skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually recall options as: deny all cookies, allow first party cookies, allow all cookies, ask. (The latter one soon became unrealistic, but it was definitely in some of the earlier Netscape browsers.) Default was "allow first party cookies".

Edit: Just rechecked, Netscape Communicator 4.7 (as of Nov. 1997) had the exclusive options (radio buttons)

() Accept all cookies
() Accept only cookies that get sent back to the originating server
() Do not accept cookies

and an additional checkbox

[] Warn me before accepting cookies

(the latter triggering a prompt for any attempt to set a cookie not already denied by the previous options).

Edit 2: I got it (NS4.7) to display a cookie warning:

The server 192.168.1.2 wishes to set a cookie
that will be sent back to itself. The name
and value of the cookie are:
test=ABC
This cookie will persist until Jun 7 10:42:41 2020
Do you wish to allow the cookie to be set?

[Cancel] [OK]

Mind (a) that all vital data is included in the message and (b) the kind of general competence expected from an average user, back in the day (long before URLs were deemed too complicated).
My partners' family, who aren't citizens of PRC (nor live there), use it a lot. That's apparently the best app in Chinese language for tech-illiterate people.
Firefox and Safari have been progressively limiting what third-party cookies are allowed over the past seven years.
I initially wanted to say that, but then I realized they have other Stack Exchange sites :)
I've been reading reports that the virus causes endothelial damage to various organ systems and vasculature.

I wonder if the virus leaves behind permanent damage even among those who recover. I would hate to get the virus and be left with a permanently weakened heart and lungs.

I'm not a doctor or researcher, but it seems like we're still too early in this to know what the long term impact will be.
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How do you make scrolling to work not line-by-line but pixel-by-pixel in... MacOS and Ubuntu? There’s some arcane installs that are each incrementally better than the next one but none match the native scrolling experience you’d usually see in a modern/graphical text editor
What about cost of personal (operations/administration) and the cost of maintaining+electricity bill?
I think licensing is not the problem, why nobody installs emacs anymore. It is initial setup. Where can I get a good code highlighter for all my code. Integration into obscure ide's compilers like iar. A workflow showing me easily what I changed, which files to check into git. A nice git overview of file history thanks to extensions. where can I get all this easily. One click and have a dark theme. Also easily customizable shortcuts. Manpower behind the editor for many changes and improvements. I mean who pumps out new versions every month.

I would say vs code does all that and while using an easy to overcome entry bar. And I am much more productive even than in native ide's for embedded development. Like iar eclipse or Segger.

The only thing I would want to try is using the org mode in emacs for nice todo handling.
But else I see no appeal in emacs. It is just ugly, more concerned about it's license instead of just saying, this is free software just contribute and we will improve by using everything we can.
Don’t read it. Save your brain for a book that isn’t riddled with so many errors Brad DeLong wrote ten articles on the errors in Chapter 11.

https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/07/hummel_on_graeb.htm...

> I have read David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5000 Years thoroughly and despite Graeber’s readability, scholarship, and erudition, it is a very bad book. Its tone is much too polemical. More important, when it gets to the more recent history that I know well, it is riddled with errors and distortions. Beyond that, it suffers from serious conceptual confusions, and in his excellent critique, Robert Murphy has only scratched the surface.

https://www.bradford-delong.com/2012/02/gabriel-rosser-on-da...

>> How the poor debtors still sell their daughters, How in the drought men still grow fat « Code and Culture: At Unfogged there’s a review (and a very funny comments thread) pointing out that the following sentence contains six factual claims all of which are incorrect:

> Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, forming little democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their laptops in each other’s garages

The above is a quote from Debt about Apple.

Here is the index of posts about errors in Chapter 11.

https://www.bradford-delong.com/.services/blog/6a00e551f0800...
No they don’t. They are all saying it doesn’t work when the app is in the background on iOS. This makes the app worthless on iOS as nobody it going to walk around with the app in the foreground the whole time.

The NHS app appears to solve this problem.
This is when you use TamperMonkey and write a user-script to scrap and post that shit where you want it.
Chance of getting a meaningful reply on any technical question which answer does not simply involve providing the documentation for the given framework or language involved:

- Stack Overflow: 1%
- Reddit: 8%
- The Daily WTF forum: 81%

This is internet is broken. I want the old one back.
I'm a SF restaurant owner who will probably return my government relief loan
The current app needs two phones to be in contact for at least 15 minutes before it triggers anything.
> There's not a single social network that has begun to require phone verification because of the risk of "toxicity or hate speech". It's all to fight spam and to better track user activity (and, if we're being charitable to them

I think that _is_ being very charitable. Way too much in fact.

