skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't expose myself if I was immunologically naive to sars-cov-2, but I am happy to have had it before the vaccination as I was exposed to a more varied and wide antigenic sample than the one from the vaccines I got.
Given antigenic imprinting phenomenons I am happy to have been introduced to the natural virus first.
Absolutely love my Thinkpad X1 for running linux; it's pretty much the same design but without the awful number pad. The fingerprint scanner even got support recently!
Since the total loss in the US grid is maybe 6%, your short range figure there cannot be right.
It’s great for anonymous clones of public repos where I don’t care about signing in.

I work a lot of public repos. I want anonymous reads and clones to be super easy on my users.

I don’t like forcing people to log in just to read. I don’t care about encryption as the integrity of anonymous clones isn’t something I suspect will be abused.
> The two reactors at Torness have a combined electricity output of 1200 MW

If they bumped 1200 MW to 1210 MW they'd have the 1.21 GW they need to operate a Flux Capacitor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-77xulkB_U
What's really frustrating about this situation for me is that Google has given up on audio (discontinued Chromecast Audio, no replacement for Home Max) but as a result of this bullshit, I also can't use my Google products with Sonos, the one 21st century company that is actually doing audio well. Instead, Google's strategy is to partner with a bunch of legacy audio companies (https://www.google.com/chromecast/built-in/audio/) where you just know that the firmware is going to be jank and the products will all eventually be discontinued, and in the long run these companies are dinosaurs and they are all going to die.

I just clicked through to the NAD chromecast amp and instead of giving me a price and a "buy now" button, there is a "find a dealer" button. You have got to be fucking kidding me.
> Picking random doors until an empty one is found absolutely the same thing as randomly choosing amongst the available doors that don't contain a prize. You can implement any function you like here. Either the host always opens a door that does not contain the prize, or the host has a 1/3 chance of revealing the prize and the game is restarted. There is simply no other possibility.

Not entirely. The issue is what, exactly, gets restarted.

Version A: contestant chooses a door. Then the host picks a door and, if the host finds the prize, restarts the whole game if they picked the door with the prize. There is a 1/3 chance the contestant finds the prize. There is a 1/3 chance the contestant does not find the prize and and host does not find the prize. And there is a 1/3 chance neither one finds the prize. So 1/3 of the time the game restarts and, conditioned on a completer run, the contestant’s first guess was right with 50% probability.

Version B: contestant chooses a door. Then the host picks a door and, if the host finds the prize, restarts just this step and picks another door. There is a 1/3 chance the contestant finds the prize. If this happens, the host won’t find the prize. If the contestant’s first guess was wrong, there is a 1/2 chance the host finds the prize on any given try, but the host keeps trying so the host will not find the prize when the loop is done. So, conditioned on a completed run, the contestant’s first guess is correct 1/3 of the time.

See the difference?
1. Disagree, required and needed are equally clear.
2. Mastery is gender neutral. Perhaps your grammar checker is confusing this with master?
3. Rules of what is and isn't formal have changed. Contractions such as wasn't, isn't are perfectly fine.

These are just nits. Not at the same level as using compromised instead of comprised. Edit: Actually this is a non-issue, I responded to the assertion "...As long as you understand what the person is saying it's good enough...".

Your reading comprehension skills need serious work.
>Haven't there been some recent reports that the U.S. might actually not fare so well against China in direct conflict?

