skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, but not especially relevant. Omicron has biologists worried because it appears to be different enough that it may be able to evade the immune defenses that we have to the existing SARS-Cov-2 strains. The thing they are afraid of is that you can catch both viruses, and get the disease twice.
They usually recommend to reinstall the whole operating system, though. Because people have time for this...
My take is opposite. Everybody with a bit of common sense would see such claims as problematic immediately and so they can dive deeper into the stuff. The problem is so much easier to explain if one uses the visual approach with proportional boxes for each age group. Single metric (projection) can distort a multi-dimensional data significantly, everyone knows that. But unfortunately people make the same mistake again all the time.
I was allowed to do that when requesting $5 transcripts from my university registrar's office.

When you're buying an apartment for many multiples of that, it's Docusign or nothing.
Scenario 1 involves POWcoiners wasting a lot of energy for several years generating tokens which end up being worthless, keeping coal plants which could otherwise have been decommissioned open for longer to service the resulting higher energy demand, and then when the mining stops and the coal plants can finally be shut down, telling the rest of the world it's only thanks to their energy usage over the last few years that we've been investing in renewables for the last few decades

It's like claiming that if I steal a percentage of your paycheck for a few years and until the government stops me, leaving you with more disposable income than when I was stealing it, I've actually helped you by encouraging you to work really hard.
On call is a dysfunctional company culture attacking its own workforce in a battle of attrition. Its the equivalent of rheumatic fever to a company process. If you need it, your reliability engineering is failing and the process that should mend it, is instead busy fixing symptoms.

Such a company is already dieing and will do once the team "on call" is used up, burned out and gone.It will be replaced in the market by something more vital, still capable to value its workforce.
This misses the key point that on-call itself is an abusive practice regardless of how well an organization practices it.

If an organization thinks their systems should be available 24x7 they should staff people 24x7.

There is no situation where it’s ok to contact someone to do work outside of their work hours.
> ... lumped so many people into the same group ...

This is the flaw in the UK aggregation, as cited from Table 4 by the blogger. 10-59 lumps nearly-invulnerable children in the same bucket with 50-something obese diabetic smokers.

Table 8, and the last line of Table 1, show properly-weighted vaccination effects.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
Affiliate Marketing: The Short-Cut to Excellent Profit
The simplest were the old car-jacks that you could put sideways across a door: a few clicks to expand the jack and you could push the door frame out of linear enough that you can swing the door right open — lock catch no longer reaches.
If the correlation says more unvaccinated people are dying, well you should go get vaccinated so you don't die!

If the correlation says more vaccinated people are dying, it’s a statistical artifact, it’s fake news, correlation != causation, you’re a charlatan for mentioning it, why are you lying???

Kind of like how increased cases are an indication that more people should get vaccinated. But if cases have gone up in areas with high vaccination rates — why are you talking about cases, obviously you should be looking at hospitalizations and deaths, you charlatan.

This has gotten old.
Severe illness and hospitalizations lag infections by weeks, so the initial data is biased.

Deaths lag on the order of two months.
Man's not asking the right questions!
You're confused about what the "case" is. The moderation team didn't publish the details of whatever shitty thing someone on the core team may have done because they don't matter. What they're resigning over is the fact that they can't do anything about it, because the core team claims not to be under the purview of their moderation.

That problem would be the same whoever on the core team did whatever shitty thing, so the details are irrelevant. This is about processes and structures for handling incidents, not a single incident.
This is the correct answer. War may spread to mars, but a massive volcanic eruption that blots out the sun (or other non-war mass events) is less of an issue if you live on another planet.
Note that you cannot use heptante for septante.
Lol jio just raised prices by 20% across all packages
And then there is eleven and twelve... Like not even consistency inside one decade... We in Finland have decency two say "one-second ... nine-second"
Monoclonal treatments will also not work well with new variants.
Any smart, sufficiently motivated engineer can get hired at one of these (which are a lot more than just FAANG) companies and make top dollar.

Realistically, the vast majority of "senior engineers" stuck at random company are not really senior engineers skill-wise. Which is why they stay there year after year.
I’ve been working on and IDE for music composition. Launching soon https://ngrid.io.
To your second question, RocketLawyer has free document e-sign. We've been using them for our contracts for about a year now.
> should be called out and their opinions down-weighted heavily

But thinking about this from a loosely signal-process-y angle, once you have a BS signal in one channel that routes to a a particular set of minds, how does one route the corrective signal to that same set of minds (as opposed to, say, just your local friends who already agree with you anyway)? And even supposing you do, those minds are already programmed to process these signals in particular ways that probably means they're predisposed to accepting one or the other before either signal even arrives.

