skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given this is a 2001 report, I suspect it is of interest as a counter to the theory.
youtube is probably a/b testing it.
Very late fix:

* So they are trying to discontinue the use of the vaccine with the weakened virus, but the it's better when most of the population is not vaccinated.
What is the worth of getting "conservative opinions" published if they are based on a make-believe fantasy that has nothing to do whatsoever with the actual reality at hand, disregards scientific consensus and whose primary purpose is to foster outrage and anger at a straw-man boogieman?

I mean, just take the story at hand? What's the intent behind an obvious outrage piece like this?

While the Spectator is definitely is not the worst offender, it's factual reporting has been declining for years. If you want conservative opinion pieces that are better grounded in reality check out https://www.thetimes.co.uk/
His approach works well for me. I don't retain arbitrary facts. At least part of this is a fear that if I don't properly understand its dynamics I will misapply it, better to discard it.

The windowing explanation shows me a path from the intent of the designer through to the implementation (the algorithm). Now I can retain that knowledge.
Pay attention to the hand. His index finger is turned inwards, that would be a very odd “number 3 gesture”. More likely random hand movement from the video used.
Just so that we are clear, the 52% income tax is after 30% has already been paid in withholding tax.
I posted the article because the title caught my attention. Only after I looked more closely it did I realize it was published in 2001. I considered deleting the post until I read the article and saw that it was a PROSPECTIVE study. As a long-time medical researcher and author (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5DdrMc8AAAAJ&hl=en), I know how much more likely to be valid are results from prospective rather than retrospective series.
This is hilariously sad. I wonder how many billions the spooks have spent on prosecuting a journalist. Really sending a message, dont f with the narrative. Then you look at the masses lapping it up cus <my news source says so>. Russia bad China bad Orange man baaaad, carry on free thinkers.
That reminds me that I used xmas trees and reindeers as index marks (i.e. instead of prime and double prime) in a hand-in once, obviously around xmas time.
To point out that this is nothing new, in order to discredit the conspiracy theorists
For some reason I could just never get zeta right, especially not quickly; so in relevant exams (EE) I wrote 'By <whatever-squiggle>, I mean zeta throughout'. I suppose I don't know for sure that that worked, (spoiler alert: didn't ace them!) but I assume it was ok.
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It's too early to say, but the on-the-ground anecdotal reports suggest it is not particularly severe or lethal, based on observations so far. But it will take weeks to start knowing about mortality and months to see evidence of long illness.

The best case scenario is that the mutations that make it more infectious also make it less virulent/lethal, and the super-early evidence suggests that is at least possibly true of this variant.
When did Apple choose FireWire over USB? Apple has never shipped a computer with FireWire which did not also have USB.
See the Intel math coprocessor was a blast from the past. I sold a few of them and installed a few of them when I used to work in computer stores.
Well, GitHub came back online without me doing anything. GitHub’s life depends on providing a good service to customers. I think occasional downtime is a good tradeoff for what I am getting, as opposed to having to manage my own server.
I can't read C# so i didn't look too long at your code and here are a couple questions:

Do you generate the sorting network at compile time or is it on the fly (eg more of branchless (on data) sorting vs static network in machine code)? Being able to sort 1M elements hints to the second thing right? (i can't picture the size of the binary that has a sorting network for 1M elements)

What's your sorting network template? And probably related: how is vectorization used? I guess you have some vector-optimized network template.. By template i mean some kind of function that takes a length and produces a sorting network for length-n-array.

At some point i was learning about rust macros and came up with this week-end project: https://github.com/Lapin0t/static-sort. It's mainly a macro for transforming an array describing the swaps into code that does the swaps.
Understand that most of the books are born from experience. But they represent what that author(s) learned, which may or may not have been the right lesson in every case and, almost always, is not a true universal lesson.

