skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are holding out for truth before you make a decision about this topic, I can pretty much guarantee you can be relied on to do nothing.

If the author is actively deceptive, they should be recognized for it, and the scheme they're using to mislead people should be recognized as a fairly sophisticated dark pattern that implies a more sophistcated rationale for being deceptive. They claim to be a data scientist and former biologist, which if true implies at least some habit of rigor in forming opinions about these issues.

Almost nothing about the shots would be controversial if there were, a) no mandates for shots or masks, b) no vaccine passports, and c) consistency and transparency from pandemic response leadership. The instinct to challenge the official narratives is a good one.

Trouble is, a, b and c are not the case, and even if this writer has a skewed view of facts, there is ample reason to litigate the facts one can find against these other factors. If they are being dishonest (as one commenter noted that the author had cropped out some non-vaccine related deaths that formed the top line number in the a table, which is dodgy) I'd be interested in other examples of dishonesty in the article, and then perhaps a concrete motive.

I do know that politicians are making their covid policy decisions based on polling data, independent of any biological scientific input at all. I also know that the epidemiologists in public health behind the policies are social scientists with a very specific worldview, and are not held to the standards of competent infectious disease specialists. The motive for authorities to produce crappy strawman opposition to policies is also apparent, it's a pretty standard tactic on political campaigns, so when the objective is merely to neutralize opposition, this would be par for the course on disinformation.

The only meaningful policy question with any long term consequence is whether we proceed with vaccine passports as a digital identity or not, and imo, while I don't have most of the facts on biology and vaccines, I am very much aware of the conseqeunces of internal passport systems, and articles challenging the pretexts being used by authorities to implement them should be welcomed.

If the writer is actively dishonest, I'd treat them as just more propaganda, and that the authorities are tipping their hand on how vulnerable their passport pretexts are. If the writer is being honest and can address how they represented that table, it's still worth recognizing that the tide of popular opinion has turned on mRNA therapies and mandates.
> These companies would need to spend lots of resources to legally navigate pay cuts to already-agreed-upon contracts.

My pay went down by like 40,000 when I moved to fully remote. Whatever cost was involved in setting up a new contract for me is surely quite a bit lower than that.

> And they would also have to weigh the risk of those employees leaving for better pay elsewhere.

The industry hasn't settled on a standard, but the number of companies that offer permanent remote work at SF pay scales and also pay the same as Google is pretty low. Attrition for pay is real, but it isn't like Facebook doesn't do the same cuts.
In my mind you cannot be frequentist or Bayesian after reading just the first paragraph of Chapter 2. But fair enough I am a bit too critical here.

Also you are right, set notation does use curly braces, I am relieved :-). I was confused by the A = [-1, 1-1/n] (interval set notation) on page 8 that I misread as [-1, 1, 1/n]...
Google's bots are crazy. Thank god they sold Boston Dynamics...
To be fair, lateral joins (cross/outer apply in mssql) can help with name aliasing and table functions give sql some reusability. I think the main pain points for sql are pivots and window functions.

A lot of the time you just want to transpose your result, but you have to choose an aggregate and handle null cases to force pivot to work the way you want it.

And a lot of the time you want to aggregate a window but keep the ids of the row so you avoid the having keyword altogether and go for row_number and dense_rank to get your aggregate results.

If I were to write a query language, I would discard group by and having and make it easier to apply transpose and window functions.
So following your logic every country has a right to exert influence over it’s neighbors using military power. The are pro-Russian political parties in Ukraine, yet their support is low, around 10% and falling, so no hope of achieving Russia-oriented Ukraine via political means.
The presence of West in Ukraine is overstated. Yes, Ukraine follows pro-Western foreign policy, what else could be done? Ukrainian electorate is wary of Russia, there are no other players here except West.
the vast majority of scientists are know are clueless about statistics. Biochemisty isn't a field that is strongly dependent on stats, in a way that (for example) genomics is.
> There are literally over an order of magnitude more adverse effects and deaths reported since the rollout of the covid vaccines than for all vaccines in the 20+ years before that (including the flu vaccine that roughly half of Americans take every year)

Putting aside the obvious difference in societal impact and media coverage, which the modern flu has never received, it seems like the drastic differences in vaccine uptake absolutely contributes to this.

Flu vaccine uptake in 18+ was estimated at 45.3% in 2018-2019, 37.1% in 2017–18, and 43.3% in 2016-2017 [1]. It's sitting at 76% for COVID right now [2].

1: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/fluvaxview/coverage-1819estimates.ht...
2: https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-st...
"Yeah, what was the victim doing wearing that skimpy outfit! They brought this on themselves!"
Plug: we have designed a range of RP2040 based dev boards for different tasks which make prototyping/evaluating the platform a breeze - and it's an exciting platform with what it offers for the price. The PIO especially is an extremely interesting feature.

