skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m one of the people that still tune in to the radio and listen music programmed by professionals. I don’t subscribe to any streaming service, so I can’t speak for the decline, but perhaps during the pandemic more people spending more time at home find robotic programing on the streaming services inferior to human curated music on the radio.
Then, explain why UBI won't cause inflation.
I’d be willing to believe there’s a kernel of truth in there despite the harsh wording. Maybe the songs that become hits today do sound different than songs that became hits in past eras due to the different ways people tend to listen to music in those eras, like what sounds catchy through an iPhone versus what sounded nice on FM on an old Hi-Fi?
Finding good help is exceptionally difficult. It's gotten to the point where I pretty much do everything myself. What wealth I've accumulated has gone into tools, equipment, and leasing shop space. In the last decade I've found less than 5 people whom I would rely on to do what they've told me they're going to do, whether I'm paying them or not.

It's gotten to the point now where I've learned carpentry to make my own custom furniture because I can't find anyone who will do the job decently locally. I do most of my home repairs DIY, because finding a competent contractor that shows up on time, won't cut corners, lie to me, and actually finishes the job is basically impossible. I did all of the work building my race car and I do all my basic car maintenance myself. Even for a job as simple as an oil change, I can't trust common chain stores.

If anything, the "gig economy" has made this situation worse, not better. There's so many people who will put up a Facebook page and advertise themselves as doing some service, and really they're just half-assing it for a what is effectively a fat paycheck for their level of effort and care. There's SO MUCH apathy in the world, so many people that just don't give a shit about the quality of their work in anything they do in life. Finding other people that actually care about doing it /right/, is nearly impossible. Mostly because when I do find those people, they're usually also wealthy and in a different line of work. Turns out, being focused on doing things correctly the first time is valued enough to be a path to wealth, in and of itself.
Related: a 2014 paper on using timing side channels to detect being in a VM from within browsers https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot14/woot14...
It's also expected to be accepted in EU on 21st december. And, if approved, vacination would be started across the whole EU on 27th december.
A complicated example of your point about "priming the immune system to overreact" is

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

Dengue fever is a strange and terrible disease where -- unlike most infectious diseases! -- contracting it once can make future infections worse through autoimmune mechanisms (if I remember correctly, you typically become immune to the particular strain that caused the first infection, but may become more susceptible to severe reactions from a later infection involving a different strain). Apparently the Dengvaxia vaccine, while effective at reducing the chance of dengue infections, also has an effect similar to surviving an infection: it increases the chance that an infection will result in severe disease. That makes it a more complicated question whether it's a good health intervention in particular circumstances, and in the Philippines there was a big scandal where a childhood immunization program using it may have reduced the total number of people who contracted dengue, but also increased the severity of the worst cases.

To my knowledge the pathogens that cause COVID-19 and dengue fever are extremely different, but it seems logically possible that there could be a COVID vaccine that greatly reduced people's chance of getting sick at all, while also increasing the chances of severe symptoms for those people who did get sick.
The thing about voting is that for the public to trust voting, it needs to be something a general member of the public can understand.

That is why paper balloting is such a durable voting mechanism. Pretty well anyone can understand how you would take a stack of paper ballots and decide who got the most votes. From there you just need to maintain a chain of custody where all ballots are monitored by any interested parties from the time they are cast to the time they are counted.

The more technical you get with your voting solutions, the less overall trust the public will have in the final vote counts.
And even if you can get through all this, you might eventually get locked out anyway and get told to submit a photo of your government identification.
I’m not saying he’s a bad person, I don’t know the guy.

In my time of living in SF (9 years till recently), his name has come up outside of the startup context multiple times, with less glowing reviews and the article.

While Airbnb benefited from his business and investor wisdom, outside of business, the outcomes he was able to sway is not as clear cut as being an overall good.

I’m just presenting other articles about him since HN seemed interested about this topic.
Everytime someone calls out non-technical folk pretending to be doing something while they are only virtue signalling.

America will learn hard way that diversity hiring of sociology idiots won't work.
They laugh all the time, they just don't find your jokes very funny ;)
I second this. I've got an old iPod and I go on walks daily listening to albums, playlists, sometimes just queuing stuff up on the fly as the mood strikes me. Never skipping a song that starts playing.

