skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I agree with the general premise, that "as covid becomes more normalized people stop testing / reporting their test results."

But it's hard to reconcile this justification for lack of data, with (a) the current headlines claiming a new surge in cases, and (b) the headlines from two years ago, insisting Covid prevalence was not simply overinflated due to prevalence of testing.
> retrofitting it is expensive and carries a huge risk

Because construction industry is shockingly incompetent and corrupt.

Lived in a few newbuilds, they are full of fuckups - walls aren't straight, the hole for a fire sprinkler is not where the sprinkler is, so in case of fire it won't actually work. The hot water plumbing was not up to spec and has discharged a swimming pool of boiling water into someone's apartment, they are lucky no-one died.

They will not get something as complex and humidity control right.
Miles Brundage of OpenAI offered a categorization of „AI things“ into Models, Systems, Platforms and Use-Cases:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j4U2UzJWfI&t=5728s

Bard is a System, PaLM 2 would be the model (presumably). The other way round: Bard is not an LLM.
> just need near photographic recall and the general knowledge of numerical order.

oh yeah it's way less impressive if chimps just have near photographic recall and general knowledge of numeric order
RICO is an extremely powerful statute, which is probably whit it's being used as a form of intimidation to force Apple to a settlement, but it's not at all applicable, even if Apple did engage in retaliation (a fairly plausible claim). RICO is meant to take down the Mafia and other organizations that participate in literal racketeering. It's been abused by the Feds, but a private individual is not going to get much traction from that line of argument.
Appreciate this comment. This is why I love hackernews.
Same. Per my sister comment all I’m doing is using Cloudflare Family for DNS.
Of the brainwashed elixir zealots trying to convince everyone to use phoenix for a 3 users internal dashboard

Fearless concurrency with actor model
Ah I see what you were trying to get at. Seems a bit beside the point, but sure.
If you have a classic Mac or emulator you can get a MagicCap emulator and SDK. I even toyed with making a High Telescript server but that would be a lot of work with almost no documentation.

If you want to mess around with the emulator and SDK you need a FPU in a 68K Mac or the PowerFPU extension in a PowerPC Mac. Despite the bad name that extension adds emulated 68K FPU to the 68K emulation.
This narrative that "there is nothing uniquely human" is just a grift originating with a handful anthropologists, who tried to claw some academic fame, by challenging the consensus. It is a catchy contrarian take. But it's very obviously naive. Yes, ants can organise their community, apes can break walnuts with a stone, dolphins can communicate their foraging wisdom to offspring, prairie dogs have a rich vocabulary to communicate their experiences. However, no species demonstrates either of these skills as a boundless process. For example, no species has approached levels of abstraction such as: a derivatives financial market; a meta-idea such as "this is a conversation"; the concept of a "concept" itself; or mythology. And while certain animals might be able to demonstrate far more effective problem-solving in their special environment (such as cephalopods), the features that set humans apart are generalisable across environments and explain the evolutionary advantage.
Still dont know how it managed to work, but my buddy had an XP box that he was gonna use for our lan party, but it went sideways. The only thing i had was a win 2k cd. We repaired using the 2k cd, got the system up, in a really fubar hybrid mode, where parts of the system acted like XP, and other parts acted like 2k
IO is not a part of the async runtime contract (I don't know if this is good or bad), and Tokio & futures famously have different `Async{Read,Write}` traits. I once had to do this [0] to adapt between them.

This means that any crate that uses IO will be bound to a limited number of Runtimes. Everything being Tokio-only is pretty bad (though Tokio itself is great), but here we are...

[0] https://github.com/bluejekyll/trust-dns/pull/1373#issuecomme...
‘Weird’ dinosaur prompts rethink of bird evolution
My reaction was not pro-fossil fuel but rather that I think the use of 'renewable' as a statement of general positivity is idiotic.

