skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You will be amazed at the contradictions between Spanish databprotection laws and the way the Administration handles these data...
I pay for 1TB Onedrive and a valid Ms Office license. ~60USD yearly is ok
Just wait until they rename it to

The Bourne Advantage
There are reports in the German press today that the ruling parties are searching for ways to make discrimination based on your vaccination status illegal [0]. It seems to be already illegal for the government, but not so for private companies. For example, it seems to be perfectly legal at the moment for restaurants or airlines to only allow vaccinated people to enter. The fear of a schism and a further radicalization of vaccine opponents and corona skeptics is great.

[0] https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/union-und-spd-pru...
The pandemic is happening now, hundreds of thousands of people are dying and the hospitals my wife works at here in London are getting hammered. No grace period. As you say there are plenty of precedents for restricting travel rights based on vaccination, this is not a new idea.
Spaniard here.

I'm curious about the negative reaction about this news.

Here, growing up, we have a list of vaccines that a child gets as they grow up (tetanus, diphteria, chickenpox, etc). your pediatrist knows the schedule and follows along, obviously.

Perhaps the piece that is missing from an american mindset is that medical record is also in public hands, since healthcare is public funded and free for taxpayers. How else are doctors going to keep the record of the medical history of a patient?

I personally would love being able to travel without having to go through a PCR because there's a record somewhere that I'm immune for example. Those things aren't pleasant.
What kind of an idiotic argument is this? Prop 13 and nimbys are tied at the hip. Repeal prop 13 and you’ll see the same nimbys squeal for more supply to keep prices down.
>> Why enforce a vaccine for a disease that barely kills anyways?

Because it overwhelms the health systems. Even if I take your premise that it “barely kills” (and 1.7m people would disagree) the UK health system has a huge backlog of routine operations to get through due to the number of people requiring treatment (even if they don’t die). When we have a virus this infectious, and we have a treatment available, why should we allow someone’s “freedom” to jeopardise the health and well-being of others? Should we allow the option of declining the vaccine but ban the person from using public health care if they catch the disease? Sounds dystopian but seems fair.

Edit: I understand this is a topic people have strong opinions on but downvoting simply because you disagree is useless. Engage in debate. Respond.
I don’t recall ever having it until reproducing a Hello Fresh recipe that we had previously eaten and wanted to make from scratch. My daughter is a budding foodie and wondered if we could find the bucatini. I aired her what that was and she said it was the type of pasta in the dish (that I had eaten) and that they were like noodle straws.

I bought the last box at Kroger somewhat intrigued. It took a bit longer than spaghetti to cook, and honestly I didn’t find it particularly interesting. Just a fat noodle that wasn’t particularly good at holding on to the sauce.
It would be like downloading a file using GetRight back in the day, where you'd have one thread downloading the 0-25% chunk, one downloading the 25-50% chunk, and so on.

You could hypothetically do that, for sure, but the software basically is derived from the tape era where you'd just have one logical stream coming out of the tape.
I wonder if we take this to its logical conclusion; McDonald's is culpable for millions of cases of manslaughter, what about diesel car owners? Meat eaters? Tourists taking carbon heavy flights?
I use sqlitebrowser for that. Pretty handy if you know SQL.
> [...] a sizable portion of the population is ready and willing to trample human rights in the name of public safety.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 25:

(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family (...)

Your right ends when the rights of others begin. Rights don't exist in an absolute vacuum.
> hundreds of thousands of people dying of preventable, mundane diseases every year

Like obesity?

Whoops, I forgot that this is about signaling your affinity to "science", whatever that is, not public health. Back under the bridge with poor me...
Agreed. And this is only going to get worse and worse.

Not to mention the fact that it makes our fields less inclusive to the regular, normal person who doesn't care about these things.

I'd have probably get fired from my first job nowadays for saying the word "blacklist", not realising I'd somehow become a racist!
Perfect opportunity to clear up a common misconception:

PII is more or less an American term. In the context of European legislation such as the GDPR, there is no such thing as "PII".

Within Europe and within the context of the GDPR, you do however talk about "Personal Data".

Personal Data and PII are both about data that can identify a person, but Personal Data (Europe) is much broader than PII (US) from a regulatory perspective.

This was a pet peeve of the best GDPR lawyer I ever worked with, and now it's a pet peeve of mine as well. :-)
What I've been wanting for years/decades is consumer level devices to see inside the body without opening.

We've been doing it for many decades in expensive facilities or doctors offices, it should be democratized by now.

Echography/ultrasound (huge market for pregnant women btw), sports injuries, sprain ankle, muscle ache, stomach pain, I want to see what it looks like inside. Soft tissues, bones, tendons... I want to take hundreds of images of the normal state and compare when something is weird.

