skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The claim that retail steak prices have doubled in 2 years is exactly the kind of inexplicable silliness to which I referred.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000703613#0
I have noodled on this problem a bit in https://github.com/hadley/strict, which I'm contemplating bringing back to life over the coming year. It's certainly very difficult to cover 100% of all possible problems, but I suspect we can get good coverage of the most common failure points (specifically around recycling and coercion) with a decent amount of work.
Yes, this logic seems like a backwards rationalization.

> “Reported deaths involving COVID-19 are several-fold greater than those reported to involve influenza and RSV. However, influenza and likely RSV are often underreported as causes of death," the CDC said.

So it’s not that COVID isn’t as bad as it seems, it’s that flu and RSV are much worse than they seem. Seems like the guidance should be about how to spread all respiratory viruses less, not about how to be as bad at controlling COVID as we are at controlling the flu.
The Ten Commandments of Software Development
they prefer the term "planets with dwarfism"
But "mutation" includes adding genes (or extending a gene) as well, doesn't it?
I find it hard to believe that you've considered this for more than than two seconds and can't think of a single reason why k8s might be a good fit for someone's requirements. But here's one:

It's a curated, extensible API that provides a decent abstraction over a heterogeneous collection of hardware. Nobody's done that before, and it's extraordinarily useful for being able to define intent.

No-one forces you to use YAML, it's just a serialisation format.

Once you have a bunch of components that implement this API, it becomes trivial to deploy pretty much any level of complexity of containerised application, without having to care too much about the actual exact details of how scheduling, networking, storage etc. is implemented. Even better, I can hit two different clusters configured in two completely different ways with the same manifest and get roughly the same result.

It's the abstraction.
Yep, for government agencies the mission is to actually do good useful things. That contrasts with for profit companies' missions of siphoning the most money out of customers' wallets into the bank accounts of wealthy execs and shareholders by doing the least work possible and abusing your employees as much as possible.

You can even see it in the mission statement in the link:
>Because the mission and culture at NWS is built around serving, preparing, and protecting people, the site must do the same.
What are the premium packages you're talking about? As far as I know all of our R packages are 100% open source.

I'd love to hear more why you're using webshot etc to talk screenshots of your shiny app. A more typical workflow would be to generate a separate HTML/PDF with quarto/RMarkdown.
No it's different for wood burning when inside the space because they act as an effective exhaust on their own.

http://localmile.org/proper-ventilation-for-electrically-hea...
One F1 lap is like 4 miles at maximum. I doubt that would be enough for recon, since you'd have to calculate the distance it needs to cover to return to its handler.
I have not noticed any venting in the sauna at my gym, but perhaps it's not obvious. It's a pretty big sauna, it will easily seat over a dozen people and people are coming in and out often enough that the door opening probably provides adequate air exchange.
> no clear reason I can pinpoint.

The virus has been naturally selected to make people this way. It's like cat owner brain parasites.
It's even weirder because in Asian cultures it's been perfectly normal pre-pandemic to wear a mask when the feel sick (or if they under no circumstances want to risk getting sick. e.g. Right before a big exam). So it's not like such behavior and recommendations are a radical idea in the world.

I guess this is another result of an individualistic culture? A lot of Americans really don't like being told what to do, wear, or say. Even if it's in their best interest to do so.
The Pydantic project has a long history of misrepresenting their benchmarks, and ignoring the existence of much faster alternatives. I'm not at all surprised that their supposedly super-fast rewrite isn't really as fast as they made it out to be.
"Disability policy experts have long warned that the COVID-19 pandemic would likely be a mass disabling event. New analysis of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) data on the civilian noninstitutional population aged 16 years and over shows that, in 2021, 1.2 million* more people were identified as having a disability than were in 2020. Within the portion of that population participating in the labor force, there were 496,000 more people with a disability."

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/covid-19-likely-res...
What surprises me is that these kinds of drones aren't already standard equipment. Even in the mid 2000s I thought that these types of drones were the future of warfare.

If you have enough of them you could use them to sweep out areas. Launch a bunch and have them map out the place. You can have them carry weapons and other such things, eg laser communications networks.

Back then I figured that by the 2020-2030s ships would exist that would primarily carry (larger) drones. Those drones could then carry these smaller drones into their locations to do all the things they need to do.
Collaboration points way to potential reductions in waste volumes
In that case you might just want to bookmark something like this ;)

https://www.houseofblues.com/dallas/concert-events

You get one month per page, complete with some events already scheduled.

Whether they are your events or not is up to you.

I especially recommend Eric Johnson on April 4.
His MMX video blog is the textbook go-to example for letting perfect be the enemy of good.
Have you used FastAPI? Certain functionality like file upload is mind blowingly slow.

