skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux officially dropped support for floppy disk drives: https://techreport.com/news/3464145/linux-dropping-floppy-dr...

Why are they still using that?
If you're using floppy disks in ~2022 you're almost certainly not encrypting the data on them.
Tesla recalls half million cars after rearview camera increase risk of crashing
Risk of myocarditis following sequential COVID-19 vaccinations by age and sex

https://www.reveddit.com/v/COVID19/comments/rofrig/risk_of_m...

Really interesting paper from authors with major roles on advisory committees and public health. This is an important and comprehensive dataset that will absolutely be used to further inform public policy in the UK and abroad.

The main take home:

"the risk following COVID-19 vaccination was largely restricted to younger males aged less than 40 years, where the risks of myocarditis following vaccination and infection were similar. However, the notable exception was that in younger males receiving a second dose of mRNA-1273 vaccine, the risk of myocarditis was higher following vaccination than infection, with an additional 101 events estimated following a second dose of mRNA-1273 vaccine compared to 7 events following a positive SARS-CoV-2 test.

i.e The second dose of "full strength" Moderna in males 13-40 gives a spike in myocarditis that is markedly higher than the risk of myocarditis from covid infection.

There weren't enough cases of myocarditis from this very comprehensive dataset to properly assess myocarditis in children aged 13-17, so as the authors state, this now needs to be pursued by pooling international datasets, and I expect they are already pursuing that.

Very interesting data, thanks for posting.

As I stated elsewhere, this is one piece of the public health puzzle. There are obviously a number of risks and benefits that all feed into the recommendations made. But all else being equal, this data could certainly affect recommendations for Moderna vs other vaccine options in males under 40. Watching with interest, thanks for posting OP!

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It's not just a Moderna problem though. Even for Pfizer, we see a weaker but clear signal:

Infection: 2.02 (1.13 - 3.61)

Dose 1: 1.66 (1.14 - 3.41)

Dose 2: 3.41 (2.44 - 4.78)

Dose 3: 7.60 (1.92 - 30.15)

This is a "bombshell" for the lack of better words. I really wish someone could show this to college administrators who are mandating 3d dose for college students after just 6 months, with no regard for recent breakthrough infections.

Edit:

I know the CIs overlap, but the fact that the point estimate of infection (2.02) is clearly outside of Dose 2's CI (2.44 - 4.78) is already concerning. I'm merely advocating for caution for healthy young males for whom Covid is a miniscule threat.
Definitely. There are advantages to both states, as they're optimized for different things. There are times for information gathering and eventually decision making, and there's times for acting on those decisions. While neither is generally a state of purely that type, there are reasons to believe that the optimal tools for one may not be the same as the optimal tools for another.

In that respect it's not whether keyboard binding or mouse context menues are better, it's about providing tools to support both contexts, so the appropriate one can be chosen at the appropriate time.
A 160ft tanker is rear-ended by a 200ft pleasure yacht, promptly sinks 2,000 feet, beyond hope of recovery, and its cargo of gas evaporates.

I wonder how much that tanker and cargo was insured for?
Depends on the owner. If you're Larry Ellison rich, you'll place those types of assets under an operating corporation meant just for the purpose of managing eg your yachts and attempt to have it step in front of liability risk so they can't very easily go after Ellison's other $109 billion in personal wealth. That corporation will carry very substantial insurance policies for just such risks. It's obviously incredibly expensive to own & operate a super yacht.
> You could say a transparent window is literally made for the purpose to be able to see through, but I'm certain I'd be breaking the law if I started taking pictures of people undressing in their homes.

Disclaimer: IANAL. Also, don't take creepy photos of your neighbors through their windows regardless of the legality of doing so.

In many parts of the US at least, the law is less clear-cut than you might think. In many jurisdictions you would have to argue that the photos were of a sexual nature (probably not hard for pictures of people undressing, but it's not an automatic win depending on context). In some states and/or localities there are explicit laws preserving privacy when in ones residence, but in many others, a photograph taken through an unshaded window is legal as long as it doesn't violate other laws.