By CCP propagandists and agency leaders trying to retain or increase their funding, sure lol. China has nowhere close to the supply chain, materiel, experience, or quality tech necessary to challenge the US in direct conflict. They have virtually no original military R&D. It's just poorly reverse engineered tech from incomplete stolen plans. Remember China has an interest in trying to convey how "good" its military tech is on the global stage. The US does not. Any time you find out about some "new" scary Chinese military capability, just remember it's decades old stolen garbage from a nation that is better off holding its cards close to its chest.
My guess is Tesla would treat it as the user's fault unless they were defeated in court. It'll be interesting.
Bank of America Cuts Overdraft Fees, Eliminates Insufficient Funds Fees
IMHO this is human arrogance. It's the belief that as a human you are able to know and justify anything and everything with science and rationale, which is mostly wrong if you look at history.
> Cookie Policy: Same-Site=lax by default

LET'S GOOOOO

The day web developers forget about stupid "csrf protection tokens" is coming \o/
Uhhhh.... You realize your iMessages when sync'd to iCloud (default) are key escrowed, and therefore tapped by Apple, right?

CALEA doesn't go away just because you don't own wires.
So? A criminal country with the worst instances of human rights violations and violation of international law all across the world illegally detains the CFO of a company because of their country; and you expect that her country is not going to take action on that?
Yeah, I was ameliorated when I learned about RTGs, since they're solid state but it's still heat based. I assumed if you knew how to split that atom that somehow magically meant you could also convert it to electron current.
Legacy to whom?
Interestingly enough, if something is bad in the US, it can also be bad elsewhere.

Even worse though, there are indications that this behavior is institutionally supported and desired in China. After all, if the local governors make rules to force non-Uyghur men to sleep in the bed of Uyghur women (even married ones) and offer forced sterilization otherwise, perhaps - just perhaps - you are peddling a false equivalence.

By the way, the latter meets the definition of genocide. In case you care.
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Estimation of Global Prevalence of Dementia in 2019, Forecasted Prevalence 2050
I'm not sure what you're saying here. The parent is talking about rape and forced sterilization by people in positions of power in these camps. Your link is just talking about prison rape. There's no mention of forced sterilization. There is discussion of it talking about guards (4% of inmates are sexuality assaulted and <10% of those cases are by facility members) but the data is both old and low and the article talks about the US extending legal rights to inmates (2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act) whereas China's official claim is that there's nothing bad happening (they're just "reeducation campus"). No one is condoning prison rape in the US, especially prison rape by facility members. But these are drastically different things.

I don't know how someone can compare these things with a straight face.

This is just whataboutism. You can care about both these issues, it's allowed.
I think Google and Sonos had some partnership agreement in place, which makes this more complicated.
Google in last-ditch lobbying attempt to influence incoming EU tech rules
Nope, Han Solo is the first space bro.
France begs to differ. We basically replace fossil fuel with nuclear here (we only have small peaker gas plants, our baseload is all nuclear and some of our variable load is hydro) and there is no particular scale problem, no accidents (incidents yes, but they don't become accidents, the system works), a few pools of waste but whatever, no trouble to procure the fuel...
The World Institute of Slowness
You imagine incorrectly - most Americans believe outsourcing hurts the economy:

On the one hand, the polls largely confirm that most Americans are mercantilists at heart. The Ipsos poll shows that 69% of Americans believe that outsourcing hurts the country -- and only 17% think it helps the economy. --https://foreignpolicy.com/2004/06/09/public-opinion-about-of...

I don't understand where you get your certainty from. I've hardly ever seen offshoring referred to positively, the attitudes towards globalization itself are lukewarm at best, politicians ride into office on rhetoric of tariffs and bringing back jobs, but you just know, because some economists claimed stock yields would be 30% lower in the short-term if the US doesn't massively export its hard-won technological and manufacturing know-how, that all this outsourcing was driven by popular sentiment, and that people will revolt against any attempts to stop or reverse it? Based on what? Widespread pro-outsourcing protests and grassroots activism?

