skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps create some "knowledgebases" by bulk scraping and linking? For an old project ("if days are dots, then several centuries fit on a screen, and you can mouseover history"), I scraped Wikipedia's On This Day[1], and linked into US Library of Congress scans of newspapers like the New York Tribune (1866-1922)[2], and Google's scans like LIFE magazine[3].

For illustration, here is Dec 13-ish for OTD, LIFE 1950, and Trib 1920 and 1890.[4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversari...
[2] https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/ from https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
[3] https://books.google.com/books?id=gFUEAAAAMBAJ
[4] Dec 13-ish OTD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_13 LIFE 1950 https://books.google.com/books?id=vEsEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=fron... Trib 1920 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1920-12-1... Trib 1890 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1890-12-1... Jefferson Republican 1840 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86053954/1840-12-1...
Looks like you (cherry?) picked an image with exceptionally good contrast.
The Pfizer vaccine: https://go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB15696

> BNT162b2 is a nucleoside modified mRNA (modRNA) vaccine encoding an optimized full-length version of the SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) protein...

which appears to be entirely public (along with the rest of the SARS-CoV-2 genome):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/43740568
They obviously can decide a balance between the law and personal rights when it degrades the latter and the language is unclear. Qualified immunity is a joke and they know it. The wording of the statutes are vague intentionally and in those cases the supreme court can indeed decide how it is to be interpreted since the law makers weren't explicit enough. It's either that or declare the whole thing unconstitutional
this is how natural virii function, not all but a whole family of them. some virii use a protien capsule others are actually a naked RNA strand. and yes it is the first run around of defenses, but there are a number of other hurdles.
This is pretty much Basecamp’s Shape Up but without any of the hard logic into the “How” right?
The entire goal of Shape Up is to remove and mitigate risk by frontloading it.
> I find it really disconcerting how many people on Hacker News want a corporate entity to decide what information is deemed acceptable to know. Do you even know where that word came from? The irony is almost overwhelming. But I digress...

Many on HN are the ones implementing these features, therefore have a bit of power over the rest of us. Further, judging from cancel culture, the left seems to want to force their opinions on others that have different ones. So this makes pretty clear sense to me.
GPU can now directly read the file on the SSD.
WordDumb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmoved_mover
Opinions can't be incorrect or invalid. That's why they're opinions.
Also means they can't prove who was driving
I agree speed camera are necessary but "time of travel" speed cameras are absolutely violating the intent of the law, which is to have people drive safely.

Part of driving safely is that you may need to speed up to avoid a situation, or change lanes safely or what have you - a time of travel camera (in the way they get implemented which is identical to single-point speed cameras AFAIK) is essentially just a random ticket generating machine. If we're going to use these things, let's just require them to publish the license plate and time online, so our phone's can download the number and tell us if we're currently going to get ticketed going past them.

Because tickets aren't just monetary - at least in Australia, license demerit points mean you eventually lose your license, thus your ability to drive and very likely your job as a result.
The point isn't whether misinformation should be shut. The point is who decides what is information and what is misinformation. And how do you stop vested interests from just branding anything they don't like as misinformation.
At one point when funemployed and living in a better DC market I considered trying to start a VPS operation but decided against it since the market is so hypercompetitive. I guess I'd have been in good company. Now that I live in the forsaken desert I have to ship my hardware to a different state to get a decent colo rate, so that's right out.
> The steam explosion would have resulted if they were unable to prevent the core from melting through the floor to water below.

But it only creates a significant explosion if the building is intact, which it wasn't at that point. You were talking about a kiloton level blast. Had they not drained the basement it would have made the disaster worse, but nowhere near as much so as you think.

> Perhaps you may just now be getting the sense that nuclear disasters don't just last 2 years?

The part of it that would give liquidators a lethal does in a few minutes, no that didn't last two months, let alone two years. The first few weeks of running onto the roof and pushing a few shovel-loads of debris back over the edge into the reactor room before being replaced by the next guy were much different than the people calmly walking through the woods looking for bits of ejected core. Still dangerous, but orders of magnitude less.

> You have no clue what you are talking about. I literally gave you the source

Your source wasn't worth anything. It was nonsense they came up with before they knew the scope of the problem. Evacuate Tokyo. Lol! Not even close. Not even if all reactors had been impacted. It was redacted because it was wrong, not badly covered up so that people like you could find it as part of some strange conspiracy.

> Spent fuel rods remain radioactive and hot for years to decades

Many fission byproducts have a halflife and minutes to months. The first day/week/month/year of a spent fuel rod's afterlife are the most dangerous. If rods sit for a while (6m - 2y generally) they're safe enough to transport to a secondary pool.

> Maybe you are just now learning that nuclear power is dangerous?

