skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a difference between testing positive for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material versus having the clinical disease COVID-19. The tests can report false positives, especially among convalescent patients. Many infections are asymptomatic so the patient is literally not "sick" (although they should generally not come into a workplace to avoid infecting others).
Because unless screen doesn't display what you want it to. It's useless.
Each visitor gets a unique URL for their conversation with you across time, with all messages, voice & video calls, and appointments in one place. It's one permanent address per 2-person conversation, rather than one address per person (phone/email) which is the root of most of our communication problems.
So are musical notes
A genetic analysis hints at why Covid-19 can mess with smell – Science News
I'm using these a couple of times a month: https://www.moia.io/en
The remedy for that will be wrapping the internal antenna in foil or cell tower emulation.
> I have a governement id and a google logon. I worry a lot more about google than the gov.

See, it's the exact opposite for me: Google never built extermination camps. They are thus inherently more trustworthy than any government.
Unlike with chess, in the poker world there's a huge financial incentive to run bots (or provide bot assistance to live players).
> Why fuck with wall-mounting a TV or a bouncy tablet when they sell a treadmill with the screen built-in?

Because unless the screen displays what you want it to, it's useless?
Most interviewers ask some version of “why did you leave?” or “did you leave voluntarily?”

Not sure what the repercussions are of simply lying to the interviewer though.
Replace the spin arms. Once some food or plastic scrap wedges inside, they're really difficult to clean.
> These bills may compel us to share the sensitive data you store with us with unknown companies in ways that could compromise your privacy.

Is that really any worse than sharing the sensitive data we store with them with known companies in ways that definitely compromise our privacy though?
But for distances travelled within the Solar System, and many trips taken, it would be advantageous if traveling 0.7c because conventional propulsion will have time dilation occur at those speeds, and the effect is cumulative. Who cares for a 5 hour trip to Jupiter's moons, or wherever, but if you're spending all your time traveling around the Solar System and back to Earth with conventional propulsion at 0.7c, you'll hardly age, and everyone will get old around you. So again, warp is great for sublight relativistic travel within the Solar System.
Depending on the placeholder values the optimal plan may be very different.

You -can- use a server side prepared statement to force it to -ahem- plan ahead but that's -usually- not actually worth it.
This blog turns around high quality explorations for things so quickly. It is astonishing.
The placebo group received a real vaccine, just not the covid vaccine. In at least one trial, it was the meningitis vaccine.

They did it explicitly to mimic the typical side effect of a vaccine.
They cut the salary of all FTE employees in the company where I was contracting, in response to the lockdowns.

They even asked me to do the same and I refused. They needed me so they complied but I started looking around anyway for peace of mind in case they axed me - and found a better job.

It was pretty hard to deal with my sudden leave knowledge-wise so once the previous management got axed a few months later and replaced with new bots I went to offer my services at double my previous rate.

Instead of worrying about the type of position you're in, you should worry about getting as much money as you can and being useful to the company you're working for.
I have an Amana washer that was doing a terrible job, I cleaned every removable part, etc. Same thing it was splattering food everywhere. Then we remodeled the kitchen, and put the exact same dishwasher back in 2 months later (it's hooked up to a new garbage disposal). For some reason it works just fine now, we can't explain it. Maybe exhaust pipe was clogged? Maybe it wasn't level? Maybe something wasn't connected right? I guess I'm suggesting removing it entirely and looking for problems?
All the more reason for Tesla to avoid sleazy sales tactics like calling adaptive cruise control "self driving", and claiming that cars will be able to drive themselves coast to coast before 2020.

People _might_ overreact to deaths from true self driving cars, but we don't know that yet because such vehicles don't exist.
> Why do some “gym rats” build their muscles well past the point of being a way to attract potential mates?

Being a gym rat is not a heritable trait, but the ape who keeps doing whatever they were doing that made them strong and sexually desirable could be much more evolutionarily successful than the ape who stopped and became weak and undesirable. More generally, a positive feedback loop for beneficial behaviors is a desirable trait.

> Why are some people willing to free solo climb icy mountains despite the danger?

Being a free solo climber is not a heritable trait, but exploring your environment and incrementally pushing one's limits are both desirable traits. The ape that doesn't know which rocks he can climb falls to his death, the one who knows where to place their hands survives to reproduce.

> Why are some people willing to have fewer children in order to pursue career goals?

Corporate ladder climbing is not a heritable trait, but investing more resources in fewer offspring is advantageous when the odds of those offspring surviving are high. Even with no kids of your own, you pass on your genes through nieces, nephews, etc. The desire for resources has obvious evolutionary benefit.

> Why are most billionaire tech CEOs interested in space travel and extraterrestrials?

