skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I mean is that the statistics of the magnitude are different than the author expects, probably. You can certainly generate complex numbers with the magnitude, but picking from a uniform distribution is unlikely to generate what you want.

Also, it will certainly be a problem if the DC/Nyquist terms aren't pure real, though maybe that is actually being done and I missed it.
https://www.vaccines.gov/search/ works perfectly fine, at least in Texas. It shows all the Walmart, CVS, etc. by which vaccine is available
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence

> There is evidence that, on a population level, intelligence is negatively correlated with fertility rate and positively correlated with survival rate of offspring.[1] It is postulated that, if the inverse correlation of IQ with fertility rate is stronger than the correlation of IQ with survival rate, and if the correlation between IQ and fertility can be linked to genetic factors, then the hereditary component of IQ will decrease with every new generation, eventually giving rise to a 'reversed Flynn effect', as has been observed in Norway, Denmark, Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, France and German-speaking countries, where a slow decline in average IQ scores has been noted since the 1990s
Where do you live that it’s that difficult?

The backwater of Redmond. CVS, Walgreens (EDIT: Walgreens now shows appointments 2 weeks out), not a one of them showed an appointment less than a month out, if they bothered to show an appointment at all. Which reminds me of another annoyance: why not show ‘next available’ instead of making me click through each day to see if there’s an appointment?
I imagine it depends on their empathy: their ability to understand/validate someone else’s experience, despite not experiencing it themselves.
>Having 50 years to earn off your creation seems fair to everyone.

Everyone? Hold on there a moment, Jack.

I'm a copyright minimalist. Seven years with one renewal for a total of fourteen years seems much more fair to me considering all the years we've already had of continually delayed releases into the public domain. We the people have paid to enforce those years of copyright without the corresponding payoff at the end of the term release to the public. There's nothing fair about that situation and it needs to be addressed.
The citizens are probably fine, because.. flopp disks!? Who can read those now? ;-)
Englebart’s classic “Mother of all Demos” has him using a mouse in his right hand and a one-handed chording keyboard in his left hand.

USB mice are cheap, plug two in, one on each side. Makes it easier to use non-dominant hand occasionally without having to move the mouse around.
>> a lot of work that can be done in Porn with AI.

I think that "can be" is probably and "is being."

Porn generally, has a historical tendency to be a pioneering adopter of media technology. A substantial chunk of early commercial photography was pornographic. Early films. Early ecommerce. Streaming video. Porn is currently the most developed/active niche in VR filmmaking. I would even consider renaissance portraiture a part of the pattern.

In any case, most of "deepfake" that exists currently besides demonstration is pornographic.
The addresses this:

For its refusal to signify, its bulk, and its sheer unnecessariness in my already-overstuffed drawer, I’ve been ready to ditch this corkpull for months. During the pandemic, though, it’s even more impossible than usual to get rid of things. After a year inside with all my objects, clutter has taken on a malevolent unruliness, tote bags procreating inside other tote bags and external hard drives with unknown contents taunting from the back of the closet. Boxes and paper grocery bags pile up along the hallway, full of things to be gotten rid of. But the thrift stores and donation drop-offs are still closed, or have limited hours. And you know that most of those things don’t get sold.
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A more analogous example might be the right to have a Gay-Straight Alliance club with all the access to school facilities other clubs have. See this long line of cases holding that if a school allows some clubs it must allow all clubs https://www.aclu.org/other/gsa-court-victories-guide-lgbtq-h...
Would be interesting to know if/to what extent it prevents transmission. Assuming the booster reduced severity, but not transmission, it would make little sense to require it, since there is little/no negative externalities by someone not getting it.
For context:

- "Arnold" is Arnold Schwarzenegger, an Austrian-born American actor who served as Governor of California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger

- The US Constitution restricts eligibility for the Presidency to "natural-born citizens" of the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause_(U...
Is it? The records date back to 1991.
Possibly a lot of them were still paper at that time.
I remember in the mid-90s a customer had just prior to my contract with them starting deployed some 3COM enterprise core routers. They were having issues with connectivity to their Banyan Vines servers which I tracked down to an issue with the routers. 3COM had a bug fix but the routers required the use of 2.88MB floppies to upgrade them. Neither the customer or I had a 2.88MB floppy drive to write the upgrade to. It took 2 full days of searching to find anyone who could get me one in less than a month.
Because copying Java got them into this mess? ;-)
I heard they were superfamicom cartridges
Preliminary note: I don't claim to be an expert in any field relevant to vaccines. This is just an everyday layman's opinion. (Also, I'm vaccinated and boosted as well).

I think "anti-vax" sounds inherently extremist and conspiracy-theorist, and isn't an accurate representation of the middle ground here. To be fair, it's more like "pro-choice."

