skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) That is not the choice to be made. I don't think there are more than a small handful of scientists in the debate. Scientists tend to be much more circumspect about things, and don't come to consensus quickly enough to agree on the measures that were rammed through.

2) The scientists who are involved are unusually politically motivated. Most of the scientists I can name off the top of my head are in government (the likes of Fauci in the States or Kerry Chant of Australia. These people are in a position of arguing that their opinion should be given emergency power to decide ... most aspects of the social sphere. This is an excellent time to be looking beyond credentialism to actual arguments and trade offs. Without the "noble lies", please, lets make policy decisions based on facts.

3) I still haven't found anyone who can argue why the vaccine mandates aren't human rights abuses. We're talking the really basic stuff like right to work, right to assemble, right to religion, etc. I don't care who we listen to as long as they are arguing on the side of those basic freedoms. If Joe Rogan is arguing for those things, I'd rather people listened to him. Those concepts have a better track record than technocrats. We can worry about run-of-the-mill stupidity after we've dealt with the real risks here.
This seems to be worse than just having your girlfriend send you a DM on Discord. Discord will make a noise and show you a notification. Discord will also show you that you have an unread message where with this it's easy to miss (what's probably a LED) flash 6 times in 5.7 seconds.

Being able to attach a message also lets you get some context on what she may need. It might not be that urgent.
I'd like a citation for the claim that JavaScript animations are often faster than CSS animations. If it is true, it would be a very interesting read.
Someone who has access to Pegasus is not going after finances. I had modest amount of ethereum on my PC, was hacked, but I still had control over my wallet.

If you have $1M+ it should not be tied to your sim card, GMail account etc... If you use the same device to access your bank accounts, and to browse internet or receive messages, you are like an idiot who does not do backups!
>"yoga, spiritual, new age" people I know are BY FAR the most egotistical group of people I have ever met.

So much this. I think the problem is that they love talking about how enlightened they are to satisfy their narcissism.
This has been a blessing and a curse, hence their overuse. Which has seen a diminished effect, leading us towards a stage that we are running out of antibiotics that work. Hence an increase in bacteria that has (due to excessive exposure), become antibiotic-resistant.

Whilst this has been known for a long time, its an area of concern.

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> the sociopaths that hoard the IP behind the vaccines

Uhh... what? The Oxford vaccine (better known as AZ) is available for licensing for everyone interested [1], which the Serum Institute of India has done.

The problem with vaccine equity is not the patents question (Moderna also has announced to not prosecute any IP violations during the pandemic fwiw), the problem is that many poor nations lack the prerequisites of manufacturing high-quality vaccines: a stable electricity grid, political stability (last thing you want is a bunch of warlords or drug cartels quarreling over a vaccine factory), competent people to staff the factories, in case of mRNA vaccines delivery chains that can keep up with handling the storage requirements of the components...

[1]: https://innovation.ox.ac.uk/technologies-available/technolog...
When the only way to fully understand the result of going through the door is irreversibly going through the door and hoping for the best, it is not opt-in. You do not have an opt, you have a guess.
The meta-study you cite has quite bizarre conclusions. It basically states that isolation behavior is highly effective at preventing Covid deaths, but that lockdowns were a bad predictor of such behavior in people. But, they still seem to attribute huge economic impact to the lockdowns, not the pandemic and natural response (voluntary behavioral changes) to it.

Overall it seems that they would have been better served by adding lockdown compliance to their models, which would likely explain much of the difference. It's absurd to claim that lockdowns don't work when a country like Vietnam (100 million people, first detected cases of COVID-19 community spread outside China) had <100 total COVID-19 deaths in 2020. Strict targeted lockdowns, strict isolation requirements after every identified case, for contacts up to the third degree ( contact of someone who was a contact of someone who came in contact with a patient) - these all must have played a role, and any study that fails to explain such extreme success is simply flawed.
I find it really interesting that the author's example assumes that the read() and send() calls are the ones you need to worry about w/r/t exceptions. To me, the parse() call seems the most volatile -- what guarantees are there that the bytes you just read are parsable?

I usually code my programs assuming the system will work (reads/writes/sends). While I know this isn't guaranteed, it's a lot more likely my filesystem will work than that a file is assured to contain parsable data.
The worse is nearly no physician bother to read studies/papers.
My info was about the current Minutemen silos. I figured they were all the same.

The older missiles were liquid fueled, unlike Minuteman. Which means kerosene added when placed on alert, LOX added just before launch. Probably much simpler to have people do that on-site than try to automate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-65_Atlas#SM-65F_Atlas

And as to the (perhaps somewhat facetious) comment elsewhere in the thread that the Russkies might still have "2 nukes" pointed at this silo, there are currently 400 active Minuteman silos. I'm sure the Russians would rather target those than sites that were decommissioned in 1965.
Why don't you do investigations yourself instead of begging the question?