Neither being a tech billionaire nor being interested in space is a heritable trait, but the desire to explore is undoubtedly a desireable trait. The apes that expand into virgin territory can acquire more resources and become more resistant to local catastrophe than the apes who remain in one location. Elon Musk just has much better odds of becoming king of mars than I do. 500 years ago this may have manifested as building big ships instead of big rockets.

Of course random mutations happen, but those random mutations get eliminated quickly if they are harmful and spread quickly if they are helpful. Saying something is just due to random mutation is not only an unsatisfying answer, it is the answer to the wrong question: it doesn't matter why we started doing it, why do we still do it? Evolution doesn't create any trait, it merely perpetuates or fails to perpetuate them.

Not all behaviors are hardcoded into our DNA, certainly not at the level of specific actions we typically take day to day - my ancestors did not pass on their genes more successfully because of their affinity for arguing on the internet - but those traits which are heritable are unavoidably influenced by evolution. Evolution is the null hypothesis - if a system left to its own devices would do something without any external intervention, why invoke any additional explanation? It is those saying that something is genetic but which has somehow defied evolutionary pressure which are asserting a narrative, and who must show evidence in support of that narrative. Some narratives are legitimate, for example the traits of domesticated plants and animals aren't explained by natural selection; but oftentimes it is just "magnets, you can't explain that!"
> We are the result of evolution and without evolutionary pressure we will fail.

Dubious assumption indeed.
This was actively damaging to me; I didn't get diagnosed (and subsequently receive help) until I was 33 because I'm ADHD-PI and was only familiar with stereotypical ADHD-PH, which is very much NOT me. I really hope there's more differentiation someday.
Israel gets singled out because it's a (very) close US ally and therefore should be under more criticism than the average country.
"Luckily" in the US, the carrier oligopoly here won't sell you a cheap IoT plan for cell connectivity, and the "lifetime" plans sold to manufacturers are probably at least $50-100 in volume.
Devtools. Chrome's are bar-none IMHO and safari's are absolute dogshit. God have mercy on your soul if you try to use the dev tools for Safari on the phone and/or a cross-platform web-based app on the phone. It crashes more often than not and locks up like crazy. I do everything in my power to avoid using Safari except at the last stage of testing.
Has someone besides Ai Weiwei really done that idea? His version is famous.
China Says to Avoid Mail from Abroad, Says Omicron May Arrive via Post
> Every day, millions of Americans use online services like Google Search, Maps and Gmail to find new information and get things done.

Can we talk about this instead? Whats up with not finding the things i search for. Either the internet has stopped having the useful info i was seeking or google couldn't find it. It would not be a great annoyance if it was easy to switch to bing. Google holds all the entry points to the internet for themselves
Is the customer service rep meant to serve you or make you go away? Sometimes it's the latter. I wouldn't be so sure it's a bug.
They can give the cash back to shareholders.
Afaik the Antitrust law, from the third paragraph. Not American, but why is it suddenly being talked about? Is it being discussed for change right now?
"I don't anyone with half a brain supports unions in the US."

The ironing is delisauce.
Wow this is by far the best solution to this pervasive problem I've seen, no irony. This way, you don't need legislators go into technical and domain specific detail. Producers are incentivized to provide optional updates or "downgrades" if necessary, and if they shut their cloud services off and brick the device, people have a right to return it. Additionally, it can't be abused by customers if the company acts well.

However, we still need to tackle the subscription issue, I.e. That manufacturers can hide behind "you didn't renew the subscription for this printer/treadmill so now we brick it". Any ideas?
In the startup world, this is often the right decision because businesses don't even know if they're making a valuable product yet.

* Ship quick

* Validate

* Build for the long term
I still bought the PS3 because PSN online play was free, while Xbox Live required a subscription. I think PSN is subscription-only now though.
Maytag used to have an advert running with a bored repairman complaining that they never failed .... either they were tempting fate, or they fired that repairman
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29963125

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29930970
I think that is very doable, companies used to need a team of masters / PhDs to implement the ML stuff more or less from scratch, but libraries are nowadays very advanced and easier to use. Just start learning stuff that interests you, maybe keep them in a private git repo or even write a blog about them. It is realistic to aim for a junior position, and in the first few years you'll be learning a lot!

Many companies utilize AWS / Azure / Google Cloud, and they offer free tiers so that you can start using them basically for free. And with the help of virtualization you can even run a local minikube "cluster" and try running Airflow and whatnot there.

Although ML engineering has a bit different focus than say data scientist. But even in those roles it is useful to know how to program, do custom web UIs etc.
> Total rip-off. I liked the game I bought, but it was replaced without my consent.

