skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Randomized Trial of Convalescent Plasma in Covid-19 Severe Pneumonia
Considering the post is on /r/geoguesser it's much more likely they're just really good at stuff like this.

Some people are just insane at that game.
It's an unfortunate consequence of GPL licensing of some of the linuxkpi parts, which graphics drivers use. I believe the amount of problematic code is slowly decreasing, so eventually things will get back to normal.
Believe it or not, there is no legal precedent or basis around Performance Improvement Plans. Their use as some kind of magic lawsuit shield hasn’t been tested in any court, ever, by anyone, and it has no basis, especially those words “performance improvement plan,” in any law or regulation, at least in California, Delaware or Georgia (some places I’ve checked before). “PIP culture” is more like “PIP cargo cult.”
Researchers Have Built Neural Networks That Tell When They Make a Mistake
What's modular xorg for then?
Even if physics is now at an end, what a run it has had since Galileo, Kepler and Descartes!
> The only logical endpoint is that humans should just off themselves so we don't participate past one cycle of reabsorption into the Earth's environment.

That would obliterate all future human happiness. It doesn't stand up even under a cold utilitarian conception of morality.
> but other people seem to have corporate workplace uses for it

Probably the same people that include emojis in business emails.
> That already exists, it is called the Democratic party.

I don't see a lot of conservatives and right-moderates who want to distance themselves from the Tea Party/Trumpists flocking to the Democrats though.

> moderate right won, people like Biden, Pelosi or Warren

(FWIW, by US standards those are Left politicians.) Yeah but only barely. None of them are wildly popular are they?

> the moderate left (AOC, Sanders, etc)

(FWIW, by US standards those are extreme Left politicians.)

But those folks aren't "second fiddle", they're sops: distractions to keep the Left's equivalent of the Tea Party from becoming a real political force.

America is run by the rich, for the rich, and they do pretty well for themselves. I'm not even talking about gathering real political power (right OR left), just having less sturm und drang and more stability. We've got serious problems on the stove (climate, disease, etc.) that are going to take some concerted effort to tackle, eh?
> It means that I should have access to a nice apartment in a sought-after area.

Yes, that sums it nicely.
Worth noting that this title is primarily due to Cloudflare having switched to them from ReCAPTCHA, and Cloudflare is... well, relatively popular, to say the least.

I'm curious what kind of data may exist on the experience of switching for larger providers; do the users like it? how much more/less time do they spend solving? do they care, let alone even notice that it's not Google's ReCAPTCHA?

Regardless, as ReCAPTCHA is not only terribly annoying but also built for surveillance from the ground up, I still view this as a good improvement.
No, they wouldn't be issuing press releases if this was a black program. You're also not just taking Lockhead's claims at face value, which themselves have not be established with evidence, and going further to imagine that they're lying/slow playing their claims and actually are even further ahead. None of this is motivated by evidence.
Ah yes, how could they have been so blind. They should have just put XCode in the server racks.
Thank you Don Diego
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nCPA3-HURw
Hmm, I saw a different irony, that this conversation about the dangers of Silicon Valley censorship is being hosted free of charge on YouTube.
A harsh reality in coal country – with or without Trump
>BSD just dumps you into a shell

False. OpenBSD assk you at the install process if you want to launch Xenodm from Xenocara at boot.

You get fvwm, right, but X is totally configured.
There are also 'zero configuration' FreeBSD based systems like GhostBSD or NomadBSD. You should try them instead if you want Ubuntu-like experience.
Nobody's advocating less empathy for humans, what I'm suggesting is that according to spoon theory, there's only so much in a day you can give a shit about before you burn out [YMMV]. I'm suggesting that when you put all your empathy into caring for one thing at the cost of another, typically yourself, it's a hard path to walk. Empathy as a fix all, isn't. There needs to be balance between what's reasonable, feasible and practical, for our environment, for the eco-system and for us as humans. Empathy for sure is necessary, but it's only part of the solution, not the whole solution.
And what if you don't have the skills to build up roads, clean our cities, provide services? Do you reskill?
How the hell is, I presume Pelosi=Nancy Pelosi, a Neoliberal?
It is a bold claim, indeed. What about WhatsApp Web though? I wonder how that works. I guess it connects to the device via a 3rd party (Facebook's) to send the data over HTTPS? Does it use public-key authentication where the key is only known to the WhatsApp Web client? Either way, it is a compromise on E2EE.
Unfortunately the linked website doesn’t allow for ads blocker.
The FSF is absolutely about software and promoting free/libre alternatives to proprietary solutions is their core activity.
I would expect more, so that cores don't get memory starved. The M1 has 4 fast cores and 4 slow ones. If we imagine an M2 with 8 fast cores, I would expect it to need 16 channels to have the same performance. That's a lot.
France starts collecting tax on tech giants
Nice catch, that is my nickname, abbreviated of my family name, Fazeli. Fazel in its root is Arabic meaning "Scholar" and Fazeli means related to Scholars.
Good thing we have competitive (and cheaper) options now including Digitalocean app platform and Render.com. I'm actually surprised it took this long to match Heroku (and beat them on costs).
Even worse, in Firefox, I see the title of the submission appear to be on a newline underneath the upvote arrow. The special characters are making the height of the div to be 33px