Interpretation of images is hard but we can learn it. And it will be much more data that we can feed to ML models to help us make sense of it.

To this day I'm still puzzled that I can't buy a €100 device and look inside myself.
I don't think what he described is captured at all by the third "tribe." He clearly does it for money and there should be a fourth "tribe" for that category. I agree with you that "tribe" is a poor choice here.
I may be wrong, but I thought hemp was a non-potent form of cannabis, which is still legal in a lot of countries. Isn't decline of hemp related to competition with cotton, rather than war on drugs?
People won't push back against this for fear of getting sacked or blackli... blocklisted out of their field.
Same on iPhone 8+ :O
Interesting, since I thought I had a radical position but your position seems to be more radical, let me ask you:

What if we later find out that the first generations of the vaccines came with a whole bunch of delayed-action side effects?
The usual matrix notation is a_ij for the element in the ith row and the jth column. If you order axes in this way you get the numpy convention.
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Question about BugHerd
Hi hackers,

Quick question - does anyone have experience with using bug reporting tools like BugHerd? What did you find useful about it? Do you find it complementary to your current ticket system (Jira, Trello) or are you using it as a stand alone solution? Is there something that you dislike about it?

I'm asking because I was looking at their proposition and it sound interesting at first glance but I wanted to get some feedback from someone that has used it before.
Exciting project! Last time I've used IElixir (Elixir kernel for Jupyter) to give a presentation (using the Rise extension) it was actually very easy to setup but it wasn't able to "stream" cell output to the UI, apparently it was "waiting" to have gathered all outpout of a cell before displaying it. Maybe Niex will be better at that?

A notebook server being a heavily asynchronous application, it makes a lot of sense to build one using Elixir. It would be a dream come true if Niex could be compatible with the Jupyter kernel protocol to integrate with kernels that already exist for other languages and also compatible with Jupyter frontend extensions. Basically it could replace the Tornado app while leveraging the rest of the existing Jupyter ecosystem. Easier said than done obviously ;-)
I have such fond memories of playing StarCraft on a turquoise iMac just like the one in the article.

That puck mouse was the worst, though.
Bride Who Faked Cancer for Wedding Donations Gets 5 Months in Prison
'tel said the same thing, and I can see it both ways. But I don't think it helps me much to simply state the opposite position -- you don't give me much to reply to :)
> Americans have not really had true authoritarianism in any sense at any point in their histor

That is not really true. American history is constant struggle between authoritarianism and opposition.
Vodafone's Ho Mobile DB of 2.5M users allegedly up for sale, SIM swap possible
The leaked database dump contains ICCID, SIM PUK code, authentication hashes, and customer PII that can be used in SIM swapping attacks and for bypassing 2FA (such as in online banking).
Haha, that was well written article. Highly reccomended reading.
That's not the goal...

"We are very concerned with the fact that all the satellites which re-enter the Earth's atmosphere burn and create tiny alumina particles which will float in the upper atmosphere for many years,"
I have been splitting my time between a covid-free country and a covid-ridden country and it is very VERY hard to get peers from the so-called "free" nations see how their individualistic obsession with personal rights and privacy are completely self-destructive under the current environment.

They can't even fathom that living in a covid free nation isn't even that onerous in the day to day. Contact trace and socially distance. Wear a mask and actually DO quarantine.

They're more ready to make up excuses:

- China and Vietnam are faking their numbers

- New Zealand is a low density remote island

- Australia became an authoritarian state

- Taiwan were already prepared

- Singapore is a dictatorship

Meanwhile these nations have only had to protect their entertainment industries (domestic tourism is clawing back some of the lost tourism income now) but all these other free countries like the UK have lived with restrictions most of 2020 now and have ALSO torpedoed their economy AND had the most casualties.

At this point I'd almost rather go full cynic and just appreciate covid as an agent of natural selection rather than collectively ruin the prospects of the future generation, but of course that is also politically untenable. So given that dichotomy of choice I will gladly cede some human rights to empower my government actually do their job.
This soundness hole (or a very similar one) was also accepted in Java itself (with subtypes rather than sum types).

The main reason behind accepting it is that it is very useful and safe in certain situations that the type system is too weak to define strictly: if a function takes an (string|number)[] and only reads from it, it is perfectly safe to pass in a string[].
I always hated the expression, but honestly, now I understand: first world problems
What are some benefits from group therapy?
Group therapies can be very helpful. When you are in a place where you can share your experiences with life, pain, false decisions you have made and hear others as well, the therapy can work pretty well. Proper interaction between people will help everyone to get their answers and learn more.
https://landmarkrecovery.com/services/individual-group-therapy/
The writing style is awesome, I literally laughed out loud.

