skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are completely wrong -- totally warped by the narrative.

Look at the Pfizer press release, Nov 9, 2020 - the first sentence:

"Vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis"

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
This is an editorial in the world’s top scientific journal— they don’t need to “sell” anything, and they need neither clicks nor views.
Wrong, The artwork is stored on a server. not base64. all a NFT is, is a link and a wallet address
Peng Shuai retracts sexual assault claims as fears over her wellbeing persist
It's not true, though, that 70% of Americans hew to standard partisan platforms. Polling consistently shows that support is heterogeneous (https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/06/22/5-views-of-p...): positions on individual issues have strong majority support within each party, but a strong majority of individual people disagree with some of their party's positions.
Me neither, i don't think that was the interesting part about the paper at all, but the fact that they were even able to train a clump of cells to do something is very exciting. Also their finding that human cells work better than mouse cells.
>who feels a personal distaste for free markets, for the triviality of what they so often elevate and the depth of what they let languish, but tolerates them because they’ve done more than anything else to lift up the world’s poor?

I feel like this is a bad argument. There's never been an instance of non-free markets that was given any sort of room to grow healthily without substantial outside powers trying to force it to fail. Free markets being the standard economic model doesn't deserve any praise. It's impossible to know without more examples of non-free markets whether we're making progress because of it or despite it.
That sounds low. Where did you get your numbers?
Why do you say it is still important to get your boosters?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29249686
I think a more charitable take on those two point-form statements is that he sees those measures as keys components of solutions, not that he's arguing to use only those measures.

I see the first as an argument against the type of environmentalist who argues that global warming is a huge problem, but that it must be solved only by reducing consumption and promoting solar/wind renewables—that nuclear and geoengineering are actually undesirable in that they compete with or distract from these more ideal solutions.

Similarly the second isn't necessarily saying that GMOs alone will solve world hunger, but that writing off any GMO food as unnatural and therefore bad is shortsighted, and misses out on an incredibly valuable tool to combat hunger.
Aye, at least existence of the spectrum confirmed, tribe identity confirmed!
They're already doing it with mice! - https://www.pymnts.com/cryptocurrency/2021/crypto-trading-ro...
Past related discussions:

In two incidents, F-16 aviators were rendered unconscious, but saved by software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26230732 - February 2021
(161 comments)

Auto-GCAS Saves Unconscious F-16 Pilot
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12501985 - September 2016
(69 comments)
> regular Java/Go/Rust SDK style

I thought that until I started working with Gradle (which is a build script tool who's syntax is nearly-fully-functioning Groovy). I miss Makefiles - they were strictly declarative and, while I've seen some hairy Makefiles, you'll never need a debugger to figure out what they're actually doing wrong.
Absolutely, even more important to learn how to manage those early in life and adopt healthy behaviors
But still not as trivial as an Airtag. You need an iPhone and an Airtag. That’s it. No extra service. No waiting non-Prime or non-Apple shipping for a tracker to arrive.

The first results in Google for me are $50 and are about 10-20x the size as an Airtag. Also multiple parts.
troubleshooting infrastructure is hard.

You cannot usually bring down or change something in production without extensive research because well, its production.
Issue usually happen either at seemingly random times, or at moments when doing something directly about it is nearly impossible because of the impact it will have on the production network/system.

Also, in production (in the greater sense of the word, for instance, a datacenter with a virtualisation system running multiple workloads/applications). that most issues between systems start to creep up.
Usually, systems themselves have been tested enough, its the unintended interaction between them that throws things off balance.
Growing up with parents that were small scale fishermen, I grow up recognizing that the store bought fish taste and smell was actually just fish that people hasn't manage well enough to keep fresh. Most of the catch we got was actually alive when we came back from the lake, and then generally imminently gutted, fillet, and put in the freezer.

Smoke salmon is an other thing that really should not be in fridge temperature for more than a few days, I would say max 5-7 days from when it was smoked. Smoked salmon freeze well through, and one can also grind up smoked salmon that has been frozen to make quite nice Pâté and other dishes. Naturally, if the fish was mishandled before it was smoked then the result is likely to be bad also.

