skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not anti-vax by any means, but I would rather have 3 months of outcomes from widespread deployment prior to being vaccinated or having my low-risk family members be vaccinated.

That this vaccine is mRNA-based makes it likely safer than some other lightly-tested vaccines, but if you're young, healthy, and at low-risk of serious COVID infection, I'm not sure it's wise to be among the first in line for this vaccine.
"or Ubers"
Most of semiconductor jobs are in Asia, and in the same Asian countries, you will get n times less than a software person of the same seniority.

The long term is that the industry will get less, and less labour intensive as more, and more old, labour intensive fabs are retired, and new ones are 100% AMHS.
I have no idea what you're talking about.

How, precisely, am I supposed to respond to the 500+ thumb-sucking credulous NPC "muh science" numskulls in this thread who didn't even look at their freaking wiki page? The wiki page which strongly indicates they're a giant, monstrous, hilariously obvious scam.
I understood what was meant. Companies don't just start marketing once they have multi billion dollar profitability.

If you're consumer focused, you spend on marketing, if you're business focused, you spend on sales. There are few examples to the contrary (Google, Atlassia, for example).

AirBnB early on was sniping Craigslist vacation listings[1], and now they have the resources, and scale to market directly. If AirBnB isn't doing it right, what constitutes the 'right' time to spend on marketing?

I'm curious as to how some folks would respond to this, and why.

[1] https://growthhackers.com/growth-studies/airbnb
And they cut the bonus at the same time.
As you well know, people use email for things they shouldn't. Why not make email slightly better? What's the harm? Isn't greatly reducing the chance of blackmail unequivocally positive?

So far, you've just been repeating disparaging comments on less technically minded ("stupid") people. You've not presented an argument for why this change would be detrimental.

We can continue educating people about the inherit insecurity of email while still improving it for those that (a) will never get it and (b) simply don't have access to alternatives.
Two things are pushing the US towards conflict with China: The Wolfowitz Doctrine and 'US exceptionalism'. These two things are forcing the US to prevent at all costs the overtaking of the US by China, whereby the US is relegated to the Number 2 position.

China doesn't need conflict. That would be unnecessary, and get in the way by slowing China's inevitable rise.

The US will have to fight sooner rather than later to win, China will prefer to fight later rather than sooner.

I give it no more than a year or two. Arithmetically speaking, the US should have acted long before this. I believe it's too late for the US already. The West will lose this one.
I've wondered about the practicality of this for some time, but never came up with an answer. For a device with an always on connection like an iDevice with cell chips, the location can always be updated. However, a locked laptop with WiFi only would need to be unlocked to be told to join an available WiFi network. If I'm someone that is inclined to do something with an Apple laptop with a T2 chip that has found its way to me, I'm not going to allow it to join a WiFi.

How does find myMac work in this case?
Literally my "origin" story as well. I installed it to make fun of how stupid I "knew" it had to be. The funny clips friends had shown me could not have been surfaced easily, they must have spent hours and hours to find these gems.... Nope, within a few days it was showing me stuff regularly I found even funnier than what my friends had shown me before.
Nice article but it misses the major point that (almost everywhere) on the moon the day-night cycle is a whole month.

The Space Station has a 100kw solar array based on old technology; something better could be deployed to the moon, but the night lasts two weeks. Thus you need much more energy and material storage capacity, thermal insulation and possibly curtail your activities at night. (Stop growing plants, stop mining, ...)

The nuclear reactor works through the night, and that's a big advantage.
> An adversarial system is where, for example, exams are proctored because the students are not trusted.

Much is made of unproctored exams, but at least 30 years ago (and I haven't heard of this changing since) students were given master keys which opened almost every part of campus, and had official 24/7 access to almost everything. Also, lockpicking was a widely known and broadly accepted student hobby, and there was apparently a fairly well-known heirarchy of which places to which students did not have official access were merely nominally off limits and would result in token punishment for the sake of form (provided no damage to persons, property, etc., was done) and which were really, seriously off-limits.

That is, the culture went beyond just unproctored exams.
That is true. Bloat is a real problem with this, and so is spyware. Implementing such things will waste memory, energy, and bandwidth anyways.

JavaScript as a programming language is fine (as are others), but including scripts in web pages is often used badly/misused.

