skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> didn’t put one person onto the ship that was provided for temporary beds

It wasn't for lack of need.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-u...

> But the reality has been different. A tangle of military protocols and bureaucratic hurdles has prevented the Comfort from accepting many patients at all.

> On top of its strict rules preventing people infected with the virus from coming on board, the Navy is also refusing to treat a host of other conditions. Guidelines disseminated to hospitals included a list of 49 medical conditions that would exclude a patient from admittance to the ship.

> Ambulances cannot take patients directly to the Comfort; they must first deliver patients to a city hospital for a lengthy evaluation — including a test for the virus — and then pick them up again for transport to the ship.
>Life is too short, and brainpower too limited, to justify wasting either on frustrating software.

This is exactly why I switched from Linux to Windows and never looked back.
Your second paragraph assumes our governments have the means to do that. They don't. Which breaks the logic of your conclusion. And masks do add protection. Their political leverage is null. What is gained by authorities ? There's no advantages.

> if we were worried about public health, vaccination status wouldn’t be considered at all, only infection status.

Ww are worried. Infection status is considered. Vaccination status is considered. You are building a counter stance to drive a point that aims to minimize the covid problem.

You can fight reality with logic and interpretations and a different philosophical approach of the situation but facts don't care. Hospitals are regularly overwhelmed, people are dying when they shouldn't and the virus doesn't care about our psychotic or neurotic bouts. We know that if we do nothing it gets worse real fast.
When something "big and scary" turns out to be nothing, they don't usually post an "all clear" on the front page to tie up the loose ends for the reader.

The resulting accumulation of worrying information probably contributes to a chronic stress in regular readers.
SUVs are common in urban Europe now. This doesn't differentiate between urban and other places but 40% overall means it's quite a lot in cities too, which matches my experience: https://www.acea.auto/figure/new-passenger-cars-by-segment-i...
Search Reddit for aphantasia. Or hn.algolia.com for lots of psychology topics. Try autism.
I have no idea if I'm in the minority of humans in this, but when I picture something in my head, it has colors, shapes, and I guess I'm using the same brain hardware as when I use my eyes to process the "phantasm" of it. My mental model is that this facility is another "source", in addition to my eyes, that can be used to pipe sense data into the visual processing "sink".

When I was young I was into ray-tracing with POV-Ray. The exercise of positioning a camera in a scene using a text file got me thinking about what it would look like if my eyes were up in _that corner_ of my bedroom. I would sit at my desk and imagine what it would look like and I would be "seeing" a picture in my head of what it would look like (given what information I had about things like whether the top of the half-open door was painted or not, whether the top of the ceiling fan was dusty, that kind of thing).

Right now I can mentally picture the inside of my refrigerator and pantry, and that's pretty much how I keep track of whether I'm running out of various things (which might explain why I'm so terrible at doing so, it's only as good as my mental image). It's not like I have one of those eidetic memories; these mental images are flawed and only somewhat accurately represent reality, with more familiar things being represented more accurately.

It kind of doesn't matter whether my eyes are open or not, but it's a bit easier if they're closed. If they're open, my eyes naturally just go unfocused while I'm doing it (my parents called it "staring off into space").
I think it's as simple as the fact that Snapchat glasses weren't $1,500 in a time before crypto.
That's really cool! Reminds me of some of the crazy stuff you can do with the Lua metatables to get really pretty code (if you are careful).
How do the domains work for this? Are they automatically created?
What's an example of a more pressing environmental issue than climate change?
a piece of plastic, meanwhile if your drive dies in a console out of warranty its the end of the road, perfectly working CPU/GPU main unit is scrap now.

Reminder - Microsoft send Lobbyists to every Right to Repair hearing for the last couple of years.
Show HN: Ejimo – open-source emoji and symbol picker (desktop app)
> ... concern is that such a complex and interconnected system is likely to be fragile in unexpected ways.

I second that.

The robustness of the current global energy supply system based largely upon solid, liquid and gaseous fuels stems from its flexibility and inherent buffering capability and the fact that lots of the connections/links are loose/weak/interchangeable.
(Supplier of fuel xy can be chosen relatively spontaneously, completely unlike some cable which invariably connects two fixed geographic locations.)

An intercontinental electrical grid is in comparison dramatically less flexible. I'd call it grossly negligent to even attempt to implement a world spanning grid exceeding lets say 15 % of total power transmission.
> Should McDonalds be in the business of operating Data Centers? Or should they just buy it from those who do it best and focus on selling food?

