skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's some minor variation due to different curve-fitting approaches, but the big variation (e.g. R0 from 3.7–203.3 for measles, per my other comment here) is real, simply because the environment or human behavior varied. As others have repeatedly noted, R0 is a function not just of the pathogen, but also of its environment, including the behavior of its human hosts.

Earlier, you wrote:

> It [R0] was never being established via lab work, as you might expect given its definition.

If you expected that "lab work" could establish R0, then you've grossly misunderstood its meaning and definition. It seems like you're looking for a concept of "R0 but for the pathogen alone, independent of environment and human behavior". That just doesn't exist though, any more than you could define the growth rate of a plant independent of weather and soil fertility.
Haha, I was waiting for a comment on programming language choice.

It was my first time with JS on the backend and I really enjoy the dev experience with Nest. Sadly, we can't please everyone
Was this written by Bard?
> it is very dangerous to assume that everything that correlates do so by intent.

Yes but it is much more dangerous to assume that correlation can't imply intent. Because sometimes it does.
I guess it'd offer you some little free game coins or something? Just like when you unsubscribe from Adobe CC it offers you a month of free subscription?
Probably things would become clearer if what we currently describe as 'AI' we instead term as 'Statistical Pattern Regurgitator' or similar.

Any serious attempt at AI would: need to be trained on reality - like people are trained; need to overcome the cardinality barrier - digital systems can only approximate analogue systems; and need to demonstrate spontaneous language emergence driven by survival in a social environment.
This is a great opportunity to extol the superior text layout capabilities of Latex. In your third pdf [1], look at page 2, para starting from "No doubt...". Compare to the same rendered in plain latex [2]. Two problems that jump immediately.

* There are six word breaks in your pdf, zero in the latex version. (well, good-nature is a compound word in the original text).

* Notice the "river" [3] of spaces that runs downs from "Enfield"

I have no idea why other fixed layout engines don't adopt the superior text-layout algorithms of latex.

[1] https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdow...

[2] https://i.imgur.com/Rs7ai0G.png

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)
> how it would present any more negativity than any other physical labor

The mistake is characterizing sex work as "physical labor."

There is a well documented link between sex work and trauma/psychological disorders.
I only use Netflix for filler before going to sleep (on timer) on a 32" 720p TV. I should use the Basic plan (still an option in Canada). The only reason I don't is the hassle if/when I travel around devices/IP addresses.

From my netflix.com/ChangePlan page

> Only people who live with you may use your account. Add 1 extra member with Standard or up to 2 with Premium. Learn more. Watch on 4 different devices at the same time with Premium, 2 with Standard or Standard with ads, and 1 with Basic.
These are good points and hard to know. But the Retraction Watch is tracking stories of both mistakes and fraud in published research, across universities:

https://retractionwatch.com/
Weird watching south park with zero humor in it.

Its giving 'pokemon go to the polls' energy - people using a random pop culture reference to flaccidly try to promote their ideological preference.

I hated it, and was only impressed until I realized how much manual human labor went into its construction. The editorial influence of the humans involved was far too heavy handed. I would have preferred something alien, weird and incoherent.

Here's an example of what AI can actually do - full synthesis of script, visuals and audio. It is incoherent but also strangely unsettling:
https://www.tiktok.com/@never_ever_never_land/video/72531490...
Here is a white paper released by Fervo that describes what they've done in more detail: https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/5704/
The scenario you're describing is one of extreme wealth inequality, which is a real problem, but one that's supposed to be solvable through democratic means. Stopping technological progress isn't going to solve it.
Fervo Energy hits milestone in using oil drilling technology to tap geothermal
> Angular’s change detection is a disaster. The developer gets two suboptimal choices: (1) the slow and naive default implementation, or the complexity of managing change detection manually.

This is completely wrong. The "naive" approach is the one you should always use, with the onpush strategy reserved for breaking certain cascading situations manually. But the default approach works perfectly fine, it is performant enough, and even more when compiled for production, as it runs only once (as compared to twice in the debug mode). The author is incorrectly assuming that the change detection is slow because it is automatic. That's the entire point of the framework btw.
> still not 100% foolproof because the card itself doesn't have a display and Allow/Deny button.

I'm assuming you are thinking about an attack where a compromised terminal processes an attacker-issued transaction (relayed from elsewhere) instead of the genuine one.

It seems like a solution to this would be for the card to issue a challenge to the reader and only provide a very short timeframe to answer, so that relaying it elsewhere is impossible due to speed of light and all that.
Most of the times it's just that the first post reminds other persons of interesting similar stuff, and they post them. Also, many times people follow the links of the original post and get new items to submit. So it's common to have waves of post of similar topics.
> in some contexts, documentation authors are required by third-party policies to provide markdown versions of their documentation

Well that's not markdown's fault.
> So maybe there is a plan, or maybe they just designed the system in such a way that they could convince themselves that it would not go down unless things were so severe that loss of the phone system would not be your chief worry.

