jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/odhaleni-diky-datum-polov...

Google translate:

> COVID19CZ's IT Initiative has put together anonymised card payment data at merchants. They show that people do not comply with the mandated quarantine, but also that many Czechs are still in risk areas.
Article

Those arriving from Italy are going to quarantine for two weeks, the government announced on Friday 6 March. The measure began to apply from Saturday. That person was supposed to report on the phone to his general practitioner, who decided on quarantine on Monday. If returning Czechs have taken this step, it is not clear, but their payment data shows that 46 percent of people quarantined at least once in the first week in the first week.

“We can look at the number of people who paid with a card for one week in Italy and the next one in the Czech Republic. It can be seen from payment transactions that such people often went somewhere in the Czech Republic and bought something, ”says Petr Bednařík from DataSentics, who is part of the initiative of several Czech technology companies and IT enthusiasts COVID19CZ. It focuses on helping to combat a new type of coronavirus pandemic.

His analytical group, consisting of DataSentics and Keboola, works with leading Czech financial institutions. The analysis of Czech payment card activities abroad was based on Dateio data.

[...]
Well, despite a long back and forth, I’m pretty sure we agree on all the things (although I may be a little less confidant that we can turn off the “non-essentials” without damaging everything else - as long as it’s very short term we’ll deal with it.)
Whatever, as long as they support the password manager.
"that virulence is not subject to the same selective factors"

It's a matter of degree, not a binary thing. You can't be 100% sure of anything, but as long as people are aware of something and act accordingly, there will be selection pressure. Reduced social contact has an effect regardless of whether specific carriers are identified.
Thank you for the information, my opinions were largely formed by contemporary news articles - had I been more informed I would not be so negative about hurricane response.
I think the answer is that trust should be part of the equation.

"If you can't measure it, you can't manage it" is a description of how to keep track of a low-trust system. Scientists are generally conscientious people, and bean counting is demoralizing.

If there is some organizational solution, I think it should be to keep organization size small enough that it can be governed by personal relationships and trust.

Otherwise social trust takes decades to build up, and I don't think there is a quick fix.
Sounds like a good marketing ploy to me. I reserved my username already. You probably should too. :-)
The title is missing "For Me" from the end. I moved from Linux to OS X because Linux couldn't cut it for me.

The closer is arrogant too:

"If every thing I said went over your head, and you think I’m crazy, it just means your time hasn’t come yet."
You're speaking from a position of ignorance, and that bothers me. This isn't an area where opinions matter. Either you learn the subject matter, or you don't. If you don't, you can only blame yourself for being at the mercy of professional advisors.
I wonder if this is a talent acquisition, a product acquisition, or a user acquisition (to prevent creation of an alternate service, either by TweetDeck or Ubermedia as ashbrahma suggested[1].

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2460541
What is your understanding of PHP/Java? I live in Brooklyn and am looking for a a freelance programmer for a site I'm working on.
IIRC, Apple licensed GUI elements from PARC.
And also the compression is slow. I tried to compress some VMs and peazip was much slower than 7zip for 7z compression.
When are the results expected?
It makes sense when you think about it. Without the rules, there's excuse to -not- find the people the vaccine is meant for and use it yourself.

Anyone who thinks that this would not happen doesn't know human nature very well. They are welcome to post situations where such excuses haven't been taken advantage of. I'll take lack of replies as acceptance of my point.
Politicians assume their position by winning a popularity contest, not a foresight-and-competency contest.
> I definitely agree that many newer languages are strongly inspired by Scala, but I don't see a strong argument for why to choose Scala over one of a newer hybrid language. My own intuition is that these newer languages have had the benefit of being able to learn from Scala's mistakes. A lot of them have intentionally sacrificed some of the Scala's flexibility to be easier to learn and use.

I don't believe any of those new alternatives has made better choices; some of them haven't had time to accumulate as many warts as Scala yet, but all of the ones I've seen have design decisions that make them inevitable. Higher-kinded types still work much better than every other way of achieving the same things that's been found - and if you want both higher-kinded types and decent tooling/library support, Scala is still pretty much the only option. (Haskell exists, but even if you consider its tooling good enough, implicit pervasive laziness has huge costs).
Nothing to do with social media. At all.
>Once it woke up my old laptop form hibernation while riding in a car and caused bad sectors on the hard drive

