skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lockdowns were irresponsible (people didn't obey them anyway), and now this is stupid and irresponsible again. Don't judge a disease by it symptoms - most cancers don't have any until it's too late! The piling evidence of the damage every COVID-19 reinfection does is overwhelming! This is NOT flu-like! Many other diseases, some very serious, share similar symptoms, but they don't call them "flu-like", because it would be crazy!

On top, this is now the most contagious virus!
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I'm working on an open-source "decentralized" app that allows viewing and posting text messages.

Posts are stored in the blockchain and not censurable to some extent.
Fetching of the blockchain data is done through polling of public apis (blockfrost or koios).
Posting a message requires a Cardano transaction which implies fees but this would also prevent spam.

Private messages between users are encrypted with a public key generated from each user wallet signature.

The whole app is hosted on github pages and open source: https://github.com/alucao/decon

Any feedback or thoughts are welcomed.
The first article you linked to seems to agree with what the CDC is saying. The initial variants of COVID-19 were much worse, that's where the "infection lowers your IQ by 3 points" comes from, but the disease has become much more mild.

"The adverse cognitive impact was worst with the original (ancestral) virus and the Alpha variant, compared with subsequent Delta and Omicron variants"

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/long-covid-and-cognitive-de...
Causal AI: AI Confesses Why It Did What It Did
Morphology and genetics
Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average
But this isn't a comparison on a straight line, it's a comparison around a full lap with the drone not cutting corners (though also not staying within the track limits).
Fun fact: This firmware is also being used to currently repurpose cheap IP Camera hardware + Off the shelf wifi hardware to get digital FPV on racing drones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMFqk3vMupE ( Feel free to scroll to the parts that interest you ).
I wonder if this will impact api.weather.gov.. I hacked a little wunderground inspired dashboard a while back (https://weather.nikolaj.dev) that I still use most days.. but have stalled out a bit in rolling my own marine forecast for surf reports. Would love if they finally populated those fields (saves me figuring out the grib files)
Is there a methodological concern about how the uninfected "controls" are established? (I have not read the papers you linked)

It seems like:

(a) Obviously they're not intentionally infecting one group and keeping the other in rigid isolation so ...

(b) it seems like it would be hard to rule out that there's something else that's characteristic of people who avoided infection which could be related?

To be clear, I'm not trying to throw skepticism at the conclusion that infection causes deficits -- but isn't it kinda hard to measure? In the same way that, e.g. it's hard to measure the very long-term effects of forever chemicals or microplastics or other things that are so inescapably pervasive.
"It won't have decks" sounds worse than Anki, not better.

Your description of "feedback-based learning" doesn't sound different from Anki.
(12) missed calls Mensa
Do you have numbers? I might think the US still has the biggest deployments in Europe (UK, Spain/Italy, Ramstein/Landstuhl in Germany) and the Middle East vs Guam/Korea/Japan.

You might be right with carrier groups

https://news.usni.org/2024/02/05/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-...
There is growing evidence that the flu has similar effects, so I'm not sure that this means it shouldn't be treated like the flu. Maybe we should test them both more seriously?
It’s actually a very weird combination. Many Americans won’t wear a mask even though they know their individual risk is greater, because they don’t want to appear as if they’re part of the wrong collective. Americans are very individual and very tribal at the same time. Hostility can come from either not respecting their right to individuality or by asserting your own right to individuality if your behavior conflicts with their in-group. [source: several decades of being American]
>Like literally a bullet you can control, might be able to make that work.

Please stop speedrunning scifi dystopias
It means the UI abstains from eating, not that it works quickly.
> Anyone that would have bad outcomes has died or been taken out of productive life so they don't matter.

