skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A communist physics teacher flattened the Covid-19 curve in southern India
“Middle class” is a very vague term; I assume in this case it refers to people rich enough to have a “nice bonus” from their investments, but not rich enough to actually live off their investments.

For this group, I can believe it’s awkward and annoying, mainly because I am in it and I find investment T&Cs (and the consequences of being wrong) scary and confusing. However, I would not use the word “draconian” — I take the view that paying my taxes buys a civilization to live in, and that this is a very good deal.
But I thought "nobody should trust the vaccine developed this quickly". What has changed in a week?
Build fin-tech apps with Forex API
As a positive example, I was able to raise CAD $30,000 to add Android support to the Slate editor through a Kickstarter that was successful and most (maybe all?) the users were thankful: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sunnyhirai/add-android-...

To put that into context, it was a lot of work to set it up (and message it properly) and there was no guarantee it would have worked.

I think your conclusion that you should do this for your own benefit stands in either case. I believe in alignment of interests. All parties should get something positive out of a relationship.
The Boundless Banality of Beige
> One of the things that makes SARS-CoV-2 such a problem is that people get contagious long before they show symptoms.

I also wonder how effective the vaccine is at preventing its receivers from even reaching that asymptomatic but already contagious stage. If "90%" is just "90% less reach symptomatic stage" then the percentage of receivers that are prevented from reaching contagiousness could be much lower.

This would basically mean that the virus is almost guaranteed to become endemic despite vaccination (unless another vaccine also removes the contagious stage quite well) and that everyone who doesn't get a vaccine will eventually test their immune system against the virus.

Natural immunity often follows a similar pattern. After a while you become susceptible to a light reinfection but the immune system will be in a very good position for a quick - but not instantaneous - victory on its second encounter with the virus. Under those circumstances, herd immunity effects fail to realize unless the first wave is so lightning fast that it fizzles out before the immune systems of early survivors (or the similarly vaccinated) fall back into standby mode.
Note that an EU country citizenship by extension results in an EU citizenship. All EU citizens are granted special rights such as freedom of movement, right to work, social welfare, et cetera all throughout the EU.

If a country sells its citizenships, that country alone benefits financially from that transaction, but the potential obligations are borne by the entire EU community.

In my opinion, there is nothing inherently wrong about a country selling its citizenship, but in the EU framework it seems to go against the good faith principles that the EU is built on.
If someone chooses to endanger their neighbors by bringing dangerous, explosive materials into a densely populated living area that shows a very bad decision making process at minimum, and at worst malicious intent. That's something that others need to know about, in order to protect themselves and their families.

What you are calling "running their mouth" is the community protecting itself from someone who has already considerably disrespected the safety and lives of the community.
0.9^n are the odds where you all go and get exposed simultaneously. When a large enough portion of the population is vaccinated, that prior probability goes way down.
“Google supports the most xenophobic and anti-immigrant members of Congress”
That’s not how the sentence reads, even if OP meant it that way.
It should not upset you any more than the rain outside. It's a force of nature, get a raincoat and go where you wanted to go.
OK I concede that they'd pass it, I suppose I'm just amused at picturing the scene.

"Can you invert a binary tree?"

"I wrote a book on binary trees!"

"That's very nice. The clock is ticking, you now 19 minutes left... "
While it may be tempting to do so, don't create wide open "flexible" GraphQL queries that you don't know the use cases of yet, supporting arbitrarily deep levels of nesting, aggregation, and parameterization. That's how you paint yourself into a corner, fast.

It's much easier to evolve from a very restrictive schema to a more open schema as the use-cases present themselves, than it is to move clients from an open schema to a more restrictive one because your backend is choking trying to support the cardinality of edge cases introduced by it.
Do they expect the same things from the billionaires from Saudi Arabia, china, japan etc who have invested in american companies? I was also under the impression that the jet set is generally considered international
The impossible has v2. Did you taste that ? How is it compared to beef for you?
If you could just download a gun and some ammo in the US, using any internet-connected device? Absolutely.

