skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot speak for Germany, but I have a bit of experience in how public health projects are funded in the US. Usually, the set of incentives are misaligned for maintaining products.

Research institutes are typically funded through contract grants, where you as a principle investigator are supposed to be using the money for a research project. Obviously there are exceptions, but if you want to make a large name for yourself in academia, doing maintenance projects isn't the way to get yourself promoted; all the flashy rewards are in publishing novel cutting edge ideas in high ranking journal.

I am not an expert on how things are in Germany, but if they're anything similar to the US experience, I'm not surprised at all that they would fail due to the misaligned incentives.
Because all you'd need is something that booted into a RDP client. And you don't need full Windows for that - probably just an improved Windows RT running on a low-power ARM device.
I used to work for Sabre, they do a lot more than just bookings, they provide all the software to run an airline basically. I worked in the area for scheduling air crew. But also crossed over into all the flight tracking. Their systems hold a lot of data, though the airlines own and host that data in secure facilities.

Fun Facts, when I worked there, you could fly for free on American Airlines ( the company got split out from AA ). They claimed to employ the most PhDs at one time ( lots of operations research). Also claimed to invent database transactions for the problem of people trying to book the same seat on airplanes at the same time (early 60s I believe)
There's nothing saying you can't. You just can't call it a jam or a marmalade as that has a very specific definition in people's minds. The law itself is detailed here[1].

[1] https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfCFR/CFR...
It's cited in the first sentence of the "Implementation details" section [1] of the website

> Algorithm - Road Network

> This generator is based on the paper ‘Interactive Procedural Street Modeling‘.

[1] https://maps.probabletrain.com/#/algorithmoverview
There won't be a climate where you can live without AC in the next 20 years.

Anything south of upstate NY is already pretty unbearable in the summer. Another added benefit of AC is the dehumidification of your interior, which means less mold.
> We can fight it by electing the correct people.

Can we? Please explain how that would work... Your faith in democracy is admirable, although misplaced.
Both of them also have GDS integrations. I don't know exactly how much but I'd assume it's the bulk of their traffic.

As a general rule the large majority of anything you don't book directly with the airline/hotel (and for all I know, some of what you do) is very likely to be in a GDS somewhere.
The problem is that many rules just get compounded like shitty layers that needs more turds to make up for the past turds.

If there was a temporary cleansing or removing of all laws and therefore the good ones would get immediately reinstated then perhaps that’s a better path.

Which coincidentally is exactly what Trumps executive order is attempting to do. Remove 2 for every 1 turd that gets added.
I’m saddened that you think it’s okay to make it a federal crime to create a jelly/marmalade with more than 4 fruits (seriously).

Personally, I prefer that to the days of radioactive toothpaste.
It's my opinion that the coronavirus vaccine may be different.

Workplaces are going to require people to have the vaccine come back to work if only for liability reasons. I haven't run into workplaces requiring a flu shot and I've worked food service my whole life.
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Yeah, you're given an idea of what the people want but of course you're supposed to iterate on it. Like when you ask an average worker - what would make your life better? They'll likely say higher wages. It doesn't meant they just need a pay increase (although that too, of course.) They need more stability, they need certainty and a financial safety net. Anybody asking this question just needs to be aware of the follow-up - extrapolating. It's that simple.
Created some ~realtime visualizations on aave protocol usage
I use Fidelity. You can probably open an account there with nothing in it, and get price alerts for any security.
Wait, despite the perfect timing for a real cause that page is really trying to attribute it to monetary policy?
Hypothesizing a bit here: maybe it's like flash, where erasing is slow and has to be done in large chunks, but once a large chunk is erased small chunks can be written (once) quickly.
> We can fight it by electing the correct people.

Can we? I don't see anyone on either side [0] of the isle doing much of anything about this.

> But more importantly, I won't be spirited away to a black site by speaking ill about the president.

No, but you can be if you're in Portland any time soon.

[0] Why TF are we stuck with TWO?
Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZOhZFd52y4
So lets cut to the chase shall we: what would be the non-biotech arrangement of atoms that we can conceive of now that would be mega technological leaps for our species and achievable within 10 years of investment?

I think making things not accessible for a single person financially would be the my main focus. You can do things today that your ancestors had no chance of accessing, so what things would be the next quantum leap for your productivity that currently only the uber-rich have access to?

I will start:

- Robot Servants - Eliminate of all trivial work and leave the creative endeavors for humans. Think about if 1 person could start a factory with the capital he saves from his full-time job.

- Space Elevator or equivalent - Access to space is achievable for even small 1 person operations.

- Fusion Reactors - Unlimited clean energy for said people, robots and factories. Couple that with some infrastructure to beam it into space and you could have some VERY interesting things emerge.

My theme is: Access to labor, access to resources, access to energy.

