skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would agree it's not informative, and is mostly intended to plug the book.

However, like a lot of stuff on Medium, it can still alter someone's thinking and potentially shake them out of existing context trap or inspire some thoughtful contemplation. There's value there, just of a different kind.
This is quite fascinating, I hope they find it, I'm surprised they havent just emailed Mojang about it.
There's election year vaccine precedent: Gerald Ford in 1976 with an "upcoming" swine flu. It's one of the reasons that Jimmy Carter defeated Ford.

Sadly, the vaccine was rushed and botched. Some people ended up with Guillain-Barre.
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That worked in the US, but the US is... having a bit of a moment right now. Most democratic countries just don't have a single figure who can do no wrong in the eyes of half (well, 40%, really) of the country; if nothing else, they're not executive presidencies. And even in the US this wasn't historically normal.
There is flat cable that you can mud and paint over, usually only good for cables that don't need shielding such as power cables. Data can be sent wireless using an esp32 on the receiving end if you don't already have that capability. There are also cable covers that look like molding.
r/wallstreetbets calls these (rather unfortunately) "fd" options.

Basically you can use not that much money to buy unlikely to be profitable options and make an actual crapload of money - and it would look identical to just being lucky.

The thing is 90% of people don't trade options themselves, and 99% of people don't do random fd plays. If you tipped off someone from WSB then they'd likely get away with it - that's what they do. Tip off a family member who has never traded options before, well....
Does anybody know of a decent micro controller that could be paired with one of these on the form factor/scale of a Kindle?
So you're not interested in helping in the study at all, you just want the vaccine in advance.
Thank you for the simple explanation of this tech!
Russian Elite Started Self-Testing Covid-19 Vaccine in April
Obviously, I have no idea what this was used for but I expected to see a katakana/hiragana combo where one of the two alphabets is activated via a shift-like mechanism. Are such typewriters a thing?
I don't think it's as scrutinized as it used to be, though it may feel that way if it's your framework of choice (it is mine).

I feel that SPAs get a lot of scrutiny, but it's spread out among the specific libraries/frameworks. There's also a lot of vocal advocates (as Rails used to have) that makes it feel more balanced.

Over the course of my career, it seems that the "easy" languages (Visual Basic, ColdFusion, Ruby, etc) always get a lot of criticism. I feel like Rails is in a great, mature spot right now, and some exciting things are happening to make it the best positioned for the coming push-back against "Javascript all the things".
There are going to be people making a lot of money by giving expert testimony for a living.
It's not that weird. Look at historical returns for the S&P 500 vs European indices. Besides, quite a bit of the S&P 500 consists of global companies.
Non paywall link from another website: https://www.financemagnates.com/institutional-forex/regulati...
A more contemporary and critically acclaimed Portuguese author would be José Luís Peixoto, even Saramago acknowledged him as a talented writer.

Of the wider Lusophone world I would also recommend Mozambique's Mia Couto.
Writing more while thinking less: lazy writing
ScaleFactor Raised $100M and Blamed Covid for Its Demise. It Had Bigger Problems
Sounds like they are talking about Re -- effective reproduction rate -- right?
There's still a fair amount of people that are suspect that the published binary doesn't match the source and the app could be doing nefarious things. It will be interesting to see how this sentiment progresses. Reproducible builds would help in this regard.
There is no place in the world that is both technologically capable of reliably hosting servers and at the same time inherently safer with regards to the privacy of your data than others.

If it's not the domestic government that will raid the server or monitor traffic, it's foreign actors or (in case of monitoring) the country that packets are routed through.

Yes, there are possibilities to make yourself safer, but they don't depend on where you place your data.

The question wasn't "can I be safer", the question was "is there a specific place that is safer" and the answer is no, for the reasons I gave.

That's not saying "encryption is useless anyway" or "you might as well give up" - no! I'm saying that if the privacy of your data depends on where your server is located, then you're doing it wrong.
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"For instance, our technique requires only 6 hours and 15 minutes to achieve 72.1 percent top-1 accuracy with a standard ResNet-50 on ImageNet, using 64 V100 16GB GPUs. Previous self-supervised methods required at least 6x more computing power and still achieved worse performance."

PyTorch code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/swav
Back in the days I wish I could afford one, just to read news for fun, but alas it is too expensive for personal enjoyment.
There's some question on asymptomatic transmission. That's important from an epidemiological point of view, but irrelevant to you as an individual deciding whether to wear a mask, because at any given time it is generally impossible to know whether you're asymptomatic, _presymptomatic_, or negative. And presymptomatic infection is definitely common.
Love it! Everything should live in the terminal
>"Free of the obligation to redeem in gold debts contracted in paper, the Bank of England could in theory print as much paper money as it liked. This enabled the government to run up huge debts to finance the war against the French."

