skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> lead to the privatization of at least the Sandia Labs

If you're talking about management, the Sandia Labs have have always been private. From 1948 to the 1990s they were run by AT&T. After that it was Lockheed-Martin and now NTESS.

But the facility itself is owned by the US government, as are all the National Labs. The model is called GOCO (Government-Owned/Contractor Operated).

The article you're referring to is about a spinoff facility.
In what way are we "struggling to accept" this reality? If you mean that we want to change this, that's an entirely different discussion and not necessarily an automatic point against us.
You can run the numbers yourself. You're not going to come out with different numbers with any sane assumptions. A high-filtration mask costs $1-$2. Multiply by 350 million people, and you're at $12B to give everyone a new mask every day for a year. You can do the same for everything else I listed.

An early, severe, global reaction, like China, would have prevented COVID from becoming endemic. That would have cost BILLIONS of dollars, and impacted perhaps TENS OF THOUSANDS or even HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people in the US.

Instead, we've got a million dead in the US, many times that worldwide, and are continuing a giant dumpster-fire with trillions of dollars. Not to mention several times that with long COVID.

And we learned no lessons.

As a footnote, as much as the top-level post was wrong, it shouldn't have been flagged. I'm so tired of sites filtering everyone they disagree with.
From your link:

The New York Times, in an article about Malone, reported: "While he was involved in some early research into the technology, his role in its creation was minimal at best, say half a dozen Covid experts and researchers, including three who worked closely with Dr. Malone."
I can say as a user, the product was phenomenal except for the lack of games available in their library.
Oh yeah. My first instinct on checking their steam page is same. Surprisingly, it doesn't mention icy tower in description. Would have worked to its favour
> This is why autistic adults in recent years have become more vocal insisting "nothing about us without us", i.e. if the researchers want to study autism, the research team should at least include autistic researchers.

There are many people out there who probably could get an ASD diagnosis if they wanted to, but (at least for now) they’ve decided they don’t want to go down that path. There are other people who have actually been formally given that diagnosis at some point, but have decided to reject it. Do they potentially count as “autistic researchers”?

Personally, I am rather convinced by the criticisms of the scientific validity of the concept of ASD made by authors such as Lynn Waterhouse, Laurent Mottron and Sami Timimi. I think the demeaning of research by “all-allistic” researchers is harmful because people who build an identity for themselves on a label are likely to be unsympathetic towards scientific criticisms of it; and it ignores the fact that “autistic”-vs-not is a continuum divided by a socially constructed boundary. And I say all this as someone who has a significant degree of autistic traits.
Pop_OS Cosmic Desktop to Make Use of Iced Rust Toolkit Rather Than GTK
PC user: hey can i nuke windows and install a mainstream elf/linux distro (or your own)? microsoft: ofc, you just need a phd in software to workaround all the efi nasty blockades we did put in place _for you security ofc_, that with the help of hardware manufacturers. Go ahead, but don't fool yourself, we already got your money and since you are not the default install on any mass sold PCs, you'll stay at 0.00001% (scientifically insignificant).
Difficulty will always have a direct impact on scale: if you've significantly increased the difficulty for fraudsters that's going to have a knock-on effect on the amount of fraudulent traffic you receive.

There's no such thing as zero; a successful measure is one that achieves significant reduction.
Thanks lol
How is this the top comment??

It ends by saying that, if authoritarian China has done better than democratic India, which is hard to argue with, it must be... because China is democratic!

The model must guide the data, you see! This should be roundly mocked, not upvoted.
Even with the functional change proposed, i would say your chances of getting such a relatively "complex" change actually reviewed and merged are lower though, than if you just proposed the smallest change that would result in function; and your investment higher, for higher risk of it just sitting there.

I think for this reason and similar, open source code especially can end up subject to accretion of things people are reluctant to change or seriously refactor. Committed non-burnt-out steward(s) can mitigate.
A meme is necessarily a joke but a joke is not necessarily a meme. A meme often, but not always, has a visual component to it. A meme is a cultural phenomenon. It is shared virally and evolves in the process.

EDIT: After reading the Wikipedia page like the two people that replied to me, it is now clear to me that a meme is not necessarily a joke.
Both the headline and the name of the documentary seem to be suggesting it is "clear". It's only when you read carefully you notice them writing in a way that seems designed to confuse people.

But yeah, forcing corporations to not lie is an obvious good thing. I'm not sure this documentary isn't actually a corporate funded lie though.

They may just be callous clickbaiters making money by taking advantage of coporate funded climate change denial lies, so don't want to jump to any strong conclusions.
>But it's also true creative markets are a bell curve.

There is no middle in the creative markets, the top dozen people take everything and no one else can make a living.
I hope you're right but I suspect the same anti-cheating measures can't work on PS5 and Xbox because I doubt those vendors give the low level of access required to make such tools work.

