skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was serious with that comment. You can do longitudinal studies now, and people do, comparing infection/hospitalisation/death rates among vaccinated and unvaccinated people. But those have very serious confounders, namely that those who are still unvaccinated might behave rather different from everyone else.

To overcome this, you'd need an RCT. But you're unlikely to find either a) unvaccinated people that want to be vaccinated, yet would be ok to get a placebo instead, or b) unvaccinated people that don't want to be vaccinated yet would be ok to get a vaccination instead.
Show HN: An interactive n-body simulation using the Canvas API
Heyo! I used to do a bunch of work for a major SOAR player. I think the biggest benefit to tools like this is that it greatly reduces complexity and barrier to entry into automating various tasks allowing the SME’s that may not know how to program, to automate away their pain points with less risk of things being lost in transition while communicating with developers who may not be.

I know yaml isn’t difficult per se, but being able to visualize it can be beneficial for those that don’t normally think programmatically.

Also bonus points - the diagrams from the flows make great process diagrams for your documentation.
> Whereas I've never seen a frequentist book dismissive of Bayes methods

Nearly every Frequentist book I have mentioning Bayesian method attempts to write them off pretty quickly as "subjective" (Wasserman, comes immediately to mind but there are others), which is falsely implying that some how Frequentist methods are some how more "objective" (ignoring the parts of your modeling that are subject does not somehow make you more object). The very phrase of the largely frequentist method "Empirical Bayes" is a great example of this. It's an ad hoc method that somehow implies that Bayes is not Empirical (Gelman et al specifically call this out).

Until very recently Frequentist methods have near universally been the entrenched orthodoxy in most fields. Most Bayesians have spend a fair bit of their life having their methods rejected by people who don't really understand the foundation of their testing tools, but more so think their testing tools come from divine inspiration and ought not to be questioned. Bayesian statistics generally does not rely on any ad hoc testing mechanism, and can all be derived pretty easily from first principles. It's funny you mentioned A/B tests as a good frequentist example, when most marketers absolutely prefer their results interpreted as the "probability that A > B", which is the more Bayesian interpretation. Likewise the extension for A/B to multi-armed bandit trivially falls out of the Bayesian approach to the problem.

Your "likelihood" principle discussion is also a bit confusing here for me. In my experience Fisherian schools tend to be the highest champions of likelihood methods. Bayesians wouldn't need tools like Stan and PyMC if they were exclusively about likelihood since all likelihood methods can be performed strictly with derivatives.
Update on dating apps distributed on the App Store in the Netherlands
Plenty of patterns are stable (in fact, infinitely many), but what we didn't have before today is a stable pattern which cannot be constructed from scratch. This is such a pattern, because the patch in the middle must have existed since Generation 0 and therefore is unable to be formed just from emptiness - "if it isn't there it won't be".
Try not to feel this is your one chance and you only have two options. You can get offers again. In addition, you could get work as a machine learning engineer in industry, either now or in a few years. You could spend another year doing deep learning, but dedicate 10% of your time to networking in industry and staying good at interviews, then reevaluate later.
As someone who does a fair chunk of legal writing, I sorely miss citation signals when doing other kinds of writing. The ability to make a specific kind of reference to a source other than a direct citation opens up a lot of expressive flexibility, particularly for research writing. The ability to say “hey, here’s a couple of examples of my point” (see, e.g,), “here’s some general background material on this topic” (see also), or “this is an analogous but not directly applicable source” (cf.) in a standardized, efficient way is something other disciplines could do to have.
> I hate emscripten. I tried it once, I could not wrap my head around it.

fun, I just pass the emscripten toolchain to CMake and things mostly JustWorksTM
Yup. As soon as you think you're "non-ideological" at that point you're fully ensconced in ideology, because your beliefs are so invisible to you that you mistake them for reality. Zizek beats this drum a lot. He did a very entertaining documentary on the subject called The Pervert's Guide to Ideology, examining ideology through the lens of various classic films. You can see a fun excerpt here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVwKjGbz60k
Any good SEO resources for beginners?
Maybe I'm in the minority, but my issues with apologies from CEOs or companies is that they are generally lacking action or avoiding accountability. In this case, the apology like any somewhat genuine one adds to the note. It's the difference between "Sorry we lost your data." and "We have taken the following significant actions to make sure this never happens again, and have provided the following services and/or compensation to make it right to you. We are sorry."

