skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
28% of Americans believe that Bill Gates wants to use vaccines to implant microchips in people - with the figure rising to 44% among Republicans. [1]

If a significant chunk of the population hesitates to get vaccines then it has consequences for all of us, regardless of our beliefs. Lies and misinformation spread through social media should be kept in check by patrolling, just like our highways are patrolled.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/52847648
Nice visualizations. Nitpick: etruscan (like some early greek variants) was mostly written right-to-left (and other times in boustrophedon style)
Highly recommend Thoth’s Pill [1] for a fun video on the subject.

Goes deep but keeps it relatively light.

Has the added bonus of going into Mesoamerican writing systems which are often underrepresented in these analyses.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=PdO3IP0Pro8
That doesn't seem very misleading. The estimated temperature difference for every 1000 meters in additional elevation is only 5-6C.
Doesn't this presuppose that the only thing the test can detect is the virus itself and not things that highly, but not perfectly, correlate to it?
> What if you've recently recovered from a confirmed case of COVID-19?

Then you wait until your test comes clear

> People can still test positive up to 90 days after recovery

In very rare cases
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25704433
Snow in Madrid is definitely unusual but Spain gets snow every year.

"You can go to Puerto de Navacerrada for a few hours of skiing then return to Madrid to continue visiting the many attractions in Europe’s fourth-largest city."

https://www.justapack.com/best-ski-resorts-in-spain-ski-reso...
I think is a case of a little too late. There's probably a higher risk of a traveller coming to US leaving with it, than arriving with it - currently. If this had happened 9 months ago, there might have been a chance of this working - with better leadership in other areas - as other child comments have pointed out.
I don't have exact date timelines, but I know the large company I work for decided that the US was a coronavirus hotspot somewhere around the end of February and the beginning of March and banned business travel to or within the US. It was only in mid-March that they shut down the offices themselves, a couple of days before state or local governments began locking down.

I believe the current estimate is that there was uncontrolled community spread in the US by late February, and closing the borders to international travelers wouldn't have done anything to prevent its spread in the US.
For those interested in events like this. There's a guy[1] that collects reports on cold weather records and maintains a mailing list.

He's a wonky guy and kinda bent on the solar minimum but if you can see past that, his list does a good job of reporting on cold extremes across the world.

[1] electroverse.net
While I enjoy slack at work (not without reservations, but overall I like it), I definitely agree slack/discord are terrible for communities. I can't imagine how much discussion that even I participated in almost 15 years ago is still quickly available, would now be lost to the ether of discord and slack.
And yet, their stock is up +5.32% today.
It's a fair call out and something we've struggled with in messaging at this stage of the company. It's hard to keep messaging simple but also be succinct with what we are providing. We will be iterating on this over time.

That being said - we are slowly adding management actions and I do believe we will be compatible with a number of AWS services in due time. For example, you can manage Route 53 record sets directly from Vantage. We wrote a post up on it here: https://medium.com/@bensign/raising-the-bar-for-the-route53-...
How to find jobs with autonomy, low to moderate levels of work, and good pay?
I have worked for a corporation for 16 yrs as an engineer. I have had many jobs, some that pushed my capabilities, many that didn't.

I got bored with "engineering" here early on. Because of the low amount of work, I joined and even formed startups (this should give you an idea of the general pace of work). But, I was too scared at the time to branch out and leave for a small company. I rationalized at first that I wanted more work, but I heard so many stories of senior people who came to my company for less work. Some deeper, more sensible part of me fought the part of me that wanted to be challenged and find adventure and diversity and won.

After the first 2 years, I switched to a "process improvement" job. I found that it gave me a non-traditional role that offered me a great deal of autonomy, something I really likes, but it wasn't challenging.

I wanted to try management, which is known here as the hardest job. I applied to many positions, was interviewed, but ultimately didn't get in. I now have 2 very young kids. With the economy what it is and my age, I no longer want to pursue that route.

I hired a career counselor, who has told me I should be doing product design, NOT detailed engineering. After all his help, I am unsure how to proceed. I think I'm a "right brained" engineer. I find that every time I'm asked "what would your ideal job look like?", I come up with qualities like "autonomy", "work when I want to", "time at work to learn" and the like, of which few or none are the qualities listed on job postings.

I went back to engineering, and am now very unhappy again, drinking from a firehose of technical info that doesn't stop.

What is a job and/or company that I can transfer to and leverage my experience that will not kill me, offer a good salary, and allow me to operate with some autonomy, and is local (I'm in the Seattle area) or has remote work? I know, the best of all worlds, but humor me.
Call them and ask! They may punt you to one of their customers if you just want a U or 2.

