skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump, Pompeo and Bannon did.

Biden, Harris, Pelosi and AOC despise working people - "deplorable racists."

Congrats on electing a party that literally hates America, our constitution and its citizens, as seen in the current Open Border policy.
Population and individual stats are different though. If someone is older and in a higher risk group, the drug could indeed reduce hospitalization risk for that individual much more than 5%, while for other low-risk groups it could do next to nothing.
The economic problem is often phrased as „how to get more output with the same input, or how to get the same output with less input“. Prediction markets do only exist because they help with the problem - betting on the wrong horse is a waste of scarce resources. In the same way, matching markets have centralized decision makers that can be more efficient than decentralized approaches.
For the love of God please let throwable and catchable exceptions be next
There is no we in Microsoft.
Anybody has a recommendation on litterature/blogs addressing the subject of observability?
I’m contemplating an SRE job offer and although I have my share of knowledge, I am still out of my league whenever I glance at the cncf map in the observability category.
I feel that the field has exploded with new components and new ways, and I’m sometimes afraid of taking the wrong path.
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> TBH I wouldn't expect Xinjiang mummies to be of Indo-European origin, given that Xinjiang is in east Asia.

Well, it's in Asia. It's very much a part of the steppes that run into Europe, better connected to them than it is to, say, China. There isn't really a natural geographic division between "Europe" and "Asia".

There was another Indo-European culture present near there several centuries later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayuan

Worth noting also that India is much more difficult to get to from Ukraine than Xinjiang is, but they have a very strong Indo-European presence - that's why it's called "Indo-European" and not just "European" or perhaps "Perso-European".

Speaking of which, connections between China and Persia have always been extensive. The Tocharians are not Iranian, but it would hardly be a surprise if Iranian-speaking groups had ended up in their place.
Yeah, honestly, I'll believe it when I see when it comes to faster updates on Windows. Whenever I have to update macOS even on a machine that's way, way behind, it's super simple and straightforward. On Windows, there's always hours of pain and installing endless updates over and over. Windows Update never seems to finish updating. Right after I finish installing everything, boom, it's found more updates. It's just absolutely horrifying and I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
It won't be possible for me to explain the answer to your satisfaction, if you lack at least a basic education in probability & statistics. Maybe Khan Academy has an intro level course, or a "Stats for Humanities" variant that can help you get started.
Yes, all you need to do is conduct a study and you will get an objective peer review from other researchers funded by pharmaceutical giants and news outlets funded by the same.
ZooKeeper is consistent at all costs and often sacrifices availability for it, by design.
I'm sorry, but I think you have not thought my argument through.

First, I'm well aware that a whole program is not an infringement. It doesn't have to be for there to be infringement by some piece of code in the program, which would be what I was arguing.

When I go into court, what I will say is, "This piece of code infringes, here is my original." The court will rule on whether that piece infringes.

At that point, I have not argued at all about machines, and I don't have to. All I have to do is argue that the code infringes because then, if I win, the company or entity that is infringing on my code has some options:

1) They can claim it came from Copilot, and thus, that they are not at fault, at which point the court will laugh them out of court, as you say, and I collect my damages.

2) They can sue Microsoft for stripping the license from the code and making them unable to find the provenance of the code, and I still collect my damages.

If Microsoft is successfully sued, they will have to ensure Copilot does not strip licenses and gives the programmer information about where the code came from. That would be a win for me because all I want is for my code to be used according to the licenses.

If Microsoft is not successfully sued, then companies will realize that using Copilot is a bad idea because they could be held liable for code that they do not know the provenance of, which is a bad business risk, one which companies will not take, even big companies like Google, which does not use any AGPL code.

Regardless of which option they choose, that initial victory for me in court means that companies now know that using Copilot can lead them into a copyright minefield unless licenses are passed through, so I win against Copilot without ever arguing against it in court.

tl;dr: I'm not going to be directly suing Microsoft. Instead, I'm going to exercise my rights under copyright and my licenses as I should and let the dominoes fall toward making Copilot a dead product.
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don't buy anything made in china for security
>building a good component library is in itself a pretty daunting task.

Google could do a deal with Qt or Apache/Adobe Flex and use their APIs or even copy paste their code, this projects have years of experience and bug fixing, their components are advanced and super easy to use. Using Flex4 is at least 1000x faster then web native.
Maybe it's because they know some sites will use the title as-is?
Seems like a very simple change.
* by deleting the Xbox game bar

Just kidding - impressive how much you can safe in terms of size.
The overall population is roughly 50:50, but men are more likely to be the "final node" in the family tree.

Let's adjust the example above slightly to include Bob's friend Darren, who who never got laid because he spent his whole life watching pornography and playing video games.

