skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try doing research before you reflex-post.

https://www.phe.gov/emergency/events/COVID19/SNS/Pages/procu...

Aside from the 2 Trillion or so the USGOV has provided the country in stimulus, BARDA and others have expended billions in COVID countermeasures including PPE and 600 million masks under or (or to be) manufacture(d). They await Congressional appropriations before they can expend even more.

https://www.phe.gov/emergency/events/COVID19/Pages/default.a...

POTUS power to allocate money comes from CONGRESS, so when you say 'Government' you're saying almost nothing.
Yeah that’s right. All the counters use the same indexing scheme, so all accesses to the same cache line should be on the same core.
> Why are there 55 c-header files in the directory of the erts?

That shouldn't be the case anymore. It was a bug in rebar3 at one point and I think `mix release` may have copied said bug. If 1.11 doesn't properly not include those header files then an issue should be opened.
These forests managed themselves for thousands of years without us - including periods of invasive species (through geological rather than human means of transmission). I find it funny us humans seem to want to take responsibility for everything.

That said I wouldn't want my house burned down from a forest fire either.
The city, sure. But the surrounding suburbs are affordable
Spotify Debates Removing Joe Rogan Episodes for Alleged Transphobia
a CLI is scriptable and automateable, so there's that at least. How about "find all related issues and close based on the commit message and push to production if it's an urgent fix" etc
Free speech has always been filtered.

What happened is that wide publishing used to be expensive and thus restricted to the ruling/educated class.

Sure, I could say whatever I wanted at the pub or Speakers' Corner (to take British examples) but it would not go further than the people in the immediate vicinity. I.e., no-one cared.

Beyond that, there was either newspapers (filtered and not everyone could read) or published books (filtered), and, later radio and TV, which are filtered like newspapers. So 'improper' material and disinformation (or what was deemed to be) was controlled.

Now the barriers to global circulation are close to nil. So how do we deal with that? It's not unreasonable to adapt the legal framework because very clearly this has a lot of negative consequences.
That's was his point of it being too real...
From a medical perspective, 'immunity' means triggering any immune system response, not that someone will not get or have symptoms of a disease.

This is an important nuance that has muddled research for lay people during the pandemic.

Edit: Definition of Immunity - https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/immunity
It does not require a server to run.
Exactly. If you want to see how this works in the real world, you're in luck, it is playing out right now in the Philippines and Hungary.

If you find yourself saying, "yes, but it could work if only...", I'd suggest you are failing to understand human nature.
The whole point of these fast capacity ramps is that the capital investment may not be recovered over a longer period. So it's critical the order be solid before you ramp capacity.

Philips getting screwed - yeah, not going to be doing business with the govt in the future. We wonder why folks are reluctant to respond to govt directives, because the govt is schizophrenic about this stuff.
Korea has a nice new mask. AirQueen. Reusable. Reasonably comfortable. N95-equivalent for filtration.

The seal isn't quite as good as a proper N95, but it beat surgical, and even surgical gets you almost all the way there.
OnShape what now? I'm still on the free-but-everything-is-public plan. Is that going away?
> I'd be upset about Cloudflare getting involved in anything good and pure

Why?

At least by FAANG standards, Cloudflare stands out to me as one of the good guys.
Re: hot-code reloading:

Erlang is in the weird situation of its main code contributor, Ericsson, having a use-case for it that very few other people/organizations have: “immortal” nodes running code approximately forever, on telecom control-plane boxen.

That means hot-code reloading (or at least doing something to let the node receive upgrades while keeping live sockets open) is a high priority for them, and so the OTP (Open Telecom Platform) Erlang RunTime System is always going to be designed around that goal.

We third-party Erlang/Elixir developers, are all essentially using a recovered alien artifact. It was built for people very different from us, for purposes foreign to us. As it happens, though, it’s very advanced alien technology, such that it’s often able to solve our problems very well, despite not being designed to solve those problems. Our use-cases are very often strict subsets of those of our Swedish telecom overlords.

And, given that that’s the case, there’s not been much motivation to build a separate ERTS to serve us mere mortals deploying merely-mortal Erlang nodes. We don’t really need different ERTS, just less ERTS.

I could see someone maintaining a patcher program that takes the OTP repo, and strips out all the stuff us mortals don’t need. But that wouldn’t really be an alternative ERTS. It’d be the “XPLite”-ization of OTP.

