skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the vaccines didn't prevent transmission

Tell me you don't know how vaccines work without telling me you don't know how vaccines work.

Preventing transmission is a nice to have, not a must have. Less serious symptoms (which can include, but are absolutely not limited to, death, not for Covid not for anything else) are the requirement for them to be useful.

> CDC's Provincetown study

Tell me you don't know Baysean statistics etc.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/08/08/cdc-re...

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Comments like yours are why I wrote the other day:

"I think people expect cancer cures to be as effective as vaccines really are, while also expecting vaccines (and antibiotics) to be as effective as a Potion of Cure Disease in Skyrim."
Ask HN: Anyone Using Keras Tuner (BayesianOptimization)?
I have a few models that I've been hyper tuning with Keras Tuner BayesianOptimization, doing 100 trials at 4 epochs each, and not sure if it's just coincidence or what, but the very first trial has been the best for several of these models.

I can't help but think that I'd be better off just doing a random search or hyperband.

I'm also just figuring this stuff out, so I'll admit I'm a bit naive here.
The browser is not your nanny. You can also text your online banking credentials to scammers using an Android phone, but no one in their right mind suggests removing text message functionality from Android because of that.
I came across this article from a website for mathematicians that was quite interesting to me, as it's rare to read about a professional with a mathematics PhD and an established career in academia who decided to do an online Master's in Computer Science.

The main idea of the author's account is that the credential helped open some doors to move to a Computer Science department as a professor. She also talks about the pros and cons she saw about the program and how she made time for it by taking a sabbatical.

For the author's specific case, earning the Master's in Computer opened a door for her specific career goals, even though she notes that there are specific drawbacks for a working professional related to opportunity cost.
> Negotiations could easily be worth $40K.

I'm a better negotiator than any agent I've ever dealt with. Add in the white hot market the last decade and the only 'negotiation' happening was figuring out how much to overbid.
No, they brought them in because of the issue of gas supplies after Russia invaded Ukraine. Didn't you hear about this? It was in the news...
I believe, academically, the phrase used to describe China's economy is "socialist market economy". However, that doesn't preclude calling Xi a "communist", as the other commenter did above. A person is not the economy, and I think there is plenty of evidence to conclude that Xi is worth of the label.
Everybody’s entitled to be impolite. But I can still argue against it.
+1. I prefer to use uBlock Origin Lite, even on Firefox.

The ambient permissions that uBlock Origin requires on all sites is too risky.
I'm not really sure where in the US people live that makes them think transportation can be replaced by a bike.

I live in San Diego, the climate is great, but there is no way a person can travel any farther than their neighborhood on a bike.

The main impediment at this point is the outrageous price of EVs in the US.

In China cheap EVs are readily available, trade policies are preventing their import into the US.

Bikes, "e" or otherwise are a great way to get around the neighborhood, but most people are not able to restrict their travel to a 10 mile radius. And weather as well as traffic safety are serious mitigations of bike transport.
20 Mb/s is terrible. Sure, it'll work in some sense, but I'd go mad if that's the best I could get. A good wifi setup is way better than a cabled 20 Mb/s unless you absolutely need consist and better latency for some reason.
You might feel bad for ISPs, but imagine having to operate under these conditions for decades. Think of all the banks who have had to give out loans in neighbourhoods where they knew the default rate would be higher.

The horror. The horror.
We used to do this, going on holiday to Scotland from London. Drive your car onto the train at Olympia, go to sleep on the train, wake up to breakfast and then get into your car in Stirling and drive off.

It wasn't cheap but I really miss it.
I'm currently in the process of buying a house in a major U.S. city, ideally located near a school and in the heart of the city. However, The house, despite its central location, only has access to a 4-7 Mbps max speed CenturyLink twisted pair connection, which is astonishingly slow.

My attempts to resolve this issue have led me into a frustrating loop between ISPs. When I contacted Comcast, hoping for a better service, they informed me that it was CenturyLink's territory and they couldn't provide a connection. However, when I reached out to CenturyLink, they countered by saying it was actually Comcast’s area for broadband service.

It's bewildering to me that in 2023, in a major U.S. city, there are still areas where you can't get a decent broadband internet connection. To provide some context, this area was an old red-lined district, which has recently been gentrified, partly due to the tech boom in the city. Had to give up on a perfectly good house that my partner and i loved because of this
Hmm, there is a lot of opinion in Wikidata - so would not call all of them facts, although some items are. Even if it was all factual, the statistical nature of LLM's would still invent things from the input as per the nature of the technology.
Are the permissions set correctly for this GPTs? I'm getting a generic "Sign up to Chat" page even though I'm logged in with a Plus subscription. Tried multiple browsers with a fresh login too
I wish I did. It looks like we will have to be patient.
The missile still needs the radar to lock onto the target regardless of whether the target was spotted by satellites.
> I heard about an online service where real people can sign up to help blind people by describing visual scenes that they capture on their mobile

For anyone curious, it's called "Be My Eyes". When there's a request, it will send a notification to a batch of people. I get about one notification per month, often I'm unable to answer it right then, and when I do I occasionally get a notice that someone else answered first. Tasks I've helped people with were things like going through an unsorted stack of bills and telling them the denominations, holding up a few T shirts and asking me which is the blue one, reading a pressure valve.

