skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, the fundamental assumption of a market-based economy is that there is some nexus between paying for a product and the existence of that product. That's the way that the market can reward and therefore optimize for things people want. For your average for-profit company, that's a reasonably safe assumption.

When you decide to donate to a non-profit as if you were paying for a product, that assumption doesn't necessarily hold. In this case, you know fairly clearly it doesn't hold: the money doesn't go towards either the future development of the product, the continued existence of the service, or the motivation of people in the future to set up things like Wikipedia (no future Jimmy-Wales-in-2001 is going to be influenced by the 2015 Wikimedia financials). As a charitable donor, you cannot create such a nexus just by wanting it to exist.

(However, what you can create is a nexus between your charitable donation and the fundraising department of whoever you're giving to - all the more if you appear to donate in response to fundraising campaigns and not in response to the actual work the organization is doing.)

This is also why I'm a skeptic of large companies/conglomerates, which have the revenue to continue their existence basically regardless of any individual product. Very few companies operate internally on a market-based economy; they operate on the human judgment of whether management likes you and what you do. That means that a small new project that makes significant profit as a percentage of its expenses might still be a drop in the bucket of the company as a whole, and a politically-important project that's losing money might still continue to be funded if the company can afford its losses. The company might (entirely rationally) decide that "strategically" it should continue to invest in that product, which is to say that it should take advantage of the fact that it's not subject to the usual market pressures to drive out smaller or even differently-shaped competitors that are.
US Postal Service Files a Patent for Voting System Combining Mail and Blockchain
According to that article you linked, the method in which they were using puts the 1979 literacy rate at 0.6%.

"The more recent focus on illiteracy has centered on functional literacy, which addresses the issue of whether a person's educational level is sufficient to function in a modern society. The earlier surveys of illiteracy examined a very fundamental level of reading and writing. The percent of illiteracy, according to earlier measurement methods, was less than 1 percent of persons 14 years old and over in 1979."

I don't know where that 99% figure that John Gatto Taylor came from. He did talk about a significantly lower literacy rate in the 1970s. I think if one were to use functional literacy as the metric, there would still be a similar decrease literacy rate.

And no, Taylor was not trying to paint the past with rose-colored glasses. Whether or not the farming society did a good enough job as citizens, the frame in which education was viewed was much different. The things from the past is not necessarily better, but neither are the way we are doing things right now.
Well that's fine, but banks and Gmail (and even Wix sites) will advertise TLS 1.2+ and be just dandy as the web browser will choose the latest and greatest.

But what harm does allowing 1.0 if you want to read a static HTML web page from 2001 about the Cowboy Bebop anime series?
Facebook wants to leave EU (and earth is flat) [pdf]
I hope they replicate the high level of product quality that Blizzard was shipping from 1995 to 2012 but not the thing where they're infamous in the game industry for underpaying people.
Regarding all of the comments about the importance of language links in the sidebar: if you look here you will see that the language links will be moved to a button/menu in the article header (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improveme...)
If you're on a flight path then you can be impacted by a base several miles away...when the wind is from a certain direction. Other houses at the same distance get no noise.

Flight paths do not tend to be marked on maps.

(Note, I used to contract for a small airline. Noise is more complicated than you'd think.)
> He suggested that Reddit users are more skeptical and discerning than other people online, making it difficult for conspiracy theories to gain traction on the platform.

Yeah, /r/The_Donald, /r/conservative, /r/politics, etc. beg to differ. Reddit's community is mostly young and largely clueless. Any sub-reddit that maintains any level of quality at all does it through insane amounts of moderation, like /r/askscience or /r/history that will straight-up delete any comment that doesn't cite a legit source.

That said, reddit has been taking steps to crack down on bots and toxic communities: shadow-banning users suspected of being bots, quarantining subreddits, etc., so they deserve some credit for that. It certainly hasn't made it impossible to astro-turf a campaign but has probably made it at least somewhat more difficult.
There is some research to suggest that (en) wikipedia's growth pattern (a peak followed by slow decline as beurocracy becomes ossified) is common in similar projects. So maybe they didn't do anything wrong they just failed to fix it. That said i dont think anyone really knows what to do about the editor decline.
Or it might be the first fighter with alien-derived anti-gravity...
I continue to find it amazing and admirable that it is a trait of humanity (or some people within humanity) to want to record/create/leave behind information about the world and explain it to others. At little to no reward to themselves aside from satisfaction and fulfillment.
Cirrus clouds are an extremely small fraction of the overall surface area of clouds on planet earth. That is not an indication of controlling clouds.

