skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were sold as something that offered excellent but imperfect protection from COVID-19, which they do. If we look at the mainstream media in particular, analysis of the vaccines has ranged from "studies show this is really good" to "studies show this is okay" to "there's still things we don't know". I am aware of no mainstream media, research, government, political or industry sources claiming that the vaccine was some cure with unlimited durability.

Happy to review any links to those claims if you have any.
Do you have any actual numbers on BA vs BC (or BA vs BSc)?

There's value in the arts, but I think it is overrepresented in universities.
Right. Interesting perspective. Why not invest the money and make it grow instead?

Long term vs short term
People here aren’t good at detecting sarcasm.
Hello,
I needed a search modal for a static website, like the one found in Vercel or the Alfred app. So I developed a web component for it.
It is framework-independent, automatically registers hotkeys, has a light/dark mode and is easily styled with CSS variables.
of course, but its more normal to do:

fmap manipulate $ filter passes_filters producer_stream

And GHC has list fusion rules in this case (not sure if they exactly apply for list comprehensions; they probably do, but i'm not certain of that.)

so IIRC the xyntax in haskell syntax your example would be smth like:

[ manipulate x | passes_filters x, x <- producer_stream ]

which is transformed to:

do
x <- producer_stream
guard (passes_filters x)
manipulate x

Which I believe does not have the same run-time performance as my fmap/filter example; even if it does, I'm just saying I don't see it often, and its not idiomatic.

Its different in python though because, well, python is more cursed.
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Howdy! All of the details about our TSBS settings in the performance section of the docs. Also, we'll be streaming a sample benchmark of the two databases next Wednesday at 10AM ET/4PM CET.

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/what-is-clickhouse-how-does-...

twitch.tv/timescaledb
They already have the data. Even if they didn't already have it, it's the same data they would mandate you to send them in the tax filing
> Once again proving

I hope you get a chance to come back to this thread and have your presumptions challenged.
Yet people seem to forget about that with diets and that is why it’s useful to remind people in some cases. Your diet doesn’t matter if in the end you consume more calories than expended- you will gain weight. I see it more as a first test of reasonability of a diet, a law of weight loss if you will.
I mean… that’s kind of the point right?

Even if you only send an event when a bug happens it’s still handy to send some metadata along.
The explanation I saw was that people who buy comprehensive insurance are by and large regarded as lower risk than 3rd party only buyers & sometimes that weighting can tip the balance to make comprehensive cheaper than 3rd party, if the insurer thinks you’re otherwise a low risk buyer.

All insurers have to go on to gauge your risk are the signals available to them & the type of insurance you’re buying is a signal.

Whether this is still true in the modern world I don’t know - I probably saw this advice ten years or so ago on a well regarded money saving site.
Where real data is required, why can't I see the names of all people who have access to my data and get notified when someone does access it or creates a copy of it. They look at my data after all. Shouldn't I know who is looking at my data, where exactly it is stored, how many copies exist and when it will be deleted? The relationship between a data-collecting website and its users is very asymmetric when it comes to data. Using the web as anonymously as possible is my only real defense against getting my data abused.
Low level of blood glucose before sleep is also very important.
Show HN: A Discord Bot That Plays Music from YouTube (RIP Rhythm)
Hey HN!

If you haven't heard, Rhythm was given a cease and desist order. This made me think it would be really fun to learn how it worked, so I made an extremely minimal but viable solution in JS.

It's small, it works and it doesn't use your filesystem. Also note, I'm not encouraging that anyone use this.

All feedback and criticisms are welcome!

https://github.com/jessehorne/bop

p.s If you were YouTube or Rhythm, how would you have handled this situation differently? Could there be a way to keep bots like these without having them shut down and also without going bankrupt while running them?
You don't need to use exceptions for that, but a finally block, something like this:

try { ... }
catch (SomeException e) { ... }
catch (SomeOtherException e) { ... }
finally { /* cleanup code */ }

Pretty much every language with exceptions has an equivalent of that finally block, a portion of code guaranteed to run whether there is an exception or not.