Beyond that, the article reminds us that in every industry there are powerful actors that protect their monopoly, and will coerce the government into helping them.

I read an article about import taxes on sugar that were created to keep out competition, and as a result everything uses corn syrup. Other examples abound.

Unfortunately, the solution of government oversight of itself (such as FBI breathing down the neck of the NSA), has obvious circular drawbacks.
I barely use it on my phone anymore and on my desktop I installed an adblocker again (before I only used uMatrix).

But we’re a minority, obviously Google’s choice is paying off.
Different regions have diets made up of different ingredients, which have different levels of various minerals. Humans don't all eat the exact same thing and they don't all exist in the same exact climate so regulations tend to be curated to their local constituents.

Furthermore, in many European nations the pasta is enriched, mainly with fiber although plenty of other nutrients are added depending on the brand and market. European countries just don't have regulations regarding "enriched macaroni" labeling like the US, which is an interesting historical quirk but irrelevant to what's actually in the pasta. Popular brands like Barilla are almost certainly enriched with something - depending on the size of the market it might have been enriched to American standards just to minimize manufacturing fragmentation (i.e. Italy, a huge consumer of pasta and origin of many of the brands will have formulas dedicated to that market, while Norway will receive whatever other formula is closest to their requirements).
I don’t think extending life to infinity is a good idea. Why would anyone want to live forever? What’s the point?
> Or vaccines. Why isn't there a global approval system?

Global systems are inherently more fragile, no? More eyes on something is always a good thing, less likely to be corrupted by corporate interests, etc...
> that these treatments would also rejuvenate the mind in some fashion, but that seems dubious.

This is of course included in that and we're already seeing some research into it. To prolong life itself isn't a goal if we can't keep healthy, and the brain is part of that.

If we slow down or reverse aging the brain won't deteriorate either. It's all about solving the root cause of why our bodies and mind fails us over time.
My dystopia is having had to stay in my tiny urban apartment without leaving for 70 days waiting for the government to take action and then when I realised they wouldn't, having to uproot and move to a different continent altogether away from the place I called home for the past decade in order to simply feel safe.
LaTeX should indeed get a little more authoritative IMO. A good start (that comes to mind) would be a convention for "body text" allowing a parser to convert a document between formats, or building a good 'standard library' of common plugins. Its heavy use of macros and non-standard plugins definitely seems like a big problem for conversion, comprehension and even conserving documents. I do find it wonderful for what it is.
That’s what they did!

> I'm now back to using email.

/s
I quibble with your characterisation of IEEE 754 ubiquity being mindlessly cargo-culted, because there’s a runtime cost to doing things any other way. Specifically, all mainstream hardware has instructions that work the IEEE 754 way, so if you want to not propagate NaN, I believe you’ll need to either implement those operations manually, or check for NaN after every operation and convert it into an exception or panic or whatever. I’m not certain what the cost would be, being no compiler engineer or hand-coder of assembly, but I’m fairly confident that there is one. I suspect that cost may also be inordinate on various realistic workloads.

(Since you mention billion-dollar mistakes: you can remove null pointers from a language at no runtime cost, in a few different ways—e.g. require that types be explicitly nullable, or Rust-style Option<T> optimised to squeeze the None/Some discriminant into any spare space in T, so that for sized T, &T and Option<&T> both take only one word.)
Yeah, baldness must have a use / evolutionary advantage (cooling, maybe) and isn't an illness. Like having 2 arms and 2 legs, beeing gay or having black skin color.
I hope nobody throws it away!
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I don't have kids and I don't think I've gotten bored once - I had the time to watch a whopping two TV shows this year.
What happened to bodily autonomy and privacy? The officials’ comments in this article are downplaying what they would use this information for, which seems like gaslighting. They can’t expect us to believe that they would collect this data just for fun.

Personally I don’t think coercive methods to get people to undergo medical procedures like vaccination is morally acceptable. Even the vaccinations that public schools in some states require is a violation of bodily autonomy. And the suggestions that we tie freedoms of movement like visas to vaccination scares me, especially for the precedent it sets. Why draw the line with COVID-19, where the survival rate is more than 99.5%?

And I say this as someone who has all their vaccinations.
To everyone saying this is impossible. This is proven tech and it's actually not uncommon to heat your house like this already today. Depth of a hole in your backyard is around 100-200m and one such hole provides more than enough for one big house.

