skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Jack is looking at Anne, and Anne is looking at George. Jack is married, and George is unmarried. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person? (Yes/No/Indeterminate)

The answer to this is not so obvious to me. What if Anne is divorced or or widowed? Unmarried can mean "not married," but it also could mean "never married," as in the following example:

> Crude incidence rates of stroke (per 1000 per year) among the four marital status categories were as follows: 1.96 (married), 1.52 (unmarried), 2.36 (divorced), and 5.43 (widowed). Compared to married persons, adjusted risk of stroke was significantly increased for divorced (RR 1.23; CI 1.19-1.27) and unmarried men (RR 1.07; CI 1.03-1.11) but not for widowed men (RR 1.02; CI 0.98-1.06); risk was slightly increased for divorced women (RR 1.10; CI 1.06-1.15) while not for widowed (RR 1.0; CI 0.97-1.03) and unmarried women (RR 0.97; CI 0.97-1.03).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29492956/
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Tiltok is surprisingly good. I get: really beautiful girls (bordering on softporn), advice on home DIY, cooking howtos, HIGH end cooking howtos, bartending recipes, vegan recipes, meat BBQ recipes, life motivational videos, really funny short sketches from funny regular people (in several languages), relationship advice, psychologists

All original content. It has its own twist to it. All in 5 to 10 minutes. Everything just flows, I never use any browsing. Just swipe.

EDIT:
I also need to mention that TikTok is host to many, not just one, many emergent properties. Trends take off, people from around the world do the weirdest things which become super popular. Such as ASMR videos, example: whispering secretary
I'm afraid the utilitarian vs deontological argument will never be resolved to everyone's satisfaction, because ultimately it depends on what axioms you choose to believe in. Personally, I stick by my conviction that utility cannot be assigned a cardinal, but only an ordinal number. You can't do math with ordinals apart from comparison operations, therefore dooming any attempt at a calculus of utility from the get-go.
What are the major issues with this concept? I often wonder why async isn't the standard and we have to manually decide to use it (what if a function we thought would be fast actually takes long?).

Considering that it seems to be a "best practice" to use async functions whenever remotely required, it would be bad developer experience (and lead to unwanted results) to make people do extra work to use it.
Are you really being "ostracized" for it? Lots of people I know semi retire on hobby farms. And you simply can't produce food as efficiently or cheaply as modern farming techniques, so you're in the privileged position (probably as the result of studying and working and earning) that you can afford to spend a large amount of time and money growing your on food.

This is a nice and fulfilling/entertaining lifestyle choice, that's great for you and you that you are in this position now. Maybe that advice you got about getting ahead wasn't so bad then?
So either, this was a very progressive place or it is sad when the directors had a woman directly next to them but without even a role (like secretary or assistant). Seems like the gender was then enough to classify as an assistant on the higher roles.

Sad.

And second thing: A printed org chart with pictures in it. As if they had a stable work culture for more than one months ... oh wait ... that was normal once ;)
Some quick advice, move from FOMO (fear of missing out) to JOMO (joy of missing out).
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In this case, it was reproducible, though. And we'd have to reject many things in the history of physics if the criteria were "doesn't have any known mechanism"!
Who didn't see IAAS coming? I'm sure news sponsorship didn't add any hysteria.
Appreciated! Found a good starting point here:

https://www.howtoweb3.guide/
Safari doesn't even meet the most basic requirement for a web browser: Support for uBlock Origin. If Apple cared about privacy, they would support uBO.
The link with the Curse of Monkey Island works fine on my Firefox mobile
Most processors with Arm cores do not have "management engines", in fact lots are almost blob-free. Some like Marvell Armada 7k/8k can run without any blobs.
I got the Levesque question wrong. :(
The question of how one actually resolves the utility calculation (once weighing bases are determined) is a question of applied ethics, not normative ethics.

Consider: it could be entirely consistent for a Utilitarian to make the utility justified decision that utility calculus is outside of their capability, and a Deontological framework would serve as their best in-situ heuristic. They would still be a Utilitarian, even thought their black-box criteria resembles a deontology.
Fwiw this is what "zero-sum" usually means. Not that it has net zero impact for any individual, but that the total impact is some fixed amount: every (marginal) dollar gained by you is a dollar paid by someone else.
He's not getting why the 15-minute city/town/village is what we need to live and work in: It puts an end to those absurdly long commutes and have everything you need daily close to you: schools, work, living and shopping all within a short distance is how we lived before we surrendered our cities and landscapes to the car. You can still road freely into the wider country your holidays and weekends, but then you'd just rent a car or take public transport.
1) The author’s whole approach is to optimise the current ebike concept/approach for simplicity and cost. With this being the focus, his argument is entirely valid. In a future world where his ideas resulted in $500 ebike, you’d be free to choose a more expensive option that gave you the intermittent feeling of pedalling you say you require. Others could choose otherwise.

