skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is some legal break dance in NL. My understanding was that "last selling hands" as long as they sell in small quantities are considered legal. So coffeeshop selling couple of grams is legit. But how the coffeeshop obtained enough to this transaction over and over is illegal, however not investigated.
I didn't say it isn't a factor. I said determining factor.
Yes - after all, it makes the font resource smaller. (And if the designer is working on a Mac, they won't notice any difference.)
"Appeal to Authority" is a crap fallacy (or maybe a crap name for a fallacy). "Appeal to hierarchy" might be a better description.

Otherwise going to a doctor for a sickness, or hiring an engineer to build a house would be fallacious as well.

(And give the amounts of PhDs that are incompetent or just crazy in areas they should know better is astounding but I digress)
The entire vocational system in the UK was gutted by Thatcher 40 years ago - the employers did not want to pay the levy

Recently the government tried to bring back "apprenticeships" but this was abused very hard by retailers to pay shelf stackers 1/2 the minimum wage.
I was actually looking for something like this to do some topic discovery and association on podcasts (most of which also had a YouTube channel).
Have you got a screenshot? I'm curious as I regularly switch between Windows and MacOS and I'm happy enough with font rendering on both.

In my recollection (and it's been a few years since I used a Linux GUI) Linux was the one with dodgy font rendering.
AI ethics researcher, still an AI researcher.
It’s probably not just universities either.

A company I work for spent the majority of their budget and then some on things that they didn’t need, much without any forethought or planning. It’s either because of kickbacks or because it seemed enterprise-y; there’s no rational explanation other than incompetence or corruption. An adequate IT director / CTO would be able to make their case for use of better and cheaper ToC of best-of-class open-source solutions.

Whether it’s kickbacks or just enjoying bragging about the Ferrari of webscalers we just bought or brandname IAAS we use, it’s wrong.
Exactly the same argument against waiting 3 months for randomized studies to use a drug against an epidemic. If only one could press the pause button on the epidemic.
There are many classes of meeting that don't fall under the restriction. E.g. everything related to preventing outright starvation of all urbanites.
The hype is gone. The hype around GoT was very much centered around the shocking twists and reveals and speculation around how everything would play out.

Redoing the last seasons with better scripts would be enormously expensive, but would not generate the same hype so would not get a large audience.

Making a sequel show would be a much better RoI since it could at least create some hype again, even if the hype of the original show would be hard to top.
Right, I vaguely remember hearing about this. Another benefit is you usually have a fairly good idea how a word is pronounced, which is not the case for English or French in my exprience. In some ways I guess American English attempts to standardise and fix some rough edges of English.
They pretty much provide the core espionage platform services. They operate in a typical spy in a van scenarios with all the tools and hardware needed to perform hacking and exploiting.
See for example this article:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/20/cyprus-police-...
"And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!" (https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/)

... but don't expect to stay at Google if you do.
TIL: there's an "open transcript" functionality on YouTube. It's very well hidden. I wouldn't have found it if your comment didn't prompt me to look for it.
Nobody is getting covid via surfaces. It spreads via socializing. Millions of people are still visiting each other behind closed doors every day as if things were normal in EU.
E.g.: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a/buolamwini18a...
Because in my experience it's the only save icon that's
consistently used for the same purpose. Many apps use icons
involving arrows for most common actions, and then I have to
guess if that one icon is for downloading something, for saving
the file or something else entirely.

Smartphones really need a tooltip replacement. Windows Phone 8
solved it in a consistent, intuitive way and it would be great
if the other big players came up with something similar. Google
and Apple have the power to push such improvements through the
whole app ecosystem, but there seems to be no incentive.
Yes, you're right of course. "The west" is a big place with many different moving parts, just like Asia. So things aren't the same everywhere. It's just that there are many western countries where the arguments about mask wearing and social distancing are still going on while the pandemic is raging while in most of Asia that isn't happening and the pandemic has largely been nipped in the bud.
I've ran my own cloud gaming VM on AWS and with an enterprise connection (1ms latency to the AWS datacenter) it's been good enough to play multiplayer shooting games and maintain a positive kill/death ratio against those who play locally.

Maybe the problem isn't that it's impossible per-se but that the consumer-grade services underprovision their machines/bandwidth, or that consumer-grade gigabit fiber isn't actually that good (or problems in the "last mile" like using Wi-Fi instead of good old Ethernet)?
Have you seen the offers for remote work? Almost every one is "remote (us citizen)", "remote (same timezone)", "remote (monthly onsites)". Unless the companies are prepared to open whole divisions with colocated management in other countries, the jobs are staying local.
China Achieves Quantum Supremacy
“Enslave users”, really?
My universities tech department had strong contacts to large industry players (not for software, but military applications for example).

