skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. And good general advice.

Frankly I find it hard to do, when depending on who you’re talking to, the intended utility is not even definitive (e.g. a currency vs a “store of value”). Maybe this points at something larger.
You are of course correct, but 'the Julia one' is probably actually Pluto, since it's Julia only.
Steam remote play or moonlight/sunshine [0] working great for me in setup like this.

[0] https://github.com/loki-47-6F-64/sunshine
Their burden of proof has already been satisfied.
First thing we did when we bought our place was to start cutting them down. There were 5 of them, and they were at the point where limbs would start breaking off of them for no reason.

We were doing 1 a week, but that wasn't fast enough. One of them dropped a really large, live limb on a sunny, windless day. Easily could have killed someone.

It took another 5 years of aggressive use of roundup to kill the suckers that sprung from their roots all over the place.
You're assuming zero revenue.

At a total spend of $250k/yr if you can figure out how to bring in $150k/yr of revenue ($12,500/month) you've got 5 years of runway now.
This is nice! I ended up doing something similar with my project garret [0] to publicly share my bookmarks online.

Now I also just archive / export my bookmarks into Archivy [1].

[0]: https://github.com/Uzay-G/garret

[1]: https://archivy.github.io
The Pandemic Whistleblower
there's a bunch of gatekeeping to get into ML. Part of it is that ML people don't want non-ML people to know just how much of what they do is drudgery and how little of it is exciting math, or have competition from people with similar skills. And those roles come with a lot of prestige.

I went through all that and am a SWE again instead of an ML engineer. The one thing I learned from all that? "The very best models are distilled from postdoc tears".
> which is not true as far as I can find tell. He did work on mRNA technology decades ago but didn't invent mRNA vaccines.

It was removed from wikipedia, but here's an archived version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210614140319/https://en.wikipe...

He invented the initial platform and performed the first mRNA vaccine experiments in 1989.

There's 9 patents in his name for the platforms and his name is all over the original experiments.

I don't think the powers at be can memory hole him that easily.

> What does that even mean, a "viral gene"? Toxic spike proteins?

What he's getting at is, the spike protein the vaccine makes you generate enters the heart and other organs easily and causes damage.

The spike protein itself is potentially toxic to us and causing myocarditis. There is evidence of that, how widespread is disputed.

Whether "long covid" is a symptom of this spike protein toxicity, vaccine induced or natural, is unclear.

Many many things related to covid, some taboo, some not, are yet to be determined.

> Should we trust this person?

Should we trust media reporters and random people slinging mud on the internet, I doubt it.

In this field, we should listen to him, yes, not shun him, as he has relevant domain knowledge which is clearly verifiable.

Trust implies faith, why are you "trusting" scientists? You should listen and verify.

The fact you are attacking him and not trying to disprove what he is saying is suspect.
You clearly do not understand the scientific method or empiricism.

How about this? "I'm waiting to take the vaccine until we understand the long term effects because no data exists regarding them and it would be empirically and scientifically unsound to confirm a hypothesis (that the vaccine's long term benefits outweigh the costs) without sufficient evidence to overrule the null hypothesis and default state of being unvaccinated."
It has much less caffeine.
From the study "Subgroup analyses by age showed the increased risk of myocarditis associated with the two mRNA vaccines was present only in those younger than 40."

See the graph here
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0/figures/2
With that said, consumers can always choose a different library.

Yeah, you can always just choose a different css-loader > cssnano > svgo > colors depchain, because there's plenty. Dependencies like that empower people great, and we all know what comes with it.

When you're in a hot summer bus, it's immoral to turn off the AC only because it was you who decorated the knob.
I've kicked a lot more people than dogs, so it probably has more to do with dogness.
Oh boy. FAANG will turn up to kill this one for sure. Maybe the law can be used as a template for other states where it can be slipped through quietly.
Random anecdotes aren't data - at least not useful data. An offhand comment from the 1960's aside, collecting data to ensure it's usable is the subject of a lot of research.
I don't know about the whole fabs, but the machines that ASML makes are incredibly precise and powerful. They are built and stay in vacuum, so even shipping them costs millions. And the laser that powers them is room sized; it would probably make a decent weapon for a battleship too.

So I think the cost is largely that every part must be engineered to perfection.
I'm sure if you send him higher gas fees, he'll confirm faster.
I also highly recommend ArchiveWeb.page + ReplayWeb.page if you need really high fidelity archiving.
I always appreciate updates on Mill. Their videos are great.
discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25690941
This is fantastic! My wife and I often drive US-2. It can be a gamble in inclement weather.

