skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If we had a 100% vaccination rate we'd be done.

For a vaccine that doesn’t confer sterilizing immunity and whose effectiveness wanes rather quickly? To say nothing of variants or the fact that this virus has animal reservoirs. Or the impossibility of vaccinating 100% of a population in the first place, nevermind in perpetuity.

“Ending it” was always a pipe dream.
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I've seen some of this. People were bitching about their MBs not lasting long enough: turns out they were skimping on the oil, using regular oil rather than the synthetic oil those engines need. Synthetic oil is a lot more expensive but it lasts much longer. But America likes its oil changes, every ridiculously low number of miles because they believe that is what will make their cars last, rather than to use quality oil to begin with.

MB engines are indestructible if treated properly, they routinely outlast the body of the vehicles, they have oversized oil pumps, use chains rather than timing belts (a common failure point) and in general are designed to last.

There is plenty wrong with MB, their electronics absolutely suck and don't get me started on their software or their over priced parts. But their engines are solid.
i think pinter pauses will always be a thing! it's up to the creator to decide what they're going for, certainly punchy dialogue and jump cuts have their place + i think with this UX we have, you can decide which pauses you want to keep
why not both? they literally ALREADY HAVE the excess of cheap power AND can conserve. This is a push for action on policy and incentives
> And generally arresting looters and rioters seems quite popular on both sides of the political spectrum.

I beg to differ. Any attempts to contain the mass violence were decried as "Trumpist fascism".
Nah, it would be best to use a custom piece of hardware that occupies a USB slot to store that data instead

Jokes aside, it's a fun and cool project to learn about microcontrollers
Same idea but a switch: https://hackaday.io/project/179539-hardware-boot-selection-s...
1. - Not OP, but I believe the moment you put some music/radio on speakers for other people to listen, legally, you become a broadcaster. You can't just play anything you want, you need a license :) I recall my last workplace mentioning they're paying a few thousands a year to stream just one radio station, same 20-30 songs 24/7...
> Anyone who has actually worked it research knows every field is filled with 10's of thousands of garbage research papers that are of no value, and that all the key work is produced by just a hand full of people. I remember also reading some researchers that looked at dozens of fields and breakthroughs and found the same thing. All the real work in any breakthrough is done by just 2 or 3 people at most. so this is incorrect, what I said is actually very provable.

In my experiences, the current system has led to problems with a small number of people "sucking up credit" that's unwarranted, in the sense that they're very very good at taking credit from others and building up a CV that makes it look like they're at the center of things.

In any event, I'm very skeptical of these things at this point based on my personal experiences. Usually progress is incremental and involves a lot of efforts from lots of individuals. Even bigger advances usually involve a confluence of things.

Bibliometric studies are often flawed because they make a lot of false assumptions and ignore realistic dynamics, with corruption and gaming of metrics.
> Advertising, by its nature, derives it's value from the sale of other goods.

You could say the same thing with about every other expense of running a business.
A lawyer for the movement gave a press conference today, saying approximately the following. Because it is complicated for GoFundMe to distribute funds to individual truckers, GFM is exercising heightened due diligence, as they should. Meanwhile, the movement is setting up a nonprofit company, with all the proper auditing and accounting mechanisms in place. Once everything is ready, GFM will distribute the money to a trust fund managed by the company, and truckers will issue claims against the fund.

Edit: link: https://rumble.com/vtz6fg-freedom-convoy-2022-press-conferen... starts around 5:00
What does it mean to think of the internet as a color?
My experience has been that such comments don't stop anyone. There is always one guy that ignores it for new projects.

https://genius.com/Weird-al-yankovic-dare-to-be-stupid-lyric...
If PIC programmers/debuggers didn't cost about the same as a months rent, or at least didn't use proprietary Windows-only drivers... I love PIC stuff too but jesus they make it hard to choose their stuff for hobby work.
That's a serious accusation to make without evidence. Anyone doing this would rightly face significant jail time.
They are free to consider that. As I said, I don't seek to argue against the article or debunk it or anything like that. The basis of my argument is not the article as a whole, the article can have its hypothesis, I'm not interested.
100% with you on greppability as an underrated design skill

interested in 'library versions as types' and have been thinking about this problem on and off. version numbers are a proxy for the combination of: 1) call signature, and 2) internal semantics

linters / typesystems are good at (1). If we had a system that could do (2), version numbers would be less necessary and compatibility could be proof-based. (Well, to the extent that the semantic assertions are valid).
There are many people of different colours at the protests. Do you paint them as nazi because someone had a flag? I saw a flag from Norway, is Norway suddenly behind this?
I’m always amused by mask mandates as regressing and “doing nothing for public health” as keeping calm.
One thing that pops out there though is the underrating of non-Western universities. Hungary has a history of producing scientific / intellectual talent, and it appears that Szeged is ranked #3 in Hungary, yet it's 712th globally. It would seem that the ranking list isn't very reflective of intellectual talent.

