skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pretty much agree with Metzinger's take in "The Ego Tunnel." I side with the "self is an illusion" crowd. Conscious experience is a tool for the body to solve some problem. I see this when I get better at any task. Either I don't perceive the task at all or it feels completely different over time. Driving starts out as a full attention task which feels a particular way. Now after 20 years it feels like walking.

So when you talk about needing to know "who" is experiencing, I don't really follow the thread. "I" don't exist. And the experience I'm having is wholly constructed in my mind, with no direct access to reality, only a holodeck. There is no me having an experience (2 objects interacting). There is only the constructed experience which has the side effect of "controlling the body." (a process happening now)

I think the hard problem is empty. I'm satisfied physical theories.
You're welcome to post the other pandemics that occurred in 2020 through 2022.

Flu was practically wiped out for example. COVID19 was more fit, and many people were taking precautions (ie: masks) that also hampered the spread of Flu.

If mRNA vaccines really inhibited general immune response to other viruses / bacteria, it should be demonstrable. Just line up the number of people who died / got sick of non-COVID19 diseases in 2020 through 2022 and compare them to the COVID19 vaccine patients, stratified for age/sex/race.
I think the point was that she was so bad at her job that she wasn't going to write anything about the attack, at all, whatsoever. She spent most of the time trying to dictate things she'd already written over the phone. She didn't have the initiative to walk to ground zero. And then what she did write was a story about how she was sad the fun events were cancelled but she wasn't that sad because she had appletinis.

She just didn't care. Her focus was on the fun events that she had planned to attend and absolutely nothing else.
Fine first result I got on google

https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/2190-471...

> Herbicide-resistant crop technology has led to a 239 million kilogram (527 million pound) increase in herbicide use in the United States between 1996 and 2011, while Bt crops have reduced insecticide applications by 56 million kilograms (123 million pounds). Overall, pesticide use increased by an estimated 183 million kgs (404 million pounds), or about 7%.
When a movie has a love story that doesn't involve a love-triangle or infidelity I breath a palpable sigh of relief. Realistic or not, does all romance have to involve competition or deception?
You can get floppy emulators on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.ca/Emulator-SFR1M44-U100-Install-Industri...
A lot of journalists covered 9/11, so I'm not sure that this particular fashion reporter didn't seem to care is all that interesting.

I do think it's an interesting case in the level of acceptability in the actions and admissions of semi-public figures like journalists. Today there's lots of commotion about people posting their hot takes on the Queen's death, a lot of which obviously regrettable. There's lots of events over the last few years point to a high level of self and contextual awareness being necessary to keep your job in semi-public roles.

Yet, in 2001, days after September 11, you have a journalist that published, after I presume being edited and approved by multiple other people at the paper, about celebrating with Apple Martinis in a $2,000 limo ride driving away from the terrorist event (I'm I reading that right?). And nobody during the editing process thought, hey, this is a pretty inappropriate thing to publish?

Such a completely different world.
Better be consistently boring than ever misleading
>The borders of the USSR have retreated over most of our lifetime, Moscow controlled all of Ukraine as recently as 1990 and gave it up more-or-less voluntarily.

The problem is you think they "own" them.

>If the US can invade the middle east

One nation they invaded was Iraq, and while catastrophic, they've created a democracy that later told US to fuck off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Iraq_Status_of_Fo...

You can very much argue against that, and I'd agree, but it's not comparable to colonial war of aggression to literally enslave and genocide free nation.

>I don't think we need to draw a red line at the Ukraine border against the other nuclear superpower.

They are far from anything super, as we've seen in Kharkiv Oblast last week.
I was hoping someone would post the Maker's Muse videos about cockatoos. Birds can be so amazingly clever.
> there isn't an immediate difference between the two types of calls anymore (when looking at the code)

There is: sync calls don't change. Async calls use the Future::fork call, all within your parent thread block scope.
what config files? It's css variables, they follow css variable scoping rules.
Yeah, I appreciated this post:

> Oh joy, another paper for the antivaxxers to misinterpret. Some red flags though.

