skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only if you restrict to viruses that haven't killed their host population ;) But even then you could just wait until another higher-intelligence species appears and give them the same pathogen.

If everything survives, the resulting community can live with each other and that requires a sufficiently mild virus. However that doesn't help predict the future, because you can't enforce the precondition of everyone surviving.
The way I would describe things (being a programmer) is that my actual eye and my "mind's eye" are using different display devices. The actual eye comes out as a PNG in its full vividness, but the "mind's eye" only "sees"... something like an SVG? It definitely comes across that the "mind's eye" is encoding visual information differently, and words like "wireframe" or "storyboard" (for entire scenes) seem to be a better way of describing it than anything else, although I wouldn't call them great descriptions [1].

The most notable difference is that there's no "visual" encoding of color in my "mind's eye"--all that's there is "this thing is filled with color 3df76346cdcad147dcf0efc07e347bd0"--and when I look at a color palette with my physical eye, I can tell you if that shade is "color 3df76346cdcad147dcf0efc07e347bd0" or not, but if it isn't, I'd struggle to tell you what needs to be done to match the color. It really does seem to be some sort of one-way hash function in encoding color; I can "visualize" a red square or a green square, but something like a color gradient just makes my "mind's eye" go ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

[1] I think the general idea to convey is that details can be very flexible. For example, as I wrote this, someone turned on their car (remote start, I presume), got into it, backed out of their parking space, and drove away, and I only know about this through hearing it. I can visualize all that in my mind's eye without having to decide if the car is a sedan, an SUV, a minivan, a convertible--knowing that it's a car is sufficient detail, and the mental imagery doesn't give it any more detail. Then I can decide that it's an SUV, one of those that has some piping in front of the metal grill, and make a pretty detailed image of that front of the car. But the mind's eye usually doesn't bother doing anything beyond a very low level of detail unless prompted.
How closely does electricity production follow price signals?
'Seek' by iNaturalist is really good. Point your phone camera at an animal or plant, and it'll try to ID it
The upside is that it doesn't matter if its just one guy trading with himself, what matters is liquidity and you can't fake that (except if you are the owner of centralized exchanges, but those are terrible anyway).
Slower read speeds on old data is indeed a symptom of the SSD controller having to use its slower and more thorough error-correction mechanisms to recover data. However, since the first few generations of Microsoft Surface machines, the SSD market has made several relevant changes:

- a switch from storing charge in a conductive floating gate structure to storing charge in a non-conductive charge trap layer (Intel's flash is the one holdout here)

- a switch from planar to 3D fabrication, allowing a huge one-time increase in memory cell volume and thus the number of electrons used to represent each bit, and also opening up avenues of scaling capacity that don't require reducing cell volume

- dedicating far more transistors to error correction in SSD controllers, greatly reducing the performance impact of correctable bit errors but also enabling the use of more robust error correction codes
Driving has benefits.

Getting infected with COVID does not.
> You’ll actively make online culture worse by making the signal (content worth sharing)

The implicit argument these people make is what you might call the financial-postmodernist one: all content is worthless and meaningless, except for its exchange-value.
I think the whole debate about air travel boils down to the different people which would be affected by a ban or increased prices/taxes.

A lot of activists see the (often) unnecessary flights taken by business travelers or celebrities, in addition to the entire private jet market. They, (probably) rightfully so, attack this behavior. People who travel maybe once a year or less, say for vacation or to visit their families, feel now attacked as well and fight back. This may be their only bit of luxury which they saved up for. I can totally understand such a reaction.

As is regularly the case this develops into a flame-war and in the end more and more extreme viewpoints are taken, and the nuance gets lost.
What does that have to do with the cloud? A company where the "cost of IT is more expensive than the revenue" or has "needless complexity" is making bad decisions and will execute poorly whether it's cloud infrastructure or internal systems.

But if you need a server then (in most companies big and small) it's far easier to spin up a VPS in the cloud than deal with internal IT.

> "I didn't state that cost is the same thing as value?"

You're arguing over cost, but the cloud is often much greater value compared to traditional IT. Spending 2x for 5x more value is a valid decision. If it doesn't work in your situation then don't do it, but it's not the same answer for everyone.
It reflects human nature: turbulent and chaotic.
Most of these "free VPN" sites are scams, they collect & sell your data.
I'm a climate fatalist: it really doesn't matter if climate change predictions are true or the degree to which they're true because there is absolutely no way humanity, as a species, will do anything about it that inconveniences a large number of people in any way.

The ugly truth is that people are quite willing to let other people die or simply to live in abject poverty to preserve their way of life, even if it's just temporarily.

We've seen it with Covid: a significant number of people won't get a vaccine with, at best, extremely minor risks of side effects, certainly much less than driving a car or flying on a commercial airplane, or wear a mask even though it demonstrably hampers transmission.

