skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suddenly reminded of the “Clueless” from the gervais principal.
Genghis Khan’s memory erased from view as China cracks down on Mongolian culture
Multi-touch gestures in Elementary OS 6
log_a(b)*log_b(c) = log_a(c)

My favorite identity.
How many dimensions does a projection of an infinitely-dimensional space need for you to take it seriously?
Nope. That part is outsourced to humans.
Medical isn't constrained to science. Healthcare professionals are allowed to use tradition, authority, and Art in combination with science.

It's mind boggling to Engineers to hear this, but Medicine is older than the scientific method and physicians used Regulatory capture to prevent competition.

I'd love a science based healthcare alternative.
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From JC: "the exactly predicted off-by-one-frame-of-latency input sampling happened"

I'm assuming this happened because the game, starting with an empty input buffer, queued input for the subsequent frame, rather than use the input as-is and process it right then and there?
Somewhat related, does anybody know any "beginner material for non-beginners".

Pretend I want to learn web development. I have been doing desktop programming and data analysis for many years, so I know all about programming but nothing about how a web-app works.

I would be looking for something that explained web apps assuming I know little to nothing about them, but not "how to program" because I don't want to sit through learning about loops or variables.

And pretend I'm also the type of person that wants concepts and not just tutorials.

Anything like that?
ARX (see other comment in this thread) also supports data anonymization for privacy-preserving machine learning.
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All those cars are headed for Craigslist. "great condition, 2020 pickup, only 30 miles on the odo. salvage title."
It’s not necessarily deluded to feel in control when you’re not
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It's already here in place at my company and many others. PRs, commits, comments and even slack and email activity are being tracked and compared between employees.
I don't think the original owner would own it outright, at the very least there is the Law of Salvage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_salvage) where the port authority (or whoever else refloated it) would be entitled to "a reward commensurate with the value of the property salved."

Also, from the first image in the picture you can see that the cargo has shifted and is now all on the side of the ship . Modern cargo vessels don't have that much excess stability, so chances are that it would not stay upright even if it were completely pumped full of air.
> Should you instead handle every error close to their source

I find that this is very rarely the case. Micro-operations failing means that a MUCH higher level operation has failed.

If there's an error writing to the output file descriptor from deep within the decompression library, do you know what failed? The HTTP request. What can the decompression library, the IDS inspector, the logging system, the tracing system, or anything else do? They can just pass along the error.

Hence so much "if err != nil { return err}" in Go. The vast VAST majority of errors are not handled, they are reported.

Verbose?

benchmark b("blah");
write(http_compress(logsize(backend_decompress(out_fd, in_fd)))

It's extremely rare that something can recover from an error. And the things that can be recovered from are not exceptions in C++ (though they seem to be in Java, brrr).
How is it financially prohibitive to pay a researcher a salary to find a 0day like this, where the bounty programs pay $100k-$500k on 0days on the same ?
source: https://developer.apple.com/security-bounty/payouts/
A Bidding War for Covid-19 Nurses Hurts the Pandemic Response
> Frankly, I don't need to know how he is doing every few months and I find it a bit awkward to make small talk any way.

There's a bit of secret sauce here that I tend to rely on to prevent myself from being considered "that guy".

First and foremost, I do this as much as possible via e-mail. Phone or WhatsApp is indeed too "personal" for these type of things (save for one person, an old boss of mine, who I have a scheduled zoom call with once a month. But that's just because he and I just like the chit-chat, it appears).

I write up a long-form message, something like 5-8 paragraphs with real news about myself and the things I've been up to, and ship that alongside the usual casual chit-chat.

It's surprisingly useful - I think this is the only context in which long-form e-mail is a good thing.

But then again, I grew up in an era where e-mail is the devil, and this was not always the case (or so they tell me).
Having trouble seeing this trend as good for anyone except owners and shareholders.
Safest in terms of automation, sure, but the poorer society gets as more and more jobs are automated, the fewer skilled trades will be needed.
I'm a blogger too. but i think this profession is boring before this blogger profession i was a full time gamer i have my YouTube gaming channel with 35k subscribers, and i love this game https://www.sims4studiodownload.com/realm-of-magic-cheats/
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Refloating was already tried a few times and failed

>PCTC Golden Ray was partially capsized in St. Simons Sound, Georgia, when the pilot deliberately grounded the 20,000-dwt ship in response to a fire on board on 8 September. It was sailing out with 4,200 vehicles on board and was grounded on a soft seabed.

