skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll admit not keeping up with the standards, but back around ~2003 it was pretty common for arrestees in police cars to escape custody by kicking the rear window out from inside the car. It's held on by glue or something and pops right off the frame in one solid piece.

Cruisers now tend to have cages to prevent this.

(This is not a solution if the car is underwater.)
> and you should really read the comments on the article you linked, as well as they meta-analyses I provided on mask effectiveness when it comes to respiratory illnesses in healthcare and community settings.

Unfortunately, Tyler Cowen's blog has worse Covid commentary than even HN does, which is pretty impressive given the amount of HCQ/Ivermectin/bioweapon conspiracy theorizing here.

> Surgical masks in medical settings are designed to protect from bacterial infections, not viral ones.

This is patently untrue.. you're not one of those "virus particles can fit through masks" people are you? As just one example of how obvious it is that masks protect against viruses in HCW from the last SARS outbreak;

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7112437/
Dell’s Luna laptop concept is all about repairability
> Jetbrains makes the subscription model work, but they also do give you a permanent license to older versions after 1 year of subscription

That happened after they announced the switch to a subscription model to overwhelmingly negative feedback.
This is (sorry) a dumb philosophy that amounts to: don’t do anything about anything. House on fire? C’est la vie. Don’t grab a bucket or else you’ll admit defeat against reality!

Re the referenced comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29544104
| For example, in America you say "I'm a Republican." or “I’m a Democrat.”

I’ve lived in the US all my life, and I feel like I must have missed the day at school that they trained everyone to identify this way. It has always been completely bonkers to me to take on identity defined by a political corporation subject to the whims of the populace (at best) and monied/powered interests (at worst).

There are probably vast tomes being written by psychologists and sociologists about how it’s an outgrowth of our lack of community and need for belonging, but at the end of the day I find it all rather sad in the now.
I seem to recall that Isaac Asimov wrote science books for children, like about Chemistry, maybe other things. I imagine those are enjoyable for anyone w/ general interest.
When I'm negotiating compensation for a job, it should most definitely be 100% "all about me". There is no charity involved here. The company isn't going to make any investments in me that it doesn't think will pay off for itself later, and I should do the same.

> The company being somewhat reasonable with money

That's the thing, they weren't. If you've done the math and know how much a task is worth, then you should offer roughly that amount. To ask one amount and then double it when it's not enough means you either haven't done the math, or you have and you were hoping the potential hire hadn't.

It's like when I see anything regularly go on sale for 50%+ off; they're probably making money even when it's on sale, which means without the sale they have more than a 100% markup over cost. They have their market cornered and are getting as greedy as they can. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with me not buying it either.
> Every day spent learning JAX

To get started JAX is just knowing Python and adding `grad`, `jit` and `vmap` to the mix, it takes about 5 minutes to get going.

To me this is the real power of JAX, it can be viewed as a few functions that make it easy to take any python code you've written and work with derivatives using that. This gives it tremendous flexibility in helping you solve problems.

As an example, I mostly do statistical work with it, rather than NN focused work. It took probably a few minutes to implement a GLM with custom priors over all the parameters, and the use then Hessian for the Laplace approximation of parameter uncertainty. The proper way to solve this would have been using PyMC but this worked good enough for me, and building the model in scratch in JAX took less time than refreshing the PyMC api for me.
Hasn't it? Looks published to me. It has a doi and everything.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi9069
JetBrains had a mis-step on the way to that model (but had the sense to listen to their customers): https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2015/09/18/final-update-on-t...
Merriam-Webster also changed the definition of "vaccine".

Jan 18th, 2021: https://web.archive.org/web/20210118193104/https://www.merri...

> a preparation of killed microorganisms, living attenuated organisms, or living fully virulent organisms that is administered to produce or artificially increase immunity to a particular disease

Now:

> a preparation that is administered (as by injection) to stimulate the body's immune response against a specific infectious agent or disease
From README:

"Tabby is not a new shell or a MinGW or Cygwin replacement. Neither is it lightweight - if RAM usage is of importance, consider Conemu or Alacritty"

Kinda make sense. RAM usage should be of importance to No one. I wonder if it would take Presidential Executive order to get lowlife low RAM people banned from internet.
> and the company honestly may not care if their whole intent is to target the corporate market

If their goal is to target the corporate market, then they do care about individual hobbyists cracking their product - they'd be in favor of it.
Yes, the country that spends more money on police and incarcerates more people than anywhere else is having this problem worse than other countries because they don't have enough police and aren't incarcerating enough people. What?
I know this will likely get modded down, but how is this report any more credible than all the others (for other places) that say exactly the same thing? How credible are any of these reports, if they all conflict with one another?

