skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Religious exemptions from vaccination are bullshit.

1)Objections based on "fetal cell lines" being used in development apply to such a large swath of drugs that anyone who held that view "legitimately" would be unable to accept almost any form of modern medical care - including "when you get home, take a tylenol for the pain."

2)No major religion supports vaccination exemptions. Most religious leaders have expressly prohibited their subordinates from granting religious exemptions. Even the Christian Scientists, who are literally an anti-medicine cult who think you get sick for sinning and prayer cures all, are pro covid vaccine.

3)Religious exemptions grant favorable/special privileges to people who claim to hold a particular religious view. That is not separation of church and state. That is endorsement of church, by the state.
If anyone can offer a reason as to why this system is beneficial to public health, safety or security, I'd love to hear it.

I can only see a detriment to each if this law was put into effect.
Just off-hand, this looks like a great way to build long-period oscillators.
C is done. It just is. It has had an amazing run and yes we will continue to write code in it - despite all the better alternatives it will probably never die.
Sure, some of the black box processing that phone camera does relies on known algorithms. The difference is that it also makes use of ML, which IMO either plays a significant role or will do so in near term.

> auto white balance, tonemapping, skin smoothing, other features

This, for example, I see as an opaque step with nondeterministic outcomes, which if you take away from phones and shoot raw reveals how far they are away from mirrorless cameras. (Cameras that shoot raw do not do this all that well, nor are they expected to.)

> There's nothing sacred or qualitatively different about single-shot capture

I stack exposures too. Whatever process works, works. The difference is that my flow is A -> N -> X, my camera’s built-in processing is A -> M -> Y, while ML-powered black-box compute in a phone does A -> ? -> R today or A -> ? -> Z tomorrow.

Due to its automatic nature, I see this processing as taking more of the creative part of photographer’s role, unlike compute in cameras where it is a capture-time assistant.

It will have to play a bigger and bigger role in how phone camera output improves in near future, as there is not that much space for enlarging the sensor or the lens; and as a user you either let it do the magic or you end up with a very mediocre camera.

It is not inherently better or worse, but it relates to photography in the sense that I appreciate it in kind of as Nvidia Canvas et al. relate to hand-created art: different tools, different goals.
There's a Brazilian dev that is recreating his hometown in a GB game, he posts updates on https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroOtrop/

About the game, he said "Hi! The game is about writing. You play as a writer in the seek for inspiration. Moving to a small town after inheriting a house of a unknown relative you found mysterious facts about the family and the town. It’s a adventure rpg with a lot of minigames" https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroOtrop/comments/oa6pgw/rretroot...
How dare you sully the sanctity of the HN comment section with such a frivolous game!
Cheaper region locked CPU for Chinese market.
The author recognizes that in the last paragraph:

> Ideology is inescapable. To some extent, everyone is under its influence. But that does not mean that all are equally ideological; thinking people can adopt flexible stances, mixing traditions.
I don't know who designed the mockup at the top of the page, but it must be some alien form with a nose right in between the eyes!
Are you certain those dots are connected? We've had profit seeking entrepreneurship for a long time and famines haven't been gone very long, and arguably profit-driven climate change is the biggest potential source of looming famines (should they start to reoccur).
I read "Shazam for Chess" which would be quite interesting.

1.) Make a photo of a chess position

2.) Recognize position and convert to digital format

3.) Search chess database of grandmasters and return relevant games in png format
Your argument seems to be that Bitcoin’s price has gone up a lot over the last decade, therefore it must be a hedge.

What you are not seeing is that over that time, every one of the promises made about Bitcoin’s utility has been systematically disproven, which is why it has now stalled.

Past performance is no predictor of future gains, as they say.
It just so happens that Wiley just released a new Non Sequitur, that addresses this very topic: https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2022/01/16
If one is young and already had Covid before vaccines were available, there is an ethical argument to be made that you should be allowed to give up your spot in line to the poor who are still waiting all around the world.

If you want other people to make your ethical decisions for you when it comes to your own body, we know where that leads.
Yeah. I think I'm much less informed on this topic, but my initial thought on reading the "Rationale" section was that this sort of feature would only be helpful in cases where C offered almost no advantages over C++.
> We don't have Barons and Lords because they got obliterated by unified nation states in wars, every time.

Arguably the most militarily successful empire in history [0] has Barons and Lords and is nearly contemporary with this conversation (Elizabeth II isn't even dead yet). I agree democracy is better, but "we're better organised and we'll whack you if you don't pay protection money" is a weak justification for taxes. The counterargument is that bullying is a decent tactic but a bad strategy - it is hard to get people to seriously buy in to bullying and relatively unstable when the situation changes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire
Easy. It will dissuade people who don't hold legitimate religious beliefs forbidding vaccination (there are substantially zero of them) from using religious exemptions. This will increase the vaccination percentages, reducing spread and keeping ICUs available for folks who didn't elect their condition.