War debts... the historical version of today's quantitative easing! <g>

Character A: "It's a war debt!"

Character B: "No, it's quantitative easing!"

Character C: "Hey, you're both right!" <g>

>"While printing more money might sound like a good thing, its effect was inflation, increasing the cost of living during a period of scarcity, poor harvests and rising unemployment. As a popular journalist, Cobbett was one of the first to link the poverty of the people to the ‘money-mongering’ juggle. Week after week in his Political Register, Cobbett attacked the system of paper money and public finance. The articles were collected and published as a book in 1815, Paper against Gold. By July 1817, he claimed to have sold 150,000 copies.

The people were poor, Cobbett reasoned, because they had to pay crippling levels of indirect taxation on everyday items to pay down the exorbitant interest on the debt.

Worse still, the many wars waged by the British in the 18th century had created a class of idle creditors who were able to enrich themselves by charging high levels of interest which the government was forced to to agree to finance its costly wars."

It's amazing just how well history repeats itself... <g>
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I use it too and I really like it.

However the premise of having a test editor in a VM where I can time travel to a specific point in time and add steps from there could save me a bunch of time. Also the multiple selectors per element and the ability to target React component names sound really cool.

Happy for the competition :)
YouTube is just so noisy. Inspired by this post, I threw a user style together: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/407461-plain-text-youtube-...

This works specifically for the subscription video list at https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions?flow=2

* Greatly compacts list layout - ~17 videos now fit on a 1080p screen vs four. Four!

* Hides video thumbnail - they're mostly noise.

* Hides uploader picture (text only name).

* Hides description - it's also usually noise.

* Hides view count - you're subscribed to the channel, is this really useful?

* Hides user verification checkmark - you're already subscribed; you know who this user is.

* All video titles made into lowercase - anti clickbait! Idea from this Show HN.

edit: formatting
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It seems something like a trojan horse in some core concept about freedom and privacy. It also helps, I am sure.
Yea I don't want to discourage work in the space. Actually, quite the opposite. I'm just saying where the bar is for me when I'm considering handing over money. I'm not going to pay money for something that ends up actually slowing me down.
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If you're lowing the number of additional people an infected person infects with a disease, that's measured by a lower basic reproduction number (Rx), which was what the poster above was talking about.

It being artificially reduction is kind of given as it a vaccine, but as the basic reproduction number is being used to measure the number of reproductions from each [known] infected person within population groups it seems like THE measure of a vaccine's impact.

You seem to be talking about something else entirely.
Programming for longevity is probably less about the specific language or tooling choices and more about things like: can you reproduce the build or does it presume a specific environment? How is the source code stored and how can it be recovered if the primary location is lost? Is the system well documented? Are the abstractions robust, and well composed? Many mainframe systems survived while desktop based systems have been killed because of the server/client architecture that has allowed for new front-ends to built separate from the backend. In this sense, if you are building for malleability, things like good test coverage become very important to support refactoring and changes. I'm sure many other considerations apply.
Everything I Say is Stolen
I'm curious, do those terminal actually plug on regular internet?
Typing at 15hz would be miserable (personally).
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I didn't start school until September.
Wondering if and how this could team up with orger. Could be an effient combo.
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maybe they have an ad blocker? I too watched the entire video and didn't see a single ad. Beginning, middle or end. I'm using adblock plus
I suppose technically, if you were actually just as contageous as a sick person for as long. Hard to believe that would be the case though.
What you're basically proposing is a model of spam where only the content of the message is considered. I do not think that would be very effective in practice, in the modern world.

Email spam filtering is already a lot more powerful, since it can consider things such as IP reputation. (IP reputation would be a non-starter for a federated social network, since it would require passing raw IPs along with messages in the federation protocol. And that is just unthinkable from a privacy perspective).