I agree that it should hand control back to users. Mostly this includes overriding and affecting DOM functions, and allowing more options to the user. Implement them to be more user-oriented. This includes many options, but also to allow the user to write their own code (which can be used to spoof data, but also for many other purposes). For example, for the camera API, instead of merely asking permission to access the camera, the browser can ask the user what (if any) source to use; the user may select an actual device such as a camera, or enter a filename or a command. (Another reason this would be useful is in case you do not have a camera attached to the computer. If a program scans barcodes using a camera, but you instead have it in a file in your computer, you can select that one instead.) Same is true with microphone, MIDI, etc. Even some things that don't ask should be implemented better, such as keyboard coding. And some things should ask, and user can adjust otherwise, e.g. redirects and other accesses to a server for data. The user should be able to substitute/modify/enable/disable individual scripts in a document, for example, to substitute their own implementation of jQuery.

However, core JavaScript has the Date object, which accesses the current date/time; I thought that the ability to access the current date/time shouldn't belong in core JavaScript, but an implementation could be done to fix this, so that it is overridden like DOM functions are.

Actually, I partially wrote a document about improving web browsers, and it is not only about document scripting, but many other things too. The web developer console is a good feature, but that is just a start. More improvements can be done. This includes implementing many things differently, not only scripts.
It seems like that usage isn't supported by upstream MySQL either. Quoting from https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/grant-tables.html:

> Direct modification of grant tables using statements such as INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE is discouraged and done at your own risk. The server is free to ignore rows that become malformed as a result of such modifications.
I absolutely loved rise of nations. I didn't play the campaigns though, I played random map 1v1 matches versus the AI. Had a great time!
Or they just panicked with the RIAA request and needed time to regroup. Cynicism doesn't have to be a hobby.
After reading the EFF's letter a little more closely, I realize now that it wasn't even a formal DMCA counter notice representing the repository owners, just an informal legal rebuttal of the original claims. Oops. So GitHub wasn't legally required to restore access at all even after 10-14 days, since no official counter notice was ever received.

That makes it more significant (not merely symbolic) that GitHub chose to short-circuit its DMCA process to restore access and open themselves up to liability in this case.
The Olympics were gonna be huge, a lot of momentum going into 2020.
The HN community is not magically immune to the flaws of online communities. There are always differing points of view, trolls, and warriors for a cause.
I'd guess just savings on paying capital gains tax vs income tax?
The reason is because of the "Fair Credit Reporting Act" of 1970 said that Credit Reporting Agencies (CRA) are not liable for any errors if they are not malicious. And the act preempts any State laws that might impose other more restrictive laws on CRAs.

From a short publication on the "Fair Credit Reporting Act":
"Defamation, privacy, and negligence claims. The FCRA specifically bars defamation, invasion of privacy, and negligence claims that concern the reporting of information from being brought against any CRA, any user of a consumer report, or any furnisher of reported information, except for false information furnished with malice or willfully intended to injure the consumer (15 U.S.C. § 1681h(e); see, for example, Thornton v. Equifax, Inc., 619 F.2d 700, 703 (8th Cir. 1980)). For a state-law claim to stand under this provision, a defendant’s misconduct must be truly malicious and not simply careless (see Ross v. FDIC, 625 F.3d 808, 817 (4th Cir. 2010))."

See [1] for the whole document:
https://www.jonesday.com/files/Publication/e42f45d6-a8c6-43f...
Ruby objects that output HTML, inspired by React
Here is an example of how location data can be abused, accidentally or otherwise [0]. If you go down this road, then smart criminals will just take steps to avoid carry location tracking devices. What do you do then? Force everyone to carry and maintain a GPS tracker? Arrest them if they fail to charge it properly, because they could use that window to commit a crime without being tracked?

> We can't hide behind lack of capability to police said crimes, but still label them as such.

Most laws are written with the implicit assumption it’s not possible to perfectly enforce them. That provides some natural wriggle room to interpret the laws, avoids the need to write a long list of when it’s ok to speed for example.

Perfect enforcement breaks all of that. A knowledgable police officer could almost certainly stop you on any day the week and find you guilt of some obscure and ancient crime that’s no longer relevant.

> For all we know, if we lived in a society where we had such strict enforcement of laws as I suggest, we'd potentially have greater churn and change in our laws to match the opinions of society as it changed and evolved.

How do you imagine society would evolve its opinions and change them in a world of perfect enforcement? How the gay community show the world there nothing wrong with their way of life, if they simply couldn’t live it?

How would society change its views on smoking weed, if it was impossible to smoke it?

It’s impossible for a society to change its view on existing laws, if it’s completely unable to experiment with ignoring, or re-interpreting them.

It would be like expecting a child to ask for food they had never eaten, and never seen anyone else eat. How could they possibly know it existed, much less if it was good or bad for them?