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I guess all of the above strengthens your point that such simplistic laws as "a 200 response means you are authorized to do what you want with it" are not in any way analogous to the way laws for other systems work.
Fourier theory is built on the assumption of everything being linear, and I suspect it can be hard to fit the constraint of 0 <= v <= 1 into that framework. In audio they solve this by having headroom (not applicable here) or using dynamic range compression (might work), but that will change the frequencies a little bit. Histogram equalization could be something to try. It forces the values to be uniformly 0 to 1.

This could also solve the issue of

> the problem with the IDFT method is though… you get gaussian distributed values, not uniform, and the noise seems to be lower quality as well. If these issues could be solved, or if this noise has value as is, I think that’d be a real interesting and useful result
Deep Learning Can’t Be Trusted Brain Modelling Pioneer Says
This, to be fair, is the biggest problem with the CFAA. It's sort of an inchoate statute (you generally use computers as a means to conduct other offenses --- in fact, some of the reason we have a CFAA in the first place is that legislators felt that there weren't statutes that addressed computer crimes that didn't have immediate financial benefits, which themselves could be charged as fraud). The major sentencing knob CFAA comes with is 2B1.1(b), which is a table of offense level by dollar loss incurred.

There are crimes where I think 2B1.1(b) probably makes sense (like, if you're literally stealing, or deliberately incurring monetary damage --- remember, your intent in committing a crime is extremely important, despite a common message board belief that it is somehow unknowable and a non-factor in legal decisions). But in a lot of cases, it's literally just the induction variable in a loop, and it makes no sense to boost an offense by 10 levels because you wrote "2000" in your for-loop instead of "20".

It's 2B1.1(b) that takes you from offense level 8 (0-6 months, probation eligible) to level 24 (5 years) based on 2 million dollar of incurred loss.

Again, though: the 2 million dollar figure is highly implausible. Prosecutors could have argued for it (they can argue anything they want), but it's hard to see them getting it for a non-remunerative crime that involved publishing academic journal articles.

Swartz's attorney was probably a bit rosey-eyed here, though: figure any charged computer offense probably incurs losses at least in the mid-5 figures (almost mechanically, because real companies have insurance obligations to conduct external forensic investigations when incidents like this happen), and you get to a year and change sentence pretty easily.
This is true, but it’s not the only truth that matters.

Public goods can be _very_ efficient, even if inefficient in their delivery. I would have trouble believing that an educated citizenry is not a good thing, for example.

So although taxes are evil, they can be outweighed by a _much_ greater good.

But, also, wasted public spending is a great tragedy.

From this, I arrive at a left-Libertarian point of view: we should limit what the government does as well as we can to those things that are clearly better than the evil of the taxes involved, while it is still I think true that social welfare is compatible with this view.
> Hmmm, interesting. I read that paper and thought, wow, I'm glad I got a booster ;).

I think your take and mine are both reasonable and based on different interpretations of tradeoffs.

With the original vaccine doses, you and I probably agreed. There was a somewhat objective case to strongly encourage vaccination of everyone. The alternative was to remain in lockdown indefinitely or risk some sort of collapse of the healthcare system.

Now, though, as we consider the booster, I think the choice is less objective or obvious. Our healthcare system is not at risk, and we can largely be free of lockdown with just the vaccine. There are real cons to a booster, including normalizing government mandates and not vaccinating the rest of the world. Some people may choose to have the peace of mind that comes from a booster. Others may choose not to. I'm hoping, though, that we can agree that mandates are not the way.
I don't have standing for any legal act in India. I can boycott and criticize the company that's doing business in my country. And that's why we focus on Apple -- the company whose reputation is so important to its market value.
yeah, exposing a child to nothing more than a corn field is abusive because when they become adults they have no tools to succeed or any context with which to understand and navigate the world. and also it creates a cultural barrier that really makes it hard for them to get along on the coast. you create this stunted human, yeah i think it meets the criteria for abuse if only just and if only in the most modern interpretation of the word abuse. i certainly would never do it to any kid that i had to raise. maybe youre from the midwest and if i have offended you then i apologize but no problem has ever gone away because people ignored it. it must be confronted like all the other societal problems that hurt people needlessly.
>Plea bargains are a form of extortion, and should not be part of the legal system.

