skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A pleasant surprise from Australia:
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2020L00480

Coercing the use of COVIDSafe

(1) A person must not require that another person:

(a) download COVIDSafe to a mobile telecommunications device; or

(b) have COVIDSafe in operation on a mobile telecommunications device; or

(c) consent to uploading COVID app data from a mobile telecommunications device to the National COVIDSafe Data Store.

(2) A person must not:

(a) refuse to enter into, or continue, a contract or arrangement with another person (including a contract of employment); or

(b) take adverse action (within the meaning of the Fair Work Act 2009) against another person; or

(c) refuse to allow another person to enter premises; or

(d) refuse to allow another person to participate in an activity; or

(e) refuse to receive goods or services from another person; or

(f) refuse to provide goods or services to another person;

on the ground that, or on grounds that include the ground that, the other person:

(g) has not downloaded COVIDSafe to a mobile telecommunications device; or

(h) does not have COVIDSafe in operation on a mobile telecommunications device; or

(i) has not consented to uploading COVID app data from a mobile telecommunications device to the National COVIDSafe Data Store.

Note that this is only a ministerial determination, which I believe means that it can be changed or withdrawn at any time, and is overridden by legislation. But if Parliament legislates this when it next sits, I will be quite impressed.
Video here: https://youtu.be/CwO7ADProNU
Colombia: Over 70 Indigenous Families Displaced in Urrao
Show HN: Browser extension for playing emoji sounds
That didn't stop the Unicode Consortium from including a left-pointing magnifying glass in the standard. I use this on my blog for the search button.
When I had to be on a rigid morning schedule, what helped me was an alarm clock to go to bed.
Perhaps it works often because it coincides with the Secretary Problem often enough. Maybe running the Secretary Problem approach with a quick upper bound of how many you're willing to consider will work. I'm going to explicitly try that and see.
Agreed.

While requiring a Google account to host a meeting makes some sense, requiring an account to join a meeting will simply mean too much friction and users will use another platform.

The equation is simple. Users use the first platform they can find where both sound and video works for every person they want to talk to. "Jim can't get into the call" soon leads to someone piping up "shall we try zoom instead?".

It's easy to see how this happened too - all Google engineers have Google accounts (for their work), so when testing this out, never encountered the issue.

I predict they'll change their stance in a few months when they see zoom still crushing them in user numbers, but by then it'll be too late - people will remember meet as that app which is "finicky to get to connect because everyone has to remember their password"
Australia's defamation laws are some of the toughest in the world and not in a good way.

There's been a few new articles about people having to pay big damages due to online reviews, social media posts[1] and how it stopped women speaking out over the me to stuff over here[2].

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/email-spat-between-manly...

[2] https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/so...
Isn't this just general suckage of workplaces? Interviews are like lottery tickets, you never know who you'll meet, what their culture are or how the meet goes. You may in time be surprised both ways too, given the chance! It seems you have high bars from academia you may need to let go of, in order to find your place in the company world. Start with: Nobody owe you anything, not even fairness.
The real reason is that open source software completely eliminates the need for reverse engineering. RE only makes sense when you don't have access to the source code. Doing things like private server emulation for an MMORPG might sound cool but the reality is that half the game content exists server side. You're not able to invest enough resources to rebuild the original experience and even if you could why not spend those resources on your own game? The demand for reverse engineering is pretty small.
I have both an Android phone and an iPad. Google's autocorrect is far superior. The comparison isn't even close.

Handles a lot of these cases:

* Accidental last row instead of space - handled

* Easy undo - first backspace hit returns to explicitly typed out text then next one backspaces

* Whole word flashes on autocorrect

* Current candidate for autocorrect is centered on screen above keyboard

* Valid word won't autocorrect (can't actually test this since both devices are probably fully trained on what I type)
You are "loyal" to an app?!
Out of curiosity, to what extent do you feel we successfully flattened the curve in New York? Given that recent serology results showed between 15-20% prevalence, it does seem like it could have been significantly worse. But just to be clear we should note that we ended up having a massive excess of capacity as far as ventilators and beds were concerned (I'm guessing the real bottleneck is trained staff but am not sure)
Yeah and I believe if SJ had twitter at his (prime) time we would have seen a lot of "questionable" moments like we're seeing with Elon.

(Or at least it would have leaked much easier through the grapevine)
FYI, there is an actual company working on a medical device to put UV light inside the body to light the lungs. It's unproven but in the works. It was subsequently censored by Youtube and Twitter after the President's comments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgiHfD_xtvw
Revengineered ancient PDP-11 CPUs, originals and clones
Foreign held debt is not much of a problem in principle, if the interest is lower than what the country earns from owning foreign assets.

