skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the floodgates open to GitLab and more, it'll be a great option for folks.
I thought that prior infection had no relevance for subsequent immunity, otherwise why would they institute mandatory vaccination last year without any kind of exception for people who were already previously infected? This kind of obvious incoherency could cause loss of public trust in public health officials and regulations, and that would have been disastrous: people would then start second guessing the rules made by government officials, instead of unquestioningly following them. Only way this could have made sense if vaccination made a much stronger difference to your subsequent immune response than the actual disease itself.
The headline has been altered to change the original meaning.
I made this submission and it seems ridiculous that a state press release gets censored. Obviously you can (and should) critique the statistical analysis or reject it altogether, but that the Florida Department of Health makes this announcement is in itself of obvious public interest and worthy of discussion.
Oh, terrific. He's had some really awesome takes lately. He should sound off on Cyprus and the Falkland Islands too, while he's on a roll.

I sure hope he doesn't pivot into politics after he gets bored.
Google to open first Japan data center in 2023
Make your neighbor think their house is haunted by blinking their smart bulbs
I am a solo amateur developer for 20 years. I mainly build tools for home automation, my own dashboard that gathers data from calendars, buses, meteo etc. and displays this on the living room for the famil, and more recently a simple smart lock.

Most of these are back + front.

After a lot of experiments, I ended up with the idea that once I know a hammer (framework, language) I will see everything as a nail.

So I went for

Front: Quasar (quasar.dev). It is based on Vue and recently also on Vite. Use that combo. Also Typescript.

Pros: very complete, has everything you need for an average front, including PWA or of the box. Very good documentation.

Cons: the community is meh. Rarely someone respond and the SO tag does not have a lot of traction.

Back: I used to be pure Python, now I try to do everything in Go (after an initial strong dislike I learned to like the down to earth code)

Infra: everything goes into a docker container, this makes dev and deployment sooooo much easier.
The tech varies; people are constant.

When we get a time machine and peek in on these ancient struggles, I anticipate very unromantic and unsurprising results.
> In a memo to employees dated September 15th, Meta’s VP of Metaverse, Vishal Shah, said the team would remain in a “quality lockdown” for the rest of the year to “ensure that we fix our quality gaps and performance issues before we open up Horizon to more users.”

Even without the bugs, who'd want to use it? I don't like wearing the VR helmet, it's nauseating and isolating from the the real world.

I will say that I like the sound of Vishal Shah. An engineering leader who secures buy-in for a multi-month feature freeze in order to resolve excessive bugs deserves praise and respect. Even if the deliverable might probably be a zucky pig lipstick situation.

(Is MetaPharse a thing yet?)
> Was it cheaper than encouraging locals or paying them?

A great deal of ancient warfare was profitable as you could both loot and take slaves after the battle. You can’t exactly pay someone to take their stuff and turn their kids into slaves. But, you might be able to pay mercenaries to take their neighbors‘s stuff.
The big deals are:

1. Getting rid of manual rebases (productivity)

2. Being able to create dependant PRs and make your peer's lives easier.

Screenshot here [1].

1 - https://imgur.com/a/QJGTBsj

EDIT: Formatting
Introducing the Basic Post-Scarcity Map
A society in which all basic human needs are provided at zero or very low cost without significant human work can be defined as basic post-scarcity.
Our civilization is getting close to the point where this is technically feasible.

To reach this milestone as soon as possible, we introduce here the Basic Post-scarcity Map project, an effort to map the current technological state of the art and to understand how far we are from a basic post-scarcity society. We are currently in alpha stage, and we are releasing early to gather feedback and collaborators.

This project is an attempt to provide unbiased answers to the following questions:

- What technological advancements are needed to reach basic post-scarcity?

- What is the state of the art, what resources are available to learn about it and who is currently working on improving it?

- How far are we from achieving basic post-scarcity and what are the bottlenecks?

To accomplish this, the basic idea is to build two maps: the first where we will deconstruct the basic needs needed to reach basic post-scarcity and the technical milestones needed to satisfy them with minimal human work at the minimum cost. The second in which we input and update the state of the art for each of the technical milestones.

References to the current state of the art and the resources needed to learn more about it are collected in separate pages forming a shared library.

This is an open source and collaborative project. All contributions are fact-based, with no projections, opinions, marketing or propaganda.

We believe that having a searchable and living assessment of the state of the art will enable people who want to work towards this goal to know what is needed, what is currently feasible and who is currently working on what.

We are aware of the many limitations of this approach and in particular we know that technical bottlenecks are not the only roadblocks to a basic post-scarcity civilization. However, we also think that it is not unreasonable to assume that reducing the cost and the manpower associated with fulfilling basic needs will make it easier for public and / or private actors to provide them as widely as possible.

