skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neurons in your brain have tens of thousands of connections each, and are not limited to the current AI design where all connections are laid out in a neat linear layers for matrix operations.

Squishy human brains connect in all directions - there's no "layer" to every thought. It creates feedback loops, intricate pathways, as well as direct connections.

Modern AI tech is fundamentally dumbs down intelligence by this notion of layered matrix operations.

It is done for scalability because matrices can be computed easily on a GPU, but it's not the same architecture.
My parents have solar panels on their house since 2007. So if anyone is interested in long term data from central europe (Thuringia), take a a look here: https://www.graefenroda-solar.de/
Avira is adding a crypto miner to its products as well
> there is no longer a real need to vilify the unvaxxed

I very, very much disagree with this.

Unvaccinated people have a much higher rate of severe illness that requires hospitalization. Filling up hospitals unnecessarily kills people, and delays preventative care.

People who are voluntarily unvaxxed without a medical necessity are, to be clear, 1) categorically stupid 2) responsible for the injury and death of others.
> APT shuts down daemons and keeps them down for an unreasonably long

Are you doing live upgrades on production servers? Don't.

If you are doing updates anywhere else a couple of seconds of downtime is negligible.
The article is in the Netherlands. Amsterdam is 52N, which is further north than the US (aside from Alaska obv.), indeed there are parts of Alaska that are further south.
The problem is that it doesn't show in the stats in practice. In the UK, the % of positive covid tests that are vaxed pretty much follows the % of people vaxed in the population (by age). If vaxed people were less infectious, you would expect the virus to circulate much more in the unvaccinated population. Particularly given that vaccine hesitancy isn't homogenously distributed in the population.
COVID doesn't transmit well outside, people who wear masks outside are either paranoid, uneducated, or virtue signaling.
I'll plug your (awesome) blog for you:

https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.h...

Which points to https://xi-editor.io/docs/rope_science_00.html
This is a great step forward, particularly for countries with low costs of living. However, here in the UK where costs are reasonably high, I would think it wouldn't give a lot of room for working before needing to re-raise. Are there any good strategies for this?
I experienced something similar (minus the hospital visit.) I'd regularly gone with 4-6 cups a day for years, with no noticeable problems. I ran into a particularly stressful month, then experienced a 2-month bout with insomnia and anxiety.

Insomnia is brutal, and I did everything I could to get over it including eliminating caffeine/coffee completely for around 6-7 months.

I didn't experience any issues stopping. After the sleeping and anxiety were under control I figured I'd stick with it - I'd heard others say they experienced a few positive benefits by cutting caffeine completely. I didn't notice anything.

When I decided to grab a cup again the productivity boost was pretty amazing. I settled on 1/2 caff up to 11am, then decaf only. I drink a lot less coffee now, and if there's even a hint of an issue sleeping I'll skip it for a day or two.
We had RSV do the rounds (twice) where I live, and all of us in our house were quite ill, fatigued, and snotty/coughy for about a month. Our friend's 6 month-old caught it and ended up in hospital.

Our youngest also had Croup last year, which is pretty scary if you don't know it. It shows up as a horrible, barking cough, and can make it look like your baby is suddenly struggling to breathe. We panicked and called an ambulance. The little one was just fine, but had the horrible cough (which is much worse at night) for a while.

Once our pre-school care re-opened (it was shut for many months after March 2020) and the regular diseases started circulation again, it felt like we were ill for several months, albeit with different diseases. We'd send our kids in on Monday, and wait to see what we'd have for the weekend...

I'm not saying this to complain - as I see it, this is the reality of life with the little snot-nosed monsters.
> "they’d take care of me” with “maybe an extra vacation day”

This boss does not sound good to work for. This is a bad response. It is patronizing and dismissive. Expect to hear this sort of thing constantly, and expect to work a lot of unpaid overtime.

How I would respond if I was the boss:

"
Yeah, I know it sucks to be in these meetings.

I really apologize. I hear your concern.