Tetris and Quake 3 vs bots also work very well to calm my mind so that I can zone into the music itself. YMMV

P.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jScy-kdCY4M <- this song is beautiful and I hope it makes some of y'all feels some emotions like it does for me : )
This is what I wanted to say. Since I started working remotely even before the pandemic, my music-listening sessions has been close to nil. The only times I play music is when I workout but I don’t really feel like actually “listening” during this activity.
Or from any of us programmers when we see those greenscreen hackers of pop culture imagery...
I just have two Chrome profiles. One for work, one for personal.
Don't need to stream music to drown out office noise either now
I'm not sure it is solvable. Voting has to satisfy two requirements:

1) Votes must be private and anonymous (i.e. not linked to your identity)

2) Voting must be secure

It's easy to satisfy either one of these requirements, but currently impossible to satisfy both.
Almost any Bluetooth device with a long battery life can do this. Get. Xiaomi Mi Band and the fan made app contains a function to set an alarm when you lose connection.
I can't access this URL — what am I doing wrong?
This is exactly what I am trying to solve at microdegree.dev

9-month exhaustive micro degree for $399 per month or 15% salary (~$8,000) if you opt to pay later. Thats 25% of what Lambda costs. For developing countries we give another 50% discout on the price due to purchase power.
No, not shocked, but flattered. I think this is Devereux's thesis statement:

"I am sometimes baffled that the very fans who insist that their particular loves be treated seriously, as art are the same fans who react with frustration if one then sets out to interrogate those same genres the way one would interrogate serious art or literature. This is it, after all! This is what you (we, really) wanted! A (quite unimpressive, I’ll grant you) ivory tower academic is taking this genre seriously and subjecting it to serious criticism! Isn’t that what emerging genres often hope for, to be taken seriously as ‘high’ literature?"
Input Algebras [pdf]
Then you should be truly horrified about all the proteins from the hundreds of billions of bacteria and viruses, and of course, cancer cells, that are currently roaming your veins, because said bacteria or viruses did not even try to make them safe for their hosts.
>I can't think of any other area where it's the _norm_ to need a support group to not quit or kill yourself because a fortress of gold has gaslit you into a deathmarch toward a tiny-fraction-of-a-percent chance of success.

I can think of plenty: Musics, Arts, Game development, (in some area) startups, "No college-degree nor drive & mid 30:s as cashier hoping for the middle-class life" people.

Academia is just like arts/musics: You only see the final result, and often from the top people; You won't see the struggling low/middle in their fields, largely being ignored in both their result & struggle.
I don't doubt that but I think it's in the non-hits is where you'll find the difference. Streaming services incentives short ear worms but also allows any John or Jane to put it's music in front of an audience it otherwise never would have. The music people listen to most won't change but the variety people listen to collectively is truly massive.
Good music depends on what you like. Rock is a dead genre now, if you don't like edm or trap/hip hop then what new music are you listening to?
You can't smell copper. The smell associated with copper is from a chemical known as 1-octen-3-one, which is generated when your skin oils react with metal that you've touched.

NileRed does a good job explaining this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqLH-nTZEOc
This xkcd from last week is about precisely this issue! https://xkcd.com/2397/
> The reality is if a black death like disease hit the modern world civilisation would likely more or less totally collapse.

Except that we have way better mitigation tools like medicine/hygiene compared to middle-ages. It's not a one variable comparison.
Do you agree or disagree that if everyone stayed home, the virus would go away?
The Population Cycle Drives Human History (2007)
I'm pretty sure Google has had occasional severe outages for their whole history.
I follow the RSS feed of a metal piracy site. Not to download anything there, but to get updates on interesting albums I might want to buy. It used to be, that I got that information on twitch via song requests from people, but that’s not allowed.
> Any more deadly (like Ebola) .....

Ebola requires direct contact with bodily fluids, it's not nearly as easily transmittable as Covid. Note that seasonal flu levels are at historic lows [1, 2], despite Covid raging to the point where many US states' ICUs are filled to capacity.

[1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flu-season-never-...
[2]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03519-3
"means some meaningful threshold has been passed."

In UK we've been putting innocent people in jail for 20 years, because of bugs in accounting software. It was going unnoticed and noone would believe them untill recently. We are talking hundreds of people.

If it happened to a single person, noone would ever find oit the truth.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/0138cd7d-967...
Does it include books? Nice work.
ENS is nothing like DNS despite both being name services. ENS is decentralised and not subject to a plethora of attacks that give DNS a bad name.

A bad actor maliciously taking control of a ENS address means it's likely you'll lose your money whether you send it to 1.1.1.1 or one.one.one.one

Think you should trust the Solidity dev on this one rather than intuition.
YMMV, but I got 4 months of Tidal for $1 as a Black Friday deal, and I really felt like its "radio" feature was better than other services. It's one reason I miss Tidal over Spotify.
Wow, I really want to see a photogrammetry system that can turn that video into to a reconstruction of the area.
IMO it shouldn't get bored. AI in use at this point in time is something that reacts to the environment around it to satisfy the optimisation function (desires). It probably doesn't have any cost associated with the time required for getting an input (impulse) from the environment.
>understanding that the reads or sequences are long

So why slice and replicate slices? All that makes more noise. The wikipedia seems to suggest (or I infer) that one can't merely "just read of" the base pairs in QWERTYUIOP through some super cool process and be done with it. No, I have to split QWERTYUIOP into chunks and replicate the hell out of the resulting chunks which just re-asks my question. I mean how is QWERTYUIOPQWERTYUIOP not a reasonable outcome?

