skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that it's statistically significant doesn't mean that the people involved in the event know what they are doing.

G-intense tasks or stuff that has a g-intense reputation is often put on a pedestal but it's essentially the same as asking Tom Brady why is he in the Super Bowl every year.

He'd answer something like teamwork, good work environment and hard work...which is the exact same stuff that Simons answers when he's asked about Medallion.

It's not like the both of them have really a clue. If they did, they'd be able to fail on purpose , get back being nobodies and then regroup and get back to the top again. Repeat the cycle 10-20 times to be sure about it.

Don't know about Brady, but Simons as a man of science would try if he was 100% really sure about what's the formula for success.

In reality , not only he doesn't do that, but he pulled the plug on Medallion in 2007 during the meltdown, it's in the book.
> The STH guy can't spell to save his life and his grammar is terrible. His sentence structure and general writing skills are about what I would expect from a fourth-grade child.

I mean, he acknowledges this:

> I make a lot of typos, so I know how it goes. As someone who is dyslexic, this piece is going to have a few typos when it goes live, so I empathize with this. At the same time, I tend to spell my name correctly on official documents.

In the electronics industry, a typo on a label, and especially in the brand name, is a very strong indicator that the product is counterfeit (AFAIK such mispellings are often deliberate to avoid using a trademark). For instance, fake Apple products are often "Designed by Apole in Colifornia". And while it's true that the products are most likely assembled by non-native English speakers, this sticker appears to include some licensing/serial number information and was probably designed by someone at corporate headquarters for the express purpose of certifying that the chip is genuine.

And the author places the bulk of the responsibility on Dell and AMI for not catching the error, rather than the workers at Foxconn or wherever. Counterfeit parts, supply chain issues, and cut corners are common, so engineers in the US closely inspect a random sample of boards received from the factories to make sure everything was built according to spec, which is where this should have been caught.
Well, yes, this is basically all what applications can do by themselves without support from the rest of the stack. It isn't impossible but it will be limited to application/library-specific hacks and those have a limited view of the system anyway. Ideally you want support from the environment itself and applications only be responsible for scaling themselves properly.

The window manager is at the best position to support something like this since it handles window placement. It is possible to have a separate program that can keep track of window placement and support the relevant events too (for window managers that wont support this) but it can be tricky to get it work smoothly.

The sudden scale/resize is something that can't really be avoided without support from the compositor (be it the window manager, a separate compositor or server-side composition), assuming there is one of course (this should work without a compositor too, you'd just wont get the scaled fallback unless the server-side scaling patch is also added to Xorg). Again, can be done and the tech is there, it just needs wiring all these things up.
I have never had that ever happen, I am guessing nvidia? Are you aware of VFIO? Its probably a better solution, 100% gaming on linux with a Windows VM that uses GPU passthrough.
That would be Arizona (0.31%), Georgia (0.24%), and Wisconsin (0.63%), with 37 electoral votes collectively. The total margin in all those states combined was only about 42k votes.

If Trump had won all of those instead, there would have been an electoral college tie, which would have resulted in the House deciding on a one-vote-per-state basis. It wouldn't have been pretty.

Biden also won Pennsylvania, with its 20 electoral votes, by 1.16%.
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Fascinating and well narrated. I'm no math wizard but I found the explanation and illustration easy to follow. And the title of the video, "Repulsive Curves and Surfaces", is sure to draw some attention from the sheer amount of jokes it begs.
Is there any evidence this crash had anything to do with Autopilot or FSD? Statistically, the Model 3 is the safest car there is. And do they suspend the Crown Vic or Prius (or whatever the equivalent ubiquitous carbon-emitting taxis are in France) every time they get in a crash?
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I live in SF and think that there’s an okay amount of police. I don’t want enhanced police presence. Increased social services sounds like a better way to spend that money to me.
My impression is that that was kind of the case a decade ago and now basically isn't. Though I've had a slightly feeling it might be returning, but regardless I don't expect it to go anywhere. Atheism is becoming too boring and common place for the angsty side to be so alluring.
https://epjc.epj.org/articles/epjc/abs/2021/07/10052_2021_Ar...
I would describe him as a militant antitheist, but he was a product of a different time. Things like teaching evolution in schools wasn't a given. Proper sex education was rare, abstinence only was more typical. State governments would routinely justify choices with biblical verses. They had mandatory prayer in some public schools. Gay people weren't allowed to get married. We needed to fight back against a religious power structure that was visible in media and government.