And I'm someone who generally finds Musk hard to like.
I believe it, but this isn't an OSHA matter, this is a border policy.
anti-HSM countermeasures
Militia donates thermal imagers to sheriff’s office
> ...Have you tried specific long-use batteries? Non-alkaline or Alkaline branded as such?

What is "long-use" in this case?

Most of the batteries are advertized on the packaging as "long-lasting guaranteed!". Sure, there're lithium batteries, and LSD rechargeables, but alkaline kind are normally just touted as "Alkaline!" or highlighted to that effect.

Just fetched some of those old OEM batteries, Panasonic one is labeled Ultra Hyper (Costa Rica made) UM-3UHS/R6, Sony is Super Red (Japan made), R6P(SR) - this one is labeled 03/98, I kid you not, still measures 1.4V.

I sure haven't seen these on shelves here, well, not currently, at least.
No it's not related to climate change. Please don't get into the habit of labeling everything related to climate change. The news media does it way too much. For example, climate change causes gradual changes, not sudden increases in weather behavior.

In this case, this is geology which doesn't care at all what the climate is doing. It can affect the climate however.
bitcoin has no banks, period.
For those on a command-line, the Game of Life configuration looks like a series of rows of squares. 3 on the first row, 5 on the second row, 5 on the third row, then 3 on the last row. There are a total of 3 + 5 + 5 + 3 = 16 squares.

The fact that this is a base 2^n number seems intriguing to me. There's a hypothesis that everything in the universe is easier in base 2, which I'm still looking into.

Here's another speculative hypothesis, which some expert here can most likely prove.

Can this "Godlike still-life" create every other configuration, using an off-by-one error in 1 bit?

Specifically, taking the 306-cell Törmä-Salo result, can all the Still Lifes, Oscillators, and Spaceships be achieved simply by flipping 1 bit (obviously a different bit for each configuration) in the original?

There's a (non-exhaustive, I think) collection of patterns on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life#Exampl...
xkill?
Witches with supernatural power over nature and people have yet to be proven to exist. Hermaphrodites and all manner of (a)sexuality exist in nature. Genetic analysis suggests that monogamy is a relatively modern and unnatural state for humans. Females have also been oppressed and marginalized for most of recorded history. Progress doesn't have to be defined as conformity to surviving cultural norms or binary interpretations of genetics.
Jack Dorsey Announces Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund
Arcades: The Universal Language: Part 1 – The 1970's
You could install a debian bullseye into the NTFS filesystem alongside with windows, and use the NTFS FS as your root filesystem. That has been possible for a while, but had performance caveats due to the use of fuse-ntfs.
There are a some guides on the interwebs.
Since Linux 5.15 there is the new ntfs3 driver in the kernel, that has much better performance.
5.15 is easily installable from the testing repo into a normal bullseye.
I’ll consider a heat pump dryer[0] when mine breaks, which has the potential to make the device way more efficient as the technology improves.

0: https://www.energystar.gov/products/heat_pump_dryer
I have also had this happen!
Part 2 - https://youtu.be/KirpuHOVVNg
Can an idea-stage fundraise motivate the founder to take on further challenges?
Hi HN,

I've been working on this platform where I'm trying to help first-time founders and indie hackers kickstart their journey by getting funded for their idea(s) in the form of a "domain-name round funding".

I would love to know your thoughts on this concept & whether this would be of any value to you?

