skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also important to know the current scientific consensus on how Covid spreads.

We now know that people who are infected with Covid emit viral particles into the air while breathing normally. Those viral particles can float in the air for hours and the people who inhale them become infected.

> The most common way COVID-19 is transmitted from one person to another is through tiny airborne particles of the virus hanging in indoor air for minutes or hours after an infected person has been there.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/03/23/lets...

Previously we thought the only transmission route was that infected people who sneeze or cough spray large droplets that fall out of the air quickly, and the people who touch surfaces contaminated by those droplets and later touch a mucous membrane become infected.

So Covid has fully airborne transmission like the measles, not a droplet based spread like the flu. Hand washing is an effective mitigation for a virus with a droplet based spread, but not a virus with an airborne spread.

The Whitehouse post linked above discusses the sorts of mitigations that can be effective against an airborne virus.
12.9" iPad Air, especially if the iPad Pro moves to OLED and even higher prices.

Rebrand the current iPad Mini as a Mini Air and introduce a low-cost Mini again even if that means previous-gen chipsets.

Move everything to USB-C and USB 3.0+, none of this USB 2.0 bullshit they did on the phones.

More RAM everywhere. App reloads and resprings are killing me when trying to get any real work done on an allegedly "Pro" iPad.
> In Seattle for instance you can beat a driver to the airport every time during traffic

Sea-Tac is 22 minutes from my house by car, during the worst traffic it is usually around 35 mins (I don't have to drive through downtown), and 1 hour 18 minutes by bus and lightrail. I live about 4 miles as the crow flies from the SODO light rail station.

> Mass transit is the solution.

This is only a solution for a large, dense urban environment, and really only a partial solution at that.
This is exactly why organizations should run their own email servers...
If Israel stops bombing, occupying, and displacing Palestinians in the past ~70y, you will have peace, if Palestinians stops however, they cease to exist, and in 50 years or so, the international community will make a museum and a memorial that one day some indigenous people lived there..
let me introduce you to Stable Diffusion it's gonna blow your mind
This is cool. How does the erosion not continue past the current perimeter?
> It's not opinion or votes all the way down.

It really is. An unreferenced note may be voted up; a well-referenced one may not. There's certainly no requirement you even click the references to see if they say what's claimed. A misrepresented fact may be noted, and it's certainly not synchronous.
One interesting issue about Scripture is that it gets rewritten to support doctrinal positions; neither the KJV (which, admittedly, sometimes plays games with language specifically for the way thing sound) not many modern translations with strong scholarship separate out the subjects of who is having sex with men vs who is doing it with women the way your quote does; OTOH, its found in some translations that purport strictness, and lots of admittedly freer translations and paraphrases (some of which go further, like the The Living Bible, and just rewrite to condemn “homosexuality” with that word.)

OTOH, I just realized I don't know what is true of the version used by this app, because while for some reason I thought it was KJV, I'm not sure what version it is using currently (there's a reference to starting with using the KJV implying something else is used now, but its not clear what that is.) So the comment about what those verses contain, as relates to the app, may or may not be correct.
Kevin O'Leary, not so much. :)
Fair enough. I think copyright (and by extension intellectual property) is not all that important to promote the arts, and the actual implementation in the law is (in my opinion) very flawed.

In the modern age it costs nothing to duplicate knowledge. That should be reflected in law. I'd like to see society work towards making life in society better. One of the ways to do that is to give freely to society. If we recognize intellectual property at all (I'd rather we'd not) then the time to reverting to public domain should be significantly shorter.
Not very subtle. I’m sure it will be chocked up to “a misfiring spam filter” but after John Stewart’s unceremonious firing from Apple for his truth seeking content plans one begins to wonder.
The FAA would have been totally happen, probably ecstatic, to allow an external mandate from someone like the EPA end leaded avgas while they had no replacement, effectively killing general aviation. They could have pointed fingers at the EPA who would have pointed back at the FAA, meanwhile GA would be dead.
If you are interested in a similar list but with a bent towards being a SRE for 15 years in FinTech/Banks/Hedge Funds/Crypto, let me humbly suggest you check out:

https://x.com/alexpotato/status/1432302823383998471?s=20

Teaser:
"25. If you have a rules engine where it's easier to make a new rule than to find an existing rule based on filter criteria: you will end up with lots of duplicate rules."
Visualizing the Relative Sizes of Everything in the Universe
Grape vine -> grape fruit -> fermentation+processing = wine

Cacao tree -> cacao bean -> fermentation+process = cocoa butter -> +milk+sugar+lecithin = chocolate

[0] https://www.webmd.com/diet/difference-between-cocoa-and-caca...
I actually don't believe that these statistics (GDP ranking, etc) are all that useful, for many reasons. I'm just saying that one of the ways Germany and the rest of Europe have pulled ahead, despite having "structural" issues that US neoliberals drone on about incessantly, is with immigration. Japan is notoriously anti-immigrant. This raises its labor costs and creates a more insular culture that fails to adapt quickly enough. Now, its culture might be fine with that, and I respect that choice (up to the point that it becomes racist). Growth isn't everything, and as we see contributes much towards the climate destabilization we are experiencing.
I don't believe the parent was describing the article as cringe. The tactics from Microsoft are what I believe are being described.