Moving your start-date up and doing external billing is really not on the table, unfortunately, due to overhead with HR.

My reasoning here is that you will be the one handling these vendors and decisions around these vendors, and I wanted you to be able to weigh in during these important conversations, even if your start-date isn't for a few weeks.

This project is very time critical, and I need you to be able to hit the ground running when you start on X date. Because of this, I request that you continue to attend if possible.

Again, I apologize for the inconvenience. We will find some way to make this up to you, and make sure you get this time back as vacation.
"
I wonder why the payback period is so terrible? We always hear about the price of panels coming down but 23 years is crazy.
Yes.

The company gets the money now.

The more they grow, the less YC gets for the 375k. But the more they grow, the higher the value of 7% is going to be. And also, the more they grow, the more they are likely to grow in the future. So the 375k share is also more likely to keep growing.

So in a nutshell: the 375k is incentive for the company to grow, which is also in the interests of YC, since they have 7% (+ x%) and in general getting startups to grow is the whole point of YC.
> pandemic-halting benefits

Currently we have the highest case numbers ever. How can you type this with a straight face?

I'm OK with taking a vaccine for my own benefit, when I want. But don't pretend the vaccines have halted the pandemic.
Plus of course in bars and restaurants they are pointless theater- wearing a mask to walk to your table, then taking it off to eat, drink and talk loudly for several hours, does precisely nothing.
Great to see Brian Acton (founder of WhatsApp) taking over as interim CEO and the logical choice.
I see the focus being solely on vaccines leads to a lost of mistrust in the agencies meant to protect our health. Everything is viewed through a lens of "will this cause more or less people from getting vaccinated". At every turn the agencies push vaccines and vaccines alone as the answer, ostracizing those who choose to live with a higher risk tolerance. Whether its true or not, a lot of people feel that coverage is skewed to push vaccines and anything relating to treatment or healthy lifestyles is downplayed.

I too am double vaccinated an boosted, but everyone has a point at which they say enough is enough and will stop getting boosters and isolating indefinitely.

For instance, take the CDC guidance on preparing for a hurricane or tropical storm:

Step 1: get a covid vaccine.

https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/features/hurricanepreparedness/inde...
I had confused the model with a non socketed one
What I mean to say is that we are driven by stimulus. ...whereas they might be driven by some purely internal notions.
Blaming the government for overreach when it seemed likely that the vaccine prevented further spread makes no sense, and certainly masks and distancing made total sense before the vaccine was fully rolled out. It seems awfully early to conclude that vaccines have zero impact on transmissibility. How many millions of cases are completely unreported because the immune system (with help from the vaccine) fought off Covid before symptoms onset?
How many panels, and how many kWh/year were you generating?
The Merit of Hiring by Merit
I just got a 19.98 kWh array (20kWh is the limit) and it cost a bunch but due to the local net billing, we're going to be able to sell back enough that it will wipe out our bill plus some most months.* Specifically, for December, we generated enough to pay the entire bill and create a $70 credit on January's bill. We can't project a trend from a single month but I'm optimistic.

* ymmv - Our rooftop is southwest-facing with zero obstructions and we've applied a number of energy-saving tactics inside.

Also.. fun side thing on timing. We signed the contract in June. They did the site survey in July. The cells+batteries took 8 weeks for delivery (normally 2-4 weeks) and install has taken forever. Talking with the crew recently, the stated delivery time is 12+ weeks but they're seeing almost 18 weeks. It's a bad time to do this at scale.
Not even solely "when put into areas where the particular diseases were common", the soldiers are mandated quite a few vaccines even before they leave basic training to everyone, no questions asked - https://usarmybasic.com/about-the-army/army-shots
I never knew this! Thanks for that.
I have seen much discussion of vaccines being less effective at preventing infection with omicron but no indication of them being 0% effective. Of course, it will probably be at least a few more weeks before we have good overall data on this (e.g. December/January case rates among vaccinated vs unvaccinated).

