skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think some if it is that it is an appealing contrarian take, and even as stark as things are, it is common to not have suffered much personal impact from infections (either direct consequences or severe illness/death of friends/relatives).

I'm not terribly well connected socially so I don't take it as a universal, but the people I've heard about having it are a single friend of a friend and my doctor's husband (she volunteered the info during a routine appointment).

So the responses are more visible in peoples minds than the pandemic, and they are thinking intuitively about it, not reasoning about the precarious situation that (pretty much continuously) exists with such a fast spreading infection.
> That's grading on a curve. Ten years to one year is pointless if it doesn't save enough lives.

But, who says it won't save enough lives? It was estimated to wipe out millions, seems like saving millions is enough to me.
What is the name of the paper?
We actually have evidence for this with eg Portugal (where most studies find a decrease in violent crime) and the US, particularly California where we, for the first time, decriminalized the supply chain. There also, there was a fall in crime [1].

Despite the fact that cartels may continue to control human trafficking, etc, it cannot hurt to take away large chunks of their profits.

[1] https://blog.oup.com/2019/07/how-medical-marijuana-hurts-mex...
Still not the same thing as taking R&D money from the government.
Founders and employees are not a priori entitled to "a decent exit", especially not at the expense of healthy market conditions. Or at least this should be the case, but American regulators have been asleep at the wheel for decades now.
> "access" as a verb

But is it pronounced the same way? I stress the first or the second vowel depending on the case.
Build v.s. buy: how billing models affect your internal culture
Yes and what’s described in the comment is what I wanted after the 2016 election! I thought the electoral college should have selected someone else, I thought Trump should not have been sworn in to office, and I wanted him removed on the first day. I honestly believed it might happen because it seemed like the only sensible thing.

This election fraud nonsense is payback. It’s awful that the right can’t see that this is terrible for everyone. It’s terrible that the left can’t admit that the same passions existed on their side after the 2016 election.

I don’t want to argue about which side is worse. I’m not trying to highlight hypocrisy. I’m simply saying that the eye for an eye mentality has us all stuck.

I’m hopeful that Biden does understand all of this. His demeanor throughout all of this inspires some hope. We need more people on both sides to follow his lead.
Except of course that you're missing the point that Bitfinex have been stonewalling the discovery requests for that entire period and have not yet (as far as I'm aware) actually produced the information requested.

If you've got information to show that they've complied with the subpoena, I'd be real interested to read it :)
I'm in the UK, so it isn't any more illegal than warning drivers.
I have no personal experience, but there are some android apps to do this on the phone end.
It even boosts USB1.1 comms up to USB2.0 speed over the host link.

The terminology to look for is "multi-TT" (transaction translator) for this feature. Very useful for hooking up a whole bunch of serial ports to an embedded controller over USB. I made a video about doing so for my old startup like 7 or 8 years ago (though the hub in the video may have been single-TT... It was stolen so I can't go back and test it again).

Per-port power and LED control was also really useful, but really rare, for embedded hardware. The idea was that a ton of peripherals would be connected over a network of USB extenders, and a user interface would let you flash the LED next to a device you wanted to find, if you weren't sure where it was. No cloud needed.
I'm reading on a 4-year-old smartphone that struggles to process sites that heavy, much less download. I should not have to throw away a perfectly functional device because developers can't be bothered to cut back on dependencies for their plain-text site.

Developers think that because they're separated from the waste they're causing, they're not causing waste. Bloated sites accelerate the obsolescence of perfectly good devices, leading to people discarding them long before they actually have reached the end of their life.

(The reason I get by is because I have uBlock origin blocking large media elements. Most people don't know how to do that.)
Use $15 worth of hireable Photoshop to create a decent looking image with all of them? Even just squares of profile photos put together, but I almost guarantee a better job could be easily done.
My whole app depends on the Goodreads API so I have to shut it down.

https://blog.stephanieawilkinson.com/posts/2020-12-10-yonder...
Last time I checked their terms (it was a few years ago), you weren't allowed to have multiple accounts. As you said when one moves to another country, they just have to close the previous account, and create a new one in the new country.
the last thing the universe needs is to be infected with out terrible monetary system amd for people to put a dollar amount on every star and rock in space, we don't need more parasites.
The Fastest Manmade Object in Earth's History: It Didn't Have an Engine
Only if you use classical WinDgb instead of the new one.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/de...

Mac OS also is another example of having good graphical debuggers, even in the MPW days.
Out of curiousity what's the basis for your assertion on 74%, given that, as far as I'm aware, Tether has never completed an audit with an independent third party.
I miss that. Chaining jump to continue range of memory of jump is fun.