Our goal is to make this project simple to contribute and update. At this stage we need help creating technical milestones. Domain experts are particularly welcome to shine light on the state of the art for the relevant milestones in their respective fields.
Additionally, anyone with reference materials and / or knowledge of people currently involved in solving these problems can contribute by sharing their resources in the library.

The project is currently live at: https://postscarcitymap.org/

You can make contributions directly to the library by editing the pages on our Gitlab repo: https://gitlab.com/postscarcity/library/.

At the moment the process of updating the tree is still pretty manual, but we plan to automate it more.

If you want to join us as part of the team and contribute regularly, we also have a Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/vhc8EZkmEv

We welcome feedback and contributions of any size.
OTOH Perun seems to do very well doing hour-long powerpoint presentations on Youtube.
Its purpose seems to be merely to keep a corrupt system going purely for its own sake. Where is the spiritual meaning in any of this?
Right, the brain seems to have a heuristic that if it hears/sees/etc the same thing, it makes it believe it more. Like if you’ve heard two different people spout the same wrong thing, you’re quite likely to start believing it. So if you’re fed the same thing over and over due to your YouTube persona bucket, you probably become a more devout believer, for better or worse. Receiving a smattering of different opinions probably keeps you in a better place in terms of remaining critical. Maybe staying in a skeptical frame of mind helps inoculate against this somewhat, because you go through the exercise of trying to find counter evidence at the same time, so that you’re essentially feeding your own brain conflicting messages. But that takes effort unless you’re already in the habit.

Something to keep in mind, regardless of how correct you think your habitual info channels are. If dissent is stamped out, like it is on many subreddits and Twitter, that’s a pretty bad sign.
At least we can switch every month with relative ease, unlike when you had to deal with real cable packages.
It’s definitely not a bright line, which is why you’re supposed to talk to the IRB.

In your example, I think it depends on the audience and goal. If you’re using these data to plan a computer lab upgrade, it seems very clearly operational. If you wanted to publish a study entitled “Factors affecting IT utilization at an R1 university”, you probably need to run it by the IRB. In that case, they will almost certainly give you the go-ahead after reminding you not to include any identifiable information.
Do fungi lurking inside cancers speed their growth?
Markets go down and up. Your money isn't real till you cash it out, and it's unhealthy to let short term changes in headline numbers control your emotional reaction - positive or negative.

Your focus on the short term is causing the issue here, so try to move on from that.
I think this needs a (2017)
They can't cut two cables again? And Voda phone has now been made hack proof, I assume? Infrastructure is not secure, either digitally or physically. The only thing keeping them up is threats from the three letter agencies, like that hacking group that accidentally hit infrastructure and apologized for the international incident. https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/10/22428996/colonial-pipelin... there is literally nothing protecting any of these targets from state sponsored hacking or two guys with some bolt cutters and grenades. What's our success rate against Joe randoms with a rifle attacking domestic targets, much less actual trained operatives
I put "more free" in scare quotes because the result isn't more freedom for users.
In an ideal world, yes. Blind signatures and all that.

But that isn't how collection-maximizing surveillance companies work. Right now, the lowest friction is to ask for birthdays where they can get away with it, but never really verify. If the law gives them a reason to verify, then the incentive is to expand their plaintext-based all-knowing systems to perform verification.

Sure, we'd likely see a startup that promises to do privacy-respecting age verification, but it would go nowhere. What incentive would there be for Google et al to adopt it, as opposed to say just requesting your driving license number with a message implying that California "made" them to do this ? The companies without the cloud to demand personal info would then outsource the verification to the bigger surveillance companies.
Yes, whole pages even, from fiction to non-fiction. Sometimes it's the material, sometimes the setting, sometimes it's just not my day. Mostly I go back and reread the section, sometimes more than once. If it keeps happening though, I put the material down and come back to it later. Forcing myself through usually doesn't work.

That said, if it's a reoccurring problem that's negatively affecting your life, don't hesitate to seek care. The cost/benefit for these kinds of problems is often greater than thinks. Good luck!
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It's also impacting the substantive bloggers, like Perun. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC3ehuUksTyQ7bbjGntmx3Q/com...
I'd sooner ban alcohol than marijuana, that's for sure.
> climate crazed people

You obviously have an agenda. None of these groups blame "trains".
I read K&R 20 years ago and today it's still the closest programming book to my heart -- yeah there's more modern choices but the exercises are unmatched, it's short, and it's one of the most fun books you'll ever read.

The standards for C99, C11 are open. Look up what you don't learn in them and grab one of the other more modern suggestions from here for that, but K&R is a must have for any C programmer.

