skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apologies if my edit in quotating you is misrepresenting what you're saying, but it's how I read it.

I think thats a reasonable interpretation of what the original quote (which wasn't mine) was saying.

> If people have already been infected with COVID, is vaccination going to do them any good?

The linked data shows that it did seem to lead to a small improvement for folks during delta. Whether or not that small improvement is worth it is a judgment call.

> Anyhow, I thought about it, and made my choice. I think it was the right way to go for me.

Not that anybody needs this affirmation, but I'm 1000% in support of you making that call.
Might do good to introduce more diversity in US academia
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This the reaction to (understandable) community complaints that new browser security improvements make it hard to access local resources. (And complaints that browsers making access to local stuff hard is all a big plot by Google to push people towards using cloud stuff and away from privacy-friendly self-hosting)
Webb can 'see' everything but objects between Webb's location and the sun. At each moment, it's limited to part of the sky, but over a whole year, it can observe in all directions.
I have an 8566 at home. Didn’t know about the trace C. Thanks, have to try it.
I grew frustrated with the compromises of makefiles for this and over the years I wrote a couple of alternatives, run_lib[1] and lk[2]. Now I write files full of the bash functions I need and use lk to explore and execute them. I.e. it's a consistent interface accross projects.

[1] https://github.com/jamescoleuk/lk

[2] https://github.com/jamescoleuk/run_lib
There is also a similar issue with YouTube at two levels:

1) Sometimes the Premium mode of YouTube doesn't work, and you still get the ads (this looks like a cache bug or something like that where the Premium setting is not activated).

YouTube doesn't believe it's real, though I managed to screenshot it.

2) You pay for YouTube premium, but you still get in-video embedded ads that creators encode in the stream, like LinusTechTips. In a way this is not fair, as the promise to stop seeing ads is not kept.

YouTube could enforce their policy to force the content creators to mark their sponsored videos segment and automatically skip them if you have Premium.
I think CentOS 7 still does.
"If there's one prediction I'm really really good at making, it's the prediction that future me is not going to remember."

Yep.
Are you a dev logging into multiple profiles for the same service? Firefox has the Multi Account Containers extension. Also great for dealing with sites with limited article paywalls like Medium. Do you use Android? Firefox Mobile let's you install uBlock Origin. If you sign into the browser with a Firefox account on all your devices you can "send" a tab between them. This has proven to be way more useful than expected. That's all I can think of.
So it eliminates a possible comorbidity. But you don't know, unlike other comorbidities which are known.
Thanks for the link. Also corroborated by the statement on the school's website: [1]. That seems overly paternalistic and prudish to me.

[1]: https://www.granburyisd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&Dom...
Isn’t this exactly the kind of thing that should get the feds to do an operation warp speed 2 for a pan-coronavirus vaccine like that developed at Walter Reed?

Maybe they can think ahead for a change instead of announcing free masks one month after a huge outbreak.
Counterpoint: I don't think it matters much if something is final or not, because what matters more is market adoption.

Second, especially with HTML5 and Javascript I believe, they don't do big, formal versions anymore, but evolutionary and incremental design. This prevents a lot of administrative and bureaucratic overhead (see also Java's standardization process and stagnation after 6), at the cost of having fixed targets to work towards.
The post showed me why my code is praised an understandable but I have the absolute worst time when it comes to testing it!

The interfaces and abstractions needed to make a code testable is something I actively avoid in order to write code that others (including me in a few months) can glance and quickly-ish figure out what is happening and if there’s a big, where could it be.

Now I can intentionally know that is a compromise I’m taking instead of feeling like a failure because my code doesn’t lend itself to testing…
Infinite series reveal the unity of mathematics
I've interviewed at a lot of companies this summer, and landed a similar remote job, x2 your salary target. I was even choosing between a few different offers. I did not train on leetcode, and I've explicitly said it to interviewers — I like to present my skills as they are when I work, not some temporarily buffed up version. I also don't remember what different letters in SOLID mean.