Advantage was that we had very modern equipment (electrics, robotics, measuring instruments, ...) that would otherwise have crashed the budget of the university.

It wasn't a secret that industry tried to influence the curriculum to get students to be trained in technologies and tools they themselves use. It is clear they tried to poach students.

I understand the objection though and other departments constantly berated this closeness and they certainly had a point because the generality of education was endangered.

With big-tech in software there are some additional risks in my opinion.

That said, there is merit of feedback from industry to university. It is especially helpful to not let students learn about outdated approaches and tech and keep academia in the know.

But that has to be a transparent forum without some maybe not so moral gifts from industries.
> It just takes time but it's worth it in my humble opinion.

But why? Because I have a better scripting language? Are there more benefits beyond having lisp?
Last weekend I made a little playwright script to checkout stock item status of decathlon products. The bike -Rodillo- Has been out of stock for several weeks.

While coding it it was briefly on stock but I was too slow with my card input hahaha and so I neeed to now automate the buy part as soon as it's available, or make that run every 5min and mail/notify me if available...

Btw this was super easy, playwright as a puppeteer successor really rocks, another thing hard to hate from MS like TS or VS Code

PS: I brought down script execcution from 7 secocnds to 2 seocnds, by not loading any unneeded stuff css images external js fonts.

I felt like a good scraper citizen doing so, it was just two linnes to block by request type on the network level, and it worked like a charm to speed up the process.
Yes, it will be. The main reason, as all things, comes down to breaking human trust: tracking companies may send a small picture/small JS (that only contains a unique ID) that is randomly generated but is continously cached by the browser, effectively circumventing cookie policy.
I wonder if it is legal for someone to inherit a Google account, since it is personal. The same for Amazon account or any other. Can someone inherit a Google account for the Email and Photos history, as well for books on Google Play and any other purchase? Can someone inherit a Kindle Account? Of course they can have access with user and password, but if these companies are still on the market 50 years from now I wonder if they will start deleting accounts from people supposedly with 110 years and over.
> given that a large Danish study says that masks doesn't reduce your risk of infection in a significant way

That’s not what this study says. What the study actually says is that they found wildly huge odds ratios in their confidence interval. The only “conclusion” that can be drawn from this is that the study is inconclusive.

To explain further: to positively conclude that there’s no benefit to mask wearing, the study would have had to produce a small confidence interval around zero effect. In reality, its 95% confidence interval is between 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection. Any number between these bounds is compatible with the study results. That’s all over the place, and doesn’t allow any conclusion.
To be fair that was probably it!
What does this have to do with the comment you responded to?

I reread it. One fancy word: Linnaean. Considering this is HN, that should be OK.

I get the feeling you're reacting to the fact that I didn't state a position or a conclusion in my short HN comment. So basically, you don't like that my HN comment isn't a tweet.
BBC Micro Bot – Creative Retro Coding
This is what I do too. I have 20 years of notes saved like this.

I also open sourced a zero dependency Bash script that handles this at: https://github.com/nickjj/notes

It supports adding notes in 3 different ways:

notes hello world appends the text to the YYYY-MM.txt dated file
echo cool | notes same as above except you can pipe in text
notes opens the YYYY-MM.txt file in your configured $EDITOR

I use all 3 methods of input on a regular basis depending on what I want to jot down.
Anything can be turned into a product. The appeal of chip-based technologies such as superconducting qbits or integrated photonics is that one could at least in theory scale them to orders of magnitude larger sizes. This is simply not possible with macroscopic mirrors and beam splitters on steel posts.
You seems to have very cheap energy, here in Poland it's ~0.1$ but coupled with ability to store excess to grid it's quite practical and there's big rush with people installing solar panels. As you can use this extra elecricity for heating in winter which typically is 500$ to $1K per year (coal vs gas) + 500$ for elecricity per year, this means it pays for itself quite fast (not installed it yet for myself, want to be proven on durability of panels). If you don't have heating/AC need then it's probably less economical yet.

Building house here also starts around $50K (not counting land price). BTW land prices rose from 500$ to $500K on nice terrain when asphalt roads where build (in like 15 years span). I am happy that solar panels + storage are getting cheaper as building house anywhere will become possibile. Probably will contribute to faster development of poorer countries/regions with bad infrastructure.
Big Hacks of 2020
mmmm yeah I’m just rolling in all these choices and offers

why oh why did I take that job where the hiring manager told me with a straight face my fraction of a fraction of a percent was “high” and couldnt tell me details about the common stock and preferred stock

why didnt I take that other job where that other red-but-most-likely-benign flag popped up when the interviewer asked an awkward question

why didnt I take the 83(b) election and cough up all the money for my shares right when I started

what is up with employees like me, can someone explain?
To quote Jeff Sovern, "Capitalism may be the best economic system ever devised, but one of its drawbacks is that it provides financial incentives to harm and even kill people." [1]

There need to be protection mechanisms in place in order for us to reap the benefits of this system.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/business/dealbook/the-ris...