Here's the link to the platform: https://buymeadomain.com
Like you, went through all of that as well; I liked it so much that I started buying old computers in the 90s (when many of these were cheap or even free to pick up); I have well over 1000 rare ones and I regularly try them (they are pretty robust; I even rarely have capacitor issues). Although I enjoy the real thing more (joysticks, especially Arcade with 2 buttons, are so much better for me than modern ones); I like handheld emulators, simply because they work everywhere. I cannot take my msx, zx spectrum or vcs 2600 on the road with me and with an emulator handheld device I just bring everything, including the dev environments.

But I agree; when I really want to feel nostalgic, I take a c64 with tape rec and load a game. Sit very quiet after the load command as any movement makes it fail and you can rewind and restart the 20min game load. Somehow it feels very relaxing to me.
It would be nice if there was a Linux alternative to whatever hospital infrastructure is still running windows xp. I mean it would be lucrative, secure, and even help to pay for things like salaries for programmer's wages, support foundations, and so on. And it'd be kept up to date unlike windows xp. Just a thought.
This is a fun idea and useful in some cases where you want to add a bit of extra logic without too much additional syntax.
Not quite. Many spices do well in a fry pan with a bit of oil. Throw in something like onions when spices become fragrant.

My go-to method for most anything Mexican or South Asian.
Excellent book. I’d buy a typescript version in a heartbeat.
Richard Bartle referred to this simulationist dynamic as "physics" when describing MUD and it successors, but unfortunately that term is also now overloaded with a just-barely-related approach common in modern design.
Hey, thanks for the reply, and thanks for the tool, it's a great project.

It's hard to describe exactly what I mean by the impedance mismatch, but generally this tool seemed to be (based on a small amount of research a while ago), a primarily GUI-based tool, that requires Java, requires quite a lot of up-front knowledge to use or edit configuration with, and that has no understanding of our application.

On the other hand, the solution we ended up using (django-devdata), was code-based rather than GUI, with configuration checked in to source control, code reviewed, etc. It's a Python dependency, which helps as most of our software and tooling was in Python (no one had Java installed), the config format is pretty approachable when making small updates, no need to learn much of a new tool, and we did very regular database updates on a schema with ~500 tables. And lastly, as the configuration was just Python code in our codebase, it was easy to integrate with the rest of our application, to re-use utils, validation, etc.

Obviously this tool wouldn't be suitable for projects that aren't Django sites, so it's far more limited, but that integration was handy and I'd probably re-implement it for Rails or any other ORM or language I worked with if necessary as it's only a few hundred lines of code.
Thank you very much. I had mistaken the GP comment to mean US truckers would be subject to the vaccine mandate within the US. Now I understand that the US is imposing a vaccine mandate on Canadian truckers entering the US as of January 22nd. Policy-makers realize the incredible burden that the vaccine mandate would create internally; perhaps a cross-border trade slowdown is not significant enough to warrant reciprocity in their minds?
True, but average citizens don't _choose_ to use heavy trucks. I'm not sure of the relative costs of road repair v. fuel, but if you funded roads entirely through a tax on the fourth power of vehicle weight (if that's the right proxy for repair costs incurred), Walmart might find they could reduce total costs in the system by using fewer large trucks and shift their logistics mix.
According to the preferences and opinions of the StrongTowns group. If the preferences of the actual voters/taxpayers in the city differ from that group, I’m inclined to go with the city residents over the StrongTowns not-residents.
Many BTC addresses are owned by companies (e.g. exchanges, trusts, etc) and not by individuals. The Gini coefficient only looks at individuals, not companies. In other words, it doesn't treat Google as a person and compare its wealth directly to yours. So you can't directly compare those numbers.
So if someone was permanently disabled it's a success? What about in hospital 8 weeks but eventually recovered? It's hard to understand why this needs to be debated. Why is it so bad to simply admit it failed to protect?

