skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, say they wanted to support this for most of the world, what would look different to outsiders?

Waiting to support part of the world until they can support all of the targeted regions would deprive users of data they have for, I guess, years.

So, it should be a gradual rollout. Where should they start? I would think it’s easiest in richer countries, where it’s easier to obtain reliable data, and updates thereof.

Also, denser population areas likely give them most bang for the buck (getting many happy users as fast as possible seems necessary to me when discussing the success of the Maps app with senior management)

Because of those arguments, I don’t see whether that would look much different from what’s happening now.

So, I don’t see how one can conclude they aren’t serious about the Maps app or cycle paths.

Of course, things would be different if we had data telling us they don’t plan to get large coverage, slowed down or even stopped data gathering. I am not aware of either, though. It would be nice to have a history of the info on https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability, to see what, if any, progress they make.
If Wikileaks treats all leaks as equal then I don't see how this argument holds water.

Where else are we going to get insight into the globbal power "underworld", which the intelligence community just happens to always have a finger in? Anonymous sources feeding into New York Times? Because that's all we had before and continue to have today otherwise.

People just don't like when certain inconvenient information comes out and Wikileaks didnt care about the source.

People constantly try to pin ideological stuff on Wikileaks or data leaking in general but that misses the bigger point and it's a point that extends beyond Wikileaks itself and goes into information releasing in general (we don't need to defend Assange personally or Wikileaks itself to be concerned or defend the general idea). I also highly doubt they are selectively choosing NOT to release political information... like news outlets apparently do.

But I also don't care, there's a huge amount of risk and blowback doing such a mission regardless of source or content which we should respect.

They get what they can from where ever and publish it if it has some value to the general public, and we've gotten tons of value from Wikileaks already. So do plenty of other organizations now inspired by Wikileaks, plenty which have exposed corruption in a new way (like Panamaleaks).

The fact this sometimes can have an 'agenda' or be exploited by the original sources will never negate the value of a neutral 3rd party who releases stuff publicly we'd never see otherwise. And will continue to do so as long as operational.

My only fear is that there won't be people brave enough to do this given nation-state harassment and those who think its all a political-inspired conspiracy (which litter every social media site).
>In a community like HN there's also kind of a "meta-anecdote" that emerges

>multiple ancedotes can be more useful than a single one

Sure. But that meta-anecdote based narrative can be highly biased based on the community that forms it.

A forum with an large respresentation of hospital doctors and a forum with a large representation of convenience store owners are going to have completely different meta-anecdote based narratives on whether packing heat is good or bad.
Since this regulation is not a standard to be used by the public but how governments of various countries interact, I don’t see the problem.

Imagine they had only specified “must be encrypted”. Now France is going with S/MIME with SHA1 but the UK with SHA-256. The French system didn’t anticipate this and the can’t decrypt it. Meanwhile Germany is using PGP and nobody can read anything.

Long way to say: strong specs improve interoperability.
It's not exactly like i miss the old days of having AA batteries being spread around and that needs replacement all the time. It's more the lack of something with equivalent modularity, but bigger and with modern higher expectations on energy, power and charging. Like what we are used seeing in laptops, power tools, e-bikes, drones, cameras, torch, appliances, etc.
OP, terminology nit: a thru-hike is a way of completing a long-distance hike, not a type of hike in itself. It just means completing the entire trail in one continuous go. You can section hike (do pieces over the years) any of these long-distance trails, and that would not be a thru.
LNG isn’t a gas, it’s a cryogenic liquid like liquid nitrogen except flammable. If we are talking say 100+ DOT-111 tank car‘s that’s 3,450,000+ gallons which isn’t going to simply fly into the air instantly. The phase change from liquid to has takes significant energy at the scale which takes time.

Again it’s a question of scale, you don’t think of say molasses as fast moving liquid but increase the scale to 2.3 million gallons and you can be talking about a 25 foot tall 35 mph wave. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
See Calculate Linux. Team who created Calculate did it for them own startup which is not related to IT. They just had some Gentoo experience and didn't want to pay Microsoft.

https://wiki.calculate-linux.org/
The Bruzu Image API returns an image in response to a URL GET request. check https://bruzu.com
Odd to me that your question -- a genuine question -- would be downvoted.
> supplier assessment we conduct, including surprise audits. These protections apply across the supply chain

like in India?
I flagged this article and I really would urge everyone to actually read it before commenting.

I am very very concerned about China’s disregard for human rights, and I believe continuing to do business with CCP controlled companies is immoral.

That said, this is unsubstantiated accusations against Apple, which Apple directly contradicts. I believe Apple has a lot of leverage and resources and probably doesn’t want to do business with anyone who will make them look bad.

I feel very skeptical of this article.
Apple's magic (i.e. brainwashing) clearly seems to work!
Oh fuck off. A quick web search reveals that Auschwitz.org refers to slave labor as slave labor in numerous places.