[typo]
The author goes out of their way to suggest fans of GoT are uninformed/gullible by believing the story is their best source of medieval culture (its fiction - who thinks there is any historic reality? There’s dragons and magic in it.) and that critique of their critique is childish (the grownups can read on....) - not a great way to start. I mean, is it reasonable to assume anyone who thinks GoT is in any way based in historic reality is even going to read the blog?

Then the blog goes into wild assumptions about the fictional lands climate and assumes the land the Dothraki roamed should somehow be similar in climate to Kings Landing and uses this to critique not only their clothing but the broader Freman myth that the ideal tough man can withstand harsh conditions like cold while being scantly clad in leather. Again, we know next to nothing about the climate they lived in or the planet they are on if it is even a planet like ours. Because it’s fantasy fiction. We can only assume the Dothraki know what clothing is best for them.

The article continues with the same pattern - assume people are misinformed and that they think GoT is based on historic realities and that GoT is responsible for continuing to push these false stereotypes.

So if the point here is that GoT is not anywhere near historically accurate then to that I say: it’s fantasy. It has dragons and magic. It’s not based in our reality or history even if inspired by it. They don’t even respect our physics in the way they make swords (the fires they make could never be hot enough to cast with) so how can we assume nearly anything else?

Yes, Martin claimed the Dothraki were based on his understanding of certain historic cultures and sure maybe his understanding is uninformed. But we don’t know specifically which parts informed his creation of the Dothraki and it’s a bit silly to pick the things you want to assume and pick that assumption apart.
> Follow all the social justice rituals and shibboleth and you suddenly get the camouflage of an empathetic, good person.

If a person is indistinguishable from a good human being, isn't it actually a good human being?
which is a dick move

Perhaps blocking a big part of the internet is the real dick move?
Originally it was to train the Clergy :-)

You are right your supposed to learn the theory at UNI Tech companies want to avoid the cost of training / career development - to many MBA/Accountants.
> all of this happened over a year ago and is essentially a closed chapter.

Very credibly threatening to sue your employer with a legal firm, regardless of whether you were in the right to do so, is never a closed chapter. Companies are made of people, and those people are not going to forget something like that. They're going to be waiting for their first chance to get rid of you.

Right or wrong, justified or not, if you threaten your employer with a lawsuit, you need to be looking for a new employer that very same day. The employment relationship is now irrevocably a hostile one.
One exception may be Niklas Luhmann, a German sociologist, who was a prolific writer. His note taking method was part of his philosophical process, I assume.
Refusal to engage with Gish gallop [1] does not validate the claims you’ve linked. This isn’t “wrongthink”, it’s a sign that you’ve posted a laughably bad source.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
Why even bother with "neuro-advertising"?

Just get the brain to release dopamine whenever the subject thinks of one of your clients’ products.

And when they think of the implant.

"- Oh, so you’re going to get that implant?
- Yeah, but it’s just to improve my odds at finding a job. Once I have it, I’ll have it removed"

"- So... you found a job?
- Yeah!
- And... you still have the implant?
- Oh! Hell yeah! It’s the best thing that ever happened to me! I can’t imagine what I’d do without it!"
Once you’ve cut it down to just the characters you need (say it’s the letters in your logo and slogan) could you inline that within the page itself (and how?) to make it not need an extra request.
She is a loose cannon and a big bully. I am surprised Google waited this long to let her go.
In Yann vs Timnit debate, when Yann asked apology for the escalating the situation, she threw a document and asked him to apologize and take responsibilities like that in the document.
Selling fonts is not rent-seeking.

Rent-seeking would be if Google demanded money from a font designer to let their fonts be "compatible" with Chrome. I.e. Pay me or I'll make sure your product doesn't work with my product. App stores is a common example; pay Apple or they'll make sure your software doesn't run on the iPhone.
We don’t know much about the climate Dothraki lived in, much less the weather patterns they had to endure. I assume the Dothraki did though and they choose appropriate garb.
I totally agree with the first part where you say it's fine to scrape. It is just an automation.

But you don't mention what you do with this data after. 1. You store it somewhere (not in your brain) 2. You extract value out of it (directly or indirectly)

That's why I understand why it is a problem for those who publish this data.

One thing I always try to say to everyone who argues about web scraping: web scraping is not a problem, problem is what you do with the information you scraped.

Disclaimer: We crawl the web for news (https://newscatcherapi.com/)
It's not founded on "but advertisements" it's founded on "but paying for content". The fact that websites are developed by people (wages), hosted on infrastructure (hardware renting) and require countless other jobs is somehow magically forgotten in these discussions.
Yes, very much so. From my experience people wear masks and visors to protect themselves. I honestly do not think the average person view wearing a mask as something they do to protect others. It's a little weird, because at the same time people seem very conscious about the risk when people around them can't or won't wear a mask.

