skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree wholeheartedly. This trend might have made sense back in the 90s when LAN parties were still enough of a thing that you could want to show off how fabulous you are with RGB RAM and whatnot, but today I feel like it is just needless complexity added to things for the sake of having something to putz with.

Seriously, what value do people see in this stuff?
I think the parent was referring to M. Eric Dupond-Moretti, who, a few months before becoming France's current Garde des Sceaux (Minister of Justice), joined the Assange defense team [0] and sent Macron an asylum request for Assange [1].

[0] https://www.europe1.fr/international/eric-dupond-moretti-va-...

[1] https://www.francetvinfo.fr/faits-divers/affaire/assange/eri...

The irony is that, now that he belongs to Macron's government, he seems not to be allowed to issue asylum requests :/
Jack Ma's disappearing act fuels speculation about billionaire's whereabouts
It works because many FB users (probably the vast majority) don't fact-check anything. I've lost count of the number of times I did and found it to be untrue.
I think it's safe to say that the BTC community has pivoted to a more fitting use case for their technology.

The Bitcoin Cash fork and Litecoin made scaling choices that make it better for payments.
Slack does progressive roll-outs. The broken release hypothesis seems very unlikely.
Church of Bitcoin.[1]

[1] https://churchofbitcoin.org/
Would also throw in the pandemic factor.

Whatever post holiday peak back-to-business load was before the pandemic probably just got a lot higher given the amount of people now working remotely opposed to before the pandemic.
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DevOps at a lot of small companies also manage the internal IT stack and sometimes even take on most of the IT duties. Once you get larger you start having "IT" as something separate from DevOps but with the actual infrastructure managed by operations. Once you're really big the teams are truly separate and IT owns their own infra.
The problem to tackle, IMO, is medical privacy and intellectual property.

We've created a system where the only sane way for a biomedical company to behave is to patent, copyright, and hide as much medical information as possible. Further, we've made it REALLY hard to share such medical data in the first place.

Now, I get WHY we do this. There are a lot of good reasons (privacy and insurance issues come to the top of my mind). However, we should be working to eliminate those reasons as much as possible.

What we need to advance human understanding of medicine is a national database of medical data that's publicly available.

Ideally, We'd record every measurable aspect about a person in this database and update it throughout their lives (when did they get vaccinated? What allergies do they have? Did they get any cancers?)

That sort of a database would make it really easy to start mining for treatments, correlations, etc. It'd even have some positive benefits like removing the need for every doctors visit giving you a form with 50000 questions you've answered a million times before.

But I get why we don't do this. We don't do this for fear of police overly relying on genetic information to "prove" someone committed a crime (We found your DNA at the scene, you must be guilty). We don't do this out of fear of Insurance companies exploding their rates when any sort of marker comes up (Oh, you've got Gene XYZ that means you'll probably die sooner, so you get a higher rate or we won't insure you). We don't do this because of issues around discrimination (Oh, you have (had?) HIV? You must be gay and we hate gay people here).

But, man, do I wish we could somehow shape society so some day we could do it. It'd have the potential for so much good.
> The downvote button should be replaced with an "off topic" flag.

I hope not. Some of the most informative, useful comments I've seen on Hacker News have taken the form of wild tangents.

I do see where you're going, though, that if "I agree" is sufficient cause for an upvote, then it's only reasonable that a vote in the opposite direction should be allowed to carry the opposite semantics.

It's just that, from a purely social standpoint, that's not actually how human beings typically think, feel, and react. Perhaps it could be that simple on the Vulcan version of Hacker News.
Vaccine Rollout Is Total Disaster Nationwide, Falling Millions of Doses Short
Win+R - Type in "calc" hit enter. Works every time, not only when Windows search decides to work.
I noticed that too, it has to be a mistake right? The price of the dollar should act like any other price, I think.
Further proof Douglas Adams was right about the origins of humans on Earth...
Doesn't that feel like an oxymoron.

If a human created it, it can never have in human capabilities
Yes because to actually produce the way Google produces you need more than a bunch of laptops. Think about all the kinds of capital Google owns from IP to massive data centers.

On top of that they have huge sway with governments and a hand in control of cultural production.

It's easier to start a software company than an oil company because it takes way less fixed capital but the same rules as the rest of political economy apply on the whole.
They are arrested in China because certain journalistic actions are illegal under Chinese law, under the (given) justification (stated or unstated) that it destabilizes civil society. For example, in the case of HK, journalists are prosecuted under Article 38 of the National Security law. That's the whole point of GP's post - legality by itself has no prima facie moral weight, an observation that applies also to whatever US laws the fed gov. is charging Assange of violating.