I still got some live coding questions, which weren't that hard. For example, one of the problems was classic n queens. I remembered the problem, but didn't remember the solution, and had to come up with it in 45 minutes. Interviewer even pointed out that my solution ended up being not one of the more common ones — it was a bit quirky and awkward, but it worked.

But most of the interviews were centred around more practical problems: take-homes with realistic tasks, or questions about architecture that didn't have one "correct" solutions but served more as conversation starters. May be it's because I didn't interview at FAANGS (I really dislike working at companies that have more than 100 employees), but overwhelming majority of the companies that I talked to had excellent interview process and I did not feel as if they were testing irrelevant skills like leetcode grinding or API memoization.
Its also question about metaphysics. If you dont believe in metaphysics all this problems do not arise in the first place.
N=3. I have a different setup, though. I have my original glasses to drive (-3.25, but they are now too strong, I need to downgrade them). Then I have glasses for other uses (-1, IIRC. They allow me to see at the limit of bluriness at 2-3 meters). And for computer work, I wear no glasses at all. Worth noting, though, that before I started, my prescription hadn't changed in 25 years.
IIRC, the reimplementing version did something like, display the trademark so it could run at all, and then on the next screen (when the game runs), say “not really, but we had to display that so this could run”.
Also testing on safari/iphone is easy. It also has built-in snapshot testing. I just wish it was integrated with S3 as git LFS is not good
LSD relatives appear to treat depression in mice, without obvious side effects
>Meanwhile encryption with PGP has been a complete failure, due to problems with key distribution and user experience.

Encrypted messaging has been a complete failure; there is no need to single out email. I suspect the reason is more or less the same in all cases. Users have not been provided with a conceptual framework that would allow them to use the tools in a reasonable way. If the US federal government can come up with, and promote such a framework the world would become a different place.

BTW, the linked article is mostly based on misconceptions:

* https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp
Ted Turner started cable without ads, which is why you paid for it. That lasted about 5 minutes. I suspect the whole "no ads" thing was a bug bandied as a feature, because Turner couldn't GET advertisers on the new platform when it started.
DOI was a coordinated effort by publishers to crush PubMed
I do the nitpicking reviews but, when I review someone for the first time, I specifically point out that I leave nitpicking reviews and don't block approval on most of them.
>suggest the NIH has something to do with it

That is an absolutely egregious misunderstanding of what Pubmed is. Let us not take actions on the basis of misunderstandings by the clueless.
Bookmarking this.
> what is 'free will' anyways

I think it's important for everyone to keep in mind that "free will" is used differently in different contexts. In scientific contexts, it's more along the lines of experimental freedom, and free will and determinism are incompatible.

In ethics and law, it's more about moral responsibility and free will and determinism can be compatible (depending on who you ask).
“Man seeks attention to feel existential void, comes up empty.”
They aren’t the hard coded ones. These ones are dynamic ones. It only happens when listening to podcasts, never music. Fortunately you can skip them but it is annoying.

The reason you might not use pocket casts is because the podcast could be exclusive to Spotify for example.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/sp...
You misunderstand. My point is "I empathise and am not surprised that people choose to unsubscribe and go elsewhere if people are being given adverts in podcasts"

Assume the best, not the worst in peoples arguments, please. Cheers.
Momentum builds for transparency on people's salaries
It will never be a problem. There are so many Chinese scientists in America. Labs upon labs upon labs that don't hire non-Chinese and don't speak English.
Also, his politics changed drastically over the course of his life, going from a New Deal Democrat to a Goldwater Republican.
Yep. The practice of spying on user behavior and phoning home is far past my line for acceptable software behavior. It doesn't matter if TV cost $0 or $10,000, it should not be used by anyone who respects their self.
The tech sell-off has some venture capitalists worried
Some people love shopping but it’s far from everyone and you’re leaving out another major factor: the staggering inefficiency of car travel. American malls use huge amounts of space for car storage (which has no entertainment value) and they’re frequently surrounded by traffic jams.