2) Bikes are a very different prospect to small cars and golf carts - size, weight, functionality, cost, legal status, use-cases, etc. There’s a vast difference between an ebike optimised as the author proposes, and a small car - this is a really odd comparison!

3) I’m not aware of Kevlar being used in bike tyres other than a) replacing the steel bead, or b) offering additional puncture resistance underneath the rubber tread. Is there another use that offers the greater wear resistance?
Things like lasers and the discovery Cosmic Background Radiation come from Bell Labs. And oh yeah, they also did this little operating system and a quirky successful programming language, but that's far from the only thing that was (and is) done at Bell Labs.

Microsoft Research and Google Brain are much more focused on computer stuff and future product development. That's all fine, but really in a different class. I don't think we'll see them get a Nobel Prize for fundamental discoveries in physics, chemistry, biology, etc. anytime soon.
Tonga volcano triggers mystery waves in Earth's atmosphere that baffle scientist
Theres also the mild vs serial vs parallel hybrid thing.

Early hybrids were a standard ICE with some help from an additional motor, later hybrids moved towards being a BEV with a smaller battery that gets topped up by a generator (which is roughly what a hydrogen Fuel cell car is too).

This is analogous to what the article suggests with the Schneider drive.

But I think emprically, even the earlier mild hybrids were more mechanically reliable than ICE equivalents. Makes sense as you'd be in the sweet spot for the engine more often.

In bike terms that is the equivalent of the amount of battery you need to get you over big hills and maybe help you get going from a standstill and maybe let you get away with a few internal gears.
My last experience with LA transit was finding a very convenient train to go over and hang out in Santa Monica for a day of that trip, and then having to spend way too much on an Uber back because the trains stopped surprisingly early.
Not a good example to give. One could just as easily argue that a social contract granted the Jan 6 rioters the right to storm the Capitol as though it were Bastille. There is no just cause for mobocratic vigilanteism of any kind.
nothing makes an article seem more legit than having moronic gif's play on a continuous loop while you try to read it. </sarc>
There's nothing that stops the roms from being dumped decrypted, but then they're not a copy of the original rom are they? Tools are available to decrypt the rom afterwards, and plenty of emulators will run those programs (easy way to test homebrew). It also ensures that the roms haven't been modified, as private keys are still private.

That's where the group that validates rom dumps gets their name from: No-Intro. Because old rom dumps used to modify the rom to add an intro advertising whoever cracked or dumped the rom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_intro
Thanks for the clarification, it's not that easy to understand when one looks at the Automattic website.
What are these cabinets called? I've never seen them anywhere. Do they have a VR helmet or not? If so, they are probably just clones trying to ride on the success of Beat Saber which continues to rank very high in charts of best VR games.

I personally find the best Beat Saber levels are 90 degree and 360 degree, where you have to spin your body around and which wouldn't be possible in such cabinets.

Also the immersion of VR is where it's at - the fact that you feel like a Jedi with your light sabers and you're cutting blocks in time with the music, while the controllers vibrate as well giving you feedback that makes your brain believe you are a Jedi.
tldr: because blockchain is too slow for practical uses and one has to resort to off-chain blockchains on blockchain with separate consensus, that go into blockchain.

If you’re still confused why would you care about it, so am I.
I think the more reasonable deduction is that the vendor's website was compromised, and that's where the attacker was able to introduce new files.
> even if the manufacturer wanted to, they can’t provide sources

In many cases they don't even have them or may not be aware that there's an upgradable firmware in some of the components they're using at all.
In any decent society, not really. This risk can be greatly mitigated by regulations, occasional independent review and transparency.

For example, I can rely that I won't get food poisoning in a restaurant. This is because we have rules of how to handle food (designed by expert consensus), and the restaurants are inspected from time to time if they follow these practices.
I from time to time look how different countries solve the same problem in different ways. Its fun to find one where an 'impossible' problem is solved in a simple rigorous way. The most shocking part is that there seems to be a complete lack of copying stuff that works even from a country next door. The preference is for every nation by it self to spend finite resources (time/money) to solve problems that have been solved elswhere.

For laughs I suggest that the US police is probably doing a few things better than everyone else. We have lots of countries, each with their own formula that should serve as real world experiments.

Say, do all 200 countries put the fines directly into the police budget? Or say: What are ALL the qualities one can design for in a police department or in recruitment? Then ask: How should they be prioritized? How is everyone doing this?
I work over 40 hours a week or less and it is already tough, because the intensity of my work is very high, like an air controller work I just can't work more hours at that intensity or I will burn out.

No human being can run a marathon for 8 hours a day, every day. They will tell you they do but it is not true, the people that know the best are those that are used to run marathons.