You probably won't be able to put the book down if you start reading it.
Extinction rates can be measured and modeled. What’s unscientific about that?
Ask HN: How to stop the dilettante habits of learning?
I find myself consuming many topics, reading books and watching online lecturers. But most of them have no use for my life. And I don't know how to apply what I have learned to improve my life (financial and mental)
Yes, it certainly seems that way.
Regarding the pipelines, it seems odd to call them a NATO target when they’re largely owned by Russia. Likewise, Russia had more to gain from just holding the gas supply hostage by stopping it, but offering to return the supply were Europe to give in to demands after a cold winter or two.
Meanwhile, did you watch the video of Biden threatening to take them out from this past February?
I think the real reason is they're thinking about opening their foundry to external customers in a meaningful way.

A modern foundry is expected to have a suite of hard IP blocks to drop on a design to cover PPA sensitive blocks like CPUs someone would want, and blocks with analog bits like PHYs. Best way to ameliorate people's concerns is to have shipped a chip that runs with those blocks.
What do you call "frequentist methods"?

Imagine the following question: "what's the male/female ratio in gorillas?"

A frequentist method may provide the answer "[1.1 1.3] is a 95% confidence interval" based on taking a sample of zoos and asking them about the sex of the last gorilla born there.

A Bayesian method will provide a different answer - maybe one difficult to reconcile. Because it's not "translating the same mathematical ideas into English". Not only the translation is different - the "mathematical ideas" considered are different as well.
Hijacking the thread to ask what would you choose as a 12" replacement for a X240. It still works great (using it now) and Linux support is perfect, but I have the chance to buy locally refurbished X270 or X280 devices with 1080 screen at a good price. Are they the best upgrade before going to different models? I believe they are also compatible with the docking station and bigger battery I already have on the 240, which is a bonus.
Thanks!
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Youtube are of course a pack of jerks but I don't know where this idea you have some kind of entitlement to the Youtube Partner Program came from. Youtube is already hosting your video content for free. The partner program is another free service where they do the work of an entire ad agency for you. Losing monetization doesn't stop you from getting paid, it stops you from getting paid automatically for no effort. You're still completely free to get sponsorships and run ad placements to make money exactly the way you had to before Youtube started handing out careers on a silver platter.
By far the biggest change to the Java file format I can remember was when they added this kind of metadata to the files. It was meant to reduce startup time. I think they even made it mandatory at some point, which killed off a minifier I’d been enjoying.

That developed during the era of papers about Proof Carrying Code, which I haven’t heard about in quite some time. So maybe the cachet has gone.
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I worked at some very high paying tech companies, most of my coworkers could and did easily afford housing and family, and yet the work ethic was simply not there.
In case you did not suffer from this in the past, go see a doctor.
The advice for sales reps to stop talking and listen certainly rings true in my experience. I see a lot of sales materials that are geared towards a scripted pitch: generic powerpoint decks, exhaustive demos, and boilerplate feature description flyers. There's probably a lot of value in sales teams having access to that kind of collateral, but I would wager that there's even more value in knowing how to step away from that material and follow the customer's lead in what to showcase.
I did try that but none of the rss apps I tried displayed the image
If the estate can’t pay then the debt is just written off though.

That aside, ability to pay is not going to be the top consideration of the baseline profitability of a procedure.

I don’t know any specifics though.
The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart [video]
> Researchers found that many of the soldiers were born far away, in places like the eastern Baltic, Central Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus Mountains.

I like that because I'm used to thinking that most mercenaries were Balearic slingers, Numidian horseman, and Cretan archers. Probably because that's what Caesar wrote about in Conquest of Gaul. I guess you can't forget about Iberian and Libyan infantry that Carthage used quite a bit as well as Spartan mercenaries and the infamous Italian mamertines.

Caesar:

Ch. 7
Thither, immediately after midnight, Caesar, using as guides the same
persons who had come to him as messengers from Iccius, sends some
Numidian and Cretan archers, and some Balearian slingers as a relief
to the towns‐people, by whose arrival both a desire to resist together
with the hope of [making good their] defense, was infused into the
Remi, and, for the same reason, the hope of gaining the town, abandoned
the enemy.

Ch 10
Caesar, being apprized of this by Titurius, leads all his cavalry
and light‐armed Numidians, slingers and archers, over the bridge,
and hastens toward them. There was a severe struggle in that place.
Our men, attacking in the river the disordered enemy, slew a great
part of them
Somebody who was 10 when horses were added to minecraft is 19 now.

But minecraft has always been an "all ages" game, not a kids game. And it was first advertised/promoted on 4chan.
Make sure you are personally prepared if you get laid off. Have enough cash on hand to cover 6 months of expenses.

