skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You already implies you agree with my claim about it not being unreasonable when you said “as well.” I guess you retract that?

And again: this study is just one of many studies that have lead to my prior. The rate of myocarditis is well established, the population size is well established, the open question is the fatality rate. The unreasonable part comes from putting a lower bound on the death rate based on some assumptions around these studies which have done autopsies and the estimates on subclinical heart interactions from the drug. There are several studies on all of these things. The back of the napkin math to me is on the order of tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.
It has a viral license, any data you mix with OSM data becomes open source.

Data sources that people commonly want to blend with mapping data have legal and regulatory restrictions with respect to privacy, data jurisdiction, acceptable use, statutory time limits, contract terms, etc. The OSM license terms are in conflict with legal and regulatory compliance requirements.
We generally don't allow parents to force risky irreversible things onto their children. But also, the view of all citizens as simple children of the State seems...problematic.
I never said that any mitigation was unnecessary. There is a such thing as going overboard. There are still outdoor areas that are closed off despite there being no credible cases of outdoor transmission. https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-case...
Z-Wave also supports device associations which Zigbee doesn't. You can permanently associate devices together (i.e. switches) to create a virtual 3-way switch that will work even if the "smart home hub" is down. Which, from a reliability perspective is a much better design if you're installing something commercially.
xp/7 is no simple slash and is filled with the screams and tantrums of vista and Windows 2000 curmudgeons.
Mozilla is collaborating with WebKit and Google Chrome on Speedometer 3
I can simultaneously burst a bubble and provide fuel for more -- the alignment of the intrinsic manifolds of different domains has been an interesting research topic for zero shot research for a few years. I remember seeing at CVPR 2018 the first zero shot...classifier, I think? That if I recall correctly trained in two domains that were automatically basically aligned with each other enough to provide very good zero shot accuracy.

Calling it a Deep Truth might be a bit of an emotional marketing spin but the concept is very exciting nonetheless I believe.
That's what I meant - subconsciously you probably were thinking of the base that is the South Pole Station, since that's the one with more pictures of it and that's the location where you'd intuitively expect an antarctic base to be.
Phishing Campaign Bombards Open Source Repositories with over 144K Packages
Of course, I wanted to know what "FSTP Snow School" was, but garbage blogspam gives first-search-results like this: https://mapcarta.com/N8759058406

<sigh>
It's the new "attention economy". Your value is how many eyeballs are fixed on you. It creates spectacles like this.

Edit: another comment pointed out that this is just Trump licensing his name to a product that he likely didn't conjure up himself.
Elon Musk Had His Most Absurd, Disturbing 24 Hours at Twitter Yet
If I'm going to read anti vaxxer content I need to be paid, I'm so done finding misrepresentations and statistical hackery in propaganda articles. They cherry pick data, resort in fallacies and all kinds of trickery. They give you a shocking graph where you can see that young people are dying en masse only to find out that this graph is achieved through visual or statistical BS. Hours spend to dig out lies, completely avoidable by avoiding that content.
I mean, coding contests tend not only to be well-specified, but also extremely micro tasks. A whole lot of the work of software development is taking even reasonably well-specified business requirements and determing the appropriate structure of tasks at that level to meet them.

Coding contest problems may be a common hiring filter, but they are very much not representative of software development work (OTOH, AI coding assistance, which this, Copilot, ChatGPT, etc., illustrate) are going to render them less valid as hiring filters, both because they will make them harder to use as skill tests, and because they will further reduce the role of the micro-focus skills they center in real-world software development.
I don't believe it would even be possible to "claw back" consumed goods, is my point. If you can link to some examples of ordinary people getting money clawed back because they withdrew it form a financial institution prior to bankruptcy, please do, because I simply don't understand how that's possible. The money is gone.
Are you suggesting there is a solution without innovation, or that there is no solution at all?
> I wish it was possible to pay more for hardware and get components that are just made measurably better than common hardware.

I do too, but I just don't see it happening with the market. After a company has established a reputation for quality, it's too tempting for a business leader to cut corners and reap a short-term windfall before their customers figure out they're not getting what they're paying for.
Agreed, but the question is: how many other other programmers do you need on your team now? How much of their work will be taken over by our new AI magic boxes?

You have to see this from the perspective of non-tech companies, who see tech as a cost-center, not a profit or innovation center.

Does your regional grocery store that just needs some tools that can help it track inventory really care whether its code comes from a team of big brained humans or two programmers in a basement copy-pasting chatGPT answers?
In Canada, all reports to our Public Health Infobase must be made by a health care professional. I do suspect underreporting, given social and collegial pressure on practitioners to not undermine vaccination efforts, but I accept the given stats linked above at face value for the purposes of my model.
I have ~65 Z-Wave devices around my house, and I definitely notice lag from time to time. Recent versions of Z-Wave seem to be significantly faster and I've noticed it less.