Fish at the supermarket is really hard to determine how long it been unfrozen, or how many times the fish got thawed and refrozen during processing, or if all the people involved between has been handling the fish with the care needed to not allowing the rotting process from starting.
Yes, it's shameful that deer, minks, and other mammals that spread the virus refuse to line up for their shots.
By and large the people advocating extreme caution with covid are looking at policy from a single variable perspective.

The population looks at multiple variables. IE their quality of life, their financial situation, their desire for social connection.

Any policy that looks at a single or small number or variables, vs the holistic system is a policy that's not "following the science".

If you drive through the south of the US, you'll find that nobody masks and they live life as if covid never existed. And their health outcomes are basically exactly the same as NY or CA. So what effect do these policies have? The science shows, basically nothing other than harming quality of life
What does this even mean, turn an already switch to... a switch? Isn't an "USB switch", whatever that means, that can connect to multiple monitors (type C?), already a KVM switch?
> with a decent credit rating

That's the thing... what happens next year when Biden in a lame-duck President and the GOP end up blocking the next debt ceiling raise? The US would then be unable to pay bond coupons which would trigger a default. This would cause America's credit rating to tank.
Tokenomics 101
Yes, the Swift Playgrounds that just came out looks very nice. I've only glanced at it so far, but the tutorial material appears to be very well done.

One new feature is that it lets you build apps and submit them to the App Store with just an iPad. No Mac required.
Glass with an external silicon rubber shell is likely the best. One can remove the shell and wash them both in a dishwasher. I wish a company made stackable 350mL glass containers with glass lids and silicon shells and seals. I would buy 20 of them right away and recycle my Rubbermaid "Takealongs" containers that I use for freezing food.
At least for now, I'm willing to f'get about issues of "free will".

Thanks, I will keep trying to make sense out of Bell's work.

I keep getting stuck trying to read quantum mechanics: One place was the claim that the wave functions form a Hilbert space. Nope: As I read in W. Rudin, Real and Complex Analysis, a Hilbert space is a complete inner product space where complete means that every Cauchy convergent sequence is convergent. Well, while the wave functions are likely points in a suitable Hilbert space, they can't be complete, e.g., they can converge to a point in the space, i.e., a function, that is not continuous and, thus, not differentiable in contradiction to the assumption that all wave functions are differentiable. I admit that this is a small point, but I was trying to take quantum mechanics seriously and be careful.

Closer to the OP, another place I got stuck was in the approaches of physics to independent and uncorrelated: In probability theory those two are not the same: For two real valued random variables, independence implies uncorrelated. As in W. Feller, in the case of two real valued random variables with joint Gaussian probability density function, uncorrelated implies independence. Generally, however, uncorrelated does not imply independence. Independence is a much stronger property than uncorrelated. Maybe eventually I will figure out what physics means by "uncorrelated", especially for Bell's work.

To me, we can take the Ace of Hearts and the Ace of Spades, shuffle them, and deal them out, face down, one each to Bob and Sally. Bob can go a light year away. Sally then looks at her card and knows right away, nothing faster than the speed of light needed, what Bob's card is.

We know all the associated probability distributions for Bob and Sally. And we know that as soon as the cards are dealt what each of Bob and Sally have is determined -- so far unknown but still determined.

I'm guessing that this Bob-Sally thought experiment may have something to do with entanglement, the EPR (Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen) paradox, "spooky action at a distance", collapse of quantum mechanics wave functions, and Bell's results -- but I need to keep studying.
There is no logical contradiction at all in simultaneously opposing abortion while supporting capital punishment or vice versa. A right-winger believes that the state should serve to enforce the social contract and punish violators—they believe that a fetus is entitled to protection because it has done nothing to violate the social contract whereas a serial killer is clearly a menace to the interests of society. Right-wingers don’t object to state power over the individual in the abstract—they object to it situationally because they think state power is largely controlled by people who are hostile to their preferences and interests.
I came across an amazing resource the other day that provides data driven insights specifically to Ohio's covid situation, and I'm surprised not to see it in this article.

https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/dashboa...

This site provides stats that breakdown hospitalizations by age and race and also reports inpatient and ICU capacity.

