skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Her videos are a great place to start. They capture a lot of footage of Wuhan in the early stages of COVID, and show things like the crematorium running overtime and the hospital overflowing, during a period when the Chinese government was telling the world that fears of the virus were overblown, and a pandemic wasn't possible.

They also display just how aggressively Chinese authorities reacted to non-state journalists simply filming things. So much anger and intimidation.

Her channel can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsNKkvZGMURFmYkfhYa2HOQ/vid...
I'll refrain. Thanks, dang.
Dangerous driving will eventually introduce one to another familiar, but much more devastating, concept:

a = dv /dt.
Glibc symbol versioning has only prevented programs from running. I disable it on all of my systems.
Base Rate fallacy.

The gist: consider a yes/no test that has a small chance of being wrong (false positive and false negative). Examples: spam filter, virus filter, pregnancy test, testing for another illness, etc.

How well it performs in reality depends enormously on the real ratio of yes vs. no.

Example:

Spam filter is 99% correct, 1% false positive and equally 1% false negative. That sounds good! And it is - IF your spam vs ham rate is 50-50. If, however, 99% of mails are spam, and you use this filter on 10,000 mails, then:

- 9900 are spam; 100 ham

- 1% of ham = 1 mail ends up in spamfolder

- 1% of spam = 99 mails end up in inbox.

So your inbox now contains 99 ham mails and 99 spam - an unacceptable 50-50 ratio, even though your using a superduper spam filter.

Changing the base rate of spam affects the outcome drastically. Obviously, 99% ham and only 1% spam flips the numbers around: inbox is fine, but 50% of your spamfolder isn't spam. Also not really okay -- and that with exactly the same filter, just a different base rate.

TL;DR: actual effectiveness of tests which have false positives/negatives is heavily skewed by the frequency of occurrence of whatever you're testing for.
> You may be surprised at the CPU requirement for modern WIFi Router.

You may be surprised at the performance of modern CPUs. Even the slow ones are pretty fast.

> That is not only it, the cost are going to support the linux firmware these router will be based on. Which having ARM ecosystem will be beneficial. So your initial cost estimate will have to include that into calculation as well.

The Linux ecosystem is highly portable. It's not like Windows where you're stuck with already-compiled binaries for the wrong architecture. You have the source code, it already runs on half a dozen processor architectures, so you compile it for the one you're using.

> And it is part of the reason why all routers are moving from their own MIPS CPU to ARM CPU.

They're doing that because MIPS is dead. The company that owns MIPS went bankrupt and has now announced they're going to make RISC-V processors:

https://www.eejournal.com/article/wait-what-mips-becomes-ris...

Before that they half-heartedly tried to open source MIPS, but that was after they were already sinking and it was too late to save them.
I can't help but keep rereading this. The statement "I've never done drugs" juxtaposed with "20 and 30 experiments" is kinda funny to me.
Rational rediscovered the power of psychedelics that aboriginal cultures all over the world have been using since the dawn of time to bring clarity to nature, ones place in it, and the universe.

https://maps.org/2004/08/08/nobel-prize-genius-crick-was-hig...

Simple put, psychedelics are used throughout the animal kingdom by all species for this same type of enlightnement. Arguments can be made that mushrooms brought about human evolution by waking us up to our own conciseness. We are the first generation of people to be tainted by the War On Drugs. And we will be the last to have forgotten it.

https://www.inverse.com/article/34186-stoned-ape-hypothesis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dolphins-seem-to-u...

Unfortunately, our generation has grown up being fed properganda about how Drugs are bad and religious is the saviour and the only pure way to live.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%27s_Messiah

One just needs to look at MDMAs effectiveness on treating PSTD with Gods version of treatment that covers up the trauma with religion instead of unwinding it from the mind.

https://adf.org.au/insights/mdma-ptsd/
Source from gods chrous themselves where they claim MDMA and ecstasy arn't the same thing now because science is showing its "positive uses" - even though every "Just Say No" ad i saw as a child insisted they were both going to fry my brain into an egg.

These substances will not produce profound effects when taken recreationally - no healer from any aboriginal culture will claim that. They are to be taken with intent, with specific settings under specific conditions in a variety of doses for you to gain a better understand of oneself.
Maybe what we need is a scienceCoin that is backed by NFTs made out of Hubble images.
Yeah I know about her channel, but could you please link to actual "rock-solid evidence" of corruption that she unearthed? YouTube has a nice timestamp feature.

Vaguely gesturing to a dense YouTube channel is not helpful.
This will almost certainly be used for weapons in short order.

