skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Urschel recently gave a lecture at MIT's Computational Thinking course (in Julia):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRCGNvMdLEY
For those interested, Urschel was interviewed in this great episode of the Numberphile Podcast.

https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/john-urschel
I don’t know where either of the London-based commenters go shopping but all staff are legally required to wear masks at shops in the U.K.
Thanks, but the WASM ecosystem is a bit foreign to me so some of what you said went right over my head. Would it be correct to say that:

1. AssemblyScript functions can be exposed to Javascript via the loader utility. If the arguments are primitive types then calling them is straightforward. Complex types like strings and arrays must be converted between the JS version of the type and the AS version of the type.

2. AssemblyScript code cannot call Javascript functions or directly manipulate Javascript objects. However, Javascript objects and functions can be passed around as an opaque anyref.
A decent amount of it is unintentional I suspect. Subconcious fiddling, poor feeling / awareness of slipping masks... a gentle reminder that "your mask has slipped a bit" can do wonders.
Show HN: Create a QR code with text in the code pattern
No, this is normal for every RNA virus.

It was already detected in May, that subsequent dominant strains (remember, the virus mutated with every single generation, every 10 days) have much more deletions than mutations, and are thus as such much less dangerous and much more transmissible, as their hosts don't detect it. This time UK got their sensationalist headline. In fact those are more dangerous, R is higher, and mortality is very low and insignificant. But reaching the vulnerable better makes it more dangerous in the end.
Well, that's certainly not the way I feel. If aliens haven't been visiting humans for years, I don't want to watch a video going through the process of learning about the possibility that they might have been visiting humans for years and then ending a bit ambiguous.
"... It helps to think of it just as your brain’s interpretation of a two dimensional representation of the coherent sum of backscatter responses from electromagnetic waves..."

Well that clears it right up, thanks! Lol.

I'm pleased that they think any general public person or even journalist is capable of seeing the difference between the left and right figure in the article.
Stronger than steel? At what thickness?
Much easier to be kind when you’re in good health.
Yup sleep time counts! And you can drink water and coffee and other zero calories drinks. Some say you should avoid zero-calorie sweeteners.

So 4 hours no eating before sleep, 8hrs sleep & 4hrs after sleep is a 16 hour / 8 hour IF fast. Basically don't snack after dinner and skip breakfast.

You can do longer fasts for different reasons, but that is the basic one.
We should acknowledge that this new strain is different [1] in some ways:

> The B.1.1.7 lineage carries a larger than usual number of virus genetic changes. The accrual of 14 lineage-specific amino acid replacements prior to its detection is, to date, unprecedented in the global virus genomic data for the COVID-19 pandemic. Most branches in the global phylogenetic tree of SARS-CoV-2 show no more than a few mutations and mutations accumulate at a relatively consistent rate over time.

It's certainly still not proven that it's definitely more infectious than the other strains. But it's a bit of a stretch to infer from previous experience here, given the quantitative difference.

[1] https://virological.org/t/preliminary-genomic-characterisati...
Goldman sachs employ 30,000 people across dozens of separate business units and have a balance sheet of nearly a trillion dollars. And a vast chunk of their income is net interest income and advisory fees. It's in no way comparable.
>I think kindness doesn’t have to be in personal interactions, especially in a business context. I’m perfectly polite, but also very honest.

To be frank, I find the ratio of people who actually do that to people who think they do that but are really using it as an excuse for not exercising their interpersonal skills is 1:1000. I've known many people that called themselves brutally honest, but with the exception of one particular manager I can recall, it always ended up being an excuse to feel powerful by shocking people with a brazen lack of tact while the truth of the statement, even if occasionally beneficial, was incidental.

Who knows... maybe you're the 1 out of the 1000. The tone of what you wrote sounds more reasonable than what many others have expressed in that vein, so I'm inclined to think so, but it'a hard to tell without having universally accepted bounds to words like kindness, politeness, and honesty. That said, doing good deeds and not directly insulting people we deal with doesn't absolve us from a the basic social necessity to treat other people with compassion and humanity. For that reason, whenever I encounter anyone that touts their honesty at the expense of kindness, I generally consider it a tacit admission that they have some serious work to do on their interpersonal skills and don't realize it.
You wrap yourself up in your conspiracy theories and your "real truths" and judge the entirety of journalism to be a bad faith operation, that their is no nuance, no good individual actors in the system. That's why I downvote rants and nonsense.
They ran Spacewar on a real DEC PDP-1 in Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA 3-4 years ago, and let us play it ourselves. The presenter was one of the developers worked on it IIRC.
Is it the death of open core or is it just unregulated monopolies?
I have lived in NY, and my partner was born and grew up in NY, and I find New Yorkers pretty friendly, especially when compared to other cities around the world I've lived in (all of which have had their share of friendly folk). I think you have to be friendly to live cheek by jowl with so many. However New Yorkers are brisk.