Even if we set the bar at death I guarantee someone would step up and say: "Yes, but they would've died even sooner without the vaccine! Oh come ye let us praise it". The religious fervour is bizarre. Let's face it - the vaccines are a bit shit.
New and interesting writeup on what ProtonMail flagged to GMail for replaying of email where some empty fields in the original were not DKIM'd and hence injectable

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29942900 (it's not my post, but it was the first one here and deserves a comment or two as it is interesting IMO)
NOTE: The central patch which settled the conjecture is a chunk of an infinite repetitive configuration composed of 2x2 "blocks" and S-looking shapes "snakes". Given that the block-square pattern is somewhat well known in CGOL, it's likely that multiple people have created still configurations with the conjectured property without realizing it at the time.
Interesting perspective, haven't thought about letting my brain manipulate me into thinking I did the right offer after I make my decision. Thanks for the book, I'll have a look at it!

> Re the money, you might well be able to command a much higher salary as a PhD in computer vision / deep learning, which would be an argument for continuing the PhD.

There are so many factors that influence that _might_: research topic, network, publications, ... It's a bet on an uncertain future. Though I tend to think similar.

> that you are not really excited about your PhD topic

True. But I am excited about deep learning, and I can appreciate the opportunity to learn so much more about it while working on this project.
Per Capita is probably the wrong metric to use here. This isn't just limited to cameras but you don't need a single camera to track a single person. The more population dense an area is the higher efficiency a single camera can have.

Just think about it in this manner. If you have a house and you set up cameras that monitor every square inch of the house, does it matter if there is one person in the house (high camera per occupant) or many people in the house (low camera per occupant)? Obviously not. The US is also one of the least population dense developed nations.

Not that we shouldn't be worried about surveillance, but let's use good metrics.
If they can afford both administration bloat, then the money is clearly there. I'm not sure I can pity them for spending their money unwisely.
Hmm. So it is.

Thanks
My apologies; I had misunderstood the earlier comment to mean that the US would be imposing a vaccine mandate on US truckers within the US.
Astropy – a community Python library for Astronomy
> The queen has "influence", but not political power.

There’s a very peculiar differentiation to make.
Tailscale is responsible for 40% of my battery usage
Ask HN: Where do you buy electronic cables/wires/peripherals
For stuff like cables, adapters, and general electronic stuff, all I see on Amazon all I see are random made in China brands with a suspicious amount of 5 star reviews. Are stores like Best Buy/Micro Center or purchasing direct from Apple/Microsoft/Sony/etc. the best bet, or are there still some high quality brands to be found on Amazon and other stores.
Pay for university professors to be experts in maintaining this civil infrastructure, for the maintenance of the commons. Reward bounties to students and volunteers who triage and resolve issues.

Have an expressly stated set of goals about the above as well as a core set of stable priority maintained software that gets extra security vetting. Formal analysis, whole classes of students in different locations scrutinizing and learning every line of code, function, and the overall design. Formal validation where possible.
> Also since saffron is expensive some people use too little spice when preparing dishes

I use it sparingly not because it's expensive, but because it's so powerful that it can easily overpower a dish.
Sure if they are done right they can help.
But I know 1 company were it worked and everybody was working towards the OKRs and the product got better.

The rest people just started to game the system so they would look better on paper for the management people but the product was still a mess and awful.
Not to mention the almost impossible system of schooling, training, credentials, and general hoop-jumping to become a practicing doctor (and to reach that very desired $200k+ salary) means the supply of new doctors is incredibly constrained.

The amount of friends and peers of mine who gave up a career medicine because the ridiculousness of this whole system turned them off completely is really saddening.

I understand that we should be diligent about making sure the people we entrust our lives to are trained and trustworthy, but do we really need:

- 4 years of undergraduate studies that have ZERO medical treatment curricula

- 2-3 years of work experience if you don't get into medical school right away

- Studying for the MCAT concurrently and trying to get a high score

- 4 years of medical school

- A high stakes test that determines if you will receive the residency you want

- A lottery system that "matches" you with hospitals for residency

- 3-5 years of this residency in hopefully the specialization of your choice (depending on if you passed that test), hopefully in a location you desired. You will be paid very little and work 80+ hour weeks

If you track this entire system perfectly, you will become a full fledged doctor that makes the 6-figure salary at around 32 - 35 years old. And every step of the way is a huge filter that break and washout many promising potential doctors.