But we can't, and you know we can't, so I can only assume you're trolling. Stop.
What is the language of your codebase? And which industry are you in so I can avoid it. My goodness, several hundred GB of code sounds like pure misery.
Benchmark Godot with Rust
This is such a good episode, would highly recommend this to any hackernews reader.
> Don't you think that if 100k Republicans in Michigan didn't receive their ballot at all, but checked and found that they had been registered as having voted, we'd be hearing about that?

The most common claim I've been seeing is that dead people are voting Democrat, not that living people's votes were stolen.
Critical race theory and its sister anti-racism reject liberalism by assigning blame, power, guilt, victimhood, privilege, etc., to individuals based on their race.

DiAngelo’s thesis [White Fragility]: All white Americans are racist. All white Americans are a product of white supremacy and are actively or unwittingly complicit in maintaining this power structure. If you say you are not racist, that is only proof that you are racist. If you believe you are not racist, same thing. Black people exist in America only to be oppressed by whites. In DiAngelo’s worldview, any progress black Americans have made is because white Americans have allowed such growth as pacifiers.

https://nypost.com/2020/08/06/peddling-the-idea-that-all-whi...
How fitting:

American healthcare pre ACA : ACA : Public heathcare

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Untyped scripting languages : Go : Decent programming languages

Or maybe I am being too charitable to Go here.
Many EU countries sell permanent resident status, not citizenship.
The title is “Go helped save” not “Go saved.”
Is the court of public opinion what makes you run away from someone coming at you with a knife?! Is a compelling article using stinging quotes what makes you think a knife coming at you is going to be a bad thing?

They're completely non-comparable concepts. It's such an embarrassingly lazy strawman I can't believe you bothered to waste words on it, and it's silly I should have to respond to it.

Innocent until proven guilty is not a concept born for the sake of legal rigor... it's born of the fact that "court of public opinion" is easily swayed by nonsense. It's largely seen as detracting from the proper functioning of an actual impartial justice system which is why we go to such great lengths to isolate jurors in major cases and why some countries don't even publish people's information this easily.

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So many comments are replying trying to say "there's nothing that legally requires me to assume people are innocent!!!"

That's not a clever argument, there's no legal requirement to be a free-thinking person.

But as I pointed out before, the same way a literal alarm clock splayed out in a box became a national scandal, the burden of proof for the media to sensationalize anything is embarrassing low.

Someone could have a picture taken of a simple hobbyist electronics bench and most people would see it as some sort of mad scientist's electronics lab.

Use your brain cells of a second and think of the context. Someone running at you with a knife? Where the hell does public opinion come into it?

Someone asking for money for thousands of hours of free work that they've done after their apartment burns down and they're left homeless?

And you want to protest that because the Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism of the entire NYPD found some unmixed materials and some reading materials and felt:

> the totality of the circumstances that raised our concern to a level where we're going to need more investigation

Really?

If a deputy commissioner of counterterrorism is saying "we're just worried enough to look into it" almost 2 months ago and the guy is still out here on the street, you really think you have a leg to stand on protesting the guy getting some money to not be homeless?

This honestly feels like inverse-concern baiting. The man is asking for money and about to go homeless after spending a good chunk of his life doing free work used by multi billion dollar corporations.

Trying to go "oooOOooOo he might be a terrorist!!!" over this weak of an indictment is the height of something so insulting, the words to describe it escape me.
Even Dropbox got bashed here for asking money just for linking some hard drives together.
Yes, because the "people that say they want to end racism" are doing far more racist things like changing laws to take race into account, something that you're accusing the "rednecks" of attempting to do.
No, it's that most people won't benefit from it.

