skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sen. Kamala Harris of California, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, hinted that she would not take a Covid-19 vaccine if one were approved and distributed before the election.

“I would not trust Donald Trump,” she said in a CNN interview. “I will not take his word for it.”"

Tell me again why I should care what Kamala Harris opinion on the matter is? It must be her infinite knowledge and experience as a trained virologist...
I think this article is great and it does a good job characterizing what happens to products that fall victim to feature creep.
I wonder what your users would think of the fact that their every click was being recorded. I suspect the reason most people are not worried about this kind of stuff is that they're not aware how creepy it actually is.
I’ve definitely nuked a thing or two from orbit and never really thought about where the phrase comes from. I wonder what else I say is actually some pop culture reference I’ve never heard of
Even the glorious revolution of 1688 wasn't as bloodless as many people think and still has repercussions today in NI
There exists an underclass in Ireland who have the same origin as the other Irish - but have many of the issues that exist in the African-American community.

Live to about 50, developed a different dialect, very high crime rate - expected to be underestimated, constant violence, high domestic abuse, high illiteracy, very large families, living in squalor.

Doesn't fit neatly into any faction's magic box of solutions.
This is happening where I live. Previously huge tracks of mountain and forest are slowly being cut up. However, it's the rich newcomers that are selfish with their land. When we were children we had ATVs/dirtbikes and could put in hundred miles a day of riding. Now many trails have gates and no trespassing signs. Used to be a sense of shared commonwealth amongst connected properties. Now, it's the "privatization" of nature and it sucks. I miss the old days.

Also, totally get the condescension you speak of. "Oh. You do your own <plumbing,welding,lawn, automotive,...>! How quaint."
If you want to let us know about something, the only reliable way to do it is to email hn@ycombinator.com.
It sounds like her opinion is that she will defer to trained virologists.
Worked on my iPod Touch.
While I'll admit they do have a slightly better case here, basically every OS's definition is more important than the SI. They clearly did it to make their drives look bigger. As proof, why are they sticking behind old SI definitions 25 years after they added the other ones?
- Autofill API works great on Android, I've been using 1Password for a while

- Camera is usually device-specific, but my Pixel/OnePlus devices have usually been very good at this

- Google released the "Nearby Share" feature a couple weeks ago

- Wi-Fi sharing can be done with standard QR codes, but I don't know if this OS-specific

- Tasker is different from Shortcuts, but a viable option. Very powerful, but more complex too

- I agree with the Duo point. It's a great service, but not well known. Google being Google I guess.

(To be clear, not disagreeing with you, just adding to the conversation)
They are used in Bitcoin since day one in the full node implementation, but full nodes don't benefit from the merkle tree structure in any way. The first client that did benefit from it was bitcoinj, which was released several years after Satoshi birthed Bitcoin.

If light SPV clients weren't a consideration, we could just concatenate all txids together and use the hash of that in the block header instead of a merkle root, and get the same effect.

What merkle trees give you is an efficient way to prove that a certain txid is committed to within a block, without the verifier having to fetch the full list of txids. Instead, he just needs a valid merkle path from the txid to the root, which is much smaller to communicate and to store.

For a full node that has the full list of txids regardless, this is basically meaningless. Full nodes don't (ever) verify merkle inclusion proofs, only that the merkle root in the header matches the full list of block txids.

I would still consider Satoshi's invention to be an incredible breakthrough even if he didn't consider light SPV clients since day one and only described the full node operation mode, therefore I don't consider SPV to be a core component of the Bitcoin breakthrough.

(And also, we know today that SPV is not as great as it was once hoped to be. It puts users at the whims of the miners, with XT/Classic/Unlimited/S2X/BCash being marvelous examples of how that can go terribly wrong. The fraud proof concept that Satoshi described in the whitepaper as part of the SPV model (under the name "alerts") was discovered to not actually be workable due to the data withhold problem, giving this model much weaker security guarantees. And privacy is totally and utterly broken in traditional SPV -- though Neutrino is making good progress on that front.)
That deck is accurate, but I'm not sure where you're getting the "two in a row" part. There are no performance evaluations, therefore there is no "two in a row".
Why would you send seeds instead of sending 1000 empty envelopes?
Since you wrote this a bit misleadingly - this happens with Apple's carrier profiles as well.
Can you elaborate? Invasive means many things https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/invasives/
It should be noted that the libhandy features are now part of the stock gtk3+ framework, so every app following standard UI guidelines benefits from the new "responsive" look.
For many years, I filled out a 1040 EZ, and I used TurboTax to do it. For me, it wasn't about ease of filling out my taxes, as they were trivial. It was about ease of filing my taxes, as it was all online and I didn't have to physically mail anything.