That’s part of what makes them expensive but it also cuts into the pleasure part. It’s one thing to enjoy trying clothes on in person but having to sit in a car for an hour (which in the LA area is often each way, not just round-trip) takes the fun out of it. This is especially true now that there are more recreation opportunities at home.

Teenagers are also a big market, but that devolves to who has a non-working parent to drive them, which is less common than it used to be. Transit can help but it’s often an afterthought and many parents offer teenagers less range than they used to.
Note that the accusations of Dr Chen having ties to China are true. However, Dr Chen wasn’t legally required to disclose them:

> Prosecutors announced that they had received new information indicating that Dr. Chen had not been obliged to disclose those affiliations, undercutting the basis of the case.

In either case I believe ties to China are harmful, they are not a friendly country.
Yes. In Brazil specially.
When both the state and his lawyer were pressing him to take the deal, both the state and his lawyer believed he was guilty.

The charges were withdrawn, as I understand it, when the Department of Energy clarified the understanding of the grant application for the US attorney and they came to the conclusion that there was not a duty to disclose the particular affiliation.

There’s no doubt that this caused professional harm to him. At the same time the US government has a reasonable interest in knowing of the foreign government affiliations of researchers it funds, and should reasonably pursue those who flout the rules.

Was this prosecution flawed? It seems very much so. Was it pursued reasonably and in good faith? It’s hard to say it wasn’t, unless your outlook is to be immediately suspicious of prosecutors.
Don’t try to please everyone. If someone is a FOSS purist, they aren’t going to accept a license with any of the restrictions that prevent companies from offering a hosted service.
In the beginning of time (well, maybe not that far back), there was TV, TV had ads in them. Then there was bittorrent, and life was good.
We Built a SIMD JIT Compiler for SQL in QuestDB
It appears that there are three camps of stochastic processes:

(1) Old. Analyze bumps on railroad tracks, sound noise, the weather over time, ocean waves, .... So, the expectation is fixed, that is, does not vary. The sample paths are bounded. Might assume that the variance is fixed. If increments are independent and identically distributed, then can assume the distributions are Gaussian (have a Gaussian process).

In that case can do interpolation, extrapolation, smoothing, find power spectra, see what happens to sample paths as you run them through a time-invariant linear filter.

(2) Newer. Can get into Markov processes and maybe also martingales. There is a good text by Cinlar, long at Princeton. His chapter on the Poisson process is especially good. Cinlar does not mention measure theory, but other texts do or really are all about measure theory, that is probability based on measure theory. Can get the measure theory out of Royden, Real Analysis and Rudin, Real and Complex Analysis. Should have a measure theory background in probability, and for that try any or all of Breiman, Neveu, Loeve, Chung. Can get into potential theory. Then stochastic optimal control. May end up with some expensive books from Springer written by Russians. Otherwise I gave some names above.

(3) Queuing Theory. Get to do a lot of work with the Poisson processes with the hope of making applications, e.g., in the sense of operations research.
Political preferences of 98% voters breached, €65,000 GDPR fine
Funny you mention this! I noticed about a month ago and will also not renew later this year because of this. I don't want podcasts on my MUSIC player to begin with, never mind them playing a single ad on a premium subscription. On principle it is wrong, so shame on them. I will not renew because of this, simple as that.
So you didn't answered my question regarding your sources. Here's mine:

- The technology to convert power to hydrogen and back to power has a round-trip efficiency of 18%-46%, according to data that Flora presented from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and scientific journal Nature Energy. In comparison, two mature long-duration technologies, pumped-storage hydropower and compressed air energy storage, boast round-trip efficiencies of 70%-85% and 42%-67%, respectively. Flow batteries, a rechargeable fuel cell technology that is less mature, have a round-trip efficiency of 60%-80%. https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...