And really, if you try to think of who would lead an effort to develop an alternative “closed-world”-design ERTS, you come to the realization that ERTS and actors and hot code-reloading all sort of occupy the same area of use-case space, such that AFAIK there’s no real use-case that absolutely needs most of what Erlang has, but absolutely doesn’t need hot upgrades. If you try to think of a scenario where there’d be absolutely no use for hot upgrades, that’s also probably a situation where Erlang/Elixir, or the actor model itself, would likely be a bad fit. Unikernels (Erlang-on-Xen)? Nah, hot upgrades make sense there. Long-running embedded microcontrollers (Nerves)? Nope, hot upgrades make sense there too.

Really, if you want “Elixir but closed-world”, the place I’d expect to get it is if someone wanted to reimplement Elixir-the-language on top of an entirely different runtime, e.g. the JVM. Elixir-on-JVM would imply Elixir-on-GraalVM, which is just such a closed-world runtime.
You could be using a vpn or a proxy making it harder to be matched only based on IP address you connect to. Traffic pattern analysis would still work.
Here are some articles explaining California's role in forest mismanagement.[0][1][2]

I think what's interesting, and a real problem, is that all reasons about causes of the fires is seen as a political stance, when the factual causes of the fires should be not a political issue.

All of these things are true. They're not political statements:
1. CA mismanaged its forests by not doing proper controlled burns
2. Climate change making conditions ripe for fires
3. PG&E was negligent in maintaining its infrastructure

But people want to assign the blame to either #1 or (#2 and #3), and by doing that they are implicitly taking a political stance.

It's not productive and makes finding robust solutions to these problems harder.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/why-isnt-california-...

[1]: https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article239475468.html

[2]: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Top-scientist-knew-Bi...
The vast majority of forest land in California is owned by the federal government and is National Forest land. California can't just go and run controlled burns in those federally controlled forests. That would need to be done in cooperation or under the direction of the US Forest Service and should be funded by the US Forest Service since they own the land.

If the federal government wants better forest management in the National Forests, they should increase funding for forest management and hire more employees into the US Forest Service.

You can certainly blame California for allowing people to build homes at the wildland urban interface and for not requiring homeowners to take better fire defensibility measures. The forests are a more complicated issue and the feds take much of the blame.
Why would you use bangs, when Firefox and Chrome have perfectly usable custom search keywords?

Moreover, some of the bangs suck. Like for example !hn. I’d rather search HN via Google, with my own keyword, because that Angolia engine is crap.

Want to save urls in archive.org? You can add a keyword. Want to search a private list on Twitter? Add a keyword.

DDG bangs can’t do what your browser can. Also, for privacy purposes, sending your Google searches to DDG first is stupid.

On iOS btw, Safari doesn’t do custom search keywords, but Firefox does, and it can sync your keywords across devices.
Do you believe we should not penalize preventable deaths just because non-preventable deaths also happen?
Can you add [pdf] and [2011] to the title?
I've used ghi before just for issues:

https://github.com/stephencelis/ghi

It's pretty nice. I like seeing these features supported officially (I think hub supported many of these unofficially for years).

What tools are there like this for Gitlab? I remember struggling just to find a decent CLI for their issue tracker.

All my new stuff is on Gitlab and I prefer Gitlab since if I ever want to, I can always just management my own instance and migrate to it. No such options with Github.
It does make me wonder if a binocular affect similar to a
binaural affect would induce would do it. The ocular pathways are significant...
> Does the government think that if they had software patents they could get a Facebook too?

It'd be an amusing thought, given Facebook's success was particularly aided by patents not getting in their way and they've very rarely utilized patents to go after other companies (they pursued BlackBerry in 2018 after BlackBerry first filed a patent lawsuit against them).

I don't think the so called Six Degrees patent [1] for example was ever ultimately used to harm any companies, with Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus choosing not to try to use it against Facebook or any other networks (Twitter, Snapchat, etc). Their various investing activities into some of those companies certainly may have played a role in that restraint (with Zynga being heavily dependent on Facebook for much of its history also).

[1a] https://patents.google.com/patent/US6175831B1/en

[1b] https://www.cnet.com/news/investors-snub-friendster-in-paten...

[1c] https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/who-owns-facebooks-mos...
Periodic reminder that trolling, griefing, etc, are not always just fun and games, I guess.
My pet theory is that chronic disease like obesity, combined with pre-existing immunity, and possibly some correlation to vitamin-d deficiency explains most of how this has played out.

Factor in a glut of people who're living into advanced age, due to the progress of medical technology, so naturally in a precarious place against any infection. And of course, mismanagement of those people in nursing homes means guaranteed disaster.

So really, I think it's much less dangerous than we've let on, but deadly to certain demographics, that happen to be larger in the West (obese, diabetic, etc.).
There are some that remained in print, however, and so I held off on taking the plunge because I didn't feel like dropping $40 for Fire Emblem Echoes (for example), knowing it would probably be a year before I played it.