http://i.imgur.com/nuA4TBe.png
2018 is indeed the date of the 'original' post but the later adde UPDATES are from other dates. For example UPDATE 4 is from today. Maybe I should also add the date to that 'UPDATES'? :)
> it's sort of remarkable how little damage he managed to do

I think it's much too early to assess the totality of (let me put this in the least inflammatory way that I can think of) Trump's long-term impact. At the very least, he has re-formed the American judiciary, delayed action on climate change by four years, and eroded or eliminated many of the societal and governmental norms that are essential for the functioning of our society (e.g. accepting the results of elections).

But even now, we have North Korea with ICBMs and more nuclear weapons than before, Iran closer to a nuclear weapon than before, and probably a hundred thousand people or so dead from Covid who might not have died if Trump had not politicized the wearing of masks. That's not "little damage" by my reckoning.

There are also a few hundred innocent children who were forcibly separated from their parents and likely will never see them again because of shoddy record-keeping. Despite the relatively small numbers, the sheer monstrousness of this makes it impossible to sweep it under the rug. Trump effectively abandoned the moral high ground that America has held since the end of World War II. America is no longer perceived as a reliable partner, leader of the free world, and beacon of hope. I suppose reasonable people can disagree in their assessment of the long-term impact of this, but in my book, that's not "little damage."

[ADDENDUM] Something else Trump has done is form a significant contingent of the citizenry who now equate the interests of the country with Trump's personal interests, i.e. who believe Trump when he says that we face existential threats that he alone can fix. Ironically, they do this in the name of patriotism and freedom, utterly oblivious to the historical precedents that show time and time again that cults of personality lead to tyranny and ruin. Thankfully, we have not yet crossed that threshold. But we were standing on the brink, and it won't take much to bring us back to it.

[ADDENDUM2] There's also this:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/william-barr-lam...
I don't think it is entirely out of convenience. If edx gets shut down or faces fines for violating the US sanctions on Iran it hurts their broader goal of support global education. I can understand it is frustrating being in Iran and not having access to the course materials, but from the perspective of edx providing these materials in Iran might not be the hill they want to die on.

I think there might be space for a smaller company/non-profit to test this. If your organization's sole mission is to provide this content to Iranians. The legal uncertainty could provide a big enough moat to establish yourself.
FreeBSD is such a great OS and has a very powerful kernel. So much potential, it is sad to see Linux is the only unix OS that gets traction. They've had Jails in BSD long before Docker was a thing. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD was promising but it probably just doesn't make sense to maintain that project given lack of attention. :(
(Edit, for context: the original submission title was “WhatsApp can now read your recent messages when you report a user”)

By selecting a specific part of the article to highlight in the title, you introduce your own bias before people even begin reading.

Stick to the Submissions Guidelines [1], and use the original title.

“WhatsApp beta for Android 2.20.206.3”

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize
Your phone is essentially your ID card, but on steroids.
It is a public platform. You don't need to be invited to send someone a message.
add AccountsJS, a small nice modular typescript/js lib for building account systems easily
> an Android emulator

Well, that's one (largish) VM.
If that is the case, why are internship positions still so popular? It's a great way for a company to "try out" new employees, and get them up to speed before actually hiring them. I know lots of places offer internships.
The qualifier is that in true enterprise, you can do proserv deals to ramp them to full size, and you can sell roadmap pretty hard because a lot of the time the decision and the implementation happen in different quarters or years. So it definitely does honour their process to let them know something is coming if they're making a 5-10 year decision and something is only a few months out. You definitely have to follow through, though.
I've been here for about 7 years now and I agree 100% with what he said.
Can I use this with msft teams?
This is a fair question, you shouldn't be downvoted. Lean ticket trackers and productivity tools are perennially launched and invariably become as bloated as the incumbents.

This is because the information in these tools is business critical and needs to be consumed by almost everyone in the company. Moreover, different people need access to the same information in different forms of presentation, with aggregation and emphasis of different data. In contrast it's easy to make a work tracker just for developers - GitHub and GitLab have pretty much solved that problem. Making a ticket tracker which works as a single source of truth for all members of an organization who need access to the tickets is much more difficult.