The tech industry has definitely become more aggressive over the last 20 years. I credit it to the people who decided they should join it because there is a lot of money to be made, when before it was mostly people who liked technology.

And for that latter point: I consider an aggressive attitude a sign of fear (perhaps a consequence of a kind of imposter syndrome?). Generally I pity the mean people.
So Sony removed Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store because it ran like crap and CD Projekt Red did not give refunds to players.

THIS is why curated stores are a good thing. You'll almost never see actual users whining about the App Store; usually the complaints about "walled gardens" are from the companies and devs who prey upon users and would love to have a free reign.

Too many times I had a shitty experience with an app or service I paid for and Apple refunded me without question, but I've almost always had to fight an uphill battle to get a refund directly from developers/publishers (currently against Couchsurfing, whose app bypasses the standard In-App Purchase system).
The problem is people use irregardless to mean regardless. The prefix ir is meant to mean not or opposite (like responsible and irresponsible). I’m scared the word is already following the path of literally when people actually me figuratively.
Be kind to everyone and it will return to you ten fold. It is what worked for me personally and I will continue doing it. Anyone who says that been kind is a weakness, just don't know what been kind really means. Happy holidays everyone!
I tend to agree with this (lived in NYC 13 years) - a lot of the rudest people are the folks to treat NYC as a transient place. That said - these people bring out the aggressiveness in the die hard New Yorkers, which creates a feedback loop... When you live in a densely packed place, it’s hard to find your peace. What happens, is that you experience one stress, unleash it somewhere else, which transfers it to more people, etc. The daily subway commute is a toss-up whether you will have a wonderful morning- get a seat, headphones, read a book, smiles from a stranger... or, barely making the train, getting smashed into a train full of angry, rained-on people, 2 strangers screaming at each other, your blood boiling inside. It’s hard to not accidentally “transmit” that stressed, anxious, distrusting feeling to the next people you interact with, further contributing to the perception that “new yorkers are rude”
I've worked a ton of jobs in my life, minimum wage jobs, working class jobs, factory jobs, warehouse jobs, and I've worked in software development in a dozen different roles.

If they all paid the same, I would be out delivering pizzas right now.
The Short Short
Great question! I've heard that in-person cash exchange is your best bet, if you're wanting to be completely off the grid. There are services out there that can help with the exchange (early in Bitcoin, there was an escrow service in which you deposited cash into a savings account through an ATM, and an anonymous wallet would be credited with the appropriate Bitcoin). Not sure where that stands now.

Oh! But to your question: Mullvad VPN seems to be highly regarded, and has an option to configure a recurring payment that they (claim to) decouple from your identity. Their service even supports defining multi-hop routes.

And to be clear: My goal is to obfuscate my identity from malicious individuals (think: politician that wants to be kinky, but has to resort to online interactions during COVID lockdown, and wants to avoid both simple tracert IP identification as well as a potential password breach & leak of social media platform X). Hiding my identity from governments is not my goal, so trusting Mullvad was an acceptable risk assessment. I'd add additional layers if I wanted to be more anonymous.

My next step, when I get around to it, is to try to track down a cheap anonymous virtual host to SSL into... then at least I'll have a static IP. But I'd still be up a creek if they ever wanted to do two factor for some reason.
And... countdown to hard Brexit in 12 days too.
An example in Vancouver, Canada

https://news.ubc.ca/2016/09/15/structure-of-ubcs-tall-wood-b...
I'll leave the "no strings attached" theory to the string theorists to work out.

What I can't understand is why academics like Martin Nowak or Benedict Gross never recommended chemical or physiological castration to Mr. Epstein in order to prevent their recidivist child molesting friend from re-offending.

The most plausible explanation is the huge amount of money that was likely in play here from Mr. Epstein's estimated $500 million estate, which could have easily incentivized "moral relativists" like Martin Nowak and Benedict Gross to intentionally look the other way.

In any event, Dick Gross once surprised a female graduate student in the Harvard math department by how he let his young children watch rather explicit material on cable television networks.

Combined with the fact that attorneys at Harvard Law School like Allen Dershowitz have argued "on constitutional grounds" that we need to lower the age of consent to 14 in order to accommodate an oppressed sexual minority that includes his pedophile friend, mentor and client Jeffrey Epstein, it's not hard to understand why this former dean of Harvard College would argue to the Harvard administration in 2013 that their convicted child rapist "patron of eugenics," who was also suspected of trafficking hundreds of underage girls to other members of his pedophile ring that allegedly included professors at Harvard and MIT, was "an ideal donor" for Harvard, according to recently released documents by the Harvard administration.
This is a common meme but it isn't really true, there are safety nets, though fewer than other countries. A lot of chronic homeless in the US have mental illnesses and don't trust authorities enough to accept the help that is available, and involuntary commitment of these people is considered beyond the Overton Window.

