jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> ... He is asymptomatic and was tested out of an abundance of caution due to his extensive travel and events. ...

Very high asymptomatic spread is what sets COVID-19 apart from anything in the last 100 years. It defies belief to suggest that a large fraction of the US Senate is not infected at this point.
It still looks like a lot of testing is still not being done. 2 of my friends (here in Germany) most likely had it (as attested by their doctor), but were told they would not be tested as they could not with certainty say that they had contact with someone that was tested positive.
Be nice to be able to click thru and see the scale of those studies as many have very few studies and without knowing the size and scale of data, I'm still open minded and SMD variations from what I have read, vary upon a greater scale.

Though handy site and will only become more handy with more data sets, but being able to click-thru to and see those studies would go a long way as not all studies are equal in quality and credibility in much the same way that people would believe data comming from `John Hopkins University` about viral data over say data comming out of `Really Greatest University in the entire World`.

I'd add, don't drink and operate any form of transport, lost cousin decades ago to a drunk cyclist. Me, I don't drive, walk and public transport, so these days, walk if needs demand. Though probably handful of times I've even drunk even close to any limit. But very mindful that not everybody is as thoughtful of others, though easier to identify them as they are the ones with 4x4's full of toilet roll :).
Because if you're tested and it's positive you can tell everyone you came into contact that they need to isolate themselves too.
From device cross sections and working at both IDMs and suppliers. And reading and visiting IEDM for a decade. You can keepmup with ost on semiwiki: but really, just work under the assumption that people in the field are not stupid and can do math.

Tensile strains has no litho impact, and counting layers in use was a job I had.

Who spent on 3-5? It got press coverage, but never was part of much logic research. It was a focus for power, laser, and led work.

Tsmc, Intel, applied, asm, and others spent vastly more on r&d than any government or academic work, and it isn't published.
Yeah, most 22 year olds probably don't get that.
oh who needs a torrent client after http://put.io ?
In the short term, I am not sure that this is that big of a deal. My data use would be 3 to 4 times higher than it is now (and thus approaching the author's) were it not for the fact that most of the time I am using my phone on a day-to-day basis, it is in areas with wifi (since I live in Cambridge MA, it is conceivably possible that I have wifi coverage 90-100% of the time; to save battery, my radio is off unless I think I explicitly need it). I do not think that AT&T and Apple are trying to cause people to use their phones less, but rather to improve the cellular networks by causing people to use wifi - be it at home, work, or Starbucks - as opposed to AT&T's overwhelmed towers. I think there is plenty of evidence to support this, from the fact that the $15 200 MB plan explicitly allows you to temporarily switch to the $25 2 GB plan during months when you would experience overages, to the technical limitation of Apple's video calling only working over wifi.

Since I cannot tell the future, I have no idea if this will have a chilling effect on data-intensive apps or workflows yet to be developed or envisioned. If AT&T increases the amount of data included in its plans at some point in the near future (which would be reasonable, although possibly less profitable), this would be a moot point.
It sounds like any domain that has more than one pre-registrant will be auctioned.

If you're the only one who request a particular domain, you get it cheap though.
There is usage-based billing for utilities, so it is theoretically possible to do this fairly with other things. However, it requires the corresponding regulations: for gas and electricity, you have meters; you also have labeling requirements on the products you buy, so that you can tell what they're going to be using.

Apps don't have meters, and they don't have any mandate to tell you that they're hogs. Therefore, tiered bandwidth billing is unfair: it is simply not possible for a customer to know when they're buying something that will cost them dearly in terms of bandwidth usage, nor is it feasible to isolate which of 100 apps on their phone is responsible for their overage billing in a given month.
http://to./ urls are not recognized by twitter.
Wow, article constellations for private RPGs.. Makes me wonder to what extent this happens because of the widespread misconception that there is a singleton "the Wiki" (that one at the top of "the Google"). Do people add this stuff to Wikipedia because they don't understand they can have their own wikis?
Apache HTTP or Apache Tomcat?
Last time I checked, adBlock is a welcomed thing and one of the most popular among Firefox and Chrome extensions. Now apple did it, and everybody is crying and said this would hurt publishers. We actually are only seeing this "Reader" feature in the desktop Safari, not MobileSafari (at least for now). There is also no App Store for desktop. So why this is nudging web publisher to App Store since there is no "Reader" on iPad/iPhone and no App Store on your desktop?