For an even more glaring example, even the best of the incredibly selective IITs don't make it into the top 500 in the US News global ranking list.
Those first three images seem pretty unequivocally using nazi imagery to critique Canada. So they aren’t Nazis, they are people complaining that Canada is acting like Nazis.

I haven’t followed this but have heard friends saying that Nazis are participating. I would expect that this means some Nazis were participating. But these images don’t show that.

The confederate flags just seem like jerks.
This would have backfired on one project I worked on. Near the end of the project I was asked to document the working of the DIP switches. I discovered that the settings were too complex, I couldn't document it in any way that would make sense to a user. But then I realized that they were being interpreted in software, and it was my software - I could make them do anything I wanted! So I wrote the documentation the way I thought made sense, then changed the software to match the documentation. If the switches had been labeled on the PCB it would have been too late for that.
Ignoring the question of if it's unlawful or not; mass arrests are kind of difficult to do, and mass towing is kind of difficult to do (and I don't know if tow truck drivers are aligned with those in the convoy, but they might be?). Neither of these things are without consequences, either. As long as the protesters are mostly peaceful and respecting property (which I think seems to be the case, but I haven't spent a lot of time looking into this), encouraging the group to disperse without use of force would probably have better outcomes than escalating the conflict with arrests or towing.
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> Google's main business is surveillance advertising, and they pay Apple for the privilege of surveilling their users and returning them advertising.

Not true. Google is accessed via a web browser or via their own app. Google doesn’t have to pay to access Apple’s users. They pay for Apple to make them the default search engine in Safari. In this way, Google is paying apple to advertise their service, but Apple isn’t doing any surveillance.

> I am sorry but I do not know what else to call it other than surveillance advertising.

Yes, Google’s business is surveillance advertising. To claim that Apple has a surveillance advertising business because they receive payments from Google, is no different from claiming that the company that supplies toilet paper to the Googleplex ‘has a surveillance advertising business.’

> I have plenty of other resources of information about this

If you had a resource that shows that Apple was doing surveillance advertising, you would have presented it by now. You obviously don’t.
I posted this and have no connection to Facebook, I even deleted my Facebook account

I saw it in a tweet, didn't even think of the react/Facebook connection

Sometimes coincidences are just coincidences
A good place to start with cloud savings is just knowing what is out there. I built CloudOptimizer.io [1] for this purpose, aggregrating 10 cloud providers in one place.

Running it as a free, hobby project.

[1] https://cloudoptimizer.io
Strange, is it a re-publishing of an older article?

The date says February 2nd, 2022, and some references are from 2021.

But the component diagram is an old-style UML component diagram, that most of the "Agile/Scrum" devs today will not even understand.

Is there a better version with the readable diagrams?
That's fair enough! We're definitely not trying to build for everyone and it's good you have solutions set for yourself. Our proposition is simply to have a place to share/broadcast to the different sets of people in your life, away from social media.

In that, chat apps are great but are not designed for sharing individual updates, without running several different conversations & dealing with notifications.

Appreciate the feedback though & hopefully we'll develop into something that can gets you excited.
I don't know that much about German immigration, but many European countries are harder to get residence in than the US. Also, most people in HK speak at least some English but hardly anybody speaks German. I doubt it would be much of an "easier go" except for people working in high paid jobs in desirable fields (who would probably go to the US or Canada).

It's not that special of a case. For as much as people in the US complain about their government, most of the world is much worse.
Who paid an actor to wave a swastika?
You're talking about Duolingo, right? The problem with these incentives is you eventually forget you installed the app to learn a new language and you start gaming the system instead by repeating easy lessons just to avoid losing your position in diamond league.
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To the folks saying that web3 is inherently bad, keep in mind that in the 90s the internet was looked at by many as a scary place full of scammers and trolls.