> The tone of this paper, particularly the last sentence ("potentially harmful effects") seems suspect...almost as if they were intentionally riling up the anti-vax crowd.

> They appear to have misinterpreted the outcome of this study, claiming "higher risk of infection than unvaccinated individuals 9 months post-vaccination". The study makes no such claim that I can find. The tables in the supplement show the only subcohorts with a slightly higher incidence rate for vaccinated individuals at 9 months is age >80 (1.3 per 100,000 person days in vaxxed vs. 1.1 unvaxxed, supplemental table 5) and those requiring in-home care (1.6 vs. 1.5). Also notable is that the only vaccine that shows less effectiveness against infection is the non-MRNA vaccine (supplemental table 6) and that vaccinated individuals in all subcohorts were still substantially protected against hospitalization or death compared to unvaxxed.

> The primary source for the claim that mRNA-LNP is inflammatory is a paper authored by three of the four authors of this paper.

> Also notable is that at least one of the primary authors - the one credited with writing and editing - is a GBD-adjacent, anti-MRNA, HCQ truther (Don’t Look Up” Your Science—Herd Immunity or Herd Mentality? - "The virus fatality rate did not support lockdowns, blanket restrictive measures, and non-selective mass vaccinations. There was no solid scientific rationale to adopt the untested mRNA-LNP platform over other well-established vaccine formulations to fight COVID.").

> None of this means the science in the paper is wrong, but I'd be hesitant to take anything at face value.
The anti-vaccination / bashing of anti-vaxx people was a pretty big and one sided internet niche pre-2020. In a way that you did have some tinfoil hat people, you had some whistleblowers, and you had an army of people bashing them left and right. And we're not even talking polio, but with stuff like chicken pox, where there was a vaccine introduced, but the folk solution (locking up the sick kids with the healthy kids so everybody gets over it) were at conflict that turned super, super vicious.

In a sense it was an already ongoing battle with every argument already deployed and pre-determined, but all of a sudden everybody and their grandma were involved in the conversation against their will. The perma-online people predictably took up the positions they did, while a plethora of other opinions / skepticism emerged but were all summarily heaped in the tinfoil hat. Now it seems to be unwinding, and it feels just as surreal as the last few hours of a rave where everybody is kind of sobering up and looking at a very bothersome way home.
Audio plugin developer says he’s found proof mathematics was “formed”
There is no redemption for Russia, this is by now probably etched into their brains after Yugoslavia, two NATO expansions, Georgia and Ukraine.

The sanctions are also here to stay, so claiming that “getting out of Ukraine now” would make any sense or bring them any benefits is wishful thinking.

As far as lessons go, Europe didn’t really learn anything or drew the wrong conclusions based on their approach to China. Instead of staying on its own continent and minding its own business, the EU is playing wannabe-US.

Finally, we have Eastern Europe. Which have hammered the point so hard into the brains of Western Europe that they must have forgotten themselves what the point was. Or at least that would be the case given the dependency they have on Russia, sometimes carefully disguised by moralwashing the gas through another country.
One of the arguments given really bugs me:

> A typical orchestral audition might end up attracting dozens of people who are essentially indistinguishable in their musicianship and technique.

Then raise the bar. Why are we content that more people can achieve the top tier of any field? If leaders of a field cannot find ways to evaluate newcomers, then replace them with new leaders and techniques that can. What a lazy excuse.
Unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1569366666844192769.html
As another commented pointed out, we have hundreds of millions of data points in people now post-vaccination and post-boosters, which haven’t detected a problem, and only 12 here in mice, that the authors suggest warrants further study. Which hypothesis are you saying has “no data”?
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Yes, it's right in the summary:

> Interestingly, mice pre-exposed to the mRNA-LNP platform can pass down the acquired immune traits to their offspring, providing better protection against influenza.