>Attempts to refloat the vessel have so far failed and the US Unified Command handling the salvage has decided to disassemble the ship in situ. It believes attempting to right and refloat this ship would not be technically feasible.
Boris Johnson just recently mentioned that that would not be the case, the vaccine will not be mandatory.
What's the difference between this and disabling scripts in your browser?
HTML is pretty easy to edit, even with 1997 era tools (by 97, even WordPerfect could edit a web page). What made it hard for users (and required developers) was when we we started adding dynamic menus (even if they were inserted by a server side script) and dynamic content (inserting records from a database to a document). FrontPage had a little workaround for that used Java applets for dynamic content, and that let people design whole sites with what looked like a dynamic navigatioin.
> "Contrary to the popular notion that robots will replace human labor, we find robot-adopting firms employed more people over time. Any displacement of labor came from firms that did not adopt robots. These non-adopting firms actually lost their competitiveness — and they had to lay off workers."

I don't find this very compelling. How many workers were lost by companies that didn't automate vs companies that did? It's entirely possible for Amazon (or another company with heavy automation) to add 50,000 jobs, while their competitors cut 75,000 jobs, meaning a net loss for workers.
> There's no "kitchen sharing" where you can sell food straight from your private kitchen, "infirmary sharing" where you can pretend you're a doctor or a hospital room, or "legal office sharing" where you can pretend to be a lawyer without meeting all the requirements imposed on those sectors

I definitely remember someone trying the kitchen one. Forgetting the name of that startup now, but it's been tried.

And given how badly America treats health care and law, I suspect the other two are in stealth mode right now.
Finding the bug that allowed this exploit took this researcher weeks. QA can't find all defects without somehow testing every conceivable scenario without knowing every conceivable scenario, and code review can only catch defects if at least one reviewer is able to somehow know that specific methods make an exploit possible. Given that the exact code of underlying methods used may not be known to code reviewers, or that a reviewer might simply not know the full potential use cases for new code at the time of review, it is entirely understandable that defects and resulting exploits happen.

This is why researchers like the OP exist. They find exploits and report them to the manufacturer (hopefully) before they can be used. The fact that this is an effective way of protecting us is also why major software companies offer bug/exploit bounties to researchers.

To demand that all possible exploits of this nature never find their way into production builds is to demand perfection from humans. There is too much to know and think about, and definitely too many unknowns about the future, to make such a fantasy possible while still meeting release deadlines. We software developers often have a hard enough time just meeting feature and documentation deadlines, and adding more people just makes organizing your efforts more complex and difficult which then requires even more people until you reach the point that the scope of organizing your development teams is financially impossible.
> Boris Johnson says he strongly urges everyone to be vaccinated (jabs rolling out next week) but says it is 'no part or ambition of this country to make vaccines mandatory - that's not how we do things.'

https://twitter.com/latikambourke/status/1334106542480777216
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Interested to see where this goes in the future. I know a lot of technical people who are still wary of the command line, and I have yet to find a resource which is approachable enough to share widely.
I'm going through the transplant pipeline right now, and I've been told to expect that it should still work, but probably at a lower effectiveness than someone not on a post-transplant drug regimen. I'm really hoping the timing works out so I can get it pre-transplant though.
MRNA went from a scientific backwater to a pandemic crusher
> Duration of immunity? I've heard a minimum of 3-4 months reported, possibly longer, but do we know more now?

The only way to know for sure is to wait and see. But patients vaccinated for SARS in ~2004 still show immune responses now and people who received the various SARS-COV-2 trial vaccines in April of this year still show immunity. There's also studies showing many people who recovered from COVID on their own have demonstrated 9 months (and counting) of immunity. The truth is that the immune system is super complex and there isn't a single simple blood test they can do to tell if a person will resist a virus or not, so a lot of the conflicting numbers you will have seen depend on what exactly was tested and the media reporting has been pretty poor at contextualizing those study results.

So there's reason to hope vaccine-derived immunity could be long lasting (say 1-10+ years), but we'll just have to see. But talk of 3-4 months of immunity seems to be media hype.

> Am I right that we don't yet know if they reduce transmission or simply prevent the disease?

