skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pfff. The title has "Community takes all", while the article is about "Company takes all".

This article proves to me how little these so-called 'social networks' have to do with anything social.

'Social', a newspeak term to denote some kind of dehumanized business commodity. And by adding a good sprinkle of social fairy dust the magical pathway opens that allows squeezing most money from the 'community' you lured in.

I give this a social minus.
> There shouldn't be any private data to steal.

Vaccines require the running of clinical trials during development and approval. Trial data was not stolen in this case (according to the companies), but obviously this is private "vaccine data".
I came here to say the same thing. There have also been many stories recently about bad state actors trying to gain access to research, citing only UK / US state. It is interesting to see South Korea included in the list of countries.

Such stories to me do not seem to survive the slightest bit of critical thought, and yet the same stories keep getting pushed repeatedly. The only potential negative I can foresee for the public is that if there were an abundance of data available publicly, funded anti-vaxxers may be able to misrepresent them – but I still think the benefits would outweigh such downsides. In any case, public faith is rather lower than many would have hoped.
I feel so sad for you because it sounds like you're saying you can't defend your country or protect its fruits from being taken without being something you think is bad, a "nationalist", which seems like a way to avoid facing the guilt of not fixing those problems. I think nationalism is realpolitik because nationalist beliefs, stories and myths are useful, and I think you can take from those beliefs that which is useful, and you can support nationalist ideologies, without being a nationalist or limited to that label. I think without allowing yourself to do that, you miss out on the joy you can get joy from the unity with the collective, a sense of national pride and common purpose. Your view just sounds like it lacks a lot of hope. I hope you find that hope! I think the answer to the India question is simply one of military technology and strength, and the lesson is you need a good war machine to protect the good peace machine. BTW, I'm not Indian.
Very impressive work, the interactive examples are excellent and will help many understand the concepts.

I’m a novice when it comes to anything related to web development so I’m going to go and look at how this type of this is done. Would anyone have and suggestion or recommendations for getting started?

I teach fluid mechanics with Jupyter and I use pyGEL3D for inserting 3D models but it’s far from ideal. I’ve love to do something like this.
Good. Hopefully this data will be open sourced.
The idea that fresh, drinkable water exists "in plenty" is extremely off base. Humans need vast quantities of fresh water to allow modern-day life. Furthermore it is incredibly expensive to provide fresh water at any meaningful scale when it is not available naturally.
>Markets are a wonderful creation and should be welcomed.

No, markets are evil, because my left-leaning university professors told me they are, and having a high-paying tech jobs makes me an expert at things I know nothing about.
I'm using Firefox...
> Yeah, but for non-embedded deployments i.e. 99% of Java code out there?

100% of commercial JDKs have support for AOT compilation, what you are getting nowadays on OpenJDK is the free beer version of it.

> I don't know the Perl one, but the Python ones definitely aren't mainstream.

They surely were mainstream on Windows back in .com days, specially via py2exe and ActiveState tooling.

> Every language in the olden days had static compilation support :-))

Many of which are still mainstream languages.
> University is too late for these fundamentals, which IMHO ought to be taught in primary school.

There are so many fundamentals that are skipped throughout compulsory education. Stuff like basic taxes and home economics and labour law, which is the kind of stuff we all have to endure throughout our lives.

School is not designed from the point of view of the citizen. It's designed from the point of view of the elites running the nation.
Grep, ls, bash, (g)awk, grub, gcc, make, gzip, tar, time, plotutils, gimp, gnome, emacs and many, many other things
> The younger Europeans I met were all very eager to learn English...

English IS the lingua franca in Europe, right now, at this moment, no question about it. Even the in remotest parts Generation Z and younger speak and understand a little bit, it is only the older folks who still remember the EU with borders are reluctant to speack anything else other than their own language.

And there are more and more people picking up a third language as they move around within the EU.

English is well suited for this lingua franca thing because at the beginner-to-mid level the syntax is simple, and you can get by with a few hundred words, much better than in other languages. Also there is a common pronounciation that is different for everyone (and reflects the mother tongue of the speaker heavily), but again, people speak slowly enough that it is possible to understand what they are trying to say.

Which cannot be said about the native speakers (coming from the UK, mostly), so the UK leaving us might actually improve the situation. No more awkward meetings where 20 people understand each other reasonably well, but not the single UK representative... (true story)
> 1 to remind everyone that the right name is GNU/Lightbulb

it still cracks me up everytime I read it :D
Nailing the transition to and from belly flight is the hard part, especially so when it's so close to the ground with little margin for error.
This is beautiful.

I've been working with computer vision since university, but now days work underwater. I guess I should have a pretty good understanding of this stuff, but I still occasionally get caught out by optics.