And the places with the biggest safety nets at the state level in the US, like California, Oregon, Illinois, and New York, also have the largest homeless problems. Figure that out.
This is only true if you assign no value to risk mitigation or liquidity.
Same experience, 37 hours in. I have a friend who"s 64 hours into the game (he just finished his Ph.D. presentation, so it's a deserved distraction) and he's enjoying it just as much.

TBH, even the pretty prevalent bugs are almost "quirky", to the point I've only run into two situations where a bug had gotten on the way of the fun.

It's a shame the last-gen consoles are getting such a bad experience.
Scala is definitely NOT Java
You Searched for Jamie Lynn – Gastroenterology Associates of Gainesville
Hmm, no. I'm primarily interested in obfuscating easy-to-acquire identification. I'm not interested in avoiding law enforcement.

But, if you are a citizen in a country that would employ law enforcement against you due to your minority status, I might encourage that protocol.
They didn't follow the first rule of writing something. I don't know what SAR is.

Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR)?
I believe it misses the fact that there are very different cultures within Washington or Texas. For example, Austin is very different from Houston and even north Houston is very different from south Houston.

Eastern Washington is completely different culturally than western Washington(Seattle etc).

No where else in the world has the massive amount of diversity that the US does at the scale of the US. It’s not even close anywhere else so it is difficult for both US residents and people of other countries to fully comprehend.
The most charitable interpretation is that they're admitting they failed, but saying where they failed is in basic due diligence of looking at the output of running the algorithm. And that they're claiming that, if they had done so, they wouldn't have been OK with it either.

It's sort of like saying, "That's definitely a bug. It was unacceptable for me to put my code into production without ever testing it, and for that I take the blame. But I assure you that I did not intentionally write code designed to delete everyone's data."

Obviously this may or may not be what happened. It may even be what they're pretending happened.
It will be scary the day they can track every human movement at all times. But I think it is coming. One side and I think well we would know what happened to Michael Dunahee, a child that went missing when I was a kid, being able to reverse the video of what happened. But also it wasn’t that long ago that Canada punished a man for being gay so this is a very dangerous technology if it can track humans. Privacy is critical to a free society.
> And Ubisoft didn't?

I don't think so. Unless I missed something.
> Is it possible you just have trouble expressing yourself outwardly?

Well, there's always passive-aggressive insults. That's considered a low-risk approach.

Looks like we've pretty much exhausted this thread. I'll just exit, stage left.

Happy Holidays!
Social sciences do seem to have a reasonable background in statistics and experiment design based on those I’ve known. What makes you conclude they wouldn’t know the causation/correlation principle?
By full lockdown I mean similar to the first-wave lockdown in the UK. No travelling for non-essential work, only key workers.

Vaccination _is_ adapting the immune system, and exactly combats viral evolution by shutting down the transmission.
Google has definitely just plain delisted a lot of older sites, even if I do exact quote matches I can’t get results for sites I know exist and used to be indexed and often turn up on other search engines.

On top of that, as you say, anything that isn’t from a huge web property or corporate site is so heavily penalized you’re lucky to ever see it even if it is new.

The utility of google as a web search engine is definitely declining over time.
How to get first 100 paying customers
I need advise on getting my first 100 users fast.
Im working on an app very similar to Acuity scheduling, with a more customizable service. I would appreciate any advise on the best route to take to quickly get paid users. Thanks
Rules are there so you can trust the system enough. Imagine if there were no rules: your bank might steal your money, a company might lie on its financial reports so a shareholder can dump some stock etc. Then all trust is lost and every deal with every entity needs to be worked out from scratch. You’d do extensive DD to open a bank account or buy a stock. This would cripple the system.
In wake of wasting disease, scientists rear sunflower sea stars in captivity
The distribution of vaccines is under the control of the government. There are none for sale, and in fact those in charge have adamantly said they wouldn't be selling vaccines.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-18/wealthy-...

So yeah, socialism :-)
I'm also in Manchester, haven't seen anyone without a mask in a shop for a long time.
This disproves your point. How many "effectively impossible" exploits have come out recently?
Isn't the South East right now overpopulated with transit? By all accounts, lorry traffic between the UK and mainland Europe has seen a massive spike in these weeks. It seems to me that a lot of that traffic must pass through the South East much more than the other parts of England
IPython cell can run in terminal too. Jupyter notebook consist of JSON too, just waiting for someone who could combine all of these things in terminal.
Home defense doesn’t exist in a Hobbesian void of law. You’re still expecting the law to clean up after the fact, either to dispense justice against the invaders, or for the insurance payout, or whatever.
Valuation based assessment is a core principle of property taxes. The prop 13 stuff is gross and I’m always surprised that it was never shot down in the Supreme Court.

