skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. What use is a well-preserved grainy, flickery video that no one watches? Even more, how do we understand history if we only see it through a blurry, scratchy lens? It might change our perception of the people who lived 100 years ago if we can only imagine them in a limited color scheme.

I agree that the originals shouldn't be lost but there's no reason not to do restoration if it is done carefully or tastefully.
How to get a job as a Python/Django back end developer roadmap
Thanks, we use Cuelang as the core UX for a developer focused "high code" paradigm.

https://hofstadter.io
This is awesome and I love every bit of it. I just wished there was a login that I could associate my progress with it. Nice work!
An LMG sounds like a good choice.
Then start sending random bytes of everyone. Random bytes are undistinguishable from encrypted data. If everyone is in possession of what appears to be encrypted data, then it's no longer reasonable cause for suspicion.
> Is Facebook-the-company the party responsible for spreading misinformation? No, misinformation is driven by people and organizations who, without Facebook, would find different ways of doing so like they have before Facebook.

I disagree on two grounds:

1. Facebook actively manages and develops an algorithm for what to show to whom

2. Joint liability, or possibly several liability
You're right, huh. There's nothing "objective" here to match the frame rate here to (the cameras were hand-cranked AFAIK)... it does feel like the speed is a little slower than reality, though 1.25x feels a tad too fast.

I do wonder why they didn't bother to fix that a little?
But "science" doesn't give you the answer of how to weigh costs and benefits relative to individuals and communities.
It's not just insulin. If you have an autoimmune disease, Enbrel or other biological agents cost all the about same in America. Over 5k per month.

All other countries price the drug at around 1 to 1.5k per month.

I'd been getting it from other countries over the years but, due to covid, it's not an option really.

The medical industry and its regulatory support by the government are doing a lot to destroy this country.
What do you use for time-tracking?
I've been using Freshbooks for the last 13 years and after being forced into their new interface, it's been a broken mess for me.

I'm looking to track time, send out invoices, and allow clients to pay those invoices online. Any suggestions?
This is what I found out by printing the environment variables: https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1306343018488791040
Of whom Queen Elizabeth is a descendant
Buttplug that expands outwards, and has bluetooth.
well considering we already subsidize the early R&D for these companies with our University system, and insulin hasn't changed in 50 years, I see no reason we can't price control certain drugs. Could even use this as a guide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_Model_List_of_Essential_Me...
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Well, those might be dismissed as anecdotal examples but Automattic, Zapier, Basecamp and GitLab clearly show that remote-first or remote-only companies can be highly successful and efficient businesses with friendly, conducive work environments.
A lot of cooking styles do not throughly and consistently heat all food to the required temperature for the required time to be 100% safe. And if you try to cook for extra time just to be safe, you end up drying out the meat a lot.
Google's Cloud Run the SaaS doesn't use KNative + K8s under the hood. It just uses a compatible HTTP API.
The wikipedia page is a good reference. I was refreshing my recollection of this story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....
This is a very weird distortion of terminology. I get it, you hate anti-covid measures (I read your other posts), but most of the "common old" coronaviruses are wildly different from the SARS-2 virus, 67% of genetic difference represent hundreds of years of evolution; the only "similarity" they have is belonging to the same family of coronaviruses. It is like saying, yeah we share 99% of genes with monkeys therefore we are the same thing.
Sure, our healthcare system is crazy. But is healthcare really inherently complicated? This is a solved problem basically everywhere else in the world.
Which attack(s) would that be?
WSL is classic "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish". Notice that they are taking over Board positions related to Linux.
Yeah, so? Most acts of "money laundering" consist of nothing more or less than the basic principles of privacy applied to financial transactions. The fact that the government has somehow managed to normalize intrusive mass surveillance in the domain of finances does not justify extending the surveillance to other areas.
Agreed. I'd love to use Wayland for everyday use but the libinput touchpad drivers are impossible.

Like you stated, the big problem is very fine movements just don't work in libinput. On X11/synaptics I can make movements as fine as rolling my fingertip in place on the touchpad, or drawing a minuscule circle, and it will pick it up. Libinput on the same touchpad does nothing, it's like it's stuck in molasses. And libinput has almost no configuration options so there's nothing I can even tweak.

I really hope they address this soon, or I'll be stuck on X11 forever!