The answer to this has always been to address the root of the problem, the preprogramming, through (relatively) uniform mass education, because that's the one and only place where you can (relatively) uniformly cram ideas into everyone's brain before they scatter to the winds and begin fancying themselves "free thinkers".
> People regularly leave

People regularly fled from behind the Iron Curtain, too.
Having implemented a nested PID controller using fixed-point arithmetic in an FPGA, I can tell you that fixed-point is a pain in the ass, and you only use it when floating-point is too slow, too large (in terms of on-chip resources), or consumes too much power, or when you really need to control the precision going into and out of an arithmetic operation.
I see what you mean now. Interesting thought to peg inflation to difficulty. I think the main issue is that Bitcoin is not, and will not be, a means of payment. So price stability doesn't matter much. The nature of the system favors few, large transactions. The small-block size crystalized that. Bitcoin is truly suited as a clearing layer. Eventually it will process just the largest most expensive transactions in the world. Which is good since that's the only way miners will get paid and the high transaction costs will ensure continued security.
Where do you think the transactions included in the block come from? The miner picks them.
Check out apache arrow in rust for transferring large amounts data between rust and python. With it you can get zero copy transfers between the languages. Afaik there is some performance penalty involved when converting python types to native rust types.

It used to be hard to do such transfers between rust and python using arrow but from v3 or v4, arrow implementation in rust started supporting the c data interface. Creating the array in rust and sending it to python might involve leaking a boxed object though

Check this out if you want to see how
https://github.com/jhoekx/python-rust-arrow-interop-example/...
PoW equally rewards early participants because they take the lions share of the initial blocks. Satoshi is a multi-billionaire. There are very few blockchains that don't heavily favour early adopters and for good reason: it acts as a bootstrapping mechanism for the community. Why would anyone participate in a chain they would get heavily diluted rewards when there are many others that reward early loyalty?
That's not 50B tech.

A self driving car is hard, a web app to edit a document with a few integration is not hard.

The value is not in how technically great they are, it's in their market position.
This is not even the most authoritarian online bill to be proposed in Australia and be supported by both parties. No, that dubious distinction goes to the Hacking Bill — where, in case you are wondering — the Hacking will be done by the government! (With warrants from a lower court of course)

https://www.accessnow.org/surveillance-state-incoming-with-a...
So a guy posted something on Facebook and got less likes than a teenage girl usually gets on Instagram. And so this another guy decides to preach to the choir because of that? Might as well write an article about microchips in the vaccines and 5G. I guess it also will hit the top on HN.
It's not hard to connect usage of an app to ad-tech systems. When you run those apps, they have ad-tech built into them, and pass on the fact you are using an app to the ad-tech companies.
That's not true at all. Here's an article about the reality:

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125229...

Incidentally, it really bothers me that you play the racism card so easily and casually without evidence. Please stop doing that.
Chinese (and derivatives) basically just count like English, but without the inconsistencies.

4444 = Four thousand, four hundred, four ten, four.

Though it is interesting that they group by powers of 10k instead of powers of 1k.
> A relevant comment from a thread on CalyxOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28101853

Ooh... that's ugly.
> Every time there is a fork, the market decides how much to value the forks

So literally the same as every monetary policy change involving every currency that didn't use PoW in history...
There are teams working on both the OoT decomp and a MM decomp, so I think that combining both of those under the Zelda64 heading is neat--especially with the callback to the pre-release OoT name.

Of course, then another team started a Minish Cap project, and now the name is a bit out there.
Bringing up an interesting point. Not refuting anything you said :).

Conservatives in some countries like Germany, Scotland are the ones who want everyone to get vaccinated while the [harder?] left want vaccines to be a choice, etc.

This follows along my own hard left politics. Vaccination should be a choice.

However the hypocrisy or lack of self awareness of liberals and of the right has made all of this stuff so politicized and vitriolic now.

IE I would have an easier time taking the rights anti mask anti authority stuff seriously if pushing for Govt to stop abortions and CRT learning weren’t massively popular policies. So it’s not about principles then.

For liberals, the amount of authority seeking is problematic and goes against the apparent principles of caring about the disenfranchised and bullying authority.
Sure. “An average human has one breast and one testicle” - N.N. Taleb
Dislike count or dislike button?

YouTube didn’t remove the dislike feature they just stopped showing the counts for dislikes.

The rollout of this has been quite slow. It took almost a week before the counts disappeared for me.

The thumbs-down, dislike button is still there and much more prominent than ever!
This is exactly why you need it. TPS empowers every line worker, not some central hero. You are describing hero culture, which in my opinion is toxic.
Author lists off group of people who should not get pager duty and I think it is unfair to the rest of the team that individuals who fall into the groups outlined are able to escape the duties and responsibilities of the job.

