skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was easier at that point, because computers were in their infancy so it was helpful to have a human in the loop doing things the computers couldn't. Nowadays (and pretty much since the 80's) computers have been more than powerful enough to handle the task.
I can't agree with the very concept that discussion about a final release has plenty of meat and is relevant separately from a release candidate. Plenty of people will not install a release candidate (me among them). As such we have nothing to add there, but will try a 1.0 and then become not just a spectator but a part of the discussion. I think it's a fair assessment to say many people may be in a similar position, just going by the difference in download server availability. Ah well.
I believe in this case Cloudflare and Backblaze would be considered service providers, not network providers (like Comcast or AT&T, etc...). And you'd still need to pay each service individually for the service they're providing. It's an alternative to say, Amazon S3 and their own CDN which also does not charge for egress in between the two services (since they own both). But in our case, you pay Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage of the storage, and you pay Cloudflare for their CDN capabilities, the partnership simply makes the transfer between our storage and their CDN free.
> yay language complexity

You could argue that Rust strings are complex, because they are : having 8 "string-like" types (owned strings vs string slices (references), cstr/cstring, path and pathbuf, osstr/osString) is complex, but having three different methods doing exactly the same thing isn't.

Yes it's redundant, but what would you rather have : str as the only easily convertible type with no to_string method? Or the only reference type without to_owned? No ability to use into for strings while it works everywhere else? Obviously, redundancy is better than theses alternatives.
That's correct, my mistake on the infection rate of 90%. The 60% on the wiki figure is coming from an article written April 16. I did a bit of digging and found a navy statement from the 22nd which said 50%.

However given my error on the 90%, it seems much more likely that a large proportion of the people asymptomatic on the 22nd had caught it more recently than I was assuming, so the asymptomatic rate is probably a bit worse.
I checked the website, a Lenovo and two Samsungs are listed as supported and not discontinued.
Emacs was forced to remove M-x yow because of copyright concerns.

The same is bound to happen, sooner or later, to Tetris.
Part of running a company is keeping employees marginally happy enough to keep working. Whether that's through money, benefits, feelings of solidarity, shared goals, whatever. So annoying high-level employees enough to quit is a failure on one level or another.
I gave away my books and sales increased
There were very large numbers of comments both for and against net neutrality, but the ones against net neutrality seemed to largely be autogenerated and fraudulent, using names of people who said they didn't write them.
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Not a specialist, but since there are no other expert comments here, I did a bit of googling, and here's my tl;dr

- to get immunity to Covid you need antibodies

- a vaccine teaches your body to produce these antibodies

- but you would get a similar effect if someone injects in you the antibodies

- that's for example the idea behind plasma transfusions from people who recovered from Covid; the problem with plasma transfusion is that it doesn't scale that well

- you would ideally have some industrial process to produce these antibodies

- here's how this process works: you get a bunch of immune cells to make the antibodies in vitro. These cells are clones of some other cells, so "clonal" antibodies. If they are all clones of a single cell you get "monoclonal" antibodies

- initially those clone cells were mice cells, but that's less than ideal, as our own immune system may find identify the antibodies as foreign particles and attack them. Whenever the clone cells are "human" (or maybe indistinguishable from human for all intents and purposes), you get "human monoclonal" antibodies; some people consider them superior to non-human monoclonal antibodies, although both are in use

So what this paper is saying is that they have identified a way to produce the human monoclonal antibody(or "human mAb") 47D11, which appears to be very effective against Covid.

I have no idea how likely this is to become an effective drug, or how far we are from approval/use if that's the case.

Here's 2 relevant links: wikipedia [1], reddit [2].

Edit: I just saw an article in The Economist [3] that names Tocilizumab as one of 2 promising therapies for Covid19 (the other one being remdesivir). The "mab" at the end of the drug name stands for "monoclonal antibody), and yes, this is a human monoclonal antibody too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclonal_antibody#Human_anti...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/gdamp9/a_human_mon...

[3] https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/05/04/...
Other than misinterpreting an (obviously?) sarcastic comment I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

By all means let's not duck into any blind alleys. But decisions need to be made in a relatively short timeframe, and a lot of investigation itself is typically waved off as "can't replicate, wont fix", simply because it's perceived as difficult.
> It's possible that the owner is being exploited too, but the franchise corporation, or financial interests.

Irrelevant. I'm not talking about the owner being exploited. We could just be talking about a independent small business that's trying to get by on small margins.

> That doesn't make it ok for them to exploit others.