You can't just take any type of game logic and parallelize it either, since there are types of game logic that aren't just dependent on the previous frame. You may be wholly dependent on something that has just occurred earlier in the frame, but has not been networked to clients yet.
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No doubt Trump exaggerates, but Chicago has a whole lot of violent crime, and this has been pretty well-known long before Trump took office. I live in a pretty nice neighborhood—there are a few blocks of $10 million homes beginning on my block and we still have people shot dead in the street in broad daylight on a pretty regular cadence.
There are many EU countries that have some type of golden visa, but for a citizenship Cyprus is the fastest one - AFAIK you can get it in 6 months if you invest $2m. The other countries require years of stay for citizenship.

I doubt this has much to do with tax, or that he is about to renounce his US citizenship. It just makes it easier to stay and live in the EU (with family) for extended periods of time, nice extra passport to have if money is no object.

I think Cyprus has come under fire for this so unsure how long it will last.
The Policy of Security Despite Encryption
Amazon Alexa AI’s ‘Language Model Is All You Need’ Explores NLU as QA
A case study on cleaning 25M-record CSV file and performance comparison
Exactly this. I'm not installing anything on my phone, and I don't answer phone calls that are not from my contacts. I've never been tested because I don't trust the testing companies.

If I'm sick, I'll stay home. I wear a mask where I'm required to. That's the limit of my participation in this hysteria.
Totally agree and if you listen to community leaders in Chicago, they pretty consistently advocate for economic change and housing/education desegregation above police reform and gun control.

But I'd contest that the bridges that separate the Loop from the rest of city is symbolic as a divide between rich and poor. Plenty of the near west side across the river is affluent, as are the near west suburbs, and the lower north side. It's remarkable how much of the violence (especially homicides) are concentrated to East and West Garfield Park outside the south side where it's less concentrated. Raising the bridges doesn't really inconvenience anyone but commuters going between the Loop, West Loop, and River North. The bridges were raised to prevent looting of the store fronts, not stop violent crime. I wouldn't compare the boarding up of stores in Emeryville at the same time as symptoms of the divide between rich and poor in the east bay.

All that said, the violence is much better today than it was even a few years ago, and orders of magnitude improved over 30 years ago. Though there is debate whether crime was reduced or just spread out to the suburbs after the demolition of housing projects like Cabrini Green.
Isn't the article and points made within, the short synopsis?
> doesn't play to stereotypes

The stereotype that QA is 'women's work' is harming the industry.
I'm in a similar situation. 3rd party toner. I've got a Brother laser printer (MFC7840W) that doesn't die. I've owned it for nearly 12 years and I really want a new fancy printer, too, but it's silly to replace something that works.
I bet this is not tax dodging, he just likes halloumi a lot!
Ogre3d is written in C++? What do you want to tell us?
Though I'm not normally one to advocate for "web stuff", what would stop someone from simply compiling a suite of shell tools to WASM, then distributing a "terminal" as a PWA. Of course there would be some slowdown compared to real native code, but I am told (not a web person) that WASM can be nearly as fast as native code, and is (?) supported by Safari. I have seen successful experiments where people have run AMD64 simulators in WASM that can boot Linux, so you could even go so far as virtualizing the whole system, though I imagine the performance would be even worse than "just" targeting WASM.

I guess this is somewhat rhetorical; the people who would be interested in such a tool are I imagine by and large willing and able to either jailbreak or buy an Android. Presumably getting a nice shell-type environment as a PWA would be tricky also considering the limitations of the browser (I know this makes networking hard).

I wish there was a product like an iPad that came with a root shell out of the box. I like the polish of iOS, but I'm not willing to trust random people on the internet with root code execution to jailbreak my iThings.
It's not that a citizen sells their citizenship to a non-citizen and therefore becomes a non-citizen. It's the country selling citizenships, meaning each sale results in one more citizen.
I don’t believe in hazing. I am paying them to learn something that I believe will make them more productive for my business in the long run and likely help them in their career when they leave as well. They can still use their favorite other editor if they want, but they should be able to teach vim and emacs to the new programmers I hire after them. Also if they can’t learn emacs, I have less faith they can learn other useful things also when needed.
Amazon really do have a problem. Often I see people reviewing different products to the one on the page. Sellers are swapping out listings to pump the reviews and this is in plain sight.[1]

Worst still, I've seen Amazon produce a banner with the phrase "Dispatched and Sold by Amazon" - gives you the guarantee to receive original and genuine[2]

This means they know that other listings may not be original or genuine. So to solve this, they promote their own items as genuine, despite them owning the whole platform.