If the job posting or interviewing was upfront about the role will have on-call then the interviewee should make the decision to not apply or accept the offer if they're unable to fulfill the responsibilities.
From the about section (https://www.quietmark.com/what-is-quiet-mark): "Quiet Mark is the independent global certification programme associated with the UK Noise Abatement Society charitable foundation (est.1959). Through scientific testing and assessment Quiet Mark identifies the quietest products in multiple categories spanning many sectors, including: home appliances and technology, building sector materials and commercial sector products. "
While Earth is technically a SPOF, it is also a very large place with a very long track record for successfully supporting complex life forms. We can even say that life forms as we know them are attractors (local minima) in the chemo-energetical ecological landscape provided by Earth. None of this holds for Mars. Even if we are successful in establishing a handful of outposts, they are likely to be short-lived because the ecological balance works against them.
Good point, maybe I will :-)
Your serious claim is that a hardware novice can go from ordering parts on aliexpress to a finished, working system 10 minutes after opening the box? That seems implausible. I expect a novice would spend way more than that just trying to work out which pin is which and what they were for. That's what happened when we built the medication reminder box, and I have at least a little rusty electronics experience.

But fine, if you're going to claim that, please lay out the exact steps they'd take in that 10 minutes and how long each one will take.
I would consider getting syruped and feathered.

Hopefully dowsed in the one with artificial butter flavor!
If Github doesn't at least monitor their 404 error rate for large-scale spikes, whoever is in charge of SRE should be fired.

With no announcements and no response to a now two day old bug report, I see two possibilities:

1)Their monitoring of their infrastructure and monitoring of issues is shockingly incompetent for a company of their size and importance (the fact that it is a US holiday is irrelevant.)

2)This was 100% intentional and they're purposefully looking "incompetent" to get people to shift to using other services for downloads.

My money is on the latter, given others in this discussion are reporting random download link failures starting a month or two ago. A huge number of projects seem to use GitHub as a sort of free file hosting service. I imagine the opex for both storage and bandwidth is a not insignificant amount of money and someone has been told to shoo the freeloaders off the grass.

Announcing they're ending free file hosting for unpaid projects would generate a lot of noise and PR. Instead they just make it unreliable, and people go elsewhere. Multiple people in this discussion have described moving downloads of Github in response, which is exactly what Github likely wants.
All this effort to avoid the collapse of human civilization seems misplaced. Protecting humanity from calamity is only necessary if humanity serves a purpose. Would you back up computer data that is of no use to anyone? Of course not. The fact that something exists does not justify going to extraordinary lengths to preserve it.

Uniqueness does not make something useful or worth preserving, either.

As individuals, we all expire at some point. Is there a reason to think that humanity should be any different?
Even more loyal than the French to the ancient vigesimal counting system are
the Basque[0] and the Welsh[1].

Traditional Welsh has constructions as:

- 16: un ar bymtheg ("one on five-ten")
- 18: deunaw ("two nine")
- 41: deugain ac un ("two twenty and one")
- 71: un ar ddeg a thrigain ("one on ten on three twenty")

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_language
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_numerals
French: cent soixante quinze (hundred sixty fifteen)
Isn't it obvious? The narrative is that the vaccine continues to works (period - No more thinking allowed for the audience), thus they omit that someone who caught and transmitted to new variant was fully vaccinated.

The truth is nuanced, but CNN doesn't like to report nuances because it detracts from their oversimplified narrative.
If you integrate over time, an erroneous signal (a stray bit of noise) can still result in a few minds here and there having the wrong information. That’s not ideal, but it’s unavoidable and not catastrophic so long as the source of the bad information systemically has reduced amplitude next time.

Right now, sources of bad information get systemically louder, not quieter, over time. That’s way worse.
This is a theme in the Mars Trilogy series. Without spoiling anything, I think the timeline can make a difference. If Armageddon happens far enough into the future on earth, Mars might have become independent. The population of Mars might also feel detached from the events, just like we in the West don't care too much about military coups in smaller countries.
German numbers are basically written as:

10ⁿ 10ⁿ⁻¹ … 10⁴ 10³ 10² 10⁰ 10¹

Descending powers of 10 then the old switcheroo at the end.
Also see related: the soft landscapes twitter account: https://mobile.twitter.com/softlandscapes
edit: deleting the comment because I misunderstood the context
Several years ago I made a basic, interactive explanation of the same-

https://dennisforbes.ca/articles/understanding-floating-poin...

At the time it was to educate a group I was working with about why their concern that "every number in JavaScript is a double" doesn't mean that 1 is actually 1.000000001 (e.g. everyone knows that floating point numbers are potentially approximations, so there is a widespread belief that every integer so represented is the same).
You can add some flair by using CSS, but don't go overboard. Keep the blog simple and plain and don't add too many bells and whistles. And be consistent in churning out well written and insightful posts for your readers. So many bloggers fail to do that, which is why they fade into the background. If you have the time, write small tools to help you flesh out a post (templates, title generators, blogpost structure etc).
Storing and moving TBs of data doesn't sound that easy.

