skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the FDA is already mandated by law to release this data, which is why the original lawsuit was filed.

From a Reuters article on it:
They also argue that Title 21, subchapter F of the FDA’s own regulations stipulates that the agency “is to make ‘immediately available’ all documents underlying licensure of a vaccine."

So it really sounds like this is just part of the course of making sausage of approval. You have someone already embedded in the licensure project/process where this is all (very likely largely automagically) handled as it is always expected to be released to the public.
Yes, I agree. I'm still using Tridactyl on Firefox. I also have Vimium on Chrome, but I don't like it as much.
IMO, the breakthru will happen once they finish building that super collider that will find glimpses of the tiny 4th dimension (that Kaluza-Klein hypothesis). With that will come a whole new standard model worth of 4d particles and phycists will be busy for another century.
I used to work at a company that did HIV research ... the virologists that use to work there were losing their minds last year.

The "people will take stupid risks" if we give them protective measures was in full force, right down to Dr. Tam telling Canadians that we didn't need masks, that the public "wouldn't know how to use them correctly anyway" and just endanger ourselves even more, so save the masks for the medical profession.
https://venturi.aero/#highlights claims 50 passengers, 1,000 km, and 40% reduction in operating costs.

The site doesn’t give much more info that that, so I don’t think they’re further than the drawing board, though.

I considered this might be a scam or a “give us money and we’ll see whether this really can be done”, but being a startup with Delft roots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TU_Delft_Faculty_of_Aerospace_...) gives them some credibility, I think.
The sci-fi trope that aliens or superintelligent AIs will have thought processes completely different and incomprehensible to humans is probably not true.

If the aliens live in our universe, evolved on a planet with limited resources, need food, breathe, etc., then they'll likely have a lot in common with Earth animals psychologically. If the AI is tasked with doing something that humans also do, then its tactics will be at least recognizable to an expert in that field. Moreso in well-understood systems such as chess.

Is it really plausible that an advanced chess AI's tactics would have no concept of threats or king safety? The same tactics apply to it as do to us.
Except you still need some kind of signaling mechanism to avoid busy-waiting
The Chessbase article is a lot more readable than the arxiv paper. Yeah, they did some bad GPL stuff, but that just isn't really relevant to this particular discussion, and the chessbase link is better for the general reader.
i used flask and express. light weight but security is up to you.
I would like to see SpaceX outline a roadmap according to each Mars transfer window, currently don't see it[1]:

2022/08/07 - Assume no transit

2024/09/26 - First uncrewed launch (X tons of supply)

2026/11/15 - Second uncrewed launch (X2 tons of supply)

2029/01/03 - Third uncrewed launch (X3 tons of supply)

2031/02/22 - First crewed launch (X4 tons of supply, Y tons of people)

2033/04/11 - Second crewed launch (X5 tons of supply, Y2 tons of people)

2035/05/30 - etc...

...
[2]

This way we can compare progress and keep pushing the schedule out as each transfer is missed to give a more realistic sense for what we're trying to do here.

My sense is that if people would really to dig into the numbers (and I'm sure someone has) to calculate out the tonnage and delta-v required and how that translates to resources (money, energy, humans) over time (esp considering regulations and safety factors) then I think we would get a more realistic sense of we're trying to do here and realize how insane it is to think we'd have anything resembling a "colony" by 2050 (14 transfer windows).

A 2050 Moon colony is a far more realistic prediction, though also somewhat far fetched unless we've solved the problem of economic and political instability.

[1] https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/

[2] http://clowder.net/hop/railroad/EMa.htm
My thoughts on the whole race/IQ debate: it's more or less a perma-banned topic on most forums where constructive debate takes place, and your comment is an excellent example of why.
what’s a little oxygen between friends?
> Rather, it just does what [less successful people] do - ... - but better and more consistently.

Reminds me of comparisons between Renaissance and other quant funds. If you get enough better it looks like what you're doing is magic until you analyse what was done and see they have better systems and people.

Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect - Teller
I once emailed the cognitive linguist and author George Lakoff out of the blue to ask him what he thought about this obnoxious rhetorical convention of putting things into “buckets” and he replied, attaching a paper he’d written about buckets being an arbitrary metaphor. It was thrilling and very educational!
His position is that “If you don’t support my extensive writing about race science, you’re a bigot and a liar because of an incident unrelated to my extensive writing about race science, which has singularly made me a victim of the mob - not my actual writing or opinions. Any criticism of me personally is by definition predicated on the thing I said in 2017 and not my body of work since then.”

That’s the condition that he set!
Why stop there, we could adopt Unix millis…

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/qjo7vp/the_unix...
Funny you mentioned Mint with Cinnamon because Luke distrohopped from Mint because he couldn't solve an issue with window dragging and it's been a known bug for over 7 years now.

https://youtu.be/mN3QFw2BEcw?t=3845
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/2465

> Linux has quite improved from X. These days, you install Y and you are good to go. Super easy to use and just works. It is based on Z, so you can use all the packages but with the bad stuff and experiments removed.

