skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This is how science is meant to work."

It's really not.

You seem to be talking about COVID science in general, but this specific WHO debate is something else. Regardless of which way you slice things, it's colossal incompetence and/or mendacity:

1. Either the changes being proposed for Germany and Sweden in the WHO report are correct, in which case the WHO published a report with extremely basic mistakes in it and then realized "immediately" that they had got it all wrong. These wouldn't be "science is hard" type errors, they're "we have no idea what we're doing" type errors, like using the wrong figures or not extrapolating a curve correctly.

2. Or (seems equally plausible), the original report is reasonable and the criticisms are politically motivated. The article admits that they immediately "re-checked" their work because "some critics used the report to criticize Germany's pandemic policy". Then they decided that their scaling factors were not only wrong but shouldn't have been used at all yet they don't explain this.

The Nature article doesn't seem to give the people who made the original decisions much of a chance to explain themselves. We're left to assume it was Wakefield who did this but he also doesn't explain the sudden change of heart over scaling nor where those numbers came from or why they were used. Nature just presents what they did as objectively wrong, but it's all just modelling. So Wakefield decides that he doesn't like the fact that lockdown sceptics were using his report and rewrites its conclusions. Why is the WHO report adjusting the death figures reported by national governments to begin with? That would be interesting to know, but he doesn't explain and nor does Nature. He just discards the scaling factors and then asserts his new work is correct now (why should we believe this?).

Almost certainly Wakefield and friends don't like the original methodology because it makes Sweden look good and Germany bad. It's predictable "scientists" would attack anything that reports these outcomes because they've been doing that for two years. Sweden proves beyond doubt that lockdowns were a terrible disastrous error by our expert classes, their great death figures make the whole thing immediately obvious. Bad modelling is the primary tool public health people use to control politicians and populations, and they will happily play with models until the data says Sweden was a bloodbath and Germany saved the world.

"it doesn't alter science of excess mortality one bit to me, that it happened."

It should! You have a group of people who went through multiple rounds of review, then adjusted their methodology immediately after publication for what appears to be political reasons. Clearly this stuff is more like opinions than facts.
Huh, first time I've seen that instruction. Thanks!

Does seem that it converts its arguments first, though?

> The FIMUL instructions convert an integer source operand to double extended-precision floating-point format before performing the multiplication.

(Via https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/fmul:fmulp:fimul)

In addition, I thought compilers tended to avoid the x87 FPU registers nowadays?
Elon Musk tells Tesla employees: Return to the office, or else
It required very little effort to get the ~130 coach rate though, the biggest price knob seemed to be booking far enough in advance.

What was far more challenging was getting a "trainside checked bike" ticket. The Amtrak web site just kept saying sold out for the +bike option no matter what I tried. But I had no trouble getting the same rate +bike when I went to the SAC station IRL and spoke to a ticketing agent. Apparently my problem was ending the trip at NPV instead of CHI, because NPV can't handle checked bikes. The web site is awful WRT +bike tickets. Maybe this will prove helpful for anyone reading wanting to go ride some distant trails via Amtrak.
Diogenes de-bones a chicken, rendering it an invertebrate.
Doing my second read through of the Water Knife. A book I recommend as good near-future dystopia. Pulls heavily from Cadillac Desert...
> When your trips are drive-across-the-country

Good thing I do well less than 1 of those on average every year, along with practically every other passenger car in America.

Is driving from San Diego to New York City really a common thing people do here? Is that what the average driver does on a weekly basis? Is that really what we should be targeting our cars to do?
> I don't want to go from employed generalist to contractor generalist.

Ah, then you'll want to specialize. I've seen this work for many folks and I did to some extent (definitely got egg on my face because I thought "<new tech X> can't be hard to learn, I'll just accept this contract and pick it up". Narrator: <new tech X> was indeed hard to learn).

If you are looking to specialize, I can't recommend Amy Hoy's work enough: https://stackingthebricks.com/ The team there has a ton of articles, books and whatnot to help you find the focus you need.
VsVim is the only plugin I have, and perhaps it's slowing things down that badly, but that would be surprising to me.
Man, Toyota is totally pulling a Sears here. They’ve been the leader in hybrids for decades and it wouldn’t have taken much to gradually parlay that into EV’s.

Instead they keep doing this bizarre hydrogen fixation.
Gave me a ticket 1/5
The mGBA PC emulator supports running the Game Boy Camera ROM and passing video from a webcam or from a still image you select. I think some GB emulators on Android also support this, but I haven't tried them.
Things nobody tells you about preselling your product
Also a lot of oral test was used at the time, which as we know now is danger. Hepatoconverted hormones turn your insides into granuloma pate'. Even these days people are taking stuff like Methyltest to the point of having liver pain, which they supplement with tudca, milk thistle, etc.
I don't compare software engineers and scientists by the same metrics. The important thing about a code review request is that it contains everything required for me to reproduce the effects of the code change in my own hands. Science does not require that- instead, the methods is typically the "least descriptive and helpful representation of what was done" (especially in the case of very complex biological experiments) and can't be reproduced with nontrivial effort.