Great news, we won! While all of those issues aren't resolved perfectly, they are largely solved. Religious leaders just don't have the clout they did twenty years ago. Nobody cares what the Pope says. It's over, or will be over soon.

Now, in my opinion, atheists should choose to be gracious winners. We should attempt to find common ground with the religious, and agree to disagree where we can. We don't need to turn into the monster that we have just slain and put our boot on their neck. Revenge stories like that are best left in the old testament.
Wow. How low have we come as a society?

There is too much material worship and too little purpose in peoples lives. The need to gratify the desires of the mind have overtaken the necessity to understand life and contextualize it in a broader context of existence as a whole.

Just think of how much better society would be if all these young people utilize their energy for betterment of society, rather than perverse self gratification.

I especially see the inner rot of society slowly bubbling up into the open. Current state of politics / economy / society where wealth worship, cult behavior and severe lack of empathy are the first symptoms. The end result is a gradual decline in quality of life, especially for the poor majority, and the inevitable revolution that comes about when the rich and powerful can no longer keep the tidal wave of suffering at bay using force.

And the cycle repeats.
This is mostly irrelevant with modern compositors. If you force the compositor pipeline, the worst it will do is drop frames. To my knowledge, the only hardware that doesn't do this by default is Nvidia GPUs, which have a specific configuration option to enable it.
I can't honestly say that I know enough about enough American cities to know if I agree with that, but I would honestly be pretty surprised if there aren't any American cities that rate better on the things I listed, in part or on whole.

As another person in this thread mentioned I think the one exceptional standout is LGBT issues, and even that's largely because of a motivated local queer community and even then it's also the city where Harvey Milk was shot.
- Catholic schools in Ireland

- Catholic schools in Canada

- Catholic schools in Australia

- The Nyarubuye massacre

Or do things conducted by catholic organizations on catholic property not meet your goalpost?
I wonder why there is so much hype with wayland, in use its mostly terrible unless you choose GNOME. Have these people ever used linux or xorg? Are they all just hyped from what it can do than what it does do, and will steam deck gamers also hype it up just reading that its faster?
We've reached peak YouTube. But that does answer the poster's claim. The lens is perfectly shaped to emulate an LED.
I bet many of those "failures" were before their time. Example the Apple Newton was a failure but the iPad was and is a success. Sega channel offered games via subscription in the 1990s. Nintendo power glove offered an immersive VR feel to games. VR goggles come back every 10 years and still haven't stuck. Eventually they might.
Yes. Professions where you can walk off the job and find a dozen other ones that have openings (say, software engineer) get much higher wage increases than ones where if you walk off the job you have a very limited set of other employers (say, geologist or elementary school teacher). That's why you have a very bifurcated set of anecdotes, where some people are like "my COLA was still a measly 3% this year" and others are like "I switched jobs for a 20% raise."
Anyone else find it odd that announcements from the elected mayor are being published on a privately owned site, Medium?

Even Trump who used twitter prolifically would still link to official whitehouse government sites for policy announcements
Ultimately everything ends up as machine code, which is untyped.
I live in the real world where we have conversations and attempt to convince people and convey information.

If we are digging into the bedrock of "can a thought exist" then you are not worth talking to.
Those are decent points. I'll admit to some dormroom philosophizing in my original comment.

Moving on:

> So you'd rather choose privacy invading ads just because it's technically not a paywall? I'll take microtransactions every time.

Surely there is some middle ground there? I find _both_ ends of that spectrum deplorable. At least with the freemium model I can bring my own ad blocker. But no, I don't "choose privacy invading ads". I accept that the current internet has flaws. You understand that cryptocurrency is going to get co-opted by mainstream elites and the top 1% though, right? Sometimes I feel like I'm watching history repeat itself.

> the current state of the internet can be directly attributed to content producer's inability to directly monetize their work so they have had to find an indirect way to get paid.

I agree and I think the causation is actually reversed; the internet has enabled cheap copying of 0's and 1's since its inception. This has of course caused all sorts of issues and I agree that content creators should have a more direct way to monetize their work.