You're assuming that low pay is exploitation when that is the very notion I'm challenging. The exploitation comes from a power differential that is leveraged to the benefit of one party. If neither party has much power over the other, and neither is benefiting unduly from the relationship, then there is not exploitation.

It may very well be that neither the business nor the employee has much to offer each other. The point is that they're still willing to work together for mutual benefit, however small that mutual benefit may be.
I do use vi, but I think it's more important that ESC is used to non-destructively dismiss a dialog. Like exiting fullscreen mode, backing out, or dismissing a warning--but not exiting without saving.
Browns are lighter. Low profile Kailhs are even lighter. Right now I am using a scissor switch keyboard and I enjoy it a lot, but I am going to give kailh low profile browns a try. I like the general feeling of mech keyboards, but I don't like blues. I hope browns will be it. If not, scissor switch works well for me too, although my keyboard has issues with polling rate, sometimes when I type fast it swaps keys around.
WordPress security flaws hit online learning platforms – TechRadar
Built into MacOS itself is the ability to do something many vi and emacs users do regardless of the presence of a touchbar:

Remap caps lock (a useless key anyway) to escape.

This is in System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys > pick 'Escape' from the dropdown next to 'Caps lock key'.

If you wanna get fancy you can rewire right-ctrl or whatnot to esc too if you like that.

There are also 3rd party utilities like [Karabiner](https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/) which is undoubtedly the front runner for mac remappers (And public domain to boot). It's very scriptable; for example, if you want, you can set it up such that a longer press on caps lock really is caps lock (making use of the led for visual feedback that you engaged caps lock), but a short tap is escape. This does mean the ESC cannot register until you release.

If only there was some software to make this keyboard not sound like a slap fight between 2 otters...
People need food to live. Are grocers expected to hand out food without payment? If everything is priced at $0, I might not make it to the grocery store fast enough before the crowd empties the place.
Transit does cost different amounts of money depending on who you negotiate transit with. That's not part of net neutrality.
1% is huge. You do the world a disservice by ignoring incremental change. If I tasked you wish improving the speed of a processor and you came back with "This 1% improvement is a drop in the bucket so i deleted it" you would not last long. It can start with Amazon and end with more.
> This is called networking and I don't think it's going away anytime soon.

It's never going away. It's human nature to trust and favor the people you know over those you don't.

A friend of mine who was one of the top salesmen in his outfit would eat his lunch at his desk to save money. But he wasn't getting promoted, while others were. He eventually realized the "do lunch" socializing with coworkers was essential to success.

The idea is to adapt to reality, it's far easier than to try to change human nature.
Seriously, so much this. You only realize how valuable good journalism is when you don’t have it, as is unfortunately very common in most parts of the world.

Journalists play an extremely important role in keeping a check on power and as such are critical to the health of a democracy. The current US presidents violent rhetoric against the press should make people a lot angrier than it has so far; without a good, unbiased press there is simply no way to have an honest conversation about the most important problems that a country faces and the different plans by which to address them (as is becoming very clear by the botched response to the Coronavirus pandemic).
sqlite is a dirty hack. just because people like hacks doesn't mean it's ready for the serious stuff. it is not. https://research.checkpoint.com/2019/select-code_execution-f...
The thing with a GPS network is that you need fixed ground stations receiving the signal to know the satellites' precise orbital parameters, and thereby know exactly where they are. So you'd need to land at least one Starship to get a "gps" network working.
One-on-One Mistakes to Avoid
This is a classist argument. Labor, blue collar, lower middle class people have just of much right to better wages, conditions, treatment, as a tech worker or anyone else. In fact bargaining power is the only way employees can have somewhat of a say in any sort of negotiation with their employers, without it it's a completely one sided relationship.

Other than getting packages faster, what innovations are working class warehouse employees producing? The innovation of putting boxes together at blazing speed with no bathroom breaks in a poorly climate controlled environment?

How could outsourcing a horizontally consolidated logistics empire be cheaper than upping conditions by a bit? Unions on average only cost about 10% more than a non-organized operation. That cost could be sent to the consumer or taken from revenue, by selling shares, whatever.

Anything that goes against the status quo of unfettered greed, cold profit is all that matters attitude makes sense for the business. But part of why Americans enjoy such labor safety, higher pay, employer health care, etc is because of organized labor. Class consolidation is the best outcome for the most people and there are laws that facilitate it being broken by Amazon, in firing organizers.