I can't say I _love_ dealing with Z-Wave. But I do like having a single protocol throughout my house. At the very least, any issues I have tend to be consistent. I'd say in this past 6-months, I've practically had zero problems. I blame that overall improvement on ZwaveJs, because some of these devices are at least 5 years old and they're just cranking away without issue right along side my more recent Zooz and Inovelli devices.

That said, I've been strongly considering multiple Z-wave hubs, each running zwave2mqtt with a central mqtt server just to keep everything as fast as possible.
> Longer context. The context length of the new model is increased by a factor of four, from 2048 to 8192, making it more convenient to work with long documents.

8192 words is getting into the range of short stories or a masters thesis, which opens the door to some interesting applications.
I was working behind the counter at a booth at Macworld, Boston — maybe 1991 or so? A woman behind the booth with me suddenly said, "That was Wendy Carlos!", about someone who had just walked away from the booth. Dumb me was busy doing something and hadn't been paying attention.

Ha ha, those little moments in life when you're asleep at the wheel.
That's not necessarily the case, if fact it might be the exact opposite.

1. Don't pressure young people to get the vaccine, some will end up in hospital, some will die.

2. Pressure young people to get the vaccine and 6 times as many of them end up in hospital from the vaccine, taking up more space, and putting more pressure on the system [0], some of them will die [1][2]

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v...

[1]
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/tragedy...

[2] https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/death-boy-14-three-...
Understanding how serverless databases are architected, specifically databases like Fauna that leave the rigidity of traditional RDBMS behind without compromising or disclaiming correctness or consistency, will go a long ways to modernize data management practices as data continues to proliferate exponentially with the latest transactional, hybrid, and AI/ML use cases. As an industry, serverless provides for the delegation of operational complexity so we can focus on speeding up innovation on data insights discovery. Would love feedback on the paper, the blog article, and the subjects included in general. As someone that has endured database complexity ferom dBase to DB2 to MySQL, Postgres, and Mongo (to name a few), this is a conversation that is worth continuing. If there are places where it already happens, I’m eager to join in and contribute. - Luis
> I should just vanish

No, the world needs more people like you. You sound like a curious and passionate person who's worked through multiple challenges. I think you're being too hard on yourself.

> My old classmates have degrees blahblahblah

Are you still using Facebook, Instagram, etc? Delete those. Trust me, I have been so much happier since I stopped using IRL social media.

> My job requires me to commute to work 3 times a week to an office for 2.5h one way

That is horrible. You spend 5 hours commuting per day, 3 days a week, so a total of 15 hours commuting in a week? Why? Can you WFH for this job, or at least find a different one?

Normally on this forum I would suggest that you leverage your boring data-entry job as an opportunity to impress by automating it. If you think you don't like programming because of a bad experience in college, then maybe try again by teaching yourself - it's possible it wasn't the programming work itself that caused your bad experience. But if you truly don't like programming, then I'm afraid "automating your job" is not the right solution. And I'm skeptical that any job sitting in front of a computer will bring you happiness.

My suggestion is to leave your comfort zone and try something totally new, preferably an occupation that doesn't require staring at a monitor. Try working on a fishing boat for a few months or something.

> How do I live with myself?

Dude, you are 23 years old. You have an entire life in front of you. Your current emotional state is a challenge that you can overcome, and you will be wiser and better for it. And in twenty years, when your old classmates with their fancy degrees are having their midlife crisis, you'll be cruising, thanks to the strength you've built by following a less-trodden path.

Also, I think you should read some Stoic literature. Or at least start with Ryan Holiday's The Obstacle is the Way.
Sadly, videos can't be larger than that. For one there's a memory limit per browser tab. Secondly, wasm32 is not able to address more than 4 GB of memory.

Editing feature length movies is certainly out of scope for this editor. It's meant for editing short 10-30 second video clips that are well within the limits of 2 GB. We keep compressed video in memory and only deal with a few decompressed frames at a time.

We avoid H264 patents by not shipping an H264 encoder/decoder. We leverage the browser's WebCodecs API which in turn uses the platform's native codec API. It's the OS and the hardware vendors that license H264 patents because they're the ones providing the H264 implementation.
> I wonder, who was raised to think well of trans people?

Well, we should all try and make the world better, right? Many kids and young adults today have been raised with a sense of curiosity and empathy rather than one of scorn and judgment, and that includes fully supporting trans people. That is surely true of older adults as well, especially those whose parents are trans themselves or have close friends/relatives who are trans.
The actual wording of the study includes this...

> Finally, we cannot provide a definitive functional proof or a direct causal link between vaccination and myocarditis.

... which is a much, much more cautious conclusion than you're pretending.
I think the plan might be to get rid of the play framework altogether and rather use a couple small, independent libraries to achieve the same.