What I don't see is how NFT's enable that. Yes, they enable a content creator to collect currency from a one-time transaction, or perhaps a smart contract setup to provide a commission. But; the file contents are not actually encrypted anywhere. So ad-based websites can still easily steal content and profit from it. Further, even if they were; it would be ad-based networks buying the best content as they can afford to.
I thought the recent data showed that most of this exodus of workers is overblown? People leaving stayed nearby, and people continued to move in (at a much lower rate than pre pandemic)

> About two-thirds of those who left San Francisco last year stayed in the 11-county Bay Area economic region, according to the same California Policy Lab study. About 80 percent stayed in California.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2021/07/08/uc-repor...
On the contrary, it is a pretty effective tactic that ends well for many people.

The variation I am more familiar with is going around a party and telling people strangers you have a condom that is going to expire and you don't want to waste it. I know a few people who have gotten laid this way.

Not all environments are safe spaces where sexual advances are inappropriate, nor should they be. People should however be polite and take no for an answer.
Hitchens is an atheist, but he doesn't represent all atheists. I doubt that most atheists even consider themselves to belong to an "atheist movement".
So you're saying that I completely forgot about Falcon Heavy, which I have personally seen launched twice? OK then. It has 3 successful launches, which is fewer than 106.
> Before 2020, no mRNA technology platform (drug or vaccine) had been authorized for use in humans, so there was a risk of unknown effects.[79] The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic required faster production capability of mRNA vaccines, made them attractive to national health organisations, and led to debate about the type of initial authorization mRNA vaccines should get (including emergency use authorization or expanded access authorization) after the eight-week period of post-final human trials.

That risk of unknown effects was still there even when it got authorized for emergency use. Has it changed yet? Like... there was a vaccine based on old tech that has been used in humans for decades without side-effects that caused narcolepsy a year or two later, and we got lucky to have been able to make the association. It is not really only about what tech it uses, apparently.
doesn't matter how "big" of a change it is, it matters if it breaks anything. that's the whole point of semantic versioning.

also how is "big" even measured? meters? kilometers? it's immeasurable, which is why the rule is to update the version number based on what changes break existing code, because that can be measured
Because it's... not like that at all.
You haters just don't understand how much _fuller_ a `1` bit sounds when it passes through this switch!
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The only studies that ever showed these 2 drugs to be ineffective were run on already hospitalized patients. There are plenty of small studies that showed these 2 drugs to have an effect in early treatment, but curiously, no large CRT studies that look at the effectiveness of these drugs in early treatment. Guess it’s not that important to know how many lives these drugs can save when nobody stands to make any money of off them.
Yep... she was a free settler.

I do have about 1/4 convict heritage though.
It's a program whose only purpose is to download/build some executable files, transfer them to a remote host, and then execute them. That would seem to encompass both "distributing" and "running" software.
I think it is clear that desirability was already there.

What they did was create a reward for jumping to the front of a line that you were already in. As everyone knows, the people most able to do this kind of thing are the people with the least concern over time and money.

I can go into work and put an appointment on my calendar that says I am busy. Nobody cares. I could even walk out of the office and say "I've got to go take care of something; be back in an hour". WFH makes all that even easier. If you work at a restaurant, drive a truck, etc? Not a chance. You have no flexibility at all.
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Back in the internet explorer times bootstrap was invaluable. Even if you were very good at CSS you just needed a different set of rules for ie.

You might be interested in tailwind. I'm unsure how to explain it, but it is a pleasure to use once you get used to it.
> But generally speaking governmental organisations are held to higher standards and have less incentive to be non-compliant

Citation needed. I’ve seen precisely the opposite. What’s needed is external pressure to be a good actor. The courts can do that to a government - in a country with very strong institutions. With a decent number of competing banks and a strong regulator, you can get very far
How is it foul play?

You’re getting a new Apple Watch.
I never understood, with the limited lifespan each Apple Watch realistically has - why on earth folks would opt for these far more expensive steel or ceramic units; anyways.

The biggest atrocity would be the poor folks who spent $10k+ on the original 24k gold Apple Watch Edition Series 0.

They are now stuck with an incredibly slow unit that’s locked to WatchOS 4.

I get that it’s a fashion thing; I mostly own a Watch as a fashion statement - but even with the extra income to afford it - I just could never imagine choosing to.
define a "major" language change, then. after that, get everyone to agree on that definition.

that's why semver works; the definition of major change is defined, and that's when you update the major version number.
> Upgrade

Upgrading is the problem in this scenario. Let's say 727 is the modern version. If users upgrade to 728, when 728 is based on 402, we have an issue.
This particular group of self-described activists were running a squeegee guy scam with cats.