Defers in Go act like that finally block, but permit you to attach them at the point where the initialization they clean up was written. This can help with longer code blocks, but it's fundamentally the same as the above (with or without the catches). So if you use defer (the following is not really Go, but captures the idea):

function echo_file (filename) {
f = open(filename);
if nil == f { return; } // simple error handling, just don't do anything
defer close(f);
for line in f {
print(line);
}
}

function echo_file (filename) {
f = open(filename);
if nil == f { return; }
try {
for line in f {
print(line);
}
}
finally {
close(f);
}
}

The former is much shorter and clearer, especially for straightforward cleanup code, but is the same as the latter in what it does. Whether an exception or panic occurs during the read/print loop or not, the file will always be closed in both cases.
Young(ish) people can shake fists at clouds too!
But retribution is an important social construct. Sometimes, you speak your mind and get retribution. Sometimes you deserve it however if you are not getting a fair one people side with you.

I know that this is very unpopular opinion but
there are very few cases where anonymity is useful. The rest is mostly useful for the abusive ones.

Instead of banning people and removing content, I would prefer losing anonymity.

I actually think that we can have the best of both worlds. What if we remain anonymous to the discussion parties but guaranteed linked identity to the systems that host us? If someone does something very bad, the identity could be revealed, i.e. doxxed. This way, many can self watch their behavior and remain anonymous.

So when the time comes and you post something objectionable or the mods flag you, the system can present you the option to remove your last post and lock your account OR override the mods, keep the content and reveal your identity.

It’s a shame that the current norm of dealing with people on the internet is to remove their content and lock them out. In my opinion, everyone should be guaranteed right to speak. If the the thing they do is illegal, punish them through the legal system but don’t silence them.
His twitter account is in a funny state now. He got a lot of negative comments back when initially announcing this. Then doubled-down and sent another tweet about how it was more than just "view-source" (it wasn't.)

Then, he started tweeting/re-tweeting unrelated stuff to try and bury it, but people kept replying to those and re-raising the issue.

I look forward to the ACLU handing him his ass.
People who take up STEM, are of course of different type, and for them, surely college is a net benefit. But that kind of people would go to college even 50 or 70 years ago already. All paranormal increase of college admissions in the last decades came from precisely those people who are getting those bullshit degrees just because they are the only ones they can get, and they feel compelled to get some kind of a college degree.
I have no feelings on the matter personally, other than my general dislike of both Roku and YouTube for being more interested in getting paid for reselling my personal data than for delivering me an experience worth paying for. Perhaps someone else will have personal data to share with you. Sorry!
I have been briefly to Rio. Maybe I was lucky.
FWIW, my instantaneous reaction on seeing the title of this post was "wait, isn't Greyhound a special entity designated by US govt, like Amtrak or the USPS?".

I knew it couldn't be correct after half a second of reflection, but it's a measure of how "iconic" Greyhound is.

Also, they have big real estate (often in beautiful old buildings) in the center of the big cities, and their branding is red white & blue.

It seems likely that they don't own the real estate, and maybe the cities own the bus stations which only appear to be operated by Greyhound. I have only been inside about half a dozen bus stations though.
There's some info from the Pyhon/Pytorch camp:
https://towardsdatascience.com/neural-odes-with-pytorch-ligh...

I suspect neural ODE work was done in Julia earlier because it was easier given some language features and libraries. But there does seem to be some work on neural ODEs in Python/Pytorch.
Plumbing isn’t meant to be a reduction. You’re still solving problems. But at the end of the day the data must flow.
It is not 70% of kids, and this number is not hard to look up. It has been trending around 30% for enrollment into 4-year institutions. Of those, ~60% complete the degree within 6 years.