The likelihood of getting security fixes in the future is about the same as getting new security holes created by whatever updates. Butchering away everything they didn't need certainly didn't harm security.
You may want to have it checked out, cognitive/motor decline at your age is a bit unusual, unless you had a very sedentary lifestyle for most of your life up to this point or there's some specific ailment.

Poor cardiovascular health can cause a swath of problems as we age, so regular exercise is a must.

In terms of tooling, depending on what you type, anything with advanced auto complete (Google Docs for text, or an IDE for code) can help a lot.
If I had a nickel for every time I have used this pattern

... | perl -ne 'print "$1 $2 ...\n" if /some-regex-with-capture-groups/' | ...
Texture a complete scene in Blender using Stable Diffusion depth2img
I'm not convinced that the solutions to climate change are tech related. If anything, climate change is tech driven.

Addressing climate change doesn't really require startups and venture capitalist pump and dump schemes. It requires social and behavioral changes, mainly centered around consumption. Basically everything on this list would increase consumption, manufacturing, construction, road building, etc.

There are many, many known solutions to climate change that do not require any new science or technology. We just don't want to do them. Lists like these are really just trying to invent new tech and science that allows us to keep current levels of consumption.
This is particularly true for governments. I know the United States Geological Survey wanted to use OSM data for portions of their cartography, but can't because it's not public domain (as their products must be).
No, it’s the kind of lawyer you can buy with money whose origins you can’t explain.
IMO, the 'why' is due to how mature the industry is - it'll absolutely be the future for every profession, given enough time. It's the natural distribution of wealth in our society: Few have too much, most have not enough.

We're all "doomed" if this is the case.
Ah yes that centralised company that committed fraud? Better track the decentralized wallets! What a joke.
> Thunar: It is now possible to add a 'file creation date' column

Finally! Coming from Windows this is something I've always missed.

I know older filesystems didn't support it but EXT4 has been the default for years now.
Hash functions aren’t significantly impacted by quantum computers. You may need to use a longer construction (eg. SHA512 instead of SHA256), but that’s it.
Amazon Transparency: Proactively protect your brand from counterfeits
Internet Explorer to be Permanently Disabled on Windows 10 on February 14, 2023
That first part is a mistaken belief.

There's also a useful metric for the "chance of dying" - it's known as a micromort. Each micromort is a one in a million chance of dying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort

A fair bit of statistical work has been done on COVID-19 and it is summarized in the wikipedia article.

AstraZeneca vaccination against COVID-19 – 2.9 micromorts[31]
COVID-19 infection at age 10 – 20 micromorts
COVID-19 infection at age 25 – 100 micromorts
COVID-19 infection at age 55 – 4,000 micromorts
COVID-19 infection at age 65 – 14,000 micromorts
COVID-19 infection at age 75 – 46,000 micromorts
COVID-19 infection at age 85 – 150,000 micromorts [32]

Yes, many people survived - but those are not numbers I want to be betting against on a daily basis.

NYT - Putting the Risk of Covid-19 in Perspective
Is the risk of dying from Covid-19 comparable to driving to work every day, skydiving or being a soldier in a war?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/well/live/putting-the-ris...

> Converting this to micromort language, an individual living in New York City has experienced roughly 50 additional micromorts of risk per day because of Covid-19. That means you were roughly twice as likely to die as you would have been if you were serving in the U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan throughout 2010, a particularly deadly year.

Rare is not zero - but if you are risk adverse, then avoiding things that are fairly high up on the risk counter would be reasonable. Likewise, if there are two options (driving in a car vs driving in a motor cycle), taking the one that adds the least amount of additional risk is reasonable.
Twitter should be at twitter.elonmusk.com instead of twitter.com
The point of the announcement is to give a timeline to start treating SHA1 as having no real security.

This is relevant to when you'd choose CRC, because it also has no real security.
One of the things that's made me the most frustrated learning rust is all the type coercion and inferencing. Sometimes code will just work when I have the wrong mental model because types are coerced but then it ends up biting me later when suddenly everything breaks because it can't coerce anymore and I find out nothing was the type I thought it was. I wish there was a way to turn it off while I'm learning just so I can understand what's really happening.
that's amazing! Do you have an email address where I can shoot you a message? I'd love to pick your brain on this tech (paid of course).
I can't imagine the amount of corporate brainwashing needed to get to this level of thinking. Are you really saying that people cannot have any identity in life, any dreams, hobbies or pursuits if they can't sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week fixing Jira tickets?

Just because a car can go 100mph doesn't mean long distance running doesn't need to exist. Just because a novel you write isn't the best in the world doesn't mean the hobby is pointless. Go buy a farm and grow your own food. Keep some pets. Build cool software just because you can. Hang out with your friends. Play with your kids. Do literally anything you want. Not having to be a wage slave to survive is a good thing for humanity.
Fair enough, but everyone was compelled to get the vaccine (regardless of age or risk factors). Given that, the vaccine makers and proponents leave themselves open to such criticisms that would not be valid if the vaccine was not compelled on my 7 year old.
> What would it mean to feel like we have a good understanding though? How would we quantify "god"?