As for rebuilding manufacturing - it wouldn't need to be rebuilt if it hadn't been exported in the first place. What kind of argument is that? "We did something unpopular, but undoing it would be painful, and pain is unpopular, therefore what we did was popular"?
Semi-related: Does anybody know of a way to export iMessages from your iPhone?
> I think it matters that Germany's fossil fuel use for electricity went from 60% in 2010 to 40% in 2020. I also think it matters the US went from 60% in 2010 to 60% in 2020

This is whataboutism. The fact that someone else is doing worse, doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for the better. There is no reason to switch off nuclear in Germany before switching off coal, except propaganda and irrational fear.
I know this is painful to say and to hear, but below 4 percent is not reasonably popular anymore. It doesn’t mean Firefox isn’t a good browser or that you shouldn’t use it. But we shouldn’t pretend it is even semi-popular anymore. (Except among geeks where I think you can reasonably say it is popular.)
The article mentions a Sudoku variant of the idea, dubbed SudoQ, where instead of integers 1-9 you have (as I understand it) orthogonal quantum vectors. But it seems like no one implemented this as a game -- anyone know if this would be remotely comprehensible for humans to play?

>Quantum Latin squares were quickly adopted by a community of theoretical physicists and mathematicians interested in their unusual properties. Last year, the French mathematical physicists Ion Nechita and Jordi Pillet created a quantum version of Sudoku — SudoQ. Instead of using the integers 0 through 9, in SudoQ the rows, columns and subsquares each have nine perpendicular vectors.
This is something that amazes me. Any time a true High Risk Variant appears, it is clear as day in the system. This was the case with Lambda, Mu (which we predicted to have a limited propensity to proliferate), and now with Omicron.
However, there are lineages, which are prospectively dangerous, that we detect. As the classification is relative, there is no fixed threshold beyond which we would call for alert. In the evaluation, we have been looking at 20 sequences per week, as this was roughly the testing capacity of our partners. Going for ONE sequence a week makes us detect some variants a bit later, but still.
The sequences and lineages we predicted to be of interest were predominantly spreading afterwards. Some were just a blip on the radar, though. We aimed at sensitivity and not missing ominous signs, rather than specificity.
NB: Each week there are thousands (now 12k+) new sequence variants. Out of them we consider 20. And detect most of the variants as early on as on the first day.
Yeah, because every poor country must be like Elbonia with completely ignorant and corrupt public servants. /s
> Do you seriously think tattoos are still counter culture?

This depends a lot on where you live and what your ethnic and religious background is. There are plenty of places and people left in the world who look down on body modification.
I will check that out.

Thank you!
Same here. I interviewed for Apple back in November. The interview went really, really well. And yet, no response. I assumed that they might be off for winter break so I plan on giving them an extra week or so to get caught up on work and get back to me. If they don’t by the end of the month, I’ll just have to start applying again to other places.
I love Firefox but I can't really use it at work because our front-end devs refuse to support it, so our application doesn't have scrollbars - and switching between browsers sucks.

Use it at home and all of my personal devices though, and will not be switching any time soon.
sure. i have my hands full you know. i currently live in a place where posting a video or tweeting is seen as a threat to the country and journalists are being arrested left and right. just yesterday. https://thekashmirwalla.com/kashmiri-journalist-charged-for-...

i remember a time when religious folks used to feverently talk against "communism" as if it was a plague and all those dried up once ussr collapsed. turns out usa was funding anti-ussr sentiments in my hometown because why not.

sure. i do not enjoy "freedom of expression", living in a similar place like china.

i get your point. china is pushing their agenda aggressively but the way i have seen it in the last 40 odd years, 20 with the whole "war on terror" and "wmd" and even "gaddafi" and "arab spring", i find america just as dirty. you may not like it but remember, gaddafi wanted to trade in gold and not in american dollars and he was killed for that. same for saddam.

i personally believe having seen some action, no country, india, china, usa, france is willing to uphold "freedom of expression" if it threatens its interests, business interests. thats a simple fact. unless you face that
At the very end of this sentiment is the fact that all movies depicting invasion should only be made if it's Alien invasion. In that way, no one's sentiment would be hurt and no one would be portrayed evil. At some point you have to ask yourself, do you want to remember history, it's atrocities, invasions, war-crimes etc and learn from it or do you want to forget all of that and be happy always?
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1172/
China is very willing to play hardball and throw multinational corporations out unless they cooperate. The US is only just starting to consider actions like that (cf. Huawei and TikTok). I wonder if that's the next big shift in international politics - countries realizing that in the name of ideology (free trade) they've been freely giving away something very valuable - access to their domestic consumer market - which they could have been "charging" corporations quite a bit more for if they wanted to.
8. Google produced a cleaner, faster browser than the buggy, slow and bloated Firefox.