> I disagree. I'm not seeing it. There is just way too much going wrong today in 1-st world countries whilst we have really good privacy for it to be the case. We're downright descending into totalitarianism and thought/opinion control territory, all whilst our "privacy" is mostly maintained and respected

Hahahaha, seriously. You complain of thought control, but advocate for world where the government can watch your every move, and perfectly enforce every law. Have you read 1984? I see little difference between world in that book, and the one your advocating for.

> Are you saying we need more of it? What would that look like to you?

Yes I am. How can you control someone’s though and opinions if you don’t know what they are? How can a totalitarian government rule with an iron fist if they don’t know where their citizens are, or what they’re doing?

Totalitarian governments come into existence because people want control and order, and they’re great if you fit into that governments view of what control and order look like. If you don’t, we’ll there are plenty of genocides that can be studied.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...
There was never a possibility that an event as generationally and globally impactful as Covid19 would not have be politicized. But it doesn't help that it's happening at a time with record distrust of science.
Did I say anything about Trump? It's not a Trump problem. It's just how the politics game works. You campaign on x, get elected, and then when you do y because of some reason, your supporters will bend over to justify it, rather than calling you out for it because that would hurt their team and also their precious ego for voting your ass in.
Depends a lot on the instrument.

For a keyboard instrument, played conventionally, MIDI does a fairly good job of capturing everything that a composer could tell a performer (and vice-versa).

Slightly less true for percussion, but still somewhat true.

Rather untrue for any instrument where technique can be (ab)used to alter timbre significantly (e.g. most reeds, most strings)

Very untrue for any instrument capable of continuous pitch generation (e.g. unfretted strings).

Obviously "arbitrary instructions" are out, but then they are also not formally part of "sheet music", but more "additional written material from the composer", which can accompany MIDI in various ways too.
This makes sense to me as a curious party who isn’t well versed in semiconductors. Low power has driven all of the high performance chip innovation for a long time now.
Lucrative is the wrong word.
TripAdvisor.
Although it seems to be overloading with other functions, as time goes on.
There are definitely some weird comments in here... but if those were bots there would be more comments. Perhaps manual "boosting"?
The timing is extremely suspect, and seems tailor written to protect a single political party.
Its better for the whole population if you get a vaccine as soon as it becomes generally available instead of becoming a vector in that 3 months.
CIA-owned encryption company jeopardised Swiss neutrality: report
Am I the only one thinking that the issue comes from the fact that DKIM stuff is (I assume) inserted into the email's headers?
DKIM is used for transfer of email, to make sure that the originating server is who it pretends to be. Shouldn't that be part of an envelope of the email, which would be discarded once the email has been received and its sending server verified and authenticated? Like for paper mail, one does _usually_ not keep the envelope (though I admit that there may be exceptional situations where it may be preferable to keep the envelope).

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In the interest of users (will most probably never happen), all incoming emails should be ignored and dismissed unless the recipient has explicitly specified that it accepts email sent from a given email address. Wouldn't this give the power back to the users?
But nobody talks about the murder problem. Those who try to are called racists.
Minor formatting gripe: the first inline citation (superscript 1) looks like an exponent given that it's right after a numeric constant in an equation.

It made me re-parse the sentence a few times before realizing it.
Sounds like a business opportunity for a startup that treats restaurants better.
We don't really know what the "real-world" dose is.
Ask HN: Do you have to create a report from attending conferences?
Does your job require something like that when they're paying for you to attend?
@dang has said downvoting for disagreements is ok. I can’t remember where, but he has.
Electric guitar going through a clean (ish) input is a pretty narrowly scoped problem that won't necessarily generalize
I mean, that's the FDA's job right? And they have advisory committee's made up of academic experts who review the trial design and data.

It's not like we're taking the company's word for it.
No, mobile chips have been increasingly outperforming chips with more favorable thermal budgets for a long time. Efficiency isn’t just a goal in itself, it makes the chip design better overall.
Why "must" it be done? It's just more pointless technology tricks for the sake of it.
I feel our (human's) great "weakness" or crutch is to care for one another. I believe we have this inherent nature to care. Unless you're power/money hungry, then even the act of killing won't deter as long as that person doesn't witness it. Case and point: Covid.

although I guess one could "code" that ethics like aka Isaac's 3 rules of robotics but how would one do that to an autonomous killing drone? Or an autonomous car that needs to decide to kill one person or several depending on what? that one person is a father of 6 and does humanitarian work vs the other 6 are criminal low lifes? How does one "code" such algo?

Yes AI is a tool but then it wields a car, drone, finances that determines whether you get cancer treatment or not when you're 80.

Yeah, we're entering into a new phase of humanity.....