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We also have a heap of accessories for the official Raspberry Pi Pico development board: https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/pico
This is a shared memory cluster. That is, there is some level of RDMA over a networking fabric.
Always operate under the assumption that iCloud (Apple), Microsoft and Google will delete any/all of your data, with no notice, and for no reason.

Because they explicitly reserve the right to do so in their TOSes.

Not your computer, not your data etc.

(https://www.quentb.com/posts/diy-cloud-backup/)
You could try industry automation (programming PLCs and drives) if you like to have moving parts and software. It is a pretty interesting field with many options (but still a lot of computer).
So much wh will one inference cost? I mean computing has come more efficient but I still struggle to find data on how much wh is used for some sentences of GPT3, for example.
Interesting, you’re right then.

The thing with Twitter posters is they often don’t understand what they’re doing.
Does that mean someone copyrighted binary? :p I guess that mean that this comment and everything digital is copyrighted.
> more work = more trust

This is not true. The trust you are talking about is the "solidity" of the blockchain, i.e., it's immutability feature, what (supposedly) makes it a trustable source.

But it is not PoW that makes the blockchain immutable. A lot of people are saying that, but they're wrong, I'm sorry.

What actually makes the blockchain immutable is that it is distributed and that it cannot be done to rewrite it's history discretely. People will notice because the hash of the blocks would change.

The same is true for a Git repository. If you have a Git repository that everyone mirrors regularly (so that it is distributed, just like a blockchain), then you can't rewrite it's history without having people notice: the new log will be incompatible with the history they already have all the commits hash will be different.

The only solution would be, in both case, to find entire collision for each block/commit. This is waaaaay more expansive than mining to find new valid hashes for a given blockchain.
See also https://spacedesk.net/. Sadly Windows-host-only, but works pretty well, and anything with a browser in the same LAN can be a screen.

(And I do mean _a browser_, not _a Chrome_)
There is this whole level of complexity in enterprises where enabling groups package or wrap cloud services that should be used by their devops teams, such that the result is compliant to the company's standards for security and monitoring etc.

Even though the product of the vendor doesn't change, there is a constant maintenance load on the devops teams to keep the internal packages/pipelines up to date with whatever the enablement teams cook up every time.

When doing new things, most time is lost in navigating the landscape and setup of these pipelines and products, firewall rules, network rules, which live in another documentation universe from the cloud as the world knows it.

No matter what you do, IaaS or SaaS: the enterprise is going to keep you busy.
1 is the loneliest IP :D
There is no doubt that the Covid vaccine is not as safe as they initially claimed. That is why Pfizer is hiding the safety data for 75 years. I am a doctor and was one of the first to receive the vaccine. It led to complications of a peripheral neuropathy and a deep venous thrombosis. Only now a year later has the CDC followed up on my complications. The CDC did contact me and asked me to submit a VAERs database report since my primary care doctor failed to file the report as required by law. I know many others with complications from this vaccine.
Since you work in copyright, you've probably also seen firsthand how overzealous copyright enforcement can destroy businesses that produce excellent content.

Frankly, your bias shows and you might have a case of EverythingLooksLikeANailitis. The copyright industry may be "protecting" jobs in some ways, but it's also destroying jobs in others. It's halting progress in so many cases.

You also need to look at who, in practice, is protected by copyright. The grand majority of the money being protected is that of big, rich industries. Even when the Little Guys are protected, it's usually by a bigger company that gets the way bigger cut from it (eg. stock photo and music artists).

A world without copyright is a different one. IP lawyers and copyright enforcers might be out of a job, but it doesn't mean it'd be one without music or art. We'd find a different way to make it work, hopefully a way that doesn't drive the next Aaron Swartz to suicide.
> I guess if the price of BTC goes up, then it makes it more "worth it" to throw more energy at mounting a double-spend attack

Close, but not correct. As the price of BTC goes up, so does the expected reward for mining any given block, making it profitable to spend more electricity in pursuit of the rewards. This results in a net increase in electricity usage as everyone spends more in an attempt to capture the rising value of mining a block successfully.

In practice each miner is incentivized to spend an equal amount in electricity per block (at local rates) as the expected reward per block will net them. This results in a 51% attack being inordinately expensive, which was the point of the original design.
This seems like tea-leaf-reading. Neither Jefferson nor Monroe freed a significant number of their slaves --- they owned many --- even from their death beds.
I understand from this that we are forced to share PII with Amazon with every interaction, but we are not supposed to share it with Twitter followers. US citizens can get their dossiers and delete their accounts. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-p... I received 88 zip files and subsequently deleted my account.
I second this. I did a few years of hardware/mechanical engineering work before switching to AI. I'd never go back to the prior jobs
You don't even need to look at the faces to see that the site is fake. Look at the phone number on this page: https://taylorwilsonsmith.com/contact

(212) 555-1979

The 555 prefix is used for directory assistance or for fictitious phone numbers (e.g., in movies):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number)

When I called the number, I got the expected intercept message: "We're sorry, your call can not be completed as dialed..."