Anyone have any other ideas?
Or just... no foundation. Ca. 1800 thatched cottage and the rocks are just sitting on clay soil.
Because you’d create PB&J addicts! Can you imagine the scoundrels walking around eating delicious toast and jelly?
Ask HN: How about a Twitter app with no feed or trending page?
I want to build a minimal twitter app for social media addicts like me. Take the regular twitter app and remove the time consuming bits like feed and trending page. What you're left with is your profile page, DMs and a search button. You can visit other profiles and interact.
Would your pay for an app like this?
It hit 94F in Manchester, NH earlier today. And air conditioning can remove humidity which can be trapped inside well-sealed homes.
Size matters! I think one of the key factors here is that a civilization that produces our level (or greater) of advanced technology has to be really big, in terms of numbers of individuals... an ancient city state of 100,000 - 1,000,000 people isn't going to develop quantum mechanics. You need a lot of people doing science to be able to figure all of this stuff out. And when a civilization gets this big, like ours, it does leave permanent marks, like some of the other comments here have correctly pointed out.
Why Racial Bias Still Haunts Speech-Recognition AI
I really hope so. My wife is currently about 120 days into her post covid issues. Covid itself wasn't too bad for her but the symptoms she's had since it went have been far far worse, and for a long time the doctors just tried to fob her off. She's a normally active and healthy person who right now can't play with or even read a book to our kids. She cannot do anything at all which is incredibly depressing for her. That said lately she's felt some very gradual improvement, but from the group she's on she knows not to push it - it might be 4 or more months until things are more normal - who knows.
Reuters?
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I would very much like to see this. Was tempted to do one for religious debates specifically because it's something people try to figure out at some point in life but find frustrating and pointless after a few years on the internet. It's not an easy problem to solve though.
There's always tech debt. It starts to day you build something and ends when it stops being used. How many thousands of python 2.7 programs had "no" tech debt when developed bit now have tons. Tech debt isn't binary, it's a sliding scale.
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Call this anecdata, but here's part of a weekly update from a friend, ~45yo male, and his post-covid struggle:

“I am trying to keep my weekly covid journal going. We are still in about month 4 post infection.

Some good news is my breathing is slightly better. When everything is bad all small improvements are noticed. Could be from OTC blood thinners or that my lungs are getting better. Still have a super hard time breathing, but it is just a bit less difficult. I am also in a near constant state of fatigue, but am unable to easily sleep because of the other symptoms.
My MRI revealed no vessel or tissue damage to my brain from the stroke, so maybe not a stroke or just not sever enough to cause damage. It did reveal a small cyst on the brain, but that seems to be common in covid recovery patients and no one knows why yet. The stroke like symptoms maybe related more to the hypoxia and not a stroke. I see a nuerologist this week and they will decide the next steps. The symptoms are still there though - dizzy, off balance, difficulty with sentence formation, difficulty getting facts from brain to mouth or hands to type, memory issues. Super frustrating.

My cardiologist has sent me for a new test that takes highly detailed xrays of the heart. After deciding what/how much damage is in my heart valve they will decide the next course of treatment. Other than the damage, he says my heart is healthy.

Passed my breathing test, so capacity is OK and volume/flow is good. The worry and science now is saying the breathing troubles I am experiencing may be related to tons of micro-clots in the lungs. They have been discovering these during autopsy of covid deceased (hopefully deceased) patients.
My next steps of healthcare relate to all these specialist working together. I can not start blood thinners for my stroke prevention until I am sure I will not need heart surgery. I can not go down the path of heart surgery until there were sure I can both breath effectively and not have a stroke. I am fortunate for good doctors that are at the front edge of treatment for covid patients. Some of the care is "we just have to wait", that is OK but frustrating because in the mean time I am at the mercy of me neighbors to do the right things and not re-infect me and I have to stay socially isolated.
The latest science is showing that antibodies are not retained in over 85-90% of cases of infection, meaning there is no natural immunity. This includes me, I showed no antibody after 10 weeks. This is worrisome since I am sure I would NOT be able to survive another round, since I barely survived the first one. "
East Bay homeowner in complete agreement!

Even with no worries about freezing pipes, I made sure there's a washing machine catch-pan with a water-detector. The sump-pump has a water-detector next to it. And yep, the furnace has a water detector, alongside the condensate pump. One for the tankless water heater - even though it's outside. Easy.

