skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most if not all of Europe is closed to tourism: https://reopen.europa.eu/en

But they'll let people in who have long term residency permits, or to visit long term partners, sick family members, or e.g. if their young children live there.

For Switzerland I know there's even a clause that lets you in if you have to go there for business. Kanye West was spotted in the country last month, I guess he was allowed in because he's building a villa there.
I don't really remember medical experts were saying in early 2020, but I would have supported banning specific countries if it was based on a framework that adjusted bans as the number of cases changed.

I remember being unimpressed with the timing, starting the ban right after the super bowl was over was a bad idea. And the US should have immediately started working towards testing all travelers.
Avonex is off patent - still profitable, but drug companies are not entirely insensitive to being displaced by breakthroughs.
In attempt to curtail the latter you forgo the former.
Watch for propaganda in support of a cause.
Casually backwards but the audience can relate better this way.
> I also take exception to the use of the gestalt 'America' as if there were some central force orchestrating this phenomena

Agreed. This reductionist mindset bugs me to no end
I'm not American, but what I saw on my TV last week was an outgoing President organising an armed mob outside the seat of Government and inciting them to disrupt the democratic transition of power. There were people inside the building that were clearly intending to take hostages.

There was a gallows out the front.

In any other nation on earth, this was an attempted coup. Just because it failed doesn't mean that those involved didn't have intent.
Ask HN: What was your favorite website from the 1990s?
I'm too young to remember any specific website, but I'd like to know about your old internet habits, webrings and such. I wonder how many of them are still active.
Is that a convention, or just what they stand for? (Do the window manager and the menu suck, because they don't have the "s" prefix? Is st static because it doesn't have the "d" prefix? Why do we abbreviate "terminal" but not "menu" / why not follow the established abbreviation of "term" as in xterm, dtterm, eterm, etc.? How come the "s" prefix in sprop and sselp stands for "simple" instead of "suckless"?)
Agreed, for the average adult I would not have prioritised these features, which just shows how easy it is to be out of touch.
Besides the obvious (money, guns, passport, medicine, etc), Gold Rolex watches. Don’t ask me how I know.
> They're a bunch of clowns who happened to storm the capitol.

Clowns who beat a police officer to death with a fire extinguisher, planted pipe bombs, and roamed the capitol with sidearms and zip ties to take hostages.

Still sure they're just clowns?
Have you read the "lease" in question?

https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/

https://aws.amazon.com/aup/

I suspect Amazon is not the one to breach the lease.
In January, outside of China (possibly elsewhere in Asia) absolutely everything was business as usual. I was traveling in Europe for 3 weeks at the end of January/beginning of February and everything was 100% normal.

The absolute earliest I could see significant shutting down in the US would have been early March which is when companies started canceling events, etc.
AI (or some primitive concept of...) could be useful in some aspect, perhaps for sugggesting tags or categories the information looks like it could belong to. Actually extracting the "facts and takeaways" sounds very hard but then I'm not a linguist so maybe there are methods.
Hi Marc, thank you for the detailed feedback, it's very useful!

> - the popup to allow notification did not come (after manually allowing it works)

What's your macOS version? I've tried replicating it, but seems to work ok. It should ask at the last screen during the onboarding.

> - the name seems a bit weird, I guess the Mc comes from Mac?

Correct, it's a short version of Mac

> - I would prefer to have a setting that filters pipelines that are triggered by me only

Yep, it's on the radar, as this data isn't available directly from the GraphQL pipeline object, it requires another REST request to GitLab

> - you can open the preferences window unlimited times

That should be a quick fix

> - a bit weird that it requires write access but I guess that's a problem of GitLabs permission management

Yeah, I've raised it with them as docs dont't specify it at all, the ticket still open after 7 months
> How does this actually work in practice? What does this look like in terms of the coverage of climate change?

I think the climate science, reporting, and advocacy seems pretty good (at least with respect to bias). Maybe we could be a bit more aggressive about policing climate alarmism and other kinds of misinformation (the notion that banning plastic straws is going to have a measurable impact on wildlife such that it's worthy of our political will) or the pseudo-religious ideological takes like the arguments that climate change and "white supremacy" are inextricably linked or whatever. But in general, I don't see climate professionals behaving as badly as the media en masse or social scientists or other institutions--they seem to be genuinely open to bipartisan solutions and note that this openness doesn't require them to deny science (contrary to the dichotomous arguments that some make when people suggest cooperation or neutrality or objectivity).

> This already happens. Look at the NYT repealing of the Caliphate stories. How often do we get a retraction as big and public as that from the right?

Consistency, consistency, consistency. It's not enough to be honest or well-behaved once, it has to be a protracted effort over time. On the basis of this one event, a reasonable person wouldn't conclude that NYT is genuinely aspiring toward honesty and neutrality, much less someone who tends toward paranoia.