People have been saying this since literally forever. Just replace X, Y and Z with whatever's in vogue right now. I've been through enough forum threads and chats all the way back to when forums were still a thing and IRC dominated the chat space. It's always the same "it's different this time around". No it's not, the Linux desktop has structural issues that will never be solved because of its decentralized and throw away nature.

I'm not saying this is a reason to pick Windows though, your gripes with Windows are valid too, but a Linux desktop to solve Window's problems doesn't seem like a solution to me.
Just because some idiots can't stay in there seats we need to mandate these belt things?
Car manufacturers: "lol no"
By "your work" I mean "everything you have authored".

- The parts you've written can continue to be available under the permissive license (as can any parts you've copied from elsewhere under a permissive license);

- The GPL code you didn't write can't be re-licensed by you and continues to be available under the GPL;

- The complete derived work has to be made available by you under the terms of the GPL.

(By "as well" I mean "as well as offering the code you wrote under whatever other license you would like").
Apparently, the FDA itself already mandates this:

FDA’s own regulations stipulates that the agency “is to make ‘immediately available’ all documents underlying licensure of a vaccine."

But why would they want to (seemingly) hide something in this case, where they usually would publish to the public 'immediately'?
San Francisco's approach to housing is so endlessly entertaining. They want to allow developers to build higher-density dwellings but force them to do so at a loss. Gee, I wonder how many developers will voluntarily lose money.
I've been dealing with POSIX (or more generally "unix-y") environments for so long, when I see "No such file or directory" I automatically tend to think "ENOENT" and not actually "file not found", as in something did not exist.

Many system calls (sysctl as just one example) happily return ENOENT when they did not find a thing no matter whether it is even remotely related to a file. I picked sysctl because it also can return ENOTDIR and EISDIR for something not related to directories at all.

It's commonly not that much of an issue when you handle the error in code, but if the error gets "helpfully" bubbled up with its strerror description (instead of just a number), it can sure confuse people.

Somewhat simplified: errnos were at some distant point in the past divined into existence, and system calls and system level C APIs had to make with what they got since then.
I'd speculate it's platonic solids, highly complex and dynamic, but resembling those solids from outside.
And we briefly had interoperable text chat with XMPP until the big players dropped support for it. The protocol already existed, it worked for a while, and then companies decided it wasn't in their interests to stick with it and the interoperable textaverse collapsed back into silos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#Non-native_deployments
This 1000%. Decriminalization will of course increase use.
Absolutely, communities need moderation!

However, the internet is infrastructure and right now both governments and service providers like Facebook, Twitter, Google effectively force moderation on communities becasue they increasingly control the infrastructure and methods of access that communitites need to use that infrastructure. The goal of "web3" or decentralisation in general should be to remove those layers and give communities complete freedom and control over how and if they moderate content.
No, it’s overthinking. The only thing that game developers need to solve is what item to give in return when a player imports something from another game. Could be you import armor and get a pink hat or a banana. It doesn’t need to be the same models, or same damage points or whatever. It can be anything.

Well yes, allowing to import an NFT is a business decision. Not sure what the point is?
Fire on position!
A singer with a powerful voice is Grace Slick. Compare her singing to Nicks. Nicks knows that doing a cover for White Rabbit would be a bad idea :-)

A singer with great range and control would be Whitney Houston. You won't see Nicks covering her songs, either.

A singer with natural talent is Karen Carpenter. She had little training, yet became a much loved singer.
ConstitutionDAO statement on Sotheby's auction
One problem will be deciding on when tomorrow is. If your work day starts at 9pm, you have lunch at midnight, do you then go home the next day? We could lose lots of complexity of timezones, but swap in the complexity of dates. Financial transactions and trading sessions could get really complicated fast.
See this comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29250582&p=2#29251838

Brazil has a pretty successful system in place. The only reason I still use credit cards anymore are aggressive cashback policies. For everything I can do with PIX I'm more than likely to choose it nowadays.
The biggest problem - across a lot of fronts - was that we abandoned the idea of consistency and rooting these things in research. The original success of the Mac interface was rooted in the HIG which provided rigorous, clear, and (at least sometimes) evidence-based principles for UI/UX. Sun paid a bunch for work to be done on the GNOME 1.x series at one point, to try and significantly improve it.