Correct, we don't know yet. Pfizer unfortunately only tested people with symptoms for COVID in their trial, so we have no idea if it reduced asymptomatic cases or reduced transmission. Oxford did test thousands of people weekly in the UK to find asymptomatic cases and they have said they have "evidence" their vaccine reduces transmission, but they haven't published their peer-reviewed Phase 3 results yet so we don't know by how much. The scientific consensus seems to be that all the vaccines will probably reduce transmission by some amount, but by how much is unknown. But it stands to reason that the quicker someone clears the virus from their body, the less time they will be shedding infectious levels of virus.

> Short of eradication, if immunity is not permanent, what options do we have apart from a perpetual vaccination program or just accepting an increased rate of mortality going forward?

Luckily, this probably won't be the case. In any case, viruses tend to mutate and become less virulent over time since killing your host is a bad way to transmit yourself. So the general guess is that the virus will eventually mutate to be less lethal, similar to the how the 1918 flu virus still circulates but doesn't cause that level of mortality anymore.
It’s a very English trait to think of itself as a self-deprecating, gentle and peace-loving nation while also being inordinately proud of the Empire and its conquests.
I don't think this works well with <noscript> tags and this makes me realise I dont actually know how <noscript> works with browsers
Agree with your point about anonymization, but here is a call out for generated data too: if the objective is to build a model, you might end up losing information, or worse, your model might end up modelling the assumptions in the generation process.
From a pure technology standpoint an under sea mining colony seems like a better first step. Like Mars internal combustion engines are useless and constant supplies of oxygen are required. Resource wise the ocean covers more land than the surface of Mars or the moon and it’s within shipping distance.
These sorts of articles and the subsequent threads always end up nitpicking which job will get automated and which jobs are safe without considering that the more we automate away jobs, the less society will be able to pay for the goods and services that aren't automated. Maybe tradespeople are safe this decade, maybe not... but one thing is for sure, there will be a smaller subset of people able to pay for renovations by 2030 because their jobs will have been automated.
I have doubt that more productive and higher skilled == higher paying. True in some/many cases but our overall society is more productive than 50 years ago, wages haven't really reflected that.
Little less snark, r-tard!

No, there won't be a single person controlling a fleet of trucks on a highway. It's not tiny drones we're talking about. Huge trucks - on highways, where people are in their cars (driving or not). Won't happen. Not in a 100 years.
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Perhaps this?

* https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html
It wasn’t a bug, it was well-documented behavior. However, it was the root of many bugs by people building on top of S3 that did not take the eventual consistency into account.

I’ll bet this release is going to fix a lot of weird bugs in systems out there using S3.
if you buy cars manufactured overseas, then in a sense you contributed to this too
There was a book I checked out of the library in college that I haven't been able to find ever again. All I remember is that it was a series by various author, "IBM System series" and there was one specifically on compilers that goes through building symbol tables, BNF grammar, different parsing methods, etc.

Has anyone else here read/seen this book and can you remember the exact titles?
Wow. HN mostly not giving a shit is an interesting thing to note.
Mystery monolith vanishes in Romania – alien action or local prank?
I suggest you donate blood via the Red Cross [1] and get a free Covid antibody test. The presence of those antibodies should be a good indicator of whether you are still immune and that will help you decide whether or not you need the vaccine. You can do this every month or two and run your own experiment to determine the length of post-infection immunity.

[1] https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/covid-19-anti...
I’ve recently struggled with this problem recently and looked at all the personal CRM tools. Monica, Dex, UpHabit, Cloze, CJournal etc. I learned that tools are just tools, they’re not magic. The way to keep in touch with people is to consistently keep in touch and write down their information. It doesn’t matter the tool. I now just allocate a few hours each weekend to update and review a custom excel sheet I use as my CRM. You might think it’s inefficient, but the inefficiency is where I actually accomplish the most. Progress often looks inefficient in hindsight. Plus - simple doesn’t mean easy and complexity itself doesn’t equal better.
If it's a private project, like a Personal CRM, you don't have to maintain anything, just run it in a VM or container make access only possible over a SSH tunnel and forget about it.
The managers that survive are robots too. The higher up the ladder the more the constraints and greater the hard coded rules.
There are two challenges I haven't seen talked about a lot.

1. I expect that there will be a lot of people who think that once they get the shot, they can immediately stop wearing masks and practicing social distancing.

The rollout to the general public will need to be combined with extensive efforts to make sure people know that it takes time for a vaccine to actually provide protection.

In the case of this one, it is about a week after the second shot, which is three weeks after the first shot, so you should keep up all your pre-vaccination measures for a month after getting the first shot.

