skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought bats are just rabies carriers and don’t exhibit any symptoms of the disease?
High quality comment, demonstrating the level of intelligent and empathetic discussion I expect from software engineers and startup enthusiasts. I hope the moderators of this site are filled with purpose.
Exactly, the EU has been working on that for a while, I believe some rules have been created recently.
Interview with Intel's Mike Davies on Neuromorphic Computing
The phrase "...to better understand our [users] and to improve their experience..."

always rings alarm bells in my head. It's corporate lingo for "We want to increase profits by selling your private data for as long as we can get away with it."
Not my theory, but thank you for so nicely demonstrating the problem. You have presumed I am anti-vax, and presumed the theory presented is anti-vax. But it's not. But you don't care. Nice work.
The MiSTER has filled this gap for me - even if I do need to find a nice keyboard to use with it.
There was a This American Life episode with a story about a woman attacked by a rabid raccoon. She called a few local health departments but since it was the weekend they were all closed so she left voicemails. She then went to the ER and was told that she had 10-14 days to get vaccinated.

Luckily one of the health departments called back and let her know she actually needed to get a rabies vaccination within 72 hours of the attack, which means she needed it today.

She was referred to her county's health department who informed her that they wanted to test the raccoon for rabies first and the closest lab was 2 hours away. After pleading with them they referred her to a hospital in another county, who refused to give it to her because she was from a different county. After pleading with them they finally gave her the shot, but in the wrong place.

She then had to fight with eight separate doctors to give her the 5 follow-up shots.
> The language allows you to simply make a class. You're not required to make an interface and then make a class that implements it, and yet, Java programmers do it anyways and then criticize the language for being verbose.

That's the 'D' in SOLID -- dependency inversion. An object's dependencies should be defined in terms of abstract interfaces, not concrete classes. The verbosity is just boilerplate, and it would appear in any statically typed language if you're following SOLID principles.

> Getters and Setters? You probably don't need them. Classes can have public member variables.

Getters and setters are part of the JavaBeans spec for being able to load and configure arbitrary beans. If you're writing JavaBeans, as many EJB or Spring application developers are, you'll use getters and setters.
I need some context.

Linux developers have made improvements to specific
parts of the IO sub system.
These changes will give Linux better IOPS performance.

Prior test are quoted at 3,8 IOPS.
They ran the old code on a MD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X
at 3,8 IOPS.

Now he got a better / fast CPU AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
and it achieves an impressive 5.1M

It seems to me that the new test does not make it clear
how much code changes helped and how much a new CPU helped?

Running the old version on the new CPU or the other way around
would make it easier to compare?
Yes except for the ones that are lighting saudi money on fire by having softbank pay for it.

A lot of ML startups end up buying hardware for training because they can get a GPU for what it would cost them to rent it for 2 months on GCP/AWS.
I’m convinced that many transit/rail systems give
Minimal thought to the use of the systems by occasional users some of whom may not speak the
language natively.
At this point, I will go with SSD for performance reasons no matter what these articles say. Price is totally reasonable and justifiable for the performance benefits. This might not be the case for large data centers but for average server room with 30-50 drives, SSD is a no brainer at this point.
I was at the TC conference - wanted to buy the stock then!

Have bought since the IPO and am super bullish. It seems most Wall St analysts really don't understand the company or business.
This is just speculation on your part? Is that all they were collecting before? And they are not collecting that now. They are collecting:

launcher identifier
user identitifer (XUID)
client session id (changes on restart)
world session id (changes per world load, to be reused for later events)
game version
operating system name and version
Java runtime version
if client or server is modded (same information as on crash logs)
server type (single player, Realms or other)
game mode
I have a family of 6, and with that it's almost always going to be cheaper to drive than to take any other form of transportation. Before kids, the math was very different.
I'll mark this on my GitHub when I get back on a computer, I take public datasets and make graphs and transforms and reports. The big survey companies have weird data records and having to write a parser is my least favorite part. I think other people who ingest my content don't appreciate the effort, but that's a near universal feeling I think, heh.
Faith in humanity restored. I came here to make the very point you so eloquently made.
But the explanation just does not satisfy me.

I mean, world building is an expensive but actually pretty simple, predictable operation. If they want to see how it performs on slower computer they don't need to get telemetry, just actually run it on slower hardware.
I'm in in my mid 20s, and I distinctly remember the fear of rabies because of the injections (20 needles in the stomach).
The details are in the link?

