skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, my point wasn't clear. I think these people honestly believe what they claim. 100% believe it. You could MRI them and detect no (conscious) deceit. It's 100% real like you say.

But why do they believe it?

I think they believe it because it makes them feel good.

This is important because if they believed it because they'd looked at the science etc, it would mean they could be convinced by more science. But if its because of feeling, no amount of pro-vax evidence would convince them.

That's the point here: they'll die for their beliefs (some of them at least). But why do they believe it?

Until you know why, you can't challenge the belief. Your only option is to challenge the behaviour, and that's where things get messy...
The alternative to me will be a rural farmer caught the disease through extensive farming. Contamination from a wild animal, directly or through livestock.

It then kicked around for months in a rural location, a lower R perhaps, with better weather conditions and less networked people. People died and family's moved on.

Until someone on a trip to the city passed it on.

Perhaps selling at the markets or perhaps to family there who then took it to the market through work or just shopping.

I would not write off the Lab theory, it's better than bats at a market, but there are other logical theories as well.
Jeremy Epling
what's in his later chapters?
GitHub SIRT
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People complained in 2015 that the stuff they were doing was too dangerous. They kept at it. Probably because it's dual-use. Also, sorry but communist China has an overall horrible track record for safety. If they don't own up, apologize and compensate, there will be war or their country will collapse in a few years.
No idea why you're getting downvoted. This is the guy who refuses to pay his shareholders a dividend, or his employees more than he absolutely has to. He didn't buy a newspaper because he loves giving money away on good causes.
Jason Etcovich
So how do I create a RAID42 then?
Wouldn't that be the ultimate solution to all RAID problems?
> What direct evidence do we have for the 'wet market' theory that is currently most widely accepted?
Also, test your backups regularly.
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CBDC: Considerations for the Digital Euro
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At dGen, we have just released our latest report. It examines the various considerations that need to be taken into account when thinking about launching a new Central Bank Digital Currency.
In this report, we examine the potential next step for one of the pillars of our economy — money itself. Central Bank Digital Currencies or CBDCs are a hot topic in reserve banks across the world. Around 80% of world banks are at least exploring the idea. A CBDC could be the next innovation in money and nobody wants to miss the boat.
Two events seem to have triggered much wider interest in the topic. The first being the announcement of Facebook’s Libra and other private stablecoins, which could one day be seen as a rival to reserve currencies; these were met with disdain from regulators far and wide. The second event was the announcement of the DCEP, or digital Yuan, that the Chinese Government is working on. Both of these likely led to heightened interest in the topic, as Western governments try to avoid any encroachment from other currency contenders.
It is not all smooth sailing for CBDCs, however. There are many technological, societal, and budgetary factors to overcome before a CBDC will rival a major currency. But there does seem to be a desire to explore and find solutions to this set of problems.
At dGen, we have focused on a case for the ‘Digital Euro’. Looking at the unique construct of the Eurozone, which presents its own nuanced challenges. We always try to think about how this could impact EU citizens and not just the underlying economy.
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Problem here comes from the question "representative for what"?

I can easily see this to be representative for the town in question.

But I find it quite obvious that it cannot be representative for the whole country due to the initial difference in exposition.
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And you disinfect your mouth because disinfecting doesn't mean killing your mouth/tongue tissue. There are several mouthwashes on the market with antibacterial/antiviral properties, dentists do the same, etc...
> but they also recognize that if we radically do less under our current paradigm, the people who are barely scraping by now will be crushed.

It sounds like we should change that current paradigm too then.

We're on the conveyor belt to planetary destruction asking how do we slow it down instead of how do we get off. It won't be easy to get off, but it would be much better if we managed it ourselves rather than waiting to be flung off.

> I think it is giving far too much (or too little?) credit to the powerful to say there is "ignorance at the top". There is not ignorance at the top. They have demonstrably understood this looming crisis for a very long time, and what we are seeing is the expansion and fortification of existing power relationships in the face of it.
> If ignorance and lies are being spread at other levels of power, again, I think it's worth asking "by what means?" and "for whose benefit?"

I do agree with you on all of this.
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Fyi... the above workaround with Google/Facebook acting as referrer/redirect for the url hasn't worked in years. And especially if the browser has already visited WSJ a few times and hasn't been restarted with a fresh session. Notice in the following video that browser status bar says "Incognito" and yet the Facebook redirect still doesn't work:

https://imgur.com/a/LKHW9OB

The "?mod=rsswn" also doesn't work anymore. Disabling javascript doesn't work either. Popular sites like NYTimes and WSJ do more sophisticated things than just checking cookies. My memory fails but I think the last time I looked at this, the sites sniffed HTML5 local storage or something not obvious.

