skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be skeptical of how much you just have people "tough it out" in these economies
in order to vaccinate more people. The fact this drug is cheaper and better is really
impressive.

How does this compare to the price of the injectable vaccines? Retail cost out here seems to be $30–$40, of which I'd expect a large chunk of that goes to labor.

So you were offered both as an covered options?

I did this outside of insurance. Up until California started taxing people who didn't carry private health insurance it made sense to see a GP at a fee-for-service practice that didn't take insurance. This was long enough ago that I don't remember the exact cost, but it was in line with the more common injected flu vaccines.

I can't think of another time I've been offered the nasal spray. Megacorp had Kaiser nurses on site annually, and they only offered the injection. I'm with (ick) Kaiser now and they were making some noise about covering COVID and flu vaccinations at CVS and Walgreens. If the nasal spray is offered there then presumably it would be covered by insurance.

However…

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/nasalspray.htm

After the 2009 pandemic, several U.S. studies among 2 through 17-year-olds found that
the nasal spray vaccine was as effective against influenza B viruses and influenza A(H3N2)
viruses as inactivated influenza vaccines but was less effective than inactivated flu
vaccines against the 2009 pandemic H1N1 viruses. These data led ACIP and CDC to recommend
against use of the nasal spray vaccine for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons.

Since the 2017-2018 season, the manufacturer of nasal spray vaccine has used new influenza
A(H1N1) vaccine virus ingredients in production. Because of limited use, there have been
no effectiveness estimates in the United States since LAIV was recommended again in the
2018-2019 influenza season. Data from other countries have demonstrated protection from
LAIV to be similar to that of standard-dose, egg-based inactivated flu vaccine in children.

Which sounds to me like there aren't a lot of compelling reasons to use the flu spray unless you're severely afraid of needles and thus most places don't offer it.
Those groups have overlap.
If you have $30k of expenses, and $10k are the deductible, you should try to fix the other $20k, since they're bigger. For example, try to buy a second insurance that will cover those other $20k, or switch to a different insurance company that will put the $20k in the covered category.

Focusing on reducing the $10k deductible to e.g. $2k, but leaving the other $20k to remain seems like a backward strategy to me.
Or maybe just doing what every CPU company does: keep improving?

I mean there are many good reasons why RISC-V still hasn't busted out yet. It's just an ISA, that's it. The implementations are wildly different, which is not something devs what to deal with. Risc-v didn't even have a rev 1 debug spec until a few months ago i mean come on get it together (what about the embedded -march that has been in limbo for 5 years). They're catching up with arm, slowly, but arm has an entire ecosystem that people trust that risc-v don't have.
> removing books from school libraries is a de facto ban on those books.

No, it isn't. There are millions of books that aren't in school libraries. Are they all de facto banned?

Confidently declaring something doesn't make it true. A library deciding not to carry a book is not a book ban.
I recently read the book Against The Gods (1996) on the development of mathematical probability theory in the early modern period, but I wasn't aware that the history in that book seems to have been covered also by Hacking in The Emergence of Probability (1975) and The Taming of Chance(1990). For anyone who has read these books, I'm curious how they relate.
I am unsure if this - I grew up in rural australia and we took fluoride tablets as kids.

N=3 but no fillings till post 25
Yeah, "recaptcha" in this case is shorthand for a lot of stuff we did to harden the endpoint that ultimately represents a minor shift in balance from no friction to some friction for otherwise legitimate users, but a pretty significant drop in illegitimate traffic.

The main idea here is that at some point just leaving the scrape running in a way that didn't overwhelm my backend would have resulted in me not caring enough to do that. But now they get nothing. Even if you're borrowing bandwidth and not paying, you should be a good neighbor is all.
A comparison between WASM and x86/ARM/etc native binaries is meaningful, because those are different formats for executable code.

A comparison between WASM and "containers" is meaningless, because the binaries being executed by a container runtime could be written in WASM. The executable format and the packaging format are separate concerns.