> On July 4, 1942 at the latest, regular selection was introduced for the Jews arriving on RSHA transports. As a result, an average of only 20% of them were kept alive and placed in the camp as prisoners capable of performing slave labor. They were employed mostly in constructing new parts of the camp, or at German companies involved in maintaining and developing the military potential of the Third Reich. They were transferred on a mass scale from Auschwitz to sub-camps set up nearby or in Upper Silesia, or to concentration camps in the depths of the Third Reich.

http://auschwitz.org/en/history/categories-of-prisoners/jews...
they're also administering these shots out at a much faster rate relative to delivery whereas we've only administered less than 20% of the doses that have been delivered so far (11.4 million delivered, 2.1 million administered). The delivery rate should only increase especially even as there are several more vaccines in the pipeline so being able to actually administer the delivered doses may be the bottleneck moving forward.
AES is mentioned too, with big 256 bits keys, but it appears that you can use whatever block cipher mode you want such as the terrible ECB one.
I mean, Apple also has a lot of information on their website and it's also worth looking at:
https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/

They also have annual reports for the past few years just about this.
I'm in the national guard, and have numerous friends who joined the military right out of high school and been able to make a great living. Serve 20+ and get a pension, healthcare, and you're set--something few jobs in the private sector even offer. Sure you wont be making millions of bucks, but you have a nice steady income.
How about https://webmention.io/ ? Fediverse-friendly and Twitter-friendly.
> the republic of China has never been more autocratic

This is a more nuanced issue than it might seem in some ways though. I have some first hand experience since many of my coworkers are native Chinese living in different parts of China.

Trade has enabled the growth of a previously non-existent middle class in China and they have started to assert political power in ways not immediately apparent to Westerners.

One example is the "Beijing smog" that everyone knows about. The Chinese middle class are becoming unwilling to tolerate the total environmental devastation that was the norm two decades ago. They have put a lot of pressure on the CCP to keep the air cleaner and as a result many dirty industries like iron casting have had a huge number of restrictions put on them in the last 5 years. I would consider this a direct result of the political willpower of the Chinese people.

In my experience though, the reason things like the treatment of the Uyghurs or Tibetans have not changed is simply because the average Chinese person does not care or wish to rock the boat.

Before you finger wag about that, consider the American treatment of South American migrants that has come into the spotlight in the last 4 years. I would say that the reason it has not changed has the same root cause. The average American does not care, or silently approves and thus there is not enough pressure on the ruling party to produce change.
Google assistant, especially in concert with maps/directions is pretty F'd up the past couple months... it's nearly unusable, and definitely not something you can use in a car with voice commands anymore.
Honestly I feel like the mainstream games industry is pretty chaste. A large part of the audience is younger, and it is their parents who are buying the games. You want something to be engaging, maybe even edgy, but not so edgy that mom and dad wouldn't want little johnny playing it.

Part of the equation is that combat is interesting to simulate. It has clear rules ( live or die ), a lot of different ways you can tweak the game design to differentiate ( swords vs guns vs spells vs karate ).

The most popular games are NOT that violent. They simulate combat, but the draw is the competition created by the simulation, not the blood and guts. I can't name a game where "chopping people up" is the primary goal. I'm sure it exists, but I would find it dishonesty to disparage an entire medium because of the work of some niche game developer.

I didn't grow up during a time when you could go out and wander the streets all day and your parents would be OK with that. You had to be home. Having friends over and competing over video games was a great way to pass the time. The game we played the most? Super Smash Bros. Rated E, 0 realistic simulations of violence, about as bad as any slapstick film.
The "problem" with Medium is that the quality of many of the articles is poor. But so what? That only matters if you're using presence on the site as your mechanism of quality filtering. If the site has mixed quality posts, read the ones from high quality authors.

There could be a market for a service that just does quality filtering as a news aggregation service. So basically the opposite of what YouTube is doing -- don't show anything from OAN or CNN or similar partisan outlets, don't show garbage blogs, show the good ones. Maybe easier said than done, but I bet there's a market there.
Ah, yes, searching a bit, you appear to be right about the flat bottom. I believe the sawtooth edge is still correct though.
Many years ago I would have viewed an official government nutrition document as a credible source, and random blogs on the internet as a trash source of information. And I still believe one must be very sceptical of random blogs on the internet. Yet, most randos on the internet will at least cite their sources and explain their reasoning for all their decisions. But in the 150 pages long form document, I do not see sources cited or reasoning explained -- https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/sites/default/files/2020-1... Is there some other source that explains their decision making process?