Citation: https://youtu.be/YUV8U3yBJ6U
>marginal costs of launches to space unfortunately don't go down.

Some aspects certainly do, like ground-support-equipment and basic launch infrastructure.
I have the exact opposite experience. Search results are nowadays ridden with crap from companies that learned how to game SEO.

If not that, you get scam websites or other ad/malware infested trash.
How do any of these help? If you're implying climate change isn't really happening, denying it doesn't make it go away.
> Irrelevance of vaccines: in Denmark the percentage of Omicron cases that are vaccinated is the same as the overall vaccination rate, i.e. there's ~no impact of vaccines.

I see currently reported numbers of 75% and 81% for those rates respectively, which means unvaccinated people are over-represented by about 30% relative their percentage of the population. Now these numbers are still very new, and unreliable, have no confidence interval, and only for infection, not hospitalization. But I don’t think that difference would be irrelevant, unless it ceases to hold up after data is collected over the next few weeks.
Same here. I could "think" about it, but I couldn't see it. I just tested this out in a completely dark room. Both with or without my eyes open. I just cant see it. I cant visualise an Elephant in my head. Not even the slightest. I never thought when someone visualise it they really meant "visualise" it. This is shocking!

I very rarely dream. And even if I do I forget about it within 5 min. But I do know most of my dreams lack any colour, thinking about this now as I type I may be used to at least dream about something with faint blue and red when I was a child or teen, now it is basically black and white. And even in my dreams I dont see any people's face either. They will all be "faceless" ( at least as far as I remember it ). The only person who ever had a face in my dream was my ex-girlfriend.

When I was still a teenage boy doing IQ test or something similar, i quickly found out I couldn't visualise and do any 3D Cube questions. I just couldn't put those together in my head. May be part of the reason why I dont "get" Minecraft ?

And the voice / thoughts in your head. I dont have it either.

For me, This is a shocking! And slightly depressing.
If you want a modern C, use Go.

Unless you need maximum performance (SIMD, GPUs, etc.) you should use a developer-efficient, productive language.

Well-written Go executes almost as fast as C, and you will be more productive as a programmer.
There is no indication that you or your kids will be fine. The pace of extreme events is going much faster than any of the quite-conservative models could predict. It is most certain that my children's children lives will be heavily affected if not wholly dominated, by the combination of climate disruption, resource depletion, and biodiversity plunge. There is no reason to be panic but at this point not advocating for a tenfold drop in fossil fuel consumption is madness: don't fly, avoid driving, reduce meat consumption, inform your friends.
>I talk to a lot of conservatives. While many of them oppose abortion, the issue that sent so many of them over the edge is the lack of willingness of Democrats to agree on a limit.

I have found that the vast majority of "pro-life" republicans and "pro-choice" democrats I have spoken with have literally no substantive difference in opinion on abortion law. It is astounding.

Neither group has an actual answer for where the limit should be. Most are uninformed on what the current laws are. Only few outliers are all or nothing, eg life at conception Catholics, or late term abortion radical feminists.
> Moreover, you're not taking that risk "...every time you drive". That risk is much lower, of course, given that most people drive more than once a year.

The OP comparison of Covid to a football game has the same issue, of course.
Reminds me of Hyper, another electron based terminal. https://github.com/vercel/hyper

It was pretty hyped back when it was released, but I was worried about performance and never gave it a shot. I'm using the new Windows terminal now, and even this is sometimes slow. And if the main input mode is text, you don't want slowness.
> Terminal.app comes pre-installed

Not on most of the devices that can run Tabby.
I release personal responsibility for it. The leaders and influence class of a handful of rich countries are personally responsible. It is not a problem that can be solved individually or through grassroots action. Only coordinated political action can change the outcome. A well structured global carbon tax or carbon removal grant would begin solving the problem rapidly. If you have a vote, use it to support candidates who want to enact new green economic policy.

I spent 8 years working for environmental nonprofits and I’m proud of my contribution but don’t feel like any non-influential person needs to walk around with personal guilt, no matter what our fundraising materials or political ads may have said to the contrary.

So please go live your life as you see fit, and if that means going to work for NRDC, then by all means. They are a good group of folks that will be happy to have your talent. And if that means mega-yachts, go for it till we manage to tax them out of existence.
I went from 40cad/h to 150cad/h as consultant and you can too
Thanks, for the warning. I will look into more details regarding that.

What I initially thought was whether this can be considered fan art, and since it’s free (and open-source) I think it might be okay.

But, I’ll check in detail and maybe replace all titles before publishing it to the stores.
So, tell me, what is 'red'?
Not the wavelength thingie, I mean your subjective experience of this qualia.
> We'll never convince people with emotion or logic, but we can convince them with their wallet.