FastX is popular these days.
There is a difference between wearing a mask to prevent spread to others and wearing one to protect yourself.

The parent was concerned with reducing spread to others. Interestingly, one meta study [1] concludes that cloth masks are actually better than "good" masks if they are not worn and used correctly.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/46/1/e84/7337687...
There's a fairly significant amount of controversy in the DIY FPV world about this video, mostly because https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7c1iZQpR8_mct1tCKcjWcw (quadmovr) and others have been building drones of the same aerodynamic style for several years which can achieve similar speeds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbYEzEWvjr8 . This is basically just marketing fluff from Dutch Drone Gods and Red Bull. It's a really cool video, but it's nothing new in terms of drone tech. The piloting is pretty damn impressive, though!
Why do you need it to return? Seems like you can stream out the data feed and then self destruct after use.
This is why I also think return to office is insane. I'm fully remote thankfully and haven't had covid. But I have seen many getting sick from coworkers because they feel a need to go in even when sick..
Not that many drones get shot down, and when it happens it’s so noteworthy that the one doing the shooting down can’t actually believe his luck. And they usually use shotguns for that, using rifles is really just 100% pure luck.

As per the speed, on their way down current (very cheap) drones are already way too fast for anyone to try and shoot them, the taking down (when it rarely happens) usually takes place when the drone is in the middle of a hovering pattern. Were the drones to always go at full speed (100 kph, 300 kph, it doesn’t really matter) then the operators controlling them would have no way to tell which is which on the ground.
> the majority of FOSS enthusiasts consist of developers, techie folks.

Is this for the same reason that most Linux users don't care about free software (i.e. are happy running various proprietary blobs on Linux, Windows games in Wine etc.)

i.e. as far as I can tell most users of free software don't care about the free software aspect very much.

Talked to a Linux user about this last night and he seemed to think the "free" part means "no cost"... Sad!
I'm currently writing an app with Django. It's such a breeze. Everything just works and I only have to think about the problem I want to solve. The documentation is as fantastic as it was 10-15 years ago.

I'm not even really fan of Python and I really miss static typing (renaming things is painful) but oh well, I'm so productive with it that I can live with this.

Honestly, I think it's the only framework that I've ever used (never tried RoR though) which allows total flexibility while never bothering you with technical thoughts.

It's still as shitty to deploy as it was a decade ago but now we have containers so who cares.

I'm writing this app during a pause in my career (mainly frontend) after a burnout and it's reigniting my love for writing web apps.
The morse app would just convert it to/from text, and then the text would be sent by whatever app you would be keyboarding input to.
I'll get down voted for this but when COVID was a thing I wasn't wearing those cloth masks.

I was wearing a 3m respirator with p100 cartridges.

One because the paper masks were hard to find, two they reduce but do not eliminate the risk of infection, and three those cartridges last way longer.

Never caught it either.
That's just an ad. This is far from fastest; glider drones can reach transonic speeds (~550mph) with dynamic soaring without even having a motor. [1] They've been around for a while. F1 comparison on a straight road is also meh, as F1 is designed for cornering speed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nyYaL0dGAA , but there's plenty of those on YouTube
100% agree. I think nvidia using an outdated DP version on their latest GPUs has only made this worse.

One thing I've found is that sometimes displays will have USB-C & DisplayPort, which is effectively two DP inputs.
That would require outrageously impractical practices like giving people enough sick leave so they could actually do the obvious thing of not going to work when they’re contagious. /s
I think when measuring a big enough populations they likely would show that small of a shift, though would be interested in the range of it, like is it a smaller group highly effected vs being pretty consistent.
This is the second Lisp, in addition to APRIL, which combines Lisp concepts with APL concepts. Wonder if that is going to be a trend in the future?
Let's call him another name...
I'm looking for the study now and can't find it, but it was shown somewhere a few months back that in fact total/all-cause disability rates are not increasing. They dropped over the pandemic itself (because when you're not working you tend not to seek treatment for low-impact conditions like long covid), bounced back, and have now leveled off roughly where they were.

That is, "long covid" ended up displacing a bunch of other, routine long term disability diagnoses by giving them a name and a focus.

But I can't find it right now, so it's possible I'm misremembering the spin. Maybe someone else can help.
This form factor is already well-established, though 300 km/h is still very fast.
If you have specific issues around error messages and tracebacks please feel free to let me know directly or to file issues on Github. We really do care about the legibility of errors and tracebacks and me and my team have put a lot of effort into them in the last few years. But there's always room to do better and I'd love to know where the pain points are.

(The intersection of tidyverse and shiny tracbacks are a known pain point that's hard to resolve. Unfortunately shiny and tidyverse did a bunch of parallel work that took us in slightly different directions and now it's hard to re-align.)