The people that work 80 hours have an intensity of work that is extremely weak, or else they will not be able to work in a sustained way. Most people I know delude themselves and can do as much in way less time increasing their intensity of work and using delegation and automation.

By the way I am competitive doing that and lots of my friends also are doing the same.
Whaddya know :-o

It turns out that that complex technology was warranted?!?
It is not close to statistically significant. Here are two monte carlos under different assumptions which checks how often we expect 21 or more deaths by chance under the null hypothesis of no-effect on non-Covid mortality (i.e., that the vaccines are safe).

##

>>> import numpy
>>> import random
>>> N_vaccine_deaths = []
>>> for j in range(500):
... x = []
... x = [0 for i in range(46000)] + [1 for i in range(38)] # 38 deaths, ~46000 non-deaths
... random.shuffle(x)
... N_vaccine_deaths += [np.sum(x[0:int(len(x)/2)])]
>>> N_vaccine_deaths = np.array(N_vaccine_deaths)
>>> p = np.sum(N_vaccine_deaths >= 21)/len(N_vaccine_deaths )
>>> p
0.296

>>> x = []
>>> for i in range(5000):
... x += [sum([random.random() < (38/46000) for i in range(int(46000/2))])]
>>> p = np.sum(np.array(x) >= 21)/len(x)
>>> p
0.3446

Even just looking at cardiac deaths only and it turns out to be statistically insignificant with a p-value around 0.2. And this is actually p-hacking since we didn't prespecify and lock-in that hypothesis before the study began.

> And I don't know if you're aware, but the original (dec 2020) approval basically rested on 4:1 placebo:vaccine severe cases. It was approved based on statistically insignificant data, but somehow the same counts of death is not even interesting.

I don't see how this is relevant. That was a long time ago and we didn't have much data, hence low statistical power, and the need to make a decision with an incomplete picture. We now have much more data from over 20 countries, and are able to draw more conclusive and confident conclusions about efficacy.
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This is what happens when you move all the manufacturing out of the country...
I don't know, I'm just familiar with what the motor controllers do because I'm trying to do an EV conversion.

I would imagine that the people working on parts for the conversion market have a somewhat different development process than a regular auto manufacturer, in part because they're making things in low volume and in part because they just have to design generic reusable parts that do one thing properly. If you're building a whole car, you have to make sure everything works together as a cohesive whole. In some ways that would be easier because you know exactly what parts are being used together.

I would hope that most of the safety-critical real-time software that controls a car's basic functions like braking and traction control and so on would be relatively simple and straightforward, but maybe that's too much to expect. My understanding of the way the auto industry works these days is that the major manufacturers are increasing dependent on a complicated network of 3rd-party parts suppliers, and I'd expect that to influence the character of the software stack somewhat.
This is played out in numerous sci fi, where some ai/machine is given control and it decides the most efficient thing is to murder everyone.
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My thoughts exactly. The whole article sounds like: “Whoa, so it really IS useful!” Duh!
Russia and China’s plans for a new world order
Is it already too late to say goodbye?
You could also go to Settings, Keyboards, and uncheck Smart Punctuation.
Yes, some of us do realize, that's why I, someone from a third world country (Madagascar), try do get in, hoping for better pay. Covid also changed the game rules and made working from home a real option, opening even more door to work from anywhere in the world. I'm a now learning form university courses that are open online, 2 from UC Berkeley and 1 from University of Helsinki. Anyone wanting to hire/train someone, we can chat about it.
Laravel dev for 10 years...can you please direct me to the 200k figure income companies....
> re-rolling a pair of dice until you get a result you like seemed ugly.

... then proceed to:

- create an entire new pair of dice for 2 turns of a game they play once in a while

- one die now has 2 values on each face with separate meaning

- for the first 2 turns, you have a special procedure to read the value of the dice that is quite convoluted

I understand the fun of it, but that's also how I see code being written in the corporate world, and that makes me sad.
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Well, thanks for attempting a numerical and physics based analysis. That's much more than you can find in the (public) documents submitted to regulators. I voted you up as I've been looking for some sort of calculation for a long time.

I have some questions though.

Firstly, I think your analysis would only be true for Pfizer. Moderna has a dose 3x stronger (90mcg equivalent).

Secondly, what exactly is the virus' immune evasion mechanism that the mRNA lacks? I thought it was the other way around - the mRNA is coded with pseudo-uridyl specifically to evade the immune system, but normal viral RNA doesn't use that trick. It would seem to be much more likely that the virus is detected by the immune system than the mRNA particles, specifically designed to evade it.

For a novel argument like this one some citations would really be helpful. Where did you get the number of virions per infection, exactly? Surely this number will vary wildly between patients? What's the CI on that? Where did the 3x number come from?

You say:

"for each mRNA strand to produce 1000 spike proteins, which is very improbable."

