skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Careful reading suggested he was arrested under suspicion of selling vaccine cards, not that he actually sold vaccine cards.
I do not consent to this consensus
> You can barely see the red light in sunlight and it's harder to tell the red light from brake lights

I can't say that I've ever had trouble seeing the red turn signals in the sun. Being able to see them in the sun from a few hundred feet away is legally required in most, if not all, states.

Do you have trouble seeing brake lights too?
So, I'm glad that these researchers investigated the case, and reported their findings, but I am not surprised. It would be odd if our immune system, as had apparently been speculated, became less effective against pathogens that it saw a lot. People who live in low-tech areas with, for example, a lot of malaria, will need to have immune systems that remain vigilant, year after year.

Moreover, if a pathogen is in general circulation, a person might easily be exposed to it many, many times in a few years, as you keep coming into contact with people who have it. I would be surprised if it caused the immune system to no longer respond.

More plausible would be that something about the vaccine itself might become less effective, since it is after all not an actual pathogen but rather a piece of one which we are attempting to "trick" the immune system into treating like a pathogen. I believe the term for this part of a vaccine is "adjuvant" (although IANAImmunologist). Most of the vaccinations appear to be mRNA based, if I am reading the appendix of the Lancet article correctly, so it is interesting to see evidence that this method remains "convincing" to the immune system (n=1).
Yeah agreed, always thought it was an average album.
Can you offer cliff notes on what/why you found his argument persuasive?

For one who has relatively little interest in reading such a book, the claim seems quite outlandish. For instance Africa has everything from monkeys to elephants, and most have been tamed. Even the common exception of zebras isn't really an exception. One can find countless examples of them being tamed to varying degrees [1], but there seems to be no large scale and competent multi-generational effort to achieve that at scale. Taming in many species is a process that happens over many decades to centuries. And when you look at other places like Russia, everything from foxes to bears have been tamed.

[1] - https://www.npr.org/2014/09/20/349856240/my-little-zebra-it-...
I am waiting for the day when mechanical keyboard enthusiasts finally put kailh hot swap sockets into a car's controls. Then we can have debates about whether car controls should be tactile, linear, or clicky. GMK keycaps for German cars. Japanese cars with Topre switches. Anime dye-sub keycaps on ricers. QMK firmware forked and re-written in MISRA-C. It would be grand.
Most explanations I can think of would involve an anxiety, delusional, memory, or cognitive disorder. Or an art project, scientific self-experimentation, or an deliberate effort to experience an adverse reaction in order to qualify for a vaccine injury payment?

[ Edit: Wow, I didn't even think of the fraud possibility mentioned in other comments. :-( :-( In some places maybe people are also directly paid to receive vaccines? ]

I wonder if there's anyone for whom 217 total lifetime vaccine doses (cumulative across various vaccines) would be considered medically indicated. Maybe if you got childhood vaccines on an inefficient schedule, moved around between countries with different recommendations, got a bunch of travel or special occupational hazard or special exposure risk immunizations, eventually got multi-dose old age vaccine series, and also got the annual flu shot every year?

Oh, I guess if you go to both the northern and the southern hemisphere every year, you could have two different annual flu shots indicated (since the hemispheres have different flu shot formulations). I think that could do it when combined with the other stuff.
Many customers were worried when their account balances supposedly showed zero.
Coinbase has also mentioned that there has been a rise in latency.
As the platform takes yet another hit, crypto exchange Coinbase reassures customers that their assets are secure. Customers of Coinbase Inc. reported a problem with the platform during the recent spectacular price surge of Bitcoin (BTC).