Sure there is a theoretical closable cycle in batteries, but guess what, the same can be said for fossil fuels. Just use energy to turn air and water back into fuel, boom cycle closed.

What matters is not if something is 'renewable' but if its a strategically correct thing to do in regards to climate and energy security.

Calling lithium 'renwable' is ridiculous. Its literally just a fixed resource on our plant like iron or copper or whatever.
H.265/h.265 make use of IPB frames. The P and B frames refer back to the I-frame so that each P/B frame has much less information than the I. So if you use only I-frames, that's the best that codec can offer, at a decent bit rate. there's much better descriptions on the web.
Following the lead of Kej's comment, this attributes it to Buddhism, though with many more words than "true? kind? necessary?"

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/39843/are-socra...

Personally, I believe it was with Einstein, Churchill (though apparently he added "will the person I insult laugh?") or Lincoln.
“return to”… heh! I still wear a KN95 mask in any indoor place with other people in it (especially since people don’t feel any need to wear masks at all). I mean, I know one person who died from COVID, another who is indefinitely wheelchair-bound, and others who are just generally suffering life-altering effects (like years-long weakness and shaking hands and endless brain fog, probably-permanent deafness in one ear)… It’s funny, I haven’t been sick from any transmissible illness in over three years, despite how eager people seem to be to spread their ailments as much as possible.
Not just that. I recently checked out Laracon, the Laravel conference. You can find videos on YouTube. But I am yet to find another programming conference that was this high energy, fun and focused on great developer experience.

And because so many people make real money off of it, there is a focus on making practical things. Hackers who are looking at doing their own startup, might want to try out Laravel and it's ecosystem.
1k for 200,00 miles? I think you'd probably spend more than that on just tires, and that's not counting the oil changes, probably multiple brake replacements, and likely a few belts and some struts.
The puzzling link between air pollution and suicide
She failed to use the sarcasm font...
That's what I was thinking. An OBS plugin...
It was a 90s and we met through our BBS systems. there was no debate what to play, doom. Warcraft came soon after. The Internet sounded cool, too bad actually kind of destroyed everything. some of us had pagers. we made plans, over land lines, and everyone actually showed up.

we didn’t take photos because that would be stupid. our parents would find out what we were doing. which was mostly drinking and smoking way too much and playing video games until the sun rose.
what MBA came up with that term?
But I think fertilizer and explosives are also not recyclable.
I have the same problem for weeks now. Different browsers, deleted cookies, different IP adresses did not make it work again.
Type Theory: #33 Z3 and Lean, the Spiritual Journey
Stuck for a while in python 2.x world with its "always backward compatible" pledge... then it lost attention I guess. Also, questionable technical choices. Now py 3.5+ compatible, but no compelling reason to use it.
There are no obstructions to doing that. It is indeed possible to predict properties of superconductors with AI. It's just another regression problem with well defined inputs and outputs. Inputs are the materials and electromagnetic properties of the materials and the output is prediction of superconductivity.

Surprising there is no YC company already working on this. Instead of yet another email company you'd think there would be at least one trying to accelerate R&D for material science and chemistry with AI.
That anime is popular in the US doesn't really mean that much.

The Japanese are really regimental, focused on obedience to higher-ups and employers, family honor, have a strict framework of written and unwritten rules... That couldn't be more different from the US (and most other western countries in fact).

Personally I really frown on such concepts as I embrace individuality but good to them, I just wouldn't want to live there :P
What’s your honest appraisal of this code? Would you ever under any circumstances use it? If not, then be honest and tell them to keep pushing. The quote is that it is not much “yet”. It’s a good first step, but having too high of a self-appraisal is just as bad as having too low. As an elementary school kid I worked for several years on a BASIC game where you could fly an ASCII art ship around the screen. It was not good, and I would have been better off if some adult had been honest and told me that I was doing it wrong and sent me down a better path. Instead I thought I was hot shit because I was the best programmer at my school. It wasn’t until years after college that I really even began to understand programming, and having too high a self-conception hurt me for a long time.
Indeed, homes are some of the most liquid form of wealth, easily leveraged with loans to buy even more property

They absolutely aren't.

