skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose they must. Because car is a hazard on road and may not end well if you don't put enough man-hours within design, documentation, testing etc.

Now, who's gonna pay you for writing that single functionality whole year? Sure, you tested, documented, did everything right, you may have almost no bugs, pretty code, decent test coverage, unit tests, integration tests, UI tests, performance tests, edge cases ironed out, top notch performance, UX no-one matches, one click deployment, static code analysis, linters, fuzzers, vulnerability scanner tools, monitoring, auto scaling... while you get there, your startup may be no more. Or maybe just a money sink: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/unseen-effort

Alright, I'm little off the track, but not every software project is comparable to automotive/air/rocket/med/... industry. Ofcourse you will put 10x+ more money/time/effort if human lives may be impacted with your commit.

To put that into context, let's appreciate SQLite - software that is thoroughly tested and your airplane shouldn't be afraid to run those. From the creator of SQLite:

> I’m going to write tests to bring SQLite up to the quality of 100% MCDC, and that took a year of 60 hour weeks. That was hard, hard work. I was putting in 12 hour days every single day. I was just getting so tired of this because with this sort of thing, it’s the old joke of, you get 95% of the functionality with the first 95% of your budget, and the last 5% on the second 95% of your budget. It’s kind of the same thing. It’s pretty easy to get up to 90 or 95% test coverage. Getting that last 5% is really, really hard and it took about a year for me to get there, but once we got to that point, we stopped getting bug reports from Android

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/#testin...
Thanks. I came across this a while back, that also looks interesting: a "poor nerd's fMRI" that uses infrared imaging instead of magnetic fields. It would be cool to have something like that too.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160311084558.h...
>"Anton Michelsen was made a part of Royal Copenhagen A/S who is now the supplier."

If anyone's seen Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz (1969), that's where they filmed the opening scene where the KGB pursues the Soviet defector through central Copenhagen. The porcelain factory in the film is (was?) the real-life company's ceramics factory.
I now do Unlocked phone that supports eSim + Airalo app for intl data packs + Mint Mobile for the US, this works extremely well and is very cost effective.

With Wifi calling + texting, you can even use your US number internationally since it will work off the eSim data.
Just out of interest do they generally vet the factory that made the steel for those screws and bolts?
I have a theory. Not a good one but it's a theory

Any one organisation can only be efficient if the whole organisation can fit in one persons head. It must be possible to reason about changes in one area affecting another. This anecdotally applies to every software system i have worked on - once you don't understand how another part works decisions you make become divorced from reality

As such organisations must either simplify, so they are reason-able
or they must split into markets (which seem to be very good at getting efficiency out of complexity) - or hire people with bigger heads ! (this does not mean a niche for AI - at least not yet)

I think what I am trying to get at is that someone at Intel must understand how it all fits together - and someone at Boeing etc
Cash is both ANONYMOUS and UNTRACKABLE.
Bitcoin is only ANONYMOUS.

Cash FTW!
> does the weight impact anything consequential?

Kinetic energy. That could make collisions more dangerous (though I’m not sure by how much)
Your reply looks carefully written but "is there any truth to that statement?" "Yes." confuses me. Maybe the parent's question is not well formed. Would the best direct answer be?

I have met so many people that think their semiconductor manufacturing needs are exempt from the supply chain issue or backlog. [because they are not on a leading node]

Their semiconductor manufacturing needs are not exempt from the supply chain issue or backlog. [for the reasons you explained]
Most driving outside of hyper-local destinations (this includes going to my _preferred_ grocery store, versus Walmart) requires driving on the Interstate highway which is probably one of the most dangerous kinds of roads to cycle on with an average speed limit of 70mph (~112 km/h), inconsistent shoulders for cycling, and generally more aggressive drivers.
I’m working on something like Windy.com for my local community in Gary, IN at https://millerbeach.community but with more emphasis on the air quality. I’ve just deployed an AQMesh pod to track NO, NO2, SO2, CO, and soon H2S that I’ll be adding to the dashboard soon. I’m just storing the wind bearing right now, but would love to track local pressure/wind patterns like Windy does!
SoK: On the Analysis of Web Browser Security
> I'll wait until the booster actually becomes specific to the current strain.

By the time the Omicron-specific vaccines are approved by the various government health bureaucracies, Omicron will have run its course. Unless you want to live like a hermit for the next few months, it's probably best to get a booster and live your life. All of my friends & acquaintances who've contracted omicron have had a booster shot and all of them said that the worst part was isolating. Their symptoms were extremely mild- just a sore throat or cough for a few days.