I'm still missing something fundamental. The more chunks there are, the more permutations, combinations there are in possible re-assembly up to all the power sets of base pairs.
Granted, it may not be possible to make complex simple here. So that thank you for your time and effort.
> I think it's important to note that many institutions have technically persisted and adapted without really staying competitive.

This will go ignored by most, for they are too caught up in the respect and power they enjoy now from their associations (or those they hope to gain by joining such ranks) to not realize that its slowly seeping away at best, and not strictly to individual states or corporate institutions, and that full "handover" of power is a slow process that can span generations with occasional jumps within any given one.

It's resources are being siphoned to build anew, like the church's before it.
Afaik, Google doesn't publish public PMs for non-paid offerings, so youtube doesn't get a public pm.

For the August outage, I believe there was a public pm. That said I can't find it now (I think there was some link rot somewhere, and I've escalated about that).
My brother is a 'proper' carpenter and sadly struggles to find people like you.

People seek him out because of his skill, but then upon being told that it might be £600 for interior door to be made, or more, suddenly want him to fit a store bought one. His daily rate is low, but a lot of rich people still don't want to pay for a job to be done properly.

Quite sad to see people buying amazing historic houses and then filling them with ready made fittings, after tearing out the old hand made stuff.
Sorry to say, but if you act like someone you aren't, you are not going to be welcome at websites that want to know they are responding to a real person.

Basically you are acting like you have something to hide which typically is something that people up to no good would do. I'm not saying you are up to no good, but your activity mirrors as such.
"Whoever, in a circumstance described in subsection (c) of this section ... knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person with the intent to commit, or to aid or abet, or in connection with, any unlawful activity that constitutes a violation of Federal law, or that constitutes a felony under any applicable State or local law ... shall be punished as provided in subsection (b) of this section."

(18 USC 1028(a)(7))

"the term “means of identification” means any name or number that may be used, alone or in conjunction with any other information, to identify a specific individual, including any—
(A)name, social security number, date of birth, official State or government issued driver’s license or identification number, alien registration number, government passport number, employer or taxpayer identification number;
(B)unique biometric data, such as fingerprint, voice print, retina or iris image, or other unique physical representation;
(C)unique electronic identification number, address, or routing code; or
(D)telecommunication identifying information or access device (as defined in section 1029(e));"

(18 USC 1028(d)(7))

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1028

Criminal complaint with details: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1347146/downl...
A Faulty Algorithm Screwed Residents Out of Stanford's Vaccine Distribution Plan
Amp is a hackity hack of the modern web, a poster child of some people who try to justify their mere existence in bright google conference rooms and email chains.

It seems like inside google(and outside of it as well) people tend to have forgotten that web performance is all about intelligent work with web standards. And throughout years people-who-care-about-perf introduced and advocated various techniques and changes to engines, standards and languages used across web development to improve end user experience. Prefetching, preloading, multiplexing, minifying, lazy loading, PWA, CDN, et al.

Instead of teaching how to build web properly google puts its enormous resources to what serves as a search result preview for end users, and the only beneficiary of the AMP is google itself.

Care about your users, their experience and performance of your website?
Ditch https://amp.dev/

Discover https://web.dev/
'On Dec. 7, 2020, the NSA said “Russian state-sponsored malicious cyber actors are exploiting a vulnerability in VMware Access and VMware Identity Manager products, allowing the actors access to protected data and abusing federated authentication.”'

Enough with this retro anti Russian cyber BS ..
As for open render clouds, I've been contributing to https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com/ for quite some time. It's a client that downloads frames to render and uses your machine to do it, generating tokens for future renders. I'm currently in the top-20 in frame render contributions (rolling 30-day average)... should I ever have time to get into 3D rendering, my projects will be prioritized for sure. :P
Compared to a children's book it is both, but compared to a lot of other TV-series with similar audiences, not at all.

As the context is a bit unclear, I don't thing there's a straight cut answer here, but perhaps it's not unreasonable to think it's in comparison to the other literary work involved in the suit. With that other work being a essentially children's book, Star Trek - in comparison - is all those things.
One particularly crucial difference, I think, is public knowledge about diseases in general. During the plague, people were blaming every minority they could find. Can't really stop the spread of a disease if the extent of your knowledge of epidemiology is "God is punishing us because of you!". No "stay at home", no "wash your hands", no "don't cough on people".