Contains following information:
launcher identifier
user identitifer (XUID)
client session id (changes on restart)
world session id (changes per world load, to be reused for later events)
game version
operating system name and version
Java runtime version
if client or server is modded (same information as on crash logs)
server type (single player, Realms or other)
game mode
But you are allowed to make a community or corporate account, no? Why not make an account like that and use that to link to your services. It would be within TOS, unless all these organizations and third party accounts polluting my feed are really all violating TOS.
I really want to see a Minecraft that’s written in a fast language and also takes advantage of the huge amounts of storage and memory that we have now. The main problem with Minecraft is that you can see the end of the blocks even on high settings. Would also be cool to see slightly smaller blocks
You can also install the app "X.app" from the app store and just use the Share menu inside the YouTube app to open videos in X.app without ads, then you can go fullscreen from there or activate PiP. You used to be able to do this with the Scriptable app and Shortcuts but it stopped working under iOS 15.
> the key is that the places where it works are narrow domains

I've observed that not only are the domains narrow, but the domains of domains are narrow. In other words the real-world applications are mostly limited to pattern recognition, reconstruction, and generation.

What I wonder is this. Is DL a dead end?

Are we going to reach a ceiling and only have Face ID, Snapchat filters, spam detection, and fall detection to show for it? Certainly there'll be creative people that'll come up with very clever applications of the technology. Maybe we'll even get almost-but-not-really-but-still-useful-actually vehicle autonomoy.

I can't imagine a world without the transistor, the internet, ink, smart phones, satellites, etc. What I'm seeing coming out of DL is super cool but it feels like a marginal improvement on what we have now and no more. And that's fine... but a lot of very smart people that I know are heavily investing in AI because they're banking on it being the new big technological leap.
Exactly - this report seems to say that the viral load of those who tested positive in a PCR test is similar whether or not the individual was vaccinated.

But that could be true even if non-vaccinated people were infectious for 10 times as long! The average viral load of those testing positive would be somewhere between 100% and the testing threshold.

Or have I missed something?
> So the phrase "will require" is descriptive and not prescriptive?

In this instance yes, I think so.

So the accusation that the author is advocating for the things he describes (and thus morally bankrupt) comes down to the words "will require" in the lede? "X will require Y" is another way of saying "X won't happen until Y" and doesn't indicate favor for the cause or the effect in question.

And I'm not saying it isn't his opinion. Obviously these are his opinions. There is a difference between having an opinion on what you think will happen and having an opinion on what should or ought to (rightly, justly) happen. In the body where he elaborates on his predictions in the lede he actually uses the words "will probably require", indicating he is not certain what will happen but describing what he thinks is most likely. So there is no confusion here that he is sharing opinions on future events, and not describing what will certainly happen like some sort of psychic.
No, some DL architectures are unquestionably superior to others especially for some tasks. In the first few years of deep CNN development, several limits quickly became apparent (sensitivity to scale, vanishing gradients, gradient signal loss with some activation functions, and many engineering constraint tradeoffs like poor RAM use). This was addressed by making changes to a simple dense net which begat architectures that suffer less from those limits.

Without question, limits exist in every DL architecture; we just haven't taken the time to diagnose or quantify all the limits yet. Now that attention has shifted to transformers, analysis of DNNs' inherent limits is made substantially more difficult, given transformers' huge size. That, and their multi-million dollar training cost likely will make if infeasible to diagnose or cure each design's inherent limits.
I pined over a lot of retro hardware over the past year, there are a lot of competing modern C64 and Amiga hardware, at the core of most of them are FPGAs, so if you want to save money and have a large set of options, get yourself a DE-10 Nano / Mister setup. It's kind of the kitchen sink of retro computing at this point and runs < $200. You can emulate everything from an Apple II, C64, ZX-Spectrum, most consoles through the 90s, Amigas, even a 486 (though it's shaky).

What you won't get is an already set-up system, a nice case, or simple to attach peripherals, but I haven't had too much trouble with it, except trying to get a formatted hard disk for an Amiga into an SD card with files on it, but I figured it out :)
this is the reason military ends up doing a lot of government take overs. Military is the ultimate compliance enforcer… and really you need a distributed decision mechanism that aligns incentives, aka bitcoin.
> is it possible there is some physiological issues about "going to the doctor" vs "self help/healing" ?

Its not physiological. Its simply marketing.

Its no secret that ivermectin / hydroxychloroquine makers are benefiting from this snake-oil bullcrap. Its no different from essential oils or other such snake oil products.

We just didn't care about essential oils 3 years ago because its fine for idiots to waste their own money on snake oil. But when the masses are tricked into distrusting COVID19 precautions and start spreading the virus around even more, its a bigger deal.
I agree there is tension and it's imperfect and I don't think one needs to go to one extreme or another... but GP literally said that they hired someone who didn't know "the first thing about programming" who took a single course on Java programming and just hired that person because they had the "chops and passion".