It gets even better... If you search for the two phone numbers on that page together, you'll find them on a whole bunch of sites, all presumably fake businesses:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=(800)+555-2840&ia=web
There's also a 3rd category of users, the bots, and crawlers/scrapers can greatly benefit from some of those invisible accessibility features...
I'm wrong. The Mahler-Mignotte only works for pairs of roots and doesn't say anything about the absolute value of the sum, at least in the way I was thinking about it. There may be a way to "fix it up" but not that I see and I suspect folks who've studied this in earnest are aware of Mahler-Mignotte and understand why it can't be used to solve this problem.

Thanks to @devit [0] who has understood why the Mahler-Mignotte tactic doesn't work. Just because you can bound the bit complexity of pairs of roots doesn't mean you can bound the complexity of all the 2^N possible {-1,1} combinations of them. At least, I don't see how it can be done simply.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30059545
Even if they did replicate how the brain works our brains aren’t one of these networks trained for specific things it is millions, maybe billions, of them combined.
It's a pretty good ride still (depending what you need). I tend to run a tiling wm with lots of customization and it's great to just have all these tools and behavior synced everywhere. I build emacs from scratch with lots of packages and special config. I have neovim with all the goodies, firefox installing with the plugins and config I want.

All automatically synced between my machines. I also really pushed myself to learn to maintain nixpkgs. It's been tough, but definitely worth it.

Config, if you want to take a look: https://github.com/pimeys/nixos
Worked in software primarily for business knowledge management & workflow, built some of the earliest SASS platforms, but after I was done with one of the ventures, and tired of fighting the house of cards of squishy software underneath the whole thing, sought something new. I wound up starting a carbon fiber / composites design & fabrication ship. While not a degreed engineer, I do a lot of the same work and now often advise engineers on the issues. I'm generally OK with not having gotten a new degree in the field, as to some extent it would provide an easy 'out' in the hard times to bail to a regular job, and if I want to figure anything out, the information is readily available. As it is, although I keep track of software and AI developments, I'm consistently finding much more joy in this work than in software. I also find it good that at least a good portion of the work is standing and work with my hands, not just sitting in a chair.

In short, I'd highly recommend finding something that intrinsically interests you, whether materials or particular products, and finding a path to immerse yourself in it. No idea where you are, but ping me if you're interested.
Nvidia can't make memory temperatures readable on Ampere
Are there any alternatives to gradient based learning that could make this less useful? Is there another type of compute unit that is the next evolution of CPU -> GPU -> ?
There are also plenty of NFTs with the images embedded directly onchain. Whether base64 binary with an image mimetype or encoded as an SVG.

NFT users and buyers will begin to care as domain names for dead projects expire over the next year.

To me, it is really strange how people see flaws in an implementation and don't even look for the other people that are working on improving those flaws. The market is saying "hey, you perceive flaws, go make hundreds of millions offering improved products, you don't even need outside capital to do so!" but I guess it's always been this way, have fun writing blog posts.
> The system uses an inductor (a long straight pipe, where the water has momentum),

How would you model mutual inductance in other circuits?
If You Want to Fight Monopolies, Fight Occupational Licensing
Well, universities can’t compete in things like car production or rocket manufacturing but find ways to contribute nonetheless. Researchers have and always will struggle to get resources relative to BigCorp - AI is just joining the party. Daimler and Lockheed are no more open than Facebook is, AFAIK.
There is still plenty to do and to analyze. Verifiable AI, more efficient models, knowledge transfer, 1000 brains, human interpretability, etc.
Pretty much every Founder thought that slavery was a huge political
shit-sandwich

Who knows what they thought? Chernow was lambasted by historians for
embellishing Hamilton's story by making him out to be a hater of slavery.