[edit] I'm sorry, if you choose to prioritize conspiracy theories over your health and that of others, I'm not at all opposed to reasonable barriers to that. We've had vaccines since 1796.
> That isn't apartment building density, but that's about as dense as single family homes can get.

Roughly the equivalent of pointing to IBM as the most high paying and prestigious tech companies can get.

It would be trivial to increase the density there by reducing setback requirements, narrowing the roads, removing minimum parking requirements.
You are making excuses for someone who didn't even take 2 minutes before talking about a subject matter he doesn't know anything about. He used "I think" like every other bad actor when spreading FUD. I don't even care anymore I call people out if they talk shit if you want to be the one making excuses for them so be it.
For those who are interested in retrocomputing, you can download the actual software from there: http://sininenankka.dy.fi/~sami/fdshell/

I recommend downloading the bootable floppy image, unless you want to see the source code.
IMHO you can't really be a software developer without knowing and understanding computer science. Some try but never move beyond web/front-end stuff, which is fine, we need people like that. It is however only a small subset of actual development.

Like any field based on science, you can't really drop yourself into it and expect to do well. You need an education in said science.

Obviously there is the self-taught crowd, who are a special breed who love life-long learning. This takes time.

My recommendation would be to show anyone with an interest in software development the Python REPL. Using REPLs gives a good taste of the concepts of programming without all the foreign concepts of IDEs, etc.
Apple is more leaning towards AR than VR - a device useful for prolonged usage like ~10 hrs a day. So, chances of a headgear are very low. It'll be more like RayBan glasses offered by FB or spectacles.
You Finns and your "(free) operating system[s] (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." :D
It is notable that all these anti-trust actions are coming from states attorney generals and not from the DOJ after all the anti-trust talk coming from the new Biden administration last year.
Why assume that they are ideological enemies? I’m sure there are plenty of govt officials who filed such requests and many many more who, though they don’t object to vaccination, want to ensure that religious rights are protected and want to make sure that when they feel the need to object to something or ask for an exemption, that that will be honored.

Certainly it’s worth collecting statistics on who requested what to guide in future rule making. I do think this kind of data collection should be conducted by the census bureau, which does have an expertise and practice on privacy-protecting statistics collection and analysis.

Separately, it does appear that very few people care about their privacy at this level. People accept driving around with huge serial numbers attached to their vehicle for all to see; driving licenses with names and addresses on them; an inability to get an anonymous PO Box; electronic tolls that collect driver information rather than being anonymous…I could go on at great length.
Nitpick: I think the correct homonym in this case is "illusive" (same root as illusion). Elusive shares root with elude.
Thanks for the explanation, this is what I suspected but it wasn't made clear by the hysteria of the video because I really don't see the problem here.

Most computers end up on the dump as one unit anyways. I've built a few computers in my time but never used an old CPU from one.

And especially not one with that form factor that I probably buy as a wardrobe homelab purpose. I'd compare it to my Asus PN50 that does have a later model Ryzen so it might just make use of this PSB.

Sure it sets an interesting precedent but then again a lot of CPUs in the business are welded to their boards.

And this conspiracy theory of this being like Intel ME, or being used maliciously, is just an exciting answer to what probably has a much simpler explanation, like maybe this is vendor locking their product just like Microsoft Windows has been doing for decades.
> WHOIS info (if not cloaked)

I wouldn’t consider this a legitimate concern. Whois privacy is common and often free for nearly all registrars (barring TLDs which disallow this)

> May assume I’m a business

I really doubt this happens frequently, at least far more infrequently than a business using your permanent email for spam. Besides, if the algorithm decides that any non-gmail/outlook/yahoo/etc mail is “business”, then they’re going to assume that about any disposable email.

Personally, I find the $4/year I spend on a domain name to be incredibly worth it and the downsides are far fewer than the upsides.
This post is rambling nonsense.

edit:

As a person said I should provide detailed rationale.

* It takes a large amount of text to set up a very poor and low value analogy

* It doesn't say what features XMPP has that actually make it superior to matrix

* It seems extrapolates from the fairly generic forward looking "Imagine a world" that matrix was started from ignorance of the existence of xmpp. A claim that is easily dismissed from any of the development documents.