Transaction costs are very high (6%), the time required to sell can be months.

Borrowing against a house is not the definition of a "liquid asset". By that same logic a complex equity with no market could still be "liquid" because you could borrow against it.
https://wapo.st/3LE6zGn (and part one https://wapo.st/3RhzaVk)
US seizes nearly 1M barrels of Iranian oil allegedly bound for China
Yup, people don't realize that leverage works both way. It's not a freebie.
I think people are to quick to just talk away any success China has as 'don't care for the environment' and 'don't care for people'. This might be sometimes true bit also more often isn't.

Do you have actual evidence that lithium refining is a massively dirty industrial process that would cost multiple times more the West? Or are you speculating?

Tesla is building a lithium refining plant in Texas right now, they didn't seem to have massive environmental problems and delays so far.

In reality, the lead china has in these fields is more because of state investment policy and their drive to have an export car market. They saw the EV revolution as being able to make that happen, and it did.
I've delivered to Apple with ffmpeg flavor prores files (as well as Netflix). Both pass QC just fine.
TextViewBenchmark: A suite of performance tests for macOS text views
The problem is that this is a physical process that’s extremely hard to scale. If I recall correctly CO2 recapture uses more energy than we got from releasing it. Now think about how much energy we burn as a species and how we’re not only supposed to offset that with fully green tech but then also expand that green tech to generate so much electricity that we can recapture carbon.

Fission is really the only solution but even that is enormously expensive.
And yet the opening soundtrack is like something from Philip Glass. Amazing soundtrack. (Also, Faye Wong covering The Cranberries, Dreams for the closing song - great.)
No, investors won't scoop them up, just like in 2008 in the US, where there were screaming deals to be had for years yet housing was regarded as radioactive for years after the crash.
The problem isn’t just that everything is text. It’s that everything is a Fourier transform of text in such a way that it’s not actually possible for an LLM to learn to count syllables.
Pets.chickens.roadfaq: Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Road-Crossings
also, we didn’t get bored of it. we figured out how to make custom maps. yes including our school, and picked appropriate demon for each classroom to represent our fabulous teachers. Columbine hadn’t happened yet. even if someone found out, you weren’t gonna go to jail.

Things went downhill fast after that.
I think of Congo.

Underrated when judged as a B (minus) movie.
I doubt anyone here has planted a tree. We talk of action and do nothing.

Every time I mention trees, I am told that instead we need expensive contraptions made out of mined materials, that usually require an external source of power. Instead of putting a tree in the ground and letting nature do its job, we have tricked ourselves into thinking that nature doesn't know enough.

In our hubris and delusion we will end our species and the rest of nature will scratch its head and wonder why.
I think “take responsibility for fucking up the lives of a whole bunch of people, because he didn’t agree with the hiring strategy of the CEO he dumped” is the angle here.

That fine specimen of humanity goes on to say, in the same breath “we are fine, we have money” so clearly they were not pushing bankruptcy, and would have been in a position to help out those they screwed over so brutally.

I’m making it my mission to figure out the combined business interests of their board and c-suite, and make sure that I’ll not use those products if at all possible.
It's so awful
I have not, but I was assuming it was better than regulation of apps, of which there is almost no regulation. Sad to hear it may be otherwise. I was hoping it had the same track record as aviation regulation which is pretty dang good.
I'm suggesting that advertising that feels manipulative will be unsuccessful.

I will agree that advertising does not have to be manipulative to be successful, though I would choose a very different example. In my books, being reminded of something that you wanted, but forgot, is still modifying my behavior. It may not have been the intent of the advertiser, but it raised the priority of something that was (presumably) low priority. That is in sharp contrast to advertising as information. If I am looking for a product for a particular task, then advertising is fine to learn about a product's existence. There are certainly flaws to using advertising to learn about products (conflict of interest as an information source, those with a bigger advertising budget can dominate in both impressions and impression), but many companies simply don't have as much access to customers so they have to pay their own way to get information out.