One thing we are missing is a guide to reading traceback for newer users. Often experts can get a good sense of where the problem is, but we've failed to teach newer users how to get the most value from a traceback.
counterpoint (well one of many)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-26/covid-mad...
Arguing the validity of astrology with those who don't understand the archetypal nature of experience is entirely futile, pointless, and a waste of time.

Astrologers don't predict concrete events; they predict categories of experience. There's no way that one can "predict the future" to the satisfaction of the scientifically minded, because within a given archetypal configuration anything can happen, of a type. Archetypes are creative.
Impressive engineering and even more impressive flying, especially when close enough to be in the turbulent air coming off the car.

As someone into RC flight I'd love to see a break down of the components used for that build (batteries, ESCs, motors) as well as the specs (weight, flight time, max acceleration) and performance metrics (peak amps, temps, etc). As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, this kind of performance isn't that unusual in the ultra high-performance drone world. They are definitely building on the work of others but it's nice to see this kind of engineering get more mainstream exposure.
Humans have never had the numbers they’ve had right now. It would be very hard to eradicate 8 billion individual organisms.
> it was just found

Don’t you think we should wait a bit before putting credence in these studies? Just a quick glance is enough to see plenty of potential flaws.

Jumping at the latest study isn’t much different than “just trust me bro”. These things take years if not decades to understand. We’ve been wrong far, far too often to keep repeating this behavior.
Any software developers willing to take a survey?
I need some software developers who work in the office and at home in the same week (hybrid) to fill out my survey so I can get some data for my research project. It should only take 10-15min (5 if you don't answer any of the optional questions. It would really help me if you could fill it out or send the link to someone you know who might fit this description.
Language-specific web editors often do. I think Uiua (https://www.uiua.org/) is the state of the art here, with the minor issue that most of the symbols aren't used in any other language. Several APL-likes have language bars at the top, with names shown on hover.

- Dyalog APL: https://tryapl.org/

- Kap: https://kapdemo.dhsdevelopments.com/clientweb2/

- ngn/apl: https://abrudz.github.io/ngn-apl/web/

- BQN (my language): https://bqn.funmaker.moe/
I think one of the elements at play here is the appeal of not facing criminal charges for use. Because Oregon opted for early adoption, Oregon became a hotspot. It makes some sense that this would create a disproportionate response, and draw in both high-functioning and low-functioning users as well as their counterparties e.g. dealers. Any read taken from Oregon can't really be representative of what a uniform policy would look like if deployed nationally.

https://psmag.com/social-justice/people-addiction-simply-gro...

I think that's an interesting take and it's a pattern that I, too, experienced as a young adult. Tossing users into categories of addiction is pretty trivial because, in essence, the current definitions preclude non-addictive use because use itself is illegal and addiction indicates - legally - that actions in violation of the law are characteristic of addiction. All of this really requires an intimate understanding of the individual which is something I don't expect a system-wide approach is ever going to be meaningfully successful at. And additionally I think it serves the point to realize that everybody has a unique relationship with substances, the one-size-fits-all, which is more or less what we have, is only going to exacerbate the severity and elongate the course of suffering inflicted on individuals who would otherwise naturally and of their own volition course-correct because they're put through the same meat grinder as the smaller handful of extreme cases.

It's masterful projection, but I bargained drug use for a steep enhancement in my quality of life and a potential future that was less bleak and otherwise easier than a gambling on success and failure in a more challenging and less hospitable existence which would allow me to continue my substance use pattern. In other words I cleaned up for a decent job. There's a lot of places where that simply isn't an accessible option - creating those opportunities is a win-win though. I think that may be the best modality.
We (Posit) have hired Hassan (the maintainer of plotnine) so this is great to hear :)
It appears the list indicates various SoCs, not the devices employing them. It is possible Dahua cameras already use one or more of these chips, but the only way to tell would be to tear apart one or find someone who did. Before flashing, however, one should triple-check anyway that the SoC is the same, as models could switch from a SoC to another one without any noticeable difference to the user apps.
I would also 2nd for Hikvision cameras support as they're cheap and ubiquitous.
They already offer downloadable firmware and SDK that can be examined to infer the employed SoC: https://www.hikvision.com/en/support/download/software/
I seem to remember that Tutankhamun exhibition at the O2 (Millennium Dome still, back then?) being alright? The one back in '07-'08? I'm not sure they had the main golden casket, but the artefacts they found in the tomb were fascinating.

I know I was astounded by some of the techniques they used and the expertise and craft with which they were made all the way back when.
I don't think Discord's usability is good at all. It is overengineered, cluttered, confusing and messy. However, according to what little experience I do have with it, at least it works reliably.
I recently got a new laptop and wanted to get Windows set up to do any firmware updates before I flashed Linux. I found a guide that said to put `a@a.com` into the username field and any password. I don't know if this account is specially flagged or something but after just putting in a random password once it put me right through to the local account creation option. I don't know if this will continue working forever but it is definitely more user-friendly than needing to enter hard-to-remember commands into the command prompt multiple times.
> what about a turret that shoots smaller turrets?