Mozilla began addressing performance issues with Firefox 57 and future releases, but for almost the entire decade prior Firefox was unstable trash.
Tangential, but every time I read "macOS" in FF release notes, I hope that this fundamental bug gets fixed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1600153

Gist: You click a link (outside FF, say from an app), and FF opens 2 windows - one with the link and other blank. I have no idea how is this acceptable for a browser as mainstream as FF.
I feel like Smalltalk demonstrated a better version of OOP than what you get in other languages that market themselves as object oriented. Firstly that it's consistent with itself, but mainly because it's incredibly awkward to do OOP in the Gang of Four/Clean Code/DDD style that you'd typically see in, say, a Java project.

You're essentially building up a catalogue of messages and answers and so it's not particularly ergonomic to jump through several layers of abstraction in the browser to get what you need. And there's no arbitrary limitation on your code such that a class can only have 10 methods in it, or 100 lines, or some other silly thing that forces you into creating a more convoluted architecture with more indirection.

I've grown weary of OOP for a long time because of how hard it is to find an effective application of it that doesn't grow into a collection of explicit design patterns with some business logic buried in the depths of the hierarchy. My brief experience with Smalltalk essentially revived my interest in it and encouraged me to be more thoughtful about my approach without throwing it all out and pining for a purer, more functional language that trades OOP's big problems with a set of its own.
Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day – January 11, 2022 – National Today
Plenty of honest people care. Especially Australian natives abroad who weren't able to see their families for months due to travel restrictions.

People like Australian snooker player Neil Robertson who was in tears last year when his wife was able to get his father to fly to the UK to see him for the first time in over a year.
I'm currently hiring for two roles for Three.js developers for my company to be my teammates (hit me up if you're intersted btw!).

We work very hard and care a lot about our project. A person I took over the project from didn't and it showed, they probably considered it a "bullshit" job.

The author of this article is applying to roles they consider "bullshit" jobs and is wondering why no one is hiring. Maybe it's because the people hiring also don't consider the work to be bs, but rather, very important, and would rather, like me, work extra hours every day just to avoid being around a coworker who thinks that way about the thing they (are paid to) spend half of their conscious life doing.

Stop applying for roles you think are BS and maybe you'll see people a lot more intersted in hiring you. If you lack the skills to be hired for work you consider meaningful, that's due to your own life choices up to this point, and you should start working to fix that right now.
Or even continually change it. So even if you agreed with original terms, to continue using it you have to keep accepting the changes.
What I find strange is this.

Marvel comics from the Stan Lee era were created by small groups that included a writer, an illustrator, a colorist and a letterer. The illustrator usually contributed to the study but Stan Lee had a special talent when it came to choosing specific words. (Look at books Jack Kirby did on his own to see this.)

A team like that could produce several books a month.

Modern Marvel and D.C. comics are produced by a different process. You might see a series of 12 different Superman books that have 12 different creators in a much less economical art style than the Stan Lee era. They go at parallelism in a different way.

Japanese manga creators, on the other hand, seem to be amazingly productive. Allegedly books like Sailor Moon, Gintama and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure are written by a single author.