Written history is no different than any other literary endeavor. To
get readers, you need to tell a feel-good story. My cynicism about
human nature notwithstanding (as someone who doesn't like confrontation,
I'm pretty sure I'd be on the wrong side of history more often than
not), the book-pushing reason alone is enough to doubt
cherry-tree-chopping, log-cabin-building portrayals of our marquee
statesmen.
While dealing with an unfamiliar project recently, being able to run actions locally with act[1] was a great time saver for me:

[1] https://github.com/nektos/act
With a CTE it would read a bit more like prql:

with usa_employees as (
SELECT
title,
country,
salary,
(salary + payroll_tax) AS gross_salary,
(salary + payroll_tax + healthcare_cost) AS gross_cost
FROM employees
WHERE country = 'USA'
AND (salary + payroll_tax + healthcare_cost) > 0
)
select title,
country,
AVG(salary) AS average_salary,
SUM(salary) AS sum_salary,
AVG(gross_salary) AS average_gross_salary,
SUM(gross_salary) AS sum_gross_salary,
AVG(gross_cost) AS average_gross_cost,
SUM(gross_cost) AS sum_gross_cost,
COUNT(*) as emp_count
from usa_employees
group by title, country
having count(*) > 200
order by sum_gross_cost
limit 3

Readability is pretty similar to prql. It would really help in SQL if you could refer to column aliases so you don't have to repeat the expression.
Yes and that was mostly on the eastern border. Now there is (at least?) twice that including massive movement (200 trains us a number circulating now) of troops and equipment from as far as the eastern military district all the way to Belarus.

For comparison the whole Zapad excercise was ~30 trains.
I'm indeed wrong, I had understood from a discussion with someone involved in the project that it was so :) Just had a chat with my buddies at mattr who corrected me :)
Again, this is true only if you have a complete trust in market economy to make reasonable decisions. I don't. And evidence support that it doesn't always do that (I'm sorry I only have French ressources on this subject).
Really? They don’t need any more ideas!
That's a quote by Dr. Peter Doshi, not the article. While it's not strictly true if he was referring the that study, the difference is tiny enough that it doesn't matter in my opinion. It wouldn't make any difference if you switched the groups.

Regardless, what relevant data is missing from the table? As far as I can tell, you can see all relevant data to determine both total deaths and Covid deaths from the table in the screenshot.
Rather than handling these one a time, try https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/18/18716041/website-notifica...

This should handle all future requests.

To answer your question, "Notifications" are a dirty word to me, and this behavior is not allowed on my machines.
I understand exactly what you're saying. And I stand by the idea that this work does not meet the minimum bar for discussion (I'm qualified to evaluate that) and that its dissemination risks causing more harm than hurt, by convincing people of something which isn't really true through selective information and reasoning.

Note that there is an entire scientific literature where experts in this field argue these things and that is where the "heretics" need to go make their arguments. This work is propaganda designed to make people doubt the public health establishment, not a good-faith argument.
Almost certainly, yeah. I try to counteract this by choosing "good landlords" (a lesson I learned after my first apartment here, which was owned by a corporation that was terrible to deal with), but there's only so much you can do of course. Right now we lucked out, and it feels mutually beneficial.
That's ridiculous. Storing social security numbers is necessary for lots of businesses.

Imagine your filing cabinet not letting you file employment forms with a SS# on them.

It's the sticky note password problem all over again...
Where have the people against this policy been prior to 2020? Google (and a gazillion other companies) have paid differently based on region forever. The folks in London getting paid far less than their SF peers seem to find it weird that this has only become a source of complaints once it has affected Americans.
>What he is not is a primary source or a good source of unbiased anything.

Oops I guess the Senate finance committee fucked up then

https://medium.com/beyond-pen-and-paper/the-poor-arent-getti...
never, i simply don't let all of things trying to distract me bother me, if someone really needs me while i'm busy working on what i need to work on..then they will try and contact me more directly. I just let the river flow right past
Interesting! How does it differ from Gocrazy?
I agree! I think management processes need more open experimentation, though. Documenting and creating decision trees makes those decisions more transparent overall. It also aids in transfer learning, something which, from first hand experience, is lacking on ground-scale. Meaning, there's a lot of management knowledge in people's head's that increases bus factor risk. That can be mitigated, whether through my proposed method or otherwise.
> Unfortunately with kids there be dragons in renting as well: having to move when getting priced out.

And the cost of moving with kids is much greater than moving alone or as a couple. You will need to find new schools, activities, etc. It constrains your search space and will inevitably take a toll on your time budget.

The areas with decent schools etc also tend to be more expensive. When you buy property in such an area you can at least lock in a flat rate on your rent for the next 10-20 years or so, until your kids have grown up and can leave the nest.

So it does make a lot of sense to buy when you have kids. Either way, those "risky career moves" are anyhow much less of a good idea when you need to provide for a family.

Even as a couple it can be a challenge to move because of your career — it's rare that both partners get a career bump out of a joint move.
Back then, printed circuit board technology wasn't as advanced so chips usually had 0.1" spacing so there was room for the PCB traces. The chip's package was much larger than the silicon. Nowadays, in something like a phone, you want the packages to be as small as possible. You can now get a 555 timer in a package that is 1.4mm on a side, which is not a lot bigger than the silicon die, but still limited by the spacing of the solder balls.
Hactivists say they hacked Belarus rail system to stop Russian military buildup