Clouds are the result of the condensation of water on particulates in the atmosphere. Over 65% of Earth's surface area is liquid water. Oceans have deep currents that fluctuate in cycles and influence climate dramatically and have done so for billions of years and before humans even existed.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/85843/cloudy-earth

This article by NASA covers that story well. "One study based on nearly a decade of satellite data estimated that about 67 percent of Earth’s surface is typically covered by clouds. This is especially the case over the oceans, where other research shows less than 10 percent of the sky is completely clear of clouds at any one time. Over land, 30 percent of skies are completely cloud free."

Cirrus clouds from airplanes could slightly influence local conditions, but would not even come close to having a global effect. The magnitude of change is not significant when compared to the ocean cloud cover.

At any rate, even something like cosmic ray flux can induce increase in cloud cover albedo as noted by Svensmark: http://apreat.ovh/henrik-svensmark-force-majeure-the-suns-ro...

From above "(the net effect of clouds is to cool the Earth by about 20–30 W/m2)" That is, clouds have an order of magnitude higher effect than trace greenhouse gases. That means even a 10% change in average cloud cover would more than exceed (on the downside) any radiative forcing caused by greenhouse gases. And this makes sense when you think about it. Clouds are capable of almost completely reflecting solar energy back into space.

This is where volcanism comes into play. When stratospheric injection of sulfates occurs from large volcanic explosions, an increase in cloud cover happens and a subsequent decrease in global temperatures occurs. This process we do not control, and volcanoes are perfectly capable of inducing ice ages on their own and we are powerless to stop that:

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

At any rate, NASA has admitted as much that our understanding and modeling of clouds and their effect on climate is extremely poor and that current climate models do not accurately account for their influence. Here's a great interview from JPL on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra9AFNco3lI
> but it is going to a management class fighting over project funding for new initiatives

Why are they fighting to fund new initiatives when Jimmy has to beg for donations just to keep the lights on? I want my money to go towards keeping current Wikipedia's lights on, not funding the next big idea some manager has.
I am really happy to finally see them adding some functionality to add custom middlewares to Traefik. However it leaves a bad taste in my mouth that in order to use it, you have to sign up to their new SaaS. Especially when keeping in mind that this is the "most requested feature" of the community.
To my knowledge, a handful of emulators have attempted to recreate the HP-48's slow display, but I'm not aware of any surviving CHIP8/SCHIP programs that try to take advantage of this behavior to produce grayscale. XO-CHIP bitplanes are indeed somewhat similar to alternating framebuffers, as you describe, from a programming standpoint.
Lots of books (in major digital bookstores like ibooks) are published as "epub" which is basically html.
TikTok's content-moderation time bomb
At Least 380 Whales Dead in Australia's Largest Ever Mass Stranding
Yeah, it's definitely about the "direction". I also agree with you that the OP is yet another "monads are burritos" kind of tutorial. Unfortunately it's a difficult concept to grasp and everyone has to think through it by themself in order to "get" it.
There is no "usual flu vaccine", they make a new one twice a year, meant to address whatever strain is in circulation.
I haven’t read Dune, so when I saw “mentat,” I immediately thought of mentats from Fallout (a chem to boost intelligence stats for a brief period).
I have no idea what's most CEO's opinions are on political subjects, and prefer to keep it that way. I would certainly work with CEO that has different opinions than I do - in fact, for all I know, I may already be.
Peeking into Elixir
California to ban sale of new gas-only cars in 2035 under Newsom order
Regarding the comments about the importance of language links in the sidebar: if you look here you can see that the language links will be moved to a button/menu in the article header — https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improveme....

The conclusions of the user testing show that people have a much easier time finding them in the new location.
When was the last time you where overwhelmingly happy after helping someone?
Whether it be a family member, a friend or a customer/client. When was the last time you helped someone and you where unreasonably happy for the person? Especially if you didn't get anything personally from it. 2020 needs some good vibes and I'd love to hear how you've helped others.
> That said i dont think anyone really knows what to do about the editor decline.

Pay them? Tens of millions of dollars in donations, what's the excuse not to?
I thought for a second you were joking about Intel strongARMing its OEMs against AMD...

They also had Merrifield and Moorefield back in 2014 for the smartphone market. Not as good as Snapdragons but not terrible. Makes you wonder what if Intel did not pull the plug.
Curl has it built in:

curl -O 'https://example.org/[2-4].jpg'

(quotes disable any kind of shell expansion)
There's cross-reactivity, and they target both Influenza A and Influenza B strains (usually), so you'll get broader protection than strictly the strains most targeted by the vaccine. That said, you can ask the pharmacist for a copy of the FDA package insert, or google it yourself for the specific vaccine they're giving you. The package insert, under "DESCRIPTION" (Section 11), should tell you the precise strains that the antigens were developed from.