If you plan on your own AS and IP space - full network independence - ask which carriers are there, and plan on a quarter or half rack for a router. You'd also need to become a member of your regional Internet registry (e.g. ARIN in the US) and ask them for resources - e.g. IP space and an AS number.
I generally agree but I note that any substantial project becomes largely composed of “library code” itself.
I made a similar move in BC and went from ~60k CAD a year to ~170k CAD. It's tougher work for the American start up but the pay differential is too big to not take advantage of. I feel like I'm throwing years of my life away to work if I work for a Canadian company.

The work is remote, I still live in the same place, but I've increased my income by 3x, I don't see how I could justify staying with a Canadian company.
This is killing temperature even for the hardiest palm. So I'm wondering how much of their mature trees and landscaping will be destroyed
Exactly, I completely reject the premise of this article. In the last hour I searched the "alerts" channel to see how many times our database had high CPU in the last year.

I'm not one to defend slack, but there's nothing inherently temporary about slack. And searchability > manual categorization.
Greenwald has been an activist for years.

I recall him finding the most tenuous of reasons to defend Assad and Putin's conduct in Syria. It kept falling apart as the regime kept conducting further chemical weapons attacks. Everything could be dismissed as some grand imperialist plot against Assad. The goal posts moved dozens of times always in reaction to further news that detailed different aspects of the chemical weapons campaign.

Greenwald kept finding ways to dismiss the citizens on the
ground. Because surely RT.com knows better.

He then kept dismissing the joint international investigation team while it was in the field. Because surely Assad's own press releases know better.

After awhile he deleted his Twitter timeline[1]. Greenwald is not a journalist when he carries forward narratives like this, he is an activist. Just like when he carried forward narratives from "Guccifer 2.0" aka Kremlin during the 2016 election. What he is doing here seems really similar to his conduct from that era. He thought he found -the thing- that exempts something he want to defend from ire. Now an entire narrative is build around it. His little personal fort.

I'll never be able to forgive Glenn for using his name on Twitter to beat down Syrians who were giving first hand testimony and video evidence. He engaged against them like they were his enemy, likely because they were the enemy of his favored narrative and biases. Disgusting.

Here is an archived version of his tweet[2]. You'll need it in time after he commits another purge when he moves onto the next indefensible right wing trope he feels like picking up.

[1] https://twitter.com/im_pulse/status/1022690869139464192

[2] https://archive.vn/cmxFp
You’re probably thinking of dwm. Another great tiling window manager.
It was Tegumai Bopsulai and his daughter, Taffimai Metallumai, as I recall.
They were free to not do business with the city of Montgomery, if I’m following the logic of some of today’s discussion correctly.
The origin of the name are clear, but the name itself should describe what is it because these name can be find out of context.

These names can't be easily understandood without context. And these name will be found without context:
For exemple, you may meet this name in a process list. In this case you don't understand why the process "dwm" is eating a lot of gpu power.

A variable name can be short, because it's name will be found in it's context.
I prefer to right-click on e-mail and "create rule from message" from context menu. Also, the feature doesn't require any steps to configure, install or enable, it just works out of the box.
When I worked at $big_company, we used a lot of code generation and reflection to work around the lack of Go generics in things like API interfaces to other services and test mocks. This was far from ideal, because it significantly increased compile times, and some things stopped being typesafe or had unfortunate type-related bugs.
I have been using it for several months, and it works like a charm.

Sudo was the major thing I missed from linux space, and now we can have it on Windows too.
Thanks, I didn't realize it linked to the top thread and not the specific tweet.

"Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler?

Zero.

The planning was largely done on Facebook. This is all a bullshit pretext for silencing competitors on ideological grounds: just the start."
They don't shove that political agenda into their software, do they? It's just something they do as a group of friends.
It absolutely is an example of things to come - scenarios like this are caused by the weakened polar vortex that generally separates European weather from Arctic weather; the polar vortex has become weaker over the last years because of recent climate change / regional warming, and it is strongly expected to become even weaker in the coming decade(s), making weather like this more frequent.
That's correct.

It also aligns our incentives with insuring we do as good a job as possible with appropriately representing your costs :)
One Mask Is Good. Would Two Be Better?
Sounds like vaccine management "tool" they've released recently:

https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_...

Note small print:

Vaccine management isn’t a product or feature. Rather, it’s a mix of capabilities that an experienced admin or partner can build on the Salesforce platform.

It's a pattern they've been following for a while now.
>The belief that free speech must have limits is necessarily equivalent with the belief that a large part of the people are stupid and they must be protected by the smart people by preventing them to hear anything that might influence their feeble minds and make them act in a wrong way.