Bias disclaimer: I used to work at Microsoft. I work at a competitor now in areas tangentially related to browsers.
From the article: "The GPU can be seen by Windows, but Nvidia only publishes Arm drivers for Linux, not Windows. So in device manager you just see a Basic Display Adapter, and it can't really do anything."

Never thought I'd live in a world where drivers are published for Linux first. This is great.
Absolutely, olive oil, garlic and salt is my snack.
you mean you don't like Pinterest search results?
Omaha is in Nebraska
Heh, for that exact reason I'm using it with my screen dimmed as much as possible and even considered adding a night[*] (black to red) mode for OLED screens (I write at night, I'm a vampire).

One of the use-cases I found when I was researching Ensō: there was a blogger who'd split writing into two steps:

1. writing with their screen dimmed as much as possible

2. editing the next day

Also, perhaps a pure-black screen with a simple indicator of the number of characters/words written would work here? You'd still know that the editor is recording your changes. Seems like a nice idea for a little app/toy.

[*]examples, inspiration: https://untested.sonnet.io/Obsidian+for+Vampires (apologies for messy notes, this project is separate from my main site)
The downside of AI language translation
I think that what they’re saying is that no one would pay for the expensive trials and approval process, since they wouldn’t have enough time to make their money back from it. So even if it were leaked, it still wouldn’t get produced.
You seem to be saying if he did it more carefully, he wouldn't deserve to get caught. And that this is merely "stupidity" and not an act of evil.

Please clarify.
We've changed the URL from https://www.techspot.com/news/100642-ice-used-ai-powered-too.... Thanks.
Yup, this lack of basic empathy is a big part of the tension. It's the same situation played out over and over in different contexts. Each side of every issue judges the other side by their worst constituents, imagined or otherwise. Now that whole side of the issue is just "villains". There are unreasonably NIMBY people, but virtually human being exhibits a minimum reasonable amount of NIMBYism. You can't bring harm to people's home and communities (concrete harm, societal harm, or statistical harm) and then call them names and declare their opinions and emotions invalid. I mean, you can - sometimes politics works that way. You shouldn't, morally.
Lets reset then and try to get to the root issue; your characterization of this as someone insisting is a total buzzkill, do you have to treat this like a bizzare moral pronouncement that you must denounce? If you can be chill about marsquake then I'll swear by all the fruit you can name to defend the use of 'earthquake' as correct regardless of the planet being discussed.
Absolutely NOT!
The law enforcement agencies tend to only capture the stupid criminals.

What we don’t know is how many of these malicious low level employees are out there. Minimal background checks, low pay, minimal qualifications, and long hours tend to attract the worst people. Add in that these stores are minimally supervised with maybe 1-2 people on the floor during business hours.

It’s a recipe for disaster.

T-Mobile is getting the heat. But there is at least a few of these stories every year from all types of retailers (Apple, Best Buy, Microsoft, Verizon, and even third party repair shops, …)
This is going to be very interesting to see the mechanics of this, since Microsoft claims newclimate.org is not on any blacklist….yet an individual organization can appeal to Microsoft to have the url unblocked and apparently it makes it work, but only for their organization.

That seems on its face like an impossible contradiction to me.

Interesting to me that this also blocks sending the IPCC report even as an attachment.

This certainly seems oddly targeted, but I doubt that Microsoft is intentionally to blame. More likely their infrastructure is compromised and someone is selling blacklisting as as service lol.
He might be “non-violent” but he harmed more people collectively than multiple violent people could.

If I steal your entire wealth and your family ends up on the street, it doesn’t matter that I wasn’t violent.

Hope he gets what he deserves: a ton of prison time.
I was born with one kidney, a condition called renal agenesis. I’m 53 years old and in perfect health. Doctors don’t recommend any particular action.

As an aside, I’m also Buddhist so if the kidney goes I’m going with it. This obsession with prolonging life is just a distraction from living it.
I see.

First let me explain what I mean by implicit incentive with our biology example.

You have the protein sequence, G46AKT5778FAG4

The predictor is given "G46A____"

The only way to predict this correctly consistently across multiple proteins is learn the underlying biological structure.

Now, I pulled this snippet of a recipe randomly from the web.