Many customers were worried when their account balances supposedly showed zero due to a problem. Reportedly, the $100 billion drop in Bitcoin’s market worth within 15 minutes was caused by the downtime.
You use machineConfigs that are used to provision the base OS and configure it, and the clusterConfig is used to bootstrap k8s on those machines. You can make subtypes and super types, you can have different networking setups, whatever you like, just apply and the OS is driven to state, then k8s is brought up from there. You are presented a kubeconfig after. Changes are done via application of updated machineConfig. Works great in practices and if you write an operator you can manage the config generation via k8s manifests and get wild with it.
Inside the OS, there's a game called Danger Cross, which seems very similar to crossy roads. Did the Puter developer essentially reimplement crossy road? Or was there some open source version already existing could somehow run on this "OS" ? Briefly searching google for Danger Cross didn't yield any results.
They don't want tourists in them.
Weird take given it was private industry that engineered the global digital panopticon we all live in today same as private industry has intentionally stifled progress on climate change and caused the now planetary PFAS contamination.
Predicted Nvidia at $50, and many more.
Ironically, Spain did not become wealthy by looting gold and silver from the New World. What happened was - inflation!

The looting was doing the same thing that the US government does - injecting money into the economy, which always results in inflation.

The same thing happened with the two American gold rushes.
It's a UX 250h which is classified as a compact crossover - but for all intents and purposes, it's a hatchback sedan. Looks like one, drives like one, sits on the same frame, is as big as a one, and has the cargo capacity of a hatchback to boot. I get 35 mpg in it. Great car, would highly recommend. I think if nothing in the world changed for the next ten years, it would hold up fine. But I forsee other issues that older sedans won't run into, especially with the inevitable number of repairs and availability of parts for the electronics.

The point is that if you just look at total carbon emissions, modern EVs and hybrids aren't better than old ICE sedans. A big part of the reason is weight, due to safety and creature comforts. What I'm lamenting is that hybrids don't do that much better than ICEs from 20 years ago when it comes to fuel economy - except for some standouts like the Prius.

Meanwhile, most manufacturers are just selling hybrid SUVs and crossovers, or EVs the size of a whale. Some of these cars they're selling have to be hybrids because of EPA mileage requirements, and they're going to struggle to get to where the EPA wants them (which is why Biden rolled back the pace of fuel economy standard changes just a few weeks ago - the manufacturers won't keep up).
Home-Approved Dashboard chapter 1: Drag-and-drop, Sections view, and a new grid
Sweden's experience is that the freer women are to choose, the less often they choose tech or STEM generally. Cog psych has solid reasons why.

I'm fine with women being free to choose.
Some people should be chiming in to say how annoying the click sounds are to the passengers.
I had no idea Natron was still maintained. It's a cool idea, but absolutely garbage to use. Just download Resolve/Fusion for free.
> Office, Chrome, Teams, and Slack

Those are like the heavyweights of the app world. And I think the 4 combined is running more code than the OS itself (the last three are 3xChrome).
Beethoven quartet opus 135, especially the third movement. Several others, about an album or two worth of music. Ravel’s quartet is up there. I melt when I hear George Duke’s rhodes solo on Blessed Relief (a great piece overall). Stuff like that.
"police an information ecosystem that is at serious risk of disruption"

Sounds like how one of Bradburys firemen would describe his job.
That's definitely not the limit. At 700Hz, a 700px wide screen with the 1px line crossing it every 1s would qualify as reaching the limit in that situation. But, speed that line up so it crosses every 0.5s, and it's no longer good enough. You've introduced an artifact - the object looks like multiple copies now, equally spaced apart by 1px gaps. It's not a smooth blur. The display never displayed a gap, but human eyes merge together an afterimage, so we see multiple frames at once over the last ~1/30s. Now go to 1400Hz, but double the speed of the line so it crosses in 1/4s. Now you need 2800Hz to eliminate the artifact. Or, you can artificially render motion blur, but then it won't look right if you eye follows the line as it crosses. So it's also a function of how fast your eye muscles can move across the screen. Thirdly, we can't limit ourselves to a 700px screen - a screen filling the human field of view would need to be 20-30 million pixels wide before one can no longer resolve a 1px gap between two vertical lines. There is eventually a completely artifactless limit, but it's way higher than 700Hz. Of course, 700Hz is nice, and if you fudge the criteria (how often do you see a 1px line moving across your field of view at high-speed in real life) you can argue it's good enough.
I'm amazed mistral is still doing the inverse chain of thought reasoning by default, even with their new large model.