And in a big storm, even everyone being 25% less likely to get infected impacts rate of transmission, which is the big one for resource constraints and such.
Boom, someone finally said it. However, I think you can just turn this:

> The sole reason - the necessary and sufficient reason - hunters find hunting justifiable is they attribute no moral value to the lives of non-human animals.

Into this:

> The sole reason meat-eaters find eating meat justifiable is they attribute no moral value to the lives of non-human animals.
> The problem is bloat in the dependency tree. Nobody wants to individually vet a thousand plus library authors and enterprise/government or just anyone who cares a lot about supply chain security is not likely to consider "number of downloads" on crates.io a reliable proxy of trustworthiness.

That problem does not magically go away with a bloated stdlib. Take Java, for example, with it's colossal list of standard modules, with which Rust cannot possibly match or even rival. Yet, any reasonably sized Java project still ends up dragging in dozens of third-party modules to the point that not using a dependency management system is unheard of.
haha, the similarities to my recent experiences are funny. I also recently have started using an X230 (same era as T430) and an X220, also running open source OSes and I used Hugo to publish my personal site, using the same theme as the article author. Today, these machines are so affordable and still offer excellent computation power and acceptable power efficiency. Not mind-blowing, but still fine. The repairability is a major plus, one of the best in a laptop I've thus far seen.
Most people would rather have better work/life balance than things like ping pong tables and on-site yoga classes. A union can help accomplish those goals.
You said:

> One person being handed health care on a silver platter while I work the better part of a week to pay for it for my family doesn't sound equitable to me.
reply

This exactly implies that if only those poor people worked a "better part of a week to pay for it" like you did, they wouldn't be getting their health care served on a silver platter. Not a straw man.
I'd definitely consider 50% efficacy against the most prevalent variant
(by far) after 10 weeks to be "waning".

That might change if we ever get a booster targeted toward Omicron specifically, but we don't have one, and by the time we do, I'm sure there will be other variants around.
I don't disagree with the directionality you describe but look at the case rates and hospitizalization numbers- even the most highly vaccinated areas of the country are still heavily impacted. Omicron changed everything and our reporting hasn't caught up.

The best way to think about CDC press releases is that they not intended to be read by scientists. They are intended to guide good behavior and may not be 100% accurate in terms of medical/scientific knowledge.
> Covid does not spread in any meaningful way via surfaces. All of the cleaning and disinfecting nonsense that is still going on is pure theatre.

It's a reasonable precaution take, at least until we know precisely how the virus could get to the isolated Belgian Antarctic base, where everyone was isolated for weeks and tested and retested prior to being sent there.
"Everyone already knows there are smug asshole drivers. But we already have roads for cars everywhere. If you want to try and get more tax dollars for segregated bike lanes, the perception and the argument has to change."

So you say, it is ok, that there are some asshole drivers but roads still needs to be build and maintained, but not OK, that there are some asshole cyclists and therefore no cyclist deserves more bikelanes? (Or do you want me to dig up numbers on how much is spend yearly on roads vs bikelanes?)

But for real? Arguments for support of cycling by allowing them to do so safe?

How about cycling is way more energy efficient. Does not poison the surrounding with toxic fumes and noise. Increases the health - studies showed it does so even despite the toxic fumes of their fellow car drivers who often overlook and directly kill or criple them and now want more arguments of why the tax dollar is not only for them?
Did you tie this into the grid? Any permit problems?
A sports car might be cool but it's terrible as an Uber. Context is important when making any choice, tech stack or otherwise.

Ruby and Rails are pragmatic choices for building a business, they may not be cool anymore but they are focused on developer happiness and productivity.
it's way different now. I've actually never deployed elixir on a deployment service till last week (either: "was R&D and never deployed to prod", "I ran elixir on-prem inside a DC", "my prod environments have been managed by ops team"). It was surprisingly easy, had my first deploy (including installing the service provider's tool) in about... 3 hours?
From the linked article, the vaccine effectiveness of 10 weeks factoid you mentioned is a bit incomplete. It only talks about effectiveness against symptomatic infections. The effectiveness is dropped to about 40% around 10 weeks for people with AstraZeneca and then Pfizer or Moderna booster, or Pfizer and then Pfizer booster, and to about 70% around 9 weeks for people with Pfizer and then Moderna booster.

