skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not irrelevant, especially considering there were restrictions lasting far longer than "initial uncertainty." It's not like your only choice is to allow for a "collapse" -- as an extreme example, you could decide you're not going to treat covid at hospitals at all (by the way, we make such determinations for other conditions or diseases all the time).
Apple specifically prevents it.
In New Zealand there's https://niwa.co.nz/our-services/online-services/uv-and-ozone...
Possibly a better view than the rose-colored glasses perspective many have from viewing the "comfortable" homeless.

No one's perception of the homeless in these discussions seem to take into account the person that died last week, I guess is what I'm getting at.
I think it’s a fairly simple equation for most people. “Am I going to be (negatively) affected by this?” And this was obviously true for COVID even from the start.

The controversy occurred when people found out that they were definitely negatively affected by all the lockdown policies when they still hadn’t had COVID.
You’d have a better argument if you cited the age population bomb where retired seniors are starting outnumber working adults.

Today, most countries are not going to do lockdowns for Covid due to the data. That was temporary for a highly infectious airborne virus that we didn’t know much about at the time, which was overwhelming our hospitals.

Today, no one is closing anything since we know much more about the virus, and it’s becoming less lethal. All people are asking today is for everyone to either regularly vaccinate, wear good masks indoors (no need for this outdoors), or both. That isn’t going to result in either isolation or depression.
> There’s some subjective level where it starts to feel obvious to more and more of us, until a majority of us agree.

I had this same thought during COVID, but like you said, it's not something others want to talk about. COVID was serious, but the American reaction to it was so strange. The whole approach to masking at restaurants has to be one of the most bizzare moments of American history.
That’s so sad. I’d hate to work at a shop that wouldn’t allow AGPL’d software for internal tooling. What a completely legally unnecessary, productivity-hobbling decision.

Perhaps the best feature of the AGPL is that it predominately hampers companies with ineffective legal departments.
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Richard Feynman’s blackboard at time of his death (1988)
Arstechnica 10-point scale to help you rate the biggest misinformation purveyors
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The app is quite simple, but I’d really appreciate your feedback & ideas for features

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Would love to find out more about what you're doing here. Not all physical modelling options allow dynamic retuning. Also, which software will allow a double reed like the mijwiz. We really need modartt to crack the remaining instrument classes :) if you're open to chat, do you mind dropping an email to the address in my profile?
Agreed. The internet is full of sad men who didn't successfully figure out how to talk to girls in high school / college. There's a critical window for learning how to be social that if missed is difficult to recover from, because the lack of confidence and early success quickly causes them to fall even further behind.

Parents shouldn't be so dismissive of teens and their attempts to fit in and be socially normal. It's extremely important, possibly more important than academics.
Appeals court pauses Atlanta VC fund grant for Black women
Well I guess the question is who is "us"? Tech is serving the executives fantastically.
That might be true for the hardware, but since mixing of multiple streams is a software function nowadays (… some older HW was multi-stream capable…), any 44.1kHz stream has a good chance of being resampled to 48kHz just to allow mixing it with other sounds.

Even if it's the only stream and you could switch the codec to 44.1kHz mode, what do you do if the OS wants to play a random notification sound? Switching between 44.1kHz and 48kHz is not going to be hitless on a significant number of HW (not all, but most I'd guess), so whoever's writing your OS mixer code would reasonably make a call to always mix at 48kHz…

(Yes this argument primarily applies to PCs and phones, hopefully on a HiFi system that just happens to use COTS embedded devices they'd write some code to switch the rate…)
Learn to use the tooling (Ghidra is nice and also free), learn to read assembly and how to look up assembly instructions and understand the documentation on them (there are a lot of assembly instructions for each platform, you will likely not memorize them all nor memorize every ISA). It can also help to know how to write some assembly.

With your favorite compiler, use whatever flag it offers to spit out assembly listings from its compilation process. On clang and gcc this is `-S`. Typically used like `gcc foo.c -S` and it'll produce a file `foo.S` which contains the assembly listings. Or use Compiler Explorer (aka "godbolt") https://godbolt.org/. Great resource, supports many languages and targets, has good highlighting of what code in the origin language became what assembly.

That last bit will help you gain an intuition for what code looks like when it gets converted into assembly language. This is helpful for going in the other direction, it lets you at least guess at something.