It would be nice if one could choose a lower dose of vaccine. The second shot (and booster) of Pfizer were absolutely brutal for me. A baby aspirin version of the vaccine would provide most of the protection without the days of debilitating pain and fever. When I got my booster I asked the guy giving the shot if he could inject a partial dose because my previous reaction was so bad. He just laughed, emptied the syringe into my arm, and told me to drink lots of water. :(
No, there really is no consistency to Common Lisp's mutation.

$ sbcl
* (defvar a (list))
A
* a
NIL
* (defun x (v) (push 'b v) v)
X
* (x a)
(B)
* a
NIL

Now if you were to do similar with something like an array, the original variable would be mutated. Just another example of how Common Lisp doesn't have any sort of internal consistency. Once again, rules are non obvious, do not follow the principle of least surprise.
Are pigs used in biomedical testing ever butchered for their meat?

Seems like we kill a lot of pigs every year anyways. Would be neat if we could get multiple birds from one stone - for experiments where there isn't a risk of making the meat dangerous at least.
Email is decentralized. Most people (including me) decided to sell their data for a better service which is why we ended up with Gmail and a few other services that are very popular. If Google and the other services are forced by law to not be allowed to do that we could easily just create an account in the thousands of not millions of email providers that offer alternatives, if Signal goes down, we all have to go back to WhatsApp.
5mg daily? Or once a month?
The simplest way is to support one of the forks.
Fortunately, since a high mortality rate makes for poor Darwinian fitness, viruses tend to evolve over time into variants with lower mortality albeit higher infectivity.

In a few decades, coronavirus may actually end up being just as lethal as the flu! One can hope, at least.
Thankfully mines a Fairphone 3 so I should be able to get a replacement bottom middle for €20 if they're ever back in stock :/
Again, I'm not saying that this blog post presented the problem statement effectively. That is literally why I linked the original. So that we don't have to assume anything about what Huffman meant in his formulation because he stated his assumptions and definitions. I'm only saying that given Huffman's formulation it is an impossible pyramid. All the other possible "solutions" are not solutions to how this can be a pyramid, instead they are solutions to how it can be something else. Which is covered in Huffman's paper, which you apparently cannot be bothered to read.

To summarize: If this were a real image of a real object, then it is, by definition, a possible object, but it is not, per the image, a possible pyramid. The camera would have to be shifted (or lighting altered or something changed) in order to discern what it actually was (which could be a pyramid if some distortion were discovered, but could also be any of a number of other possible objects, including, as one person suggested, the corner of a room through a peculiarly shaped viewport).
Getting top priority isn't worth that much of a premium.

It's exciting to watch how many years in a row they can stay at $10/GB, and not in a good way.
Yes! Thank you for finding that! (How did I miss that?)
There are ways to speed up the development process. There is a practice rarely mentioned that some have discovered. As a result you can just breathe code and let it flow. As fast as you can type they can pump out code.

It works like this. Before you write a single line of code build the entire application in your head. Visualize as best as you can how the code looks, the function names the text on the screen and go to sleep maybe do this over a few days and the next time you are at your computer the code will just write itself at 10x speed.
It's a bit of confirmation bias though: code you wrote well is less likely to come back and bite you in the ass. 20 years on, I still feel the 6 months ago thing.
Alpha and Delta lol.
Minnesota with "Darth Blader"!
This is a blatant lie that is so tiresome. How long is life of an average Android phone? How long do they supply updates? Google’s is 2 years of software updates and 3 years of security updates, IIRC. Apple supplies updates to 5 years phones rutinely and in lots of cases even longer. They now even provide a way for you, a private person, to just get tools and parts necessary to do certain DIY repairs/replacements. Quit your bullshit.
On the other side of the spectrum, if no one was installing 'latest', then no one would be testing latest, and we wouldn't catch these bugs until later. We would just all get surprised after 2 weeks (or whatever arbitrary delay) until the bad version became the blessed default version.

In other words.. If there isn't a trusted test pipeline then there's no benefit in delaying the latest version. Might as well just get latest.
I found it kind of weird to find this on a company blog (even though they are the founder)
Do you maintain the baseline of your current state of knowledge and not accept new information? New information could possibly have long-term negative effects. There is no sufficient evidence as to the long-term effect this conversation will have on you. Yet, you readily engage, why?

Do you use any technology created in the last 20 years? 20 years isn’t long enough to properly study long term effects.

Or take any medicine developed in the last 40 years?

We jump into the unknown every day. You’re free to make whatever decisions you please, but when you make the decision to maintain your current baseline and reject a new option, ideally you’re doing that out of some informed position or rational fear and not simply because that option is new.