The HIG is no more at Apple. GNOME design decisions are justified with comments like "I asked some friends and they liked this better". Most of the pain in Windows 10 are all the jagged edges where you cut from one era to another for no particularly good reason.
Normally just browse LinkedIn for jobs I want, but can’t get and reply to recruiters on the platform for jobs I don’t want, but pay enough.
The human-understandable concepts are there, but I think finding them is still very hard, right? I.e. it doesn’t sound like the system including AZ was able to identify and articulate the human concepts such as king safety a priori.
The masks issue is different because we have very little actual evidence that masks in the hands of the general public have a substantial effect. The best evidence out there suggests a small impact (~11%) for surgical masks in an unvaccinated population, and none for cloth masks [1]

The evidence quality is roughly as poor as that for ivermectin, vitamin D, etc., except that it has become a wildly political issue, fraught with propaganda to the point that most people will vehemently insist that the evidence quality is higher than it is. It is therefore deeply ironic that Slate is arguing about risk compensation, while using NPIs as an example of the kind of safety behavior being deterred by discussions of risk compensation. Did any of those NPIs do anything at all? We never did proper randomized studies, so we really have no idea.

This feels like so much more propaganda: one side said that risk compensation is a thing, so now we must attack the notion, to ensure that $MY_PREFERRED_INTERVENTION is properly imposed on society. But nobody much cares if the intervention works...

[1] https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/do-masks-reduce-risk...
Refining is a tough very capital intensive business with very slim margins (known as the crack spread). I wouldn't say it's where all the money is at all.
Not sure the title conveys the article contents at all.

Totally agree with the contents. I need to watch the show with one of the protesters to learn what they were actually bothered by. And the video of Gesualdi, and its treatment, bugs the heck out of me. I support both sane trans rights and free speech, don’t choose sides here.
I'm intimately familiar with this particular error, having debugged it a few times on NixOS. Binaries tend to assume that /lib/ld-linux.so exists
If you are using actions, and aren't doing this already, I highly recommend two things:

- Have a sandbox repo or two just for trying things out and playing around
- Use Act to test your workflows locally. It doesn't support all the GH Actions functionality just yet, but it's got all the necessities and most niceties, and saves you having to constantly commit and push just to try things.

https://github.com/nektos/act
Why would the other game want to make this information portable? Why would Minecraft want to let its players walk away to Roblox with all their trophies and hats (or whatever)?
Looks like a great machine :) . Now if only they'd add metal milling capabilities, rigidness, with foundation like this - https://www.adambender.info/post/2017/03/25/epoxy-granite-ma... which can be assembled at home...
> During the early stages of the pandemic, high ranking officials suggested we should not use masks because it was not yet "proven" the virus was transmitted via aerosols. And this was a catastrophic decision.

It was criminal. There was a ton of circumstantial evidence: SARS-CoV-1 was thought to spread via airborne droplets, the high rate of transmission, the types of transmission, medical staff infections, reduced rates of transmissions in countries where mask wearing while sick was common, ... we would have convicted COVID19 on less evidence.

But no double blind experiments, so no proof. Go about your day citizens!
You might like Packy M's "The Great Online Game: How to Win the Internet."

https://www.notboring.co/p/the-great-online-game

I think it captures a lot of the current culture with crypto and NFTs. A lot of it reminds me of when reality TV began. Suddenly we had a new class of celebrities who weren't singers or actors. Reality TV stars, famous people whose claim to fame was being famous.

Circular logic. Positive fedback loops. You should "invest" in this NFT collection because look at how many other people are buying this NFT collection.

Web3 is more than speculative NFTs and I expect we'll see some important things come out of it, just with a lot of surprises and broken expectations along the way.
I bought tools 15 years ago and I don't use them that often, so they don't wear much, and never break. So now it's mostly free. Wood is quite cheap depending on what you do (and I'm not Nick Offerman).

Most projects cost less than €100-200 in materials and take 3 months, so that's around €50 per month on average. Not "free", technically, but not far from free.
In practice the west of the country uses their own local time. Even if not official.
But China is not so “wide”, so even then, the difference is just two hours.
Someone Right-Clicked Every NFT in the Heist of the Century
I absolutely agree that we won't have a colony on Mars by 2050, but I think you vastly overestimate the difficulty of just traveling to Mars if you're judging based on the Moon. Political will? Perhaps, but I think the best way to think of it is that it was possible to go to the Moon on technology from 50 years ago. Modern rockets are far, far better.
scylladb had a quick article on the forthcoming number of instruction cycles for high-speed network a couple years ago.

I can't find the quip anymore, but I think it was like 50 CPU cycles or less, so for a complex database (like a cassandra clone), not really that much time to calculate a response.

1.6 terabit cards will be nuts, but if you have 64 cores, maybe not actually that much different if the bandwidth is dedicated / segemented per core.
As a person who preemptively complains about other people theoretically complaining that something that hasn't happened is "western centered," I personally can't imagine not making this western centered.
I've been with AWS for a number of years (personal and for work) and haven't seen this problem either.