My belief from working in very large companies, and (previously) in mission critical systems is that a clean bootstrap and recovery process is extremely unlikely, almost impossible. Because in complex systems full of legacy parts and people who have long retired, the stars won't align.

The only way to truly know is to design and periodically test for disaster scenarios (emphasis on the plural). But due to the scale in time and space, cost and bureaucracy, this planning and rehearsing is not going to happen with the desired detail and intensity. People do not seriously plan for things that have never happened.

If it does happen, there will be a small group of extremely capable people that will find a way to bootstrap the system. It won't be according to some previously laid out plans -- they will make the plan in real time. They're not famous and probably never will be.
As a Canadian, this is another failed policy of this out of touch government.

The wages in Canada is low and cost of living is extremely high. In my hometown Toronto, even with tech salary you can’t afford to buy a condo, most condos are selling north of 700k CAD. It’s ridiculous.

In the end, this is another wealthy buying passport mechanism where they do their 3years to get the passport and then use the TN visa to move down south. There is too much wage disparity and cost of living. I will give you an example. Across the border near Niagra, a house in Buffalo costs 170k, here it’s 600K. Average software engineer in Canada makes around 100-120K, in US you can make double that (not to mention CAD is weaker than USD). You do the math.
Exciting, but I always take pronouncements like this from new startups with a huge grain of salt.
I'm sure the people you were replying to don't appreciate your inconvenient insertion of critical thinking...
When I think they are ready, I plan to share the Canvas courses through Instructure's Commons.

Ping my in January, 2024 and ask me to post links.
Why can't a (very optimized to the point of not really being a) markov chain be smarter than a person? What are your requirements for outputs, abilities, and internal methods?
> Never use agent forwarding

Agreed. As this exploit proves, it's not even safe to log into your own servers using ssh forwarding if any service is exposed remotely, because if an attacker compromises that exposed service and gains root then they could extend the attack to your workstation, and that's a huge deal - especially considering that you have the private key to log into that server on your computer (so it's not an unsafe bet there might be other keys).
I guess that’s true. LLMs don’t really have intentions but there are some AIs that take actions to achieve a goal that can probably be described as having intentions
I run a N100 (6W TDP, 12W system draw) mini pc that is attached with a Synology DS220+ with nfs. The N100 mini pc was about $160 after tax and even though it it’s 4 core 4 thread, it doesn’t even sweat running jellyfin, home assistant, and my NVR. With NFS, you can mount the volume to mount only when the data is accessed so your Synology NAS actually goes to sleep when you don’t use jellyfin. It’s serious money saving in terms of electricity.

As for the server backup, I just use active business backup on the Synology NAS which does rolling snapshots of the whole volume.
haha was not my intention. just interesting.
>Simp / Simping:

>A person that desperately seeks a woman’s attention with their cryptocurrency or NFT. Generally, it describes someone who expresses extreme passion towards another person without

It is wild how anyone can take this stuff seriously.
The dialogue seems obviously terrible and especially terrible for what's supposed to be a show with a "dark, surreal humor that satirizes a large range of subject matter". 80% of the discussion involved earnest regurgitation of for-and-against arguments for the use of AI. I presume if AI hadn't been the topic then it would have the characters talk about the merits and drawbacks of mid-range jets for small airlines or similarly exciting topics.
If it gets any better, then Matt and Trey can really say: Dey dook rr jerbs!!
What the fuck are you talking about
>A good-faith discussion is not going to happen

Historically speaking on western social media, making a bold claim on something as generic as American primary education being influenced by foreign powers without any real evidence does tend to go down conspiracy territory. Most conpiracy theories aren't made in good faith, no.

Also isn't particularly good faith to respond with ad-hominem when asked to prove claims, which tends to happen with conspiracy that has little/no firm evidence attached.
Functioning societies are a lot more than economic systems.
Why doesn't anybody pick up elm in these comparisons?
Read a lot of code and work with someone who does that kind of thing. Also you might want to brush up on math and algos: a lot of this "skill" is really just thinking about what the actual computation is. And that just comes from experience.
Yeah not the whole peleton, but most of Armstrong’s main rivals right? Like Contador etc. (I know his test was contentious).
What does Twenty do that Close doesn’t or can’t do?

(I’m a huge Close fan.)
But I think there's no way this will result in reshaping of class in our society to where the elites are usurped by a bunch of smart, diverse (merit-admitted) kids from the wrong side of the tracks.

I don’t see why not. America has a long track record of up from nothing elites.