This causes it to get the question wrong for me, when testing, and only if I manually prompt normal CoT does it get it right.

Is there any papers showing a merit to this approach? It seems extremely counter-intuitive.
Talent isn't worth much; a body might be in a career for 20+ years; any advantage talent gave will be ground down. The trick is finding the best remunerated point in the Venn diagram of things they are willing to do and things that people are willing to pay for.
"FanDuel founders to receive no cash from sale to Paddy Power Betfair"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17485246

(July 8, 2018)

Shamrock Capital Advisers and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts are the two mentioned investors, I believe.
Interesting. The entire Kind of Blue album has the opposite effect. If I hear the music now, it pleasantly tranports me back to the early 1980s when I bought it as one of my first CDs. Then I go on to focus on the music...
Something to keep in mind with Fusion in DaVinci Resolve is that it is an embedding/integration of the Fusion Studio toolset into an all-in-one application. There is a difference in available features between DaVinci Resolve and Fusion Studio, a paid product. I want to say DaVinci Resolve Studio closes most of these differences, but I'm not 100% certain. I still have my Fusion Studio dongle that allows me to use both Fusion Studio and DaVinci Resolve Studio.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion/compare

A dedicated compositor would likely want to lean towards paying for Fusion Studio rather than DaVinci Resolve Studio (both cost $295 USD). The standalone application provides greater flexibility in terms of working on multiple shots at a time (multiple scenes open) and being able to focus on the specific task at hand. If the work originates in Resolve, VFX Connect can be used to launch the clip in Fusion Studio.
East to West yes but the book asserts that it's the variance North to South that matters because supposedly biomes change far more along that axis than on the East to West one.

Africa and Eur-Asia measure almost identically North to South
Not all drivers can use their legs, they have cars specially fitted for them.
It's for sale, email me :)
> And what is the best throwing technique?

I envision a hammer throw, though I feel like a server thrown that way could be extremely dangerous.
"Police confiscated several blank vaccination cards from him and initiated criminal proceedings."

What are you trying to say?

(1) He wasn't actually trying to selling vaccine cards?

(2) He was trying to selling vaccine cards but hadn't yet succeeded?

Given the evidence — the confiscated cards and the sheer number of shots already administered — both (1) and (2) seem like absurd presuppositions.

We're not a jury, and this is not a trial. We can't send him to jail, but we can say he's clearly guilty as hell.
Only the free version does not, but of course in that case you can export to an intermediate master and then encode to whatever you like.
Of course!

With any solution, you’ll need to have some awareness around SQL injection, CSRF, XSS, etc. Some frameworks have sensible defaults to help you avoid common mistakes, but there’s no 100% fool-proof solution.

Right now I’m in dev mode and haven’t deployed anything yet. DigitalOcean does have a managed app platform: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform
What does any of this have to do with my question? You just restated a fact, that busybox is a binary with a lot of symlinks, but why? So what? Yes, also the sky is blue and water is wet. It's like you didn't read the comment you responded to. It wasn't even about the benefit of Talos.
> The continental axis hypothesis is his answer to this. He says crops (and later animals) could be more easily moved east to west rather than north to south because the climate will change less. In his mind, this explains why Africans didn't adopt European advancements in agriculture and animal domestication.

> You don't need a study to debunk this theory within the context of Diamond's overall hypnosis; you need a globe and some measuring tape. Africa's east-west axis (4600m) is only 8% smaller than its north-south axis (5000m), which in turn is almost identical to Eur-Asia's (4,900m). The only time this isn't true is on a distorted map like the Mercator projection he uses in the book.