But government debt is a problem even if the government doesn't go bankrupt:

You are right that a government that can print its own money can hardly go bankrupt financially. But it's perhaps not ideal for the government to consume ever increasing portions of what the nation produces? Forget about money and finance for a second: given the same material resources the private sector is usually more efficient at satisfying human wants.
As someone who runs red lights from time to time both as a pedestrian and cyclist I more or less think this is the general view, especially if we take into account that bicycle lanes, at least in my country, often are linked to the pedestrian lights. I would never run a light in a car and if I ride my bike on the road I behave as a car.

Another imo. important part of this is the (perceived) risk of running a red light. If I run a red light on my bicycle I yield for everyone, i.e. my speed is low and I only have to watch for cars that go straight through the crossing which are easy to predict. Basically no need to interact with anyone, simply watch out for cars. Following the lights is the opposite, my speed is generally higher and I have to interact with turning cars. All crashes involving cars that I've been in have either been cars that should have yielded when turning or cars that are blowing through stop/yield signs. This is generally how bicyclists get hurt and I mainly see it as an infrastructure issue. The problem is that infrastructure is relatively expensive to change and so the blame often seem to focus on the cyclist for "not following the rules" or "not wearing a helmet" and nothing really seems to change.
I would want about four of each rat still. The control could die of something else...
Delphi makes things worse because the code it generates is incredibly ugly. The code listings use the C++ std and it looks straightforward so presumably it is just good old C++.
No code/low code is reinvented over and over as trends/paradigms enter their late stages of consolidation. Yes it implies “something more” in that these new tools function in the modern world.
> Does "whole body fat oxidation" mean that the an average male calorie burn of 2500 per day would be multiplied with 1,43 to 3575 calories per day?

No, it means they burned (oxidized) more fat. This would mostly be a higher % with same calories. Doing those tiny intervals of total 2m40s shouldn't raise significantly the total calorie consumption.
Like the play/pause symbols then, which are already in there?

And since when was a smiling poop an ‘element of plain text’
> lots of extremely competent people hold some batshit insane opinions about a lot of pretty important things.

Talking about the same industry and about extremely competent people, John Ford was a Nazi sympathiser and he actively promoted "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", which was pretty batshit insane.
The US produces lot of corn which is used to make ethanol, a key ingredient in sanitizer. Ethanol is already produced in large quantities in the US because it's used as a biofuel. So sanitizer is a pretty bad example. PPE is quite a different story. The US has got the resources (gas, cellulose), it only needs long term gov't contracts with manufacturers for strategic stockpiles. It's not black and white and you don't need to become a socialist society.
Zoom doesn't require an app, they just hide the link to use the web version pretty well.

You have to click to download the app, then cancel the download, and the link to join via browser appears.
If you want to be taken seriously you need to specify what morals is this violating exactly, it may be obvious to you but not to your readers.
What a good argument to place FB's instruments of tracking on the website.

That's already an ethically questionable action.
I think that most people find this hard to digest. The committee approves a ton of emojis with a dozen variations each, a gazillion characters that make it possible to make some weird word soup that breaks sane layout, but including one of the most commonly used symbols is somehow out of the question.
there isn’t. it doesn’t even look better than a normal monitor or phone
there was some mathematical proof that was the optimization of your algorithm. I think it had statistical numbers of dates before you did a summary and went to choose a spouse.
You can do this in CSS, but it's semantically different than an external link symbol.

@media print {
a::after{
content: " (" attr(href) ") ";
}
}
I think you're missing the point of the OP

If Zuckerberg undermines the leadership of his operators some of them will move on to other companies.

It's not feasible to run an enterprise as large as Facebook as 1 person at the top, so you need leaders with mutual trust to execute in their department.
> The UTC rejected the proposals to add “external link sign”, most recently in L2/12-169. It is unclear that the entity in question is actually an element of plain text

Nor is Pile of Poo, and that's in Unicode.

If external Link was added to Unicode, I expect it would be more used than 1000s of characters that are in it.
.. or just create a bookmark with this

javascript:window.location='http:/'+'/sci-hub.tw/'+window.location
USA starts new Nuclear Fuel tests
> As Peter Thiel famously said, "Never bet against Elon Musk."

Yes, because for better or worse Elon is "seeing the future" and has the capability to execute it.

In a world where a lot of CxOs and Senior Executives "didn't believe" in remote work in January of this year, you see that the average group vision is poor and execution ability is even poorer
So you agree with the judge: Google controls the results and the presentation of the results.
See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_British_nationa...

> By the mid-1920s, interest on [British] government debt was absorbing 44% of all government expenditure, [...]

That definitely sounds like an issue. Without the debt, they presumably could have cut taxes in about half.