This might be easier to think about if you imagine the article was written as "native code vs containers" -- what conclusions (if any) could you draw from the benchmarks in an article with that premise?
Piccolo – experimental Lua VM implemented in pure Rust
Yep, agree. At least there is room for improvement, like caching at least the most frequently/popular pages and storing only less frequently visited pages.

For context: remarks are made at around 17:00 in the YT video.

Scaling looks like fun with this machine. Maybe adding REU to it would definitely help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_REU

Also it seems that the server requires a special 6502 based OS, link is mentioned below the YT video: https://github.com/oliverschmidt/contiki
I don't think you understand what a legally mandated payout rate means. You can have a slot machine that is completely random, yet gives a consistent payout over a large amount of trials. Every spin is independent.
I understand the phrase “feedback is a gift” differently than the author: people are not obligated to give you feedback. If someone has taken the time to give you feedback, this is a generous act, regardless of whether you agree with the feedback or find it helpful.
Im interested in your take about how humans get water into their bodies without coating their teeth in it
Don't you brush your teeth?!
Rapid language learning by distilling priors into artificial neural networks
Why care about the memory address for higher level languages like Lua?
"Doctrinal" isn't defined in the bill so far as I can see, which means it has its ordinary definition, something along the lines of relating to the message of the text. Pornography bans are justified by obscenity, which has a specific test given by SCOTUS, of which the third prong is that it "lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value," which is effectively tantamount to saying that it has no message that can be disagreed with.

So if you're attempting to ban it because it's obscene, that's okay. But if you're trying to call it pornographic because the lead characters are in a romantic relationship and happen to be of the same sex... well, that's not obscene, and your attempt to call it pornographic is doctrinal disapproval.
get rid of checks. They are a terrible system which are horrifically out dated, with far better alternatives available.
Same here. Their status page shows all green, though https://www.githubstatus.com/
If you start with the 5 why's, then it's clear that this could never ever happen until our corruption problem is addressed.

We can't have this because people won't unionize and exercise collective bargaining outside the bounds of the law.

Why can't we have this? Big banks don't want it.

Why does that matter? Big blanks have too much influence over the government.

Why do banks have too much influence? Because money votes on politicians before people do (politicians fundraise before the primary which means that money votes on candidates before people do) and money contributions are unbound (thanks to citizens united).

Why can't we make our politicians work for us? Because we have less power than the our plutocrats.

Why do we have less power? Because the law prevents us from exercising it via unions (or other means) and those in power are able to keep us fighting eachother rather than exercising collective power.

Why don't we put justice above law? Because that puts ourselves at risk and most people would rather live a slave than risk death or otherwise when the powerful defend themselves from having their power reduced.

So if you want a government that works for you, you have to unionize, until people have credible power, we will not be able to influence the government to work on our behalf.
Just curious. Europeans under 60 most probably only know about checks from US movies, and would never have seen one irl. Are checks still used over there and if so why?
The solicited case is also interesting. Who do I solicit feedback from, and if I were to imagine them giving a 1-5 rating, what rating would they give? Am I brave enough to seek out the 3’s? What’s the missing context that might turn a 2 into a 3, without wasting the time of the 4’s and 5’s?
What about when libraries have books but then the state govt demands these books get taken out? How much context are we allowed to include in a judgement of an action?

Never having a book, having it but having it be removed for non-content-related reasons, having it removed for content-related reasons, having the content removal decision come from librarians, or parents, or politicians, the public record of comments about why something is removed, all of these things are obviously important. Flattening it to "yeah lots of books aren't in libraries" is a _bit_ reductive!