There are probably some books or other resources people can recommend, I just picked it up as I went but I'm also just a "dabbler" in the field. It's not my day job and I have no intentions of making it my day job so I've learned enough to accomplish my goals or satisfy my curiosity.
Sadly people are and do. I got a text earlier saying that my bank (and they, by random chance or something more nefarious) named the bank in the communication AND they got lucky because I was just traveling nearby, AND before leaving home I had just opened a piece of mail that informed me that some piece of shit company that I got concert tickets through just had a data breach AND that a bunch of my stuff, including my credit card info, had been leaked. So I definitely had that moment of “oh shit, I should probably look into this” - and if I didn’t have my bank app on my phone I may have just fallen into the process. Scammers operate a simple sales funnel - they cast a wide net and hope they get someone in the same headspace as me but slightly more dumb. The only people who fall for this are, sadly, really dumb, but also really unlucky because they might not have fallen for it if the other coincidences didn’t align.
> The market is saturated.

> This is not the middle. The author is talking about small games.

Exactly what I thought reading this article. It’s very hard to stand out and it’ll only get harder. Tools are much better than before, and now AI generation is entering the ring. Being an exceptional game is half the problem, the other half is getting noticed. Which takes money, or connections. Usually both.

Two additional points.

1. Good interaction design is still hard. Making something that many people can play and understand quickly is a skill. Releasing lots of content is the best way to learn.

2. Back in the Newgrounds days it was really simple to put something out there and get feedback on it quickly. Ads were (generally) not woven into games directly, the Flash tools were simpler and they limited game scope. Itch.io is ok for this but has a lot of downloadable stuff. I miss the days where browser games were huge but I guess there’s no money in it anymore. Maybe someone with better insight can share.
This isn't what GP said, but nice try at a 'gotcha'.
Does Palantir actually work?

My understanding is that they don't really have a product but have some tools and a lot of people who they put to work to provide solutions.

If so - they are essentially just doing bespoke project implementation work.

Is my understanding correct?
I’m not a vaccine conspiracy theorist but just as a counterpoint, Pfizer and then J&J have been selling completely ineffective Sudafed PE for more than a decade.
Be careful what you wish for. It may be replaced by attestation.
Nowhere in the article is excess mortality mentioned.
Sure, there's an element of that. But the idea that government policy has been primarily driven by what would produce the "best" outcome as far as transport options go that the population actually want is a little naive. And of course what we all want is convenience and comfort for ourselves while not having to deal with the downsides (or impossibility) of providing it for everyone.

I'm happy to accept the reality that currently we have no form of alternative transport technology that offers the same comfort & convenience of the car - but I also believe we'd've been better off in the long run if public spending hadn't been so grotesquely skewed in favour of that particular option - other technologies would have had a better chance to come to the fore (e.g. why have e-bikes/e-scooters taken so long to become popular - there's no particular reason I know of they couldn't have been a big part of our transport network 20 or 30 years ago), we could have laid out our cities so we didn't need to travel such huge distances on a regular basis (vs, e.g. occasional long-distance travel between dense hubs where most facilities and services could be accessed via walking/cycling etc.), goods transportation could've been revolutionised by dedicated automated networks etc. etc. For me the most convincing argument that exists against the size (and reach) of government power that we've become accustomed to is that so many opportunities for a better balance of transportation options have been lost to a virtually single-minded focus by the powers-that-be over the last 70 or 80 years on private cars above all else.
Think of how differently the 20th century would have played out if we didn't have such a demand for oil.
i bootstrapped a hw business and looking back i regret it. i thought i could raise at a better valuation later, and trusted this logic after reading about it on hackernews years ago. however what i found is that the investors i pitched once i had customers, were no longer interested because they thought the traction was too small, and they did not take into account the miniscule capital it took to get there and the impressive effort delivered. so once you have revenue that will be used as a reference. if that revenue is not astronomically large then chances are you can no longer raise and you are stuck without funding to market and sell or hire. to date i have been unable to find a solution to this problem. acquiring customers is not free. curious to hear other similar stories and potential hacks to this problem.
> The web of relationships extends to music as well.

Reminds me of a recent, first time listen of John Cale's rendition of Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1dX00JlTF0
ClassyJacket says affection for Peter Thiel is Dunning Kruger syndrome
"He said that the crisis-stricken health service, was making people sick and needs “market mechanisms” to fix it"

no, it simply needs a government that isn't going to hollow it out because it would rather that nationalized health not exist. Americans should be the last people on earth instructing others how healthcare should be done.

it's incredible how privatized healthcare works worse and worse when conservative governments set on dismantling them are in power
Wow editing files and navigating directories, that sounds so fun these days /s

Build a redstone computer in minecraft
My parents were married in Rabwah in the eighties if that means anything to you but I think my branch is pretty much the only unassimilated one as far as my dad’s side goes (my mom is a Pakistani immigrant and my dad was the only one in his generation besides an uncle of his to marry “back home”)

I’m really sorry to say this, but sometimes the way that Pakistanis have treated me with my background, I regret learning Urdu and Punjabi sometimes. I have many wonderful Sunni relatives and Pakistani friends but why should I put any kids I might have through abuse like “han pato Qadiani” “yahudion ka chamcha” and “wajibul qatl” (the last of which another American born Pakistani sipping soda water kindly informed me in a bar my parents were the week after the ‘Muslim ban’) Like Bulleh Shah is cool and all but mostly I end up talking about that stuff with Sikhs for some reason.