When the xbox360 was jailbroken a lot of games were immediately ruined, at least until Microsoft figured out how to ban modded consoles from online play.
I think it means not taking additional, possibly toxic medicine, perhaps fasting and drinking juices. I think German new medicine would be a good place to look into this further.
Seriously a bit miffed at the characterization of people who have bought a piece of hardware to install Free and Open Source Software on it (and then been absolutely rugged by the manufacturer) as "pirates out to save/make money, and hobbyists too"

Every business I have ever worked at has either been built almost exclusively on Open Source software, or a bank that ran almost exclusively on Microsoft.

We're not just pirates and hobbyists!
But are you wearing shoes and socks or shoes + socks? [1]

1. https://media.gq.com/photos/55828bdde52bc4b477a97e03/master/...
I know nothing about this, but this passage in the Wiki article that you linked points at some controversy:

>While Malone promotes himself as an inventor of mRNA vaccines,[1][7] credit for the distinction is more often given to the lead authors on the major papers he contributed to (such as Felgner and Wolff), later advances by Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman,[3][19] or Moderna co-founder Derrick Rossi.[13] Ultimately, mRNA vaccines were the decades-long result of the contributions of hundreds of researchers, including Malone.[3][20] The New York Times, in an article about Malone, reported: "While he was involved in some early research into the technology, his role in its creation was minimal at best, say half a dozen Covid experts and researchers, including three who worked closely with Dr. Malone."[7]
All things are imperfect.
Yes, people have died, had issues, etc. We should not dismiss that (and people do), it is in fact true.

But it is unfortunately normal, and will likely not change for a very very long time, if ever

If you give anything to all ~8 billion people in the world, even basic things like "water", or "sunlight", you will see some percent of them have issues with it.

In fact, the rate of some allergies to sunlight[1] is greater than the rate of issues with covid vaccines.

So it's not really Russian Roulette at this scale any more than "going outside" is. It's simply that humans are all too different to be perfect at giving them anything, and at a scale of almost 8 billion people, everything that can happen, will happen. In that sense it is like building software than runs on 8 billion very very similar but very slightly different platforms.

The rate of issues is right now is already essentially "The best of the best". To use your analogy, these vaccines is already just about the most well tested, bug free software that can exist in this situation

As for the other parts - as others have said, vaccines exist not just to stop disease, but to reduce severity.

https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/cov...

The chance you have of dying with covid is a lot less with a vaccine than without one.
a lot less. At the point of that chart, if you multiply it out:
120,000 unvaccinated people were dying of covid per week
13,000 vaccinated people were dying
6000 vaccinated + boosted people were dying

You can choose to be one of the 120,000, or the 6000.

I know what I chose :)

That said, one of the things that gets lost in here is that media and others did suggest at the start that vaccines would cause the end of covid by ending transmission (IE nobody would get sick anymore), despite that being mostly a hope of scientists, and not a guarantee.
That was wrong, and has caused a serious loss of trust that gets ignored, and causes people who point it out to often feel gaslit.

We will build better vaccines for sure - the same way we try to build better software. I am part of a phase 1 trial of a next generation vaccine that tackles all variants at once (and seems very successful at it).

Waiting for perfect software is a fools errand, the same way waiting for a perfect car is.
So i'd suggest not doing that.

The question is always "are you better off with something or nothing".

The answer to that question is very clear.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3063367/
Is this the same Kim as Kim Dotcom?
Global Innovation Index 2022: What is the future of innovation-driven growth?
If I understand the premise, it should be simple enough to disaggregate my organic vs. paid-for conversions.

For brand lift campaigns though, without enough historical sales numbers, I can see how it’s harder to tell if your ad money is being well spent.
I don't know. It seems to me that it is a question of the purpose of the courts. Is the court there to provide a fair verdict and fair punishment or to dissuade behaviors? If it is the former why should the persons assets be considered as all. If the later why are traffic violations also not levied as apart of your net worth?
> but the bemoaning of students not seeking help I find is often linked to professors thinking it's still 1972

I was not alone in this, as of 2010, regularly spending my evenings in office hours with either TAs or professors for specific classes. For certain math classes, I'd do all my homework in a group setting with other students and a TA. It was weird not to go to office hours for extra help.
> you should have already received consent

For payment processing. Not for tracking.
Plot twist: anonymous writer is also AI.
> Care to back that up?

Block Lattice crypto. It's neither PoW or PoS.

Here are the top two DDG results for "block lattice explained":
https://medium.com/swlh/what-you-need-to-know-about-block-la...
https://blog.metalpay.com/metalpay/understanding-block-latti...

Some hard numbers for Nano, as an example of block lattice tech:

> Nano uses 0.000112 kwh hours per transaction compared to Bitcoin’s 950 KWH

> The entire Nano network is so efficient that, operating at 7000tps, it can be powered by a single wind turbine

- https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2018/09/is-nano-really-the-most-ec...