Should they be in the business of cleaning bathrooms, or should they just outsource that to a temp agency? Sometimes specialization pays, and sometimes it doesn't. Perhaps it doesn't make sense for McDonalds to run its own web and corporate servers, but doing so might make a lot of sense for more tech-centered companies. And I'd guess a server farm is miniscule compared to the size and complexity of their ingredient supply chains.
Oh wow, gk1 now works[0] as the VP or marketing at pinecone. That's news for me. The product seems interesting as well.

[0]: https://www.gkogan.co/blog/pinecone/
>Our children will complain about 1000GB bundles.

Our children will still complain about a 10MB application, if it does something that could be done by a 500KB solution.

>Comparing a complete bundle for an advanced graphical application framework with a TUI application is apples to oranges,

And what do I need a "advanced graphical application framework" for if the intended use case is displaying text in a grid?
pop! is indeed really nice, with the possible exception that for some reasons I have to manually recompile the nvidia drivers (and sometimes wifi drivers) with some arcane `dkms` commands every time the OS updates include a kernel update. After the second time this happened I just pasted all the commands in a text file for later reference but it sure is annoying. Apparently not everyone has this problem though, so maybe my computer is just weird.
That part about the saying "well, it's not rocket science"

In this case, it is rocket science.
Tesla is a well known engineering sh*thole in the valley (part of the reason I suspect they are moving some operations to Austin - they can't recruit!) - so this doesn't surprise me in the least.
In the long run, AI will own itself.

But, for now, OpenAI claims the rights to “all data & content accessed via its APIs”.
How to Play Your Way to Success
how is it better than numpy and just pytorch
I would argue though, that if politics really is downstream from culture, that there needs to first be a robust culture that is anticonsumerist. These cultures exist, the FIRE set being the most clear-eyed to my way of thinking. If there is no culture that is willing to unplug from the destructive systems, there's no viable political movement either.
> "Provenance" is tricky. For example, much of the knowledge of the Apple iWork formats were derived by reverse-engineering the source programs and extracting protobuf definitions. Many open source projects have freely copied from each other, making detailed analysis tricky

I wonder if the Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. ruling helps this in any way. Defining a specification (either with public docs, RE or empirically) of closed format for the sake of reading the data or long-term archival strikes me as emphatically free-use. But I could also easily seeing it ending up patent-troll bait.
Alas, the bureau is the people running it.
I feel we may still be talking past each other, so let me attempt to clarify my position one more time:

* Not taking an offer because it's not worthwhile - more power to you and the author. Zero issues or concerns from me. I wouldn't take it either.

But I wouldn't make a thing out of it either! The person is clearly comfortable in their day job, they have hobbies they enjoy, and they had an offer they negotiated then rejected (eventually; after the other side followed-up; apparently only companies are bad when they ghost employees, employees not replying with change of heart is fine:). Life.Is.Good.

* A well-to-do random person freely not taking a random $20k contract from a random company making top post on Hacker News with outrage at the "disrespect" and the awful exploitative business practices and evil leaders? Yeah, that's entitlement.
That's not an NIH report -- that's a random paper posted on the NIH domain. IVM may have some benefit in countries with parasite problems, unfortunately it doesn't do much in the rest of the world. Has already been discussed to death, there's no conspiracy, everyone would have loved for it to help but it really just doesn't;

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...
I'm making what are pretty obvious, factual claims. I don't think that any of the factual statements I'm making are even controversial. It's just the interpretation that has suddenly dramatically shifted in the US and some of its allied countries.

The UN Genocide Convention is very clear about what is and is not genocide. There's no possible way to construe a situation like this, in which the population and life expectancy of the group is increasing, as genocide. In fact, describing it as genocide sounds like propaganda.

If the Chinese government were trying to physically annihilate the Uyghurs, which is what the very serious word "genocide" means, it would be obvious. We would not be discussing whether or not the 3-child limit was being more aggressively enforced on Uyghurs. We would be discussing mass death.

I don't need the CCP to tell me that "genocide" implies mass killing and physical annihilation of a people. I'm perfectly capable of seeing that the word "genocide" is being misused in a highly manipulative way in the political discussion nowadays, and of pushing back against that.
Why this over if-elseif-else? :)
This is so great but unfortunately not available in Germany yet. Looking forward to it.
> Was any variant successfully stopped with lockdowns?

Statstically speaking, almost surely yes: with millions of infections there are thousands of variants, every day. If somebody was prevented from infecting somebody with their variant (as patient 0) technically we stopped variants with lockdown. Maybe they more favorable for us, maybe they were more dangerous from us.
The last paragraph of the WaPo article we are all commenting on:

“South Africa has a quite high seroprevalence of prior infection, particularly after delta, and in some parts of South Africa up to 80 percent of people were exposed to previous infection,” she said. “We don’t think it’s a question of virulence, but more a question of exposure to vaccination and prior infection, so we would be cautious to try and interpret that this is a less virulent strain. We’ll have to see what happens in other parts of the world before we make a call on this.”
Aka : "How to go to jail fast."