"Add the tomato purée and turn up the heat slightly, cooking until it has darkened, about 2-3 mins."

Block out some information.

"Add the tomato purée and turn up the heat slightly, cooking until it has ____"

The only way a predictor is getting what kind of completion to make consistently correct across multiple unseen recipes and food items is if it has some model of the visible effects of heat on food in general. The predictor will be forced learn what kind of foods darken in heated water and group them together internally so it doesn't have to memorize every single instance (more effort than simply learning it)

Now let's put back darkened and block out the time.

"Add the tomato purée and turn up the heat slightly, cooking until it has darkened, about____."

The only way a predictor is consistently correct on what time interval this should be across multiple recipes is if it has some model of the effects of heat and time on whatever it is you're cooking.

Implicit incentives are everywhere.
Did you school have much of a research arm? That's where you can get a lot of mismatch between the ratios because you have whole cadres of people who don't teach anyone at all or teach a few small classes because their jobs are research focused.
Quadcopters can now visually track targets more effectively
> My opinion is that OAuth 2.0 is a very bad spec because in practice people do not implement it correctly.

Can we just stop using oauth entirely, then? There's got to be something better.
Rolls eyes.
Total bs, all of this. Thank you for conveniently ignoring the major sources of revenue for a university, namely tuition, in particular international tuition, govt. funding and endowments. Overhead from grants is a tiny line item in comparison on the balance sheet.

The overhead is basically a tax on research and robs professors of valuable resources. It only goes to pay an ever-growing, over-bloated admin staff. This is coming from someone who has first-hand knowledge from both sides of the equation.
Here is one with a negative impact

https://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/att_collap...
Functional Pearl: The Proof Search Monad
> Once something is made or built, we fucking hate change.

I don't think that's quite it. Why would we hate change qua change? Change is neither good nor bad as such.

There's plenty we all wish was different (and plenty that should be preserved). Almost everyone wishes Madison Square Garden were demolished and old Penn Station were rebuilt. But it's difficult because buildings, and urban layouts, are enmeshed in a thicker reality than just stone laid upon stone. Look at the urban plans of European cities, especially ancient or medieval ones. You may find a few weird quirks in the way streets are laid out. For example, you might find streets that are circular, only to find out that this is because there used to be a Roman amphitheater there. Even some of the stones from the original structure are still present in the very foundations of the new buildings. Living, breathing cities are a network of dependencies, and it is not a simple matter to change how a street runs. It is very expensive, people live there, businesses operate there, property lines are what they are. Unless the justification is severe enough, there isn't enough reason to even think about doing it. That's why it is essential for us to get urban planning right in the beginning according to durable principles.
I mean not fly.io, the author Kent C Dodds makes his living from selling web courses.
You are strongly misinterpreting both how real-world customers perceive vendor lock in and how DoD procurement works. Everything here is so far off from reality I don't even know where to begin.
Does anyone know a similar library for js/ts?
Don't know if it's just me, but all of the archive.today sites have been putting me into a captcha loop for the past couple months. :(
If I am evaluating how intelligent an AI is against a human then IMO it's only fair they both get the same prompt.

It should be counted as a fault of the AI if it can't understand the prompt as well as the human, or another AI. That's all part of being a useful entity, how well you understand a prompt and how well you can infer the original meaning from what prompt you have been given.
Off topic: TIL Google has its own TLD (.google)
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Lead and asbestos beg to differ. I mean, your admonition works when it works, but…
There generally just isn't a lot of organic content to be found for those types of queries. Best hope is reddit or similar enthusiast watering holes, but not every product category has a strong enthusiast community.
Non-expert, but soap disables not just COVID-19 but also most other viruses and bacteria.

Also, water alone does a lot to wash them away. Found this study of no-washing vs. water-washing vs. soap+water-washing with a quick search:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3037063/

No washing: 44% of hands intentionally touching doorknobs and railings had bacteria

Water alone: 23%

Water + soap: 8%

(edit: line breaks)
Azure has procedures in place to prevent circular dependencies, and regularly exercises them when bringing new regions online.

IIRC some of the information about their approach is considered sensitive so I won't elaborate further.
As others mentioned, diesels tend to have worse performance/weight due to heavier construction.

In the early days of aviation (like 1930's or such) there was some effort to introduce diesels for long-range aircraft, the idea being that the heavier powerplant would be offset by the lower required fuel load due to better fuel economy. But they weren't successful.

More recently there has been something of a renewed interest in aviation diesel engines, the motivation being they can run on Jet A-1 in addition to diesel fuel. Jet A-1 is what jet (and turboprop) aircraft use, and is available at basically every airport worldwide, is much cheaper than avgas, and no risk of being phased out like the leaded avgas being discussed in this article.
Poor analogy.