Funny, these are the exact same philosophical thoughts the Terminator movie series was addressing. Where the AI did become onto itself and became "self aware." Then did the only logical thing: get rid of humans which is the cancer to everything's existence.

Lots existentials to go through. Should we force AI to go through that? Maybe should be a prerequisite before we let it "live."
Discouraged, but not broken--except in GCP after a silent update. GCP now blocks changes from being made to those tables entirely, breaking with MySQL's behavior, as well as GCP's own earlier behavior.

We have battle-tested tooling that makes this work brilliantly in all other environments. Updating the _priv tables directly is the only way to modify privileges within a transaction in MySQL.
I find it fascinating when someone finds a historical parallel to a situation that we think is novel and unprecedented, reminding us that nothing is truly new, and it's not as bad as we think.

Then takes a hard left turn into "but this time it's different because reasons" and gets us back on the expected "sky is falling" path.
Just dump it on reddit like everyone does. Especially projects that do not sell something are mostly welcomed.
From my experience working in many places all over Europe the last 20 years plus, the key factors for good coffee imho are:

- A tidy coffee machine. Coffee grounds are home for all kinds of living organisms that can make or break a cup of coffee. This is the killer factor.

- The water (hardiness, etc). Madrid has, arguably, one the best tap water in Spain and probably tops most European capitals. Most islands in the Mediterranean have sorry coffee due to the use of treated saltwater as tap water - from tap right into your espresso. Yuck! (obviously not a problem at a 5 star place where they use mineral water).

- The milk. For the best experience try the coffee in Galicia, and some parts of the North of Portugal. Some rural towns with a tradition in dairy production can give you a pleasant surprise if you're looking for that creamy taste with a foamy light texture. Rural areas is also where dirty machines dwell, so it's not a guaranteed good experience.

- The coffee and coffee culture. Generally most places carry the national/local brands. Italy definitely has the best mass produced coffee brands, but Portugal is a close second for their awesome ristrettos. The rest of cities or neighborhoods... It depends on how upscale they are. Ie. Chamberí is smart and upscale. I'm not comparing coffee shops with baristas, but the average coffee you get in the off-off places where tourists would not walk in but that account for 99% of all coffee served in Europe.

But I believe that's the least important factor tbh.
Give it 1-2 hours of your time and I bet you'll change your opinion at least slightly. Your friends are just sharing content that you don't find interesting but there is a "X TikTok" for just about every topic no matter how niche. Everyone's TikTok is very different, you can have overlap in topics with friends but you can also have a highly personalized feed of stuff you like.

Edit: I say of this because I thought VERY similarly to you before I tried it.
Yeah, soooo restrictive of civil liberties that half the country refused to wear masks, partied hard, and caused not one, but two resurges.

You know what, man? I'm getting so sick of hearing this, "but muh civil liberties" line from the anti-lockdown crowd. You weren't planning on going to any protests. You're not pretty enough to consider "showin' muh face in the grocery store" to be protected speech. This is just childish feet kicking. It's ex-post-facto rationalization to come up with some way of complaining about being asked to care about the other people in your community.
No. This question might be better as a poll
Yes, of course it is, provided that the vaccine that I take would otherwise go un-given in that 3 month period. That seems unlikely to me as we are likely to be vaccinating as many people as we can manufacture doses during that period and the difference is "which" rather than "how many".

I leave my house about once a week, wearing a mask, to spend 20 minutes grocery shopping. My risk of contracting, contracting and dying from, or contracting and spreading the disease is extremely low and quite possibly lower than leaving that dose for someone else who is leaving their house and being around people more than 4 hours in those 3 months. Bonus is that someone at higher risk gets "my" dose and I get 3 additional months of population-wide study of safety, side-effects, and efficacy.
Reddit has gone downhill in the past year IMO. Would love to find an alternative with as large of a user base.
The wikipedia says he is an open source contributor, but doesn't mention any project. Google doesn't bring up anything either. What projects has he worked on?
Uber XL or black (need space and comfort to work efficiently) for 1 hour a day probably adds up to $200/day or around $50k/year. Which isn't cheap.

edit: That's a rough estimate and probably a low estimate. You'd be using Uber for commuting, going to work social events, driving kids on weekends, driving out of the city on vacation, etc.
It seems unreasonable to call something "noise" if it's meant to be kept. Most traditional definitions of that word would not apply to things like syncopation and variation
If term rewriting interest you :
https://github.com/opencog/ure
> That is, the culture went beyond just unproctored exams.

Indeed. Students also left their dorm rooms unlocked. I never heard of a case of one student stealing from another. A friend of mine at another university had his locked dorm room looted within his first week. Ugh.