Some views have to be considered in context. If OO means Smalltalk to one author and C with Classes to another their statements on “OOP” will actually be about two different things, learn from them both but don’t misapply the lessons from one to the other (happens a lot).

With that in your head, read the books and question them. Experiment with their ideas where you can or run thought exercises, “What if…?”

Also, read “The Psychology kf Computer Programming” by Weinberg. He presents many different case studies (though briefly) and commentary. One of the few books where it is clear his prescription is, “Study people and their behavior” not “Do what I say and you’ll make perfect code.”
A good source of that info is https://www.uops.info/

For instance, on my CPU which is AMD Zen 3, the idiv instruction (it computes integer division and modulo) takes between 9 and 19 cycles for 64-bit version: https://www.uops.info/html-instr/IDIV_R64.html#ZEN3 That’s for the operand already in a register i.e. no RAM access involved.

Whether it takes 9 cycles, 19 cycles, or something in between, depends on the arguments of the instruction, i.e. on the numbers being divided.

Same applies to quite a few other instructions: floating point divisions (divps, divpd), floating point square root (sqrtps, sqrtpd), even 64-bit integer multiplication (imul).

It’s not just the math. Jumps, branches and function calls take very different count of cycles depending mostly on two things: predicted or not, and the state of micro-ops cache at the target address. Albeit these effects are very hard to measure reliably, depends on the code too much, probably for this reason uops.info doesn’t have latency figures for jmp/call/etc.
Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?
It’s the buses in Dallas that drive around all day with only the driver. If your on the outskirts sometimes there are two empty buses driving together.
Various news articles was my source. But re-reviewing a lot were from 2020.

I found a source from July that says AVG transactions are now up to around $20 equiv. And the total transaction value is above card transactions now. Although the volume of transactions is 10x which is indicative.

My understanding is India is a very cash-based culture? So the idea of UPI replacing that seemed uncontentious?

Looks like there are 3/4 Billion dollars worth of card transactions each month though, so that's not insignificant. I wonder how much bigger the cash culture is in value, I'd assume quite large.
Italy has a confirmed case from a guy who brought it back from Mozambique. Gave it to five family members already. https://www.italy24news.com/local/280042.html For the record he had received two doses of a vaccine..a detail suspiciously left out of CNN and other media reports as it doesn't fit the narrative.
The block reward approaches zero so no matter what the price is in the future it will amount to zero at the end.
Because "security of the blockchain" doesn't necessarily mean "good for society". Cryptocurrencies are most widely used for speculation, and then fraud, ransomware, all those very fun and pleasant things.
What a narrow minded way of looking at things. You don't know other people's stories, or what their priorities are, or what situation they're in.
From the local Dutch rules and news: Not all required testing. Fully vaccinated EU citizens could be on that flight without being tested. They changed the rules to require testing for everyone after these two flights were already in the air.

Out of the 61 positive tests, today 13 were confirmed to be the omicron variant.
And yet…

> South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has accused developed countries of hoarding shots, and been a lead figure in a campaign to force pharmaceutical companies to share vaccine recipes with poorer nations. Yet the government will not be redistributing excess doses around the continent, said Foster Mohale, a spokesman for the Department of Health.
My favorite site for wallpapers is interface lift, but just note that the site does occasionally go down for months at a time!

https://interfacelift.com/
Show HN: Go2TV – Cast your videos and music to Smart TVs and other (DMR) devices
Funny that right after he explained how he keeps his family safe by keeping his face and name off the internet, he spent the rest of the video focusing on the ineffectiveness and "downright stupidity" of security by obscurity.
> private or personal use, including research [1]

Doesn't that mean that most forms of piracy should be legal in India? That is, torrenting movies or music, etc.?
The averages are blown way out by the top. The median never tops $300k, so no, most people are not millionaires by their 30s
Why do you point to UK as an argument about US? Different countries, different laws, no argument. Most of Europe is very different versus US, there is no doubt about that.
> So there’s not really a good technical reason...