When all entities posting messages on a social network are managed by the same identity provider, and the identity provider can share information about the account with the social network, you get yet another layer of increase in power. You can, for example, tell whether the account is newly created or not. Or whether it was bulk-created along with 10 other accounts posting similar spam. Or a dozen other account reputation signals which let you classify accounts into organic vs. abusive, and use that to inform the classification of messages from those accounts. And again, the only way this happens is if the identity provider and the social network are one and the same. If they were separate companies, it'd be inexcusable for either party to share detailed information with the other.
For years I've been running everything on Docker Compose. Even with Ruby improving on Windows, many dependencies didn't run well or easily on Windows (like Redis). Things like WSL of course improve that situation, but I don't think you can beat replacing a long-winded README with installation instructions with a simple "docker-compose up" (the minimal loss of performance is worth it to me)
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In my opinion the biggest name of Brazilian literature in the 20th century is Guimarães Rosa. Unfortunately his language is very difficult to translate (it is difficult and fascinating even to Brazilians).
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When Cloudflare causes the problem they were built to solve.
Furthermore, the typical Nespresso drinker is very likely someone who has the money to fly. So it’s about ways how someone with a lot of money could still try to make an effort to reduce waste and environmental impact.
Let's check some of his projects to see if we can give some feedback.
The difference is often referred to as 'voice vs. exit'. You have a 'voice' (your say/vote) with the government, but no right to 'exit'. In contrast, with a private party, you only have a right not to transact with them (exit), but no right to tell them what to do (voice).

Your desired scope of government usually reflects how much you believe in exit and voice. For practical purposes, this usually translates to how efficient you think competition is, and how effective you think democracy is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
A monitor sized e-ink display would be unusable as, say, a PC display. E-ink refresh rates makes e-ink useless for video, scrolling, etc. I have a feeling one's really come up with applications where a monitor/TV sized very slowly refreshing screen was useful so there's no demand.
Really nice tool, thanks! I'm more a backend developer so I might have some stupid questions: What is your competition and what are you doing better?

Update: reading through this thread and a bit web search resulted in the following list:

https://ghostinspector.com
https://www.testim.io
https://www.katalon.com
https://www.cypress.io
https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core
https://www.mabl.com
https://preflight.com

> We’re taking a new approach by loading the site-under-test inside of a VM in the cloud rather than rely on a locally installed browser extension.

But how would I record and test things locally? I.e. I would need a public setup right at the beginning.
What is the long term if not the sum of the short terms?

“Short term bad long term good” is a convenient argument for management in a dispute with shareholders. It allows them to discard the objective measure of their performance in favor of speculation. Ignore the years of stagnant growth and keep paying each of us millions, says management! Our plan is a long-term one, you see.
I got one with a bitly link to a completely unrelated webpage
Lincos language
Not for me. I regularly have vi sessions running over 3-4 cascaded ssh sessions (and a couple VPN connections in there too). Its usable, but the delay messes with your brain if you are an experienced vi user.
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This was done for the 6502 from the Visual 6502 netlist, I suspect it could be done from the Z80:

http://www.aholme.co.uk/6502/Main.htm

But it does look like a lot of work, and it's not like you get especially readable Verilog from it.

Given other people have already built cycle accurate cores for these processors that are readable and maintained, it may not be worth it.
I posted this because Alan Kay linked to it in the context of objects that come with their own interpreters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11957719.

This was in the same thread where he and Rich Hickey discussed "data": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945722, which was mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23891069.
> failing to make this distinction indicates that protobufs are poorly designed

The author never offers any evidence that protobufs fail to make this distinction, just that people are lazy and misuse them.

You can't control what people do with generated types. I don't know how you'd even write a linter for Java or C++ that would know what an appropriate usage of protobufs is, to say nothing of writing such linters for every target language and then integrating them into every possible build system, CI framework, and code review application.

Those thorough Google code reviews you complained about earlier -- one of the things they taught me was not to use protos as the application data model. Read the proto off the wire, then convert it to another type or if you're in a hurry wrap it in another type that does validation checks and hides the proto accessor methods.
As currencies have existed for thousands of years, then I guess it took all that time to bootstrap to a half century ago, where the currency started running on air.

Or -

A few years or decades from now, our post Bretton Woods, post Gold Shock currency system will become untenable and be replaced by something else, as has happened numerous times throughout history, especially when the currency has no inherent value.
Stimulus Reflex is an exciting approach. It's a pattern used in other places well, and I think will provide a great option to those who'd rather not deal with modern Javascript complexity.
Having worked in semiconductor fabs with laminar flow, I can say that it dries your eyes out if you're not wearing goggles.
Yes, it is just a regular computer running Bloomberg software. It is tightly locked down, you can't set it up to remote desktop into one.
I would recomend,

- Eça de Queiroz (my favourite)

- António Lobo Antunes

- Miguel Sousa Tavares

- José Luís Peixoto

- José Rodrigues dos Santos

However except for Eça, not sure how many of them might have their work translated into other languages.
The hack is exploiting weak internal security controls that twitter has. Reset of email for so many high profile users requiring only one person to click a button is weak design. No Review / no approval etc .

Also the amount of time for them to identify it, they had blocked tweeting the address and blocked all verified users from posting before they could find the rogue account indicates logging and analysis of their admin tool actions is also not robust.

