skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much nonsense, that gets constantly repeated. Its sad how this nonsense gets repeated even by people on HN.

His father was made money from being an engineer. With that money he bought a small stake in a mine, making it out that they were some billionair mine owners is total nonsesne. However Elon had very bad relationship with his father and his father did not want him to go to Canada/US and refused to pay for his education there.

So if you want to call everybody that is not born into abject poverty 'not self made' that is of course simply a expression of your (appallingly bad) politics, but its not how the rest of the world uses that phrase.

PayPal was merger between two companies doing the same thing.

Tesla was not a 'growing company', Tesla was 2 guys who had a business plan written on a piece of paper and nothing else, they were certainty not growing. Elon and JB both wanted to found a company and somebody told them that these two were also working on the same thing. So Elon agree to get together with them rather then start a separate company.

Elon financed Tesla basically by himself, without him Tesla would have never existed and it would certainty not be nearly what it is now. There is a reason that all 5, were officially named founders, and not just the 2 guys who came up with the name Tesla.

SpaceX, Boring Company, Neurolink and Zip2 were all created by Musk.
Minimum till and zero till agriculture is already a thing. There is still a great need for tractors. Having grown up on a farm, I continually see people with an idea of agriculture that is massively out of date. Technology and techniques advance as they do in any industry. It's not perfect, and some farms are better than others, but farmers are continually striving to improve both for economic and for environmental reasons.
> So wouldn't it be ideal if designers or enterprise users could grapple with the nuances of the UI directly and implement it themselves?

Oh, this always works! Why must we attempt to be so efficient? This curse of specialisation must be lifted, it has held us back for too long!

/s obviously, but in seriousness:

> [author] is a software engineer who has conducted over 1,400 technical interviews for ...etc etc

I find it almost beyond belief that someone with a [supposedly] large amount of experience in software development would to think that allowing clients to implement UI themselves is a good idea.
After all, having made babies entitles them to being cared for. That's the rules. /s
It’s okay. When it comes to RF, most regulatory bodies are content to let buyers camp on their allocations just to keep out any competition.

While the auction receipts go into the public coffers, it’s not like we get annual cheques.
It's a joke isn't it?! We spend hours maintaining that stuff and it gives the customer 0 value. :explodinghead: But on the flip-side, we get paid! :D
AstraZeneca begins programme to assess Covid-19 vaccine combinations
You're right, and it's ironic because I think the primary intention was to unnerve and horrify the public and to make people think some sort of unholy being was stealing souls to torment in the afterlife, like a demon, or the Anti-Christ.

He was very narcissistic, like many serial killers, and in every letter he was trying to build a legend around himself. And unfortunately, the attempt was somewhat successful. It's maybe the most effective way to get very famous very quickly, especially if you elude capture for a long time.

Something tells me there's a decent chance he may get identified one day. But if it ever happens, I suspect it'll be like this cipher solution: it'll take more decades, more toil, and more excruciating retreading of old ground until the right combination of advances in technology, dedication, and creativity finally uncovers a thread that quickly unravels.

My absolute deepest respect and admiration go to the cipher crackers and to everyone else working on this and any other murder cold case; amateur, professional, civilian, or authority. Each individual knows they probably won't succeed, that probably no one will ever know who they are or what they did, that there's probably a major opportunity cost to what they're doing. With very few exceptions, they're doing it solely because it's the right thing. Keep doing what you do. You're our unsung heroes.
There are a couple of people on reddit[1] who take some neat photos like that (but with 1-4 years of exposure time and not 8).

[1] This one for example: https://old.reddit.com/user/Solargraphy/submitted/?sort=top
We don't test health care workers in America.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/07/943945361/think-health-care-w...
Thanks for that Nature news feature, it summarized the research on SARS-CoV-2 mutations quite well.

We’ll have to watch for signs of selection pressure as more and more of us get vaccinated to recognize the spike protein. Hopefully SARS-CoV2 mutates too slowly to escape the vaccines, or can only escape with sharply reduced infectivity and virulence.
That seems kinda unlikely to me, do you have a source perchance?
Estimate your website's carbon footprint
Looking at UI/UX of so many tools that I use, it feels like the UI developers died a long time ago.
yeah it is, I either use their exact subscribers count or estimate it based on the posts / like ratio.

also accounting for possible tips by their fans.

Belle told that she earns $500k/mo in 2019ish so $760k nowadays is very possible imo.

thanks for commenting tho, I went to sleep once I posted this and it made blood of many people very hot. chill out yall, it’s just cool stats for curious minds out there
These aren't singular global quantities. Such censorship reduces spammers' freedom to speak in order to preserve that of the other participants. Spamming closely resembles a tragedy of the commons (overuse of the system to solicit sales) and anti-spam an associated regulatory action.

