skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm also unaware of any disease that isn't more threatening to people in relatively poor health.

I had to think a while - sickle cell anaemia and malaria. I’m sure there will be others.
I didn't meant to say that this is a legit reason to use a DL instead of Github/a database. I just wanted to point out the difference. It may or may not matter in this case because the thread is very limited.
There are still very valid reasons to use a DL for example the XRPL had a uptime of 100% in the last year. GitHub certainly does not have that. Also using a public DL means zero maintenance. Again I use the XRPL as example it runs stable and public since over 8 years.
To use it you need nothing but an address of a node or better a few for backup because a single nodes obviously can have downtime.
No server, no domain register, no cloud computing provider, no backup plans, nothing. The only thing you pay is the Tx "fee" which is only there to prevent spam Tx. Its like 0.00001 XRP so thousands of transactions will cost you cents at most.

>And you think the actual implementation of the blockchain will be more secure and tamper pro of?

Yes, absolutely. Again XRPL as example because I know it best. There has never been a single byte tampered with in the last 8 years and its several TB of Tx data by now.
This is spot-on for some of us here. I told my friend last week that I'd like to come work construction with him and will be quitting my decently-paying programming job to go do so in 3 weeks. I'd started to interview at another tech company and realized that I couldn't bear the thought of programming for someone else again. I burned out so hard at my current job I can't conceive of working anywhere as a programmer and enjoying it. So I'm going to go pour concrete and frame walls and hope that someday I'll sit down at a computer and want to tell it what to do again. I do remember that magical feeling. I just can't feel it anymore.
What I find even worse is when you play FIFA and some random non-related british commentary triggers the "xbox" speech command. Infuriating, especially since you can't turn it off.
I've just discovered Headless Chrome crawler and it works pretty well. Not sure how well it will scale, but I'll index a few hundred sites only.

https://github.com/yujiosaka/headless-chrome-crawler
Petty gouda wince thestraining fun.

AFAIK it was at the level of super funky chording keyboards; with a lot of investment it could be a cool and impressive input method, but the personal investment side was too much for most users. There was an "assistive technology" user base that i dont think they ever realized they had.
Billionaire Miles Guo is an anti-CCP dissident. His website Gnews.org, is the only site I've come across with elicit Hunter Biden footage. I have no idea how/why he has that material, but I think if he sees an opportunity to undermine the CCP's public image by linking them to a corrupt drugged-out American "Princeling", he would capitalize on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Wengui#GNews

It's also the only site where I've seen the "BGY Program" mentioned. https://gnews.org/51672/
Imagine if Apple or Google shipped a digital SLR with all of their software magic onboard (or executed on a paired phone).
Is this like IPFS?

People have long described it as "Bittorrent inside a filesystem."
The market is a machine that routes society’s resources into making nearly everything. Making better routing decisions has immense value.

When someone can profit from the same decision everyone else would make by doing it 0.000000012 days more quickly, IMHO he’s exploiting a design flaw in the way the market clears. That’s amplifying noise rather than signal.
AstraZeneca is BigPharm! May not be as Merck or Pfizer, but they are on the big ones.
>We weren't there, we might not survive on that kind of climate for long periods, or the plants/animals we depend on. And the change is happening fast, fast enough to not leave much room for adaptation, you will get extinction of key pieces needed for our survival instead of adaptation. And something that is slower to adapt is a civilization tied to the ground by buildings and agricultural fields.

20,000 years ago the Earth was 6 celcius colder. From 20,000-10,000 years ago the Earth warmed 6 celcius. Humans benefitted greatly from this warming and we didn't yet have technology which enables us to survive extinction.

I believe asserting that climate change of an average increase of 1.8celcius as extinction level is quite inaccurate.

>And even if you can call "record" what can be indirectly deduced from ice cores, the records they are talking are methodically measuring and registering them live. Those records are the broken ones.

We could discuss why you believe that science to be inaccurate. Could you tell me more please?

>With the lockdown, less circulation and flying, it may have helped to add less carbon to the atmosphere than we the previous year. But adding less doesn't mean that will be a reduction of what is already is in excess, the carbon added to the atmosphere could stay there from decades to centuries, and we keep adding new carbon to that furnace (fossil fuels, and positive feedback releasing frozen carbon around the poles). Even with full zero emission the carbon that is already there will keep increasing global temperature averages.

I'm not sure I necessarily follow. The paris/kyoto accords are focusing on reducing emissions but your assertion is that we are passed the limit and that it continues due to a positive feedback loop. Then the proposals by the paris and kyoto accords are wrong. That would make me want to re-evaluate the entire topic.