> Lloyd Craig Blankfein was born in The Bronx borough of New York City to a low-income, Jewish family on September 20, 1954. His father, Seymour Blankfein, was a clerk with the U.S. Postal Service branch in Manhattan and his mother was a receptionist. He was raised in the Linden Houses, a housing project in the East New York section of Brooklyn.

> Sotomayor was born in the Bronx, New York City, to Puerto Rican-born parents. Her father died when she was nine, and she was subsequently raised by her mother, who worked long hours as a nurse to support the family.

> Andrew Carnegie was born to Margaret Morrison Carnegie and William Carnegie in Dunfermline, Scotland, in a typical weaver's cottage with only one main room, consisting of half the ground floor, which was shared with the neighboring weaver's family. The main room served as a living room, dining room and bedroom.

> Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin in Kentucky and was raised on the frontier, primarily in Indiana.

> Feynman was born on May 11, 1918, in Queens, New York City, to Lucille (née Phillips; 1895–1981), a homemaker, and Melville Arthur Feynman (1890–1946), a sales manager.

> [Tom] Cruise was born on July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, New York, to electrical engineer Thomas Cruise Mapother III (1934–1984) and special education teacher Mary Lee (née Pfeiffer; 1936–2017). His parents were both from Louisville, Kentucky, and had English, German, and Irish ancestry. Cruise grew up in near poverty and had a Catholic upbringing.

On the other side of the coin there are plenty of second and third generation people running medium or occasionally large companies, Hollywood famously has a nepobaby problem, and there are other bastions of inherited privilege. But we are by no means dominated by certain families the way some other countries are. We have a chance to become even less dominated by breaking the remaining pipelines, including legacy admissions (inheritable dual class stock is another one to look at.)
I love how only 1 is about design and 2, 3, 4 are all technical.

> Its personality will prompt the appropriate emotional response(s) from our audience

For this to be just a bullet point, you need to understand the personality of fonts, then understand emotional responses of form, then understand audiences.

> Its design fits the intended use

Not so easy when you actually consider what this is asking. The design is what, and it applies to intent how?

The takeaway being, fonts are really really hard. They're not even supposed to stand out (your content is).
It's possible, but based on current progress, I don't think it has to be eliminated. Certainly, 150 years after Reconstruction we are still struggling with many of the same issues. Or reading MLK 50 years later, his writing still seems very fresh: https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham....

Further, humans are social primates. As books like DeWaal's Chimpanzee Politics demonstrate, power hierarchies that seem very familiar predate humanity itself. It's perfectly possible that violently enforced group hierarchies are a natural outcome that can be based on any sort of visible difference. Since race is such a visible and obvious difference, it's plausible that for the rest of our history, we'll have to educate people out of racial bias and put everybody on guard against the emergence of the sort of racial animosity and racial dominance that persists to this day.
My wife, an ED physician, says that this is common practice in the EDs she’s worked in and that it probably just had not been reported in the literature
since Twitter is a piece of shit (only shows first tweet of a thread unless you're logged in), here you go:

https://nitter.net/TimMLatimer/status/1681304496234991620
What if you don’t trust the box enough to store a private key, though?
I reckon a 'Reddit is full of pedophiles' banner on /r/place would scare the advertisers?
With the freedom to choose you are allowed to make bad choices.

Try to remember this in the future if you ever think, "Why is this thing illegal? That's silly. People should be free to make their own choices!"

Because this kind of reasoning is exactly how that other thing and all its derivatives got banned. Eg drugs and the war on drugs.

Also, those analogies are not half-baked. They're spot on.
The provider gives you 4 billion bytes over 4G/5G plus 50 * 140 bytes = 7000 bytes over SMS.

Quite shocking, yes. SMS used to be free in the early 90s until the providers figured out that they can charge for it. They priced the 140 byte transmission at 0.20 CHF in Switzerland, and in some plans you still pay 0.20 CHF for 140 bytes over SMS, while you can get unlimited data.
KeenWrite looks cool and useful; thanks for the reference.

It does appear that the real heavy lifting in this workflow is still all done by TeX, and that Markdown (with lots of extensions) is more or less a database of blobs to feed the template engine.

I would suggest the question: Is what you have at the end really a Markdown document if it has no context without KeenWrite's extensions or templates? I think the article under discussion is a bit pedantic, but I'm pretty sure the author would say that what you end up with is a KeenWrite document.
They actually had an episode about "the dangers of AI" recently (the boys used ChatGPT to avoid having to text with their needy girlfriends), it was VASTLY better than this fan made one.

https://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/8byci4/south-park-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrg1SJhL_Q
Ah, the old "throwing more hardware at a problem will surely solve it" approach.
As someone who recently built an open source crm (iceburg.ca - Laravel / Vue) I think your choice of license is very limiting. Limiting how the crm can be used will limit the number of users and handicap yourself. Focus on a great crm first and don't worry about others copying you and providing a saas solution better than yours. The more people using your crm is more important than preventing others from making money.

