skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More engines means more to fail
It's worth noting in your comparison that the US Population was less than 1/3 it is now, and most were young productive men just beginning their lives. Covid is more than elderly people who have had long lives (relative to historical numbers).

So relatively speaking WW1 was much more devastating.
> Any person worth reading in STEM fields already knows English, and I don't know why anyone would want to read Wikipedia in any language other than English

That's not the goal of Wikipedia. The goal is to make knowledge freely available to as many people as possible. That's fantastic that you were given the opportunity to learn English and have made the best of it. That is not everyone though. It's not reasonable to expect a farmer in Malaysia to know English or to learn it purely to take advantage of what's there.
A Star Has Disappeared Without a Trace
Minecraft is also a video game. You are equating video games with public utilities.
Legal and regulatory considerations for FinTech solutions
That's an incredibility zero-sum way of looking at the world.

Almost every research group and company doing NLP work uses Wikipedia I'd say it is a fantastic donation by Google which improves science generally.

> Can the data be licensed as GPL-3 or similar?

It's under CC BY-SA and (with a few exceptions) the GNU Free Documentation License.
I've heard a few stories about how Japanese companies are using these. There's one company which deployed a webcam app on their employees laptop to "track attentiveness" and dock pay for periods of time where they take their eyes off the screen. Another company is asking employees to wear a device (with camera and sensors) around their necks in order to track their overall "happiness". Stuff right out of 1984.

The fact there are people in my profession working on such things troubles me.
That's a tough one to automate. Right now, it involves logging a manual time entry to your timeline (then posting it). If you walk away from your computer and come back, WiseTime will ask whether you want to log the time (or part of it).

If you wake up in the morning, jump into the shower, solve a problem there, and hop onto your computer, WiseTime will then offer to log the last several hours including your sleep time. Edit down to 10 minutes (or however long your shower was) and log it. A bit contrived, but that's the best I got at this time. It's a tough problem to solve ;)
Lake Chagan: 400 m (1,300 ft) across and 100 m (330 ft) deep

Sedan Crater: 390 m (1,280 ft) across an 98 m (320 ft) deep

I was under the impression the Sedan Crater was the largest manmade crater, but Lake Chagan seems to win by a hair. I'm surprised I never heard of Lake Chagan before.
The market making a correction != businesses failing. The market is severely overpriced as-is, it didn't need to be propped up. Companies don't fail because their share price has dropped.
Immunity passports could create an antibody elite
But most of my important work is done off screen.

Like, staring off into space.

Like, I’m stuck on solving a problem. I look and I look. I can’t find it. I walk away, thinking about it. Still nothing. I drive home, then, I get my a-hah! moment.

I solve the problem. And it was a one liner, to fix the problem.
Buy a domain name and point the MX record to mailinator.
> The study analyzed 2,541 patients hospitalized among the system’s six hospitals between March 10 and May 2 and found 13% of those treated with hydroxychloroquine died while 26% of those who did not receive the drug died.
The United States of America has a lot of remaining industrial capacity. All of the United States industrial capacity has not been off-shored.

The United States of America has about 1/6th of the world's manufacturing output and the majority of the manufacturing output consumed within the United States is in fact produced within the United States.
Alt-left is really making everything shitty.
The pdf thing is really annoying. I’ve reset it many times manually and patched seem to keep resetting it to Edge.
So all racists have to do is adopt something as a “inside” symbol, then publicly advertise its “real” meaning, and everyone rushes to avoid it no matter how common it is.

I could see white supremecists doing this for fun.
It's not just discovery for internal issues. Imagine the fun any law firm could have for discovery. Trademark issues? Patent violations? Any competent in-house counsel should ban this type of software.
There are more streaming choices than ever – why are prices going up?
I don't think it'll happen tomorrow, but computer technology hasn't finished advancing...nor has our medical knowledge. Perhaps within the next century bits will turn out cheaper, faster, and more effective, perhaps even enabled by quantum computing. Biology seems massively parallel, and we've only just gotten started with parallelism in computing.
> If anything, you may see something like the Jevons paradox,

Thank you for that. I think it might help explain why no matter how large my hard drives get I seem to have no problems filling them as the sizes and number of files seemed to increase to keep me constantly upgrading.

