skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really don’t get to pick, sadly.
How AI and Robotics Are Moving Healthcare Sector Today?
The Dutch are a part of 9-eyes, which indeed reports to the 5-eyes coalition. They are, therefore, a second-rate member of this extra-sovereign entity.
Tinder and Grindr are also about "meeting people".
Not really surprised. Just dissapointed.
5 comments with 5 alternatives so far. Oh the irony.
Are you saying something like everything is relative? I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.
LOL .... gave me a good chuckle. Thanks.
15000 minus the actual cost of the food.
At 65% of developers using it at least sometimes, it seems surprisingly widespread.

Now obviously this survey is going to be somewhat self selected among devs that like to keep up to date and try new things, but 65% having used it in some capacity is pretty comparable to Typescript: https://2019.stateofjs.com/javascript-flavors/typescript/
Argentina invaded the Falklands here.
Please look at this chars, showing mortality across all causes.
"Doing fine" is in eye of the beholder, but clearly more people are dying across all causes of mortality for the country-levels for Scandinavian countries.
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/

Some countries have experienced higher than average mortality, but others experience lower than average.
There are very good messengers, they are just not pushed by big money and group pressure. The problem is always, that people don't care about what they do (to others) and apply group pressure for the benefit of the company.

matrix.org
For professional usage and IRC like chatrooms. Free and open source software, with several native desktop and phone clients. Doesn't require any phone number and offers E2E encryption. You can use the central server or host your own ones and connect everyone through federation. The official app for iOS/Android is getting currently a rewrite because it is chubby. I'm using Fractal happily on Linux as IRC replacement, because it lacks E2E at the moment. Developed by a company which offers support and libraries for development. Therefore you could criticize that there are no RFCs floating around, but looking at XMPP which created a lot of RFCs this is probably quicker and better.

The germany army will use Matrix and also the french government. No joke! The germany army is here an example to follow.

signal.org
Also free and open source software, but you won't get your own server and federation. Very easy to use for everyone, hard linked to phone numbers with default E2E encryption always on. Childs can use it. No native desktop clients, only the fat Electron "Flash for the desktop" thing.

The european parliament is using it in future. Probably a wise decision in their case ;)

PS: Facebook claims that WhatsApp uses the E2E of Signal. Nobody can proof that without source code. Nobody is allowed to write own clients for other platforms than iOS and Android. Nobody ever has seen the server code. Haven't we seen enough greedy monopolies since the 80s?
I've found it's great for Discord, and pretty good for Slack (although I've been using Slack in my browser now that it's become critical during WFH).

Unfortunately it's proprietary, but there's another native client called gtkcord3 [0] that seems to be progressing well.

0: https://github.com/diamondburned/gtkcord3
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Yeah, they're a lot simpler.
As someone who writes a lot of comments but also now blogs a bit: blog posts for me are just long, thought out comments; often they’re an amalgamation of comments I might have left, or little bits on a topic that I keep around but have never had a place to write as a comment so I put them all together into one big one and polish it.
Argentina pulled out some of the trained troops before the end and left a lot of partially trained reservists.
Those were not simple, seamless, cross-platform, drop-in replacements to SMS though, which is what OP was referring to by “text messaging.” Sure, clunky systems which had no chance of mass adoption existed before.
> The stuff that had been set up already was used to great effect.

The stuff that had not been set up still worked too. The exocet that hit HMS Glamorgan was fired from an improvised platform that had been built by the Argentinian Navy.
A variation on Cunningham's Law?
Office 2016 Full Activate
Did you start working on your software with this kind of constellation in mind? Or was it more of a side project that turned into a business?
Instacart website has dreadfully slow search. Looks like instant search update takes forever to update with each character. The whole site is so slow. It makes my Mac Safari complain that the page uses significant resources.

This weekend I noticed that Amazon Fresh now delivers the same day—-for the past few months they had no slots. I switched to Amazon away from Instacart at once. The Amazon website lacks some bells and whistles compared to Instacart but it is completely speedy. If Instacart website were satisfactory I would never have switched.

Slow, bloated websites can absolutely cost companies money.
> So measurement is just theoretical concept that relates to system physically getting immensely less fuzzy to a point we can safely assume for the sake of easier calculations that it's not fuzzy at all.

It appears to be more complicated than that, see Wigner's friend[1] thought experiment and a recent experimental realization of it[2].

From the paper's abstract: "In a state-of-the-art 6-photon experiment, we realise this extended Wigner’s friend scenario, experimentally violating the associated Bell-type inequality by 5 standard deviations. If one holds fast to the assumptions of locality and free-choice, this result implies that quantum theory should be interpreted in an observer-dependent way."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05080
For hosts that provide their guests with a bed: Are bed-bugs a concern?