There was insufficient data to estimate the effectiveness against severe disease.
This is why corporations have directors. Do we have to go through the motions of this tired old cliché?
look at data for iceland, 92% of the adult population and spread is mainly among the double vaccinated.
Triple is lower but that is expected to wear off ( if Isreal is to be beleiveied ).
https://www.covid.is/data.
No, vaccination dos not reduce spread of omicron. Not even a little.
It does do a fantastic job of reducing hospitalisations among delta infected.
The stands have holes for screwing them down, which I hope he's done, as if they were blown off into the street that would be a major problem
Yes, unfortunately so. You have to play the stupid game of "expected medical expenses".

For example, am I going to do something major like have a baby this year. Then yes it probably makes more sense to get me to my deductible and pay the extra money to go with insurance. Or if you (or someone on your plan) has an ongoing medical issue where you know you will meet your deductible. Or on the flip side, I met my deductible one year and was going to physical therapy. Since I met my deductible the physical therapy visits were cheap, but going in to the next calendar year now my deductible reset. Could I have used more PT? Maybe, but the visits were about to be 5x more expensive.

But "expected medical expenses" is just the dumbest thing.
Unfortunately we could have made this exchange in March 2020. Mostly older people in exchange for younger people. It would have been over in a few months. June/July of 2020. Now we make the exchange but this time it's everyone. Someone younger having heart attack, cancer etc. So we're mostly worst off had we just let it rip through society back then.
Do you have an agreement? Are the roles and funding spelled out? To me it sounds like you're an employee! A free one at that!

I'll concur with others that it's time to walk away.
Why Pipedream?
Apologies if I’m mistaken, I just thought I recalled it being phrased differently. I’m not renowned for my short term memory.

I’m not American and so have little interest in their internal politics other than as a spectator.
Hopefully remains as interim. I'm still suspicious based on previous experience with him selling Whatsapp to Facebook and all that. Actually, very surprising move, are they planning to sell Signal?
Most US tech companies, except the trick is that you have to put up strong boundaries to overworking and be okay with level stagnation.

Most folks I know in FAANG/equivalent are not that stressed once you give up the race for promotions and accolades.
I work as an airline pilot. Today we’ve started seeing NOTAMs at major airports restricting us from using certain precision approaches and citing 5G. Specifically, the FAA appears to be concerned that 5G interferes with onboard radar altimeters.
You may be right. I guess there is a risk that even the number of people dying from treatable conditions exceeds capacity. The spectrum you mention seems more geared to handle broken arm vs heart attack situation, not "We have 100 people dying and 20 beds".
Are there any safety or other technical issues with a setup like this? I am comfortable with small-scale solar setups because I've built one for a van, but I had no idea you could build a simple grid tied system like this. Is the inverter really just plugged into a wall outlet?

If it's this simple, I might just throw together a system with some spare panels in my garage.
TIL there is an aesthetics wiki
> Instead of just saying that the virus has evolved and is less lethal now they have continued to double down on the vaccine mandate which I don't agree with.

What makes you say with any degree of confidence that the virus is less lethal now?

The data's not in yet. At this point, it's all magical thinking.
I've stayed on much longer at the business I work for because of my 4 day week arrangement. Definitely golden handcuffs; I recognise that I probably wouldn't have this anywhere else. It's my life admin day mostly: chores, going to the dentist etc and when it isn't I make time for fun. Generally I feel much more rested in the week.
It really depends on your electricity prices. For example, here in Québec (where electricity if very cheap) we don't really see solar panels, but cross over to Ontario and you'll see fields of them.

The solar panels I see around here are mostly off-grid applications (boats, RVs, roadside signs).
Yep, this hits the nail on the head. I've got my shots, and now I'm firmly in the "let it rip" camp. Omicron is the endgame as far as I'm concerned.