Edit: I'm using a Thinkpad P1 Gen2, a top-tier recent-gen workstation laptop, and this is a big enough problem where it's forcing me to use X11 on Ubuntu 20.04.
Reminiscent of the medieval pear of anguish.
> makes it look like any other 1 minute clip of a snow fight using a bad phone camera

But isn't that exactly the point?

Instead of making the past "exotic" and different and remote... it makes it seem just like us now.

Because let's face it: people were the same back then. But because of how serious and black-and-white photos usually are, we're usually led to believe the past was far more alien than it was.
It started very innocent: Some consulting company apparently was tasked to create a prototype of the credit rating algorithm. Quite appropriately, I would say, they did so in Excel. As you can easily tweak the logic, show input, intermediate results and output. And all can be manipulated by the client who does not need to know a thing about programming to do so. Great.

From there it went downhill: Apparently someone up the hierarchy thought "Wow, that's 80% of what we need, let's just add a little UI and ship it"

They added a UI, but not as a VBA UI as you might hope. No, they did the whole UI in different worksheets. Storing any intermediate data ... also on worksheets. Long story short, it was a mess, and a slow one for that.

Oh, did I say this was a multi-lingual application?

Production rollout was on Jan 2nd, Dec 31st around 4pm I found a bug in the other language, on the one machine which had the this language configured. I believe this was the only time I ever saw a programmer literally run down the office to that machine to debug this issue.
I'm the developer of a wiki platform that allows editing of large structured texts (documents, books), and it took a whole day to type War and Peace into it. :)

https://quanta.wiki/n/war-and-peace

The book is mainly for demonstrating the platform capabilities, but I thought you guys might find this platform interesting.
It looks to be K8s + Istio, no scale to zero etc.

https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1306343018488791040
Let's say the odds stay where they are, and Trump wins again.

That would be hitting on a 30% chance in 2016 and hitting on a 20% chance in 2020. That's a 6% chance overall.

6% likely outcomes happen all the time. It would be a textbook example of "resulting" to draw a conclusion based on this.
> This is a uselessly semantic argument.

I'm sorry, but it is your argument that is uselessly semantic.

Yes, people could write Java code where all the type ascriptions are for Object. It is technically possible. But nobody does this. It has nothing to do with "the type ecosystem has been around longer" — it has to do with the fact that the types do something in Java, and always have and always will. You cannot compile a Java program and just not check the types.

But people do write Python libraries without type annotations, and that's fine. There's plenty of not-explicitly-typed Python in the world because that's all there was for a long time before the introduction of optional type annotations. And a lot of people prefer to write Python without type annotations at all because that's one of the benefits of a dynamically typed language — explicit types are unnecessary.

I think your argument is useless because you're intentionally conflating these things and arguing that people could write type-less Java, but since this is not actually done in practice it has no bearing in this conversation.

The point originally being addressed was that in Python you either need fully annotated libraries or else you cannot simply "use MyPy with Any turned off" as the far-parent comment suggested. And my point has been that this is a genuine concern in Python because there's lots of Python code without annotations because Python the language doesn't require or even use the annotations, so they are (from the perspective of the language) purely artifacts of no consequence. This is not the case in real, actually used Java code.

Please stop making arguments in bad faith to "prove a point" or whatever. The point the entire time has been about the use of type annotations in practice, and you appear to be intentionally disregarding this in an attempt to... I don't even know. What are you after here? Do you just not like that somebody disagreed with you? Like, I'm genuinely unsure what your purpose is other than to be contrarian. The concern about "are all the third-party libraries I'm using fully annotated?" is a genuine one in Python that is never even thought about when writing Java (have you ever paused to wonder this when writing Java?), so your argument amounts to a semantic debate that has no basis in the real world.
I hadn't seen the index - that's neat.

In terms of the documentation quality I do agree that it's documented but not obviously, you mentioned that it's in the "SQL Functions Returning Sets" section however this section isn't indicated to by the Array functions and operators page - additionally while, if you know that you're dealing with an issue related to SRFs it's pretty easy to find - attempting to get at that information via google isn't going to get you anything unless you specifically hone in on set returning functions. I ended up finding that doc page after finding a SO answer that mentioned SRFs while searching for "postgres unnest cartesian product".