This is the best possible pre-reading for anyone wanting to jump into the field.
Or outraging.

But even if it is your formal religion, here in germany one guy tried to claim marijuhana as part of his religion (rastafari). Which you could argue it is.

But the judge declared something the line of, "who cares, this does only affect a few people, case dismissed". As in bavaria official religion is the catholic church and beer. (sadly not really exagerated as the current bavarian ministerpresident declared that every official building has to have a cross in every room)
> The tax revenue the cities have made during this "boom" have not affected them at all

They think it has not affected them, but if they stop, the house of cards that is underfunded ultra-generous defined benefit state/municipal pensions tumbles like a house of cards. When the munis start going bankrupt, only then will people notice...
Well, if you're level 49, you still have 40 three-moves levels to complete before going to the four-move mode, so maybe you'll sympathize with me by then ;)
This is what chargebacks/disputes are for. I have had the same experience several times and disputing the transaction always worked.

Disputing the transaction is also the only thing that would actually discourage them from such shenanigans in the future, as it would sour their relationship with their acquirer bank if they get too many disputes.
"What you might not see he is responsible for giving his time to people who contribute positively."

So a manager only has to manage people that are good performers and easy to manage, but those that are hard to manage should be just fired? That sounds a bit too convenient for the manager.

If someone's underperforming then it is absolutely the manager's duty to correct that through coaching and leadership before they reach for drastic measures.

Btw, let's not bother to use the customers as an argument. They don't give a crap that Bob from accounting is underperforming. This is normal in any company and par for the course
Could this blog on grant writing be also useful to startups/NGOs seeking funds?
It can both be true that flash was a security disaster and also was the basis of many successful startups and indie casual game developers.
Hello folks,

I have been writing this blog (blog.granthackers.club) that collects tools, tricks and techniques for more effective grant writing.

It main (target) audience is academic and scientific grant writers.

I wonder, however, if any of you think this could also be useful for NGOs or startups seeking grants (e.g. from governments, foundations, charities, etc.)?

If you think "yes" then why you think so or, if you think "no", then why not?

I am really curious to hear your thoughts.

Nat
One kind of private data that strikes me as necessary and vulnerable at the same time is private data (including medical history) of people who took part in the trials.
Was there really zero evidence of Russian manipulation?
Dams and pipes are also products of human activity.
Creating dynamic configuration files with Ansible
Too small of a market. Most people don't use linux as a desktop OS. Those who do tend to use Chrome OS, which isn't well suited to gaming.
Interesting anecdote for startup managers, but on the other hand one must keep in mind that startups are caricatures of companies that can't be used to draw any conclusions about how a normal company can or should operate.
I know you're aware of this, but 70% of the languages in your list are niche languages and especially for web development they weren't that popular.

It was (is?): PHP, Javascript, Java, Python, Ruby, C# or nothing.

Especially the dynamic languages are extremely popular, primarily with smaller companies and startups.
A democratic mandate to abuse State police powers to unjustifiably curtail private property rights is still an abuse of State police powers.

Where we disagree is whether it is an abuse, not the mechanism by which it is justified by the State.

We don’t disagree that what is around is a factor in our purchase and selling decisions, but to be frank, when the developer of your hypothetical skyscraper bought the land to build the skyscraper, he didn’t buy the lot across the street with it that would one day become this hypothetical autoplant, nor the use rights for the lot across the street. In fact, the developer probably didn’t buy across an empty lot because someone that is building an 80 story apartment building wants to attract tenants, and tenants want neighborhood amenities if they’re living in an apartment building.

You could still build across from an empty lot that might be an auto plant in the future, but you don’t build that big without a business case. Property doesn’t exist in a vacuum, we’re agreed on that, and I’m not even 100% against zoning, just maybe 99% of how it is used.

When you buy property, you buy property, not the rights to limit the development and use of all the other properties around you. That “right” comes from a simple tyranny of the majority using the State as their vehicle of power.
Automating automation with RPA and process mining–available for Power Automate
Yeah, I'm a huge fun. I used it to play few games before I got into Shadow, but GFN is better for more GPU heavy games so I'll play CP2077 there.

The only downside I see is that there is no Linux client (or a browser one, which they promised) and I need to do a strange setup of:

1. Starting game on Android

2. Connecting bluetooth mouse there (so it won't kick me out because I'm not doing anything on the phone)

3. Starting Steam and using Steam Remote Play

(Thank you a anonymous user on reddit for letting know that Steam Remote Play works there)

(with each step cursing Google for not enabling video out on Pixel 4 USB-C)

It is a bit of PITA, but I'm glad it works (other option of using a VM was even worse).
It won't. The Great Lakes Compact forbids, except under exceedingly rare circumstances, water diversion from the Great Lakes watershed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Compact
Mostly it exists so we don’t kill each other -European imperialism is a direct outgrowth of being the most warlike continent for hundreds of years. When they talk about “civil war times” in the history of China ... that’s the whole history of Europe. I have 300 castles around my hometown ... I can find WW2 bombs and Munition from the 30 years war in the forest.
This EOL was announced three years ago. The notifications you're wanting have been present in most browsers nearly that long.
Refusing to do even the simplest of measures - like requiring masks - turns a disease into murder. Heck, we've used disease as agents of terror and murder. Smallpox blankets, anyone?