Did you know that after 9/11 terrorist attacks and air traffic being grounded for 3 days dropped global temperatures by 1.1 celcius? Certainly something the airlines don't want the public to know; the amount of planes with giant engines spewing ridiculous amounts of diesel/jet fuel in the upper atmosphere has a huge effect on temperature.

Obviously we didnt end airtravel but we have dramatically reduced the amount of planes in the air. People are staying home in lockdown. We absolutely should be seeing reductions in temperature. Since we aren't, it makes me question the original premise.
yes because people in the control group would get sick. Once a certain amount of people get sick they see how many of those people were in control vs vaccine group. In your hypothetical, 100% of the sick people would be from the control group.
CWA?
But all kinds of complicated material-properties can affect the color our eyes see (to my understanding). That alone wouldn't be useful in this way. It's the fact that these signatures exist at an elemental level, and are consistent across all contexts, and can be teased apart at a cosmic scale that makes the technique so powerful.
My tolerance would be about the 2000 line level.

That isn't the point where I'd consider it non maintainable or anything, it's just the point where I'd probably consider the trade offs less worthwhile.
There was a post on HN a couple days ago about a loss of tech optimism. I've been searching for a bit and unable to find it for linking. It (and the associated comment thread) had no answers. This feels like as close as you can get to an answer.

My advice to anyone struggling with disillusionment in tech: get a job doing software at a non-tech company with a mission you care about. You'll remember that technology is in service of something. My years in entertainment are some of my favorite in my career to date.
What you can do when code is hard to review
upvar and uplevel were mind-blowing to me when I first learned tcl. It was relatively easy to derive new constructs that felt like part of the language.
Having not used Tcl since the 90s, I recently wrote some small graphical scripts in Tcl, basically tailing a text file, parsing the data, and producing a live animation[1]. The project was successful, but also reminded me about what I disliked about the language in 1994: As long as what you are doing is supported by the core language, it's "fine", but if you need to use an external library or need to do something beyond what the core does, it becomes quite tedious or even impossible. Also structured data is really badly handled. The article mentions defining your own operators and control flow, but is that something you ever really need? (Yes, occasionally, but not very often)

I believe now as then that the great contribution of Tcl was Tk (the graphical toolkit), which is fantastic and has bindings in other languages. I really wish GIMP had used Tk and improved it rather than inventing Gtk which is inferior in most ways.

Maybe this is all because I'm doing it wrong, writing scripts, and I should stick to its original purpose as an extension language, but it's easy enough to add C extensions to Lua or Python, and at some point you may end up writing a significant sized extension and the language will matter.

[1] http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs-talks.git;a=tree;f=2019...
George places an immense amount of emphasis on that one word (us), and thereby on the importance of he and Mary remaining together, of being numerous. And he does so fully aware of the uncertainty and the risk of failure—“or we drown.”

Thanks for the read. Life is more weatherable as an us, not a "me," and poems can be this direct live wire to transmit that reminder, not in interrogatives or commands, but in suggestions, gradual, increasing, until magically moving one's emotional compass to the point where there can be no doubt except that the feeling this art object elicited in you is The Truth. For this one, the Truth is that Us is greater than Me.
The ability to acquire a raw image over USB from a real camera would be amazing.
Surely even more common than Geography buffs are people who would Google "Borat Kazakhstan" prior to the interview and learn the whole secret. If he tells his subjects a different name so they can't Google him, then he could tell the subjects the name of a real country, but present the movie with the fake country the same as he might do for his name.
I like taking dictates for memos or writing text messages, especially when I'm walking around town and need to pay attention to traffic. It looks like I'm just on my phone as normal, so nobody sees that I'm actually just talking to myself. Sometimes the mistakes the AI maks are hillarios, but usually they're just annoying, as I need to manually edit them. But in the end, doing that takes a shorter amount of time than thumbing it in.
2020's fastest-rising tech jobs? Programming language PHP leads the way
Crazy that the ceo is doing his job.
The AMD64 architecture is older than UEFI. When it was released, _all_ computers booted using a 16bit BIOS.

Even today all desktop computers I know still ship a BIOS compatibility module meaning they still carry a BIOS which includes 16 bits code. All Windows 32-bits (not only supported, but still being sold) require a BIOS. OEMs regularly use FreeDOS for flashing stuff -- which requires a BIOS.

Only a couple laptops I've seen as full-fledged UEFI (no CSM) devices. They won't boot 32bit Windows nor anything before Windows 8.
You might also want to have some more proofreading done. I cought this "[..]Nat get's a good[..]" 5 seconds into your page
It wasn't about bathroom usage, but about getting a voting base to vote. Religious groups don't care about opioid issues, but they do like talking about and voting against LGBT+ issues.