It seems right now hospitals are at about 80% capacity, and out of total capacity 20% is due to covid cases.
Don't waste anymore of your time. Smart companies pay for quality talent regardless of location. Could be they deliberately low balled just to get you to expose your number - which tells you right there that they just view you as a number. Lots of employers in the world, if you believe in yourself you'll find one that respects your talent.
I don't know that I buy that being the strategy, at least all the time. HTAs were a very early swing at what 'Progressive Web Apps' are today and back when you had access to activex components, etc those apps could do tons of stuff. Of course, the security attack surface was a nightmare so that all got slowly murdered, but I think at one point there probably was a serious attempt to let people build real apps using web technologies.
Disclosure: this is my role.

I work as a sort of "dev tooling engineer" or "platform engineer" for several companies who are our customers.

After years of consulting in the area of DevOps, the pretty smart people I work with figured out that while the developers' user story in the process of devops transformation is a "revelation", the one thing that usually gets forgotten is the maintenance and upkeep of those tools. So we set up a pilot project where we started hosting, maintaining and upkeeping a set of tools consisting roughly of Jira+Confluence, Jenkins as the CI/CD server, Artifactory for binary hosting and Bitbucket/Gitlab for source code.

It has worked damn well for the first pilot company (signed on 5+ years ago), the second one, and by the third the platform started selling itself (getting a public reference from the first couple companies helped a lot). The second reason for the easy buy-in is to use known software that our customers could host themselves if they had to. This practically means that we aren’t vendor-locking them with our own proprietary tools. We just take care of off-the-shelf tools.

If there is a competent tooling team that takes care of the intricacies of the tools and maintains their uptimes, the dream of "you build it you run it" can still live. There is a giant gap between "you build it you run it" and reality -- much how there is a gap between a pilot being able to fly a plane and a pilot knowing how to maintain an Airbus, the airport and the runways.

It says something about the job market that losing a customer pretty much never happens. It’s so much easier to find sysops/devs than it is to find people who specialize in tooling.
I'm curious, do you also think it's wrong when the US applies its own laws worldwide where they concern its citizens (e.g. FATCA, Hague Invasion Act.)?
> I doubt you actually work there given your last sentence,

What is your logic? My company uses Meet and it's "mandated" in the sense that it is used for all company meetings. I'm in a position that I might get us to switch if I pushed it, but Teams and Zoom aren't much better. I assure you I work at my company.
Yeah but there are lots of companies doing this already including Intel that has poured millions into their Loihi neuromorphic chips.
I’m not a dictator and don’t want to live in a system where my minority view can consistently thwart the will of the majority. A reasonably mature person understands that their opinion, if in the minority, shouldn’t prevail upon the majority. Obviously I’m talking about legislation that doesn’t infringe the Constitutional rights of people.
For the variants at the time. The spread of the delta and omicron variants was tracked so closely and garnered so much attention in large part due to their abilities to at least partially evade vaccine-induced immunity, but this was always a known risk. The larger the infected population, the more chances for such an event to occur, hence the importance of measures like vaccinations, social distancing, and lockdowns to curb the spread.
The active debate surrounds the relative roles that the consumption/investment crisis and monetary supply crisis played in causing and persisting the Great Depression, i.e. which one played the greater role. One group would say that the gold standard was a primary cause, the other would say that it only worsened a situation that was already going to end very badly.

Meanwhile, the actual ideologists are the persistent minor branch of heterodox economists with an ideological incentive to resist any explanation that suggests that the cause was the gold standard or that the fix was government spending (and thus oppose both the consumption crisis and monetary supply crisis explanations), because they hold various libertarian-ish sorts of political views and would like to believe that high government spending and government control of the money supply are both uniformly bad. I get the impression from how your comment is worded that perhaps you endorse the heterodox position on this topic.

The intro to this wiki article has a decent summary of the various positions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Great_Depression
What about Julian Assage? US laws shouldn't apply to him yet they want to extradite and trial him for things done outside US juridiction.
preprint is available https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.02.471005v1
Can you give some policies or social values that you would consider more "Gouldian", that differ from/oppose the ones Scott highlights?
That's true, but extremely good algorithms to compress text/image/video already exist. Devs just don't consider using them when putting them on their web servers. I was curious whether it is possible for the protocol to automatically compress such images/videos using SOTA algorithms such as zstd.
Not to mention the layer that lives behind this.

Can you troubleshoot network level issues that seem to occur between your system and someone else's?

What about storage? Can you make sure your data is still their if your environment gets royally screwed.