So, yes, such people are already using the simplest possible form, but ease of filing is a big deal, and I suspect many people are like me and use online filing software for that just as much as ease of filling out the forms.
True, but people have backported modern hardware to that era. You can take a modern power supply and drop it into that PC, I'm almost sure.
I mention the destruction of Babylon by the Assyrians because it's an exception, and because the king goes on in great detail about how much he wanted to remove even the idea of Babylon.

Most conquerers obviously felt they were the best person to do the job, but they were not in it for like, direct personal gain. At some point you conquer enough to drown in wine and gold long before you conquer as much as they did - and being in war is not pleasant even as the king. They felt there were doing something for their people by unifying disparate factions.
Your post is very confused. Android doesn't send tethered traffic through VpnService whether or not tethered traffic goes to the same APN. Tethering just sets up a dumb router.
Didn't seem to have helped much in Belarus. OSCE/ODIHR were present since 2001 (at least), noted some things, and here we are:

https://www.statista.com/chart/22512/belarus-presidential-el...

Then they were absent this year, and the official result was the exact same 80%.
Thanks, wasn't aware of them!
May be an unpopular take, but this one felt a bit too academic to me. It also, perhaps inadvertently, argues against several strawmen too.

We've long known D is an essential component of bone-health and the immune system, since it was noticed a century ago that tuberculosis patients that went outside in the sun had better outcomes. Known to prevents rickets too.

The fact that some have tried to apply it to heart disease or asthma, or random unrelated ailments and failed is immaterial, no?

The fact that the benefit of supplementation is strongest for those with the weakest levels is not particularly surprising either.

We also know that the body can make adjustments when nutrients are low in the short term, and that can mitigate some issues and pose unintuitive outcomes in such a time frame.

Bottom line, do we want to face Covid/Flu with an immune system at full strength, or one with one arm tied behind its back due to a deficiency?

Finally, given that a large majority of folks are D-deficient, and few can or will overdose, this push back (on HN and this piece) to warn folks that it is useless/dangerous (on the whole) does more harm than those recommending it, in my opinion.

Moderation continues to be the best path, and a number of studies linked here support benefits of supplementation for bone-health and immune system, but those things only. Don't overthink it.
> they are under obligation to report on a regular basis about the people they meet

Intriguing. People with a security clearance are required to give intelligence reports about people they have contact with?
You just happen to agree with this one, so you find reasons to justify it like "exercising judgement".

What if they exclude a company because of political ties to communist regimes? Or ESG concerns? To me neither of these is acceptable. I would be pretty annoyed if Exxon was excluded from SP500 because they contribute to Global Warming.

Go pick another index is not a defensible position when I'm criticizing the index's policies specifically. Yet to hear good reasons for why a committee "exercising judgement" is a good thing for the average investor.
This is very interesting and the first time I’ve heard anyone discuss this. Do you have data / benchmarks you could point to? It would certainly address a lot of “planned obsolescence” criticisms by making it more plain the cause of the slowdown.
"average" is a particularly weak measurement of almost anything. As is often noted when <insert-world's-richest-person-here> walks into a bar, on average everyone in the bar is a millionare.

You can't make a direct comparison of "wealth" by looking at salaries. You have to take into account purchasing power parity, for a start. But then you also have to find a way to include the somewhat non-linear results of tax rates and services provided by those taxes.

For example, the typical US family of 4 spends $23k a year more on healthcare than the equivalent family in France.
Don't you love it when somebody says "there is no evidence" and never shows you confidence/credible intervals?
A 486 system was built before the capacitor plague. Quality electrolytics may not last forever, but can last a long time. Also, built before RoHS and the reduced longevity of poorly formulated or poorly applied lead-free solders that were common for many years.

Processors had less protections, and thermal monitoring was at its infancy because almost all the 486s wouldn't use enough power to cook themselves to death, even with passive heatsinks.

I don't know about memory sticks and hard drives from that period. It's quite possible they've replaced the hard drive with compact flash or something too, which should be pretty reliable given they apparently only make a floppy disk's worth of data every day.
I wonder if you are used to animations hiding the loading time for you. I've never noticed a slow android outside 100$ crap, but I did notice how slow the iphone animations are
It's interesting to think about how HTML could be modified to fix the issue. Initial thought: along with HREF, provide AREF- a list of archive links. The browser could automatically try a backup if the main one fails. The user should be able to right-click the link to select a specific backup. Another idea is to allow the web-page author to provide a rewrite rule to automatically generate wayback machine (or whatever) links from the original. This seems less error prone and browsers could provide a default that authors could override.

Anyway, the fix should work even with plain HTML. I'm sure there are a bunch of corner cases and security issues involved..

Well as mentioned by others, there is a browser extension. It's interesting to read the issues people have with it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machi...
How do you find parts?
What’s the timeline for Phase III trials? The article doesn’t seem to say. I don’t feel reassured that those won’t be rushed.
The statistic you're looking for is called "purchasing power parity" or PPP.
The law is that we need to have 3 option, male, female, diverse.