Exploiting these two vulnerabilities whether by blackmail, bribe or RAT should not make a difference to consider it a hack
Can it track my time spent running vim in various folders? That would be useful for me since in some solo projects I don't really commit changes often.
Sorry, i meant "startup" in terms of "company predicated on exponential growth". If you have a small business where you're the boss, you just grow it slowly how you you want. But as a startup founder, your surrounding circumstances essentially are dictating what you have to do in order to get that exponential growth. Your customers are your boss, your board is your boss, the market is your boss.
GAN watermarking, with no change in the training process
So, you're banking on not being the first person to get caught?
Cool, so best to do a bootstrapped solo-founder thing ;)
The answer to your question is in the article. This is not an attenuated virus, nor is it variolation, it's a modified other virus (common cold) with some proteins added and does not cause an infection, it just stimulates antibodies.

It has been heavily modified, first so it cannot cause infections in people and also to make it "look" more like coronavirus.
Scientists did this by transferring the genetic instructions for the coronavirus's "spike protein" - the crucial tool it uses to invade our cells - to the vaccine they were developing.
Intention really help me cut down on the time per day I waste on youtube/reddit/hn, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/intention/dladanha...
IMO stores should pick by department, not order, then in the back room use put-to-light to divvy up the picks.
I was hoping this would be by Byrne Hobart! If you haven't checked it out, he writes daily at diff.substack.com and is up there with Ben Thompson and Matt Levine in terms of quality.
The Confidence Cycle
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Co...

Rods in eyes aren't on a regular grid anyway, why should it matter how the pixels are distributed as long as they cover the plane and are mostly uniform?
I should have written compatibility with the GPL (or really the Linux kernel which was what was most relevant from the perspective of Solaris). And, of course, Sun could have chosen a fully permissive license but AFAIK nothing like that was seriously considered.

Nit: Apache 2.0 is compatible with GPLv3 (but not v2).
Sounds great. Thanks for the detailed response.
What you said is very subjective and is likely the product of the way you present yourself to the world.

Normal people want those things because they’re the things that society deems normal, but there are plenty of weirdos out there if you look.
Is problem solving a 'soft skill'? I'd consider problem solving to be a technical skill - assuming the problems are technical in nature.

I've been asked in the past to increase my focus on 'soft skills' in favor of gaining more technical expertise. What was meant by that was that I spend more time talking with people, building relationships, playing politics, and generally becoming more amicable in situations that I find irrational or wasteful.
Some fun sequence codes:

122112211

212020200

012301231

212301230

101210020
Sorry, you may be right, but I think a lot of other people will have the same reaction, and just never say so. It's better to voice what's a turnoff, I think, though I probably should have sent that comment to the publisher.
Not just price drop. Also co-conspirator drop, to reduce the number of helpers you need to create the artifact.

But, overall, "deep fake" isn't a critical waterfall aspect. It one piece of the overall trend toward fake archaeology. Fakeaelogy? Farkchaeology?
Part 2 of the videos mentions that Notch replied, saying that he doesn’t remember where the image is from, and that it’s likely coming from a world generated with a random seed.
You can see a seem between the upper and lower half of the face just above the level of the nostrils.
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Yeah, what I'm saying is that because the 4k streams are trying to convey more entropy than the 1080p streams, I've observed that even though their bitrate is higher, the resultant compression effects are far more severe, to the point where the overall experience is better with 1080p, sometimes even if you have access to the full 4k resolution. I've seen similar effects with audio content (after a certain point, increasing sampling rate significantly more than bitrate has a deleterious effect).

From an information theory perspective, you are obviously correct that there is more information in the 4k streams and therefore you will get more detail from them. My observation however has often been the opposite.

My attempt to rationalize leans towards notions that the lossy compression techniques we use with video codecs still have significant impedance with the "compression" in our neuro-opthalmologic system.
Similar to Twitter without blue checks I think YouTube without large corporations would be quite nice. Can't think of a good way to filter those though, other than a giant blocklist.
Interesting, thank you so much. I am going to use it for the bilinual book library: http://www.bilinual.com
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Ah, but you are almost spoiling the end with your second paragraph! :)

I agree with you. I suspect few people have read until the end to realize that, in fact, ...
Yes, it absolutely can. I'm doing so currently.

Firebase at its core is cloud functions, triggers, and storage.
this is just shameful
The UK also has page to sign up to volunteer for vaccine research

[1]https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/research/...
seems the era, of superapps is now here, in the states. will be interesting, to see if Apple decides to fight with snapchat. also amazing they're html5 based. web always wins