In particular, I would be really curious to know what the basis is for the guideline that saturated fats should be replaced by "vegetable" oils, and that "saturated fat should be less than 10% of calories." I've looked at a lot of studies myself over the years, and find the evidence against seed oils to be much stronger than the evidence against saturated fat.
Maybe rather valium for children?
The typical victims of bullying are the ones that don't act to stop it. That's why they're being bullied in the first place.

I don't want to victim blame, because they are victims... but it's often enabled by their own character traits. They'll be greatly helped throughout life if they acquire the ability to defend themselves.
This is a success story. It is not covered in German main stream media. Question is why? My guess is it shows an alterantive and successful and cheap way to deal with Covid. While the rest of Germany (and Europe) only saw the lock down as a feasible strategy these news came as an inconvienent truth undermining the established policies. But this is only my take.
Yes, the Fed is supposed to be concerned with inflation, but the CPI measure used to gauge inflation is not comprehensive enough. Inflation of assets, home prices, equities should be considered.

Their mandate is not comprehensive enough. They've created a huge societal risk by effectively propping up companies that took on excessive risk or were otherwise poorly managed. Yes, they blunted unemployment in the short run, but excessive risk taking is now being rewarded, which has longer run consequences.

It's natural and healthy for poorly run companies to fail in times of crises... it leads to strong companies surviving and more stability in the long run.

They've also positioned it such that it will be very difficult to raise interest rates in a reasonable timeframe. When the next crisis comes, there are fewer levers to pull.

Finally, it's pretty clear the Fed is watching the stock market closely, as they backed off on increasing rates after the market dipped in Dec 2018. Their actions show they aren't strictly abiding by their mandate (see also: they very recently changed their rules on what they consider unacceptably high inflation)
What rate would be not evil?
> almost everyone mentioned owns their own home. Ages range from low 60's to early 40's

You don't think these two facts are related? What about 20-something tradesmen? Will they ever be able to afford their own home?
That's a terrible simulator. Something bad happens every day, the sums are crazy (75 for a cellphone bill?), basically it's too much.

I've been poor. You have good as well as bad days. I remember the day I won £75 with £1 on a fruit machine. I also remember the days I'd put £10 in and get nothing. I remember the unexpected bill but they weren't every day, they would be every 6 months so you hadn't accounted for them.

It would be more realistic if it allowed those little moments of triumph, only to snatch it away later.
My path to research is very uncommon - at least in the US.
Being honest it was very disappointing when I tried to switch the industries. Getting a SWE position was very easy (and many ex-gamedevs do it and are very successful at FAANG; many of them consider new jobs boring, but not toxic like gamedev, no crunch, a few times larger salaries, stability...), but any inquiries about anything research related to recruiter were met with "you don't have a PhD? we will not even interview you for such a position".

My "way in" was to just accept a generic offer and then later switch team to work inside Research (when you don't need to pass N layers of "recruiter abstraction" and can talk with colleagues and present your past work freely it becomes much easier). But still, among my collaborators maybe 5% don't have a PhD?

All of this was a surprise to me and made me question my life path and life choices. I'm originally from Poland in Eastern Europe and the only reason to consider a CS PhD would be if you wanted to teach. And I even considered it, but never occurred to me to do it for any kind of R&D work - mostly because of quality of Polish academic "research" being very low, much worse than the industry.
And I am still in lots of self-doubt and questioning if I belong in this environment. Questions like "who was your advisor / what was your grad group?" when introducing yourself to new people become almost micro-aggressions. Also my focus on R&D ("solving unsolved problems") is very different than academic incentives ("use PhD interns to do projects, then write papers and get citations").
The Magic of Non-Doing
Disclaimer: not an immunologist.

> So what happens if the second dose arrives very (eg. many months) late? Can you start again and give 3?

WHO guidance on incomplete vaccine courses (pre-COVID): https://www.who.int/immunization/policy/Immunization_routine...

In almost all cases, the suggestion is "resume without repeating the previous dose". The only exceptions are typhoid and cholera vaccinations. I don't know what these suggestions are based upon, but the source is as close to expert consensus as it can go (the WHO has gotten a lot of flak on COVID, but I have never heard anyone seriously doubt its guidance on standard vaccinations).

> And is there any chance all the partial immunities will catalyze resistant mutations?