The rate at which manga creators work isn't fast enough to support an anime series, a problem which is explained brilliantly in this clip from Gintama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4S9NuI6NKo
The only real difference is that there's also a decommissioning aspect. Typically any consumables that get used in a nuclear environment get collected, put in a barrel and then sent off to a warehouse for later disposal (generally unspecified...). A lot of "nuclear waste" is lightly contaminated PPE.
It’s funny how my RW friends would text me in the past about conspiracies because Hong Kong’s rates were so low (without any awareness of their Zero Covid policies), my LW friends would talk about how it showed the success of interventions, and now because it may not be working as well with omicron, my RW friends text me about HK FAIL! and my LW friends seem more resigned to the limits of science.

What is clear is the not many people follow PG’s advice to keep their identity small.
Single attribute in-place editing with Rails and Turbo
American action heroes are as American as apple pie. Why shelter your son when he can embrace it and become stronger?
It is not, based on the number of reported carjackings/thefts, 1% of the population of Minneapolis has either been carjacked or had their car stolen. That's just Minneapolis.

That's WILD.

I live here, it's happening in broad daylight, and becoming more violent.

Last week we had an amber alert because someone stole a car with a 1 year old in it.
> This has been a thing since at least the Roman empire?

My read on the comment was that people killed each other for political reasons prior to the time of Christ, and maybe even religious reasons, but that conversion wasn't a stated goal. This aligns in general with the assumption that while the religious was universal, Christianity is a peculiar mixture of inclusive and exclusive claims that redraw the boundaries between people primarily on a faith test rather than political or racial tests.
No more "malicious" than raising a price.
Ok, makes sense. Instead of WB making a horrible movie, Wachowski did it for them?

I’m not sure the Wachowski brand has improved after this.
The problem is that it is not just paid Wu Maos partaking in mindless burying of China criticism. Often times, you'll get hyper nationalist Chinese people who just want to help their homeland and they're not getting paid to astroturf. It's not limited to the Chinese - I have seen the same pattern for posts that are critical of India/Indians in engineering boards. I believe that trust is largely gone on large forums due to astroturfing and bots.
The twitter thread as a blog post: https://zerforschung.org/posts/djokovic-pcr-test-en/
Um... no.

That logic makes no sense
Ask HN: Has Gmail spam blocking taken a sudden nosedive?
I woke up this morning to find five obviously spam emails in my Gmail inbox. In the preceding decade of using Gmail, I don't believe even a single one has made it past the spam filter, so I'm quite curious what could be causing the sudden influx. These aren't some cleverly crafted ones either, subject lines include:

𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫'𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐧-𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧_for_up to$𝟓𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎'. (sent from noreplay.loanpro@gmail.com)

Roundup-Lawsuit..See if YouQualify LRT. (sent from emily.roundpro@gmail.com)

Welcome-To_CarShield (sent from thanhngan1878@gmail.com)
It's not unusual to have to wait for one or two days for the PCR test results. Same day tests are more of an exception in most of the Europe.

If he didn't have any symptoms, and was doing PCR test regularly just to be sure, he had to reason not to go to the gathering.
It’s unclear whether without strong worldwide recognition and condemnation it will ever be out of the system, and I’m afraid what made Holocaust to be recognized and condemned is that those who did it started and lost a violent war against other nations.

(I know you jest.)
My wife visited Torness (the plant in the article) for a meeting with one of the managers. She went through reception, got her badge, and was on her way up the stairs to the meeting room when the receptionist shouted at her. "Maam! MAAAM!... please hold the handrail".

They're nuts about safety - and a good thing too, speaking as someone who lives relatively close-by.
If there were zero people, no work would be required, and thus no machines either. The environment would just do whatever it wanted. This would be more efficient still.
Reinforcement Learning as a fine-tuning paradigm
It will look different depending on your settings[0] and the type of screen, affecting the gamma and gamut.

On mine, that screenshot looks like the green has an unpleasantly high saturation compared to the blue. The higher saturation increases the perceived value/lightness, lowering contrast.

[0] On my phone (a Pixel5a running Android 12), Display > Colors is set to Adaptive, rather than Natural or Boosted.