As for the lab mice, if we ever do reach the point where models are enough to replace the need for live animals it does open the door for even the most casual experimentation that might be considered too cruel and inhumane to be performed on living creatures. I'm not sure what kind of useful results could come from that kind of research, but at least then it could be explored without moral considerations or causing trauma to the researchers who would otherwise have to become torturers.
That's what the BIOS claims anyway...
The article says: "Europol said that French police had discovered some of EncroChat's servers were located in the country, and that it was possible to put a 'technical device' in place to access the messages." Even if it was end-to-end, they at least could intercept the initial key exchange perhaps.
Today there was a news story about Finland dropping the swastika from their air-force logo:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53249645
So many phones can't install those, though. Like every single US Samsung model.

If we had a law forcing phone makers to unlock bootloaders once support ends, then we could talk.
Seems like that would happen eventually whether or not NYT did anything, if SSC got famous enough. Though, I wouldn't dare to tell him how important the timeline of that is. It is his life, after all.
The combination could be "BEAM US" and the output for the service being up or down could be "BEAM US UP" and "BEAM US DOWN".
Army Core of Engineers had a grand plan to fill most of the bay and build housing on it. People put their foot down and it didn't happen.
You’re an idiot.
This can definitely be a useful supplement to the current theoretical way in which ml is taught, instead focusing on more practical applications
Frankly I've stopped using any kind of 'less legal' method of getting MP3s and just buy FLACs from Bandcamp daily now. It's a great site and pretty much everything I've ever wanted is there.
> Any underground IDM recommendations?

If you're a fan of the 90s-2000 stuff from SF's SomaFM [1] their playlist is always pretty good, I actually ripped their entire station (back in the early 2000s there was only Groove Salad and maybe 2-3 others) for 6 months and bought pieces here and there as I went along. My favorite was a rare Lloop album, and a remix album of The Irresistible Force's track Nepalese Bliss. I always wanted a vinyl copy of Stryke - Introspection, I already have the CD version, but couldn't find it anywhere, even on Discogs after all these years. I got a bunch of Higher Intelligence Agency stuff, too somewhere in a box.

It's hard to know exactly when IDM turns into Ambient, and where Ambient can cross over to Triphop on that station, but I found a ton of amazing stuff from really niche artists like Global Communication, Mark Pritchard, who eventually got into the same Dubstep sound I was into later on and got his stuff released on one of the most venerates labels at the Time (DeepMedi). He even came from Australia and played at the Dub War nights in NY with Joe Nice.

I actually met Gel-Sol randomly in a chatroom, and he gave me a cut of his album with no strings attached [2] when I recognized his name back when I was an incoming freshman living in the dorms to listen and review while we spoke. I never saw him again after we spent all night talking about EDM/IDM artists we liked and the album ahead of its release. My GF at the time just rolled her eyes and told me I could have just told her I didn't want to hang out instead of making up some elaborate lie to stay in my room all night on the computer.

I just played Few and Far Between while updating this with links and it still puts a smile on my face remembering that night.

Those were crazy fun days that I'm still fond of, especially given where my musical tastes have gone throughout the years spanning/DJ'ng dark deep UK halfstep 140/170BPM and now into Darksynth and Dark Elctro as it doesn't make any sense as I originally come from the chiller, cerebral, calmer IDM ambient side of EDM, too.

Here is another playlist with featured Groove salad tracks to check out [3].

Glad to see the Bandcamp guys checking in, thanks for what you do, guys!