Good things are good, bad things are bad. Sometimes it's hard to write laws that work around this, but at the very least moral judgements can be made, with space for nuance.
I've been working on a PR to document and make atomic pointer interface public in Julia. It's really not that hard to handle it under the hood so that array indexing and translates to LLVM and C zero indexing.
Do you prefer to plan out your entire day or take a more flexible approach? Why?
This is going to sound offensive but KAUST, PIF, Aramco, Neom are full of mediocre talent from mostly Europe - who do you think is interested in a dead end job and moving to Saudi Arabia to work for some idiot royals? The best talent stays put or moves to the US where actual value gets generated. The Saudis are also too racist to actually recruit from Asia/Africa where they stand a chance of attracting better talent.
Colors are useful. There's a reason many code editors have color syntax highlighting - it conveys information and is easy to work with. Most terminal colors in my experience aren't just for "looks", they're for displaying information in a clear and compact way.

If you prefer no colors in your environment that's fine and you can probably configure it that way, but I don't think no color as a global default makes sense.
> Only if you've waited long enough, which can be arbitrarily far out, and it stops, can you answer

So, we agree!
Really interesting! How efficiently does a web browser compute the PoW? I'm concerned that a bot would use an efficient GPU implementation while real users would run an inefficient JS/webcrypto version.
Well it is fretless, but really a cellist has a mental image of it and that is a “fret board”. The only difference is there’s no tactile feedback - you just get a feel for spacial placement and have to make millisecond corrections based on auditory feedback of pitch.

This fret fly app would be super helpful to a beginning cellist. This goes for those other, lesser stringed instruments as well btw.
OCRs of PD material? Is someone about to train a new AI model, perhaps? I'd think the Archive would be happy to arrange for receiving hard drives, filling them up, and sending them back. They seem like a very helpful bunch.
Weird then that scientific computing languages prefer 1 based arrays. Maybe can show how it's very annoying in lots of Fortran or Julia code?
It's probably not RISC-V or Apple that worries ARM. It's probably Qualcomm. Qualcomm has been licensing ARM's core designs since the beginning of the smartphone era. Qualcomm bought Nuvia so that they could design their own cores and pay much lower royalties just for the instruction set. ARM has a lawsuit against Qualcomm/Nuvia because Nuvia's agreement with ARM was (allegedly) that they wouldn't sell their IP to anyone without ARM's approval. However, churning out cores that are better than what Qualcomm/Nuvia can produce would make non-Qualcomm processors faster or keep the money coming from Qualcomm.

ARM doesn't need to catch up with Apple. Apple hasn't been buying ARM's designs for many years and there's no chance that will change. Even if Apple is faster, the whole Android world needs ARM's designs and most customers aren't choosing iPhones because Apple has faster processors. Apple's no threat to ARM in the data center since Apple isn't interested in the market.

ARM probably isn't that afraid of RISC-V at this point. Yes, there are some companies doing good things with RISC-V, but you don't have to look far to see how hard it is to create a great processor. Qualcomm has way more resources than RISC-V startups and they bought Nuvia (with engineers who made Apple Silicon) and they still aren't pushing their own cores. When you look at software benchmarks on ARM, there's often some lag (compared to x64) due to less mature compiler optimization and that's going to be even worse for RISC-V. While a lot of software is portable, it's not a drop-in replacement. A lot of Linux distros aren't even supporting ARM that well at the moment.

None of this is meant to belittle RISC-V. It's simply meant to note that there's a big hill to climb and it takes a long time to climb that hill. Even Apple who control their whole ecosystem took a very long time. Apple started shipping their own designs in 2010 and it was a decade before they made their way into MacBooks. Apple has the kind of money and ecosystem control that make such a move easier. That's not to say that RISC-V can't make a big impact, but rather to note that the threat from RISC-V is probably significantly farther out.