Payoff for such investment to break even with more basic forms of heating is around 5-10 years in cold northern europe climates. Sadly most people have shorter foresight than that when it comes to economic planning.
> enriched macaroni

That must be the lamest way of defining pasta I've ever heard. Whoever named it like that doesn't deserve italian pasta (/s)
that's what I mean - in this sense, the axis 0 should be row, but instead it's column in numpy
> Instead of doubling down on all promising vaccine candidates

They did. But after the approval went through. The EU have orders on generally way too many vaccines than it needs.
I used this for someone’s birthday drinks yesterday: https://getmibo.com/

It’s a space were you can walk around freely, have proximity-based audio volume, and your head is your webcam.
Or do the opposite and use a hall effect thruster in order to maintain your altitude and velocity. Which is what Starlink has designed their LEO satellites to do, in order to have a natural failsafe in the event of a failure [1].

Though speculatively I've read that making sure the optics burn up in deorbit is a major problem to adding inter satellite laser links.

[1]
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/satellites/spa...
Yes, like obesity, and smoking and whatever else. Which is why I also support incentives to take soda off shelves, give financial incentives to people who exercise, don't smoke and so on. What gives you the impression I somehow oppose that?
Not dying from aging in not the same as being immortal though. You could still die from a car accident for example, and there is of course the option to kill oneself (even if I'd consider that a tragedy.)

This is if biological aging could be _fully_ fixed, the first steps are rather to live a healthier life a bit longer.
Reasonable people can differ on whether quiet NaN propagation is good or bad, so I don't fault you for being in the latter camp, but I am surprised by your suggestion that it was particularly friendly to 1980s hardware. I was under the impression that an 8087 would have been equally happy to respond to NaN by quiet propagation, setting a global sticky flag or crashing your program, and it's modern hardware, with multiple heavily pipelined vector units running in parallel, that prefers to quietly propagate. Am I missing something?
I am not sure if I recommend this tool as it’s a paid tool and not Linux but it’s gotten me out of a lot of tricky multi GB csv files in the past. (Windows and win server only)

http://www.delimitware.com/

Of particular note is this set of extraction features which is where I spend a lot of time http://www.delimitware.com/help.html#_File_Extract_Dialog
> But in computer science there is another common definition which involves side effects not being repeated (that is, `f(); f();` is the same as `f();`).

where have you ever seen that definition ?!
Spain to Create a Register of People Who Refuse Covid-19 Vaccine
It's a matter of choosing which risks we're willing to take. An extremely low risk from the vaccine, bear in mind all vaccines carry risks, or the known risks from a virus that has killed pushing two million people and itself seems to have long term health impact on many survivors. My wife is a Nurse and had the virus in April, she's had chest infection problems ever since and is currently on long term antibiotics to try and shake it off.

Waiting to check for long term effects is a novel and unprecedented standard for a vaccine. Yes the testing process usually takes several years, but testing for long term effects would take much, much longer. Nobody has ever held a vaccine to that kind of standard before, so why are we suddenly panicking about it now?

I'm fine with people choosing not to get vaccinated, but I'm also fine with them losing their travel and some employment privileges as a result.
I find it acceptable that people want to stay at home where their social networks and memories are. You all act like it is OK to push people out from their homes, just because you have money and want that place.
Seems like an optimization of the age-old practice of refusing entry of people into countries who are unable to prove they are vaccinated against common illness.

When I travel in for example Africa and South America and Asia I bring my yellow vaccination card together with my passport, and this information is used to make entry decisions when I'm at the border of these countries.

I'm not particularly upset at what Spain is doing here. We live in a society where people can travel freely within the European Union (Schengen). If you refuse to be part of societal obligations to combat a dangerous disease, then you shouldn't be upset if your traveling or interactions with other nation states will be impacted in one shape or another.
the only thing that baffles me somehow is: do you really get dried pasta shipped all the way from Italy to the US?
I agree but to me that Compaq is clearly taking design influence from the earlier still Mac LC, which I prefer.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mac+lc&t=fpas&iar=images&iax=image...

It’s a nice design but the original iMac broke new ground. Personally I didn’t like it at the time, it drew too much attention to its plasticiness for my taste.

Whereas something like a Silicon Graphics workstation looked out of this world cool.

The first iMac that got me excited was the Sunflower.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=imac+sunflower&t=fpas&iar=images&i...
History shows that great games will be successful no matter what. Something like World of Warcraft is successful simply because product is great, not because it was released at the right moment.
May be CDP had reasons to do what they did - I'm not questioning that. But what it shows - CDP is just another game studio.
I would like to see some company to go Apple-way, price their games accordingly, take their time and earn some reputation, but release games that are great time after time. CDP gave this hope after Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk PR but failed to deliver. The game is still good, so they might be still on the path. We will see in the next iteration. May be Blizzard makes comeback and releases something epic again. It takes someone like Steve Jobs to pull this off and may be in game industry it is tricky.

Anyway, this is how I think about it.
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I might be misunderstanding what you're trying to say, do you mean that because the previous generation had it worse we shouldn't strive to improve things even more?