> I will repeat my question from my last comment. Is there an example of this actually working?

Sorry, if you asked this question, I missed it. I don't know of any examples because I don't know of other instances where people were divided epistemologically like this. Case studies would be interesting.

> Is there an example of an institution that has lost the right's trust that was able to get it back through catering to their viewpoints while also remaining loyal to the truth?

I don't think that "the right" has ever been this detached from mainstream epistemology in the first place--I don't think our institutions have ever been as compromised as they are now, at least not on a left-right axis. But there's probably no reason to limit our case studies to corruption of a left-right nature; we could equally look for any institution that lost the trust of a group of people and then gained it back (in part or in full).

> I am genuinely asking and not trying to be a jerk by just presenting rhetorical questions.

I didn't perceive you being a jerk. :)
Author here, happy to answer any questions you may have!
> If you don't trust your fellow citizens to be able to deduce the truth...

Do you trust people who live in an echo chamber overrun with disinformation to deduce the truth about the outcome of the US election? If so, can you speak to the mechanism by which such people can determine the truth? And could you speak to the empirical failure of this population to discover the truth?
> I'm after [...] never used but I heard it's amazing

Really? This is how you form your opinions?
There is some Harvard professor that believes that Oumuamua is an alien probe. Just being educated at or teaching at an ivy league schools doesn't make you immune from being a crackpot.
In my opinion, things are working as expected. The US federal and state level governments are not supposed to regulate speech, per the US Constitution. In this case they are not regulating speech.

Private companies are regulating speech (in their applications, through their services and websites, etc.) as they are free to do under the US Constitution. While there may be a market for the speech Parler promotes and amplifies that market is not sufficiently large (in the opinion of these companies) to offset possible bad public relations or the loss of other customers.

I don't think there's any place for legislation that forces private companies to take a loss in this manner. It's clearly anti-free market and definitely anti-free speech, forcing Amazon to associate with speech they feel might harm the companies financial outlook.

Also, is it necessary? There are many BitTorrent tracker sites that are treated as illegal in the US and are still available. If Parler was really dedicated to keeping their website running they could surely do so. Maybe they won't have applications in the Apple App Store but that's not a right, is it? You have to have product that Apple feels helps the overall goal of their App Store, which is to make money for Apple.
They used sequential integer, which means it wasn't even security through obscurity. There wasn't any form of security. Not even a post it with "please don't hack me".

With a browser and enough time at hand even my grandfather could have dumped their whole DB.
There are laws, but as a practical matter they aren't enforced.

Individuals are not held responsible for the threats and illegal speech they make. Look at all the threats made against people on social media. The fact that there is almost no accountability means it keeps happening.

The only repercussions most of the time is that the platform kicks you off. Part of it is, its their platform and from a business perspective having you around if you are too toxic isn't wise.

It seems like a society problem. Non enforcement and a lot of people with nothing to loose.
My favorite example of generics wonkiness was when I needed a channel to wrap an untyped channel to avoid "infecting" every call site for a utility function with untyped pointers.

I thought it was madness, but bringing it up to a very large Golang group and get "nope channels are cheap! That's fine! There's repetition but it's easy to follow"

I've said before, my personal take is use Go, get a feel for the Go mentality, then take it with you to another language.

Go is just too stuck between low level and high level for me personally. I'd rather go under with Rust or over with Kotlin or C#
They have a page for this on their docs:
https://docs.vantage.sh/supported_services/
To be fair, concerning Western civilisations it's the North Americans who have become the most crazy; always have been quirky, but in the past decade ever more so.
Turbocapitalism might have something to do with it...

Always worth remembering, that sane societies with sane institutions and conduct exist. One has to consider the "human element" if one wants to keep it that way.
Cold-blooded Canadian here, so forgive me for asking - is this highly unusual?
In the mountains, at about 3k feet or 1k meters elevation. Yes, the headline is quite misleading. I expect more from the BBC.

From the article:

> The temperature plunged to -25C (-13F) in Molina de Aragón and Teruel, in mountains east of Madrid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molina_de_Arag%C3%B3n

> Elevation 1,065 m (3,494 ft)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruel

> Elevation 915 m (3,002 ft)
GitHub facing employee backlash after firing a Jewish employee who said 'Nazi'
Man, it seems like the minimums for "fireable offenses" are getting lower and lower there. I lost my job there for referencing the song "WAP" during a small internal presentation three times (Naming it Wicked Automated Premium to get the name to be WAP and saying "I hope you brought a bucket and a mop because we're cleaning up the competition" and "And now Megan Thee Stallion should rap something dirty") and I thought that was at least deserving of a warning first.
It's this part that I'm responding to, which appears to be one of the main points that you made:

> Had the US implemented these measures 9 months ago, the entire world would have looking at the tail-end of this pandemic

I don't see how that's true given the situation in western Europe as well as several other countries and obviously the US.
In most other situations I would agree with you but this virus has a transmission R0 of 6!!! [1] This means even if you block 40% that remaining 60% that slipped by will overwhelm your medical infrastructure like what's happening in Japan now who didn't follow South Korea's standards (out of pride? so many countries chose to ignore Taiwan and South Korea's advices in the early days).