Even in this case, despite the 50:50 ratio of males and females both across society as a whole and within each generation, the child has more male ancestors.

This will be the case for any sufficiently large population where males have more variance in reproductive success than females, and people (of either sex) reproduce with others who have a shared ancestor (the closer the ancestor, the greater the effect the variance has on the ratio of male to female ancestors).
The interactive quizzes at https://www.wrc.noaa.gov/wrso/security_guide/quizzes.htm are a good quick-skim way to learn a little bit more about this world. It will be interesting to see if these pages are still up tomorrow.
> At some point, why even bother?

Because a lot of people:

- don't care about their privacy and spyware (a non-insignificant chunk of the populace, even i'm growing weary after decades of surveillance attempts)
- don't know any better (perhaps the majority of the consumerbase)
- only have certain software available on Windows (e.g. MobaXTerm, or have something like Sony Vegas fit their workflow and don't have the desire to change)
- don't know how to use the alternative OSes well, or have bad experiences with them (Linux driver installation, anyone?)
- feel like that's a fair tradeoff to make for being able to run their favourite entertainment software or video games (Proton will probably eventually be good enough, but yet doesn't have 100% coverage, which currently isn't enough to sway everyone)

Personally, i just run a dual boot setup with Windows 10 (since it seems marginally less horrible than 11 for the time being) for playing legacy games and using the software that i like, and Linux Mint (or Ubuntu, or Debian, depending on the mood/year) for development stuff.

Honestly, Linux is probably the better platform for many other things, everything from privacy to development (how it works with Docker and other *nix software is especially nice, no need for weird mapping, WSL/WSL2, MinGW or any other weirdness on Windows), but for a variety of reasons the adoption remains low.

That said, i actually recently wrote about some of my frustrations as a part of my blog article, "On technological illiteracy", which ended up talking a bit more about the driver issues and hardware support: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/on-technological-illiteracy

Let's just hope that things continue improving in the coming decades!
Athlon Thunderbird 900Mhz I've bought in 2000 had the same launch price as Core i9 12900k. Inflation is 59%.
This is a good write up on the perils of messing with a fine-tuned mechanism that is Section 230 and potential devastating effects it could have on the internet as we know it. If not carefully drafted, any such bill will open up internet companies to many many lawsuits that can no longer be easily dismissed. The article goes into some examples where not getting the language quite right can blow the whole thing up.

I also found the following article a good starting point for learning about what Section 230 is and is not: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
It's very rare to run into a person who doesn't support the vaccine mandates but did get vaccinated.

Or it's very rare for them to say so in the presence of fear mobs. Mixed opinions are far more common than their (in)visibility would suggest.
Interesting guide, but doesn't have anything to do with zen.
I have wondered about this countless times... a game can render hundreds of thousands of polygons per frame but DOM cant handle more than a few thousands of elements without lagging. JavaScript has come a long way, wish the rest of it would catch up. If we as devs can virtualize it, surely browser vendors could too
> P is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think a cubic time algorithm is very slow, but that's just peanuts to P.

I hate that P is often understood as "easily solvable". There's problems inside P that require O(n^A) time algorithms, where A is some scaringly large ackerman number. And that just barely scratches the surface of P. There are other, unimaginably harder, problems in P.

It is very arrogant for us to say that P<NP, when we still know so little about P.

I'm rooting for P=NP, even if this only serves to explore harder problems inside P, with terrifyingly slow algorithms.
Not per year! The EUL license is USD 680/developer and is *perpetual* + support & upgrades are optional.
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The whole article refers to Microsoft as a third party. If it was more marketing related topic I'd assume it was indeed written by a third party.
What about page 4 of [0]:

> We remark that, while polynomial, the running time of the algorithm is somewhat abysmal; loose estimates places
it somewhere around O(n^(10^100)); the running time of the algorithm of [RT12] is similar.

I don’t know if that counts as a “real problem”, and I suppose it is only a “loose estimate” too.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.0458v2.pdf
Globally, "adaptation" may involve a lot of wars, violence and poverty as natural and managed resources decline, especially in the worst areas but spilling elsewhere unpredictably.

The greatest tragedy is climate will continue changing for some time after we take real action. And there is no obvious limit to the damage until we do take real action.

By the time we do take real action, on all the compounding problems (degradation of the oceans, deforestation, etc.) we may be left with only hard choices of what to mitigate at terrible cost, but no viable complete solution to a massive painful drop in human population.
It's slow even on my PCIe 4 NVMe drive. I boot into Windows once a week or two and I often see it spending more than 5 minutes installing a single update package. This is even slower than apt and dpkg, props to them.
So according to this poll http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/papers/poll.pdf only about two thirds think P!=NP (unless you also count the independent group as also believing we cant prove it).

