skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have pretty large hands... For young men, it is about 1/10000 with the Moderna vaccine. No fatal cases AFAIK, but considering that we are talking about young men who are less likely to get severe covid, it is less than ideal. Benefit/risk is still good, but will it still be the case if we need a new dose every 6 months?

Anyways, for that reason, health authorities recommend Pfizer/Biontech over Moderna for people under 30. And it is probably what encouraged the use of half doses of the Moderna vaccine for booster shots.
Most of them are hosted on Arxiv (like OpenAI) - there's one on the front page right now, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29481665 . I link literally hundreds of DM Arxiv papers on my site. This includes most (all?) of the ones they host on their site too (with some exceptions with the prestige Nature publications - I think they don't want to step on toes there).

My best guess is that they want a reasonably coordinated release of their papers/blogs/tweets/YouTube-videos, and waiting for Arxiv's upload is unpredictable, so they simply host a copy themselves and the upload takes care of itself.
A safe bet is this one, which is also one of the most ancient ones that still exists today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism
Apple’s approach to China remains the most disappointing (and hypocritical) thing about the company. When privacy really matters for the users that need it most, Apple sells them out for continued access to the Chinese market.

https://stratechery.com/2021/the-information-on-apple-in-chi...
Ya, I think it was originally interesting because it claimed to show google pagerank. There was a tiny measurement bar.
Life before nationstates was famously prosperous, safe, and enriching.
My watch’s Siri seems to trigger when washing my hands, or sometimes when I am in the kitchen and somebody else opens the tap.

I was on a zoom call the other day, both of us using speaker (no headsets) and something trigger both our watches to say, “sorry, I didn’t get that”, in each of our languages. At least we both laughed.
One point is that one should be proactive in testing things on your house and property because no one else is going to do it, which is obviously and unfortunately exclusionary due to socioeconomic factors, as the article points out. Although that only gives you power to test things you have control over.

The other point is basically what you've already made by your elaborations. The entire lead and radon disclosure and right to test is basically theater. The disclosures are toothless, and at least in the market I'm in, you will not get an offer accepted if you keep your right to test. So the whole thing is pointless and only exists to protect industries and governments from repercussions. As you've also pointed out, the current process just creates conflicts of interests.

For radon, testing is cheap and easy. I think short term testing or testing records should be required when selling/buying a house with long term testing recommended (and prior long term test logs provided). For lead, I agree that the situation on testing and remediation is more complicated. For one, it shows the major and long-running repercussions to using and allowing lead in the first place and for so long. I.e., there are consequences to our actions and they can create a mess. In my view, actual knowledge is better than the current situation, which is one of theater, covering ass, and conflicts of interests. The practicalities of enforcing that knowledge I think are tough, but it should be better attempted. I don't think it's reasonable to completely remove lead from houses. That can basically only be done by a gut renovation (to my knowledge). But I do think it's more reasonable to think about testing and logging when it comes to windows, door frames, and other high probability areas, including when these areas were last replaced or last painted.
But unless the non-privileged users have access to the ssh key files - definitely not allowed in any sane set-up - their MITM sshd will be throwing big, obvious error messages at most of the users. (Which is the mechanism protecting you against MITM's via all sorts of "intercept the packets" network attacks.)
By all accounts this looks like:
1. He is trying to dampen the PR turd-cascade he has created
2. Hoping to assuage the Board from having to make him fall on his sword, so that they don't have to go on a new Exec search and he doesn't join those he terminated so utterly daftly
> It is needed

Why is it needed?
people have a hard time realizing when the technology they've spent their lives learning and perfecting is no longer applicable
Warning: anecdotal evidence from a limited perspective.

I did a biochem undergrad and was surrounded by premed students. Every single one of them was a North Face-wearing, click-y, "there to get the grade" student. They didn't display the same kind of awe for the amazing biological processes we were learning about, and they certainly didn't put in any legwork into undergrad research projects. They weren't nerds. They wanted a job with prestige and money. Several of them were bullies that talked bad about us and were not fun to be around.

I spent my time thinking about human regenerative cloning, transfecting biochemical synthesis pathways into things, the metabolome, connectome, etc. They used flash cards and socialized and would quickly change the subject when talking about biology topics. The material didn't matter one bit to them.

Complex things were gamed even more. They spent their time memorizing o-chem reactions rather than following the electrons.

