skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> since vaccines are designed to be given exclusively to people who are not sick ... the safety standards have to be very high.

I'm not sure I follow this logic. Sure, the safety standards for all medicine have to be acceptably high. But just like one might say "this person has a risky heart condition that may kill them anyway, so it's worth using the risky drug on them", doesn't the same logic apply in a pandemic? You can factor in the risk of catching a disease and then dying from it, just the same way you can factor in the risk of dying from a disease someone already has.

If we're talking about a 1 in 30,000 serious adverse reaction to a vaccine for a disease that kills about 1 in 200 (and may give serious permanent effects like heart or lung damage to a majority of people it doesn't kill), wouldn't that be worth the risk? If we do nothing, as far as I have heard, we basically expect that up to 60% of people might get the disease (and in many places, perhaps 10-25% of people have already gotten it), or else we have to keep up various levels of restrictions on activity indefinitely. Just seems a little weird that this article doesn't acknowledge the urgency and uniqueness of the present situation.

I'm not trying to argue for using a potentially unsafe vaccine, and I'm not an expert on the matter. But this shallow level of discussion of the issue just leaves me with more questions than answers.
Can/will LTSE restrict options trading?
Lineage OS works like a charm without google play services. I haven't used those services in years.
Rise in attacks this year as cyber criminals hunt bigger paydays
f-droid has enough apps to run a fully featured phone without any google services.

/e/ (e.foundation) delivers a polished google free experience that anyone can use.

so yes, it's possible.
American Airlines is an e-currency company that happens to own some planes
Woah I had no idea that existed.

Here's a great introduction to LiveView:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Pe8Ru06fM
"Concatenate" seems redundant to me, as the Latin prefix "con" means "together" and the root "caten" is a chain. So technically it's "chain together", but a chain is already a thing that is linked together.

My Latin is rusty, but IIRC "con" can optionally just be added for emphasis, e.g. "iacere": to throw, but "conicere":to hurl. Maybe that's what was done here.
It's not only about stats/data, but also the user experience. Many web pages have many more ads, videos, gifs, and clutter than they did before. There's also more spam and more low-quality content. That makes finding the info that you want harder than before. I've noticed this especially when searching for cooking recipes online.
No. Next-door in Canada, we thought you were bonkers. I thought you were bonkers. We joined in Afghanistan, but invading Iraq never made any sense and we wisely stayed out.
Talking Resilience with Ben Werdmuller from ForUsAll
Depends on the time scale.

If you care about the short term, then yes.

If you care about humanity leaving the solar system before the heat death (or asteroid, whatever), then no.
I sometimes think that C++ is evaluated unfairly because it has a very fragmented ecosystem and painful package management. This leads to an enormous amount of code duplication and stylistic conventions, which further errode how pleasant it is to reuse code. It also makes it harder for the community to develop a common “taste”.
Huawei set to exit server, storage and networking business in the UK
Subtle advertisement for poster's company.
Peace Arch Park is the place you mentioned on the border crossing between Bellingham, WA and Vancouver, BC.

A good friend and his wife, who is Canadian, are really grateful for that loophole. They were able to meet their newborn niece recently because of that park, despite the border being closed.
Basically, they count the number of hits returned by a search for "{language} programming" across a wide variety of search engines and websites, and rank the languages according to which one yields the most hits.

It is an interesting metric, but I just can't bring myself to see it as the measure of popularity that it is presented as. The number of page hits for a language is a function of many things. Popularity is one. Others include age, complexity, and how confusing/difficult-to-learn the language or its libraries are. I'm guessing there's a marketability angle, too - for economic reasons, there may not be as many codepoints being poured onto languages whose users are less likely to purchase commercial tools or consulting services.

I can think of no better illustration of this than the 5th, 6th and 7th places in this month's rankings. Does anyone really believe that JavaScript is only the 7th most popular programming language these days? Does anyone really believe that both C# and Visual Basic are more popular than JavaScript? If you take the TIOBE score as just a measure of popularity, it would seem to suggest that .NET developers are collectively over 3 times as numerous as JavaScript developers.
> This is the way to go for sure. I've done similar by generating CloudFormation from Python (I wrote my own library because I felt Troposphere was not very friendly nor a significant improvement over YAML).

Yes and no.

Typing is a must, but a full-blown programming language is too powerful and all abstraction layers start to leak sooner rather than later. I always ended up with a "deployment" function that exposed almost all underlying functionality.