My father and brother don’t speak the language, only my mom and I. In the 80s, my mom’s favorite author was the late Ishtiaq Ahmad, up until she encountered some of his interesting conspiracy theories about her community. In children’s novels!
Obviously rearward looking metrics were irrelevant and no one, including me, is suggesting otherwise. You can make policies with the goal of reducing deaths in advance of measurement, and policymakers did.

The argument I am criticizing never mentions rearward metrics as a problem.
As somebody who likes history, I hate how feudalism has become to be used by so many public intellectuals. Just come up with something new, comparing our current crazy society with early medieval Europe is just absurd.
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It's offensive how often postmates asks to enable notifications from the software side of things. For a while, it would ask after almost every interaction, which made the app somewhat unusable.
I'm sensing an overabundance of pareidolia in this story.
It’s just French protectionism in action.
> Instead, it provides more evidence that Kulldorff is seeking to confirm an ideological position and tossing his medical and biostatistical accomplishments aside to do it.

Nobody is immune to this. It’s just more frustrating when their ideological position is opposed to yours.
> The whole space is nicely constrained (128x128px 4-bit color) while still being expressive enough to capture the imagination...

It's pretty cool but I get overly annoyed that it has strict source code limits.

Hopefully the token limit is what dominates coding most of the time, since it's significantly more realistic.
Initial constraints like ICU bed shortages and gear scarcity definitely had a basis. But those measure lasted long after the bottlenecks got resolved and the risk assessment became clearer. For example, public schools stayed remote while virtually every private school switched to in-person (even California's governor opted for private in-person schooling for their kids).

The public's frustration is that these prolonged, seemingly arbitrary measures outlasted their initial justification.
Bad in what term? Flipping through slides?
Each time you catch COVID, you risk the chance of getting long COVID.

You pretend that it's not a big deal, but those numbers are going to pile up into a giant ball of health issues for a lot of people as the years progress. And for many of them, those issues are happening far outside "old age." Go get something that fucks you up for life in your 30s and then get back to us about how it's no big deal.

THAT's the point.
I’ve been looking at places for retirement where I can live car-free or at least very car-lite. There are very few places in the US where this will be possible in my lifetime. Absolutely, let’s more towards an EV future because that’s the best we’ll do in most people’s lifetimes but we can’t expect that change to fix what we’ve spent 100 years building. It needs to be seen as step one of many yet so many Americans are fighting against taking even that step.
Q had moved off the 4chan platform really early, in fact I'm not sure it was ever really on 4chan, but rather 8chan and then 8kun, with some stops in between on a smorgasboard of dubious chans. I remember watching the first Qdrops come in, which I thought was an elaborate troll or maybe some kind of ARG. The New Zealand guy who posted and livestreamed his mosque genocide generally put the stake through the heart of 8, although there were lots of other stake candidates at the time, all sorts of people streaming details of their murders/attempted murders.

So, ok, those guys are monsters, no way around that, but seeing them talk in other contexts, they're also profoundly sad. Trying to name the feeling I'm having, and I think it's pity. I feel pretty much the same about Q people[1]. What the hell happened to you to make your brain this way?

[1] When they're not Congressmen/women/people.
One of the most notable examples is Google.
Isn’t life expectancy an average? If so, then reducing any input values (people dying earlier than they otherwise would) would reduce the average. Doesn’t matter in which n-tile the reductions occur.
I generally not a big fan of Varoufakis but his idea of using NGDP Indexed Debt restructuring did actually make a lot of of sense in the situation that Greek was.

But this was prevented by Germany and co. And it was his the greek premier who eventually made a deal that Varoufakis and most Greeks didn't agree with.
Some governments became drunk with power and ended up implementing authoritarian measures which were pretty obviously useless at actually stopping the virus. Stopping people from wandering the beach alone or sharing a car with their partner, for example.