One that i can think of is the application depending on some set of data being present in the system, which was added ages ago and that no one has any idea about across the hundreds of tables.

Furthermore, you probably can't just do a full export/import of the initial state, because everyone having to download about 2 GB of data a large portion of which is auditing related information probably also isn't all that good.

Well, that's more of a technical aspect that's caused by social factors, to be honest, but probably is a blocker nonetheless. Especially if you can't convince anyone to spend a week exploring the schema and setting up this baseline migration & data, when things currently "work well enough" and when the company doesn't give you a data storage solution to keep it at (e.g. NextCloud), doesn't let you use Git LFS or something like that, anyways...
I'd sooner get door jam reinforcements for this reason. For everything else, there's alarms. Some are meant to detect windows breaking, but motion sensors are also a good catch all. Security-film on windows also makes breaking them more tedious.
Changing a PoS checkpoint would also require coordinating a fork. Even if a dev team were forced to make the change, they couldn't make everyone go along with it.
Very intentional. He's also quite self-aware -- later in the same keynote, he says something about using a hole for something it wasn't designed for, then notes how wrong that sounded.
> the three things the author argues cannot occur in a proof of stake system.

The author appears to be saying that "any decentralized consensus via proof of stake system is vulnerable to timing attacks"

The counter-argument that "This here proof of stake system has not been successfully attacked ... that we know of ... yet" does not seem to be watertight.
You seem to discount that as a possibility a priori. Why? There is a plausible connection between one's ability to thrive in a knowledge or skills-based economy and one's socioeconomic status.
That's the big question. A theory that this already happened in Japan was posted here in the last few weeks.
Many top level soccer players recently have collapsed from cardiac arrest.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-1024429...
I don't get it. What's the pun?
This comparison is not complete TBH. For instance, even on first difference, I could just specify "Hello world" without Write-Host for the same effect as in bash, there are easier for loops, mkdir in single line (even if it exists) with -ea 0 etc.

Article literary has 0 info on various easier/alternative methods, which makes comparison limited as a learning resource in understanding differences in language power.

There are also wrong comparisons - i.e. named parameters in bash require external tools, search also etc.
If it remains at that number, that's a serious blunder of the testing concepts.

If it turns out that 60ish people went on the same trip, or stayed in the same hotel and subsequently caught a new, even more contagious variant, roughly at the same time, it is easy to assume that they tested negative on departure and positive on arrival. But if they caught it on different occasions, it is highly probable that they did not test negative at all.
> They'd probably stop pirating if it caused film culture to collapse;

I doubt it. How many animals have been hunted to extinction even though the hunters’ livelihood depended upon those animals? The stakes are far lower here.
The assumption that a 10x increase in price results in a 10x increase in electricity usage is incorrect. There is some correlation but it is definitely not 1:1 as insinuated.
A single percentage problem today. In order to become a mainstream everyday currency, use of Bitcoin will have to increase by three, four, possibly five orders of magnitude.
The comment that passengers were "negative before take-off" is largely false. Only non-vaccinated passengers were required to show a negative PCR test (max 48h old) or RAG test (max 24h old), vaccinated passengers were allowed to board without any restrictions.

Source (in Dutch): https://nos.nl/l/2407382
My understanding is those hard plastic cases that you almost need a saw to open, are usually retail packaging (to prevent people from removing the contents in the store and walking out with them.).

I remember some episode on tv where Larry David needs to rescue his boss by cutting the seatbelt of his car. He has a newly purchaaed knife lamentably in one of those unopenable plastic cases.
See also: lucid dreaming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream
Yeah, I thought the package I tried to install had an issue, but didn’t have the time to investigate. This explains it.
1. We use screens.