(And gold standard or not doesn't make too much of a difference, if you have a firm commitment to keep inflation in check and not to default on your debt either.)
You're right that they did not specifically bail out Carnival. They bailed out the entire junk bond sector, which allowed companies like Carnival to raise money much more easily.
What's your source for the 0.1% flu number? People are linking to the CDC website which explicitly only looks at symptomatic flu cases. Which means it's NOT the IFR. The flu also has asymptomatic cases!
maybe it was 68UaB
>synchronization points are explicit

Hmmm, I'd have just called it cooperative threading/multitasking then. Or do you think that would be wrong?
Your analysis seems to be in the right direction but I think that the body uses this energy in many more ways than just heat. Moving muscles, pumping blood, keeping ionic gradients in the kidneys, and in cells, producing waste products, do seem to take energy. Also, consider the water we lose due to evaporation just by breathing, we are constantly creating a significant amount of heat and dissipating it into the environment. This extra 1000Kcal would be roughly a 50 watt increase in average metabolic rate during a whole day.

It does seem a bit high but anecdotally, my body temperature is 1C higher on days I do some tennis early in the morning. And more importantly my oftenly cold hands go away, so radiating more of it away.
no they ban anything and everything
I think that's the only positive thing I can say about them yes.
> I haven't seen a BYOD setup that would allow whatever you please on the corp network.

You are right, there are rules, like the custom TLD is for authorized LAN users only. A public resolvable address is risky be cause the domain has a traceable ownership and identity, it relies on unnecessary external authorities.

For the migration I am considering deploy a company wide cert. But also I am frustrated because browsers shouldn't dictate the kind of Intranet structure we use.

If we still believe the Web should remain open, let the browsers behave more neutral.
(caveat: IANAL and am frequently wrong)

The DMCA provides a singularly annoying exemption process. Every three years, the Librarian of Congress makes a determination of valid exemptions to the DMCA. These exemptions are complicated to apply for, and having been previously granted theoretically has no impact on whether it is granted the next time, so anyone who wants to maintain an exemption needs to reapply and make their case every three years.

From 2018 and until 2021, there are 14 DMCA exemptions in effect. One of them is "Computer programs, except videos games, no longer reasonably available in commercial marketplace, for preservation by eligible libraries, archives, and museums." Unfortunately, while this software is not a video game, nor is it reasonably available, it is not covered by this clause, as "the work cannot be made available or distributed outside the physical premises of the eligible institution."

Not to worry, though! There is one other possible exemption. Number 11: "Computer programs, for purposes of good-faith security research." Is this good-faith security research? Well, one of the tests there is whether the "information is used primarily to promote security of devices on which the program operates." This probably does the opposite, being an effective argument and tutorial AGAINST security, so it probably doesn't work, either.

So yes, this is probably illegal. It could maybe even be a felony, technically. You could probably get years in prison for it. You wouldn't, but that won't stop a fed from convincing you of that in order to get you to sign a confession.
> Furthermore, the existing widespread practice of representing this sign on web pages using images (often specified via CSS styles) would be unlikely to benefit from attempting to encode a character for this image.

Obviously enough text-mode browsers would be likely to benefit.
The idea is that they should have been stockpiling them for decades

Their shelf life is generally 5 years at most. Stockpiling "for decades" is worse than useless.
You can definitely pass them around and call public methods on them using refs, that's what
useImperativeHandle is mimicking.

Was the issue with `this` in componentWillRecieveProps not solved by using an arrow function? If so, that just sounds like normal JS binding woes.
If they don't show some degree of remorse or discomfort from working for it, then yes.

Incidentally, the same applies to Facebook and a number of other companies striving on less than ethical products.
well, there was that one lady who left an immortal cell line behind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
Good question. I should have proactively addressed that:

The IMHE model, after re-estimating, _was_ too optimistic. My argument does not hinge on the IMHE model being too pessimistic; but rather simply that the IMHE model is basically useless and thus we shouldn't base policy on it.

I expect us to have well over 100,000 COVID-19 deaths - indeed probably 3x that but I admit I haven't sat down and done the age-bracket-weighted mortality napkin math. (Basically, take each age group's IFR and multiply by that age group's population in the US, after multiplying by some constant <1 which represnts the sum of herd immunity threshold plus overshoot)

So basically, I think that COVID-19 mortality is going to be way worse than the model predicts, but given the way I view the cost of lockdown, etc, I still think the approach I am proposing is superior to locking down.