That’s why the interesting conversation to me isn’t “I’m waiting to take the vaccine until we understand the long term effects.”, it’s “I’m waiting to take the vaccine until we understand the long term effects because _______”. That’s where the meat is because it helps convey why this decision isn’t like discussing a new topic or using a cellphone or taking Lipitor.
Very good point on cache servers for Netflix and YouTube. Telcos save a lot of money when they terminate the traffic in their network. Private relay may affect that. Although apple’s solution could be clever about it.
I don't think anyone thinks America's third-largest cell carrier has the same power as the Russian or Chinese government. Certainly Apple can say "We cannot make China and Russia do what we want" because they don't have that much leverage.
5mg is the level my SO refuses to go beyond for daily dosage. At 10mg she starts to cry every day.
Moxie presumably got rich from MobileCoin, it was reported that he recently bought an expensive house in Los Angeles.
“Please, give us more power to tell you what’s right-think and wrong-think.”
85% of COVID-19 hospitalizations were among those not fully vaccinated.[0]

90% of people who are dying from covid are unvaccinated.[1]

10 in 100,000 people in your likely age range experience myocarditis.[2]

However, yeah, if you have had a bad reaction before, you are likely to have another bad reaction. I'm sorry you went through that.

> Yes it's 80% effective at eliminating _hospitalization_ but vaccinated people still get Covid, still go through fever & long covid symptoms (loss of taste/smell anyone?), and still must quarantine else infect others.

I would argue 80% effective at eliminating hospitalization is not a trivial number. That is extremely effective. I will take those odds vs the chance of having an extremely rare myocarditis episode.

0: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/characteristics-of...

1: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/covid-omic...

2: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110737
A mechanical heart could in theory be more reliable and less susceptible to issues of biology.
> But now, I suspect I might be doing myself a disservice by not exposing myself to all the variants and things floating around.

Honest question: do you know of any source that indicates natural exposure to C19 and variants provides stronger (or equally strong) protection than vaccinations/boosters? Thanks!
Missing 2020 in the Title.
Seems like a self created problem. Imagine if we simply stopped all this testing. I bet a lot of money you wouldn’t even know omicron was a thing. This would be “that thing that is going around”
This should be possible using "split" technology: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/spli...
> The commission says the legal concerns raised by the EDPS raise “a serious challenge” for Europol’s ability to fulfil its duties. Last year, it proposed sweeping changes to the regulation underpinning Europol’s powers. If made law, the proposals could in effect retrospectively legalise the data cache and preserve its contents as a testing ground for new AI and machine learning tools.

> ...

> The tussle that followed is captured in a series of internal documents obtained under freedom of information laws. They show Europol stalling for time and the watchdog telling them that they have failed to resolve “the legal breach”. The police agency appears to be holding out for new EU legislation to provide retrospective cover for what it has been doing without a legal basis for six years.

> The European Commission’s nervousness over a public clash was enough to pull Monique Pariat, the EU’s director general for home affairs, into a meeting between the two agencies in December 2021. Sources said the watchdog had been encouraged to “tone down” its public criticism of Europol.

Typical. Any talk of privacy in EU circles is mere marketing speak, void of everything. Europol won't be deleting anything and the Commission has their back on it.

It's just amazing. Anytime I read something about the Commission and compare what I've just read with the priorities they themselves have announced, it becomes clear their stated priorities are complete fiction, something someone wrote just to fill a page. You can throw in a new set of stooges every now and then but I guess a rotten institution just stays rotten.
Check out the research on vaccine lipid nano particles accumulating in ovaries and impacting menstruation, menopause, etc. These aren’t remote or isolated reports.

Then, consider that women are born with all the eggs they will ever have.

Now tell me it is a good idea to roll the dice and give that vax to a 5 year old girl and risk harming her reproductive future to avoid what will essentially be a cold to her if she contracts.
Define "lengthy"? I write bash scripts in the 300 line range regularly, and they are fine for my purpose. Why should I be using Python?
Tsk Army Of Darkness was robbed, robbed I tell you, of an Oscar.
Tell them about requirements.txt, pip freeze & virtualenv. You can also curl | bash but that doesn't mean bash is to blame, because it doesn't encourage this bad behavior. NPM is literally built around this broken behavior.
I meant "Yes, there is truth to the statement" in the sense that some market participants are "exempt from", or more accurately "not constrained by", supply chain issues or backlog problems because their specific process nodes are not capacity impacted, and the fungibility problem acts to ensure it stays that way. I actually did not mean to say that leading nodes are the only ones impacted; that's not the case.