Had the exact same thing in college, my Lenovo laptop woke up inside my bag on my way to class and the HDD got damaged.
Some brains just need to do certain things and the owners of said brains often struggle to then build a life around that fixed wetware requirement.
I'd note that the phrase "further retinal damage and visual loss" implies that retinal damage and visual loss has already occurred... how much of that you are willing to tolerate is up to you, I suppose: I'd prefer 0 unless necessary. If the retinal damage is saving me from a death at the hands of COVID-19 maybe it's worth it, but if it's not...
This script linked to in the article is very interesting. It shows random and non-random distributions side by side:

http://bl.ocks.org/roryokane/4358325

I used to play Catan a lot with a group of engineers. I noticed that even their mathematical intuitions of randomness were off. For instance, one would try to shuffle the deck so that Knight cards were spaced evenly apart. They did it in the name of randomness, even though their deck manipulation was the opposite of random.
This looks great, but needs some interpretation, like an accompanying talk. I got lost in box-and-line diagrams which I did not know how to interpret.

An introduction to GHC which I found helpful is its AOSA chapter: http://www.aosabook.org/en/ghc.html
When did this bug appear? I believe I noticed this issue when logging in with Twitter weeks ago.
If I don't explicitly need "state" (user-data in models or GUI-state in view-models) I leave it out.

Most of the time I use classes and their objects as a stateless bag of related methods. Like namespaces...
On the last point, the claim only bothers me because it's a false claim--- there is no objectively "best" way to edit code. There isn't, in general, an objectively "best" anything, since best is a subjective notion. There might be, say, a way to edit code that objectively maximizes some criterion, but the choice of that criterion as the one you want to maximize is a subjective decision.
I took of picture of your pixels so you can see pixels in your pixels.

Please forgive me.
His focus of his rewards doesn't change the end result that he posted about.
That's terribly clever.
Which alters the equation there in a way that disfavors the Taliban.

I don't think this is true at all. The Taliban have significantly more military skill than the Afghan warlords they've been fighting for the last decade. Consider: if the warlords, after having gotten billions of dollars of aid from the US and tens of thousands of western soldiers helping them, still haven't been able to defeat the Taliban, how large must the disparity be. Plus, the Taliban have a reputation for being less corrupt than the warlords that currently comprise the government. There's a reason Afghanis turn to Taliban-run courts instead of going to the government ones: the justice might be crazy, but it will be impartial.

Before this find, the future of Afghanistan was pretty clear: sooner or later, there was going to be a negotiated settlement with the Taliban, culminating in some sort of power sharing agreement. Given the find, that will still probably happen, but my guess is that the Taliban get more power in the end.

From a western/Chinese companies perspective, who would you rather deal with? Religious fanatics that are honest and maintain order with horrific brutal efficiency? Or obscenely corrupt bumblers who couldn't administer their way out of a paper bag? Extraction industries have plenty of experience dealing with the former in Saudi Arabia. Given the choice, I can't imagine why they'd prefer the later.
Conflict in Afghanistan was going to continue until the West left. Would I want to live in Afghanistan to set up a new mine? Depends on how much you paid me. There are already many tens of thousands of private contractors in war zones.
Absolutely correct. That's why we (US) need to go ahead and just steal all those minerals, to save the Afghanis from another couple generations of civil war and strife. It would help reduce the US national debt too, a win-win for everyone.

PS - Obama if you're reading this, I'm available for hire as PR consultant or Press Secretary. I'm that good.
An outstanding article. However, I'd love to understand further the business dynamics of handling a price increase for a service.

Five years ago I somewhat went through the same scenario..except we went from a donation model to a subscription model.

Now it is time to evaluate a price increase and up against a five year established price I'm curious as to how it has been handled in the past.
Without the default password, an attacker would need to actually own all those powerwalls to pull that one off... At that kind of money, there's better ways to be evil.
NordVPN is a security nightmare. I usually recommend either Mullvad or TunnelBear depending on whether you care more about quality of service or ease of use.
Freenode and PIA have different parent companies, freenode hasn’t changed owners so nothing will happen to it.
But if only the true owner of each powerwall had the ability to control it (when the default password issue is fixed), an attacker can't get correlated control like that.
How about PLNGR (plunger)?
np.
The "Stuff" that surrounds coding is very social (point 1), but the actual activity of writing code is very inward focused and ideally uninterrupted. The idea of FLOW is a very real thing, its very zen: hours just fade away until you look up and everyone has gone to lunch. I'm tilting at the open office windmill and idea that whilst I'm actually coding, I need to interact with others.