Here's the wording of the HK-specific law:
"The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People's Government, or theft of state secrets, to prohibit foreign political organisations or bodies from conducting political activities in the Region, and to prohibit political organisations or bodies of the Region from establishing ties with foreign political organisations or bodies."
Do you happen to know of any desktop clients that support encryption/cross-signing?

I'd like to get off of Element desktop/web for a couple of reasons, but I need those features. I'd help implement them myself, but that's beyond my skill level.

Edit: For anyone else wondering, matrix-commander [0] looks like it may be workable if a cli tool is acceptable for your usecase.

[0] https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/matrix-commander/

I'm planning on looking through the GUI ones at some point, but don't have time now.
When I clicked on the "Spy Kids" link, that page made requests to DoubleClick and a Youtube tracker. So, now I'm tracked by the CIA and by ad networks that know I visited the CIA site. Yay capitalism.
Yes, labor is a component. So is capital. And, recursively, so is technology. That is why economists don't claim all value is created solely by labor, and why econometrics measures the contribution of various components.

Where does Labor come from? From being taught skills - and that took capital to train someone before their labor could add value. All pieces are interrelated, and modern economies cannot work by ignoring that all pieces are needed.

>The labor of knowledge workers, which is what software engineers are called by economists

And those knowledge workers did their labor with zero capital investment before by an employer (or themselves)? Computers, tools, infrastructure all were provided so the knowledge worker could work, and those pieces required capital before the knowledge worker could produce labor.

I have hard time understanding why so many people cannot accept that capital is a valid and necessary input to creating things, including creating more capital, which can then be invested in yet further productive pursuits.
They blamed AWS

> For the last couple hours, Notion has been down. This is related to some difficulties Amazon Web Services is experiencing today. As of right now, our engineering team is all hands on deck working to restore service. We're confident these issues will be resolved soon, but in the meantime I'm so sorry for any problems or inconvenience this has caused. I know this is not ideal as everyone returns from break, and we'll be thoroughly investigating how to prevent outages like this in the future.
> can you receive something in exchange?

that is quite the goalpost shift. bitcoin allows you to send and receive bitcoin securely and without asking permission. it is not bitcoin's purpose to ensure whatever the contract you're trying to realize entails. there are escrow services and what not for that.

the guarantee bitcoin gives you is that once transaction was finalized:

- you are the sole owner of assigned bitcoin
- only you can change that record in the ledger
- nobody can stop you from doing that
- nobody can dilute your share of the asset beyond the normal issuance schedule
Deaths of Despair and the Incidence of Excess Mortality in 2020
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The point count for most articles is consistently lower on a view of the non-logged-in homepage. I assume that means they are cached more aggressively for non-logged-in. There's also the username and karma count in the top-right.
How your programming skills can make you a better writer
too specific really... maybe it’s government accessibility red tape, but iirc some of these images are strictly decoration and would be better to be entirely ignored by screen readers and the like
For a place that already has sky high income tax, I wonder why place such an additional burden on businesses with complicated and punitive taxes like these?
Oh wow -- after years of using Zoom I definitely did not know about this. Thank you for pointing it out!
You're saying the possibility of unlimited returns from others' labor is the only incentive people have to invest capital?
Fork the GOP
Kubernetes Insights for 2021
If we linearly extrapolate the December 18 data to December 31st, we get 91773 * (366/353) = 95,152.

Which would indeed be the highest level this decade, but still only 3.2% higher than 2018.

Sweden's 2019 deaths were also the lowest in the decade, so there was a lot of built up 'dry tinder'. In fact the excess deaths in 2020 match up almost exactly with the 'non-deaths' of 2019.

This concept is also matched by research:

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201116/Study-compares-de...

"In Sweden, the observed increase in all-cause mortality during Covid-19 was partly due to a lower than expected mortality preceding the epidemic and the observed excess mortality, was followed by a lower than expected mortality after the first Covid-19 wave. This may suggest mortality displacement."
Singapore police can access Covid-19 contact tracing data
What happened to the tech that was supposed to give a handheld medical scanner?
Time to pour out another Shasta for King Terry!
> look at Germany where every industry has unions

And the Companies in Germany pushes more and more the workforce to outside of Germany. The company that I work for has moving massively the workforce to Czech republic, China and since 2019, Bulgaria. I could imagine Google doing the same.
Yea the slackers are not slacking today lol
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Yes, 'Who Is Hiring' days strain our server in general and there are a lot of other things going today, like Slack being down and the holidays being over. (Edit: and one mammoth 500-comment subthread that I've since split in two.)

Sorry. I hate slow software.

Edit: for the time being, I've lowered the number of comments that get rendered per page. That's helping some. It means you'll all have to click more More links at the bottom of threads to see all the comments. One day this will all be better.
Wow, you were right about crap content. I'd never heard of shared.com, but the articles on that site are complete garbage. I really don't understand how that sort of thing can generate enough money to spend millions of dollars on ads.
See also https://wiki.c2.com/?SetTheBozoBit
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1632701/ is a documentary?