So seems like the majority opinion but not universal.
My guess is to install an update windows has to apply each little patch to random files scattered across the OS necessitating a file read and write for each little change. But generating a reverse delta should only take a transform of the update file which I imagine is much less complex.
Not an electronics expert here, sorry if it doesn't make sense but why is there a limit on symbol rate anyway? I understand tx power limits to avoid interference, but why an additional symbol rate limit too?
It seems very difficult to find such information. The best I've managed to do so far has been a report from 2006 which stated:

> About 200 estates per year in Washington pay taxes out of 45,000 deaths – less than half of 1%.

http://www.opportunityinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/tax-r...

It seems likely that this number has increased since 2006. But by how much?

The same report noted total estate tax revenue at $100M. Adjusting for inflation, and using the total revenue number from 2019 ($297M), it would seem that total revenue has just about doubled. If we make the egalitarian but hardly realistic assumption that the gain in total revenue number has been driven by an equally distributed gain in the value of estates, then it seems that a reasonable back of the envelope guestimate is that in 2019 or thereabouts, roughly 1% of annual deaths trigger estate tax liability.

[ EDIT: in addition, this page from the WA OFM seems to show that whatever the revenue from the state estate tax, it is so low that it doesn't even get it's own category in a chart of state revenue sources:

https://ofm.wa.gov/washington-data-research/statewide-data/w... ]

It's not nobody, but it's a hell of a lot closer to "almost nobody" than "this is a government policy that significant numbers of ordinary people have to worry about".

[EDIT: this page from the WA OFM suggests a possibly notable increase for 2019-2021 estate tax revenue, among other increasing sources of revenue. It's not clear that the increase changes the accuracy of my final paragraph (pre-edit)

https://ofm.wa.gov/about/news/2019/09/state-revenue-projecti... ]
>"Alternative medicine" like ivermectine or hydroxychloroquine have no scientific, properly studied basis for being used.

There are more than 60 peer reviewed studies showing positive effect for ivermectin. Similarly the single trial that the media touted as "proof" that HCQ did not work administered what amounted to an overdose to terminally ill patients, in contrast to the recommended early/prophylactic regimen.

These lies have gone on for far too long - no thanks to irresponsible and, frankly, inexcusable censorship by fb, youtube et al on grounds of "misinformation".

This site[0] has been up for over a year now and the citation count has continued to grow.

It seems people are more interested in poo pooing proponents of ivermectin/HCQ than actually examining evidence. Medicine should not be a political team sport.

0. ivmmeta.com
I use Pelican for my blog because it meets all my requirements: markdown, latex support, jupyter notebook support, syntax highlighting, and integration with GitLab. I tried another blog engines, like Jekyll and Hugo. However, since I do not use Ruby and Go daily, I did not use those engines.

Some things I would like to see in Pelican are:

- Better documentation in the code. The documentation for the final user is great. However, if you inspect the code, it will take some time to understand it since many functions are not documented. Compared to other code bases, like Keras, the docstrings can help the developer.

- More themes. The default theme is not my favorite. Also, I think Jekyll and Hugo have better themes.

(It is not a critic. I love Pelican)
Corporate profit tax + payroll tax = VAT

Except it's super easy to cheat on the left hand side, but hard to cheat on the right. VAT taxes get paid, payroll taxes get mostly paid, but corporate profit taxes - not so much.

Unfortunately most progressives don't understand this point and keep thinking that corporate profit taxes are good while VATs are bad, and they are kinda confused about payroll taxes.

Then you try to tell them what matters is tax incidence and their heads explode.
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On what version of Windows?

Windows 7 and earlier had some issues where, as the size of the update catalog grew, the updater would start taking much longer to "scan for updates". This was eventually fixed in an update to Windows 7 -- but this still meant that you'd be waiting a very long time to install the first few rounds of updates to a fresh 7 install.

That being said, Windows 7 is EOL. If you're still using it, please stop.
Actually, it is. This is an adaptive clinical trial, meaning its part of the protocol to change when pre-set criteria are met. This is stated in the paper. There's a whole body of work on the ethics and statistics of adaptive clinical trials and when to stop them early if promising results are found.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_clinical_trial
There are a few notable exceptions who believe that P=NP, Knuth being the most notable in my opinion. He gives a justification (though it is a bit technical) for this that I also find convincing.
> oh my god

Definitely the correct response.

Also,

> c++ allows 0-width spaces in variable names. Where's your god now?

Nowhere. We have strayed maximal distance from god's light and are currently in orbit around Satan.
This appears not to be Australian or "from down under" at all. Apparently just a joke language, collecting clichéd, stereotyped Australianisms.