Being a "Developer" (planning, designing) is very social, however writing the actual code, for me at least, is a very inward activity and suits my quiet personality. The problem here is that non-coders don't understand this and it can cause a lot of friction when working in the usual group office environment.

It's a catch 22, people want me to code for them, but then they have a problem with me socially when I'm trying to code ;)
> of the only plaza

Which plaza? Just because you said "the only plaza" doesn't make it unambiguous. There certainly exist more than one plaza in any given city.
Even if you dont like Rocky you might want to watch this story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywuse55qU2A Much shorter than movie, but super motivational!
invictus is a pretty good one too
There's a cool-off time for replying to nested comments, the more deeply nested the longer. You just need to wait a few minutes.
and to get a wider field of vision for the camera as it records and analyzes your living room and sends it to advertisers and marketers to build an even more detailed profile on you.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/15/microsoft-exec-caught-in-...
There are pleanty of groups fighting to end other forms of discrimination (incl. unconsciencous), such as ending gender, or sexuality based discrimination.

"Intersectionality" is a term for what happens when you're at the short end of the stick of several forms.
Exactly.

Polyphasic sleep for a month means exactly nothing. I've been sleep deprived for periods longer than that, sleeping less than six hours a day. Doesn't mean that "sleep deprivation works", or that it is healthy, or that it can be sustained.
If I walk back into a Walmart I'm banned from, I don't face felony charges. That's a very significant difference.
Yes, sorry, I wasn't intending to make any accusations or insinuations either. I've been following the Snowden/NSA stuff pretty closely, however, and even after reading the recent revelations WRT VPNs, I had forgotten about this OpenBSD IPSec controversy until you reminded me.

(JFTR, I run OpenBSD in production, trust it greatly, and never believed the allegations of FBI/NSA/etc. "tampering".)
That's effectively saying that non-experts should only use something like iOS or maybe ChromeOS. The same class of attacks works against any user using any operating system which allows them to install arbitrary code - Mac, Android, Linux, etc. all have past examples of successful attacks which started with an email attachment, browser drive-by, etc.
Koch Bros didn't use their money to influence govt Policy?
It doesn't seem like the guidelines or FAQs mention this (so maybe the rule changed), but shouldn't this have (2020) in the title?
There's also a very well reviewed film about Hampton out just recently called Judas and the Black Messiah.
I consider that a feature, considering that cipher is AES. In fact, I would consider the AES-192 support superfluous.

I wonder why they chose to support CCM instead of GCM.
I am not familiar enough with the details of the Colt firing pin safety, but I believe 'dropped from a height' is not necessarily equivalent to 'pulled from 3ft into a 1.5T magnet'.
I can't figure out if this article is in support of it happening or not...

He's probably right this will start to creep in. I completely hate it. None of the videos are at all accurate or particularly ethical. They all tip right over in sensationalism and bad journalism.

Besides; we already use animations on western news - for legitimate things (like the oil leak). Dramatizing events we don't know about? Bad idea.
For simple icons like this where there a lots of them, drawing them for the js definitions is going to be greatly faster. If they were separate files it would take 91 requests to get them all.

Even if the icons where regular images I would use either data uris or an image sprite.
Here's your chance:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Jupiter-Ace-Computer-/290440498106?cmd...

I have to say that it doesn't look quite as interesting as it did when I was 16.
Right now, all searches return this text for me:

"I've taken Runnaroo down due to the ever increasing number of bots scraping the site.

Not sure if it will be back.

Thank you to all of those who have used Runnaroo over the last year!

I'm going for a run.

-Chris"
Here is how you find that, by the way: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en
Being good as headphones does not necessarily make a headset bad as a microphone.

I have a set of Bluetooth Plantronics Backbeat PRO. There is no boom mic, but everyone I have talked to on cell phone with them has said they sound good. Even when I am out for a walk they filter out all the vehicle noise and wind.
Wikipedia has a relevant tidbit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection#Histor...
This guy likes writing too much. "bryonic??"
Bluetooth peripherals are relatively common even for desktops. ITX boards in particular commonly have bluetooth and wifi built-in.
One silly trick: put your phone into greyscale mode. Without the colours, a lot of the addictive time sinks are just less exciting.
Yeah I'm with you in that plain old CSS is still perfectly good. Now with CSS modules and constructable stylesheets it's getting better to make isolated components too.