Plenty of vaccines are given to children every year and required for them to attend school, and there hasn't really been any negative side-effects of that policy. It's tough to argue that we should not be required to have any vaccine to attend school, and that would break the status quo in the other direction.

The question then becomes: What could make the Covid vaccine different from other vaccines, such that it shouldn't be required?

* If these vaccines were approved earlier and with more early-stage preliminary data than other vaccines?

* If Covid is not as severe as the diseases we currently require a vaccine for? [1]

[1] The current required vaccines for school in New York, for example, are Diphtheria, Hepatitis B, Measles, Polio, and Chickenpox. The mortality rate and permanent damage for some of these diseases are much higher than Covid. With others, I'm not sure of the pre-vaccine mortality rate as it's been around for a long time.

With all that in mind, Covid spreads as much if not more as the diseases we saw fit to require vaccinations against, and the mortality rate for the older population is high. I think a fair argument is whether schoolchildren should have to be vaccinated to protect against infecting the more vulnerable population.
You still have to serialize the writes. If you have a lot of users on a simple ToDo apps, you can't do concurrent writes. I tried several times to run a simple webapp with Sqlite3 that have concurrent write requirement, the work around was too painful. I had to push all writes to an in-memory queue and have a single process pick off the queue. That process is outside of the web framework.
I'm a bit baffled by the assertion Florida's doing well.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...

NY: 300/100k

FL: 289/100k

NY's deaths are also more heavily weighted towards the initial outbreak, when the mortality rate was much higher due to lack of treatment knowledge/options. https://imgur.com/a/fdb1tl7
To be fair those posts are only mostly a few years old, so they’re being upvoted by the same HN crowd that generally decides what makes it to the front page.
I presume then they are computer controlled? If so, how does one actually leave early or late?
This meta-analysis from 2014 disagrees: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4152423/

The study underlying that CNN article only used three decades of data and only for Norwegian males. Also note that their cohort IQ delta is < 2 points across a decade which is well within error margin.
I always had the bad luck that 1 outta 10 ejects would tear the metal shield off.
"Credential theft occurs when attackers breach a system and steal users' access credentials -- usually ID and password. The ID is most commonly the user's email address. Credential spilling is when those credentials are made available to other criminals. Credential stuffing is the large scale use of automated means to test stolen passwords against other unrelated websites."

https://www.securityweek.com/credential-stuffing-successful-...

The term "credential stuffing" is a bit counterintuitive for me as well, but I guess it fits the pattern of credential attacks. "Password reuse" has other meanings, so would be less precise as a technical term.
some of the new techniques in natural language processing that uses transformers is getting closer to understanding. Understanding may be an illusion though.

I wrote a game in 2002 for a class I was in, you have a space ship and you shoot alien ships. To make the game challenging, when the user was far away from the alien ships they would move randomly, if you moved in on them they moved away in a random direction, and once you got too close they would vector strait for the ship in a kamakaze attack. I also needed to figure out when the alien ships would fire back, so I just made them randomly fire when the user also fired. Given that your ship's firing range was limited, this created a dangerous scenario where you tried to chase down a ship, and at the last moment it would come right at you and fire. the point of all of this was that when people played the game, they stated "wow, the AI of this game is really good". People believed the AI was thinking when it was just a few rules.

I dont suppose its impossible to be tricked into thinking something had understanding even if that something is itself. if something is complicated enough and good enough at making decisions, it seems possible its not understanding but just a sufficiently complicated process, or maybe a sufficiently complicated process is understanding
I dream about a fully integrated, state-of-the-art web browser for KDE. Even I've been saying this for years, but always am replied with "we already have Firefox/Chrome" argument.

But it seems they actually don't care about it. From 4.x on, every web browser they touch is just left to die for some reason (Konqueror, reKonq which was allegedly being supported by Blue Systems, now Qupzilla/Falkon)... Even the noise about Ken Vermette's "Fiber" at the early days of "KDE5" ended being only that, just noise.
> They Nazi’s “dejewification” of science and the pursuit of “German science” reeked havoc within their scientific community...

Wreaked havoc. It also "reeked" (stunk). So what you said, while it was a mistake, it was also perfect.
Sure, I guess I was expecting satirical comedy and it was just satire. It wasn’t funny to me and it wasn’t particularly entertaining.

I wasn’t engaged or entertained so I thought it was terrible.

I think Idiocracy was great because it was funny and used the future to allow you to see and imagine how it came to be that way. Don’t Look Up exaggerates the present in a way that feels familiar but misses the mark somehow.

I’m likely the target audience for the movie based on my left of center politics, but I suspect some will say it’s a great movie because of political tribalism and never watch it again because they know it’s actually not very good.