Currently if you want thermal imaging or very low light capability you have to use very expensive substrates. Being able to use CMOS detectors for MWIR/LWIR would instantly increase available resolutions by an order of magnitude at any given price point, assuming these filters are actually relatively cheap.
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Ever since I started using a macbook for work, I have searched far and wide for a notepad.exe replacement and every single app has come up short. Let's hope this revamped version retains the snappiness, simplicity that made the original great, unlike calc.exe's replacement.
I don't think the Well-Architected framework specifies that you should use multi-region availability, but it's certainly a mentioned option for mission critical applications. Usually the go-to doctorine for high availability in AWS documentation is multi-AZ, not multi-region.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/reliabili...
You're saving 8 minutes both ways. That's seven days of your life back every year.
Ladders and hallucinogens do not mix
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Sure, it could be. I never said otherwise.

However, I am unsure what good evidence for a corresponding immaterial part might look like.
If someone had told me back in 1996 that in 11 years I would spend 2 full months of 2007 playing WoW I would have laughed in their face.
Well, I think I can tell you exactly what FB's response to the letter will be.

It's this:
You are correct, it was crass. In moderation, a crass joke can sometimes be in taste. Whether this one was or not is in the eye of the beholder.

My contention was with the accusation that I had suggested "women being objects to be passed around". It seems to me that the GP could not fathom that a woman might have sex - or reject sex - by virtue of her own free will.
> I've tripped many times and none of what I saw was real, and everything I saw when I wasn't tripping was real.

How would you possibly verify this claim?

What is reality if not your perception of it? Does objective reality exist? How do you know anything is objectively real and not a product of some brain process?

All of those are long-standing philosophical questions.

Here's [1] a quick intro on the problem space I found.

[1] https://iep.utm.edu/objectiv/#SH2a
See also:

- Conditional probability

- Bayes' Theorem
We only use a minute amount of our brain. Supernatural is a state of dystopia set out by the Religious zealots to rationalise their inability to understand anything not fed to them by their sacred books.
Work 100km. Driving 80km/h with little lane switching is 75 min. Going 150km/h also with little lane switching is 40min. Is saving 35 minutes worth it: absolutely.
Yes, in response to the religion of the military Science state.
And on top of this, I could not find a single place in the EU that actually had the LG 27” 5K in stock at all earlier this year.

The only way to get a good 27” 5K screen is to buy an iMac.
I really like seeing references to the Culture series when naming things:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games
No amount of "lets make it simple and just jump really high" will do that.

You're confusing "simple" with "easy". Simple things are often extremely hard. The moon landings are a great example - everything about the Apollo lander was as simple as possible. The reason why the inside of the capsule was covered in buttons and switches was that there was pretty much one button for each process. The astronauts followed simple "1 2 3" processes to do each task. The UI could have been a much cleaner, but more complex, set of steps with contextually aware buttons, but that would have made it far more prone to failure. Instead the mission designers decided to use a simpler, safer approach even though that was harder to actually build.

Simple is the opposite of complicated. It is not the opposite of hard.
Here's the problem.

Take cigarettes. Known harmful, regulations around selling to youth expanded, again and again.

In Canada, first, as a store, you couldn't sell. Then fines for selling, 100s, then thousands of dollars. Then it became illegal to show cigarettes in the store, they had to be hidden behind counter.

Traditional media was outlawed from marketing, showing them too.

My point is, if industry doesn't change, then government will eventually step in, and no matter how powerful or rich, an industry will bow to the law.

Government moves slowly, often taking a decade to move, or more, but due to people like Zuck, and due to corps like Google and Twitter, government regulation is coming, because they aren't self regulating. Corps never seem to, history is full of such examples.

The problem is though, that these platforms are now conjoined with how we express ourselves, and thus, this new series of upcoming regulations are very, very wrought with landmines, and the potential to significantly impact free speech going forward.

Free expression is at the core of our modern democracies, and if government become too controlling here, or conversely if private corps too wary, we literally could end up wit truncated democracies.

The decisions being made right now, will impact the future dramatocally, for generations. This is a fulcrum, a focal point, a nexus of change.

I am concerned.
How Metaverse Can Transform Fintech?
Surprisingly often people seem to select ethical grandstanding in that case.
This is clearly part of DeepMind's long-game plan to achieve world domination through board game mastery. Naming the new algorithm after the book is a real tip of their hand...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games
How do you get time/instances on an no code platform?

This problem was solved in 80ies on most timeshare platforms(read unix) where you would simply let users access an general purpose environment on a shared server and run processes in the background or kick up batch job using some kind of scheduler(crontab).

The old unix "shell account" should really be the benchmark for FaaS to beat and so far i dont think anyone have gotten close for small scale project.
> These substances will not produce profound effects when taken recreationally

This claim, at the very least, is false.
Astrology is not a science, and while quantum entanglement is a fascinating and important concept, it's not clear what it has to do with "the unknown".

