skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this article focuses on too much on some nuances of neuroscience, that in the end it becomes misleading. I guess a similar example would be making a statement like, all programming languages are equally useful since they are all Turing complete. It has some basis of truth, but is very misleading as in the real world, Javascript and QBasic are used in radically different ways.

Though I no longer am practicing neurosurgery, I did do 6 years of training in neurosurgery and probably treated thousands of patients with various brain issues.

So let me give my perspective on the first myth, and if I have time may address some of the other ones as well.

> Myth number one is that specific parts of the human brain have specific psychological jobs.

What is true is that specific parts of the brain have very specific physiological jobs. Psychological function is likely complex enough that multiple parts of the brain are involved, but there are areas when affected, that can have certain psychological effects. Let me give a couple of cases that illustrate both the physiological and psychological aspects.

For the physiological case, we had a patient that had seizures that could not be treated with medicine, and required some of the brain tissue to be removed. Unfortunately, the area was very close to the speech areas of the brain. What we ended up doing is putting the patient to sleep, opening up the skull and brain covering (dura), and then waking the patient back up. Neuropsychologists tested the patient's ability to name things and speak as we zapped small areas of the brain with electrodes. When we hit a critical area, the patient's speech stopped instantly. Doing this, we were able to map the speech areas with millimeter accuracy so we could safely do the surgery.

In terms of psychological function, it is know that the front part of the brain is involved in impulse control. I saw an older patient with his family who had a large tumor there. I asked them if he had done anything impulsive recently. They had surprised looks on their faces as they said, "How did you know?" and then related how the man, who had been a very upstanding person all his life, had done something that had gotten him arrested.

So I would say, for the general non-specialist, the idea that brains have specific parts that do specific things is probably less of a myth than some notion of all parts of the brain doing everything/most things.

A computer analogy to what the article is doing would be like saying that because there is no one specific part of a computer that is responsible for playing Youtube videos (the CPU, GPU, Memory, SSD, PCI system would all be involved) it is myth that computers have specialized parts.
I wonder if the disposition towards following health advice is in some way causally connected to the reduction in death rate...
Great. You are welcome to join https://netris.ai/slack
https://www.samrc.ac.za/reports/report-weekly-deaths-south-a...

Pretty interesting how it clearly shows both "deaths" and "excess deaths".

Here's a good one for Europe:

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
I'm in San Francisco and it depends on the event. For example:

- Infected Mushroom in the Midway: hardly anyone wearing masks, irregardless of if they are drinking or not

- Chvrches in the Civic Auditorium: most people wearing masks, maybe 20% of the audience unmasked. Even people with drinks mostly just removing it drinking and putting it back on.

- Spiderman in the AMC Kabuki: mostly everyone wearing masks

- Karaoke bar in Japantown after Spiderman: no one wearing masks, not even the barman and the owner of the bar that were of course not drinking
The documentation for the human body is much better than anything Google ever published, that's for sure
The design and UI/UX is clean. I like I can choose where I spin up the cloud browser and that it's ephemeral (for privacy/security). Sharing the URL to invite someone to co-control with is also easy. You guys need to integrate this into Zoom!
Definitely agree. Coding is so different depending on the language and the field. I'd also add:

4. Version Control

I've onboarded some new grads, and was surprised to find they don't teach version control in college. Students generally picked it up on their own, but I'd kind of expect at least 5 min of the first lecture of CSCI 101 to be something like "here's git and here's why you need to use it".
It is delayed, but not by a month. Remember the spike began around Thanksgiving, and it's almost Christmas now.
If I have to choose a time to stop masking, between now and my death, I'm not going to choose my death.

I will stop wearing one much sooner. I hate the muffled voices. I can't see anyone smile. It's dehumanizing.
Do you have sources to back these claims? I'd imagine that somewhere there is always enough wind and sun in Europe.
I think the initial sync issue is one of the worst problems, because someone joining in to leave a quick comment will be waiting for the system to synchronize. You can run the system on 1GiB/1 vCPU, but that comes with a performance penalty.

My instance of Synapse definitely can't join any matrix.org chatrooms, no matter how hard I try. Even rooms with a few hundred participants are awfully slow and leave scrollback state a broken mess. When I tried to join the main Matrix channel, both of the CPU cores I had dedicated to Synapse were pinned for at least half an hour, even after I tried to cancel joining the room!

I hope sync v3 lives up to the hype, but I'm wary. Synapse's Pythonic base seems ill-fitted for an instant messenger backend in my opinion, and no amount of protocol trickery can work around that.