Who knows what other interesting discoveries will be stumbled upon in the future!
As a business concept, and maybe it isn’t, the money is in tooling for managing remote workers.

There are a million reminder apps to pick from already…anyone who wants one already has one and doesn’t want to switch. Anyone who doesn’t have one, doesn’t by choice.
There are a plethora of extremely bad sources around covid and vaccines that you would be wise to ignore.
Would a kernel module be written as a normal Linux-targeting Rust program, or would it be more like a bare metal target with its own (user-provided) panic handler?
i have similar dependency complaints about flutter. I revisited a flutter project that was <1 yr stale and it took me days to resolve all dependencies, i ended up giving up and removing many dependencies and refactoring around it.
>It's not OK to suggest that countries can have a sphere of influence in 21st century

Ask your Congressman about pulling out of Guam and closing all overseas military bases.

>That kind of world order does not exist any more.

This is, ironically, enough, something that Putin started saying to us since he came into power. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc. He lobbied the west to adhere to a rules based international order rather than couping or invading whomever we damn well pleased.

In 2003 he said "please respect Iraq's national sovereignty and international law". Oh how we laughed.

What did you think the result of ignoring that was gonna be?

For me it was fairly predictable. He treated it both as a threat and a precedent. That said, Im not in denial about America being an empire.
> What does this cover?

https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/faq-efficient-free-tier/#ma... provides a list of what counts towards the storage limits, and also ways to manage, reduce and cleanup storage.

> Does it cover the size of a git repo? Build artifacts, both temporary and exported to packages? And what about Docker images?

Yes, they all are storage types that add to the overall storage consumption.

> Docker images concern me the most. It's terribly easy to build and use Docker images that are >100MB, and 50 of those easily go beyond 5GB. Two projects with nightly builds easily go beyond that in a month even when doing nothing at all.

You can define container cleanup policies within the registry, matching on age, tags, etc. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/packages/container_registry/...
People in the western societies will do anything to avoid wearing masks. That includes pushing and taking vaccines that weren’t fully tested. Unlike the latest flavor of mRNA vaccine, masks do not lose efficacy against new variants within a few months. If you wear an n95 rated mask or higher, you will have 95% efficacy or higher
It's quite an artifact of its time. Someone appears to be making a play for her magazine editor role and this is basically oppo-research on behalf of whomever they want in place. This kind of scandal playing is sort of how the media game is played, where these were society plum jobs, and journalism in Canada has been a traditional stepping stone to parliament.

I was distantly acquainted with some of that crowd, and there was an incentive from editors at the time to be provocatively glib because the conflict and outrage sold papers, when those were still a thing. Some people were just naturally (or dubiously) gifted at making a spectacle of themselves, and the papers hired them (us?) to write. Internationally, Toronto was a relative backwater full of people who had come from other relative backwaters to reinvent themselves in the reflected images of magazine covers. The article in question was written by someone trying to become the reflection they saw. This was in a time when Sex in the City represented feminine success, and many women I knew would follow magazine and newspaper columnists as a kind of rage-read, and I think they related to those figures in fairly complex ways. Vogue at the time functioned as a kind of ministry of desire that told women what they wanted. However, that no one seems to have written critically about this doesn't so much ignore a decade when womens' media dominated the culture, as it mercifully overlooks its excesses. Having known several fashion editors and writers, their craft is a narrative of cohering symbols of power and desire, and the art is walking a tightrope above a pit of firey cringe. This article was definitely one of those cringe-hell fails that wise old-timers use to scare interns over drinks.

If you took the series Mad Men from the 1960s era, transplanted it to the late 90's and made it about women working at fashion magazines and relegated to the style sections of newspapers, you would get a fairly nuanced view of how, like we take for granted the influence of advertisers on our thinking, we might also understand what the women shaping narratives of desire in the 90s did. Terrible article, but maybe enough time has passed to look at what all that really was.
> Crucially, by grepping for `unwrap` and `expect` you can find the panics very easily.