The information is in the documentation, but the documentation isn't always super good at linking to other relevant portions of the documentation and, honestly, reading the documentation about the feature you need is reasonable, but I don't expect most people are reading the full postgres docs before starting to play around with it. So I don't disagree that the information is there, but I do think it is mostly inaccessible due to the structure of the documentation.
what are the chances that this person isn't fired?
Synthesizing trumped up controversy is a great way to get coverage.
And Russia and Ukraine
> Google only develop Android and Chrome to fuel their ad business, those two product can’t turn a profit on their own

That's a good point. If we took these products to be public infrastructure, like roads, would we consider them being owned by ad companies a good idea? I'm leaning towards maintainence schemes for these public infrastructure projects similar to what we have for physical public infrastructure, like roads, rail, bridges, etc. Them being international would be an interesting challenge of course, but I think it's solvable.
What Does Fleetwood Mac and Ocean Spray Have in Common?
Isn't it less documented than the following time, and therefore containing more surprises as we keep literally digging into the past?
By what factor does it increase the apparent fovea size?
Somehow, every other country on earth seems to be managing.
Of course it's easy to see why Pennies are still made in the US (at a loss, as you said), and it's the same reason so many things are the way they are (Healthcare, education, roads, etc.)

Someone is making a lot of money from the status quo, and they will fight very hard to keep it.
The Fediverse has over 4M users
One problem with WSL as a development platform is that Windows loves to reboot YOUR machine. I've lost a lot of work that way until I installed native Linux on the machine.
Are you aware of the adjustments that were made by pollsters and meta-pollsters like 538 since 2018? Also, it's not like they were wrong in 2016 -- 538 had a 30% chance of a Trump victory.

I expected better statistical understanding from this audience, but maybe that only underscores how difficult it is to get people thinking correctly about probabilities.
> someday I will write a book

That would make a great coffee-table book. Some image on one page and a short narrative on the opposing page.
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Either that or describe it.
Your comment and the one higher in this chain makes it sound like a hard problem when it's only a problem for the United States and no other (1st world) country. I don't really understand how that's possible.
If drugs are too expensive, then at some point more lives/quality of lives are lost because people can't access them than are saved from more drug development.

A balance must be found between ensuring fair access at affordable prices, and ensuring fair returns to the pharma industry. This is precisely the goal of pharmaceutical price regulation in the UK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_Price_Regulatio...
Smart consumers won't buy a $10 memory card on Ali because it's likely to be a destructive fake, but people will buy Internet-controlled electronics for their favorite nether regions of their bodies. Amazing. I guess that's part of the thrill.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24692676
It's been a LONG time since I had to administer an SMTP server that handled mail for other people ... Is there a potential for, say, getting an intermediate gateway banned for sending invalid signatures by relaying them via it?
It's a safe bet that it's more common among jazz musicians than among classical musicians, who have access to the sheet music for practically everything they play.

Probably also more common among jazz musicians than rock musicians, who don't emphasize sheet music and music theory as much (as much, it's certainly more prevalent than outsiders would naively think).

And of course, all these categories blur together. There wasn't any reason to take his post and interpret it in absolutist terms.
I think it's mostly a matter of taste which syntax you prefer. Where Elixir has the most advantage, in my opinion, is Mix, the language's build tool / project config / task runner. You use the command line tool to compile your project, run your tests, and any other user-defined task you'd like. And you use the Mix module to define your project's dependencies, environments, and build targets in Elixir code. It's a really nice all-in-one Swiss Army knife compared to the cobbled-together build processes from disparate tools found in other languages.
Would be nice to be able to pick and choose. In the original the exposure is all over the place, and stabilizing it makes it much easier to watch. Smoothing out the camera shake makes a big difference. I can see the benefit of de-scratching. The colorization doesn't contribute much.
My understanding is the newer long acting insulins work so well for many it is like they no longer have diabetes, they can pretty much eat whatever they want and be fine. The older insulins require more careful management of diet and blood sugar levels than the long acting types and are less convenient for that reason.
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I don't think the cops ever needed widespread surveillance capability.

They can park a van across the street from my house or office. They don't need access to the telco infrastructure to do their jobs.