It's not that I think the 1GiB is necessarily that excessive, but Dendrite and Conduit are blowing Synapse out of the park in terms of performance, to the point that I'd almost rather see the Matrix folks dedicate their development efforts more on bringing Dendrite up to speed than to expanding functionality.
South Africa is well under average vaccination rate globally. Also what do you mean by they've been exposed to the virus? Of course they've been exposed to the virus, that's exactly why it's interesting to see how their deaths follow cases.

There's no indication that the first world, with much higher vaccination rates won't fare better than South Africa, which seems to be faring exceptionally well relative to other case spikes.
It’s worth noting that the language has been around for almost 20 years now! Search engine relevance was virtually nonexistent when it was named.
Why is it a conspiracy theory? Is it that they wouldn't want to fake the numbers, or is it that they couldn't?
> A government can also totally ignore the current strategy for its political agenda.

This is the crux of the current failures. Many politicians seem to be making decisions based on the consensus of the loudest in their constituencies and select experts who mirror them rather than people who have studied epidemiology.

The Great Barrington Declaration advocated more traditional responses for prioritizing the protection of those most at risk prior to the vaccines. The public discussion around this was almost entirely based on optics, and the term "herd immunity" was demonized and considered too non compassionate. It was treated like a political language exercise rather than a public safety issue. Now that term has quietly reentered discourse without much acknowledgment of what was stated by those epidemiologists because reality isn't permitting any other end state. Yet many of the original policies which the declaration advises against are still being repeated and still failing, I think in large part to save face.

Many people recognized the problems with the current policies and advocated better ones very quickly. The amount of unknowns were mostly only an issue for the first few months. Once the demographic data came in a sensible response should have been (and was to many) fairly obvious. But sensible policy acknowledges a certain unavoidable risk, and the optics of that isn't allowable in our current political climate, so we advocate delusional fantasies instead.

Those trained in fields like epidemiology and pandemic response who know what they're doing and see the failures should continue to refuse to sign their name to bad policy and publicize their issues with it. That's what the Great Barrington Declaration was and what some who have resigned from certain positions at the CDC have done.

The main justification for bad policy has been "the support of experts". Public health experts are having their field tarnished dramatically by being leaned upon in name by people that are ignoring their actual advice. They should stop allowing it. They have the most power to hold irresponsible politicians accountable, and should exercise it. The amount of good disaster management strategy that was thrown out because it had the potential to look bad and was more difficult to implement than ineffective measures (like designating certain areas safe spots for at risk people and providing spaces for them to shelter during spikes) should be more publicized.
I'm in DFW
Even if true, "have access to" is doing a lot of work here. If I had a Borges-style Library of Babel with all the possible books in the world, all configurations of the letters of the alphabet, I would technically "have access to" all human knowledge. But that's very different from having a curated collection which includes specifically only those things, filtered perfectly for you.
Magnesium crisis. We need to get smarter, and soon
> Germany is part of the problem as long they are dependent on gas from Russia

They (and the rest of Europe) will always depend on gas from Russia as there are many uses for Gas. Things which can't be replaced by nuclear. This is again something which is just another derailment within this topic.

FYI: France, THE nuclear nation now needs that gas because their rotting nuclear fleet is failing it's citizens...which is a winter tradition in nuclear France.

> Germany has caused more cancer deaths by using coal than Chernobyl and Fukushima combined,

Please spare me the theatre. Nobody needs that. Nobody who's against nuclear is pro coal and as I mentioned above: there is a law to phase out coal COMPLETELY! Imagine that. No coal at all. The current Government wants it by 2030. This is faster than you could build a single nuclear reactor.

> deaths that the German government should officially recognize.

What are you talking about? German government does recognize that. This is why the law is there.

This coal derailment is the most funny thing about this Astro-Turf campaign because it originated in the USA. A country which just last year had a president who talked about "clean coal" and does not have a law to phase out coal completely. So think again: why are you always talking about Germany?

> Once they done that they can continue to be anti-nuclear if they want.

Why should they? You can do both and this is what Germany is doing right now. Nuclear today has a negligible impact. We'd be able to turn it off tomorrow.
It has nothing to do with coal. The only reason coal is still there has been outlined in my previous comment. You chose to ignore that. What I got instead is more from the uninformed Astro-Turf. Are you even aware how embarrassing that is for you?
Yup! My curiosity is this: at what scale does using contractors instead of employees start to break? Is it possible to build an infinitely large business with contractors only?
That’s a mugging you’re describing. There’s an implicit threat of violence in being confronted by someone who demands your property, and drawing a weapon would likely be seen as justified.

Retail theft—someone grabbing stuff and fleeing the store—is a different deal. If you blocked the person from leaving and they threatened you, again, you might be able to justify drawing a weapon. But threatening deadly force against someone who’s running away isn’t the same situation.