I don't care what a contract says, I would never openly try to hack US infrastructure even as an employee of a defense contractor.

Remember those pen testers who landed in jail last year despite being asked to perform a service?

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/12/iowa-paid-coalfire-to-pen-te...

https://www.cyberscoop.com/coalfire-security-pros-arrested-f...

Getting onto a watch list is easy, getting off one is impossible. While the authorities ultimately dropped charges after 4 months, both contractors have had their careers negatively impacted.

"The incident has had professional ramifications, too. DeMurcurio, a former U.S. Marine, had applied for a security clearance that suddenly seems to be held up in limbo. Wynn hasn’t been on a physical security assessment since he was arrested, citing concerns about being stopped outside a bank with a prior allegation of burglary against him."

I don't believe for a second that someone who hacks into some critical federal system even under contract will be given a nice payout rather than a comfy lifetime spot on a watch list.
Unix Time-Sharing System: Forward
'If you leave, you're more than likely to be fired'
That's the most deliciousverse so far
>Konsole is not actually 50kb, you need to include the libraries it imports to do an apples to apples comparison.

No, we really don't, because these libraries are available to other programs as well, whereas a huge packaged application is availabe to nothing than itself.
This seems off to me. I remember when I was using Mac, if I got a new machine, I had at least a day of downtime. Everything is minor, but it totally adds up. You've got to run around to dozens of websites, download, and click through menus to install Docker/Homebrew/IntelliJ/etc. Then there are all the nanny systems you have to turn off every time you hit them the first time. Oh, gotta give the console access to the filesystem. Half the binaries you download aren't signed to Apple's liking, so you gotta work around each one of those, and how you work around it changes with every major version of MacOS. Hell, just dragging, holding and releasing the 2-dozen useless default apps the hell out of the Dock takes a solid minute. Did you sign in to iCloud yet, btw? Siri would love to be enabled to, if you have a moment. Your home folder isn't in the finder, just a bunch of iCloud stuff and the Desktop. Do you remember how to option-click in the magic spot to find it and make a shortcut? It's death by a million cuts.

That said, I'm not gonna pretend that Linux is some utopia and everything works immediately. But there's no way it's worse. I have a script that takes any machine from a formatted drive to a working OS exactly how I need it, unattended, in about 20 minutes. That's extreme, but everyone at least has a list of the packages they need that they can copy paste install into the terminal as soon as the installer is done.
I just don't see how the metaverse has any more advantages than the virtual worlds of past decades. We've seen it in the mid-90s with many failed companies and only a couple of moderate successes in the 2000s with Second Life and IMVU plus MMOs if you want to expand the definition of virtual worlds to include games. The idea that you can replace the majority of in-person interactions with virtual ones is nonsensical to me; sometimes it's better to let people meet face-to-face. And it just seems to me it's all about puffing up the egos of Silicon Valley executives and letting them evade taxes at the same time thanks to the blockchain angle.
Cracking the Spotify Code
>Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,

>Advertising wondrous things.

This line bangs
Windows Speech Recognition, and it's unfortunately seems to be pretty garbage

Dragon Naturally Speaking (a paid product) is pretty good at normal dictation. My workplace bought me a copy when I was recovering from wrist surgery and it wasn't bad, especially since I could still use one hand. I've seen people mention using it for programming, with a bit of difficulty and a learning curve. But you can create your own custom commands, which is pretty much required if with keywords in a language that don't have a dictionary entry.
I do, but I also think that we'll see this biology flowering from non-tech people who have some tech skill. So it won't be tech companies moving into biology space, it will be lab workers and students who know some coding realizing that 'hey, I could do this thing using my phone' and sharing with each other. I also think that as the sector grows and we see more people trained, we'll see a medical research boom the same way we saw a boom in devs in the 90s so the talent base will expand a LOT.

The expectation windows are set by investors, and I think biology has a good shot at being able to get resources/funding without having to rely too heavily on VCs or investors (think government and academic funding). Likewise, there's no Microsoft, Google, or FB waiting in the wings to buy up/bury any advancements.

I also think we're overdue for some major social changes because our current ways aren't sustainable (regardless of what you think the problems are + what 'side' you're on, I think we can almost all agree that this can't continue). The main problem I think IS that we're too short sighted currently, and we'll have to correct that, so I do think long-term projects will become easier in the early 2030s.
The decision to call all of this "web 3.0" without actually consulting any developers (that don't own/trade cryptocurrencies) was such a mistake.

