skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alright, I don't like the deflectionary way they talk. Reminds me of this post by Paul Graham: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1366811342699696129

I'm going to switch to another password manager. Is there anything that is a drop in replacement for LastPass? ie has a browser extension for firefox, hosted in the cloud (I don't want to be managing a server for this), and has a mobile app. I've heard a lot about bitwarden and keepass, but they're usually accompanied by comments regarding self hosting, which I'm not interested in doing.
Like everything else in life, it's up to you to do your due diligence.
I wonder why the Japanese culture is like that. Obviously, some other nations could use the same precision and keeping companies (and governments) to high standards. But out of all countries, I can only think of Japan that does that.

Is it because of language? Religion? Genetics? Isolation? What is the reason?
What happens with immune system if you get booster shots every 3 months for, let’s say, 3 years?
Boosters are beneficial even if you’re under 45: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-12-09/large-studi...

Edit: critical to beneficial
Calling frozen frankfurters hotdogs doesn't deliberately or dishonestly reframe the discussion in an overly simplified, pop culture manner. Hotdogs might be an everyman's food for sporting events and children, but they don't invoke a flippant, immature dismissal. Hotdogs aren't even adversarial. In this sense the use of "climate denier" fits with the coarsening of culture theme of the film.

The space for discussion is prematurely attacked by the overly simplistic frame of "climate denier". Perhaps the author isn't capable of operating in that space, therefore he requires defensive rhetoric. Maybe it isn't deliberate or conscious. Perhaps he is simply bleating the preferred partisan slogan?

Nuance is deliberately or unconsciously removed in lieu of shallow arrogance. That's ironic in my reading of the article and view of the movie. There's no feigned confusion in my comment above. Perhaps you misread it.
No, I'm afraid not. Respectfully, you seem to be painting with an overly broad brush on this one.

The tie between intelligent design and Christianity isn't a necessary one. Deists could believe in intelligent design and be consistent; Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and Jews as well.

Furthermore, not all Christians would subscribe to "free will" (as in libertarian free will, the flavor that most people subscribe to). A lot of more conservative traditions would affirm soft-determinism or even fatalism.
To add a DIFFERENT point on handling phase:
Overlap-add STFT actually has phase dependencies between adjacent patches. So generating independent random phase in frequency space tends to produce incompatible phase in adjacent patches. In audio the audio domain, this leads to audible distortion.

What's (often) used in the audio domain is Griffin-Lim, in which you apply the ISTFT and STFT repeatedly to 'smooth out' the phase inconsistencies. It typically takes a long time to converge and is still not quite right. The main alternatives for audio are the new neural vocoders. But they are expensive to train, and it's not terribly clear to me that it's any better than using an existing blue noise algorithm for this specific problem.
Computer control is nice but it's one tiny piece. If wayside infrastructure fails during rush hour, trains are going to be delayed, so they have to assure that won't happen. Station dwell times are another big issue that computers don't have any control over (the train can't leave when someone's backpack is caught in the door).

Computer control is more of a safety issue than a reliability enhancer. Computers are pretty good at stopping trains before they crash into another train or rocket off of a curve some idiot took at 80mph, but not so good at driving the train at its safe limits. Ever ride BART? It's been fully automatic since its inception (in normal operation, drivers have an e-stop button and make announcements) and it isn't setting records for on-time performance.

I think the fascination with Japan's on-time record is a little overblown. I went to high school in Tokyo and I was late plenty of times due to train problems. Snow? Schedule is fucked for the entire day; trains canceled, trains late. Someone falls in front of a train? You're not going anywhere for an hour. As a rider of the New York subway system during the "meltdown", I can tell you that you can absolutely do worse than Japan. But the MTA was still happy to hand out vouchers explaining why I was late to work.
it's kind of the reverse problem of LCD viewing angles. film had no structure, but each pixel on a sensor is at the bottom of a tiny little well looking out. the effect is exacerbated on mirrorless with a shorter flange distance.

the modern Nikon sensors are currently the best here, being designed with adaptation in mind. but it doesn't matter so much, the worst you might see is a fractional stop of additional vignetting. it matters even less if you're adapting an SLR lens with a deeper flange.
Alexandra Elbakyan is still alive and well, and Sci-Hub is going strong. Swartz' prosecution and persecution were totally pointless. Copyright is unenforceable.
Except earning trust with the customer, in a line of business that is built entirely on the customer trusting you to manage things properly.
With all due respect, there's selection bias in people telling you that.
Didn't you read the information sheet handed to you? It's not just to satisfy the lawyers.
The difference is the word “likely” which means as much as “we have no idea.”
It’s more like the protagonists are grounded in reality, and the villains are cartoonishly stupid, so there’s some dissonance.