I am familiar with the case of Spain, but I’m sure in other countries the situation was similar.
MegaGladys: Utilities to find info about people listed in Wikipedia
Near death experiences are really interesting. It’s particularly striking that some people report a kind of conscious, albeit altered, experience with no measurable brain function occurring.
Given the quality of of SDXL generated imagery there’s no uncanny valley, other than the creepy 8 finger hands.

This has to be intentional stylistic renderings.
Many can argue, and they can all be wrong. Do not mistake your criticism for belief that you are right in your thinking/alternatives.
LibreOffice also offers one that's fairly decent, just not enabled by default. It has many other modes as well: https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/01/Enable-ribbon-tab...
Could be like blade runner where you make adults and just inject childhood memories inside their brains.
>>> What about ten lives? One thousand? Ten thousand?

Are 200,000 lives meaningful enough?

Silver's regression model shows that for each 1% increase in the vote share for the blue candidate, the covid death rate in that state (statistically) would fall by 15.5 per million population.

In areas where the blue candidate received 20% of the vote, and the red candidate received 80%, the model predicts 1,793 deaths per million.

And in areas where blue got 80% and red got 20%, the model predicts 864 deaths per million.

A 300% greater death rate [1] is a startlingly high penalty to pay for an ideology. This is at least 200,000 deaths [2] attributed to political ideology. Not to mention the tremendous excess suffering that did not result in death.

And, no, it's not because red areas are older than blue areas. It's because red ideologues got the vaccine in far lower numbers.

[1] Coefficients show that blue at 0% would have a death rate of 2,103 per million, and blue at 100% would have a death rate of 554 per million.

[2] 2,103 - 554 = 1,549 excess deaths per million for red, multiplied by 45% of the US population is roughly 230,000.
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he doesn’t think women should vote and donated millions to trump, does that help with the ethics?
EV “engines” don’t. Way to miss the point.
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Misclicking Live Search (2021)
Catch an AI Liar: Lie Detection in Black-Box LLMs by Asking Unrelated Questions
my theory is that they have been created artificially to achieve certain economic goals
Numbers/source please. 1 middle age or young person dying drops the life expectancy but is obviously just a drop in a bucket.
To be frank, it is all extremely believable to me that a normal person who had never encountered that type of scam or doesn’t someone who had (which is a massive number of people) would fall for it.

I am just happy my mother fell into the pattern of messaging me instantly when she has an even slight suspicion. Had a few false positives, but overall i am very happy with how well this approach has been working out for her. Saved a ton of trouble down the road for both of us.
At least in America, the majority of actors are part of the unions who are already acting as a database of sorts, it's not unimaginable that they could assign everyone a key and start offering this as a service, especially in a few years when AI really starts taking off in the industry.
Master-servant relationships and onerous debt imposed on the weak by the strong are things to be avoided as much as possible. They’re repugnant. We’ve got enough of that as it is, without adding more and stronger forms for it to take.
Impedance mismatch and attenuation. The impedance difference between air and the piezoelectric elements of the transducer is too great - this will cause soundwaves to reflect on contact (and thus never leave the element). If some transducer innovation changed that variable, then attenuation would be the next hurdle.

In general a form of couplant (water, oil, some form of gel, etc) is necessary to eliminate air between the transducer and a material in order for soundwaves to pass.
Just wait a moment
> whose only change in circumstance was three points on a licence

I had this happen to me about 15 years ago, if by "happen to me" you mean "I committed a criminal offence while in control of a motor vehicle". My insurance went up by about 25% for the following 5 years, which was annoying, but I'm not sure how much attention we should pay to the opinions of a convicted criminal when it comes to the punishment for their crime. It's heartening to hear that we are clamping down on these vermin.

> "...because who has got that kind of money [£4,500] in one go?"

The Tesla Model Y has an RRP of £~45,000, so its owner is probably better placed to answer this question than we are.
Ah yes you seem to be labouring under the assumption that many of us care about sustaining the ad industry.
What internet-connected LLM do you currently recommend for programming?
> Making something like vaccination a political issue does everyone a disservice.

You can pin a lot on nate silver, but vaccination as a political issue is a thing he's studying, not a thing he caused.
I just got a new phone and DND was on by default. I can't figure out how to get it to accept calls without turning off DND for everything.
Yes, lets create more xxxxxcapitalisms, its not as if we don't have enough of those. But I guess to include 'capitalism' in title always gives your arguments more meaning among leftists.
What “problem” specifically? What’s the power usage/model performance for Google and Meta, who are both behind GPT-4? And, is that linear or some exponentially growing thing, with model competence?

Nuclear is an incredibly environmentally friendly way to train. It’s a problem if they keep using gas/coal or sucking up renewables that could be used for something better.