1: https://somafm.com/

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOCSzUMn4MA

3: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC92F5746C6D6A454
Kudos to the folks in Twitter Dev. The new APIs look good and developer outreach has been great. As a long-time Twitter API developer, I'm positive and hoping the best for them in the upcoming new versions.
Just wanted to say thank you for what you helped build. I buy almost all my albums on BC nowadays (the exception are those few who aren’t on there). And I love being able to listen through a whole album before deciding.
Will the Pandemic for Those over 65 Ever End? With Lucky and Magic
They are if you perform the correct sequence of fsync operations on both the file and the directories, and use a file system which is correctly implemented.
Thanks! I was looking for this as I really don't prefer Chrome.
You don't think specifically carving out an exception for hate speech against "the majority" is likely to embolden the far left?
"The Annotated Turing" by Christian Petzold made a huge impression on me around that age. It doesn't discuss analysis but it gives a nice walkthrough of Turing's classic paper where he introduces the Turing machine and uses it to solve the decidability problem of Diophantine equations.

Also, "Street Fighting Mathematics" from the MIT press
Reverting to the law doesn't really change anything.

Laws are almost as arbitrary as moderation guidelines. And while they are democratically legitimised in principle, they are rather static by nature and absurdly unchanging due to current political dysfunction. The chaotic system of the current "court of public opinion" probably leads to an outcome that is far closer to the actual desires of a plurality of people.

The law also tend to divide content into sharp legal/illegal categories, whereas the more chaotic practice of differing moderation policies allows for a gray area. And that area is where some meaningful discourse could possibly happen.

Logically, moderational discretion happens only within the space of legal content. It is therefore, indeed, smaller than the maximum allowed by law.

But that is no different from any other group we participate in offline. At work, Thanksgiving with the family, or in some random store, we do not insist on being allowed to use the full spectrum of what's legal. If someone starts screaming obscenities in the theatre row behind you, they'll hopefully be escorted out.
Doesn't every git repo have an origin branch? What is the alternative to creating a feature branch for developing something you don't want in production until it's ready?
I think meat production, inorganic fertilizers, and pesticides likely.

Also read an essay where the author claims the biggest mistake of the last 10,000 years was basing our food crops on grasses.
I've seen it in New York, in Pennsylvania, and, memorably, once in northern Ohio, while doing a canvass --- one I wish I'd seen before I knocked on the door and got chased off the property.
Then you make 1 million laptops and leave out ~20 grams of copper you save 2000kg of copper.

The spot price of copper is presently around ~US$6000 per 1000kg[1]

1. https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/copper-price...
Commits should really be signed. The first time I learned of this was when a malicious update was supposedly pushed to Tesla firmware.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Signing-Your-Work
Yes, I think the larger your company the less effective this "bossware" is. If you imagine collecting this amount of data on every sales, design, eng, product manager, director, vp, exec at a place like Google or Facebook the sheer amount of legally precarious logs would probably tilt toward liability.

I worked at a medium-sized tech company, and one employee sent an e-mail to another employee about how one of our product logos looked very similar to another logo in a similar product space. It was similar enough, and the products closely related enough, that this concern would have kicked off a re-branding effort or something like that... but since it was an e-mail, it sent off red flags all the way up to executive level. Triggered overseas flights, high-level meetings, legal involvement. Everyone working on the project immediately put on white gloves.

Made me think that more often then not, it's just better off for management to "not know", or at least have what they call plausible deniability.

Of course, for the "big crimes", it's good to have some level of logs collected and stored. For instance, no company should tolerate something like this happening, naturally: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-insidertrading-expedi...
Followup here: I double-checked with some others who publish with Substack, and [you can export your Substack subscribers](https://capiche.com/q/what-did-you-use-to-start-a-paid-newsl...). At least that keeps the lockdown a bit lower (though of course you would have to get subscribers to pay again at a new site, which would likely lead to high levels of churn).
People are throwing coronavirus parties with a payout when one gets infected
Minor nitpick; indefinitely does not mean forever, it just means there's no defined end. It could end tomorrow, it could end in 10 years.
I'm going to follow up on this because I feel kinda bad for not giving actionable advise

I went to a national chain today and I ended up with this - https://halffullbrewery.com/beer/bee-enlightened/

Is it great? Absolutely not! Is it serviceable? yes.
I wouldn't take that bet. Though, I think it would be up to a prosecuting attorney to subpoena and present the right evidence.