I guess what I'm saying is that I would rather seek out advertising than have it pushed my way.
> Sure there is a theoretical closable cycle in batteries, but guess what, the same can be said for fossil fuels.

On geological time scales involving massive deposition of organic material.

In contrast, lithium can be recovered from batteries with an industrial shredder and chemical processing.

Fossil fuels are non-renewable in a trivial sense but are grossly different in a practical sense; treating them as equivalent is a borderline specious argument.
I recently ran across helloSystem (https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/), which has as its hook the idea that we should base a unified desktop environment around the original Macintosh user interface guidelines. And while it's still pretty rough around the edges, it has FreeBSD underneath and I'm cautiously hopeful that it will turn into a useable desktop.
Yeah rich white people never get 39 years in prison for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Weinstein
SpaceX can’t launch another rocket in Texas until fixes are made, FAA says
I keep Kirkland canned Cold Brew stocked in my office. We have great hot options at work, but not iced ones. But we do have ice. It's bitter, it's unsweetened, but it packs a good amount of caffeine and is incredibly convenient. Even took a case with me on a cruise.

I have enjoyed UCC in the past; It's good, but I prefer my coffee without sugar or cream. I didn't try any of the hot canned options while in Japan, but did absolutely love some of the choices for other products I found in various vending machines.
They do use ffmpeg (maybe not for everything). They've published quite a bit about their encoding:

https://netflixtechblog.com/high-quality-video-encoding-at-s...

https://research.netflix.com/research-area/video-encoding-an...
There are many things people need but don't have.

In particular, half the houses in Britain have no insulation in the walls at all.
In fact older houses tend to handle heat better - they are naturally drafty, there is a loft taking the heat, they have high thermal mass, and maybe they are even damp and have a leak and mould. All that takes away from the heat.

But now we get newbuild apartments without AC's, and that should be a crime. These buildings are air tight, have zero ventilation, trap heat, no thermal mass so they don't stay cool from the night, and in some of them you can't open windows. And you are not allowed to install a split system because the landowner will never give permission.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/292265/insulation-in-dwe...
Maybe I’m not understanding the idea - if you’re saying we should punish people for demonstrated unsafe behavior (e.g seatbelt laws) then I agree, but that’s not really related to licensing requirements. Or is the idea that you’d just not issue licenses to people who are generally risk-seeking? If so, that doesn’t seem like something you could assess without a socially unconscionable false positive rate (and probably wouldn’t be very effective in changing cultural norms IMO.) Or something else?
We have know for a long, long time just how important a ratio that minuscule amount makes. As you yourself just stated, if you cut the current minuscule amount to a lower minuscule amount, some plant species would die. And similarly, if you raise the current minuscule amount to a higher minuscule amount, the planet heats up and many animal and plant species will die. The balance required for the ecosystem that includes us took a long time to develop and stabilize. The huge rise in this extremely sensitive number has taken a minuscule amount of time (2 hundred years, not 2 hundred thousand or 2 million). A minuscule number making a huge shock to a huge ecosystem with a lot of inertia, the full effects of which have not yet been felt. But even without our help, I'm sure a new balance will eventually stabilize. And it will likely include humans. Our civilization is a little more fragile though, itself only having been around for a minuscule amount of time and only a global famine away from collapsing.
I still can’t get the Boss jingle out of my head 20 years since I heard it on TV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1gFSENorEY
You don’t want to oversize the unit because then the cooling runtime will be too short to properly dehumidify.