Some services will be higher if you don't account for all the costs. You can do the math for an EC2 instance but if you don't account for storage prices and bandwidth prices then the bill will be higher than you expect.

But some service prices will be lower than you expect. If you create multiple EBS snapshots from the same server, you'll notice that the price you pay isn't the sum of the individual snapshot sizes. It's far less because each new snapshot only saves data from blocks that have changed since the last snapshot.
I get the feeling that there's a virtue aspect here. In absence of seat-belts, birth control, and vaccines, safety is possible—if you are careful and prudent. Therefore, up to the point where such options are available, public health initiatives encourage and celebrate prudence and carefulness.

Once a work-around becomes available, where one can be just as safe with half the prudence, it feels like cheating: now all these careless people can be safe without any of the admirable virtue in being prudent and following rules. So those in charge resist giving the people an easy way out, because doing so represents a path towards loss of credibility of the authority institution, who is constantly advocating for virtue in the people.
That was my favorite part of this page, very nostalgic.
The idea that people should look at a map of hospitals in an emergency is pretty much what the article is about. It's a worry that people will do something stupid if information is available.

If you don't know dead cold where the trauma center is, you should be calling 911 (or equivalent), not trying to decide where to drive.

If you are in the middle of nowhere, you don't need to drive to the closest trauma center to improve the situation, drive to the nearest larger town/city. There will be a way of landing a helicopter there.

And so on.
Is it unambiguously a lie if I were to say “Based off what I’ve read of this guy’s writing, this guy is a piece of shit racist who has openly admitted to being randomly abusive to strangers.”?
Or am I morally obligated to say “He also appears from my perspective to leverage the language of mental illness to excuse himself and attack his critics.”?

What if I don’t believe his narrative _AT ALL_? Am I a liar then? All I’ve read here is a guy insisting that it’s unfair to dislike him. I certainly don’t trust his intellectual honesty, why on earth would I be compelled to believe his narrative simply because he insists that it’s hurting him that I don’t?
It only applies to purchasing a resell flat. Renters are not affected by this.
My understanding is that not all ToF sensors are LiDARs. There are also different types of LiDARs, e.g., some of them scan the environment and others just emit a single beam in the same one direction. I think iPhone Pro has the scanning one, but I haven't read much about it.
That is exactly one of the reasons why people advocate for static languages. More so, often they don't even compile if you mixed up your types somewhere (the "more static" and "more strict" the language is, the more that is true).
Good.

We’re obviously long past the “pwease don’t dwive dwunk” phase.
Interesting developments on that front: "User-space interrupts", https://lwn.net/Articles/871113/

Also see Google's fast userspace context switching, which would basically let you implement pipes the way they were originally designed and implemented in Unix, as a kind of coroutine that implicitly passed control flow to the other process when you filled or drained a buffer.
Do you know of any good resources for tracking what real-world usage there is for smart contacts? Preferably something that details actual usage statistics rather than a list of companies that purport to do something with them.
I think it’s because the offender is perceived to have harmed the group to which the outraged individual belongs or aspires to belong.

And/or for the likes/retweets/upvotes.
Yes, but with only a single xmpp account, that federated access to gchat, fb?
I've always thought the smart move would be a first strike with nukes followed up with aerial application of weaponized smallpox over non-nuked areas. The nukes would slow down and hamstring efforts at containment and let the biological agents get a good foothold.
> what is against simply creating (purified in some sense) man-made diesel and continue to use combustion engines?

Mostly it’s just economics. Either the costs need to come down, or oil prices need to rise.

The way oil prices are headed, that might not take long.
That's not really a problem in the sense that it doesn't align with expectations. That's a genuine unknown.
Salesforce is like this too! Cryptic error messages that say "contact admin" when I am the admin.
Ask HN: Moving small amounts of money between two accounts without ACH?
Just curious about this, as I ran into this problem recently.

Say I have two bank accounts, both of which are solely mine. I want to move a small amount (say <$1000) a close to instantly as possible, avoiding the time sink that is ACH. Fees are ok, but it should involve only yourself and your accounts, so no exchanging with other people.

My first thought was to use PayPal, load my balance from one card, and withdraw it to another. However, PayPal seems to not let you add to your balance with a debit card, only from a bank account, which involves and ACH transaction. You can for some reason, withdraw your balance to a debit card for a small fee.

The way I ended up getting to work was to load the money into my Apple Pay wallet, and then withdraw it into the other account, all through debit cards. This does carry a fee and Comes with the caveat of not working for very small amounts (<$10).

It got me thinking though, why is this such an issue. There are plenty of methods to do quick, p2p or retail transactions without resorting to ACH, why is is such a pain to move money between my own accounts.
That's the hypocrisy part: you can still do it, and it happens all the time, but covertly.
Truly monumental.

What hardware do I need? Also, gaming needs to be a thing. What would it take to have say Quake 3 run on your OS?