I agree that most students who got to college don't make good use of the time or investment, but it is still a minority of people who even attempt college.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_302.60.a...
https://nces.ed.gov/FastFacts/display.asp?id=40
Youre underestimating the value of a college degree. Research like [1] shows that degree holders have significantly more lifetime earnings than high school. You also miss how the democratization of education has benefited our society and helped lift millions out of subsistence lifestyles and class lock-in.

"This world needs a lot more new plumbers than new liberal arts majors"

This is a completely subjective and politically charged statement. I think the world needs more informed and educated critical thinkers. Its curious how the 90s led to a collapse in liberal arts departments and enrollments, and 20 years later we're now in an era of disinformation at massive scale.

1. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/research-summaries/education...
> in an updated Mac Pro chassis with best-binned M1X Max parts

Yeah this seems realistic to me. Specifically, I meant that there will be no D1 (desktop-class chip) to complement the A14/A15 (mobile-class chips) and M1/Pro/Max (laptop-class chips).

I agree that taking M1 Max, or future laptop-class chips (e.g. M2 Max) and adding better cooling and perhaps a chiplet would be most likely.

That said, Apple's R&D is always for some grand future product vertical, not to make some more money over the next few quarters. e.g. Neural Engine and Security Enclave R&D leads 1. to on-device Siri + Face Id to accommodate a marketing change to focus on Privacy; 2. moves towards a password-less future.

Even R&D for chiplets, may not make sense for them other than for Apple Cars. "Can you explain your unit economic analysis?" during a chip shortage, why sell 1 Mac Pro with a 10+ year "lifespan" when Apple could sell 5 iDevices with a 5+ year "lifespan" instead? e.g. had Apple known better that they would need to reduce iPhone production targets because of chips, its likely they would have delayed the M1 Pro/Max production/launch.
Yes. I don't really mind this though, as I can export my STEP files (or the full f3d project file, but I rarely ever need to do this).

I hop between multiple computers in my workflow. I do most design on a desktop in my house, and then use the less powerful shop computer to run the CNC or have references up. The auto-syncing of project files "in the cloud" is pretty useful there (in a way that an e.g. sync'd dropbox folder would be clunky to use)
Explain Any Machine Learning Model in Python with Shapley Values
->We need to cut down.

A potential alternative survival strategy is to develop your country as fast as possible. Develop whatever technology will be necessary to win a potential future war fought over the scarcest resources. This development oriented strategy will probably consume a lot of resources, but survival is worth taking risks for.
For me, the biggest benefit of being able to use significantly different languages, is being able to know "what's possible" so when approaching a new language due to whatever reason (work, interest, etc.) I know what to look for beyond just basic language features offered by pretty much all languages.
> it teaches students how to think critically

Most colleges have done the opposite in recent years. They provide echo-chambers for emotionally-fueled pseudoscience.

I've seen this while spending time at Boston University, Harvard, Brown, and Columbia. It's frightening how little people are able to think or question anything once they've gone through the college system. They become frightened by and angry at truths that don't align with the narrative they've been taught.

I've spoken to dozens of people who've gone through the wringer and come out the other side realizing how detrimental college was to themselves and their peers intellectually.
If Mark Zuckerberg trademarks "Metaverse", William Gibson should trademark "Mark Zuckerberg".

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/virtual-reality-and-the-pionee...

>Virtual Reality and the Pioneers of Cyberspace:
25 years before Oculus, John Perry Barlow described what it was like “being in nothingness.”

>[...] And they were ready to make a product. They’d made a promo video starring Timothy Leary. Gullichsen had even registered William Gibson’s term “cyberspace” as an Autodesk trademark, prompting an irritated Gibson to apply for trademark registration of the term “Eric Gullichsen.” By June, they had an implementation which, though clearly the Kitty Hawk version of the technology, endowed people with an instantaneous vision of the Concorde level. [...]
The usual complaint I see against bamboo products is that they use hard bamboo that grows like trees, but promote a sustainable image based on the idea of soft bamboo that grows like grass. I haven't heard it's less sustainable than wood, just not any more sustainable.
If it was just a setup to eventually providing an answer she already had in her pocket, is that the same thing really that's being discussed? Willingness to look stupid and earnestness to find an answer?
Why would someone use Sentry for that when stuff like OpenReplay exists. It’s like trying to hammer your nail in with a screwdriver.
Oh, the dumbest comment award, I'm so fucking honored.