It's all down to comparing hex in 2 registers and jump. JNE, JE, JMP etc.
Ask HN: How is eBPF a big deal?
Hi everyone! I've been hearing from friends who are infra/sec engineers about how eBPF is a big deal and a game changer. Since I barely understand the associated jargon and the value, it provides, I was wondering if someone can explain in simple words, how it is a game changer?
The only usable gdb-based debugger I have ever seen was Insight

But then it was killed because it was linking to gdb internals rather than using gdb's official api or something
For those who think India has a good shot at attracting manufacturing in China by taking advantage of the ongoing trade war, think again. To rise to the level of China, India will need to offer equally attractive manufacturing policy and conditions on the ground.

India has a very different culture. While the federal government is strong and powers are concentrated at federal level, it still has limits on its powers. The main check on that power comes from raw protests and street demonstrations and that culture can be traced all the way to Indian independence movement. Federal government can suppress some individuals or a few random organizations, but it cannot impose a top-down manufacturing policy to make the environment appealing for foreign investors.
Book will plumb Biden-Obama relationship
> How will Afghanistan last until it collapses again?

the US has already struck a deal with the taliban, and the afghan government is formally negotiating with them right now. so probably not long...
Depends on what you use PayPal for. If it's just transferring money between countries, then TransferWise seems like a good alternative:

https://transferwise.com/invite/u/justinc777 <-- apparently that's an "invite" link. Just use the bare domain name if you don't want to do the invite thing. :)
(Just a reminder that scaling is very important. A lot of people have problems procuring food, probably most people, actually. Solutions that work for rich people are just skipping the problem entirely.)
The problem is that 70% of adults are overweight and obese.
^ A person studying their daily bowel movements for political commentary would be better informed than someone who read those subreddits looking for accurate political news, and they’d have a more honest assessment about the worth of their news sources.

I can list plenty of subreddits with worthwhile political discussion, but none of that matters if a persons idea of “balanced” is to find the dregs of fringe and extreme political movements and use them as the basis of said balance. I’d wager that those subreddits represent less than 10% of the views of most Americans.
I think it's a nice idea, and I love the spirit of it. That's certainly how I try to live. I have a lot of small subscriptions, and my Patreon bill is over $100/month.

But I think individual action isn't sufficient to get us over the hump. There are just too many things we use on a daily basis, and often those things use things that use things. "Free" is an illusion, but it's an illusion with a very low cognitive load. Manually supporting each and every thing I appreciate at the right level is a complex and taxing process. In practice, I'm sure I miss a lot.

In the physical world, we have some solutions for this. I don't have to subscribe to each park I use. I don't have to kick in for each sidewalk tree I walk by. I live in a neighborhood with a lot of street and alley murals, all community supported in various ways. I think the next step forward for the web involves finding ways for collective action with low individual cognitive load. It wouldn't be perfect, but it could be better than what we have now.
it's not that the american justice system is broken; it's that the american nation itself is broken...or perhaps it might be accurate to say that the american nation never really existed, and that nowadays the nation is a mere shadow of what was in the past only a pseudo-nation
This is a great resource, hadn't heard of most of them. I still think Eclipse is fantastic although not something for a quickie session, for that I'd probably use command line or the simple curses GUI.

I have to say, though, much as I enjoy working on and with Linux full-blown Visual Studio Enterprise is really in a league of its own but not really complaining that a similar debugger for C++ under Linux doesn't exist yet.
IMO a pre-order guarantee is not the same as taking money that is spelled out as a development-funding commitment (https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...).

Moderna's initial funding didn't have an order attached to it, not that was disclosed. In August the US Government did go back and actually purchase vaccines under a separate agreement (https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/08/11/trump-administrati...). Also:

> The May 21, April 16, and March 30 HHS agreements with AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson respectively include investments in manufacturing capabilities.

(https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/explaining-operation-warp-sp...)
1) The FDA sets the rules, even in a pandemic, not Pfizer - and this is good. It's pointless to test a vaccine if the result are not valid for Black people. This is not an example of 'slow government bureaucracy' - this is normal regulatory oversight, akin to 'approval' of the drug in the first place.

2) That they didn't take the money is a second order issue in the context of $4 Trillion hit to the economy with 300 000 dead in the US alone. Pfizer will do whatever is best for their economic outcome. Not taking money because they believe it may have slowed them down is one thing, but not taking it because they'd not make as much profit is another.

The profit motivation has obviously distorted early response, to the point that good organized leadership would have required some kind of regulated but open regime for manufacture, with some kind of negotiated price.

Why on earth are we only letting Pfizer manufacture it? The answer is 'free markets' - except they are obviously dysfunctional at the moment.

A better answer would be some kind of 'Open IP' agreement whereby an established royalty would be set for the vaccine, and basically anyone can make it.

We already have government established rates for every single natural resource, and we have controlled rates for energy as well - this is not a new idea.