No - I don't want to write inherently buggy smart contracts for your scam. If I wanted to do that, I would have gone into fintech awhile ago.
Roblox seems to be doing alright with virtual scarcity, with designer avatar accessories going for $15,000 in some cases. (Roblox takes at 30% cut of the transaction.) I'm not exactly sure why they're successful with it, but just because Blizzard failed at a real life auction house doesn't mean everyone failed at it.
I feel I am the same as this. I often build things from wood and steel. In order to plan parts to be made, where to do cuts and make joins I need to think and "see" how best to do that. I believe I do this quite well, and my thoughts work out well once I put my hand to my tools and make what I foresaw. But I don't believe I ever had a vivid hallucination of what I was making, more a hazy wireframe that gets the job done
Whisky helps.
I'm hearing disturbing reports of all sorts of hacking, thievery, and even trafficking of drugs and people spreading to lawless protocols like DNS, HTTP, TCP. The government must do something to get rid of these dangerous protocols before it's too late.
We have housefinches and white crowned sparrows in my neighborhood, and both have really distinctive calls that get stuck in my head all the time. The housefinches sound like they're ripping a Van Halen riff, and the sparrows sound like they're singing the chorus to that TI/Young Dro song "Shoulder Lean".
Sounds like sexual immaturity on the part of the male employees. It’s weird that people look for romantic partners at work. But then again, if you work for spaceX, you probably don’t have many opportunities to look for a woman outside of work because of the demanding hours.
> And the voice / thoughts in your head. I dont have it either.

> For me, This is a shocking! And slightly depressing.

FWIW from what I understand people who do have a mental narrative voice think "slower". It certainly seems harder for me to piece together a structured argument on the fly than it did for my wife, though I never asked her whether she had a mental narrative voice.
Renting Now Cheaper Than Buying Property You’ll Own Nothing
Deployment sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzGLKQ7_KZQ
I like how half of these supposed 'bad news' articles are something like "Some Famous Person made an NFT... and people on Twitter are mad about it!"
> It would be one thing if SpaceX tested the material coupon and found it within specs, but by sheer probability, the strut had a portion of its material structure that was anomalous. That's what you're talking about.

Actually, that's not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is lessons from QA processes and the chance that any particular bug escapes from one QA process to the next.

The idea being, suppose you have:

* one million different "components" in a system

* each of those components have, say, 10 possible failure modes

* There are 100 of these new complex products a year.

Obviously the numbers above are all made up, but the idea would be in that example you'd have a billion (1,000,000 X 10 X 100) possible failure modes. Any QA filter, might be expected to catch, say, 95% of remaining bugs.

So you run as many filters as you can, but at some point you're still left with the small probability for new bugs, and they only way to remediate those bugs is to figure out what went wrong after the fact.
While I don't think you're wrong, in practice I think most people use fatality rates as a proxy that kinda implicitly includes non-fatal harms. How often do people talk about heart disease or obesity in terms of "casualty rates"?
Challenges to Creating a Network State
Thanks. The index is tiny and it is just a proof of concept of what a single person can do with technologies available nowadays. I felt it is better for it to return zero results than bad results.
Ocean acidification and the potential collapse of the planktonic base of the food web. By a long shot, IMO.
I can't really tell the diffeence between Gnome 40 and Chromebooks touchpad experiences. What makes Chromebooks so much better?
But how can the first wave of people get rich off of it at the expense of the second and third wave of people?
Ok, thanks for the hint. I put the most important infos into the intro: you just don't need 'll', 'l', 'z' modifiers for specifying sizeof(operand), as the compiler does that via _Generic.
Inflation is a tax on the middle class for the sin of trying to save money instead of being an indebted consumer.

I would disagree that inflation isn't intrinsically bad. At least the type of inflation modern monetary theory has provided in the past several decades.
If you can't pitch it yourself, I don't see the point, the first link is just about paranoia.

Were you ever curious but afraid:
– to click on that link in the email,
– to open that email attachment,
– to go to that shady-looking website,
– to install and run that suspicious program or even a virus,
– to insert that USB stick from someone untrusted?
Wth Qubes you do it all securely in a disposable VM and your personal files are safe. The worst thing which might happen is that the disposable VM breaks.

If the pitch is to make people paranoid to run a new OS they need to learn isolation on, there are way easier ways like running a normal VM, which most people are still not going to understand very well or do.
The good news is that it's open source, so if they sell out it's always an option for someone to fork it.
Hey everyone ,

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Hi, I'm the developer behind this effort. I can answer any questions you have.