I can imagine bad hosting varied travellers who themselves may be sleeping in many different beds would be terrible for it.
Interesting and thank you. I have much to learn about quantum physics, but it is very fascinating.
boost.fusion, boost.hana provide similar functionality (i.e. arbitrary runtime or compile time transformations over tuple-like objects) but they are relatively large dependencies and it is not worth it just for a tuple for-each.
> continent-wide project and everything is done (spreadsheets to reports to slide decks to coffee) on Google Docs & Google Drive

Are you happy with the responsiveness of Google Docs? For me once the spreadsheet exceeds a certain level of complexity, it feels really sluggish, and I feel like I'm constantly wasting microseconds while in the desktop counterpart I could have it done already. Sure, the sharing function is great, but as someone accustomed to working quickly, I'm sorry to say GD still doesn't offer a smooth experience on more complex sheets.
Gtalk came with the original Android 1.0, and you were already signed up with your gmail account when you set up your phone with OOBE.
Pretty ironic given that an "official government source" advocated the ineffective and dangerous drug hydroxychloroquine and suggested people inject bleach into their bodies.

Edit: Changed hydroxyquinone to the correct hydroxychloroquine.
A pandemic is a social situation. The fact that your age group isn't at risk and YOU can protect yourself doesn't mean there are no consequences for your actions.
The government won't and shouldn't touch these issues unless a lethal PANDEMIC was going around.

You are not the center of the world, to live in society we all make compromises all the time. childish egotistical tantrums are the number one cause for over regulation. If people would do their best and try and precieve situations from POV other than their own, most laws would be moot.
It's the Trump and Elon of the world that make us have less freedoms, not the other way round.
Yes and both are more specific about the type of meets. Grindr even has fields for your sexual preferences.
I'm working on an open-source web analytics tool over at https://github.com/plausible-insights/plausible. It's currently bringing in $800/mo and growing pretty fast.

The code is all MIT license and we're working to make it easier to self-host. I make money through providing a hosted version of the product.

It's a similar model to Sentry or Gitlab. Open-source does not have to be libraries and frameworks, there are good opportunities to build more traditional SaaS products that can be self-hosted and you can make money by selling a hosted version.

I understand that not all open-source projects can be funded this way. Once I can pay my own salary, I'm planning to set aside a percentage of revenue to fund open-source projects that Plausible itself relies on.
There seems to be this mistaken idea that smartphones are like small PCs that can make phone calls. But they're really far more like gaming consoles. They're pretty much locked down.
Couchsurfing died a long time ago. It used to be a good website until I guess it got sold.
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> I can't wait until I can make a real Linux based phone my daily driver.

Alas, all the competitors are now moribund, and much of the market couldn't give two hoots about privacy issues.
Even if remote learning MAY (it may not) become the norm for higher education, parents who can afford it will still send their children someplace where children who engage in higher educationing congegrate. Probably college towns.
> Do universities have a choice?

Anecdotal, but I do remember being told that every state school in Texas is required to offer credit for every AP exam score >= 3. Doesn't have to be useful credit, mind you, but it has to be credit.
Without classes, CSS is a race to the bottom.
Google translate: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

Original article is in Norwegian.
Amazon just invested £500m into Deliveroo based in Europe...
This is what happens when you give a company/person to control your everything. Stop selling your data without actually selling.
I did a ctrl-f and got 0 results so let's start the mandatory

"Google is a private company it can ban whatever it likes, it is not censorship" thread
He may have been talking about the legality and the PATRIOT act, the quote I recall was specifically about the services they provide.
Sure, but if you could have Spotify as is, or a light weight player, like WinAMP, both with equal access to the Spotify service, which would you pick?

People aren't using Spotify because the player is fantastic, they use it because Spotify has a huge library, is reasonable price and the player is sort of okay.
How do you mean? Markdown is just a funny looking way to type things.
I'm not entirely sure this can be called a framework. If there was a Bootstrap v0.1 it would be this, before it decided to do a whole bunch of extra things to become a framework.

A few years ago you might have simply named it "reset.css", but it's too opinionated to really have that name.

It feels like I would spend more time undoing what it does than would be saved by using it.

I don't hate it... but I don't entirely see the point of it.
IMO building a sustainable business on open source is more impressive than getting $x million for an AI startup. I doubt all of HN sees it this way but if you’re happy with what you do and what you get out of it then that’s what matters most.
Is this not correct?

Do you claim WA reaches that deeply into the system on phones?

Not sure whom I poked the wrong way this time, but it would surely be good to have explanation.
Model planes are a lot simpler than real ones, often to the point where they are completely different to work with.
Launch separation systems for CubeSats and microsatellites
Do Google offer a more censored version of Apple's Podcasts index? My favourite podcast app on iOS (Overcast) uses Apple's index as its source for search/recommendations (though obviously you can add any other feed yourself) and there's heaps and heaps of non-Government approved podcasts on the topic. If you run a Podcasting app on Android, does an index even exist that you can use and remain compliant?