The solution usually is like in your case to include an auxiliary heat source such as electric or gas for those extreme cold days the heat pump can’t keep up.
The federal government has very little to do with the quality of the day to day life of middle class people. Police, education, etc., are all state and local issues. If you get beat up by criminals in front of your kids, that’s the fault of the local government to enforce basic order in society: https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/shivanthi-sathanandan-...
Fascinating trigger, thats not what they said

Searching for the mental capacity is the weird thing, there’s more pointing to the idea that other species cant be compelled to care. We cant even tell if another human is capable of intelligence if they are handicapped in speech, paralyzed or locked in. Our best brain scans dont correlate with the level of consciousness and intelligence told by people that became unlocked after a brain injury. of course there are going to be limitations in animals without vocal cords and other priorities.
> existing technology, and capability to lay out 100 football fields of solar on Mars if we wanted to, today

No we don't actually. Not in a ready state to deploy to Mars and maintain and set up automatically.

I would say deploying small submarine navy reactors is closer to being a real thing.

> we straight up don't have the ability to build a big surface buclear reactor on Mars

I didn't say 'build it on Mars'. I said, put in on Starship and land it on Mars.

> it isn't stupid to brute force a large solar installation until something better comes along.

Technology doesn't magically fall from the sky. 'Something better' doesn't magically show up one day saying 'Hi, I'm ready'.

NASA does targeted development investment and spending to get the capabilities they need.

Everybody interested in Space has for 50 years known that space nuclear is a necessary part of the future and because of dumb politics NASA has done almost nothing.

> it's not stupid do do inefficient thing now

We are not flying to Mars right now ...

> when you don't have a real alternative.

If you refuse to develop an alternative your not gone have one.
I know it wasn't exactly your point, but the UK imports 46% of its food.[1] If one was going to be paranoid about import dependence, I think that ranks a tad higher up the list.

Not every country is going to be self-sufficient in every natural resource, or be efficient producers of every product or service.

[1] https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/united-kingd...
I'm sure you'd be even more upset if those tyrannical governments worked to ban pro-choice messages/people from social media, removing the ability for those people to organize and thus any hope of challenging the laws you're talking about.

Perhaps that will have to happen for you to see how bad it is.
> OnlyFans experienced a 47% increase in the number of creators using its platform between 2021 and 2022. That’s almost a doubling

Not so sure I agree with you 100% on your police-work there, Lou.
You might try a happy in between like something along the lines of Streamlit.
But the value of nickel in say a NiMH battery makes it feasible to reclaim/“recycle”
> Your instinct that something is wrong with authority figures is correct, but I feel like you've gone down a narrow channel for the answers.

I am not doubting the science or the statements that come from the CDC, DHHS, or the established respected medical community.

I’m criticizing the government more for actively, denying and suppressing information that they admit now to be true.

On another note almost everything that the government has done in handling Covid since the vaccines have come out has done more harm than good:

1. Vaccine mandates for a vaccine that has since been shown not to be effective long term without a booster. I for the J and J vaccine March 2021. I could show that as proof of vaccination and that alone and I would still be in compliance even though all of the science shows it doesn’t mean anything two years later without boosters (which I’ve done on schedule and still got Covid twice. It was mild each time)

2. Mask mandates after the vaccine was widely available - in practice mostly ineffective because people were wearing cloth masks and not wearing them correctly. At that point I had no sympathy for people who died from Covid who refused to get vaccinated. They made their choice using their own free will.
You are on to something. There definitely is a correlation between the availability of the upcoming booster shot and the "uptick" in Covid cases. It's not surprising though. It's called cold season. The entire point of the new booster shot is that it is targeting specific strains that are likely to be prevalent this fall.
At mine, we had Warcraft 3 installed on the macs in my programming class. The greybeard teacher didn't really care, but his TAs would fuck with us because they were upper classmen. So they'd uninstall it.

We had admin creds, though, so screw you Jordan and Phil.

Anyway, we played a lot of Warcraft 3.
The irony of Web Design Mistakes of 1999 (1999) showing me a full page modal on visit asking for my cookie preferences.