Scams happen because of humans. They are not unique to any particular technology.
"Apple’s App Store does a lot to protect me." You can still have that by only installing apps from the App store, no? While I can sideload app from any website I trust. And someone else can install a whole different store they trust. I don't see how it affects your protection in any way.
The big problem is timing, if your neighbour's solar panels were at peak output in the night and yours in the day, the credit system works.
Ahh ha, this is like when I say a Scotsman was rude to me and someone else informs me that it must not have been a true Scotsman, then
So you arrest them all.

Now they can’t drive away the <N> trucks in downtown Ottawa. You just exhausted all your leverage with them when you decided to throw the book at them.

You call a tow truck driver. They say “I don’t have a class 3 tow truck, there’s no way I can move a semi.”

You call a class 3 tow truck driver. They know they’re risking their reputation with the trucking industry, so they refuse. If they’re the trolling sort, they say they have COVID.

Now what? There’s a lot of mess to clean up, and you don’t have the equipment you need to do it.
We read different literature:

https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/uk-now-reports-myoca...

based on this Nature paper

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0.pdf

"Yes, sorry to break it to you, vaccines can have risks of myocarditis EXCEEDING risks of myocarditis from infection. Pls stop saying otherwise."
Don't get it twisted: the CIA disguised its spies as polio vaccine administrators[1]. We could have eradicated the virus had the medical staff not been weaponized.

1. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/05/20/314231260...
> I don't believe they can keep it up.

People have been saying this for a year, with every new variant, yet China has been perfectly capable of keeping CoVID-19 under control and 98% or more of the country open. Contact tracing, mass testing and the other measures China uses work.

> And more importantly, why?

Because the risks of letting CoVID-19 spread in China are poorly known but potentially massive.

Looking outside China, the US is currently going through its 2nd most lethal CoVID-19 wave. There are more deaths per day now than there were at the height of the Delta wave.

It's prudent to wait and continue to assess the situation, rather than gambling with public health, as most countries are doing. China is able to do so.

> If very few people get seriously ill, why are economically destructive policies justified. I've felt that way from the beginning of the pandemic.

Well, first of all, China has had better economic performance than any other major country during the pandemic. One of the reasons is that it has spent far less time under lockdown or with restrictive social distancing measures than most countries. That's because it quickly eliminated the virus. International travel is affected, but factories can run normally, people can go to work in person, public venues are open, etc.

Second of all, if China had responded the same way as Europe and the US, it is likely that around 4 million people would have died in China. That's not "very few people."
I think you are spot on. Cryptocurrencies grew very fast to capture the market. They had no time to apply formal methods. But now they are rushing to do so. There are many job offers in the formal methods, a market that was previously close to zero, and they come mostly from blockchain projects.

Formal methods have been limited to industries that are very conservative and where code moves slowly. I used them in railway systems and real-time systems for avionics, more than a decade ago. Finding jobs out of that area was not easy.

I'm hoping that advances in synthesis, thanks to mixing DL transformers and the already great SAT/SMT solvers, help making formal methods less costly to apply and much more popular. here are lots of interesting and practical ideas in refinement types (e.g. Liquid Haskell), theorem proving (e.g. translators from OCaml to Coq), etc. that would benefit a lot from automation.
I'm not sure it would, as the article seems to say that Sonos requires an ADTS container for the AAC audio, which YouTube doesn't offer. So the app takes an MP4 container, filters its contents to find the AAC audio blocks, then repacks them in an ADTS container.
> At least where I live, many government grants are only available to people who have also managed to get private industry funding for their work too.

Grants like that are rare, because there is very little industry funding for basic research. Private funding usually comes from various trusts and foundations that operate in similar ways to government funding agencies.

> I remember also reading some researchers that looked at dozens of fields and breakthroughs and found the same thing. All the real work in any breakthrough is done by just 2 or 3 people at most.

Alexander the Great didn't win battles on his own. He needed a lot of soldiers for that. Similarly, scientific breakthroughs are meaningless on their own. You need a massive amount of grunt work by ordinary researchers to connect them to the real world and make them useful.
One can listen to the organizers directly to find out who they are and what they want:
https://rumble.com/vtp2lw-freedom-convoy-organizers-press-co...
You may agree or not agree, but as an added bonus you'll learn something about the economics of the trucking business.
Appreciate this, thanks! The points you've made here hit the nail on the head for taking the choices we have.

