skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no downsides to wearing a mask.

They cost money and require effort. Therefore, there are downsides.

Defining a set of actions as literally cost free is a logical fallacy. Nothing is ever cost free. The moment you do this you're obliged to engage in that action 24/7 for the rest of your life, immediately and indefinitely, as any possible benefit would justify doing it - even imagined benefits that exist only in the realm of future hypotheticals. Worse, once someone makes this error, they start to believe everyone else is irrational because why would they not engage in this completely downside-free behavior too?

it's pretty clear it was effective.

The article mentions the Cochrane Review which rigorously concluded the opposite. However you don't need a meta-study. Community masking was justified on the claim that it would create a downward inflection in the case numbers. Go to ourworldindata and select COVID case graphs for a few countries you're not familiar with, then try to figure out when they imposed or removed mask mandates by searching for the inflections. You won't be able to because no such inflections were ever created. So mask mandates had no impact when judged by their own (stated) goals.
LK99 – Busted. [video]
Yeah this is a problem with specific employees, not with WFH. If people aren't adult enough to manage their own time and perform their duties without someone over their shoulder then that's a them problem.

I worked at a company which had a similar approach to the one being considered , i.e. force everyone in. Every decision there was based on the lowest common denominators. This meant that the really good high performing people all quit. It's a ghost town over there these days.

Set expectations, support people with meeting them, fire them if they continue taking the piss. Don't ruin it for all of you high performers because you can't be bothered going through the process to fire someone. You'll have better overall performance, satisfaction, and retention if you work to get the slackers either performing or out.
The vast majority of human beings don't even go to grad school, believe it or not.
And for kids to not see each others faces, honestly even adults, has implications for communication and empathy you have for others. You are “anonymous” in your mask. For kids it really impacts development for them not to see each other.
Common sense proposed the lab leak. Was absurd and scary how easily it was dismissed in pretty much the entire Western media, not only the US. Even this forum got subjected to it.
That is the way the FLINT fmpz type does it. The benefit is that you can check for pointers once and then use the operands like ordinary ints without the +1/-1 adjustments. For example, to multiply two integer matrices, you can do O(n^2) pointer checks and then do O(n^3) arithmetic operations without overhead. But if the pointer check is done each operation then the representation doesn't make much difference; whether you use the LSB or MSB as a tag, what kills performance is checking and branching based on a tag bit in the first place. What you'd want is a sufficiently smart compiler (TM) that can eliminate as many such checks as possible.
We're living through some unfortunate times. Eastern Europe is... becoming a much darker place.

As somebody who grew up in a crazily mixed family (Polish, Russians, Lithuanians, with relatives all over the globe) I am used to visiting everybody, getting insights into how real daily life feels in respective countries. I have a soft spot for polish family-centric traditionalism, lithuanian love for the countryside, russian intelligentsia culture.

And it's falling apart, all of it. I remember I promised my child that one day we'd get to see together the Peter's city, Hermitage, learn bits of lithuanian (which I still have some passive knowledge of), and go visit our numerous polish cousins, learn the history of the Old Town of Vilnius, all faces of it.
Neon also made a new pg_embedding extension to add to the Postgres mix

https://neon.tech/blog/pg-embedding-extension-for-vector-sea...
git push. We use Gitolite which is a git server setup that can be made to enforce access control rules based on branch names.

https://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html
>Yes, I agree, but he's bringing that from prior experience, not our company...

That's exactly what I'm saying! I don't think he's guarded because of you guys but I do think he's guarded. It's gonna take effort to get that guard down- especially if he's been formally punished for asking for help before (again not saying you guys have done this to him- just that it's possible it happened to him at some prior point in his life, like childhood or a previous job). I see this less as a "hey man, not asking for help is hurting us" and more of "what can I do to support you better?"

Especially if he spent 2 weeks on an urgent issue- was everyone else so swamped that they couldn't coach homeboy? Was this not actually an urgent issue? I would ask the team "how did we even get here? How did we let this task slip so far without progress? What can we change today to prevent this from happening again?" Note that I'm explicitly calling out the entire team, because at the end of the day a teammate struggling and not getting help is a whole team issue even if said teammate never asked for help.