2. Screens are flat.

3. Gorilla arms.

4. Typing remains preferred for text input (I'm using an external keyboard on a tablet as I write this).

5. Speech interfaces seem to be the current hawtness, though they're still of limited suitability. Privacy and unauthorised / unwanted inputs (and surveillance) are all issues --- keyboards offer specificity, intentionality, and a pronounced limitation on unwanted information capture (though keylogging remains a concern).

6. If information-enhanced systems become more widespread, I expect to see predictive systems (anticipating needs from behaviour), standardised interfaces (discovery is expensive, especially for widely-used / high-traffic systems), a return to physical or at least physically-indicated interfaces (same reasons), and the like.

7. VR is immersive but also exclusive --- the individual wearing a VR headset (googles, earphones) is isolated from the environment they're physically present in. VR is not locally sharable in the way that other technologies (screens, whiteboards, dashboards, keyboards, voice inputs, audio outputs) are. Yes, you can share a VR environment with others present within it, but that makes use in a given physical space more cumbersome and limited.

8. What informational problems are you actually hoping to solve?

One of the key strengths of MOAD was that it actually did demonstrate useful activities. Novel, yes, but useful and familiar in terms of their nondigital analogues. And in that context --- reading and creating texts, email, communications, interacting with graphics --- MOAD anticipated virtually all our present use-cases. Principle changes have been scale, performance, and ubiquity, where scale applies both to the size of computing systems and their number. Pervasive computing --- carrying the Internet in your pocket --- has been the big change of the past decade. For better ... or worse.
Could Covid Lead to Progress?
Viruses don't necessarily become less deadly over time. That's just a frequent side effect of natural selection. Living people without debilitating symptoms are better spreaders. But the COVID virus already tends to be spreadable before the illness peaks.

But yeah, other than the virus flaming out completely, the second best scenario is an extremely mild variant dominating and yielding immunity to all the others.
Bitcoin uses about .1% of the worlds power currently. 10x less than you have suggested: https://nydig.com/research/report-bitcoin-net-zero

The bitcoin reward also halves every 4 year, so even if price continues to appreciate, the effect is evened out by the fact that less is created every block over time.

Lastly, bitcoin mining to could sustained solely by using stranded energy, which would otherwise be unused. Flared gas in texas, for instance, could provide more power than the network currently uses. There is no reason bitcoin mining has to take power from anyone, and it will trend this way over time because the economics are in favor of finding the cheapest power source.
Oh, it’s back? I was under the impression it was down for, like, two years.
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At what point are these people just grifters?
That's diabolically clever. I'm curious how any technology can overcome that, and why BT is apparently more susceptible?
Glad you asked this, there are already attempts to disrupt this industry, already at the second generation, Flippy2:

https://misorobotics.com/flippy-2/
CDC has lost all credibility. They still can't answer basic questions about the virus, how it is transmitted, etc. They also changed the definition of the word vaccine because the new drugs don't actually provide immunity: https://www.citizensjournal.us/the-cdc-suddenly-changes-the-...
check it for yourself:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210826113846/https://www.cdc.g...
vs
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/imz-basics.htm
Ask HN: Why do I see ads for apps that I have installed?
When I'm using my (Andorid) phone I keep seeing recurring ads for Whatsapp, Tiktok, Deliveroo, etc..

I have these apps installed, and some of them I use daily. So I'm wondering if the targeting is explicit or is just a mistake?

I see only 2 scenarios:

- The ad targeting system can't see that I have these apps installed (Good i guess in terms of privacy)

- The ad system can see that I have the apps, but the companies still pushing their ads (waste of money?)

Does anyone here have any domain knowledge about these kind of ads?
Yes. Movie screenplays are already quite formulaic, eg: https://slate.com/culture/2013/07/hollywood-and-blake-snyder...
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> When you withdraw you are no longer allowed to sign anything.