1. https://twitter.com/Martin_Adams/status/1169905424612507649?...

2. https://twitter.com/Martin_Adams/status/1305398394274414593?...
Yes and no. I worked for Northwestel (division of Bell) which serves Internet (and phone, and TV) for ALL of Yukon, NWT, Nunavut and some of Northern BC.

It has the largest operating area of any Telco on the planet.

In virtually all communities they are the one and only provider.

Yes, it's expensive. Yes, the CRTC is corrupt, and the whole setup is just guaranteed profits to the big telcos. But, you need to think about how hard it is to serve internet to communities of 20-100 people in the Canadian Arctic that don't have roads. There are hundreds of such communities served.

There are weekly outages because of everything from ice build up on the towers at -50C, wind storms blowing down towers, Caribou eating through cables, etc. etc. Most outages require chartering a helicopter and going to the top of mountains 300km from a road or town of noteworthy size.

Canada is BIG and the Arctic is REMOTE.
How the pandemic could globalize the economy even more – not less
Yeah, I have a Samsung ML-<I can't remember off-hand> printer which still works great after about fifteen years.

Unfortunately, I don't think there are drivers for it for any current OS. We have it connected to an iBook of similar vintage which more or less is only used to use the printer.
User authentication with Node.js series: boilerplate
Legendary Voice Actor Troy Baker on Stoic Philosophy
I haven't found any problem where a linked list could not be replaced with a vector of index-element pairs (or triples) with a reductions in allocationd.

I'm open for discussion as I haven't been able to convince myself of the use of any linked list.
> element.innerHTML = fetchData(endpoint);

Presumably element here is <head> or later, so scripts wouldn't execute. Also, you'd presumably define things such that new <script> tags would be ignored if they were parsed temporally after the first non-<stript>, non-<html> tag, regardless of their position in the DOM, so that you'd need to explicitly eval any dynamically loaded scripts.

Thanks for the pointers to CSP. I'll have a look. In any case, the default should have been to ovoid in-band signalling, and perhaps have a CSP-like mechanism to relax security constraints. Sure, hindsight is 20/20, but precedents in phreaking are obvious.
Mandatory gun ownership for all Chicagoans, stand your ground laws, and castle doctrine. There's legal precedent for requiring citizens to purchase goods in services in the way Obamacare was required. We create a new tax, and if you can prove you own a gun you get a tax credit.

The first year will be a bit rocky, but after that the worst offenders will be removed from the planet.
Oh really? Which ones? I'd only think of Cyprus and Malta
Note it is at least 90%. Case number is likely too low to give a tighter estimate with high enough confidence. That is, even if no one vaccinated is infected they still can't claim a much higher effectiveness with confidence as there are only 94 cases. So they are giving just a lower bound.
This is a dangerous misconception, which those of us in langsec have worked hard to dispel.

Data is not inert. Trivially, yes, insofar as a .json file just sits there until you do something with it – but this is true of .js as well.

Data in use is active, it is an input to your program which drives computation. This is the same as inputs which are Turing complete, just restricted in various ways.

Being complacent about this fact is a great way to receive a malicious payload, which puts your program into an unexpected and exploitable state.
The problem is GraphQL, fundamentally.

GraphQL creates the illusion for the consumers that arbitrary queries are cheap, possible, and transparent. None of those things are true. Whether that reality is exposed to the client through more restricted REST endpoints or whether the backend has to support this fiction by handling all these performance considerations in GraphQL in the backend, the fact is that some queries are cheap, others are near impossible to achieve efficiently.