[I didn't downvote your comment.]
If these masks worked, you'd we wearing them
Haha... 40pct of 1.5mm. Terrifying!
We use Arrow under the hood in our new scripting and query language, Flux. We're looking into adding Flight RPC to InfluxDB and there are some new internal projects that I'm looking at to use Parquet + Flight + Arrow all the way through. But this article was meant to just be about those projects and less about what we're doing. We're early stages on a bunch of this work, but hopefully we'll have more to say later in the year.
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There’s also the Patriot Act renewals which happened at a relatively quieter time.
you’re kind of missing my point. which is fine because i didn’t spend a whole lot of words explaining it.

i am not saying table based design is bad. but we did originally move away from it for legitimate reasons that seem to have been largely forgotten, and as a result we now have developers who build json theme files and react frameworks that wire “darkmode=true” individually through every component instead of just using css for what it was designed to do: to exactly be a theme configuration format.

a lot of where things have gone wrong is CSS started to be used for layout, which was originally a hack, abusing the float property to do things it was never designed to do. and css has never gotten good at it, because fundamentally layout is about relationships between elements, while CSS is stuck only ever specifying properties ON elements. sure we have display table, flexbox and css grid, but css is an incredibly awkward and unnatural way to express those concepts. app frameworks deal with layout seperately from colors and fonts, which is how it should be done. and so this is why it’s all hacks and workarounds in css land. it doesn’t have to be this way. but it’s how it is.
> It sounds like we should change that current paradigm too then.

That is what the most honest incarnations of the Green New Deal represent.
Is that how E-Readers communicate?
I haven't attempted to verify this myself but one criticism that has been addressed against that theory is that the closest place which has these bats in the wild is 900 km from Wuhan, and that people are not generally in close contact with bats since that normally requires going deep into dark caves.
This sounds like proof normalization in linear logic.
Yeah well but is that really important? If they nail the same sample age-wise etc and use that to calculate lethality, then that number can be used on the general population, right? The only difference left is the rate of infection. But how many of those died should be the same.
Turkey's approach: weekend lockdowns and age-specific restrictions
DuckDuckGo itself supports this. Just start a query with !g to have it routed to Google. For example, "!g search on Google" would bring you to the Google search results page for "search on Google."

DuckDuckGo supports several other commands like this, which they refer to as "bangs."

https://duckduckgo.com/bang
It will be declared non-experimental in 15, but people are running it in production on 14. GCs, and performance in general, tend to improve quite significantly between releases.
I literally mentioned Python in one of my above comments lol and it is my daily driver. Still, as an undergrad with zero programming experience, Matlab was very easy to use for the kind of things that undergrads do in engineering and physics (play with matrices, differential equations, make charts...etc). I would agree that machine learning is likely to be easier in Python, but then again, ML students already know how to code, understand OO, and other concepts. Matlab is popular where people are good at math, but have no clue what objects are.
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"Oats is the food of horses in England and men in Scotland. And where do you find finer horses and finer men?"

—An old Scottish engineer who didn't like me because as a wee lad I used to ask him things like: "How do you weigh a grain of sugar?"
Lol, I was taught by Rytter like 20 years ago. He did much more in text algorithms than just correcting B-M. The two books by Crochemore & Rytter are basically the books on text algorithms.
I've taken a look at the terms, and it seems to me like they are more for when Paddle acts as your ecommerce store rather than just your payment gateway.

That might have been the intent, but I see nothing in the terms that restricts the scope of those I mentioned to that situation.

And the general "we can change anything we like and you can't easily sue us ever" would be inappropriate even in that situation.

I assume their legal teams have scoured through Paddle's terms of use

I respectfully suggest that this is an extremely dangerous assumption when you're talking about a binding legal agreement and the future of your business.

I've occasionally had a real lawyer look at the terms for some very popular online services that we were considering using, particularly when I thought they looked risky, and received formal advice along the lines of, "Run away. Don't walk. Run."
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SFF Dream is 'laptopification' of desktop computing. Overpriced screenless closed system laptops. No more incremental upgrades, instead inadequate cooling, power throttling, dongles and converters galore, vendor/ecosystem lockin. $2800 for last generation CPU, 16GB of RAM, and an RTX 2070.