That's just not how it works though. Each subsequent infection increases the risk of bad outcomes (1)

The CDC must know this

1) https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/12/27/...

https://time.com/6553340/covid-19-reinfection-risk/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/23/repeat-covid-i...
Adding image support from Python is on our roadmap
Abstraction, intuition, and the "monad tutorial fallacy" (2009)
Kinetic impact aside, I've seen videos out of Ukraine of this but the drones also have explosives strapped to them. Its safe to say this has already happened.
> Multiple findings indicated that the association between Covid-19 and cognitive deficits attenuated as the pandemic progressed. We found smaller cognitive deficits among participants who had been infected during recent variant periods than among those who had been infected with the original virus or the alpha variant. We also found a small cognitive advantage among participants who had received two or more vaccinations and a minimal effect of repeat episodes of Covid-19

Also look at Fig. 1 in the first study
Automatic genetic testing in a commercial lab is not the same thing as controlled analysis by anthropologists and geneticists.
> 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.

That could also tell you that you're in a bubble of converts and have forgotten what it's like to live without k8s. ;) There are always at least two sides of the coin.

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

Really? So when do I get to describe my singular app that needs Postgres and Kafka in 7-10 lines in a .txt file and not {checks our company's ArgoCD backend repo} ... not 8 YAML files? I ain't got all day or a week, where is that? Nice declarative MINIMAL syntax with all the BS inferred for me (like names and stuff, why should I think of 5-10 names of stuff? Figure it out, automated tool!) that only concentrates on what is being deployed. It can generate everything else just fine, or at least it should, in a more sane world anyway.

Excuse the slightly combative tone, I ain't trolling you here but you also come across as a bit blind about things outside the k8s holy land.

> Once you have a bunch of components that implement this API, it becomes trivial to deploy pretty much any level of complexity

Nope, nothing ever becomes trivial with k8s. I was on call with two senior platform engineers and we needed 3-4 hours to describe a single small app that needs Postgres and Kafka and to listen on a single port while needing a single env var and a few super small config files. These guys provisioned an entire network of 500+ pods working perfectly for years. They made 10+ mistakes while trying to help me deploy this small app on Argo. (And they've done the same dozens of times at this point.)

Do with that info what you will but I'd strongly disagree if your takeaway is "they are not that good" -- because they have done quite a lot very successfully (with and on k8s).

> It's the abstraction.

My 22+ years of programming have taught me that people enjoy abstractions too much and make huge messes with them. I am not convinced that having an "abstraction" at all is even a good selling point anymore.
And if it self destructs by hitting an ammo depot or the expensive optics on a tank or a commanding officer in the head, even better. The RoI of such drones would be insane.

The modern battlefield is getting even more scary. Soldiers are gonna have PTSD from the drone motor whine when they return home.
> If you have 10K arbitrary words and want a 50% chance of collision then using a good hash means you'll need 20K entries

You'd need closer to 100M entries, since the birthday problem applies to collisions.
Being easy to prove doesn't make it unremarkable. Lots of theorems, including this one, have straightforward proofs once you are given the exact formulation. The tricky part is coming up with the idea for the theorem itself. I remember being (mildly) shocked when I was taught this in undergrad, it just seemed too good to be true.
> Keeping a dog lot anywhere requires a constant loop of chores: feeding dogs, running dogs, scooping up dog poop. But keeping one in Nome comes with additional responsibilities: monitoring threats from muskoxen, stubborn, shaggy animals with formidable horns and a record of attacking dogs.

I vote that we finally retire the term "yak shaving" and replace it with "fighting muskoxen".

As in you want to create a personal blog so you first have to set up a VM, research static site generators, try to get random ruby gems to work, then figure CI/CD on Github actions, and before you know it you're in the Alaskan tundra fighting muskoxen.
The Euler's identity is also trivial to deduce, but this doesn't diminish its beauty.
> OneDrive ceased to be a good backup alternative when they stripped GPS from all my photos 1-2 years ago.

This is scary. Isn't OneDrive supposed to keep files bit-identical? Or were you using their iOS/Android apps to back up photos, and some bug caused the photos to be backed up without their metadata?
Nah. You were right the first time. Own it.
Thanks for your kind words.