I write Rust code up and down the stack, and this is the thing that ticks me off more than anything else. You can get most of them looking for this stuff (and a handful of others), but there are just so many places in vanilla Rust that exhibit the Wrong Behavior By Default, e.g.

a[i] = x + 1;

Which looks so innocent but can panic in two places! Ugh.
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Bluntly, your opinion will be interesting only when you're able to tell us:

1. What metabolic pathway is being modeled by a mouse

2. Why it's important to the study

3. How that pathway differs in humans

4. How that difference materially affects the results of the study

Until then, just revealing your own ignorance. Mice are chosen deliberately. It's not an accident.
“safe and effective” has a technical definition. This fact was abused by people in power.
Sorry for editing the title. There was no way I could fit the original title in the number of characters.

Here's the mathematical proof (according to the author)

https://github.com/avaneev/prvhash#proof_math_is_engineered
> Also: this is purely in mice. They have zero data on whether this is true for humans.

Out of curiosity, how do you feel about the new bivalent BA4/BA5 booster? It's only been tested on... eight mice [0]:

> So what data specific to the BA.4/BA.5 boosters, did the FDA use to expand the EUAs to include the BA.4/BA.5 boosters? Well, the answer is at least in part very “mice.” Apparently, both Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech have provided non-human animal data on the BA.4/BA.5 boosters to the FDA to state their case for the EUA. But they haven’t yet shown this data to the rest of the scientific community or the public. This data have reportedly included some preliminary findings from eight mice.

Hey, if that's good enough for emergency use authorization, why aren't the findings in this paper up to snuff?

0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/09/12/have-the-ne...
I know a number of people who got COVID twice before the shots became an option as well. There never was any reason to think COVID would result in durable immunity, but some anti-vaccine have spread that as part of their general war on science. Lets me clear though, it was always propaganda with no basis in science (both anti-vaccine and political propaganda for different reason said things like that), nobody with any knowledge of infectious disease said something like that.
More importantly, it’s unclear whether this tradeoff also happens with exposure to the actual virus
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Probably not by itself but it isn't that fundamentally different from some language conventions allowing/preferring glyphs over words for certain meanings eg `string->int` rather than `stringToInt` or whatever.
Two problems:

1. That wasn't a controlled experiment. Observational data < RCTs.

2. You are mixing up mortality and mortality attributed to COVID. It's a common error. For overall mortality the picture is far less clear. For example in the Pfizer trials there were more deaths overall in the vaccinated arm than the unvaccinated arm i.e. RCT evidence = no mortality benefit.

Also, we now have excess deaths above the expected baseline for long periods in 2022, which is unprecedented. Governments are highly reluctant to split these deaths out by vaccine status, but the increase seems mostly attributed to heart and blood clotting related deaths. So the data from the "experiment" is not obviously positive.
> ... in fact they seem to be faring better for those under 60 or so.

Haven't heard that before!. Do you have a source to read more about it?
My first thought is you would need to earthquake proof the heck out of a tunnel like that!
How are you storing and querying your graph data? Are you using a graph database underneath all that or ?
So... IPFS, Torrents, eDonkey/Kad, Tor, I2P, what is missing between those?
Doubtful.

I did find an old message on Discord though where I talked about it:

> Ran the CPU torture tests in Prime95 on my new i9 with this Cooler Master Hyper 212 air cooler. When doing the Small FFTs test which generates maximum heat, yeah, it does suffer some thermal throttling. It'll run for about 30 seconds at full speed, then it'll enter a pattern where it throttles down to 3.6 Ghz for about 1/2 second, then jumps back up to 4.5 Ghz for 2 seconds, then throttles again. For the other two tests, it happily just hums without throttling at about 60 C. But even when suffering from thermal throttling, it's still faster than my old i7-3770k.

Thing is, right now, if I do the "Large FFTs" test, it's hitting 90C, whereas before it was only 60C.