It has a few questionable follow on claims - basically dismissing any form of encryption as being optional based on deployment despite all current (in the last 10+ years) recognizing the encrypting messages is a core requirement of any communication system.
You're right, I looked at the recipe I used last time (printed) and it's just steeped at 170F like tea.
Are people only reading the first sentence I wrote? I made the argument in favour of encryption.
but did you read what I wrote? I will stay at home isolated until I'm negative. So for sure I will stay home. What I question is how good is the idea of "vaccination + booster" vs "lets test everyone, everywhere" specially now that is more or less clear that Omicron can go through the vaccines.
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Your gut biome uses a none zero amount of calories to stay alive so there is some nuance for calories in - calories out.
This currently looks like a poor 486 fighting for dear life.

Edit: This also looks like a fairly Finnish thing to do. Thinking not only of Linux and hacking, but also their general demoscene culture and such things. See also: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-04-16-finland-re...
I'm hoping it will be called iGlass. ;)
Newark and the adjacent Jersey City and Kearny have seen a lot of development in the past decade, new high rises, and new shops.
Obviously this will be eyePods.
I wonder if the governments enforcing mandates have a legitimate reason to enforce them.

There FTFY.
So did you?
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It’s also a privacy concern. A single email address ties your identity across platforms, which may be convenient, but could potentially be abused.
If you read the two pages and you concluded that both AMD with their statement on Page 1 nor servethehome on Page 1 and Page 2 provided any information about how PSB works I can't help you.
All that is apparent from the article is that they made a bunch of micropayments to hide where the money is going. But there is barely any mention of how exactly was the money stolen?

So, laundering? definitely. Stealing ? I am not sure.
Yeah, salt can be added at the end instead of during cooking. Bonus: you’ll end up eating less salt for the same effect.
It's handy to remember that the rumor mill says that Apple has two AR hardware projects going.

A high end/developer focused set of goggles as well as consumer focused AR glasses.

>Apple's AR/VR headset will be followed by an augmented reality product, which rumors have been calling the Apple Glasses. The Apple Glasses will be more of an everyday wearable product than the headset, as they will resemble traditional glasses.

https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-glasses/
> when competitors are $300

Something tells me Apple doesn't consider Oculus quest much of a competitor. The Quest is 99.99% used for gaming. Essentially nothing else. I doubt gaming will even be much of a focus for the Apple headset.
> Crucially, culture selects at group level, improving the fitness of groups. Because humans organize and compete in groups, successful ideas enhance group performance; the nature of the ideas is irrelevant.

You can be aware of how ideology does sacrifice individual good for group or cultural good, and be happy with that. Being aware of a dynamic doesn't necessarily mean that you support it's implicit values too! For example I don't really think my individual happiness per say is the ultimate good, because I don't last forever, but humanity, in some form, does. It's why I try to be a 'decent human' even when nobody is looking, because a world where people don't act like me is also a shitty place to be. A combination of individual and group preference. In the %20 saints %20 freeloader and %60 status-quo split of a human population, I'd probably be in the %20 saint category.

> Though ideologies define the terms of reality, scholars calling this decontestation, this is necessarily imperfect; reality is irreducibly complex.

Also ideology is ultimately necessary, it's a model of how the world works for an individual too. Even the smartest person needs to reduce reality to a model, since no human can really accurately understand all of it.

> But that does not mean that all are equally ideological; thinking people can adopt flexible stances, mixing traditions. Given the imperfections of ideology, I prefer this approach.

You can also try not to be strongly ideological, even when preferring the group, because it makes you a stronger player 'for the group'.
> Indeed! There's a lot of Bayesian propaganda floating around these days. While I enjoy it, I would also love to see some frequentist propaganda

I think that frequentist statistics doesn’t need marketing. It’s the default way to do statistics for everyone and, frankly, Bayesian software is still quite far away from frequentist software in terms of speed and ease of use. Speed will be fixed by Moore’s law and better software and easy of use will also be fixed by better software at some point. McElreath and Gelman and many others do a great job in getting more people into Bayesian statistics which will likely result in better software in the long run
Tbf you’re not talking about ground spices. Also, to get flavors from anis stars, cloves, and others you need to burn/grill them first.
Yes! Her work had a major impact on how my team grew up on product and ux design, while we were at the time "web developers" (which had kind of a different feel/meaning back in 2005 from what it means today) playing with "toys".
Why would I want this by the way?

I don't mind cheaper headsets as impulse purchases to just wait for better games and experiences to come out. But at this price I need to feel like I'm missing something and don't feel that way, am I missing something?
I don't think low specs work with VR/AR market. IMHO technology is still not good enough and still developing.
There's more of a moral maze when it comes to forced, mandated vaccination, which I think this is about.

For example, it can be argued that it is an individuals right to choose what happens to their body, healthcare should be voluntary and people should expect no penalty in a healthy free society.

That's different than if a vaccine is morally ok to choose voluntarily.
Organized religion does not need to forbid anything. Religion is about personal belief. The supreme court has already ruled what matters is what the individual believes not what the organized religious institution says.
> After some time, a 14-month-old child disappeared from the hospital, and Tarrare was immediately suspected. Percy was unable or unwilling to defend him, and the hospital staff chased Tarrare from the hospital, to which he never returned.