- https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/stories/2019/08/hydroge...
This is just redevelopment.

What’s _really weird_ to me is new developments that are designed to look like walkable town centers, but are actually open-air shopping malls in the exurbs of cities with hollowed-out centers that were thriving and walkable a single generation ago.

These new, faux town centers come with two things the real ones didn’t: massive parking garages, and condos on the third floor with non-functional Juliet balconies that overlook the chain stores.
> You make so many assumptions about the sales person it's as if they're an NPC for you.

I just use the bits from the OPs story as a way to place the person on my scale of technical competence.

> Maybe the sales person replaced someone who got sick at the last minute. Maybe the sales person's incompetent manager put them there without giving them time to prepare. Maybe the person whose job it was to prepare the sales person was bad at _their_ job, or didn't have sufficient time, etc. Maybe their incompetent manager isn't as forgiving as you are and will fire them because of this incident. Maybe power-cycling the device caused the presenters settings they needed for the presentation to be wiped as well. Maybe this is a junior sales person who hoped for a promotion after this presentation.

I think these are assumptions. Maybe they did. Or maybe they just powercycled the device and it all came back.

Tradeshows are 'hostile territory', you know this going in. If you've never staffed a booth at a tradeshow then I will forgive you but really, if this is the worst that happened there then they got extremely lucky.

I've had people 'test' our systems to see if they could break them. And the fact that they could not was proof that we had done a proper job designing them, which in turn led to interesting conversations and some sales. This is what a tradeshow is for. It's not for people to stand around static displays or recipe style demos without the ability to improvise.

Tradeshows are 'hands on' which is why the gear is exposed in the first place. And some of those hands will be more capable than yours, which is the moment where you make your living as a salesperson.

> My conclusion is that a lot of people lack empathy or the imagination to think beyond their own experience.

No, it's just that the experience factor is a two way street. If you don't have relevant experience then maybe you should not be so quick to judge.

I've seen the OP derided now as a sociopath, as a bad human being overall and whatever else people are slinging at him. You can take it from me as someone who has staffed the booths at tradeshows that on a scale of 1 to 10 this was a 'meh'.

> But I guess that's not really surprising in this sector which apparently still lacks a lot of self-reflection around the common social problems associated with it.

Ah ok, that is what this is about. Well, guess what, it is possible to have a conversation about a tradeshow prank without drawing in the problems of the entire industry.

> I'm just happy there's enough people here that do have empathy.

OP pulled a prank 20 years ago, which temporarily destabilized a piece of gear.

We're now discussing their promotion chances, their ostensibly important presentation on a piece of gear that they have no problem allowing other people to mess with, their chances of getting fired by their incompetent (why would their manager be incompetent) manager, their lack of time to prepare and so on.

It's an over-reaction.
The prosecution themselves have said that there was no reporting requirement for that.
If I receive an email I didn’t sign up for I’ll contact the email service provider directly. They act quickly because it’s their servers reputations that are at stake, and many times they’ll drop their customer over it.
[0] could also be due to a high incidence of worms in the population.
It seems that the researchers did use NVIDIA GPUs to perform the work, but it's not clear what sets the GPUs apart from others and why this research wouldn't be possible without NVIDIA's GPUs, as the article title and body implies.
That one expired

Expiry:
15.—(1) These Regulations expire at the end of 20th December 2021.

You're right about local rules applying to specific businesses (Sainsburys, TFL etc), I was thinking more England wide.

To be honest looking at the cases in Scotland (where mask compliance from Sep-Dec was high) with England (where it wasn't genrally required and few wore them outside of public transport) I can't tell if the rules made any difference at a population level .
I have no significant comment on the article, but I think that the title should be changed to indicate that the disease has been discovered in bats, not people.
I imagine there will be a whole batch of grifters coming post Neurolink…

Similar to just add it to blockchain.