I think a lot of the love for tailwind are people finally getting the mental OK to remove the strict isolation of style and template/code which has been dogma for 20+ years. If you're using something like vue, svelte, or a good web components library you can just define components with all their markup and style in one place, all using bog standard CSS. It's fine.
Do you not understand what a computer monitor is though? Would you need a mention of a screen reader in the context of understanding what a web browser does?
Sure, but they do happen to coincide in general.
This website chose cotton t-shirts as the best combo

https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/diy-homemade-mask-protec...

https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-...
How would you associate with ruby tests vs go tests vs my random test library that doesn’t have a great framework?
Google depends on Chrome to make money, just in different ways. They are not doing it for charity.
Because every country in the EU needs their own ventilators either now or within the next week or two.
Seems to indicate it wasn't as urgent to disable these as professed. I think browser vendors are sometimes a little too quick to break things, glad to see this pragmatism.
>"The preference change will be remotely applied to Firefox 74"

No thanks. How do they do this, and how do I stop people from being able to remotely "manage" my Firefox install?
Could it be iodine in their diet from seaweed?
I tried a similar experiment on GPT-2 a few days ago, giving prompts like "if I drop a stone, it will" or "wood floats in water while a stone". Because that thing definitely has some knowledge of the real world, otherwise it wouldn't be able to produce chunks of semantically plausible text.

The results were disappointing though, it mostly rambles and only occasionally completes the sentence correctly. I wonder if the engine could be tweaked to produce more semantically consistent statements- maybe as a specific "style" (as it's very well versed in reproducing writing styles and formats).
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I've seen several better ones, but it's an interesting read nonetheless :) ("applying a novel approach - Double Entendre via Noun Transfer (DEviaNT) ")

As an example of other funny articles, this legal one on the word "fuck" is one of the best I've read recently (found it linked here on HN previously):

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/faculty/articles/fairman_fuck

Of course, the annals of improbable research and Ig Nobel prizes yield several other examples :)
If he feels like he's tapping in to something deeper, then isn't that enough? It's his experience after all. It doesn't require objective validation, does it?
In that case, you are now taller than Yao Ming. The subject of the sentence is your height, and you said it grew 'above'. Therefore the only valid interpretation is that your height is now above Yao Ming's. For it to be interpreted the other way, you would have had to say "My height grew _faster_ than Yao Ming's last year", or "My height _growth_ was above Yao Ming's last year". My point is that people can interpret things any way they want, but that doesn't mean their interpretation is valid.
Nice writeup. It's great to see Pylons deployments becoming as simple as Rails.. I have high hopes for DotCloud.
Would this pull event data from existing social networks like Facebook, foursquare etc?
Thanks! it's cool to talk synchronously (in the messenger) and asynchronously (on hackernews) with you at the same time. I really appreciate your feedback :)
These guys are solid.
E was created by Mark Miller and Dan Bornstein. Both are Googlers now. Dan is known as the main creator of the Dalvik VM. Mark is still following the path set by E but in the context of Javascript. He's working on both Caja, an ocaps secure subset of JS and on JS Harmony itself.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_%28programming_language%29

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_%28programming_language%29
I would look at it from the perspective of Microsoft spending so much more than everyone else.

Research encompasses a lot of things at MS, from pure research labs in Redmond, Boston, Cambridge to online services and live labs. Microsoft runs perhaps the largest CS research organization in existence, when basic research is considered alongside product research such as Bing and Photosynth.

MSR grew to be so by the promotion of Nathan Myhrvold, and the buy-in he was able to get from Gates and Ballmer. It maintains itself by being able to collect a lot of talent, and keeping them interested. But like Lucent, it probably only survives as long as the company is growing.
The hard part when making a virus is to exploit the target system to run said virus. And if you have such an exploit, then supplying a compatible binary depending on which OS the target system runs is easy.

Exploit attempts for embedded systems (routers, cameras, etc) typically start with attempting to execute code in a portable language such as Shell scripts (which would be the only thing this new project would replace), those scripts try to detect the architecture of the system and then download the appropriate binary (the server hosting the malicious binaries provides many variants for different architectures).

In the end I don't see this solving a real problem when it comes to malware - this problem has already been solved through other means.
I’m also interested! It would also be great if knowledgeable people comment on cheapest options. RPi options typically end up around $100. There once was the CHIP computer for $10 that included storage, wifi (but not ethernet), for example, but not anymore. Quantity has a quality of its own and all that...
you can attach a SSD to a RPI, but the USB interface will make it less fast than it could be