Driveway & landscaping slope away from the house? Yes. Properly sloped storm-water drains with clean outs? Yes. Leaf-shields & redundant gutter downspouts? Yes and yes.
I’d like to be given the option to. Why should you prevent me a free adult from doing it?
The USSR used buoys extensively during the cold war. Here's a former naval officer describing the sonar based system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb6e_-HvBzw
Yes, probably. Unfortunately, no such thing in my neighborhood.
It seems like something really hard to do lol. Maybe one step is also improving education to funnel more people into it. Energy in general is the basis of economic health. Even if we got more people into fission, that's a huge step forward.
Well, I've seen examples where GPT-3 strayed quite amusingly. I'm hardly an NN expert, but my understanding that one can't assure the model wouldn't do this (beside retraining on the gamedata corpus alone, which would obviously impair the NN). There are good reasons for game devs to want a measure of certainty here.

Someone else in the thread suggested using a verifier based on game data and maybe that would be fine. The key IMHO must be some kind of NN trained only on game data, either GPT-3 itself or a verifier of some sort.
Thanks, I was trying to set them up for a "Chesterton's fence" situation tbh ;)
Put a one or two line black and white LCD on the bottom to show your ed-like commands, with the e-ink just showing the results of edits.
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Here, since your downvote speaks clearly, here's some links:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/22/why-willi...
https://theintercept.com/2020/06/22/william-barr-has-turned-...

I have no idea what the reputability of these papers are, but they were the top two links on a very simple search "bill barr corrupt doj", so take the rabbit hole however deep you need to see this
Pre-seed? So that's what maybe $10-$30K investment? Save yourself the trouble and do some contract work for 1-3 months, you can make the same amount with no strings attached.
full reference: https://opencog.org/2020/07/virtual-opencogcon-july-15-16/
> Whatever Ford said, this quote is famous (most likely he did not say that, btw)

I just took that bit at face value, but you are right... and makes this blog post even less palatable.
Totally agreed. Dumped (hopefully temporarily) a decade of bio training due to this. I think the fundamental issue with every attempt at reinventing biology research is that they end up recruiting the same professors from academia who bring the exact same culture with them.

The ideal institution that can break this cycle will have funding (only limited, see Hammings lecture) from a source with no questions or expectations, and be worked on by people with almost no academic influence. But they can't be herectics or crackpots because you can't just hack your way around biology like you did with computers. This is more akin to reinventing the transistor than creating tiktok.
Just hearing the word damp house gives me the willies. Don’t know how the Seattle people do it.
In the age of polarisation, you should definitely keep up with at least one right-of-centre outlet. National Review is still of high standards
And please, let me know if you like this kind of posting. Any feedback is very welcome! ;)
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Enigma M4, $800k
DC is modeled after the square and compass symbols

http://dcpages.com/gallery/Capitol-Square-Compass-Tour/WashD...
Everything was still frictionless when the world was you dictating your thoughts into a nearby phone/ear while someone else made all the magic happen. In pure friction terms, robin hood with their lag and issues filling orders is probably still a big step down vs. calling your broker in a panic and dictating trades.
You should at least bring up the story of Max Planck in the late 1800s. He was basically told not to enter physics, because supposedly nearly all of physics has already been discovery. We know what came next in physics.

We don't know the future, and there's no way to say for sure that we've see the last big changes in life. Your grandparents could be proven laughably wrong in next few decades.

That said, it is likely at this point that we've exhausted the current paradigm. That there isn't much left to gain in maximizing existing scientific theories, or pumping billions into mature technologies. These concepts and philosophies have failed to real creating something of note lately, and that might be a sign that they are at their limits.

So the next step would be a step-change function and something completely unexpected.
If you like this kind of stuff checkout "Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage"

There are so many fascinating details about submarine operations that are now unclassified (and makes you guess about what things are like that are still hidden). From communications to the underground listening stations to attempting (and succeeding) in wire-tapping soviet communication cables, to attempting to lift a wrecked foreign submarine right off the ocean floor.

It's an amazing read and very well written.
And just to be clear; in the normal case a local government is much more of a threat than a foreign government. The experience in the 20th century made it very clear - if a government causes you to die, it was probably your government. Not a foreign government.

The experience in the 21st century has thankfully been a little bit milder but (1) we're only 20 years in and (2) if you are going to be persecuted it is still far more likely to be by a local government than a foreign government.
I don’t think that an SPF record with just mx -all gives you that. You need to put IP addresses, IP address blocks, or hosts for the spf to be valid.

Maybe the author left out the host in the assumption that the reader would understand that part but essentially mx -all tells mail servers and inbox providers to soft fail all mail from the domain.
It bothers me that VPN providers advertise how using public wifi is "insecure" and that you need a VPN to be safe. It's a bald faced lie and they know it.

Also regarding the article, you can prevent your ISP from seeing your DNS lookups by using DNS over HTTPS such as with a pi-hole: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/
Yes, but but you're talking about a different kind of database. This kind of big-data store is for specialty use cases with different kinds of constraints. Foreign-keys are pretty low on the list of important things here, and when they exist likely point to an external relational database anyway.
The US government is designed poorly. Only an American would be stupid enough to mistake their two-party system for choice.