This is really helpful for understanding conditions in the lesser traveled parts of the state.
Take a look at the downvoted-to-0 formulation I gave upthread, then see if you can program it that way tomorrow without looking, and then think it through to see if it could possibly be wrong, and once you're satisfied it's correct, try testing it. Probably you'll never need to implement binary search yourself again, but it's a good exercise for thinking through algorithms. You can probably get it working that way in under an hour instead of a whole day.
> 100% effective, no symptoms

My (and by proxy am guessing at the public's) understanding would be something like ~90% effectiveness at all but the most benign symptoms, and importantly minimal concerns of transmission.

For example MMR Vaccines meet this standard [1]

> A person with two doses of MMR vaccine has about an 88% reduction in risk for
mumps;

In replying to you I also read this[2] which is quite interesting,

> MMR vaccine prevents most, but not all, cases of mumps and complications caused by the disease. People who have received two doses of the MMR vaccine are about nine times less likely to get mumps than unvaccinated people who have the same exposure to mumps virus.

So I guess there is a middle ground between people expect the Covid vaccine to mean "you no longer can get it", and the reality of past vaccines "9x less likely to get it [at all vs hospitalization]" -- I just don't see the current covid vaccine providing the "get it at all" portion vs "hospitalization" target/success metric.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/mumps/vaccination.html
[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/mumps/outbreaks/outbreak-patient-qa.html
> A solution to buckthorn overgrowth can't come soon enough because mechanical solutions, while effective, are very laborious.

In Minnesota, they’ve been using goats. It’s still labor intensive, but the labor is performed by goats. Still, there are only so many goats, and there’s a lot of buckthorn.

I love the Big Woods ecosystem, and there’s very little of it left :/
I wouldn't call 400-500k a significant runway, but it should have some effect, since you can put of fund raising for at least a few months, maybe even 2 years if you're frugal. At that time you are hopefully further along.
I'd argue that in islam pretty much all of these restrictions are not applicable when it's for medical reasons. Alcohol is explicitly allowed in such cases (I think it was used to relieve pain in surgeries) , and even pork is okay to eat if you can't find anything else. Another example would be Ramadan fasting, which is not necessary if you are ill or when you are travelin.
Overall, almost any restriction in islam is very flexible when it's a matter of life or death, or if it's a medical necessity/recommendation. So, a pig valve is arguably not any different from a cow valve when it's so clearly not for regular consumption.
> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation

Technology companies shouldn't be deciding what the facts are or aren't.
If you have omicron it is mild, so I indicated early treatment options for other variants as they are still around and have effective early treatments. I would personally still get early treatment regardless of variant.
> A story from your barber is not only anecdotal, it is quite possibly based on misunderstanding - especially if the barber is inclined to distrust Government.

My barber is a young, apolitical Latina. And please explain to me how the family "misunderstood" a death certificate saying she died of COVID, contacted the hospital, the hospital looked into it, and agreed it was an error and fixed it... This is a straightforward chain of events.

> To really estimate Covid fatalities it is not enough to count reported Covid deaths, you also need to look at other numbers - specifically "excess mortality": How many people have died in the last 2 years compared to in "normal" years?

How do you separate out the vastly increased number of deaths from diseases of despair like addiction? What about people like my mother-in-law, who went into cardiac arrest hours after her second shot due to a rare adverse event? She was in the midst of a fever. (The hospital, understandably overwhelmed by covid cases, inadvertently forgot to report her death to VAERS, despite the team of cardiologists recommending they do so.) Every single hospital in the US has a huge financial incentive to test for covid, which was deliberate to prevent the undercounting you are talking about. It's clear that the incentives are biased towards over counting, with the CDC admitting a few days ago that they are working on getting separate numbers for "hospitalized for covid/hospitalized with covid".

> arguing that the "mass media" is deliberately exaggerating the danger is plain disinformation and wishful thinking.

Mass media has absolutely obfuscated the stratification of risk by age. This indirectly results in most members of the public dramatically overestimating their personal risk. This is obvious, but also documented quantitatively by Gallup. It's not a small overestimation either, but orders of magnitude. You may be one of these people for all I know. Someone is responsible for the public being grossly misinformed on this topic. I think it's the media combined with CDC, but perhaps you have other ideas.

From Gallup:

https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/354938/adults-estimat...

"Previous Gallup research has found that the American public has a poor understanding of the true risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and that misperceptions vary by political party. In December 2020, through the Franklin Templeton-Gallup Economics of Recovery Study, we asked 5,000 U.S. adults: "As far as you know, what percentage of people who have been infected by the coronavirus needed to be hospitalized?" Only 18% provided the correct answer, which at that time was between 1% and 5%, and a higher percentage of Republicans (26%) gave the correct response than did Democrats (just 10%). Likewise, experimental research from Gallup and Franklin Templeton found that providing people information about high vaccine efficacy led to greater acceptance of the vaccine."
And sometimes the horrendous code really is written by someone else. I recently came across some horrendous code [1] that needlessly wrapped syslog(), and separated the format string from the point of use (the format string was a #define).