That is what I am criticizing as not being helpful. If someone has the chops and passion for a job, they have the chops and passion to learn a few data structures and algorithms before interviewing for said job. Let them know it, keep in touch with them, and have them come back after they can tackle a proper technical interview.

>I've found the best people come from the latter process, but I would say that, right? I'm biased.

Right and that's a valid observation and there's nothing wrong with that bias per say. On the other hand I've found the opposite, the best software developers I currently have the pleasure of working with know their fundamental data structures and algorithms and have no trouble explaining deeply technical topics with rigor and precision, so that's what I hire for.
People are actually mostly water, tho; and therefore are quite difficult to ignite. Splatter accelerants around, sure; but then you're still left with a wet, stinky, messy chunk of meat to deal with.

Explosives are much more festive and while they also leave a hell of a mess, the wildlife picks it up much more quickly. After all, you're not trying either of these at home, hopefully.
I've moved to Zoho mail. It's $1/month for a single user, which seems to be well worth it. The catch is, it's not possible to _send_ from Zoho without creating additional users (which has a cost).
Just a heads up: If scripts from cdn.paddle.com fail to load your pricing page is currently very confusing, with no real indication that anything is going wrong: The "Solo" plan shows as $40 per month, while the "Scaling" plan starts at $10 per month. In other words, Solo looks 4 times as expensive for 10% of the emails. I spent some time trying to find other differences, but it's just wrong.

Maybe default to showing something like $-- instead, as a clear indicator that prices have not loaded.
- You can do the encryption at rest on the OS level, e.g. with LUKS. Cloudant does that.

- You can also lock out users in Offline-first apps when a session expires or permissions are removed. Not difficult with CouchDB and certain libraries.
Well, I said it was helpful, I didn't say it was conclusive. I too have done such quick googles. I was trying to be kind. Thanks for throwing it back in my face though.
Pi-Hole and OPNsense
As if all problems are reproducable at will on all the different set of software / hardware out there ...
While that's true, those standards don't really fully account for the needs of proper software engineering practices IMO. You can say aircraft code follow aerospace standards yet those standards didn't stop Boeing from making a system that overrode pilot input while only relying on two sensors. It also didn't stop Boeing from launching a space capsule that didn't have the thrusters mapped properly. Nor did it prevent Lockheed from shipping GPS code that caused the navigation system of the F-22 from crashing when it crossed the international dateline. Standards and norms aren't the same thing as a building code. Civil Engineers have a code they must meet at minimum for the things they build. There are ways that certain things must be done and they have to sign off on every project. We don't see that with equally important software. For some reason if a bridge collapses and it was found that it was designed wrong the engineer goes to jail but if a plane crashes because its autopilot had design flaws the developer doesn't.
So, basically, Postgres would have a replication port which can be used for both replication/clustering and transfer across cloud providers. And sharding. </dreaming>
I've used AdBlock by Future Mind for years. Paid something minuscule like $2 and it's DNS based with a High granularity of control.
> really expensive for occassional usage. If you go everday, then an annual pass is a good value.

That probably makes sense. If your goal is to increase ridership / reduce emissions, you want to appeal tho those traveling every day. Each person you convert gives you 500+ trips a year. And of course people are most price sensitive to something they do every day.

On the flip side, if I travel a few times a year, on one hand I am "less important" because capturing my business won't lead to that many trips and on the other I am
less likely price conscious. If I do something once a year, I might chose to drive regardless of train cost, just cuz I want to drive. Or, I may want to avoid driving so I am happy to pay the higher ticket cost anyway.
microsoft really turns everything it touches into a giant poop
Engineering Teams Are Just Networks
why would you keep people from doing that? are so many people going to be doing that as to actually cause a problem?
I'm fucking brilliant, I'm literally the opposite of an idiot. I swear.

Ask me to navigate a bus station in a provincial Chinese city and I'm a complete fucking moron though. Ask me how I know.

Point being, there's no such thing as idiocy without context.
They used to be big back in the day when hot hatches ruled and we had Golf vs Astra (Vauxhall for the UK) but then we got crossovers and mini-SUV and GM had their own problems to invest in the brand.

Nowadays they make rebadged Peugeot/Citroen cars.
I've found most large companies introduce things like scrum without really understanding why they're doing them.

For example, a company I worked for a few months back paid a management consultant tens of thousands of pounds to help them improve the productivity of the engineering team. As a result various new ways of working were introduced, one of which was a very strict implementation of scrum.

To oversee these new ways of working several scrum masters were hired at the cost of several hundreds of thousands of pounds in salaries.