There are a multitude of reasons for this (both Covid and climate change). It's a scary situation. Historically, it's better to bet against the Mayans: the Mayans predicted the end of the world so what is the point in betting they're right because the world ends. For some, it's simply easier to pretend none of this is happening. But a lot of people are just struggling to get by.

There are two things we need to do to actually address climate change, in my opinion:

1. We need to elevate the standard of living of the baseline of people such that they aren't struggling, they aren't living paycheck-to-paycheck and they aren't at constant risk of financial ruin (eg unexpected medical expenses). People will care about these things when they aren't completely focused on basic needs like food and shelter.

A key part of this is that the ultra-wealthy need to start paying for the politically stable world that made their wealth possible and continues to do so. The ultimate form of wealth redistribution is war and revolution and nobody wants that.

2. The solution to emissions is economic not altruistic. You want to replace fossil fuels for energy? You need something cheaper. Nothing else matters.

So, as for the warning signs in this post: I can't speak to how meaningful they are. I am 100% convinced however that it doesn't matter because no one will listen or, more importantly, change their behaviour to a sufficient degree.

I am always skeptical of "the sky is falling" predictions however. Climate, in particular, has a bad track record for failed predictions. The Earth has been around for 4+ billion years and it's been a lot warmer than it is now, even very recently (ie within the last 100,000 years) so I'm skeptical about claims of runaway climate change, as just one example.

4 billion years is a long time for runaway conditions to occur naturally. We simply don't have adequate knowledge of what mechanisms will kick in in extreme conditions.
It was early SEO that helped to do in AltaVista. When spammy, irrelevant search results started plaguing it, and AV's pages began to be crammed with ads, a neat little upstart came along with a very simple search page and a clean user interface, that returned better search results. This, of course, was Google, and guess what's happened to Google in the meantime? We've come full circle.

The SEO gaming, of course, continues unabated, and will continue as long as search engines exist.
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I have the opposite issue - much of my cognition is visual in nature. I find it hard to convey what I'm visualising in my mind in words sometimes. It can be hard to express abstract thoughts in visual form.

My go-to example is always that I can hold a mental image of a V-8 engine in my head and take it apart into an exploded view, see what the pieces are, and then reassemble it again into a complete engine. This is fantastic for being able to plan complex spatial operations but it's really frustrating to people who ask me "how do you know that" when I know where they left their items, or that the couch is too large to fit where they want it to go.
> Wanting something to be true does not make it true.

Indeed. And wanting something to be false does not make it false. People on both sides of this debate are far too eager to run with their preferred opinion and accuse anyone who disagrees of "misinformation".

"I don't like this paper, and I see arguments against it, therefore it is dangerous and wrong."

It's petty behavior.
What's your point with 9 vs 10? It's just a marketing naming decision.
If you have competent tech staff you can inhouse it on any of a dozen hypervisors for roughly the capital cost you would spend in 6 months on cloud.

Every year on the cloud can roughly cover the expense for double that capacity deployed on prem.

Complaints of "operational costs" generally assume a woefully incompetent staff.
"The omicron variant is cause for concern — but not panic" - Biden

"Most Omicron cases in US have been mild but most were vaccinated" from CDC reported on by CNN and MSNBC

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/10/health/omicron-cases-us-cdc/i...

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-report-omicro...

There may be more but that was a quick Google search. You said "politicians and news hosts decided to completely ignore her description about it." but that's incorrect
Here's a series of tweets by @SwiftOnSecurity to give a feeling of how those really impacted are doing that I think capture the mood:

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/14694518560910090...

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/14703213781550202...

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/14703215750145802...

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/14704312736342179...

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/14707958604349030...
It’s a tiny datapoint but my B2C company is probably going to put prices up in January. Our costs have risen, we have held off as long as possible but will probably have to make the change.
I think this reasoning doesn't hold up imo.

The vast majority of people are happy to exist, even people that experience a lot of suffering. Even if you ignore everything else, just that metric suggests on net it's better to have kids.

> "We should stop doing it as we might not have the right to create new life."

You can't get consent before hand so the best we can do is look at results after. By that it seems choosing to not have kids would be the less ethical position (though I don't personally hold that view - people should do what they want).

In addition to just being a fundamental part of humanity, a spark of intellectual curiosity in an otherwise indifferent universe, and a way to have companionship when you're old.
this is just metadata, e.g. any decentralized search would also benefit from this. the best time to add it is when you publish, just like the best time to document your code is when you write it
No NFL stadiums host 100k people. All stadiums in the US with a capacity over 100k are college football stadiums: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._stadiums_by_capac...

> Would you go to a game if you knew 243 people were going to be randomly executed at it?