One way to protect the average employee from the overreach of bossware might be to teach prosecuting attorneys to weaponize it against its users (i.e. the bosses). But that would ultimately involve shining light on data whose exposure might harm the very employees that we're trying to protect.

What an ugly lose-lose situation.
Could make a second Sealand, so you could be a Lord of Boogaloo.
I'm extremely convinced the "anti-cancel-culture"-culture has to be the most thriving white collar subscription industry of our times. For people being cancelled I can't really tell how many dozens of blog posts with thousands of likes like this I see of people publicly talking about not being able to publicly talk.

Following the obligatory comparisons to 1984 for being cancelled out of the network-tv drag queen tv show community, comparisons to the Soviet Union followed promptly.

As someone who had family in East Germany let me tell you what Soviet cancel culture was. Being thrown into a dungeon where the light doesn't shine or someone being shot in the head by a Stasi agent.

Extremely bored people being cancelled out of some community by other extremely bored people on the noise generating machine that is social media is about as much Soviet Union as Trump fearing STDs was his Vietnam.

This reminds me of the valiant defenders of the intellectual dark web, which is so dark that it seems to occupy the permanent topspot on every podcasting service on the internet
I sense sarcasm but I could be wrong
> think he’s the greatest statesman who ever lived.

But a significant amount of human rights lawyers maintain that he's a war criminal on a large-scale. When I've looked the facts myself, it seems undeniable that he's a war criminal.

What are we to make of the praise for him from those half of Americans who know him?

Would appreciate any links to what you think is the best case that Kissinger isn't a war criminal. The main defence provided in Kissinger's wikipedia is essentially "many other important people have done things just as bad as Kissinger", which is an offensively stupid defence.
How was he hired for that position?
For sure! The easier it is to go from ideas/theoretical papers to tangible code that one can play and build with, the more and faster we'll see interesting breakthroughs in industry as well as other fields of research (medicine, robotics, space) imho.
How is it that you think an individual leaving behind their friends and family and everything they've ever known and picking up and moving to an entirely different hypothetically better country which may or may not even accept them as a citizen is on the same level as choosing Canonical over Oracle?
Isn't NextDNS freemium?
The inland sea in the netherlands was turned into a fresh water lake using a huge dam. I dont think its very mad science at all.
This I hope is one meaningful step in the right direction :)
Mark Roberge’s different view of tech company investment pays off in a crisis
> So many phones can't install those, though. Like every single US Samsung model.

Unfortunately true. If you were going to want to use either of these you would have to purchase a phone specifically for it. The only reason I brought these up was the parent comment implying the purchasing of phones anyways.

> If we had a law forcing phone makers to unlock bootloaders once support ends, then we could talk.

Honestly, this would be amazing. This is one of the reasons I haven't purchased a phone yet, and am waiting on the PinePhone to become a viable daily driver.
Have you considered noting this in the user profile data of this HN account, then logging out of this one on your laptop.
> Those people that want to drill tunnels through the earth to get better-than-great-circle distances might be the future.

Might also get a little warm and you'd fight a lot of pressure, since you'd need to dig down about 1/3rd of the distance you'd want to save (assuming my elementary geometry memories aren't failing me). So to save 600km distance, you'd have to go down to a max depth of almost 200km. For context, the deepest bore hole drilled to date seems to be about 12km deep. [0]

So technology would have to improve a lot before global warming or the next meteor get us all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole
The problem is that these rules worked in prior times, but social media has given the offended the power to group up with 10000 other people who would be similarly offended. And once they are all offended, they adopt a mob mentality and ruin the lives of people. There's no examination of evidence, no due process, and no deviation from the mob's mentality.