Whatever index they use on podcasts.google.com is full of the same, so I'm leaning toward no. https://podcasts.google.com/?q=covid19&hl=en-GB

It sounds like it is the indexing that's the issue here. Worth noting that if they ever crack down on Podcast apps being able to play non-indexed content they'll wipe out the whole Patreon economy around podcasts, which relies on sharing private feeds with subscribers.
Another web and mobile application security training platform: https://github.com/OWASP/SecurityShepherd
I just noticed that this is the same shit right wing organization that conveniently protects alt-right stuff when it gets banned from somewhere. Can we please not promote this kind of stuff here?

Edit: to back myself up.

Here is this website standing behind authoritarian right-wing government doing antisemitic dogwhistles: https://reclaimthenet.org/hungarian-government-facebook-over...

Here it is protecting conspiracy theorists against "censorship": https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-demonetizes-sgtreport-trur...

Here it is covering the ban of a known right-wing troll (also piss drinker) Joey Salads: https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-suspends-joey-salads/

Here it is supporting a fringe far-right social network Gab a bunch of times:
https://reclaimthenet.org/gab-biggest-mastadon-node/
https://reclaimthenet.org/new-gab-decentralized-version/
https://reclaimthenet.org/gab-chat/
https://reclaimthenet.org/gab-pro-benefits/

It's just so much consistent support for basically fascists on this. Propping this website up is dangerous.
> Basically, why is consciousness always attached to the same physical body?

Because conciousness (or rather, subjective perception) is a physical phenomenon after all - it's causally linked to the universe in a way that means it can't just "jump" brains absent some kind of telepathy.

Identity is not really mysterious from a "hard problem of conciousness" POV; it's simply one phenomenology (one 'quale') among many, and experienced meditators can even turn it on and off at will. It's really only proto-perception and perhaps proto-cognition that probably needs to be explained.
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Ah, the classic "argument from incredulity by implausible substrate".

Step 1: point out that any number of wacky scenarios can be isomorphic to a human brain - a person in a room transcribing symbols, an unlikely cloud of dust in space

Step 2: Note that the fantastically implausible scenario you've constructed is fantastically implausible. Redirect the implausibility into the thing you want to claim is impossible.

Step 3: Wave hands, make argument about consciousness/AI
Beeware did it
Why is there still no timeline? I don't see any previews, let alone GA features in JDK15, which means that by JDK17 probably nothing's going to be released. Which is sad, because that pushes the GA to the next LTS a extra few years down the line... (2023/2024 the earliest) :(
You're forgetting the most important one: Liberal opportunities for people to stay at home if they show symptoms. PPE is fine but that's a backup in case someone sick starts coughing at people.

You know in the US far too many people are obsessed with going to work even if sick, because they don't get paid otherwise. This needs to change.
Some programs work around this by prepending a global error ID to the localized, such as "E300: Ascorbic Acid Error", but this is harder to manage on the development side.
Okay, edited my comment to reflect this fact.

Nevertheless, the point still stands: should we be so willing to allow our intelligence apparatus, as citizens, to be sold on an open market of economy for subterfuge and covert action?

I would argue, definitely not. To allow this to occur, creates a super-state - as we have seen - which answers to nobody but itself, and is thus an usurpation of democracy.
Told the police about it? Someone would be eager to chase that case.
They were if you're willing to overlook the requirement -- which WhatsApp shares -- for the other person to use the same app. (Well, protocol. Gaim handled AIM and MSN fine.)

The only thing SMS offered was that the other person didn't need to be running anything. WhatsApp didn't offer that, and also didn't improve on the other messengers of the day.
If you go to http://myhttpheader.com/ and look at 'Accept Language' what value does it give? On Firefox I get `en-GB,en;q=0.5`. Maybe Yandex is serving up ru-ru to websites
I don't disagree with your sentiment at all.
Part of the spec, and recommender by many people.

For some examples of modern html, see google's style guide for html, section 3.1.7 shows an example of a complete and correct document that may blow your mind. Also, the examples of tables and lists without closing elements:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/htmlcssguide.html
Crazy. This isn't a "framework". It's a stylesheet.
Mathematics is a bit different than science, science doesn't claim truths, it says what the best description of things are based on the facts, the facts are evidence based. When you skip the facts and evidence part and just claim things, then you are in the land of woo. At the basis of science is essentially the laws of thought which, like good axioms should be, claim the smallest possible thing to reason from ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_thought ). Woo tends to claim large things partially based on existing knowledge and partially based on things we don't know but may be possible.
This seems like a decent boilerplate+extras but line 1 is importing a custom font. Why?