Would recommend signing up. It feels good and there's no pressure to answer since it sends out the request to many people at once.
They mention in the docs it was somewhat complicated to use.

Very few apps need more than the ability to atomically swap a file.

And for the complicated multi write cases, a lot of software just use sqlite which deals with it.
> Further, there is nothing wrong with national ISPs as long as we don't put up road blocks for municipal ISPs.

In this reality, ISPs have put up road blocks for municipal ISPs.

In North Carolina it's especially shady-- any ISP can challenge by offering their own plan to wire up the municipality that wants to do their own wireless. Doing so can end up halting the municipal plan, but that ISP doesn't have to actually deliver said plan.
[Apple app dev smugness stops]

People really jumped head-first into dystopia innit?
That might be their way of thinking but sometimes things go in the other direction. The most critical voice against the city government where I lived in the early 2010s got hired by the mayor to become a "special advisor". That shut her up completely. Instead of scathing columns about government corruption, she put out the occasional press release for the mayor over his two terms. IIRC, there was a similar storyline in the tv show 'Spin City', which makes me think it is a somewhat common thing to happen.
Scientists combine climate models for more accurate projections
I fear an AI narrating my life would be less Attenborough and more Sir Robin's minstrels in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".
Days were just 19 hours long at one point in Earth's history
> But Emacs is more or less the only surviving relic of a very different paradigm of doing computing and software, one which many of us still cherish.

I don't think that's true at all. Emacs is a lisp-machine, but that's just the means, an implementation-detail, not the culture and the aim. Every shell, web browsers, any REPL is pretty much the same as Emacs, just in a different flavor. The culture I'm talking about is to have a customizable tool & workspace. Something that adapts to you, a canvas where only your time and imagination is the limit. Limiting Emacs to being "just" lisp, is doing it a disservice.
3 mph, isn't that like a brisk walking speed for most adults?
Unless you bring studies from actual economist making the same claim I agree, we don't have a basis.

Posted from the freezing, deindustrialzed, immigrant over run Germany.
Cooling system could replace air con and drastically cut energy use
Thanks Ben Shapiro
Like with OBS and Premiere or similar programs? Or like fake gameplay?
The focus on race seems to be mostly coming from commenters here. The definition of digital discrimination in the rule reads "Policies or practices, not justified by genuine issues of technical or economic feasibility, that
(1) differentially impact consumers’ access to broadband internet access service based on
their income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion or national origin or
(2) are intended to have such differential impact."

Racial discrimination and redlining correlating with poor access to broadband was a factor in the analysis, but they also looked at rural/urban access splits and income disparity related lack of access too.

I haven't read through the whole thing yet, it's very long, but the emphasis seems to be on forcing telecoms to build out access in areas that are historically underserved when the reason is they would make less money (different than 'at a loss') rather than serving an area with existing access that might present better margins.
> a chair

I didn't mean "a chair" i meant the [universal idea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_(metaphysics)) of chair.

Plato conceived of Truth as being the light through which things could be conceived. At the highest level was ideas (eg the idea of "Chair", not any particular chair), below that was mathematical objects, followed by physical objects and then shadows.

So Plato would say that math is closer to truth than a chair, but not than the idea of Chair.
Why is there something instead of nothing?
Integrating the Brother ADS-2800W Scanner with TrueNAS and Mayan EDMS
> We moved, and it's not feasible to run ethernet everywhere in our current home. However, whoever built the home ran coax to nearly every room

Obviously a bit late for this, but I don’t understand, if there’s “coax to nearly every room” how can it also be “not feasible” to run new cables?

If nothing else surely you could just run ethernet or even fiber in the physical channels now used by coax? Especially if the alternative is setting up an entire switching set up for moving ethernet over coax.
Well yeah, of course. I'm talking about the most common scenario, where both parties are using Realtors (TM).
I tried this. It kinda worked. It also apparently leaks a lot of ... data? Interference? Something. Wifi seems to work just as well for us.
Great, they can criticize me from the afterlife!
I thought it was 50. They initially were at 25, I believe, then raised it to 50.

