skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think about the convenience often, but then I'm reminded of the human toil that has to happen to get me my convenience.

Though I do have a pharmacy in walking distance so it's not much effort for me.
My rural home never uses more than 4kW (and even that's rare), so under 20 amps. I can't imagine needing 400A supply without building a machine shop or something.
This seems super pointless but fun.
Yes you are right but put yourself in the shoes of the people who vote for these anti-immigration policies. Decade after decade of decline does not give them the freedom to care if some startup that they may never hear of gets created in one of them "coastal elite" cities.

All they see is probably what they watched on the TV show Silicon Valley or what they hear in the news. I fully believe that if things were improving for them, they would be welcoming immigrants with open arms (or at least not minding them). However that is not the case. So in an environment where there isn't abundance but scarcity, it is a zero sum game.
So...let everyone else get vaccinated and fix it, not me?
In Netflix's case they don't even need that, the content will be coming from an OpenConnect cache in their premises.
One of my favorite "dead tech" memories is from when I worked as a CAD operator for an engineering firm in the late 1980s, where we had a half-dozen AutoCAD workstations and a Roland pen plotter that used a large roll (several hundred feet long) of feed paper. In AutoCAD, you could sometimes fat-finger your work and kick a drawn entity way out into coordinate space without noticing it.
As such you always needed to do a zoom extents every so often (and definitely before plotting it) to make sure you didn't have your own little Nemesis object lurking out in the dark.

My co-worker neglected to do this one time and casually sent the document to the plotter to be drawn. When the plotter reached the entity way out in coordinate space, you heard the click-thunk of switching pens and then a high pitched whine as the plotter started rapidly spooling out paper to draw it. I've never seen anyone move so fast as he dove to reach the plotter power switch before
all the paper scrolled off the spool and onto the floor.

Plotters were state of the art back then but they have pretty much disappeared without a trace. I think the technology has been somewhat repurposed to make vinyl sign cutters, they are basically a plotter with a cutting blade attached instead of a pen.
I mean, OK, sure, but even Milstar Block I (mid-1990s tech) had a crosslink capability. And Milstar has already been folded into the the AEHF program, and the ESS program is already on track to replace AEHF.

It's a bit like saying "a bicycle is different from an automobile, because automobile frames are made from wood", and then pointing to a Morgan to prove the point.
Maybe something like this (aimed more at journalism, but the virtual space is still impressive): https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/18/21184041/minecraft-librar...
Some people pay annually for a small discount.
What GoFundMe offers is a platform, easy place to fundraise for cause XYZ. Anyone can create a site and accept donation through crypto, but without the platform, it's a bit harder.

Also the biggest problem here is that the people fundraising weren't saying what they would do with the money, it's unclear if they were even part of the organizing committee or authorized to fundraise on their behalf.
Couldn't have said it better. When I had multiple smart people I knew in real life yelling what amounts to word salad at me about how I'm so misguided and horrible for asking basic questions about the data... ...that is when I knew this whole thing was gonna last a long time and devolve into a complete shitshow. If people were allowed to express critical opinions and the general public was made aware of the actual numbers regarding covid risk we would have never done any of the things we did over the last two years.

These anointed "experts" still have not told people to chill the fuck out about covid and children. We have two years of publicly available data saying they are at virtually no risk. Yet the CDC and Fauci both act like covid is some kind of grave danger to children.

Dig deep enough into most of the pro-"what we've done"'s arguments and they are nothing more than thinly disguised appeals to authority.
I have an annual subscription that renews in March
I'm not a lawyer, but this reads like offering shares in a private company. No matter how you knock this up, a corporation or individual ends up with ownership and control in the real world. You need a real-world way to enforce whatever they promise, which is either through civil law via contract or criminal law via fraud.

All crypto is is a signature on a document. These documents are not guaranteed to hold up in court, especially when there isn't good case law around whatever you invented to get around existing laws.
The quote I posted was contemporaneous with the quote from the parent comment, which claims Fauci prepped us for 50% VE but he later claimed herd immunity was possible which afaik implies far greater than 50% VE.

The parent comment asked "who sold these ideas [that vaccines prevent transmission] to the general public?" From the quote I posted, it certainly seems like Fauci did.

Is there something I'm missing here?
I completely agree. I don't think you can fully replicate this experience remotely.

I am just trying to imagine what you need to do to get as close as possible. Maybe I make this a project happen if I end up with something actionable. Maybe these ideas inspire someone else, maybe they fade away into memories and do very little.

I love the it doesn't matter what you choose you can check it out part. I think it would be really important to have a filter where all the books the kid can see, the kid can have right now. This of course could be disabled by older kids that understand sometimes there is a wait but I think for the younger kids this would be an important detail.