That is a hard question and honestly I don't have the knowledge to answer it.

> We have observed that the side-effects have minimal deviation from the normal variations observed in the population for those effects. And we also know it is highly dependent on individual characteristics as to who exhibits the worst side-effects or best antibody response.

Yeah, I get that the vaccine can cause side effects for a very small minority of the population. I think what I want is for vaccine side-effects to be treated more like plane crashes. I get that bad things happen, but if it isn't cost-prohibitive, I would like to know why these things happened, even if they happen extremely rarely.
> I am receiving monthly ~$4k from a company suited to my niche on my own side project

Congratulations! That's a big amount. Risky though as well, if you only have one client that covers your majority of revenue.
I strongly disagree with the first point: As a society the more we discover, the more we increase the surface of the discoverable and the more we can combine things. It only gets harder for the individual because it takes longer and longer to learn everything necessary to get to the frontier of the unknown. It is not a problem of running out of viable research topics.
The owners tried to put Google Analytics into Audacity when they took it over. I wouldn't touch either project if you care about privacy.
This is incorrect. Of the vaccines that are given to children, none prevent infection. All significantly prevent disease and death.
Hey, if it can negotiate a Verizon bill then it stands a good chance of negotiating a list of features. Maybe you could pair it with a stable diffusion design bot that shows a selection of imagined designs that are based on the client's description of what they want. The client picks an option and the chatbot negotiates the price and timeline for it.
I think you mean "get sick" which is untrue. You are less likely to get sick if vaccinated. You are also less likely to experience severe symptoms if vaccinated. https://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/preventive-care/va...
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> A section of the American far right seems to genuinely believe that Michelle Obama is trans — not just as an insult they like to throw around, but literally.

Which is pretty incredible all by itself. But people seem to be very susceptible to contracting this kind of mind-virus and then becoming instrumental in spreading it. But at the root of these things are some very malicious people. One of them is on trial in NL right now, and I'm really happy to see the structural and deliberate approach to finding out where the limits on just being able to spout off are. The damage these characters do is real, and - ironically - the biggest risk to free speech comes from them.
This was a good podcast about birth of the synth built by Bob Moog and Don Buchla on each coast of the US.

part 1: https://www.20k.org/episodes/synthwar

part 2: https://www.20k.org/episodes/digitaldoom
> But we can't have a registry of gun owners, because ... CONSTITUTION!

> new and creative ways to be horrible

> famously corrupt official loves to bash immigrants, of course, but he takes particular zeal in endangering the LGBTQ+ community

Please don't post ATL links, they are almost always sarcastic and over-the-top ragebait.
the 40x is possible, and even likely - but that is often twisted to suggest that if there were (for example) 10,000 reported deaths in vaers, then it must mean there were 400,000 actual deaths from the vaccine - yes, there is a lot of under-reporting, and maybe even a 40x factor, but those unreported events are usually of the trivial kind - i.e. 'I had a sore arm after getting the shot' - likely trivial symptoms are under-reported by quite a bit - not plausible that there are 40 deaths for every reported one.
Bitcoin mining uses double SHA256 which is not subject to length extension attacks. (Not that it matters, because bitcoin block headers are fixed length.)
My (likely incorrect) assumption has been that my zwave stick is handling everything serially and falls behind when traffic spikes.
Monica Gandhi has been repeatedly wrong, claiming herd immunity in India right before somewhere between 1-3 million died, to the point of having to apologize for it. https://twitter.com/MehdiHasanShow/status/148940441066927719...
Hypothetically, yes. But I am not optimistic about Windows 95's ability to deal with wireless networks. Also, you end up in a situation where you need a working network interface in order to download the driver for said network interface.
I see. I guess the only solution is to go on a theme hunt, then. I use Bunsen themes with XFCE, and haven't encountered that problem, but I don't use a lot of GTK3 apps.
This is somewhat what we're trying to do with OpenDolphin [1]. Contributions are really appreciated as this is a community driven project.

[1]: https://about.opendolphin.social
I have to add that software is also something that can be copied without effort. If we can have 2000 drawing apps instead of 20, changes that none of those 2000 will fit the bill will get close to zero.

Industries have traditionally solved this with planned obsolence. Maybe JavaScript might be our saviour here for a while. :)

There is also a natural plateau of choice we can handle. Of those 2000, only a few will be winners and with reach. It might soon be that the AI model becomes more valuable than any of those apps.
Case in point: try to make a profitable app on Android these days.
If everyone was compelled how the vaccination rates are so low?