The landscape can be surprising at a glance because there's no obvious rhyme or reason to who and what is capacity impacted. Before fabs get greenlit for construction, the beancounters do demand forecasts many years out into the future (getting the first chips out of a fab is a labor of many years). If those forecasts were high, there is overcapacity and prices will settle relatively low for that node. If they were low, then there will be capacity issues.

Over time, trailing nodes will get "arbitraged" because chip designers for new devices that are cost-sensitive or not performance-critical will preferentially select cheaper nodes, but acute changes in demand like we've seen from COVID can still cause problems.
I think the nervous system is really the only part that I'd have ethical concerns about.

If they can grow a pig with a 99% human heart, I don't see why that should be more ethically concerning that harvesting a 100% pig heart.
Really good video and channel!
Seriously, talk about tight feedback loops. Anxiety feels like somebody hooked it up to guitar amps. Any slight perturbance and alarms go off. I have not been super successful in mentally wrangling it, but there's always hope.
I wonder what a canary from Moxie would look like these days.
This helps with some of the anxiety I had when I first saw the email update this morning. A bit of sticker shock - but the pricing makes some sense when placed in this context.
I expect my iPhone to work the same on any carrier.
It's certainly setting a precedence that Microsoft can assume complete editorial powers over a package.

Platforms (as oppose to distributed protocols) enable this, but most platform owners tend to avoid this because users would rightly think it unfair.

Bold move by Microsoft, in this case though it's unlikely to backfire.
What's the OS equivalent of a tourist hating on the country they're visiting because they do it so much better back home? Because that's what someone who's used macOS a whole year before writing this article reminds me of. Or maybe something something Chesterton's Fence would be more apt.
I had GI issues and talked to doctors about it. Not a single one of them said anything about diet. Looking back at it is rather frustrating.

When I first learned about diet the advice was terrible. It didn’t work.

Now that I have a good conceptual model for my GI track and food it all makes more sense.
Equally... that when they repeat it and get different numbers, the failed trial will be ignored in favor of the passing trial, without first invalidating the previous results[0], and without using any increased burden of proof.

Passed+Failed = "Passed!"

[0] There will be a reason given to ignore that first trial, it just likely won't be a good one.
> Agile’s been around for over 10years and people still don’t do good versions well)

Agile software development has been around since the early 90’ies. Scrum is from something like 1995.

The reason people fail to implement it so often is that project management sort or doesn’t work in software development, and it doesn’t work because you can spend two hours looking for a spelling error or a missing semicolon, and you can create Godlike code in half an hour, and you never know which mode you’re going to be in when you get up in the morning.

Waterfall doesn’t work either, for the same reason, and for all the adaptive reasons that lead to agile.

The best way to deal with it is to take the methods that make sense for your current project and run with that. 99% or the time that’s a kanban board, and maybe some time registration software if you’re unfortunate enough to work in a place that bills by the hour.

The worst part about the project management methods in my personal opinion is that they all want to sell themselves as the universal solution, in a world where no two projects are alike but you also can’t be bothered to have 90 different project models in an organisation, because then what’s the point.
"Given that fully vaxxed places are blowing up in case numbers, the vax obviously isn't stopping transmission much if at all right now."

This is one of those "obvious" things that mathematically isn't obvious at all.

Any slope of a line could be steeper or shallower, so looking at that alone obviously can't tell you if the slope is 1% shallower than it could be, 5%, 10%, 50%... it's not like we hit "100% of the population has had covid now" overnight.
> The Ugly.

> I don't think the situation would have played out this way if I hadn't used Discord.

I have to disagree. Your students probably would have connected on Discord or another chat service anyways (even before the pandemic/lockdowns!), and they would have made the same comments, except you would not have heard them.

Source: current student (though not in university).
It's pigs all the way down
There are diminishing returns, but 360Hz is still too low to display sharp-looking motion without strobing. 360Hz strobing is visible as phantom array effect whenever you move your eyes. If you are sensitive to this artifact and instead want motion that looks like real life, you need more like 1000fps/1000Hz. There is no hardware capable of this, but at high enough frame rate you could probably get away with interpolating the frames along motion vectors, e.g from 500fps to 1000fps, with very minor latency/artifacting.

See:
https://blurbusters.com/faq/oled-motion-blur/
Just wait until you try Windows...
"Vaccines were never expected to stop the pandemic."

That's complete bullshit. You can find many examples of experts, governments and politicians claiming that's exactly what was likely going to happen.

That was the message people were sold.

For good reason, there are many diseases that have been wiped out by vaccination.