Unnecessarily opinionated and against the "lightweight" aims of this library (not knocking Inter btw - it's awesome).
It's like y2k bug all over again.
Because of drastic actions taken the health services are holding up.

This is not hysteria it's the consequences of careful policy. Without that policy you may have seen healthcare systems crumble.

Y2K was precieved in hindsight as a media induce hiysteria without legitimacy because nothing bad happened.

But nothing bad happened because the entire industry took in seriously and did something about it.
Geez...
I would love this as well (Linux phone). Sadly not likely to happen on wider scale and nice hardware.
Where is the proof of inefficacy? For the record, there's no proof of efficacy either, because all the trials done that prove or disprove efficacy of hydroxychloroquine were flawed in one point or the other (at least the ones I've read).

To give an answer to this endless debate, a proper, randomized clinical trial is needed. And the conditions set correctly, too: lopinavir and ritonavir were, per NEJM, not successful, but a later study in Lancet showed that administration at earlier time points (within 7 days of symptom onset) might be working and needs more investigation.

I know Novartis is running a trial, and so is U of Minnesota[1] which has finally completed enrollment and will release results after peer review.

Oh, and more on topic, it looks like Twitter has blocked a legitimate page of the Canadian part of the same group of trials[2].

[1] https://covidpep.umn.edu/

[2] https://twitter.com/DrToddLee/status/1261442201369939968
> Nobody cares that life will be better than it was 500 years ago, people care that it’s worse than it was 40 years ago, and wealth inequality is major driver of this decline in quality of life.

It's not worse than 40 years ago, it's worse than 5 years ago, but short intervals aren't that good in predicting larger trends. Flint, MI seems to be a unique issue, as far as I'm aware, it's an outlier and not the rule in the US.
This is most of all forcing a build-up of Chinese semiconductor industry independent of the USA. So not using any USA IP, software or anything. It forces China to build anything they need vs. buying it abroad.
What could possibly go wrong? Let's all use an online service that is perfectly positioned make it seem like someone signed a document when in fact it is about as valid as a 'card not present' credit card transaction.

Electronic signatures should have a lower level of trust than those performed in front of notaries and other officials. There is no way to check for coercion and many other ways in which the signature would normally be invalidated.
Nice huh, it shows that ecosystem is really strong?
Well, I'm in Romania and I got the paywall, so it looks like we qualify as rich enough.
It requires a phone number and a smartphone. Not just a phone number.
I'm using socat to emulate a PTY that I then run a PPP link over. socat gets its byte stream from an RTL-SDR and send out data using a tiny FM transmitter. After setting up these on both computers, I was able to SSH and ping google over FM radio.
Looks nice. I checked the network tab to see how light the page newcss.net really is. ~600kb looks good but interestingly enough, the favicon is the biggest asset.
I agree it is being used to reduce freedoms, but I disagree that the parallel to terrorism is very good. Firstly, the risk from terrorism was always going to be sporadic and focused -- it is/was never an effective application of 'force'. For that you need a WMD arsenal like a State. COVID is directly and effectively killing people in massively higher numbers. Secondly, terrorism mitigation was always justified using details and intelligence that the people asking for power (military, intelligence agencies, boarder enforcement) would refuse to share. The public would not be privy to the justifications in the interests of National Security. Again, with COVID, we instead are getting statistics summaries from the government but they are being sourced from public sources of civilian interaction, namely hospitals, research labs, universities. The public can second-source and confirm the justifications. The interventions are currently being couched as temporary with some caveats regarding medical research and immunity. If COVID interventions become overly protracted, we the public can protest along with the current Trumpian crazies (who have the right very basal idea but are utterly confused and probably co-opted with regard to who they are shouting at and when they should have started shouting.) Terrorism threat assessment is privileged process. Quite different IMHO. Unfortunately only "time will tell" if COVID morphs into this secret control state in some way, currently it's all open-source. Until then, all power to the medical and epidemiology bodies and I will shout at anyone getting in THEIR way.
Do you see a reason why a mechanical arrangement of atoms could feel pain or see color? Because they do.

Scribbles of paper serving as a part of a conscious system is indeed an implausible scenario. You'd need a huge number of pieces of paper, interacting in very interesting ways. It's an example specifically designed to be implausible, and so is a very poor guide for intuition.
The Doomslayer or 'The world is not coming to an end' (1997)
Not everyone already has it.
What is true of China isn’t true of the Bay Area. It doesn’t matter if they were open in China when the rules (and situation, I hope) are different between the two places.
You can't make up for it in volume if each order makes a loss and you get no benefit from having more orders (they still pay each time the full price to the restaurant!)
Ask HN: Is there any browser-based animation authoring tool or app out there?
I'm looking for a full feature browser-based animation authoring tool or app with an interface similar to the retired Adobe Flash software.

Of course, it should output a movie or HTML canvas file format instead of SWF.