Covid-19 deaths are not randomly distributed. We've known this for nearly two years now.
Mailoji looks neat! Do you have a link to the gift box feature?

You and the author might also check out the new ENS (Ethereum Name Service), it support emojis for use as crypto identity/wallets. "Triple pures" (three base-level emoji) are popular as a wallet address.
>Amazon should notify you if the limit is changed.

Again if a hacker was to access your AWS account with root this feature would be disabled and you would not be notified. Someone accessing your AWS is fundamentally the problem.
> Consider the ratio of R to E on the team when hiring

Even accepting his premise of Rs vs Es, this seems absurdly short-sighed. Engineers come and go, engineers can change their R/E approach over time or based on project. If you feel like you can't manage a team full of Rs - and decide to hire a less talented E for balance - then the problem is the way you manage. Take ownership of your employees and find ways to use their talents, don't throw your hands up and hire for some personality type that you imagine you've sussed out over a set of one hour interviews.
Hi, it looks really great. Reminds me of XKCD-inspired chart themes.

Several issues to better respect UI standards:

- Controls should have `cursor:pointer` so it show a hand on hover.

- Controls should have an active style.

- Clicking on a label associated with a checkbox should select/unselect the checkbox, just like radio buttons.

- Radio buttons should be visually more distinct from checkboxes, maybe by making them less round.
Exactly! If I watched SAC as a fourteen year old boy, maybe I wouldn't have as many issues with the more problematic aspects, but I didn't watch SAC until about a year ago, and it felt a bit gratuitous to me.
It didn't used to be this way. Tape was once affordable for individuals; ca. 2000 Travan was marketed to consumers and DDS wasn't too much of a stretch for prosumers. But they're all gone now and only LTO is still standing. Given the small, cornered market segment that tape now serves, there is no incentive to bring the price down. I'd like the option of being able to manage my own backups locally instead of using cloud storage, but the economics of Glacier remain too good until the storage size is several times what I could foresee needing.
> How does one bet against "the Metaverse"?

Competitors to VR experiences include, real world experiences, and psychedelics.
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Open source implementation of DRC:

https://github.com/zhi3385/openrdc
This is honesty good news. The best case scenario is a new less deadly highly contagious strain that become the most dominant and spreads worldwide.

Way too many comments and articles that try and keep the fear train running full steam.

A mild strain of covid that is contagious, leads to natural immunity and doesn’t require a vaccine is an absolute win win for the world.
> A lot of places are simply doing compliance check-marking and barely have a shred of technical aptitude.

Why would they? Does capitalism incentivise "caring" on a technical and ethical level about doing the right thing, or does it incentivise spending the minimum amount of resources to be covered by insurance and not criminally liable for anything? If they did the "right thing", someone in management is wasting resources.

Of course, if your company is private and the shareholders are decent enough people to make sure the board are doing things properly, this can work. With public companies I don't see how it is remotely feasible?

We have to legislate to compel companies to do this and expand the definition of negligence, which itself is quite complex. Make the people at the very highest levels criminally liable for breaches that happen due to lax, box checking behaviour on their watch. It is the only way.
In the context of a pandemic there's also the relative fitness (strain vs strain) optimization.

So a more lethal virus during a pandemic must also be more transmissible, as it's actively competing for the same susceptible hosts with other circulating strains. If another strain gets there first, chances are it's going to prime that host's immune system sufficiently to prevent reinfection.

Which means it needs not just more lethal mutations, but also more transmissible ones. The probability of all of those coinciding seems low, as the former are more likely to arise in immunocompromised hosts, and the latter in circulation among dense populations, no?
Precisely. That's my approach. I'm willing to compromise on my technical preferences to some extent, if the payoff is worth it.
Was this a deleted scene, or do you mean it should have been a scene?
A tutorial on how not to write comments (Python)
its not even valid for netflix anymore most likely.
What you should do before your cloud goes down
JAX is really exciting! JAX is mentioned in the Research subsection of the "Which should I pick" section. Do you think that the fundamental under-the-hood differences of JAX compared to TensorFlow and PyTorch will affect its adoption?

Haiku is really cool - I haven't used Flax. It'll be really interested to see the development of JAX as time goes on. I also saw some benchmarks that show its neck-and-neck with PyTorch as the fastest of the three, but I think with more optimization its ceiling is higher than PyTorch's.
Yup, it is definitely too soon to be sure of anything like this headline, and that's the word of the leading epidemiologists I follow.

Plus, this combination could be a lot WORSE for the hospital capacity situation.

Even if the virulence/severity is only a fraction, the severe consequences will still grow exponentially, just further to the right on the curve.

Meanwhile, the curve will grow a lot faster to the top of the graph because the greater exponential growth among both the unvaxed and the vaccinated.