BTW I've definitely gone into code reviews assuming the programmer lacks basic competence and been right. Other times, I've had to rollback other people's code (or stop a rollout) because an ostensibly genius programmer who made a change (and got a review from a starry-eyed junior) wasn't using their basic competence or testing their change at all.
Among the reasons we have courts is to clear up ambiguous law; this question of the definition of the word falls squarely on the shoulders of the judiciary, and there is no procedure for referring a question like this to the legislature (and at the rate legislators operate, imagine if we had such a procedure... People's court cases would be jammed in limbo for even longer waiting for the legislature to stop pocket vetoing their question).

Adding a system for that would not be impossible but would have to be done carefully. Instead, we have the system as it currently operates... The law says what it says, the courts declare interpretations if people disagree, and the legislature may, but is not obligated to, act to pass law with further clarification if they have concern with the court's interpretation.
It's a worthwhile experiment but the first thing that came to my mind was: oh, everybody exchange cards in the locker room and give each other good reviews--it's anonymous, after all.
I'm not sure I agree. If they are rating these public servants on their service to the public that would be within the scope of a job review. Or think of it as one of those "how was your service today" questionnaires you get sometimes.

This isn't about policing someone's personal life.

But on the other hand, Yelp reviews are already problematic and extending them to civil servants probably doesn't help the situation.
So instead of refactoring, they hacked around it, and now the law is that much harder to read.

Law making and programming are quite similar in some ways, and share some pathologies.
That's exactly what they did. People with objections to this decision want the court to amend the law to be more exclusive, not the other way around.
Arguably, only the ones that can really claim to be decentralized. PoS, in its different variations, seems to introduce more obvious centralization in one from or another. I’ve yet to hear a solid argument otherwise.
I would say to be totally correct those are more smartphone mounts for EF lens given the weight and rigidity difference.
Yup- I've used fastmail for about three years now (previously I self hosted).

What OP is missing is that the "single provider" is about bundling dns, email, hosting, etc together. If you use Fastmail by itself and something happens to Fastmail you can change your email provider pretty easily. I do regular backups of my email anyways, so I'm not locked into Fastmail at all.

Using GMail and having your domain registered with Google means that if something bad happens and Google locks you out you are simply screwed with no recourse except running a PR campaign to hopefully get someone's attention. Even pretending like Google and Fastmail are the same (they aren't, Fastmail actually offers real support) these are still very very different scenarios.
Wow, this does 160 MiB/s. That's a huge improvement! The output of strace looks completely different:

poll([{fd=1, events=POLLOUT}], 1, 0) = 1 ([{fd=1, revents=POLLOUT}])
write(1, "11111111111111111111111111111111"..., 8192) = 8192
poll([{fd=1, events=POLLOUT}], 1, 0) = 1 ([{fd=1, revents=POLLOUT}])
write(1, "11111111111111111111111111111111"..., 8192) = 8192

With the recursive code, it buffered the output in the same way but bugged the kernel a whole lot more in-between writes. Not exactly sure what is going on:

poll([{fd=1, events=POLLOUT}], 1, 0) = 1 ([{fd=1, revents=POLLOUT}])
write(1, "11111111111111111111111111111111"..., 8192) = 8192
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT], [], 8) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=920390843}) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT], [], 8) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=920666397}) = 0
...
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
poll([{fd=1, events=POLLOUT}], 1, 0) = 1 ([{fd=1, revents=POLLOUT}])
write(1, "11111111111111111111111111111111"..., 8192) = 8192
This table schema: https://github.com/timescale/tsbs/blob/bcc00137d72d889e6059e...

...seems like a quite odd way to store time-series in ClickHouse. If I understood that code correctly (and I am really not sure), they partition their data by some tag value (the first one in a list?), and sort each partition by "tags ID", while timescaledb partitions by time afaik.

Of course there will be large discrepancies if data is sorted one way in one database schema, and another way in another schema. It seems that at least their query of "ORDER BY time LIMIT 10" would greatly benefit from partitioning or sorting the table by time.

Whether that makes sense depends on your usecase. But I don't think a benchmark with completely dfferent schemas, partitioning and primary keys across databases is fair.

Another thing I noticed is that their version of ClickHouse is quite old, at least aroudn the time the test was written. The shown CREATE TABLE syntax is deprecated since a few versions and cannot be found in recent docs, only github: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/blob/v18.16/docs/en...
ITT we can recommend your favorite alternative registrars.