Why? From [1] we can read that each dose "consists of around 13,000 billion repetitions of the same 4284 characters". This seems like a huge number of repetitions of the spike protein sequence and this is a highly optimized sequence. They appeared to make great efforts to optimize it well beyond what nature would achieve. I'm not sure how to convert "strand" to "dose" here, but all your numbers and probabilities seem rather hypothetical.

So what we're left with is still something much simpler and easier to measure (antibody levels), which are higher for vaccines, suggesting the body perceived it as a more aggressive invasion. And that's a problem: more antibodies = higher chance of autoimmune disease, at the very least.

[1] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...
Apple has no stake in telemetry that you know of
Generics shouldn't make something faster... If they do, then there is a bug or missed optimization in the compiler.
If you use a Mac, Safari is absolutely the right choice. But for all other platforms, it's simply not available.

(It was briefly available for Windows, in an apparent quirk of history, but was discontinued in 2012.)
Can you explain why I would use this rather then just setting the docker socket to read only in the traefik container?

That’s what I do currently and it works just fine. I’m unclear if there’s something this does extra that I’m overlooking?
I'm using uBO with FF right now, and have used and enjoyed FF mobile with uBO back when I was using Android, but the issue being discussed here isn't ad blocking but privacy.
A utilitarian would absolutely say that causing one group severely negative utility is worth a corresponding positive utility in another group. However, they'd also say that these are useless examples to apply knee-jerk aesthetic analysis to, because they're practically impossible.

The aversions we have to this kind of inhumane utility juggling are because we instinctually recongize the second order and knock-on effects without needing to specify them. Dehumanization, inequality, precedence - these are all utility-real things which a responsible utilitarian incorporates into their utility calculus as major negative impactors.

When you strip the situation of any practical relevance, of course the conclusions are 'stupid' because the criteria you apply to determine that stupidity are based on a practical reality.
From the text:

> I can't name a single thing from Google X or Amazon 126, Apple or Microsoft Research departments.

This is a very narrow way of looking at who's making things of value.

Let's take a single example out of those companies mentioned: Apple's iPhone and the demand it generated for smartphones, pushed many industries to invest in research, development and mass production of high resolution, low cost, low power screens, low power (and now even faster than desktop workstations) compute in small form factor SoC, ever so small low noise and high resolution camera sensors and lenses, faster, higher bandwidth, cheaper and more widely accessible cell networks, and so on and on and on...

Take any single one of the above components/infrastructure and one can list 100 products of value stemming from its cheap and widespread availability. Apple didn't just make a phone, it changed computing forever (something Jobs would probably say on stage) in span of a few years.

Also, did you forget https://research.google/ or just ignored it? There are mind numbing number of research papers *with* corresponding global scale real products used by millions/billions of people, that based on those research.

I am sick of people glorifying the past when today, right under their noses, exists orders of magnitude greater research and innovation. Their title may not be sweet and straightforward like "invention of the telephone" but that's how progress works — the more you move forward, the more nuanced and specific things get.
In Sweden, any document touched by the government is by default open to the public, as an anti-corruption, pro-democracy measure.

Of course, your tax forms are documents touched by the government, in which your declared income is stated.
But we're not talking about vaccine effectiveness, we're talking about strength of the response provoked in the body. It would be nice if the relationship was as simple as a linear one between antibody levels and clinical outcomes, but as you point out, it's not. The question here is simply which produces more of the toxic spike proteins.
Reading for the TikTok Generation
Books on phones are not great. What if the experience of reading on phones could be better...more colorful, more interactive, something that feels more like a native digital application. Teen daily book reading, for pleasure, is at an all-time low after three decades of decline. THAT is the future of reading unless something changes. Teens spend 7.5 hours a day on non-school related screen time. Screens are the future of media and entertinment. Literal is reading, built for screens.
It's funny how the author frames this post in a very economic way. Personally, I would never describe reading a book as something where I'm investing and/or extracting value.

It's extra ironic that the entire issue they're describing is caused exactly by such (IMHO) over-economic thinking.
Ok I will get ready, but I will do so with the understanding that a vast majority of jobs will continue tone 40 hours a week spread over 5 days. Some companies will certainly adopt 4 10 hour day model and a few will try to adopt a 4 8 hour day model. But as “remote work” during the pandemic has generally led to an _increase_ in hours worked I wouldn’t be surprised if somehow 5 10 hour days became the norm
Yes. You would have to re-roll the C dye until not 7. Spared re-rolling both dice though.
The clock does not measure time; it produces it
The bias runs in the opposite direction: the vaccinated are supposed to be more healthy, not less, because people on death's door aren't being vaccinated at all.
Agreed. It's ugly and not very impressive.

Still fun to sit on the lawn facing it at night with a beer or bottle of wine though.
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