I am afraid you failed to read the fine print ;) I think the average legalese boilerplate is along the following lines: All characters and events depicted in this film are entirely fictitious. Any similarity to actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Only insane far-right conspiracy theorists think about Epstein or Maxwell. If you listen to even a tiny bit of what they're spouting, you immediately see that it's complete nonsense. Therefor it is very important that they are not allowed to poison the debate and spread their dangerous lunacy.
Built Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker
> They aren't a UK company, they're an Italian company. Per the article it was sold in 2002.

That isn't clear. I suspect they still are a UK company, with 100% ownership from the parent Italian company. The distinction is relevant (if true) in exactly cases just like this. The alternative would be a sale of assets of the former child company and filing a dissolution of the same company. They likely didn't do that, but might have. This means that probably can restructure their business so that UK orders stay within the UK subsidiary.
A manager can terminate a work contract. In most parts of the world, the worker on the other side of this contract also has that same ability to terminate the work contract, so I'm not sure if I would consider that a "special benefit."
Spotify is already starting a promotion service where artists get boosted by giving spotify a cut of the already minuscule royalties. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/03/spotify-a...
When I worked in radar, the people in the transmitter lab had little, hand held, microwave detectors as an additional layer of safety. If a wave guide hadn't been assembled correctly and was leaking microwaves, they would be warned before they were cooked. This was 1980. Such gadgets should be very cheap today.

Given the history, with the Great Seal Bug

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

I would expect plenty of monitoring; it is cheap and easy.
You seem to ask the question about the absolute number of outages, whereas uptime is about the number of outages per units of time.
Jeff's basement or the Uyghur extermination camp
In another thread, a commentor used the term nocoiner, which was the first time I had seen the word. It's pretty obviously part of "in group" jargon, used pejoratively to describe people that disagree about the efficacy of Bitcoin. Anytime I see made up terms used in a derogatory manner, I assume the user has gone too far down the ideological rabbit hole, and I can dismiss whatever it is they have to say without much consideration.

I think it does parallel a religion to some extent, in that it's like being called a heretic by a religion of which you are not a member. It's just hard to take seriously.
No, it's more complicated than that. It's an argument against putting your long-term foreign policy up to a simple majority vote on only one occasion and in a way that one of the outcomes hasn't been clearly defined which allows for anyone to claim anything they want about the potential benefits.
> the union at some level ultimately has to answer to the workers who comprise the union

yes, and a democratic government has to "answer" to its people ostensibly. ask russians how it's going for them.

unions are just another power structure adding on to the infinite pile of things that are constantly trying to fuck me over as an individual human being. no thanks.
I love OSM but what you say is correct, search is hard, or rather no one cares about the search part of OSM. That is why you need to browse around on the map to judge data quality, and even then you might nor see all that is there.

The data is usually there if you live in europe, it's just hard to search. There are two related things that make it hard, bad tagging of the data and the extreme diversity of data. E.g. this winter I've used osmand to find fire pits, it was a great way to use the data but there seems to lots of ways to tag firepits so a search might not find all of them.
Here is a belated reply to your comment about the python-cf library.[0] My top-level comment[1] does not present its use cases well. While you can compute the billionth digit of π with continued fractions, other methods suit this task better. The library caters to those who need much fewer significant digits. Such users can rely on the result undisturbed by numerical errors, as illustrated by the iterated logistic map in my slides[2].

Happy New Year! :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25266072
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25263435
[2] https://marcinciura.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/cf-slides.pd...
> What would it take to convince you this didn't actually happen?

What it would take to convince me would be for Assange to not be literally fighting a US extradition order, right now.

What was always going to happen, is what is happening now.

If a person was one of the people who said things for years like "Well, actually, the US is not trying to extradite Assange", then they were completely and totally wrong, and should be embarrassed as to how they could have possible thought that.
I spend 90% of my working day horizontal - bed, sofa and even the bath.

I don't admit to it often but there you go.
Right or wrong how can one argue against Democracy (the will of the people)? It’s a basic tenant to freedom.
Petri nets library for concurrency in Guile
Are you saying she should have discussed it anyway? Just lob up an opinion from the magi court on a searing hot political issue regarding which according to her own reasoning anything she says isn’t binding whatsoever? Yeah, she totally could have “flopped” the extradition by doing that lol

There’s a difference, as I’m sure you’re now aware having stopped accusing her of being extremely suspect, between judgments that are simply annoying for your team, and producing utterly biased, pre-decided results that match the tie of the President that nominated you. You’ll find that the former happened here, and the latter isn’t nearly as big a problem in the UK as you seem to have assumed to be the case.
Yes! That's absolutely what it feels like.