My experience led me to believe that there are doctors that are only after the title and wage. They're not domain material geeks like us. I just question how many are actually like that, because my school was loaded to the brim with these people.
Pssst! Hey, dude! Lemme tell you a secret. Each cavalryman needs more than one horse.
FWIW Linux does support s390 (n.b., not to be confused with s390x), which is a 31 bit arch. Rust does not support it (and I'd guess LLVM doesn't either). So Linux does support some "weird" arches still.

This is partially what caused the shitstorm when the python Cryptography library took a hard dependency on rust to compile:

https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/5771
> Even researching what soldering wire to use is a pain because apparently leaded solder is just so much "better" when it comes to flowing than non-leaded. It just doesn't seem to be taken that seriously at the hobbyist level (whereas my understanding is that industrial processes already have switched to non-leaded solder). I get that it's easier to use, but what about when kids or pets are around, or you forget to wash your hands, or when disposing of it?

I guess I fit in the hobbyist you mention here so I'll try to chime in and explain. I use lead solder for my drone repairs and a few small home automation projects. Lead solder is not really dangerous at a hobbyist scale because the usages are spaced enough that even if you weren't washing your hands each month after soldering the measurable lead in your (or people around you) blood stream wouldn't be anywhere near worrying. In a way it's similar to asbestos, while it's 100% bad, the mere fact of studying in a room that has asbestos in the ventilation probably won't have an impact on your health. It's the longer exposure of say a teacher that worked 30 years in that environment that's much more dangerous.

There is also the tradeoff of non-leaded solder wire that needs higher temperatures. To compensate you would need to use more flux and that flux is a significant threat to your lungs.
>that's why there is no z-buffer, because it had no z-coordinate

Z-buffer is just an array of values you can sample, often as a texture. There is no inherit coordinates, unlike, say, vertices. Z-buffer is a 2d map anyway. The offset into that buffer would be the x and y.

Or do you just mean there's no hardware accelerated z-buffer?
Here's a link if you're worried:

"Lead Paint – What Years Did They Use It?":

https://buyersask.com/education-center/lead-paint-what-years...
a good video about lagrange points https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu4vA2ztgGM
AWS outage cascade event?
IIRC, their crawler pushes (or pushed) a lot of page into the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. What kind of effect will this shutdown have on it?
Technically 'COVID-19' is the disease experienced by humans.

The virus is 'SARS-CoV2'.
What exactly in human nature requires profit?
Were it so, it should've answered 42.
You'd assume that this would give a super biased sample of the population that would skew boomer+.
> one of the most common US names

With ~125k total names since the 1940's, it's not really close to one of the most common in the US; just one that was in the top 100 for 2 decades.
Thank you for these links! I think I have seen the first two at some point, but they weren't helpful. The `go-internals` looks great, and I will check them out.

I am also curious about the daily development cycle by a regular Go contributor. How do they make changes, how do they do quick tests before running the whole test suite etc
I’m sure one of our manned moon missions can swing by and top her off

/kidding

//a little
> the more we raise the bar for what qualifies as AI (as we should).

I'm not sure what you mean by that. The definition is pretty clear cut as "any system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of achieving its goals". The media has started to get on the bandwagon of "it's not AI if it's not an AGI" which is just nonsense.
Violations to the C++ best practices that enforce memory safety are definitely visible during code reviews.

The harder problem is convincing people that raising their quality standards is a necessary requirement for them to contribute to the code.
The problem is that unsafe blocks affect the code outside it, too. It is a common misconception that it does not.
It was recently fixed in WebKit, so I guess that’s a step in the right direction? Though I doubt it’s happening, lots of ads and spam via push notifications.
I don't know about their cordless stuff but aren't their corded vacuums considered the best? We got a one of their orange "ball" vacuums in 2009 as a wedding gift, it's been used 300+ days per year for the past 12 years. I had change out the power switch in 2019 -- it was only $9 on Amazon + a 15 minute procedure I learned from a YouTube video. When this thing eventually dies I'm pretty sure I'm buying another one.
Yeah I have a friend called Alexa and it absolutely infuriates her. Can't say I blame her.
Also adaptation of antibodies evidently works, as cross-vaccination schemes improve response rates. E.g. 2 doses Moderna, then 1 dose BionTech and vice versa, is better than 3 doses of the same for either one.

https://twitter.com/Karl_Lauterbach/status/14516437827855564...
Thank you for the kind words and feedback! I'll look into these.
I am mostly curious as to how they came to JS as the embedded scripting language of choice, as opposed to Lua or Scheme or anything else.
Wow. A quick and dirty vectorization yields an SVG of 9kB. The PNG even looks like it was originally an SVG with some linear gradients.
Seems like the news here is that it was reopened on 2021-09-30 after another issue and patch landed here: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231008

From my reading that patch does not implement the whole thing, but rather a part of it, but I'm not familiar with webkit source, so I might be wrong and the rest of the implementation is in platform code.