The old new thing is not very relevant for this discussion, so let's focus on the first, the 'Microsoft Security Servicing Criteria for Windows'.

This document lists when microsoft promises to fix a security vulnerability, and when they will pay out a bounty. No more, no less. By it's nature, this document is minimalist, and won't promise anything not strictly necesarry. Notice at the bottom of the document a whole list of Defense in depth features (e.g. DEP) falling outside these criteria. As they were implemented, Microsoft clearly does see value in them, even if they won't promise anything about fixing them.

So yes, an admin elevating to system and then kernel has no automatic intent to service in their security vision and is not bounty eligible.

But nothing of all this conflicts with anything in the post above. I presume microsoft will fix DRM problems. They will make life hard for people running things inside the kernel with no signature. They will annoy you if you pirate windows. None if these fall under the scope of the document.

Compare it to the current edge/bing situation. An admin can remove them from the system. But a next patch will ressurect them. Microsoft will wear you down, even if they made a promise about it.
Decriminalization unfortunately gained steam at exactly the same time that a drug that legitimately did need to be made illegal started becoming popular and cheap to manufacture.

Fentanyl is just plain bad news. It's not a coincidence that we started seeing an explosion of homelessness and fentanyl use at the same time. And unfortunately progressive advocates for drug policy reform and homelessness basically have to ignore this reality, because it makes their preferred policy positions untenable.

If they admit that fentanyl is a major driver of homelessness, then it's impossible to defend a "housing first" approach to homelessness. You can't just give an addict a free apartment in a big city and expect everything to work itself out. Fentanyl throws a big wrench in that.

Neither can you just stop enforcing drug laws and expect that society will be better off as a result. Because fentanyl fucks people up, and fucked up people do fucked up things, and that's why we have police.

Housing first and decriminalization are great policies when the worst thing you have to worry about is cocaine or heroine, and the access pipeline to them is fairly limited. But America's pharma companies were all too happy to create a bunch of new opiate addicts with oxycontin and the like, and then cut those addicts loose so they had to get their fix somewhere else once their prescriptions ran out. This addiction pipeline just didn't exist with earlier drugs like marijuana, cocaine, etc.

Unfortunately these policies came onto the scene about 15 years too late. We do need enforcement as well as treatment, and we should be making pharma companies pay for it.
> It still boggles my mind how we managed to make it so politicized.

Having been raised by 2 Republican extremists, I can tell you exactly why it was so politicized:

1. "YOU CANT TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" Is the refrain of government telling people what to do or not. And remember, that corporations are legally people, so the same applies.

2. Higher education leads to 'librul ideas', with things like gay people should have the same rights as straights, racism is still a thing, and other higher thinking. And this 'education' is seen as indoctrination.

3. Because of disdain for higher education (which is seen as indoctrination), comes the idea that "My upbringing is worth just as much as your book knowledge", throwing away bodies of evidence. Journals are equivalent to scribbles.
In America, wearing a mask is a political statement. For a while it was: “we don’t like Donald Trump”. But now, it’s basically, “we want to protest something, we don’t want to show our faces, if the situation gets out of control we’ll be unaccountable”.

There are plenty of others I see (admittedly less so, but still daily in the affluent Bay Area) who drive around in their cars, alone, with masks on (non-Uber) and people who show up at the gym everyday wearing a mask while walking on a treadmill. I toured a preschool earlier this week where the teachers were all still required(?) to wear masks in the classroom (a bilingual Chinese immersion Montessori program).

Admittedly, I’m pretty anti-mask, and for those reasons: it dehumanizes interactions. That said, (for those still reading) I wish masks were a norm for when people were sick and carried no additional activist messaging. I fully support that use case and appreciate my fellow humans who wear them in those circumstances.