There are always threats, but the big threat right now is Qualcomm (and others) moving away from ARM's designs. If they're able to just pay instruction set licenses instead of the core licenses, it'll dry up ARM's revenue. As ARM's revenue dries up, they won't have the money to invest in new core designs. That will accelerate the decline of ARM's revenue as it becomes easier to beat their core designs.
Chatbot made up a nonexistent cases for legal filing
Under the Probably Approximately Correct framework, there's an x% chance your error on the empirical distribution deviates more than \epsilon away in either direction from that of the actual distribution, so one can assume similar things between two empirical distributions.
I don’t understand. Did you think that you could just spam libraries with books before this law? Libraries refusing to stock whatever mystery material is thrown at them is a logistical concern, not a matter of “banning.” Confusing the two borders on legal crank reasoning.
If it doesn’t involve my free labor training machine learning models like reCAPTCHA and hCAPTCHA and I can still visit sites from a non-Western IP, then it’s already an improvement.
No one manipulates stock offerings either. The SEC is just too good at it's job.
Adam Buxton is brilliant! His old radio show with Joe Cornish is greatly missed - used to love "Song Wars" where they each made up spoof songs that were really funny. "I've got licenses to kill, I've got licenses to fish" https://youtu.be/iAXVeKdrDOM
But now you are putting a price on the others time. Let’s say you make nothing yourself (starving artist, stay at home parent etc etc) and your cohabiting partner makes a few 100k, how do you decide what your time is worth vs your partner. Or your partner inherited a few million and does nothing but also feels they have to do nothing because they bring the money. When you separate, you might end up with nothing after 20 years just because you took care of the kids? I couldn’t live with someone in this robot/spreadsheet way.

Been married 25 years with a joint account and no prenup; wouldn’t want it any other way. Life is too short to worry about things like this and personally I would find it a sign of mistrust so it wouldn’t work in the first place.
You don't follow because...why exactly. Do you believe we should pull animals out of the ocean, inject them with Neuralink-equivalents and force higher order intelligence upon them? If so, state why you believe this is not an arrogant endeavor.
I guess that across the board vendors are experimenting and evaluating the impact of introducing WASM/WASI-based technologies and that may constitute something of a paradigm shift.

On the container side Docker also has native WASM support in a technical preview [0]. I don't think they see WASM as a threat, but rather as an addition to how apps and services can be delivered.

The other day I found an InfoWorld article "Solving the SBOM crisis with WebAssembly Components" [1] that features a diagram on the evolution of Application Development Stacks (by Cosmonic, one early adopter Wasm vendor) that indicates the trend. Idea is to tackle some of the complexity in current infra setups that have become like "Rube Goldberg machines".

It is interesting, but beware hype cycle trends.

[0] https://www.docker.com/blog/announcing-dockerwasm-technical-...

[1] https://www.infoworld.com/article/3694902/solving-the-sbom-c...
The 5 star thing is true. I've had a few colleagues who (in a metaphorical sense) always give 5 stars. It's actually quite infuriating - everything is good, so nothing can be better. It's much better to have a frank and critical conversation about something, with the shared goal of improvement.
My first real exposure to Lua was as the configuration language of imapfilter. Absolutely loved both.

https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter
I expect going it alone will get totally owned by everyone else working together.
Curation =/= banning. Telling curators (librarians) "You can't have any book on this list even if you want them, or you'll go to jail" is banning books.
from the Seattle Times obit:

"When he handed in his piece, she told him: “You sure can’t spell. You’re going to be an engineer.”"

"...Bateman’s attitude was always to get some new technology up and running, even if it was only 60% of the solution.

“His approach was, let’s get it done and fill in the other 40% as we gain experience over time,” Ishihara said."

Obit mentions he ran in long distance races. A search of athlinks.com for "Donald Bateman" born in 1932 shows mostly races around the turn of the 21st century with one result from a 1982 Mercer Island half marathon in 1:37:11.

see https://www.athlinks.com/search/unclaimed?category=unclaimed...
how does it work? perhaps it's proprietary that the authors wouldn't want to disclose, but I did not see anything referenced in the site. I wouldn't plug it into mine without knowing g
A comparison between WASM and "containers" is meaningful because in popular usage there's a cottage industry of WASM-based container solutions with the express goal (and co-evolved with the language to make this possible) of simplifying some of the thornier design decisions that make other containerization solutions easier to get started with (can just drop in any binary and dependencies) but also less performant for some set of tasks (have to set up network cgroups and other garbage). The phrase "WASM" isn't just being used to refer to the actual stack machine.
Duh, but you wouldn't rent one instance, but one for every employee.