The thing with Chinese censorship is that people living under it either don't care about it or are fully aware of it. It's very much in the open.

On the other hand, Facebook/Instagram, Microsoft, Google, etc all start requiring your phone number for verification or some other valid reason, reeling and locking you in, and before you know it not only one entity but any entity willing to pay for your data has access to it.

We should of course be outraged at both approaches.

Also, is removing fake news/propaganda not censorship solely because it's not the government doing it? Because if that's the case, Facebook and Google only really started removing fake news _because_ governments started to apply pressure on them.
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First of all I really like the value of Emacs as a modern lisp machine. And it is the best environment to write in any lisp language.

But for anything else it is not good enough. Emacs Lisp is better then vimscript but only if you are extending it. For just configuration I prefer vimscript because it is so terse.

But IMO just better then vimscript is setting the bar too low. Imagine if it had something like Neovim's msgpack and you could extend it in any language you like. I am still hopeful something like that will happen.
> I'm probably gonna keep doing my technical writing in BBEdit until I die, but that's a different post.

Please produce that post. Also, why not developing in BBEdit?
No text is censored on WhatsApp, it's technically impossible due to E2EE. Obviously you can't send GB of data in one message, and there must some other small client-side restrictions, but nothing you can reasonably call censorship.
Apparently used by CAT scans, and Computed Axial Lithography, to name a few uses...

>"The transform was introduced in 1917 by Johann Radon,[1] who also provided a formula for the inverse transform. Radon further included formulas for the transform in three dimensions, in which the integral is taken over planes (integrating over lines is known as the X-ray transform).

It was later generalized to higher-dimensional Euclidean spaces, and more broadly in the context of integral geometry.

The complex analogue of the Radon transform is known as the Penrose transform.

The Radon transform is widely applicable to tomography, the creation of an image from the projection data associated with cross-sectional scans of an object."

[...]

"the inverse of the Radon transform can be used to reconstruct the original density from the projection data, and thus it forms the mathematical underpinning for tomographic reconstruction, also known as iterative reconstruction."
Yes. There seems to be a huge amount of hope invested in these apps with little evidence they will make much difference.
I dont like the vertical spacing of the font. While it makes the page shorter, it's bad for reading. Getting a lot of text on one page is good for programming (getting a overview, quick access of areas), but for reading it's generally worse (sequential action).

Othervise i can follow most guidelines.
The economy could function, indeed, but they don't seem to [0], certainly not on the baseline level. Human psychology that allowed our ancestors to survive even more deadly plagues is at work here.

And people are correct in their everyday choices, herd immunity is just wrong when you have no idea what this virus actually does to people and you can afford to not get sick. If indeed 50% of people including young and middle age asymptomatic/mild cases of COVID-19 lead to permanent lung damage (we don't know!), then "herd immunity" means destroying health of the population, while killing millions at the same time. We are certain that people needing intrusive ventilation will need years to go back to fully normal life, but they may never recover full health.

And I agree, maybe USA, Africa and India can not afford to suppress the virus. Starvation will very likely be bigger killer in those countries. I was and I still am especially worried about India, because I don't see how they could stop exponential spread even with full lock-down. Social distancing is just impossible there. And they have millions upon millions of people that have to work to eat. Thankfully, India seems to be easing lock-down.

But EU economies certainly can afford lock-down. Even Swedish people paid and are paying heavy economical price to stop the exponential growth. But we did suppress the virus, now we can go back to sort of normal life and keep things under control.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23105922
Yeah the mods here kill flame wars pretty quickly. At first I was put off by it but HN has a really good community because of it.

You can have nuances in discussion here. I don't know of any other places online where that is possible. It's also possible to have a civil disagreement. It's a credit to the mods and community rules.
Interestingly, and purely anecdotally (so not designed to replace the study itself), I've been experimenting with the RSSI being reported by the NHSx app through the debug menu. At least based on what I've seen so far on my devices (and noting the NHSx model considers device model ID to allow for antenna variations going forwards), there was a ~25 dBm change in signal strength (from -32 to around -57) between phones being sat together, and through a wall yet still close.

Clearly this is going to vary depending on building construction, but I suspect the most relevant factor will be determining whether a contact event takes place through a wall or not. The real question is whether or not this can be modelled into the app and it proves reproducible.

My understanding is there's no claimed intention to measure the 2m distance, and this is accepted as a known factor, at least for now. I suspect in an indoor setting the initial challenge will be preventing spurious triggers from indoor use (although arguably if people are that close they might live in an apartment block, and they could have been exposed through contact with door handles or lift buttons etc). But once people are outside more and returning to normality, all bets seem to be off - I imagine a lot of false positives.