I debated whether to use your license because other crms like SuiteCRM are. I quickly discovered getting others interested enough to host their own saas platforms using my crm framework means more user interest in your crm. The hardest part is getting users to try your crm. That's what you want, not to try to capture imagined lost profit on saas hosting. Then with scale you can create a marketplace of addons and widgets that can capture the real profit center
I mean, the right has its own form of political correctness (it's not OK to say climate change is real, that non-heterosexuals have rights etc etc)
All three of those bulleted scenarios are trust failures.

I'm glad Cuke made you money. There are lots of ways to make money from mismanaged companies.

If we were actually professional engineers, we'd have a code of ethics. I'd like to think that the ethical code would involve not doing harm to a business or intentionally obscuring harm being done.
When you have a certain kind of mind, you tend to see "simplicity" in a way that might not be recognizable to others. I think Mr. Schwarze might be one of those minds, seeing his history with Free/OpenBSD.

Markdown's fantastic for generating pure HTML. However, if I had a print deliverable, or any complicated function like transclusion or conditionals, I'd maybe nudge the user to try out an alternative, Asciidoc or something else.

Why do I say that when you can do so many cool things with Markdown? Well, "so many cool things" is sort of the problem. You build up a unique Mkdwn/Extension/<Insert_Framework_Of_Choice/> stack every time you do a "cool thing", until eventually you're writing docs for what is, in effect, a bespoke parser. Knock out one block of that - say, like, your company's InfoSec department decides that technical writers having NPM is a Very Bad Idea - and your cool thing gets scaled back or broken outright. It's much better for your docs' lifecycle to use just the core of the spec, and not be dependent on a flurry of extensions and dependencies for the business of making docs.

I don't include edge uses, where extensions excel. To take one example, Mr. Rojas' excellent WireViz program (https://github.com/wireviz/WireViz). If that gets knocked out, my document still builds into PDFs.

The price you pay, of course, is a more niche ecosystem; Asciidoc tooling is maybe a tenth or a fiftieth of what's dedicated to the M*kd*n Multiverse. And of course, if you're writing simple docs that go straight to HTML without so much as thinking about a print layout, then Markdown is the easy choice.
Better PDF reading experience with an actual PDF:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/emp2.1... (or https://sci-hub.ru/10.1002/emp2.12007)
It's ridiculous. We should have access to a completely neutered version if we want it, we should just have to sign for access if they are worried about begin sued.
The human bots who power parasite platforms
It is. I know of zero Markdown implementations off the top of my head that bother to parse JavaScript - if there's JS embedded in HTML embedded in Markdown, it gets passed through as a block element on the HTML side (which may or may not be parsed, either).

TFA is drawing at straws to dunk on a format they don't like.
No one is shocked by the concept of misconduct occurring, the issue here is that it is no longer surprising when those committing the misconduct end up running the organization. You can pretend that the conversation is about whether scientific misconduct is endemic, but that conversation being had is about the failure of these hierarchies to actually succeed in promoting the best from among their ranks.

Of course misconduct is unavoidable, that doesn't mean you should become president. The politics aren't working.
A team working on an AJAX webapp that typically was meant to comfortable manage around 1000 blocks of state at a time. Somewhere on the order of 6-10 pieces of data per block (Which we just changed as a unit of work because 1000 was already hard enough). And when you're dealing with 10^3 you need a couple of different ways to visualize the same data or you're getting nowhere, so we had one or two other views that dealt with different levels of detail.
The thing is, we tried coroutines in C (embedded) y-e-a-r-s ago. It was all the rave for a bit. There were a couple different macro/libraries you could use with duff's device and other trickery to get coroutine-ish things in C.

Maybe the implementation just wasn't up to where it needs to be with these newer/slicker/more integrated versions, but mine (and others') issues with them wasn't the weakness/caveats of the implementation, but rather with the mess of spaghetti it made as your coroutine use grew with any degree. In onesie twosies under nice demo cases (look ma, I get some data from the intertubes with this syncy thing), they're great, but my experience was that they're a mess when scaled.

I'm happy to be proven wrong. I get to use them a bunch in Kotlin, I'm trying not to be a victim of my experience. I'm still on the fence.
Maybe you're joking but we did this during COVID. Productivity went up and everyone had time to live. Now we're returning to office. The data doesn't matter when your boss wants to see your ass in a chair rather than caring about what you're delivering.

At the office I have to pretend to be busy for a few hours a day. At home I can get my work done. After that as long as I am available should anyone need to get a hold of me during work hours, I can do whatever I need.

Employers hate that.
If tens of millions of dollars are on the line, you will be able to find someone who can run the script or derive enough knowledge from it

In a disaster scenario, something is better than nothing