Also, only an American would be dumb enough to look at the "co-equal branches of government" in the modern times and call them co-equal.

You have been brainwashed. You don't have choice. You're just tricked into thinking you have some.

Democratic elections? Between candidates selected for you, and with electors who can fix the glitch if the people vote in the wrong way.

Rule of law? That is hilarious. Laws do not apply to the American elite. For example, Roger Stone. Or if you're a republican, Bill Clinton.

Right to bear arms? Bullshit. Ruby Ridge. Waco. Black Lives Matter. The right to bear arms is just a slogan to sell guns to dumb Americans.

Free speech? Only if you say the right things, in the right place. Say the wrong things and you get pepper sprayed and arrested, or people get you fired.

Americans are not freer than Chinese. They are just dumber.
> I downloaded it with youtube-dl because I cannot stand the excessive adverts on Youtube these days.

Can't you use an ad-blocker?
There's also ample evidence that various companies choose to cooperate with the intelligence community for a variety of reasons. AT&T has made a healthy living off .gov, but I'm not sure Western Union was ever compensated for giving CIA decades' worth of international telegrams, and it appears their recent cooperation with the Agency regarding international money transfers was spurred by patriotism.

Since the links are likely compromised, ubiquitous encryption is your friend.
Some details: It combines near real-time images from multiple geostationary satellites, updated every 10 minutes (with a delay of ~30 minutes). NASA GOES satellite for the Americas, Japan's Himawari-8 for Asia and Meteosat in Europe/Africa. Zoomable up to 500m per pixel. Beyond that it uses historical imagery from Microsoft and Esri.

It also tracks the latest storms and hurricanes https://zoom.earth/storms/
More like "Endurance Athletes Set New Records Due to Lack of Races." Everyone has had to reevaluate what they're doing without the usual competitions. I'm going for a 1-mile personal best, but FastestKnownTimes.com also seems pretty cool.
While in theory we could fight it via electing people, the fact is that these programs were built over the last three decades by elected administrations (both D and R), and this two-party setup doesn't seem to be changing any time soon.
All this is actually worked out in some detail (search keywords federated/indie web). Check out the PubSub model, and the ActivityPub protocol as an example, and Mastodon as a working proof-of-concept.

As a starting point, imagine email & RSS and work forward from there. I'm not saying it's trivial, but it's also not insurmountable.
For someone like ray dalio, the fee is nothing. But for a much smaller firm, the $25k/year for just a single unit is not insignificant. The raw historical quote data can be purchased from the exchanges and ued any way you like instead of only being restricted to the terminal. There are many firms that sell such data.

>"The only rule of making money is to not lose money".

Buffett's number one rule is not to lose money. Sometimes pithy quotes hold lot of wisdom.

>Great! Did you buy any Tesla or amazon when it was cheap ? Good for you.

yeah i got in on those many years ago
I hadn't come across that before! Very nice.
> Proactive Nameservers is a patent-pending system that optimizes the nameserver delegation for your mission critical domain names.

That's a huge negative and I can't believe they think it's a good marketing point. I don't want a patent encumbered, non-standard solution for critical infrastructure.

> We must be your domain registrar for this to work.

So they're updating the domain record at the registry level to facilitate failover? That's the only scenario I can think of where they _need_ to be your registrar. Assuming that's the case...

I've always seen 24-48 hours quoted as the worst case wait when updating nameservers at the registry. I've never seen an explanation of how it works, what's allowed to be cached, how long it actually takes to update, etc.. How do they do it in a way that's suitable for failover? Do they have a special SLA with registries?

How would the registries handle a deluge of nameserver updates? Imagine a Cloudflare scale failure and corresponding registry updates. Would the registry servers be able to handle it?

I'd love to see a technical explanation of how their proactive nameservers system works.
With dumb commission fees and other policies that made it deliberately obtuse and painful for the retail investor. Even today, with any brokerage, you can't freely trade without penalty unless you pass the class based virtue signal of having $25k amassed in your investment account.
Yeah, I take that back. DeepL is better (again), although it is highly dependent on which languages you translate and which context.

Quite impressive, especially that DeepL (and every other machine translation application) makes use of research done at Google.
Are the US co's complicit in the hack, or is NSA et al doing it adversarially? That would be at least a slight difference.
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Vaccines required by workplaces or schools have higher compliance with the recommendations than The flu vaccine. COVID-19 vaccine could well be legally required at all schools, and potentially even legally required at workplaces as a condition of opening (certainly healthcare and allied fields would likely require it the way they do TB vaccines; the larger the mandatory population, the less compliance you need in the voluntary population to reach any given overall target.)
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They usually make these types of estimates by looking at the rate of new species discovery, and assuming it will asymptotically approach zero.