Tires are safety-critical equipment with a minimum bar of performance and externally imposed regulations on them that they function at an acceptable level. This makes them a mostly fungible commodity. Search engines are not, and as Google shows, have no minimum bar of performance that a reasonable person can expect.

Also you buy tires once, and then beyond wear and tear they don’t just randomly degrade one day. With search engines you are continuously subject to the daily whims of Google beancounters.
That's part of it yes but people tend to forget that the road to capable prediction is not instantaneous.

It's possible the data is enough to get a good predictor but the one you tested simply wasn't good enough yet.
A few years ago I was trying out mdk3's FakeAP feature.
It had the ability to create thousands of fake APs and crash some devices.
I was playing around with it on a MacBook that didn't have OS X for a few months, as I completely erased it and installed a Linux distro on it.

I started toying around with the FakeAP, pretty impressed by the huge list of networks with random names that were now appearing and dissapearing.

But then, I was struck with horror. Something must've happened inside the hardware, because the network names were not random anymore. It was still advertising new networks like crazy, but they had the SSIDs of the networks I had connected to in the past. From the work network, to all the coffee places I went to, friend networks, etc.

I have my beef with Apple, and the fact that they store the networks you connect to on a chip is just a part of it. There's no good reason (for the users) to do this, and it shows a complete disregard for privacy.
I don't think Americans know how uncivilized our prison system is, especially compared to a lot of Europe. Or maybe they do, and we're just a very vindictive society. Sorry you had to experience it first hand.
Honestly, how big your application needs to be to outgrow SQLite? If you can serve X customers from one server with SQLite, good for you. If you need to serve more people, you should be in a position to afford migration to something more complicated and good for you too. I don’t see a problem here. Let’s start small with the right tools and don’t fall in the premature optimization trap. You don’t need DB cluster, Kubernetes and other fancy stuff when you start your project.
Both testifying and “advice of counsel” defense are very risky hail Mary strategies. He is probably going against the advice of his lawyers because he thinks he is smarter than them. Defendants shouldn’t take the stand in fraud trials.

Testifying opens SBF to cross-examination. He is so arrogant that he thinks he will ace it, but evidence points towards him fumbling it.

“advice of counsel” defense waives the right to attorney-client privilege.
This reminds me of Warcraft. I got this PDF listing which products were cheaper to buy from vendors than the auction house, and I set up a small network of toons who would mail each other these products and auction them. (The products were either all fish or mostly fish.)

I think you could have five characters total, so I had a little price triage cartel specializing in fish, made up of four characters, who all operated for the benefit of the fifth character, the one I actually played the game with.

It worked beautifully up to about level 45 or 50, after which it didn't scale any further.
> My main motivation for using ZFS instead of ext4 is that ZFS does data checksumming, whereas ext4 only checksums metadata and the journal, but not data at rest.

There's also dm-integrity [1]:

> The dm-integrity target emulates a block device that has additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing integrity information.

One more thing: where is the ECC RAM?

[1]: https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integri...
It's gotten much worse. Elon fired the moderation team. Now it's a major source of misinformation for racism, anti-semitism, etc.

Nothing's ever perfect, there was misinformation before, but it's accelerated massively after Elon took over.
Google delivers shit results and then pays every browser vendor that isn't themselves for a dominant search position.
Possibly, but the easily available data itself seems is pretty poor for systemic reasons.
> Afair Google just ran irc on their corp network which was completely separate from prod

I thought Google didn't have a "corp" network because of their embrace of zero-trust in BeyondCorp?
Recent and related:

Google's plan to stop Apple from getting serious about search - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38023874 - Oct 2023 (269 comments)
Wish we also covered the tricks that Google used to trick users into adopting Chrome, like paying every freeware vendor since 2009 to install Chrome automatically on your system if you forgot to untick the "Install Chrome" box, similar to any other spyware of the era like the Ask Jeeves or Yahoo! toolbars.

I remember back then, when Chrome just came out, asking non-tech people how they got it and they always answered "I dunno, it just showed up".
Lol. Yeah, I have 1.2Gb internet.
"Unfortunately universities are not immune to the realities of living in a capitalistic society."

There might be unpleasant realities of living in a capitalistic society but they are less unpleasant than living in any other sort of society.
It's very easy to run emergency backup generators in parallel.

Take your total load (10MW) divide by 5 (2MW) and you need 5 2MW generators, buy 7 and run 6/7 and your "down for yearly maintenance" generator can be offline while your "oh shit we installed the wrong fuel filter and the injectors clogged" generator also fails.

Much harder in a plane.
It's always very cool to see ShowHN posts result in a job offer. Seems to happen often enough here, but I never really see it on any other forum