I'm invested: I have a lot of domains on Google and would rather not lose them!
> It would be boring and unsatisfying to accept a simple answer that explains how to get the "correct answer" without explaining what made it a paradox in the first place

Well, this is just a place where they do the math wrong. We can quibble about why, but it isn't a paradox. We both agree they do it wrong and we even have an overlap in the reason why - we both think they aren't comparing them relative to all the subgames they are in and we both think that this is required to reason correctly. So lets say we get to the correct relative EV of 0.

If both are worth the same, well, why not always switch? They are the same EV, right?

IMO this is the real paradox. We have a false equivocation. EV(policy, game) is not equal to EV(envelopes), because for the policy `ALWAYS_SWITCH` we get the logical contradiction that undefined = EV(envelope) or if you take the limit with a discount under a different formalism that 0 = EV(envelope)

When you tackle this problem starting there rather than at the other error the entire algorithm changes, because we need to modify the problem so that we can calculate EV with respect to policy. The algorithm changes enough so that it really annoys me, because I have this intuitive feeling that I'm changing the solution so much so that I'm no longer working within the spirit of the puzzle.

That is why I feel like "no true scottsman"; to use a metaphor, they gave me a coloring book and told me to color something beautiful but that I had to stay in the lines, but the lines of are a skunk and I want to draw a sunrise. I don't want to correct just the one particular step. I hate the framework that forces me into the confusion by falsely implying that if I get the right envelope EV, I know my EV.
Flagged as inaccurate. The court does not find bees are fish, the court finds that the legal text defines fish to include invertebrates, which bees are.

California court finds that bees fall under classification defined by legal text is a more appropriate headline.
The page didn't mention it but there is one that can be installed via brew as well.
Pretty much all the migration management tools and approaches work well on a new project. But you only have a new project once, and briefly.

In practice they often do take a significant amount of discipline at multiple different stages. And they need to account for schema changes outside of perfectly defined and reviewed migrations, because those do happen.

Or you can so "no those can't happen" but that discipline comes at a cost too. Outages and incidents happen, and sometimes the resolution of them will be an on the fly index or other schema change. Does the migration tool give you anything to manage that? Did anyone remember to run it to generate the schema diff and apply it to the other dbs?

And sure you can say "don't resolve incidents with out-of-migration schema changes" but that has costs too. You're going to add process, and time, both when you do it and before in defining and documenting these processes.

ORMs and/or their migration tools is the solution to this, but it isn't a perfect, easy solution. It tends to be fragile over time in the face of day to day changing requirements, as you generally have in a small startup-type company. It's only a solved problem from a purely technical standpoint. In practice every company I've seen has had at least some problems with this, or mountains of careful process to avoid it. Tradeoffs either way.
PewPew Live.

It's similar to geometry wars. It has lots of game modes, great controls, and great music.

https://pewpew.live/
The robot arm part of this reminds me so much of StorageTek’s tape drive robots. Man those were so cool to watch wizzing around in their giant tubes grabbing and loading tape drives on demand.
The court took this step because certain terrestrial invertebrates were explicitly added to the category. So it can no longer be interpreted as somehow only being aquatic critters. "Zero evidence" is a strong claim and much of this entire judgement is about how there is evidence.
There's touches of that elsewhere too (hiding race or ethnicity with a name change.) I have an extremely unusual surname in Canada, and most North Americans don't recognize it as European in origin, which has led to assumptions in the past. My grandfather said he considered changing it to something English in the 50s, but ultimately he kept it. I know that, at least historically, some Christian Arabs, Jewish people, probably others, have adopted "white" names upon immigrating, too.
> Would anyone operationally want to fly a 10,000 mile flight? Is speed a huge barrier for trying to do this in a single round the world flight?

I'll take a crack at this: Since it is targeted towards humanitarian relief, it may travel to places without electrical infrastructure to recharge it. So, 5000 miles each way. Presumably charging takes a non-trivial amount of time, so in a time sensitive application like delivering medical supplies, there is also an advantage to not having to stop and charge.

That being said, I am also skeptical this is faster or more practical than using traditional cargo aircraft and/or helicopters. A C130 doesnt need much of a runway to land or takeoff.
Ask HN: What does SRE mean at your organization?
What can I say, I am my mother's father.
I think life is way more complex than the poker. Yes the mindset could be useful, but mindset without proper data is not going to help a lot.

Here is what I'm thinking: How about we go up a level, and accept that life is basically random and a lot is decided by luck (your gene is luck, your childhood education is also luck, these two pretty much decide a lot of things), as indicated in the article, but maintain a (meta) mindset that can manoeuvre around or even mitigate negative emotions?

For example:

- Realize that probability is useful in poker but not that useful in life, thus it is impossible to calculate mathematical expectation.

- Learn to harden one against impulsive emotional acts (impulsive purchase, suicidal thoughts, etc.).

- Learn to control one's material requirements and save some $$ for rainy days.