I don't see why this is true; intelligent people can be harmed by speech just as much as stupid people can. Everyone can certainly be harmed by the immediate follow-on effects of speech. Some words can harm in a way it is unreasonable to expect guard against, or those for which it is impossible to guard against.

The scholarly literature on speech, harm, and legality has dozens of such examples.

>but I do not see any of the advocates of limiting free speech having the courage to tell

I can courageously say now that I'm not in favor of restrictions on speech for reasons of "stupidity" but rather the demonstrable harm speech can cause.
It's fine to point that out, but the way you did it lands with me as snarky. There's a spectrum of how readers interpret such things (some would find it snarky, as I did, while others wouldn't)—but what's for certain is that the reader spectrum skews far more in that direction than commenters think it does. Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear. Since you only have to hit a small section of that spectrum to start a flamewar, we need comments to err on the side of not coming across that way [1].

There's another guideline that helps with this:

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Although "How fortunate that" isn't exactly calling names, your comment could have been shortened in just this way. "This was never claimed" would make the same point without hitting any of the snark spectrum.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
It's basically a Slack with more useful features and no bullshit.
I see what you mean there.
Hope the two random phone calls are video calls and not just audio. Otherwise people would leave the phone with someone at home to answer for them.
I switched my landline from Verizon to Anveo about 5 years back. They are pretty solid! I barely used my landline so I have the cheapest plan possible.
I don't think this contradicts what I've said. One can conclude from this statement both that Merkel believes Twitter needs to be regulated, and that the US needs stronger speech regulation in general. (also I'll note that what Twitter did isn't actually illegal in Germany, there's no law that compels social media companies to host people)
I 100% percent agree.
Not really, no. They specifically pick genomic sequences believed to be unique to SARS-CoV-2; they're specific enough to distinguish between SARS-CoV-2 and the other known coronaviruses, let alone less related viruses.
There is a qualitative difference between concretely planning an attack and the things you describe. I am taking the platform's statements at face value, but what I understand is that they observed concrete, specific planning to coordinate a physical attack on US democratic institutions. In that sense, this is not about free speech at all. The actions taken were done with intent of preventing violence, not speech.
Totally agree you need to learn C before getting too far, but it can make intro programming more challenging than it needs to be. Since this is supposed to be an ML-targeted curriculum it seems like Python is a better start. However, as I said, it’s an eternal debate. At least we have choices!
Yes but only pragmatically not dogmatically. Activity diagrams can be an excellent way to reason about and document some more complex processes imho.
How does this compare to https://wasp-lang.dev/ ?
Hi, getitstraight

You're new around here. Welcome!

You might be used to a Twitter style dismissiveness, but do read the guidelines. People take them seriously. It makes this a unique forum. Not perfect, but generally considerate

> I've got nothing to hide" won't save you

This is true. It's also a non-sequitur. You're arguing against a very easy, stupid argument that I did not make, and you argued it rather aggressively. How about you quote the specific sentences that led you to this, and we'll sort it out together.

Again, welcome!
Facebook and Twitter has been used to organize violence and overthrow governments too.
I've been using dwm since 2010 and and still don't consider changing that. I use st at home (qterminal at work). dwm in combination with dmenu, slstatus, and slock runs fast on every machine with minimal resources and doesn't waste a pixel of your screen.
https://deit.groovepages.com/stopdiet/index
It hasn't caused 4k daily until recently and it isn't clear how long it will continue at that rate. The below chart shows its rank in daily deaths and shows that the death rate is very very serious.

https://app.flourish.studio/visualisation/1712761/

What single cause has resulted in 4k daily for weeks on end? German invasion of the USSR. There are 1417 days between 22 Jun 1941 - 09 May 1945. According to Russian government figures, USSR losses within postwar borders now stand at 26.6 million, including 8 to 9 million due to famine and disease.[0] So, 17.6m / 1417 = 12,420.6 people per day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
1. Stickers are cute. They're more enjoyable ways to send canned responses and reactions.

2. Having had them for so long chats without status feel weird now. They turn chat from sending letters into conversations. It's the difference between leaving a note on someone's desk and talking to someone face-to-face.

3. Stories are nice for when you want to be like "hey this happened" or "look at this cool thing" but don't want to spam your friends with notifications.

4. I hate staring at the same background all the time. I change them for the season, things I'm into at the moment, holidays. Same with my laptop wallpaper.
Mentioning elevation without any context or reference to historical temperatures is not very helpful. Consider updating your comment.
We have to consider the old adage about screaming "Fire" in a crowded theater.

Unfettered free speech would dictate we can all do that anytime we want because free speech has no limits.

Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969, limited the scope of banned speech to that which would be directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action. That is where the line in free speech ends.