Nano is feeless (with anti-spam mechanics), with all (minimal) costs per transaction borne by the "nodes" that keep the network running. Transactions are often confirmed in less than a second. This isn't bullshit or vaporware, it's running right now and you can try it yourself - https://www.trynano.io/

As far as security, no one has broken it in 7 years. While I'm not equipped to evaluate the maths, I hear block lattice is more "quantum resistant" than ECC.

Bitcoin outperforms Nano in sunk costs, hype / false info, and held bags. On every other objective and useful measure, it's not even remotely close.
> selling it as a "solution" when it's really beginning a perpetual fight

If your qualifying definition of "solution" is "magic bullet" then there are no solutions. Every solution is a component in the perpetual fight.
I don't know where that comes from: hopefully the rational is to replace some complexity by something simpler, but this has a smell of planned obsolescence or glibc/gcc dev tantrum to me.
Opposite.

A meme is NOT necessarily a joke. An "internet meme", a subset of memes, is generally a joke, but "meme" itself is a singular unit of culture, and includes many non-funny things

I would argue also that all jokes are memes: that all jokes ultimately have a core meme to them.
Do cardio and never lift weights. Lift weights but never do cardio.

Go vegan. Go keto.

Privatize your personal relationships. Find meaningful work.

Honestly, just do whatever you want. If it works you’ll feel satisfied that you were right. If you’re wrong, you probably won’t care that much either.
> If the average life expectancy is ~80 years, my parents are in their mid-60s, and I see them one time per year, the math—however depressing—says I will see them 15 more times before they are gone.

The fact that his parents survived until their mid-60s means that they have a life expectancy better than the ~80 year average, as that average includes many people that don't make it to their mid-60s.
ya last night my walmart had a few plus they are all over online stores now
Just using a drive to Clemson, SC as an example:

Charleston, SC (240 miles, 580 round trip)

Florence, SC (210 miles, 520 rt)

Columbia, SC (132 miles, 262 rt)

Charlotte, NC (134 miles, 268 rt)

Atlanta, GA (121 miles, 242 rt)

People come from all over and this happens all over the country.
Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic
I find this very interesting. I wonder how Svelte Native gets woven into it, while doing the least amount of duplicate work possible. Is it just basically like any other API + Svelte Native, or does SvelteKit offer some bridging/features that make this combination simpler?
Kim Kardashian charged over crypto 'pump and dump' case
Well plain old wire transfers take 1 day internationally (inside the EU) and cost zero to 2 euro.
Indeed. I saw they were available in a few countries only.
I wonder how the average large corporation age compares to the average democracy age. Of course we can identify some outliers, but only because they are famously, exceptionally old.
I personally enjoyed the human aspect of the narrative
That’s why monitoring, fail-safe power offs and redundant systems are important. E.g. even at the complete failure of a CAT scanner’s higher level control (which let’s say would run on an embedded linux kernel), the system would safely stop the radiation and power off, without any instructions from an OS. Here, an inconsistent state from the OS is actually more dangerous than stopping in the middle (e.g. the OS stucks and the same, high energy radiation is continuously being released)
I don't know, if you look at places like Florida that did basically nothing in response to COVID, they seem to have come out quite well actually. It's the places that exercised a lot of central control in redistributing resources that seem to have come out poorly.
they're usually regime-controlled, so it's ok.
Funny enough, the source[0] that uses this formatting also points out the quote is a fabrication.

[0]: https://www.bartleby.com/73/195.html
The Basics Behind a MEMS Capacitive Humidity Sensor
How does mg compare with MicroEMACS (famously used by Linus Torvalds [1])?

[1] https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds...
This assumes these things don't operate in an environment affected by multiple nation states and their specific regulations
If DALL-E could produce music
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded to Svante Pääbo
Any tips that have been effective in that rumination? For people who want to get a lot out of the books they read, as you do, I'm always curious about the strategies they've come up with.
Deepfake Audio Has a Tell
How odd... I entered this thread and my computer started emitting a faint green glow
> Once companies start making their own laws (by bribing officials) or when they treat employees like shit (because they don't have other options), then they are just as problematic as other autocracies.

I don't think it is as clear cut as you say. I think for example, that there is some lobbyism that is justified, in that they communicate with politicians in a way that can enable, say, innovation. But there's also lobbyism which might as well be called corruption. It doesn't seem obvious where exactly to draw the line here, so it is hard to conclude if and how problematic a company is.
Good communicators welcome the chance to get on the same wavelength as the writer. It helps you understand them better.
The liquidity crunch is hitting even the trillion dollar companies.