Just my opinion.
Relatively well for themselves over what time frame? If you're referring to the last few weeks or the current state of affairs, I'm not sure there's anything to say Florida is either worse or better off than New York, as opposed to their curve just bring time shifted.
Data from who?
Because the population data from South Africa and Denmark with hugely different levels of vaccination point to omicron being mild regardless of vaccine protection.
And frankly, unless we started RCTing the hell of it, population wide data is the only thing that allow us to infer any conclusions right now.
You open multiple threads from the list in different tabs, click through to read the links, one by one, but select the wrong tab when you're ready to comment.
That’s true from a USA-centric perspective. I guess we’ll soon see how dearly omicron is here.
That's a good idea but it's not a practical solution because most websites don't give you the choice.
Why are people preferring to read content on Twitter to begin with? I never go to Twitter as my primary source to read or learn about something. But maybe I'm unusual, and perhaps the current mode is scrolling thru stuff, reading stuff in short snippets, and never clicking links to read in more details.
I’m under the impression it’s a similar thing in Sweden regarding trains. I heard they give you money to cover a taxi if the train is late by a few minutes or something.
I've only seen client certs used in contexts where an IT department assigns them to employees. Has anyone had success with these on public facing websites?

Extra hardware seem cool, but I've also rarely seen people using them. I'm guessing the added cost is a deterrent.
While they may not share an etymology, bokeh does sound incredibly close to “bouquet”

The primary difference is the emphasis on the “oh” in bokeh vs. the emphasis on “kay” in bouquet.
Here is a study that observes waning immunity over time for vaccinated individuals: https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/11/09/israeli-study-shows...

Long story short, the study observes that there are progressively higher rates of infection in vaccinated cohorts who were vaccinated 4, 5, and 6 months ago. There were 1.7 infections per 1000 people in the cohort vaccinated 4 months ago. There were 2.2 infections per 1000 people in the cohort vaccinated 5 months ago. There were 3.3 infections per 1000 people in the cohort vaccinated 6 months ago.

Obviously, nobody knows how Omicron changes this.
It's complicated, in that this depends on jurisdiction. In some places, the age of the character matters, not just the actor's age. Regardless of legality, I think this is very prominent in self censorship. A lot of filmmakers wouldn't depict a nude 15 year old sexually, regardless of the actor's actual age.
I think you're being down voted for using JS syntax. You should really only need !=

I think your statement applies equally well to many other things. Computer Security popped into my head when I read it.
> There are plenty of reasons to question whether the Flynn effect (rise in IQ test scores) actually reflects increases in general intelligence rather than testing skills.

The Flynn effect appears to reflect increases in general intelligence unless you believe world wide testing scores all have the same bias, across different tests.
It's sad how the system punishes smart altruists.
If you're smart, you'd better be evil or the system will destroy you.
I use Google Fi because the SIM card is attached to my Gmail account where I can use A real 2FA
I have noticed a pattern: People like to complain about their "marginal tax rate", but rarely share their "effective tax rate". What is your effective tax rate? Unless you are a multi-multi-millionaire or billionaire, only a tiny fraction of your income will be taxed at the maximum marginal tax rate.

My view: If you really believe in reducing income inequality, there is no shortcut. You need to pay. How else can we fix this issue? Beg private corporations to give huge pay rises to medium- and low-skill people? (Don't wait for it!) We need a tax code that forces the 10%/5%/1%/0.1%/0.01%/etc. to pay geometrically increasing effective tax rates. I have never seen an alternative solution that will actually work. Yes, it is painful, but what kind of society and world do we want to create?
IQ is not rising; literacy rates are falling in the developed world. As an example, fewer people are literate in Massachusetts now than when it was founded.
I was on a 3 hour Shinkansen trip that was 2 minutes late and the staff profusely apologized when we arrived.

I have also been on a cross US Amtrak trip that was literally 30 hours late and they rationed food and the staff became increasingly rude and unhelpful.
Yes, the sample is rather small to draw conclusions from. The biggest concern however are the people who got the notification again after changing their master password. It just doesn’t make sense if credential stuffing is what we are talking about.
Every vaccine available in the US was developed or tested using stem cells from aborted babies, and the J&J one is also manufactured with them. A lot of religions forbid intentionally benefiting from others' sins.
How do you know it was the booster that gave you hives? Hives can be caused by many things, and can manifest sporadically.
Random mutations means that children are on average a little less fit than their parents.
We do indeed disagree!

I don't think it was saying that politics and politicians as trivial -- I think it was saying that they're not necessarily smart people, and they're certainly not necessarily acting in the best interests of the people they serve.

I think they were also saying that the media serves to reinforce denial in the general population.

The asteroid is just a plot device -- the message is that in the face of mortal danger, huge chunks of the population refuse to even acknowledge the danger so that any intervention can be made. And those in power will exploit that for their own enrichment.