I mean. How many bottles are yote into the ocean? How many are found?/ And how many news outlets would love to publish stories like this? I mean, the other part here is that these found messages wouldn't get reported on before, or if they did, they'd be in local news instead of internationally accessible and googleable sources. Confirmation bias?
I thought it's strange that the article doesn't mention what kind of viruses it's talking about until halfway through. Of course, they wanted to keep the catchy "virus helps agains bacteria" headline, but they could have at least mentioned phages in the subheading. Strangely enough, the "title" attribute of the page is "Bacteriophage therapy: How a virus helped a woman survive [...]", but the first part seems to have vanished from the actual title of the article...
>Why did I read that first post of yours as so hostile? As someone who was actively trying to create mistrust?

I think this happens all the time - popular opinion swings far in one direction, criticisms then go in the opposite direction as disillusionment and problems get exemplified, again too far, back and forth, rediscovering the lessons of the past and settling down.
Electric cars do have motor; "motor" is literally "engine", the thing that converts energy to motion.

If your parlance uses it for the transmission, your parlance is wrong. It is like calling square a circle.
Smart completion is the first thing I remove or disable on any system I work on.

"Complete with a path on <tab>" is simple to understand and reason with and becomes second nature after working a lot in the shell prompt.

"Run a complex set of possibly incomplete/broken rules to come up with a string" is the exact opposite. Commonly bumping at "why isn't this command-line completing/is completing with something unexpected" just negates all benefits of <tab> sometimes working for stuff like git branches, long command-line flags, etc.
I still try to avoid Microsoft, although their opinions on Linux have changed (or atleast, they make it seem like they have), them paying analysts to make Windows look better than Linux, is quite scummy imo.
China’s SJ-21 ‘tugs’ dead satellite out of GEO belt
> i.e. a browser could just display a small standard icon in its UI notifying user that he's consenting to cookies

If you need to notify the user that he is "giving consent" then there is no consent.

> and another one notifying him that he's being redirected outside of the domain he's in

There is rarely a reason to redirect to other domains. The most common case is making outbound links go through a redirect for tracking purposes - and that I won't miss.
I wonder if they kept holding onto it for a good while because it was also an exercise in manual dexterity.

I mean it didn't work for me, my handwriting is still scribbled and anything but aesthetically pleasing, lol.
Someone just moving by 1 centimeter in the corridor next to me or coughing in any bedroom (if I don't wear my headset) will do.

OH, a bird at the window!!

I'm still able to concentrate. By the way, what was I doing already?
(more seriously, I can progress and I am able to get things done and recover from interruptions quite easily, but almost never focused at a point I can't notice what is going on around me. Which suits me well actually)
this. the point of sharing reproducible steps and not the experiment itself is that it can be fully reproduced independently. not just independently verify that the result show what the paper claims.
It's not just you. Stephen Hawking said that for each equation he included in A Brief History of Time, he would cut his readership in half.
Sure, if it is important to you? But I think there are also smart contracts/escrow services that require you to do additional things besides pushing "send".

The classic is for a trade, and the receiver has to confirm they received the stuff before the money is released.

Afaik "traditional" companies like ebay also struggle with that kind of thing.
It's not a very nice implementation. It creates a long key as long as the message by appending the key to itself as many times as necessary.

Could have just used a mod operator to cycle around the key.
There's one with Fauci doing the same XD

The Clown Timeline might have been the last Cold-War era weapon, a doomsday weapon.
I'm not sure if they fell out of fashion, or because people don't want to pay reasonable rates for them anymore.
Yeah, I got the same feeling.

Could also be a really bad employee :(
> This works well until your last resort brand just follows the trend.

For the most part, competition works well. If there are enough people who care about this issue, it will be worth it for a manufacturer to not follow the trend, to get those extra consumers.

If almost everyone else prefers this way, well, yeah, you're out of luck. But unfortunately, the world doesn't owe you anything. If you're the only one who cares about this, that's just unfortunate.

> For instance, I'd bet getting stick shift in a new car in 15 years would cost the price of a Ferrari

General issues aside, I'm surprised you think this. Driving stick has been around for dozens of years despite the invention of automatic transition. And in many countries in Europe, it's actually much more common.
For me, as a developer, Microsoft is a company with deep roots in compilers and operating systems. All of the business empire started from these two foundations.
Since its inception till today, Microsoft has been producing some global products every decade. And then making these products unbeatable in the global marketes.
Be it Windows, Office, Exchange, Developer tools & Compilers, Web Servers, XBox, Azure, Teams etc. You just name it and Microsoft is right there in almost every field with profitable products.
A lot of people don't like the traditional Microsoft products but all of the products just work and are being used for tens of millions of customers around the globe every day.
Any Software company with ability to create profitable products every decade is a killer company. That is the secret souce Microsoft has.