Also: We employ people to work at a different company through us.
It'll be interesting to see what happens when the jig is finally up, since there's so much stuff we're used to getting for free that is currently financed by all of this: email, maps and GPS navigation, staying in contact with college friends, ...
I agree. A 737 is a shadow of a cardboard cutout of a paper origami model of a simplified pigeon. We have barely scratched the surface of what biological systems can do, especially in the dynamic movement and shape changing aspects as well as the energy efficiency of computational and control systems that are involved in biological systems.

In every system we create, in which we mimic biological systems (whether this is communication, transport, robotic, computational, chemical, etc), the resultant systems in relative terms are extremely simplistic, clunky and inefficient. Our systems may be highly complex as we look at them. But in reality, they are very, very simple in comparison to the original system that we want to mimic. We, at this point, lack the finesse of designing anything comparable. We have a long , long way to go yet.
I worked in an office with a similar setup that "worked", but it was very fragile. When the HDD started failing on the old 486 machine we scrambled to migrate as much as possible (including a few rewrites and ports of utility programs). We were lucky that our problem was the software not running on modern systems (for reasons), not a dependency on the hardware. Mostly we communicated with hardware systems via serial, so any computer with a serial port (or a USB-to-serial adapter, which are often unreliable) could be made to work if the software existed.
>event sourcing is almost never a good idea

Wait isn't event sourcing the fundamental principle of redux ? And redux is the most popular UI state manager library out there. and why you feel event sourcing is not a good idea ?
B2C? no.

B2B? fairly common.
Naah, just install adnauseum [1] and thank advertisers for forcing you to use adblocker. Let them pay for all the manace they couse to you and help ad networks to build completely wrong profile on you.

[1] https://adnauseam.io/
Without fast track approval, in the best case scenario, approximately how long would it take for any of these vaccine candidates to go through phase 3 trials?
From reading the rejection notes, it seems like they misunderstood your app.

You should mail them. Tell them that it is a reader app like Reddit that contains user generated content. If you're resubmitting it for review, also tell them that in the review notes. If they still don't understand your app, ask concrete questions (eg what changes do I have to make in the app store details to be treated as other reader apps like Reddit). Linking to similar apps (in this case HN clients) has also helped me when being rejected.

Based on the rejection notes, they simply misunderstood what the app does and who it is aimed at. Hacker News is not the Apple support and I think you should ask them what to do before asking us.

They have always been helpful when I contacted them. When my apps were rejected, it usually took a simple mail and within a day the app changed back to "Being reviewed", and then "Accepted".
You're right, we are amateurs. But the fact that I "target" US/Canada, and my ads are being shown to Hindi-folk is a case of bad ui and bad design.
"It Just Works" != "It wipes your data without warning unless you perform the correct incantation"
I think you’re making a lot of assumptions about malice intent versus trying to keep phones running.
What does Gruber, an Apple defender, really know about what Google's attitude towards Android is? He's measuring everything against the Apple stick and is always criticising moves that aren't the same as Apple's.

That doesn't seem like a good strategy for a competing product.
In some ways I think it’s a pity that none of the attempts to store issues in the git repo itself have taken off. It would be an interesting world where the state of a bug was tied to the state of the source.
If I remember correctly, you have to go through the IRS freefile page (here: https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/) to get to the "real" free version of turbotax. The link to the "free edition" on the main page of their site, confusingly, is something else.
Turbotax's income limit for free filing is really low, though. Max income of $36,000.
USBImager – A minimal GUI app that can write disk images to USB drives
I just buy one copy of TurboTax Home and Business each year and then everyone in my family uses it one at a time and free Federal efile. My parents both have different LLCs, I have a business, my sister has a business. We print and mail state returns because no reason to pay yet again for each State efile. I've become the defacto family accountant/keeper of tax file backups.
Apropos of nothing but I added the ability to archive links in Anarki a few months back[0]. If dang or someone wants to take it for HN they're welcome to. Excuse the crappy quality of my code and pr format, though.

It might be useful as a backup if the original site starts getting hugged to death.

[0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/pull/179
Actually facebook (Owners of whatsapp) does engage in censorship.

They censor nipples, kamallaharris.info website, and certain right wing groups.

I think the fact that you are this one-sided in the “censorship” department shows how propagandized you’ve become. Propaganda is everywhere, done by all factions. It’s not just something the communist party does. Every party does it.
> a substantial number of Muslims living in India, and painting their ancestors - the Mughals - as barbaric invaders.

I'd like a source for Mughal ancestry of Muslims. It looks like you're passing of opinion as facts here.
Leaving a perfectly fine RAV4 and attempting to hoof 13 miles to another car is a really poor decision.
US political crackdown spurs fears of Chinese brain-drain
Revolut was featured on HN just this morning: https://thehftguy.com/2020/08/12/a-haven-for-fraud-and-stole...
Yeah, I think the slowdown was the right engineering choice, but not telling the user was a UX failure.