Personally I was okay with it but some of the bits (like the vapid news show or how the titular Don’t Look Up meme comes about) were too much for me.
Why is it comparing CAE with hospitalization rate? What's the CAE for 120-day COVID-19 infection, or the hospitalization rate for post-vaccination?
That site is incomplete. When I search for my zipcode, it doesn't return a CVS that I know for a fact is offering boosters every day.
In Wales, I've had a train scheduled for every hour that has both just not shown up and has ran straight through the station without stopping (lol).

Pretty awesome watching the train you've been waiting for just sort of keep going :D. (The magic of newtown Wales!)
I am young and very healthy and covid, especially omicron, does not have much of an effect on me. At this point, everyone is going to get covid even if 100% of the population is vaccinated. Folks who are worried and/or high risk should of course get the vaccine to reduce covid’s effects. No young person should be forced to take a covid vaccine much less a booster to go to school because covid isn’t the Spanish flu or polio and doesn’t have crippling effects on the young.

I have had covid and I am vaccinated with JnJ but I will not be getting boosters. I would like to see the longer term effects of mRNA vaccinations first. I have all my other vaccinations. Most of my immediate family is not vaccinated for covid (while having all other vaccines) and has a similar position.
When do two-body systems have stable Lagrange points?
By this logic, just about every job in early-development countries (e.g. and relevantly: large parts of China and India), is slavery.

If we accept the colloquial gross misuse of "slavery" to mean "crappy jobs that the workers depend on for survival", then I'm inclined to agree on principle, but I feel similarly about food service workers in the US and subsistence farmers everywhere.
Not at all, trains and tracks in Sweden are old and not properly maintained. And the official statistics regarding punctuality is insanely misleading.

Yes, if they screw you over you might get a taxi ride. But most probably you'd just have to wait for several hours and get up to 50% of the ticket price as a voucher for the next trip.

Trains are one of the most embarrassing part of Sweden. And we are probably going to spend and absolute fortune on new tracks and new slow trains (slow because costs have already spun out of control).
The lack of that specific information doesn't make it vague in my view.

If I tell to that the world appears to be shaped as a globe then that statement isn't vague just because I don't explain _why_ it appears shaped as a globe.
Alright, now you lost me.

As someone that complied initially, holed up in an apartment solo for many months while the city descended into chaos, and began testing every 7 days when that became available and staggering interactions between people, I feel like I’ve shown that I’m willing to help mitigation efforts.

Boosters for last year’s virus makes less sense. Boosters at all make less sense, especially for a non vulnerable population, and the fairly predictable solution of stacking them every 6 months should come under much more scrutiny. Especially with the unnecessary myocarditis element.

The same for cloth masks, if they are less effective against the newer prevalent variant.

I’m not sold on this one, and I’ll totally begin bolstering anti-establishment sentiment if they are the only ones willing to disagree.
I mostly agree. It is genuinely hard in this environment to rationally discuss individual options. As an example, here is an example of Hep B vaccination for infants.

How is it transmitted: "This can happen through sexual contact; sharing needles, syringes, or other drug-injection equipment; or from mother to baby at birth. "[1]

Why do I need it? My kid's doctor paraphrased: um, chart says so and school won't her in if she does not have it.

And that does not mention super annoying conversation with wife, whose entire argument for it is: 'it won't do damage'.

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hbv/index.htm
This is broken thinking built on faulty assumptions.
There are countless examples of massive conspiracies and secrets never leaking.
Here's mine.

My children are very young, my wife and I are young and we workout 6 days a week. We eat healthy and are healthy.

I'm not going to give my children a vaccine against something that has a miniscule mortality rate. And I'm not going to get vaccinated because I'm not morbidly obese or old. Lose weight and stay safe.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...
Microsoft Bookshelf was so cool, and should have been a built-in Windows tool!
I don't agree that "the system" punished a smart altruist.

As this article makes clear, Swartz did something he knew to be illegal. This was not his first brush with mass copyright violation. He was then prosecuted for his crimes. IMO, the charges were vastly disproportionate, but you expose yourself to prosecutorial overreach when you (knowingly) commit crimes.

This appears to have been a trend with Swartz. He seems to have had something of a God complex. And thus, for him, the ends justified the means, because he was right and they were wrong.

He does not even appear to have been especially ethical or rational. For example, Reddit sells to Condé Nast. A condition of the sale was that he would work out of Condé Nast's SF offices. He took the money, but then rejected the terms post hoc and disappeared. When he was tracked down and it was clear that he'd simply flown the coup, he was justifiably fired. All of which he, and his enablers, viewed as a great injustice! They don't seem to entertain giving back the money though...

He was a human, with all the attendant frailties and blindspots. He was not murdered. He was a person who struggled with mental illness, like so many of us. He committed suicide.