Overreacting aside, control schemes can be customized again in 1.4.
> how would the world look now

Computer system security would be vastly superior, I imagine. Webpages would be mounted file systems with restricted permissions systems, and browser apps would be command line utilities. Both would have benefited from the same security that UNIX systems use these days.
I lost my father and my dog. For some reasons the only time I cried was when my dog passed away.

Did I hate my father? Absolutely not, but that’s what happened. Sometimes it’s not too logical, trust what’s inside your mind, you don’t need to break down to mourn.
Just FYI Game Pass has ~500 games right now. Full list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kspw-4paT-eE5-mrCrc4...
> Something like WUFFS is exactly what we should be using for Wrangling Untrusted File Formats as it says in the name, even if you've decided to do that in a distributed system.

No, I was saying earlier that there are limits to WUFFS. The example I gave was that you can't write something like a distributed system (think consensus protocol like Viewstamped Replication, Raft or Paxos) in WUFFS, but where safety is nevertheless still critical, and where you reach that through crystal clear control flow and explicitness. In other words, safety is the other side of the coin to security. Hope it's a little more clear now.

> That recent Apple bug where they render PNGs incorrectly can (in principle) happen in WUFFS. The other recent Apple bug where bad guys seize control of your iPhone by sending a malicious image file cannot. One of these things is not like the other.

Of course.

> I think you're missing the point if you expect the borrow checker to care about buffer underflow.

No, I was stating the obvious, that it can't (or at least not always, but in some cases it can), not that it should.

> I don't buy the "surfaces the bug" thing

I was just trying to convey a little bit about how security works and how hackers (or at least red teamers) think, especially when blue teams are involved. I've found that the more I get into this, it becomes much less about preventing the breach and more about "assume breach, okay, now how do we detect it?". And a software DoS is also really just bottom-of-the-rung, you'll find almost no programs paying out for any findings. You shouldn't worry about them. Asserts are the safe thing to do. They close semantic gaps and make your code much more secure. It's like putting in a thousand trip wires, any thing off and an attacker can't get further. It completely shuts down exploit chaining.
That depends on your definition of driving, for example, take the dictionary definition:

"To guide, control, or direct (a vehicle)."

My car has driver assistance features, it can do basic lane keeping, keep a set distance behind the car in front (even in stop and go traffic), and has emergency braking assistance. But no one would say that it's self-driving.

Tesla FSD can control the car from entering the highway to taking your exit (plus some support for driving on smaller streets).

But it's not autonomous, hands-free driving.
> Big difference with poker is that its all about money, the game doesnt work if people arent risking something.

I don't see this, I used to really enjoy online poker tournaments for play-money. It's a fun and strategic game in and of itself with nothing more than minor bragging rights on the line, to me at least. I honestly don't see why it should be any different from chess in terms of purely recreational play. (You could say chess is a deeper game, and that's probably true
in some ways, but that's not a positive feature for casuals like me with no desire to invest many hours/years into mastering the game.)
The UML diagrams are a good example of the problem I am talking about: they carry too much (unessential) information - you can draw the boxes in too many ways.
>> The lesson is to preserve the capability until it's actually been proven to no longer be needed.

> And yet when faced with evidence of this, your immediate response is "data can only tell you so much".

That evidence probably isn't sufficient. The kind of evidence I'm looking for is: fight an actual war against an enemy with an air force, and find out your pilots never actually used dog-fighting skills or capability. Until then, maybe hold off on plans to replace all the fighters with missile trucks or something.
A few thoughts.

I responded to a nested comment elsewhere saying I have seen one Firefox fork in 2021. Replay.io. A neat web debugger featured here.

I was mildly surprised Microsoft went with Chromium. Not forking Gecko or some mix of stuff that are not Blink. Or even Blink itself. I may be incorrect here, and maybe the separation of engine and browser is not as big as I’m thinking, but every major Chromium based browser including Edge are forks of Chromium, not just Blink. I don’t know how big of a difference that is.

I wonder what could have been if Microsoft had moved on from Trident Edge earlier. Say internally two years earlier than our timeline. If they still would have gone the Chromium route. With more time, they could’ve ironed out enough issues like Netflix videos and Firefox. Microsoft may have had enough of being the butt of jokes, especially, by people in tech and geek circles, and wouldn’t want to try anything remotely outside the norm (aka Chromium). Putting aside XUL extensions, the other dismissal by people is Firefox still having far fewer extensions than Chromium. Even with all three major browsers/engines using web extension api now. Msft may have not wanted to deal with the PR of that either.

It would be really nice if Gecko and its future had Microsoft too. I’m sure some would say they’d rather the behemoth that is Microsoft not be allied and working on Gecko/Firefox. Yet It has to be better than the current situation. Unless Microsoft forks Blink and has their own engine in the future.

Apple never putting any effort into the Windows Safari app, no less, an Android version is also a bummer.