- Keep connections active so when really bad days come maybe someone can get you out.
So it begs the question, what's the legal definition of invertebrate? The scientific definition includes species that could cause a variety of legal complications such as microanimals.
I am completely in agreement that loot boxes are exploitative.

I think we are partially in disagreement at what constitutes a digital currency, but we might be in agreement just discussing it in different terms.

For me, I think the best analogy for in game currencies is foreign currency. To give an example, I play a FTP game that has an in game currency called Units. You can earn Units playing the game or you can get Units more immediately by purchasing Unit packs for real money. You could liken this to either going to another country and earning their currency by working, or buying their currency through a foreign exchange with your own currency. However, in game currencies can't be converted back to your local currency, so it is a synchronous transaction.

Thanks for the detailed and well expressed reply by the way.
There are two problems. One is reliance on a single provider and the other, much larger, problem to rely on a provider who makes opaque decisions that screw over their customers and don't have anyone you can talk to. That latter problem seems almost exclusive to Google.
Your mistake is thinking that an EV needs to fill up during road trips. That is very rarely the case unless you get one with a low range. California to Houston, we filled up once during the entire trip. Once.
The legislation is clear. If the legislation is incorrect, it should be amended. The court did its job.
"Code of Law"
Perhaps most shocking, to Americans anyway, the links to public institutions:

> ... close friendship and mentee relationship with Dr. Anthony Fauci and his relationship with Bill Gates, Dybul called Gumrukcu a “rare genius”

> Dr. Brosgart has served as a Senior Advisor on Science and Policy for the CDC since 2011, in addition to her roles as director on Enochian’s board ...
What prevents Turkiye without the accent?
How do you control for differences in air pollution and water pollution, differences in food, differences in stress levels. There are too many unknowns in these calculations.
This comment seems wildly out of touch. When a majority of Americans can't afford a $500 unexpected emergency expense[1][2], you think a $100 increase is trivial?

older:
[1]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/most-americans-cant-afford-a-50...

pandemic related:
[2]https://highlandsolutions.com/blog/survey-reveals-spending-h...
"Identity" not content. A strong identity allows the user to tell at a glance if you're on a news site instead of a shopping site, for example.
Hmmm should I let an unroadworthy car endanger someone's life or turn a blind eye. What about my impeccable 5 star rating?
You realize your position is contradictory, right? If nutrition is important, then people in the city should sacrifice their water, so that farmers can grow more almonds. If you're saying that corporations need to take more responsibility, you're asking farmers to grow fewer almonds, means consumers eat fewer almonds anyways, but they'll also be more expensive.
thats honestly not my biggest issue with it, but its also a problem (a solvable one though)
I've been using inwx.de since 2015, and they've been around for longer. The couple times I wanted something from support, they've been swift and helpful. My biggest criticism is that the API lacks the ability to do any sort of fine grained access control and you have to go through support to get a separate account that is limited to DNS configuration, for example.
All leads back to the sea eventually.
Sadly this fact won't stop people from trying to paint California as some kooky place where everyone thinks bees are fish.
This post is very shallow on the argument side and at its core just cyncial. I get the feeling the author has some personal beef going on with Kagi.
That's interesting. Playing time backwards long enough would see the earth disassembled into rocks, dust and gas, repelling each other and indeed flying off into <far away>. Same with the sun. But the short term orbit example challenges the intuition. Perhaps the answer is that the time-forward orbit is (conventional) downhill in spacetime, and the time-backward orbit is uphill in spacetime, but both trajectories are seen in conventional space as a curved path around the center of gravity.
Google contacted me directly to help restore FairEmail on the Play Store
> Elon himself says, you can do remote work, after you’ve been in the office for 40 hours, implying, that remote work is totally possible

You took that seriously? It was clearly a joke.
Exactly my thought and this is what happens at the end of the article.
Note at the bottom says it all stays local but who knows what a future version might do. I think your concern is not too far off. Essentially this would mean that a tool maker gets rights to or a share of the work of an individual that used the tool.
...every crackpot idea for everything---

Uh, yeah, ahm, I'm gonna go ahead and sort of disagree with you there.
What a peculiar screed. I don't see anything in the post that validates the title. The author used Kagi for four months before the open beta and seemed to like it.

> A survey was put out a couple months before this announcement, asking users
what they'd pay. I said 7$/month considering the current proficiency of the
service. To read they went with 10$/month with no justification or reveal of the
results just makes me feel completely ignored...

The author understands that it was a survey, but is upset that their personal input wasn't taken as the final decision?

It's fine to disagree with the tone of the beta announcement. It's reasonable to think that $10/month is too expensive. But "paid search engines are dead on arrival" is a big swing and there's nothing here to back it up. I'm trying out Kagi as part of the open beta, and so far I'm liking the experience.