Anyway it's nice to see any progress on this since it is one of the most requested features.
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I don't think modules are going to help with packaging. But vcpkg is getting pretty good, with C++'s ecosystem being the way it is. There is no one way, and it seems to allow for a multitude of build systems. I've been using it with it's newer manifest mode and mostly don't need to leave it these days.
Well, it started off with a $0.5 BB budget, and was supposed to be launched about 14 years ago...
They are exactly the same practices that Rust has built-in into the language, so I'm not sure what you're hinting at.
Interestingly, Alexa was founded by Brewster Kahle, who founded the Internet Archive contemporaneously (both in 1996). Interesting flow of ideas between the two projects - one to figure out what is getting traffic (commercial) and one to figure out how to preserve it (non-profit).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle
Lockheed Martin is a private company with all sorts of laws on what they can and cannot do with foreign countries. It is not weird to create special categories for niche protected industries.
Cloudflare has Radar: https://radar.cloudflare.com/
that's basically Microsoft's business model
That's actually how we got nouveau, as I understand things...

The firmware itself truly is signed and so on
Ditto. While I'm sure they get patients who read random stuff on the internet, its frustrating that I can often get better information searching the internet with a basic understanding of how to determine the validity and how damn often thats better than my doctors recommendation and understanding and how often it changes the treatment path that would have been taken.

You absolutely need to be your own advocate because most doctors just follow a playbook and/or don't have time to think deeply on your issue, and/or don't spend time keeping their knowledge up to date.
Only thing missing is indexing of branches and forks.

My main use case for GitHub search is identifying provenance of misc. changes in vendor source code tarballs for e.g. Android kernel releases. It's hard, but sometimes possible to rehydrate most of the existing commits through cherry-picks and careful rebases.

The biggest problem with the lack of indexing branches and forks is that sometimes vendors makes releases through branches, or that sometimes repos of interests are forks of e.g. `torvalds/linux`.

Hopefully we can see those being indexed in the future.

I'm also curious: has the plan to drop "less active" repos from the index gone through? Has anything changed?
Talking to Trolls–How Users Respond to a Coordinated Information Operation
I don’t care about growth
It had a 1.5 billion budget, 9.5 billion in overruns.
Mine too, but I think you’re probably holding down the crown in the physical action of the washing. Your hands are bent in unusual ways and the back of your hand pushes up against the crown.

I don’t think it’s responding to a vocal ‘Hey, Siri!’ in this case.
thanks for a real answer, I was genuinely curious how black budgets work :)
Love it! Cheers!
I actually verified by running dig locally, but thanks.
> That is true for pretty much all current deep reinforcement learning algorithms.

Is that true? I was unaware that PPO, SAC, DQN, Impala, MuZero/AlphaZero etc would all automatically Just Work™ for hidden information games. Straight MCTS-inspired algorithms seem like they'd fail for reasons discussed in the paper, and while PPO/Impala work reasonably well in DoTA2/SC2, it's not obvious they'd converge to perfect play.
I would like to briefly visit your reality.
From link 2: "However, a significant portion of the human genome had already been sequenced when Celera entered the field, and thus Celera did not incur any costs with obtaining the existing data, which was freely available to the public from GenBank". The reason Celera was able to finish the project cheap was because public funding had already done the first 90%.
See Opytimizer for a Python version:

https://github.com/gugarosa/opytimizer
I'm a big supporter of PWAs, but I don't think push notifications add all that much value for most regular apps much less PWAs. However, I do appreciate that the apps need to request permission to send notifications as opposed to regular apps which can send them unless explicitly denied permission.
Oh hmm. Yeah it looks like the app isn't on the store for me either. I'm not involved in the app but I'll let my collaborator know.
Yes! I was going to the empty office and it was great, now more people have showed up, it's getting crowded and I prefer to WFH again.
FR gov asked Google and others last month to shadow ban Wish as they're basically a hazardous materials shop.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/france-take-steps-against...
> essentially the laws were bought and paid for by his competitors

Citation Needed.
> Groups never admit failure.