I know these are usually done by seperate companies nowadays, but getting an an actual computing environment up and running with redundancy in place (down to the cooling and electrical level) is no easy feat.
> Is there a hypothetical future event or evidence that would shift your viewpoint to believe the "western narrative"? If so, what is it?

A good start would be a motive for why Beijing would do a Holocaust against peoples within China.

Hitler had a motive, you can read all about it in Mein Kampf. It was out in the open. There is nothing even remotely resembling such a policy by Beijing.

On the other hand, there is a very clear motive for why Washington would spread misinformation about Beijing. So to believe Washington's story is to put on my blinders towards Washington's interests and simultaneously accept that Xi Jinping is a comic book villain. Sorry, but that is ridiculous.
> without substantial outside powers trying to force it to fail

The only example I can think of is Soviet-style communism - I assume that the substantial outside powers you're referring to are western capitalism? If so... soviet communism was as substantial and working at least as hard (probably harder) to make capitalism fail, but capitalism was able to withstand assault by outside powers.
IIRC these companies aren't really hiring remote.
The video on that page is a great explanation. Very well stated, demonstrated and produced.
> The fact that information comes from a human does not make something a human subject experiment. The information has to be about a human.

The experiment is collecting more information than just survey results about CCPA policies. They're also collecting and evaluating information about how humans respond to their legal threats vs how they respond to less pointed inquiries from academics. If this study was merely ordinary survey methodology with questions that aren't asking about humans, it wouldn't be human subject research. But they have actually gone outside the bounds of a mere survey with the deception and threats.
That was the article where buried in the text it admits that there were 5 cases that police knew about. Just 5. Looks more like clickbait to me. For the price of an airtag I could just use a GPS tracker with LTE uplink, and not worry about Apple being able to tell the police who the tag was activated for.
I appreciate that the author was looking to solve this problem using a _classical_ CV approach just like in the good ol‘ days as opposed to just train another ANN that predicts the time for a sufficiently large training set.

As for the detection of the hands itself: I think I‘d try to look for them in fourier space to get a more robust result (to address noisy dials like in the last examples).
Is the interleaving of redis and db transactions atomic?
It's quite possible not to be familiar with the issue, or only aware of it peripherally. "Crick & Watson" is the way it was taught to almost all Americans, correct or no.
So what does he take to the "dirt park half pipe", and what is that? I've never seen a half pipe in a dirt park, do you ride it like a snowboard half pipe or a skate ramp?
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> There's never been an instance of non-free markets that was given any sort of room to grow healthily without substantial outside powers trying to force it to fail.

I think this is universally understood to be the reason markets work best: they aren't as fragile. The world is an extremely chaotic place where anyone with resources can use those resources to influence anyone or anything else. The most important quality of an economic system is the ability to function despite that fact.
I’m pretty sure he was joking. On the off chance that’s not the case, I’m really curious what country he’s from.
First, as another user pointed out, for the variants of the time. Second, "completely" is a strong word there; your link, and the part you quoted, still clarifies that it's possible to get infected.

Edit: You are also misreading what you're quoting[1].

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29619347
This article summarized the studies and the results are mixed. Not really sure what good news there is yet, aside that it does not appear worse.

Unvaccinated who haven’t had the virus should be very worried due to the transmission. For people with some immunity, the jury is out but personally I am not looking forward to probable mild Covid, until recently I thought I had a good chance of simply not catching it due to being vaccinated. that seems to be no longer the case.
> The race to vaccinate enough people is frankly impossible considering how politically charged it became. Fucking Republicans.

Please take your politically charged discourse elsewhere. This isn't the right place for mudslinging like this.
Man, I could almost take that as a manifesto, which probably means that I need to carefully re-examine my beliefs yet again. Just about one thing:

>>> encouraging kids to learn advanced math whenever they’re ready for it.

I think the actual number of kids who are likely to be super advanced in math and continue with that interest past high school is so small that encouraging that interest will have absolutely no measurable effect on how the rest of us fare in school or life. Yet it could have a great effect on the quality of life for those kids, and for the future welfare of society. In fact, being great at math, given the tiny number of people who are, is a drop in the bucket compared to being great at computer programming. Likewise for kids who develop an aptitude for playing classical music.