The notion that the purveyor of technologies used to distribute speech that are incitements to imminent lawless action has no legal obligation in regards to the consequences is akin to saying a theater owner has no obligation to make sure a person who's repeatedly screamed "Fire!" and caused a stampede that injures people isn't allowed in their theater doesn't hold up. And it has ground at all to stand on if the theater owner actively pursues them and promotes they can do that in their theater.

In this case, Parlor has essentially pursued and invited those who love to scream "Fire" and actively encourage them to use their service to do that. And in fact they used it to organize a mob and help plan a insurrection.

And it did not matter to them that lies were being spread to fan the flames of hate, or who or how many might lose their lives as a result.

Parlor is a prime example of the lowest form of capitalism. Little different than crack dealers. We cannot let them hide behind the noble goals of "Free Speech".
So even if you were right about Georgia (even though the evidence says you are not). That would not change the outcome.

But then you will involve slippery slope and day: but if it happened in Georgia, then it probably happened elsewhere... but that’s BS, you need to show the evidence elsewhere as well.

Then even if you accept all the bullshit, there is maximum only absolutely max: 2 million votes in “question”. Where Biden won by 7 million votes.
So you Are still relying on the bs electoral college that has no democratic justification to say you won...

Honestly, if you want to stop the steal, get rid of that... but the problem with that is, you wouldn’t have had a Republican President since the 80s...

So keep making up rules until you can get minority rule. Filibusters, electoral college and failing that just kick down the doors... how can anyone think they are protecting democracy with this stuff!?
Zulip really hits the sweet spot for a communication tool. Especially with large amounts of users communicating across many different threads. The FHIR community "chatroom"[0] is a Zulip server and is indispensable for communication and knowledge building across thousands of users.

[0] https://chat.fhir.org/#
The Wikipedia page for Molina de Aragón, which you linked to, says that the average low in January for that locality is -3.5C, and that the record low is -28C, which happens to also be the record low ever recorded in the whole of Spain (still according to the Wikipedia page).

-25C is thus certainly newsworthy and, well, that's in central Spain, which is elevated, but "central Spain" does not imply that it isn't and Spanish geography is what it is. This is not misleading.
> The Maunder Minimum occurred with a much longer period of lower-than-average European temperatures which is likely to have been primarily caused by volcanic activity.[citation needed]
If there’s a copyright or public safety issue with a piece of content posted on a social media platform, the law should provide for a takedown procedure against the content, not against the whole platform. The cause of action should be against the poster, not against the entire platform.

Remember Parler was asked by the tech co's to moderate such content, and it refused.

I also don't see how Parler competed with AWS.
I work mostly in enterprises, I see UML all the time, especially Use Case diagrams and Sequence diagrams.
> Layers and layers of legal loopholes make politically biased corporate censorship perfectly legal.

What loopholes? The 1st amendment protects you from being persecuted by the government for your speech. It does not require private entities to publish, promote, transmit, or broadcast your speech. Similarly, discrimination is legal in the US. It is only illegal to discriminate against members of protected classes on the basis of them being members of those protected classes. Political affiliation is not a protected class.

Anyone that wants to spout off abhorrent things on the internet is free to do so. However, no private entity can be forced to allow such behavior. You do not have a right to have your tweet published by Twitter. You do not have a right to store your bits on an Amazon server.
The obvious solution here is to not merge the whole thread into your email, instead including only the parts of the message that are directly relevant.
The fact that all the top-line Cloud hosts are really (really!) expensive just adds insult to injury; so perhaps this will start to accelerate the plans of those looking for contingencies. The good news is that we now are in the era of K8s and cheap(er) CPUs (AMD), so there are a lot more options now than just "betting on AWS".

Funnily enough, I'm now starting to think that the only reason AWS proliferated as much as they did was to only fuel the VC capital boom of the last decade and not much else. Startups we able to promise huge valuations and returns based on the belief that AWS would "scale for us" and they didn't really need the inhouse expertise needed to grow. Just sell the growth.
Thank you, let me know if you have any feedback :)
Calling C++ from Haskell
If one is against freedom from (in this case corporate) censorship, one is against free speech. 'Explaining' that free speech is not actually freedom from (one's particular preferred form of) censorship is de facto a attempt to excuse that particular form of censorship from the general principles of free speech that would otherwise condemn it, and is therefore in favor of censorship and against freedom from censorship, aka free speech.
you learn Python to get the basics: what are variables, what are values, what is control flow, what are functions, what are modules, how does it fit together as code to perform tasks. Worrying about the memory and the underlying machine can come later. The biggest problem with Python as a beginning CS course is that it´s not a great language to learn about types (meaning it's more difficult to learn the cluster of related concepts expression, value, type, variable).