I don't want to replace libraries, I want to make it so every kid that has access to the internet on some device or gaming platform can get 30% of that experience. Or whatever is possible.
This could be useful for conferencing on the go. Toggle switches for webcam, mic, mute, uhh...different channels?
"Simpson's paradox, which also goes by several other names, is a phenomenon in probability and statistics in which a trend appears in several groups of data but disappears or reverses when the groups are combined. "

In this case, the effect when the data is separated out is that AP is only marginally safer. When they are combined, it appears to be significantly safer.

I'd say this isn't a case of simpsons paradox at all.
Really well said, thank you.

I think the lesson here is that one shouldn't listen either to antivax grifters or to greedy pharma execs who oversell their products because of the enormous incentive to do so, whether it be vaccines or Alzheimers treatments. The best approach is to listen to what real scientists who actually understand the subject say, but that does take patience and a willingness to invest time.
My elementary school had a unit (I think in third or fourth grade) where each student made and illustrated a book, which was then bound by the librarians and temporarily added to the school library's collection, on a special shelf (for books by current students). Other students could check it out during the school year, and I think there was even an assignment where you were expected to check out one other student's book and give some kind of report or presentation about it!

At the end of the year, you got your own book back to keep.

This was a really great school project.
Just found this today, works very well and lets me play any audio from my linux system through sonos
No they're not.

A) there's more vaccinated in hospital per capita of late. Why aren't we demanding lockdowns again instead of just blaming the "unvaxxed" still

B) the unvaxxed still aren't allowed into many places, yet the virus spreads readily

C) Why, rather than just "argh unvaxxed lepers!" are we not guiding better health and wellbeing instead?

D) a covid case is counted when people are in hospital for any other reason and catch it

E) you are counted as unvaxxed during the two week window after getting vaccinated, which is exactly when your immune system is weaker and succeptible to catching a bad case of covid. Interesting how hard it is to find this data, you'd think it would be strongly monitored
They shift to reserved instances, not spot instances.

It'd be hard for a service provider to shift their customers instances to spot instances unless the customer could tolerate the spot instances being shut down on short notice, and if they can, that customer may as well just use the spot instances themselves.

Worst case, this will increase usage of reserve instances and reduce on-demand usage, but AWS priced them accordingly, so they don't care
The landscape is far from a monopoly: Costco and Wal-Mart provide strong competition for Amazon retail, and Azure is competing well with AWS too.
For sure. I feel like I've gotten my $25 worth of entertainment just from following all the drama for over a decade. If you have a few hours to kill, Sunk Cost Galaxy is a great rundown of how SC got to where it is today. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7SIP0NDfM2yyHKfRmCAociCc...
Amazon has a $31B a year advertising business
While we can argue about what are the boundaries for human rights in 1st world countries, it's important to know there have been some very strict and harsh policies regarding Covid in different parts of the world.

In Quebec where I live, the unvaccinated are now barred from entry in large retail stores like Walmart and Costco. If you don't have your vaccine passport with you that shows you're vaccinated in these places, then you can't enter, even for groceries.

There was curfew in place that prevented everyone from being outside during the evenings and nights for the most part of January.

On top of that, the prime minister said publicly in the media that the unvaccinated would start paying an additional tax, even though health care is supposed to be free and accessible for everyone here. The government just backtracked about this the last couple of days.

A lot of these policies are extreme and have shown to be completely incoherent and not backed by science, given what we know about the virus since the last couple of months.
Fertilizing crops. Prices for fertilizer have spiked due to insufficient supply, though I'm not familiar with the cause of the shortfall. There are a number of inputs to fertilizer production, and issues anywhere in the chain can create problems.

China is also limiting exports. It's going to be rough for developing countries: https://www.wsj.com/articles/farms-are-failing-as-fertilizer...

Fun fact: the Haber-Bosch process is responsible for something on the order of 30%-50% of the nitrogen in your body. At some point in the recent past, they were pulled from the air and used to create ammonia at an ammonia production plant.
Good excuse to use the pretty rainbow switches.
hiding cat5e in proprietary connectors is low.
We cancelled once for about 6 months. We missed it. You never realize how many little things you buy are only available on the internet, and a couple of bad customer service experiences made me really appreciate Amazon.
You can cancel at any time, and receive a pro-rated refund if you paid in advance.
No, the numbers do matter, your modification doesn't.

> Sure but think about if a particular setting is used by a 49.9% of the user base but takes up 0.01% of the real estate and confuses 50.1% of users that have no idea what it is and no intention of ever using it.