No, I knew radiation was dangerous when I first read about the demon core accident. But nuclear power is still about 100,000 times safer than traditional power. You just refuse to value distributed deaths such as miners and pollution sufferers.
> Freedom of speech is not the same thing as a (nonexistent) right to post whatever you want on a private platform

Again with a non sequitur - I never claimed that it was. I said:

> > Censorship reduces freedom to speak. That statement remains true whether or not the speech happens to be legally protected

It's really hard to have a good faith discussion about the pros and cons of a nuanced issue when one of the parties repeatedly fails to make good faith interpretations of claims which appear to challenge their worldview.
> but if you're loaning your car out to someone who speeds, at least some of the culpability falls on you.

Not in Germany it doesn’t. Only the actual driver can be found guilty of speeding, even by speed-camera.

I understand they’ll take pictures of the front of the vehicle and check against who’s lives at the registered address. Not sure if it’s an infraction for the registered owner to refuse to identify the likely driver.

Source: my German car rental company didn’t auto-pay anything, they forwarded me a “ticket” from the police department asking me to pay 20 EUR to go away or they’ll try to identify the actual driver and try to charge them a higher fine.

While this is more work, I think it’s reasonable for us to expect law enforcement to identify the guilty and not just convict someone that’s easy to blame.
Nightshift- it’s built into settings/display and can be scheduled or enabled manually.
Maybe there is nothing actionable to do.

Some class of problems the 6 inch chimp brain creates can't be solved individually, in collective or in time.

For example, even though we know we have created a world where anyone can now point at their large enough Like or Follower count to Justify anything they say or do, we prove time and again we can't fix this "feature" without destabilizing all kinds of other things. Even on small sites like HN improving reward mechanisms is not a simple story. So how can anyone believe fixes are possible on Youtube, Twitter or Facebook?

So many solutions have been proposed and implemented all but baring removing the Counts entirely and yet the issues of disinfo, polarization, censorship, monopoly, blame games seem to be growing more and more.

So naturally Tech has will type narratives will abound.

The Chinese are demonstrating a form of control but its all fragile if Xi kicks the can tomorrow morning.
Don't buy that for argument for a second.

The letter of the law might need to adapt, the spirit does not.

We don't need to allow the media to be weaponized with abject lies that are killing Americans are damaging our country.
After being locked inside for months and trying to start a few of my own side hustles - I'm now convinced that the barriers to "success" outside of a salary or specific industry (even discounting intelligence and raw "ability") is motivation. Simply motivation. How much you truly want something. Being honest with the answer to that question and asking yourself if you'd be happy with your current answer in three years has fundamentally changed the way I set goals, motivate myself and look at life.

It's why plenty of smart people don't make lots of money, why dumb people at times can strike it big, and an interesting mental fringe to find a way out of the rat race / salary man ladder.
Me too! Favorite skill I picked up during quarantine.
it's inlined for performance because putting the CSS in a different file felt like more work.
Props to you and your team for treating them fairly and knowing how to council in such a difficult position.
Awesome post. Shameless plug on a similar exploit I found using the browser developer tools on a large scale application https://github.com/rukshn/rukshn.github.io/blob/master/archi...
Aloha Professor and thank you.
I haven’t followed the Reddit situation closely, who are the victims of Reddit leadership’s disapproval?

I’m sympathetic to that second point, but I don’t know if I agree isolation is what’s driving the gap in understanding. The tone of disagreement has veered heavily toward saber-rattling in the last decade, which predictably encourages opponents to embrace more extreme positions in an ideological arms race.

It doesn’t take long for that mechanic to generate a chasm of understanding or respect, since reversing it would require one side to “disarm” in hopes their opponent would do the same and meet them in the middle. The trust just isn’t there and so the chasm continues to grow, further eroding trust along the way.
> specifically wondering about the chance for an MRNA vaccine triggering or deepening autoimmune disease.

I think the medical guidance has been pretty clear that you should not get the vaccine in this case. There are a lot of people who care more about their own safety than yours who may try to change your mind. Don't listen to them; don't get your medical advice on the internet. Find an expert.
The files were transferred via yggdrasil. In any case, it would have to be an unusually clever attacker to identify executables in a tarball being transmitted unwrapped via TCP on a port chosen out of a hat, and intercept it to do something malicious.
Good to know, although I fear I may find my wallet $700 lighter.
Woo hoo! I'm in the top 100k in the world for something ;)
Until they just add terrible IoT transmitters to license plates
"People like to pretend that learning shell commands is somehow better because it's more portable, but unless your work entails working across multiple machines and environments daily, it doesn't matter."

It is more portable. No pretending is necessary. It's true. I run multiple computers with different resource constraints and operating systems. I neither have the patience nor the time (not to mention the system requirements) to install an IDE on all of them. However each one has an OS that comes with a POSIX-like shell, e.g., NetBSD's sh, FreeBSD's sh, OpenBSD's sh and Linux's sh, which is derived from NetBSD's sh.