You could imagine this happening because some engineering team was tasked with fixing crashes from reduced battery capacity, and some product people who would have been responsible with informing the user weren’t in the loop or dropped the ball. Alternatively, you could suspect those product people saw a good opportunity for planned obsolescence with plausible deniability and took it.

Either way, the eventual outcome (an outcry from customers and bad PR, followed by a more transparent software solution from Apple plus a subsidized repair program) seems fair.
Seems like a smart decision by those businesses to team up (collude?) here both for business and public health reasons. If they all agree to wait post election there will be a higher rate of vaccinations which will benefit everyone (sales and progress towards herd immunity). I'm not sure if this would put them into any odd legal situations for playing politics.
> actually cross-correlation

That doesn't help one understand what it is at all. Convolution in DL is simply a set of dot products of a patch from the input with a bunch of filters. Each resulting dot product is simply a measure of similarity between a patch and a filter. That's all there is to it.
Thanks for the info!

I’m taking 400mg - 800mg magnesium daily, recently added K2 (100 mcg MK-4) together with 2000 or 3000 IU D3.

What would you change? Get my blood levels first and then increase D3?

Increase my magnesium supplementation? Don’t take calcium at all?

How did you find your own doses and what else are you supplementing?
Interesting story, but, unfortunately, it's not true. Wiki gives his full name as "Julius Robert Oppenheimer." Julius was apparently his father's name as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer
WebAssembly for Web Developers
That's completely beside the point. What I asked is, why should I care what her opinion on the mater is? Why was this quote included in this article? Also it doesn't "sound like" that at all. You could not possibly make that judgment based on the two sentences included in the quote.
1. What ever has piqued my interest. Mostly money topics and technical topics.

2. Anywhere from once a month to three times a week.

3. GitHub pages (i.e. a static Jekyll blog) with a domain purchased through Google. Mostly because it's free (except for the $12/year for the domain) but also because it gives me a lot of control over the actual HTML.

4. https://www.joehxblog.com/
Things that increase the risk of infection:

- spreader lacks mask

- infectee lacks mask

- indoors

- spreader speaks

- length of time spreader and infectee spend in contact

The speaking part is a wash -- plenty of speaking at both protests and spring break. The rest of them all are chiefly problems with spring break, chiefly because people frequently socialize indoors as they did at Sturgis.
That’s one of the main reasons China blocked foreign social media apps.
I would guess satellite. I've lived in remote places before (but it was only 20 minutes to a big city mall, so not nearly as remote as described) and that is what I used. It was okay for most things, but the 600ms ping time to anything else sometimes was noticeable.
Question: is it not a standard procedure to stop a Phase III trial early when the statistics warrant it? Isn't this a pretty cut-and-dried statistical question? Naively I would think that there's nothing controversial about ending a trial early, isn't that the ethical thing to do?

I guess the political maneuvering angle before the election complicates all of that, but if the Trump administration is really willing to actually fabricate Phase III trial data, then why trust anything regardless of whether or not the Phase III trial "completes" or not?
> UN

I don't think most consider the UN to be upholding Western values. That's also not their prerogative since they also aren't distinctly Western. The permanent members are: China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Sure, that's 3 to 2, but not exactly like US/Western overlords.

> OIC

Since when is the OIC considered "Western"?

> The Chinese government has zero PR capabilities.

> Not that any of them have more PR power than China either.

China has a lot of PR power. part of which is exactly what the article and topic at hand are about. This is so far removed from reality that I'm not exactly sure how to respond.
> It just changes what the advertiser thinks of your interests.

How is this not increasing privacy? The point is to keep my real interests private from creepy marketing departments.
As sibling commenter wrote, journaled NTFS was part of the Windows XP, which was released before first release of OSX (10.0).

Not only that, journaled HFS+ was introduced in OSX 10.2, not in 10.0. It was enabled by default in 10.3. Way later than NTFS.

However, there's a reason for all that, and why Windows 9X used FAT filesystem: it was much faster. Computers in '90s didn't have any spare perfomance, and journaling was not needed by most users. It was introduced into consumer releases only when they were fast enough for users not no notice.
For early perceptrons, maybe; even that feels like a stretch. Every neural network model that has been created after that has nearly zero relation to any sort of biological, cognitive system.
Video feels like clickbait.

Appeals to people who are:

1. Frustrated with the complexity/brittleness of javascript tooling

2. Still learning (oooo, shortcut?)

3. Pining for the good ol' days (conveniently forget ie6)

A better, more realistic talk might have been "how to make a fast, responsive, mobile-friendly site without javascript and here are some new browser features to look forward to" but I'm sure that would have got a lot less clicks.