Once credit suisse defaults, it's going to get significantly worse
TIL

> Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods".
I would be willing to bet that, around the same time those tools become widely distributed (kind of like what stable diffusion did for AI artwork), adversarial tools that emulate or obfuscate writing styles will exist as well.
Yeah, I mean, or it really just kind of makes those of us that simply cannot move closer feel that much worse about it. I miss mostly everything about being at the place where I am from, but moving there would move us even further from my spouses' parents. A move to the halfway point would mean we have to uproot what we've build at our current location for the past decade or so. Life is often about hard compromises.
Anything that makes things more expensive for the fraudsters than the defender is a win.
I hadn't considered that Reich and Patterson might have deserved recognition. I think a case could possibly be made for that, especially if the prize-winning work had been defined more broadly as ancient DNA research in general rather than sequencing archaic hominins and identifying introgression into modern humans more specifically. Reich and Patterson were after all heavily involved in the analysis identifying gene flow from Neanderthals into modern non-Africans. But Reich's and Patterson's (very successful and important) careers have focused on more recent, within-sapiens population history, and I think their role in archaic hominin work was less "irreplaceable" than Paabo's. There are plenty of very important archaic hominin papers from Paabo and collaborators which did not involve Reich and Patterson at all: the earliest Neanderthal mtDNA and autosomal sequences, Denisovan mtDNA (which came out before the autosomal paper), much of the biochemically focused work on gene expression differences between species and so on, Sima de los Huesos... Reich and Patterson also came into the picture quite a bit after Paabo initiated the whole ancient DNA field - I think about 10 years later. So, even though I would have for personal reasons preferred that Reich and Patterson be recognised too, I think Paabo's contributions in the more narrowly defined field of archaic hominin research are very clearly much more comprehensive and vital than theirs.
Gotta love that he felt the need to abort his wolfenstein play before the nazi flags became too visible and triggered content detection.
Silvio is also tied to the P2 lodge, right?
I love how there's a superscript-citation added to the line "Is the rapture of the nerds imminent..."
No. The similar hip size might have confused you ?
I ran a volunteer bot net that generated legitimate looking traffic to websites. Its incredibly easy for anyone with a large network of gray and black hats to pull it off.

My botnet was specifically for the optimization of bounce rates, we kept away from any ads of any sort, and only navigated around the internal website through clicking relative links or absolute links with the same domain.

If you wanted lower bounce rates, you had to also run this on your PC, and kick over $50/mo. It was my favorite service I ever wrote even if it did help rank websites that naturally shouldn't have been ranked higher.
I agree. They pursue maximum preservation of power, local optimization at the detriment of their people.
There's also a de-make of the intro to Disco Elysium[0]; because the game is so text-heavy, the entire script can't fit into a 128kb Game Boy cartridge.

Along the same lines, there's also the "fantasy console" Pico-8[1], which is designed to mimic the limitations of old handhelds, but with some modern development improvements. It features a number of de-makes, including Street Fighter[2], DOOM[3], and OutRun[4], which can be played in a browser.

[0]: https://csbrannan.itch.io/disco-elysium-game-boy-edition

[1]: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

[2]: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=83367#p

[3]: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=101541#p

[4]: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=106518#p
There are many ways to be ungrateful, the best ones end with drone strikes in your vicinity /s
Hybrid scheduling gets more complicated
gladio never stopped, it just came home
To be fair, the bots were mostly impressed.
California law favors renters so hard I’m honestly surprised there are any landlords remaining.

I always laugh when people talk how easy it would be to make money as a landlord, as if bad tenants don’t exist at all.
It's even more remarkable that Paabo never really had much of a relationship with his father but still managed to follow him in getting a Nobel Prize. Something to fuel nature-nurture debates...
Or how about we actually put them in jail when they commit crimes? A poor person stealing from a supermarket certainly risks jail time.
> The argument of our constitutional court is that every single voter needs to be able to understand how our voting system works without being an expert.

It doesn't take an expert to understand that you click on a machine, it prints a receipt which you can verify has the correct thing written on it, and you put that receipt in a box. When counting, the paper receipts can be counted, or used as a statistical check if machines report numbers directly. There's nothing complicated in that.
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That doesn't mean it's junk. But I think the selection effects you mention is a very intriguing idea. It could certainly be the case, but we don't know yet.
Article says she got paid $250,000 for the endorsement, so she lost 5x that amount.
> Bitcoin[……] which makes it seem less scammy.

Seem.
Not yet started. We are still way above 2008 levels.
Also small cap tech stocks are not done until they are bankrupt
Looks like Paddle does this as well: https://twitter.com/MrMooky/status/1570480546287071234
Great story, Michael, thanks for sharing!

I have a disability (profound hearing loss) and I've started 2 businesses in my career; the first was a freelance gig, the second was a health recordkeeping app for iPad. Neither have been successful enough for me to sustainably provide for my family but I'm hoping the next one will succeed!

Really glad to hear your story - it's very inspiring!