Would love to chat about your current social usage and what you would expect from us in a way that you'd be happy to pay for. Can get me via email at james@oncircles.com if you'd be up for chatting!
I have a question since I am not in the US: is net metering based on paying for the difference between consumed and produced energy (kWh), or between the prices of consumed and produced energy?
Most people on EB-2 also qualify for EB-3, so the EB2 and EB3 numbers should be averaged out. Instead of 244 and 32 for 2022, perhaps it should be ~140 for each column. Not that it matters, of course.
I cut costs of AWS by 99% by not using AWS at all
The IAM policy shown on the website allows sts:AssumeRole without any restricting on resources or conditions which will be a deal breaker for many. Presumably you can restrict this to certain AWS principals?
Scientists are building an AI-powered robot to take apart your old phone
Well one thing you can do is try to figure out the approx. carbon output of those extra panels and buy trees to help remove an equivalent amount from the atmosphere so you can offset the carbon output. Of course you are spending money doing this and one must consider the carbon emitted in the process of earning that money. Depending on his circumstances this could be very little or none.
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For me the airtags are really useful for keys/wallet. They aren't stolen but are just lost. I somewhat agree that the rest of the solution needs to come from government since Apple has done their best to prevent abuse but it isn't possible.

It should be a serious crime to track someone without their knowledge. Something that police take seriously.
> something like 10 privately funded American universities make more scientific breakthroughs

You are mistaking privately owned universities for privately funded. Scientists in privately owned American universities still mostly apply and receive funding from public (federally owned) funding agencies.
I was thinking of putting the text file on a USB memory stick, so you could continue to waste the USB port. You could probably pick up an old obsolete one for less than the BOM of this project.
Cancelling has made me more deliberate about my purchases, which I think has been a net positive. There's a reason why every retailer wants to decrease friction in purchases and sometimes that little bit of friction is a good thing for your wallet.
What gets me is the way that people will see a picture of a swastika and immediately brand everyone involved as a racist, but then turn around and say that any wrongdoing that happened during a protest for a cause they do agree with was just a couple of bad apples who had nothing to do with the movement. Does that really only happen on one side?
Once you take the emotional factor out of theft, it's basically solved by the concept of insurance. Just replace your things, and you should be mostly whole again.
I'm not a semiconductor engineer, but one of the problems with this approach is that modern chips are significantly more "3D"; they have tons of layers in them, and you also got stuff like finfets etc to deal with. You can see some of that in here https://www.extremetech.com/computing/193200-intels-14nm-bro...
Methane emissions by oil and gas industry detected from space
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Hacking doesn't just refer to security vulnerabilities and unauthorized access.

"A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who uses their technical knowledge to achieve a goal or overcome an obstacle, within a computerized system by non-standard means."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker
I haven't seen anything comparing the two yet, but I would be interested in seeing that.

I'll note that in general, I have seen studies indicating that the risk of both MIS-C (linked in GP) and long-covid[1][2] are decreased when comparing vaccinated/unvaccinated post active infection. I've also seen reports that those unvaccinated who experience long-covid sometimes see reduced / cleared symptoms after subsequent vaccination.[3] We also know that antibody titer levels seem to be correlated with a reduction in infection, which is why when those begin to fall off we see more breakthrough infections. And finally we know that building long term T and B cells tends to see a quicker, more effective immune response, both of which should be created post-vaccination.

Given that, I would speculate that vaccination is likely to reduce overall proliferation of cell infection (including directly infecting cardiac tissue via the ACE2 receptors) via having more free-floating antibodies in your system, and is likely to reduce the overall immune-mediated inflammatory response to the virus as it can respond more quickly before the virus has had a chance to proliferate as much. Both of these (reduced inflammation, reduced cell infection) should reduce the risk of myocarditis as a result of infection. And I would speculate that that tracks with other observed reduction of symptoms of infection (MIS-C, long-covid).

Again, speculation on my part; I would definitely want to see studies to confirm or refute that.

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[1]: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

[2]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.05.22268800v...

[3]: https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/vaccines-long-covid
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> I sincerely hope the people who devised this vaccine know what they are doing.

I think we all hope this. I can say that I sincerely believe the people who devised the vaccine know a hell of a lot more than just about anyone else on the planet.

I don't trust experts in economics or socio-politics, but I do trust experts in virology. Not to say their information is perfect, but they know so much more than other people in a field where expertise is connected to outcomes.
You mention webstorm and while I'm not familiar with it are you by any chance working on JS or other dynamic codebases?

I've tried a few dynamic languages and I Just. Can't. Do. It. Everything seems so painful and slow. The way my brain works is I scope out the types and then use intellisense to fill in the gaps.

I can absolutely fly through code when I'm not keeping a bunch of useless context in my head but put me in a language without a strong IDE and type system and I'd produce little.