We may have a disease that'll be just as lethal, but this time nearly everyone in the world knows the basics about diseases. The global response to COVID hasn't been particularly heartening, but I think that's because it's in that "sweet spot" (more like sour spot...) range where the fatality rate is low enough that many people are not sufficiently cautious and allow it to spread widely, but high enough that it does kill a lot of people.

If we someday have a much more serious disease, like with a black death fatality rate of 30%, I think it's likely to disappear very quickly unless it has an extremely long contagious incubation period. It might to do some serious damage at ground zero, but people will freak out and hide at home if a huge, visible percentage of people die. And this time, (I hope) people won't be running around pointing fingers and spreading the disease in the process.
they weren't, though. the truth is that SRI was running these studies in an unscientific fashion (read some of those results and see how liberally they counted something as "accessing the target") to make money off of several lunatics in the military who were funding their research. the bar is so low for this kind of stuff that you can just continue the grift for decades of "further studies", especially when claiming the soviets were doing it too. and don't you find it alarming that Puthoff from SRI is one of the guys involved in To the Stars, which is inarguably a grift?

Ray Hyman was commissioned (by the same government agency that released the document you posted) to review their work and found it to be disingenuous and a farce - you can read more of what he has to say here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100709201315/http://www.csicop...
Passport, maybe? You have to present a photo that's extremely similar for facial detection algorithms to train identifying you in the future.
I have the same processor in my ThinkPad T470s and it's terrible for anything video.

Even a browser (Chrome and Firefox) tab in the background with a few CSS animations causes it to be noticeably unresponsive in other applications.

It supports 4K output but my tests (backend TypeScript) are measurably slower when the display is at 4K vs 1440p.

What OS are you using? I run Linux so I'm wondering if it's that, but I've tried every different DE and Xorg Vs Wayland and different drivers, and they are all just as bad.
It's pretty insensitive to the speakers of the language. In my mother tongue it's an insult.
Doesn’t this work out roughly the same? Say your credit covers the first $100,000 of income. Congress still has an incentive to shift money away from people making less from that amount, since it won’t add tax revenue unless it pushes them over the threshold.
That is exactly what the linked post says, and it also does a good job explaining this.
> If a disease becomes rare enough that the probability of getting it if you're not vaccinated, is less than the probability of harmful side effects from the vaccine, then it is rational for an individual not to get vaccinated.
>The proper response to this at a societal level is to further reduce the risk of harmful side effects from vaccines (for example, by using refrigeration more aggressively as an alternative to preservatives which have a small, but nonzero, risk of harm), not to brand people who don't want to get vaccinated against rare diseases as crackpots.

Why is it so hard for people to look at the system instead of just themselves? This inability or unwillingness also seems particularly widespread in the US.
>post an invite-only service

>leave no information on how to get an invite
Upon further introspection, you are right. It’s natural to blame it on the internet / social media. Ultimately, it’s my fault to consume it and get addicted to it. These things are notoriously designed for addiction and constantly attention seeking behavior, even if I am self aware of it.

I’ve turned off all notifications on my phone. Made a habit of leaving the phone docked on the charger and not checking it every now and then.

Still suffer from HN addiction :-) though!
"The effect of the use upon the potential market." Is one of the four factors for fair use. If this wasn't a product being sold, competing with the original books the fair use determination probably would have been in their favor, and it is unlikely any lawsuit would be filed
I'm currently based outside the EU and US, perhaps it is as you say. I'm not entirely sure why the privacy rules would change so drastically on a HTML based page though...
Stanford Apologizes as Vaccine Allocation Excludes Nearly All Medical Residents
> but they had enough effective (remotely) homologous sequences to predict coevolution-derived interresidue distances and contacts.

Ah, I see what you're saying a bit better. Makes more sense to how the the possible "design" space for novel proteins could be limited. Designing novel active sites could be especially tricky, more than it'd seem at first glance. A folded structure that'd effectively transfer electrons from one target species to another in a catalyzer protein could likely be outside the explored "vocabulary" of extant proteins as it'd require specialized pathways and precise positioning. Chlorophyll is pretty unchanged in evolution as I understand it.Thanks, interesting background! I'll keep an eye out for the de novo design algorithms.
Have you looked at any of the opensource k impls? (Kona, ok, klong, ngn/k...)
It’s not really criticism so much as using a widely known fantasy setting as a starting point for exploring history
Rock is by no means dead. There are dozens of new releases on bandcamp and its still quite popular as far as I know. Sure I believe the genre has suffered during the pandemic, as many artists rely on live performance, but that would only mean that rock would be hyphenating. But its not. Artists still find ways to release new rock music as evident on their preferred platform.