The problem with such an analogy is that spam is inherently off topic - approximately none of the other participants actually want to see it. That's fundamentally different from this case. Whether you deem it misinformation or political speech, many of the participants clearly do want to see it. In fact, they want to see it so much that such information is consistently selected by the automated algorithms that are designed specifically to maximize engagement metrics.
I'm sorry you're being downvoted. The testing disaster killed far more than this vaccine approval delay has killed and it's infuriating that nobody seems to care.

They shut down testing back when we needed it most, allowing us to pretend there was no spread in the US for far too long: https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/27/coronavirus-testing-seat...

They spent far too long before approving any kind of at-home testing and to this day have not approved most rapid testing.

Three weeks ago the EUA was submitted, so three weeks ago there was an entire team of people at pfizer who had reviewed all the data and were confident FDA would approve the application, but somehow nobody at FDA was part of that set of people. In any reasonable process that application would have contained no new information, if it contained any new information they were not communicating closely enough.

I understand spending a few days doing some final checks on the data before approving. Three weeks, however, is suspiciously long. It's possible they were in fact doing important work which could not possibly have been done before the application was submitted, but nobody seems able to articulate what that important work actually was.
Nope, but there sure is a lot of money being dumped into PR for certain platforms at the minute.
Im not of the opinion that we've found the "best" user interface. I think the biggest hurdle is that "best" is so different to different people. One part is familiarity, as many power users know, your setup would be utterly useless to an unfamiliar person. I guess the current paradigm is a local maxima of the convergence of discoverability and efficiency and still working on our diverse device specifications (display sizes, input devices and performance).
>I do think that Trump has collected a preponderance of evidence that election laws were broken

If so, but he has demonstrated zero fraud, then there is no reason to change a single vote. In each case he is asking for votes to be changed, so such cases are not granted.

The majority of places his team has claimed laws were broken have been shown to be false. There's ample places judges have called his team out on this.

That is the point.

>Below is one such piece of evidence:

That claim was pretty thoroughly demolished in the case and in the replies to that comment. This is not evidence. Again you mistake hearsay for evidence.

It's easy to find people willing to claim all sorts of nonsense. Courts demand evidence to prove a fact, and the standard is usually "beyond a reasonable doubt".

> their claims and the people who give them voice, are dismissed with outright hostility & vitriol

No, in every case I followed, the people with these "voices" were shills brought up to sow confusion. Case after case the voices were shown to not have standing, to not be reliable, several recanted before going to trial, and on and on. This is not an honest enterprise of honest people with legit concerns.

The evidence to this is the sheer brutality of the case outcomes - last I looked it was around 58-1 against Trump and co.

This is why there is hostility and vitriol. It's not an honest set of lawsuits being brought (again, just look how idiotic the cases are being run, and how much money has been raised on these cases, and that the money is going to Trump's pockets, not to cases, and you'll see how this machine works).
I similarly use Lynx alongside Firefox for when I don't want to context switch out of my shell (or am on a headless system).

I've set up various aliases in my dotfile repo that make it easy for me to do search through Lynx to google, ddg, wikipedia etc as well as instantly bring up my most used and read news (and other) sites.

It is really rather handy when you get used to it. But it simply could never replace a modern browser due to the JS dependencies needed.
Yay, then lets see how the spike protein evolves after mass vaccination. In my understanding the vaccination targets exactly that protein so there should be plenty of selective pressure in case mass vaccination takes place
Wow... just wow. You got indoctrinated pretty good hum?

You do realize this kind of vaccine never passed animal trials before COVID right? In fact, the company making it never had a successful product before COVID.

Yet we're supposed to believe they magically solved the problem in a matter of weeks and all is perfect?

Please, submit yourself to be a lab rat, but people like you are the reason why they will force everyone to get the vaccine, freedom be damned.
When I worked in a web agency, we made a similar set of these to use in early client meetings to get stakeholders thinking about content hierarchy and how their site would be made out of modular components.

It saved so much time as we could co-design large parts of the site with them before going anywhere near a computer.
What qualifies as the longest exposure ever? Does it have to result in a photo of something distinguishable? Surely there's an old camera out there with a broken shutter that's been exposing some piece of film for decades, even though it's just an entirely exposed piece of film at this point
I really don't think that one can draw a line from the Quakers to the modern evangelical Christians. The Quakers were/are probably the closest Christian denomination to the actual lived beliefs expressed in the New Testament.