For example, google "FLUVIRIN fda package insert",and the one for the 2017/2018 flu season on page 8 you'll find "A/Singapore/GP1908/2015,IVR-180 (an A/Michigan/45/2015 (H1N1)pdm09- like virus; A/Hong Kong/4801/2014, NYMC X-263B (H3N2) (an A/Hong Kong/4801/2014- like virus); and B/Brisbane/60/2008, wild type (a B/Brisbane/60/2008-like virus)".

Google the same document for Fluzone quadrivalent, and you should find, for the 2020/2021 flu season, the strains "A/Guangdong-Maonan/SWL1536/2019 CNIC-1909 (H1N1), A/Hong Kong/2671/2019 IVR-208 (H3N2), B/Phuket/3073/2013 (B Yamagata lineage), and B/Washington/02/2019 (B Victoria lineage)" on pg 21.
The capability is still developing. Europe has satellites capable of detecting methane sending back new data every day now. Processing that data to identify leaks is still a challenge, not something we have been able to batch in a nightly computer job. We can get there, but the very first satellite methane dataset is still only a few years old.
The thing that strikes me as a smell here is the lack of harm mitigation by the Courts here. It should be a reasonably foreseeable outcome that changing the election operating procedures this late into this election cycle is a terrible idea.

The correct balance for the public interest is to continue this election as normal, and for the next election cycle, ensure that people are properly briefed on the expectations.

Assuming that there isn't an ulterior motive at work of course. I'm not aware of PN's situation if there is one; so on that I'll remain silent.
The New Yorker did a fantastic reenactment of this. There's a short clip (1) on Youtube but the original is much longer and becomes quite bizarre very quickly.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuDP99eGo2w
The only thing keeping me from switching is the removal of "distributed LetsEncrypt" in 2.0. I get that it's a non-issue for k8s setups with cert-manager, but people aren't always using k8s and it's still a feature in the enterprise edition.
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Shortly before the pandemic turned everything upside-down I quit my job and moved across the country to focus on my creative projects. Pet chickens are much closer on the horizon now. :)

I'm not sure when I'll be in the right headspace to work on comics again, but I do have plenty of ideas.
I'm really glad to hear this. Morhaime, Bowder, and all deserve to create games that they feel attached to. Just grab Samwise and Metzen so we can go back to the 2000s :)
The barely concealed subtext here seems to be that this is not at all about monopolies, and is really about forcing Google to return search results favorable to conservative politicians and ideologies.
How machine learning is used at CERN
On this episode of The Artists of Data Science, we get a chance to hear from Santona Tuli, a physicist and data scientist who has a PhD in physics specializing in nuclear science and quantum chromodynamics.

She currently leads a team of five doctoral and postdoctoral physicists studying a new plasma phase of matter and the elusive nuclear effects in high energy proton and nucleus collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

It was an absolute delight hearing Santona’s advice, and I believe her unique perspectives can help all data scientists!

WHERE TO FIND SANTONA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/santona-tuli/

SHOW NOTES

[00:01:21] Introduction for our guest today

[00:02:40] The path into data science

[00:03:20] What the heck is quantum chromodynamics?

[00:03:54] Data science and the study of nuclear forces

[00:04:49] The future of data science

[00:08:17] Data science and empathy

[00:09:27] How to be a great data scientist

[00:10:48] What is CERN?

[00:13:13] What is this Upsilon particle?

[00:15:15] The data science work flow and particle physics

[00:20:25] Data reduction and data bottlenecks

[00:23:43] Selection cuts and rules based clustering

[00:29:43] The importance of feature engineering

[00:32:31] How do you view data science? Do you view it as an art or a science?

[00:34:17] How does the creative process come to life in Data science?

[00:36:39] Santona talks about the IMAX movie that she stars in

[00:40:43] The difference between interpretable and explainable machine learning.

[01:12:02] What would you say is the most fundamental truth of physics that all human beings should understand?

[01:12:19] What do you think is the most mysterious aspect of our universe?
> A specific studio couldn't unionize because they would just get dissolved and reformed under a new LLC.

If your workers are members of a union... how does closing the company and starting a new one help? They're still in the union.
Mozilla's last three CEOs (Baker, Beard and Eich) all had worked at Mozilla before. Mozilla appears unable to recruit outside CEOs even with its current CEO compensation.
The Tesla sales person told me to keep the keycard in my wallet or somewhere similar.
I just want them to remove the "collapsible sections hiding most of the content" misfeature from the mobile interface. Every time I view a Wikipedia page on my phone, I scroll down and click Desktop, because it's easier than playing whack-a-mole with a bunch of section titles.
> U.S. agencies responsible for enforcing money laundering laws rarely prosecute megabanks that break the law, and the actions authorities do take barely ripple the flood of plundered money that washes through the international financial system.