I'm not trying to attack you in particular here, but is this this actually a big realization to people here? This is a "no shit, sherlock" statement in my eyes. We were never going to control climate change with a "please do the right thing" argument.
No one is concerned that the inanimate object we call "Earth" is going to be harmed or that the Earth itself has an opinion on what's happening. We are worried about present and future inhabitants, including ourselves. It should not need to be said. Citation needed on the least existential threat claim.
You mean decompiled code? Reverse engineered code is just code that someone wrote to match the existing functionality of something else.
Good. Twitter owns their property, they get to do what they want with it.
Regardless of attitudes towards commercial IP, most countries take it pretty seriously when defense-related research is stolen. You might get off the hook in China for stealing commercial IP, but I doubt you'd get the same response for violating research agreements with the PLA.
I would describe it this way: my mind kind of has a scratchpad of sorts that's separate from what I see or hear. It's a dream-like space that you can conjure a vague image onto that's visual in nature but distinctly different from literally seeing out of your eye and not in real space. If you are able to recall and play a song you heard in your head - it's reminiscent of that, but visual. I often do both. When I was younger I often visualized words in my head as I said or thought them.
I ignore it.

Then again, my lifestyle is several times less environmentally damaging than 90% of the people here, so my mind is at ease.

If everyone lived like me, we'd be golden.
The evidence of the past year or two suggests otherwise.

For the first few months of 2020, media outlets were constantly downplaying the threat of pandemic. They consistently under-reported the risk. "Should we be worried? No! The threat is remote!"

What also sells papers (or attracts eyeballs) is giving people an impression of superiority: "look at all those ridiculous other people panicking!"

There's also the generation of anger: "you're being lied to! It's all a hoax / other people are trying to manipulate you by making you scared!"

Another angle is making people feel good: "everything is fine, don't worry about anything!"
Oh absolutely, but I still wouldn’t be surprised if the cost for unit 2 was still another half a billion dollars. It would be fascinating to know.
Hello, author here, happy to answer any questions!
There are still Apps out there that are derivatives of the HyperCard family.

LiveCode is based upon Metacard and was the subject of another Hacker News Thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24874102

There is also SuoerCard:

https://supercard.us/index.html

Which unfortunately is 32 bit only so only works on older variants of modern day OSX.
I think we have to be very careful with data from around the world. There are a lot of co-factors. We already know that generally being immuno-compromised makes covid a much riskier proposition for those groups. In a recent deep dive into the Ivermectin studies done around the world, it was shown and proven that in Bangladesh that Ivermectin reduced covid mortality. However, when digging deeper, Bangladesh has a 80%+ infection rate of worms with most people having 7-23. So taking Ivermectin helped save patients from covid mortality but only in the sense that it made them less immuno-compromised. The US population (e.g.) doesn't have worm infections like that. Any data from a specific geographic area/country/race/etc. may only have validity within that same group.
I, a few times, got reasonably far implementing a generic, type-safe, variadic, macro-based and using _Generic "print" for C.

I copied some examples of how to implement variadic macros, and expanded on that for C basic types. It mostly worked, you'll always have difficulty for corner cases like separating pointers and arrays, but it worked well for the basic C types.

I gave up for a few reasons:

- I wanted a form to register new types, so it could work for user-defined types;

- the C pre-processor knows nothing about lists that can be expanded multiple times;

- variadic C macros are ugly hacks.

Maybe one day I'll get back to it and publish it.

The interesting part is that _Generic combined with macros allows some very interesting tools for implementing primitive forms of polymorphism. Actually, if the C pre-processor supported lists, it would be possible to implement RTTI in C.
I decided I hated having chicken-scratch handwriting around the end of high school / beginning of college. I literally did writing worksheets (tracing over letters) like I was in kindergarten. And if I wrote a messy word / letter on my homework I'd cross the word out and do it again. It made a huge difference, and I started getting compliments all the time on my writing. It's slipped back into average territory since, but it definitely works!
Google. Good luck!
Why is gravity so strange?
" In most cases, the core causes of climate change aren't going to be solved by new tech."

Why not?

If for example a cheap, simple new technology would be out by tomorrow, that provides allmost unlimited energy (let's say a wonderful simple approach to cold fusion◇) - then all the dirty stuff we do today, because it is cheap - could be done without the dirt of fossil fuels.

◇ but I do not believe that will happen at all. I rather would invest in harvesting more the energy provided by us of the big fusion plant called the sun
Just as an anecdote -- I moved from a very cautious place (SF) to a place on the complete opposite side of the spectrum. I knew a handful of people who were infected in SF but none who died, but I know a ton of people here who have got the disease, including a bunch who have died. The local Facebook group is filled with prayer requests for loved ones who are being admitted under very dire circumstances and my healthcare worker friends here are completely shellshocked from all the death they've seen in the community.

