goes down, nearly everything else does. We found out last year if Kinesis has issues, so does a bunch of other internal AWS services.
Some of the symptoms could be seen as psychological, but I've read several studies that identified brain damage in imaging, lung damage, heart damage, and kidney damage. It's real. I'm writing an article on this, but the research has required so much reading and interpretation it's taking me a long time.

Some long COVID symptoms are loss of the ability to regulate heart rate reliably. This causes difficulty even standing up because you need to rebalance your blood pressure! It's not every single person that gets these problems, but the population burden is and is going to be enormous.

One cardiac study I read found that the closer they looked, the more heart damage they found, much of it subclinical. That subclinical damage is going to be important as you age even if you don't notice it right away.

Puntmann, V.O., Carerj, M.L., Wieters, I., Fahim, M., Arendt, C., Hoffmann, J., Shchendrygina, A., Escher, F., Vasa-Nicotera, M., Zeiher, A.M., Vehreschild, M., Nagel, E., 2020. Outcomes of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients Recently Recovered From Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). JAMA Cardiol 5, 1265. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2020.3557

"To our knowledge, this is the first prospective report on a cohort of unselected patients with a recent COVID-19 infec- tion identified from a local testing center who voluntarily un- derwent evaluation for cardiac involvement with CMR. The results of our study provide important insights into the preva- lence of cardiovascular involvement in the early convales- cent stage. Our findings demonstrate that participants with a relative paucity of preexisting cardiovascular condition and with mostly home-based recovery had frequent cardiac in- flammatory involvement, which was similar to the hospital- ized subgroup with regards to severity and extent. Our obser- vations are concordant with early case reports in hospitalized patients showing a frequent presence of LGE,3,25 diffuse in- flammatory involvement,10,26 and significant rise of tropo- nin T levels.4 Unlike these previous studies, our findings re- veal that significant cardiac involvement occurs independently of the severity of original presentation and persists beyond the period of acute presentation, with no significant trend to- ward reduction of imaging or serological findings during the recovery period. Our findings may provide an indication of po- tentially considerable burden of inflammatory disease in large and growing parts of the population and urgently require con- firmation in a larger cohort. "
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that this planet has finite entropy
> One important part of the chip shortage is the massive amount of price gouging going on.

There is no such thing as "price gouging".

It just so happens that at this moment the price of things is higher than it usually is due to increased demand and reduced supply.
> That's where the inflation shows up: asset markets

Because we're encouraging yield chasing in order to lower unemployment.
That's how it was introduced to me. Which is probably part of the discussion about what should be taught first.
Texas sat on untested rape kits for two decades

https://www.texasobserver.org/activist-and-rape-survivor-lav...

It's getting a bit better, but it's still a problem:

https://www.nycsouthpaw.com/p/texas-still-has-thousands-of-u...
Can this be used to move cargo from place to place without people in the car?
“The other signatories, a majority of whom were engineers, declined to publicly disclose their names because they did not want to jeopardize employment at Blue Origin or harm their prospects in the aerospace industry for other jobs.”

That’s not how signing works.
I think that blogpost is very reasonable, and actually when I first heard about the mask study my thinking was very similar, "whoah, how do you even start to control for all of the kinds of interference that'll play havoc with the randomization?". But I don't agree with the claim that "P-values and confidence intervals associated with a regression are valid only if the model is true. What if the model is not true?" The key to statistical thinking is to think in terms of quantities rather than dichotomies, so a Poisson distribution may not be ideal, okay, but how far away from ideal is it; the randomization is not perfect, okay, but how much bias will that introduce? At the end of the day, you're still going to need a model to answer those questions.
There is a list of oft-banned books in the US on Wikipedia [0] that has some...interesting items on it. For example, The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby's crime is "Encouraging poor spelling."

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_commonly_challeng...
Maybe if news weren't hell bent on personal attacks disregarding any truth things might be different... I entirely blame media, I think most of them should be banned from operating.
Inmy experienc SSDs fail hard and without much warning though they are often designed to try and go into a read only mode to prevent further writes. That being said, all the SSDs I've had fail on me were nearly new like just imaged/deployed, had power issues that maybe killed the controller vs the storage itself, or just died. One drive I was using for VMs at home just stopped running and when connected prevented the entire PC from posting.

That being said, I'll happily take the speed increase of solid state over spinning disks given I'm not storing media, at least for consumer sized drives. 5 years is much more realistic for general tech lifespan before a newer/faster/cheaper/more efficient upgrade in the enterprise space and definitely the consume space.
It's all about books that people read, not books they don't read. Nobody's going to read Mein Kampf because it's a boring screech.

For example, Harry Potter is on the 2019 list of challenged/banned books.

So popular titles are going to get challenged for various reasons.
The big one is that planes have line-of-sight to satellites or ground-based stations. I don't know the specifics of Amtrak's system, but trains sometimes use satellite on remote routes. Trees or buildings or bridges get in the way sometimes.