This is why you have extreme disparity between countries like Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam vs America, Europe, Japan.

40% doesn't mean you are catching 40% of the viruses here. It means your detection is only at 40% capacity, like your vision.

I'm arguing for multiple PCR tests spread out over a few weeks to make up for this low accuracy. I doubt many people will put up with it like they did in South Korea or Taiwan. Especially North America where the individual rights come before the well being of society.

I actually thought that North American and Europe were anti-fragile, this virus quickly proved otherwise. How do you force individuals to comply with rules that is designed for the greater good when they've been told all their life their individual needs come first and the rest of society has to accommodate them?

Even getting people to wear masks is still an issue. I'm utterly disillusioned after 2020, the racist attacks from both sides of the political spectrum, the misinformation built upon centuries of stereotypes and exceptionalism, and a politically divided environment to boot.

As soon as we get more data on the vaccine's effectiveness on dealing with mutation variants over 1 or 2 years, I am getting the fuck out of North America and taking all the jobs with me.

Because this isn't the first pandemic and it sure as hell won't be the last, and I highly doubt people will have learned their lesson. Conspiracy, memes, and other incompetent thinking that arises from laziness. People in North America and Europe have lived comfortably for a long time post-WW2, relying on economic hegemonies, military intervention, immigration to do the dirty work, and I believe they are in decline now. Sure America will remain #1 military superpower but front lines have simply shifted away from trenches to our minds where you can conquer and control how people think in foreign countries. This is what unrestricted warfare looks like and we are seeing the fruit of this labor to the delight of its enemies.

[1] I recall reading Dr. Feigl-Ding's twitter last year which pointed to an American journal that cited this figure back in 2020 but I can't find it right now.
Still don't trust them at all.
You'd be more likely to catch it here than pretty much anywhere else in the world lol.
Microsoft fixes Defender zero-day in January 2021 Patch Tuesday
But how do you validate that they are actually running SGX server side?
A few days ago, someone posted a blog post here on HN [1] explaining the phenomenon which causes this: https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/polar-vortex-co...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25713704
altavista.com was the one that made you feel like you could find anything.

altervista had cracks for windows shareware.
Although this is a nice little simplified view into your AWS account I think calling it an "alternative AWS console" is misleading because you can't actually do anything with it, use it to make changes, etc.
> Laws like this are basically doomed at the start because consumers have very little choice in the amount of garbage they produce

Yep; and even if it turns out that there are two companies who offer products in the same market place, one with a kilogram of useless packaging and the other without any, it doesn't mean that the packaging is a salient distinction. I can't decide "I want to buy an iPhone without useless packaging" and the choice "Should I buy an iPhone with packaging or a lowend Android phone without packaging" isn't actually a plausible decision.
It's enough of a convention that after knowing it I can read through their list and know what I'm looking at.

Seems like enough to me.
From Amazon's perspective being unable to easily see what resources you have in your account might be a feature, not a bug.
I’m being somewhat facetious or jocular when I say this—and somewhat serious—but…I wonder:

Is that a reflection of the quality of the software implementation? Or is it a reflection of the hardware it’s trying to implement? Or perhaps it’s related to the hardware the emulator is running on?

Or did the emulator emulate the hardware while running on /that/ hardware? Did it pull efficiency gains out of seemingly thin air?
How to remember a password. Use the first and last letter of each word from a quotation, discarding two letter and single letter words.

aeshs fdsae meado rlele rdwhsp
Both the Ugaritic "alphabet" and the Phoenician "alphabet" must have been derived from an earlier abjad, from which we do not have any preserved example.

The earlier, unknown, abjad, must have been used to write the same 27 consonants as in the Ugaritic alphabet, but using graphic signs similar to those used by the 22-sign Phoenician alphabet, which resemble in form the Egyptian signs.

There is no doubt that the Egyptian writing system was the inspiration for the first abjad, because both the method of writing only the consonants and the direction of writing were inherited from the Egyptians.

In Ugarit, in order to write on earth tablets, like in Mesopotamia, the original graphic signs used for the 27 consonants were replaced with cuneiform signs.