So you think that every case should be tried, even if it's plainly obvious the perpetrator is guilty? After all, even if the perpetrator has a 1% chance of winning, there's no reason not to go to trial under that system.
Apple spends billions on stock buy backs per year they can redirect a bit of that so those who make their products for them don't have to be treated worse than animals.
they don't deserve to get graffiti, but it is expected

they should be punished by legal means (legal proceedings or lawsuits) and by reputational damage
I was in a club (full of adults) in high school that I only realized how amazing the leadership was after the then-president had passed away due to health issues. Which is a shame because adult me definitely would have found him and said thank you, and also fuck all those people who tried to vote you out, and then didn't do as well.

They ran a fund raiser event (not unlike a fun run) twice a year and it was eye opening how many hands it took to make a good idea into one people invited their friends to next year. I volunteered a couple years at a couple of events and I know I worked harder those two days than I did when I participated, and not on the tasks I expected to be challenging. High school movie parties fall apart because it's all anarchy, and no self control. There's a lot that goes into making a soiree a success instead of a disaster.

My partner years ago stopped hosting parties because we were both ragged by the time people arrived, and there was always something we worked hard on that went unnoticed. Sometimes necessary, other times just a bad call on our part. Now we farm out the work a bit more, but even a potluck has key dishes and can fail if everyone guesses wrong. But if you pay close enough attention to a potluck, for many families grandma's dishes are the keystone that holds it together. She's seen some shit. She knows what's what.

I used to bring an Igloo water dispenser to a volunteer group because the group I was in in high school worried a lot about people injuring themselves in the heat. They had meetings every year before the events to refresh people. Heat exhaustion is scary, even dangerous, but heat stroke is life-altering. For the volunteer group, I think maybe five of us cared enough to bring fluids, and while my extra didn't always get used, I'm absolutely sure that one of us saved somebody. And if one of the other five had been sick, or had a wedding, then mine wouldn't have been backup. It's not hard to bring water, but someone has to do it. Unfailingly.

The rest of the group would of course care if someone got sick, but only to prevent it happening a second time. When you do something right the first time, nobody appreciates how hard it was.
Sure, but at that point the complaint is in either the journalism being misleading (implying it's "coming soon" in a layman's use of "coming soon"), or our outsider view into internal messaging is misunderstanding the claims (if this was written for people familiar with the field, "there's a long way to go" is safe to assume as base knowledge, which outsiders may not have).

tl;dr yeah, but everyone knows that / science journalism is terrible.
Good that they forced change but this is why India will never become industrialized.

Apple will just move manufacturing back to China if more negative news makes it out of India.
Yeah those authors exist. I don’t think McPhee or the OP are among them.

A thesaurus is a tool like any other. A good writer knows how to wield it, poor ones will just cut themselves.

The “Draft #4” methodology doesn’t in itself suggest that the writer is good or bad.
For all of these, this is just the first definition. They all had several more, that got more specific.
History of Computing – Early Artifacts
There known occurences of airplanes landing after losing a wing, especially during WW2.

High-powered acrobatic airplanes produce more lift by engine than wings, they can basically descend like a helicopter.

Also, poor people reproduce like there’s no tomorrow and kids usually follow the path.
It depends of how this will be laid out. If the future generations choose for a more homogeneous sort of intelligence it might trigger the opposite effect, as humanity might loose a sort of balance the natural world struggled to achieve.

But if somehow they manage to understand organic balance and go for a more heterogeneous composition of inteligences, than it might work out as intended.

I guess the best approach is to just reinforce and even boost the genes that are already there in the gene pool of the human being.

Lets get just one intelligence characteristic for instance that will be sort of harmless to boost in everyone: give us more memory..

Except for the fact that forgetting about some things can do wonders to our psychology and for a human being resisting through all the years it must to..

Maybe the suicide levels will rise, and people unable to function in society will also rise, creating the opposite effect.

The thing is, this is a really complex matter, and i hope that when we are ready to do this, we live in a more advanced society (morally and philosophically) than we do now, or else the consequences of people that are unable to understand the consequences of what they are doing, do it without being really prepared for it.

For me, the the nazi-germany of the 30's is a (extreme) cautionary tale of a possible future of ours, where we are technologically advanced, but morally corrupt, and that combination will probably lead to the human kind fallout, if nothing changes..