It's not just their warehouse workers they treat like garbage either, they steal successful products on their page and drop the original company from their listings and showing up in search. They charge a kickback just to rank in the search, etc, etc.

Bezos is a very clever successful sociopath in my opinion.
would you buy it if I build it?
Perfect timing.

I was looking at Urwid (http://urwid.org/) last night for a new project. Urwid is a console user interface library for python.
It's just how the particular web framework is written?

For native code, D has roughly C++ levels of performance with much simpler/nicer code.
Yes, in which case the question will go back to the FCC- why did you have no process in place to actually verify comments are genuine.
I don't see how that's a negative. The Touch Bar still has an ESC segment that works exactly the same as the button and literally no one in any of the companies that I've worked with that's not a developer has ever had an issue with it while simultaneously finding the Touch Bar far more useful than unlabelled function keys.
The complaints are human behavior rather than technology, or the culture around it. There are places that are better than others, but you're going to encounter self interest and "dilbertesque" behavior everywhere.

Personally, I view learning to deal with work is an emotional skill you have to develop. Even if you get a job doing math all day in a research position, you need to be ready for the usual academic politics problems.
See, this may be the experience that you have, but for plenty of students its not.

At a UC, we are paying ~1,000 dollars for services that simply don't exist. And don't get me started on out-of-state students. Add a zero on to that figure. These services, which have all been shut down include: shuttles, gyms, libraries, computer labs. We are pissed. Nothing has been changed from their usual online services for libraries, check out by mail isn't a thing. Computer access hasn't changed. And our school has not, and does not plant to refund any money. Keep in mind that they received $38 million from the government as part of the cares act, half of which was supposed to be given directly to students ASAP. Nothing has been said about that money.

I hope you can see why we are mad, and why we think the university isn't doing enough to address our concerns.
According to the published report, it was also done by two different laboratories and staff. Of course the false positive hypothesis can't be excluded, but the radiographies show the characteristic glass-like pattern of this viral pneumonia.
There is a federal law called the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires executive agencies to follow a process while engaging in rulemaking. Part of the process is a public comment period, and agencies are required to substantively address the concerns in public comments. If, for example, the public comment process is 99% against a proposal and the agency proceeds without having a VERY good argument, it can get struck down by judicial review.

Pai knows this, and the fact that the public comments on net neutrality rulemaking were so obviously manipulated has made people think there is at least a possibility that he, or the FCC, was complicit, in order to flout the APA. The fact that the agency has gone out of its way to cover the situation up does not inspire much confidence, either.

TL;DR: A bunch of comments on a website could result in the FCC's actions being struck down in court.
The Privacy Challenges of Digital Contact Tracing
Been there. Still slightly am. It's tough. Expand your hobbies and invest in them as you have tech. See where it ends up. It(s) kind-of work(ed/ing) for me.
Many folks do consider this a mistake. Some do still think it was the right call. I'd say it's very unclear.
Imagine dozens of consecutive unmanned launches boosted into orbit by the same 2-5 Boosters each with only a payload of fuel meant for the large tank of Starship.
Amazon has (had?) a pretty vibrant culture of "*-interest @" mailing lists. Whether it's videogames or whatever, people are used to using those lists and more or less self regulating.
> A given person only gets one.

Not really. Consider: old passports, multiple citizenship, emergency passports, identity cards which can be used as passports, etc.
I realize a lot of people are big fans of hiding their dock. I find it annoying because there are too many moves instead of darting your eyes. When walking up to a random computer it's worse because I often find those people have moved the dock and I have to check each corner one at a time.
The parent is just pointing out that whether genuine or fraudulent, the comments didn't matter.

I have had the same thought, and I am not sure why the veracity of the comments is fomenting so much anger. No matter what the comments had said, the FCC would have done the same thing; Pai had been very clear about his opinion on net neutrality over the course of many years.
Why are you posting multiple sources of the same thing within minutes of each other?
I understand where you're going for, but imo that's never been a valid argument against self-determination.

I think your argument can be made simpler: why should we trust people to be allowed to decide for themselves? Won't they decide to do stupid and harmful things? Won't they decide to hurt eachother? Won't they decide to steal from eachother, and murder eachother?

No, is the answer, because laws were created somehow, right? We don't trust the government to babysit us - we created the government so we wouldn't have to babysit eachother.

We don't need the board to tell us what we can and can't do - we can figure that well enough on our own. What we don't need is a board that assumes it knows best. It doesn't, it can't possibly, in fact it is existentially unable to do anything but raise shareholder value. So, the more employee self-determination, the better.