I don't see this too different from the "Popup Blocker" feature. Remember the days when popup window was the standard way to display ads. Now pretty much every browser comes with popup blocker.

It's just time to change how you build and place your advertisement. Don't be annoying, otherwise, there will be people rushing to get rid of the things people hate to please the users. There is no law against it.
IANAL, but I would definitely say so. There have been stories here on HN in the past about people have to hand over laptops and passwords when crossing the US border. A country's laws apply to its citizens and those visiting.
> I think if anyone reasonable researches this they'll see that there is still some controversy on the issue (Studies show both sides).

I've never heard of a study claiming B12 in animals in vivo is not synthesized by bacteria (or archaea). Care to give a reference?

> sorry, It's a fallacy, but I don't like getting my "facts" from programmers and Wikipedia

Programmers, ok. Wikipedia - why? and "dieticians and health professionals" - sorry, most of them have no idea what they are talking about - they are just parroting what they learned. You admit yourself it is a fallacy. What's the point then?

> Anyway, my guess is you are in your early to mid twenties, and probably have only been a vegan for a handful of years, am I right? Give it 20, 30 years and lets see if your B12 levels are still good.

Your guess is very wrong. Been vegetarian for over 35 years (only a few years of those vegan, but not having a B12 source in almost any). And my B12 levels are very good, although they weren't in the past.
I'm not sure on #2. When I was a teenager I had no idea about tech conferences, open source figureheads, and I barely noticed the gender of writers. Do boys? Mom not programming, and not having any female friends/relatives who do, seems more of an issue - and leads into #3.

I'm not arguing #2 isn't a problem, though. Sadly, I'm not in tune with how kids get role models these days to have any useful suggestions how to fix it. I was a mentor for Technovation, teaching high school girls Android development, but by that age perhaps it's too late.

I think there's also an aspect of not realising what programming is, so not thinking you can do it because it seems a lot scarier than it really is.
It's not hard to believe that some portion (if not the majority) of people joining the military genuinely think they are doing something good.
Clearly, the bankster have privatized and corrupted the political system long time ago.
That's not so great for high-latency networks (like most cellular networks). If you use range requests, you add round trips. If you cancel the load partway, you're too late because your pipe is already filled with bits you don't need.
> A pointer can be nil, which is obvious

It's certainly common, but of the things which would be useful to be able to constrain only to allow explicit and non-default nillability, pointers are pretty high on the list.
One of the things about Raft that bugs me is that it appears that the nominee counts the votes. And the leader is the only machine that approves transactions. If our favorite protocol is susceptible to first coups and then despots, then we have a long long way to go to model humans.
100% agreed. That was the point I was making.
I'm pretty sure there aren't any reusable HEPA filters regardless of vendor.

Lots of units will have a washable pre-filter, but that's to pick up big stuff and extend the life of the disposable part.
Oh it is something to do with the HTML5 History API, I will have a look into it. Sorry for the inconvenience.
If I'm not mistaken, many of those junkyards are part of Copart's network as well.
The true lesson here is simple. If you're going to do something online you shouldn't, get behind a proxy(or 7).
De rigueur comment: What happens when Apple buys a closed source company you depend on.
I am excited for the possibility of "Scala Everywhere".

Scala -> Scala.JS -> React Javascript -> Native code

I'll have to try this out on a small project and write about it.
We would love to hear more about your experience, if you care to elaborate. Understanding where people are having trouble helps us direct our documentation efforts at making the language easier to learn for people from various backgrounds. :)
Wish `git` didn't have annoying special cases in it. For instance

git rebase -i HEAD~2

won't work if there are only two commits, because HEAD~2 refers to a nonexistent commit after the first two.