2. In a fair number of people, the first shot is accompanied by strong symptoms similar to a severe flu, which lasts for about a day. (I haven't read anything about whether or not this can also happen with the second shot).

The people who get that strong reaction might be reluctant to get their second shot.

The education efforts accompanying the rollout to the general public should make sure people know that there is a decent chance of such a reaction, but they will get over it in a day, and it will be worth it for the protection from COVID.
> what options do we have apart from a perpetual vaccination program or just accepting an increased rate of mortality going forward?

Probably the latter, with decreasing mortality "waves" until covid basically becomes just another flu-strain.
In a recent article about the Moderna vaccine, it was mentioned that the actual development only took 2 days.... and it was done in January!

Given how short of a time it took to actually develop this thing, could we have drastically sped up this process by maybe being a bit more risky with the trials? At this point ~1.5 million people have died from the virus.

I've really struggled with this knowledge that we've had a vaccine which it turns out is 95% effective for practically the entire course of the pandemic at at this point... and our conservative "moral" process was to let 1.5 million people die while we vet it.
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The bigger news from this budget update is that Netflix/Prime avoided a 'Cancon tax', where they would be forced to make more Canadian content for the services, funded by an added levy on consumers in the country. We dodged a bullet there, I certainly don't mind these changes.
Speaking of Feynman, I remember when he was in high school he invented his own notation[0] for sin/cos/tan to use little angular lines, but then the issue he ran into was that nobody could decipher his math notation and he had trouble helping others learn, so he conformed to the sin/cos/tan notation.

[0] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/274463/feynman-trig-...
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I have zero insight into what was shared when, but I'm assuming if Pfizer completed their primary analysis in time for the Nov 20th FDA submission, they could have shared that with the EMA at that point. So somewhat of a rolling review (submit data to regulator as it becomes available).

But yes, you are correct, the EMA has specific requirements for it's submission and if they haven't received it until Monday, it's going to take a while to review it, even on an expedited basis.
or suprise a dev because they're apparently not fully focused on politics anymore?
Can't see the website because of cloudflare issues. I prefer the whitelist approach to JS on the web using noscript. JS is by default disabled on any domain and I can whitelist domains temporarily or permanently from the extension.
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.NET 5 Breaking Changes to the Base Class Library
Similar on Egmont too https://i.imgur.com/sGQuU36.jpeg

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By "argue" they almost mean "troll". Meaningful debate, from all the examples I've seen, does not appear to be a skill of this new lifeform.
The Readme is not user friendly and doesn't explain how to use or install the software. In the Github issue the developer points to an installation documentation that throws a 404 error.

In my opinion, this source code was put out to appear "open" to the H2020 Programme, but they have no intention in actually helping users run the code locally.
>Airbnb: we don't need to own hotel properties and employ managers and housekeepers

Fyi because this is a common misunderstanding: Hotel chains like Marriott, Hilton, Four Seasons, etc also do not own most of their physical properties[1]. They are primarily management companies instead of owning a portfolio of real estate. If you see a Hilton logo on the side of a building, it doesn't mean that Hilton actually owns it. The logo is there because they have a long-term contract to manage the hotel for the real owners of that property.

>Amazon: we don't need to own retail stores or inventory

Amazon isn't a totally "virtual" company. Amazon owns (or leases) physical distribution centers instead of retail stores. They've always paid sales taxes based on nexus of those DCs. What's recently changed (circa 2017?) was collecting sales taxes on behalf of 3rd-party marketplace sellers.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Do-hotel-chains-like-Hilton-Mandarin-o...
Yes that's something I need to work on. Basically if you disable JS browser side, the browser ignores the <script> tags and loads the content of <noscript>

remove-js.com just strips out the <script> tags, so the noscript tag remains, it just doesn't know to do anything.
When I Google "Tom Hanks", result #5 is USA Today debunking a QAnon theory that pedophilia is considered a disability in Greece, and somehow this is related to the false claim that Hanks is a Greek citizen.

I wonder what Google has to say about Eric Schmidt and his actual Cypriot citizenship.
True, Amnesia can also be run locally!
We have already done that [1]. The first permanent base on Antarctica was built over a hundred years ago in 1903.

What we should do is build a permanent moon base. It's closer to earth so if something goes wrong it's only a three day trip back to earth, vs waiting 2 years for a return window on mars + about 8 months travel time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_stations_in_Antarctic...