So GraphQL doesn't really _reduce_ complexity; it merely pushes it into other places. Whether the right place is the client or the server depends on your organization and the acceptable engineering tradeoffs, but there's no free lunch when it comes to data locality.
I wonder how one rectifies this. I feel like small open source developers have conflicting incentives here. If an open source project was clearly prefaced with "While this is professional and fully featured, it's also the effort of one human working 10 hours a week on the weeks he doesn't have the kids", would you use it?

Developers who want their open source projects used have incentive to make their project look serious and long term, and being a one man operation makes the thing have a large point of failure.

You could imagine a "smallware" movement, e.g. some centralized body that certified that a particular piece of OSS was written by a single person/team (a.k.a. I set up a website and list anyone that asks), and brand their libraries accordingly - it would be an implicit appeal for funds. But have I just reinvented a bootleg apache software foundation?
Privacy regulations (HIPAA) may forbid them from saying "Hey we think you might have COVID" on your voicemail, unless you've already filled out paperwork saying "It's okay to leave a message on my voicemail with detailed health information."

Your doctor's office can do it because you probably have an existing patient relationship, and you already filled out that paperwork on your first visit.

But in the situation of a cold-calling contact tracer, you haven't signed anything at all, so all they can say is "This is the health department and we want to talk to you."
> Apple has $192.8 billion in cash on hand. What exactly is it doing with this money? Is it spending it on fundamental research in optics, laser communication, optical computing, and other stuff? No, it's not.

Most of Apple’s “cash” is invested in corporate bonds, which allow other companies to access capital in order to expand their operations and grow their productivity, and most of the rest is in government bonds, which allow the government to make up for the shortfall of the “public money” you talk about. Sure, Apple might “only” spend $16B on R&D, but rest assured, they aren’t just sitting on their cash pile like Scrooge McDuck, instead it is efficiently used by many different actors.
It’s less about importing food but ensuring that food is cheap enough that the entire populace can cheaply access food.
It’s James Bonds signature data mining technique as punctuation, aka “The Interrobang”
Is there some open hardware + OSS combination that will let me do what Slingbox did?
It's an interesting question, especially in light of the fact that the leadings viral vector candidates require a booster shot after the initial vaccination except the J&J candidate.
> It's supposed to be reciprocal but the ESTA is a Visa

The thing is that, other countries looked at the US and instead of making US honour the reciprocal agreements, they reciprocated by creating non-visa visas of their own. Now, Canada has eTA, Asutralia has ETA, New Zealand has NZeTA, Schengen area is rolling out ETIAS, ...

So yes, there was a brief period of time when visa waivers became non-reciprocal. Now the reciprocity has been restored, but not to what it was before, instead to a new normal. We as the citizens are worse off and the governments have more power in this new normal.
Maybe the platform has leverage to get better advertising payouts for the same content?
Pfizer Soars as Vaccine Prevents 90% of Covid Cases in Study
Most educational institutions get MS Office for free (or very cheap), and the math support in something like Word is surprisingly good. It's not available in the (free) online version though (just checked now).
Topological sorting - that's a very nice idea.

In the past I've implemented dirty marking and, while fun to figure out the appropriate logic, topological sorting seems much neater.
Voting with your wallet is also a good thing to do, but if you expect to send some signal to a company that way to imply that they should change their behaviour, you have to realize that you're communicating over a very noisy channel. All they'll notice -- if they notice -- is that sales have decreased, and they won't know the reason.

EG. you: "I hate smart TVs! I'll keep my old dumb TV!" --> them: "Our smart TVs aren't doing well, maybe we should make them smarter?"

Hand wringing has a good chance of at least delivering your message.
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-10-21/in-blow-to-fosun-pha...
In a very real sense, calories are the only thing that make a meal unhealthy, too, though.