As a developer just imagine about a company which gives you a developer tool to make a web application, using the company's provided compiler, which then can be deployed on a company's provided webserver and can store some data on company's provided database which is running on company's provided operating system.

The company also happens to provide end-to-end tools for running a company of a 5 people to a company of 500,000 people.

This is Microsoft.
Building something to show her you care: priceless
Isn't this a case of multiplication being such a "well-known" function that the "inverse" defaults to "multiplicative inverse"?
But then the errors are only along the boundaries of a very large feature, which was originally designed for a less precise process.

Also, you could use the design files from before any compensation you apply (to compensate for lithography errors), and use those files to derive a new compensation.
A full bathroom includes four components: bathtub, shower, sink, toilet. A half bathroom is just a sink and toilet. A 3/4 bath is a bathroom without a bathtub. It's very common in shitty apartments.
Depends on the service, but I would think (ianal) if somebody publishes a smart contract and says "you can buy my house via this smart contract", then that person is the counter party, not the smart contract.

Of course you can burn your crypto and send it so some random contract. You can also take traditional money, go to the woods and burn it.
Probably when the tide turns, dragging the bottle out to sea, and when the wind is 'away' from the land towards the sea.
> Put it in neutral

I think you mean park

Putting it in neutral and letting off the break on a hill would end very badly
Not sure if "belief" is the right word.
> assuming the system will work (reads/writes/sends)

I encounter these issues quite commonly. Permissions, being in the wrong dir, buggy setup that forgot to create directories or copy files etc.

Isn't the `read()` and `send()` in rust concerned with those less-exceptional exceptions as well?
This code looks like it was written in 2004. Why aren't you using react and nodejs?
Bitcoin is not being manipulated. You may be confusing it with Bitcoin markets and Bitcoin trading. Nobody can conjure Bitcoin out of thin air or manipulate interest rates on it.
"The model generated totally different output every time you ran it, even with fixed seeds." - I remember seeing code takedowns of the model from anti-lockdown people who repeatedly cite this issue.

But there is a valid reason for this to happen, and it doesn't mean bugs in the code. If the code is run in a distributed way (multiple threads, processes or machines), which it was, the order of execution is never guaranteed. So even setting the seed will produce a different set of results if the outcomes of each separate instance depend on each other further in the computation.

There are ways to mitigate this, depending on the situation and the amount of slowdown that's acceptable. Since this model was collecting outcomes to create a statistical distribution, rather than a single deterministic number, it didn't need to.

The fact the model was also drawing distributions also will be why different runs produced possibly vastly different results. Those results would be at different ends of a distribution. Only distributions are sampled and used, not single numbers.

Regarding the GCSE level comment, my concern was the opposite, that the model was trying to model too much, and that inaccuracies would build up. No model is perfect (including this one) and the more assumptions made the larger the room for error. But they validated the model with some simpler models as a sanity check.

My view on criticisms of the model were that they were more politically motivated, and the code takedowns were done by people who may have been good coders, but didn't know enough about statistical modeling.

Here's John Cormack's take on the model, he saw and cleaned up the original version before it was released.
https://mobile.twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/125487236876...
You can try shifting the steering wheel a little right before you’re about to go. The car will sense it and attempt to restart the engine. That might give you a little more time to restart the whole car if it fails to restart automatically.

On another note, are you seeing significant gains in fuel economy while running on Eco-mode?
The mistakes were being pointed out very loudly at the time.
If you are navigating a complex folder structure, it's easy to start typing

> cd path/to/

and then realizing that you don't remember whether you need subdirectory1 or subdirectory2 next. With tab completion, you can just continue typing

> cd path/to/subdirectory1<tab><tab>

to check whether what's in there is what you're looking for. Without tab completion, you need to move to the start of the line, change "cd" to "ls", run that, go back up in the history, change "ls" to "cd" and continue from there. It's much more inconvenient.
For context, mathoverflow is for math professionals, that is, math degree and above, so high level mathematics. I wouldn't expect CS majors to know about topology, complex analysis, advanced algebra... But for math majors, these are common.
To become a millionaire, you have to get into a company where your equity will 10x or more.

Maybe if you want to be a millionaire at 25, but a career is longer than three years.