There should be some friggin' NIL terminator there which takes the HEAD~2 reference.

Imagine having a function to, say, delete characters from a string which takes an open-ended range [from, to). Then imagine that the index to has to exist in the string; it must not point one element past the end! Oops, you cannot delete from a position to the end of the string.

The garbage-collected object graph is nice and "Lisp-like" in some ways, but silly in others.

Oh, and in case you're thinking "just make an empty initial commit, and it will effectively be your NIL terminator". No can do; git doesn't allow empty commits. Of course, you can make a file called ".nil" and add it and commit. Use "()" as the commit comment. :)
The spec hasn't been updated for 8 months with several PR outstanding. What can be do to push the spec forward when the original leaders seem to be absence?
Well, one point I didn't make here but that made me pick that example is that, with the exception of a gamma ray burst, there is no tragedy that could realistically affect the Earth in such a way as to make it even CLOSE to how uninhabitable Mars is.

Global warming, nuclear winter, asteroid hit, massive solar flare, supervolcano, plate tectonics - anything we care to imagine will leave the Earth much closer to being habitable than Mars.
The problem is that people do build sites that look like the first website:

https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot...
I've heard fry say this before but don't believe him
Just another justification for my hatred of carpets.
The key driver of our apparent disagreement is likely the definition of "urban (or dense suburban)" in my post. There are plenty of places and use cases for which cars are magical things, whisking you from place to place with no effort and a minimum of cost. However, the important things to understand are:

1) Many countries effectively subsidize cars over public transit in ways that are non obvious (not charging for externalities, minimum parking requirements, huge comparative investment in automotive public works), so your accounting of the costs you see (insurance, gas, depreciation) will likely underestimate the true societal cost.

2) The problem that cars seem to solve (getting around a sparse world) is also _the problem that cars cause_ (sparsification). If you have to drive three miles to get to the grocery store, you could think "thanks cars for making this drive easy", or "boo cars for making this drive necessary". In the city I live in there are 3 grocery stores within a 10 minute walk of my apartment.

3) Some people truly do prefer the spread out, population-sparse lifestyle enabled by cars. But some other people truly prefer the dense, walkable urban lifestyle that, as I have mentioned, cars seriously disrupt. The damage comes when people in one group try to force the other to adapt to rules that make sense in their preferred environment (e.g., if Urbanite A wants to ban cars while Ruralite B wants to put highways through the urban center so she can get to work via car). I tend to side with the Urbanites on this issue at present, because it doesnt take much to see who has the upper hand in American cities right now. (viz: Rober Mosesization of most major American metros in the 60s-80s)
3 were from heart attacks and related complications. They were not killed by the riots.

The 4rth was shot in the chest by secret service, and the 5th was the police officer that later died of injuries.
I wish I could find the original source. It was an early post by Moxie about how embracing the Google ecosystem would give security to the masses of users, rather than worrying about the technical crowd that wants to be free of Google.
Thanks! We're very much of the opinion that we got into this mess we're in (gestures broadly) because everything has been incremental to date. That's how you get layers upon layers.
On the flip side, it wouldn't be entirely surprising if mathematical constructs that we have thought of are in fact very good models of fundamental reality. We should remember that, after all, nothing exists outside of fundamental reality, and if certain basic patterns can be encoded such that the encoding is both high-fidelity and simple, that won't be shocking. It might be awe-inspiring, but not really surprising.
Trade secrets and copyright are both types of intellectual property. They aren't unrelated.
Don't you find it useful to check that you're visualising the functions correctly? I'd say the calculator was most useful to me as an exploration tool than anything else.