California can be California, but the problem is more than some junk ranch house is selling for $3M. It’s bullshit that the whole country is essentially held hostage by “too big to fail” California mortgages that homeowners cab just walk away from.
whilst luck plays its part, this is the reward for taking risk (a lot of risk). and without the possibility of reward for risk taking, there'd be no incentive to invest in anything.
Right, it seems the first step is analogous - breaking down the lignin with base and sulfite. But instead of impregnation with resin, the wood is squished and heated to re-form the crosslinking bonds.
Facebook's Feud with Apple Escalates
It would be great to see a video of what they're talking about, where they tap/sound/heft the wood and show it live, to illustrate the properties.
No, it isn't. To be able to access certain user-provided fonts, you need that entitlement.
Very tired of these sorts of articles that bury the lede in a mountain of fluff. I don't care about the stereotype of someoen from Essex. I want to know if these people manipulated oil trades and, if so, how.

Anyone have a TLDR?
I can't recommend https://restofworld.org/ enough.

It's a semi-regular question. Threads from this year

Ask HN: What are the underrated newsletters you like reading? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22280939

Ask HN: Which newsletters do you subscribe to? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24723744

Ask HN: What RSS feeds/newsletters are you subscribed to? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24519682

Ask HN: Best Curated Newsletters? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25225755

Ask HN: What newsletters do you subscribe to (and read)? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25002835

Ask HN: What are the best daily/weekly newsletters? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23543539
While Stanford is a private entity, it acts and is structured like a public one. Even its full time employees aren’t at will like the private sector at large.

We can argue about whether or not Stanford is “socialist”, but I don’t feel he’s wrong that Stanford allocated vaccines according to political power. He also doesn’t judge any system. He’s just giving an observation
> risk mitigation

Is that still an argument after the housing collapse of 2008? Far from mitigating risk it seems that risk was increased.
the idea (or the lie, depending on your perspective) is that the market price converges to a fair valuation, based on the information available at the time. true or not, it is important that market participants mostly believe this, lest the whole thing unravel at once.

I'm not sure exactly what these traders are suspected of doing, the article is rather scant on details.
Wait until countries decide to close their borders to people that haven't been vaccinated.

Most countries in asia already ask for a negative PCR test for tourists, and some (like malaysia) have been in lockdown for almost the whole year despite having had less than a thousand casualties in total.

I wouldn't be surprised if madness reaches another level very soon.
I wonder why that url does not exist with https....
Show HN: I wrote a book on implementing DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing
If a virus remains transmissible after its host’s death that reduces the disadvantage of killing the host. It was also highly infectious through shed skin that could be carried long distances without the host.
As other people have said, she'll probably fail upwards. Others in the past have tried to stop her from, well, lying, and have failed, even more so, those people have seen their career negatively affected by that. Via /r/syriancivilwar/ I've come across this article from 2018 [1] which detailed how the former NYTimes Baghdad correspondent Margaret Coker lost her job because she had tried to stop Callimachi.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/10/...
A lot of the middle east use some sort of stone or mud/dirt. Partly because lumber is not as plentiful and earthquakes are not much of a thing. Plus concrete / stone has better sound privacy characteristics and doesn't catch on fire.
Very nice work. I especially liked the ability to build up a collection of papers, that the response time was good, and that the SQL could be edited directly.

Do you have any plans to add a graphical visualization of top/central papers?
That seems incredibly unlikely. So unlikely that I'm going to say it's not true. There are certainly cultural differences across the US but you'll have a very hard time convincing people that these differences are greater than those that exist between Finland and Italy, say. Or between Cameroon and Kenya.
No that has not been apparent. The first lockdown got cases down to very low levels (10s/million/day). It turned around a sky-rocketing increase in cases - it's not like the seasons changed between April and May. The second lockdown in the UK was a tiered approach, and has managed the levels (at least up to 3 weeks ago) better than France, Belgium or Spain. Not quite as good as Germany or Italy, and nowhere near the Scandinavian countries (excluding Sweden).

Are you really trying to tell me that the variation in COVID rates is only down to seasons?
I was responding to someone in London saying they don't see most people wearing masks in public places. They didn't explicitly say it was enough, but since that was their main criticism of how London is responding, it read like that.

Here's what Biden said:

> The first day I'm inaugurated to say I'm going to ask the public for 100 days to mask. Just 100 days to mask, not forever. One hundred days.

Again, he didn't say that wearing a mask is enough, but with the 100-day timeline, reading between the lines, he's saying it will drive down the case count.
Yes.

Maybe they won’t look like us. I have to constantly tell myself to deprogram myself the X files et al image of ‘aliens’.