Give me "unnecessarily wear a mask while walking the dog" and no deaths every day if my other option is "never wear a mask anywhere" and be surrounded by death.
A few weeks? From what I've seen staring at case/death charts I'd say it's somewhere around two.
Likely not great, if it hasn't seen it before. You could fine tune it if you had large amounts of data that sat outside of the internet corpus, but it doesn't sound like that's happening here.
> I also came across recent tweets about "hey, some people have some not-under-their-control voice in their head, how bizarre" and others were like "that's a conscious". It never occurred to me that the idea of a third-party voice as your conscious was a real thing in "normal" minds, not a metaphor for their sense of right and wrong.

Can you find that tweet?
> There are two problems that reasonably explain the decision

Boy do I hate these kinds of after-the-fact, speculative "explanations"—anachronistic rationalizations that come out of a mental exercise to justify what is by retroactively (and non-authoritatively) trying to invent a plausible why.

And if you know the personality and values of the progenitor of the whole thing, then you know that this better-safe-than-sorry deference to hair-splittingly nuanced IP hurdles (that in practice don't really exist) is not the MO.

Besides that, requiring public domain/CC0 doesn't solve either of those problems.
My mistake, the link in the article you first posted still shows it as a working paper and I couldn't find it with the original title when searching.

Interestingly the DOI does not show up

https://dx.doi.org/

Here's some further criticisms:

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1073440/latest.pdf

https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01296

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...
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I'm a principal engineer for the next 3.5 days, and then I retire.

The key element is that you are half technical and other half people. You could say the other half is political, but that's just what happens when you get a bunch of people together. The key is that larger companies are hard to steer. You can't have N engineers in N directions, and you need to point them in direction.

The way I look at it from a technical perspective is ensuring that the game being played is winnable. Is the project going to work? Or, is this a death march waiting to happen? Do people know what they need to do? Do they have the tools and knowledge? Are stake-holders bought into the picture? Is funding going to endure the march?

The title is entirely useless if you are not in a large organization. Turning the ship even 1 degree is a lot of talking and organizing... Meh...

I like to build, but I'm happy to never build a pyramid again.
Crypto analytics expert explains the top factors to invest in a DeFi project
Is this some sort of satire? OTOH this seems like one of those digital works of 'art' aimed at getting an emotional reaction from people..
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I'd like to join the chorus disappointed in Google search results.

It seems to do more correction for you, which is great if you're searching for common popular things. But any uncommon or precise query will often be misunderstood as something else.

Plenty of times, no matter how I reword my sentence or what sort of analogies I try to give it, I've had Google fail to give me something that I know exists and that I have to find some other way.
"Everyone knows"? Paxlovid was submitted for emergency approval to the FDA just last month.
We are going in circles here, IBM did not want a clone market all, they were not able to prevent Compaq to go forward with their reverse engineering, although they did try first with the failed lawsuit and then with MCA PS/2 motherboards.
Doesn't each platter side have its own r/w head? These days even a microactuator (maybe shared by adjacent plates?).
Why do you write code in the REPL directly? Write it in a buffer and send it to the REPL.
It really depends on where you work.

At my previous job, everything fell on deaf ears and I wasn't given access to the things I needed to make sure things were secure. I couldn't access Jira board for the projects I was supposed to secure to create tickets for security remediations, and issue reports were ignored.

Where I'm at now is better. I can create the tickets, but they tend to get ignored until I tag the PM for them to get assigned, after which they typically get fixed pretty quickly.
He quotes Stephen Diehl but not https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/nothing-burger.html -- either he missed it or doesn't want to include it because it offers a very sharp rebuke of all things crypto:

> Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database. Except crime.
for those slightly confused "Surly Big Dummy"

Surly is a bike brand in the US.

Big Dummy: The bike model (clearly with bad AI).

https://surlybikes.com/bikes/big_dummy
Yeah, right. I mixed up things. Clean-room reverse engineering is, AFAIK, legal.
I think we need fewer people that somehow manage to mangle logic to such a degree that they blame security vulnerabilities on the willingness of some project to state that it's generally preferred to treat each other with some respect.

Linus' insults were always cringeworthy. Sometimes they may have been justified, at other times they were just needlessly hurtful and revealed some sort of weakness on his part. In any case, he always had the power to say no with just that single word.

Log4J doesn't even have a code of conduct in its source tree, though I guess Apache probably has one. You'll get a free Log4j update if you find any instances of it having an impact on the project.
Mitosis: Write components once, run everywhere
Only if you know the JVM and a bit of Java, otherwise I would look at Scheme or Racket tbh.
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