The point of all the onerous COVID rules and vaccine mandates was to prevent the spread, right? Keep pressure on the hospitals down? It didn't work. In the US anyways, COVID is, and has been, everywhere. Masks? Useless. Student/teacher/daycare exclusions for exposure? Useless. Vaccines? I think worthwhile, but in the face of Omicron, also basically useless.

More and more people are realizing they will be exposed to COVID during their life. It's not an if, but a when. I knew this the minute it became a pandemic, but others had some idiotic "we can beat this virus" mentality, promulgated mainly by the (left-leaning) media.

Well guess what? The only thing that would have made one bit of a difference (besides the vaccines) was bolstering the healthcare system. But the current administration in the US has done nothing of the sort. Time to let it buck, let the cards fall where they may.
We can't let archaic and outdated conventions like the Fourth Amendment get in the way of protecting citizens from themselves.
> This is again, a feelings-based assumption

What feelings are you talking about?
Any excuse you can to go outside, walk around and interact during the work from home environment is a good idea.

Posting this while waiting for my coffee :)
iPhones find the entry servers to Private Relay via DNS. If you drop those hostnames, then it's effectively blocked.
I'd be glad to take boosters on any schedule, if only for said boosters we were using the mRNA advantage of short lead time and quick iteration to target the ACTUAL strain, not the one from 2 years ago...
I'm not sure which one has the least fees (which is why I didn't go into specifics).. and it probably changes often... (but Bitcoin isn't one of them).

Ideally, an app would pick the best one at the time of transaction?

Edit: and just today I had issues receiving a wire transfer from Canada, again, and it was less then $1k (because of my home address)
I get where you’re coming from, but I think that the obvious difference is that regardless of the severity of the current covid variant in vaccinated people, the flu hasn’t upended every bit of life as we know it for a 2+ year period any time in recent memory.
Honest question, but don't we still lack the denominator of the ratio:

(people that have covid and end up in the hospital) / (those who have covid)

?

Instead, we're looking at the ratio:

(vaccinated people who have covid and go to the hospital) / (unvaccinated people who have covid and go to the hospital)

But, those are different types of information.
Of course in the moment they don't want to be killed, but they are going to get killed either by the hunter or a predator.

I guess what I mean is that (in short), animals that are bred to be eaten didn't have to exist in the first place, we are literally creating them and making them suffer, both in life and in death. So we're creating suffering out of nothing.

Animals that live in the wild are gonna meet a bad end regardless, so how much are we creating that suffering?
A reason for such requirements is similar to that that software engineers need to leetcode hard: supply and demand. Prestigious companies get hundreds, if not thousands, of applications every day. The companies can afford looking for candidates who have raw talent, such as the capability of mastering many concepts and being able solve hard mathematical problems in a short time. Case in point, you may not need to use eigenvectors directly in the job, but the concept is so essential in linear algebra and I as a hiring manager would expect a candidate to explain and apply it in their sleep. That is, knowing eigenvector is an indirect filter to get people who are deeply geeky. Is it the best strategy for a company? That's up to discussion. I'm just explaining the motives behind such requirements.
> The only hard question is hospital triaging. Who gets treatment if there's only room for 50% or 20%? Who can even decide?

The voters should decide. A jurisdiction could simply decide to allocate capacity based on vaccination status (ie, if 20% of the population is unvaccinated, they get 20% of available beds for COVID). Completely fair.
> a catastrophic failure

Using what criteria? We have no way of knowing what infection rates would be like today had Biden not been elected.
So, yeah. I could actually use some help on language here. Is Desired Output what I tagged it as?

I think output is confusing me a bit. Output being predicted value? And then desired output is user tagged value?
Hot take: I'd love to see JSON die and get replaced with something more strongly typed and safer to work with. What, I'm not sure, but it is, as you say, a major pain point no matter what language you're in. Either it's easy to work with, but insecure, or it's difficult to work with.