More often the mobile network is used. Cellular technology wasn't really designed with high-speed vehicles in mind, though 3G and 4G systems at least make it possible up to couple hundred mph generally. Back in the 1G/2G days it was common for calls to drop if you moved at even moderate speed.

At the radio level, the Doppler shift of a moving vehicle affects both OFDM and TDMA style codings, effectively lowering the signal-to-noise ratio, forcing lower coding rates. When the train gets going really fast, the time to find, and hand over between cells becomes significant. It can happen up to like a dozen times a minute. Sometimes nothing is found in time during a dead spot and packets hang or drop.

I'm often amazed it works at all.
Smartphone sensors are capable of detecting cannabis high
I'm sure they have a process for "car unsafe" arrivals.
Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled
My Palestinian friends would beg to differ.

What you’re saying is “we stole a good chunk of your land, offered to partial use of some of it back, and you’re an ungrateful crybaby.”

Let’s see how that works when someone does that to you. Oh and let’s not forget how Palestinian organizations are terrorists while the Israelis are police and soldiers defending their country.

“Sucks for both sides” - riiiight, when casualties are 10:1, resources are even more lopsided, the victor rolls out the good-old “both sides”.
It also has an idiot problem. The idiots are there, and you will occasionally run into them. I've found pages in the course of natural browsing which were suffering from both obvious and very subtle vandalism.
Because open source developers can afford to prioritize features and ux over ui.
Earth Like Exoplanets Could Be Confused with Others
Schools are part of the government.
How Law Firms Work With this image fixer
In depth piece on Above the law about how Law Firms are working with the ray donovan of the internet to fix up their image and staying within the confines of the law to come up with creative and unique ways to improve a clients image and make the law firm look great!
The thing is, heart inflammation rates are in very good correlation with gender and age, raising in teen boys until they turn about 18 and the start to decrease.

After vaccination heart inflammation rates are in good correlation with this. So when Pfizer vaccine gives good (enough) immunity and rates are higher with Moderna vaccine, then it makes sense to prefer Pfizer vaccine.
Good news, you can buy this car today. It is called the Mitsubishi Mirage. Hardly anyone buys it because it is an absolutely dreadful car to drive.
I'm not knowledge on CPU prices, but looking at their prices from January [1] , it looks like you could save around 10% off retail if you used them to get the "losing" chips.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210116175309/https://siliconlo...
Chicago is in particular need of good PR, because its PD is renowned for entrenched corruption on par with NY and LA.
Definitely. The ransomware people caused the mess, but this looks like a case of the hospital caring more about optics than informing patients. That exacerbated what was going on and caused more harm. If I was the patient and the hospital was forced to inform me that my care might be degraded because of the hack, I'd have nope'd it out of there to another hospital.
Of course that depends on what you mean by "real accomplishments".

It seems to me that that deep nets have effectively maximized the potential of using gradient pursuit to model patterns. But if you remove gradients from your data, or shrink your data down to tens of samples, or shift the problem to logic, or need to use functions that aren't convex or differentiable, deep nets run smack into a wall.

Luckily human perception makes extensive use of gradients, as does most search, so problems in those arenas have been unsurprisingly amenable to solution using deep nets (vision, speech, game play, etc). But many of the problems that remain untouched by DL, like human cognition, are NOT driven by gradients. Will deep nets eventually fill that void? I doubt it. You can convert only so many problems with big data into gradients to pursue them efficiently with DL before that transformation trick runs out of steam.

Personally I think deep net language modeling is one of those areas, and soon we'll encounter the limit of their generalizable contextual phrase association. Then because deep nets are so difficult to selectively revise or extend the specifics that they have learned, the vanguard of ever more complex deep nets (transformers) will eventually sink beneath their own weight, taking the last best hope for DL-based general AI with them.
Huh, TIL:

> Both Google and Cloudflare have a publicly accessible feature to flush the cache for a domain, so anyone could have done it:
> https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/cache
> https://1.1.1.1/purge-cache/

Quite useful feature indeed.
Remove Gone Git Branches
Great... I just re-did my whole network with these.
>At work, I've been using hundreds of the top of the line SSD drives from a certain S company

that really doesn't help narrowing it down. we have:

1. samsung

2. seagate

3. sandisk

4. sabrent

5. sk hynix

6. silicon power
You don't need to ever rekey an SSH private-public key pair. Still, a single hands-free token can be taken by force or stolen.
Yeah probably a bit of an exaggeration. "Major" ... "Majorona particle" I can see how one can make a subconscious connection there :-)

I guess I wouldn't call it major but rather "exiting" strategy. The theoretical result from Kitaev [1], from Microsoft research, was certainly interesting. Having a way not deal with error corrections would be really great.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0010440.pdf

> Thus an isolated Majorana site (usually called a Majorana fermion) is immune to any kind of error!
It is true that some sub-species are always going extinct.

That said, we're in the middle of a man-made mass extinction event.

Scientists and systems thinkers have been warning about ecological collapse, particularly in the oceans.

I recommend you start caring.