(Sydney here) I'm sure I'm not the audience for this, but this feels rather mean-spirited to say the least. It's feels like it's intended to be "punching down". I flagged it. Maybe I totally misunderstood. The 3 existing comments here give me the same feeling - poor/crass/pointless attempts at humour like what would ordinarily get downvoted, written as if they're witty and hilarious.
no. apart from loud voices on HN, basically everyone is living in a wireless world because its better in almost every way. i was personally a long holdout on wired, but modern wireless (bose qc30s and now airpods) are so much more useable in almost every situation except maybe for never leaving your desk.
This was solved, you render the visible items, and a few extra items before and after, then when the user scrolls you never render new items widgets but recycle the existing ones and refresh their state to match. It is super efficient and was solved in many toolkits, I am sure it is done in Flex4.

An example from Flex4 is the DataGrid and AdvancedDataGrid.
You get a basic component for simple use cases and a very advanced one if you need stuff like resizable columns, re-ordering columns, sort-able columns.

IMO you don't have experienced with this powerfull tookits, your imagination is lacking and you think that shit that existed for so many years is impossible to do. Nah, it can be done but Google and Mozilla are focusing on JS and failling to implement even the most basic customization stuff for native components , they are probably not even aware that things can be done better because their heads are to deep into the web ass and not seen any good Desktop or mobile toolkit in their lives.
I meant it is not falsified on purpose.
Recently purchased a used HP workstation and did a clean windows install. I didn't just get all the HP stuff installed automatically but it even changed my desktop wallpaper to an HP one which was then synced to any pc that uses my Microsoft account. Wallpaper may not be important but not something you'd expect.
Thanks for this recommendation. I'll be sure to check it out in that case.
I've been testing one for a couple weeks, and a quick rundown on it: it has a quad-core A53, same CPU/SoC core as the Pi 3, with 512 MB of RAM.

This means it can run 64-bit Pi OS, but it is memory-limited and even some of the benchmarks I ran needed extra swap space to complete. But for anything that does run in the 512 MB of LPDDR2 RAM, it is at least twice as fast as the Zero/Zero W, and sometimes 3-8x faster, depending on how things handle threading (4 cores is better than 1!).

My biggest concern is overheating—even at the base 1 GHz clock, it will start to throttle after a few minutes in a case with no airflow or heat sink. You can overclock to 1.2, 1.4, or even in some cases 1.5 GHz, but it starts throttling a lot more quickly unless you have really good cooling.
> (If you can verify any proof using Isabelle or Coq PM me.)

Rofl. Yep, if i write a machine checkable proof of the most famous open problem in all of computer science, that's definitely the first thing i'll do.
Wait really? I never knew that. I absolutely fail at whitespace delimited things like YAML and Python, I just can't handle it mentally.
The best defense of the people of Taiwan would be diplomacy and negotiation of a peaceful transfer to Chinese rule. This has a reasonable chance of succeeding and will not involve death and destruction.

The worst defence would be a military defence of Taiwan. This would probably result in a war with lots of death and destruction and probably Chinese control of Taiwan anyway.

A third alternative would be sabre-rattling and hot air, which will further annoy China, thereby further worsening opportunities for cooperation and give Taiwanese nationalists false hope.
People with Covid jabs have been less likely to die of other causes
The first idea -- generating the reverse delta while applying the forward delta -- seem obvious. The second idea is clever, but Chrome did it in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2576878

Even if the ideas aren't novel, getting this thing built and rolled out for Windows is not at all trivial, so good job there. But calling it "new compression technology" is misleading.
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Good old accidental exponential time complexity. Not caught in the initial release as there were not enough pending updates to notice the issue.
Yet another reason to dislike Qt.
Regarding (b), a non-constructive proof of P=NP does not exist. Because such a proof is immediately constructive.

You can create an enumeration over all Turing machines, and run each of them on the problem, 'diagonally', so we perform one step of computation on machine 1, then 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. This will eventually run each Turing machine for an arbitrary amount of steps. As soon as one of the Turing machines accepts, we also accept.

Suppose the nth Turing machine is our poly time machine we have proven to exist (although we don't know n). It takes n steps of our meta algorithm to run this machine 1 step, then n+1 metasteps for the next step and so forth. In total it takes n + n+1 + ... + n+k = O(k^2 + kn) metasteps to run the nth Turing machine k steps.

But here's the crux... n does not depend on the input size, only on our problem! Thus it is a constant. In other words, this meta algorithm is quadratically worse (due to k^2 steps) than the optimal algorithm, but it is poly time.

Note that the above algorithm doesn't work for co-NP, in which we require that the "no" instances get solved in poly time (in NP we only require the "yes" instances to get solved in poly time).