Our technological progress is good, but we need to rethink other important things, and the movie is on spot over this (they had all the technology to solve the problem, but they had the emotional IQ of toddlers).
Upcoming LG TVs will address one of OLED’s biggest flaws
oh oops, I think I was intending to type "crowd source" but I really met "crowd fund".

I do want to finish my FreeBSD cross PR, but is is hard. We already have NetBSD working, including building the kernel, so I think it is better to start there.

I opened https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os/issues/16 because I think that would be the absolute easiest first step, with the fewest moving parts. But I don't know how kernels, even Linux, are packaged into bootable thingies at all.
Summary: the tests were conducted on guinea pigs because they can develop immune reactions to repeated tick bites like humans do. Mice do not seem to be suited for that for once.

The vaccine was administered intradermally. It consists of nucleoside-modified mRNA encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles like we know them from Covid vaccines already. The contained mRNA sequences encode 19 different proteins that are usually found in the saliva of a particular kind of tick in the US. These proteins were selected because of prior research it was known that they seemed to cause inflammatory reactions in the host. The inflammatory reaction that occured at the site of the tick bite hampered feeding of the ticks and reduced risk of disease transmission. The vaccine mostly seems to buy more time to remove the ticks before an infection can take place because the disease causing bacteria was not directly targeted by the vaccine.
You mean "1.44MB", not 1.44MB :-) since they hold 1440 KiB (1474560 bytes), not 1509949, despite the name. Those disks sat on a throne of lies.

And the disks in this story were most likely Japanese "2.88MB" disks, whose true capacity I do not know.
None of those old studies apply now that omicron is around. Omicron spread all throughout the world at record breaking pace via vaccinated people, so it doesn't seem like vaccines are doing much at all to prevent spread of omicron.
I cited sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29736480
You may be surprised to hear that India is already industrialized... and has been for decades.
Do you have any citations for this? I'd love to explore in depth what the lateral tech track looks like.
I haven't read the full paper, and it's pretty small data (maybe n=120 in total) but this would seem to suggest that there's about a 40% reduction in transmission associated with vaccination: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

I honestly don't understand how there wouldn't be protection from the vaccine. It's not a sterilising vaccine, but it does offer protection.
And how much will their premiums go up after an accident in which they were at fault?
I truly don't understand what is so difficult about getting the booster shot.

Outside of that, a private institution is absolutely allowed to make a rule like this.

If you don't want to get a booster shot that's fine - the government should not force you to do so, but that action has consequences. Private - and several public - institutions should impose vaccine requirements as they deem fit. I want to be able to go see a play, or a movie, or to a restaurant without fear that I'm putting myself more at risk because someone at the table next to me got a vaccine 8 months ago and is no longer protected and far more likely to be carrying and spreading covid. I want to be able to see friends and then my family without having to wait days at a time in between to get a covid test result back because places are allowing not fully vaccinated people in.

My personal belief is that fully vaccinated should, today, equate to the initial vaccine plus the booster. I expect it might even further change to include a second booster.

I have a difficult time understanding why compliance with a life saving decision that is in the best interest of the individual as well as society is so hard. Reasonable exceptions should continue to exist.

If you choose not to get a booster then I don't want you to be able to continuously put me at risk.

I fully support mandates by private and public entities. This does not mean I will always do so - I'm not playing the slippery slope argument fallacy game. For covid booster shots I would be in full support of a government mandate.
Has America considered doubling the number of doctors, nurses, hospitals, and all other medical support, building and bootstrapping many more medical schools, and graduating an enormous cadre of recruits from a seven year program, all at a cost probably over a trillion dollars a year, so that we can care for a massive influx of Covid patients in preference to advocating booster shots?
How does it improve the pornography experience? The description and examples on that website don't make it obvious. The Register article linked seems to help but I really didn't get that from the landing page or example video.

edit: now I understand, it is a continuous slideshow of erotica, and you can tap any part of the image to be taken down a path of similar images. that's kind of cool.

I thought it would have had something to do with decensoring, but nevermind.

Does BlueStacks work on an Apple Silicon machine? I don't have an android device.
And when the VP of Engineering writes

> some of these security alerts...were likely triggered in error

one can conclude that they do not know that any of the alerts were triggered in error (else he would have said as much). Some of the VP's statements were likely triggered by the legal department, though I don't know that any actually were. It doesn't exactly shed light on anything.