Developers, PMs, VPs, support staff, data scientists and designers all need access to overlapping information which is ideally stored in the form of tickets. But each of those roles needs something different from the tickets, both individually and in aggregate. You can't just target a single group here, because then you're trying to get the company to adopt separate repositories of work (it's already an additional complexity that work is split between e.g. GitHub and Jira, for example).

So to obtain the critical mass of adoption they need for product market fit and growth, these tools organically evolve to become everything to everyone in an organization. And suddenly your tracking tool is stuffed with metrics, integrations, feeds, dashboards, reports, etc.

The other thing is that these tools become especially bloated by integrations and plugins. A brand new instance of any tracker or project manager feels clean and fast. A few years in, it feels slower and more crowded by all the custom/third party additions rolled into it.
See my note below about spoon theory. I guess I could've been clearer that I meant not a total fix, it won't fix everything on it's own. I didn't mean that it's not part of the solution.
> Forget the third world altogether, it has already led to revolts in France, the entire movement of the yellow vests is based on rural low middle class people revolting against the state for an increase in fuel taxes along several older other sticking points

It's also that they aren't offered any alternative to using fuel (good luck finding public transit in these rural regions; the population density simply makes it impossible).

And where's the money from the fuel tax going? Financing alternatives for these people or is it funneled into some civil servant's retirement funds?
IPFS-over-Tor has been trapped in development hell for 5 years.

https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/37
It's generally pretty obvious what's someone spamming for signups vs legitimate community participation.
As of this moment, there are more non-green services than I've ever seen. And it's steadily getting worse.

EDIT: 15 minutes later and the board is looking worse again.
yes, I was looking on their website how to nominate that project, couldn't find a way to do the same, anyone know how? Can you propose Apache Open Meetings project?
We've been having lots of issues with Vercel today, since it uses AWS under the hood I'm guessing that's related...
Investigative report finds fires, violations by Hanford nuclear cleanup company
It is now affecting ECS and EKS. Having problems scaling own nodes.
Did you just completely skip every biology course throughout high school and college?

The human body is fucking complex. Staggeringly, mind-bogglingly so.

And that's just our bodies. Add in just one component of nursing, like medication. We don't even know how most of the drugs we take work - called 'mechanism of action'. We don't know. We just know the shit does work.

Now think about everything that can go wrong with a human body. Nurses are the front line workers that have to deal with that.

Try to think a little before you type next time.
They immediately destroyed the free tier
For those, Apple's favored approach to memory management (mostly reference counting) absolutely _is_ an advantage over Android's (mostly GC). That's not relevant when comparing an Intel and ARM Mac, tho.
OANN and Newsmax should become part of your vocabulary. They are growing rapidly and they are absolutely nothing like the companies you listed. Millions of people consider them gospel.
Cynical take: 30% bonus is there for retention. If you don't stick around for the year to hit the bonus, that's salary they don't need to pay you.
If you have good Yelp reviews or if I could speak with happy patients I would consider taking you up on it. Seriously.

I've received enough terrible medical and dental care from various "trained" and "registered" practitioners to value referrals much more than any credential or certification.

If you yourself truly believe that a professional registration is satisfactory, then I trust you practice what you preach by never researching doctor reviews. To do so would invalidate your argument.
It sounds like you were "an employee at a large/very-large consulting firm" as opposed to "1099 independent contractor one-man shop", and I would expect your experience to be the same as an employee.
Likely referring to "level 5" at Google: http://levels.fyi/
Nintendo: Super Mario Maker 1 server will be discontinued in March 2021
I would use Whatsapp before Telegram personally
Funny, just earlier today I was noticing that a friend of mine seems to have started working at Slack and was thinking "hm, that seems like the kind of company I'd consider applying to... smaller, but still serious, good quality product, but not bogged down in BigCorp politics etc."

Not anymore!
Just so that I understand this correctly, by caching to you mean the results of a specific check, or as the above was implying, downloading the list of all bad signature and doing the check 100% locally.

The issue from my understanding was half the breakage, but half the fact that Apple was sending back telemetry about what apps you launched.
In my Firefox, I see 2 newlines above and 2 newlines beneath...

Version 83.0 on Arch Linux
Or a website. Especially on the desktop, F12 many a fake website makes.
These big projects are great at eating budget from committees. Tons of meetings, delayed results for decades resulting in limited accountability, opportunities for everyone to be part of the picture and not point fingers at each other. Not to mention bragging rights for “leading” such large projects.