As for the issue itself, the wikipedia article has a pretty good overview of the whole thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathroom_bill
It's also the unprompted responses that has started to bug me. I don't know if Google is having a bad rollout or this is deliberate but my Google Home is being triggered a lot more often now and I don't recall anything remotely close to the wake phrase being said. Also, the responses to questions when actually prompted are not at all what I'm expecting. Particularly, Google has trouble understanding a lot of context around Spotify playlists. It still cannot distinguish between a song and an album with the same name despite me prepending the request with "Play the Song...". Overall it's just a terrible experience and that makes the whole assistant thing less like an assistant and more like a toddler that refuses to cooperate.
It appears to just be a torrent client with an smart FUSE capability.
Audio feedback doesn’t give the user the same reassuring sense of certainty as a graphical user interface. One glance will confirm that I have typed my card number correctly, but you don’t have to be unusually impatient for your heart to sink, when you hear the inhumanly calm words, “I heard 4659 1234 1234 1234. Is that correct? Say yes or press one to confirm”.

This is the main reason I rarely use voice controls. Even if voice is faster than typing for most cases, typing never fails catastrophically like voice does.

I could use voice only when I'm confident it will work, but then there's the mental load of making that prediction. It's easier to just always go with typing.
I see corporatism as passing down costs and not savings.

What costs have gone down over time? The highest expenditures I think for most people are housing, healthcare, education? What percentages have they been driven down by our system?
Food? According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, prices for food were 769.75% higher in 2020 versus 1962 (founding of Walmart).
Discoveries like this make me wonder what else we will discover!
The "school of thought" behind the cultural revolution was twofold:

1) Mao had been frozen out after the disaster of the Great Leap Forward, and this was his way of discrediting his enemies and getting back on top.

2) Young people full of fervor are fucking vicious.

None of it really had much to do with marxist philosophy in general or with the things Mao in particular had said before he'd been frozen out. But it says a lot about power.
It's really nice that you can make an application with a GUI that runs on Linux and that you can also make it into an executable for Windows using Freewrap.
>Tools like JSDom are pretty nice for this, but I've found that most web scraping involves a lot of low level manipulation of strings and lists – stripping/formatting/concatenating/ranges/etc, and I find JS to have much worse ergonomics for this than languages like Python and Ruby. I actually find the ergonomics of this most comparable to Swift, the difference being that with Swift you get a ton of safety and speed for that trade-off.

I think from es6 and up this is handled pretty well.
> It's ridiculous to say that Asian Americans have experienced anything near the racism that black people have in the United States. I don't think they should even be included in the conversion when talking about racism. The racism they experience is mostly prejudice-type racism, not systemic.

How much more systemic can you get than an Executive Order?
Sure, it wasn't to the same degree as for black people, but shouldn't it have an effect? At least a little?

> If it's so easy for black people to get out of the cycle, why don't they?

Yeah, why don't they? Check the biography of every black celebrity. Everyone chose to get their shit together early in their life or was supported by the parents. EVERYONE! ICE T by joining the military to support his daughter. Samuel L. Jackson was sent to LA by his mother before anything bad could happen after a tip from the FBI.

At some point personal responsibility has to come into play.
I disagree about this (stability/compatibility) being the point where it could trigger Microsoft.

First this is a bad marketing move for Microsoft while is taking years to scrap the image of bad and monopolistic player that wants to control everything.

So i think that the time they would at least consider to take legal action against React OS, would be when (in a possible reality) it start to gets popularity and big players started to ship things with it.

Giving it would be this third-party (lets say Dell or Lenovo) that would be sued for it, and giving all the dangers such a move would bring, its very unlikely that any CEO in its right would make this move.

So thats why i think is highly unlikely, giving ReactOS is so small, that it cant be considered a threat, except for a CEO's with conspiratory tendencies (A guy like Ballmer would probably do this stupid mistake).
I prefer desktop apps. I have a nice desktop environment with windows and a tray and split screen support and so on. There’s a chance that the desktop app isn’t just a chromium wrapper so I might get better performance and/or battery life.
> Money that you pay them for the service. This is almost always enough since that's all any of these companies actually care about.

"almost always" is not a guarantee of free speech.

> There are very rare exceptions where high-profile nazi groups have had their service contracts rescinded, but this isn't a real problem in practice.

...yet. What is "very rare" today can become "more common" tomorrow if there aren't strong legal protections.

> No. I'm asking you how you envision people owning their own websites without any private companies involved, in an economy built around the concepts of corporate ownership.