Maybe I just miss this, but that doesn't seem to match up with current evangelical support of the Republican party.
And calling anyone who cares about grammar a stickler as if we were in high school
Very often your residential connection is sold as proxy to e.g. circumvent rate limits. Companies like luminati are used for example for scraping google search results and many more things.
10 Days of Pure Solitude
From for-profit perspective, YT should have done flagging banned videos as UNTRUSTED! and benefit from both free speech supporting and outraging everyone “far” and vocal into epileptic ads seizures.
a summer trip to visit Poland and the Ukraine in search of her family’s origin, her father’s birthplace, a concentration camp that had since been wiped off the map... When she toured Auschwitz with an entirely French-speaking group, at the end of the tour, she asked the guide, in French, “Why is no one crying? But me?”

The piece also alludes to "unspeakable" things happening in her childhood.

Some things are incredibly hard to put down. Sometimes a person's childhood casts a dark shadow over the rest of their life. Like a deep shadow in winter where the snow refuses to melt even though the sun has come out and the temperatures have risen, sometimes the cold and dark of childhood refuses to leave one, no matter how hard they try to resolve it and no matter how much time has passed.
No it won't. Natural antibodies remain in your blood, vaccines need "booster" shots to remain active (if at all).

Stop spreading misinformation.
In the article it is’t - only one of the strains mentioned has a change in behaviour.
And that's a good thing
AKA von Neumann debiasing, or the von Neumann trick.
Eventually even Linux will diverge from its idealistic roots as our generation has left the world of living.
How is any of that not possible with regular money and a regular bank?

It's already how MobilePay works in Denmark. You give the website your phone number, and a prompt pops up on your phone screen to approve the transfer, with an amount, in a native (trusted) app.

Crypto doesn't add anything here.
Since this will continue to be misunderstood, it's important to emphasise that the article explicitly mentions that there is

1. No evidence to support the idea of strains that have any impact on infection

2. No evidence to support the idea that the strains will resist the vaccines or weaken vaccine efficacy.

This is not a "strain" in the sense of the flu, COVID-19 hasn't fundamentally changed in any meaningful way that lets us do anything other than track the pandemic's spread.
> > Since then, there have been documented reports of individuals being reinfected with different versions of the virus.

> [...] But if the immunity really is strain-specific

Reinfections have been recorded from different strains because it's much easier to demonstrate that someone has been reinfected with a new strain. If someone has been reinfected with the same strain then it is hard to distinguish that from an infection that wasn't fully cleared originally. It doesn't necessarily mean that immunity is strain-specific.

(I don't know why you were downvoted; your comment seems reasonable to me!)
One can argue that light degrading a centuries old stone wall counts as a long exposure photograph.
I don't see how the Chinese and Iranian governments need to worry about YouTube being blocked when they want to spread propaganda in the US and Europe.
Your comparison is moot. If I were to select a squad of long distance endurance athletes, I would look to those of Kenyan stock before I’d look to Icelandic.

We are animals, it may not be politically correct but animal husbandry (science) applies.
What is even more incredible in 2020 is that docker.com and hub.docker.com do not host on IPv6 .... and they're on AWS.

We discovered this due to operating an IPv6-only network and having to deploy NAT64/DNS64* on the edge specifically for reaching hub.docker.com

* NAT64/DNS64 was trivial to set up (Tayga + bind9) - took 2 hours for a networking apprentice
Cheers. We will include ads of verious types; yet to be decided upon, but starting in Q1 2021 with a first set of partners/advertisers. These will no doubt evolve but yes, will be done with out tracking; we won't be passing on IP in the way some other so-called "privacy" engines do. So yes, keyword/search query based.
Good for Denmark, it doesn't exist here. Plus, there is no way I will install a proprietary banking app. For this to be acceptable, it needs to be a standard and have multiple implementations. At which point, using cryptocurrencies is the easiest way.
Fiber to the home is only buried when the electrical lines are underground (i.e. no poles). That is incredibly rare in rural areas. And gigabit switches ("network elements") are stupidly cheap now.

People have been totally bamboozled about what this stuff really costs.
And learning PHP, React, and MongoDB is easy to do on the job.