;-)
Both Google and Apple have their own podcast players that collect what you listen to.
> Open web, decentralization, privacy/tracking, advertising in general, right to repair, walled gardens, Google shutting down projects. Just off the top of my head, these are a bunch of topics on which HN threads take the form of advocacy rather than discussion or curiosity.

Why would discussions about those topics go any other way? The options are well known, and have well-understood pros and cons. It's not surprising that most people have made up their minds.

I mean, do you think it's realistic that thread about, say, Soviet-style central planning to proceed with "discussion or curiosity," like it was some new, fresh idea?
osu!stream is a pretty good free one on iOS, but unfortunately they're done updating it.
Written by yours truly for Chris's website.

https://chrisreining.com/calculators/
Yes, but you can still cancel at any time and get a refund.
5.287 acres fwiw. I hope they add some of these details.
> If people didn't understand that it is because they didn't want to.

"Listen to the experts". The experts never said any of that. Nor did the media. Critical thinking has been shunned the last two years. I mean you can think critically but lord help you if you say what you think online or in person. It's the in person bullying that is the worst, by the way.
There can be more than one answer!

The New York Marathon has a number of different selection criteria to handle different kinds of priorities: getting the world's fastest runners (qualifying marathon results), getting local runners (provide proof of residency), and raising money (let some people just buy their way in via auction).

Here's a nice podcast on their system:
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/03/793488868/episode-962-advance...

But we could certainly imagine similar for research funding; different paths for rewarding known-good horses, innovative project ideas, etc.
AI Narrative Device Tool
That's a well-written hit piece by Scott Alexander.
This isn't big tobacco of old who transparently lie.
This article gives short biased summaries of all papers, and leaves out all the good results of many papers. Even well run studies, like Chaccour, that shown stat sign reduction in cough and ansomnia in only N=24, he spins as a negative result. And the Italian study that just barely misses stat sig reduction in viral load - well he doesn't tell you that, does he?

Scott also believes the benefit from IVM is because of worm reduction. The Ijatai study with >120k subjects is an area of Brazil with no worms, proving that is transparent nonsense.
Honestly the point was to demonstrate the declining standard of living of Americans. I could have also brought up the stat that the majority of bankruptcies in the US are medical related.

[1]:https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/this-is-the-real-reason-most...
How is paying for medical treatments standing up to a government? It's perfectly legal to do that.
> That's a fair perspective. For my part, I felt pretty consistently when I lost an ITB run that I deserved it— I hadn't lost to a heartless RNG, I had lost because I made a wrong choice, and the scenario would have been beatable if I'd made different tradeoffs.

....which has absolutely nothing to do with achievements? I agree, the game design was fine in this regard, it is the gating of unlocks behind arbitrary objectives relying on luck that I have a problem with[0]. If they just gated each team behind beating the game with a previous team I wouldn't have complained.

[0] Specifically, unlocking certain characters relied on luck based events, as did even having an attempt at some of the achievements. All achievements need to be unlocked for the final team, which I never got because fuck that noise.
I think this section is calling for a more diversified portfolio of ideas.

There's certainly a lot of fad-chasing in biomedicine. There are strong incentives to flock to the latest technique (RNAi, optogenetics, single-cell-seq, organoids) or stick close to an established hypothesis (beta-amyloids for Alzheimer). It might better if there were some countervailing incentives to stick with older techniques, or break away from established dogma. For example, optogenetics has been a very powerful tool for understanding the brain, but it also means that we've moved away from many animal models in favor of mice, where the tools are most tractable. As a result, we know more about brains that are, in some ways, less relevant to human health. A-beta, on the other hand, has been an absolute tire-fire and the field should have shifted ages ago.

The NIH tends not to 'steer' the field in particular directions, but they could. DARPA programs, for example, sometimes explicitly fund several competing ideas to see if a clear winner emerges.

On top of all that, we should also be building a workforce of diverse researchers.
Ultimately we all need food, shelter, clothing, and other things of decreasing necessity. The way we get those things is to trade something of value; few of us are capable of producing everything we need by ourselves. We all have different talents and abilities, but most of us find something to do that produces value for someone else. So that we don't have to directly trade e.g. eggs for a plumbing repair, we invented money so that the value we each produce could be abstracted into something that is acceptable in trade for anything else we need.