It's the exact opposite of the norms that the United States had been built on for it's history. And there's little to no legal recourse for victims of the mob who have been fired from their jobs and labeled as a racist online.
>but do juries actually agree with that?

so you are tracking all of this data to ensure your employees are productive and on task, but keeping them productive and on task doesn't include stopping them from sexually harassing my client?

oh you tried to prevent sexual harassment, but it was hard because you collected to much data on your employees actions?
Another sign of mankind's technological regression when it comes to flight. First we lost the supersonic airliner, now jumbo jets.
Not the poster, but I do identical surfing in NYC and use Zillow. It’s all about the right filters (posted in last 24 hours, prices, neighborhoods, amenities). You can set up email updates, but it’s more tedious to read the emails than it is to browse their app.

My anecdotal data in NYC is identical, btw. I used to see a great apartment maybe once a week. Now, it’s closer to 5-8 per week. And they’re all “under” priced by 10-20%. I saw a rent-controlled parlor floor brownstone in Brooklyn heights recently. It’s unreal.

It’s just a bit sad to think how many of these households were lived in by actual victims of the coronavirus.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

The more people see this user-hostile practice in action, the faster we'll be rid of it.
Take a lesson.

Make your product and customer service so good that people can't say no, even if they want to.

See: Google Search and Mail, Facebook, TikTok, other spyware
I've been waiting Caladan Brood to put their music on streaming services for ages, but they've been on BandCamp forever! You're not from Salt Lake City, are you?!
> Lineage breaks the Android security model - knowingly.

That's gonna be a big nope from me then. I was unaware of this, thank you for bringing it up.

I've been mostly unsuccessful trying to find other android variants that appear to still be maintained, would you mind pointing me towards one? I'll probably still wait for the PinePhone, but I'd like to stay knowledgeable on the subject.
This should be higher, above all of the mobs teething for vengeance. It’s an innocuous comparison of text input to the pasteboard to prevent unwanted autocorrect insertions.[0] Probably the same code used by TikTok too.

the code and and comments are here:
[0] https://github.com/linkedin/Hakawai/pull/162/commits/c3f8958...
There were 300,000 children stolen by the Catholic church in just Spain alone and sold for adoption.

My favourite conspiracy theory is the Out Of Africa conspiracy theory.

The Petrolonas Cave findings of Thessaloniki debunked it and suggest the Europeans diverged from Africa probably upto a million years ago. Cambridge University verified the findings and they're the most woke campus in town so it must be true.
Colleges Rescinding Admissions Offers as Racist Social Media Posts Emerge
Why don’t people just delete old posts? Do the platforms prevent this somehow?
I don't think there's a single word, but there's the concept of "gross profit" like I said.
1 million records doesn't seem like all that much. If each document is 1 MB, that's only 1 GB of indexed data. Does Algolia add a lot of value on top of that?
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Of course there are APIs for accessing the clipboard. I probably use Vim’s clipboard registers 300 times a day. None of this has anything to do with closed source programs reading the clipboard without permission. Speculating that somehow an app might “override your permission setting” is not really informative. There might be any number of exploits.
Almost all of the scarcity comes from purposeful regulation. We limit the supply of housing, we limit the supply of doctors, we give tax incentives for employers to provide low deductible health insurance that makes patients price insensitive and causes costs to balloon etc. The recipients of the money (e.g. landlords/existing homeowners, the AMA, drug companies) lobby hard to keep the status quo, because the money is going to them. So it's not easy to fix, in the sense that it's a political problem to get the change into law, not in the sense that we don't know what to change to fix it.
I have a pet theory that this resonates with people that enjoy the simplicity of the puritanical thought patterns and approaches being taken by the (far?) left. Unsurprisingly it fits the terse, inflammatory nature of twitter to the T. I cannot relate with it.