The final bummer: Firefox and Mozilla getting so much crap from tech and geek communities. I never looked up how they spend their money, but being so cynically against Firefox’s every minor possible misstep is not helping.

This comment may appear to be an apologist for Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla. It’s not that. Firefox continues to lose market share. Safari is sticking to its 2.5 OSes (if iOS and iPadOS are 1.5) and i believe have a better chance of losing ground unless something like their web extension library quickly grows or is able to use most Chromium extensions. All this to say. My focus is on Chromium not having a 90%+ market share on the three desktop browsers and 95%+ on Android.

And yes Apple not allowing competing browser engines on iOS is lame.
It always amuses me to see futurists with no experience in biology or life sciences and a master's in CS try to extrapolate the future of humanity and society. Some of the worst trends in modernity are based around unqualified individuals with platforms trying to impose their will of the future on the masses (think Elon and his ridiculous tunnels, billionaires building "smart cities" in the desert, etc)
I'll be the first to admit my bias against the lib dems (I cant say I like any of the parties but I do have a particular dislike for them), but putting that aside as much as I can I doubt they'd be any different outside a coalition. At best, I can see them being apathetic, which when combined with pressure applied from their opposition could well turn into support.

Not on the level of the tories, and perhaps labour, but I doubt they'd be anything special in that regard
Sure, though can you explain how pointing out hypocrisy is nationalistic? Nobody is saying either country is better or worse.
Give it a go with just your phone too before shelling out for a tablet. When I go to the gym I sometimes just lay my phone on top of the machine by the controls (about music stand level) and at that distance from my eyes the diagonal is plenty large enough
IANL: What is the rules for use of force for railroad police, or railroad authorities protecting cargo? It seems people are breaking into these cars without fear of force, or prosecution. Combined, those are like a powder keg of lawlessness.
RPA is definitely a rapidly growing market; look at UIPath's meteoric rise, or the things coming out of Microsoft like Power Automate.
Don't forget all the sensory processing stuff that comes with being a predator that eats other mobile animals.
All people residing in Israel do not have equal rights. Why do you think they have equal rights?
how do you get content on it?
What is mid-level FAANG a downgrade from . . ? Mid-level FAANG seems like it'd be a huge "upgrade" in compensation and scale for most developers, and would be the crowning jewel of their career.
If I can quote someone else for putting it much better than I would:

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ndik83/south_afr...

"Israel is the nation state of Jews alone" Netanyahu responds to TV star saying Arabs are equal citizens (2019):

source: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-is-the-n...
The "solution" is to allow the device use only "official" resolver servers, accessed via encrypted channel, secured by a PKI with a private root.
Everyone process is grief differently and in my opinion there's no wrong way to do it. The only wrong way would be to avoid it. It doesn't seem like you are avoiding the grief it's just that you process it differently than those around you. Do not feel bad or think that your experience is less than theirs simply because of the way you process it differently. Some people make very outward signs because that's how they process their grief or maybe they are in fact putting on a show because they believe that's how one processes grief. You can never really know what's in the heart of another. For yourself and your description of things my opinion is you are processing it differently but you are still processing your grief and acknowledging that it's there. You are still going through the healthy stages of understanding what's going on don't feel bad because others do it in different ways.

I process grief very much in the same way that I think you do. I do not express a lot of outward emotions or outward crying but I do it through quiet contemplation.

Just so you can understand my direct experiences I've had grandparents and other elderly family pass but I've also had my son die. It was about 6 to 7 years ago now he was in his early twenties and was in a car accident and I was the only person in the hospital room at the time that he passed even though my entire family was there. My wife and oldest daughter very much had the outward displays of grief like you describe. They saw counseling and they went to various programs that help you deal with grief counseling and group sessions and it was all very helpful for them. It allowed them to process their grief in a way but I didn't avail myself to any of that and I don't think that my grief was any less than theirs or that I handled it in a worse way than theirs. I do think that they did perceive me as a bit cold but I have always been more emotionally distanced then they are to anything.

I also had my one of best friends pass away in my house. This was shortly before she was 30 years old she moved back from the other side of the country to stay with me for a while because she was having problems with addiction and so forth and I didn't realize how bad it was until I found her passed away in her bed of a heroin overdose. This was a very long time friend I knew her mother or sisters and some of her extended family and I processed the grief in much the same way.

Everyone's different and sometimes we can put on a show to act as if we fit in to try and make others feel comfortable. That works for certain things, works especially well in my job, but for this my advice would be don't do it. Your grief is yours process it how you need you don't need to put on a show at this time in your life to attempt to make others comfortable. If they're your friends or family and they truly care about you they will understand you and understand you are grieving in your own way and accept you for it just like you accept them.