We're big fans of the Cue (https://cuelang.org) approach instead: https://cuelang.org/docs/about
It establishes a standard for when we need to start looking at alternate plans. The virus isn't going to completely disappear, so there's a very serious risk that "we'll open bars when it's safe" will end up meaning "we'll never open bars". Just look at Australia, where Victoria has been under strict curfew for something like 5 months this year because the only standard they set for leaving is "safe". If our plan is going to end up meaning bars stay closed for a decade, we need to throw it out and come up with an alternate plan, or we're just going to end up with no plan as people and politicians lose their tolerance for further restrictions.
I think maybe a more interesting question is how to explain the extreme disconnect between data volume and confidence in the two examples compared. The election has a huge number of polls, analysts and subject matter experts focused on it. And yet our ability to make predictions about it is comparable to an A/B test where 30 observations have been made total?

The only sense I can make of this is that:

- Predictions about stochastic dynamic systems are hard, especially when there can be these exogenous variables intervening from out of nowhere.

- Competitive situations are hard to predict, especially if they change based on the measurements produced about them (i.e. the campaigns strategize based on polling info). This effectively makes those measurements less predictive.

To me, this suggests that all the polling and analysis are a waste of resources and attention. The expected value of information is extremely low. We should kick off campaigns on Halloween, talk about them for a couple days, and vote immediately. All the pollsters and analysts can be more usefully deployed towards studying other systems.
Yeah, I've been in contact with the kind of people who might attract the label "redneck" or even "white trash" all my life (I'm from such stock) and when I think of people I've heard express and witnessed exhibiting a willingness to litter freely and generally make a mess of wild areas, it's them who come to mind, not city folk. I'd go so far as to say that for some significant set of them, wrecking nature and abusing commons are fundamental to the way they approach both living and recreation.

Though plainly there are some city-dwellers very much willing to make a mess of their cities to a sometimes astonishing degree (anyone who's ever, like, walked around an American city has seen that) I don't think they're the ones going out to BLM lands or national parks and junking them up, mostly.
Ah I should have been more specific. For some context, I learned software development on the job and later studied Human-Computer Interaction. I want to be at the intersection of software and design.

Software Engineering at Plenty involved a lot of creative problem solving. But I wanted to work on visually creative projects. Some of my initial projects at Plenty did involve interactive UIs, but as I gained better understanding of our stack, I was required to do a lot more back-end work which wasn’t very exciting to me.
I didn't say I was smart. Also if you block @google emails you will just get them signing up with another email address, so why even try to block them. And once they pay for a service, you cant not deliver, because that would constitute fraud.

We tried to just fly under their radar, and avoid any automated trigger that would arouse their suspicion.
I failed a webscraping project due to strong anti bot detection.

They checked for bots through useragent/screen size, maybe mouse movements, trends in searches (same area code), etc... (Can they really detect me through my internet connection headers, despite proxies?)

It was impossible for me to scrape, they won.
They do. The number of shares outstanding is publicly reported. You can already divide earnings any way you want yourself. To me shares buyback is just the counterpart to selling shares on the open market to raise capital. It’s anti-dilutive and can be in the interest of shareholders.
Huzzah. You win this round.
It's a never-ending cycle. See: Front-end development. Until yet another abstraction emerges, anyone using Kubernetes for mission-critical applications should be using automated testing to prevent awful outcomes from a single botched line of YAML. There are a bunch of solutions emerging in this space, like Datree[0], made for the sole purpose of preventing Kubernetes misconfigurations.

[0] https://datree.io (Disclaimer: I work with them.)
Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack still cant turn a profit
Blue Origin has been trying to get the hell off this planet for 20 years now
I think that neither is compacting trash that much a problem that you need a huge granite block for that (hydraulic press should be sufficient), nor do you want to move a block of granite 1km in diameter more than necessary. The idea by Heindl was to cut the granite cylinder in the place where the plant is build.
> ...somehow, user experience and design became conflated.

Also, taking “design” to mean “how it looks” instead of “how it works”.
Computerphile did a great video with Brian Kernighan on "Where GREP Came From"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk
> Python offers more intuitive memory management than R (which is really more a statement on how bad R is at memory efficiency).

I haven't found that to be the case. Loading a 2gb CSV file when you have 8gb of ram is touch and go with pandas but with data.table it’s a breeze not to mention operations once loaded up are a fair-bit faster. The pythong version has recently been released and already provides a serious speed bump over pandas not to mention out the box memory-mapping for huge files. I recommend checking it out if you haven't heard of it https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/
Sure, why not. And unlike roff/nroff/troff it actually made it into POSIX. yacc is part of the optional C-Language Development Utilities command set: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/y...
The command compiles
My friend, let me introduce you to a game called Aurora 4x

here is some gameplay[1][2] and forum where development happens [3] .
There is c# revrite comming ...