Reminds me of https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
What's the security story for userscripts?
because BM or BM-horspool is generally very good over all and very few algorithms are always better.
Each event adds a new layer of the surveillance state.

9/11 had the patriot act.. can hold you forever without a lawyer loss of freedom.

So far we've seen google give away location data on millions of people. Ditto for providers. The government used it to determine who was away from their homes over the weekend.

It's not one event but a series of events that changes a society.
This thin font is very difficult to read
For last few months I have been seeing all these coronavirus trackers but none of them tells you how things are in your country and if things are going to better and what does the timeline look like. So I ended up building it myself.
What if it’s a non profit who use Western profits to subsidise third world efforts? This already happens in other areas of medicine, far more so in the for profit sector. Limit what one can do without a visa, up the artificial demand to useful levels of herd immunity, and use the profits to fund doing the same in Africa.
Most Australian government apps are outsourced to the cheapest Indian vendor.

I give it a week before the data is stolen and user privacy compromised.
Hey, great to see some interest and thanks for the ideas. I am going to keep the conversation going here instead of a private email thread, in case anyone else shows interest in this. I am also thinking about refining the design and asking for more participants on r/emacs + r/spacemacs or even language-specific subs.

I remember checking the thread several hours after posting my comment and assumed that it was so offtopic people didn't engage, hence the delayed reply.

> Are you sure using just one language for the code is a good idea?

The more languages the better, I was only assuming that I would be preparing the codebase myself, hence wanted to maximise ROI by choosing a popular language that I can write.

Adding more languages would be great, however, we would need to keep the code + tests + failures as consistent as possible i.e. no language-specific test failures due to multi-threading unsafety of C++, which Python's GIL prevents. Also I am not sure how useful cross-language comparisons are.

> how much time would participants have to prepare?

Prepare what? Ideally nothing in their language + emacs setup. The whole point is to learn about people's natural emacs workflow and what tricks they use when in the state of flow. I think each participant should only do it once in their "first-class" language, otherwise participants won't enter flow. That way, we control for no previous familiarity with the problem and get the best emacs knowledge and maybe even some elisp snippets others can follow.

To borrow a sports metaphor - I am sure that Tiger Woods can play a decent game of tennis, I would rather get tips from him to improve my golf swing.

> Starts a fresh emacs instance

That was a suggestion born from my workflow that minimises the risk of other buffers getting in the way of the test and preventing users' from leaking personal data during the screen recording.

> commands and functions would be quite enough

Yes and no. Some of Mike Zamansky's youtube videos have an on-screen feed of keypresses, which is interesting to watch for evil-vimlike navigation practices. I cannot promise I will be good at analysing a stream of keypresses and extracting meaningful analyses though, so commands and functions is what I can promise to analyse.

> I'd prefer a short chat with a participant afterward, maybe coupled viewing the replay at 10x the speed.

A chat is a great idea, however, if we manage to get a decent number of participants (ideally 40+ for each language for meaningful stats), my availability for a sync chat will become the bottleneck of the experiment.

I am thinking about replacing it with an async Q&A that the participant can add after completiion.
Please provide links to back up your allegations with facts then.
A disappointment? NYC has among the highest testing rates in the world and has only found about 1.5% of people infected. If there's another 14% in NYC that have been infected without needing medical attention, that is fantastic news.
Spahn dropped out and supports Laschet as front runner
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How about pushing for browsers to allow for the same functionality browser wide? And, yes, I am still bitter about firefox killing vimperator.
Every time I accidentally click a link to a PDF on GitHub my computer hangs.

I advice whoever is using Linux or Android (Windows doesn't seem to be affected) to copy-paste the link and append ?raw=true
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A Chinese expert warned against panic over an asteroid heading toward Earth
Not the OP, but what I commonly see are elaborate behaviors by devs to try and avoid dealing with specificity head-on, because it’s so hard to reason about. In my opinion this leads to CSS that is two to three times longer than strictly necessary.

That said, I also believe that CSS was the wrong solution to the wrong job: CSS addresses the DOM, not the UI, and does so with a kind of “multiple inheritance by default” approach, where an element will inherit properties via the cascade from many rules, until a rule that stops the cascade is written. Reasoning about what rules apply to what elements under what conditions becomes an exercise in extreme abstract thinking, and still there is another step to think about what the resulting UI that it will generate will look like. (I’ll leave off browser differences for now.)
I don't like the comparisons to the Spanish Fly either, but we need to keep in mind that a vaccine is one speculative way this could end. People increasingly refer to it as inevitability.
To lessen the burden on warehouses, Amazon has been contacting its third-party sellers and encouraging them to ship items themselves rather than through its “Fulfilled By Amazon” program, said people familiar with the matter. Sellers pay a fee to Amazon to be part of the program, and Amazon has spent years trying to expand this service. But with its delivery network taxed, the company is opting to forgo the fee in the interim, one of the people said.