Guess they have lowered it since.
Why do we choose 44.1 kHz as recording sampling rate?
The article mischaracterizes the FCC's position. The Biden Administration is pushing this agenda, not the agency. In fact, the Commissioner of the FCC is ardently against it [0].

[0] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-398244A1.pdf
> one of the reasons I don't like modern animation is the lack of effort in the actual animating.

The new Ninja Turtles and Spider-Man movies certainly contradict that, as do plenty of animations from Japan such as anything by Satoshi Kon.

Yes, there’s a lot more garbage today but that because there’s a lot more of everything. The good stuff is going strong and there’s innovation still happening.

South Park is a bad example because it’s atypical in many ways. They do the whole episode in under a week, including the writing and animation, and the cast is basically the creators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles:_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Across_the_Spider-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Kon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_Days_to_Air
"B" = Byte

"b" = bit

The ubiquitous 1000BASE-T form of Ethernet transmits 1 gigabit per second (1 Gb/s).
Content creators now need to compete with the best that's ever been created, not just the best that happens to be broadcast at the same time.

This will increase the inequality amongst general purpose evergreen content, the winners will be bigger than ever before and continue to be watched for decades - but getting into that winning bracket will be hard.

Conversely it's easier than ever to get views on perishable content, that which has short relevancy to current affairs or rests on a particular cultural trend. Live streaming too, by it's nature resembles the rivalry dynamics of broadcast television.
ICT-FaceKit
How does MIT licensing work for something like this and AI models?
As I noted above the why is cost and reducing the number of weapons systems (absent cost benefit, still a net positive). Shell game for the US deterrent has been considered for some time.
There are issues with the grvfs client that gets into a race condition with the disc volumes. It will saturate the max_connections and eat resources at idle. Not sure if this is your issue, I have yet to find a real solution other than uninstalling grvfs-backends and bumping the max user and connections. I got this workaround added to the charmed kubeflow QuickStart. It’s not the correct solution though and I’m pretty spent on the issue.
Same case for me.

I’ve started to view it as a muscle that can atrophy or get stronger.
Currently, Russia is moving it's military away from the Finnish border. So NATO being on it's doorstep is apparently not a thread.
Same. It's broken.
A body may be a necessary condition for epistemological knowledge, but it's certainly not sufficient... most animals are embodied but do not possess propositional knowledge (IMO anyway.)

Ultimately though this is all about the definition of words. Humans find the distinction between "true" and "false" to be important and meaningful; animals don't care. AIs don't care (being incapable of caring), but humans care very much about the propositional veracity of statements that AI makes.

The important thing is that we're on the same page about what's actually happening with these systems and how they work and don't slip into magical thinking or assume that just because a system is facile with language it automatically has a sense of truth or right or wrong.

This is only going to get more complicated as models get more sophisticated.
AdGuard v4.5.1 for iOS: dealing with unforeseen rule limit on iOS 17
As someone who lives in another country I don't really agree. I do agree some trips (especially business) are avoidable. There's an unfortunate stigma that if you don't travel for a meeting you're not considering it important enough. I personally really like VR meetings as a replacement, they make me feel much more together.

But for personal use I don't think travelling less is an option. I hate travel but it's important to see family too. We can't just roll the world back to where a different continent was unreachable.
You and I are reading "SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION." very differently.
You'll find that argument holds up well at first, but it won't age well at all. None of the "AI can't do X" arguments will.

The most popular programming language in 2030 -- 2035 at the latest -- will be English. Few people will GAF whether the underlying generated code is readable or styled for human understanding, any more than they care about the compiler's machine language today. Some will, of course, but it'll be a rarefied, specialized career practiced only by gurus on mountaintops, as assembly programming is now.
If your neighbors use it too, you could end up on each other's network
I'm guessing that means when devtools are open?

No, it's a flag you turn on on the extensions settings screen (chrome://extensions/).
I’m really confused by arguing this is “adding racism”. If I just so happen not to build a ramp into my building aren’t I de facto discriminating against the disabled? It might be economically beneficial to me to save on the cost of ramp building, and I may not be like “fuck wheelchairs”, but I’m still discriminating against the disabled.

Also, I don’t understand why it’s unreasonable to consider race in any broad societal inequality where it just so happens the inequality is concentrated on race. I consider slavery to be a form of societal tech debt of the United States where this discussion is happening: the United States literally enslaved a race of people for over a century and then fought tooth and nail in every level of government against ever giving blacks anything. Within living memory blacks weren’t allowed to vote because of their blackness in that country. Black adults now had to be sent to white schools with national guard protection because the United States populace was going to be violent to children just for going to a non-black school. In this context how the hell can anyone dissociate race from anything in that country? Race was practically in every government policy, drove their only civil war, was part of every subsidy and even in their constitution.
Correct. Protected classes is being used as a proxy for all economic situations.