I think some can also do calculus, which is something where you can often miss a term or forget a minus, so definitely useful for checking that kind of thing.
It's not brain cancer but rather an artifact of how the eye/brain system works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage
One difference: in 1998, the "tech industry" was identified by the NASDAQ 100. In 2019, the FANG+ is 10 stocks.
If system-wide themes really worked, I'd probably be switching now and then between light and dark themes. Dark mode is kind of gloomy but it's also easier on the eyes.
Maybe I'm being pedantic, but this isn't Markdown, it is HTML. If this is meant to highlight the utility of the <details> tag, great! Or the utility of embedding HTML in Markdown in any CommonMark compatible Markdown interpreter, cool!
Don't fool yourself into believing these sets are hard to come by and that someone buying an "investment opportunity" is depriving someone else. The "hard to find" Saturn 5 rocket set has been on sale everywhere for 25% off recently.

If you receive the Lego catalogs, it's pretty evident that they're targeting all demographics now. The ultimate collector line of sets is aimed pretty squarely at the "investment" market and people with more money than sense. They recently started putting out sets for the nostalgia and pop culture markets with sets for the Flintstones, Steam Boat Willie, Stranger Things, and Friends.

You know when you're actively selling a toy set for a late 90s sitcom popular among 40 something single women that you're pandering to everyone. Honestly I'm surprised there isn't a Gilmore Girls set yet.

My four year old has the Summer, Fall, Late Holiday, and Christmas catalogs splayed out on the counter with all the sets she wants circled. Not surprisingly the following sets aren't on her shopping list:

4784 piece Imperial Star Destroyer

4108 piece Liebherr R 9800 Excavator

3306 piece 1989 Batmobile

2287 piece The Updside Down

1197 piece Trafalgar Square

1023 piece Harley-Davidson Fat Boy

826 piece Vestas Wind Turbine

I am a little offended she doesn't have the new Slave 1 set on her list though.
If you haven't already, you might consider adding end-to-end encryption, which will make people more comfortable with it going through your servers in the cases where it still needs to.

Also, I'd assume you use video compression; keep in mind that encrypted video still reveals some information through sizes, especially if you have some idea of the kinds of applications users typically use.
It's a fair point - the problem is that if I'm going to ask for a user/password for a master account then... WTF do I need OpenID for?

Also - in terms of reading the spec - we use JanRain/RPX so I let them worry about that.
It seems like Neuroscientists and Buddhists keep agreeing on things.
We know that the NSA tapped into computer systems and the backbone of essentially every country on Earth - I don't see how NK would have somehow been excluded.

What's interesting is what information the New York Times includes that is not covered in the NSA document, presumably from unidentified officials and former officials.

The document on Der Speigel speaks primarily about taking copies of intelligence from SK hacking efforts against NK and also taking copies of intelligence from NK hacking efforts that had in turn been hacked by SK (and in turn by NSA - "fifth party collection").

The document mentions the NSAs unwillingness to rely on intelligence filtered through so many third parties and made efforts to establish its own foothold.

Essentially none of the article is backed by the document as a first source and must have come from the unnamed sources.
According to the article, NSA noticed the first spear-phishing attacks against Sony in September. Yet they didn't realize admin credentials had been stolen until much later. Nor did they seem to notice terabytes of data being exfiltrated out of Sony. Fishy story.
That was terribly verbose for how much information was provided.
More importantly, the thing about Finland is not mainly the teachers or the school system - it's that the students are white. _White_ American students perform about as well as Finnish (almost all white) students.
I just ran a quick comparison:

Original: 250kB http://files.sina.is/original.jpg

Compressed by JPEGmini Lite: 133kB http://files.sina.is/jpeg-mini.jpg

Compressed by MozJPEG 3.0 @ Medium: 82kB http://files.sina.is/moz-medium.jpg

Compressed by MozJPEG 3.0 @ High: 141kB http://files.sina.is/moz-high.jpg
There are documentaries. Here's one found by searching for "post war Germany documentary" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0FM_7_drf0 . It doesn't avoid the raping and looting by Allied troops.
Oh, yes. My pain exactly. I think word is, given the huge functionality made very accessible to pretty much anyone who can point at things with the mouse, quite impressive software.