The lack of foresight in previous generations is not an excuse to perpetuate their mistakes.
All I could only ask for today is just a better ide support.
I don't like vscode; even though the plugin for intellij has improved, there is still a lot to be desired
BuJo: https://bulletjournal.com
Eddie Van Halen, grinning guitar god for a rock generation, dies at 65
> that's been standard practice for centuries, not "pure fabrication"

That's a logical fallacy: Argumentum ad antiquitatem [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition
What are you talking about when it comes to manufacturing insulin? I mean, yes, I definitely do want regulations around the safety of drug manufacturing, but beyond that what regulations specifically are you referring to that restrict the manufacturing of insulin?
> Working from home is a lot less efficient than an ideal office.

Only if you try to reimplement the traditional office and its processes in a WFH setting. That's an endeavour that's bound to fail.

In remote-first settings communication works differently, especially in that ideally it should happen mostly asynchronously, i.e. as written communication, which has the huge additional benefit of avoiding information silos through readily available documentation and decision records.
G Suite becomes Google Workspace ($12/month Unlimited plan becomes $12 2TB plan)
Experimenting with Elixir Radar [audio]
Speed up your Shopify store with prefetching
12 years is 2 terms for the Senate but for the majority of Congress, it's 6 terms.
Yes, in general it's worse across the board. It takes longer to start working and continues working longer, both things you want to avoid in short-acting insulins.
> presumably historians aren't upset about that

Few historians will rail against an inaccurate portrayal of historic events in fiction. For one, many enjoyable books or movies would be rather dull if authors didn't have the liberty to beef up the story.

However, historians will pipe up when fiction is taken for a historical fact. That's what historical research is all about: uncovering the facts and testing how those facts support different theses, narratives and perspectives.

This debate though, isn't about misrepresenting history through fictionalized stories. This is about enhancing the quality of the footage itself and how that impacts our response and understanding of the past. Which is something else.

The issue here is the intent with which such enhanced footage gets purposed and repurposed later on. Today, it's sights and sounds of cities, or a snowball fight. Tommorow, someone might apply those same techniques to reels of film which are culturally, socially and politically sensitive in order to elicit a specific, strong emotional response with their target audience.

If done subtly, an unsuspecting audience might never even realize that they are watching enhanced or re-touched footage, instead assuming or accepting that the footage was made during that era.

That's what is pointed out here: by enhancing the footage - removing the artefacts that show it's true age - you also remove barriers that create a gap between you and the past. For better or worst, that is.
Democrats had eight years to fix healthcare, they didn't fix this problem and they created numerous other problems.

This particular problem is due to heavy regulation creating a moat for large pharmaceutical companies to arbitrarily set prices. Republicans generally want to de-regulate, Democrats don't. Republicans generally want the free market to work things out, Democrats generally want the government to work things out.

Each side has been taking turns and as a result, we have had the government prevent the free market from working things out. We want everyone to be able to get healthcare, but we don't (or can't) force anyone to pay for insurance. We effectively incentivize people to not get insurance until they are sick, then we force insurance companies to take them on when they've never paid into the system. Somebody has to pay for all of it, and it ain't the government.
At least current browsers now show/ask for such permissions individually. You probably don't want to know how many permissions things like old XUL/XPCOM extensions would have required had they been forced to ask the user for them individually.
The Supreme court ruled that cross marketing agreements were okay. Which allows a drugs companies to buy off generic competitors. Also generic drug companies are colluding on prices and the government just occasionally fines the companies instead of throwing corporate officers in prison.
You're right about hospital care, but if you need insulin you'd get it from a GP, not a hospital.

Just about anyone can register for primary care. There isn't an "ordinarily resident" test for primary care. P142 of this: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/primary-medical-care-...

Ordinarily resident applies to secondary care, but not including detention in a mental health hospital under the mental health act and not including A&E treatment in the A&E unit.

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8.4 Who can register for free primary care services?

8.4.1 A patient does not need to be “ordinarily resident” in the country to be eligible for NHS primary medical care – this only applies to secondary (hospital) care. In effect, therefore, anybody in England may register and consult with a GP without charge.

8.4.7 It is important to note that there is no set length of time that a patient must reside in the country in order to become eligible to receive NHS primary medical care services.

8.4.8 Therefore, all asylum seekers and refugees, students, people on work visas and those who are homeless, overseas visitors, whether lawfully in the UK or not, are eligible to register with a GP practice even if those visitors are not eligible for secondary care (hospital care) services.