Accept downturns are a part of life and are overall a good thing. Every bull market accumulates cruft (NFTs, ahem), and a downturn helps clear that out for the next bull market.

Downturns can be a fantastic time to buy. The old adage is to buy low and sell high. S&P 500 is down 25% this year. If you believe (as I do) it will more than recover, then if you buy today, you will earn more than 25% return when it does.

Lastly if your stock options are hit more than market, assuming you believe in long term health of business, that probably means they will recover more once market recovers. Tech stocks are getting unfairly punished now because of tampered growth expectations. Don’t sell them. Let them vest and ride. In fact buy more if you can (see point above).
>demonetized because I cover the war

I understand his instinct to self-title his video as "I cover the war" which implies a noble journalistic service for viewers but in comparing other youtube channels talking about Ukraine that did not get de-monetized, I'm guessing his type of content crosses the line.

E.g. one of his videos shows a grenade being dropped on a soldier while he has his pants down taking a dump. His commentary is to joke about it and vocalize a "boom" sound effect. The video is not blurred out and he did not set the "age restricted" flag. I won't link the video directly but you can easily find it.

Another perspective to look at the above scenario... if Google Youtube splits ad revenue 55% creator + 45% to Google.... Is the public ok with Google getting 45% of ad money from someone cheerleading a war death?

That's not a rhetorical question. I didn't do a survey so I really don't know what the answer is.

I noticed that several other Youtube channels cover Ukraine topics without getting demonetized:

https://www.youtube.com/c/RealLifeLore/search?query=ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/c/Taskandpurpose/search?query=ukrain...

https://www.youtube.com/c/CaspianReport/search?query=ukraine

I'm guessing those channels will be fine because they don't show raw war footage while jeering at human suffering.

I don't know if Youtube automatically demonetizes because of an algorithm sweeping through the channels or there was a human that decided his particular channel.
You are right, it was indeed getting quite overhyped and extremely euphoric in both the stock market (and crypto). I quite frankly saw it coming months ago. [0]

It just had to end very quickly with a market crash after all what happened in the last two years.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29508238
A telescope is a light collection device so you might be able to use your eye or a camera at the end of an optical telescope, but not a radio telescope.

On earth the sky’s motion blur is predictable and the atmospheric distortions detectable so you want to adjust for both on long exposure shots on earth.
This certainly isn't going to be right for everyone, but I downloaded the docker container for searxng a week or two ago and I've been using that. It's not the best solution for most people, but I've been very happy using that. You can read about it at docs.searxng.org
As a "tech person" who did a lot of travelling in the late 90s / early 00s, the Thinkpad T series was the workhorse not only because of the repairability (corporate IT teams could easily maintain them) but as an end user, I loved the Thinkpad due to its durability. They were built very well- mine took a lot of abuse while being shoved under airline seats and being bounced around in luggage, having an occasional coffee spilled on them, etc.

Other laptops of the time were absolutely flimsy: Dells, and HP laptops of the time were particularly cheap-feeling, had hinges that broke, had driver issues, and overall didn't have the high quality feel of the T series.

My company has recently transitioned away from the T series to a different brand, but I'm holding on to my T480 until it dies or I quit.
But he must also accept that life comes from death and the evolution (we should really call it a competition) he speaks off extinguished a large numbers of species. We might be one of them, and we're also victim of our own nature. We can try to resist it, but what will arise from our extinction ? Maybe something better, we have no special purpose nor duty.
I have the same laptop. Keyboard squeaks, USB-C port doesn't hold the adapter in place - falls out all the time. Battery life is appalling for a 2022 model laptop. It runs hot all the time, like burn my legs hot - I cannot work with it on my lap. That's probably related to the OS (Windows 11 'Pro'). Feels cheap and plasticky for the amount it cost. Thank goodness it's supplied by work and I didn't buy it. Not my first experience with Lenovo, but not great.

Edit: The trackpad is quite literally the worst I've every used - at times it's completely unresponsive.
the berlin event was organized by the AfD, an ethno-nationalist party, under the motto "germany first". They are fishing in the social-liberal circles claiming to be in favor of freedom and truth, but they run a well oiled propaganda machine and would rule with an iron fist should they ever take power.
Shatner is an actor famously known for staring in star trek which famously uses many of Shakespeare, the most well known bard, themes or outright plots. Further, he's stared in Shakespeare live productions. Even more, so he's made several spoken word lyrical albums.

Some of his words immediately after landing are poetic, “I hope I never recover, that I can maintain what I feel now.”

They did send a poet.
LFPR is above the level it was pre-pandemic. Immigration is the best way of driving up the LFPR, but that was essentially nil during the pandemic and is still way down. Combine that with the aging population, and a slight increase in LFPR over the last 3 years is much better than could be expected.
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