His suicide is tragic. He was clearly a bright and dynamic person. But he also seems to have been pretty misguided, and his darker tendencies appear to have been rationalized, justified, and enabled by his family. That to me, is the greater tragedy. It didn't have to be like this.
That makes more sense. It just surprises me that I've seen far more links to this page in the past few weeks than I ever did back then.
There may be newer data, but I'm aware of this analysis

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/addendumcorrection-to-dan...

My only criticism of that analysis is that the original study reported all the counts based on the population of over the age of 12. And when he back calculated the expected values he used the full population. The bias I see there is that it's highly likely that all of the under 12s would be unvaccinated which would change the denominator a bit. I re-did his analysis in the most drastic case by saying that all the under 12s were unvaccinated and I get a -59% VE. Not as big negative as he reports, but still negative. So that's a problem.
I agree that both of those shouldn't be punished. I'm not sure how one would properly define the law tho - for ex. an SQL injection could also be "just a query parameter" and the server would haply reply with a 200.
Same, I recently took my Nikon to my son's crawling group (a meeting where babies are allowed to meet other babies and crawl around). I took a ton of photos of the kids there and shared them with the moms (who were usually shooting cell phone).

They were amazed at the quality of the photos (Nikon Z6ii with a Z 50mm f1.8) and some even wanted to book me for paid shootings. I'm not a great photographer by any stretch (I myself think I'm terrible - I just like taking photos of my kid) but the difference of a full frame sensor with a modern top lens really blew away people who are used to cell phone cams.
Notably, the Dynamo paper is _not_ a description of how DynamoDB (the product available from AWS today) works. They are fundamentally different, and it is not possible to implement notable features like conditional updates using the algorithms described in the Dynamo paper.
I didn’t believe you.

I wouldn’t be surprised about the opportunistic chances to push an ideology taken by supposedly apolitical orgs. There are examples all over even if you don’t want to see it.

So I was willing to believe that MW made a small addendum to their previous definition of antivaxxer. Despite it being a cheap and dirty abuse of their institution.

But no. They removed it entirely and replaced it with exactly what you said. Wtf.

Opposing a vaccine mandate for completely precedent and objectifiable legal reasons “now makes” you an antivaxxer huh?

Well… I’m new to the club apparently, where do I pick up my Karen haircut and homeopathic treatments?
I’m vaccinated but I won’t get a booster because:

- My heart hurt as hell from the vaccines. A study from the UK shows more risk for myocarditis from the vaccines than from infection in males under 40. [1]

- Studies say vaccines stop/slow transmission but in reality we see more cases in regions with high vaccination rates than we did last year without vaccines. And more cases than in regions with a lower vaccination rate. Breakthrough infections seem to be the norm, not the exception. I’m not the US.

- Natural immunity is superior. [2]

- Vaccines don’t protect against long covid. [3]

- The people at risk are old or have other problems. Statistically you will be fine when you’re under 60.

So when we add all these things up it’s clear to me we should have only vaccinated older people and the ones with health problem. Because the vaccines only work to protect yourself. And you don’t need artificial protection when you’re young and healthy. Just like the flu.

[1] https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/uk-now-reports-myoca...

[2] https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03495-2

Edit:
I source my claims yet people downvote me. If you downvote me just because you heard something else in the media I consider you an irrational person.
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I use floppy disks for my Akai S2800 sampler :)
Originally built around 1992 it still works (and sounds) great!
Modding it to support USB is too expensive, and I quite enjoy some of the limitations it brings. You have to get creative for some things.
To you, maybe. Mid 90's my buddies were the founders of xs4all, I ran my world wide webcam community (oh no, a founder ;) ) and we were all coming up with 20 ideas per day on how we could use this thing. There quite literally wasn't time enough to implement everything we thought of. A friend famously wrote up a bit about how the browser would one day be the UI to everything. Another sketched a complete vision of youtube but we were to busy to be bothered...

Even I was skeptical about some of the more outlandish stuff and it all came true, and then some. We had live video in the browser in 1995. Yes, it's hindsight, but it couldn't be anything else because time has passed. But there were lots of people with actual foresight back then and all you had to do was listen to them to see where the future would go, it was as inevitable as the tides. Even the .com bust was more of a temporary setback (and the implosion of many bubbles that urgently needed imploding) than a real problem.

The point is, and we can bicker about the timing but I don't think that is all too relevant here: there were plenty of indicators that brick & mortar stores would sooner or later have competition. Minitel in France was a pretty strong vision of what the future could be like and it had a ton of online services, including ordering goods (and pizzas).

Sure, it needed time to gather steam. But the expression 'the writing was on the wall' applies: if you wanted to see it, you could have.