The thing is---I know the developer (he left our company over a year ago) and is a great guy (former jazz musician), but let's just say he had some questionable coding practices.

[1] http://boston.conman.org/2022/01/04.1
Number three is crucial for disinformation campaigns. Social platforms maximize interactivity, not transparency or honesty. The disinformation echo chambers have done great harm to society's mental health.
He sold an earlier company to Twitter, pretty sure he already is "rich" (most of us here are, comparatively).

I'd like to think about Moxie as the most honourable person in all of this. Leaving the CEO role could be a sign that he doesn't agree with everything that's going on.
Vegans, too!
Although, I can see how altering a repo under someone else's name rather than forking it is problematic.

In this case I can forgive them as the repo owner was clearly acting maliciously and causing major problems for many others.

We do need to figure out how this sitation should be dealt with in a transparent way in future.
Which housing markets would benefit more from banning AirBnb than from construction 100k new luxury units?

My googling suggests that Manhattan has fewer than half that many AirBnb's, suggesting that all 100k of those new luxury units would push down the price of all existing housing more than simply returning 40-50k AirBnbs into supply.

Might be hard to fit 100k new apartments into Manhattan, sure, but it would be much easier to fit them into LA. Lots of two story buildings out there. Dallas? Austin? Portland? Even easier!
If anybody is displeased by this news, check out Matrix protocol. Grab yourself a client like Element for it. You can even bridge Signal to Matrix if others don't want to switch.
What if the patch for the buggy `2.14.0` library was released as `3.0.0`? In semver MAJOR can be a superset of MINOR and PATCH, so this is a perfectly logical semver operation.

You still have the exact same problem you described with `^2.14.0`. Someone would have to manually update the package to get the security fix in 3.0.0.

Unless you're suggesting code should also automatically update major versions aswell?
Exactly! What was all that talk about using the vaccine to achieve herd immunity and reduce the R0? That was SO the narrative.
Do you actually understand how this works or are you theorizing? The no-fly-list exists. Security clearances are tracked.
Snow Force 1
is the one I link the most.
A self-appointed police organization pretends they need to harvest 4 petabytes of citizen data to "fight terrorism".

Not legitimized by any constitution, no defined responsibilities, these Brussels organizations (sorry, the Hague!) appoint each other and assign themselves budget, and the bureaucracy grows every day.
> First, I question their stats. IE I think they are straight-up fudging their numbers.

So, any evidence that contradicts your feeling will be dismissed?

> Second, there are more people being hospitalized in my area (which has high rates of vax) than there are unvaxxed people.

Sure. In a place with 100% vaccinated people, they would be all of the hospitalizations.

Relative proportions matter.
I didn't call you a psychopath, and truly cannot make that call since I'm not a psychologist. It remains fair to say that drowning animals is psychopathic behavior, however.

Please try to research a more philosophical approach to morality and ethics. Shutting down in the face of an alternative viewpoint is hardly a productive approach to conversation. Cheers.
Yes, this is another point. When you find a new interesting problem it is almost always in some form of yak shaving too.

If working on it is procrastination or actually a better use of your time than solving the original problem is never obvious.

Anyway, I'm on the side that thinks TEX is more valuable than TAOCP.
I was standing in a 4-hour line to get a nurse to give me a regular TDAP vaccine (wooping cough). I decided to come back later when the line was shorter, and stood in line __before__ the clinic opened. I was then met with a 2-hour wait instead.

You can't ignore this crap. Its evidently and immediately an issue right now.
Good point. I upvoted your comment, and I wish I could edit my comment to add this. It seems that I can't edit the comment anymore though.

PS: The 9to5mac article has an update which indicates that the blocking is _not_ exclusive to users who have "filtering and blocking features enabled".
It’s absolutely based on reality. I invite you to live in any major west coast city. Dudes have lost the plot.

Besides, there is nothing wrong with being “anti mask”. Covid is endemic. I’m boostered. Why should I continue to be forced to wear a mask? Is Covid still the only problem I can ever focus on?
Implementing anything even a little tricky under pressure can be tough. unless you’ve practiced with bit or pointer twiddling regularly, you are mostly validating whether they did interview prep or not. That probably selects for more serious candidates, so it probably works. But i was tripped up by a simple binary search problem the other day, even after i’d just solved several harder problems quite quickly. It’s just the nature of algorithmic problem solving — until you’ve done a lot of prep, it’s dicey whether a novel problem will take me five minutes or five hours to solve.
i write python for a living (and have done so for the last five years) but i still find ruby fits my brain better, and it's what i reach for when i want to write a quick script for some personal use.
Dancing with Status Roles
I quit over a year ago. Mostly for sleep reasons. I have cheated on my "caffeine fast" quite a bit though. I agree about the duller part, but that should go away eventually. One thing that helped, I used chicory root as a coffee substitute and I found replacing the routine helped fill the void a bit.