And then there is the medical school debt that you will be saddled with even if you washout.

This system is madness and we need something more efficient to both incentivize more people becoming doctors and less people washing out.
> Whereas gcc’s cleanup attribute is attached to functions, POSIX’ cleanup functions and the try/finally are attached to possibly nested blocks.

> This indicates that existing mechanism in compilers may have difficulties with a block model.

Erm. No. GCC's cleanup attribute is attached to nested blocks. Whatever that means for the conclusion there.

How is a pretty basic misunderstanding like this seeping into an ISO WG document?!?

[add.:] in case anyone wants to double check: https://gist.github.com/eqvinox/c062f5a46f3a60b1151fcdf3e91a...
Agreed, not sure why you were downvoted.
As an occasional practicing generative artist, I completely agree with the gist of this article, but I think it could use more perspective and historical context, both from the science and from the art points of view. This topic has been discussed and debated by many intelligent people for a long time.

There is a faction of generative artists that make a name for themselves selling randomness as some kind of mystical, magical key to surprise and/or meaning in their art. Sometimes it’s anthropomorphic, and sometimes it broaches the debate over free will. And even if the art is boring, and even if the story is wrong, there might be some value in the narrative…

Randomness as a concept is the color gray. It statistically averages to the middle. Randomness is a tool, it has value as a tool, but like any tool it must be controlled in order to make art out of it, especially to make something that doesn’t feel like mushy gray. Randomness is completely uncreative by itself, but certainly can be used to both mechanically add variety, and can be used to guide exploration of a parameter space and take the artist somewhere they might not have tried on their own.
A lot of games and gameplay depends on timing; I can, given an Arcade joystick, over 35 years after I first played it, still play msx nemesis round and round without dying. I tried improved/enhanced versions and they messed with the timings; that killed a lot of nostalgia for me personally.
I'd add floral and metallic too.
It doesn't really matter if government ministers organise their illegal lockdown parties over end-to-end encryption or not, when the police force were fully aware of it at the time (two officers stationed on either side of the door!) and decline to "investigate".
There’s a lot of FUD in what you’ve written here, but that’s fine. I don’t mean to try and push anything on you, but I just think you’d be pleasantly surprised if you could find someone who could help you navigate these waters.

Outside of SV in particular there are funds who buck just about every trend you can think of.
Reason for submission: learned about the existence of this library after discovering the Astropy Units module[1] thanks to this HN comment[2] which notes some similarity between it and pint[3].

[1] - https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/units/index.html

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28415151

[3] - https://github.com/hgrecco/pint
I've met him in person. During the short time they had a store front in Michigan I went in and he was just sitting there manning the register. He showed off the 500 mW infrared laser they had in the store front for sale (powered it up without water cooling briefly). He also let me walk around in the back of the store with bins of Thorium chunks just sitting around. Was a very interesting place. I bought beyond the legal limit of a certain oxidizer and paid cash for it lol. (To be clear the law is to not sell beyond a certain amount, not to not buy it.) Makes sense why it got closed down.
Learning from grad student chem death (2008)
I ordered some from Eden Brothers last year. They were planted too late to flower but they grew nicely. Hoping for flowers and division this year.

Crocuses in general are very easy to care for. Most flower in the spring before grass comes back. Saffron blooms in fall. I spelled "spring" in my yard with normal crocuses.
You might as well say that the team that enjoys a beer and meets up to watch the game on a Sunday is ignoring product quality.

You’ve no basis to point to social causes or anything else and say “something is causing a stink round here and it’s that!”.

Software is built by people. People have viewpoints. There will inevitably be overlap in those viewpoints. There’s no reason to think any of this has anything to do with the thread.