At least in Denmark I don't think it's communicated very well why you should wear a mask. The government says "wear a mask" so the majority wears a mask. It's great that we have that level of trust in government, but it also sometimes mean that things are communicated as well as they should be.
Since I seem to get downvoted for adding doubt to the paper in my comment, I move it here:

The study does not look into other east German cities like Weimar[1] or Rostock that showed a similar drop in positive tests without mask obligations.
New positive tests in Jena recently reached an all time high. [2]

[1] https://www.corona-in-zahlen.de/landkreise/sk%20weimar/

[2] https://www.corona-in-zahlen.de/landkreise/sk%20jena/
Oh, that shines a very different light on it, thanks!
> I literally did not.

... and you doubled down. Cancelling is cancelling, a new, vaguely defined phenomena some people even deny exists but is a word the essay itself uses. Censorship is censorship, well-defined, milleniae old and nowhere near what I said. You can continue to argue this peripheral, distracting semantic point if you want but there's nothing more for me to say on this.

> It is cherry picking only if you ignore opposing evidence. I am sure you can provide some?

Given that there is nothing in the essay that acknowledges any similarity, I can point to that per se as demonstration of cherry-picking, since the Mongols, Turks, Huns, Alans were all horse-riding cultures that lived on extensive, flat land who were known to conduct raids on settled peoples, like the Dothraki. There. Met your ask.
Thanks for the summary, this confirms what I already suspected, which is that these kinds of studies are pretty much useless to correlate anything with anything.

On top of that it seems the study hypotheses for these papers are clearly biased towards proving a positive correlation between infections and mask use, even though one could do exactly the same kind of study in many other parts of the world where infections exploded along with increasingly expansive mask mandates. For example France and Spain, where numbers only started to go down after they went into second lockdown.

No matter what you think of mask effectiveness, cherry picking statistics is bad science, and so far that’s all I’ve seen as far as the ‘masks are effective’ studies go.
You're right, it should be better.

The Danish study is not good. They're not controlling for mask/no mask, they're controlling for suggestion to use masks (and they didn't even go back and ask "did you wear a mask or not).

In the end it seems people are more worried in publishing hastly prepared experiments/results than worrying about getting to the bottom of things.

> How can we not know based on the shear mechanics of these two entities whether this is effective?

It seems obvious to me that masks have a positive effect. A mechanical barrier is better than nothing. "Oh but influenza" Influenza and Coronaviruses are different

Doctors and Dentists don't use masks because they think it's funny or comfortable
It might be a matter of "do as I say, not as I do". If you look up prior FDA violations, you'll see the FDA get pretty ticked about not clearly laying out the safety risks of a medication - as such, using language such as "our drug is safe" would go directly against that.

The FDA is incredibly strict when it comes to advertising. I remember reading about one violation where the ad had a tagline for an ADHD medication "So you can concentrate on the important things" and showed a picture of a child studying. The FDA said "the image implies that your medication will improve the ability of a child to study and you have submitted no data to the FDA to support this claim".
And Thailand and Taiwan (I think) and maybe a few other countries. I think that is certainly a factor.

But something seemed to change, at least here in Thailand. Although mask wearing was normalized in cities as self-protection against air pollution, many/most people seemed to come around to the notion that mask-wearing was a collective effort to mitigate the spread of the virus. Seems like a cultural effect - more collectivist rather than individualist thinking.
This kind of hacks is a major part of how we made Scala.js' 64-bit integers fast (the fastest known implementation of 64-bit integers on JavaScript). See [1] for the implementation, and [2] at section 4.4 for the long explanation with benchmarks and the other tricks we use.

[1] https://github.com/scala-js/scala-js/blob/v1.3.1/linker-priv...

[2] https://lampwww.epfl.ch/~doeraene/thesis/doeraene-thesis-201...
Let's explore the setTimeout and setInterval methods in JavaScript
It's... Either badly named or applied without nuance. It's not about situations like "they're an expert on X, therefore I trust their opinion on X". Instead it's for "they're an authority on something, therefore if they have opinion on X, I should trust it".
XFS, stable kernels, and -RC releases
Life is hard right now and unionised workers all over the world are fighting to make it better.

How would such a "poison pill" even be enforced? If the majority decides something they can always do it, worst case by creating a new organisation which they then all join.

The US is very racist and such attitudes persist even in the labour movement. Historically, US reformist unions used to exclude non-citizens from membership, which is why the IWW started organising all workers including immigrants. The result of this democratic struggle is that US unions now organise all workers.

You're not losing anything by joining a union. It's possible that you may not gain as much as you'd like because of bigotry where you work, but that can also be fought against.