The fee to participate in FBA via Amazon Seller Central is $40 per month. Eliminating that fee is a drop in the bucket to most medium to large volume sellers, who now have to contend with extra shipping costs if they ship FBM (M = Merchant) or the even more expensive "Seller Fulfilled Prime" in which seller is responsible for getting the goods to customers in two days.

What Amazon should be doing to encourage more FBM sales is reducing the per-item fees associated with each order, or adding other incentives.

Another side effect of having sellers ship FBM are millions of orders are going through the US Post Office instead of Amazon's transport network or UPS. The USPS needs that package revenue, with junk mail down sharply and some in Washington calling for the service to be privatized (https://www.vox.com/2020/4/12/21218151/usps-bailout-privatiz...).
Europe's Cheops telescope begins study of far-off worlds
Complex numbers have the same cardinality as the reals.
Looks like the primary similarity is that to get started with Opaline you simply put some (specifically organized) files into /commands like you would do for NextJS with /pages
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It's been several years since I read it, but up through two degrees, things were a terrible mess but life goes on. By three degrees, the South American rainforest burns to the ground, and some major agricultural regions dry up because they depends on dry-season melt from glaciers that don't exist anymore. Hundreds of millions of refugees.

After that it got bad. I forget the details but by four degrees it looked to me like modern civilization would have a hard time staying viable, and by six it was hard to imagine our species surviving.
It's all upper management stuff, he got paid but took it in equity more than cash. He still works there, didn't want to burn bridges. Dispute resolution like this is not uncommon.
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> Something that is scalable, is easy to use from a technical perspective and also easy to use by humans?

That's exactly what we have right now.

This is a business/culture/government/economics problem—not a technical one. As long as the end goal of the system is "type in a string of text on any computer connected to the internet, and get the same result[1]", we're going to have issues like this.

When I got my first domain name, the cost was $100 for two years (and $50/year thereafter). At that price, no one thought of squatting on any but the most lucrative domain names—certainly not mass-registering thousands of domains and holding on to them for years. I don't want to go back to those prices, but those are the sorts of parameters that impact the domain name market.

[1] Yes, there non-public zones, geo-routing, etc. But as long as we define "result" as "exactly what the organization controlling that substring wants you to get" I think it works.
Great news. How about the rival Shenandoah GC?
Looks like a fabulous idea to abstract away the boilerplate parts of building a cli tool. Looking forward to use it in a side project soon.
It is possible there is large fraction of people who had the infection, but are not infected anymore. A serological would tell us the share of people with antibodies for this virus.
What features does Zoom's developer API support?

Which do you use, and how do you like them?

What other features do you hope they support in the future?
"Conspiracy" makes it sound like the US government hasn't been building the largest spying apparatus in history over the past 2 decades. Reality says otherwise.
Do you know why there are no Jews left in Holland?

They had the most efficient census of any European country. So when the Nazis came in and replaced the moderate Democratic Monarchy all they had to do to round up all the Jews was to select the column for religion on the IBM punch cards from the last census.

It's a travesty that next to no one knows the fact that the holocaust was the first large application of computers and the atom bomb was the second.
For the average user, a privacy/security concern is a possible/theoretical issue, missing features a very real, instantenous issue.

Slack, Teams & co flat-out ignored calls and screen sharing until now. They were sidelined so-so features. Hell, on Slack you couldn't even see screen sharing from mobile, and you did not even got a notification that another person is sharing. Never mind missing even the most basic annotation features.

No wonder Zoom eats all the pies now. Sure, they made a lot of mistakes, but it was a huge landfall on a small(ish) company. That said, if the others top up their game, I'm happy to get rid of an additional app - but that's how market works.
From a quick glance this looks more like it just strips accessibility.
A query need not be started with a bang. Just add 'g!' or 'yt!' anywhere in your search terms and it should work fine.
I built a consultancy company while having a full time job as a developer
That's really stupid, maybe this will push alternatives like namecoin...
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Iran gov't claims invention of contactless coronavirus detection device
> enough to raise the global watermark 1.5 millimetres

How is it even possible to measure increases this small? Isn't there an unavoidable error range of at least centimeters?
related discussion from yesterday >> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22889496