Also - the government could provide 'infinite credit' for approved pre-production of select vaccines by select manufacturers at a set price, thereby encouraging mass-manufacturing of vaccine candidates even if the candidate failed.

i.e. socialize the risk.

Its counter-intuitive but only in a regular market based context. The math shows how that's upside down though, the ROI is much, much higher with intervention.

Now - if the government has is literally incompetent in every operating capacity, that's another storey, but what I have described here is not 'government manufacture', but rather, a different kind of market-based solution, with a different incentive structure.
Because TIPS is denominated in USD. Even if there is an actual yield, you're still a net value loser.
Think how many more people would buy Apple if not for the lock-in.
> the prospect of contracting COVID-19 with roughly a 10% probability of developing severe to life-threatening symptoms?

Citation needed. For 45-65 year olds IFR seems to be in the 0.3% rate, for under 45s it's way lower.

Hospitalisations about 2-4 times the number of deaths, so that seems to be in the 1% range for 'severe' symptons if you catch it and are towards the older age of nurses
Others here have suggested “bait and switch” which, IMO, is a more apt descriptor
"if then else" is indicative of an underlying pattern that exists at a more fundamental level. In that sense, it was "discovered", not invented.

Depending on the language, the syntax of "if then else" is not needed and is syntactic sugar.

In the Lambda Calculus you can implement "if else" using "first" and "second".

Here is something equivalent in JavaScript.

const trueFn = (first, second) => first
const falseFn = (first, second) => second

const ifFn = (boolFn, first, second) => boolFn(first, second)

ifFn(trueFn, 'yes', 'no') // returns 'yes'
ifFn(falseFn, 'yes', 'no') // returns 'no'
Have you anything you can share about it?
also rawg.io's api. I've used them in the past.
Yah. There was a backdoor on all MS operating systems in net bios. As long as they were not behind a firewall and had not manually setup file sharing settings you could get full access / root.

All the way through the thousands there was a backdoor on OSX' remote desktop. As long as they were not behind a firewall and had not manually setup remote desktop, you could get full access as well.

And all the way through the 90s and the thousands, there was a backdoor on Motorola and Buffalo cable models, so you could remotely inject your own firmware and remotely reboot the router if you wanted. Everyone online was soldering those things to get hacked internet back then and I was just scratching my head as to why they were not using the backdoor instead.

I can go on. I haven't done anything infosec in a very long time. When I was 18 I got interested in certificate decryption and my passions took a more math heavy direction, eventually leading to quantitative finance.

edit: Oh, and to keep more on topic, regarding listening to cell phone chatter, the cell tower where I lived didn't change to digital until 2006, so in the thousands I knew you could listen in, but frankly I wasn't interested. I was more interested in making cantennas and injecting an 802.11 signal 2 miles away, decrypting their WPA. Surprisingly I did not find a single router that had a different admin password than its WPA password.

In the 90s all the way into the early thousands, to get online I had to get hacked internet, as my parents didn't really understand the internet and thought it was a fad. This may be what inspired some of the black hat stuff I did.
What makes you think that HN readers agree with McCarthyism?
FreePascal 3.2 released!

Would have been a better title

Sure, that happened months ago, but there was no announcement thread on HN. It is sad. So many programming languages get an announcement thread, but FPC is forgotten all the time.

edit: actually there was such a thread. I just missed it. But it had no comments
Magnetic cards appeared in later HP calculators - starting with the HP-65 - and were copied by TI.

These calculators look a bit clunky and retro today compared to modern phones, but they were unbelievably futuristic in the mid-70s.

The idea that you could have a programmable microcomputer in your pocket which could load applications from plastic cards was jaw-dropping.
The iPhone was an exceptional invention for Apple. It’s not guaranteed that Steve Jobs would have another hit.

And many would say the M1 and Silicon Macs are a considerable step up, and so is the slow but steady March of wearables via Apple Watch and Air Pods.

I do agree with you that there is a higher chance of innovation with Steve at the helm, but again he is a generational talent so is it fair to paint the MBA Tim Cook in a bad light when he has been reasonably successful in not just business but also innovation.

My overall point is smart people are smart people and generational talents are generational talents. They can be MBAs or engineers or any other profession. Creative MBAs will be creative and dull engineer will be dull.
Jump or not jump
Jump or not jump
Jump or not jump

:out_of_range

:the_end
I'm liking the Casio FX-115ES PLUS rev 2 ($14.50), because it simplifies rationals and has LCM, GCD and factorization. For example, when you enter sin(60), it gives sqrt(3)/2, enter 1/(1+sqrt(3)) gives (sqrt(3)-1)/2 or enter sqrt(120) gives 2*sqrt(30).

https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-115ESPLS2-Advanced-Scientifi...

This is helpful for my kid's math class.

You wouldn't buy a textbook from Texas would you? So why buy a calculator from there when there is an option from Tokyo? :-)
And what if the higher ups say no?