But then also, I’d expect those interactions to be rare, because if you’re sick you shouldn’t be hanging out with others, but self isolating.
The reverse of that argument is that if you work from home, your immune system doesn’t have a chance to learn about the newest bugs and so you’re more vulnerable in the future.
And somewhere down the line means in a random kitchen for a while and then dismantled, not a huge lab buried somewhere. Nobody does more for the sake of selling drugs, unless they use drug money to fund their revolution, guerrila war, or whatever like that. Think more of lock stock and two smoking barrels, rather than breaking bad.
I'm not sure if you've only read some digests but not the full text including other supporting materials (it matters since this defines how the laws will be applied) since all you mentioned are already addressed in the designation decision doc. To be specific, in DMA.100027, EU clearly stated that it doesn't matter whether it's embedded in other apps or standalone:

> "... the Commision concludes that Safari, including all the elements that allow for the display and access to web content, either standalone, integrated or embedded in other software applications or similar, constitutes a web browser CPS ..."

If you've seriously worked on hashing out all the details of CPS and clearing up the ambiguities, you cannot be unaware of this decision since this will impact everything on your daily works. Yeah I did that because the precise definition of CPS was critical for my work in the last year.

EU is not that dumb, to my understanding they've been pretty serious in respecting the spirit of this specific legislation. You cannot say that some part of it can be simply opted out by adjusting the definition of your product. What they care about is how business is done and make the market control out of it.
Exactly how I feel about it. When he made his video about engineering principles from Elon Musk (who I admire as an engineer), my heart just sank. I recognised that he'd begun setting standards for himself that are necessary for mission critical projects like space flight and driving, but lost touch with why we are interested in his Marble Machine - which is fun.
Ah I see where you’re coming from. Thanks for the clarification.
Under AuxHealth.io we launched before Dr Gupta (late 2022, very shitty mvp using davinci02 before ChatGPT release), but then spent most of our energy on b2b. This experience did end up helping refine our chatbot significantly.

Relative to chatgpt/gpt4 — it’s a terrible symptom checker because it doesn’t really ask detailed in depth questions and pivots to trying to answer way too early. This is because it’s trained more for question answering and tries to be helpful in suggestions way before it is clinically appropriate. Honestly, this is a problem with Dr. Gupta as well as it asks a bunch of compound questions without pursuing medically relevant info from a not-entirely-forthcoming patient.
I'm not trying to start trouble, but GitHub is not the only game in town and GitLab for sure allows nested groups, with their own permission structures, with the extra benefit that the government could host their own GitLab instance for extra benefits

Merely as a point of reference, https://github.com/orgs/microsoft/repositories cites they currently have 6100 repos with another 2200 in /orgs/Azure so 10000 in an GH org wouldn't be unprecedented. I couldn't readily find any way to cough up their other top-level brands, and the "topics" seem to apply only to the repos themselves, not to the GH Organizations
from the first study:

> participants who had recovered from Covid-19 in whom symptoms had resolved in less than 4 weeks or at least 12 weeks had similar small deficits in global cognition as compared with those in the no–Covid-19 group, who had not been infected with SARS-CoV-2 or had unconfirmed infection

So they're not comparing people over time, they're comparing people who've recently had COVID to people who have not ever had COVID. Given that white collar workers like lawyers, consultants, and software devs can stay home and not get COVID more easily than blue collar workers like grocery store clerks and the like, it isn't surprising that there's a very small IQ differential here.

This is published in a very prestigious journal, so I'm hesitant to assume my critique is correct. But at first glance I wouldn't take this to mean that you're likely to lose any IQ points from getting COVID, especially now.

It also says

> Larger deficits were seen in participants who had SARS-CoV-2 infection during periods in which the original virus or the B.1.1.7 variant was predominant than in those infected with later variants

and

> longer-term persistence of cognitive deficits and any clinical implications remain uncertain.
I think it's pretty standard stuff. The motors are T-Motor F80 Pro 1900kv. The battery is an 8S LiPo (you can see the voltage in one of the videos). ESCs are highly undifferentiated since they're mostly similar designs running the same firmwares, any suitable high amperage ESC would work for this application.