They were stealing pets and shaking down the owners for cash.
>The new input costs serve as a Schelling Point for competitors to collude without any actual communication between them. As long as someone doesn't actively defect, the new price stands, and then it becomes the input for the next tier of suppliers (wholesalers, generally) to set prices.

And once again it comes back to the same issue. This shows there is not adequate competition if a few players can collude in this way. Someone would defect, lower their price, and increase their market share in order to increase future profits at the expense of temporarily reduced current profit.
> The post office is perhaps the best example where despite a known list of addresses and intended format they still backup OCR with people.

To be fair, the amount of people who write their own address incorrectly is staggering.

I'm in eCommerce and easily 70%+ of addresses have some sort of minor error in them. Around 5-10% are just plain bizarre, with things like two suburbs being included or the street name not including the Rd/Av/Dr etc.

I'd suspect this is one of those problems that seems easy in the lab but quickly degenerates when you consider the human aspect of it.
Just to add my own anecdatum here -- my mind's eye definitely encodes color, and I can relatively easily match a color in the real world to one in my mind's eye. Color gradients are instant for me, although I summon the incorrect red-green gradient caused by incorrect gamma correction to mind by default rather than the more pleasing one with correct gamma correction.

In the case of the red-green gradient, I'm not exactly computing the colors intentionally; I've just seen quads with interpolated coloring often enough that those memories feed my mind's eye. I can fairly easily visualize a blue-purple or orange-teal gradient, too, but I can't attest to their accuracy.

> But the mind's eye usually doesn't bother doing anything beyond a very low level of detail unless prompted.

That's my experience, too. Reading your description of somebody driving away in their car, I was able to easily reconstruct an imagined scene in my mind's eye, but I naturally filled in the missing details with a kind of "default" -- camera position and angle, whether the parking is covered, the car is like the one Dexter's dad drives in Dexter's Laboratory (but not a cartoon), etc. The details are... there-ish, if I care to query them, but for a simple replay of the scene, my imagination doesn't bother rendering them to any significant fidelity unless I intend to.
>...about something that isn't socially acceptable for no obvious reason...

What was the thing?
Can't wait for the crypto bubble to pop so can stop hearing about it.

No intrinsic value = doomed to fail. Crypto has crashed 80% even when economy was otherwise strong. Imagine what it would have done during the GFC?

It's inevitable the entire leveraged, lending, shitcoin, tokens, whatever will epically collapse. Because at the end of the day they are useless bits on a machine that provide no real world value. When shit hits the fan people will come to this conclusion and sell it first above any other asset.

Every "use case" is just a self referential web of perfectly valid technology obscuring the fact that there is no intrinsic value in the application or tie to the real world.
Yes, I do.

Well, not me personally but a "five-member commission, namely, three doctors (neurologist, infectologist and vascular specialist), a pharmacologist and Zoran Simonovič, a representative of the epidemiological profession" has.

https://www.gov.si/en/news/2021-11-30-expert-commission-conf...

> Minister of Health, Janez Poklukar, the head of the regional unit of the Maribor National Institute of Public Health, Zoran Simonovič, professor Borut Štrukelj from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ljubljana and Maja Bratuša held a press briefing on the current situation regarding Covid-19 disease.

...

> “The commission unanimously assessed that there was a direct link between the vaccination with Janssen Johnson & Johnson and the tragic complication, i.e. the onset of the syndrome”, said Simonovič.

...

> Moreover, he said that he is to propose to the vaccine advisory group to stop vaccinating with Janssen in Slovenia, or to enable vaccination with Janssen only at the explicit request of an individual, who must confirm this with signature. “This means that the currently valid provisional vaccination protocol with Janssen will become permanent”, said Minister Poklukar.
There is a lot of conversation about Zoom here: https://github.com/flathub/us.zoom.Zoom/issues/22

Apparently, there has been some recent activity via support channels. But I’d bet it’s probably not that difficult, just a matter of the team’s priorities to get to it. Then again, zoom isn’t very active or transparent in the OSS world, so it’s hard to say.
There are numerous examples of this, but I think the most glaring would be on issues relating to the COVID pandemic.

At the start, the scientific dogma was that masks don't work, and travel bans don't work, and worrying about COVID was irrational alarmism. Anyone who suggested otherwise was treated as not believing in science (this extended to censorship or at least misinformation banners on major social media platforms).

Now, the scientific dogma has flipped, and for example anyone questioning the effectiveness of masks is treated as a science denier.
Nope. You lose your family, friends and home after falling deep into drug abuse. You have it backwards.