The problem with most business owners that are on to some kind of success is that they forget that everything has a beginning and an end, this goes for buggy whip makers just as much as it does for buggy whip store owners, if the automobile didn't get you then internet would have and if the internet had come along a little later then the pandemic would have. But somewhere in the 90's savvy business owners saw the shift and prepared. They're the ones doing very well today. The ones that decided to fight a rearguard action against the inevitable: not so much.
Exactly! It's like if someone was not trespassing (they are on a public road/sidewalk) and looked in your windows and saw you standing there naked. Then you get upset and demand they be arrested. It's YOUR responsibility to draw the shades, or only walk around naked in front of windows that do not have a clear view to a public space.
That is the only reason I clicked, to see a 28 foot menu. Was disappointed.
Why didn't you like it?
Welcome to the resistance... its not glamorous, but it is overwhelmingly obviously the right time to be a skeptic.
I wish there was an open source fairy that put money in my bank account every time someone used my software! Until then, it's reasonable to want to be paid without having to deal with the attendant hassles and responsibilities of participating in a business venture, but not reasonable to expect that to happen.
It's not doing a great job against transmission of Omicron, but the vaccine doing a fantastic job of protecting people against hospitalization and death. Non-vaccinated people are 15x more likely to be hospitalized than vaccinated people. If the bottom line is that most people are going to get Omicron one way or the other, because it's so infectious that we can't reasonably avoid that outcome, then it seems like ensuring the vast majority of people experience something akin to the mild flu is much better than a huge wave of hospitalizations and deaths.
> 38 people

The number of people whose info can fit on 2 floppy disks.
She was misquoted on this point so often that it’s even being repeated here. In hindsight she shouldn’t have said it that way or at all.

Trump’s supporters were and are not the whole of the Republican Party and so it was never about half of the population even if that’s how it was understood and played up by conservative media.

> “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”

She said the other half of Trump’s supporters “feel that the government has let them down” and are “desperate for change.”

“Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well,” she said.

https://time.com/4486502/hillary-clinton-basket-of-deplorabl...
We'll see more of these "Year in Review" posts in the coming days, but why read mine? If you're interested in business and entrepreneurship, I'm living that life and talk about my experiences and learnings. You'll also get some decent book recommendations. But if you've ever read my content before or use one of the OSS projects I maintain, I talk about some of those too and cap it off with an update on OpenFaaS. Hope you enjoy it.
The United States needs to have a measured approach to medicine when it comes to boosters. What is the likelihood of hospitalization in the population at college? What is the risk of death in the same population? What is the risk of side effect from the shots?

When you answer these questions, it seems reasonable to not require boosters since the chances of death are low in this population as in the chance of hospitalization. However, the chances of heart damage, especially in males that would attend the school, is higher than the damage from the disease itself. The heart damage is permanent.

I'm not saying no one should get a vaccine, but rather we need to balance benefits and damages from the vaccine regiments. Is one shot enough to reduce the risk of Covid death/hospitalization while also keeping the risk of heart damage low? If yes, why require more shots?

Sadly the goal posts seem to have moved with the Covid in general and the vaccine in particular. People will still get Covid even with the vaccine. The original point of the vaccine is to reduce the risk of death, and the workload on the Hospitals. Now it seems that no one should ever get the disease. While laudable, it is unrealistic.
I don't think I've seen this mentioned here so far, but a big reason why I use (and pay for) native apps is because the subscription management process, at least in the Apple ecosystem, is quite a bit simpler and less user hostile than having to go through an individual site/company for each service.

If I subscribe through the App Store, I can easily cancel my subscription at any time by going to one place and just clicking "Cancel Subscription". Contrast this with some well-known news sites who make you place a phone call and then give you the run around just to cancel a basic subscription.

It would be a nightmare to subscribe to multiple different websites and then have to go through a user-unfriendly process to cancel through each one.
Tesla is recalling over 475,000 Model 3 and Model S vehicles
How did it break? COMDAT usage is optional today. (Perhaps it wasn't when first created?)
It would have been funny if they went with 3½ floppies instead :)
This is an interesting point. I'd be inclined to ensure that the server side hash is still at least independently expensive enough as would be desirable for plain text, but then using the client side hash to go above and beyond computationally seems reasonable to me.

I would wonder though -- there's obviously a practical limit on user experience for waiting for computation, and is there really fast enough implementations available to the browser within that limit that would foil what a dedicated attacker could compute in proper hardware for a dictionary attack? You'd also have to consider if it's really that expensive to just throw more hardware at a server side hash. I guess it'd depend on the browser, whether the attack is targeted, and how big the attacker's budget is that you're considering.

Either way, if this was the goal and the team considered those factors then still felt it was worth the effort of doing so I would think it seems reasonable, though it's probably not something I'd make standard practice in my own apps.