That's not chump change considering the measly specs.
I would avoid trying to serialize tables in polyglot systems since it sounds like a specialized data structure whose counterparts don't really exist in other languages anyway.
Just to be clear, payout tables absolutely must be listed on slot machines. The _rate_ at which the payout is made is not required to be listed on a given machine.

That is, if you land on three cherries, you should be able to verify you got the right amount of money. But you don't know the percentage chance of landing on three cherries.
Games are very heavily regulated. You have to get approval, and there is a process for submitting the rules for a new game and getting it approved. Often it's the game makers who do this (and they sell the tables to the casinos for a license fee). It's easiest when it's a game that's very similar to an existing one.
because you're gay, or black, or not Christian, or don't want to be shot?
Casinos are spiritually in the same place as drug dealers and pimps. Profiting off weakness and vice.

If you like spending all your dime on drugs, dice and so forth then fine, but let's not pretend the guys selling it are fine upstanding businessmen.
The Seattle Times obit probably should be the OP. The current OP in the AV Herald is a few paragraphs.
I would expect SoCs using these cores to be announced at the end of this year and ship early next year.
The book is the "God delusion", in which (from memory), he explains that no God is required to keep the universe running. Well, no person is responsible for continually moving pool balls around a table, but someone does start the process. So he might be right, or he might be wrong, who knows? He argues against organised religion which is pretty easy to do given their obvious abuses, but organised religion isn't God, so this adds little.

The bible says things like e.g. God's kingdom is within you, which suggests personal experience is of primary importance, since how else would you explore inside yourself?

Ignoring personal experience in that book is like not seeking witness statements for an investigation. It's impossible to develop a convincing argument without considering all the evidence. And as with any investigation, a witness statement isn't necessarily treated as factual on its own, but should be evaluated within the contexts of other known facts and corroborating reports.

An argument about why something doesn't exist, no matter how convincing, becomes invalidated if conclusive evidence emerges demonstrating that it does. Not bothering to look for all relevant evidence doesn't make your argument right, it simply makes it flawed.

Why don't you think personal experience is relevant to a discussion of why God exists?
Precisely. What kinds of legitimate processes would require this kind of utility from Archive.org?
> Did you think that you could just spam libraries with books before this law?

Semantic games - especially false equivalences - are part and parcel of the culture wars. "Book bans are fine because librarians have been 'banning' books. Checkmate"
I am no expert but recently I found out that windows syscalls are a complete mistery. They're almost never mentioned in the official docs and with each update they can shift their position. I've found out a reverse engineered version online but they only got the name and the number of parameters. This brings the question how on earth are you supposed to generate code with windows syscalls? Like if I am building a compiler, how the heck am I supposed to know what to put where? Are such syscalls just defined in the winapi and abstracted away? Or each compiler needs to do some black magic fuckery to get core features?
An eight deck shoe being dealt to 3/4 empty would give an advantage to teams signaling over a 2 deck shoe being dealt to 1/2 empty, because it allows for more total hands before being shuffled.
The law that states that the game is only fair as long as the house wins
If you win consistently in a casino, then you are cheating, and the casino will not pay out.

First claim is self evident to anyone who understands the odds on these games. Second is self evident to anyone who understands the gambling business minimally.
I got it to generate c++ code for a flute physical model. It seems to work with python and some c++ but not for rust at all.
Still better than no SIMD at all imo
Gambling existed before the mafia. The mafia isn't that involved with Las Vegas any more.
I'm pretty sure money existed before fractional reserve banking....