So, higher percentage of severe cases and lower transmisability would be less bad — fewer sever cases and much greater trensmissability is almost the worst case.
Spinning the spaceship is a pretty hard problem. There's all sorts of constraints on how fast you can spin it for a given radius, and you have to spin it fast enough to be useful. The end result is that you're looking at a pretty huge spaceship that will take a lot of power to start spinning. Its not unreasonable to look at a smaller-scale solution given a world of limited budgets.
Yes long term, I'm just making the point that it can swing the other way for significant periods of time along the way.
It has nothing to do with the economy. Humans are social creatures. You can pay me $100,000/mo to sit in my house indefinitely and I can almost guarantee you it'll end in depression and suicide.
Hi, we have a webhook that can be triggered from Github PR's etc. If that's something you need would love to help if it's not clear.
There is speculation that it will run quite a bit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/AnalogueInc/comments/r86i0w/kevtris...
It sounds like your speaker system predates HDMI's adoption, or was never intended for use in a home theater system. Even the lowest budget soundbars will include an HDMI port and support ARC. I am surprised your TV has coax SPIDF but not toslink, as it was the gold standard for home theater audio before HDMI came around.

It sounds like you just got bad luck with your TV having a bad 3.5mm jack and not supporting toslink, as most I've seen will at the very least support the latter, and often have a separate "line out" port for the former.
In my day to day, I have never understood 3rd world to mean non-NATO or non-Warsaw pact member states or anything specific to WWII. 3rd world status has always been understood by me to being a state of development on things like infrastructure, technology, medicine, gov't, etc.
Not yet. I'll set up an appointment soon though.

I probably have a vitamin D deficiency as well, I can start taking supplements again.
Yes but Spanish Flu was really really bad. Affected everyone. Covid is not the Spanish Flu or even the Flu. The flu kills children and is indiscriminate. 80% of hospitalizations and deaths from Covid are related to weight.

We should have prioritized health and Vitamin D in April 2020. At that time it was clear it was mainly affecting overweight people. Of course even almost 2 years later people still don't think that as a whole. They say comorbidities. Just say it like it is... it's mostly fat people. The news and society won't say that.
When I started out as a developer the engineering part of the title wasn't as widely used. I was working at large enterprise and my manager started to use the term engineer to describe us to other teams, and my coworkers found it funny. It was chalked up as typical overblown language from my manager. Fast forward to now and everybody is an engineer. Also I have noticed a general inflation of the titles associated with it. Senior is the new Junior, etc. I'm sure its company dependent but my 2c
Yep, I got it on the first try. personalrobotics dot com. Not a neat robot hacker website, not even a company selling robots. Just a $300k domain squat.
All the „dirty“ pleasures have advantageous side to them. To at least some people, depending on one's preferences.

Sweet dirtiness tax on literally everything is the only way. A flight to the other side of the world vs 100kg of beef vs driving a car daily... Your choice.
Is this really testing aphantasia? I would think that to do that you'd have to show someone the first image, give them time to remember it or whatever, and then ask them which of the shapes are possible without reference to the original image. I think anyone can look back and forth between these things and reason about how they come together ("this is not adjacent to that so this folded version is not possible").
> Would you be willing to accept mask mandates in perpetuity?

I think it depends on location. In key environments like public transport and supermarkets and other spaces that everyone needs to be able to access it seems reasonable to me that we might keep them for at least a 5-10 year horizon if that proves necessary. It just doesn't seem like a big deal to wear a mask, and it would cut down on the need for more restrictive measures like lockdowns.
If you want misleading titles, try this [0] from the Guardian. Every single other news outlet covering this study managed an accurate headline.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/28/covid-vaccinat...
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The problem is, this time they can't pull the interest rates lever like they did with the Volcker Shock, because we have so many zombie companies that would instantly fold if they couldn't keep rolling their debt over.
Yeah, no reason why it wouldn't.
Also, I want to add a more positive anecdote to accompany some of the more negative ideas of principal engineers. I’m a senior software engineer (L5 in FAANG terms) and I’ve worked with a handful of principal engineers who have all been incredible colleagues.

All the principal engineers I have worked with have been humble and ego-less engineers. There’s this notion that they just write docs but they’re invaluable code/spec/design reviewers, they have taken on major refactors to tackle tech debt that just
lingered for years, and have generally unblocked me on so many occasions. The strongest principal engineers have never taken credit for massive projects they have orchestrated but “everyone knows” they’re valuable.

It takes a lot of skill, and I’ve found they switch between the “archetypes” effortlessly. Beyond that, they’ve helped me grow in my career and find impactful projects that look good on perf reviews. In my mind, the good ones are definitely worth their cost.
I see everyone's forgotten the reason the far right are banned in Germany. Remember, Hitler won a democratic election, and (by implication) the popular debate.