But knowing that the console and likely all first-party games will soon be OOP certainly lights a fire under me, as I'd much rather pay $40 for a new, sealed copy of the game than $70 for a cart-only copy of the game off eBay in a year's time.

Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology evidently went OOP while I wasn't looking, and the Ebay price has already skyrocketed. Argh!

EDIT: And yes, I've got a couple from the eShop (Devil Survivor's 1 & 2 and Soul Hackers), but I prefer carts since they're not locked to my system/account. And who knows when Nintendo will decide to shut down the eShop, just like they did for the Wii shop?
You can recommend just based on content. I hardly ever open the youtube homepage. And often open links in incognito mode. Still get to see all these recommendations next to a video.

I don't see how you could not have a "recommendation bubble" as long as you have recommendations. Even if they were to be 100% manual it's still a bubble of some kind.

Not only that, you effectively have these bubbles outside the internet too. A book will recommend further reading, friends will recommend certain things and so forth. There's no escaping it.

When I go to the YouTube homepage these recommendations are absolute junk. Links friends send me are much more relevant and influential.

IMO the most charitable reading of this initiative is that they believe the algorithm is somehow biased towards exposing and warming people to harmful content in an unobvious way.
>BepiColumbo will get much closer to Venus next time — only about 550 kilometers away.

Is this a typo or will the spacecraft actually pass that close to Venus?
There are other free-as-in-beer options but the only ones that don't have a risk of this happening are the open source packages, of which FreeCAD and SolveSpace are the only current viable 3D options.

If you need a parametric cad package for small assemblies or occasional use FreeCAD is most likely workable. I've been using FreeCAD in a light-duty professional capacity for several years now and will be happy to help out anyone who wants to transition to it (email is in my profile).

They have a decent tutorials page[0] here for getting started with the basics.

[0] https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Tutorials
I do not believe that fires are being started at anywhere near the maximal rate allowed by forest conditions. I DO believe that having vastly more fires started (on the order of 100x or more) would reduce the overall deaths and ecological damage, though. (Having more fires more often makes each fire smaller and less intense, which massively decreases the risk to life) To the best of my knowledge, this belief is shared by most modern forestry experts.
Censorship? It seems to me that they want to use the data for research.
Isopropyl alcohol is still difficult to obtain in stores, which is interesting. It is insanely easy to make, unlike N95 masks, which are pretty specialized.
I'm very much in favour for the issues Murray is fighting for.

My opinion is that Murray is disservice for the cause.
The minute the government comes to censor you, I sense opinions will change. Do not give up that right.
> Because 'anti price gouging' laws prevent the price going high enough to make it worth someone going to extreme efforts to upscale production.

While theoretically price gauging is an incentive to increase production, if that's all you're thinking about, you're dealing with a toy model that has little connection to the real world. Toy models can be super compelling and elegant, but that doesn't make them reality. You have to deal with other factors, like

* The influence of parasitic middlemen only looking to flip goods and drive up the price for quick personal profit. In most of these cases, the period of increased demand is so short this is the only effect you'll see, since there's no time to bring new capacity online, but you have all the downsides of increased prices.

* Does price gouging actually direct the scarce resource to where it's needed? Markets often are very irrational, so this can't reasonably be assumed (e.g. during a famine, the market would direct food to the rich and well-fed even if they just were going to waste it on opulent banquets, because they have the money to pay the price).

* People are actually motivated by things other than greed, even though models of behavior are simplified by assuming greed is their only (or main) motivation.

* New production will come online to meet demand, even without price gouging. How much more production would price gouging motivate? Is that production worth the social cost?

* You can't build a sustainable greed-motivated business on building factories to price-gouge. A brand new market entrant is likely to have a pretty poor product compared to established players, and will likely go bankrupt once demand returns to normal. They might not even get their product out the door in time to take advantage of the high prices. It could be a predictable case of "buy high, sell low."

* New techniques will be developed to more efficiently use current production, which may pull the rug out from under anyone who made a heavy capital investment based on the surge demand.

* Etc.

> Without those laws, the price going from $1 per mask to $10 per mask would still be very much affordable for everyone who really needs a mask, and factories who can successfully get decent production underway will earn lots, making it worthwhile to take on the risk of chasing a (possibly short lived) demand.

IIRC, the price gougers drive up the price even higher than $10.
I found the SOC 2 very useful. Not because I make any Ops or Engineering changes based on the process. It made me think about risks to the business as a whole and the concept of controls to mitigate and monitor those risks.