Why is that a refutation? Diamond says that Eurasia's east-west axis is much longer than Africa's east-west axis. You're responding that Africa's east-west axis is almost as long as Africa's north-south axis. So what?

(Your following paragraphs make sense as refutations of Diamond, but I don't see how that one does.)
I just wanted to say well done. I wish other eco systems were this open, hackable and understandable.
WebTV largely worked better than I think it often gets credit for, and I echo the sentiment elsewhere that it felt "futuristic" in a sense. I had a Windows desktop, but we came into possession of a Philips WebTV box since my father was in sales and his company had a catalog of sales incentive items you could get for meeting sales targets. I really did not want use AOL like it seemed everyone else did, and the WebTV subscription was pretty reasonable compared to other options. We had the version with the hard drive and wireless keyboard. The hardware was really pretty decent- the keyboard was ok, I could print with it, and the feature I thought that really set it apart was the ports for video capture. I don't think they ever implemented a good way to use that capability for video, but I used it to capture screenshots from our family camcorder and attach them to email or post them on the webtv personal "website" or print them.

My early use of eBay was through WebTV, with both buying and selling, and it largely worked. You could browse webrings and read email from the couch!

Most of all, the dialing music was fantastic and I still listen to it once in a while: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brZYWcGgg4Y

When free ad-supported dialup services came around (Juno, Bluelight, NetZero) I alternated using those and WebTV for a while. As pages moved away from simple text/table/image based sites, page rendering quality unsurprisingly degraded. I think the version we owned had some Flash support but it was slow.

Looking back on it, it's impressive how legible text was on a 20" CRT TV in the interface (through S-Video). It was more usable than some modern "smart" TV interfaces.
27k is reasonable for the price of a new car. Everything but the cheapest of vehicles is around there these days.
Thanks! Let me know if you try it out
How scientists are using sound waves to hack the brain
A Studio license will enable H.264 support, but AAC is still a no-go on Linux.

https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_...
> he has explained (while very drunk on a live stream) that he has some beliefs that don't... always align well with the status quo

This is exactly the kind of people that I want to listen on a live stream. And not boring moralizing status-quo defenders.
I wonder if RGB backlighting would increase or decrease safety.
This well-circulated essay explains in some detail what he means by "poor":

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/
This isn't doing that though. It would be if Amazon commissioned a new plant for their own needs but it seems like they will be sucking power from the existing grid.
I also remember Dojo, Dijit and DojoX. It was a powerful web framework. https://dojotoolkit.org
I think Kind of Blue is a better album but I listen to Bitches Brew more often, maybe due to greater variety of song and texture. The former is like swinging, poignant velvet, the latter a swirling, electronic groove.
The Wikipedia article says that he got a scholarship for the boarding school: "He attended the Webb School of California, a boarding school in Claremont, on a scholarship." Perhaps he was talented enough to get a scholarship for parts of his college education as well.
> Not tomorrow or next week or next month. I needed to go right now. And I wasn't paying extra to do it!

How much these flights cost back then? How much is that inflation-adjusted? How much to they cost now?
> Africa and Eur-Asia measure almost identically North to South

And there's not much room for useful exchange of crops or livestock between Indians engaged in tropical farming and Sami engaged in reindeer pastoralism on the tundra.
>don’t know why so many people worship that guy. Same with RMS. Both of those dudes give me the creeps

Maybe because we listen those guys for the useful information and we don't think with our reptile brain that "give us the creeps"
... in dairy cattle breed improvement programs.
It's so funny that the Chinese government claims that the Great Firewall was there to protect the people
How manual are we talking here?
Podman and netavark I guess
Musk is known for his hyped timeline predictions.
Amazon's single solar plant for their new Canada west region is 5% of all solar installed capacity in the province. It's about .5% of total power, which is big enough to influence the quasi-market-based pricing. Pretty crazy...
Redshirts was great.

I think I tried to read Old Man’s War but it got kind of mixed up in my brain with, and I think almost entirely eclipsed by, The Forever War.