Personally I think this can be solved with coaching for the whole team ideally but at the very least, have homeboy job shadow/pair program with a mentor for a while. If you guys aren't Agile I'd see about adopting those principles- 2 weeks of silent churn on a 2-day issue feels like a much bigger problem to me than someone not asking for help when they need it- either that wasn't a 2-day issue (just because YOU could do it in 2 days doesn't mean EVERYONE could) or it was a classic case of "calling something urgent to get people to act on it but not treating it like it's actually urgent." Not a knock to you guys at all- "storming" is a healthy part of team-building! As you all develop more as a team problems like these will be a thing of the past.
Radix has some great ideas that challenge the way components are usually built. I'd love to use it, but am somewhat burned by how Stitches stopped being maintained due to the changes in React 18. Context: https://github.com/stitchesjs/stitches/discussions/1149#disc...

To be clear, it's not so much that they decided to not spend time, energy and money into maintaining it, but that there's seemingly been very little (if any) interest in letting others maintain it despite several people expressing interest. I'm sure it's scare handing over commit access, but if you're giving it up anyway then why not just do it, see what happens? Instead it's just dead in the water.

I'd happily pay license fees to use Radix and/or Stitches, if that guarantees maintenance. Sadly that's not an option it seems.
>Bioy Casares then supposedly took advantage of the moment to ask Kodama if he could photograph her, since she had “an ideal face.” The phrase was coarse, an objectification

Asking to photograph her with a compliment is an "objectification"? Who even talks and thinks like that, much less put it to print.
A list of websites it connects to, sure. If you can tell me who I can speak to at Spotify otherwise, please enlighten me.
How would applying patches from the AGPL version affect your code?

To me the AGPL thing feels like all or nothing.
It was easy for me to set up on Ubuntu with CUDA 11.7. I cloned the repo, created a new python venv, and installed the requirements in requirements_versions.txt, but looking at launch.py, that wasn't even necessary. Just create a new venv for the project, activate it, and run `python launch.py`.
> This is exactly what everyone said in 2020-2021 and suggest no one will ever catch up to Apple because they are so far ahead.

Except Nuvia etc happened, i.e. Apple lost a lot of their core talent that made that a thing. Apple has stagnated for generations since this loss. It takes a lot of time to build a good team.
> It's not like theology and philosophy study anything real.

That is a viewpoint. This is the exact fallacy pointed out upper in the thread. This is just a viewpoint of yours, however commonly held it may be in the society of today.
I 100% agree and did this at a previous job. It would be cool to have devcontainer support be a bit more ubiquitous in IDEs
I heard some are complaining after they got acquired, especially on bigger instances.

As of alternatives, I usually host my stuff, as you can’t have a good performance on a VPS without paying premium, so if performance is your priority (as you don’t have any specs listed. hard to tell if you are focusing on CPU, RAM, etc.), I don’t think $5 or any entry level VPS will do.
Right, I get that: it increases learning capacity, but doesn't introduce more parameters? Like the GPU requirements would be the same beyond the extra cost of the ReLU operation itself, yes?
> The "mass media" is not one organization. I haven't seen any news reports redefining what science is, feel free to provide evidence of that.

You really want to tell me that you never heard something along the lines of "Science says ..." or "the science"? Not buying it. The usage of science in mass media is a different one than the one you want to hammer home.

> Finally it's not a game of definitions because science has a specific meaning. You can't just change that meaning (even if you add a captial S) then be critical about it.

This is mostly self-soothing I suppose. Just denying reality outright.

> You're critical because some organization in the government lied? Nothing to do with science

Motte and bailey. You just mean the hard definition. As long as you deny that a soft definition exists, it's a bit hard to argue with you.

> You're mad because some scientist committed fraud? Nothing to do with science.

You should look up motte and bailey maybe. You seemingly don't know it, but you're playing that fallacy. (Also: stop projecting)

> Peer reviewers aren't properly checking papers, that's their fault and or their university/company. Nothing to do with science.

So you want to tell me that the actual scientific process in action has nothing to do with science.

> If you aren't an expert in a field or willing to put massive amounts of time in researching something but you have to make a decision doing whatever the majority of people in a field say is the most logical course of action

Who makes the election of what the majority of people in a field say? That's where the mass media (that is not one organization) comes into play. This is basically The Science™ meme in action.
No, your job is to build the house I told you to build, not the one you think you should build.

If I'm telling you to prioritise a particular room in the house, and you do another room instead, you're not doing your job. I hired you to because you're a professional who I can expect to follow instructions and deliver.

I was trying to avoid goinh into all the edge cases where this might not wholly apply, that we build these priorities out together, you have autonomy in a range of things, you're part of a team not an individual, etc.