How about a neurolink to the blockchain? Well I guess we have Doge.
Evolution of the elephant depiction throughout the middle ages
Linus went over this on the WAN show. Apparently the option to hide pop-ups is only available to subscribers in the new subscriber version and is not an option for those on a perpetual license.
There is a follow up, where he get another popup: https://nitter.42l.fr/linusgsebastian/status/148185562555858...
Sorry, title edit time seem to have expired.
IIRC there's a setting to disable that
I had fiber internet installed a week ago. The installer and I got to talking about Covid. He said he got it and started suffering strong-but-not-hospitalish symptoms for about 2 weeks. He got ahold of Rx grade ivermectin and within 3 hours of ingesting started feeling better. His co-worker, who regularly works with cattle and administers ivermectin (getting it all over his skin inevitably), says he’s never had Covid. 2 small anecdata points, but I hear many other stories of its success and I wonder why people are so vehemently against its use.
Agreed. When Pfizer studies the effectiveness of their vaccine, they also have conflicts. That doesn't impugn the results of the study, if it's well done.
If I put a porter potty in your driveway, I'm not adding a bathroom to your house and your house has not been modified, only your parking situation. The current title suggests the apartments are attached or inside.
HP wins multibillion-dollar fraud case over Autonomy sale
> made it less likely the working class would rise up against the capitalist ruling class

It would make it less likely for the country to shoot itself in the foot and radically lower the standards of living of its citizens, like happened and, unfortunately, still happens, in every country that adopted communist ideas in their government.
"He was the first person to be indicted under this act. In December 1990, he was sentenced to three years of probation, 400 hours of community service, and a fine of $10,050 plus the costs of his supervision. "

It looks like you are correct, gaffe on my part, thanks for the correction.
I'm working on electron-based desktop software at my job. We support macos, windows and linux. Building the same software natively would take 4x developers, move much slower, and require a lot more coordination. We would also not have access to incredible ecosystem of libraries and tools that we have at our disposal now. And if we wanted to develop a web version, to enable potential customers to try it out without installation, it would be a separate project equal in complexity to what we're already doing right now.
>I'd expect _all_ ads to be removed

spotify can't do that unless they own the rights to the podcast, otherwise they might run afowl of copyright laws. I believe their intent is to have one place for podcasts (both their own premium ones and freely accessible public ones).
See debian's benchmarkgame.

You need some cross-language apps/functions, adopt community improvements and publish the results.

Rosettacode also has a lot.
>We cannot marginalize segments of our population based on race, nationality, religion, sex, etc. and expect to remain competitive.

Seems to be working for China.
I watched this in its entirety and left feeling stunned by much of it. I didn't know a _lot_ about NFTs or cryptocurrencies, just the basics. For anyone who knows a lot about this, is there information that was omitted here that I should be aware of? Or should I indeed distrust these entire industries?
That's ridiculous. I'd expect all ads added by Spotify to be gone. They can't control the underlying content. I pay for YouTube premium, but the ads the creators put in their videos are still there.

When I watch a streamer on Twitch, they'll advertise. Then, the streamer will upload the video to YouTube. Who is responsible for getting rid of the ad?
Ignoring the fact that those two events were like 60 years apart :) But sometimes it takes a while before life gets good I guess.
Small nit: Maybe not say what YOU are doing, but what the COMMIT, when applied, will do. Git is not a personal work log, it's a source code change log. A commit may be a collaborative effort; it may be a squash of a thousand smaller commits; it may be a merge, it may be generated by a tool (like the dependencies), etc.

The commit should summarize what IT does, not what YOU did. In ten years, nobody will care who you are or what you did, but they will care what the code does and why.
TBH, that still doesn't make sense to me, but I don't really know much about how school libraries operate in Texas.

I found an example of what you were referring to though (thanks to @shankr linking to a relevant Twitter thread). [1]

[1]: https://www.granburyisd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&Dom...