> A group will never admit they were wrong.

I liked this essay, but it seems like they combined these two observations together with their example about the non-profit. Failure and wrongness are not the same thing.

In their main example, it seems like the company did not admit when they had failed at their goals, and the solution to that is to measure the goals and be accountable. But they also did not question whether those goals were the wrong ones to pursue in the first place. Metrics would not improve that, and many for-profit companies run into that reality even while improving their KPIs quarter over quarter.

I would have liked that distinction to be teased out a little more.

In my experience, it's way easier to get a group to admit they have failed. Failure, after all, is only temporary, and often a reason to raise more funding. What's hard is to get groups to say "we need to question if we're working on the right problem", because that is an existential threat to the organization itself. People will fight hard not to change that: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it," etc. etc.
Google Analytics would only work on sites that run Google Analytics, which would exclude sites run by the other big tech companies. Alexa worked because their toolbar addon would record every site their users went to, regardless of what was running on the site.
If you need to fire someone, do it 1:1. How would you feel being mass-fired on a call? Do you have questions?
From the perspective of people who don't know Rust, it's not a sweet nectar, but a suspicious murky liquid.

From the perspective of people who don't like aspects of Rust, it's a yucky goo.

This is _not_ like with C. Few people are enamored with C, but - the language itself is relatively simple (Duff's device notwithstanding...), so in my analogy it's like water. You may not adore it, but you can see through it, and you'll be ok with gulping it down to quench your thirst.
Top Books about the Roman Empire – From Edward Gibbon to Asterix the Gaul
My bad, it's pretty good. (except the map, which is very much this https://xkcd.com/1138/ )
Inert lead, like asbestos, is safe to be around. It only really becomes a problem if you start taking actions that could allow it to become airborne in some way. There's nothing especially negligent about allowing lead paint to remain somewhere, especially if it's been sealed under layers of non-lead paint as is going to be the case in most situations at this point.
A file format to describe device trees, which describe the HW attached to the system. Mainly used on !x86 arches, as an alternative to ACPI-style autodiscovery:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devicetree
As some other commentators have already essentially said, welcome to Hell.
> One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

It's useful to remember what Friedman's advice did to Chile when he supported the Pinochet regime.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-chicago-boys-i...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/ma...
If you correctly model ownership with RAII, which also enforces strong class invariants, and make sure all operations satisfy basic exception safety, then leaks are not possible.

Those are the most elementary rules that one must follow when writing C++.
I disagree. By surrendering the meaning of words we lose the ability to communicate precisely. That may well always be a losing battle, linguistic evolution being what it is, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth resisting.
The trick for ML accessibility is minor finetuning the existing models that have been trained on these super training models so that users can get similar performance, and lately companies have been more open about releasing models open source.
It seems odd to me that doctors are even allowed to prescribe antibiotics when they know they aren't necessary. Why shouldn't that be grounds for disciplinary action?
I think it became a security issue when Apple bent to China's desire to keep iCloud servers in a domestic datacenter. If Apple gives up control so willingly for a foreign nation, one can only imagine how deeply in bed they are with American intelligence agencies.

National security issue, though? The US government has no desire to call Apple on security or privacy. Doing so would be a pure disadvantage for them.
Is Stratechery's paywall new? I'm surprised to see one from an author who writes in a voice that aspires to reach the world.
Oh good point. I'll update the message for android.
Unfortunately, we cannot, or will not be able to see the Big Bang. The simple reason is, it's just beyond our reach.

For the first few hundred thousand years, the universe was opaque.

This link goes into a good amount of detail about the first light in the universe:

https://phys.org/news/2016-11-universe.html

We might be able to see a bit closer to the events after the Big Bang with a more powerful telescope in the future, but I don't think we can ever be able to actually "see" the Big Bang.
The feature to load csv is pretty handy if you just need to figure out how to prototype a database from jumbled CSV data without worrying about types and then using SQL instead of messing around too hard on scripts to merge things into a third normal form. From there, export to something like postgres can happen if that's more suited to your use case.
This is the only article I've seen on this particular local and global logistics issue which, if the article is true, appears likely to have deep effects even in the short term.

Does anyone else know more about this problem or any mitigations being worked on?