I'd also argue that folks have been killing others for centuries, including in terrorist-like attacks, so you could argue that 9/11 was just a natural part of being human.

These things can be compared, even without using numbers.

But more importantly, we are often reminded of the death toll of 9/11, so it is apt to be compare the two. This isn't the "pathetic media". IT is people not wanting to die because others refuse to do basic things to help others.
Yes, but the wait for 10 years is not there only to test for side effects. It is needed to test the effectiveness of the vaccine.
For COVID, you don't need this long term period to test for effectiveness. Of course I agree about the risk for long-term side effects, but we're in a situation of risk-benefits calculation here. And I don't think waiting 10 years is the right move.
In general the basic+pro model is Ok. I just mean basic language support is not reasonable to be considered a pro feature. There are many other advanced features to imagine.

E.g. I would gladly pay for being able to load a custom auto-completion dictionary file, for an additional programmable row of keys (where I could put anything including whole phrases, selection/search/replace macroses and system keys like Ctrl and F1-F12), gamepad-like split-overlay for the landscape mode (like in SwiftKey) etc.

I also consider requiring a credit card to start a trial so you could auto-charge once the user fails to cancel in time a soft kind of fraud but this practice is so widespread I can't blame anyone.

Using more than one language/script, however, is not a choice nor an attribute of a pro user, it's a basic thing every keyboard is meant to allow.
I'm so very, very sick of the target pregnancy story. Like, we have absolutely no idea how many people the model thought were pregnant, vs the number that actually were.

Based on my knowledge of market-basket analysis, this might work, but we really don't know anything except a just-so story about target and someone's daughter.

This is really, really not a good example of analysing receipts leading to better things.
That's because it's a simple rule you can give to a shit manager as a framework for feedback.

Unfortunately, a lot of managers are very bad at their jobs.

People are people - some people don't like feedback however it's presented, some people don't care about the presentation of the feedback, and will take onboard points without sugar-coating, and some people need more delicate treatment.

Being a good manager means learning how to communicate effectively with all these different types of people and many others, but you can't learn that from a book.
Probably a document like this https://www.fda.gov/media/144246/download
Bitmasks for Nicer APIs
Where are the spit tests? 36-48 hours for PCR results isn't practical for the kind of testing regime needed for restaurants, and bars.

Gyms, shops, shopping malls are open. No testing and no limits.

States have a legal and ethical pubic health obligation. They're also on the hook financially via lost sales taxes and medicaid costs. Each covid case is bad for states. But they can't pay businesses to close. And they federal government won't pay even though they could.

A 10 minute spit test would make this allot more doable.
Things are successfully tested to destruction every day. That is the truth. Some of the most successful tests involve explosions and loss of equipment; it's the only way to be sure where the limits are.

News anchors? They're often pretty clueless about technical things, so their mistakes don't mean much.
Indeed, the challenges around data when designing the products are of different nature, making sure data are collected (choice of sensors) and possibly also processed locally (Edge AI), like the case of CERN I mentioned where Blue Yonder's detectors were used to filter out 100k events out of the 600M received by the detectors' CMOS arrays.
I don't think it's unreasonable to keep the personal details of trial participants secret, for example
Ben Rickert, is that you?
Great. So your two comments taken together prove my point. Don't use technology that's actively working against your best interests, and your interests will be better served..
I don't believe that's the question that drives the US. The question that drives the US seems to be "how little money can we spend on the rest of society while still maintaining our own billions"?
Inability to open selected recipes in a new tab (e.g., to read later) is really annoying
I'm feeling a nascent but large shift against centralisation of 'social'.

What, in my niche, was a large blogging community, died between 2010 and 2012 but is showing sprouts of growth. The shift to centralised platforms was immediately clear after Google killed Reader and took a few years to work out. For some this meant relocating to centralised platforms for 'community', for some just quitting, for many new to the niche things seeming too much effort and on the other side of that spectrum tiresome long YouTube videos which could be tl;dr'd within a couple of paragraphs.

I do think a shift towards greater federation is back. Centralised platforms will seek to monetise whatever they can, but there's only so far a pendulum can swing and that's not to yet another centralised platform (perhaps a few, something radically different like AR, but what is mentioned in the article is already highly captured and many find this tiresome).