However, I think that there are industry practices which may inform what students are taught.
For example, process algebra is rarely (if ever?) used in industry. There are other formalisms of comparable difficulty and academic interest which are used however, perhaps teach those instead?
Fire Emblem is one of the games that shows fake probabilities to get around this problem - if the actual probability of an attack connecting is 95%, it will display a value of 80-85% to the user.
The odd part is that I've played hundreds of hours of those games and never noticed anything wrong.
The site redirects but not the search page for various reasons, we will look into how we can correct this now. So thanks for the reminder!
Nature has a decent article on this: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02544-6

Apparently we have little idea whether D614G is more infectious but that is hard to believe given that it has so thoroughly outcompeted other strains.
The book’s example is not the best.
Green great dragons can absolutely exist, if great dragons were a breed of dragons, like great danes.
In that case great would be a way more specific modifier of the noun dragons, as it defines a subgroup of the group of the noun.
That’s why it can be closer, because it’s more specific than green, and our brain can definitively switch automatically to get this nuance in language, as soon as we asses that “great dragons” are a thing. It’s not about size and color in itself, it’s just that, generally speaking, size tends to be less specific than color in subgrouping a noun.
This is also how we learn though trust: if I find the sentence and I trust who wrote that, I assume and therefore learn that Great Dragons are probably a breed of dragons.
Not sure why your mate's manager had a problem with passive voice. Passive voice is often the correct choice in documentation. Passive voice emphasizes the doing, not the doer. People usually don't care about who did the doing in technical documents.
Because why do some of the smartest and highest paid people on earth need to form a coalition against their highly benevolent employer compared to most. It's hard to feel the plight of a Googler when compared to alternatives. It's not enough to show up and do your job, they want to be able to tell the bosses to fuck off with impunity too. Free speech doesn't apply to the workplace.
> I have several free sites on Netlify and none of them seem slow at all - all three sites load in under 450ms on Chrome.

Does this also measure the time to connect to the server? Not sure if Chrome is perfectly correct. I used https://tools.pingdom.com

I'm German. My free Netlify sites load twice as slow from Germany than from the US. US: 1.2s, Germany ~2.5s (and I thought Netlify has servers all around the world?!)

But still, 1.2s is very slow imho. My website on a dedicated VPS, hosted in Germany, loads in 1.2s from the US and 200ms from Germany. The connection time being the slowest part of all. All websites are static and rather small.

Maybe it's unfair to compare the free Netlify server to a paid dedicated VPS, but since this thread is about "self-hosting" vs "using Netlify", I just pointed out that Netlify is slower in my case.
> To reiterate, I was specifically talking about circumstances where people broadcast to mass audiences

Ok, and I think that it is important that highly targeted minorities are free to broadcast to mass audiences, without having to worry about being targeted or harrassed. Anyone who is fighting for civil rights, could become the target of mass hate and harassment, for both themselves and their friends and family, if the hate mob decides to target them.

If these groups did not have these protections, then it would only be the privileged, who would be able to express themselves to a wide audience. Other people, who are more frequently targeted, would no long have a voice.

> they should have every right to do so in private.

They should have the right to do that in public, as well, to a mass audience, while also being able to take actions to protect themselves from harassment, by being anonymous.

> but I haven't seen a hate mob running down my street for a while.

Women and minorities face a lot of harassment. It is not about a "physical" mob. There are more ways that mobs can target and harass people, than just some mob on the street engaging in physical violence.

I am not sure what to tell you, if you are not aware of all the threats and harassment that these people can get, from randos.

> So you seem to have a lot of trust in warrants being issued justly

Being forced to issue a warrant is another protection. That is much better, than if some random government official, just has access to that information, and can retaliate against you, without anyone being able to find out about it.

> also a great fear that the government will turn against you.

It is not just about some totalitarian regime. Instead it is about the in between stuff. Things like a no name burocrat, having your information, and using their power to target you, without there being a easy way for them to get caught.

Warrets and paper trails make it more difficult for government officials to abuse the information that they would otherwise have access to, if it was all available without a warrent.

> Is there nothing you'd change about it?

Yes, I would provide more ways for people to be even more anonymous, and provide stronger methods for people to protect themselves from retaliation, whether that be by random government employees, or random people on the internet.
All into memory no less.
True - the performance of a top-down parser is going to depend on if/how often it backtracks and how much lookahead it requires. But this requires control over your grammar which you might not have i.e. you are parsing a standardized programming language. Practically speaking, unless you want two separate parsing engines in your IDE, that Lisps are actually LL(1) and Python and Java are "almost LL(1)" doesn't get you closer to parsing C++.

Packrat parsers are equivalent to arbitrary lookahead in either LL or LR grammars.
Oh, that's great to hear! Still not going to upgrade unless some extremely critical vulnerability comes out, though. Tab queue and uMatrix are both killer features for me.
> Are there people who would be interested in how Python works at the C level but can't read English easily?

They said that there might be because they know people who are interested in the subject but don’t speak English. So I don’t know why you are asking the question.
https://centos.rip/
Resources are very, very easy to obtain if you really know the game.

Some farms and a good trading hall and you're set.