At no point during this process was the engineering team themselves consulted so of course the whole thing was a nightmare and significantly reduced our productivity as we were now spending half of our time attending unneeded scrum meetings and being chased by scrum masters. Actual problems we faced such as needing to support legacy system and the constant bug fixing of crappy code we were forced to ship were never discussed.

In my experience scrum works well as a rough guide for how to manage a modern software team, but it rarely works when it's done bureaucratically and introduced by people higher up in the organisation who have little understanding of the actual problems faced by the engineering team. Rarely have I found scrum to be the core problem. It's usually that the people who introduce scrum care more about introducing scrum than something that works.

My experience of scrum in small companies, especially small companies with a software focus is far more positive. When companies are able to be flexible and avoid dogmatically implementing scrum it can work well, but I've certainly shared your frustration several times in my career.
> The storytellers were fantastic, and one of them had a mesmerising and hypnotic effect that I was trying to isolate as a technique. I could see others attempting it as well.

Complete wild guess here, but I wonder if the indigenous speaking style might have developed from story telling during sweat lodge ceremonies?

> My interest in it is mainly for experimenting with music, but my own practice of a simlar dynamic would be exercising craft as a writer.

I've never been to one, but from anecdotal stories I've read, EDM concerts (especially when combined with psychedelics, which is pretty common) are often described as if they have a religious ritual element to them. Whatever it is, psychedelics + EDM music certainly does something very strange to the mind, and group chanting rituals can be found all over the place in different cultures throughout history.
Most people do not want to go into academia. It's a grind. It's hard to get a job, and you are going to be stressing about grants forever until you retire. Most people these days in grad school see all the bullshit their PI has to do for the department and say, "maybe I should get the hell out of academia, because this stress won't end and at this point I just want a 9-5 job." If you are interested in R&D, you are paid mountains more cash, like ~3x, going right into industry with your PhD than doing a post doc for 55k. The people still doing post docs are the massochists who want an academic life, or they need more qualifications that they didn't get in thier grad school training. PhDs are rarely unemployed.
World’s First DIY macOS Monterey Graphics Tablet Build
> Could some vaccines drive the evolution of more virulent pathogens? Conventional wisdom is that natural selection will remove highly lethal pathogens if host death greatly reduces transmission. Vaccines that keep hosts alive but still allow transmission could thus allow very virulent strains to circulate in a population. [1]

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/info:doi/10.13...
I'd imagine a little glue helps ;)
Maybe they'll notice that when I launch the game on Linux, I get about 10-20 FPS boost over Windows on identical hardware. I've always wondered about that; in theory shouldn't it be the reverse?
echo -e '1\t2\t3\t4\t5' | expand -t 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 3
Could I ask why with the apostrophe is correct? Google defines "guru" as "a spiritual teacher, especially one who imparts initiation." The article uses the plural of the term. I don't know of any English rules about apostraphizing a plural - generally, I've heard that one should keep the apostrophe for possessives. Could you give me a reference for a rule about adding an apostrophe in a possessive?
I mean there's also like the super not obvious stuff that comes with scale. Facebook wanted to hire me to join their team that does supply chain optimization to ensure that computers get to their datacenters fast enough. That's like a reasonable thing for them to have but it's totally removed from the product.
damn, 138k views with out one comment
Then I'll just assume that you didn't have a point. You can't really get angry at people for not understanding your side as you did in your original post without giving any reason for people to take your side.

Edit: The main reason to be wary of "fair" brands is that they put extremely huge markups and motivate that by paying a tiny bit more for their parts, making them really profitable. You'd need to show people that it is better to pay for a fairphone and that they actually deliver on their promises, over paying for a cheap phone and donating the difference to a good cause.
Not a great example. This bug was in one of the weekly snapshot releases, which regularly and knowingly have some unplayable element to them.
An engineer 6-7years into their career can pull more than 1M$/yr in FAANG.
I think this analysis is missing how most people want to take their hard drives or SSDs on the go in their laptops.

That movement is likely to tilt the scale significantly in favor of SSDs as spinning disks are much more vulnerable to outside forces.
AI May Be Smarter Than We Think
Amazon Basics ripped off accessories, now Amazon is coming for gadgets
Glad you liked it!

We haven’t added a UI for it yet, but you can actually change the hotkey by editing ~/.config/persistory/config.edn and changing the :quick_search entry (CommandOrControl+E by default) to your desired keyboard binding.

This functionality comes from electron, more info on the hotkey syntax in their docs [0]. Definitely don’t want to be getting in the way of your PyCharming!

[0]: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/accelerator#available-mo...