Thanks for the nightmares...
IF changed my energy level for the better.

Replace breakfast with a black coffee, hydrate well through lunch, and eat a huge dinner starting with salad.
Thanks for the info! I’ve used 33mail in the past but had no idea I could use it with my domain. And at $1/month that’s pretty good value.
Interesting, this could be a built-in feature of HN.
We used to serve serious traffic off 486 machines, so if anything it's probably a software issue. Perhaps FreeBSD/i386 would be an appropriate choice?

If you weren't there you probably don't realize that the 486 was a huge leap over the 386. We don't get 100% generational improvements these days. The 486 enjoyed a long life and its later incarnations were giving contemporaneous Pentium models a run for the money, and I'm not even counting socket-compatible upgrades from AMD and so forth. You could put 64MB RAM and big L2 caches and there were PCI motherboards in the later 486 years.

Consider that the AMD Geode was basically the last 486 standing, and it was (is) more than adequate for routing between or firewalling fast ethernet links, serving HTTP etc.
As Arnold Schwarzenegger keeps saying: "Stop saying you don't have time. You have."

IMO it's really not about sleeping less. It's about optimizing your day and, provided you're full of energy and enthusiasm, you can slice and dice every 15-minute segment of your day to do something productive.

It's crazy, really. On some of my very good days (I am changing diet and do some exercise but the effects are sporadic) I was able to be productive on my computer and phone for 14-15 hours straight, with only toilet breaks and quickly gulping some snacks in the meantime. On these days I do catch up with stuff that's been eating at me for the last 6-8 weeks...

So yeah, I don't disagree that if you're very efficient you can achieve a lot. And I do agree with Arnold and many others who say that people complain about the wrong thing because we really very often do have the time. But it's hard for me to agree that systemically depriving yourself of sleep is good.

Sure, there are such things as the genetic lottery indeed. But it only takes you so far. Believe me, I've seen some rather perfect-seeming humans crash and burn, hard, around their 37-43 year old mark. In the end, you're abusing a resource that you are given genetically. Sooner or later it's depleted. We're no terminators with nuclear batteries.

But hey, if you are that genetic prodigy AND manage to make it big before your body starts catching up with the fact that it's Homo Sapiens and not an Asgardian... then more power to you, really. I was stupid enough not to use my youth and now I have to practice an olympic pentathlon (figuratively) just so I can break even in life. But complaints get us nowhere. Trying to change food, trying to exercise more, trying to reduce distractions and negative emotions etc. And it works.
I admittedly don't know much about XMPP, but I've heard that it relies heavily on XML, which nowadays can be an offputting serialization format. Is there a XEP for using JSON(schema) (or even more dev-friendly formats like protobuf)?
That's not really how this works. If you don't have enough money to adequately maintain your infrastructure, you'll just inadequately maintain it instead. You won't plow ahead and spend the ideal amount of money anyway, you just let things kind of go to crap.

So the failure state to look for isn't a city going into massive debt as it drastically outspends its revenues year after year, it's a city with infrastructure that's decaying and falling apart because they don't have enough money to take care of it. Then that's the thing that can have ripple effects on the local economy and population.
I wonder if that would have held up given Sega failing with something similar in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade
Who wants to actively avoid city centers? The Unabomber? I live on the outskirts of a small city in a small state and happily drive to Boston an hour away for culture, sports, etc. I would love it to be closer. I don’t know too many people nowadays who are afraid of or resistant to going to cities.
If I were designing a constitutional system for a new country, I'd certainly include freedom of religion as one of the basic rights- while also codifying that there are no religious exemptions to any laws. Regardless of your faith, you are required to follow the same laws as your fellow citizens, without exception. Religious exemptions should not exist.

One of my issues with it is that 'religion' can mean whatever you want it to mean. There are absolutely zero, to my knowledge, religions whose founders or holy texts preached against vaccination. When did Christ or Mohamed say vaccinations were outlawed, exactly? And millions of believers take vaccines- but then some of them also claim that it's 'against their religion'. How is it against your religion, when none of the founders stated this, and the majority of people in your own religion are using vaccines without issue? Why not say that paying taxes or stop signs are against your religion next?

Exemptions allow bad faith claims that one's personal preferences are their 'religion'. They should be constitutionally outlawed
Isn't Firefox Relay the same, though — you can receive e-mails, but not send unsolicited mail?
Does is somehow imply that the Dutch book argument is better developed than Cox's argument?
When is the last time they've introduced a new product with the "i" prefix? I thought that was pretty much dead.

Regardless, there is 0% chance they call it iSight.