- Torbjörn, Overwatch
I'd love to hear more about this because from my perspective renv does seem to solve 95% of the challenges the folks face in practice. I wonder what makes your situation different? What are we missing in renv?
Thank you taking the time to answer. Dagger looks cool, maybe I'll get the chance to use it in the future.
In reality, most people have never even had the flu. They often mistake a severe common cold for the flu. The true influenza hits you hard, like a brick wall, and has a significant fatality rate among the elderly. The primary contrast between COVID-19 and the flu has always been the R-factor, which indicates how many people an infected person will spread the virus to. The flu typically has an R-factor of around 1, just enough to sustain itself. On the other hand, COVID-19 has an R-factor closer to 2, meaning that one person can infect 2, then 4, 8, 16, and so on. This is why many countries implemented drastic measures initially. Now that vulnerable populations are vaccinated and the general population has some level of herd immunity, the situation is not as alarming. The CDC implemented severe measures, but the new guidance does not imply that "COVID-19 was not a big deal" as some individuals are suggesting. It falls somewhere in between - there were valid reasons for the initial actions taken, some measures may have been missteps, but overall the situation has improved.
The Weather Man
curious, will the robots.txt be really honored? maybe legal issue if not?
> This would mean there are two fusion mechanisms in nature: gravitational confinement and cognitive confinement

Da fuck? The mechanism is compression. This is like calling "generating electricity via a generator", "cognitive energy".

What is ITER? Black Magic that happens to cause Fusion?
The unpopular opinion is that most homeless are addicts who like the lifestyle (no work, easy access to food, and enough to get by) with a small percentage being mental health victims who need institutionalization.

And I don't blame them either. Id move to california too and camp out. Working sucks.

Until the enablement of this lifestyle is curtailed, the crisis will continue.

I'll take the downvotes too. Even when I lived in San Francisco even the most far left friends I had held this opinion.
Sadly, this lumber does exist in Canada. And I wish I meant "tree" and not "lumber" but here we are

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sitka-old-gr...
We now provide snapshotted CRAN binaries (for many platforms) at https://packagemanager.posit.co.
I wonder if they account for the noise of the test itself though in their CIs
* Sync of windows settings and apps (store apps) between machines

* Online password reset

* Online backup of Bitlocker keys

Those aren't that valuable to power users, but I can see why MS pushes it for regular users.
> Does https://element.io/labs/element-x look like something from people who don’t care about usability?

The "get started" page wants me to fill out a big ass form and is talking about deployments, so yeah? They don't seem to give a shit really.

Edit: just tried downloading the Android app and the onboarding process is already deeply stupid. There is literally no "sign up" or "create account" option to even get started in it. How is a new user supposed to even move forward?! I don't think this is making the case you think it is.

If this what a professional UX team came up with, I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. They failed at the most basic initial thing. I'm just a mobile app dev, not a UI designer proper, and I could still figure this part out. "There should be a way to sign up" is not advanced UX design.
Via DNA, it says. But I can't get to the bottom of why DNA analysis is considered to be solid, when there are examples of it being quite flawed, eg with these twin sisters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isa5c1p6aC0

Someone said that these consumer outfits are known to be trash - but I presumed that all DNA tests would end up going to the same labs, and those labs would use the same principles to test.

There is quite a big question for me about the validity of DNA as evidence, when it is possible to show how some tests fail.
Thank you for the assistance, “a mature” business would have been more accurate than “any”
>And the rare few of us that have still avoided any exposure to sars-cov-2 virus in our upper respiratory mucosal immune compartment don't matter because we are so few and the humoral immune compartment is protected by intramuscular vaccination.

As one of the rare few, I'd rather not take risks, especially since there's still so much developing science behind the long term effects of COVID. Good to know the CDC does not in fact care about disease control for those who heeded their advice up until now.
AFAIK yes, the RE scene is still active.
Japan sees rise of 'ramen girls'
I mean the title says fastest camera drone, which that is decidedly not. Not to say that it's a necessarily accurate title, as other commenters have pointed out.
Is it possible to pay for a private Covid vaccine? In which country? Or are all countries still only allowing the most vulnerable to be vaccinated?
Android in my pocket. Windows (and Linux) on the desk. Apple in the backpack. Yep. Pretty much. And the Apple Macbook Pro, apart from macOS, is also the best Windows laptop I've ever owned too. We have several Surface Book laptops of various versions scattered around the home, but our small collection Macbook Pro's are "old reliable."
The numbers in the article are PPP-adjusted.
Surprisingly interesting and well done.