Hitler was a power hungry populist who viewed other races as beneath him, that's why I compared the two.

Maybe you should've asked me to provide evidence of Trump sporting the Hitler moustache, oh there is none, therefore the 2 personalities not at all comparable?

See my "about" field for what I think of you.
The heated compression step allows the cellulose to form hydrogen bonds with other cellulose fibers, which strengthens the wood and makes the epoxy redundant.
My favorite: 4 Queens 3 Ways

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNUepjt6QmI
Yeah, you're right. The thumbnail looked vaguely like the same guy. Combined with the work history, I didn't look much closer.
Google dropping Play Store subscription fee from 30% to 15%
Corrected title: "Sentry: We Just Gave ~$155k to Open Source Maintainers"

The We Company only takes.
If all software businesses could give away 1% to OSS, what a difference it would make!

It's only a philanthropic decision because not all businesses wish to do the same. Because all are benefiting from the philanthropic efforts of a few.

If it was a standard in the industry, it would become a business decision, as innovations in OSS becomes innovations on their bottom line.
I agree, I know it's a high bar but doesn't this fit the purpose of libel laws?

"Under United States law, libel generally requires five key elements: the plaintiff must prove that the information was published, the plaintiff was directly or indirectly identified, the remarks were defamatory towards the plaintiff's reputation, the published information is false, and that the defendant is at fault."

Seems to fit all of these. I imagine there is some protection because these words are coming from a PAC but the governor has said the same stuff in news conferences.
In the mouse study, both groups were on calorie-restriction. The difference was whether they fasted or not. "fasted is NEGATIVELY health" is right.
I could, but the time I'd spend getting it working on a stable distro vastly outweighs the time I'd spend setting up my pacman.conf and backing it up to git. When I say 'wrangle', I'm more talking about the instability and frequency of updates. It's definitely only for homelab use, I wouldn't ever consider deploying this on a larger scale.
Nope. Imagine a 99% white town where a Black man wants to run for mayor. Sorry pal, you failed the literacy test.
This is a decent article, but it would’ve been so much better if it clearly explained how easy it is to see the “HTML source code”.

If the article said “anyone who right clicks the web page in Chrome and selects view source could see social security numbers” it would clarify things for the majority of the population that doesn’t know what “HTML source code” is.
“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute; the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

― Confucius
Roku is more analogous to software than hardware. My phone OS updates at least every few months, and I don't have a problem with that. In fact, I'd wager that most people don't have a problem with that.

Roku is as much "hardware you purchased" as calling Android "hardware you purchase." Even that isn't a good analogy, because unlike a phone, you can still use your TV without Roku.

When I buy a TV, I'm not "buying" Roku. A lack of access to YouTube in no way impacts the things that make my TV work as a TV. It still turns on and can be used to view any content of my choosing, provided I supply it with the right accessories.
I'll first check out M1 compatibility for the tools you are using. And then assess the benefits of getting an M1 Macbook Pro (mostly on performance side I think) against a Ubuntu Lenovo (more tools and less expensive).

I myself is using a Macbook Pro 2017 for developing data (some ETL and lots of queries). I don't think it beats the original Carbon X1 I used (but not with Linux, with Windows) but I can't complain since it's a company laptop. I have one serious issue with the Carbon though is that the battery got bloated just after 18 months of usage.
Here's a workaround for you:

Use an ad-blocking browser on your phone (I use Brave on iPhone) to view youtube.com then cast the videos ad-free to your Roku using Roku's native Airplay support added last year.