In larger organizations budgets are complicated things. Your higher up with spending authority may agree with you, but they've hit the budget for their group and so your request for more logging is competing with a request to pay for a new compliance auditing tools or upgraded server capacity for machine learning models.

I'm certainly not arguing build over buy here - but this challenge is a genuine issue which I don't think gets enough consideration.
A sore point for me in .NET, given that Anders was on the team, was the lack of proper AOT compilation (NGEN did not really cut it), Delphi style.

We had to wait until Windows 8 to properly get it, and still its being rebooted due to the way WinRT went, whereas it could bave been there since v1.0.

https://github.com/dotnet/designs/blob/main/accepted/2020/fo...
Now I am very confused. In theory it sounds like a very good idea.

But when I tried this site what I got is a lot of books about religion. And I don't want to know anything about religion. I just can't bring myself to have intellectual respect for it.

"Open your mind" can be healthy if you are stuck in dumbness but can be a bad advice if you have sound and valid core beliefs as in "a mind too open doesn't hold anything of value". In which of these states am I?
I was pointing out that it’s not illegal because they’re allowed to do it. Then OP said (again) that it is illegal unless it’s a fee (not an all-at-once thing), which it is
Tim Cook on Health and Fitness
It should definitely not be called that, since the author is not debugging C or C++.
she has some interesting perspectives on her twitter account
Is it propaganda if it's true events?
Baba is you, I think.
Show HN: Hash Server 9000 – Learning concurrency using the Go standard library
Yes, and: Democracy is about participation. Voting is just one small aspect. In our (USA), it's only the start.
> have spent on development was actually just updating their supply chain

Warp Speed funding to AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson also included money that was earmarked for manufacturing capability investment.
It did a good job! I utterly loathe the authors, themes and genres of the books it anti-recommended. Well done!

I've genuinely tried to find one which I think I could read to broaden my horizons, but I can't bring myself to buy any of them.
This is misleading - yoga in the traditional sense means something along the lines of "spiritual way of living" rather than yoga as an exercise (hatha yoga) and naked yoga in this sense is an extreme ascetic lifestyle where you live with as little clothes as possible as a form of renunciation, to avoid any further entanglement/karma in the world. It's about giving up comfort and status associated with clothes as well as avoiding karma associated with the production of clothes and it doesn't make a lot of sense until you've already given up most of the comfort provided by the material world. Associating doing yoga poses on Youtube naked for views and attention with an ascetic lifestyle is absurd.
Not a Nordic country, but the case still holds value: Japan apparently has a problem with lonely, old ladies doing minor crimes with the intention of going to prison where they are less lonely. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-16/japan-s-p...

So there is a danger of prisons becoming too attractive.

It's interesting though that the motivation isn't about creature comforts but about social connection. I wonder how much the reverse is true and not seeing your loved ones is a deterrent from prison. So much comes down to a healthy, connected society.
It’s a 19th century essay from Mark Twain about the difficulties learning German as an English speaker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awful_German_Language

The title translated into German is "Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache" ("The Horrors of the German Language") which is more appropriate.
Show HN: Journaling app that forces you to express yourself
I built Floward to better express and understand my emotions during this extremely challenging year. I’ve always been interested in journaling but found existing offerings a bit overwhelming and—as weird as this sounds—too feature-rich.

I needed a bare-bones, no-nonsense, text-focused journaling app that simply forced me to get my thoughts out. I built this over the last 3-4 weeks.

I’ve shared the app with a few of my friends, and it’s been helping us unlock and express our emotions.
Offline Authentication in the Browser: Part 1 – WebCrypto API
> Change takes time. English remains the dominant language for commerce and science, even after the fall of the British Empire.

English became lingua franca after ww2, when the US became the cultural, economic and military center of the world. It was the US that made english the dominant language, not britain.

The decades preceding ww2, the dominant language for science was german, the dominant language for culture was french and the dominant language for commerce was american english as the US economy was the greatest economy in the world - larger than the entire economy of the british empire.

Given how gigantic the british empire was, its language really wasn't as important or viewed as important. Even at the height of the british empire, well into the 20th century, the british royalty/elites communicated with russian/european royalty/elites in french. I remember reading that the most popular foreign languages in europe were german, french, latin, greek, etc for much of the 20th century. British english was an afterthought. I suspect now it's different due to america's influence post-ww2 and of course that great american invention - the internet.
A lot of people who don’t want to take it cite the lack of testing, actually.
The reply was about legitimate vs illegitimate children - not the contest.
Shameless plug for the UNED, as well. From what I've heard, it's very similar to FernUni: they have exam points you attend, and the rest is online and with UNED books (they used to have these hilariously Soviet-like designs).

I considered it for my studies, since my area's universities were pretty far away. They're as strict as the regular Spanish universities and you'll get the same degree.