We often bemoan the state of the research job market on HN. I can’t help but wonder what moving funding from these facilities to smaller experiments and research labs would do.
Ask HN: Curved monitors for coding: like/dislike?
If you have used a curved monitor for programming, what was your experience? Would you use/buy one again? If it interfered, could you explain how?
OBS Studio. It's very powerful, classic open source, with a not amazing UI, but, it does everything mmhmm does and a lot more. I use both every day.
I don't see it. The regex is mostly hard to read because they formatted it poorly and put in a bunch of unnecessary non-capturing groups. I find this to be just as easy (if not easier) to read as their first example:

String pattern = (
"(\d+)\t"+
"(\d+)\t"+
"([0-1])\t"+
"(http://localhost:20\d{3})\t"+
"([0-1])\t"+
"(\d+)\t"+
"([0-1])\t"+
"(\d+)\t"+
"(\d+)\t"+
"([0-1])\t"+
"(\d+)\t"+
"(STR[0-2])"
);

And this is just as easy to read as their second example:

String num = "(\d+)\t";
String bool = "([0-1])\t";
String url = "(http://localhost:20\d{3})\t";
String str = "(STR[0-2])";
String pattern = num+num+bool+url+bool+num+bool+num+num+bool+num+str;

And yes, I do frequently split up my regexes like that to make them more readable.

The only improvement I see is that you don't have messy escaping in the url. That is genuinely nice. It motivates me to start using an regEsc() function instead of doing it by hand. However, I find "capt().endCapture()", and other verboseness to be a step backwards.

Edit: Actually, from what I can tell, all the escaping was unnecessary in this case as well. Updated examples without unneeded escape characters.
Only put something in quotes if the person actually said it. Sam Harris never claimed the Iraq war was noble or well-intended. He never supported the Iraq war, though Greenwald initially did. From Greenwald's preface in How Would a Patriot Act?[1]:

> I believed then that the president was entitled to have his national security judgment deferred to, and to the extent that I was able to develop a definitive view, I accepted his judgment that American security really would be enhanced by the invasion of this sovereign country.

Greenwald was also rather supportive of US foreign policy in 2005.[2]

What you're most likely referencing are Sam Harris's arguments about morality and intentions. In his 2007 book The End of Faith, he discusses the Iraq war in a few paragraphs:

> What we euphemistically describe as “collateral damage” in times of war is the direct result of limitations in the power and precision of our technology. To see that this is so, we need only imagine how any of our recent conflicts would have looked if we had possessed perfect weapons—weapons that allowed us either to temporarily impair or to kill a particular person, or group, at any distance, without harming others or their property. What would we do with such technology? ... A moment’s thought reveals that a person’s use of such a weapon would offer a perfect window onto the soul of his ethics.

> ... How would George Bush have prosecuted the recent war in Iraq with perfect weapons? Would he have targeted the thousands of Iraqi civilians who were maimed or killed by our bombs? Would he have put out the eyes of little girls or torn the arms from their mothers? Whether or not you admire the man’s politics—or the man—there is no reason to think that he would have sanctioned the injury or death of even a single innocent person. What would Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden do with perfect weapons? What would Hitler have done? They would have used them rather differently.

Later in the section, Harris uses the reversal test:

> Consider the recent conflict in Iraq: If the situation had been reversed, what are the chances that the Iraqi Republican Guard, attempting to execute a regime change on the Potomac, would have taken the same degree of care to minimize civilian casualties? What are the chances that Iraqi forces would have been deterred by our use of human shields? (What are the chances we would have used human shields?) What are the chances that a routed American government would have called for its citizens to volunteer to be suicide bombers? What are the chances that Iraqi soldiers would have wept upon killing a carload of American civilians at a checkpoint unnecessarily? You should have, in the ledger of your imagination, a mounting column of zeros.

None of this is expressing support for the Iraq war. Harris is simply arguing that different societies have different levels of ethical development.

1. https://www.bookbrowse.com/excerpts/index.cfm?fuseaction=pri...

2. http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2005/11/myth-of-internati...
Not sure about FSF, but FSFE is in deep s* (imo). Sorry. Once upon a time there were at least 1 message per day in the mailing list - now totally dead. Even messages are verified (hope not censored) before posting. In the last 2 years - after whatever election issues, things have become so stale. Very sad. (Note I am not taking sides - just the fact that normal members are very dejected that it seems like between Democrats/Republicans. You cannot be have more than one point from each side.
I'm not sure I see the benefit in following the letter of the RFC but not the intent
It's more than the play itself. It's the context. A world cup game (on of the best in recent decades at that), an Argentina x England after a war which precipitated massive change in Argentina, the whole atmosphere around that match. Then the hand of god, then that goal. It will be a legend remembered for centuries to come, in the memory and folklore of Argentinians especially, and of football lovers everywhere.