My instinct would be that contact exposure duration will become more of a factor than the RSSI, or that a min/max/median/standard deviation might be captured in addition to a "raw" RSSI, to perhaps get a better idea. If the RSSI never goes "above" -60 (noting it's a negative number) then that's not likely to be a hugely close contact event.
> but also looking-up the phone number’s SS7 info

Does that really work? I'd like a service like that for my personal phone.
Most important lines:

"Setting: Autopsies performed at a single academic medical center, as mandated by the German federal state of Hamburg for patients dying with a polymerase chain reaction–confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19."

"Patients: The first 12 consecutive COVID-19–positive deaths."
If you're not using cookies or localstorage on a per session basis you are not doing the "bare minimum' to be qualified as an HTTP client.
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Here's an experiment I did that might be interesting to ZX people: https://youtu.be/BjeVzEQW4C8
Because the images on that page don't have a size set on the img tag I do get visible reflow when visiting that page.
Sure, the Velociraptors Are Still on the Loose
Firstly, people briefly walking past your wall shouldn't trigger either system as they're both set up to require a period of time and a certain signal strength.

Secondly, situations like this are possibly one of the situations that will benefit this NHS-style centralised contact tracing over the distributed one as they can apply more advanced models to the nature of the exposure and try to reduce false positives. Or indeed, potentially expose that information to human contact tracers (though right now they say they have no plans to do this).
I don't get it.
It is as if Zoom would announcing job cuts "because COVID-19".

Stackoverflow is an internet service providing answers to questions, why would they get lower counts of traffic?
What is stack overflow's work force? The devs of website? Admins?
They expect to get bought. And they were right.
...as far as we know, because it's difficult to prove otherwise and would take months.

Why the impulse to round off uncertainty to certainty? Ed Yong explained it better:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/coronavir...
I still don't see why he said "real developer" and not "developer"
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Yes protection of the subjected is a common justification for censorship. The reasoning is not completely wrong, just incomplete. How incomplete? One can't know under active censorship.
Exactly, no one wants to be the odd one out when doing things that could be bad for public image.
Someone trialled 200 illustrators under $10 on Fiverr and shared the results
Pretty handy tool for bootstrappers, there are some nice styles on there which can be ordered again.
From my experience with open source projects: nobody in the team owns a Mac.
Less advertising / business deals maybe?

But there will be countless companies that will use the virus as a scapegoat.
I dislike sites that don't redirect HTTP to HTTPS.
Because they shutdown the production lines capable of making them for $47 million over a decade ago, and it costs a lot of money to recreate them and get the tooling and personnel needed. It's also the single most expensive rocket ever. It was designed to be the best, economics were ignored because they had the budget to do everything optimally. In terms of basic specs, RS-25 is comparable to Raptor with superior specific impulse, and is a highly proven 45 year old design. Reliability is really the most important stat, given the cost of the payload and other parts of the rocket. Obviously Space X spent a lot of time thinking about economics, with great results, but going for the expensive but sure bet option made a ton of sense for SLS.

Merlin is much simpler and smaller and not really comparable to the other two.

The RS-25 got new life with SLS, I would expect future NASA craft to use Space X engines.
Imho the principal downside (which you didn't mention) is the vendor lockdown.
Here's a really interesting article I read a while back that gave me some reconsideration for Western culture... I still don't know if I agree but it still gave me food for thought

https://www.eurocanadian.ca/2020/04/what-i-learned-in-peace-...

A little excerpt:

"As a twenty-one-year-old starting out in the Peace Corps, I loved Senegal. In fact, I was euphoric. I quickly made friends and had an adopted family. I relished the feeling of the brotherhood of man. People were open, willing to share their lives and, after they knew you, their innermost thoughts. The longer I lived there, the more I understood: it became blindingly obvious that the Senegalese are not the same as us. The truths we hold to be self-evident are not evident to the Senegalese. How could they be? Their reality is totally different. You can't understand anything in Senegal using American terms."
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That is why I am in favor of universal basic services, but not UBI, and why I called UBI the 'hail mary' of neoliberal market capitalism.

UBI wants to change nothing abut the socio-economic structure that drives millions into extreme poverty. It just wants to slightly reduce the rising flood of people that are just run so far down into the ground by the system that they are abandoning society altogether and threaten collapsing it.

Make sure all your people have decent healthcare, housing and food. It is obvious that in some (rich) countries these basic levels of social security are failing hard.