We don't just see this with climate change -- we've observed it with the previous administration...some hits:

- "Lock her up" -- yes, let's just start imprisoning political rivals and see what that does for us as a society)

- "Covid will go away by april" - I suppose they didn't say which april.

- Hydroxychloroquine/Ivermectin/Vitamin C

- Vaccines have microchips

- Masks don't do anything

The list goes on -- We've seen that the population is perfectly willing to disregard any science that threatens their way of life. It's easier to dismiss than to adjust.
> One of them will have to step up and take the burden

Yes. They are not co-executors (they can choose how they divide the burden). And I know it is a burden; some people hire an accountant to do it for them. It took my sister about 6 months to do probate for my father. I'm glad I didn't have to shoulder that.

So as far as I'm concerned, that's up to them. I trust them both. I trust them not to fight. But in the end, even if you've done your best to set things up properly, people can still find a way to generate a conflict.

Most of the legacy happens to be a couple of homes; they'd be hard to divide, but both my kids have their own homes. I imagine they'll just sell both properties. I appreciate your remarks about divisible land legacies; my property isn't easily divisible. At any rate, my will is quite clear; the division is to be 50:50.

I really hope neither of them ends up having to care for me; but if that should happen, I suppose I'd just compensate them for their trouble while I'm still alive.

Trusts can be simple or byzantine. I don't think I need to make a trust at all. My affairs aren't complicated, and there are no secrets. I mainly want to protect my legacy from my two ex-wives, who have each already taken everything they're entitled to.

Incidentally, I was a bit miffed that my Dad appointed my sister as sole executor; but I never mentioned that to anyone. Fact is, she is a competent maanager and administrator, and I'm not. He did the right thing.
I've found LastPass to be increasingly buggy and less reliable as time goes on. Do they have security problems as well? Should I switch to a different service as a paying customer (for me and my family?) If so, any recommendations?
Not to mention many of the systemic problems in the world today have been caused by smart people letting their avarice, greed, and other base desires get the better of them.
Our whole existence is a religious subject. And everything we do while we exist falls under it. Also no, it does not have to be organized to be a religion.
If I may sub-divert the thread to ask the experts in the field:

Do you think Nikon/Canon will have to start going down the computational photography route to make themselves more appealing to camera buyers? Or as soon as someone in the DSLR world does, they will have to quickly go along?

I.e. either downsize their cameras to be more attractive to carry hour by hour of your day, or make their features much better to compensate for the trouble of carrying a DSLR?

Or is part of the appeal of the traditional camera that effects, manipulation, etc. of the photo is not done and you're in total control of the exposure?

I have been a DSLR person at times, but honestly I am amazed at how good iPhone photos look sometimes... until I zoom in of course.
The real data pirates are the big data surveillance overlords.
Well, yeah. And that's exactly what's wrong with it. That's _all_ it is. As a result, the sense of smugness is undeserved. It's a way for everyone who sits in the second panel of the glowing brain meme to shit on people in the first panel and feel good about it, instead of focusing on the fact they're still in #2. It's an out-and-out display of the word "sophomoric".
No matter which way you cut it- it's shaping up to be another great quarter for big pharma!
> (not Hungarian style, but more natural language oriented)

Apps Hungarian wasn't actually a stupid idea. It just got bastardized into Sys Hungarian, which was. Apps Hungarian could tell you whether the string was unsafe (and needed to be sanitized), or safe to use. Or tell you if the integer type you were using was an offset, or a row number, or whatever. It was supposed to give you semantic info that wasn't necessarily obvious from the given type.

Sys Hungarian told you that you were using a long pointer to a zero terminated string. But not what the string actually meant. It just regurgitated the type of the object again.
Basically it’s outsourced slavery. But who cares in the West? It’s like the deepest levels of cruise ships filled with Asian workers that nobody sees. One sees shiny stores and shiny ships and it’s ok.

On the other hand Apple does audit the suppliers and I believe, that internally they know very well what’s happening in the factories.
After the invention of heavy bomber aircraft by the end of WWI, railways became very vulnerable, and regular train traffic, to my mind, could only indicate peace time. It might be a preparation for a war, but not a war yet.
What the reporter saw was the base64 encoded contents of the typical .Net "VIEWSTATE" session stuff, that looks like this:

<input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" value="[SOME_BASE_64_HERE]" />

Meaning he likely just pasted the contents into a web based base64 decoder.

I am totally mystified how a competent DA wouldn't have dropped this immediately.
I am guessing something like:

1. Never had hives before

2. Got booster shot

3. Now I have hives
They have a driver.
> which in itself can lead to a person believing there is no hope because they just are a bag of chemicals.

I'd expect the opposite effect. If we are bags of chemicals, we can change ourselves by altering the composition of chemicals. The hard part is finding the proper balance.