Also, I was originally hoping I could go back to 1 or 2 cups per week, on an "as needed" basis (i.e. when I needed a productivity boost) without developing a tolerance. The first cup of coffee after a few months off was absolutely magical. But I found that even at 1-2 per week, my tolerance would quickly shoot up. Like you, I used to drink a ton of coffee so I suspect I would need to take a full year or more off with no cheating to really reset the system.

A final note, I found that decaf and chocolate both have enough caffeine in them to "muddy" the waters so to speak. To get to a good "baseline" I had to cut both of those out as well.
because the post was critical of Trump (who’d never do the things listed in that post!)
Look, if science made an error, then that is a huge opportunity for an army of other scientists to point it out. That's how science works. Don't make the mistake to think that an armchair scientist can outsmart them all with just some basic reasoning perhaps based on personal anecdotes.
ML doesn't just fail silently by design. because ML is based on error minimization, it fails in a way that is maximally hard to tell from random garbage. This is, remarkably, a subtlety that is lost on most people, which is a real surprise- my introduction to this was in structural biology, where you always do hold-outs and check the performance on the hold-out set before overfitting is such a problem.
That’s awesome! I couldn’t believe it when they first said it was made from pig bladder. We didn’t use all of it... I should’ve asked for the remainder and pit it in a takeout box and kept it for a rainy day
It's now very easy to find someone across the planet that agrees you on 99.9% of things and talk to them instead of have that conversation with your neighbor who only agrees with you on 80% of things and might actually challenge your thinking face to face.
Time to get reading again...

Shōgun

Cryptonomicon

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

... The Didactic Novel
By walking backwards up the waste water stream, we can get this to more refined views of community infection. The higher up the pipes, the narrower the view. And of course, drug abuse, levels of medication in general, inputs to microplastics.

Waste water is just another form of big data. It's got lots of interesting qualities to help understand ourselves.
The best DE is the one that YOU like, I was an avid XFCE user for many many years! Good luck resolving your back problems, it's a long journey.

here's a (temporary) image of this very setup: https://i.imgur.com/YBRlvkF.jpg
You might enjoy http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html :)
See the repugnant conclusion. I don't have a good answer save that arguments that deal with completely hypothetical people seem to result in completely useless nonsensical results. For example if your argument were correct it would be morally beneficial to breed as many human children as possible to live horrifying, painful, and short lives in order to end their tortured existence as kid burgers because any sort of life is better than none at all.

If we admit the idea that some lives can have negative value for example if they consist solely of suffering it would be OK to breed kid burgers so long as they had a pleasant existence up until slaughter at 7 followed by a quick trip to McKid.

I suspect that my moral philosophy and likely yours is simply insufficient to deal with hypothetical persons and we ought to simply reason about how to treat actual beings that exist.
Motorcycle riders take out other people on the road, too. Even if you aren't killed by someone on a motorcycle, your family getting PTSD because their mangled corpse flew through your windshield isn't exactly a great outcome, either.
“Griffith had transplanted pig hearts into about 50 baboons over five years, before offering the option to Bennett.”

I wonder how the baboons did.
The rival's point of view is utterly irrelevant.
Assuming Roy is smart, his manually entering transactions is the smart capability.
Even on a purely ethical level, selling the company has to pretty bad to offset the amount of good you can do with that amount of wealth.
> Just wait until you try Windows...

It is really funny to see comments like this from Apple fans here. As if pointing to a much worse OS(in their view) excuses all the drawback in MacOS.

There is so much things that break, corner cases, basic features missing, unintuitive user interface in MacOS. It probably was good long back, but I don't think that is the case at present.
I think this is about securing data/keys (AES, TLS, TPM..) vs securing code (Secure Boot, TEEs..). Neither is really a threat to software freedom as I see it, as long as it's user controlled or can be rendered effectively inactive.

The thorniest question I think is around TEEs. You either trust ME/PSP/mobile TEEs for their explicitly mentioned uses (fTPM, SVM, Remote attestation..) or you think they should be even more sandboxed or perhaps shouldn't exist at all. I'm all for the middle ground/option here where the user is in control, thought others may disagree. Remote attestation could be a case where the user is losing control, so preserving user control there is important.
I also recently got solar panels, they were calculated to provide more then my household consumes year-round, and should pay themselves back in 6-7 years based on 2021 energy prices and regulations. I anticipate having to get an electric car to use up all that energy :-)

One thing the author missed is that in the Netherlands you can re-claim the VAT paid on the solar installation, saving 21% of costs. Probably not worth the effort for a very small installation, but for a bigger one it saves considerably.
To the coffee-addicted here, just curious… Are any of you overweight?
NPM is the model that almost all package managers have been based on for a while now. The cat is out of the bag and the benefits of the vast library of convenient packages has won over carefully selected but outdated distro repos.