I'd rather pick insert an image in a document and keep a log of it as a weekend project.
Yes, crypto is not about inventing some kind of new financial instrument that never existed before.

It’s about having software that runs the regulation schemes surrounding those financial instruments without needing human regulators.
The thing that leads to No life on Mars more certainly than trying to colonize and terraform it and maybe failing at it is not even trying to do it.
If Bitcoin dropped PoW and miners switched to other PoW cryptocurrencies, then that would be a huge reduction in power consumption worldwide because all the other PoW coins combined probably don't have the transactions Bitcoin does.

Additionally, the Lightning Network drastically cuts mining power consumption.
> This article is like the factcheckers fact checking a similar irrelevant thing to avoid having to investigate the real issue

No. This article is like factcheckers satirically explaining how statistics work to an author that clearly has no clue. In fact it’s not like that, it is that.
"There is no situation where it’s ok to contact someone to do work outside of their work hours."

Here's one. I get paged for urgent fixes maybe three times per year. To staff all three shifts with senior engineers to cover for that would be enough to make the company unprofitable and lose many jobs. I don't much like being woken in the middle of the night for such things, but it's clearly necessary and not abusive.
When you see articles like this, buy more Ethereum not less. It means they are scared of it.
Berenson is one of the most prominent deniers, previously famous for his claims about marijuana being far more dangerous than commonly believed.
It's not a judgment of GoF per se, although I have some critique on the book as well, but of the impact it had. Unfortunately, a lot of people (mis)took it to heart, and GoF became just another book to learn by rote when interviewing.

Somehow related, Google right now demands interviewees to prepare using the Cracking the Coding Interview book. Pretty much it's like someone sells you a door and hands you a set of lockpicking tools instead of you using the key to enter.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15359574, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19084773
Videogames share that property. The Atari 2600 was ~5 watts. That's about what the Playstation 5 consumes during rest mode; when you're playing it, it takes 150-200 watts.

It really sounds like you're rationalizing banning Bitcoin because you don't see any value in it. That's a dangerous way to decide who gets to use electricity.
I think that's largely what it is. Reading goes out of fashion, only to emerge from it's ashes with a new, Matrix-y name.
I actually think Calculus textbooks are justified in being long. he material is just so hard to grasp for newbies that giving you more and more examples sort of provides you with more time to digest the ideas in the background. Many students need that at that stage in their studies.
I wonder to which extent our current Western re-orientation towards introspection and a crusade against psychological harm stems from a lack of space for physical expansion, and the exhaustion of the IT revolution. The Zeitgeist tends to concentrate on one or two things only. Maybe a rebooted Space Race could make us again look towards the sky.
Corollary: If a human has two legs, they have an above-average number of legs.
NFTs and a Thousand True Fans
Why is everyone complaining about people finding floats hard? Sure, scientific notation is easy to grasp, but you can't honestly tell me that it's trivial AFTER you consider rounding modes, subnormals, etc. Maybe if hardware had infinite precision like the real numbers nobody would be complaining ;)

One thing I dislike in discussions about floats is this incessant focus on the binary representation. The representation is NOT the essence of the number. Sure it matters if you are a hardware guy, or need to work with serialized floats, or some NaN-boxing trickery, but you can get a perfectly good understanding of binary floats by playing around with the key parameters of a floating point number system:

- precision = how many bits you have available

- exponent range = lower/upper bounds for exponent

- radix = 2 for binary floats

Consider listing out all possible floats given precision=3, exponents from -1 to 1, radix=2. See what happens when you have a real number that needs more than 3 bits of precision. What is the maximum rounding error using different rounding strategies? Then move on to subnormals and see how that adds a can of worms to underflow scenarios that you don't see in digital integer arithmetic. For anyone interested in a short book covering all this, I would recommend "Numerical Computing with IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic" by Overton [1].

[1]: https://cs.nyu.edu/~overton/book/index.html
Correct, but obviously Martian populations would need to be completely independent of Earthly support.
> I’m deeply concerned by the lack of statements indicating they intend to ... clearly retains the supervision role the moderation team provided.

That looks like a partial misunderstanding of the problem: What the moderation team said was that under the current structure, they couldn't provide any such supervision role in regards to the core team.

So there is no such thing to retain; that's what the moderation team resigned in protest over. Their resignation was apparently the only way left to them to say that it needs to be not retained, but created.
The vaccine reduces hospitalization and death, not transmission with new variants. That's why the CDC changed its mask guidance over the summer.