But let a few people edit a Word document in turn, on different computers, maybe with different versions of MS Office, even the simplest 1-page abstract will turn into a bizarre Frankenstein monster where changing one thing in one place, will suddenly create funny effects in other locations... (e.g. observed recently: identing bulletted lists will change the numbering of another, numbered list...) Don't get me started on footnotes changing pages, or jumping around of embedded pictures.

So, for anything requiring collaboration between several people (I have the feeling that editing a word file from different computers, probably by different versions of MS office makes these things occure more often) it's still a mess... and something where LaTeX shines.
How does converting forests into grassland help?
A great initiative in the media industry for sure.
They have a programme call Tracks that explores the underground culture [1]. Very interesting

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/TracksARTEde
Try kalaksi.com
I have been using it daily instead of my blog now ;)
An interesting bug (or a feature). Specifically, it redirects to:

https://quillette.com/2018/12/30/the-2018-free-thought-award...

And https://quillette.com/the does exactly the same.

So, alternatively, https://quillette.com/scott-alexander also works as a link to the article, while https://quillette.com/scott redirects to an article about the Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams.
I am not to sure you have that right. Europe's mistake was to spread vaccine orders with manufacturers without ordering enough from each.

For Germany the numbers publicly reported have gotten more conrete the last few weeks. While there are only few doses for the first quater (about 18mio for 9 mio people ~ 11% of the population), in the second quarter there will be lots of doses delivered. Confirmed numbers are, that doses for over 40 million people will be delivered in the second quarter (including some one time vaccines from Johnson&Johnson, as also with them there were contracts).
Together with the 9 mio from the first, that is 49mio people (~61%) in the first half of 2021.
So while it started slow (as was to expect), numbers will start rising soon.

These numbers were only for Germany, I don't know exactly how this reflects for Europe, but as all orders were made Europe-wide, I guess this is similar for the whole EU, at least that was the whole point for having a Europe-wide strategy.
How are stonks going up causing people to suffer? (Besides distributional issues.) People can still buy food and water, which is the primary objective.

Also, the Fed can't change asset prices without slowing growth. Is that desirable?

> dollar has dropped 10% against a basket of the largest foreign currencies.

No reasoning from a price change. Another explanation for the drop in the dollars value is decreased demand. And since CPI is still stable, more likely IMO that it's a decrease in demand.
I'd expect pans made with this new technique to be as delicate as Teflon, if not more so. Those laser-etched ridges are quite tiny, and if you scratched the pan with a piece of metal, you'd probably wear away the ridges very quickly, creating localized areas of non-hydrophobia.
This is an amazing feature. I just had to go through half a dozen websites and update my company credit card details for this exact reason. Each and every time I do that, I get to evaluate whether or not I actually need the product or not - possibly leading to cancellation. This way retention is kept with no effort on the business or customer side.
The market has grown unimaginably, but I wouldn't call their work on quantum computing, Z, and POWER as a butt of an outsourcing joke.
Well, there were people mistaking pictures of others for pictures of themselves already...

https://www.dpreview.com/news/7021408195/hipster-offended-af...
Well presumably the photos aren't being posted with your real name unless you're a celebrity or something.
'mocking bird media' is a Qnon term like "deep state".
> With that in mind, things like rebase become obvious: Take the same diff and attempt to apply it to a different parent.

You can think of it that way if you want. But it's not what Git actually does.

Personally I much prefer to have my mental model match the actual reality of things.

You may not use "git cat" very often, but what about "git checkout <SHA>"? If commits were stored as diffs, then Git would have to rebuild a tree of the very first commit, then replay every single diff up to the SHA you asked for.

What it does in actuality is find the snapshot of that SHA and change the working tree to match it.
They cared enough to send a cease & desist letter.