It's my job to share the priorities with you, it's your job to accept those priorities sometimes. I don't like being told by _my_ boss that we have a surprise deadline any more than you do, and by the time I come to you saying "hey you need to do Y instead of X, it's because I've spoken to the other leads/PO's and we've figured out that this is what's best for the team and project. You might not agree because the crash you want to fix is high priority, or the thing hosting the widget needs a refactor rather than another special edge case, but at that point im not asking, I'm telling. I promise, (and I've shown this with my team) that if you do this when I do ask, we can do your pet stuff next, and I'll pull you off the critical path for a little bit.

Its the prisoners dilemma, and works when everyone works together but the minute someone stops trusting me and the team, it wrecks it for everyone.
That's great, and yeah I've thought about how much sense this makes too, but how can I attach 4x HDDs using SATA3 to an old laptop to function as a NAS? That's my only dilemma.
Why would the UK inform Sweden?

The suspiciously flimsy case had been dropped already.
Are you sure they are M1?
You forgot hormones.
The conclusion to that paper is telling:

The high risk of bias in the trials, variation in outcome measurement, and relatively low adherence with the interventions during the studies hampers drawing firm conclusions.

aka: We can't decide whether masks (or other interventions, including hand washing, etc) worked as all the examples we looked at were a clusterfuck of many people pulling in opposite directions preventing any clear conclusion from being drawn.

Harms associated with physical interventions were under‐investigated.

Sufficient clean data is lacking.

Further:

There is a need for large, well‐designed RCTs addressing the effectiveness of many of these interventions in multiple settings and populations, as well as the impact of adherence on effectiveness, especially in those most at risk

ie. They don't believe the matter is settled by any means.

The most interesting part is the selection criteria.

Looking at the section Characteristics of included studies it appears some effort was made to trawl two decades of global trials in order to find those least likely to have any good conclusion.

Many of the trials look at the effectiveness of low level encouragement to try an intervention at a time and low location with relatively low risks, leading to intermittent uptake and noisy data.
The beauty of international standarda and norms is, that you do not have to test every single use case. All you have to do, and that is difficult enough, is to test to standardized use cases. And then someone else is making sure everyone is adhereing to those standards. That is what regulations are good for.
> Of course, this can’t go on forever. Eventually people abandon those polluted streams. That’s what will happen after the Age of Information crashes.

Strong claim with a stain of nuisance.

I would love to call it bs, because the mass internet is still relatively young and our society still has momentum in taming this medium.

On the other hand though, religion is much older than any medium and still alive and kicking and the enormous amplification by the internet to manipulate useful idiots to keep the status quo for our grande profiteurs is out of question.

The internet is usefull, not just for our information/nonsense/tribal addicted brains, i think, we won't overcome it either way.
I feel that git is the DVD of source control systems: sccs / rcs / cvs are the equivalent of tapes, clearly inferior and crappy. Other, more modern systems, are like BlueRay: technically superior, but not by a margin wide enough to make me want to change.
We highlight that the creativity comes from the human. The text to speech is the AI Component. There is a script assistant that can help you adjust the tone of the text, but the creativity always comes from human.
The real problem with boxing is that you end up with two classes of types, and that there is inherent overhead to using a class rather than a primitive.

For those reasons, I stick to C++. With modern ABIs there is no difference between a primitive of size N and a class of size N.
This boils down to reasons why language in different disciplines is so inaccessible to laypeople. If you don’t have standard terms of reference, you will get ambiguity and confusion.
Well, cost prohibitive on big models obviously. But even just things like DreamBooth training extra associations to sets of new data images is tuning the model as you go
I suspect the comment was trying to say that journalism is opinions about facts. And the facts are less important than the opinions. And this is fine.

Good journalism is traditionally about holding power to account. Not seeing so much of that at the moment, except out in the mostly-unread fringes.

As for SBF - someone else was downvoted for suggesting this is really about the parents.

In my uninformed opinion, from the outside this looks like it may well about a very wealthy very narcissistic family which has persuaded itself it's above the law.

SBF appears to have absolutely no concept of moral behaviour or legal consequences - remarkable in itself. But there are wider questions about how his parents may have contributed to his beliefs and actions.

However this plays out legally, there's going to be a lot of interest in the psychology.
> Like a lot of people, I’m deeply excited about what the lovely folks at Larian accomplished with Baldur’s Gate 3, but I want to gently, pre-emptively push back against players taking that excitement and using it to apply criticism or a “raised standard” to RPGs going forward."

This might be one of the most childish takes I have ever witnessed in the wild.

"hey, now don't expect quality, it's not like we can deliver it"
Here in the netherlands we have a tremendous amount of sidewalks per capita and they are 99.99% tiled. Some of the sidewalks are over 50 years old and stil in good shape.
There are many benefits of tiled sidewalks. Its pretty easy to put cables underneath. Happens every few years (internet, electricity). You also dont need fancy equipment to make them. Or repair them.
Wow. A triple play.
Michelson-Morley experiment found no changes in speed of light at all. Nothing. Zero fluctuations.