Money is an abstraction for the value of productive work. We must each produce enough value that we can trade it for the things we need. It's also why univeral income will never work. If money is given to someone in exchange for nothing, it is worth nothing.
> someone should tell all the old people who get flu shots every year

What we call the flu is not a single virus that comes once a year. It's different types of virusses each time, and the flu vaccine targets the most likely candidates of that year. So no, you don't generally get REinfected with the flu, because it's a different virus. Some of the virusses that we consider 'the flu' are actually corona virusses, and perhaps covid19 will join that list as it becomes endemic.
I don't really want to get into the weeds here, but when you take a step back and squint a little bit it's hard to tell if this message was written by someone complaining about Canadian Truckers or about the 2020 Summer riots. Maybe let's lean a little more towards letting people express themselves and not bringing in the people with guns?
yes, an exchange would hold similar power if fiat was desired at all, but it wouldn't prevent the crowdfunding from taking place. and because the crowdfund would still occur, the recipient can find an exchange or trade desk that would do the trade for fiat. right now, fiat crowdfunding sites are acting as the platform and exchange while being beholden to a payment processor behind the scenes. in the crypto model, the platform is just a GUI over something that can be interacted with either way, and the exchange is separate and optional.

so because there are trillions of dollars in crypto value already and many individuals already own that crypto, they would just collect from them to their own address or smart contract. websites just become GUIs for helping that and are also optional. then if fiat is actually desired for the cause, they can call any random trade desk and do a big order for fiat and have cash in the organization's bank account. for their supporters that don't already own crypto, it would be some friction for them to acquire it, but forget about those people and don't view how it would work from their perspective as the main perspective.
That’s only true in a nominal sense. Money right now is worth more than money in the future. Money spent on reserved instances is money Amazon has right now, whereas net AWS spend from spot instances is money in the future.

How much money right now is worth more varies, but Amazon knows best here and prices accordingly.
No I did, just not sophiscated to understand all of that. My basic understanding is that they put something in the piece of software that users should absolutely not touch, that's why I asked why it absolutely has be there.

That is, is there any chance that they can remove it from the hand of users without damaging the usability of that piece of software. The other commenters mentioned that support engineers may use it, so that answered my question.
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...which does consider the quality of the podcast and that of the app to be separable issues.
As an American that is (involuntarily) more concerned with the weather right now than Canadian politics…

What makes it unlawful?
An in house recruiter may be the way to go. Good news is that you don't have to hire them full time. I've worked with a few in house recruiters that work part time for several different companies.

As a candidate I much prefer to work with in house recruiters. Like you said the agencies just want to put people in front of companies in order to try and get paid. I gone on so many interviews that were just a waste of time, all because the agency recruiter sold me a bill of goods.

The in house recruiters get paid either way, so they are more concerned about find a good fit for the company.

I personally don't even bother replying to the agency recruiters any more.
Sure, I don't go to libraries to find anything about code or even computers. I go to find old fantasy series and enjoy the physicality of the library.

I would say the internet is almost always better at everything non-fiction for adults. But I am talking about 4-8 year olds here mostly, and by extension anyone older that wants some of the library experience.
I'm confused. Weren't covid mRNA vaccines very effective at preventing infection, even asymptomatic infection, against delta and earlier variants? Only with omicron has the effectiveness been significantly reduce, but not to zero. And once we come up with a variant-specific vaccine, I would expect the effectiveness to go up again.
Would be nice if they were a little more transparent about these numbers instead of being incredibly vague. Salaries in Vancouver have not kept up with housing costs.
In the United States, they are currently paying traveling nurses up to $10k per week. That is a 500% increase over normal pay. It's so bad that the Texas legislature and Congress are trying to limit interstate commerce and impose wage caps. These gigs are not hard to come by - anyone qualified can easily get them.

If that doesn't say "understaffed and overwhelmed", I'm not sure what evidence would.
> that they will end the pandemic.

And that they will prevent the appearance of mutated strains.

Or the corollary that the appearance of mutated strains is to be blamed on people being unvaccinated, either because they don’t have vaccines or don’t want them.
They'll just refund it back, that's the standard policy. It's not stolen.
> unlawful protest

Please, give me examples of what you'd consider "lawful" protests of any significance.
Tesla recalls over 800k vehicles for seat belt chime problem
No they're more like airbags. The don't stop the accident but they do make it immensely more survivable.

It's amazing how much we've forgotten about how vaccines and immunity work over the last couple of years.
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What swastikas?
The 70's were 50 years ago.

Back then we barely had seat belts, let alone airbags, adaptive cruise control, automated braking in case of collision, blind spot detectors, etc.
IMO, the headline is a boring and editorialized take on the situation. Even when the data is normalized in this way, active safety only is 55 crashes per 100M miles and AP is ~42 crashes per 100M miles in the most recent quarter.

While the most recent quarter could be an outlier, some other quarters show a similarly dramatic difference.
I would love it if my local library had a section dedicated to local amateur authors. I want my boys to see that being an author is not some huge gap. You don’t need a fancy book making machine or publisher. Just write and share.