It's the props that are most interesting to me, as this is what drives a lot of the speed capability - they're some kind of extremely high pitch bi-blades, I think 5", but I haven't figured out which yet.

I'd be curious to see their peak current draw too, and how much trouble they have with heat running F80 Pros on 8S.
Rcpp is pretty common in major performance sensitive packages. The CppCast did an interview with Dirk Eddelbuettel about it in 2022:

https://cppcast.com/rcpp/
I don't like Django as much as Phoenix (or Rails for that matter), but I'd take it over a Node-based backend any day of the week.
It’s lucky because to a lot of android fans it isn’t really about consumer outcomes, it’s about finally legislating a solution to the android-iOS war.

If you can’t win in the marketplace of ideas, just ban walled gardens entirely. Flip the table and ban your competitors’ business model, bioshock style.

Now of course, since obviously most android fans aren’t actually owners of a major company… they aren’t really “your competitor” unless you’re parasocially attached… this is a rather obvious commentary on the degree of parasocial attachment that so many people seem to have towards android and against apple… but here we are.

https://paulgraham.com/fh.html

In short: Freudian slip. They said the quiet part out loud. Hurting apple is the goal here.
>but since they're slow, they often get shot down by rifle/small arms fire form soldiers

Do they? I have an old and basic Mavic Air, but I can't imagine the skill it would require to shoot it down with a rifle if it's moving high up in the air.

It's difficult enough to even spot it.

I'm sure they do get shot down sometimes, but 'often' enough for it to be a problem?
POW's who knew more code still resorted to a new "tap code" because dot, dash, pause can't quickly be encoded with simple tap and pause.
FYI, your LinkedIn page gives "An exact match for art-deineka could not be found."
Most users are using `git` with some sort of server, and authenticating their development system(s) to that server with SSH. Git-over-SSH support is built in to `git`. Using the same key to that already identifies and authenticates you to the server is more convenient than needing a second, parallel PKI set up.
> You can use traditional materials with a modern understanding and make a much better house, it just takes longer to build

Agreed that you can, but as you imply, at a very high cost, especially when you don't use modern sheet goods like plywood that not only impede air movement, but provide sheer/racking resistance unmatched by traditional nailed solid board walls.

> so this cheap, throwaway culture we’re in looks down on it.

Few can afford a custom built home, much less one with artisanal walls. If anything we have a culture that looks up to such artisanal buildings precisely because they are not accessible. Scalability is essential to any impactful building technology. The fact that plywood and OSB can be made at scale from low quality laminates and scraps was game changing.

> Solid wood, not using latex paints or wrap, allowing the house to breathe where it needs to, and you can still have an R60 wall.

An R60 wall perhaps, but one that leaks like a sieve. The leaking air will bring a lot of moisture and unconditioned air with it, which will in turn require a lot of energy to condition.

Sure, solid wood will be more resilient to that moisture than plywood/OSB, but the swelling and contraction will create more leaks.

There is a reason that for centuries people filled cracks in walls with any goopy substance they can find (mud, sap, tar, stucco). It's to stop those leaks. Modern vapor permeable but airtight house wraps (not latex) are just a continuation of that.
Minimal phone gets back to basics with E Ink display and real keyboard
Robotic fun instrument I worked on this back in the day. flying balls and wine glasses and drums. I did the lighting and later redid the real-time low latency streaming:

https://bea.st/absolut-quartet
Django is truly amazing. It’s as you said - you don’t have to think about anything else other than the business problem. Authentication, session, databases, RBAC, everything is handled for you.
Unfortunately, if you want to use react, it usually means you’ll write APIs that are consumed by a browser-rendered app.

The holy grail for me would be a Django backend that renders react on the server. A Django nextjs.
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