The author of this blog post begins his demonstration of shell wizardry with the "history" command. This command does not exist in POSIX sh. On NetBSD I use "fc -l 0". Go figure, it is more portable (nevermind fewer keystrokes). The scripts I write in NetBSD sh run on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, and a number of other OS without any modification. I do not have learn multiple shells to do work. On BSD, I also use the POSIX-like scripting shell (sh) as the interactive shell.

The best part is I do not have to install anything, it has already been included, no worries about system requirements. All these OS require a POSIX-like sh. None of them require an IDE.
2% of worldwide devs....
Starting in the 1920’s, when music and theatre first became “memorialized” onto film and vinyl, entertainment culture seems to have entered a new era: one beyond our previous textual (theatrical) scripts and musical notation.

They’ll surely be a third stage at some point, and our kids may yet see it!
yes you have the concept.

the molecular level of the mechanism, beyond the cellular level is detail that needs to be elucidated.
> as the mRNA is not reverse transcribed into DNA and reintegrated into the genome

Why not? Just because it doesn't match up, or is there a deeper reason?
But to what end? Ignoring the privacy aspect, the point should not be too ensure everyone goes the does limit or slower. The point should be that people are traveling at a reasonable and safe speed. Driving fast doesn't necessarily mean unsafe. You can be driving the speed limit and be going at an unsafe speed. So the speed cameras make it more likely that people will be under the speed limit. But are the roads safer?
Some Hosts Who Ignored or Deleted Email about Airbnb IPO Missed Out On $15,000
Much more intuitive, and much less useful.
I'd suggest "most" is liberal. A few is more likely.... most corporates take it as an offense (someone may be fired, only the most enlightened of CISO's in progressive orgs treat it as anything but heresy). In SilVal - sure, a higher number because they can get it. Everyone else treats these types of issues as "guilty before proven innocent"
Who founded the original 13 colonies? Is Britain still justly entitled to ownership over all that property?
> Nobody is claiming this.

The person I responded to did, in fact, directly imply this. Recall that I had compared the impact of modern mainstream social media to that of the printing press historically. Directly ignoring my central point clearly places your comment in bad faith.

"Freedom of reach" is nothing more than a thinly veiled attack on (cultural, not legal) freedom of speech (and liberalism more generally) for the reasons I've already articulated in this and nearby threads.
It's a little bit too dark, but overall just fine. Author's blog is also fine, although for me it's annoying when dark mode is default. I have global userstyle in Stylus which inverts color brightness on webpages (except images), so most of normal websites (like HN) are white-on-black for me. So please keep your website styles default black-on-white, and optionally add a setting for dark mode.
> The working poor aren't seeing the uplift

Psh. This comment is just inaccurate, but not unsurprising given general HN bias on China.

700 million to 7 million working under $2/hr in 25 years, but sure 'no uplift' for the working poor.
> Textualism is pure nonsense, used to present a false sense of rationality

No. You're just saying that people have biases and thus everything is a lie.

Textualism is a thing, and exists outside of law. Textualists think that the authors specific words are important. "Why did Tolkien say X? It must matter, he's a careful author."

I value it in the field of law because legal disputes caused by textual confusion can be avoided through careful writing and textualism leads to the type of thinking that is capable of that. And if nobody cared about the words, how sloppy would the thinking also be?
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Try mail-in AppleCare. In my experience the retail "Genius Bar" and AppleCare policies and processes (or at least their implementation) have subtle differences. I had good luck with it with an old 1st gen iPad Pro. Just did it last week and expected to get a battery replacement but got a whole device replacement, which was interesting since I did not think they still make such devices in 2020--the serial number indicates they do and the device was made in the latter half of 2020. End-to-end it took probably 3-4 days.

If that doesn't work out, easiest thing is probably to sell on Craigslist with some disclosure and buying a new one.
This is still the best CS curriculum: https://teachyourselfcs.com/
How about the fact they also covered up the Hunter Biden federal investigation of his businesses. They blocked the media account of NY Post right before the election.
The actual report is also interesting:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20423516/2020-11-...
Yes - the ‘corporation’ or shareholders may not be affected, but local employees who are responsible for those things can easily be harmed.
> You can be driving the speed limit and be going at an unsafe speed.

If so (and there is no inclement weather), then the speed limit is too high.
There is actually a history of wildcat labor action in China.
Obviously a new law would say you have to add a license plate to the roof of your car...
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Take it another level. Every car should have a chip. Once you are in a speed limit - your car can't go faster. Oh wait, this wont generate revenue - so it wont work. Never mind.
The incentives aren’t there. It takes effort to get right and what do you get? Bots scraping your data?