As you said, you don’t draw a gun unless you’re willing to use it. If I were a store customer or employee, I’d be more worried about armed hero-types overreacting and possibly killing me, rather than someone stealing stuff and trying to escape.
Some of France's nuclear plants are currently offline for maintenance which is contributing to the spike in natural gas prices.

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3780688-france-shuts-down-nucl...
What if we raise price of energy to the level where mining cryptocurrency is barely profitable and even that only in times of peak production from renewables and subsidize consumers directly so they can purchase reasonable amount of energy priced that way for their own use?
You're being difficult on purpose.

> methodology is buried in a separate article

It's an EXPLICIT footnote! See "Note; Here [is the report's] metholodgy."

> Methodology of the second article is flawed (you want to know whether people meet online, so you ask people online, great technique)

The methodology goes into statistical techniques to control for biases (e.g. language, gender identity, sampling method, etc.) See Methodology > Weighting about what they did with their ~5k responses.
i think it's older than the domain name, which gave it a little open window of acceptable googleability.
NBA's Steph Curry Sells $333 NFT Sneakers You Can 'Wear' Across Metaverses
Thanks for your assorted useful comments and links.
Is the real reason perhaps that those coal-fired generators are running 32-bit Unix?
I don't understand what point you are trying to make. Why should I care about storefronts that I can not use?

If and when they go about having Linux support, only then would they become relevant to me.

/edit:

Sorry, misread your message. I am not sure how you'd go about running games from those stores, or if that is even possible as I only use Steam.
Ikaruga was great, however it was effectively Treasure's sequel to its imo greatest game, Radiant Silvergun for the Sega Saturn, which sadly never made it out of Japan. Best game of the 32bit generation, maybe best bullet hell ever.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wue0F5YyeEQ
She changed course when she took over and supported nuclear first, then changed her assessment after Fukushima.
I'm glad it's more contagious than Delta, because Delta is much worse than Omicron.

Sure, I'd rather we didn't have Covid at all, but that's not been a realistic option for quite some time now.
Increase in Gauteng (South Africa) has started already well before 11/24. Even if deaths trail infections by 2-4 weeks we would have already seen nice steeply increasing slope.
Another point is that anecdotally hospitalizations in SA were shorter and often people tested positive after being admitted because of something else than COVID.
I am still puzzled why the West did not ban TikTok yet.
We are just too naive and cant defend our interests when it comes to China.

We desperately need some reciprocity.
Second that. As much as I disagree with N-VA, I am tempted to vote for it because it has consistent environment policy and people like Zuhal Demir to enforce it.
It’ll either be a Xmas gift unwrapped for the world or a chunk of coal :)
Which is itself a request for information. I think a request for policy information is reasonable if they they didn't make up false identities and claim to be users.
I am south asian (srilankan american) so my advice is comming from the perspective of a person of color.

The best places for dating for a south asian male would be southeast asia, turkey and latin america. White guys definitely have an advantage when going after women that specifically want a foreigner. We're able to get the ones that would otherwise prefer to date within their own country.

I had some success in europe but it was hit or miss. I'd say it was a pretty neutral experience, I felt like the deck wasn't stacked for or against me on average. latin america on the other hand was where I had my best prospects.

In my experience, latinas in colombia love the way we look. If I asked 10 women on a date, I'd easily get at least 8 to say yes and show up while white foreigners I met in medellin would frequently complain that colombians were flakey and prone to cancel at the last minuite. The exact kind of behavior I'd get from white women in america. These days I have one that I absolutely adore so I'm off the dating market but every day I'm shocked that I have her because living in america drove into my head that someone as smart and beautiful as her was completely out of my league..
Germany is a net exporter of electricity. But Europe has a joint spot market for electricity, which is a good thing for all involved. No longer every country has to supply expensive peak power when surplus of neighbours can be used. And Switzerland and Austria are kind of European storage providers. A 1GW line to Norway went operational recently, which uses Norwegian water power for storage.
1st click to go to the article, ctrl+f to find methodology, 2nd click to go to methodology. See 6000+ people recruited via web. The rest seem to amount to fewer than that. Am I the one being difficult?
"... there is no source, the bytecode has multiple reentrent abstractions, is unstable and has a very low signal to noise ratio, the runtime is unbootstrappable, the execution is nondeterministic, it tries to randomly integrate and execute code from other computers... multiple reentrant and self-modifying abstractions. absolutely everything has subtle side effects."
After opening this url on my phone, it waits three seconds and then shows me a scam ad scaring me into purchasing a fake android cleaner app.
I think OP’s sentiment was right. I vividly recall seeing at Christmas time at a Toys R Us dozens and dozens of Saturn boxes next to handful of Dreamcast boxes, next to 2 N64 boxes. And I remember talking to the cashier and them complaining that they couldn’t sell Saturn and Dreamcast. They expected Sega to go out of business soon. They also remarked that the Dreamcast was being artificially held back to make seem as big a seller as the N64.
To clarify, omicron is more likely to infect vaccinated or exposed individuals _than the other variants_. NOT omicron is more likely to infect vaccinated people than non-vaccinated people.