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXqBYDSno7w
[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77mvpSvVu10
[3]http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php
You can buy (and sell) options to limit the impact of that volatility.

But I'm not sure why you would want to encourage margining when you are against volatility? The capital for the margin loan has to come from somewhere too.

So instead of person A putting up 5$ and borrowing 95$ to own 100$ in stock, and person B lending those 95$; it might be better for volatility for person A to own 5$ in stock and B to own 95$ in stock?

I am not sure.

For full disclosure: my investment strategy involves margining.

(Btw, I do think that 5% equity on houses is bad. It's mostly a function of land prices going up so much.)
I don't see it as deplorable. I see it as incentivizing being a productive member of society.
That's exactly what I am doing with https://primcloud.com :)
Joe Biden's Twitter engagement has increased by 650% since Jan 2020
"It would be fair to say that these attempts failed to establish wide adoption"

Wait what Flash spawned an entire generation of game developers and animators, it was ubiquitous. It had many problems and I am generally not sad to see it gone but saying it "failed to establish wide adoption" is only a valid thing if this person has a completely different definition of "wide adoption" than I do.

Flash was largely constrained to games but there were definitely a lot of people using it as the backbone, or an important part, of their interactive web apps, too. Adobe tried to turn it into a desktop runtime but there weren't too many people biting. I guess "actually runs tools people use on a daily basis" is the "wide adoption" they intend?

Does "Youtube was built around a Flash video playback component" count as "wide adoption"? Does "just about every Facebook game was built in Flash, including the vastly profitable ones that invented and perfected the concept of free-to-play-with-IAP" count? A hell of a lot of people exchanged a hell of a lot of money around stuff made with Flash.

You can't compile C and other languages to it (though Adobe was working on it: https://web.archive.org/web/20080827114529/http://www.onflex...) , and maybe that's the threshold they want for "wide adoption" given that there's a whole segment later on in this blog about how you can compile C to WASM?

(Judging by the photo at the top of this blog, it's eminently possible that Max Desaitov is young enough that their only encounter with Flash was "those games I was utterly obsessed with in single-digit ages and never realized were in Flash"... god I'm old)

Perhaps WASM finally has all the right infrastructure to finally become the One True Compiler Target, and all apps will disappear into The Cloud forever. Perhaps. Or perhaps in about twenty-five years, Max Desaitov will be writing a comment expressing disbelief at some doe-eyed child adding WASM to their list of previous attempts to Change Software Distribution Forever and then going on to rave excitedly about why the next attempt to do this will surely be The One. Or perhaps Max will be too busy scrambling around in the burnt-out remnants of a capitalist empire that finally collapsed, right now that feels like a worrisomely possible future, who knows.
They're a Melbourne-based company, but their servers are in other countries. Does ASIS' reach include data stored in other countries? (NYC, Amsterdam, Iceland)
Airbnb – Project Lighthouse Pt. 2
Thanks for the response, I'll look into Django and the Django community in more detail.

If you have any direct links to appropriate Django articles, communities, or tutorials to share, that would be great.
Well prepare to be unsurprised! The CI/CD abstraction already exists in Tekton - https://cloud.google.com/tekton

The rest are soon to follow I’m sure.
No thanks, I'm quite happy here
Thanks for that, very interesting topic. But surely large sporting events have existed alongside large religion for some thousands of years (Roman events are the obvious example). Perhaps both trying to get at the same thing but not being that thing themselves.
How to Make a DIY Streaming Bridge with a Raspberry Pi for the ATEM Mini and OBS
Speech tech and Common Voice at Mozilla [audio]
I thought this was going to be a typical HN "build things instead" thing, but I actually love their take. Looking at the world around us lately I've been realizing more and more that "it's all in Plato"; his Republic is a book I read once in high school, but it's high time to re-read it.

What are some books you find your self going back to repeatedly (or want to)? My list:

- Domain Driven Design

- Ray Bradbury's short stories and Farenheit 451

- George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier

- Descent into Hell

- LotR, the Hobbit, and Narnia

- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

- Psalms, Job, James

- The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

- Wendell Berry's Essays

- Winnie the Pooh

- Augustine

Guess you know what kind of person I am now.
I think this is partly due to the fact that there is marked growth in interest in embedded systems. MCUs have gotten even cheaper. It's now standard to have multiple tiers of sleep modes (standby, sleep, deep sleep). Multiple clock rates are becoming more popular - which enables on-demand heavy inferencing interspersed among periods of lower processor usage. CMOS sensors increasingly have on-chip motion detection[1] that uses less energy than full sensing. RF comms are being managed more efficiently as for most embedded devices it is the largest use of energy by orders of magnitude. Last but definitely not least, machine learning at the edge is a nascent application as we realize on-edge inferencing can avoid the aforementioned energy drain of sending huge amounts of data to the cloud.