I think it's very unlikely that employees will decide they want to have guns at work instead of, say, a security system, or maybe offices in places with low crime, etc. I think it's very unlikely that employees will decide, I dunno, that they want the right to shit on eachother's desk, or whatever other fairly-objectively-negative thing you can think up. The right to paste racial slurs all over the office, maybe? Bigotry, bullying, and hatred are swiftly becoming a minority, and a fair system almost universally causes those minority viewpoints to lose power. They only maintain it in imbalanced systems...

And worse case scenario, if Amazon turns into the kind of office where you have to shoot your way in just to get to your desk, we can have the government intervene and shut the place down (with our labor laws), and maybe someone can set up a better business where you don't have to shoot your way to your desk.
It's true that nobody gets something from the universe just because they deserve it. Which is why for several thousand years humans have grouped up into civilized societies where we can construct environments that better match how we think things should work. So that people can get what they deserve.

Since we're not talking about somebody adrift in interstellar space, your argument makes less sense. Instead you have to argue some variant on a) not everybody deserves a reasonably safe job, or b) people do deserve that but we as a society can't afford it.

(I don't think either of those is true, but at least they'd make sense.)
This almost certainly due to his wife:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/07/1...

Musk has shown a history of not being the most stable w/ his wives .
I don't think it's true to say that the comments to the FCC have no impact. It's a part of their process for a reason, and the fact that somoene felt the need to stuff the ballot points to genuine concern. I think it's fairly reasonable to say it would have put Pai in a difficult position politically to institute a rule after 100% of people petitioned against it. Which is why the clearly fraudulent activity happened.

I think the reason the case is being fought is the same reason, it's not about whether people actually like net neutrality, they clearly don't. The point is to rules lawyer through the situation - oh well the comments were a wash, oh well there seems to have been fraud, let's ignore the comments entirely, oh well we can actually really easily tell which comments were fraudulent, but the rules have been in place for years now so it's a moot point.
64.2 percent of Americans are homeowners. Still a majority compared to renters.
Is anybody interested in a way to automatically create docker based staging environments based on pull requests or specific branches? The idea is to help teams developing products to let others test early versions without having to configure staging environments themselves.

I'm working on a solution for this and would like to see if there is any interest.
Other great tools in the python terminal sphere are colorama, blessings and urwid.

Colorama is just for cross platform colouring, blessings is a very elegant wrapper over curses which is still useful for not-fullscreen things, and urwid is a full-blown widget library for TUI stuff.
Means testing would cause more problems than it can solve. A somewhat fair compromise would be to increase the amount owed a tiny bit to encourage those who can pay to continue paying.
I agree but, as I said initially, I only see this in the developer crowd. I just don't hear that type of criticism from any other segment in any of the companies I work with.
Really enjoyed this - thank you for sharing
> Second, the FCC objects to producing the relevant materials from the API proxy server log because to do so requires creating a script, which demands "research" rather than simply a "search."

Funny how a government agency considers it overly burdensome to write what is likely a 4 line script, so goes through a lawsuit that costs taxpayers likely millions of dollars to avoid it. Unless their infrastructure is well and truly F*ed, this is a 30-60 minute task for a junior server admin. Most likely they already ran it and didn't like what it revealed so it's even less effort.
I never tried to indicate that I was disagreeing with you
It's not all clear that a garbage collector isn't an advantage in actual workloads. Web apps tend to create a lot of short lived objects, and contrary to popular assumption malloc and free are not free.
Site fails to load. Hosted by AWS? puts on tin foil hat
It would potentially be a slam-dunk lawsuit if it was that explicit.
> Open office is my favorite by far. I'm a programmer and I'm not easily distracted and I find the environment a lot more social and enjoyable....My least favorite was the shared office and cubicle. I found offices isolating, but at least you had privacy unless you shared your office. Cubicles were the worst of both worlds, which is a lack of privacy but you're still isolated.

There's the key right there. You're an extrovert.

Half the world isn't. And there's more introverts in tech. Your isolation is our happy solitude in getting shit done.
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Roche gets FDA approval for Covid-19 antibody test with 99.8% specificity
I am not sure what's wrong with you and why you are happy but unhappy?! but if I would have to guess - it's most likely antidepressants/therapy. There is new "you" but you miss old "you". Brain chemistry is no joke and if you don't absolutely absolutely need medication don't do it. Ask good doctors for second, third and fourth opinions if needed.