If you start at $150k, get a raise to $250k within 3 years, and $325k by 6—-$1 million net worth should be very very achievable before retirement.
Yes, Go templating is quite hard. There was a feature request[1] to implement the Django/Jinja2-like Pongo2 template engine[2], but got rejected because it would have been a too big change.

[1]: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/1359

[2]: https://github.com/flosch/pongo2
It’s not at all like in the dotcom days. Unlike SQL injections, these aren’t low skill attacks that can be mounted by skiddies.
Those little /ducks/ Amazon iot buttons are fun for this. I wired one up to their connect service to make a voice call. I would let my kids troll me with it or take it to work to clandestinely make calls to myself when it was advantageous to receive one.
> one derives from first principles every opinion they hold

But it's the only correct way, if credible studies contradict an official agency (more often it's the degree of the opinion where there is disagreement, not the opinion itself), my advice would be to trust the studies. For instance MRI contrast agents: the EMA banned most of them while the FDA did not, which is not the advice one would form by reading studies on the matter.
Yeah, forcing her to use Discord just to get his attention.
When are governments going to finally realize that voice calls, text, and maybe plaintext email are enough for work phones?

Is playing Candy Crush on your work phone really a mission-critical cyberpriority?

All the high-security executive/legislative people (at least in the US) have two phones: the personal phone and the work phone. Whoever made the decision for the work phones to be "smart" needs to be fired. The old dumb Blackberries could easily be resurrected if a government-sized buyer committed to a purchase.
The multiplicative inverse of a number n can be seen as the inverse of the function that multiplies its input by n. That is, the inverse of multiplication by n is multiplication by 1/n.

Similarly, the additive inverse of a number m is the inverse of the function that adds m to its input.
> The initial costs grows exponentially.

I understand that, but is this unavoidable? After all, the old designs don't need the precision of the advanced node, couldn't they (automatically?) translate their existing coarse designs and maybe produce masks more cheaply because a 40nm design doesn't need to be as perfect as a 7nm one?

I'm sure this is nonsense otherwise they would have done that already, I'm just interested in why.
LOL.

GF: "Hey, can you come have a look at this shirt I bought?"

Parent: "Yeah can you please file a JIRA ticket for that, and appropriately tag its priority? I'll get notifications through my regular workflow channels and this will enable me to respond to your requests in a more timely manner! Thanks!"
I believe they meant this comment; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30146319
I use a wife alert: She Never picks up her phone, that is until I use Home Assistant to flash the lights and have the Sonos say (via HA's tts): "Pick up the Phone!". Very handy.

I know a family where the kitchen table lights turn green when their (temporarily) disabled son needs something and he is upstairs. My mom used to hit the radiator pipes with her wedding ring for that (in the opposite situation).
As a person who served in the military, soldiers are pretty brainwashed to obey orders of their superiors for the benefit of the country. Not many soldiers behave rationally in the army, especially low ranking ones.
Nobody is forcing anyone to buy a new phone every year.

iPhone 5S, released more than 8 years ago, is still getting updates.
Another don't-miss museum for those inclined to appreciate this one is the Spark Museum of Electrical Invention in Bellingham: https://www.sparkmuseum.org/
I totally get these issues, and one definitely should be aware of them when designing a system. It just feels a bit weird to treat these as the points where exceptions emerge and not the parsing of input data.

Could totally be an artifact of the example that was chosen to prove a point, it's just what jumped out at me.
Python, JavaScript.
My experience with SSGs was a mixed bag. I like the concept, but integrating with a headless CMS requires too much coding and simple things like page preview is a pain to setup and use. The existing headless CMSs leave a lot to desire in terms of usability (although, Strapi is not bad).

Static site generation should be simpler. Currently it's over-engineered.
> who was part of the team who invented RNA-based vaccines.

Yeah, no: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w
I too have worked in academia, and in partnership with them over 3 deacdes, so seen how the sausage is made. So I understand and recognise some of your points. Still we can and should be pro-science; but recognise that science in academia is extremely political, and increasingly bending to marketing pressures and industry influence.

A big problem, as I see it, is the unwillngness of academia to engage in debate with the public. Whilst academics nowadays are supported and encouraged to engage in "outreach"; the nature of that is almost always in broadcast mode.

In the age of social media, science needs to learn how to communicate, and engage with non-tenured people asking good, evidence based, questions. Sure they get bombarded with abuse and crackpots, but that should not mean ignoring absolutely everybody that approaches them with reason and civility; as so often happens.

Trust is breaking down in society. Is there any wonder, when trust grows from interaction?
Fortunately, having discord running in the background will interrupt you another 1927329 times that day for equally important things
https://forum.makerdao.com/t/vault-compensation-plan-v2/3584...

Seems like it's a scam. Bunch of the participants are considering a class action suit.