It prevents a telecom from under-serving poor neighbors. It has significant historical precedence: https://www.fcc.gov/general/universal-service
Wooden hangers retail for around €1 here, and it's ~2.5x cheaper if you look at AliExpress. Note that both are retail, the wholesale prices are probably half of that. €19 for a hanger is ridiculously expensive, even if they're individually hand made. Granted it includes shipping, but even if shipping is 50% of the cost, it's still absurdly expensive.

She mentions in the video that the plastic pieces are injection moulded over the wire, that's a clear indication that it isn't all done by hand. This is very likely being manufactured in a factory in China, with a 1000-2000% markup. But it's got a great story attached to it, and that's what sells it.
"So what’s the best solution? You might think switching to an electric vehicle is the natural step. In fact, for short trips, an electric bike or moped might be better for you – and for the planet."

Also in fact, electric bikes and mopeds are electric vehicles.
Yes, a formal system is a logical structure. The set of all formal systems defines all possible logical structures, i.e. all consistent rule-based systems. So the question of why do atoms follow a logical structure is simply the question of whether it is possible for atoms to not follow a rule-based system. The answer is embedded in the question: atoms are constrained structures, thus to have atoms is to have a rule-based system. More broadly, we can't conceive of a universe not governed by rules on some scale so all our credence should rationally lie with the necessity of a rule-based universe.

>It's still a topic in philosophy to this day. I'm sure you appreciate that if it was a simple solution it wouldn't be a big deal.

The more philosophy I read, the less I appreciate this. It's clear to me that philosophy as an institution is perniciously dominated by the fashion of the day which undermines the idea of philosophical consensus (or lack thereof) as oriented towards truth.
> It took quite a while to work out how to process it to get a level of realism I was happy with.

YUP!

I haven't made a cloud viewer, but I once fell into "the deep end" regarding false color and astronomy photos. Next thing you know you're deep in MATLAB playing with histogram equalization...

Going from the raw data that advanced sensors output to a beautiful picture is NOT always obvious, there's a lot of enjoyable applied math and programming in between. =)
What an odd reply. Where possible, I will try and support independent technology makers, often even if that means it's a slightly worse/different product.

Just because you're cynical and jaded, doesn't mean that everyone else is. You're not giving a factual reality check, you're just being an ass
How are you defining efficiency here? Is walking really more efficient than cycling? I would put walking as the least efficient manual powered methods mentioned.

Aside: I used to unicycle to work, and I have to say that it was both fantastic and much faster than walking while on a 27.5" wheel.
I have now read the PDF and struggle to understand how you've come to that conclusion. Could you point me at where in the PDF it mandates that ISPs make their decisions based on only the race of the customers?
OP could almost be describing my house. New construction, coax to every room, no ethernet. And the builder specifically warned me not to try to use the existing coax to pull a new drop because it's all filled with fireproof foam/insulation stuff.
Show HN: Privytar, a privacy and caching reverse proxy for Gravatar
There was a really good video from a french youtuber about this 9 months ago: https://youtu.be/JcFRbecX6bk?feature=shared

In French, we have a word that I find more accurate, which is "baratineur", which means "someone who tells you what you want to hear, regardless of the concepts of truth or lies"
The Crimson is Harvard’s newspaper?
> So keep an eye out for a neighbor who has an electrician doing work and maybe see how much to just move the cable

That reminds of an idea I had for an app and/or website. I'm never going to get the time to actually try to make this, so if anyone wants to feel free.

I've had small tasks I wanted done that would only take someone with the right skills and equipment a few minutes that I didn't want to DIY either because I lack the skills or I'd need to buy some equipment I don't have and would not get enough future use out of to justify the cost, but I also didn't want to pay for the minimum of 30 minutes or 1 hour of labor that many contractors and companies charge.

A good example is that there was a security light mounted on a pole on top of my garage. I wanted to remove the bulb, but it was screwed in tight enough that using one of those light bulb removers on a pole I could not get it to budge. I'm not agile enough to be willing to try to climb onto my garage roof.

The idea is that I'd list this task on the app, with how much I'd pay (probably $20 cash) and my neighborhood. Then handymen, roofers, electricians, etc., could check the app or site when they are out on a job site and it would show them such tasks that are near them.

So say some roofers are doing something for a neighbor. They could check the app, see that it's a quick $20 cash for one of them on their way home or on their lunch break to come over and spend a minute or two doing my task. I was in no hurry to remove the light bulb, so I would have no problem waiting until someone with a ladder and a few minutes to spare happened to be working in the area and be willing to make a quick easy $20.
I'm currently working on planning for a large enterprise migration. We're definitely not doing a 1:1 mapping of VMs, but costs are still going to go through the roof.

There might be a quiet betting pool on just how much more.