Was that humour?
No. Why show your cards? They won’t.
And that biology in general is extremely random. School teaches it as a bunch of little machines.
That's the funny bit. Supporting the rise of China has been in the direct financial interest of corrupt politicians and businessmen all over the world for the past 30 years, yet now even they are spooked.

Shit's changed, man.
Those spider like plants, send a vine out with a plant. It takes time, weeks, but that's fast plant movement...
It does solve problems. The question is whatever current solution should be adopted as it's has it's own flaws and we can get stuck with them for decades.

Censorship resistence for developed world countries. When you cant just rewrite history we might finally get rid of "illegal numbers" situations like blue-ray keys and such.

And for less fortunate, failed or just athoritorian states there will finally be some option to access international banking system. It's like tor for money. Because crypto is controversial in countries with functional government, but it's might be the only way to fund opposition activity in more oppressive regimes.
MS Teams refuses to do video in browsers except Edge and Chrome, so I have to force Chromium to spoof Chrome UA.
You can harmlessly spread a lot of energy difference over a large enough time, or a large enough surface.

The most relevant concepts are probably impulse [1] and inelastic collision [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_(physics)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inelastic_collision
Huh, so trying to open up access to real information (instead of, you know, propaganda) about what was happening on the ground in the early days of a pandemic is now being a "Western propagandist?" Would you have said the same if the outbreak had been in, say, Cleveland? Because, if it had, I can guarantee you there would have been loads of on-the-ground reports from citizen journalists streaming online from minute zero (including from some number of folks who might be "vulnerable" people in their own lives!) and not a single one of those people would have gone to jail for it.

Also, to be sure, I don't think that last bit was all that "needless to say."
I find it interesting they’ve focused so much silicon on improving FP64 - in my mind that means they’re targeting physics simulations and other more traditional HPC workloads more than deep learning. I think that’s a smart thing on their part, because Nvidia really has a chokehold on the deep learning field right now with the A100 and CUDA/CUDNN software stack. I also find it interesting (and a good sign) that their recent supercomputer deals include 100 million for software development for ROCm/HIP.

However, considering how robust CUDA is compared to ROCm, I feel like all Nvidia would need to do to take the HPC market back completely would be to get close to AMD’s current FP64 performance. I don’t think anyone would buy AMD if prices were comparable and FP64 performance was anywhere in the ballpark. It’ll be very interesting to see Nvidia’s new cards, hopefully next year.
With an extremely small value for dt.
There's a one-page version of the latter conversation: https://koblents.com/Ches/Links/20-Using-Goto-in-Linux-Kerne...
I'm impressed a comment critical of terrorist thieves is allowed on a communist USA website.
I agree with grand parent regarding .env variables. During an interview it shouldn't matter whether a candidate uses a .env file or a shared config javascript object, just as long as the candidate can demonstrate the ability to write maintainable code, and isn't excessively dogmatic about their preferences.
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i.e. the scientific method

As in, not this: https://youtu.be/RxyQNEVOElU
@manwe150 I believe vaccinated or naturally immune people can exhibit ADE, and they don't have enough data yet to differentiate or quantify it [1]. It's variants like Delta and Omicron that may cause the production of inflammatory cytokines.

As far as my family being at risk for ADE or any one of the COVID variants, I bet on natural immunity. And I think history will prove me right and add to the already established track record of natural immunity with other diseases. They found people who had SARS 10 years ago still have a robust immunity system against it, and it is related to COVID more than non-SAR viruses.