Does that make sense?
In addition to all other arguments - it's up 500 points in the last month after dropping over twice as much the month before. The virus is still a net negative for the market.
It is beyond outrageous that it is legal to have corporate structures other than 1 share 1 vote.
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Boeing is under defacto state control. National security is not a problem.
OK, so if all IQs could be mapped accurately onto a normal curve with a SD of 15-16 you wouldn't expect anyone over 200. But standardized IQ tests can most definitely give results over 200, and do. And presumably someone who scores 250 on an IQ test is likely to be more intelligent^ than someone who scores 200 on the same test.

^in the sense that it measured by IQ tests, anyway. Point being it shows a real difference; deltas over 200 aren't meaningless.
Yeah, I had the honor of using their web app and it's significantly worse in quality than Zoom desktop app or Meet's web UI. The video was laggy, showed less camera frames and the UI itself was not responding well either.

Significantly worse experience.
> then wouldn't the intranet page be served over HTTP too and not make this an issue?

The page itself is served in both HTTP and HTTPS, can be visited in and outside the LAN.

The <img> and <video> content fail in HTTPS without explanation in Chrome v81+
I don't even know what it would mean to "bail out" a 401(k). By definition you, the employee, are exposed to all the market risk. If you happen to reach retirement age in a down market, you're kinda just screwed. Should've made better investment choices 15 years ago.

This is why traditional pensions were usually a better deal for most employees.
Is there a size limit of on the files? This was the issue with all WebRTC file sending websites I saw so far.
There are ample number of companies between the two and CEOs as well. Tesla is doing just fine with Elon.
It is not incorrect, and they do understand but they don't care. They have esoteric philosophical justifications that exclude some commonly used symbols while inventing never before seen ones. This is the problem with putting a tiny number of otherwise powerless people in charge things.

They clap become clap petty clap tyrants.
statements like that are very powerful.

He's teaching people how to teach people, which is like wisdom^2
I think challenging yourself to see from other people's perspectives is probably a great thing to do. But no, it's not going to somehow increase your innate intelligence to super-genius level.
Nitpicking but wasn’t the keystone added first?
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Au contraire: if I give you ten "nitpicks", the fact that it's "minute criticism" means that you explicitly have licence not to feel bad about it. I use the word "nitpick" in a review to induce the reaction of "sigh, I'll make your tiny change", possibly with "I-the-author don't care but apparently you-the-reviewer do for some reason" and "it's all Smaug123's fault for being unreasonable" if the author needs someone to blame mentally for the fact that the PR isn't approved immediately. It's an explicit label/reassurance that no important fault lies with the author.

This is very possibly a team culture thing, though. We all know that the code is what matters, and we are all studiously not letting our egos intervene, but we can help each other not get too attached by deflecting the blame onto the reviewer rather than the author in this tiny way.
consuming enormous cpu resources
> PRs should always be prioritized. Aim for review SLA of 1 hour.

I don't agree with this. For the sake of the argument let's agree that a review takes less than 1 hour (which is definitely not always the case). That would mean that an Engineer needs to check his emails / notification more than once an hour to meet this SLA.

This is totally unproductive IMO.

I like most of the other points though, nice list.
Hang on, I'm about to make HN culpable. Let's see what they do.

According to ABC, George Defteros was charged with the murder of Carl Williams and other underworld figures.
> As an aside, “Plenty of Fish” 1.0 was built with an off-the-shelf website builder.

From what I read about PoF, it was written in VB. For performance reasons, anything external was gradually rewritten inline.

> You don’t need to be a pro-coder to provide value.

That definitely doesn't match the story of him spending months in his condo writing PoF.
I never said the number of cases in SE vs. DK was comparable. I said the cases to deaths ratio was very high in SE. Lack of testing only further proves my point.
The closest I can think of is U+2b00 (north east white arrow) followed by U+20de (combining enclosing square).

I suspect HN will eat the character: ⬀⃞ although they sometimes pass through if there's enough other text in the comment.
Seems really cheap tho. I wonder what the Medical cost + opportunity costs for avoiding e.g. 50% of crashes in the junction would be over e.g. 10 years. Probably a lot more than 100k for fixing the junction.
not that I agree with the final decision, but I can imagine "Play"/"Pause" to show up in a device manual and Smiling Poop as part of a chat message.

Neither applies to the "external link" symbol.
In this case I e-mailed hn@ycombinator.com to inquire about why it was flagged, and Dang jumped in and lifted the flags after quickly scanning things over to check that it was legitimate.

Basically, users flagged it. I think the explanation Dang gave me in his e-mail reply is almost certainly correct, and it doesn't contain anything sensitive so I'll just share it here:

> All I can tell you, though, is that users flagged it. We don't know why they flag things, and can only guess. My guess in this case is that it's a combination of some users having covid-story-fatigue, and other users disagreeing with the view in the article. As you know, this question has become politicized and is getting more polarizing as we go forward.