On the other hand, the Phoenicians deleted 5 letters, because their language was simplified and the 5 deleted consonants were eventually pronounced identically with other 5 consonants. It is supposed that the Phoenician pronunciation was simplified so much because it was used as a lingua franca for commerce, by many people.

This reduction in the number of consonants created later problems for other Semitic people, e.g. Hebrews and Arabs, who still pronounced distinctly some of the consonants that were deleted from the Phoenician alphabet, so they had to invent diacritics to mark the missing consonants (e.g. shin and sin in Hebrew).
What was the cause of the increasing complexity of characters when crossing from Aramaic into the eastern group of scripts? To my untrained eye, characters in the green group are all more complex and hard to write than red (western) scripts.

Did materials influence the style of script? If you need to write things in stone, you will struggle to do wavy characters.
Armory (YC W17) and Spinnaker on AWS Bring Scalable CD Pipeline to Glovo
Right. Santa Clara County, California, has a mandatory 10-day quarantine for anyone arriving from more than 150 miles from its borders. This notice is posted in the airport but aside from that there is no framework for enforcement. It is not even all that easy to figure out what territory is outside this zone and the county does not provide a map.
> You must be very young to not have seen tax increases. Being near the train station only has benefit to those that use the train.

Reduced congestion on the road benefits everyone.

As does the reduction in air pollution, and pm2.5 from break and tire dust.

If proper rezoning takes place around train stations, then everyone benefits from denser housing available for those who desire it, reducing upwards pressure on housing elsewhere in the city.

Businesses all along the entire train line benefit from an increase in customer volume that doesn't require a corresponding increase in parking requirements.

The decrease in parking means land is more efficiently used, actual buildings can be constructed which increase tax revenue for the city, and provide more jobs.

Mass transit is awesome.
totally ok with letting them get stuck abroad. It's weird that everyone is freaking out about people travelling when the airports remain open and the guidance is totally about what ppl do inside the country. If you must keep the airport open(IMO should close them), let people leave and don't let them come back. If they leave, it's their problem (and unfortunately, some other country's). Stay at home.
I'm a socialist, but I'm not a communist. I especially oppose planned economies and the idea of an autocratic workers party.

Am I 'flirting with communism' because I believe in universal health care, free education, public housing, public transportation, a strong social safety net, and a strong democratic process?
"Private companies are regulating speech (in their applications, through their services and websites, etc.) as they are free to do under the US Constitution. "

Technically, there is no barrier that restricts a corporation from granting free space, so it isn't "free" to do so, moreso that it was not addressed because at the time of the framing of the constitution, the bigger dissenters of free speech were government, and religion, backed by government (or being the government.)
Spain is kinda prelude to Africa, at least climate-wise. It gets cold and snowy in the mountains during winter, but something like that is highly unusual in Madrid.
Wait till you hear what the rest of the English language is doing...
I tend to really harp on send-in-background because I view it as a core feature of an MUA, but as far as I know it's still hidden behind an about:config flag in Thunderbird because it has an excessive number of known bugs, and it's been this way for many years. Another ongoing pain with Thunderbird is the inability to switch between HTML and plaintext when composing a message. Outlook lets you do this, in Thunderbird you have to copy the message, discard it, start a new one in the right mode and paste.

On the other hand, yes, Outlook Web Access is hilariously bad. It's hard to understand how Microsoft flubbed it so bad considering that their consumer outlook.com has a radically better webmail. Different teams, obviously, but you'd think they would have shared notes.

All in all, it feels a lot to me like Microsoft had a really good MUA in 2003 and hasn't done much with it since, while Mozilla had a not-quite-done-yet MUA in 2003 and hasn't done much with it since. Both feel bolted together out of spare parts but in a way that's subjectively a bit different.
Yes, the word is overused, and I wouldn't apply it to every Republican, anti-socialist, etc. But on the other hand — if Proud Boys say they’re not Nazis, but keep showing up alongside Atomwaffen and Identity Evropa, and some of their members wear 6MWE shirts [1]… at some point, we just have to be like "okay, these people are Nazis."

Because it's a sliding scale, right? And just because there's no single objective line doesn't mean that we have to give up drawing a line entirely.

I'm not giving an opinion on doxxing random people at the protest who weren't involved in the terrorist attack. I'm just saying that it's fair to see the crowd that showed up and say "stay safe homies, Nazis are about." It turned out to be prescient.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/proud-boy-6mwe/
Free-speech-as-legal-right and free-speech-as-moral-principle are different: the legal right exists to uphold the moral principle. You're probably correct when you say the legal right can't be infringed in a commercial context, but the moral principle can be violated by anyone.

I think a lot of confusion comes from people who only acknowledge free-speech-as-legal-right encountering people who support free-speech-as-moral-principle.