The wording startled me until I understood the intended meaning.
The article was originally written for Financial Times, whose audience will have a general knowledge of computing. Also, what the heck is MRC?
because the media needs something to talk about. its entertainment through fear driving the revenue. What else will CNN have as "Breaking News"
What exactly do you mean by "don't pretend to be somebody else"? They often operate under an umbrella of media projects that act as "local" news.
Germans love to be panicked though, I think that's a much larger part of it than actual fallout. The recommendations for self-harvested mushrooms and game are to not eat them excessively in the areas that were affected more strongly.

Contrast that with the damage that was done by decades of coal power plants polluting the air you breathe. Coal is more damaging each year than chernobyl was, it just gets much less attention.
It would be where I’m already registered to vote, dont worry

Tie any restriction to ICU capacity and only if efforts were made to expand ICU capacity

Otherwise that means the state was only pretending to care because it was easier to govern if people werent doing anything

If the state actually cares increase the ICU bandwidth or tell us the challenges encountered doing that and how those are being addressed
It would be very helpful if you provide some links to your claims.

There are many platform reports on state-sponsored influence, and they routinely do not name Germany and France.

Instead, the overall picture of perpetrators is that of authoritarian regimes.
Ask HN: Do you use WebP without a fallback yet?
Is browser support good enough? We have important images that are shown using background-image for responsiveness, which means we can’t really do a fallback mechanism
Not yet, but it’s on the horizon (it’s the account portability / multihomed accounts stuff in the OP)
From a safety perspective (ignoring cost, though which is also critical for viability), I mean minimizing the number of 'Jesus bolts' in the design - single components that if they fail, you are in a world of trouble. In the Lilium for example, what if the tilt mechanism for one of the main wings locks up while in cruise, and you only discover this while coming in for a vertical landing? This could be due any one of many possible reasons: SW bug, electrical failure, mechanical failure, debris jamming the mechanism, etc. You've got one wing producing forward thrust and the rest producing vertical thrust which is not likely to end well. You need to either prove that every part of this particular system is extremely reliable or you need a redundant backup system in place. Due to the design, neither of these options are easy here.

Obviously you need to assume there will be motor-out situations in any eVTOL design and the system needs to handle this with full payload over the flight envelope needed for a safe landing. Lilium has the advantage of many propulsion systems to take over the lost thrust, but many other eVTOLs are questionable here.

The same thinking has to be applied throughout the entire aircraft design (electrical and mechanical) and then you need to test, test, test. Each failure mode, using full payload over the full flight envelope, stability testing under differing weather conditions, the list goes on. To give you a rough idea, having a flying prototype is great but once you are comfortable enough with the design to put in a test pilot under controlled, monitored, and ideal conditions, you are maybe 20% of the way towards something you can responsibly put into service. If you want to see a simple design, check out the Opener Blackfly.
> You lose all of value-added functionality of the cloud storage application, though, like the web interface and the ability to share.

Only because you chose the wrong solution. ;-)

Look at Tresorit[1] instead.

[1]https://tresorit.com/
do you not wash your food before consuming it or something?
Source? Pfizer/AZ/ModeRNA?
That would be news to me, src?

Quick search suggest, that this statement is just propaganda.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-01/brull---the-boring-tr...
It's a bit silly to go "it's less severe" based on death statistics when after two years of Corona waves, there are plain less individuals around for it to kill.
I have a Pi 4 that's been rock stable, running both Hypriot w/ Docker containers, and recently, TalosOS w/ full k8s. Single-node k8s on a Pi is horrendously slow during changes, if you're wondering, but it's fast enough once everything is stable. I have it running JupyterLab right now. Don't really notice a difference in speed once the kernel launches for tinkering-level scripts.

Mine is powered via PoE FWIW.
It's ultimately a gradient, some countries are more aggressive with their astroturfing effort.

China's astroturfing for example has gotten so bad, that the "50 cent army" meme has become pervasive and well-known to mostly anyone that spends time online.

I honestly worry that with the development around language models like GPT-3, the internet as we know it will be completely blanketed with astro-turfed content by language models and low-paid contractors.
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