But I didn't withdraw my stake. I have a whole chain of blocks saying I never withdrew anything and it's perfectly valid because I signed it, and I still have a stake. Oh, you have another chain that says I did withdraw? Who are we going to believe? Who was first?
those insane yields are deceptive because they are not adjusted for inflation of the currency/token/coin
Ask HN: Why would a city on Mars avoid Armageddon?
And a nuclear war could be multi-planetary, wiping out humanity everywhere.
FeO3 (Iron Oxide) can be referred to as Rust and presumably the name PyO3 makes reference to that.
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I think this is a really helpful remark.

If you look at where this works, the team simply needs to execute -- largely not think creatively. I can see, then, why this is a comparatively rare form of organisation in programming teams.

I wonder if there's room for it in programming training. Imagine being drilled to produce the same algorithm in a variety of languages over-and-over. Would this be useful? (I use to drill myself in writing dynamic dispatch MVC frameworks as a teenager; I could produce a whole framework and app in a 1hr technical interview -- is this useful? I dont know).

I raise this because I've become increasingly interested in rationalising the Ramsey-esq autocrat, as its always been a part of myself I have been most self-critical of; because I am at once very sensitive to upsetting people but also "brutally attentive" to their (and my own) failure.

I have recently been asking myself: is this brutality actually useful? How much? Does it really require the humiliation a Ramsey or drill-sarg engages in?

Recent western cultural mores are aimed at ameliorating ego-injuries. Is there value in causing ego-injuries? Is there value in humiliation? Clearly there is -- it works in some cases.

Its a weird question to ask though: our culture is so preoccupied with preventing ego-injury... it seems immoral and absurd to suggest causing them.
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10000 times." - Bruce Lee

So now I'm thoroughly confused, which one is better?
Eventually, a robot that doesn’t need to commute.
From what I gather:

Bump keys are the simplest way to bypass common locks. You can make one in a few hours and it’s pretty much universal.

Most doors aren’t that strong. You can’t pick a lock but you can just knock the door in.

If you can’t knock a door in, try a window.

House has a security system? Get a ladder and go to the second floor. Most security systems are only installed on the first floor.

Or cut the phone line outside the house as that’ll disable the security system entirely (unless it’s wireless).

If the security system has a combined control panel and main board, just run in and smash it. Good systems separate the control panel from the main board to delay the burglar finding it and allowing the system to call for authorities.

Basically locks, security systems, cameras, reinforced door frames, and protective film on windows are just delays, not preventatives. The idea is to delay the burglar enough such that they either get caught or so they decide to hit the next house without as many obstacles.
Yes, I thought 'oh this has been done carefully' when I read the bit about considering `\var` uh.. variants, but I was surprised that that consideration wasn't grouping them together - counting sigma with 'var sigma' for example.

Are they ever treated as different? Here's a whole lot of \vartheta on Wikipedia for 'theta function', for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta_function#Jacobi_theta_fu...

I always thought it was just like having both a 'double-storey' and 'single-storey' 'a' available in the same font.
GP: > This situation seems a lot like two years ago with the CDC saying "there are no confirmed cases in the US"

P: > I would be very careful not to fall into paranoia. It's easy and destructive.

Two years ago, paranoia might have helped. (Although considering how many places are now starting to abandon the zero-COVID goal, it might not have worked forever).
Most of those are just handwriting variations of the regular Greek letters though. I know I usually use a lot of those variants in handwriting (apart from varpi) to distinguish them from the Latin letters (e.g. varkappa is preferable to kappa). It seems it would be more interesting to ignore variants like that.

I remember a lecturer who didn’t like saying or drawing xi and so called it squiggle and just scribbled about a bit on the blackboard. I think I also had a time when a lecturer used both phi and varphi for different things in one equation.

I also don’t understand why upsilon gets considered little-used but omicron doesn’t get that treatment. Maybe there isn’t even a \omicron in TeX.

I’m a little surprised that iota is so little-used.

Finally an anecdote from high school: my classmate once became very confused with a derivation on the board involving both k and K because he thought there was also a “middle k” being used as well as big k and little k.