Apparently this doesn't even happen much for antibiotics ( https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl... ), so I wouldn't worry about it happening for vaccines. See https://www.pnas.org/content/115/51/12878 for a comparison. If it were a major issue, it would just as well be an issue with fully delivered vaccination courses, as they don't offer 100% immunity either. The amount of mutations arising should still be proportional to the sick population (or, rather, to its total prevalence over time and population), and anything that reduces the latter should reduce the former. Any vaccine-immune mutation can just as easily come up before the vaccine, unless it hampers the virus so strongly that it is unviable until the evolutionary landscape has shifted. At that point, however, we're looking at a much simpler problem.
The Wallstreet was weird for another reason: it was an Old World ROM. You (typically) had to boot at least partially into Classic before chaining into OS X or Linux. I seem to recall using XPostFacto to get 10.3 installed on it, which might cause been a bit better than the official max of 10.2?
most of the 'bad sugar' in the us is from HFCS. there is only so much cane sugar one can consume. (plus, the bush family has supported the florida sugar cartels..the fanjul brothers from cuba. google it if curious. that's a whole another topic and would distract.)

sugary drinks are the worst culprit and sugar is too expensive for it. high fructose corn syrup, otoh.

but here is a dirty secret: corn is subsidised by the govt. and HCFS is the by product of our mid western corn. and instead of dumping it, it gets back into local consumption.

in a way, we are funding our own HCFS based diseases. i think i have come to a point..in the past 8 years i have been farming..where i can pretty much connect every societal and financial and environmental ill to farm subsidies.

cancel farm subsidies forever and the pandora's box will disappear. poof!
“Shorter/simpler/obvious the sentence is the easier it must be” isn’t actually the case with translations.

UI strings being short usually means hidden heavy context lies in visual elements, so it’ll just strengthen hilarity in mistakes like “Name: SQL Server, Province/Prefecture: Running” (because you know, equivalents to provinces in a region are called “State” in American English...).

“Province” is more or less harmless, but “(has/is/is in/to/like to)Start(ed/ing) type of errors due to missing context can make UI unusable. Oh and it’s un-spottable by non-speakers because they make sense when translated back to original languages.
I think $/time is a pretty good proxy (definition?) for usefulness
That's not what the Pfizer paper showed. There was a confidence interval from between 20-70% iirc for the first shot. Maybe if we're lucky it's on the higher end, but I would stick to proven science if we're going to combat this thing effectively.
EMAIL IS NOT END-TO-END ENCRYPTED!

You're offloading all of your risk upstream and basically hoping and praying that your provider or however many relay services in between don't default SMTP sans-TLS. Or that rogue employees don't go reading your shit. You're one misconfigured server from showing your ass all over the internet.

Remember that Google literally uses the contents of your gmail to market to you. Google being a company with a highly-politicized employee base with lots of motivated engineers & product people looking to "change the world".
It's still unsecured because there is nothing they can repossess. My guess that--without discriminating on a person by person basis--8% is pretty fair. I certainly wouldn't loan 20 year olds 90k dollars for only 8% return.

The real scam artists are the schools, which have bloated the cost of an education beyond all reason.
Catching the ‘Green Wave’ – Audi Introduces Smart Traffic Lights in Düsseldorf
What Is a CMS (Content Management System) Why It Important
I recently have been playing around with a few boards in this area. Besides the RPi3/4/Zero, I've got the Beaglebone Blue/Black, Jetson Nano, and Odroid-C4, with an Odroid-N2+ shipped my way yesterday.

The Raspberry Pi's have undoubtedly the widest community support, so can be great if you're a beginner. However, for a lot of projects, I've been frustrated by it. Things that should "just work" like i2c don't always, and it's limited for some tasks like hardware PWM (only two PWM outs vs. six for the Odroid). On the other hand, the Jetson Nano's ability to run CUDA is killer, especially for certain computer vision tasks, but it doesn't always seem to have great docs and the forum isn't always particularly helpful. The Beaglebones are fine, but tbh seem to be showing their age. The strength of availabile ARM SBCs has drastically scaled up even in the past few years, and I don't think they've kept up.

The Odroid-C4 board is a great middle ground. It took a little while to figure out, but if you're comfortable reading docs and asking questions on community forums (I needed to add certain GPIO groups to a config file and reboot to see them in the device tree, but you don't need to be able to compile your own kernel or anything) and not on a deadline, the performance is both better than the Pi4 on paper and seems noticably smoother for certain tasks than any of the other boards, especially basic desktop use. Also, no onboard WiFi, but USB chips have been plug-and-play so far. The N2+ has even more cores and a built-in real-time clock + coin battery holder (maybe useful for hibernation modes?), so I'm looking forward to playing around with that soon.
That's a good point. I think it's qualitatively different for a city to decide to build charging stations on 'their' property versus a private citizen.

There's also no guarantee they'll put it in front of my house. Or if long-term that's what I want (now I get home from work late and some other EV is parked in front of my house? How do I feel about that if I have an early meeting tomorrow?)
Am only speculating here, but perhaps the replicas are being used to take photos for advertisements. I’m thinking of the Big Mac and Quarterpounder adverts plastered on billboards and 18 wheelers.

They always looked perfectly made to me. Now I’m thinking it’s because they were crafted out of marzipan.
Considering that Substack's model is designed to attract independent thinkers with a following, I assume they are taking a very close look at their talent pipeline to avoid this issue. That would actually be a competitive advantage for them.