From your first link. It sounds like the law enforcers need to do better at enforcing the law. If they can't enforce it against the banks, how can we expect the banks to enforce the law against themselves?
I think they meant when they go for their regularly scheduled -"usual" flu vaccine, and their question was meant to address what strains would be targeted in a given year.
Ah, you mean, the "target"?
Well, people (amateurs, seasoned, professionals) who want to build responsive websites faster with the help of a powerful visual editor which includes live multi-page editing, CSS & SASS styling, CSS Grid editor and support for Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, Foundation and WordPress.
"Gardner was instrumental in raising Wikipedia's warchest and WMF's staffing. In 2011/12 - the last year for which figures are available - the Foundation raised $38.4m, up from $5m in 2007/08"

Wikipedia Foundation exec: Yes, we've been wasting your money
Editors should get dosh, bureaucrats get too much, says outgoing fundraising chief

https://www.theregister.com/2013/10/08/wikipedia_foundation_...
Given that the original Rust compiler was implemented in OCaml, it seems natural to assume that's where some of these features were inspired.

Though I'm not really sure that it matters.
Aren't we talking about the ability to break into specific devices like the phone or laptop of a deceased victim or a non-cooperative suspect? I'm not talking about dragnet surveillance at all here.

If you can come up with a system where it's possible to break into any device without having the ability to break into every device I'm all ears.
> but they've never needed the code either.

That's true, but having the code of a game usually makes modding it easier and allows mods to go even farther
Republicans Ramp Up Rhetoric Against ‘Anarchist Jurisdictions’
As I stated: I'm not against crypto in general (even for "comedy browsing") as it helps against mass surveillance. I'm just not sure as to what disabling 1.0 in the browser does.

People who really care can enable 1.2+ on their servers and the browser will use it, but someone who just has a site up 'for fun' could be cut off.

In some ways it motivates people to not even bother with HTTPS because it now because higher maintenance to keep up with all the settings. This could actually encourage just leaving HTTP, which could be worse.
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> meaning that they're close to plateauing

[citations needed]. Their model Y numbers show that their deliveries are growing consistently.

> Based on numbers out of Europe, it appears that Tesla has already nearly saturated the market of potential upper-class EV buyers

Europe gets its Teslas by ship in blocks and this results in lumpy numbers. And even then lower numbers could also be due to the fact that they have a local factory being built out in Berlin right now, which would result in cheaper cars.

> Notably, Tesla's profits were (again) due to higher regulatory credit sales to other car companies.

If you look at their balance sheet, you would see that their operating expenses have been flat over the last several quarters while revenues and deliveries/production have gone up. Regulatory credit sales exist, and I do not fault them for using that to further invest their returns into growth instead of showing a profit.

Currently, just the current sales of Model 3, S and X alone more than cover all of their operating expenses every quarter. Model Y and future models only add to their income going forward.

Further evidence of this is that one year ago they had $2B in cash. They raised $10B from capital raises after that. They now have $12-$13B in cash, during a year where they brought a factory from zero to full production + started work on two more factories. This demonstrates significant positive cash-flow.

> EVs are the horses in this situation ... most people don't have the means to charge EVs at home... nor do they have the spare time to spend hours charging their EVs

I owned an EV in a small town in Iowa for over one year living in an apartment with no access to home charging. I hardly had to wait "hours for charging their EVs". I charged while grocery shopping or going to the gym and that was perfectly suffice even in peak winter. Many employers here offer at least 120V outlets in their employee parking lots which is again, enough for commutes. 150-250kW supercharging makes road-trips easy as well.

> or the foreseeable future, regular ICE cars are still far more convenient

Tesla is constantly driving down the cost and even right now, from a cost-of-ownership sense an EV is a no-brainer in the price range that it sits in. They have also dominated every market segment they have entered so far and also taken market share from lower-end vehicles [https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-3-cars-trade-in-...].

As the effects of climate-change become more drastic, there will be regulatory moves to curb ICE vehicles as well as add more charging infrastructure. You can already see some of this in CA right now. Britain is planning on banning ICE vehicle sales by 2030, California by 2035.
Where does Tesla market the idea that "all you need is the phone"? When you enable the phone as a key, it explicitly tells you to keep your keycard with you as a backup and that the phone is for convenience only.

People may primarily use their phone because it's convenient (I definitely do) but that doesn't mean Tesla marketed it that way to me.
I wish instead of UI tweaks they would do something about toxic admins and power editors spreading misinformation with the assistance of kafkaesque bureaucracy and censorship.