Also, when your Roku is EoL, do not replace it with another Roku.
Young children's brains aren't developed sufficiently to build these skills. Even a lot of high schoolers have difficulty with it. It's largely taught in post-secondary education because by then, the brain has matured enough to handle the cognitive load.
The most likely thing is that there are many trivial security issues such as this, they are actively being exploited, and the exploiters don't report because they can make more money just staying quiet and selling the data on the black market.
a case statement is the one where the GOTO peeks out the most, imo.
How to Block Ads on Your Android Phone (Including Apps and Unnecessary Pop-Ups)
Curiously, the best way I found to get past mental roadblocks, is to simply ask questions.

I ended up with hundreds of parking tickets, for all different makes and models of cars.

I quickly learned you get nowhere telling someone over the phone the ticket isn't yours because it's for a completely different make and model.

I simply asked questions.

What is the make and model on the ticket?

What is the make and model of my registered car?

Oh, they are different, why do you think that is?

Questions are sneaky.
Even STEM degrees could be optimized. Most of what I've learned is not applicable to software dev, but at least some of the classes (like foreign language) were neat, although college classrooms are a suboptimal way to study that.
Most airport roads predate Uber and often aren't physically designed to accommodate for the sorts of traffic volume they see after 20+ years in operation, so airports come up with all sorts of rules and compromises to try to avoid congestion problems at terminal doors. Some setup specialized waiting areas for Uber further out in the parking lot area, some have queueing systems, some just treat Uber as family pickups, some have dedicated Uber lanes, some share lanes with taxis, some are just completely dysfunctional and the driver just has to drive back around to avoid blocking traffic if they're there too early or it's too busy. It really depends on the airport.

> I think ridesharing companies could fix all of these problems by creating a 'taxi' mode

Uber actually offers this already in some places. Here in SF, I have the option of calling an actual taxi from the app, and I linked in another comment to a page about Uber's further interest in hailables. IIRC it also supports cash walk-ins in India, and it acquired Autocab in UK.
The South is a crazy place.
I would assume this is pure politics.

He knows perfectly well who is to blame, but he's using the situation opportunistically to further his own career.

The issue isn't just that he's objectively and morally wrong, it's that most voters don't see through the grandstanding.

All they see - and all they want to see - is a rich old white dude punching down at some college-educated kid who thinks he's clever enough to have an opinion.

It's not obvious a jury will parse this any differently.

Although I'd hope someone like the EFF would turn up with some heavy hitter experts to add some friction to the self-serving bad take.

This is why it's hard to do politics. While everyone is fact-checking and getting outraged about the reality the political game is being played on a different level with different rules - by people who are often quite good at winning it.
What’s the preferred temp for herbal teas?
Yes. Seriously.

"...Half-a-billion people stored files on Dropbox. Well, sort of. Really, the files were in Amazon’s cloud..."

https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-ama...
Not the parent commenter, but as someone who skips breakfast, it's actually not that difficult, particularly if you drink coffee (which IIRC has recognized appetite-suppressing properties). Just drink it black, and be sure to drink water as well. (Tea might be an option too, but especially in black teas, the tannins in it may make your stomach queasy absent some milk or carbohydrates -- which would defeat the purpose of skipping breakfast.)
NSA is surging its collaboration with the private sector
> Post-secondary education, regardless of the specific major a student chooses, does provide a significant benefit to society: especially in the early years, it teaches students how to think critically.

(My highlight)

I wish that were true, but it isn't always the case.

My counter-example is my ex-colleague who started her science PhD at the same time as me in the same research group as me waaaay back in the late 1990s.

Long and short of it, we each did our 3-ish years in the lab, she wrote up her thesis, I wrote up my thesis, we each had our oral exam around the same time. Her writing (her words) was "torn to shreds", she ended up back in the lab for several months doing more work and some serious rewriting, I got away with only a handful of typos to fix.

I blame our supervisor for this, but that's another story.
Target display mode on the laptop? Where'd you see that?