I've had this CPU now for 4 years, and I have 3 cats and my computer is only a few inches off the floor. I wonder if I just need to dust out the cooler.
Because Hydrogen is too expensive.

If you calculate the LCOE, you'll find that using wind at night is cheaper than hydrogen. Maybe certain batteries storing solar can beat wind at cost?
My point remains, don't guess "why not use my favorite X" but calculate and simulate all alternative systems and the the lowest cost of energy ofve lifetime of systems is the winner you actually build.
I feel like the opposite. I really am not here to read about machine learning or JavaScript. News and comments on non-IT subjects are the real gold of the HN.
What I'm referring to with regards containers is: preventing containers being modified while they are being iterated on (which is usually bad, because you will probably invalidate the iterator when modifying the container). That is what is prevented by Rust's references rules, and to my knowledge, isn't possible to protect against in C++ (statically).

Thanks for the replies about the other stuff!
the vast majority of participants in any given field are, by definition, mediocre.
And not just goroutines. The whole Go runtime is basically what Loom aspires to be. All functions async by default and preemptible. Writing code that looks like it's blocking but is in fact async. "Await" as the default action to do with an async function, and "go" being the optional action.

So far the reception has been very good and it works very well in practice. To me it's a pain now to work with languages that don't work like that. I'd argue it's Go's biggest advantage, really.

The Zig approach looks very good as well (If I understand it correctly, the underlying functions basically get compiled to whatever the caller wants them to be. Async or not. We'll see how that pans out in practice as the language gets more traction.).
They are speaking of the feud between ZIOs creator John de Goes and long-time Typelevel steering committee member Travis Brown (https://meta.plasm.us/posts/2019/09/01/jdg-and-the-fp-commun...) and split the community along those same party lines.
>but the royals are not very popular among well informed people

Maybe the "well informed people" should vote for parties and elect MPs that are republican? All the parties in Westminster are royalists
In my experience it is the ego that wants to compare. As I've gotten older I've noticed the comparisons have less jealousy and confusion, more envy and understanding of the complexity.
This feels to me like an example of Goodhart's law:

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
No, they then followed up with an influenza vaccine delivered by mRNA. This study assessed the relative quality of immune response in those that had previously received a sham vaccine delivered by LNP, or no prior vaccine (or LNP).

> Two weeks later, the mice were injected in the same area with 2.5 μg of mRNA-LNP coding for PR8 influenza hemagglutinin (HA)
From what I understand, if the royal family was abolished, taxes would go up, not down according to this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhyYgnhhKFw
A good place to start with Coq is Software Foundations: https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/
>how many people do you know who got the shot have gotten SARS-Cov-2 once or more after getting the shots and boosters?

I have. Got the first shot in August 2021, then got covid in December 2021. Got the second shot in January 2022 because my new job forced me to get it in order to stay employed, and then I got covid again in August 2022.
This is silly. Getting two shots was the "most durable" until it wasn't. There's literally no reason to believe that three shots is the holy grail, especially since we're up to four. Or is it five now?
Native SAE-speaker here, studied linguistics in undergrad, and "least common denominator" is a perfectly normal construction.

The web isn't a perfect corpus, and Google isn't a perfect corpus analysis tool, but with those caveats...

Google results for "least common denominator": 738,000 /
Google results for "most common denominator": 656,000

Additionally, as you point out, Wikipedia lists both as synonyms.

Your original comment was correct and idiomatic English.
I solve that by naming my greenfield projects "hotels_old" from the get-go. It makes things easier for the next guy who replaces it.
/r/science is notorious for their stringent moderation. I went on unddit.com to see what was removed and it was mostly comments with only anecdotal evidence, which is not allowed on /r/science.
But as products evolve, their boring names become misleading. At least with non-boring names you can re-define what they represent in your company.
SARS-CoV-2 isn't delivered using artificial LNPs. Those are specific to mRNA vaccines.