I wish it was different that seems to be the thought process.
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The Dome Fire
Driving slightly under the speed limit (and perhaps bumping existing speed limits slightly upward before increasing the efficiency of enforcement) should address most of those concerns.
For Arduino specifically, it certainly does have an allocator and heap by default, even on MCUs with less than 1KB RAM. However, there's no separation, so the stack and heap grow towards each other. If the heap is never used, it always stays at a size of 0. For code side, just not using malloc or anything that uses it will cause it not to be linked.
This also happened to me. I had minor symptoms, but they didn’t feel like anything worse than bad allergies. My wife is in health care and is tested twice a week so I figured if she doesn’t have it then I must not have it either. That was until I lost my sense of smell. At the time I got my positive result back from the lab I had been experiencing covid symptoms for 9 days. I was doing nothing to shield the other 3 members of my household and none of them got it either.
i have a friend that is quite allergic to aluminum, and zinc on contact. these sort of allergies are about hypersensativity, it sounds like you may have problems with any sort of foriegn challenge to your body. A major component of most vaccines is an adjuvent and that is intended to make your immune system extremely ready to recognize foriegn antigens. this means a very good chance you will have a flare up. you want to have sound medical advice from a doctor regarding your own health characteristics. Bare minimum i would want to see direct supervision and observation after a vaccine.
Listening to phone calls with stock consumer devices
Part of it is due to the game design though. There's a non-zero amount of games that are lost not because of skill, but because of another player trying out a new hero or build, someone having an off day, poor team composition, or the team chat degenerating into an all out flame war. If that happens, there isn't much that can really be done, and one is stuck in that doomed game for another half hour of unpleasantness. That's definitely a frustrating experience.

As you point out, the ELO system is fair, but it's also a rather noisy metric. Players can be skilled with some heroes while being completely awful at others, and the ELO rating is only a singular value that has to capture this range of player ability.
They already have (and have had for decades) the equivalent of "speed enforced by aircraft patrol" where they spot from a plane and ticket by car; they could do the same thing with satellites...
You didn't recognize this riff?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23797092
You should probably provide instructions as to how to build it. The build.sh script does not work for me because cmd/main.go is not in GOROOT. go run main.go and go build inside the cmd/ directory works though.

I am really used to just being able to do go build from the root directory of the repository.
Ah. Okay, I am talking about how native English speakers read the phrase. I do not think your definition is good enough.

If I tell someone "there was violence downtown" to me it carries extremely strong tones of physical injury. If I tell someone "there are riots downtown" to me it carries extremely strong tones of chaotic potential for violence, but not violence in and of itself.

I appreciate how you are attempting to use linguistic arguments for your case, which is laudable, but I am talking about how I think it would be read by people without a deeply technical reading of the language.
Deepfake Software Startups That Are Commercializing the Technology
If Donald Trump, the individual, would be treated like an ordinary user he'd probably already been kicked off the platform.

The president of the US as an office has public, secure communication channels, Donald Trump, having signed the same TOS like anyone else, should be treated like everyone else. Not exactly sure why Twitter feels the need to be apologetic about how they moderate their platform.
Check out HackerOne or BugCrowd. Companies have programs with details on what’s allowed vs not, responsibly report and optionally share findings after they’re fixed.
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The speed limit is an upper bound.

If you cannot safely pass someone without speeding, slowing down is generally an option too.

If you're speeding to escape a homicidal maniac, challenge the ticket later.
A Three-Word Content Strategy
I love the footer text:

This website is begrudgingly generated by the use of software. Letters to the
editor are welcome via facsimile to +1 (505) 926-5492 or mail to 609 Gold Ave
SW, Suite 1D, Albuquerque, NM 87102. Opinions stated here are somewhat
necessarily those of Seventh Standard, LLC, in that the author is the sole
partner and does not wish to lead dual lives.
At this point in time, it's too late. Step 1 of the steal was the intentional security reduction. It prevented most evidence from being collected, and this made it easier and less scary to commit the crime. (we did get a horrifying Georgia video and then some absurd excuses, plus the Minnesota ballot purchase video, plus the Texas Judge with the pile of fake ID, plus the Texas door-to-door coercion, etc.)

As I wrote above, for future elections:

"Ink the fingers, since we're 3rd-world now. Have ID, just like India and Mexico do. All votes must be cast in person. Take extra pictures when voting (face, fingerprints, iris, retina), to better enable prosecution of misbehavior. No machine goes on a network. Every machine is observed by multiple unrelated people (don't know each other) for the entire time, starting from verification that it is empty and continuing until all recounts are completed. No excuses."

There was no legitimate excuse for destroying what little election security we had. You wouldn't have done that if you wanted to hold a valid election, but you wanted to "win" at any cost.

Some ominous words slipped out of Biden's mouth when speaking to voters in Michigan: "I don't need you to get me elected!"