IANAL, but clearly there needs to be stronger legal protections in this arena. My ISP should not be able to disconnect me from the internet on the basis of speech. They should be like a utility company. My power company can't disconnect my electricity if I use the electricity to charge batteries for a megaphone that I then use to spread hate speech. My ISP/server host should be the same. Charge me for the compute resources I use, do not attempt to disconnect my service on moral or ethical grounds. Leave that to a higher layer in the stack.
What clarity of thought! The article gets the point across in just a few concise paragraphs, wholly enjoyable. This is especially refreshing in an era where many similarly themed blog posts are 3-4 times bigger, and full of tangential and confusing rumblings.

Many thanks to the author!
Ah this is true. Thanks. I was thinking that some number of vaccinated people had to get sick.
> On what grounds do you think it would constitute fair use?

It meets at least 2 of the fair use factors:

1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

2) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole;

> Fair use isn't some magic pixie dust that lets you do whatever you want with someone else's copyrighted material.

I didn't claim it was? I said this specific use seems to be a fairly good example. See above factors.

> Fair use is a defense you can raise in court, _after_ you have been sued. It is not a presumptive right.

Not correct. This has been challenged in court and it was found that fair use is a right and not simply a defense.
Sounds fascinating. Could you share any pointers to papers , academic work on this subject ?
Crush DVD and Steel Stainless Tray in Shredder Machine Relaxation Therapy
> If your admin allows it you're fine.

In the big enterprise world, you don't even get to ask your admin if it's fine. Every answer is a "no" by default unless you have an extremely compelling case. Sharing data outside of the network is a major no-no for certain industries (like mine, which is Financial Services)

> sending them per email is the same level of safety/security.

Not exactly. My company logs every e-mail I send / receive, but not every HTTP request. If we're ever sued, the e-mails may show up in court, but not HTTP.

And if you're ever sued, what happens to the data I e-mailed?
Yes, as someone with university-educated friends and families in large cities, the recent surge of intolerance of more centrist views on the identity-politics left are tearing apart both my friend and family groups.
If you started talking about deaths of despair, you'd have to start talking about de-industrialization and how the Fed lied about it to give Congress political cover [1]. Can't go there.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-03-12/shares...
Cybersecurity company finds hacker selling info on 186M U.S. voters
How is this any different than a government bond program meant to finance the projects? Whether the profit is derived via increased stock price, or derived from interest paid by the government directly through taxes, how is it fundamentally different? The government can't typically just print money (to keep the economy okay). It has to either derive tax to get the funds, or borrow, which again privatizes the profit (in the form of interest).
Actually, ability to delete all iPhone alarms at once via Siri is a life saver. I know no other way to bulk delete l/disable alarms in iOS.
This is true, but the phrasing "might be present on the sunlit side of the Moon" is problematic and reinforces the belief (also reinforced by the phrase "dark side") that the Moon has a light and dark side. (At least in the case of 'dark side' an argument could be made that it means 'dark to (historical) human knowledge.' It's hard to defend "sunlit side.")
AI Outperforms Humans in Speech Recognition
I also created my own personal CRM (https://contactcache.com), but my main take was privacy. I believe that the information stored about our business partners or loved ones are really sensitive and therefore I opted for 100 % end-to-end encrypted notes.

I am not working on the app now as I haven't figured out how to make money on it yet. However I will leave this idea here because I think that you guys should consider offering end-to-end encrypted notes (even just as an option for some selected notes).
How many doctors would still do the job if they got paid a middle class salary? It's pretty clear, to me at least, that very few would even bother. Veterinarians are a good comparison - there's very few, low salaries, passionate about animals, and high suicide rates due to unending debt.

Yes - some doctors end up volunteering with Doctors without Borders & similar non-profit groups. Some engineers have gotten more political as time goes on.

But if the money isn't there, doctors will definitely not be there either.
Alarms and reminders are my most frequent uses of Siri (and to entertain/frustrate the kids...). It's also pretty good for hands-free quick texts while driving and hands-free calling, though I don't do those often.

Your alarm example is frustrating. Of course, you could say "set alarm for tomorrow at 6:30 am" which would work, but then you're back in the realm not of natural language commands, but formal commands that exist in the uncanny valley, just similar enough to natural language to be irritating when they fail.
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In the US there are plenty of "US vs $1000" cases already.
If you use Slack, we're about to start beta for something that might help you out. Happy to share it with you. I'm not sure it will nail 100% of what you need today, but since we're building aggressively right now and are close, it could be a good time for both of us. My email is in my profile if you're interested!
United Airlines testing global health app on UK-U.S. flights
Ouch! Thanks for letting us know! Just fixed it :) You found our main landing page :)
Yeah, something amiss with old(er) versions of Firefox. I see a gray screen, but if I click on the (?) help, it will glitch the display... FWIW it works in IE11.