UBI just wants the current rent-seeking financialization machine to keep churning even when its forced in the extreme to trow the bottom of the pyramid some breadcrumbs to prevent them from bailing out.
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This is incredible. I've been slowly mapping out a similar idea, and gaining the programming chops to build it, so I thoroughly appreciate all the work this has to have taken to make real.
Heres an older post I made with thoughts on this topic of centralizing data and what could be done with it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21673846
Ah yeah, the minutes of saved effort after pouring hours of effort into trying to understand esoteric arcane emacs-only concepts and writing some Elisp.

seriously though, it's a rabbit hole. Been there myself, now I just us vscode and it's a breeze!
Probably because there were no contributor interested in porting it to macOS.
There is some activity on https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/issues/18 , it seems the biggest issue is that the PCSX2 JIT is 32bit only.
Then why is the Analytics SDK even there? It’s not required for messaging
> Who do you think are appealed to as an authority?

Anyone deemed an authority. Priests, doctors, parents, teachers, TA, etc.

> A lowly postdoc or the senior scientist?

Once again, the point is that the merit of the assertion/claim is independent of the "authority". 1+1=2 isn't more true or false because a "lowly" postdoc or a senior scientist said it. Especially when it comes to science, it's the experiment and empirical evidence/data that matters.

> I clearly stated "some other expert could replicate exactly what the expert has done".

You are still not getting what "appeal to authority" is.

> As a working scientist, and I am aware of the objective nature of science.

Honestly your job status doesn't matter. Why even bothering writing this sentence?

> I am trying to answer the question, "why believe in something an expert says?"

That's not what you were doing. You were misinterpreting and misrepresenting what carl sagan wrote.

> I am sure you have not spent years verifying what the climate change experts say, but you believe them anyway. Why?

It doesn't take the same amount of time to verify something as it does to answer/research/etc. Which would take you longer to do. Solve a sudoku problem or verify an already solved sudoku problem? P vs NP?
It depends on the job. Certainly you can't add any company-specific tools to your overall init file.

However, most of the stuff I do isn't that specific so I have all my customisations in a git repo that I pull from github to whatever machine I'm working on.
Meh I can kind of understand why the site is deemed questionable. It's paid for by a Republican political consulting firm. It may not be orchestrated by the Trump campaign but they definitely condone it. According to Snopes some parts of it can also be deemed as misinformation (like the picture framed as Biden groping Stephanie Carter).

So to me it's in the grey area bordering on black, but I'm also not a fan of this type of campaigning (playing on the man).The fact that they try to present it as an actual Biden website is also questionable.
Yes, but I'm quite sure GP is talking about using LTS so the installed libraries are the same as you built with.

IIRC there's still an issue with gethostname which must be dynamically linked.
My understanding is that VPNs are not hard to get and are silently tolerated. Obviously, using them to then do something illegal like plan your own protests might get you in trouble, but using it to access YouTube or chat to someone overseas via WhatsApp is allowed.
See https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/issues/18
Looks like there's a working build again.
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Which mobile carriers do you support, if not Google Fi (which is mine)? Or only landlines (which barely exist at my day job)?
Nice job overall. My only nitpick is that there are no affordances to know that you can drag/drop elements. I've often started dragging things by accident only to find out that it's the default behaviour of links. Probably so you can drag them to the toolbar/desktop etc. If I didn't know about the dd behaviour of this table, I would probably never use it. Otherwise it's pretty nice!
Not surprised. Amazon has been completely useless since the pandemic hit the US. Everything I want is out of stock or shipping in weeks. I guess some people must be getting orders though.
Yet a downvote is a bit harsh?
Ouch!
I feel exactly like when the WHO stated once and again “NOT A PANDEMIC!!”

And then, just because a silly observational threshold was passed “PANDEMIC!!!!!”.

Same as “not recession/recession” just because of a silly totally arbitrary threshold...
Interestingly (perhaps somewhat tragically? lol) there is still a HiSoft and David Link recently seems to be making websites.

http://www.hisoft.co.uk/

In 2016 I sent him 20 pounds for HiSoft Assembler to slightly assuage my guilt for the massive amount of old software I downloaded over the years. He really appreciated it. Pretty sure I sent to the other Dave also (I hope).
I worked for a company where the founder thought everybody should use the same tools (meaning the tools he used: OpenSuse, KDE, VSCode, etc...) so that we can help each other and, like you propose, we wouldn't have to fiddle with anything since he would provide configuration for everything.

I've had plenty of problems running this garbage, and everytime he wouldn't help and would just say something along the lines of "what did you do? I've never ever had a problem with it".

If you think VSCode or any other tool doesn't need fiddling then you haven't pushed that tool beyond the basics.

Use what you know and what you're comfortable with. Sometimes VSCode is lacking at things where Emacs shines and vice-versa.