Perhaps this is consistent with social+ mentioned in the article. Perhaps this depends on market or sector. Social+Fitness - that's going to a gym or just having a couple of buddies to share a hobby. Social+Food, I love YouTube videos on cooking, well, 3% of them, with the rest being garbage, monetised garbage, peak monetisation - of the ones I like most chefs don't seek monetisation just sharing their love for what they do. Social+Real Estate - interesting extremes on both sides of the coin, I quite like knowing some neighbours and quite like not knowing others. Social+Money, is every Social+ is in it for the money? Social+Education, why does 'Social' really exist as a tag?
Because if you start to support Linux you actually have to support all the major distribution (Debian, Arch, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.) with their different idiosyncrasies, package format, libc implementations and/or version, etc.

Basically your testing coverage explodes exponentially. That's why in a former gig the team I was part of decided to go from Linux to only Windows since it way easier to test only for ~3 majors OS versions.
While it may look like that, I wonder how much of it comes from the leadership and how much from "average US person" behaviour. Thought exercise: how different do you think the collective US behaviour would be if every state (our county) leader was replaced with a Dan Andrews clone, ignoring how he'd get elected? (I don't have an answer, I can imagine many paths)
I think the only real failure of anti-trust regulation was in the EU. They definitely should not have allowed the Whatsapp acquisition to go ahead.

I'm not sure on what grounds the US regulators would have blocked the Whatsapp acquisition, as it basically had no competition implications in the US.

The Instagram one is harder. Sure, it was a better version fo Facebook done right for mobile, but it only had 10mn users when acquired.

I'm not convinced that IG would have been successful if it hadn't been bought by Facebook. For an example of how things can go wrong, look at Snapchat vs Instagram.
Hmmm... access to water is a basic human right... trading with water is... dangerous...
https://archive.is/CtUVO
UBERs total funding was 25 Billion, that might not be the best example but funding on this scale is not possible in Europe. The core limit is the market size (every EU market needs specific teams) and the funding.
1. it's illegal
2. when u need a frequent external data feed to blockchain ("smart meters") you'r already screwed. can't do that without compromise in trust element
3. it's centralized so can be easily shut down
4. if u wanna invest in energy u don't need to use a speculative coin to "select the project"
5. I don't care if it's Wozniak or Steve Jobs coming from it's grave, it's a fucking shitcoin.

Don't do it. There is amazing tech out there. I hate to see this
because...? No one ever loses his job in tech?
Looks like a newer version of https://www.pimusicbox.com

Been a happy user of Pi MusicBox for many years. Perfect for making any amp "smart".
Apparently this is not what has been breached. From the article:

> no BioNTech or Pfizer systems have been breached in connection with this incident and we are unaware that any study participants have been identified through the data being accessed
> Name one country in history that completely switched language without external pressure (invasion or colonisation).

IIRC Geneva switched from being bilingual French German to French completely dominating public life in the space of a generation because of the influx of French Protestants because of Calvin.
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The absurd stuff http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
> Most water in the region isn't used for drinking -- there's plenty for that.

I live in a densely populated region of the world where water tables have lowered due to droughts over the last couple of years while rain diminishes.

Groundwater is pumped by farmers over the summer, further lowing water tables to a point where water companies sound the alarm: if the water table lowers below a certain level, water stops coming out of the household water taps.

This literally happened this summers in a few municipalities. People didn't have access to clean water for basic hygiene, cleaning and drinking.

You might think "what's so bad about that? They can just buy bottled water, or install a storage tank?"

Well, this is a public health concern.

The big reason why diseases raged so easily in the past in the Western world - and still is in the rest of the world - was/is the lack of public access to clean water. Diseases such as Cholera are directly attributed to poor sanitation and lack of clean water.

Privatizing water sounds good in theory, but if the price of drinking water increases to prohibitive levels for less fortunate groups in society, you will also see an uptick in public health crises. The associated costs are - once again - deferred to the public (e.g. healthcare costs)
There's an info@ email address listed on the website
Indeed, which in turn is an espected outcome if the engine is running oxygen rich, and hence much hotter than the design point. Pretty likely the low fuel tank pressure was the cause of this, and I'm sure SpaceX will have the telemetry data to know for sure if this was the case, irrespective of what pieces remain after the landing.
This is just embarrassing. Today I’m ashamed, once again, of being human.

Sometimes you have to spell it out for these animals, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and water you dumb animals, and water too, why must this be said?

If social media shaming should be used for anything, it should be used for this.

Speculation markets lead to speculation.
I think they have 4 of those
what people call "Linux" is much more "GNU" (system tools, commands, shell, system programms, libraries, stadards, conventions) and less "Linux" (only the kernel).