Maybe I should give it another try though. Scalzi seems like a good guy, and if I remember correctly he’s got a nice light pulpy style.
He read Bruce Lee's adage about the man who practices one kick 5000 times. /s
> I often have hundreds of browser tabs open on my iPhone, but it knows how to manage resources by unloading the ones I'm not looking at right now. The Mac can also swap tabs or apps to disk.

Different models of computing. The iPhone only displays one tab inside one application at a time. And switching is slow enough that the OS can prefetch the swapped memory for the new view. A desktop app usually keeps everything alive as switching is very random and instantaneous. And you don't go open things that require a lot of RAM when you don't have that many (Each electron app is a whole new browser which is already a resource hog)
Executables also don't have to be binaries, and the executable interface is also an api.

A convincing argument might exist, but I haven't heard one so far.
Yes, I am really looking at using something new since I did get bored with the JS/TS world.
> I was recently buying a Dell laptop for my sister and it boggles my mind how most other companies (maybe Framework is an except) still have dozens or even 100s of SKUs for consumer laptops.

If you remember back in the day, Nokia also had a crazy number of SKUs for their phones. Nokia is no longer the power it used to be. Could it mean many SKUS means a lack of focus ? Thinking you can out market / out segment your competition rather than try to concentrate more on the product ?

I find AMD also has less SKUs than Intel. Here, as a challenger you can't really afford to segment the market as much as the leader. You need to concentrate your offerings in a few potent products.
Usually when an application go rogue with the memory allocation.
Just wanted to use something new this time since I feel like I'm bored with TS now.
Natron is essentially a clone of Nuke, the ~standard compositing software for the VFX industry. It's impressive that it exists and competes with some very expensive alternatives.

Its maths and colour science is good and it seems to operate correctly on images. Unfortunately usability and performance are pretty weak. I've managed to replace Nuke or Resolve with it for the parts of my workflow that are colour conversions from e.g. ACEScg to sRGB, or for encoding videos (it wraps ffmpeg), but I'd hesitate to use it for anything creative and it definitely doesn't approach the animation facilities of After Effects.
Now you have to defend yourself, from a lower position.

See how those people work? now they are assigned themselves the moral high ground, and you have to justify yourself.

Dont do it. You did nothing wrong, those guys are bullys.
That remote control is amazingly simple for 1998. It foreshadows IP streaming box remotes that today stand in contrast to the "747 cockpit" remotes of cable boxes and TVs.
Threadripper 7000 or a Mac Studio probably offers more performance per dollar and per watt.
Nice! But how to deal with i18n?
Iteration was easier but the main complaint from my team was it was hard for junior engineers to pick up and understand. Along with that, IDE support still seems poor (we use Jetbrains and the Elixir plugin doesn't work reliably for us)
Private equity firms. I’d never take money from them.
> Obvious limitation is something like Maps and media

I would love to see some data to see how dangerous it is to operate Maps and Media apps on a touch screen while operating a moving vehicle. This is data modern automakers should have access to. I suspect the answer is that it does reduce safety.
The scientific method wasn’t novel to the western world. It’s origins date back to when the Moors conquered the southern half of western europe - and by almost all historian accounts - modernized many institutions over the subsequent hundreds of years (eg, from cutlery to math and science).

I think the most relevant book on the west’s success is called complexity: a guided tour
if you've got the engineering in place for distributed fault tolerance you can run a lot of your workload on pre-emptable spot instances. There's an entire "as a service" product space that does this, abstracting away the challenging parts and arbitraging the difference
Browser Wars
It does seem like there is an explosion of Barry Harris enthusiasm on YouTube in the last 6 months or so. I was wondering if I’d done something to make my algorithm latch onto it.
"Information superhighway" has stuck around for 30 years as the perfect specimen of cringe. If it were less bad, we'd have forgotten it.
In my childhood I'd standing at gates of the event, catching those devices with care...