Why countries are pushing to boost double-vaccinated young people is beyond me. Go ahead and boost the elderly and those with comorbidities, sure, but the risk is so low, even by the CDC's own published data for young, healthy people, that it is ridiculous. Even the CDC admits there are a high number of undetected cases in the young due to asymptomatic or very mild symptoms, which means that the published risk is most certainly even lower. Send more vaccines to other countries at this point rather than feed people's fear with another booster as placebo for those with natural immunity or previous vaccination. The FDA just voted before Omicron not to boost the young, 16 years and older at the end of September, but then Omicron comes along with admittedly no new data, and they flip instantly and approve boosters for the young. I'll take the 18 or so peer-reviewed papers that show natural immunity is as strong if not significantly stronger than vaccines, and the risk for healthy people under 65 vs. the CDC's two cherry-picked, self-published papers that try to knock natural immunity. It is very clear that COVID is a disease of the elderly and sick vs. the healthy and young. And it must be said that obesity is a leading comorbidity after age in COVID hospitalizations and deaths. Obesity has a medical code associated with it, yet doctors don't always code it for various reasons when someone is admitted with respiratory or other symptoms - we've gotten so used to it here in the U.S. getting worse and worse, we don't see it anymore; doctors don't want to be accused of fat-shaming (did we fear skinny-shaming of anorexia in the 80s and 90s? No, we called it what it was - a disease and tried to address it). So the 68% to 78% number of COVID hospitalizations with obesity as a comorbidity is probably even higher. I'll never forget when I came back to the U.S. after living overseas for 7 years, and how noticeable the increase in obesity was with fresh eyes. I grew up working class in Brooklyn, and most of my extended family were trim and active from work. My whole neighborhood in Brooklyn was like that. Now, I see so many people in electric carts, and handicap parking tags. It's no wonder a country as developed as ours has so many deaths from COVID.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20587384211050...
I think it is also a reference to "PogChamp", although it's disappointing that PoG apparently wasn't evaluated against the Arcade Learning Environment (ALE) corpus of Atari 2600 games.
>I self-host... and use Cloudflare Tunnel...

This decision protects your home IP address, but it still makes you reliant on something that is not self-hosted. It kind of feels like cheating, but I can't think of a good way to mitigate. What happens if your home ISP gets DDOS'd? What's that like? How do you (or your ISP, or their ISP or ...someone) fix it?
I am not sure how could you get such idea that "educating people about western values" would put one into rededication camp?

I dare to say, that's from main stream media reporting?

I have wechat group where people living in mainland and abroad discussing political economic topics. We exchange information, about the most sensitive topics. Peng Shuai, covid, US politics, Xi's lifetime term, etc. We are very open, of course we do use jargons to feel safer. No one is remotely close to be harassed by rededication camp recruiters...

My friends are all very open about Western ideas. They just don't care about voting and other western values. As I said, such value system are built from very young, it takes time.

They of course admire US environment where people can speak a lot of things without risks. And I absolutely sense that they prefer the society moving into that direction.

Given 1-2 generations, I see no reason why not CCP's core members will move into a mentality that open public discussion of most sensitive issues are OK, because at the time, the core members when they grow up, already accepted such values.

Let me tell you a story. Before 1970s, people in China value the communism high vision, they absolutely have much less interests in the material enjoyment; now they can always openly pursue such pleasure without any danger. That's the change that have always been happening, and will continue to happen.
> TextEdit on macOS is this fast when set to plain text

Not for me.

Opening textedit on macbook 13, with plaintext mode takes noticeable time to animate the window before I can start typing.

Opening notepad.exe on Win11 is instant. The window is on-screen and ready to take input, before my finger has lifted off the enter key.

Not to mention the silly bugs and lack of attention to detail.

Open a new file. Don't type anything, it will prompt you to save the file on close. Why?
In more practical terms, yes you absolutely should trust scientists, and it's important to know the difference between an "appeal to authority fallacy" and "deferral to expertise".

https://thelogicofscience.com/2015/03/20/the-rules-of-logic-...
Sometimes a riparian estuary is just a riparian estuary... Let's call a fen a fen and be done with it...

Would not a bayou by any other name be as mucky?
But you only see the recordings from those cameras with the same eyes you're trying to verify, so this isn't actually giving you anything useful.

You only have one input and no way of testing how reliable it is.
I'm not sure any of the big legged robots are using direct drive actuation yet; MIT Cheetah and Cheetah mini use quasi-direct drives with a sub-10:1 gear ratio for super high proprioceptive sensing. ANYmal actually uses series-elastic actuators, since they allow the actuator to operate at a higher speed and lower output torque, thus making them more efficient than a quasi-direct drive setup found in other quadrupeds [1]. They also allow for some energy reuse, since they can release energy stored by compressing the spring. The downside is, like you said, reduced control bandwidth, since the spring element will behave optimally under a given set of conditions and, going outside that operating range, will either be more stiff or less than is ideal.

That said, for the kind of work ANYmal is currently being deployed on (site inspection mainly, I believe), they're hardly doing hyper-dynamic movements, so I think selecting SEAs over quasi-direct drive was a fairly judicious choice. Just like it makes more sense to have quasi-direct drives in a highly dynamic robot like the MIT Cheetah; it depends on the use case.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Comparison-of-EV-electri...
I worked on macOS for many years. Apple's policy is more like Microsoft's than you describe. It was commonplace to have to revert changes that broke a "must-not-break" application that was dependent on undocumented APIs or behavior, and the source of certain projects is littered with app-specific workarounds.
If I'm not misunderstanding the paper this shows extremely low quantum efficiencies-- doesn't sound like it would be useful without massive increases in QE.