These fluctuations of speed of light were found much later, by LIGO/VIRGO and NANOGrav.

The flaw of Michelson-Morley experiment is that it was performed in isolated environment, but tried to measure an external effect.

Imagine that we want to measure atmospheric circulation in the same way: by measuring speed of wind in an closely isolated and insulated room: it's impossible.

However, Michelson-Morley experiment is one of corner stones for theory of Relativity.

> This incongruous result puzzled the physicists of the world until 1905 when Einstein published his theory of relativity. Viewed in the light of Einstein's revolutionary work, the null results of the Michelson-Morley experiment were not only predictable, but provided experimental confirmation of Einstein's theory.
“People keep telling me that we’re living on an Information Superhighway. But that’s not true.”

Just a thought, but perhaps don’t open your profound thinkpiece with a cliched metaphor that was already beat to hell three decades ago?
> Qualcomm has a $1.5B wager that they can, with the same engineers from Apple who helped them get where they are now.

Maybe or maybe not. Qualcomm has a history of price fixing, bullying and shutting off competitors rather than trying to do better. Perhaps they're just shutting down the Nuvia here too.

Back then nVidia Tegra tried to compete until Qualcomm went around complaining...

The pest is Qualcomm more than anything.
What's a good and friendly place to start for a seasoned Android developer to get a peek into the world of AI/ML as we are seeing all this today (or specifically last few months maybe), who is kind of having a FOMO cum curiosity (and a little worry about career/future and all) about all this? To get a taste of things.
> big investment

Sorry, what? The _cells_ are ~$100/kwh on aliexpress. You are looking at residential batteries around the cost of an iPhone. Shipping + installation costs more. Sure Tesla still sells theirs for like $10k, but that won't last.
> legality around it was definitely questionable from the start.

Can I cite old argument that "If someone invents book libraries now, they will be completely illegal."?
There's a wide berth between being a manager who prioritises work and a dictator that assigns out stack ranked tickets with no end in sight.

My job is to make sure the teams priorities are straight, and I can't do that if you or someone else are subterfuging my efforts to do so.

Unless otherwise demonstrated, I trust that you (my team member in this case) are a smart, well intentioned person, and I ask that you assume the same of me. Going behind my back because you don't like what I'm asking you to do is "otherwise demonstrated".
You’re not the only one
update: this specific issue is something I could work around differently: defining a user that has its own credentials within SF who can be used in the auth flow did the trick without any redirect needs!

See: https://gist.github.com/Anonyfox/3f36c26fb00a9bc4067d6dc9c9a...

I sound totally dumb now to bitch about it, but glad I could solve it in like 1 hour in a sufficient way
Routine things like renewals can be done online or by mail.
> Which is equality of outcomes

It's not though. Equality of outcomes would be something like, we should all make the same salary. But equity says that discrimination or favoritism should have no impact to the salary you make, you should make a salary that's purely dependent on the work you're doing.

Or another example. If black people represent 20% of the population, but companies boards are 100% made up of white members. Equality of outcomes would say that you'd need the same amount of white and black board members, 50/50. But equity would say you need 20% of them to be black, thus proportional representation.

Equality of outcomes can itself be unfair, like in that example. Equity is about fairness.

When has equality of outcomes not been synonymous with communism? I mean, communism has more to it, but equality of outcomes is one of its propositions. Everyone should make the exact same money, no matter what they do.

Equity distinguishes itself from that, by focusing on fair outcomes, that remove prejudice and addresses discrimination.

So my read of OP about international trade was similar to how I think of equity. They're saying that the trade shouldn't be made by the rich country as a way to take advantage of a poorer country such as paying a lot less than what it would pay for the same if trading with a richer country or sourcing something from within their own country, just because the poor country is more desperate.
Covid debunks all your claims. I’ve taken all my covid jabs and boosters so I’m not coming at this as some alt right antivaxxer, but the systemic and systematic shut down of any dissent against mainstream science and scientific organisations was/is disgusting.
11 is not our competitor, they are our partner and model provider. We’ve built all of the podcast related infrastructure (publishing, show notes, video etc) on top of their text to speech capabilities.
I always wondered - weren't there a simple glass of water in the cockpit. It wouldn't tell them the angle of attack of course, but could have used it as a sanity check.
What is the performance hit on ARM processors?
How to garbage collected languages like F# or Dlang deal with this? Is everything just boxed?
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