For example, what is everyone doing to minimize 3rd party risks? How do you know that the whole team understands why PII data should be avoided when possible?
Masks are disposable and light. It's rather unavoidable that some will be lost even if every user dutifully tried to properly dispose of them. I know I've had a mask fall from my pocket on a couple occasion.
I agree with the concerns that society is raising with unlimited free speech at scale via the internet today. Radicalization is a real problem.

But I think decentralization and legal liability are better solutions. Drop section 230 and it becomes legally fraught and prohibitively expensive for Facebook to allow disinformation and hate groups to organize on its platform.

Get serious about anti-trust so that one monopoly / monopsony isnt allowed to own another and now Facebook and Instagram have to be split up, as well as Google and YouTube.

In a decentralized world with many more small networks, the scariest stuff (like state sponsored election manipulation) becomes much, much harder. With the addition of legal liability for the content your platform distributes, I think we’d see a shift toward far more HN-like sites and far less Facebook dominance.

Finally, consider that our democratic process in the US needs to be more resistant to polarization and radicalization. First past the post voting and a lack of proportional representation are the key drivers of broken democracy in the US over the last thirty years. These are fixable!
Illinois cannabis updates to be aware of
PG&E did request to be able to clear brush up to 15 feet away from the power lines which I believe Gov. Newsom granted a CEQA exemption to them to do[1]. Prior to that, they were only allowed to clear four feet.[2]
That doesn't change the broken equipment but some of the blame can be placed on environmental regulations that cause this.
What I am not sure of is whether environmental regulatory approval decreases funding and/or increases costs/time of repairing power lines. The power line upgrades do have to be reviewed and approved by environmental regulators. Here is an example[3].

[1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/california-tests-...

[2]: https://www.sierraclub.org/california/cnrcc/pge-clearcuts-po...

[3]: https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/Environment/Info/mha/cabrillosantayn...
In reality, and like most things these days, this will only promote more division and more identity politics.
I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
Those are other factors that cause sparks from power lines that are independent of maintenance. sparks are going to occur whether the towers are replaced with brand new ones every 10 years or if they leave them until there starts to be problems and then they go look to see what needs replacing.
I don't even know how to argue on this. The average HN poster is definitely better than the average 8chan poster.

But that does not mean all HN posters are free of being hateful/discriminating against certain groups of people. Be it by accident or willfully.
> bullying can drive people to suicide or indeed bring them to commit terrorist acts.

You think bullying on twitter has caused 0 deaths?
When you are making software that is used to make life and death decisions, privacy should not be the top priority.
On EU democracy, maybe you need to write another chapter about the Council of Ministers.

In this particular file of the UPCA, Ministers have a direct conflict of interests, as their ministries would get money for the renewal fees of the Unitary Patent.
It’s due to the Retina displays. The scaled resolutions don’t map in a clean way to pixels. The renderer renders everything at the native resolution of the panel and then has to downscale it to the scaled resolutions. For the “native” Retina view, it’s just /2, so it’s easy and pixel perfect. The others are more like /1.523134... and there’s more work to figure out what color each pixel should be.
GDS looks good only when you compare it to the big consultancies who previously won IT contracts through a combination of guanxi and bribery.

GDS is best seen through an anti corruption lens.
Just googling for:

France breaks international law
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181017-amnesty-france-vi...

Spain breaks international law:
https://www.icj.org/spain-conviction-of-catalonian-leaders-v...

Poland breaks international law
https://www.ecre.org/human-rights-organisations-poland-viola...

I don't think I need to search for any about USA, each of us remembers at least 5 from very recent history.
There is a benefit to specialisation but I think your example of migrations probably isn't a good one. Those projects have a tendency to stretch out because you can rarely get a handle on the data. The customer will tell you they've given you everything then a week later start complaining about something you haven't seen (but is still your problem).

Of course you could argue this needs to be tied down before you start work but often this is the bulk of the work. Even if you did get something in writing it's turned into an adversarial relationship once you start refusing work or demanding more money.
This is done even in Israel, a middle eastern country with not too much rain. They usually use some kind of flexible cement on the walls instead for plastic sheets though.

If you do that while building the cost is not significant, you don't need significant digging and the materials are not expensive.
This would be more concerning if free speech wasn't limited so much already. Screws are already tightened so much you will barely notice difference.
Ultra Safe Nuclear
Interview with ESports General Manager
Thanks for the recommendation, I just tried it and it seems perfect!

Contrary to your experience, I was even able to create events from thunderbird that would show up on O365. They only show up on sync however (which does not seems to be automatic, only on timer). Maybe that's the reason why it did not appear to work for you?
Investments between US and China drop to lowest level in nearly a decade
Oh no it will survive. Yahoo-ificating itself in the process.