Of course for mission-critical applications C is still the standard for firmware in the industry, but for many startups providing novel uses of edge computing and the plethora of hobby projects C++ is a solid choice.

[1] https://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/eechenss/Papers/conf-2011-A%20CM...
I saved the whole page in order to grab the images all at once, then used md5sum:

[images_files] 0 $ md5sum * | sort
4a93faba1d6abc2f3c0fa4a925a23a4c viii.gif
672b8ee4b7e2893f209dd66eeb368744 ix.gif
7005d06133499ca4d1e6d1b265adea83 ii.gif
784f2d5bc7cb0cdce826fb656896c034 v.gif
8e39d526b119fabfacb259d53eb89140 vi.gif
9d2e88d7588d5e22c9d51d6b005034fb vii.gif
9f55b70b1564ab62faafbf37f311c5c0 iv.png
b67f99e04dc8720d5846b818e86ecd39 style.css
eb42e0f64ece46753a7aeba4fe3149a6 i.png
f346c6fbe6fa659b6020c75c579084de iii.gif

So I'd say no, they're different for some reason. Sizes vary a lot, too. Unfortunately I don't even know where to begin telling why.
This is awesome. So thorough.
I think at the end of the day we need to reduce our BLM lands in favor of increasing our wilderness. The problems he describes are solved simply by not allowing people to RV, 4-wheel, or motorbike their way wherever they feel like. I run into trash in the more popular parts of the wilderness areas I love, but I have to look for it, and it's my personal offset for adding load to the wilderness with my presence.
Why? If everyone has a 1 minute delay, you still benefit from being the fastest.

And shouldn't we celebrate the march of technology? In the grand scheme of things, trading is relatively boring. Let the computer do it.
First U.S. Small Nuclear Reactor Design Is Approved
For anyone interested in the history of UNIX development, Brian Kernhigan's "UNIX: A History and a Memoir" is a quick and enlightening read. I loved the history, and I came away with a better understanding of today's cli environment as well.

https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-History-Memoir-Brian-Kernighan/d...
Thanks, I think that's placing me in the right ballpark and where I want to be. I had not heard of Kexi or Glom, so I'll look into them.
Congratulations.

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us." -- Winston Churchill

Though I barely understand such things, I'm very excited by your LTSE and Katsuyama's Investors Exchange (IEX).

Listening to your interviews about LTSE, my takeaway is that your goal is to allow companies to be judged on their own merits, instead of someone else's.

So one side effect may be to help migrate private equity funded companies back into the light. Terrific, right?

I hope others see that our markets are designed. They are human artifacts. They are not natural laws to be accepted as-is. That we can shape and nurture markets as we see fit. That the rules matter.

You and Katsuyama identified opportunities for improvement and engineered solutions. You're meta-geeks. Like programmers who make programming languages, so that others might benefit.

Happy hunting.
Thanks for this. I've begun a collection of quotes on not reading, to balance out my much larger collection of books. A couple quotes:

"Be careful, however, lest this reading of many authors and books of every sort may tend to make you discursive and unsteady. You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works....Everywhere means nowhere. " - Seneca

"How many hasty, immature, superficial, and misleading judgments are expressed every day, confusing readers, without any verification. The press -- The press can both simulate public opinion and miseducate it. Thus, we may see terrorists described as heroes, or secret matters pertaining to one's nation's defense publicly revealed, or we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under the slogan: "Everyone is entitled to know everything." But this is a false slogan, characteristic of a false era. People also have the right not to know and it's a much more valuable one. The right not to have their divine souls [stuffed with gossip, nonsense, vain talk.] A person who works and leads a meaningful life does not need this excessive burdening flow of information." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harvard commencement address
You are thinking too far into it. The simplest explanation is usually the most correct. They have a product to sell and want it to be portrayed positively.
I was thinking about using making a scale model of a cityscape and letting people race cars with cameras mounted to them. Getting stuck would be a feature (just like a real car race, if you get stuck somewhere you'll lose), and require human intervention to fix. I think latency is the real problem, games work around this in many ways that aren't possible in the real world.
Related (somewhat) :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Garden_of_Chandigarh

Nek Chand Saini, a government official who started the garden secretly in his spare time in 1957. Today it is spread over an area of 40 acres (16 ha). It is completely built from industrial and home waste and discarded items.